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Ousted Squad Dem stumps with radical activist who defended Hamas, promoted political violence
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Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is campaigning to return to Congress alongside a self-described Maoist activist and political organizer whose online videos and social media rhetoric has included urging leftists not to disavow Hamas or Hezbollah, has included calls to «unmake» America, applauded burning the American flag and endorsed political violence.
The activist, Christopher Winston, has built an online presence across numerous platforms under the pseudonym «BlackRedGuard,» posting and appearing in videos about «Maoist organizing in DSA,» attacking leftists who say they do not support «Hezbollah/Hamas» and using rhetoric that appeared to condone political violence. In one video reviewed by Fox News Digital, Winston asked, «What’s wrong with throwing molotovs at a police station?»
Bush, an ousted Squad Democrat mounting a comeback bid in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, appeared in a recent social media post standing right beside Winston as he participated in supporting her campaign.
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Former Rep. Cor Bush is mounting a comeback bid to retake her seat in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital asked Bush’s campaign whether Winston has any formal or informal role with the campaign, whether Bush knows him personally and whether he was invited to the event, but the campaign did not answer those questions, instead sending a link to a Fox News article about Joy Behar, co-host of «The View,» defending democratic socialism, noting it «should clear up any questions you have about DSA.»
«If you say sh– like ‘I don’t support Hezbollah/Hamas’ and call yourself a leftist you lame. All power to all the resistance. Peace through the sword,» Winston, a St. Louis-area activist working with the DSA said in his social media post shaming those on the left who condemn Hamas and Hezbollah.
Other posts from Winston called to «unmake» America and said the American flag «should always be desecrated.»
«Do not fix America. Unmake it,» a June 2025 post from Winston’s X account said.
«I applaud the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of the slavery and genocide which built America. It should always be desecrated in that way,» a separate 2024 post from Winston said.
Meanwhile, during a 2024 video posted on YouTube titled «Debating Commie Gobbledegook (Ft. Black Red Guard),» Winston is asked why, as a Maoist, he chooses to be a part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
«Well, it’s obvious why I’m a Maoist in the DSA. There’s a lot of naive young white people to brainwash,» he said.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Winston and the DSA for comment on Winston’s remarks and affiliation with the group, but did not hear back.
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside of a Trump owned building during a May Day rally in New York City in 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
At another point during the same video, Winston questions «what’s wrong with throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station?»
When his co-host tried to check him, replying that doing such would be «an easy way to get your whole organization, like, kind of destroyed,» Winston shot back: «That’s why we want the masses to do it.»
He later argued that if the goal is a «socialist» or «communist» revolution, «people are not going to pick up a gun and fight» for something they do not understand, adding that activists must «teach people what communism is.»
A Fox News Digital review of Winston’s X account found several social media posts praising Bush, including a 2023 post where he said, «Yeah, I’m a Maoist ultra with dreams of riding into power on a tank like Fidel and Che but in the meantime Cori Bush is the best congressperson right now and we need to back her.»
«Cori Bush is the best of STL, and DSA,» Winston said in May at a Bush campaign event.
«Cori Bush is running for Congress again. STL-DSA voted to endorse her overwhelmingly. Help beat the AIPAC money that stole her seat here,» Winston said last year.
Winston’s appearance alongside Bush is not the first time her political orbit has drawn scrutiny over hard-left activists and anti-Israel figures. Her comeback bid has already faced questions over campaign spending and alliances that critics say show the same activist network is helping power her effort to return to Washington.
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Earlier this year, Fox News Digital reported that Bush’s comeback campaign paid more than $20,000 to «Unbought Power,» a consulting firm publicly linked to far-left activist Rasha Mubarak, whose ties to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s political operation had already drawn scrutiny.
Mubarak has close ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), «which was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2009 Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial,» according to the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, and has publicly called to «abolish the police,» backed defund-the-police efforts and repeatedly accused Israel of «ethnic cleansing» and «apartheid.»
United States Representatives Rashida Tlaib (2nd L), Cori Bush (L) hold a banner demanding a ceasefire and condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza, in front of U.S. Capitol in United States on November 8, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«Mubarak has also been a speaker at events held by the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), an organization that promoted the BDS movement,» the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy noted in a report. «Previously, in September 2023, she served as the press contact for the Arizona-based non-profit Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), which was investigated for ties to Samidoun, an anti-Israel advocacy group banned in Germany, Canada, and Israel and classified as a terrorist entity in the United States for financing the PFLP.»
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In her prior campaigns for Congress, Bush also received help from radical anti-Israel activists. During her 2024 re-election bid, Linda Sarsour and Marc Lamont Hill headlined a virtual «Jews for Cori» fundraiser, according to Jewish Insider, which described Sarsour and Hill as «controversial far-left activists with histories of antisemitism.»
Sarsour has been accused of praising a convicted terrorist and has compared Zionism to white supremacy, while likening Zionists to neo-Nazis. She had to walk back remarks after stating Israel «is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everyone else,» and lost her seat on the board of the Women’s March amid allegations of antisemitism that she subsequently denied.
Hill, meanwhile, was fired from his job at CNN after making anti-Israel comments that his former employer, Temple University, called «virulent anti-Semitism and hate speech.»
Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour speaks to a group of Jewish activists and allies taking part in a Passover Seder outside ICE headquarters in New York City to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the war on Gaza. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Bush’s alignment with the anti-Israel left has also repeatedly put her alongside fellow «Squad» Reps. Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Bush, Tlaib and Omar held a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 7, 2023, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Bush and Tlaib later became the only two House members to vote against the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act, a bill aimed at barring Hamas members and non-U.S. nationals involved in the Oct. 7 attack from immigration benefits.
Tlaib was eventually censured by the House over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric, including her use of the phrase «from the river to the sea.»
Meanwhile, Bush’s rhetoric after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack also drew condemnation from the Biden White House. Fox News Digital reported that Bush called for ending U.S. support for what she described as Israeli «military occupation and apartheid» in the wake of the attack, prompting then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to blast Squad members’ comments as «wrong,» «repugnant» and «disgraceful.»
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Paul Gigot and John Yoo break down the Supreme Court’s consequential term, which ended with major decisions on birthright citizenship and executive power. Yoo argues the court’s conservative majority is focused on containing the administrative state and restoring constitutional originalism, including the Bill of Rights and federalism, despite criticism from the left.
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A Hawaii Supreme Court justice used a ruling overturning a decades-old criminal conviction to deliver a blistering rebuke of Chief Justice John Roberts’ Supreme Court, accusing the nation’s highest court of weakening constitutional rights, damaging democracy and advancing a political agenda.
Justice Todd Eddins authored the 91-page majority opinion Wednesday in State v. Granillo , a case involving a man convicted in 1990 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman on Maui. The court ordered a new trial after concluding that hair and fiber evidence presented by an FBI expert relied on forensic science that has since been discredited.
But in roughly eight pages of the opinion, Eddins argued Hawaii’s courts should not look to the Roberts Court when interpreting the state constitution, using the case to deliver an unusually sharp critique of the nation’s highest court.
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«When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line,» Eddins wrote, referring to the court’s six conservative justices. «That is not defiance. That is the design.»
Eddins argued that Hawaii’s Constitution provides stronger protections than the federal Constitution as currently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and said the Court has abandoned landmark civil rights principles.
Hawaii Supreme Court Justice issued a scathing review of the Supreme Court’s most recent rulings, arguing that the High Court has weakened constitutional protections for citizens. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images/ Ballotpedia)
«The Court that now defines federal due process does not honor the work of 1954,» Eddins wrote. «It revives the work of 1857. The work of 1896.»
Eddins was referring to Brown v. Board of Education, ruled in 1954, which ended racial segregation in public schools, as well as Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision denying citizenship to Black Americans and Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 ruling that upheld racial segregation.
Eddins argued that the Roberts Court no longer reflects the constitutional principles established in Brown v. Board of Education, but instead, he argued the Court’s originalist approach relies on the same type of constitutional interpretation in the discredited Dred Scott and Plessy decisions.
«Today’s hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life,» Eddins wrote.
John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court, from left, Elena Kagan, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, and Amy Coney Barrett, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, during a State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«The Court overrides what Congress passed,» Eddins continued. «It overrides what the people chose. All to serve its own ends. What this Court has done to constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaiʻi’s Constitution takes no instruction from it.»
Throughout the opinion, Eddins pointed to many of the Roberts Court’s most consequential decisions as evidence that constitutional protections have been weakened, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion; Citizens United v. FEC on campaign finance; Rucho v. Common Cause on partisan gerrymandering; Trump v. United States on presidential immunity; and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which expanded Second Amendment protections.
Eddins accused the Roberts Court of adopting a «colorblind» approach to the Equal Protection Clause that, in his view, ignores the amendment’s original purpose of protecting formerly enslaved Black Americans.
«The Roberts Court sees only white,» he wrote. «It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect.»
He also suggested that recent Supreme Court decisions have repeatedly expanded the power of government officials and wealthy interests while reducing protections for individual rights.
«A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties, and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaiʻi Constitution,» he wrote.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo (Reuters)
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The opinion quickly drew criticism from legal observers, who said it was highly unusual for a state supreme court opinion to devote so much space to criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court.
«The Court issues an unhinged attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court,» Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan wrote on X. «I haven’t ever seen something like this. And it’s not good.»
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley similarly described the opinion as «devoid of judicial restraint and decorum.»
«The Hawaii Supreme Court just issued a truly shocking opinion that unleashed a torrent of rage and recrimination against the majority of the United States Supreme Court, including suggesting that they are de facto racists,» Turley wrote on X.
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The opinion comes just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Hawaii a major loss in Wolford v. Lopez, striking down the state’s so-called «vampire rule.» In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled Hawaii could not require gun owners to get a property owner’s permission before carrying a firearm into businesses and other private property open to the public.
Eddins has served on the Hawaii Supreme Court since 2020 after being appointed by then-Democratic Gov. David Ige.
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Diputado oficialista solicita investigar uso de los recursos en universidades públicas de Costa Rica
La posibilidad de que la Asamblea Legislativa investigue el uso de los recursos del Fondo Especial para la Educación Superior (FEES) abrió un nuevo capítulo en el debate sobre el financiamiento de las universidades públicas. El presidente de la Comisión de Control de Ingreso y Gasto Público, Gonzalo Ramírez Zamora, presentó una moción para que ese órgano legislativo analice durante un plazo de hasta dos años la administración de los fondos que reciben las cinco casas de enseñanza superior estatales, con especial énfasis en los recursos provenientes del FEES.
La iniciativa fue respaldada por los diputados del Partido Pueblo Soberano (PPSO), Kathia Calvo Cruz y Stephan Brunner Neibig, y podría ser discutida en una de las próximas sesiones de la comisión. Según el legislador, la investigación busca responder a las dudas que surgieron tras la publicación de diversos reportajes sobre gastos realizados por autoridades universitarias en alimentación, restaurantes y actividades de representación financiadas con recursos públicos.
Al presentar la moción, Ramírez sostuvo que el objetivo no es cuestionar la importancia de la educación superior pública, sino garantizar que el dinero aportado por los contribuyentes sea utilizado de manera eficiente y transparente. “Los recursos públicos no pueden ser usados como una piñata y menos en nuestras universidades”, afirmó el congresista, quien insistió en que la ciudadanía tiene derecho a conocer cómo se administran los fondos destinados al sistema universitario estatal.
De aprobarse la propuesta, la investigación abarcaría aspectos como la composición del gasto administrativo y del gasto sustantivo de cada universidad, la ejecución de los recursos provenientes del FEES, los mecanismos de control interno para autorizar y supervisar el uso de los fondos públicos, así como la razonabilidad y necesidad de gastos relacionados con representación, alimentación, actividades protocolarias, viáticos, viajes oficiales, cooperación internacional y capacitaciones.
Además, la comisión pretende determinar si la normativa interna que regula este tipo de gastos resulta suficiente para garantizar el cumplimiento de principios como la legalidad, la eficiencia, la economía, la austeridad, la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas. El objetivo final sería establecer si existe la necesidad de impulsar reformas legales, reglamentarias o administrativas que fortalezcan el uso responsable de los recursos públicos destinados a la educación superior.
Como parte del proceso, la moción contempla convocar a comparecer a las cinco personas rectoras de las universidades estatales, así como a representantes de las auditorías internas, direcciones financieras y a la contralora general de la República, Marta Acosta Zúñiga, con el fin de conocer de primera mano los mecanismos de fiscalización y administración de los recursos.
Tras conocerse la iniciativa, el Consejo Nacional de Rectores (Conare) reaccionó mediante un comunicado en el que manifestó su respeto por las competencias constitucionales de la Asamblea Legislativa y por el ejercicio del control político. No obstante, recordó que dicho control debe desarrollarse respetando plenamente la autonomía universitaria consagrada en la Constitución Política.
El presidente de Conare y rector de la Universidad Nacional (UNA), Jorge Herrera Murillo, aseguró que las universidades públicas mantienen un compromiso permanente con la legalidad, la transparencia, la eficiencia en el uso de los recursos públicos y la rendición de cuentas. Asimismo, destacó que las instituciones son objeto de fiscalización constante por parte de la Contraloría General de la República y de sus respectivas auditorías internas.
En su pronunciamiento, el Consejo de Rectores también hizo un llamado para que el debate sobre el FEES se desarrolle con base en evidencia técnica y no únicamente en percepciones. Según Conare, el ordenamiento jurídico costarricense ya contempla mecanismos robustos de control y supervisión sobre la ejecución de los recursos públicos administrados por las universidades.
La discusión ocurre en un contexto en el que el financiamiento de la educación superior se encuentra bajo revisión por parte del Gobierno. La administración de la presidenta Laura Fernández ha reiterado que la disciplina fiscal será uno de los pilares de su gestión, por lo que ha advertido que los incrementos al FEES dependerán de una eventual redistribución de los recursos hacia carreras con mayor demanda en el mercado laboral.
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