SOCIALISM WINS UPTOWN! Darializa Avila Chevalier will be the first Afro-Latina to represent NY-13. We can’t wait to see how @DarializaforNY fights to abolish ICE, end the genocide in Gaza, and fight for working class people every day. pic.twitter.com/MqUuPydZru
— NYC-DSA 🌹 (@nycDSA) June 24, 2026
‘Democratic Socialist’ candidates won in New York in yesterday’s elections:
Far-left surge: Mamdani-backed candidates oust Dem establishment incumbents
June 24, 2026
New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani did it again.
One year after sending political shock waves across the country with his New York City Democratic primary victory on his way to winning election as mayor of the nation’s most populous city, Mamdani tested the limits of his political powers.
And he easily passed the test, upending the Democratic Party establishment as a trio of Mamdani-endorsed far-left congressional candidates won their primaries over more moderate incumbents and rivals.
Mamdani was the biggest winner on Tuesday, but President Donald Trump also covered his bases, as New York, Maryland, Utah and South Carolina held primaries and runoff elections.
Democrats lurching left
The mayor’s most shocking victory came in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where Mamdani-backed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, narrowly topped incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat, the 71-year-old Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair and the first Dominican American elected to the U.S. House.
Espaillat, who has been in Congress for a decade, was supported by a slew of party leaders, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Chevalier’s reported, past and now deleted, social media jabs at former Presidents Barack Obama, whom she called “evil,” and Joe Biden, whom she labeled a “war criminal,” along with her previous support to abolish the police and get rid of prisons, grabbed plenty of attention in recent weeks. …
In the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mamdani-endorsed state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, who is also aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso by double digits. Reynoso, who was supported by Velazquez, was downed by more than 20 points.
“Tonight, we haven’t just won an election. We have declared that this movement is durable — that it is growing, and that it will not stop until working people are no longer asked to just build the table, no longer just offered a seat at the table, but will run the table,” Valdez said in declaring victory.
And a third Mamdani-backed congressional candidate, progressive Brad Lander, crushed incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman.
This socialist surge is greatly affecting the Democratic party.
US President Donald Trump made some anti-communist comments seemingly tied to the election results:
Trump: America ‘Will Never Be a Communist Country’
June 24, 2026
President Donald Trump blasted communism in a pair of Truth Social posts late Tuesday and early Wednesday, warning that left-wing candidates are gaining ground in Democrat-run states while simultaneously vowing America will never embrace communist rule.
The posts echoed a theme Trump has championed for years:The United States must reject socialism and communism and preserve the nation’s founding principles of freedom and free enterprise.
Late Tuesday, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Many Communists running in badly failing Blue States. The votes seem to have them doing quite well against each other. The bad news is that history has conclusively shown that the downtrodden States that they will soon be running will ONLY GET WORSE. MAGA!”
Trump did not identify specific candidates in the post, but his comments came amid a series of high-profile races featuring progressive and leftist candidates in heavily Democrat-controlled states and cities. …
Trump returned to the issue early Wednesday with an even more direct message about the future of the United States.
“America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. …
Trump’s anti-communist message has often found support among voters who escaped communist regimes, particularly Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans, many of whom view socialism and communism through the lens of their families’ experiences abroad. https://www.newsmax.com/us/donald-trump-communism-blue-states/2026/06/24/id/1260711/
Related to communism and socialism, in 1956 the late Herbert W. Armstrong asserted:
I have pointed out that the difference between Nazism and Communism is simply that one is national socialism the other international socialism. The term “Nazi” is merely a contraction of the two words “national socialism.” On the other hand what the Communists have set up is called the “UNION of Soviet Socialist Republics.” The Kremlin fosters international socialism, while Tito stands for NATIONAL socialism. That just about makes Tito a NAZI! (https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getbklet&InfoID=1325346356&SearchWhat=KeyWord&SearchFor=solomon%20%27%20s%20wisdom&NoShow=&page=135&return=search)
The USA itself is becoming more and more divided.
Donald Trump, himself, is quite a polarizing figure.
The move towards ‘Democratic Socialists’ is partly related to him, but is also part of a trend that began to hit the Democratic party many years ago. Some in that party are calling them parasites:
Democratic strategist calls socialist candidates ‘parasites’ who could ‘set the party back decades’
June 23,, 2026
Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa accused Democratic socialist candidates and politicians like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of being “parasites” who leech off and could kill the political party.
DeRosa made the comment on “Special Report with Bret Baier” …
“They are not Democrats; they are socialists, and they are parasites,” the former Andrew Cuomo chief of staff said. “They cannot win on their own by creating their own party, so they are going to latch onto the Democratic Party and feed off of it, with the overall goal of taking it over and killing it.”
She continued, “So that’s what the [Democratic Socialists of America] is doing. They started this in 2016 with Bernie and Hillary. [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] then gets elected in 2018. You see the introduction of the ‘Squad’ and what’s been happening since then. This year, they do feel like it’s their big opportunity. They are going for broke. You don’t see them trying to win purple or red seats. You see them trying to pick off Democrats in safe blue seats.”
DeRosa pointed to Chevalier’s campaign as an example. She remarked that Chevalier is challenging New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair who has a “100% voting record with the Democratic Party.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/democratic-strategist-calls-socialist-candidates-parasites-who-could-set-party-back-decades
Yes, the Democratic Socialists are not like traditional Democrats. The parasite comments reminded me of something that Jude wrote:
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. (Jude 3-19)
So, it is not just political people that pretend and infiltrate.
A major reason there are Greco-Roman Catholics as well as Protestants is because they do NOT “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” That is documented in the following free eBooks Beliefs of the Original Catholic Church: Could a remnant group have continuing apostolic succession? and Hope of Salvation: How the Continuing Church of God Differs from Protestantism.
Jesus referred to those what appeared to be true followers, but were not, as tares:
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.”‘” (Matthew 13:24-30)
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”
37 He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matthew 13:36-43)
Hopefully, you have ears to hear and will contend earnestly for the true and original faith–do not be deceived by those who have parted from THE WAY (see also What was the Parting from the Way?).
That said, in the USA both the politically left and the politically right are moving farther apart.
Jesus warned:
25 … Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. (Matthew 12:25)
24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. (Mark 3:24-25)
17 … Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. (Luke 11:17)
Notice that God inspired this to be written three times in the Gospels.
God normally seems to repeat something in scripture for emphasis.
The division is a BIG DEAL. It will not end well for the USA (see also Isaiah 10:5-11; Daniel 11:39; Habakkuk 2:6-8).
Several items of possibly related interest may include:
Should a Christian Vote? This article gives some of the Biblical rationale on this subject. Would Jesus vote for president/prime minister? Is voting in the Bible? This is a subject Christians need to understand. A video of related interest is available titled: Should Christians Vote? Another video is Biden, Trump, and the Bible.
Did The Early Church Teach Millenarianism? Was the millennium (sometimes called chiliasm) taught by early Christians? Who condemned it? Will Jesus literally reign for 1000 years on the earth? Is this time near? Three related sermons are available Let’s Talk About the Earthly Millennium, Millennial Utopia, and The Millennium.
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God This free online pdf booklet has answers many questions people have about the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and explains why it is the solution to the issues the world is facing. It is available in numerous languages at ccog.org. Here are links to four kingdom-related sermons: The Fantastic Gospel of the Kingdom of God!, The World’s False Gospel, The Gospel of the Kingdom: From the New and Old Testaments, and The Kingdom of God is the Solution.
Christian Repentance Do you know what repentance is? Is it really necessary for salvation? Will certain English-speaking nations that refuse to repent be destroyed? Two related sermons about this are also available: Real Repentance and Real Christian Repentance.
About Baptism Should you be baptized? Could baptism be necessary for salvation? What about “the thief on the cross’? Who should baptize and how should it be done? Here are links to two related sermons: Let’s Talk About Baptism and Baptism, Infants, Fire, & the Second Death.
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Donald Trump in Prophecy Prophecy, Donald Trump? Are there prophecies that Donald Trump may fulfill? Are there any prophecies that he has already helped fulfill? Is a Donald Trump presidency proving to be apocalyptic? Three related videos are available: Donald: ‘Trump of God’ or Apocalyptic? and Donald Trump’s Prophetic Presidency and Donald Trump and Unintended Consequences.
Unintended Consequences and Donald Trump’s Presidency: Is Donald Trump Fulfilling Biblical, Islamic, Greco-Roman Catholic, Buddhist, and other America-Related Prophecies? Is Donald Trump going to save the USA or are there going to be many disastrous unintended consequences of his statements and policies? What will happen? This is a free eBook.
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about the peoples of Africa, Asia, South America, and the islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNA; Lost tribes, prophecies, and identifications; 11 Tribes, 144,000, and Multitudes; Israel, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British Royalty; Gentile European Beast; Royal Succession, Samaria, and Prophecies; Asia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon; When Will the End of the Age Come?; Rise of the Prophesied King of the North; Christian Persecution from the Beast; WWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.