As Republicans look to defy history in the upcoming midterm elections, they hope to pick up seats in an unexpected place: New York. 
One of the top New York House seats being targeted by the GOP is that of Rep. Laura Gillen, who represents large swaths of Long Island. The GOP is banking on Gillen’s leftist voting record and the unpopularity of Governor Kathy Hochul to open the door for them to get a win in the swing district. 
Gillen, who won New York’s 4th Congressional District by ousting incumbent Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito by about 8,000 votes in 2024, has <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll246.xml">voted</a> with her party to <a href="https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/MACE_113_xml%20(2)250905102500556.pdf">force</a> the Department of War to use taxpayer dollars for transgender surgeries and wants to keep Haitian nationals from being deported. 
“Out-of-touch radical Laura Gillen has repeatedly fought to send Long Islanders’ tax dollars down the drain,” National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Maureen O&#8217;Toole told The Daily Wire. “Her record of pushing woke pet projects won’t fly in this district, and voters will send her packing in November because of it.”
Midterm elections historically favor the party out of the White House, and President Donald Trump is broadly unpopular in New York, but Republicans believe local trends may favor them in Gillen’s district. The district favored President Joe Biden by 15 points in 2020 but only went for Vice President Kamala Harris by one point in 2024. Last year, Republicans won all the top positions in Nassau County, where Gillen’s district is centered.
One of Gillen’s top priorities since entering Congress has been prohibiting the deportation of Haitian nationals living in the United States. She <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1689?s=1&amp;r=19">sponsored</a> legislation opposed by the Trump administration that would expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians until 2029. 
“The president has made it clear that this administration’s priority is protecting the American people and addressing the criminal threat posed by those who enter this nation with little to no vetting or overstay the visa granted them,” the White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-trump-admin-comes-out-swinging-on-haitian-immigration-bill-backed-by-some-republicans">said</a> in a policy statement explaining its opposition. “Numerous Haitian nationals previously granted TPS have been the subject of administrative investigations for fraud, public safety, and national security.”
In one recent social media post, Gillen <a href="https://x.com/LauraAGillen/status/2087593342926254146?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">claimed</a> that ending TPS for Haitians would burden the “healthcare system by forcing them to fire caregivers.”
Gillen voted against an amendment to keep the military’s TRICARE health coverage from being used to fund transgender procedures on gender-confused members. Additionally, she <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025203">opposed</a> $9 billion in foreign aid cuts to programs pushing LGBT and climate activism around the globe. 
The New York Democrat is a member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, which <a href="https://equality.house.gov/about-cec/mission">backs</a> a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2487/text">bill</a> pushing federal funding for transgender procedures and <a href="https://x.com/EqualityCaucus/status/1933166704680472794">opposes</a> efforts to keep drag shows off of military facilities. 
Running against Gillen is Republican Jeanine Driscoll, who is <a href="https://driscoll4congress.com/">focusing</a> on a platform of cutting taxes, backing law enforcement, and securing the southern border. Driscoll was an official in Hempstead Town, where she oversaw local taxes. 
In recent years, Republicans have performed well in the district. Long Beach, a city of about 35,000, elected all Republicans to the city council in November 2025 for the <a href="https://www.liherald.com/merrick/stories/gop-sweeps-long-beach,218435">first time</a> in over half a century. Republican Bruce Blakeman coasted to re-election as Nassau County Executive in 2025 by over 10 points. Now running for governor, one <a href="https://sri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SNY0826-Release-Crosstabs_Corrected.pdf">recent poll</a> showed Blakeman down just 10 points to Hochul, who once led by 20 points. 
The same poll showed Republicans with a 49% to 44% lead over Democrats on the generic Congressional ballot in the suburbs. 
“In New York, Republicans are in the strongest electoral position possible, because while Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani run the Empire State into the ground, Republicans are delivering,” O’Toole said. “Taxes are down, communities are safer, and New Yorkers have President Trump and Republicans to thank for it.”

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is examining whether the federal government has the authority to intervene against New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s controversial pied-à-terre tax. 
“I am looking to see if the Federal Government has any legal right to avert this disaster, before it is too late, for the millions of people who cherish New York and want to see it thrive, as opposed to becoming a filthy, crime ridden, decrepit place of mockery and scorn,” Trump said.  
“The NYC pied-à-terre tax is costing New York City and state a fortune in that the money, eventually to be gotten, is very little compared to the taxes paid by the tens of thousands of people who are fleeing the City, never to return,” he added. 
Trump&#8217;s comments come after a New York state judge temporarily halted the city&#8217;s rollout of the tax Monday amid a lawsuit from three homeowners challenging how the Mamdani administration is implementing it.
Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi issued a temporary restraining order blocking the city from enforcing tax notices and requiring the Department of Finance to remove a supplemental property roll published as part of the tax&#8217;s implementation. The Mamdani administration appealed the order hours later, automatically staying Ozzi&#8217;s order and allowing the rollout to continue while the case proceeds.
The tax, championed by Mamdani and authorized by New York state lawmakers with the support of Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, imposes an annual surcharge on high-value New York City homes that are not used as primary residences.
It generally targets second homes with market values exceeding $5 million. It also applies to condominiums and co-ops valued at more than $1 million. 
The controversy intensified after the city sent roughly 17,000 notices to homeowners whose properties officials believed could be subject to the surcharge. Some recipients said their properties were actually their primary residences and therefore should be exempt.
The Department of Finance also published a supplemental property roll containing roughly 960,000 properties. City officials have stressed that the roll includes residential properties that are not necessarily subject to the surcharge and is not a list of nearly one million people who will owe the tax.
The three homeowners suing the city are not challenging the legality of the tax itself. Instead, they argue that the Mamdani administration unlawfully shifted the burden onto homeowners to prove that their properties qualify for an exemption rather than requiring the city to first determine which properties are actually subject to the surcharge.
“The Mayor’s administration screwed up this rollout. It’s been a debacle, and it was in violation of state law,&#8221; Randy Mastro, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403224700112">said</a> Monday. &#8220;The Mayor wanted to grab a quick headline, so he rushed it out and instead he violated the very law that the state passed authorizing him to impose.” 
A hearing in the case is scheduled for August 31.
Mamdani has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/judge-temporarily-blocks-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-744b0003">promised</a> to &#8220;vigorously defend” the city’s implementation of the tax in court.
A spokesperson for the mayor said Monday that the administration is &#8220;confident in both the pied-à-terre surcharge and the City&#8217;s ability to implement it fairly and effectively.&#8221;
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A recently published <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-vindicated-gaza-nutrition-data-after-blood-libel-starvation-claims-un-envoy-says">survey</a> backed by the United Nations shows acute malnutrition among young children in Gaza at or below prewar levels, undermining claims that Israel deliberately starved the population during the war.
“During the war in Gaza, Israel was accused by many countries and by many U.N. <a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ohchr-statement-22aug25/">officials</a> that we deliberately <a href="https://press.un.org/en/2025/sgsm22772.doc.htm">starved</a> the population in Gaza. That was a blood libel,” Israeli Ambassador Danon <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-vindicated-gaza-nutrition-data-after-blood-libel-starvation-claims-un-envoy-says">told</a> Fox News on Tuesday. “When we actually answered those claims and asked our colleagues where they got the data, the answer was that they relied on Hamas reports.”
The Gaza SMART nutrition survey, coordinated by the UNICEF-led Nutrition Cluster and presented by the State of Palestine Nutrition Cluster on July 22, 2026, examined 1,335 children under age 5. The assessment covered regions home to about 83% of Gaza’s population. Roughly 17% of the population could not be surveyed because of security and operational constraints.
The survey recorded acute malnutrition rates between 0.2%-0.8% using weight-for-height measurements, with a global estimate around 0.5%. Using mid-upper arm circumference, the rate stood at 1.3%. Evaluators concluded there was “no widespread acute malnutrition at population level.” The rates were significantly lower than those in neighboring countries.
Danon argued that the latest figures debunked earlier starvation claims and said previous numbers drawn from Hamas sources were fabricated. “For the future, we shouldn’t count on a terrorist organization. We are a reliable country, we share data, we share concerns regarding humanitarian issues, and we should not collaborate with terrorists,” he said.
He pointed to specific past statements by senior international officials. U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher, in a 2025 BBC interview about border access, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k3d1y10pzo">said</a> 14,000 babies were at risk of dying within 48 hours without immediate nutritional aid. That figure was later clarified as an 11-month projection involving children at risk of severe malnutrition.
“That was false and did not happen. Using starvation and babies to spread blood libels against Israel is outrageous,” Danon said. “We care about babies in Gaza more than those making these allegations against us.”
Danon mentioned that Israel maintained records of food supplies entering the territory throughout the conflict. “In terms of the food coming into Gaza, that was very easy for us to prove because we control the checkpoints and count the number of trucks coming in,” he explained.
The survey results arrive as prominent Left-wing and anti-Israel politicians have continued to push the claim that Israel has been starving people in Gaza.
Last year, then-New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1925239850929688735">posted</a>, “Netanyahu said he’d allow aid into Gaza. He lied. For nearly 80 days, nothing has reached Gaza’s soup kitchens, bakeries, or hospitals. Thousands of babies — and countless adults — are being starved by the Israeli government. This is a heinous war crime, one that should shock and anger every single one of us.”
In a July 25, 2025, statement, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said, “After many months of Israel blocking humanitarian aid, children and other vulnerable people are starving to death in increasing numbers. The World Food Programme says that the food crisis has reached ‘new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.’ Children’s bodies are eating themselves from within, their organs are shutting down. 
“Doctors themselves are fainting from hunger,” Sanders added.

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A Staten Island judge temporarily blocked the rollout of New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s controversial pied-à-terre tax on Monday. 
Judge Wayne Ozzi <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/us-news/ny-judge-approves-temporary-pause-of-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-rollout/">issued</a> a temporary restraining order requiring the city to remove its published tax roll, which contains more than 900,000 properties, and barring officials from taking further action on approximately 17,000 warning notices already sent to property owners. The order also pauses related deadlines while a lawsuit challenging the tax&#8217;s implementation moves forward.
The surcharge applies to certain New York City properties that are not used as primary residences worth at least $5 million and condominiums and co-ops valued at $1 million or more.
The homeowners behind the lawsuit are not challenging the tax itself. Instead, they argue that the city’s Department of Finance is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/new-york-city-homeowners-sue-over-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-rollout-1795d9a5">improperly</a> placing the burden on property owners to prove they do not owe the tax rather than requiring city officials to determine which properties are subject to it. The lawsuit claims the city placed “homeowners in an untenable position in the dead of summer.”
The lawsuit was brought by three homeowners, Rachel O’Brien, Carmine Morano, and Simon Hedley, who say they were forced to gather documents proving their properties are their primary residences.
“The rollout of this surcharge is a debacle,” said Randy Mastro, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. 
The city also published a searchable tax roll containing information on roughly 900,000 properties, prompting privacy complaints from homeowners. The Department of Finance has said that the vast majority of properties on the roll are not subject to the surcharge and that only roughly 17,000 property owners who received warning letters are potentially subject to it.
Mamdani <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/us/nyc-pied-a-terre-tax-lawsuit">said</a> Monday that his administration would “vigorously defend” the city’s implementation of the tax in court. His administration has maintained that the surcharge is legal and can be implemented fairly.
When Mamdani first promoted the tax, he released a controversial video featuring him outside the home of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. 
Griffin responded by saying Citadel would add more jobs in Florida following what he called Mamdani&#8217;s “creepy” video. 
“We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor’s poor decision here with respect to his posting of that video,” Griffin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-doxxes-his-own-constituents-days-after-terror-attack">said</a>. 
The next hearing in the homeowners&#8217; lawsuit is scheduled for August 31.  
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David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan and avowed racist, attempted to conduct a hostile infiltration of the Republican Party in the early 1990s.
Duke won a state legislative seat as a Republican in Louisiana in 1989, and then ran for Senate in 1990 and then governor in 1991. He lost the Senate race amid Republican consternation about what he was doing, but 1991 became the real showdown. When Duke tried to become governor, and advanced to the final runoff for the seat after winning over 30% of the vote in the jungle primary, the GOP kicked into action.
Republicans across the country, and in Louisiana, disavowed Duke and urged their supporters not to vote for him. This went all the way up to President George H.W. Bush, who urged voters to reject him. Louisiana&#8217;s sitting Republican governor, who Duke defeated in the primary, told people to vote against him. Some Republicans even outright endorsed his Democratic opponent, who was renowned for being corrupt.
Duke lost by over 20 points.
You might rightly point out that this was nearly 40 years ago, during a different time in American politics, so let&#8217;s get more current. In 2016, the Republican establishment went to great lengths to stop Donald Trump from becoming their presidential nominee. (I want to be crystal clear here, I am not comparing Donald Trump to David Duke — just the two situations where an insurgent force was resisted by Party leaders.)
Major conservative institutions of the time — from National Review to Club for Growth — actively worked to stop Trump during the primary. Mitt Romney gave a speech during the race denouncing him and urging voters to get behind whoever was most likely to defeat Trump in their state. At the RNC, when Trump was already the nominee, Ted Cruz gave a speech where he went out of his way to tell people to &#8220;vote their conscience.&#8221; When the Access Hollywood tape came out, just weeks before the election, prominent Republicans again denounced their own candidate.
That takes us to today. There&#8217;s been much talk of a &#8220;Democratic Civil War&#8221; going on, but I&#8217;m just not seeing it. The war is over, and much like they often do in the Middle East, the Islamist insurgents have won.
Democrats have had some heated primary fights. Mamdani v. Cuomo, the New York DSA challengers, El-Sayed v. Stevens. But even then, prominent leaders in the party have largely stayed out. To Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s credit, she was really the only heavy hitter to outright endorse Stevens over El-Sayed.
El-Sayed proceeded to win by around 15,000 votes in an election where 1.5 million were cast. Democrats could&#8217;ve easily stopped him if they threw their whole weight behind Stevens, but they didn&#8217;t.
Now, after his victory, every top Democrat is getting in line.
Chuck Schumer, who has the survival instinct of a hen in a foxes&#8217; den, endorsed El-Sayed at the same time El-Sayed said he wanted to see Schumer replaced as Senate minority leader.
The El-Sayed development is particularly shocking because he is not even pretending to play nice. He said he wants to put John Fetterman&#8217;s head on a pike as a warning to other Democrats. He is campaigning to overthrow Democratic leadership, and has already threatened to undermine 2028 Democratic presidential candidates if they don&#8217;t meet his demands.
Even David Duke spent years trying to soften his image before his political runs, maintaining the same racism but in a shift, obfuscating tone to try to appeal to the masses. El-Sayed hasn&#8217;t moderated an inch.
He is taking the party hostage, and rather than resist it, the party is handing him the zip ties and machine gun he&#8217;s going to do it with.
Only a few brave Democrats have spoken out. Rep. Hillary Scholten and Fetterman have said they won&#8217;t support him. But his own primary opponent, Stevens, has gotten on board like a true coward. Schumer is behind him. Kamala Harris is fundraising for him. Michigan&#8217;s other senator, Elissa Slotkin, ostensibly a moderate and definitely a presidential hopeful, is supporting him.
Where is Barack Obama? Hell, where is Joe Biden? Where is Nancy Pelosi? These people could have stopped this force in its tracks if they really tried, and they still could, but they are choosing not to.
These people are signing their own political death warrants, and I truly feel like I&#8217;m experiencing some sort of psychotic episode watching it.
What&#8217;s in this for Chuck Schumer, exactly? The man is 75 years old. He has no future. If he runs for Senate again in 2028, he will likely lose to a left-wing primary challenger, especially if that challenger is AOC. At his age, he might not run again at all.
Schumer often touts being the highest-elected Jew in America. He has been a staunch supporter of Israel his entire career, and has a role as his party&#8217;s senate leader to shepherd it in the most effective way possible, not be an activist.
There&#8217;s basically no downside to him taking his stand here and saying enough is enough, I will not go along with this. Instead he will die leaving a legacy of feckless cowardice in the face of demonic anti-Americanism.
So spare me the talk of a Democratic &#8220;civil war.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a war if one side never fires a shot back.

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Last month, Karen and I welcomed our sixth grandchild — a beautiful baby girl — into our family and into the world. Looking into her big blue eyes, we are filled with an inexpressible joy for another precious gift from God.
But holding her in my arms also makes me think about the country she and all our grandchildren will inherit.
I remain profoundly optimistic about our nation’s future. America is still the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Yet I am deeply concerned by one troubling development: ideas that history once discredited are finding new life among young Americans and an increasingly influential place within today’s Democratic Party.
I was born in 1959, two years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit and the Cold War entered one of its most dangerous chapters. My generation grew up practicing duck-and-cover drills in case of nuclear attack while half of Europe lived behind the Iron Curtain. We understood that freedom was neither inevitable nor free.
I watched America meet the Soviet threat with courage and confidence. From President John F. Kennedy’s declaration that we would “<a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120">pay any price</a>” for liberty to President Ronald Reagan’s <a href="https://civicsforlife.org/ronald-reagan-berlin-wall-speech/?civicsforlife.org/community&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_campaign=CFL+App+2026&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=2833943392&amp;hsa_cam=23485849150&amp;hsa_grp=&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=x&amp;hsa_tgt=&amp;hsa_kw=&amp;hsa_mt=&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23481209192&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACWbQCiWlYU7J2wI0OGnAg5IWxAla&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwguLSBhDLARIsAH-yPrF-SchgJYu1G7KOXM_T9Q1mkmTWinVUTcTOnarEk2gOqXzV71FAsIwaAp4zEALw_wcB">command</a> that Mikhail Gorbachev “tear down this wall,” presidents of both parties understood the moral stakes of confronting communism.
Communism ultimately collapsed because it denied the most essential of truths: our rights come not from government, but from God. When government claims ultimate authority over the individual, freedom inevitably gives way to coercion.
Communism’s record of death and destruction is carved into human history.
Josef Stalin’s forced collectivization starved millions, while millions more met death in the Soviet gulags. Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward produced the deadliest famine in recorded history, killing some 50 million people.
Castro imprisoned dissidents while generations of Cubans fled in search of freedom.
Hugo Chávez transformed one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries into an unmitigated economic and humanitarian disaster. Today, Nicaragua’s Marxist dictator Daniel Ortega openly declares there will be “no more elections.”
This is the inevitable outcome of socialism. Yet, despite the clear lessons of history, socialism is finding an audience among the American Left.
Far-Left candidates are gaining ground, winning elections, and shaping the direction of the Democratic Party. Politicians who once would have been dismissed as ideological outliers are increasingly treated as the party’s rising stars. In New York City, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) standard-bearer and Mayor Zohran Mamdani has publicly endorsed “<a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/look-mamdanis-economic-ideas">seizing the means of production</a>.” In Michigan, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — has the Democratic establishment on the ropes. Across the country, progressive candidates are aggressively challenging longtime Democratic incumbents, while many of the party’s traditional moderates have retreated, accommodated, or simply lost influence.
The success of these candidates has come from selling government as the cure for every hardship to a generation that never learned the truth about communism and socialism.
DSA’s <a href="https://program.dsausa.org/">national program</a>, which declares capitalism a failure and states that “complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up,” promises a utopian socialist future without bills for “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation.”
Of course, they conveniently omit that bills do not disappear. Government can pay them only by seizing the payment from someone else.
As government acquires the power to provide everything, it acquires the power to decide everything.
Conservatism begins with a different understanding. We believe every man, woman, and child is endowed by our Creator with rights that no government gave and no government may rightfully take away. Government exists to protect those rights, and to preserve the conditions for families, churches, communities, and free citizens to flourish.
That conviction has produced results no central planner could match. Free enterprise has lifted billions from poverty, unleashed innovation that has improved countless lives, and made America a beacon of hope for generations.
There is a bitter irony in socialism’s renewed appeal. America has been so successful that many young people can scarcely imagine the misery that would result from its absence. They never waited in a bread line, feared a knock on their door in the middle of the night, or wondered whether speaking their minds might cost them their freedom. They inherited liberty without having witnessed the price that previous generations paid to preserve it.
When I think about my newest grandchild, I pray she inherits an America where faith remains free, where honest work is rewarded, and where government remembers that it serves the American people — not the other way around.
My generation watched communism lose its claim on the world because free people stood firm against it. This generation must now show the same confidence in the enduring truths that made America exceptional.
If we do, our grandchildren will inherit not merely a more prosperous nation, but a freer one.
That is the inheritance they deserve. And it is our responsibility to preserve it.
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Mike Pence served as the 48th Vice President of the United States. He is founder of Advancing American Freedom and author of “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.”

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Elon Musk warned he will “come after” radical Left-wing activists and “finish the job” in response to a report exposing troubling statements made by a former volunteer videographer for then-NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
The social media firestorm erupted after The Free Press published an <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/mamdani-videographer-china-eric-hovagim">exposé</a> on Eric Hovagim, a 28-year-old leftist content creator who previously helped film and edit campaign media for Mamdani. Hovagim, an Arizona-born industrial engineer-turned-radical-influencer, previously labeled Musk a &#8220;valid military target&#8221; after footage surfaced showing an alleged downed U.S. drone fitted with Starlink satellite tech.
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elon musk is a valid military target <a href="https://t.co/GpcxeGr6Yu">https://t.co/GpcxeGr6Yu</a>
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Musk pledged, &#8220;If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job.&#8221; Musk made the comment on X in response to investor Joe Lonsdale, who shared the investigation into Hovagim&#8217;s history of extreme rhetoric.
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If they come after me, I will come after them and finish the job
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Hovagim built a social media following by peddling insane conspiracy theories and violent anti-American manifestos. Among his most unhinged claims, Hovagim reportedly called the United States the &#8220;Fourth Reich,&#8221; described Israel as the &#8220;most dangerous threat to humanity,&#8221; and claimed both nations are run by &#8220;Zionist pedophiles.&#8221;
In another horrific post, he glorified the 2024 assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly referring to the Midtown Manhattan street where Thompson was shot in the back as &#8220;hallowed ground.&#8221;
Hovagim attended UC Berkeley, where he dropped out to launch a million-dollar sports gambling startup called Pogbet. After the platform folded, he pivoted to full-time radicalism, working for the leftist think tank behind the Green New Deal and producing content for Hasan Piker, including Piker’s recent documentary trip to Cuba.
Mamdani&#8217;s campaign quickly sought to distance itself from Hovagim, emphasizing that Hovagim was merely an unpaid volunteer and not an official staffer. &#8220;As the mayor has said, any and all political violence is unacceptable and must be condemned to the fullest extent,&#8221; Mamdani spokeswoman Dora Pekec stated.
Hovagim recently fled the United States. In late 2025, he relocated to Shanghai, where he now churns out pro-Beijing propaganda aimed at Western audiences. Writing on Chinese-controlled media, he reportedly routinely defends the Chinese Communist Party, dismisses the U.N.-documented genocide of Uyghur Muslims as &#8220;CIA propaganda,&#8221; and posts photos posing beside portraits of dictator Mao Zedong.
Musk has recently faced threats, including from a former Tesla employee who was arrested by Texas police in 2024 after <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-tesla-employee-threatened-to-kill-joe-biden-elon-musk/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">allegedly threatening</a> to kill Musk. In February 2025, a Southern Indiana man was <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/indiana-man-charged-threatening-elon-musk/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">arrested</a> on felony charges after allegedly posting life-threatening statements against Musk on social media. Police found an AR-15-style rifle, a handgun, ammunition, and a ballistic vest at his home.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made a consequential choice about who should bear the risks on New York’s streets.
<a href="https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/03/mayor-mamdani-announces-end-to-criminal-enforcement-for-minor-tr">Since March 27</a>, the NYPD has stopped issuing criminal-court summonses to cyclists and e-bike riders for low-level traffic offenses. Under the policy begun by former Mayor Eric Adams, a rider who ran a red light, ignored a stop sign, traveled against traffic, or disobeyed a traffic-control device could be ordered to appear in Criminal Court. Under Mamdani, riders once again receive ordinary Traffic Violations Bureau tickets.
That may sound like a technical change in paperwork. It is not.
The civil-ticket system has leverage over motorists because drivers have licenses, registrations, and plates. Their violations follow them. They can receive points, lose their licenses, and be identified as repeat offenders.
Legal e-bikes <a href="https://dmv.ny.gov/registration/electric-scooters-and-bicycles-and-other-unregistered-vehicles">carry none</a> of those identifiers. A rider may receive a fine, but there is no plate attached to the vehicle and often no operating license to suspend. Mamdani therefore eliminated the city’s strongest available consequence without first creating an equally credible system of identification and escalating penalties.
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He did so while New York was confronting growing micromobility risks. And he justified the decision primarily by emphasizing the burden enforcement places on riders rather than the safety and freedom of everyone sharing the streets.
That is the problem — and the larger lesson. Progressive officials increasingly treat enforcement itself as the central injustice. The interests of pedestrians, parents, seniors, responsible cyclists, and law-abiding drivers become secondary. Mamdani’s e-bike rollback is that governing instinct in miniature: consequences disappear today; the promised alternative arrives sometime tomorrow.
The timing could hardly be worse. <a href="https://www.amny.com/nyc-transit/deaths-two-wheeled-devices-increase-in-nyc/">By April 19</a>, 13 people had died in crashes involving motorized two-wheelers, up from seven over the same period last year — an 86% increase. <a href="https://home4.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/traffic-statistics/ts-en-us-Citywide.pdf">By July 26</a>, the toll had reached 39, compared with 24 a year earlier — a 63% increase.
Those figures require care. They include riders killed in crashes, not simply pedestrians killed by riders, and they combine e-bikes with scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, and off-road devices.
They also do not prove that Mamdani caused this year’s increase, but they can certainly make it worse. Much of the early rise preceded or closely followed his policy. But they show that New York already had a visible safety problem when Mamdani chose to weaken deterrence.
The legal nuance matters, too. A traffic infraction <a href="https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/VAT/155">is not a crime</a> under New York law. A criminal-court summons routes the case through the Criminal Court, requires an appearance, and can result in a warrant if the recipient skips court. What he removed was the court-backed consequence the NYPD had been using for dangerous everyday violations.
Mamdani thinks that is equal treatment. Drivers usually receive civil tickets for comparable violations, he argues, so cyclists and delivery workers should receive the same.
But equal treatment requires equal accountability. Giving two people identical pieces of paper is not equality when one ticket is backed by a license, registration, plate, and driving record while the other is not.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch called the old civil-ticket system <a href="https://citymeetings.nyc/meetings/new-york-city-council/2025-05-29-1000-am-committee-on-public-safety/chapter/commissioner-tisch-explains-e-bike-enforcement-policy/">“virtually meaningless”</a> for precisely that reason. Mamdani did not close the accountability gap. He changed the ticket&#8217;s color and declared the systems equal.
The latest data demand vigilance, not hysteria. Through July 26, <a href="https://home4.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/traffic_data/traffic-statistics/ts-en-us-Citywide.pdf">reported</a> e-bike rider injuries were up about 31% year over year, from 438 to 572. E-bike fatalities rose from six to nine. Stand-up scooter and motorcycle deaths also increased, while moped deaths declined. Overall traffic deaths were flat, and pedestrian deaths were down.
A <a href="https://nyulangone.org/news/e-bike-and-scooter-crashes-are-leading-more-brain-injuries">2026 study</a> examined 914 bicycle- and scooter-injury patients. Roughly one-third suffered traumatic brain injuries, more than two-thirds were admitted, and about 30% required intensive care.
New York does not need indiscriminate punishment. It needs order: civil penalties for first-time minor offenses, reliable rider and vehicle identification, escalating consequences for repeat violations, targeted court enforcement for dangerous or chronic conduct, and aggressive seizures of illegal high-speed devices.
That enforcement should be paired with protected infrastructure, platform accountability, worker training, safeguards against discriminatory stops, and public data that separates e-bikes from mopeds, motorcycles, and scooters.
Compassion for delivery workers and traffic enforcement are not competing values. Compassion without accountability is indulgence — and ordinary New Yorkers absorb the cost.
Public safety is not an ideological inconvenience. It is the first duty of city government. Mamdani should start treating it that way.
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Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.

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If you let a bunch of Muslim migrants into your country, one of them might stab you in the face, and many of that dude&#8217;s friends will stand by and do nothing, or maybe chase along.
That is a lesson journalist Nick Shirley just learned in Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa where a gigantic wave of Muslim illegal immigrants stormed the area.
While he was there documenting what was going on — surprise, surprise — someone tried to stab him.
When you let in a wide swath of immigrants from foreign cultures who hate you, like much of the Muslim world, it may be that some of them are fine and dandy and some may be willing to assimilate — and some will try to chase you down and stab you in the face.
If you import millions of people in the latter category, they will then form voting blocs and enclaves and voting coalitions, and they will vote for people who would import more just like them, including the people who might want to stab you in the face.
This is not just a problem in Spain. This is also a Michigan problem.
Jake Lang, a Right-wing agitator, attended a march in Dearborn. People started hitting him, punching him, and following him around. He had to race through the streets of Dearborn trying to avoid having the crap kicked out of him.
And of course, a giant crowd followed along, smiling and enjoying the sights. The cops didn’t arrest anyone; they just watched as Jake Lang got the crap kicked out of him. He got pushed into the police car by the cops.
This is a march that happens every year, and this year the marchers included people in Hezbollah headbands carrying flags of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, including Iran-backed Iraqi brigades.
This event has been held in Dearborn since 2004 and has attracted thousands of people. Dearborn has a population of about 110,000 people. More than half of those people are apparently Muslims from the Middle East and Near East.
Signs at the local Home Depot are in Arabic. Some would say, “Why does that matter? Be tolerant. America is a big country.”
Here&#8217;s why it matters. You can build a political base off of enclaves like this. Ilhan Omar has obviously done that in Minnesota, where she was elected by her largely Somali Muslim base. Rashida Tlaib, unsurprisingly, is the representative for Dearborn.
But what also happens is that you can use that base to build a coalition with other anti-American radicals, and then you start moving from state house seats to the Senate or into gubernatorial seats or into the mayoralty of New York, and then maybe the Senate for somebody like Zohran Mamdani.
This is the coalition that Hasan Piker is interested in building. It&#8217;s why he campaigns with all these people. That coalition is about to take a big step forward tonight, in all likelihood.
Tonight, Haley Stevens, a leftist Democrat but more of a traditional Democrat, is running for the Michigan Senate nomination against Abdul El-Sayed, a radical advocate for Muslims, including terrorists.
Right now, in the Kalshi markets, El-Sayed is basically a dead certainty to win. The market puts his odds at 98.3% to win in the primary tonight.
This does mean the Republicans have a significantly better shot of winning the Michigan Senate seat with Mike Rogers because El-Sayed is a worse candidate.
El-Sayed is a radical Muslim. He has significant ties to Dearborn; he campaigns there all the time. And as we&#8217;ve pointed out over and over again, he refused to disavow Ayatollah Khamenei because it might anger too many people in the very moderate Muslim city of Dearborn.
The reason he is hesitant is that, number one, he has strong sympathies for radical Islam, and number two, many of his constituents have strong sympathies for radical Islam. This is the same guy who suggested that when a person from Dearborn tried to murder a bunch of Jewish preschoolers, the reason was that the guy&#8217;s brother had been killed as a member of Hezbollah in Lebanon and “hurt people hurt people.”
He is also touting the endorsement of a pastor who praised Louis Farrakhan, one of the greatest anti-Semites of the last 50 years in America.
Who is the base for Abdul El-Sayed? MEMRI TV got a tape of a mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. The imam declared, “The time has come. Allah willing, for our voices to be heard, for those who represent us to reach Washington, for the Zionist low-lives who spent millions of dollars to stop this surge, to be humiliated. Allah refuses everything short of perfecting His light, even if the polytheists and the infidels hate that.”
And then El-Sayed spoke at this mosque.
El-Sayed openly campaigns on his hatred for Israel and his solidarity with radical Muslims. It is the tip of the spear; it is a purposeful strategy because he&#8217;s building on that base. Dearborn has at least 50,000 to 60,000 Muslims living in it. The total Muslim voting population of Michigan is somewhere between 200 and 300,000 people.
A competitive Democratic Senate primary in Michigan might draw 900,000 or one million votes. But what if you have, right off the bat, 150,000 or 200,000 votes on your side?
This is why enclaves matter, and El-Sayed’s candidacy is symptomatic of the entire coalition of scavengers the Democratic Party has decided to build upon again.
The goal here is to create a coalition of people who all hate the system. And this is why you end up with a bunch of weird bedfellows who all share the same objective: to destroy the system.
Radical leftists plus radical Muslims are coalescing, which brings us to Francesca Hong, a member of the state assembly and part-time bartender who&#8217;s running for governor in Wisconsin. She knows her coalition, which is why in the closing days of her primary campaign, she is campaigning with Hasan Piker and Ilhan Omar.
She says that the DSA national platform actually is not radical enough. She needs it to have a foreign policy plank. The foreign policy plank would be “a right to self-determination,” not for Jews in the Middle East, of course, but for Palestinian radicals in the Gaza Strip.
That lady is likely, according to the Kalshi prediction market, to be the nominee in Wisconsin.
The coalition is just about hating America. She’s perfect for this because she hates America. She hates it.
Back in 2019, she tweeted, “I ate 82 bites of my kid’s cheeseburger at a Culver&#8217;s in Black River Falls and told him they ran out of ice cream. Mostly just wanted to leave bc I was on the verge of an anxiety attack &#8230; to [sic] many old white people who didn’t think we spoke English.”
She also said that it&#8217;s about time that we “86” Trump, of course.
They decided that this nutty lady was their best shot. She also hates Valentine&#8217;s Day because it’s “another day capitalism tells you how to show love.” She tweeted in 2020 that she wanted to cancel Thanksgiving.
All of this radicalism starts with enclaves. It all starts with a concerted, hardened group of people who all believe the same thing.
And then you build coalitions with other people who have the same broad overall goals, and it moves more broadly.
It was easy to say, when Mamdani was elected in New York, that “New Yorkers are being New Yorkers,” and that it wasn’t a true national problem.
But when the coalition of scavengers starts taking congressional seats in Colorado and possibly a senatorial seat in Michigan and a gubernatorial seat in Wisconsin, you are watching your country destroyed in real time.
And that’s all because of our original sin: Allowing our tolerance and multiculturalism and refusal to teach the superiority of Western values to destroy us.
We imported tons of people who hate our civilization. We cultivated an entire generation of young people who also hate our civilization.
And now they have created a coalition of people who wish to destroy our civilization.

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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/business/paramount-warner-bros-deal-pause.html">Paramount announced</a> it was delaying its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, pausing a deal expected to bring big changes to Hollywood.
Why? Democrats did everything they could to stop the merger, including <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-lawsuit-block-110-billion-warner-brosparamount">filing a lawsuit</a> to block it.
The merger is still expected to proceed once the litigation is resolved in court. But it’s just another example of how Democrats are getting back to their anti-market, anti-business roots.
No one is allowed to merge. No one is allowed to achieve greater scale. Profit is a dirty word.
The Trump administration takes a different approach. It’s not afraid to use antitrust law to protect consumers while also letting free enterprise thrive.
Earlier this year, before Paramount came knocking, Warner Bros. was planning to merge with Netflix. Then Trump <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-says-netflix-warner-bros-deal-problem-will-involved-approval-rcna247923">expressed skepticism</a>, and with good reason. The deal would have concentrated an enormous amount of market power inside Netflix — already the world’s number one streaming service and no slouch in content production either — with a history of dramatically raising costs on the American people.
There were genuine antitrust concerns about the effects of a Netflix-WBD behemoth. This led Netflix to ultimately withdraw and WBD to announce it would merge with Paramount instead.
Yet Democrats are still crying foul, accusing Trump of being an agent of big business for approving this deal. At the same time, the Trump administration has been willing to take direct stakes in companies such as Intel in order to counter mercantilist policies pursued by China.
Are we witnessing a political realignment in business regulation? One where traditional Left/Right arguments as to the proper role of government are being altered? The jury is still out on that question, but at least on the Democratic side, that old anti-business itch remains irresistible.
As the Biden administration’s litigation-happy antitrust strategy under then-FTC chair Lina Khan showed, Democrats never really abandoned their belief that government should always question private-sector actions — even if the proposed actions don’t raise consumer costs.
For example, Democrats recently hit the warpath over budget airlines — even though these carriers are often Americans’ best chance to afford a vacation. Under Khan, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-statements-jetblue-terminating-acquisition-spirit-airlines">successfully blocked</a> Spirit Airlines from merging with JetBlue, which would have provided it with additional capital and prevented it from <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/spirit-airlines-shuts-down-white-house-00903807">shutting its doors</a>. Democratic attorneys general also worked to block that merger despite the lower fares benefiting consumers.
The result? Spirit had no choice but to cease operations entirely in May amid rising fuel prices. Airline prices <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/why-the-collapse-of-spirit-airlines-means-higher-fares-for-everyone-0e4990aa">rose</a> dramatically overnight. Consumers now have fewer airline choices.
Or consider when tech company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced it would acquire Juniper Networks. The Trump administration waived the merger through, drawing instant blowback from Democrats. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/07/30/merger-hpe-juniper-networks-national-security">Intelligence agencies had insisted</a> the combined HPE-Juniper company would provide needed competition for Huawei, the Chinese giant considered a national security threat that <a href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/huawei-cisco-ciena-find-growth-in-declining-telecom-market/">controls</a> over 30% of the world’s telecom market.
Naturally, Democrats are still trying to block this business deal through the courts.
This is before we even get to the Left’s bread-and-butter anti-business crusades. Energy companies are <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/k-street-girds-for-democrats-oil-oversight-onslaught-01006936">bracing for an onslaught of lawfare</a> if Democrats win the midterm elections. Firearms manufacturers are being <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/29/gun-companies-move-south/">driven out of blue states</a> and into red ones.
Some Democrats have even pledged to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-vow-political-reckoning-if-they-win-midterms-campaign-season-heats-up">unwind mergers approved by Trump</a> if they take back control of Congress. Imagine the unpredictability that will create for American businesses.
Why are Democrats reclaiming their anti-business roots? One reason is the Democratic Party agenda is being driven by so-called “democratic socialists,” who despise free enterprise and excoriate successful job creators. Democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has personally attacked business leaders while promoting ever higher taxes and dramatically increased spending.
It was no surprise when Mamdani hired Lina Khan into his administration. Mamdani hates anyone who makes a profit, thinks the government should own grocery stores, and intends to drive private landlords out of New York so the government can own more housing. If Khan’s record is any indication, she wholeheartedly agrees.
While popular with some now, Mamdani’s socialist experiment is doomed to failure. As Margaret Thatcher once quipped, “the only trouble with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
Yet the rise of democratic socialism and the failure of more centrist Democrats to prevail in primaries means even more attacks against the private-sector economy are on the way.
To be sure, not every business combination is in the public interest. Some — like the Netflix-WBD merger — risk shoring up monopolies. But others — like Paramount-WBD — can create competition for market leaders like Netflix and bring down prices.
It’s complicated, and this seems to be where conservatives have landed: assess mergers and corporate behavior on the merits. The Democrats, meanwhile, fundamentally oppose free enterprise capitalism and seek to stoke jealousy and class resentment as a means to achieve political power.
It remains to be seen which side will prevail. Let’s make sure it isn’t the socialists.
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John Faso is an attorney and former Republican congressman representing New York&#8217;s 19th congressional district.

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New York City&#8217;s Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has dismissed the entire advisory board of the Mayor’s Fund, removing a roster of business executives who helped raise private money for city projects.
The Mayor&#8217;s Fund to Advance New York City is a nonprofit that pulls in private-sector donations to support city initiatives. Mamdani became the first mayor in at least three administrations to dissolve the board of advisers in its entirety, saying that he planned to rebuild from the ground up.
&#8220;I commend you for your dedication and the benefit you have brought to our City as you conclude your tenure on the Mayor’s Fund Board of Advisors,&#8221; Mamdani&#8217;s letter, obtained by <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/mamdani-dismisses-business-leaders-advising-nyc-s-mayor-s-fund?taid=6a7119f2fbc22200010262af&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Bloomberg News</a>, read in part.
The list of prominent business leaders ousted from their roles, as <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/04/us-news/socialist-mamdani-launches-new-war-on-nyc-business-leaders-kicking-them-off-mayors-fund-that-backs-city-programs/">reported</a> by The New York Post, includes Richard Born, owner of BD Hotels; Jeffrey Gural, chairman of GFP Real Estate; Alex Katz, senior managing director at Blackstone Inc.; Edward Skyler, Citigroup Inc.’s head of enterprise services and public affairs; and James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York.
Economics professor Isabella Weber praised the move, saying it reduced the influence of business interests over city government.
&#8220;One of the beautiful things about Mamdani’s renewal of NYC government is that it shows how deeply business interests are usually baked into state capacity,&#8221; Weber wrote. &#8220;Why should private equity, banks and real estate interests advise a mayor on what to spend?&#8221;
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But Bloomberg Philanthropies head James Anderson countered that the advisory board&#8217;s role was to drum up charitable donations, not to decide how those donations were spent.
&#8220;This is a mischaracterization,&#8221; Anderson wrote. &#8220;The Mayor&#8217;s Fund is designed to bring philanthropic resources to public priorities. Its advisory board has historically helped mobilize those resources — not determine public spending. Remaking the board is the mayor&#8217;s prerogative.&#8221;
&#8220;Treating public-private collaboration as evidence of capture may be red meat for the base, but it&#8217;s a poor theory of urban governance,&#8221; he added.
Mamdani is expected to fill the positions for his new board later this year. Mamdani senior advisor Dora Pekec told The New York Post that the administration is &#8220;reimagining how philanthropy can augment, but not replace, public dollars and public goods, and we are eager to share more about our new board of advisors later this year.&#8221;

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Jews were the targets in 70% of all hate crimes recorded in New York City last month, according to NYPD <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/PR012/nypd-fewest-shooting-incidents-shooting-victims-murders-recorded-history-the">data</a> released Monday. Of the 33 confirmed hate crimes citywide in July, 23 were antisemitic.
That figure is 53% higher than the 15 antisemitic incidents logged in July 2025. Jews have been targeted more than every other group combined every month for the past several years. In July, the imbalance was sharper than usual.
Since Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office on January 1, overall hate crimes in the city are up 9.4% compared with the same stretch last year, rising from 329 to 360. Confirmed anti-Jewish hate crimes stand at 205 so far in 2026, an 8.5% increase from the 189 recorded during the same period in 2025. 
That works out to one antisemitic hate crime every 25 hours on average. Jews make up roughly 10% of New York City&#8217;s population, yet 57% of all hate crimes recorded this year have targeted Jews, which is nearly identical to the share last year before Mamdani entered office.
Hate crimes against Asians, black people, and white people declined this year. Incidents targeting Hispanic people and Muslims rose, according to the NYPD.
Among the July cases: a Jewish man was stabbed with a screwdriver on the Upper West Side; an Asian man who is not Jewish was also injured in that attack. In Brooklyn, an assailant shoved a 64-year-old Jewish man to the ground while shouting antisemitic slurs. In Queens, a suspect threw bags of motor oil and feces at two synagogues.
Mamdani addressed the numbers at a Monday press conference, saying, &#8220;The work to uproot antisemitism out of this city is one that will continue until we see hate crimes come to an end in the city.&#8221;
City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish and has pushed efforts against antisemitism in city government, said she remains “deeply concerned and very troubled by the unacceptable spike in all hate crimes, particularly driven by those targeting Jewish New Yorkers.”
Major crimes such as shootings, murders, robberies, and assaults are generally down in the city. The rise in hate crimes presents a challenge for Mamdani, who took office promising to combat hatred and has increased funding for hate crimes prevention. New York has the largest Jewish population of any city outside of Israel.
Jewish leaders have repeatedly warned that the mayor’s anti-Israel rhetoric risks fueling more antisemitism. Last month, several prominent Jewish leaders and groups criticized a video in which Mamdani called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal,” while noting that as mayor he lacked the power to arrest him during any visit to New York.
A global report covering <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2025-was-deadliest-year-for-antisemitic-violence-since-1994-new-report-finds?author=Leona+Salinas&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=2025+Was+Deadliest+Year+For+Antisemitic+Violence+Since+1994%2C+New+Report+Finds">2025</a> found that year was the deadliest for antisemitic violence since 1994, with 20 people killed in attacks across seven countries that together hold more than 90% of the Jewish population outside Israel. More than 23,000 antisemitic incidents were documented in those countries alone.

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