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Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said there is no room for pro-Israel voters within his coalition, arguing that fellow Democrats should not make "an exception" for people who are "progressive except Palestine." The Democratic nominee said his long history of anti-Israel activism—which includes founding the Bowdoin College chapter of the extremist and terror-aligned Students for Justice in Palestine organization—informs his belief that pro-Israel liberals should be driven out of the left.

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Presumptive Democratic congresswoman and Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, is dating Mamdani's chief legal counsel, 48-year-old Ramzi Kassem, who is best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists, including a "close associate" of Osama bin Laden. Chevalier confirmed the relationship in a statement shared with City & State. "Ramzi Kassem and I met outside an ICE detention facility, both working to free someone unjustly held," she said. "Over the years, as we collaborated on different projects, our professional acquaintance became a friendship, which grew into a romantic relationship. I'm deeply grateful for such a loving, supportive partner – he's...

Commies are taking over the Democrat party!You might think that was a charge leveled by some rightwing reactionary who somehow confused socialism with communism. Instead it was the morbid fear expressed by longtime liberal Jonathan Chait in Wednesday's Atlantic magazine, "There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists."So panicked was Chait at the specter of communism taking over his beloved Democrat party that he did not just mention it in passing. In fact, the C-word was invoked eleven times in Chait's article in which he accuses the Democratic Socialists of America of being the parasitic pathway for injecting communism into its host...

The Democratic establishment is in denial as a socialist insurgency grows inside its own party. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calls Democrats "a great united party," even as Democratic Socialists of America-backed challengers defeat incumbents and organize as a disciplined voting bloc. Party leaders dismiss them as a fringe, but the DSA is building a "Freedom Caucus of the left" with the power to withhold votes, pressure leadership and force a socialist agenda. Socialism is becoming the Democrats’ answer to MAGA because both movements are responding to the anger of Americans who feel forgotten by providing solutions. The median first-time...

Fired from her law firm for yelling "Free Palestine," the communist barista from Ethiopia is $250,000 in debt, owns nothing, isn't married, gets by serving cappuccino, and wants to take out another loan to get her PhD. Does she sound like she makes good life choices? When she wins, she is going to have control over your life. That's why she's running. She can't control her own life, so she wants to control yours. She's not happy, so she is going to make everybody else unhappy. She says she's going to take away the private health care you have. She's...

WASHINGTON — They’re not done making their marx on the Democratic Party. Fresh off a recent string of key upset victories, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is eyeing more potential breakthrough wins in Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, and possibly Florida over the next few weeks as it works to drag Democrats further to the left. Thus far, the DSA has touted four breakthrough victories in House races, including Melat Kiros in Colorado, Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York, and Claire Valdez in New York. Additionally, they backed incumbent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “We are so cooked,”...

Sunday at the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize event, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told Fox News that the “dirtbag left” are “clearly anti-America,” referring to the two members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who won primaries in New York and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Fetterman said, “And in like it. It was a really it was a really big night for the dirtbag left. You know, last week, without a doubt. And some of the crazy things that they’ve said. You know, like clearly anti-America, you know, anti Western civilization. And they actually one of them was...

After two Mamdani-backed, card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) political party won their respective House primaries last Tuesday in New York, all eyes turned to Colorado's 1st Congressional District Democrat primary, which featured longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette facing off against DSA member Melat Kiros. The primary was Tuesday night, and, with 78 percent reporting as of this writing, Decision Desk HQ has called it for Kiros in what may be the biggest primary upset for an incumbent Democrat House member this midterm election cycle. DeGette, 68, is Colorado's longest-serving member of Congress, having been in office...

The Socialists aren't just taking over New York. This happened in Colorado. A 29-year-old Democratic Socialist ousted a longtime Democrat incumbent in Colorado's 1st District in Tuesday night's House primary. Far-left candidate Melat Kiros defeated 15-time incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday night. Kiros, who was born in Ethiopia, was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). 🚨 It's crunch time in Colorado 🚨 We have just ONE more day to send @MelatKirosCO to Congress! We made 110k calls on Friday, but we're not done yet... Join us tonight @ 6 PM MT/8 PM ET to break Friday's...

Colorado House Primary Results 2026 Longtime Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette faces an energetic challenge in her primary, with democratic socialist Melat Kiros winning prominent national endorsements and building a base of volunteers. Meanwhile, Democratic voters are also picking a candidate in Colorado’s most closely divided congressional district, the 8th District currently held by GOP Rep. Gabe Evans.

Rep. Diana DeGette, a 15-term incumbent, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from lawyer and PhD student Melat Kiros on Tuesday. Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her. The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate. Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership and a push for...

- So, Mehek, you look at the success that these candidates have had in New York City, here in Washington, D .C., a couple of weeks ago. Does that extend next to Colorado? Does that work in districts that are beyond big, very blue cities? - It does. This new Communist Party that is taking over is not just in New York. We've seen it expand in eight states. And this is where these communists are very... eight states, and this is where these communists are very sincere and clever they're talking like you said about kitchen table issues they're...

The insurgent left just shook New York. Colorado Democrats increasingly think they could be next. Democrats in the Centennial State are bracing for an anti-establishment earthquake of their own. Tuesday’s primary election will test the left’s momentum beyond the five boroughs — and whether the anti-incumbent fever will topple Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Diana DeGette, a pair of longtime fixtures of state Democratic politics. Bennet allies acknowledge his primary for governor race is far closer than they expected, a startling position for one of the state’s best-known Democrats, while DeGette is facing similar anti-Washington headwinds, as internal polling in...

If you live in Colorado, GO VOTE!

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is setting its sights on Colorado. A handful of Tuesday's primaries in the Democrat-dominated Rocky Mountain state are the next battleground in the fight between the far left and the center-left establishment over the future of the Democratic Party. "Today, the East Coast, next week the Mountain West," the DSA wrote in a social media post last week, hours after their ballot-box victories in a handful of congressional primaries in New York City. The post came after DSA-aligned Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old far-left community organizer, ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of...

This isn't the first time Melat Kiros has rationalized violence against civilians.

Democratic Socialists of America members, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s political organization, have been cultivating connections with Chinese Communist Party officials and agreeing to take pro-China positions, according to extensive minutes of internal meetings seen by Newsweek. The minutes of the DSA meetings show participants discussing contacts with officials from China’s ruling party in the name of “anti-imperialism,” with some members saying the organization should avoid topics that are sensitive for Beijing, such as China’s threats to invade Taiwan, its security crackdown in Hong Kong and abuses of the Uyghur Muslim minority. They also discuss visits to China. Chinese...

Yesterday I wrote that the burden of proof is always placed differently on the Jew: the rabbi who must clear himself from "supporting genocide[sic]" before renting a house in France, the army whose seized weapons are presumed staged, the citizens of revolutionary France told to prove a loyalty no Catholic was asked to swear. The structure is built so the burden cannot be met. Compliance and defiance, denial and proof, all resolve to the same verdict, because the only admissible evidence is the defendant's Jewishness, entered as a guilty plea before the proceedings began. A day later, Scott Wiener walked...

A radical, Israel-hating California teacher claimed she married a Gaza resident online to help him gain American citizenship — and push her pro-Palestinian agenda. Laura Pinho, a dance teacher at Canoga Park Senior High School in California, announced her nuptials in a wild June 16 CODEPINK Zoom webinar called “Challenging Zionism In Our Schools.” When CODEPINK activist Marcy Winograd congratulated her on her marriage and asked her to share details about her life, Pinho, 51, launched into a pedantic monologue about how she only married Salem S.E. Abu Amra to advance “Palestinian rights and freedoms.” “I have power as an...