Following the 2011 Arab Spring, the Muslim Brotherhood ran political candidates in democratic elections in Egypt and Tunisia

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A federal district court dismissed the Department of Justice's lawsuit attempting to block Alaska from certifying election results involving a candidate named Dan Sullivan

The National Party and the Labour Party combined won less than 60 percent of the party vote in the November 2026 New Zealand general election

New Zealand switched its electoral system from first-past-the-post to mixed-member proportional representation in 1996

The Opportunity Party won seven seats in the November 2026 election to enter the New Zealand Parliament for the first time

The ACT New Zealand party secured 11 percent of the vote in the November 2026 general election

The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand secured 14 percent of the vote in the November 2026 general election

Abdul El-Sayed won approximately 52% of the vote in the Michigan United States Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers

At least seven Muslim candidates were elected to the United States Congress in the November 2026 midterm elections

Hamas participated in Palestinian parliamentary elections in 2006 and won a majority of seats

Dalia Ziada fled Egypt after publicly condemning Hamas and the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks against Israel

The Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned in most Arab and Muslim-majority countries

In 1993, Israeli leaders and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords, creating the Palestinian Authority

In democratic systems like the United States, citizens possess the electoral mechanism to replace the governing party in subsequent elections

Dalia Ziada helped organize political opposition against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt following the 2011 Arab Spring

In 1987, the international Muslim Brotherhood established Hamas to counter secular Palestinian factions and oppose the state of Israel

In early 1988, an international Muslim Brotherhood delegation met with American Brotherhood leaders to arrange media, political, and financial backing for Hamas

When Dalia Ziada was an 18-year-old student in Cairo during the Second Intifada, she observed anti-Israel campus protest organizers burning the Egyptian flag

During the 1991 Gulf War, United States-led military intervention compelled the Iraqi military to withdraw from Kuwait

The United States provides billions of dollars in financial and security assistance to authoritarian regimes across the Middle East

Hamas political leader Mousa Abu Marzook directed the establishment of Hamas's first three front organizations in the United States while living in the country