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Mamdani and the DSA Just Sent a Seismic Message: The Revolution Is Here to Stay
Ross Barkan | June 26, 2026
A stunning trio of congressional victories proved that the political earthquake the mayor and his allies ushered in was no fluke.
A new mayor trying to flex his political muscle across New York City could hardly dream up a night this glorious.
Zohran Mamdani backed three insurgent candidates for Congress in high-profile primaries that enraged the Democratic establishment. All three—Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, and Darializa Avila Chevalier—won smashing victories. For Mamdani, it was proof that the political revolution he launched last year is still very much alive. For the Democratic Socialists of America, which put its organizational muscle behind most of these races, the results were evidence of its ever-increasing ascendancy in New York City politics. And for the city’s traditional political firmament, the night showed how frail its grip on power is becoming.
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New York City’s Congressional Elections: Are White Yuppies Turning On The Jews?
Conservative commentators such as Dan Bongino and Matt Walsh — echoing a delayed Donald Trump “TRUTH” full of Cold Warrior boilerplate — have sought to dishonestly frame the results of this election as a communist third worldist foreigner conspiracy. Their agenda is to try and get a rise out of white Republicans in flyover country over two Dominicans fighting in the Bronx, but this strategy is failing as even MAGA voters are increasingly suspicious of Jews and Zionism.
By and large, the two major races causing the freakouts were in NY’s 7th district, known as the “Commie Corridor,” where affluent young white leftist transplants in Western Queens and North Brooklyn carried DSA candidate Claire Valdez to a landslide victory. More controversially in NY-13, Darializa Chevalier — an authentically radical pro-Palestinian organizer and hardline anti-Zionist — pulled off an upset against incumbent congressman Adriano Espaillat.
The DSA’s decision to center Israel and Zionist political influence in these races was ideological, but also tactical. The DSA candidates were up against not just the Zionist Democratic political establishment, but also its pocket dogs, such as organized labor and the left-wing placeholding Working Families Party, who all united against them.
These primary races did not talk about hating white people, hating America or even as much about Donald Trump as one would expect. The DSA showed resolve by largely ignoring these issues and laser focusing on the meaningful, moral question of whether progressives and leftists should be taking money from Jews to support wars for Israel in the Middle East.
In Reynoso vs Valdez, the two candidates had identical “woke” platforms on all issues. Reynoso, who is widely considered an AOC type “progressive,” was even pressured into reluctantly condemning Israel, which Valdez protested as being insincere. To distinguish herself, Valdez accused Reynoso of being in the pocket of AIPAC, to which he replied he was not.
Reynoso was technically correct, AIPAC formally did not directly provide any funds to him this election cycle. But he was exposed as dishonest when supporters of Valdez’s campaign nevertheless were able to pin him down by outlining all of the known Jewish Zionists funding his campaign independently, including sitting board members of the Anti-Defamation League and a super PAC controlled by well-known “Progressive Except Palestine” Jewish supremacists Randi Weingarten and Scott Stringer.
Reynoso’s strategy going into this race was to lock-in the Jewish bloc vote in South Williamsburg, which in conjunction with his polling advantage with blacks and Hispanics made him the early favorite. Unfortunately for Reynoso and his backers, this tactic was neutralized by the explosive turnout from the transient leftist white professional plurality in NY-7 which, when pitted against low turnout from non-whites, delivered a 20 point victory to Valdez.
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