The dipole component of the Cosmic Microwave Background—which represents the largest-scale temperature asymmetry and is interpreted as arising from our motion relative to the CMB rest frame—appears to have an excess or anomaly in how it relates to other cosmological measurements and large-scale structures. The observed dipole implies a velocity of approximately 370 km/s relative to the CMB, which should be explained by our motion through the cosmic structure created by gravitational acceleration from matter distribution, but detailed analysis shows tensions between the dipole magnitude implied by local galaxy surveys and redshift distributions versus the observed CMB dipole, and between the dipole direction and expected directions based on matter distribution models (Secrest 2021; Appleby 2016). Lambda-CDM struggles because the standard model predicts a specific relationship between matter distribution, induced bulk flows, and the resulting dipole that should match observations, but discrepancies suggest either that large-scale structures beyond our observable volume are contributing unexpectedly to bulk flows, or that the interpretation of the dipole as purely kinematic motion is incomplete, potentially indicating systematic errors, unaccounted-for gravitational influences, or fundamental issues with the assumed large-scale homogeneity and isotropy.