The results of New York City s Democratic Primary election should serve as a wake-up call to every American who values free enterprise, private property, limited government, law and order, and the constitutional principles upon which our republic was founded. What was once dismissed as a fringe ideology is increasingly becoming the dominant force within the Democratic Party and America s urban centers.
00:00:39.320The results of New York City's June 23rd Democrat primary election should serve as a wake-up call
00:00:46.560to every American who values free enterprise, private property, limited government, law and order,
00:00:54.400and the constitutional principles upon which our republic was founded.
00:00:58.300What happened in New York was not merely a local political story.
00:01:03.380It was a glimpse into a larger ideological battle that is unfolding across the United States.
00:01:10.180The old Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman, the Democrat Party that believed in free enterprise, capitalism, a strong national defense, patriotism, that party no longer exists.
00:01:23.800The candidates to emerge victorious represented a movement that seeks to fundamentally transform the relationship between the citizen and the state, between private property and government power, and between individual liberty and collective control.
00:01:39.720The biggest story of the night, of course, was the stunning success of candidates backed by New York City's socialist mayor Zoran Mamdami and the Democrat Socialists of America.
00:01:51.340In New York's 13th Congressional District, Darius Liza Avila-Chevalier defeated five-term Congresswoman Adriana S. Piatt in what many observers described as the political upset of the evening.
00:02:09.980In New York's 7th Congressional District, Democrat Socialist Claire Valdez captured the nomination for an open Congressional seat.
00:02:17.520In New York's 10th congressional district, former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who had actually run for mayor against Mamdami and then sidled up to the socialists, aligning himself closely with them, actually defeated Dan Goldman.
00:02:33.960Dan Goldman signed to the Levi Streis fortune, one of the most liberal members of Congress.
00:02:41.320When Dan Goldman is in trouble from the left, well, Chuck Schumer should be shaking in his boots.
00:02:48.160Although Lander is not formally a member of the Democrat Social America, all three of those candidates embraced by the same political movement campaigned as part of a coordinated effort to push New York's Democratic Party even further to the left.
00:03:03.400Victory celebrations reportedly featured chants of DSA, DSA, that's Democrat Socialists of America, as activists celebrated what they viewed as a major breakthrough for their movement.
00:03:16.460The most enjoyable part of the evening, of course, was when George Conway, formerly a member of the Conservative Federalist Society, then a full-blown never-Trumper, spent $6 million of his own money in the 12th Congressional District, that is the district of the retiring Jerry Nadler, probably the most liberal district in the United States, in order to come in fifth.
00:03:43.580He spent $6 million to get 6% of the vote and approximately 6,000 votes
00:03:51.220That means that George Conway spent about $1 million per vote received
00:03:57.260It was Conway, of course, who engineered the change in New York State law
00:04:01.680In which the statute of limitations for sexual assault was extended
00:04:13.020Little did Conway know that he would also catch former Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo in similar lawsuits.
00:04:23.940This was a stunning rebuke for George Conway, kind of the highlight of the evening for me.
00:04:31.120These victories matter because they represent far more than routine Democrat primary contests.
00:04:36.480They signal the growing influence of an organized socialist movement that is rapidly consolidated in power with one of America's largest cities and now seeks to export that influence, as we saw recently with the selection of a socialist mayor in Washington, D.C.
00:04:55.340What was once dismissed as a fringe ideology is increasingly becoming the dominant force within the Democrat Party and America's urban centers.
00:05:06.100Many Americans have comforted themselves with the belief that socialism could never actually gain meaningful traction in the United States.
00:05:13.260We were told that Americans were too independent, too entrepreneurial, too devoted to constitutional liberty, too smart to embrace an ideology that has repeatedly failed wherever it has been implemented.
00:05:27.060Yet the victories of these Democrat-Socialist-packed candidates demonstrate that socialism is no longer confined to college campuses, activist organizations, and academic departments.
00:05:38.880It is now finding its way into Congress itself.
00:05:42.240Unfortunately, younger Americans have been taught a version of history
00:05:46.740that bears very little resemblance to reality.
00:05:50.340They hear the word socialism and they imagine fairness, compassion, and economic justice.
00:05:56.860They rarely hear about the millions who suffered under socialist and communist regimes.
00:06:01.720They're taught about the promises but not the consequences.
00:06:05.520They're encouraged to view free enterprise as exploitive
00:06:08.320while being shielded from the historical record of economic collapse, political repression, censorship, human misery, and suffering
00:06:17.260that has accompanied activist experiments throughout the 20th century.
00:06:21.400The truth is that socialism and communism are not identical, but history demonstrates that socialism often serves as the gateway
00:06:29.680to which nations move towards greater concentrations of government power and ultimately Marxism.
00:06:36.140The central premise of socialism that government should exercise, increasing control over economic life in order to produce desired social outcomes.
00:06:46.520Once government assumes that role, it inevitably seeks more authority, more regulation, more taxation, and more control of your everyday life.
00:06:56.260Individual liberty becomes subordinate to political objectives.
00:06:59.920The state grows while personal freedom contracts.
00:07:02.620Essentially, socialism is a one-way ticket to communism.
00:08:20.260Citizens become increasingly dependent upon political institutions for needs once met by families, churches, communities, charities, and private enterprise.
00:08:31.300That's why the current generation must understand that the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy bears very little resemblance to the Democrat Party of today, which is increasingly influenced by these socialist activists
00:08:44.180John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy were fierce anti-communists
00:08:48.900John Kennedy believed in American exceptionalism
00:08:51.980He advocated tax cuts to stimulate economic growth
00:08:55.360He projected strength abroad and understood the importance of national sovereignty
00:09:00.480He called in his 1960 campaign for a big national defense buildup, claiming that America had a missile gap with the Russians.
00:09:10.180His famous call for Americans to ask not what they could do for themselves, what they could do for their country,
00:09:16.940reflected a philosophy of responsibility and citizenship that stands in stark contrast to today's politics of grievance, dependency, and identity-based division.
00:09:28.460Now, many younger voters have never been taught this history. They're led to believe that modern progressive politics is simply the natural continuation of a great democratic tradition. But nothing could be further from the truth.
00:09:42.460The ideological distance between JFK and the democratic social of America is enormous. Kennedy confronted communism. Today's socialist activists confront and actually frequently embrace communism.
00:10:29.020The city has increasingly become a laboratory for radical experiments,
00:10:32.680criminal justice, housing policy, immigration policy, and economic regulation.
00:10:38.600The congressional victories celebrated by socialist activists
00:10:41.580represent an effort to export those policies nationwide.
00:10:46.220Equally troubling is the broader political climate that has emerged in New York City.
00:10:50.860New York is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel,
00:10:54.660Yet recent years have witnessed growing hostility towards Israel, increasing anti-Semitic incidents, and political rhetoric that would have been considered unacceptable just a few years ago.
00:11:06.840Many Jewish New Yorkers who went through the city as a refuge now express growing concern about the direction of its political culture and their safety in it.
00:11:17.300Supporters of the socialist movement argue that they are responding to legitimate concerns
00:11:21.880about housing costs, inflation, health care expenses, and economic inequality.
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00:13:23.680You know, by tradition, Republican presidents have not taken positions in party primaries.
00:13:29.100Neither President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, or either George H.W. Bush or his son George W. Bush ever took a position pre-primary in any federal contest.
00:13:40.940Donald Trump has been very different in that regard.
00:13:44.520Ronald Reagan was extraordinarily popular.
00:13:47.720I do remember one incident in New Jersey in which two Republican members through redistricting were thrown into the same district.
00:13:55.920Reagan did endorse the winner, Jim Corder.
00:13:58.780But I can't think of any other instance.
00:14:00.780But Donald Trump has been quite different.
00:14:03.320And his endorsement packs an incredible political wallop.
00:14:07.820We saw it in Oklahoma only days ago, where a candidate, Mike Mazie, who started at 2% of the polls,
00:14:15.480soared ahead of the state attorney general to make the runoff in that state, which will be held in August.
00:14:21.220And in Tuesday's Republican primaries, Trump delivered two major victories for MAGA candidates.
00:14:27.720Another sign, the Republican Party is now the party that regularly puts conservative fighters into positions of authority.
00:14:35.020In South Carolina, Attorney General Allen Wilson, a very good friend of mine, won the Republican nomination for governor, defeating Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evitt in a runoff by a wide margin.
00:14:46.580Wilson built a broad conservative coalition, winning support from lawmakers across the party, including hardline conservatives and more traditional establishment Republicans.
00:14:56.440President Trump also endorsed Wilson in the final stretch, as did Senator Tim Scott, following with his support.
00:15:04.280Wilson now heads into the general election as the heavy favorite in what has become a reliably Republican state, South Carolina.
00:15:11.260His message focused on safer communities, affordability, and accountable government.
00:15:16.960As Attorney General, Wilson was influential in efforts to overturn the stolen results of the 2020 presidential election.
00:15:24.960Wilson's not afraid to put his neck out there and do what's right, and he's precisely the type of leader that South Carolina needs.
00:15:32.000But in New York's 21st Congressional District, pro-Trump businessman Anthony Constantino, you remember him.
00:15:38.580He's the guy who put the vote for Trump sign on top of his factory in Amsterdam, New York.
00:15:43.940Local Democrats flipped out, tried to put him in jail, wanted to fine him $1,000 per day, won the Republican primary to replace Elise Stefanik by almost 20 points.
00:15:54.640Constantino, the chief executive officer of Sticker Mule, an online printing company, defeated establishment back to Sembleman Robert Smullen, who had the endorsement of the New York Republican Party, as well as most of the incumbent Republican members of the House from New York, with the notable exception of Elise Stefanik, who endorsed Constantino upon his victory.
00:16:18.160Trump endorsed Constantino with a video in the closing hours of that campaign because Constantino became known in the district because of the efforts to put the sign on his factory and his refusal to back down.
00:16:34.620Constantino now goes into that contest as a prohibitive favorite, but there is an open political question.
00:16:41.240Assemblyman Smullin continues on the conservative party line,
00:16:46.220but Constantino petitioned on a fourth party, the taxpayers' party.
00:16:51.960Constantino, by my recognition, spent about $6 million of his own money
00:17:00.120As a self-funding candidate, he would not have to kowtow to any special interest.
00:17:05.860In other words, the only constituency he would answer to, not the lobbyists, not big defense, not big pharma, not big agriculture, but the people of his district.
00:17:18.260And therefore, he had one of the greatest campaign slogans of all time, Anthony Constantino, nobody's man but yours.
00:17:25.820We'll see what New York State Conservative Party leaders do.
00:17:28.700A three-way race could tip this seat to the Democrats, which would be a tragedy.
00:17:34.060I'm Roger Stone. When we come back, Senator Bernie Marino, who was sent to Colombia as an observer for their stunning election, joins me to talk about how that country has elected a pro-American, anti-narco-tourist, pro-law and order president.
00:18:09.920The Justice Department is vowing to continue its crackdown on Antifa terrorism
00:18:14.400after eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell
00:18:18.120were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in federal prison
00:18:22.960for the July 2025 attack on an ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas.
00:18:27.980This marks the first federal case in history in which Antifa members are convicted of terrorism offenses.
00:18:38.880Prosecutors say the group arrived at the facility on July 4th dressed in black block gear with faces covered and began launching explosives and vandalizing government property.
00:18:50.580They carried 11 firearms, body armor, military-grade medical kits, and Faraday bags to block cell phone tracking.
00:18:58.740The ringleader, Benjamin Hanil Song, was sentenced to 100 years.
00:19:03.720Prosecutors say he recruited and trained members, supplied firearms, and shot an Alvarado police officer in the neck when law enforcement responded.
00:19:13.520We are waiting for, hopefully, Senator Bernie Marino.
00:19:18.360He is giving a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
00:19:21.860Hopefully he will join us momentarily.
00:19:24.900We asked him to join us because he was sent to Colombia as a neutral observer for the elections there.
00:20:55.240So you were sent to Colombia to be a neutral observer of the election there.
00:20:59.840A very, I think, apt appointment because you yourself were born in Bogota,
00:21:04.980Moved to the United States with your family at age five, became an American citizen at age 18.
00:21:11.060You are emblematic of the America's success story, having built a major business career before devoting yourself to public service.
00:21:20.740Proud to say that I was a strong supporter of both of your Senate campaigns and you have not let me down, not in the slightest.
00:21:27.880So I'm proud to be among your many supporters. But it does kind of, well, I'm pleased about this movement across Central and South America. You see it in Chile. You see it in Peru. You see it in Honduras. You see it across the board. Now you see it in Colombia.
00:21:47.220But the current president, Gustavo Petro, has been whining about what I think is non-existent fraud.
00:25:39.900So I'm hoping, Roger, that Senator Ron Johnson's committee, the permanent subcommittee of investigations, will bring the people from Colombia that ran the elections.
00:25:49.160and subpoena Gavin Newsom and have him sit there and make these arguments.
00:28:56.780I mean, when I was growing up, the Democrat Party believed in free enterprise.
00:29:01.400believed in capitalism believed in a strong national defense believed in patriotism believed
00:29:07.840in god yeah they wanted to spend a bit more for taxes they wanted to spend a bit more for public
00:29:14.140spending but they fundamentally were patriotic americans who loved their country that democrat
00:29:19.420party the party of jfk the party of harry truman by the way the founder of the state of israel
00:29:25.200That party just literally no longer exists.
00:29:29.180The term moderate Democrat is an oxymoron.
00:29:33.760As I said earlier in the show, believe me, Chuck Schumer sees the handwriting on the wall.
00:29:40.000When your colleague in the House, Dan Goldman, one of the most liberal members of Congress, gets defeated by socialists because he's too conservative.
00:29:49.960That tells you a great deal about where that party is headed.
00:29:52.500I mean, yeah, Robert, you've been at this your whole life, politics, and you think about Graham Plattner in Maine, Abdullasea in Michigan, James Tallarico in Texas.
00:30:03.960These would be fantasy candidates from you for you 10 years ago.
00:30:07.460Because you'd say, my God, we'll get 98% of the vote.
00:33:42.620We ended up stronger, more unified as a result.
00:33:45.200And the ones who are a mess is the Democrats.
00:33:47.420Look, every single Democrat Senate candidate is running on the premise that they will not vote for Chuck Schumer to be minority leader or majority leader.
00:33:55.080Whereas in our case, we're fully behind President Trump.
00:36:19.720He cares about his country. And he's right. I think he's been very clever to connect the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which I personally were in the Senate. I wouldn't vote to renew, but that's me, to the Save America Act.
00:36:38.680This has been a brilliant, brilliant maneuver.
00:36:42.800It has to be, I don't know, it has to be exciting just to be in the room with him.
00:36:46.760I've traveled with him. I've known him for 50 years.
00:36:52.640And I think it is an honor for both of us to serve in his movement, to serve in the America First movement.
00:37:00.380And I commend you for the job you did in Colombia, ensuring that they had a fair, honest election.
00:37:07.440I want to thank my guest, Senator Bernie Marino. He's a real comer in the U.S. Senate for joining us today. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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