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When Socialists Start Talking About ‘War in the Streets,’ Believe Your Ears
Nothing says “workers of the world, unite” quite like gathering at a Chicago Hyatt to discuss revolution while actual hotel workers picket outside.
Socialism 2026 attracted thousands of activists over Labor Day weekend for four days of panels on Marxism, abolition, anti-ICE organizing, “collective liberation,” and other subjects unlikely to appear on the agenda at your local Rotary Club.
Then Butch Ware took the rhetoric somewhere darker.
Ware, an associate professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and former Green Party write-in candidate for California governor, told attendees Democrats “cannot be reasoned with” and “must be destroyed.”
He warned that America was approaching “gunfights” and “war in the streets.”
Those aren’t phrases requiring a decoder ring.
From Jonathan Turley:
“You better get ready for … war.” Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans. Despite the talk of a “Big Tent Party,” socialists are riding high on a surge of support and talking purges and revolution.
In Chicago, radicals gathered for a conference on Marxism during what many view as the heyday of socialism in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America is now larger and more powerful than at any time in our history. Socialist candidates are winning elections across the country as Democratic establishment figures from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to Gov. Gavin Newsom pander to the movement.
Speakers in Chicago used the conference to push supporters to the next stage in the movement, including some openly calling for violence and the end to capitalism.
University of California Santa Barbara History Professor Butch Ware said Democrats “must be destroyed” and urged attendees to be ready for “war in the streets.” Notably, in postings on X, Ware has said that candidates such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed are too restrained and are being pushed by the establishment “to contain radicalism.”
The professor “of Africa and Islam” whose faculty page is appropriately found under “bware” is the latest radical to dismiss the “Big Tent Party” rhetoric of establishment figures like Schumer. He declared, “The Democrats cannot be reasoned with. They must be destroyed.” There is little subtlety in the message, Ware has explained: “You cannot call yourself a revolutionary and not be talking about training with weapons.”
It is another example of the delusion that establishment Democrats have that they will be able to use these radicals to destroy their political enemies but not themselves.
Ware doesn’t speak for the Democratic Socialists of America. California DSA has criticized him, and its Los Angeles chapter explicitly urged voters not to support his gubernatorial write-in campaign.
Good. Accuracy requires saying so.
It also makes what Ware said more interesting.
Abdul El-Sayed’s Imam Rails Against Homosexuality and Jews Teaching Islam: ‘Against Human Nature’
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed frequently attends a mosque led by an imam who has railed against homosexuality and complained that all too often, Jews are teaching Islam in American universities, I report alongside my Free Beacon colleague Alana Goodman.
Abdelhamid Algizawi serves as the imam at the Muslim Community Association of Ann Arbor, where El-Sayed typically prays, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Algizawi celebrated El-Sayed’s one-point Democratic primary victory over Haley Stevens in an August 7 sermon, calling it a “very big victory for the Muslims, Hamdillah, and for the Ummah, and for the Islamic nation” and noting that it is incumbent on Muslims to vote for El-Sayed in November. He also lamented that his own daughter said she wouldn’t vote for a Muslim “running for Senate” because “he’s working against women.”
Algizawi has also made inflammatory remarks about homosexuality, arguing Muslims must reject it because it is “against human nature” and “cannot bring stability to life.” El-Sayed, by contrast, has championed the “LGBTQ+ community,” saying he’ll “always fight for an America where all of us can live and thrive as we are.” Last month, in a primetime Fox News appearance, El-Sayed defended gender transition surgery for minors, likening the procedure to circumcision. In 2022, meanwhile, Algizawi, a graduate of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, criticized the number of Jewish scholars teaching Islam in America, describing it as “a problem” and accusing them of introducing “confusion” to students.
“Though El-Sayed usually prays at the MCA of Ann Arbor, he also attends the Islamic Center of Detroit and the Wayne State University Islamic Center of Detroit, the source told the Washington Free Beacon. Imam Imran Salha of the Islamic Center of Detroit has justified Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel, posting to social media in September 2024 that ‘We can condemn Hezbollah atrocities in Syria while also recognizing that they *are* making sacrifices for the sake of Palestine and frustrating the illegal zionist regime in unprecedented ways esp with recent hits.’” Salha was also caught on video three days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks saying Israel “has left a fire in our hearts that will burn that state until its demise.”
Gavin Newsom Says He Would Continue His Podcast if He Became President – Wonders What He Would Wear
Gavin Newsom recently did a puff interview with PBS and was asked if he would continue his podcast if he became president. His body language changed and he became positively giddy at the thought.
He then wondered aloud what he would wear for the broadcast.
How is anyone taking this man seriously as a governor, let alone as a presidential candidate?
If Newsom runs for president, he is going to have to answer a lot of questions about California.
Even the Associated Press knows it:
California made Gavin Newsom famous. Will it drag down his 2028 presidential ambitions?
Gavin Newsom’s secret is no secret here in South Carolina.
They were selling “Gavin 2028” buttons outside his events this past week as he trekked across the state that will hold Democrats’ first presidential primary. His allies, the state party chair, college presidents and pro-Newsom activists all openly hinted at his national aspirations. And people close to him privately referred to a White House campaign as “the next thing.”
Still, California’s Democratic governor has barely begun to address what may be his biggest political liability as he stakes a claim as an early front-runner in the Democratic Party’s 2028 shadow primary. That liability, South Carolina voters acknowledged this past week, is something he cannot change — his home state, California, is a symbol of modern-day liberalism that people across the political spectrum love to hate.
Vera DeVito, a 78-year-old Democrat who packed into one of Newsom’s eight public events across South Carolina, said she didn’t know much about him or his policies — except that he’s from the Golden State. On that basis alone, she suggested that supporting Newsom could be “risky.”
“It’s going to be hard for him to appeal to the whole country,” she said in the town of Summerville. “Everybody thinks California is different — especially in the South. They’re not crazy about California.”
People aren’t crazy about California because California is crazy for putting up with Gavin Newsom.
The state has lost population for the first time in history on his watch.
Minister quits over offensive rap lyrics as Kinew’s video resurfaces
A sexually explicit rap video from Manitoba NDP Premier Wab Kinew’s past has resurfaced, days after a Nova Scotia minister resigned over his own offensive lyrics.
The 2005 video for “Stank B*tch” features Kinew performing with Winnipeg hip-hop group Dead Indians, years before he entered provincial politics.
In the roughly three-minute video, Kinew and several other performers wear mullet-style wigs while rapping in what appears to be a Winnipeg neighbourhood.
“I don’t give a f*ck about all these other cliques, and I give less than that for these one-night chicks,” Kinew raps.
Other verses contain graphic sexual references, derogatory language about women, and a homophobic slur.
Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy
Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine.
“But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to those lazy bums over there, disarm you before you can do anything about it, and indoctrinate your children in public schools, so that they learn to resent you and love the State.
Democracy is dangerous without guardrails. Unless a society has a strong sense of moral virtue that fosters personal discipline, duty, and honor, base selfishness becomes the driving motivation behind all political action. Unless certain constitutional protections exist to safeguard each individual’s inviolable rights, democratic majorities devour those rights whenever expedient.
This should surprise no-one. Political philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke described humans’ pre-government “state of nature” as a chaotic, violent clash of self-interest. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” regards self-interest as the engine of free markets. Consequently, it is easy to understand why forms of democracy that are unshackled from both moral and constitutional restraints prompt a society to descend back into a state of nature in which humanity’s worst impulses are again indulged.
When Western leaders speak adoringly of “our democracy,” citizens should prepare to guard their freedoms. My goodness, there is nothing inherently virtuous about democracy. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un runs the most repressive regime on the planet, but his country is known officially as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea! China’s Xi Jinping is the general secretary of the oppressive Chinese Communist Party, but his nation remains officially the People’s Republic of China! Dictatorships around the globe claim to govern in the name of the people.
One might think that the blurry line between democracy and despotism would make Western leaders wary of singing democracy’s praises. Defenses of majoritarianism embrace the notion that the votes of a hundred people will lead to a more prudent outcome than we could reasonably expect from the decision-making of a single person. But that doesn’t make any sense. Would you rather live in a kingdom with a benevolent king or in a democracy filled with rapists, thieves, and murderers? If there is a 50/50 chance that any single dictator is good or bad, would there not be a 50/50 chance that a majority of citizens are good or bad, too? If one communist would take everything you have, wouldn’t fifty communists do the same thing? Democracy is a coin toss. It is the veneer of legitimacy that makes authoritarianism look shiny and sparkly. That hardly feels like something worth celebrating.
Democracy is just a process. It shouldn’t be idolized for its own sake. It can lead to just or unjust outcomes depending upon the moral virtue, shared culture, and general wisdom of the voters. Aside from these cultural attributes of a society, there is nothing more essential to a nation’s long-term peace and happiness than the recognition of and protections for inviolable, natural, God-given rights.
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, the right to self-defense – these rights and other natural liberties do not come into existence because of majority rule. Our natural rights exist despite majority rule. As the Founding Fathers articulated in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” We aren’t equal because of democracy; we are equal despite any democratic vote that might claim otherwise. Our lives, personal liberties, and connections to God exist because of His will, not the government’s.
The idea that rights and liberties exist separately from the promulgations of government forms the foundation of our constitutional system and, more generally, of human rights.
The U.S. Constitution spells out quite succinctly what powers each of the three branches of government – Legislative, Executive, and Judicial – shall have. From where do our three branches of government get these powers? The Preamble to the Constitution lays out the source of government power plainly: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” In other words, the government’s legitimacy comes directly from the people.
Every power that one of the three branches exercises is a power that arises from and is borrowed from the individual citizens of the United States. Any power not specifically delegated to the U.S. government remains with either the individual state governments or individual American citizens. This is profoundly important. The Constitution is not a document that empowers the federal government to do whatever it wants. It is a document that says, “You get to do only these discrete things. Everything else is off-limits!”
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Germany’s AfD ROBBED of Victory as Mail-In Ballots Flip Results in Saxony-Anhalt
After its historic victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has dropped from 44.4 % of the vote to 43.8% after mail-in ballots were counted, with all other parties gaining abnormally from mail-in ballots. Attorney Dirk Schmitz called this a sign of “systematic manipulation”.
German elections have been thought to be fairly secure, with mainly in-person same-day voting, photo ID requirements, and a Supreme Court ban on digital voting machines, as I explained to Ben Harnwell on The War Room.
However, Saxony-Anhalt saw a boom in mail-in ballots, making up one-quarter of all votes cast.
Originally, the AfD had taken 51% of in-person votes on Sunday. As mail-in ballots were counted beginning at 6 pm local time, all other parties gained, and only the AfD lost. Plagiarism expert Stefan Weber, who has identified numerous cheating academics, causing the Christian Democrat governor of the neighboring state of Thuringia Mario Voigt to lose his Ph.D., called these results “a sign of systematic manipulation”, citing an analysis by attorney Dirk Schmitz published by alternative journalist Alexander Wallasch:
“51.20% for the AfD at the ballot box – but only 24.27% of the mail-in vote. A drop of almost 27%. In some places, the gap was even more dramatic: In Mertendorf, the AfD took 63.2 % at the ballot box, but only 24.5% of the mail-in vote – a difference of almost 39%. In the town of Hedersleben, 62.9% of in-person votes went to the AfD, but only 26.4% of the mail-in vote,” Schmitz wrote. “In one district of Magdeburg, the AfD only got 5.5% of the mail-in vote, versus 41.5% at the ballot box (minus 36.0%). In Obhausen, the AfD received 24.8% of mail-in ballots versus 60.5% of in-person votes (minus 35.7%). In the town of Meineweh, the AfD received 27.9% of mail-in ballots versus 63.0% of in-person votes, a difference of 35.1%.”
Blanch’s DOJ to Investigate Your Private Information Being Given To Election Fraud Groups
Includes YOUR Social Security and Drivers’ License Numbers
The Department of Homeland Security first brought its concerns about this to the Justice Department in September 2025, when Pam Bondi was Attorney General.
More than a year later, Secretary Mullin, who replaced Kristi Noem, wrote to Attorney General Todd Blanche in a letter dated Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, that requests DOJ look into the matter. One year later…
What did Bondi do with this information?? But, I digress…
The same fraud machinery that selected a feeble old man, Joe Biden, over a highly capable candidate, is now setting up to seize the US Senate and House in the 2026 midterms.
Maria Bartiromo was handcuffed by Fox for trying to report on it. You will NOT hear this on any news channel.
(Might Maria Bartiromo become the next Press Secretary, replacing Levitt?)
Last Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security referred possible violations of the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act to the DOJ. The issue is the transfer of millions of pieces of Americans’ sensitive personal information data, from their drivers’ records, to two hard left-wing groups, the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) and the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation.
These two groups – ERIC and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) – have notorious involvement with election “irregularities”. I have written, repeatedly, about both, since 2021.
Just to refresh your memory, in 2020, CZI gave $350 million to a group called Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), under the auspices of Covid protection for election officials and voters. All in all, less than 3% of the Zuckerberg millions was found to have been used for Covid-related protection; of course, exact numbers are difficult to figure, as the CZI is a private philanthropy.
CTCL was founded by former Obama acolytes. Anyone surprised?
The CZI money was termed, “Zuck Bucks”, and was accepted by election officials around the country. For example, Alan Hayes, Supervisor of Elections in Lake County, FL, took $106,000 of it. That’s a lot of Covid masks for his staff…
Twenty-eight states have now banned these “Zuck Bucks”, but it is really all for show. The election fraud criminals will pull a different stunt. Like your drivers’ license information…
In all, at least 25 states received payouts from Zuckerberg in 2020. The states remaining, were either considered “sure Left” or “hopeless”, I’d assume.
Democrat Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton Slurs Her Words and Sounds Drunk Again at Labor Day Campaign Event
Amy Acton channeled Kamala Harris during a Labor Day campaign event on Monday.
During a Labor Day event on Monday, Democrat Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton slurred her words as she played victim about after a man pushed his way into a tent to get a photo with her over the weekend.
On Sunday it was reported that multiple people were injured after an armed man lunged at Democrat Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton at a campaign event at the Canfield Fair near Youngstown.
“While attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people,” Acton’s campaign said.
Patrick Havas, 38, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and one count of disorderly conduct.
Mamdani signs order on Labor Day creating ‘first-in-the-nation’ municipal office aimed at organizing NYC workers
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order creating the “first-in-the-nation” Mayor’s Office of Worker Power (MOWP).
Rolled out on Labor Day, the MOWP is aimed at organizing workers and connecting them with relevant resources, according to the mayor’s office.
“MOWP will work across City Hall and City agencies on outreach, education, policy, research and strategic partnerships focused on workers who lack meaningful benefits, adequate wages and a voice on the job,” read a Monday statement.
Per the mayor’s office, the MOWP will:
- “Convene rank-and-file workers, union leaders, worker centers, immigrant workers, gig workers and platform workers.
- Hold public hearings on significant worker issues.
- Provide referrals to organizations that support workers.
- Coordinate with City agencies to produce research on pressing issues facing workers.
- Develop policy proposals informed by workers’ experiences.
- Engage workers on emerging challenges, including new technologies, worker misclassification, immigration-based exploitation and climate risks to worker safety.
- Connect workers with information about their rights at everyday touchpoints, including workforce centers, libraries, IDNYC offices, schools and community events.”
“We created the first-in-the-nation Office of Worker Power to put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running,” Mamdani (D-N.Y.) posted to X on Monday.
The NYC mayor framed the history of Labor Day as stemming from a movement championed and furthered by democratic socialists to “win us weekends, safety standards, overtime pay, a minimum wage, and social security.”
In 1882, 10,000 workers marched up Broadway in the first-ever Labor Day parade. Led by democratic socialists and organized by New York’s unions, they rallied the movement that went o
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