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Mamdani funnels big money to radical allies plotting control of City Hall: ‘Seize state power’
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FIRST ON FOX: Newly released campaign finance records reveal New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign gave over $28,000 last month to the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, a radical group that has boasted about the level of influence it will have if Mamdani is elected mayor.
The Mamdani campaign made a payment of $28,677.57 to DSA’s NYC chapter on Sept. 15 and filled in the purpose field that the funds were for «Other: explntion / Texting.»
Mamdani’s campaign has previously given numerous smaller payments totaling roughly $3,000 to DSA for «Fundraising / Fundraising Emails» but the September donation represents by far the largest contribution to the group since his campaign was launched. NYC-DSA has received 36 payments, totaling over $33,000 from Mamdani’s campaign since early 2025.
The donation comes amid public boasting from DSA that they wield massive influence on Mamdani’s platform.
‘ABSOLUTELY A COMMUNIST’: MAMDANI DODGES LABEL, BUT HIS RECORD AND EXPERT SAY OTHERWISE
New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani speaks to volunteers at a canvass launch in Brooklyn on Sept. 28, 2025. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
During a July panel discussion, Fox News Digital previously reported how DSA members discussed how they have been closely collaborating with Mamdani and how he has the organization positioned to «seize state power.»
DSA organizer Daniel Goulden claimed the organization has been intimately involved in Mamdani’s campaign, even helping to write portions of his platform.
«With Zohran, we’re in basically the best possible position to seize state power that we can be in because, you know, we’re like this,» Goulden said, indicating with his fingers that the campaign and organization are very close.
Goulden went on to suggest that «one of the things that made Zohran really successful with his policy rollouts is specifically relying on DSA.»
«DSA has regular meetings with him, let alone his team. His policy director is my friend. I’ve been working with his campaign manager for well over a year. You know? I have friends who are his staff,» he said.
He went on to say the DSA worked especially closely with Mamdani on his «trans rights» platform to use city resources to give free transgender treatments to people across the country.
«We wrote the platform with him. The team was so happy to work with us on this,» he explained. «What we explicitly wanted to do was use the power of New York City to provide free gender-affirming care – and I say free in case insurance companies decide to boot us off – free gender-affirming care, not just to people in New York City, but across the country.»
«Our endorsed candidates are expected to follow the will of the membership,» chapter leader Darren Goldner concluded.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani hold hands during the town hall «Fighting Oligarchy» event at Brooklyn College on Sept. 6, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
Last week, New York Post reported from a DSA event that group leaders boasted about a «symbiotic» relationship with Mamdani that will last past the election if Mamdani wins.
Mamdani revealed during a 2021 interview that he was «very excited about being a member of DSA, specifically the New York City chapter» and that the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement was a major issue pushed by DSA in order to get endorsements, Fox News Digital previously reported.
«Within the questionnaire when you submit to be considered a candidate to be endorsed by the organization, you’re asked what your views are on BDS and I think that has also brought what it is typically thought of as a separate issue into the sphere of local politics where we create a bench of candidates,» Mamdani said. «We’re not legislating on BDS on a daily basis, but it’s clear that our commitment is unabashed to justice.»
The national DSA organization and its chapters, including the NYC-DSA, have shared views on several issues that they have been vocal about, including their disdain for ICE and cracking down on on «bad landlords» by having the city take control of properties when a landlord refuses to make repairs or «demonstrates consistent neglect» of their tenants.
He also believes he can fix New York City’s affordable housing crisis by immediately freezing the rents of the over two million New York residents who live in rent-stabilized apartments, which is part of DSA’s housing justice platform.
«Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is here to bring New Yorkers back to the left. With a platform focused on cost of living: from utility bills to grocery bills to bus fares to childcare to rent, Zohran is the candidate who wants to make life in New York City more affordable,» NYC-DSA’s website says. «His platform focuses on the pillars of free childcare, fast and free buses, and freezing rent for all rent-stabilized tenants.»
A Fox News Digital review found that multiple staff members of Mamdani’s campaign are directly involved with DSA, including Tascha Van Auken, who has been paid over $100K by the campaign and is the campaign’s field director. In a July 2025 profile piece, she explained how the Mamdani campaign adopted the DSA’s model of canvassing.
«So I would say that the beginning of the campaign for us is building up the leadership structure, building up the infrastructure, really honing in on what we’re talking to voters about,» Auken, who has been branded as the NYC-DSA’s «field operations guru,» said. «Then once petitioning is over, we go full force into persuasion, which is basically just lots and lots of talking to voters that we haven’t talked to before, persuading them to vote for Zohran or just identifying that they are Zohran supporters or not.»
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pose for a photo in Astoria, Queens, Sept. 6, 2025. (@ZohranKMamdani via X)
Elliana Bisgaard-Church, who previously served as Mamdani’s campaign manager during the Democratic primary and is member of his inner circle, is also a member of the NYC-DSA and worked closely with top leaders of the DSA chapter. Mamdani and Bisgaard-Church, who raked in a six-figure salary working for Mamdani, met on a weekly basis with NYC-DSA co-chairs Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo, according to The Nation.
«Toward the end of the race, in a final get-out-the-vote push, Mausser recalled a meeting in which Bisgaard-Church requested help to secure as much youth turnout as possible. NYC-DSA responded at a moment’s notice with a text- and phone-banking effort by the organization’s youth wing, as well as an extensive tabling operation at several nightclubs in Bushwick and the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens,» The Nation reported.
«So I would say that the beginning of the campaign for us is building up the leadership structure, building up the infrastructure, really honing in on what we’re talking to voters about,» Auken, who has been branded as the NYC-DSA’s «field operations guru,» said. «Then once petitioning is over, we go full force into persuasion, which is basically just lots and lots of talking to voters that we haven’t talked to before, persuading them to vote for Zohran or just identifying that they are Zohran supporters or not.»
Elliana Bisgaard-Church, who previously served as Mamdani’s campaign manager during the Democratic primary and is a member of his inner circle, is also associated with NYC-DSA and worked closely with top leaders of the DSA chapter. Mamdani and Bisgaard-Church, who raked in a six-figure salary working for Mamdani, met on a weekly basis with NYC-DSA co-chairs Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo, according to The Nation.
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New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani spoke to supporters at a canvass launch event in Prospect Park on Aug. 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
«Toward the end of the race, in a final get-out-the-vote push, Mausser recalled a meeting in which Bisgaard-Church requested help to secure as much youth turnout as possible. NYC-DSA responded at a moment’s notice with a text- and phone-banking effort by the organization’s youth wing, as well as an extensive tabling operation at several nightclubs in Bushwick and the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens,» The Nation reported.
Fox News Digital reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, NYC-DSA Co-Chair Grace Mausser said, «NYC-DSA is committed to supporting Zohran Mamdani by contacting our members to encourage them to volunteer for his campaign and to vote for him.»
«The services that we use to text and email our members cost money, and in order to comply with New York City campaign finance law, the campaign is paying for these coordinated communications. The communications include a clear disclaimer to that effect.»
Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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Tensión con Estados Unidos: al ritmo del reguetón, Nicolás Maduro convoca una marcha de milicianos para desmentir que sea un narcotraficante
Las calles de Caracas estarán parcialmente bloqueadas esta semana hasta el jueves por la marcha que ha convocado el régimen chavista para defender a Nicolás Maduro de las acusaciones de que lidera organizaciones de narcotraficantes y criminales, mientras escala la tensión por las amenazas de que la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas sufriría atentados terroristas.
La insólita marcha de cuatro días ha sorprendido a propios y extraños por la instalación de una tarima oficialista frente a la sede de las Naciones Unidas, interrumpiendo el tránsito en la capital venezolana por el corte de la Avenida Francisco de Miranda, que es la principal arteria vial que enlaza la ciudad del este al oeste.
Más que un acto político, la marcha parece un festival musical en el que bandas pocos conocidas prodigan y hacen propaganda a favor de Maduro al ritmo de reguetón mientras los milicianos bailan con fusil en mano y se hacen fotografiar para su álbum familiar.
El tema de la convocatoria es para protestar la presencia de la flota aeronaval de Estados Unidos desplegada en el Caribe frente a las costas de Venezuela y desmentir que Maduro lidere el Cártel de los Soles y el Tren de Aragua, según acusaciones del presidente Donal Trump y el secretario de Estado Marco Rubio.
Los pocos que acudieron al primer día de la marcha dijeron que “estaban contra el imperialismo. Nuestro presidente Maduro no es narco. Queremos que Estados Unidos quite los barcos en el Caribe”, dijo una mujer de unos 60 años, que lucía orgullosa un uniforme militar.
«Queremos decirle al señor Trump que saque sus barcos, su poco de baterías que tiene aquí, porque este no es un país narcotraficante, es un país que combate al narcotráfico», dijo un trabajador aeroportuario de 62 años.
Otra caraqueña de unos 30 años, exclamó a Clarín: “Esto es una locura, los chavistas están quemando los últimos cartuchos o días que le quedan con esta marchita. Se sienten perdidos. Ya falta poco. Los que acuden al llamado son todos empleados de los ministerios”.
En las barreras policiales un agente agregó: “Qué le voy a decir, no hay gente, esta marcha está vacía, siempre lo mismo, tenemos que trabajar sea el gobierno de izquierda o de derecha”, dijo el uniformado con cara de aburrimiento.
En la solitaria tarima con funcionarios vestidos de negro sonaba un reguetón elogiando a Maduro. En algunas pancartas se leía: “No somos narcoestado, somos bolivarianos”, mientras las ancianas empuñaban unos fusiles viejos sin balas.
“Aprendí a disparar al enemigo interno”, repetía otra mujer mientras bailaba al compás de la banda musical y se tomaba las fotos para su álbum familiar.
El bloqueo de las calles de Caracas durará hasta el jueves para reclutar a civiles que quieran defender a Maduro.
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Este lunes el régimen de Maduro también alertó que la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas sería atacada con explosivos por un supuesto “grupo terrorista local” de derecha, lo que aumentó la escalada de tensión.
El que dio el pitazo del supuesto atentado en la sede diplomática de EE.UU. fue Jorge Rodríguez, presidente de la chavista Asamblea Nacional en un comunicado que publicó en su cuenta de X, alertando sobre la amenaza de “extremistas” para colocar “explosivos” en su Embajada en Caracas.
En su programa televisivo, Maduro dijo que un «grupo terrorista local» planeaba colocar una carga explosiva para una «operación de falsa bandera» que buscaba «comenzar una escalada de enfrentamiento».
«Hubo dos fuentes, una fuente de carácter nacional y una fuente de carácter internacional, que se le hizo seguimiento y coincidió con la posibilidad de que un grupo terrorista local colocara una carga explosiva en la embajada de Estados Unidos en Caracas», afirmó. «Era una acción de provocación», aseguró.
Maduro dijo que Rodríguez informó la tarde del lunes «oficialmente al gobierno de Estados Unidos» sobre «los responsables de la preparación de este ataque terrorista» y señaló que buscan a algunos de los responsables en Venezuela.
Esta amenaza se produce después que el gobierno de Donald Trump amenazara con explotar los centros del narcotráfico en Venezuela y fuera autorizado por el Congreso de Washington.
La Embajada de EE.UU. en Caracas, una fortaleza construida en Valle Arriba al sureste de la ciudad, está fuertemente custodiada por vehículos oficiales de inteligencia militar, policial y seguridad. Las relaciones diplomáticas entre ambos países están rotas desde enero de 2019 porque el gobierno de EE.UU. reconoció a Juan Guaidó como presidente interino de Venezuela.
Desde hace dos semanas circula un fuerte rumor de que María Corina Machado, que hoy cumple 58 años, se encuentra refugiada allí. Es el propio ministro de Interior y Justicia, Diosdado Cabello, quien ha insinuado que Machado se refugia en esa sede diplomática. «Ella está en Valle Arriba, en una casa grandota, que dicen que no hay nadie, pero sí hay (…) pero no le vayan a decir a nadie porque es secreto«, ironizó Cabello el pasado 17 de septiembre.
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A South Korean climber has died in Nepal after getting caught in a powerful storm while attempting to summit a Himalayan peak just south of Mount Everest. Meanwhile, hundreds of hikers have begun evacuating after severe weather left them stranded across the region.
The Nepal Mountaineering Association confirmed the South Korean climber’s death Tuesday. He had been reported missing over the weekend near the summit of Mera Peak, a 21,250-foot mountain in the northern Himalayas. Other climbers on the mountain have been reported safe.
The tragedy unfolded as heavy snow and rain stranded hundreds of hikers near Everest. One hiker, identified only by the surname Dong, told China’s Xiaoxiang Morning Herald he had never seen such a severe storm, describing intense snowfall and lightning.
By late Monday, 350 people had descended safely, while more than 200 others were being guided to a designated meeting point, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
BLIZZARD TRAPS HUNDREDS ON MOUNT EVEREST AS RESCUE TEAMS RACE TO SAVE LIVES
In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2025 and released by Lingsuiye, villagers with their oxen and horses ascend the mountain during rescue efforts to reach hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on a slope of Mount Everest in Tibet on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (Lingsuiye via AP)
The stranded hikers had been camping at altitudes above 16,000 feet. Mount Everest, which reaches 29,000 feet and straddles the border between China and Nepal. The Chinese side of Everest is located at the southern edge of Tibet.
Search and rescue efforts were underway across the region as hundreds of hikers were reported trapped due to the extreme weather. (Lingsuiye via AP)
Elsewhere in China, search teams were combing the Qilian Mountains in Qinghai province Tuesday after another deadly storm. One hiker died from hypothermia and altitude sickness and 213 others were evacuated from the rugged region since Sunday.
RESCUE EFFORT HALTED FOR STUCK CLIMBER ON TREACHEROUS MOUNTAIN AFTER CLIMBER DIES TRYING TO HELP HER: REPORTS
Many had entered the remote area after seeing it promoted on social media, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
In this October 1996 file photo, Mount Everest is seen from the Gokyo Ri peak in Nepal. (AP)
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Search operations, including drones, launched Sunday after hikers reported being trapped in Laohugou, a valley in Menyuan county. The high-altitude search—at more than 13,100 feet—has been hampered by difficult terrain, ongoing snowfall and rapidly changing weather, state media reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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An expected sixth vote to reopen the government didn’t come to fruition on Tuesday, but lawmakers face a new wrinkle: the possibility that furloughed employees won’t be paid.
The government shutdown marched into its seventh day with both Senate Republicans and Democrats still at odds on a path forward, and no real clear end in sight. The Senate was expected to vote on the GOP’s plan again, but no agreement could be reached to bring the bill, along with the Democrats’ counter-proposal, to the floor.
Both sides are still entrenched in their positions, too. Senate Democrats want a firm deal on the extension of expiring ObamaCare tax credits to earn their votes to reopen the government, while Senate Republicans have promised that negotiations on the credits can happen once the government is open again.
GOVERNMENT LIMPS DEEPER INTO SHUTDOWN CRISIS WITH NO DEAL IN SIGHT
President Donald Trump points to a reporter in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Lawmakers failed to hold a sixth vote to reopen the government Tuesday as a new White House memo warned that furloughed workers may not get paid.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has continued to ramp up his messaging that Americans broadly support their push, and blamed House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republicans for not being in session as a major roadblock to progress.
«Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed and thousands more are working without pay. And meanwhile, House Republicans are getting paid and not working,» Schumer said. «So federal workers working and not getting paid. House Republicans paid and not working. Very bad. Very bad thing for them. Very bad picture for them.»
While lawmakers traded barbs and discussed an off-ramp on Capitol Hill, the latest memo from the White House, first reported by Axios, signaled that up to 750,000 nonessential furloughed federal workers may not be paid.
The memo adds fresh uncertainty for hundreds of thousands of federal employees caught in the political crossfire.
SCHUMER’S SHUTDOWN HOLDS AS SENATE DEMS BLOCK GOP BID TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is holding firm on his and Senate Democrats’ blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees as Senate Republican march toward a nuclear rules change. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
When asked if it was the White House’s position whether federal workers should be paid back pay, President Donald Trump said, «I would say it depends on who we’re talking about.»
«I can tell you this,» Trump said. «The Democrats have put a lot of people in great risk and jeopardy, but it really depends on who you’re talking about. But for the most part, we’re going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of, and we’ll take care of them in a different way.»
Many lawmakers had just learned about the memo as of Tuesday afternoon. It suggested that a 2019 law signed by Trump that guaranteed back pay for furloughed workers in future shutdowns may not have to be followed.
«I just heard that,» Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., said. «My phones are lighting up.»
When asked if the memo hurt or helped talks, she said, «It could get more urgent, it also could tick a lot of people off.»
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said that the memo was «probably not a good message to send right now to people who are not being paid.»
«I’m not an attorney, but I think it’s bad strategy to even say that sort of stuff,» Tillis said. «We got a lot of hard-working people there on the sidelines now because the Democrats have put them there.»
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that she believed that issue had been settled with the 2019 law, but as a «back up,» Congress could pass a bill that any «obligations that were incurred during the shutdown are authorized to be paid.»
And Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, argued that regardless of the memo, the law said «shall.»
«I left my law degree in the car, but ‘shall’ is relatively straightforward,» he said. «I think it doesn’t matter at all, because we’re fighting for healthcare.»
The latest pressure tactic on Senate Democrats comes after the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed in a previous memo that mass firings could be on the horizon beyond the typical furloughs during a shutdown.
KENNEDY CLAIMS DEMOCRATS WANT MILLIONS FOR FOREIGN LGBT PROJECTS, ELECTRIC BUSES TO END SHUTDOWN
Sen. Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks with reporters near his office on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
It also comes after OMB Director Russ Vought announced nearly $30 billion in federal funding was set to be withheld from blue cities and states.
Both Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., wanted to see federal workers get paid, but contended that the issue would go away if Schumer and Senate Democrats reopened the government.
«My assumption is that furloughed workers will get back pay,» Thune said. «But that being said, this is very simple. Open up the government and this is a non-issue. We don’t have to have this conversation. Everybody gets paid when the government is open.»
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Meanwhile, the previous tactics did little to nudge Democrats from their position, and so far, have not killed talks between either side.
But Sen. Jean Shaheen, D-N.H., who has been a key communicator for Senate Democrats in bipartisan talks, said that Vought’s actions weren’t helping matters.
«It would be a lot easier to resolve the situation if Russ Vought would stop talking,» Shaheen said.
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