In what seems like a never-ending trend of communists winning their primaries this election cycle, Colorado democratic socialist Melat Kiros is likely headed to Congress.
And Kiros’ recent comments about the tragic events of September 11 have Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck alarmed.
Kiros was asked in an interview with Colorado’s Next 9News about comments she had made regarding the Hamas terror attack on October 7 while appearing on Twitch streamer Hasan Piker’s show.
Kiros doubled down that it was “an inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation.”
The reporter followed up that answer with a question about the most deadly attack on American soil.
“Do you believe that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America were the inevitable consequence of American foreign policy?” the reporter asked.
“Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East. That forced people to believe that another act of violence was the only response. And again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to getting rid of those conditions that lead to violence,” Kiros replied.
“It’s the typical, you know, blame the rape victim that you get attacked from whatever we did,” Jason Buttrill tells Glenn.
“I don’t agree with blaming the victim or anything when it comes to anything like this,” he adds.
“Name the country that hasn’t made these kinds of mistakes,” Glenn agrees.
“We do nothing to deserve that kind of stuff ... the American people are those people that we think of as red, white, and blue and just want to do the right thing and help each other and help other countries,” he says.
“That’s what’s really in our heart. But that’s not what our government’s been doing,” he adds.
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“In New York, they don’t say ‘I love you,’ they say ‘NYPD suck my d**k’ and I think that’s beautiful.”
“A world without borders — just like a world without prisons or police — is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward.”
Voters judge political parties by what they do, not by what they call themselves.
“Trick question — Israel doesn’t exist.”
Those are social media posts or reposts from Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate who won the 2026 Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District.
Many Democrats still insist the Democratic Socialists of America remain a fringe movement with little influence over the party. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), for example, recently promised that “common-sense Democrats will fight back” against the socialist agenda.
The evidence suggests otherwise.
The DSA’s influence no longer depends on how many members it elects to Congress. Its influence comes from how many of its priorities have become mainstream Democrat positions.
Approximately 250 DSA members held public office in 2025, with roughly 90% elected after 2019. Only two currently serve in Congress, but the movement’s real strength lies elsewhere: dozens of state legislators and nearly 150 local officials, including mayors, city council members, county commissioners, and school board members. Another 35 DSA-backed candidates advanced through this year's primaries and appear positioned to win office.
Increasingly, the DSA shapes the Democratic Party from the ground up.
Consider the issues. The DSA openly advocates sweeping changes on immigration, policing, transgender policy, censorship, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The DSA has long called for expanding the Supreme Court to reduce conservative influence. Democrat leaders have moved in the same direction. Former Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed Supreme Court reform, while Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) introduced legislation in 2024 to expand the court to 13 justices, joined by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
On gender policy, the DSA advocates taxpayer-funded transgender procedures, including for minors, and has threatened hospitals that refuse to provide them.
Former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin (D) argued that schools should be permitted to withhold information from parents when a child socially transitions at school. Whatever differences may exist around the edges, the underlying assumption is similar: Parents should not always have the final say.
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Immigration presents another point of convergence.
The DSA opposes meaningful immigration enforcement and has labeled Immigration and Customs Enforcement itself an instrument of “state violence.” Democrat officials have likewise resisted federal immigration enforcement in a variety of ways.
Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) publicly aligned himself with anti-ICE activists, while New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) has limited state cooperation with federal immigration authorities and expanded state funding for immigrant legal defense.
The rhetoric differs. The practical effect often does not.
The same pattern appears on free speech.
After Elon Musk purchased Twitter and restored numerous previously restricted conservative accounts, the New York City DSA launched a dedicated “Stop Musk” campaign.
Democrat officials have repeatedly criticized Musk’s moderation policies and supported efforts, both here and abroad, to pressure X over the speech it permits.
Again, the methods differ. The destinations look remarkably similar.
The DSA also embraced the “Free Palestine” movement immediately after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, issuing a statement calling for an end to the Israeli regime.
Many of the Democratic Party’s most prominent progressive members have likewise become leading voices in the pro-Palestinian movement. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) have all championed that cause, while several have also supported reducing police funding or sharply limiting law enforcement.
No, today's Democratic Party is not formally controlled by the DSA. But it increasingly advances many of the same priorities. That is why Democrat leaders spend so much energy insisting they are not socialists. They understand the label remains politically damaging.
The problem is that voters judge political parties by what they do, not by what they call themselves. When the Democratic Party repeatedly adopts positions first championed by the Democratic Socialists of America, the distinction becomes more difficult to see.
Democrats may not like the comparison. Their policies increasingly invite it.
In 2026, voters should recognize an uncomfortable political reality: A vote for today’s Democratic Party increasingly advances the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America.
A police officer and a civilian are dead after a long-haired gunman opened fire in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday.
Some liberal media outfits have narrowly characterized the ideology espoused within the manifesto allegedly left behind by the gunman as "incel" — involuntary celibate — in nature.
'The essential political conditions of a society in which capitalism/liberalism, and thereby, hypergamy itself, are not part of the established order of things, have mostly already been laid out by Marx, Engels, and others.'
The document is brimming with resentment over perceived dynamics between the sexes in contemporary society and for so-called "hypergamy," or women partnering with men of greater perceived mating value. However, it is unmistakably leftist in nature — offering a Marxist rationalization of women's disinterest in undesirable men coupled with a defense of communism and a demand for a violent uprising against the capitalist West.
Despite the defense of and calls for leftist "revolutionary terror" in the document, authorities told reporters that Monday's attack did not constitute an act of terrorism.
Footage of the monstrous attack shows fatally wounded Constable Mohamed Lamine Benredouane crawl behind a white Porsche to cover while a female officer crouches behind a cement planter and exchanges fire with the suspect.
Moments later, a civilian, Michael Mizrahi, can be seen falling as gunshots ring out.
It's unclear — and authorities have yet to clarify — whether Mizrahi was fatally shot by the female officer or the gunman. The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, or BEI, Quebec's police watchdog, has launched an investigation into the events that took place during the police intervention.
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The gunman, who was dressed in "military-type attire" and armed with an apparent semi-automatic rifle, can be seen charging the position of the female officer where he is ultimately neutralized.
While Constable Benredouane succumbed to his wounds, the second officer, though seriously injured, is in stable condition.
When asked about whether the shooting was an ambush targeting police, Montreal Police Chief Fady Dagher indicated that police received a 911 call from an individual telling them that somebody was "shooting from a specific place" — a higher floor — but when police arrived, the gunman was at the street level.
Dagher expressed uncertainty whether the shooter belonged to a larger network but indicated that no other suspect was being sought in relation to the Côte-des-Neiges shooting.
Ian Lafrenière, Quebec's minister of domestic security, told reporters that the shooting "was not considered as a possible terrorism attack but everything has been put in place to make sure it was not linked to something else," reported state media.
The determination that the shooting was not a terror attack reportedly came after Quebec authorities consulted with multiple agencies including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Radio-Canada confirmed that the shooter left behind a "violent incel manifesto targeting women."
State media acknowledged that the manifesto called for a violent revolution, but it — like other media outfits — neglected to note the leftist orientation of the proposed revolution.
The alleged 104-page manifesto published by Rebel News certainly espouses an incel ideology; however, it identifies a totalitarian communist state as the ultimate remedy for all of the West's perceived social and moral ills.
The document:
Canadian authorities have urged the public not to speculate on a motive.
Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette wrote, "As the police operation and investigation are still ongoing, it is important to let the authorities do their work and to avoid any speculation."
Quebec Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière said that the suspect's motives are under investigation by the BEI.
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President Donald Trump signed the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding on Wednesday evening, immediately opening the Strait of Hormuz to the free flow of oil and setting the stage for a final peace deal with Tehran.
While the markets responded positively, there was a great deal of consternation both in the U.S. and in Israel about the terms of the deal, particularly the provisions requiring money for Iran's reconstruction and the "immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon."
'For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep.'
The fragile peace has been undermined by more than just criticism on the sidelines.
Disregarding the demands for a cessation of hostilities, Hezbollah and Israel engaged in a brutal exchange on Thursday and Friday that has claimed multiple lives and delayed the permanent peace talks. This bloodletting has, however, since been put on pause, owing to a truce reportedly brokered by the United States and regional actors.
The Israel Defense Forces announced late on Thursday that an explosive Hezbollah drone had detonated near Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, injuring four soldiers. Another terrorist drone reportedly detonated several minutes later, injuring another Israeli soldier.
The Hezbollah strikes turned deadly early Friday morning when a suspected anti-tank missile struck a tank belonging to the 401st Armored Brigade's 52nd Battalion in Lebanon's Kfar Tebnit area, killing all four crew members, reported the Times of Israel.
Israel, in turn, launched numerous strikes — over 150 by early Friday — against alleged terrorist targets in Southern and Eastern Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he had instructed the IDF to "strike Hezbollah with full force" and reiterated that "Israel will remain in the security zone in Southern Lebanon for as long as required to protect the settlements in the north."
The Lebanese health ministry claimed that the Israeli strikes killed at least 47 people — at least 18 of whom were reportedly civilians — and wounded nearly 100 others since midnight.
That toll was evidently not nearly enough for Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stated, "For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!"
"With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn," continued Ben-Gvir, one of the most outspoken critics of Trump's deal with Iran. "In the Middle East, you don’t win with measured responses and restraint — you need to go berserk. To obliterate. To crush the terror.."
Three regional officials told the Associated Press that the U.S., Qatar, and Iran brokered a truce between Lebanon and Israel — a truce that a senior U.S. official told Reuters was set to begin Friday at 4 p.m. local time.
"Hezbollah and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire," said the American official on background. "We understand that after the exchange of fire earlier today, Israel and Hezbollah are now in a ceasefire."
A Hezbollah leader said in a statement to CNN that while the group's fighters will respect the ceasefire, the movement and actions of Israeli forces in Lebanon will receive "a suitable response."
The IDF said that it will continue its operations in Lebanon.
"These attacks by Hezbollah are violations of the ceasefire. They prove that Hezbollah’s goals remain the same: to remain on Israel’s borders and to plan and carry out attacks on our civilians," said an IDF spokesman. "This is not a reality we can accept, and this is exactly why the IDF continues to operate in Southern Lebanon."
Earlier this week, Trump bemoaned the loss of life in Lebanon — where the health authority reports that 3,980 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since March 2 — saying that "the Lebanon piece is something we'll have to work on a little bit."
Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!There is today perhaps no greater thorn in the side of the British liberal establishment than counter-jihad activist Tommy Robinson.
The 43-year-old son of an Irishwoman and an Englishman has proven time and again that he is able not only to draw crowds numbered in the tens of thousands but to focus British working-class fury over the fallout of mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism, the threats posed by radical Islam, and the efforts by the powers that be to cover up and/or contain various related scandals.
'This is an attack on free speech.'
In the wake of his criticism over the horrific death of 18-year-old Englishman Henry Nowak at the hand of a Sikh in England and the near-beheading of Scotsman Stephen Ogilvie by a Sudanese suspect in Belfast, Robinson found himself once again in police custody under the British equivalent of the Patriot Act.
Robinson noted in a Saturday post on X, "I'M A TERRORIST AGAIN. I have been detained at Heathrow Airport today for the best part of 3 hours. I was detained under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019."
Under schedule 3 of the counter-terrorism law, an examining officer "may question a person for the purpose of determining whether the person appears to be a person who is, or has been, engaged in hostile activity" if that person is at a port or in a border area and appears to be entering or leaving the country, or if that person is on a ship or aircraft that has touched down in the United Kingdom.
"Hostile activity" is defined as acts threatening national security, acts threatening the economic well-being of the U.K., or serious crimes carried out for or on behalf of a foreign power.
Per the legislation, it is "immaterial" whether the detainee is "aware that activity in which they are or have been engaged is hostile activity."
Robinson claimed that his phone had been seized by police — just as it had when he was detained by Kent police under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act while attempting to travel in July 2024 to Spain, where he now lives.
The Westminster Magistrates' Court determined in November that Robinson's previous detention under the Terrorism Act was unlawful and cleared the activist of the corresponding charge.
According to paperwork dated Saturday that Robinson was provided with and later shared online, an examining officer at the airport seized the Englishman's iPhone and Samsung Galaxy A16 on suspicion that the devices "could be used in connection with the carrying out of a hostile act."
"Absolute f**king madness," Robinson wrote.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told the BBC that a man in his 40s was stopped under the counter-terrorism law at Heathrow Airport after returning to the U.K. from Russia via Turkey.
Robinson — who met with Elon Musk's father, Errol, while in Moscow — told the Guardian last week that he had traveled to Russia "to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilized society."
The Metropolitan Police spokesperson stated that the man stopped on Saturday "was interviewed by officers and his communication devices were seized. He was subsequently released."
A spokesperson for Robinson speculated that police confiscated the activist's communication devices because "they likely want to see who he is talking to, and maybe find out who his sources are, sources who will expose politicians for their part in the rape of a generation of British girls."
"This is an attack on free speech, this is an attack on investigative journalism, nothing more nothing less," the spokesperson added.
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