In January 2024, Rep. Don Davis (D., N.C.) traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas, for a one-day tour of the southern border. He appears to have spent over $2,300 on taxis or ride shares on a trip that cost taxpayers nearly $10,000 in total. On Jan. 5, 2024—the same…
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‘The Perfect Partner’: Meet the Left-Wing PR Firm That Works With George Soros To Elect Progressive Prosecutors
When George Soros spends millions of dollars to elect soft-on-crime prosecutors in many of the United States’ biggest cities, much of that money ends up in the hands of a single Manhattan-based communications firm that’s boosted prosecutors’ campaigns. Campaign finance records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show…
Zohran Mamdani’s Wife Provided Illustration for Essay by Author Who Called Oct 7 ‘Spectacular’ and Attacked ‘Jewish Supremacist Vampires’
Rama Duwaji, the first lady of New York City, provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack “spectacular,” has frequently decried what she describes as “Jewish supremacist vampires,” and said Jewish Israelis are “rootless soulless ghouls.” Duwaji, wife of…
Union Theological Seminary Pushes Event Featuring ‘Activist-Scholar’ Off Campus In Wake of Free Beacon Report
Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia University affiliate, said an event featuring Mohamed Abdou—a self-described “activist-scholar” who was banned from teaching at Columbia—could not proceed on its premises in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report on that event. “Authorization for this event was initially obtained through the withholding…
UC Berkeley Allows SJP Chapter To Display Symbol Hamas Uses To Mark Israeli Targets
The University of California, Berkeley, is allowing its Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter to include an inverted red triangle—a symbol Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets—in its logo. The image is displayed on an official university webpage for the group and is permitted to appear at…
GOP Candidate for Arkansas Secretary of State Assailed Arkansas’s GOP Governor and Praised Outspoken Trump Critic Thomas Massie
One of two Arkansas Republicans vying to be the party’s nominee for secretary of state has a social media feed littered with attacks on Republican officials—including the state’s governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders—and praise for one of the president’s foes, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie. In response to a February…
Arizona’s Public Universities Require Honors Students To Study Far-Left Material, Including the ‘Relationship Between the White Female Gaze and the Eroticized Black Male Body’
The honors colleges at Arizona’s largest public universities have been “hijacked by activist faculty and turned into taxpayer-funded vehicles for leftwing groupthink,” according to an Arizona think tank report shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon, which found that over 70 percent of mandatory first-year seminars for Arizona…
Inside the Left-Wing Operation to ‘Train’ Judges About Climate Change: Free Trips to Napa Valley, Palm Beach, and Hawaii Fuel a Secret Judge Recruitment Operation
A dark money group of left-wing environmental activists has been quietly “training” judges overseeing climate-related lawsuits, hosting them at multi-day, all-expenses-paid seminars in locales like Napa Valley and Palm Beach. Judges who attend these luxury retreats—where they are subject to indoctrination—are not required to report them in ethics…
Mamdani Dines With Anti-Israel Radical Whose Group Called for ‘Death to America’
Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D., N.Y.) broke bread Sunday night with an anti-Israel radical who said “we couldn’t avoid” Oct. 7, whose group called for “death to America,” and whom the Trump administration has long attempted to deport. Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-terrorist protests at Columbia University…
‘Decolonial Organizing Lessons from Gaza’s Warrior Mujahideen’: Union Theological Seminary, A Columbia Affiliate, To Host Talk From ‘Activist-Scholar’ Banned By Columbia for Endorsing Hamas
Columbia University banned the self-styled “North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies,” Mohamed Abdou, from teaching at the school over his public support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Now Abdou is set to deliver a talk on “decolonial organizing lessons from Gaza’s…