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Far-left surge: Mamdani-backed candidates oust Dem establishment incumbents
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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did it again.
One year after sending political shock waves across the country with his New York City Democratic primary victory on his way to winning election as mayor of the nation’s most populous city, Mamdani tested the limits of his political powers.
And he easily passed the test, upending the Democratic Party establishment as a trio of Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates won their primaries over more moderate incumbents and rivals.
Mamdani was the biggest winner on Tuesday, but President Donald Trump also covered his bases, as New York, Maryland, Utah and South Carolina held primaries and runoff elections.
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Congressional candidates Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani raise their hands during a Get Out the Vote rally at King’s Theater in New York City on June 18, 2026. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined Mamdani ahead of the primary and early voting to campaign for the candidates challenging incumbents in Democratic primary contests. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Democrats lurching left
The mayor’s most shocking victory came in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, narrowly topped incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat, the 71-year-old Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair and the first Dominican American elected to the U.S. House.
Espaillat, who has been in Congress for a decade, was supported by a slew of party leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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In the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mamdani-endorsed state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who is also aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, downed Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso by double digits. Reynoso, who was supported by Velazquez, was downed by more than 20 points.
«Tonight, we haven’t just won an election. We have declared that this movement is durable — that it is growing, and that it will not stop until working people are no longer asked to just build the table, no longer just offered a seat at the table, but will run the table,» Valdez said in declaring victory.
And a third Mamdani-backed congressional candidate, progressive Brad Lander, crushed incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman. Lander, the former New York City comptroller, ran against Mamdani last year in the crowded Democratic primary field but became one of his biggest backers in the general election.
Chevalier, Valdez, and Lander showcased the mayor’s platform of focusing on affordability in a city with one of the nation’s highest costs of living. And all three were very critical of Israel.
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Lander, who is Jewish, said in his victory speech, «You can criticize Israel and not be antisemitic. You can be an anti-Zionist and not be antisemitic
It was a risky bet for Mamdani, just six months into his tenure as New York City mayor, to take on the establishment, but he comes out of the primary as an emboldened kingmaker in the party.
Mamdani, who campaigned relentlessly for all three congressional candidates, had emphasized that the Democratic Party «must change.»
And on Tuesday night, at the Valdez primary celebration, the mayor said, «Let’s hear it for a politics…that will never forget working people. For a politics that is ready to write a new chapter in our party’s history, and for a politics that realizes the old politics that got us to this crisis, is not the politics that’s going to get us out of this crisis.»
Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, said that the results in New York City «shows we have a new party.»
But the results also give Republicans, who have long cast Mamdani as a radical, more ammunition to use him as a cudgel as they work to hold their razor-thin House majority in this year’s midterm elections.
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«Tonight wasn’t just a bad night for so-called ‘Leader’ Hakeem Jeffries. It was the night the Democrat establishment officially surrendered to Zohran Mamdani and the socialist wing of their party. Every House Democrat, in safe and competitive districts alike, will now answer to the radicals calling the shots. And Americans should be terrified by where the Democrat Party is headed,» National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella argued in a statement.
Trump wins again
The power of the Trump endorsement in GOP primaries was tested again, this time in New York.
And the president prevailed.
Trump-backed first-time candidate Anthony Constantino, a businessman and former boxer, defeated Robert Smullen, a retired Marine Corps colonel and New York assemblyman who had the backing of the state party, in the upstate New York race to succeed retiring GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Meanwhile, in South Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial runoff, Trump couldn’t lose.
That’s because he endorsed both candidates in the race to succeed term-limited GOP Gov. Henry McMaster.
State Attorney General Alan Wilson defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a landslide.
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Trump endorsed Evette late last month, a week and a half before the gubernatorial primary.
Evette finished on top of a crowded field of contenders in the primary election, with Wilson second. The field also included Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman, and multimillionaire businessman Rom Reddy. Since no candidate won a majority of the vote, as the top two finishers, Evette and Wilson advanced to Tuesday’s runoff.
Mace and Norman endorsed Wilson after failing to advance to the runoff. And Wilson was also backed a week ago by Sen. Ted Cruz, the conservative firebrand from Texas.
Trump, meanwhile, made an 11th-hour endorsement on Friday, backing Wilson in addition to his earlier endorsement of Evette, in what appeared to be a move by the president to hedge his bet.
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Wilson, who topped Evette by a more than two-to-one margin as the votes continued to be counted, gave a shout-out to the president in his victory speech.
«I believe he recognized what we’ve been doing,» Wilson said of Trump. «I think he saw the fight in our campaign and the energy in our campaign. I think he likes a fight. I think that’s what won him over.»
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John Lennon, músico inglés: “Si todo el mundo exigiera la paz en lugar de otro televisor, entonces habría paz”
En la primavera de 1969, el mundo ardía. La Guerra de Vietnam se devoraba las vidas de miles de jóvenes en el sudeste asiático, las calles de Europa aún crujían por las réplicas del Mayo Francés y la Guerra Fría dictaba un guion de paranoia global. En ese ecosistema de tensión absoluta, el hombre más famoso del planeta decidió atrincherarse en la cama de un hotel. Estamos hablando de John Lennon, quien supo ser el líder de The Beatles. No lo hizo para esconderse, sino para encender un megáfono incómodo.
Instalados en la suite 1742 del Hotel Queen Elizabeth en Montreal, John Lennon y Yoko Ono convirtieron su luna de miel en una acción artística, política y mediática sin precedentes: el Bed-In for Peace (Encamada por la paz). Entre sábanas blancas, rodeados de flores y carteles que rezaban “Hair Peace” y “Bed Peace”, la pareja recibió durante siete días a periodistas, filósofos y activistas. Fue el 1 de junio de ese año que dijo: “Si todo el mundo exigiera la paz en lugar de otro televisor, entonces habría paz”.
Cronistas escépticos le exigían soluciones pragmáticas a un músico de rock. Entonces disparó esta sentencia que hoy opera como una profecía de nuestra era hiperconectada. Pero para desarmar la potencia de esa frase es imperativo analizar su contexto histórico y simbólico. A finales de la década del 60, el televisor no era un electrodoméstico común; era el nuevo tótem del capitalismo tardío, el centro de gravedad de la sala de estar de la clase media global y la gran promesa de confort de posguerra.
Lennon, un agudo observador de la conducta de masas, identificó allí una trampa. El sistema ofrecía bienestar material a cambio de apatía política. La comodidad de consumir imágenes —incluso las de la propia guerra transmitida a la hora de la cena— funcionaba como un anestésico para la acción civil. La frase encierra una ecuación filosófica de responsabilidad individual: la paz no es un accidente geográfico ni un decreto de las cúpulas de poder; es una demanda colectiva que se asume o se delega.
Si el ciudadano medio invierte su energía, su tiempo y su salario en acumular bienes de consumo en lugar de presionar a sus gobernantes, se vuelve cómplice por omisión. Reemplácese hoy la palabra “televisor” por el último modelo de smartphone, la suscripción a una plataforma de streaming o el algoritmo de turno, y la interpelación de Lennon mantiene su vigencia intacta, desnudando cómo el entretenimiento y el mercado fagocitan las urgencias humanitarias. Para que haya paz, primero hay que exigirla.
Aunque la frase nació como una declaración oral al calor del debate periodístico, su supervivencia histórica y su estatus de manifiesto político se consolidaron gracias a su registro impreso. La cita aparece en John Lennon en sus propias palabras, publicado originalmente en 1980 por los editores Miles y Pearce Marchbank. A diferencia de las biografías tradicionales, este libro se estructuró como una curaduría minuciosa de declaraciones textuales, cartas, manifiestos y fragmentos de entrevistas.
Esa frase en Montreal no fue un exabrupto ni un eslogan publicitario; es, posiblemente, la síntesis perfecta del viaje intelectual de su autor. Representa la transición definitiva del John Lennon ídolo de masas —el joven de Liverpool atrapado en la histeria de la Beatlemanía de álbumes como A Hard Day’s Night— al John Lennon activista radical y artista conceptual influenciado por el situacionismo de Yoko Ono. Toda la obra posterior de Lennon está contenida conceptualmente en esa crítica al televisor.
Es el mismo nervio ideológico que meses después pariría la campaña global de afiches callejeros War Is Over! (If You Want It) (¡La guerra ha terminado! [Si tú quieres]) y que, en 1971, encontraría su forma artística en el himno Imagine. Cuando el músico cantaba sobre imaginar a la humanidad despojada de posesiones, fronteras y religiones, no lo hacía desde una utopía ingenua o de fantasía infantil, sino desde la convicción de que la sociedad civil estaba atrapada en un diseño cultural destinado a distraerla.
John Winston Lennon nació el 9 de octubre de 1940 en Liverpool, Inglaterra, en medio de los bombardeos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y creció marcado por el abandono de sus padres y la crianza de su estricta tía Mimi. Su espíritu rebelde encontró refugio en el naciente rock and roll, lo que lo llevó a fundar The Quarrymen, germen de lo que pronto se convertiría en The Beatles. Junto a Paul McCartney, George Harrison y Ringo Starr, Lennon protagonizó el fenómeno cultural más masivo de la historia de la música.
Entre sus grandes álbumes están Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band y Abbey Road. Tras la disolución de la banda en 1970, el músico canalizó su genio en una carrera solista profundamente introspectiva y vanguardista de la mano de su esposa, la artista Yoko Ono, legando al mundo obras maestras como los discos John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band e Imagine. Su vida pública estuvo signada tanto por su genialidad artística como por su férreo activismo político contra la Guerra de Vietnam.-
Tras un retiro de cinco años para dedicarse a la crianza de su segundo hijo, Sean Lennon (ya había tenido a Julian Lennon con su primera esposa, Cynthia Powell), el compositor regresó a la escena musical en 1980 con el aclamado álbum Double Fantasy. Sin embargo, el renacimiento creativo fue trágicamente interrumpido el 8 de diciembre de ese mismo año: al regresar a su residencia en el Edificio Dakota de Nueva York, Mark David Chapman, un fanático perturbado, lo asesinó a balazos. Tenía apenas 40 años.
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Blue state shield laws allowed 330K abortion pills to be sent to abortion ban states, pro-life group finds
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EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group has released a new report marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, finding that nearly 330,000 abortion pills have been shipped to states with abortion restrictions since the summer of 2023 under the protection of blue state shield laws, which the report says enabled abortion numbers in several conservative states to remain at or above pre-Dobbs levels.
In the report obtained by Fox News Digital, the Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) said more than 328,000 abortion pills have been sent into states with abortion restrictions from out-of-state between July 2023 and December 2025, citing the Society of Family Planning’s #WeCount data project. According to the report, monthly shipments of chemical abortion pills into pro-life states nearly tripled during that period, jumping from 5,400 pills sent in July 2023 to 14,870 in December 2025.
The report concluded that out-of-state abortion providers send nearly 15,000 chemical abortion pills per month to states with abortion restrictions.
This comes after the nation’s highest court overturned the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, returning the power to make laws on abortion access back to the states.
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The Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) said more than 328,000 abortion pills have been sent to states with abortion restrictions from out-of-state between July 2023 and December 2025. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)
In an interview with Fox News Digital, ROAF CEO Doug Truax said the Biden administration eased safety standards for abortion medication and «pro-death» Democrats adopted shield laws to protect providers in blue states from being prosecuted by red state governments.
«Years ago, the pro-death Biden administration and the pro-death Democrat Party writ large … they knew what we knew: that Roe was bad law, and it was going to go,» he said. «And so they started thinking ahead of what they’re going to do here.»
Truax accused the Biden administration of loosening safety standards around Mifepristone – «the abortion pill.»
«It used to be that you had to go see a doctor to get it. They took that off and said you could just get it through the mail,» Truax said.
«The second thing was the pro-death blue states started implementing the shield laws, which is the focus of the paper that we’ve got out now, which are basically the laws that prevent people in red states from going after the people in the blue states that are sending the abortion pills into the red states,» Truax said.
He argued that the U.S. is «worse off than we were from a numbers standpoint.»
«So they’ve set up an apparatus here that enables them to keep pushing more and more abortions on everybody around the country in spite of it … It’s just created this basically constitutional disorder with all these states doing whatever they want and being able to get away with it because of the shield laws.»
Despite Roe v. Wade being overturned four years ago, nine states with abortion restrictions — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Texas — recorded more monthly abortions in 2025 than they did in 2022 before the court’s decision.
Republican leaders in states such as Texas and Louisiana have attempted to pursue legal action against out-of-state abortion providers, although efforts to extradite providers have been unsuccessful after governors in states like California and New York stepped in.
The report concluded that out-of-state abortion providers send nearly 15,000 chemical abortion pills per month to states with abortion restrictions. (Allen G. Breed/AP Photo)
«The data now shows that mail-order abortion is overwhelming the ability of states to protect unborn life,» the ROAF report reads.
The report argues that while Republican state officials have struggled in efforts to pursue abortion providers in other states, the Trump administration can take immediate federal action to reduce the shipments of abortion pills into states with abortion restrictions by reversing Biden-era changes to FDA regulations that allowed abortion pills to be prescribed through telehealth and delivered by mail.
It also calls on the Justice Department to rescind the Biden-era memorandum on the Comstock Act and enforce existing federal laws governing the mailing of abortion drugs.
«While the success of state attempts in escalating court cases is uncertain, Trump Administration officials can act now to prevent online providers from sending dangerous abortion pills into every state,» the report reads.
Truax even stressed that President Donald Trump, who has claimed to be the most pro-life president in U.S. history, could end up as the «most pro-death president» if he fails to make changes to stop the flow of abortion pills to conservative states across the country.
«President Trump has said repeatedly he’s going to be the most pro-life president ever. Well, that’s in serious jeopardy right now. We have got a situation where the number of abortions is going up, up, up. And on this trend line, if nothing changes, he’s going to go out as the most pro-death president we’ve ever had because of the way this is trending. So we’re trying to help [the administration] understand this and say we’ve got to make some changes,» he said.
«We’re all about no more abortions. But if you get to a place where it’s back to the states, at least the red states have got the ability now going forward to do what they want and do what the people in their state want their state to do, but that’s not what’s happening. So it’s creating constitutional disorder. We have to say, what’s the point of a state law if it’s not enforced in any way? Some other state can basically just come in and just be completely lawless and do whatever they want in your state, even though you’ve got the state law that says they can’t do that, but they’re still doing it and nobody’s stopping them,» Truax added.
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ROAF CEO Doug Truax stressed that President Donald Trump could end up as the «most pro-death president» if he fails to make changes to stop the flow of abortion pills. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The report says that 22 states and Washington, D.C., have adopted some form of abortion shield law, including eight states explicitly protecting providers who prescribe abortion medication through telehealth to patients in states with abortion restrictions.
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In 2025, #WeCount identified 169,000 abortions provided under shield laws to states with restrictive laws.
«If pro-life states have no power to protect their women and babies from rogue abortionists thousands of miles away, the situation they find themselves in is not better than before the Dobbs decision—it’s worse. For the sake of our constitutional order, to say nothing of the women and babies in peril, Trump Administration officials must act swiftly and decisively to end interstate mail-order abortion,» the report concludes.
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