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Democrat is ripped to shreds for saying non-whites should ‘take over this country’ in racially-charged rant

A Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives is being called out for using racially-charged rhetoric on a podcast after the clip resurfaced on social media. 

A little over a year ago, State Representative Gene Wu was a guest on Define America with Jose Antonio Vargas, a left-wing podcast focused on immigration issues. 

On Saturday, the popular right-wing X account End Wokeness posted a clip from the podcast, in which Wu made a controversial statement about how non-white people in the US are now the majority and are in a position to ‘take over this country.’

The clip begins with Wu, who was born in China, saying, ‘I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning.’

‘Because we are the majority in this country now,’ the congressman continued. 

‘We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone, and to make things fair, but the problem is our communities are divided – they’re completely divided.’ 

The account captioned the clip: ‘Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off: “Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”‘

On Sunday, the account replied to its own viral post and wrote: ‘More condemnations from the GOP over a Lion King meme than this.’ 

That was in reference to a meme posted Thursday night on President Trump’s X account, in which the faces of former President Obama and First Lady Michelle were superimposed onto apes. 

The post was widely criticized as racist by people on both sides of the aisle, and it was deleted on Friday.  

The clip of Wu has received more than seven million views, 27,000 likes and nearly 5,000 responses in less than 24 hours. 

One of those responses was from X CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, who simply wrote: ‘Shame on him.’

The vast majority of reactions on X were also negative, and the clip going viral inspired people to post negative comments under the original podcast episode on YouTube as well. 

‘Why would you immigrate to USA to be oppressed?’ one user wrote on X.

‘Uh huh SO SICK & TIRED of this race baiting marxist CR@P,’ another user posted along with a political cartoon depicting a group of people at the border wall saying: ‘Please let us in so we can be victims of systemic racism and white supremacy!’

‘I’m still trying to figure out why Democrats are so obsessed with race,’ a third user wrote. 

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Senior Norwegian diplomat resigns after being linked to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

A senior Norwegian diplomat has resigned after an investigation was launched into her ties to late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 

Mona Juul, the Scandinavian nation’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, is among several high-profile Norwegian figures swept up in the latest Epstein file release.

The senior diplomat, who played a key role in the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which led to the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s, was temporarily suspended on Monday pending an investigation into her alleged links to Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

Epstein left around £7.4million in his will to Juul’s two children with her husband, fellow diplomat and Oslo talks broker Terje Rod-Larsen, according to Norwegian media.

‘This is a correct and necessary decision. Juul’s contact with the convicted abuser Epstein has shown a serious lapse in judgement,’ foreign minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement. 

Eide said that the ministry would continue to hold talks with Juul throughout the review to determine the extent of their dealings.

‘It is important to understand the scope of the contact she, as an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has had with Epstein,’ he said.

He added that the Jordan embassy would be led by the deputy ambassador until a new envoy is appointed.

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FCC Probes ‘The View’ Following Interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico

In January, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a crackdown on partisan talk shows in both daytime and late-night in an effort to provide equal treatment for political candidates.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said at the time, “For years, legacy TV networks assumed that their late night & daytime talk shows qualify as “bona fide news” programs – even when motivated by purely partisan political purposes.”

“Today, the FCC reminded them of their obligation to provide all candidates with equal opportunities.”

With the new oversight in mind, Fox News reports that the FCC is launching an investigation into ABC’s “The View” following an appearance by Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, the first political candidate to appear on the program following the announcement in January.

Talarico is facing other candidates, including Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), in the Democrat primary. Republicans Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), state Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are facing off in the GOP primary.

Crockett also appeared on the show, but her appearance came before the FCC’s announcement.

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Mounds of Snow and Trash Are Just the Opening Act of Mamdani’s Collectivist New York

Images out of New York City this week have gone viral, and they are doing more to project the city’s future than any campaign speech ever could.

They show piles of trash sitting curbside and piles of snow still frozen nearly two weeks after a storm. They show a city struggling with completing tasks that should be routine.

This is what New Yorkers are seeing as Mayor Zohran Mamdani begins to warm his seat in City Hall.

According to WABC-TV in New York, sanitation crews fell behind after heavy snow and deep cold slowed cleanup efforts across the city. Trash piled up in multiple neighborhoods.

The mayor defended the city’s botched response as New Yorkers complained about living in a landfill.

I am not from New York, I do not want to visit New York, and I am well aware that New York City has dealt with snowstorms and sanitation problems long before Mamdani arrived.

I also cannot say with certainty that this entire situation is his fault. It might be, it might not be.

What I can say with certainty is that this will not be the last time New Yorkers complain about a problem that could have been avoided.

It will not be the last time residents are told to lower their expectations and accept dysfunction.

The problem is not the snow, but the city’s Marxist leadership.

Communist and socialist systems tend to fail pretty quickly for many reasons, but one stands above the rest.

These systems do not value or reward competence. They value and reward loyalty and ideology.

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New York Teacher Has a Very Communist Solution for Keeping Businesses in the Big Apple

Let’s see how things are going in the communist utopia of New York, a month after Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor. Nearly two weeks after a massive winter storm hit the Big Apple, mountains of garbage line the still snow-covered streets (but not around Gracie Mansion, of course), and at least a dozen homeless people have frozen to death after Mamdani refused to force them into warming shelters despite the bitter cold. There were also blackouts, which is great when it’s freezing outside.

Oh, and the number of antisemitic incidents in the city has skyrocketed, and Mamdani is siding with criminals who try to kill cops. 

Add to that his advisors, who are racist and oppose private home ownership, plus a progressive tax plan that will seize wealth from New Yorkers, and it’s a recipe for a mass exodus from the city.

But for one commie New York teacher, the solution to stopping businesses and wealthy New Yorkers from leaving the city is just to…seize the business and make it illegal to leave (some of us would call that “imprisonment”).

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Scathing Report Exposes Rashida Tlaib’s Alleged Connections to Terrorist Groups: ‘Serious Concerns’

A bombshell new report from ISGAP Action, a nonpartisan organization focused on combating antisemitism, is putting Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) in a glaring spotlight, accusing the congresswoman of maintaining a disturbing pattern of ties to individuals and organizations linked to U.S.-designated terrorist groups.

Groups such as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Go ahead and color me shocked. RedState readers, of course, will recognize Tlaib as a lawmaker nearly unmatched in her willingness to side with terrorist organizations in nearly every scenario.

The ISGAP briefing details everything, from her campaign shelling out nearly $600,000 to a consulting firm run by an activist with deep connections to terror-aligned networks, to sharing stages with convicted PFLP operatives who’ve praised violent resistance.

“Key areas of concern include her participation in conferences organized by or featuring individuals affiliated with U.S.-designated terror organizations,” they write. “For instance, Tlaib has shared the stage with Wisam Rafeedie, a convicted PFLP operative, and spoken at events where banners of Samidoun (a group designated as a terror proxy by the U.S. government) were prominently displayed.”

“Her comments at these events have included the glorification of ‘martyrs’ and calls for continued resistance, aligning her rhetoric with the ideological framework of jihadist organizations.”

The PFLP is well known for having claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of a 17-year-old girl.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: U.S. Immigration Policy Should Be Guided by Islam and the Prophet Muhammed

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is using his Muslim faith to justify his views on immigration enforcement and wants America to follow suit.

Mamdani held a press conference on Friday to speak about ICE and immigration policy in the United States. As TGP readers know, Madani has vowed not to cooperate with the Trump Administration on getting rid of criminal illegal aliens in the Big Apple.

At one point in the press conference, Mamdani cited Islam to push an open borders agenda. He claimed Islam was built on a narrative of migration and noted that Muhammad was once a stranger too.

Then, he quoted a few sections of the Quran to continue justifying his radical migration stance.

When he finished, the audience erupted into applause.

MAMDANI: I think that freedom from suffering that Buddhism teaches us is only possible if we remove the three poisons of desire, hatred, and ignorance from our daily lives.

We have the power to set ourselves free.

I consider my own faith, Islam, a religion built upon a narrative of migration.

The story of the Hijrah reminds us that Prophet Muhammad was a stranger too, who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina.

(quoting Quran) As for those who immigrate in the cause of Allah who are being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.

Or as the Prophet Muhammad said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers

Mamdani went on to brag about how his administration is coaching illegal aliens on what to do if ICE approaches them.

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Mayor Mamdani Blasted as Tens of Thousands of New Yorkers Still Have No Heat While Garbage Piles Up Around City

New Yorkers have been blasting Mayor Zohran Mamdani for days now as trash piles up and snow removal moves at a snail’s pace.

Even worse, there are still tens of thousands of people in the city with no heat as deadly cold temperatures continue this winter.

It turns out there is more to running a massive city than slogans about taxing the wealthy.

The New York Post reports:

Tens of thousands of New Yorkers left without heat as temperatures drop to 4° — and tenants blast Mamdani for failing to act

New Yorkers placed a staggering 80,000 calls to 311 reporting a lack of residential heat and hot water in January 2026 — the highest monthly total on record — as private and public housing tenants told The Post they were trapped in unlivable conditions and accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of failing to act.

The complaints poured in amid a brutal deep freeze, with tenants across the city reporting days without heat, ice-cold showers and overnight shut-offs as temperatures plunged into the teens.

Alex Hughes, a Williamsburg tenant, said the situation in his building has deteriorated so much that he recently packed his bags and moved into a hotel.

“We’ve had over 40 days of no hot water over the last 11 months. And we’re now on day eight or nine straight of no hot water,” Hughes told The Post. “I had to walk 15 minutes in the snow and ice to a friend’s house so I could shower.”

In Astoria, Nicole Pavez, 31, a city planner for NYC, said the current cold snap has pushed her building’s already unreliable heating system into crisis mode, forcing her to bundle up indoors and dress her dog in sweaters to keep him warm.

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Kamala Harris Continues to Show How Out of Touch She is With New Cringey Rebranding

Try as she might, Kamala Harris is decidedly out of touch with regular Americans. Her inability to connect with regular voters was apparent in the 2024 election, when President Donald Trump beat her handily, even with effusive, copious free press from the legacy media and celebrities.

Despite her electoral drubbing, Harris is trying to rebrand her social media presence, but she has only proved how uncool she actually is.

Harris shared a video on the HQ account she used during the campaign and announced it would now be called headquarters67 in an attempt to co-opt a Gen Alpha meme using ’67.’

The New York Post notes, “Alpha brainrot slang ’67’ that kids sometimes facetiously used when asked a question they’re too lazy to answer properly.

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Looking to Blame Anyone But Israel for Youth’s Anti-Israel Turn

Younger Americans are turning against Israel. “On both the left and the right, young Americans are growing more skeptical of offering unconditional US support to Israel,” Politico (9/29/25) reported. Brookings (8/6/25) ran the headline “Support for Israel Continues to Deteriorate, Especially Among Democrats and Young People.” According to the Forward (11/21/25), “Younger Jews are more than twice as likely to identify as anti-Zionist than the overall population.”

Pro-Israel media are looking for blame. It’s often easy to paint youth opinion that is out of sync with official state policy as emotionally driven social justice warriorism, the result of hearts not yet hardened by life’s cold realities. The Zionist media narrative is looking for the culprits who have apparently miseducated our youth, turning them not just into Israel critics, but Jew haters.

At the Atlantic (12/15/25), Yair Rosenberg wrote a piece headlined “The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am,’” with the subhead, “Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.” To his credit, Rosenberg starts off reporting on very real instances of antisemitism, but then watch carefully what he does in the middle:

Young people also tend to be more critical of Israel than their elders, leading a minority to excuse or even perpetuate anti-Jewish acts in America in the name of Palestine. These critics are likely to consume anti-Israel content on their social-media apps of choice. The platforms then funnel some of those users toward antisemitic material—a sort of algorithmic escalator that ends up radicalizing a percentage of them.

In the first sentence, the only evidence Rosenberg cites is a link to his own article (Atlantic, 5/22/25) about how “Elias Rodriguez allegedly shot and killed two people as they were exiting an event at the Capital Jewish Museum,” with the headline “A Dangerous Disguise for Antisemitism.” Rosenberg said the “assailant used the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.”

But as I have previously written (FAIR.org, 5/29/25), much of the media framed this attack as antisemitic without any factual basis. While there was plenty of evidence that the act was political, with Rodiguez’s manifesto denouncing Israel as a “genocidal apartheid state,” there wasn’t any evidence that the attacker held antisemitic views, or targeted the event because of the faith of the victims. If someone obsessed with Saudi Arabia’s aggression in Yemen killed two Muslim workers at the Saudi embassy, that would certainly be anti-Saudi political violence, but not necessarily anti-Muslim terror.

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