Inside the Mamdani Machine: Soros cash, socialists and radical imams engineered Zohran Mamdani’s path to power

In late September 2017, Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, once the darling of the Women’s March and the self-declared face of the "resistance" against Donald Trump, was facing mounting criticism for antisemitic remarks and her embrace of extremist views.

But, beaming in a photograph taken on a city sidewalk, Sarsour appeared unfazed, her iconic fist pumped in the air as she knelt shoulder-to-shoulder with campaign volunteers for City Council candidate Khader El-Yateem. The photo was posted by El-Yateem on the Facebook page he used to promote his campaign, which he lost, but among the smiling faces was a young organizer named Zohran Mamdani.

That photo would mark the start of a carefully constructed political project that, in less than a decade, would propel a now-34-year-old socialist newcomer to the precipice of running America’s largest city – even while campaigning with radical imams, some of whom have supported terrorists and terrorist financiers.

A Fox Digital investigation reveals that Mamdani’s rise was no accident. It was engineered.

A database of 110 groups backing Mamdani exposes a tight inner circle of organizations that identify as Muslim or socialist, working hand-in-glove with 76 Democratic Party affiliates, allied groups and unions. Particularly important in this political machine are two networks – Sarsour’s MPower organizations and another constellation of groups called Emgage, with which she works closely.

The organizations have been generously funded. In total, billionaire George Soros’ Open Society philanthropies have given MPower and Emgage nearly $2.5 million in recent years, according to tax filings.

A Fox Digital investigation found that Mamdani’s rise
was no accident. It was calculatedly engineered.
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nypost.com
By Geoff Earle
Published Oct. 25, 2025

House Republicans want to strip Zohran Mamdani of citizenship, possibly deport NYC mayoral frontrunner over form omissions

The first immigration case NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani may have to confront if elected could be his own – as two House Republicans push the Justice Department to probe his path to citizenship and possibly boot him from the US. Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani.” “I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,” Fine told the Post.

Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani became a US Citizen after moving here as a child from Uganda. A pair of House Republicans want him probed for possible “denaturalization” for making allegedly false statements during his process.Mamdani is a threat to the nation, he continued. “I know that there’s a lot of us that are very, very concerned about the enemy within – people who have come to this country to become citizens, to destroy it.” He dismissed logistical concerns about yanking the citizenship of naturalized Americans after they got elected to top jobs. “If they’re not Americans, they can’t be in office,” he said.

Since June, his colleague Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) has pushed for a Justice Department probe of Mamdani, saying the socialist who is leading NYC mayoral polls lied on his sworn statement when he became a naturalized citizen in 2018. Ogles issued a call to “Deport Mamdani!” and branded him an “antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York.”

“In 2018 when he was naturalized, he failed to disclose some of the things that he had been doing, one of which was joining the [Democratic] Socialists of America. That’s a communist organization which, quite frankly, at that time, would have disqualified him from becoming a United States citizen,” Ogles told Newsmax.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) accused Mamdani of concealing “material support for terrorism,” invoking his statements in calling to “free the Holy Land Five,” a reference to the shuttered Holy Land Foundation. He also cited Mamdani’s statements calling to free “the Holy Land Five” – a quintet of Palestinian-Americans who led the giant Muslim charity Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and who were convicted in 2008 of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.

US immigration law declares inadmissible those who have “been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party.” The current form asks would-be citizens to disclose if they have ever been associated “in any way” with “any Communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world.” President Trump has called Mamdani a “communist lunatic.” Mamdani specifically denies being a communist.

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