Socialist surge: Minneapolis mayor left in the lurch after DFL Party endorses far-left challenger obsessed with race



Far-left candidates for mayoral positions have been gaining traction across the nation's largest cities. Most notably, socialist Zohran Mamdani defeated Democratic former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the race for New York City mayor, and now a similar figure is stepping up in Minneapolis.

Minnesota state Senator Omar Fateh, a self-styled progressive Democrat, announced on Saturday night that he had won the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party to be Minneapolis mayor.

'This election should be decided by the entire city rather than the small group of people who became delegates, particularly in light of the extremely flawed and irregular conduct of this convention.'

"I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us," Fateh said in an X post on Saturday night.

Fateh won the endorsement of the DFL over the incumbent mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, who is also a Democrat. Frey responded to the news hours later, criticizing the selection process in which he lost the endorsement.

"I want to thank everyone who showed up to support my campaign. This election should be decided by our entire city, not by a handful of delegates," Jacob Frey, the incumbent mayor, said in a late Saturday night post on X.

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"I look forward to a full debate with Sen. Fateh about our records and visions for our Minneapolis's future. Onward to November!" he added in the same post.

Mayor Frey's campaign manager, Sam Schulenberg, likewise criticized the process by which Fateh beat Frey for the endorsement. “This election should be decided by the entire city rather than the small group of people who became delegates, particularly in light of the extremely flawed and irregular conduct of this convention. Voters will now have a clear choice between the records and leadership of Sen. Fateh and Mayor Frey. We look forward to taking our vision to the voters in November,” Schulenberg said via a press release, according to KARE.

Omar Fateh has been accused of pushing anti-white sentiment while advocating for more immigration. In a 2023 speech, Fateh advocated for greater trust in immigrants and insinuated that white people were the real threat to American security, saying, "We heard [immigrants] are a threat to national security, but that's a flat-out lie."

He continued that the real national security threats "look like many of the members that sit in the front," allegedly referring to Republican state senators.

"The real threat comes from 'racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,'" he continued, quoting Biden-era federal agencies.

Fateh faced an ethics complaint for allegedly insinuating during that speech that his Republican colleagues were violent extremists and white supremacists.

Minneapolis will hold a general election for mayor on November 4, 2025.

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Jordan Peterson corners Bill Maher with the question no Democrat will answer



If there’s one person you can count on to put the left in its place, it’s Jordan Peterson.

And on a recent "Real Time with Bill Maher" panel, Peterson did exactly that.

After expounding on the “idiot meta-Marxism” that has taken over universities throughout the West, Peterson laid out a simple question that no Democrat will answer.

“One of the things the Democrats also have to pay the price for, I would say, is their absolute refusal to draw a line between the modern Democrats and the extremists,” Peterson begins to Bill Maher and his panel.

“They’re completely incapable of doing that. Like, I've talked to forty senators and congressmen in the last five years. I asked them all the same question, including RFK. He wouldn’t answer either.”

The question, which Peterson then directed at Maher, is, “When does the left go too far?’”

Peterson’s delivery was undoubtedly impressive, and Dave Rubin is more than pleased to hear it.

“Man, if I do nothing else in my career, the fact that I had anything — even, like, the slightest pin drop of a thing — to do with getting people to know that guy, that would be more than enough that they could put on my epitaph,” Rubin says.

Rubin does note, however, that when RFK refused to answer that question, he was still a Democrat.

RFK has since left the Democratic Party and is running as an independent.

“He has finally realized that the left has gone too far,” Rubin says.


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Democrats are LOSING THEIR MINDS over January 6 video



Tucker Carlson has been releasing never-before-seen footage of what really happened on January 6, and leftists, predictably, are completely losing their minds over it.

Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to whine, “Last night millions of Americans tuned in to one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen. With contempt for the facts, disregard of the risks, and knowing full well he was lying, lying to his audience.”

He went on, “Fox News host Tucker Carlson ran a lengthy segment last night arguing the January 6 Capitol attack was not a violent insurrection ... from thousands of hours of security footage, Mr. Carlson told the bold-faced lie that the Capitol attack, which we all saw with our own eyes, was somehow not an attack at all.”

Pat Gray, watching Schumer’s act, laughs. “It’s bald faced, but whatever.” Gray defends Tucker, saying, “It was as if you know they were doing a tour, because the cops were just walking around with the Shaman guy. Yes, just showing him around. Now the Capitol police said, ‘Whoa, that’s just a de-escalation technique’ ... [but] there was no violence, there was no fighting involved, there were a bunch of people just milling around.”

Gray goes on to compare the situation to the Floyd riots of 2020. We were told that the protests were peaceful, when they were anything but. Now we’re being told the protest was a violent insurrection — when video footage shows it was anything but.

Gray then shows another clip of Schumer’s little speech, where he claims that it is necessary to shut down Tucker’s "lies," because “our democracy depends on it.”

Laughing, exasperated by Schumer’s blatant hyperbole, Gray says, “If our democracy can’t handle Tucker Carlson broadcasts, then we’re a pretty weak democracy. If we can’t handle two shows from Tucker Carlson, we might as well just turn off the lights and leave the continent.”

Harsh, but is he wrong?


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