Democrats are betting a slate of union-backed House candidates can help the party reconnect with working-class voters and donors as it heads into the 2026 midterms facing mounting financial challenges.
Five Democratic congressional candidates announced Tuesday the launch of the &#8220;Blue Collar Brigade,&#8221; a joint fundraising effort aimed at boosting their campaigns while promoting a populist platform centered on lowering costs, strengthening organized labor, and combating government corruption.
The coalition includes Bob Brooks, a firefighter union chief challenging Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA); Randy Villegas, a teacher and union member taking on Rep. David Valadao (R-CA); ironworker Brian Poindexter, who is running against Rep. Max Miller (R-OH); former smokejumper and union leader Sam Forstag, competing in Montana&#8217;s open western district; and Minnesota state Rep. Kaela Berg, a flight attendant and former union leader seeking an open House seat.
The candidates say they are pooling resources because they lack the wealthy donor networks often available to more traditional political candidates.
&#8220;As a union ironworker, my network of folks is very small,&#8221; Poindexter told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/union-democrats-house-fundraising-00980980" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>. &#8220;My very first call time, I called one of my fellow ironworkers and asked for $50, and he was laid off at the time.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s when I had the understanding of what we&#8217;re really up against when campaigns like my opponent can spend millions of dollars and here I am trying to represent workers in Washington and scraping together $50 bills.&#8221;
The fundraising alliance arrives as Democrats continue searching for ways to rebuild support among blue-collar voters after President Donald Trump expanded his coalition with working-class Americans during the 2024 election.
It also comes as the Democratic Party struggles with fundraising.
The RNC currently <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5863917-nrcc-rnc-fec-2026-midterm-elections/">reports</a> roughly $116 million cash on hand, while the DNC <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00010603/1968914/">has</a> approximately $13.8 million and carries more than $18 million in debt.
Those financial struggles have fueled growing frustration among Democratic donors, many of whom remain dissatisfied with how the party spent its record-breaking fundraising haul during Kamala Harris&#8217; unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign.
Several longtime Democratic donors have publicly criticized DNC Chairman Ken Martin for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-demands-dnc-release-2024-autopsy-as-she-plots-a-comeback">slow-walking the release</a> of the full post-election <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-finally-admit-what-went-wrong-in-2024">autopsy</a> he promised after taking office. The frustration has reportedly pushed some major donors away from the national party altogether.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t see Ken as a leader,&#8221; one longtime Democratic donor told <a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/democratic-donors-frustrated-dnc-chair-ken-martin-amid/story?id=132286127">ABC News</a>. &#8220;The DNC reached out to me probably six months ago, and I told them to take me off their list.&#8221;
Against that backdrop, the Blue Collar Brigade represents an attempt to build a different kind of Democratic fundraising operation. Tuesday evening&#8217;s virtual fundraiser is being co-hosted by current and former leaders of several major unions, including the AFL-CIO, Communications Workers of America, Association of Flight Attendants, Iron Workers, and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. 
Reps. Chris Deluzio (D-PA), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), and Val Hoyle (D-OR), all of whom maintain close ties to organized labor, are serving as honorary chairs.
&#8220;When you&#8217;re a Democratic challenger and you&#8217;re someone who comes from the labor movement &#8230; you don&#8217;t have the same Rolodex as someone who can self-fund millions for their campaign,&#8221; Deluzio said. &#8220;These folks are going to do the hard work to win their races, but they&#8217;ve got to raise money.&#8221;
The coalition is also attempting to reshape the Democratic Party&#8217;s image after years of criticism that it has become disconnected from working-class voters. Villegas argued Democrats can no longer rely solely on opposition to Republicans.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to actually center working-class candidates and invest in them and make sure that we are prioritizing working families&#8217; issues,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These victories across the country are showing that we can&#8217;t just offer people &#8216;not Trump&#8217; or &#8216;not the Republican incumbent.&#8217; We have to be willing to offer people a vision for something more.&#8221;
That message reflects soul-searching within the Democratic Party after Trump&#8217;s gains among union households and non-college voters accelerated trends that have reshaped American politics over the past decade.
At the same time, the Blue Collar Brigade highlights an irony facing Democrats. While the candidates present themselves as outsiders battling the political establishment, they remain deeply tied to one of the Democratic Party&#8217;s most influential institutional allies: organized labor.

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Outraged over the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, Republicans are doubling down on their push to pass the SAVE America Act to “uphold election integrity.” 
Missouri Republican Senator Eric Schmitt <a href="https://x.com/SenEricSchmitt/status/2071598452698456132?s=20">called</a> the court&#8217;s decision on Monday “shockingly wrong.&#8221;
“A shockingly wrong opinion. Justice Barrett joins with the liberal justices to hold that federal election law does not preempt states who allow late mail-in ballots to be counted.” He added, “This is terrible for election integrity. Another reason we must pass the full SAVE American Act.”
The SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship to vote and would add restrictions to mail-in ballots, including new ID requirements. In its decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not bar states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day, so long as they are postmarked on time.
Congressman Greg Steube (R-FL) echoed Schmitt’s urgency for the Save America Act to be passed. Steube <a href="https://x.com/RepGregSteube/status/2071611241198485944">called</a> on the Senate to “nuke” the filibuster to allow the bill to be passed. “The House already passed the SAVE Act to fix this. The Senate filibuster is the only thing standing in the way. Nuke it,&#8221; he said. 
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that while the decision is &#8220;a loss for election integrity,&#8221; his state &#8220;will continue to only count mail ballots that arrive by Election Day.&#8221;
RNC Chairman Joe Gruters added, &#8220;If we want fair and secure elections, Election Day should mean exactly what it says, which is why this decision makes it even more imperative that Congress pass the Save America Act.&#8221; Gruters argued that by allowing mail-in ballots post-election day, &#8220;Democrats are inviting chaos at the ballot box by allowing elections to drag on for days and weeks after voters cast their ballots.&#8221;
The 5-4 ruling says states can count ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. Recently, the mail-in counting process led to L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt being edged out of the November runoff by City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who overtook him for second place behind incumbent Mayor Karen Bass as late-arriving mail ballots were counted.
In his <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1260_g3cn.pdf">dissent</a>, conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “It opens up and fails to resolve a host of questions for state election officials and courts. And it creates a serious risk of further undermining public confidence in our elections and our system of self-government.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praised the court&#8217;s decision and hinted that Senate Democrats would work to stop the SAVE America Act.
“The Supreme Court just upheld this bedrock American principle: if you cast your ballot on time, your vote will count. Participation in democracy should never be limited — not by your race, where you live, or how you vote,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Senate Democrats will continue to do everything we can to protect free and fair elections, where everyone’s voice is heard.&#8221;
Schumer and other Democrats have specifically raised concerns that the SAVE America Act could restrict married women from voting if they changed their last names but have not received a new passport or driver’s license to match. 
Ken Martin, chairman of the DNC, <a href="https://x.com/kenmartin73/status/2071613468575236267">said</a> Republicans&#8217; decision to challenge Mississippi’s mail-in voting was an attempt to “rig the system.” 
“Trump and Republicans are attacking our elections and trying to rig the system in their favor because they know the American people are ready to reject their chaos and corruption this November,” he said. “The DNC is proud to have stood with the state of Mississippi to defeat the RNC’s latest attack on Americans’ voting rights.”

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Republicans Draw Up Game Plan To Address ‘Shockingly Wrong’ SCOTUS Ruling

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Former West Virginia Democrat-turned-independent Senator Joe Manchin didn&#8217;t mince words during a fiery Fox News interview with Brian Kilmeade, unloading on the Democratic Party for its drift toward socialism — and making crystal clear why he wants nothing to do with them anymore.
&#8220;That is absolutely insane,&#8221; the ex-senator exploded when Kilmeade dropped a bombshell statistic: nearly two-thirds of self-identified Democrats now prefer socialism over capitalism. &#8220;That&#8217;s crazy. That is crazy.&#8221; He repeated it like a man who couldn&#8217;t believe what he was hearing.
And then came the kicker: &#8220;I can&#8217;t put up with that crazy sh*t. That&#8217;s nuts.&#8221;
Manchin, who spent 15 years representing deeply conservative West Virginia — first as governor from 2005 to 2010, then as a U.S. senator through 2025 — knows a thing or two about what working Americans actually want.
The blunt-talking West Virginian <a href="https://wvmetronews.com/2024/05/31/manchin-a-lifelong-democrat-announces-registration-today-as-an-independent/#:~:text=It's%20who%20I%20am.,extremism%20while%20jeopardizing%20our%20democracy.">ditched</a> his Democratic registration in 2024, declaring himself an independent, and his Fox News tirade left no doubt as to why. He pointed the finger squarely at the party&#8217;s obsession with government dependency, arguing that Democrats have completely abandoned the working men and women who once formed their backbone.
He recalled a telling exchange with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who asked him why West Virginia&#8217;s union workers had abandoned the party. His answer was brutal in its simplicity: Democrats in Washington, he said, now pour more time, money, and energy into able-bodied people who refuse to work than into the struggling laborers still punching the clock every day.
&#8220;That&#8217;s it in a nutshell,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t give it to you any plainer than that.&#8221;
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Reporter: Sixty-two percent of Democrats say they prefer socialism over capitalism.
Joe Manchin: If they do, there isn’t a Democratic Party left. I can’t put up with that crazy shit. That’s nuts! <a href="https://t.co/Xh1VAUcZfN">pic.twitter.com/Xh1VAUcZfN</a>
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It&#8217;s a remarkable journey for a man who spent decades as a Democrat. Manchin was never a reliable liberal — he voted with President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/04/bidens-inaccurate-jab-manchins-sinemas-voting-records/">more than half the time</a> during his presidency, supported several of his cabinet picks and two of his Supreme Court nominees — but his formal break from the party signals something deeper than political calculation.
One thing&#8217;s for sure: Joe Manchin is done playing nice with a party he thinks has gone off the deep end.
And he&#8217;s more than happy to say so on national television.

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‘Crazy Sh*t’: Former Dem Senator Delivers Blistering Tirade At Party’s Socialist Drift

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The Supreme Court wants a budget increase to $210 million for fiscal year 2027, in part due to the court&#8217;s desire to bulk up its security and protect justices. Some Democrats, however, think that&#8217;s too rich.
With the court&#8217;s security budget having nearly doubled in five years — and officials pushing to more than double the size of the Supreme Court Police force to over 400 officers — Congress is being asked to keep the cash spigot open. The latest requests include 54 more officers for justices&#8217; personal details, a new off-site command post, a dozen cybersecurity staffers, and signing bonuses of up to $60,000 to lure recruits away from competing federal agencies, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/28/supreme-court-justices-security-police-00969784">reported</a> on Sunday.
But Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, isn&#8217;t writing blank checks. &#8220;We provide money for the Supreme Court,&#8221; the Connecticut Democrat <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/06/28/supreme-court-justices-security-police-00969784">fumed</a> in April. &#8220;They&#8217;ve never come up and tell us what they&#8217;re doing with the money that we appropriate.&#8221;
Justice Elena Kagan told DeLauro that justices were willing to testify before Congress on the issue, and a hearing was scheduled — but then it was mysteriously postponed, with no new date announced.
It&#8217;s a remarkable stance given what&#8217;s actually happening to these justices. The threat environment has turned genuinely terrifying — and it&#8217;s conservative justices whom Democrats have spent years vilifying who are squarely in the crosshairs.
In 2020, as the court heard arguments on a major abortion case, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attacked the conservative justices, threatening, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
In June 2022, after the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, a man showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s home at 1 a.m. with a Glock, 37 rounds of ammunition, zip ties, pepper spray, and lock-picking sets. He told 911 he planned to kill the justice and then himself. A year later, an Alaska man fired off nearly 500 threats to six justices, vowing to lynch, decapitate, and assassinate conservatives to &#8220;change the ideological balance on the court.&#8221; Last month, Justice Amy Coney Barrett was swatted at her Virginia home — a potentially deadly false report designed to bring armed police swarming to her door.
Justice Clarence Thomas says he can no longer attend Nebraska football games or take his law clerks to Gettysburg. Barrett was handed a bulletproof vest on her way home from work — and had to explain it to her teenage son.
When Congress had a chance to act, 27 House Democrats voted against a bill to extend security protections to the justices&#8217; families. Every single &#8220;no&#8221; vote came from the Left. Republicans voted unanimously in favor.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/these-27-democrats-voted-against-extra-security-supreme-court-justices-1715899">complained</a> that Congress moves faster to protect judges than to pass gun control. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) grandstanded about El Paso. New Jersey Democrats demanded the bill be broadened or they&#8217;d tank it. Meanwhile, Kavanaugh&#8217;s would-be assassin had recently been hauled off his front lawn.
Then in 2023, Senate Democrats went further — <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3986842-democrats-eye-funding-cuts-as-leverage-against-supreme-court/">threatening</a> to withhold $10 million from the court&#8217;s budget unless justices adopted a Democrat-approved ethics code. Fifteen senators, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), signed on to the scheme. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), controlling the relevant subcommittee, said he was looking &#8220;at all the options.&#8221;
The court&#8217;s liberals, notably, don&#8217;t appear to face the same danger. As one lawyer who speaks regularly with the justices put it: &#8220;The conservative justices lead cloistered lives. It&#8217;s really a shame. I don&#8217;t think the liberal justices suffer the same threats in the sense that their lives are in danger.&#8221;
Democrats spent years targeting these justices politically. Now they&#8217;re demanding receipts before signing off on keeping them alive.

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Dems Oppose SCOTUS Security Funding. It’s The Conservative Justices Who Have Been Targeted.

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Former President Joe Biden spoke at the Maryland Democratic Party&#8217;s Fight Back and Win Summit in Baltimore — and after shouting and mumbling through his remarks, he appeared to have some difficulty finding his way off the stage.
Biden&#8217;s typical speech patterns have not changed much since he left the White House in early 2025, as he alternately addressed the crowd calmly and raised his voice to a shout, at seemingly random intervals.
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Joe Biden is speaking at the Maryland Democratic Party.
He’s mumbling, coughing, yelling, cursing, and had to ask for instructions on how to exit the stage.
He also called on Democrats to “fight.”
So he’s pretty much in the same condition as the day he left… <a href="https://t.co/4O8gfyuTXG">pic.twitter.com/4O8gfyuTXG</a>
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) <a href="https://x.com/BreannaMorello/status/2071033100767834325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I should use nice, straightforward and simple,&#8221; Biden said, his tone even, before he pivoted to shout, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to get up, dammit! Get up! Get up now! And continue this fight. So let&#8217;s get up and fight back, God &#8230; darn it!&#8221;
Throughout the speech the former president took credit for the economy and accused Trump of taking on &#8220;vanity projects&#8221; that would only benefit him.
&#8220;Have you noticed that Americans are saying the economy under the Biden administration is a hell of a lot better than under Trump?” Biden asked. &#8220;It’s not just his vanity projects – tearing down the East Wing of the White House making room for his ballroom. Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool. Woah – what a loser.&#8221;
Biden mumbled through some more of his comments, and then turned to exit the stage. Pointing his finger to the left and then to the right, Biden appeared confused as to which direction he was supposed to go to exit the stage. After a momentary pause, he turned his back on the audience and walked away from the lectern.
Biden had similar difficulty at the recent grand opening of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s library and presidential center in Chicago, briefly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-joe-biden-gets-lost-onstage-at-obama-library-opening">scanning the crowd</a> before asking where his granddaughter was sitting and then wandering off the stage.

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Less than a week after Democratic socialists swept several races in New York&#8217;s primaries, the memo appears to have gone out to the more moderate Democrats: the socialists aren&#8217;t just coming, they&#8217;re already here — and the threat is coming from inside the house.
Three candidates backed by New York City&#8217;s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their respective primaries on Tuesday — and two of them defeated incumbent Democrats to do it — but the one raising the most eyebrows is Darializa Avila Chevalier.
Avila Chevalier, now the Democratic nominee for New York&#8217;s 13th Congressional District, is a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America who doesn&#8217;t believe murderers should go to prison — ever — and refers to American military veterans as &#8220;war criminals.&#8221; She wants all police abolished, would cut the defense budget to $0, and referred to former President Joe Biden as a &#8220;rapist.&#8221;
Despite their desire to take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, Avila Chevalier appears to be making some more moderate Democrats very uncomfortable — and they&#8217;re doing everything they can to put as much distance as possible between Mamdani&#8217;s chosen few and the Democratic Party writ large.
Meghan Hays, who served as an adviser to both former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum that she was &#8220;frustrated&#8221; by the fact that no one in the party appeared to be standing up to the obvious threat of takeover.
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💥NEW: Ex-Biden Official <a href="https://x.com/meghan_hays9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@meghan_hays9</a>: &#8220;Why aren’t people in the party standing up to these folks? &#8230; everyone’s just like, &#8216;Oh, we’ll just stand back and let it happen.&#8217; And that is the biggest problem with our leadership &#8230; Folks NEED to stand up — or they WILL take over!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/hYqipMl5Vs">pic.twitter.com/hYqipMl5Vs</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2070833396889084138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What is really frustrating to me as a Democrat — and I know I’m very moderate — but why aren’t people in the party standing up to these folks?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Why aren’t more people endorsing? Why aren’t people saying, in these purple districts that are super important to take back the majority of the House and even have a chance in the Senate, &#8216;We won’t stand for this?'&#8221;
&#8220;And you’re not seeing a lot of it. I think everyone’s just like, &#8216;Oh, we’ll just stand back and let it happen.&#8217; And that is, I think, the biggest problem with our leadership that we have. Folks need to stand up or they will take over,&#8221; she said of the fringe Left, asserting that they were &#8220;not Democrats.&#8221;
Liberal attorney and Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz also argued that the democratic socialists were not Democrats — but were pretending to be for the purpose of winning elections and gaining access to power.
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💥NEW: Alan Dershowitz: &#8220;If the Socialists pretend to be Democrats — and if the Democrats welcome them in — then they&#8217;re gonna win elections on the basis of FRAUD. This is pure and complete fraud on the voters — and SHAME on the voters who fall for it!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bsmksD3X3v">pic.twitter.com/bsmksD3X3v</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2070611688009703759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If the Socialists pretend to be Democrats — and if the Democrats welcome them in — then they&#8217;re gonna win elections on the basis of fraud. This is pure and complete fraud on the voters — and shame on the voters who fall for it!&#8221; he said.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-is-not-down-with-the-jew-hating-socialists-my-vote-is-in-play">Comedian</a> and HBO host <a href="https://x.com/overton_news/status/2070696096985194936">Bill Maher</a> also tried to draw a clear line separating &#8220;Mamdani&#8217;s people&#8221; from the rest of the Democratic Party. Referring to Avila Chevalier as the Woke Mind Virus&#8217;s &#8220;Patient Zero,&#8221; Maher claimed that she and the others claiming the &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; label were &#8220;very different&#8221; from everyday Democrats.
&#8220;What happened is for years we&#8217;ve been asking young people to vote. Well, now young people are voting and they are voting to abolish the police, abolish prisons, unlimited immigration, so no cops, no prisons, no borders,&#8221; Maher said, joking that it was all proof &#8220;that eating Tide pods does cause brain damage.&#8221;
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville took a more antagonistic stance, saying that not only did the Democrats need to keep the socialist wing of the party from taking over, but that he&#8217;d prefer they be ejected from the party entirely.
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Carville continues his freak out over DSA candidates:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything in common with Ms Chevalier, and I really don&#8217;t want to be in the same party she’s in.&#8221;
“This is a bridge too far.&#8221;
James just doesn’t seem to be enjoying the monsters his party created very much. <a href="https://t.co/wHlaugfsPe">pic.twitter.com/wHlaugfsPe</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2070887289773806059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t have anything in common with Ms Chevalier, and I really don&#8217;t want to be in the same party she’s in,&#8221; he told Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany. &#8220;This is a bridge too far.&#8221;
Fifteen Democratic House members and candidates have signed on to the <a href="https://www.thepromisetoamerica.com">Promise to America</a>, a pledge to promote capitalism and more traditional American ideals over socialism and abolishing police.
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BREAKING: Promise to America secures signatures from ten members of congress and five congressional candidates. We&#8217;ll break it down for you down below. <a href="https://t.co/BfmL6m6CPI">https://t.co/BfmL6m6CPI</a> <a href="https://t.co/3pHFyJBjY0">pic.twitter.com/3pHFyJBjY0</a>
— The Promise to America (@thepromise2026) <a href="https://x.com/thepromise2026/status/2070119476423467066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) called the Democratic socialists out directly, telling CNN anchor Dana Bash that there was a lot of daylight between &#8220;performative&#8221; politics, &#8220;platitudes,&#8221; and slogans and actual effective governance.
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🚨 Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) torches the far-left DSA wing after their wins in NY:
In a new CNN interview, Shapiro dismisses the relevance of Zohran Mamdani and DSA-backed socialist victories in New York, calling them “individual districts in a whole other state” with “different… <a href="https://t.co/9URxXmBBgM">pic.twitter.com/9URxXmBBgM</a>
— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) <a href="https://x.com/DSA_Watch/status/2070696838613676484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In addition to concerns about whether or not the Democratic socialists were prepared to govern, &#8220;The View&#8221; host Sara Haines worried that their more extreme policy positions would be a &#8220;gift&#8221; to Republicans going into the midterm elections. If a candidate like Avila Chevalier called for abolishing police and referred to military veterans as &#8220;war criminals,&#8221; it wouldn&#8217;t be long before all Democrats were fending off claims that they too believed in such extreme policies.
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💥NEW: &#8216;The View&#8217; Co-Host Sara Haines on Dem Socialist wins: &#8220;For the Republicans, this is a GIFT! &#8230; We&#8217;re writing the commercials pretty much for the GOP. The Democrats are literally just teeing up exactly how EVERY Democrat is gonna be framed!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/lnBEE5Xbe0">pic.twitter.com/lnBEE5Xbe0</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2070839692598063432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We&#8217;re writing the commercials pretty much for the GOP. The Democrats are literally just teeing up exactly how EVERY Democrat is gonna be framed!&#8221; she said.

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Panic Sets In: Dems Tailspin As They Realize The Hostile Socialist Takeover Already Started

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Socialists

Tuesday&#8217;s primary elections indicated that the divide within the Democratic Party, between the moderate and the more socialist factions, is only growing ever deeper.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) responded after three far left candidates — all backed by Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — swept their individual races, making it clear that he too had chosen a side.
“Our message to the oligarchs: bring it on. After last nights decisive wins, have a new, strong, bold Democratic party,” Khanna said. 
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Our message to the oligarchs: bring it on.
After last nights decisive wins, have a new, strong, bold Democratic party. <a href="https://t.co/cGqpQozYcn">pic.twitter.com/cGqpQozYcn</a>
— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) <a href="https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/2069879382852735291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
“The reality is that our platform of a new deal is resonating, it’s a platform that says no to foreign wars, no to genocide, but it’s also a platform that says yes. Yes to medicare for all, yes to childcare for all, yes to unions for all, and yes to a tax on billionaires and trillionaires.” 
The three Mamdani-backed socialist candidates swept their congressional races on Tuesday, defeating two incumbent Democrats: Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat. Their challengers were viewed by many in the party as radical leftists. 
Democratic primary winners Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez actually belong to the Democratic Socialist party of America. The New York Times Editorial Board <a href="https://nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/darializa-avila-chevalier-on-housing">learned</a> Chevalier could not name an instance in which she would support a man being imprisoned for murder. Chevalier claimed that when “we put people behind bars in incredibly traumatizing conditions in a context where they cannot actually reflect on the harm that they caused.” 
Along with abolishing prisons, Chevalier has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-socialists-upset-incumbent-dems-in-house-primary-sweep?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mamdani%E2%80%99s+Socialists+Upset+Incumbent+Dems+In+House+Primary+Sweep">advocated</a> for abolishing police and national borders. Notably, she has said that “all deportations” — including those of immigrants convicted for murder, rape, and assault — should be banned, as imprisoning and deporting would be seen as “double jeopardy.” Valdez, who won New York’s 7th district, supports abolishing ICE, private healthcare, and strengthening unions. 
Khanna is not alone in his support for the “new, strong, bold Democratic party.” Senator Cory Booker voiced support for the new candidates saying, “One of the things that makes the Democratic party great is it’s a big tent party, we need to stay that way.” He <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2069771977041039637">added</a>, “The focus has got to be the November election.” 
Members of the parties’ progressive left such as Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Ro Khanna did not recognize the anniversary but celebrated Tuesday’s election. 
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Alhamdulillah! I can’t imagine experiencing what she had to a still smiling as a first time candidate but respect her grace and resilience and I am very proud of her. We are very lucky to have a principled leader and someone who understands who it means to be a leader carrying… <a href="https://t.co/FpUI1tsr0v">https://t.co/FpUI1tsr0v</a>
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href="https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/2069614828683939898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
However, other establishment Democrats did not comment on Tuesday’s election, focusing their attention on the four-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe V. Wade. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and the Democrat’s page recognized the anniversary and did not make a comment on Tuesday’s election night. 
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When the Court overturned Roe, one thought kept running through my mind: Women of this generation were about to lose rights that previous generations had fought to secure.
Four years later, we have seen exactly what that looks like — chaos, confusion, fear. Women denied care.…
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/2069823369537614174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2026</a></blockquote>
Senator Bernie Sanders and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani highlighted both events.

Rep. Ro Khanna

Influential Dem Doubles Down on Party’s Hard-Left Turn After Socialist Primary Sweeps

Ro Khanna

Zohran Mamdani

Grab your popcorn. Pull up a chair. Because New York just nominated a slate of Islamic socialists so radical, so proudly anti-American, that Osama bin Laden is rolling around in his watery grave like it&#8217;s Christmas morning.
Zohran Mamdani, the Ugandan-born Muslim socialist mayor of New York City, endorsed three congressional candidates in their Democrat primaries. All three won. Two of them knocked out sitting incumbents. 
The man&#8217;s three for three, and he&#8217;s just getting started. 

After Mamdani’s candidates secured their November spots, the kingmaker took to X to thank <a href="https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2069780014665478431/video/1">Allah</a>. His comrade Ilhan Omar chimed in with &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/IlhanMN/status/2069614828683939898">Alhamdulillah</a>.&#8221; And Hakeem Jeffries, the biggest loser of the night? He was sent home with his tail between his legs, mumbling that &#8220;a handful of primaries aren&#8217;t going to reshape who we are as House Democrats.&#8221;
Sure, bud.
Establishment Dems are getting <a href="https://x.com/katie_honan/status/2069594271225659590/video/1">booed</a> out of their own backyards. When Jeffries appeared on screen at one of the victory rallies, the crowd jeered, then chanted “You&#8217;re next” to his face.
So the NRCC sent him flowers and a condolence card, which is hilarious. I&#8217;d have sent a one-way ticket out of relevance.
Here&#8217;s the thing, friends. Socialism is <a href="https://x.com/AdamSinger/status/2069735948464664661">winning</a>. It&#8217;s swallowing the Democratic Party whole, and riding inside that socialist Trojan horse is radical Islam. It&#8217;s not coming. It&#8217;s here. We let it happen. And now we either fight to keep it at bay, or we let the scavengers pick America clean until she&#8217;s hollowed out.
Before we talk about how this happened, let&#8217;s understand who we&#8217;re actually dealing with. Because these are not your grandfather&#8217;s liberals. These are full-throated, flag-burning, Hamas-sympathizing, capitalism-hating radicals. And New York just handed them the keys.
First up: Darializa Avila Chevalier, who won the NY-13 primary and knocked out five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. She is a founder of CUAD — Columbia University Apartheid Divest — whose stated goal <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2069646072465559913">includes</a> “undermining and eradicating America,” through the use of “violence.”
Cute.
She&#8217;s a Dominican-Venezuelan immigrant who converted to Islam but, in her own words, operates <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/2069791610359910636/video/1">through</a> &#8220;a black queer feminist lens.&#8221; She wants to <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/2069612181281198135">seize</a> the means of production, abolish the police, abolish the border, and she&#8217;s on record saying that deportation is wrong <a href="https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/2069620095773557214">because</a>, “We&#8217;re all on stolen land!”
She refuses to <a href="https://x.com/guypbenson/status/2069602970702856369">say</a> murderers should go to prison. Refuses to support deporting illegal immigrants convicted of rape. <a href="https://x.com/guypbenson/status/2069602970702856369">Refuses</a> to condemn Hamas or October 7th.
I’d surmise she also refuses to shave her pits and use deodorant.
Next: Aber Kawas, who won the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 12. A child of <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2069625851587576024">illegal</a> immigrants, she wants to abolish ICE completely, campaigned under a <a href="https://x.com/nycDSA/status/2069599449190395941">Palestinian</a>, not American, banner, and <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2069636443828359564">blamed</a> September 11th on America&#8217;s &#8220;system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.&#8221;
She&#8217;s also been photographed at protests <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2069614841325588744">wearing</a> a Hamas headband. Charming.
Then there&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2069610243093385250">Claire Valdez (NY-7)</a>, who cruised to victory promising to grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens, use your tax dollars for all transgender medical treatments, eliminate private health insurance, and abolish ICE.
Her father, notably, runs a firm that secures the Texas border. Pause for the irony there.
And <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2069610243093385250">Brad Lander</a> (NY-10), who ran on forgiving all student loans and expanding the Supreme Court. He&#8217;s a progressive plant, backed by Mamdani and Bernie Sanders, which tells you everything you need to know.
Mamdani and his fixers walk into a bar. The bar is now a commune.
How did this happen? Three things: foreign voters, DSA zealots, and a city #2cool2care.
In Mamdani&#8217;s own mayoral race, over 62% of foreign-born New York voters chose him compared to 31% of American-born voters. Last night, that pattern continued. The DSA knocked on doors. Their volunteers showed up. And the city&#8217;s apathetic native-born population  (the &#8220;New York or nowhere&#8221; crowd) sat on their couch and watched Netflix while socialists rewrote their political future.
Look at the Avila Chevalier numbers. She <a href="https://x.com/bungarsargon/status/2069774401340322295">lost</a> the Bronx portion of her own district by 30 points. She lost majority-black and hispanic neighborhoods. She lost lower-income areas by 10 points. The people she claims to fight for rejected her. So who voted for her? Young voters. High-income voters. College-indoctrinated voters.
Yes, the silver-spoon guilty-white-liberal demographic, voting communist because it makes them feel less bad about their lack of melanin.
Meanwhile, the <a href="https://x.com/billybinion/status/2069785317092086179">DSA</a>  (the organization putting forward all these madhatters) is roughly 85% white. Progressive elitists speaking for the little people who, in the end, didn&#8217;t actually vote for them.
And then there&#8217;s the third group. Not the ones who love this agenda. Not the ones who hate it. The ones who don&#8217;t care. The &#8220;it&#8217;s New York, who cares who runs it&#8221; crowd.
L<a href="https://x.com/liel/status/2069619625956974816">ess than 10%</a> of New York City residents voted in these primaries. The other 90% were sitting it out. And the indifference of these<a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DZle1d2PCDv/"> lacrosse-segway-finance-pipeline</a> party animals just nominated a nutjob who cheers for Hamas and a radical who wipes with the American flag.
Apathy is a vote. You just didn&#8217;t know who you were voting for.
And into that vacuum, something very organized, very dangerous, and very un-American walked right in.
It&#8217;s called third worldism. And Ronald Reagan, God bless him, saw this coming decades ago. In 1964, he warned that Democrats were dragging their party &#8220;down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.&#8221;
He said then what we&#8217;re living now: freedom isn&#8217;t the natural state of things. It has to be defended. Constantly. Or it gets eaten.
Third worldism is the fusion of Islamist ideology with anti-Western, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist grievance politics. It frames Islam and Muslim societies as the authentic, oppressed &#8220;periphery&#8221; locked in a civilizational struggle against the West, and places Islamic unity as the better alternative to liberal democracy, individual rights, and Enlightenment values. It rejects secular law and individual liberty in favor of religious authority and grievance-based solidarity.
In plain English: It’s the end of America as we know it.
It doesn&#8217;t build. It tears down. It doesn&#8217;t innovate. It colonizes grievance. It doesn&#8217;t uplift women — it explains why honor violence is someone else&#8217;s fault. And when brought to America through migration and activism, it imports parallel societies, demands sharia accommodation, and directly conflicts with core Western principles: free speech, equality under the law, and secular governance.
We’re watching this horror film in England. Where alarming percentages of the Muslim community support wife-<a href="https://x.com/NateFriedman97/status/2069446382444810240/video/1">beating</a>. Where city centers are <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2069470976136360205">unrecognizable</a> to the people who built them. Where hundreds of thousands of young girls are raped, trafficked, and tortured for being white.
Not all cultures are equal. Not all cultures are good. America isn’t perfect, but she is overwhelmingly good. We had the tools, the values, and the moral framework to confront our failures and grow.
Don’t invite the past, whose sole mission is to disrupt our future.
New York — snap out of it. You’re not doing anyone any favors by letting suicidal empathy and performative tolerance dictate your policy and actions.
The little things you take for granted — walking safely into a subway, wearing what you want, eating a $1.50 hot dog in Times Square without a prayer call interrupting your afternoon — are not accidents. They are the product of a civilization built on values these candidates have explicitly rejected.
New York or nowhere? That used to be a love letter to a city. Now it sounds like a dare.
I&#8217;m choosing not there. But for those who are staying? Fight for it. Because the third world didn&#8217;t just knock on the door. New York opened it, handed over the keys, and went back to brunch.

New NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Makes An Announcement In Brooklyn

Osama Won

Democratic Socialists Of America

DW Opinion

New York City

The news of a Zohran Mamdani-backed slate of Socialist candidates — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Claire Valdez — scoring big wins last night in New York City’s congressional primaries should send a shudder down the spine of America as we behold the transformation in the gilded city of Gotham. New York City’s heavy Democratic base all but assures that last night’s victors will take seats as members of Congress come January.
Something tectonic is shifting across America’s most elite sectors as candidates find receptive audiences among a voting bloc that explicitly disavows core pillars of the American experiment. What we should lament is not only political — the disavowal of the free market and self-government — but spiritual.
Post-Christian societies, which New York City has sadly become, are enacting post-Christian political economies wherein officials become czar-like, citizens become clients, and cultures deteriorate into ugliness and grievance.
Political economies are downstream of assumptions about the human person and human societies. Where Christianity and conservatism champion a constrained view of the human person and the need for government to balance competing interests under systems of law and liberty, socialism offers a rival vision deeply embedded within the progressive worldview — one that begins not with the depravity of man, but with man’s continued uplift and boundless progress through the power of an omnicompetent and omnibenevolent state. In this paradigm, people who no longer believe in the power of self-government exchange personal virtue for increased bureaucratic control. If humanity cannot govern itself from within through the “mediating institutions” that teach the virtues of self-control, thrift, and personal responsibility, it will necessarily look outside to czar-like apparatchiks who fill the vacuum left by self-government. The middle between the individual and the state thus vanishes.
In this light, citizens become clients of the state, looking to the government to deliver what was once the province of private industry, family, and voluntary associations. The Socialist agenda — rent freezes, free transportation, city-run grocery stores, and universal childcare, all funded by soaking the wealthy — is a grand act of displacement. Whatever one may think of any single plank in the Socialist agenda, the result is a paradigm shift toward a provider-client relationship between the state and the individual. Here, the client cannot stand on his own and operates not within spheres or structures of civil society but as a dependent. What’s left is the residue of resentment and grievance among a people who look upon the fortunes of others, believing them theirs by right of simple lack.
What’s more, whatever progressivism touches, it <a href="https://wng.org/opinions/why-progressivism-destroys-everything-1723630996">eventually destroys</a>. Consider the deleterious effect of progressivism on a city’s aesthetics. Where everything is “owned” by everyone, no one sees it as their responsibility to steward their surroundings. No surprise, then, that progressive Socialism produces debauched city centers — crime-ridden, dirty, and bedecked with ugliness. Where the transcendentals of truth, beauty, and goodness are cast off, public ugliness follows: in a desacralized world, the prurient is upheld as the cost of “liberty.” Even if one were to point to the relative successes of state-sponsored socialism in Scandinavia, we must respond that the population differences between America and Scandinavia are stark and that Scandinavia&#8217;s cultural homogeneity makes for an apples-and-oranges comparison.
We should name Tuesday night’s results for what they are — the casting off of personal responsibility and entrepreneurial ambition for a faux solidarity delivered by government diktat.
But lament is not enough. In the same way that Jesus wept over Jerusalem for its refusal of the offer of what would bring lasting peace, so too must we look at what is unfolding in New York City and answer with superior counterarguments. We need not look far for superior alternatives — states like Florida, Texas, and Tennessee, where citizens are flocking to escape the onslaught of bigger government and higher taxes.
To be sure, Mamdani’s voters are reacting to perceived distresses — housing costs, fraying social services, and a growing sense that American capitalism is rigged against them. It is not enough for the Christian to dismiss the real or perceived plights of others — genuine remedies grounded in personal responsibility and a bottom-up conception of the common good must be on offer. We must advance a mediating position between increased government control and atomized libertarianism, a position that the Christian tradition refers to as “ordered liberty,” a conception of political order grounded in the reality that human beings are made in God’s image, oriented to real, concrete, and objective human goods, and ordered under the banner of law. That vision requires a total repudiation of the vision winning the day in New York City.
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Andrew T. Walker is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Managing Editor of WORLD Opinions. He is a Fellow at The Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Bernie Sanders And Zohran Mamdani Join Local Candidates For Campaign Rally Ahead Of Primary Election In New York

Socialists Sweep, Will New York City Weep?

2026 elections

Socialist candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is likely to become Congress’ most radical member after she won the Democratic primary in New York&#8217;s 13th congressional district, which has not elected a Republican under its current redistricting lines.  
Chevalier has called to abolish police, disparaged the American flag, and refused to condemn Hamas&#8217; October 7 terrorist attack on Israel. She also does not support any form of deportation — including of illegal immigrants who are convicted of murder, rape, and battery.
“The reason I say that is because we have a criminal system. It is imperfect. But it exists,” she said. “We need to make sure it is one that isn’t also discriminatory on the basis of where people were born, right?” She went further to explain that deporting someone and having them serve time in jail is “double punishment.” 
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I asked DSA congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13) about several of her previously deleted tweets, including one that read that “all deportations are wrong.”
Here’s what she said: <a href="https://t.co/T4hqi1F66J">pic.twitter.com/T4hqi1F66J</a>
— Astead (@AsteadWH) <a href="https://x.com/AsteadWH/status/2067281388236152984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2026</a></blockquote>
The topic came up as Chevalier was grilled about her controversial X posts. The 32-year-old Democratic nominee has also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/politics/kfile-ny-13-darializa-avila-chevalier-deleted-tweets-defund-abolish-police-prisons-deportations">called</a> for abolishing the police and seizing private property. During the primary debate against incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, Chevalier said she believes the best way to curb crime is through alleviating poverty via social safety net funding, affordable housing, after-school programs and addressing the opioid crisis rather than “militarized police.” Chevalier unseated Espaillat on Tuesday.
She also <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/mamdani-backed-foe-of-espaillat-apologizes-for-nasty-tweets-in-feisty-debate/">criticized</a> former Vice President Kamala Harris posting on X, “F*ck Kamala Harris.” For that she said, “I sincerely apologize. I would love to see a black woman president.” 
She told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki that the issue of affordability ultimately motivated her to run because she is “someone who has had to live with the question of whether I can afford to stay in the city I love.”
Chevalier has walked back another one of her posts that <a href="https://x.com/foxandfriends/status/2069818658910519452">read</a>, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.” However, in an interview on Tuesday, she abruptly left in the middle of questions into her past statements, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/mamdani-backed-foe-of-espaillat-apologizes-for-nasty-tweets-in-feisty-debate/">saying</a> she felt regret for some of her past posts, but added that it was time to “fight for the things that are necessary for the community.” 
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Chevalier has spent the majority of her career in higher education. She served as an administrative assistant and research assistant at Columbia University. Before starting a seven-year PhD program at City University of New York, she served as a community organizer and activist. As an organizer, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-socialists-upset-incumbent-dems-in-house-primary-sweep?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Mamdani%E2%80%99s+Socialists+Upset+Incumbent+Dems+In+House+Primary+Sweep">questioned</a> Israel&#8217;s legitimacy and helped orchestrate pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University after the October 7 Hamas attacks. 
In her first interview since her election, Chevalier proudly <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=darializa+avila+chevalier+student+debt&amp;sca_esv=d8ad4d1a78452d8c&amp;sxsrf=APpeQnsa9Vicu3eevjS0tvaheX4DT1Jb4Q%3A1782316075500&amp;ei=K_w7apb3Hajk5NoPk6jq-Ak&amp;biw=1093&amp;bih=775&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjWuLrknKCVAxUoMlkFHROUGp8Q4dUDCBI&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=darializa+avila+chevalier+student+debt&amp;gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJmRhcmlhbGl6YSBhdmlsYSBjaGV2YWxpZXIgc3R1ZGVudCBkZWJ0MgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKsCMgUQIRirAkjCDVCgAli-DHABeAGQAQGYAaMBoAHNCaoBBDEwLjO4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgmgAv0GwgILEAAYgAQYsQMYgwHCAgQQABgDwgIQEAAYgAQYigUYQxixAxiDAZgDAIgGAZIHAzcuMqAH6DWyBwM3LjK4B_0GwgcFMC42LjPIBxaACAE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:074b82a7,vid:_a4KrN9FFp4,st:0">touted</a> that she has been “organizing my entire adult life around immigration injustice, mass incarceration, and around Palestine.” 
Chevalier was elected alongside two other socialist candidates who were also backed by New York City democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“It will take a new generation of leadership to ensure that the heartbeat of this party is once again the struggles of the working class,&#8221; Mamdani said when he <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mamdani+endorses+chevalier+psaki+&amp;sca_esv=d5a5f35ee25e06b2&amp;udm=7&amp;biw=755&amp;bih=775&amp;sxsrf=APpeQntgcl70TIpQz8YWdLaM8U5tjkGpYw%3A1782313746974&amp;ei=EvM7avWCO7Cl5NoP4M3XgAs&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj105COlKCVAxWwElkFHeDmFbAQ4dUDCBI&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=mamdani+endorses+chevalier+psaki+&amp;gs_lp=EhZnd3Mtd2l6LW1vZGVsZXNzLXZpZGVvIiFtYW1kYW5pIGVuZG9yc2VzIGNoZXZhbGllciBwc2FraSAyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigAUigT1CZBFjfQ3ADeACQAQCYAYsBoAGvBqoBAzcuMrgBA8gBAPgBAZgCCqACjAbCAgUQIRirApgDAIgGAZIHAzguMqAHwCOyBwM2LjK4B4UGwgcFMC45LjHIBxOACAE&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-modeless-video#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:a2508b1f,vid:470EuZ2UIqM,st:0">endorsed</a> Chevalier last month.

NYC Mayor Mamdani Holds Get Out The Vote Rally Ahead Of Primary Election

Democrats’ Newest Pick Is Their Most Radical Yet

Congress

Election

New York

All three socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their Democratic primaries for U.S. House in New York on Tuesday night, including two far-Left candidates who knocked out incumbent Democrats. 
In New York&#8217;s 10th congressional district, former New York City comptroller Brad Lander handily defeated his opponent, incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, receiving approximately <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/new-york-us-house-district-10-results">66%</a> of the vote. In New York’s 7th district, New York State Assemblymember Claire Valdez won her race with about <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/new-york-us-house-district-7-results">56%</a> of the vote, and in the 13th district, leftist community organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/new-york-us-house-district-13-results">defeated</a> incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat by less than four percentage points, according to the results as of Wednesday morning. 
The results highlight the growing popularity of democratic socialist candidates in New York, sparked by Mamdani&#8217;s victory last November. 
“When Zohran won, it was a sign of what could happen and what was possible,&#8221; the Sunrise Movement, a Left-wing activist group, said in response to Tuesday night&#8217;s results. &#8220;Young people have taken over New York City and we are going to Congress. Young people, who are unapologetically Democratic-Socialist. Tonight marks the end of the bought out, boomer establishment Democrats.&#8221;
In a social media post, the group added, “WATCH OUT CHUCK SCHUMER!! YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!!” 
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) did not endorse Mamdani for mayor. 
Valdez and Chevalier are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, while Lander previously belonged to the organization before leaving following disagreements over its response to the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Valdez has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-backed-socialist-prevails-crowded-primary-replace-retiring-rep">called</a> for abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding universal healthcare, increasing taxes on higher earners, and strengthening labor unions. Chevalier has advocated abolishing police, prisons, and national borders.
Mamdani&#8217;s endorsement of Chevalier drew scrutiny after several of Chevalier&#8217;s past social media posts resurfaced. In one post, she wrote, &#8220;I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.&#8221; Her former X biography also listed her location as &#8220;Lenapehoking (NYC),&#8221; a reference to the ancestral homeland of the Lenape people.
Mamdani said he had not seen the controversial posts before endorsing Chevalier but stood by his decision after they became public. Defending his endorsement, he told CNN, &#8220;In Congress, she&#8217;ll take on corporate greed, bad landlords, and D.C.&#8217;s broken political system. At a time when power is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, Darializa will fight in Congress for New York City&#8217;s working families. She&#8217;s the champion we need for a city New Yorkers can actually afford.&#8221;
Mamdani&#8217;s wife, Rama Duwaji, also publicly encouraged her Instagram followers to support Valdez and Chevalier, but she did not post an endorsement of Lander. Resurfaced social media activity from Duwaji has drawn criticism, including posts in which she questioned Israel’s legitimacy and <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyc-first-lady-liked-post-oct-7-rape-hoax">liked</a> an Instagram post that described allegations of sexual violence on October 7 as a “mass rape hoax.”

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