Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, NYC democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) operate within a tightly linked and coordinated operation, a report first obtained by The Daily Wire shows.
The network has funneled millions of dollars behind candidates, passing the donations through a complex web of organizations, which previously helped obscure the coordinated effort to back the most radical candidates in party, according to the Canary Mission’s report on “The Machine Transforming The Democratic Party.”
Far-Left candidates like El-Sayed and Mamdani ran while touting their apparent dissociation from super PACs and their reliance on small donations. The report reveals an entirely different reality.
“The financial structure also complicates the network’s grassroots branding. Candidates who reject corporate PAC contributions can still benefit from substantial outside spending backed by wealthy donors,” the report states. “Each organization performs a different function, but the combined effect can make the same candidate appear simultaneously grassroots-backed, donor-supported, institutionally endorsed and movement-aligned.”
The report details the separate but coordinated roles of the so-called independent “progressive” organizations. American Priorities, a super PAC, raised millions of dollars for political ads supporting their chosen candidates. American Priorities spent $1.3 million on New York democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier alone. Nonprofit 501(c)(4) groups like the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project do not need to disclose their donor list and funneled large sums of money into political action committees like Justice Democrats.
Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party develop leftist candidates and build electoral infrastructure. To oust Democratic incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Justice Democrats donated the maximum $5,000 to Avila Chevalier and spent far more money on negative ads against the more traditional democratic candidate. Avila Chevalier won the primary.
The Working Families Party, a far-leftist party, contributes to Justice Democrats efforts by lending endorsements and door-knocking, phone banking, and get-out-the-vote initiatives. The Working Families Party, together with American Priorities, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and Justice Democrats, spent $1.5 million and knocked on more than 100,000 doors to back Pennsylvania Democratic Socialist candidate Chris Rabb. Rabb, recently said he is against incarceration except for “MAGA-thugs” such as Jared Kushner. “Lock all of those f*ckers up” Rabb said.
Then, the Democratic Socialists of America supplies and coordinates endorsements from their own chapter groups and allied candidates and currently elected officials, and construct local organizing. Finally, labor and Muslim groups “add funding, voter outreach and turnout capacity, while advocacy nonprofits and their electoral arms sustain policy work and political pressure between elections.”
“These organizations reinforce the same candidates without operating as a single entity, while working in coalition to cultivate donors, coordinate messaging, and create incentives for continued PAC spending and mutual endorsements,” the report states.
Some of the most radical socialist candidates, including Chevalier and Adam Hamawy are also linked to the operation, which has been dubbed “the Machine Transforming the Democratic Party.” Chevalier once tweeted that she wiped her hands on the American flag and reposted a message declaring “ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE ARE HARAM.”
In response to radical leftist streamer Hasan Piker saying “America deserved 9/11,” Hamawy said, “I think we have to put it all in perspective.”
The report also shows how anti-Israel sentiment and antisemitism play into the coordination of these leftists groups.
On the fourth of July, Claire Valdez the leftist network-backed candidate for New York’s seventh congressional district posted that she would “fight for liberation from Palestine to Puerto Rico, for a Green New Deal, for the world we deserve.” Valdez also liked an October 7 tweet that said “Glory to the resistance.”
The American Priorities PAC, which has backed the full slate of leftist candidates including El-Sayed, is funded by individuals closely tied to anti-Israel activist Michael Rectenwald. The activist’s anti-zionist PAC has endorsed anti-Israel conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum.
The report linking these radical Democratic candidates comes as polling shows Jewish voters, who traditionally lean heavily toward Democrats, are fleeing the party in record numbers.
A previous Daily Wire investigation linked one of the groups in this report to the Muslim Brotherhood and several Democratic candidates including El-Sayed, Mamdani, and Tlaib.
The Council for American-Islamic Relations Political Action Committee, a group closely associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, directly contributed to El-Sayed’s campaign. They also created the Unity and Justice Fund, which in turn created the Fighting for Michigan Political Action Committee and the New Yorkers for Lower Costs Political Action Committee, which supported El-Sayed and Mamdani, respectively.
“The story is not just random [sic] that Zohran ascended to this place,” said Linda Sarsour, a leftist Muslim activist and close ally of Mamdani. “It is our Muslim-American communities. And I’ll also say that it’s Muslim money. The PACs that have supported Zohran or a particular PAC that has supported Zohran is probably over 80% of Muslim-American donors in this country. High net donors, grassroots donors. And I [sic] want to make the point that the Unity and Justice Fund PAC which is [sic] the CAIR Super PAC was the largest institutional donor to the largest donor to the pro-Zohran PAC in New York.”
BREAKING: Who bankrolled @ZohranKMamdani’s campaign and the DSA takeover of the Democrats? @lsarsour tells all.
Mamdani’s rise was NEVER grassroots, it was bought and paid for by @CAIRNational. https://t.co/zJzmm697uv
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) November 3, 2025
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