Gov. Moore's Redistricting Push Fails in Maryland Legislature

Maryland Democrats have rejected an effort to redraw the state's congressional map to boost their party's chances in the midterm elections, a setback for Gov. Wes Moore who put his clout behind the attempt to blunt President Donald Trump's own redistricting campaign.

The clock officially ran out on the proposal late Monday night as the state legislative session ended, a casualty of internal party disagreements. In the end, the Maryland Senate left the bill in a committee, with Democrats who control the chamber concerned it could backfire under judicial review.

The unusual mid-decade redistricting, which started when Trump encouraged Republican-controlled Texas to redraw their map last year, is expected to continue next week.

Republicans want to change congressional boundaries during a special legislative session in Florida, while Democrats are asking voters to approve a redistricting referendum in Virginia.

But Democrats will not be poised to pick up a seat in Maryland, where the proposed map would have made it easier for voters to oust the state's lone Republican member of the U.S. House.

Moore, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, said he disagreed with another powerful Maryland Democrat, state Senate President Bill Ferguson, about "what is required to be able to make sure we're fighting back" against Trump.

"This is not a political game to me," Moore said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I don't look at this as some kind of political talking point. I look at the fact that I think Donald Trump is actively trying to manipulate and change the rules around the November election and beyond because he knows he cannot win on his policies."

Ferguson has said redistricting could actually cost Democrats seats in Maryland because, in the inevitable legal battle that would ensue, a court could order a new map that would be even less favorable to the party. He refused to budge despite pressure from Moore and U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

While speaking at National Action Network in New York on Thursday with the Rev. Al Sharpton, Moore complained that Trump was urging some states to redraw maps to favor Republicans, while telling other states to "sit on your hands."

"Don't play with me," Moore said. "And if the rest of the country is going to have this conversation about mid-decade redistricting, then so should Maryland, and so should every other state. Because until it is done nationally, we have to make sure that this election is not stolen right before our face so this pain is made permanent."

But while Moore named a panel in November that proposed the new map for Maryland, the governor could not prevail on the heavily Democrat Maryland Senate to approve it.

When it was before the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, the governor told lawmakers in January that the state needed to act to counter what he called "political redlining" by Trump in other states at the cost of Black representation in Congress.

Moore, who is the nation's only serving Black governor, compared Trump's push for Republican-friendly redistricting to discriminatory housing practices, saying the president and his allies "are doing everything in their power to silence the voices and trying to eliminate Black leadership — elected leadership — all over this country."

Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1 in Maryland and already hold a 7-1 advantage in the state's U.S. House delegation, with Rep. Andy Harris the lone GOP representative.

The Maryland House passed legislation containing a new map in early February, but the measure ran into opposition from Ferguson.

The senator pointed out a map adopted in 2021 that would have made it easier to flip Harris' seat was ruled unconstitutional by a judge who called it "a product of extreme partisan gerrymandering." Maryland passed another map in 2022, and the parties dropped their legal fight.

Meanwhile, here's a look at what's happening in other states this month in mid-decade redistricting efforts:

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has scheduled a special session next week for the Republican-dominated Legislature to draw new congressional districts.

Currently, 20 of Florida's 28 congressional seats are held by Republicans.

Congressional districts in Florida that are redrawn to favor Republicans could carry big consequences for Trump's plan to reshape districts in GOP-led states, which could give Republicans a shot at winning additional seats in the midterm elections and retaining control of the closely divided U.S. House.

Early balloting has already begun for a vote on a constitutional amendment for a new congressional map in Virginia next week.

After a cascade of redistricting efforts, Republicans believe they can win a combined nine more U.S. House seats in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio, while Democrats think they can win a total of six more seats in California and Utah. Virginia could give Democrats an extra four seats.

 

DNI Gabbard Reveals Intelligence Community Conspiracy That Led to Trump's 2019 Impeachment

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents Monday that she says show the intelligence community, along with certain Democrat congresscritters — think California Sen. Adam Schiff (a representative at the time) and House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA ‑11) — used to justify the ludicrous 2019 impeachment effort of Donald Trump.

Democrats incredibly tried to take down a sitting president over a phone call because they alleged that Trump had requested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky look into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, who had been conducting suspicious business activity in the Eastern European country. They further charged that Trump used presidential power to unlawfully pressure the Ukrainians.

Gabbard says the new documents show that the case was manufactured:

In her tweet, she points readers to a lengthy press release on the official ODNI webpage that goes into more detail on the efforts to convict a duly-elected president, and she pointed the finger directly at former Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) Michael Atkinson, who Trump fired in 2020:

During his preliminary investigation into President Trump’s July 2019 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former IC IG Michael Atkinson did not follow standard IG procedures and relied upon politicized, manufactured narratives – only conducting interviews with four individuals: the Whistleblower, the Whistleblower’s friend who was a co-author of the January 2017 Russia Hoax Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) and close colleague of disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, and two character references who had zero firsthand knowledge of the July 2019 phone call.

Ah, yes, Peter Strzok, the slippery former FBI agent who was a foaming-at-the-mouth Trump Hater. Gabbard had more:

Despite a lack of any firsthand evidence, IC IG Atkinson proceeded to take actions to weaponize the Whistleblower process and exceed his statutory jurisdiction by ignoring Department of Justice guidance and relying on only second-hand testimony to ensure the whistleblower complaint was released to Congress, referred to the FBI, and leaked to the propaganda media.

Then-House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Adam Schiff and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi used this false, second-hand narrative to create media intrigue and ultimately spark the basis to impeach President Trump in December of 2019.

Whistleblower met with Democrats on House Intelligence Committee (then led by Adam Schiff) BEFORE reporting his allegations to the Intelligence Community Inspector General.

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Gabbard provides numerous details regarding Atkinson’s shenanigans, but her summary tells you the takeaway: these folks didn’t care about the rule of law, or the Constitution, or integrity; all they wanted to do was get Orange Man Bad at any cost. Emphasis hers:

“Deep state actors within the Intelligence Community concocted a false narrative that was used by Congress to usurp the will of the American people and impeach the duly-elected President of the United States,” said DNI Gabbard. “Inspector General Atkinson failed to uphold his responsibility to the American people, putting political motivations over the truth. And this, along with the politicization of the whistleblower process by a former CIA employee who was working hand in glove with Democrats in Congress, are egregious examples of the deep state playbook on how to weaponize the Intelligence Community. Exposing these tactics and showing how they undermine the fabric of our democratic republic furthers the critical cause of transparency and accountability and will help prevent future abuse of power.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has already weighed in, saying Monday that the whole thing was a hoax:

"As Director Ratcliffe made clear as a member of President Trump's impeachment advisory team in 2019, this impeachment was entirely baseless, unfounded, and brought in politically-motivated bad faith," CIA Director of Public of Affairs Liz Lyons said in a statement to Just the News.

It may seem like old news at this point, but the 2019 impeachment remains a stain on our nation. If voters inexplicably give Congress back to the Democrats in the midterms, and/or the presidency in 2028, we’re likely to just see a whole lot more of this criminality.

Editor’s Note: The endless lawfare against Donald Trump was emblematic of the banana republic Biden regime.

 

Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled

We told you that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would be bad, and the democrat socialist has proven to be as terrible or perhaps even worse than we warned. 

He’s continued his antisemitic rhetoric and demeaning of police, wants to tax the wealthy out of existence (or at least, out of the state), and is striving to make DEI great again — just what nobody needs.

On Sunday, he announced that the city’s first city-run grocery store will open in East Harlem, and it will cost $30 million to build and take over a year to complete.

Trump could probably build a dozen of these for $30 million. Why so much? Union wages play a part, but that doesn't explain it all, considering Mamdani had earlier promised five stores for a mere $70 million:

 

Even assuming New York City’s priciest union-driven construction costs, a standard-sized 25,000-square-foot grocery store should only be about $15 million to build, said Adam Lehodey, an expert at the Manhattan Institute.

“Thirty million dollars for one store is exceptionally high, considering land prices are a significant part of the capital costs of new construction, and the city has announced that rents will be waived,” he said.

The ghosts of the old Soviet Union leaders are beaming with pride

Happy

Now, does this sound fair to you? The store will be required to pay no taxes or rent, yet the neighboring competitors will face those high costs. That is not capitalism, folks.

The new grocery at the longstanding city-owned La Marqueta marketplace will run with a yet-to-be-picked operator reaping the benefits of a rent- and tax-free deal, City Hall officials told The Post on Monday.

Mamdani envisions that the low-cost deal — which he anounced during a Sunday celebration of his first 100 days in office -– will allow the grocery’s operator to pass on savings to hardscrabble New Yorkers reeling from foodstuff sticker shock, but neighboring grocer Abdul Shaher had doubts about its efficiency based on the exorbitant $30 million upfront cost.

“It’s gonna affect us real hard,” said Victor Vazquez, 33, manager at City Fresh Market. “It’s too near! Our prices might have to go up.” 

Might have to?

The owner of Pamela’s Grocery Store bodega, meanwhile, 58-year-old Augustine Espinal, said it’s unquestionably going to hurt his bottom line. “The city has a much stronger business than I do,” he said. “It’ll be a loss in income."

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Critics have long bashed Mamdani’s plans to put city-run grocery stores in all five boroughs of the Big Apple. John Catsimatidis, the billionaire owner of one of NY’s staple grocery chains, Gristedes, threatened in June 2025, before Mamdani won the election, that he might head to greener pastures. “If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” he warned.

Said Fernando Mateo of the United Bodegas of America, meanwhile: "These stores are going to get jam-packed, they're only four or five in the entire city of 8 million people." 

"What do you expect is going to happen? You're going to have people rushing to these stores early in the morning to late at night, waiting on long lines. You know, it's going to be more turmoil than anything else. It's a great punch line for him and for the socialist movement."

"But New York is not a socialist city," he concluded.

Maybe it's not a socialist city yet, but with Zohran in charge, it's quickly on its way to becoming one. 

Revolution for Thee but Not for Me

Talk’s cheap. Lifestyles aren’t.

There is a story in an 800-year-old book by a well-known Jewish, philosopher rabbi. In it, he tells of a man who sailed to a distant land, where he hoped to do some business and make money. While he was there, he met a fellow of a different religion and they had a discussion about God and truth. The traveler said, “God can provide a person with an income from anything and anywhere He so pleases.”

“Your actions stand in opposition to your words.”

“What do you mean?”

“If things were as you claim, then you would have had no reason to travel here to make money. God could have provided you with an income in your place of residence.”

The fellow did not answer. He ran back to his boat and headed home. At least he realized that his claimed beliefs and his actual life did not overlap completely.

 

There has been much in the news about the children of top Iranian officials living the life in the Great Satan, otherwise known as the United States. We have learned that the apparently injured and disfigured new chief mullah has millions in real estate holdings all over the world. While one must always be careful to assume that children are identical in their views and beliefs to their parents, it would seem strange that the relations of General Soleimani live in LA but do not denounce the violent ways of their now vaporized uncle. It has been a staple of progeny of the dictatorial elite to live the life in the West. They take money absconded by their parents and live like Hollywood royalty: big houses, fast cars, travel, jewelry, parties. Dictators taking a country’s wealth and giving to their offspring is nothing new. That the State Department is starting to throw out some of the spoiled relatives living in the U.S. is something new.

But is such hypocrisy so rare? How many Hollywood grandees tell us of the evils of guns while they make movies with plenty of shooting and personally have bodyguards with more weapons than the badly depleted U.K. army? How many pro-open border billionaires live in airtight security that would not allow a single illegal alien access to his or her lair? How many millionaires screaming for reduced energy consumption to “save the planet” fly on private planes and have gas-guzzling SUVs take them from place to place? Most honest people cannot live with internal contradictions for very long: like a volcano, the magma percolates up and up until it shoots out with great gusto. How often have people who have preached one thing eventually admitted—often with tears and shame—that they lived exactly the opposite of what they claimed? For our Iranian officials’ kin, they have no problem living it up in the West. Let those poor folks gunned down by the Basij live their lives in the misery that is modern Islamic Iran.

Our American “contradictors” espouse the wonders of Socialism while being multimillionaires and having houses dotting the country. Shouldn’t socialists live like socialists? Nope, that’s for the saps on the other side of the microphone. Bernie Sanders, one of the bigwigs among the “Democratic Socialists” that include AOC and Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani, once explained his very high private plane travel costs: his efforts are so important that he needs to travel this way to get from rally to rally. Don’t we all feel that we are so important that we should not be stuck in some traffic jam or get behind a stoplight that never seems to turn green? But then reality hits us: we’re stuck just like everybody else around us. But I don’t mind the wealthy using their money to avoid traffic jams or the ugly side of an airport. If God has given you dough, use it and enjoy it. Just don’t lecture us about the virtues of a life that you refuse to live. Don’t tell us that generating carbon dioxide is bad while you create wheelbarrows full of it on your private planes. Again, enjoy your flight with all of its amenities. If you want to reduce “greenhouse gases” because you believe in the tripe sold by Al Gore and his buddies, then swear off private planes and exclusive travel. But they never do. They live large as they demand that we live small. If I could make a barbecue inside a gas-guzzling pickup truck being loaded onto a fuel-wasting transport plane, I would do the same. The green climate nonsense is a scam, and I feel no need to offset miles or worry about my car generating gas that helps trees and plants grow.

Long ago, they taught us that pure utilitarianism fails because it does not take into account moral considerations. Many in the Weirdo Right follow in the antisemitic footsteps of the Arabic State Department and British Foreign Office of yore. “Look at Israel shooting and killing everybody—Gazans, Lebanese, Houthis, Syrians, and Iranians. Wouldn’t it simply be easier if there was no Israel and then there would be nobody with so many enemies?” The problem is—again with contradictory undertones—that Israel was born of land purchases and war. If one rejects Israel’s right to exist as a modern nation state, then why should we accept the United States or any other country born of war or revolution? There are always Jew-only standards applied only to Israel: Israel is accused of genocide when it is the only country in history to send phone/SMS/drone/paper messages telling people to move before destroying a building. Israel is accused of starving Gazans though plenty of food was let into Gaza, much of it stolen by Hamas. Rashida Tlaib (D, Ramallah) continued to accuse Israel of bombing a Gazan hospital even after it was definitively shown that the projectile fell in the parking lot and it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad that admitted (through an intercepted phone call) that they fired the rocket. Hypocrisy toward Israel is always rooted in rank antisemitism, however much people try to soothe their pathetic consciences by saying that they are only anti-Zionist or the like. The Me Too frauds who never came forward until their careers in Hollywood were made claimed to believe all women, until Israeli women described the horror of Hamas’ actions against them. Eye-witnesses, forensic evidence, and even terrorist confessions meant nothing. Me Too ends where You Jew starts. Hypocrisy even on the subject of sexual assault is in vogue among those whose IQ is 1/10th of what they believe it to be.

Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and again in 2024 (and probably in 2020...we may never know) because what you saw was what you got. He wasn’t like Hillary or Joe Biden who invented accents depending who their audience was. He wasn’t like Kamala because he could actually complete a sentence and did not pretend that there was no problem at the southern border. Americans have a very strong sense of honesty and fairness. A Hollywood star crying over “climate change” and then going home to a well-heated, 32-room mansion gets no love from Americans who are happy when the month ends with a positive bank balance. Americans want politicians who live like they talk and Donald Trump is known to bring McDonald's food to the White House when entertaining say college football champions. One of the reasons why the billionaire lefties hate Trump is the same as why tens of millions of Americans support him: he is as advertised. He said that he would close the border and he did; he said that he would bomb the well, you know, out of Iran and he has. Donald Trump is the antidote to today’s lefty elite hypocrisy.

 

After the Fall of Swalwell, Is This Dem Rep Next?

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)

Taking down Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was part of a revenge campaign, at least for former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for securities fraud in 2017. Shkreli was responsible for releasing the video showing the congressman frolicking with an alleged sex worker. It’s a damning video if true: Swalwell kissing her, with the purported escort sandwiched between the California liberal and another man on a bed. There’s someone else recording it as well. 

Swalwell dropped out of his California gubernatorial bid and later announced his resignation from Congress. Yet, Shkreli said he’s not done. In a not-so-cryptic tweet, he said that Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) could be next:

to all house dems, this can happen to you easily. imma tell you one time: don't fuck with me. @RoKhanna you fucked with me. that's against the aforementioned rules. so you next.

everyone has a secret, a vice, a mistake. but not everyone has a determined enemy. tread carefully.

to all house dems, this can happen to you easily. imma tell you one time: don't fuck with me. @RoKhanna you fucked with me. that's against the aforementioned rules. so you next.

everyone has a secret, a vice, a mistake. but not everyone has a determined enemy. tread carefully. https://t.co/gW4MQ8cxnF

— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) April 13, 2026

Shkreli coming for Ro Khanna next https://t.co/kelzNj72CJ pic.twitter.com/mu0gI1f2el

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) April 13, 2026

A new Eric Swalwell accuser will appear at a press conference in Beverly Hills tomorrow with her attorneys

— Max Gorden (@Max_Gorden) April 13, 2026

A new Swalwell accuser was supposed to hold a press conference today. That announcement dropped last night, around the time the congressman announced his resignation. 

 

Harris hints at 2028 run: ‘I’m thinking about it' 🪳

🪳 Just when you think you've got rid of them, they just keep coming back. 

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has revealed that she “might” run for president again in 2028.

While speaking at a conference in New York alongside Reverend Al Sharpton on Friday, Harris hinted her bid for the presidency may not be over.

“Listen, I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris said in response to a question about running in the next presidential election.

Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris told Al Sharpton @TheRevAl that she might run for president in 2028.

The most telling part of her comments was the NAN crowd clapping after she spoke.

Kamala was the worst border czar in United States history.

Clearly the Democrats still support… pic.twitter.com/Wx3I1UwAnu

 — Loomer Unleashed (@LoomerUnleashed) April 10, 2026

“Let me also say this. I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room. I know what the job is. And I know what it requires,” Harris said.

“I’ve been traveling in the country the last year, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the South and many other places. And the one thing I’m really clear about also is, the status quo is not working, and hasn’t been working for a lot of people for a long time,” she added.

Harris lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election after replacing then-President Joe Biden atop the Democrat ticket. Prior to her loss, Harris previously ran for the Democrat nomination in 2020 but was unsuccessful before Biden selected her as his running mate

Harris has since maintained a relatively low public profile since her 2024 defeat, passing over the opportunity to run for governor of California, which added to the speculation that may be attempting to preserve her option to run again in 2028.

NEW POLL: Kamala Harris leads in the 2028 Democratic Primary.

2028 Democratic PrimaryKamala Harris 19.7% (+0.8)Gavin Newsom 19.1% Pete Buttigieg 13.9% Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 12.7% Mark Kelly 6.7% Josh Shapiro 3.5% JB Pritzker 3.5% Andy Beshear 2.4%… pic.twitter.com/La3fd0eQif

 — Election Time (@ElectionTime_) April 13, 2026

“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office and the situation room. I know what the job is, and I know what it requires,” Harris said.

“I am thinking about it in the context of who and where and how can the best job be done for the American people. That’s how I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted,” she continued.

Among the other Democrat contenders are Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), Governor Josh Shapiro (D-Penn.), Governor Wes Moore (D-Md.), and Senator Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), many of whom spoke at the conference in New York this week.

 

Trump's Bold Blockade: Crushing Iran's Oil Profits and Ambitions

Washington made a decisive move this week, announcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports after marathon ceasefire talks in Pakistan collapsed over the weekend. President Trump and Pentagon officials said the operation began on April 13, 2026, aimed at forcing Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stop profiting from the chaos it has helped create.

CENTCOM clarified the enforcement zone would cover Iranian ports and coastal areas in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman while allowing transit between non-Iranian ports, a pragmatic narrowing that avoids a full choke on global shipping but still hits Tehran where it hurts. That careful tailoring shows commanders are taking a measured approach to a necessary pressure campaign rather than blind adventurism.

The economic shock was immediate: oil has spiked and markets are pricing in the cost of finally putting real leverage on the mullahs, not just issuing empty sanctions that Tehran easily evades. Conservative patriots understand gas at the pump is painful, but the alternative—letting Iran bankroll proxy wars and nuclear ambitions—is far worse for Americans and allies in the long run.

President Trump bluntly warned Iran that any “fast attack” ships that interfere with the blockade would be destroyed, signaling the administration will not tolerate brinkmanship from a regime that has thumbed its nose at diplomacy for decades. That kind of clarity is what stops bullies; weak talk only invites greater aggression.

Legal scholars rightly note that blockades must be impartially enforced and allow humanitarian goods to pass if they are to comply with international law, and the administration will need to prove it can carry this out efficiently and fairly. Conservatives who believe in the rule of law should hold the president and the Pentagon to high standards of implementation while supporting a firm strategy that protects American interests.

Predictably, some European officials and pundits denounced the move as reckless, but America’s first duty is to its own security and to ensure that tyrants who threaten global commerce do not get a free pass. If allies want the benefits of American security, they must be willing to stand by decisive measures that actually curb bad actors instead of lecturing from safe distance.

This is a moment for unity and resolve from patriots across the country: defend freedom of navigation, back a strategy that squeezes Iran’s war-making capacity, and demand accountability in how the blockade is run. We can tolerate temporary pain at the pump if it means denying our enemies the funds and routes they use to export terror and nuclear ambitions; the American people deserve leaders who act, not apologize.

 

Swalwell's Resignation: A Wake-Up Call on Political Corruption

Eric Swalwell’s rapid fall from the corridors of congressional power to a public resignation underscores a rot that runs through the political class. The San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting and subsequent coverage made clear that a former staffer accused Swalwell of sexually assaulting her on more than one occasion, and within days the congressman announced plans to leave Congress as pressure mounted.

The details published were grim: the accuser says encounters in 2019 and again in 2024 involved her being too intoxicated to consent, and news organizations reported that other women described a pattern of unwanted advances and explicit messaging. These are serious allegations and not the kind of thing to be brushed off as “politics as usual”; the initial Chronicle piece and follow-ups by national outlets laid out corroborating texts and interviews that forced the story into the open.

Swalwell has denied the assault claims, calling them false even as investigators and congressional ethics officials moved to examine the matter and as Manhattan prosecutors opened inquiries into the New York incident. The man already known in Washington for past controversies now faces both criminal scrutiny and the political consequences of multiple women coming forward—an outcome that should make every elected official uneasy.

 

Conservatives who have long warned about double standards in elite circles see this as confirmation that the ruling class protects its own until scandal becomes impossible to ignore. That said, defending the dignity of alleged victims does not mean jettisoning due process; if the facts hold up, accountability should be swift and severe, and if they do not, the record must be cleared—America deserves neither partisan cover-ups nor cynical cancel culture.

This episode also exposes the rot of celebrity politics and the media ecosystem that elevates style over substance. Swalwell was a familiar face, repeatedly paraded by pundits and power brokers as a rising Democrat with a résumé; yet the moment credible accusations surfaced, the same institutions that lionized him scrambled to distance themselves—showing once again that allegiance in D.C. is transactional, not principled.

Hardworking Americans watching this saga should demand two things: truth for the alleged victims and an end to the culture that lets powerful people exploit access without consequence. Conservatives must lead in insisting both that survivors be heard and that no public official be allowed to dodge thorough investigation—because patriotism means defending institutions that protect liberty and hold the mighty to account.

 

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NYC Mayor Pushes Plan for City-Run Grocery Stores

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rallied Sunday to celebrate 100 days in office, touting his early accomplishments and charting future goals as he pledged to lead with a relentless focus on the city's working class.

In front of a crowd just days after reaching an early milestone of his first term, Mamdani said he took office promising "that City Hall would hold a singular purpose, to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before."

 

"For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that," he said.

After highlighting the early accomplishments of his administration, he then turned to a few new plans.

 

New York City Forgot. 

The first, he said, would be to inch toward one of his major campaign promises: opening a slate of city-run grocery stores. The initial store, he said, would open next year, with the remaining shops — eventually one in each of the city's five boroughs — opening by the end of his four-year term.

"At our stores, eggs will be cheaper. Bread will be cheaper. Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation," said Mamdani, a Democrat.

In addition, the mayor announced plans to expand the city's covered trash bin program — "Say goodbye to black bags and say hello to the bins," he said, vowing to spread the initiative citywide by the end of 2031.

And he reiterated his campaign promise to make buses faster and free of cost, saying he would move to speed up bus services along some routes. It remains unclear how he would make good on eliminating bus fares.

"Tonight, we're delivering the fast, and we're excited to keep working with Albany to deliver the free," he said, referencing the governor and the state Legislature, which hold considerable sway over parts of his agenda.

Before Mamdani spoke, the crowd heard from a city transportation department staffer to hear about Mamdani’s pothole filling blitz; a tenant organizer who praised the mayor’s focus on renters; and a mother who boosted his push to expand child care programs in the city.

"No longer will city government be afr

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani rallied Sunday to celebrate 100 days in office, touting his early accomplishments and charting future goals as he pledged to lead with a relentless focus on the city's working class.

In front of a crowd just days after reaching an early milestone of his first term, Mamdani said he took office promising "that City Hall would hold a singular purpose, to make this city belong to more of its people than it did the day before."

"For 102 days, we have endeavored to do exactly that," he said.

After highlighting the early accomplishments of his administration, he then turned to a few new plans.

The first, he said, would be to inch toward one of his major campaign promises: opening a slate of city-run grocery stores. The initial store, he said, would open next year, with the remaining shops — eventually one in each of the city's five boroughs — opening by the end of his four-year term.

"At our stores, eggs will be cheaper. Bread will be cheaper. Grocery shopping will no longer be an unsolvable equation," said Mamdani, a Democrat.

In addition, the mayor announced plans to expand the city's covered trash bin program — "Say goodbye to black bags and say hello to the bins," he said, vowing to spread the initiative citywide by the end of 2031.

And he reiterated his campaign promise to make buses faster and free of cost, saying he would move to speed up bus services along some routes. It remains unclear how he would make good on eliminating bus fares.

"Tonight, we're delivering the fast, and we're excited to keep working with Albany to deliver the free," he said, referencing the governor and the state Legislature, which hold considerable sway over parts of his agenda.

Before Mamdani spoke, the crowd heard from a city transportation department staffer to hear about Mamdani’s pothole filling blitz; a tenant organizer who praised the mayor’s focus on renters; and a mother who boosted his push to expand child care programs in the city.

"No longer will city government be afraid of its own shadow," Mamdani told the crowd shortly after taking the stage. "If anyone should be afraid it is those who take advantage of working people."

Mamdani, 34, took office in January after a campaign centered on making New York City a more affordable place to live, centering his agenda on refocusing the vast power of government toward helping the city's struggling working class.

aid of its own shadow," Mamdani told the crowd shortly after taking the stage. "If anyone should be afraid it is those who take advantage of working people."

Mamdani, 34, took office in January after a campaign centered on making New York City a more affordable place to live, centering his agenda on refocusing the vast power of government toward helping the city's struggling working class.