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1670 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 7 of 28.

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Daniel JohnsonGBScottish Labour MSP for Edinburgh Southern; only Labour member projected to win a constituency seat in 2026
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Daniel MunozCOColombian defender who scored the decisive goal in Colombia's 1-0 win over DR Congo to clinch Group K on 23 June 2026.
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Daniel NeuenschwanderCHESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration who broke nine days of ESA silence after the ESM burned up.
Daniel TaylorGBFormer Reform UK KCC councillor for Cliftonville; jailed March 2026 for controlling and coercive behaviour, vacating the seat that triggered the 9 April by-election.
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Daniel TokajiUSElection law scholar and UW Law Dean; cited authority on crypto-PAC dynamics in the 2026 cycle.
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Daniel ZhaoUSChief economist at Glassdoor, tracking US hiring, pay and job-search trends.
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Dani OlmoESSpain midfielder whose shot was parried by Courtois to set up Ruiz's opening goal.
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Dan JorgensenDKEU Commissioner; presented the Affordable Housing Plan in December 2025 committing to Q4 2026 STR night-cap legislation.
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Dan J. SullivanUSRetired Petersburg schoolteacher who filed as a Republican US Senate candidate in Alaska, unrelated to the incumbent of the same surname.
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Danny CarrGBTameside councillor who left the Reform UK group in October 2026.
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Danny KrugerGBReform UK Member of Parliament for East Wiltshire.
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Dan OsbornUSIndependent candidate challenging Senator Pete Ricketts in Nebraska's 2026 Senate race.
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Dan S. SullivanIncumbent Republican US Senator for Alaska, first elected in 2014.
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Dan ThomasGBReform UK MS for Casnewydd Islwyn and former leader of Reform UK in Wales.
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Danyal AkarcaGBCo-founder of Callosum, the Cambridge chip-interoperability startup backed by the UK Sovereign AI Fund.
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Dario AmodeiUSCEO of Anthropic; received first US export-control directive suspending a live commercial AI model.
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Darline Graham NordoneUSLindsey Graham's sister, appointed interim US Senator for South Carolina by Governor Henry McMaster, the first woman to hold the seat.
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Daron AcemogluUSEconomist and Nobel laureate known for research on AI's economic effects.
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Darren SotoUSDemocratic Representative for Florida's 9th district, threatened by DeSantis's 24R-4D congressional map.
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Dave BaszuckiUSRoblox founder and chief executive; investor in Universal Quantum.
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Davey HiottUSSouth Carolina Senate Majority Leader who killed McMaster's post-Callais redistricting push.
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David AlbrightUSPhysicist and ISIS president; principal open-source analyst of Iran's nuclear programme.
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David AxeUSDefence journalist at CEPA; authored April 2026 analysis that Ukraine's oil strike campaign has delivered only 0.46% damage to Russian revenue.
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David CameronGBUK prime minister from 2010 to 2016, now Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.
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Davide FalangaCHDrone autonomy researcher leading Skydio's Zurich GPS-denied R&D office, PhD from UZH Robotics and Perception Group.
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David GreenGBScottish Liberal Democrat who moved a Holyrood amendment on independence in September 2026.
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David JollyUSFormer US Representative and Democratic candidate for Florida governor.
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David KirkUSFormer Chief Scientist at NVIDIA; angel investor in UK space startup NewOrbit.
David Lancaster MBEGBLabour councillor for Salford whose death in February 2026 triggered the Barton and Winton by-election.
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David McCormickUSRepublican US Senator from Pennsylvania since January 2025; did not vote on the fifth War Powers Resolution on 22 April 2026.
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David O. CarterUSUS district judge in the Central District of California.
David PriorGBReform UK candidate expelled after appearing on a BNP membership list disclosed by HOPE not hate.
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David RobeyUSCo-chief executive of QTS Realty Trust.
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David SilverGBUCL professor and former Head of Reinforcement Learning at Google DeepMind; creator of AlphaGo and AlphaZero; founded Ineffable Intelligence in 2025.
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David SolomonUSGoldman Sachs chairman and chief executive, overseeing the bank's strategy and workforce.
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David StrasUSUS Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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David WhitleyUSFormer Texas secretary of state behind the 2019 non-citizen voter flag.
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Davis IngleUSWhite House spokesperson who praised the 2026 World Cup as "safest ever" while refusing to address FIFA's ICE moratorium request.
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Davyd ArakhamiiaUALeader of the Servant of the People faction in Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada.
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Dean LoganUSRegistrar-recorder and county clerk of Los Angeles County.
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Debbie Wasserman SchultzUSFlorida Democratic congresswoman and former DNC chair targeted by DeSantis's 24R-4D redistricting map.
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Deb FischerUSRepublican US senator for Nebraska since 2013, re-elected in 2024 over Dan Osborn.
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Deb HaalandUSFormer US Secretary of the Interior and Democratic candidate for New Mexico governor.
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Déborah Rivas SaavedraCUCuban vice-minister of foreign trade and foreign investment.
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Declan RiceGBEngland and Arsenal midfielder; scored the opening goal of the 2026 bronze final.
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Delia RamírezUSIllinois Democrat; visited Havana in July 2026 and moved to curb executive Cuba-sanctions power.
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Delyan PeevskiBGDelyan Peevski is the leader of Bulgaria's Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF); Radev ruled out forming a government with him after the April 2026 election.
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Demetrio AlbertiniITFormer Italy and AC Milan midfielder, discussed as FIGC presidential candidate in 2026.
Demis HassabisGBNobel laureate, DeepMind co-founder and CEO, and Isomorphic Labs founder; knighted 2023.
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Denis ColemanUSChief financial officer of Goldman Sachs.
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Denise CasperUSUS federal district judge in Boston who made her injunction of Trump's voting executive order permanent.
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Denis HealeyGBLabour Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 who took the 1976 IMF loan.
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Denis PushilinUARussian-installed head of occupied Ukraine's Donetsk region, styled the Donetsk People's Republic, since 2018.
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Deniz UndavDEVfB Stuttgart and Germany striker; scored in Germany's 3-1 win over the USA on 6 June 2026.
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Denny HoskinsUSMissouri's secretary of state, the state's chief elections official.
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Derek SchmidtUSRepublican US representative for Kansas's 2nd District; Kansas attorney general from 2011 to 2023.
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Derk BoswijkNLDutch CDA politician; State Secretary for Defence since 23 February 2026.
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Derrick Van OrdenUSRepublican US House member from Wisconsin.
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Désiré DouéFRFrance forward and PSG attacker; Golden Boy winner who scored at the 2026 World Cup aged 20.
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Diana AtwineUGUganda Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary; confirmed Kampala Bundibugyo index case 14 May 2026.