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There are multiple factors to which Zohran Mamdani's win in the race for New York City's mayor's office can be attributed.
The surging extremism in the nation's Democrat party, failed competition, the massive leftist fundraising machine behind him, an exhibition of hate toward the Trump administration, the leftist American media pushing his ideas of "socialism," Marxist and communist as they were.
But several Qatari journalists claim it's because Hamas terrorists did something great on Oct. 7, 2023, and now everyone knows Israel is evil.
Mamdani, of course, boasts of his Muslim identity and adherence to a faith that sets as a goal hatred of Jews and the destruction of Israel.
And what the Hamas terrorists did was an act of war against Israel, when invaders carrying death with them attacked and slaughtered about 1,200 Israeli civilians, often in horrific methods like burning and beheading. The terrorists also carried off about 250 hostages. The last living hostages were released just weeks ago under a ceasefire plan developed by President Donald Trump, and the bodies of those hostages killed still have not all been returned.
It is the Middle East Media Research Institute that documented the comments from "Qatari journalists and media figures" after Mamdani's election.
They wrote, the report said, "that Mamdani's victory reflects a major perceptual shift in the U.S. and the world and the decline in Israel's international standing."
From Abdullah Al-Amadi, a Qatari journalist, was, "What is happening in the U.S. is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood. The American public has understood—after many long years of imposed slumber, in which Zionism played a role—that supporting injustice and oppression is a moral failure… It is thanks to this understanding that a Muslim candidate who opposes the Zionist aggression won the mayoral race in New York, while the candidate favored by the Zionists, who was supported even by the American President himself or by the oligarchy in general, lost [the race], even though New York is considered to be the second-largest concentration of Jews in the world!!"
President Donald Trump has, in fact, worked closely with Israel on the ceasefire plan and at one point, when Hamas terrorists were refusing to cooperate, suggested that he would endorse Israel going into the Gaza strip militarily, and destroying whatever remained of the terror organization.
The report also cited Ayman Azzam, a "presenter" on Qatari's Al-Jazeera network.
Azzam "shared a post by Somali social media activist Hiba Shukri that attributed Mamdani's victory to October 7 and the boost it gave to the anti-Israel movement. Azzam commented: 'The world is changing; The manifestations of the Flood have an impact,'" the report said.
Also, Ahmad Mansour, also of Al-Jazeera, claimed "Trump is trapped between Zohran Mamdani in New York and [Muslim mayor] Sadiq Khan in London."
It wasn't clear how an American president could be "trapped" between two Muslim mayors.
And from Jaber Al-Harmi, of the Qatari state daily Al-Sharq, was, "Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York—the capital of the Zionist lobby, which is considered to be the largest stronghold of the Jewish community in the world—despite all the smear campaigns [against him] and despite his opponents receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from dozens of billionaires supporting the Israeli entity."
Al-Harmi continued, "Mamdani, of Afro-Asian descent, is the first Muslim to hold this position. He has described the events in Gaza as barbaric crimes and a genocide war, and he supports the BDS movement. Two years ago, no one could have imagined such a major shift against the Zionist narrative. The steadfastness and resistance of our people in Gaza have turned the tables on the Zionists and exposed their colonialist settlement project to the entire world."
Trump's ceasefire plan for Hamas and Gaza has many points, including those looming that include Hamas being disarmed and removed from power in Gaza.
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Alex Soros, heir to his father George's empire and fortune, cheered the Tuesday election of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, posting a photo of himself and the young socialist.
As a billionaire living in the Big Apple, Soros is one of the residents who will be targeted by Mamdani's plan to raise taxes on the city's "top 1%."
As reported by Fox News, Soros posted: "The American dream continues! So proud to be a New Yorker! Congrats, Mayor Zohran Mamdani."
George Soros' Open Society Foundations have helped fund left-wing campaigns stretching from district attorneys to federal elections. In 2022, Alex Soros succeeded his father as chairman of the board of directors of the $25 billion nonprofit.
Wednesday Mamdani appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America," declaring, "I think you have to raise taxes on the top 1% of New Yorkers."
According to Fox, Open Society Foundations reportedly donating $37 million across the last decade to left-wing groups that ultimately promoted Mamdani's nomination this year, such as the Working Families Party, the New York Post reported in July.
Though a self-described "democratic socialist," Mamdani is better known in the Trump White House as a "communist." He came under fire Wednesday for his victory speech Tuesday, which quoted famed socialist Eugene Debs.
Trump wrote on Truth Social in August: "Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we're watching you!"
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Jay Jones, a Democrat in Virginia, is the state's newly elected attorney general despite his record of openly calling for the murder of Republicans and their children, demonstrating to just what extremes leftist voters have plunged.
But there was one bright spot in what otherwise turned out to be a dark election, including a vote by New York City residents to install policies that essential advocate for communism in city hall.
It was in Loudoun County's school board race, a locale where officials long have pushed the transgender ideology onto children against their parents' wishes.
There, Amy Riccardi unseated "trans-crazed incumbent Arben Istrefi," according to a report at the Federalist.
The loser "recently voted in favor of keeping Policy 8040, which allows students to use restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex and requires the use of 'preferred pronouns' to start grooming children into pursuing irreversible medical 'transition' procedures," the report explained.
The agenda that is used to skew curriculum, classes, social events and more has caused multiple horrors in the district already.
For example, a high-school girl was raped by an offender protected by the agenda, and that crime was covered up.
Further, two boys were unjustifiably punished for objecting to a girl in their locker room, and they are in court over that agenda point.
The report explained, "As Riccardi pointed out, students in LCPS are required to accommodate these gender-confused students at every turn and forced to simply accept opposite-sex individuals invading their spaces."
She charged, "LCPS has a policy they put in place, and it is what it is right now and the politics of this, six members of the School Board have dug in on this policy multiple times now, including my opponent, and I'm not comfortable with boys in girls' locker rooms. I'm not comfortable with boys in girls' sports or girls' bathrooms."
Her perspective will be joined to one other board member who appears to have a "reasonable" view of the schools' transgender beliefs, those held by Deana Griffiths. She has warned the board majority was using tax dollars "to violate the law and push ideology."
The report noted a majority of the board remains extremist, pursuing "their life's work to ensure that all female students in the district are in danger when they are at school."
The push for transgenderism was one of Joe Biden's main agenda points while he was in the White House, but since his departure it has started fading, with even the Supreme Court ruling against such forced indoctrination in one case. That ruling said schools cannot impose their religion on students when it violates the family's faith and beliefs, and the schools must provide opt-out options from their indoctrination.
Actually, following the science, transgender is a fantasy, as being male or female is embedded in the body down to the DNA level.
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Republicans routinely collect about 35% or 40% of the vote in elections in far-left California, while Democrats get about 60%.
That was the breakdown in the 2024 presidential election in which loser Kamala Harris got the 60% and 40% went to Trump, who went on to win the nationwide vote in a landslide.
But Democrats in control for years in the state already have gerrymandered the congressional district lines so they would control 43 House seats, allowing Republicans only nine.
Now, pushed into the fight by Gov. Gavin Newsom, voters have allowed the all-Democrat legislature to gerrymander even more, this time trying to take another five seats away from the Republicans.
That would mean 40% of the population is represented by only four seats in the House, or less than 10% of the state's delegation.
Such is democracy in leftist California.
But, in fact, the state, only hours after the vote became final, got sued over the "unconstitutional" plan.
A report at the Washington Examiner said, "Republicans claim in a lawsuit that the new map that will be enacted as a result of Proposition 50, giving Democrats five more favorable congressional districts, is unconstitutional. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by the Dhillon Law Group on behalf of the California GOP. The lawsuit claims that the new maps illegally use voters' race to draw new districts."
Already, the 60% of the population that generally votes Democrat controls 43 of the state's 52 House seats.
Redistricting based on race, according to the courts, isn't allowed by the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because race is considered a "suspect class."
Even the Supreme Court has signaled limits, including time limits, on such political activism.
According to California Assemblyman David Tangipa, "When I said that the fight for California has just begun, I hope everybody and anybody knows I meant that."
He said Newsom's realignment of the House seats is "completely diminishing the voices of other groups to benefit other groups."
Meaning Republicans are being silenced to benefit Newsom's Democrats.
Newsom announced his scheme after Texas, which largely is GOP territory, finished a routine redistricting plan that does give GOP candidates a preference in some districts.
The report explained, "Democrats said the lawsuit is an example of Republicans dismissing the will of California voters."
But actually, if that is the case, it would be dismissing only the partisan will of some Californians, as the state's Republicans aren't likely to push for fewer representatives from their party and more Democrats.
It is unclear whether the legal fight will result in an injunction that would prevent Democrats from taking advantage of their new power structure immediately.
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Democrats and other leftists across America have been unleashing rage rhetoric with foaming-at-the-mouth episodes of dysfunction in recent months.
Calling President Trump "Hitler" and his fans "Nazis" no longer seems to be enough.
Now there are insults and sometimes demands for physically impossible actions, even threats.
And the infection has spread even to mostly Republican Montana, where one political candidate, Haley McKnight, seeking to be a city commissioner there, oddly thought her campaign would be enhanced by a vile, vicious verbal assault on Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican.
Editor's Note: Be aware of offensive language from McKnight.
On social media, commenters responded to McKnight with:
"Imagine running for public office and thinking death threats via voice mail is part of the campaign strategy."
"I don't think she gets invited to a lot of parties."
"This voicemail raises issues of potential criminal threats, harassment, and civil liabilities, especially, given McKnight's public role as a candidate."
And, "We're gonna need a bigger mental institution."
Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has a book addressing the issue, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," commented on the current trend among mostly leftists for "unmitigated hate speech."
McKnight hopes for Sheehy, death, cancer, more death, and yes, more death.
Turley noted in Virginia the Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, admitted that he previously expressed a desire to kill a political opponent and his children.
McNight's rant include: "Hi, this is Haley McKnight. I'm a constituent in Helena, Montana. I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans, and I hope you're really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer, and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can't even treat you for it."
She then descended into a "litany" of insults about fertility, Sheehy's children, and threatened the senator not to "meet me on the streets."
"I hope you die in the street like a dog. One day, you're going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope that you manage to never get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s*** I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F*** you. I hope you die…All that you have done since you have gotten into power is do s*** for yourself."
Turley noted that McKnight's response was that her rage was "righteous" and she blamed "conservatives" for making public her threats.
She claimed, "I was responding to some horrible policy with some justified rage." And she blamed the senator for not responding to her call.
"I would hope that if Sheehy was so rattled by my voicemail, he would have contacted me instead of leaking my information to conservative news media the night before an election. It feels like a cheap shot. I'm one of his constituents, and you know, this message is nothing that I'd say to my grandmother or in front of any children, it was meant for Senator Sheehy alone."
The Montana Free Press said McKnight, who wants to be on Helena's city commission, said her "rage" was "justified."
She claimed to the publication she didn't really wish the senator "any harm."
In fact, she now has accused the senator of trying to "bully and harass" her.
Sheehy spokeswoman Jack O'Brien said, "We hope Ms. McKnight gets the help she clearly needs."
She has been described as a "progressive" and records show she's donated money to a Democrat.
Officials confirmed police had been notified.
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President Trump Tuesday emphasized the importance of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday on the issue of executive branch power to set tariffs.
Posted Trump: "Tomorrow's United States Supreme Court case is, literally, LIFE OR DEATH for our Country. With a Victory, we have tremendous, but fair, Financial and National Security. Without it, we are virtually defenseless against other Countries who have, for years, taken advantage of us. Our Stock Market is consistently hitting Record Highs, and our Country has never been more respected than it is right now. A big part of this is the Economic Security created by Tariffs, and the Deals that we have negotiated because of them. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
The case involves whether or not the president can use "emergency powers" to unilaterally set tariffs on imports from other nations.
As CNN reports, Trump has relied on a 1970s-era emergency law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to levy the import duties. That law allows a president to "regulate … importation" during emergencies.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also emphasized the critical nature of the case.
"I'm actually going to go and sit, hopefully in the front row, and have a ringside seat," Bessent told Fox News Monday night.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
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A school district trying to restrict the speech of students off-campus has been put on a leash.
It is the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled the Livingston Manor Central School District in New York was off base when it suspended a student for a meme posted on social media while the student was off the school grounds.
According to a report at the Center Square, the decision benefits Case Leroy.
He had been suspended for a post that mocked the 2020 death of George Floyd, a death that triggered Black Lives Matter riots across dozens of cities, leaving behind billions of dollars in damages.
According to the report, Leroy "posed with another student's knee on his neck," and said in the caption "Cops got another."
His intolerant community responded with backlash online, protests at his school, and community meetings.
However, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and other First Amendment groups sued the school and explained punishment for his speech violated the First Amendment rights.
A trial court judge sided with the school, but the appeals judges reversed.
"We conclude that Leroy's off-campus speech fell outside the bounds of the school's regulatory authority. We cannot accept the contention that in today's world, a social media post made off-campus is equivalent to speech on campus," said Circuit Judge Barrington Parker.
Judge Myrna Perez agreed, but did point out that there are limits on free speech.
What would be required for school control would be for some situation to make students "feel unsafe" or deprive them of "the ability to learn," she said.
Adam Schulman, Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute's senior attorney, said the appellate court's ruling "recognized the limits on American public schools' authority to police students' speech outside of school hours or off campus. As the court put it, learning to engage in civil discourse with those with whom we disagree really is 'an essential feature' of student education."
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Democrats desperately are trying to protect their minority numbers in Congress with several redistricting plans in states.
Analysts have concluded they're unlikely to gain much, but in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom, an ardent opponent of President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again agenda, has gone so far as to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign to have voters authorize a new redistricting plan.
His intention is to take away a handful of seats that now are held by Republicans, even though that might not even make up what his party lost in a redistricting already finished in Texas.
California's redistricting by law is supposed to be done by a nonpartisan committee, but Newsom's plan would have voters authorize a bypass so Democrats could gerrymander even further, a process that party already has used for years.
But President Trump is pointing out a potential problem.
And he's promising more information to come.
"The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All 'Mail-In' Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are 'Shut Out,' is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!" Trump said.
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Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won the race for governor in Virginia, easily defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.
With just 35% of the total counted, Fox News projected Spanberger as the victor, collecting 55.3% of the vote, compared to 44.5% for Earle-Sears.
"Thank you for your work, thank you to the tireless volunteers who believed in me," Spanberger told supporters in the wake of her victory. "We won this race because of you."
Leftist influencer Harry Sisson reacted to the red state flipping to blue by saying: "This is a HUGE victory for Virginia and the entire country. Trump and MAGA lose again."
Conservative journalist Nick Sortor noted: "This is NOT a shocking result, as the Republicans had a weak candidate, and federal employees terminated by DOGE – many of which live in VA – are upset. Keep fighting!"
The Republican Earle-Sears previously said in 2022 that she "could not support" Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election, which Trump eventually won.
"We have a clear mission, and it is time to move on," she told Neil Cavuto of Fox Business.
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A school district that lost at the U.S. Supreme Court when it demanded it had the right to push deviant sex ideologies, such as transgenderism, onto children without their parents' permission still is imposing its lessons on the young and impressionable, according to a report.
It is the Federalist that confirmed that schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, continue to push leftist agendas.
It now is forcing children as young as 12 to "decipher numerous gender ideology terms in a vocabulary lesson, without parental knowledge, permission, or the ability to opt out," the report said.
WND had reported when the Supreme Court decided Mahmoud v. Taylor, ruling that schools are not allowed to force their own religious beliefs onto young children, through mandatory lessons and a ban on opt-outs, because that infringes on the religious rights of the parents.
The case came out of Montgomery County where school officials adopted that mandatory LGBT indoctrination for children as young as three years old. Originally, schools offered an opt-out for parents who didn't want the school's religious ideologies taught to their children, but the school district, faced with a flood of such demands from parents, soon decided to force all children into the lessons.
A commentary after the decision at the Federalist noted the dissenters were Sonio Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Jackson, who famously established her place in history by telling her Senate confirmation hearing she was unable to define "woman."
"The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, sided with the parents, saying, 'A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses 'a very real threat of undermining' the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill … And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents' acceptance of such instruction.'"
But, the commentary noted, "That is not how the three leftists see it. In fact, they see parents — especially religious ones — as roadblocks to education."
The new report said, "Even after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling stating the district had to allow parents to opt their children out of the coursework, the county is still trying to force-feed young teenagers and preteens 'transgender' propaganda."
The evidence is from Defending Education which obtained from a parent the school's own lesson.
"This vocabulary lesson requires that students buy into an ideology that many reject," DE Senior Director of Communications Erika Sanzi told The Federalist. "Does MCPS require that students subscribe to gender ideology in order to fulfill the district's family life requirements for middle schoolers? Because if so, that seems like viewpoint discrimination in a public school."
The assignment for seventh-graders from last month was part of a "sexual education" lesson and required students to define "sex assigned at birth," "gender identity," "transgender" and more.
There is no apparent opt-out available, "ostensibly so that parents did not find out about the content," the report said.
Experts warned that the agenda ordered discontinued had teachers "correct" students if they "expressed errant or opposing views of gender."
That agenda had teachers telling students they were being "hurtful" if they questioned how a boy could become a girl.
Scientifically, they can't.