But isn’t that fact at least as significant as the detailing of successes AIPAC secured only after mounting multimillion-dollar campaigns against Democrats such as Bush and Bowman? Isn’t it a major political development that Omar—who, because of her close 2022 primary, came into the 2024 election as potentially one of the most vulnerable of the pro-ceasefire incumbents—proved to be unbeatable? Shouldn’t it be noted that Omar articulated her position so ably—expressing horror at the October 7 Hamas attack that targeted Israeli kibbutzim and a music festival, while at the same time condemning the targeting of Palestinian civilians and infrastructure in Gaza by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—that she drew endorsements from Muslims, Christians, and Jews for her reelection bid? Isn’t it consequential that Omar did such a good job of organizing her supporters, and winning the endorsement of the DFL, that AIPAC recognized that she couldn’t be defeated? And that she ultimately won her primary by more than 16,000 votes?

Isn’t it newsworthy that Omar was not alone in victory? That the four original members of “the Squad”—New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib, Massachusetts’s Ayanna Pressley, and Omar—all have, as ardent ceasefire backers, either won primaries or positioned themselves to be renominated without serious opposition? Isn’t it equally newsworthy that the vast majority of pro-ceasefire House members who have sought reelection this year—from Greg Casar in Texas to Delia Ramirez in Chicago to Summer Lee in Pennsylvania to Mark Pocan in Wisconsin—have been renominated with wide support?

The results from around the country back up IfNotNow Movement national spokesperson Eva Borgwardt’s assertion, “Being pro-ceasefire is good policy and good politics.”

Just as importantly, the results from Ilhan Omar’s Minnesota primary win on Tuesday highlight a fundamental reality of the 2024 election cycle: In fair fights, where massive expenditures of outside money by billionaire-backed Super PACs do not warp the process, supporters of a ceasefire don’t just win. They win big.

“This year has proven clearly that right-wing interests and MAGA megadonors see the Squad as an existential threat to their extremist agenda. In nearly every primary this cycle, our progressive champions in Congress faced the organized efforts of AIPAC, Republican megadonors, right-wing Super PACs, and corporate interests who were united in their desire to drag our democracy through the mud to protect their own self-interests and profits,” Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of Justice Democrats, a group that has organized support for Squad members and their allies, explained after Omar’s win. “This race looks more like what our democracy could look like if we end the influence and bottomless spending of dark money corporate Super PACs in our elections and put people back at the center of our democracy, and democracy back at the center of our Party.”

That’s a lesson for Democrats—including Kamala Harris and Tim Walz—going forward. The call for a ceasefire in Gaza is not only morally just. It’s popular with the American people. And every effort should be made to ensure that it is not silenced by out-of-town super PACs and the right-wing billionaire funders who meddle in Democratic primaries.