Catholic Bishop Robert Barron is warning Christians to take seriously the implications of far-left socialists who rack up victories in Democrat primaries across the country, most recently in Colorado. The popular preacher and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries didn’t mince words in an X post Monday, a week after self-described socialists scored big wins in New York City by taking out Democrat incumbents. Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists.This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart…— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) June 29, 2026 Barron, the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, said people of faith, in particular, should be paying close attention. “Like many others, I have been alarmed by the success of certain politicians in our country who identify as extreme socialists or communists,” Barron wrote. “This is not a matter of classical liberals triumphing over standard-issue conservatives; this is the victory of people who stand athwart the fundamental principles that undergird our country.” A Socialist Wave in America Barron’s comments came a day before a democratic socialist notched a win in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District. Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old first-time candidate endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, knocked off 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette. Kiros’ win followed victories by DSA-backed candidates in New York City last week. Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Claire Valdez cruised to victory against Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Both were endorsed by socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It’s a pattern that worries Barron, and it’s why he’s urging Christians not to shrug it off as just another swing of the political pendulum. Why Marx Targeted Religion First “There are many reasons why I detest Communism, but I want to draw attention to just one issue of supreme importance,” Barron said. “Karl Marx said that the first critique is the critique of religion. He meant that, before a complete re-working of the politics and economics of a society can take place, religion has to be taken down.” Barron noted Marx’s own reasoning. Religion, in the Marxist framework, isn’t a harmless private practice—it’s an obstacle standing between the revolution and the masses it needs to mobilize. “This is because religion, as he saw it, is the ‘opium of the masses,’ a drug taken to dull our sensitivity to the suffering caused by economic exploitation,” Barron explained. “As long as the suffering populace is lured into complacency by fantasies about God’s providence and the promise of eternal life, they will never rise up and throw off their chains.” Socialism Can’t Tolerate Rivals Barron didn’t stop there. He identified a second, and in his view even more important, reason Marxism has always had religion in its crosshairs. “Communism aspires to be a totalizing system, involving the government’s control over education, entertainment, communication, politics, and especially economics,” Barron wrote. “What stands resolutely athwart this ambition is religion, which declares that all of these societal expressions are finally under the judgment of God. So, if you want Communism to succeed, religion has to be stamped out.” That’s not abstract theology. It’s a pattern Barron says has repeated itself everywhere Marxist movements have taken power. “If you doubt me on any of this, I would encourage you to read the recent histories of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Venezuela,” he said. “Revisit those histories and tell me I’m wrong about the attack on religion.” Kiros’ win in Colorado gives Barron’s warning an immediate, real-world backdrop. She’s part of a growing democratic socialist wave, sweeping establishment Democrats out of office. Despite her anti-Israel views, which are described as antisemitic, she won handily in a congressional district that has the highest percentage of Jewish residents in the state. The Bishop’s Call to Believers None of this is happening on the fringe anymore. The socialist candidates are riding the momentum Mamdani built when he seized City Hall last November. It’s happening in U.S. House races, in the nation’s largest city, on the East Coast and Mountain West. The people cheering these results aren’t running from the socialist label—they’re campaigning on it, openly, with the Democratic Socialists of America’s institutional muscle behind them. There are even Democrats like Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut extending an invitation for socialists to join the party, perhaps without even realizing the radical tenants of the DSA’s platform. That’s precisely the reason Barron is asking Americans to wake up to the reality of the moment. “Might I encourage my fellow believers in God not to be complacent in the face of this very troubling development in the American body politic?” he concluded. It’s a question we should be asking as this socialist movement grows more emboldened. The Democratic Socialists of America don’t just want to elect radical leftists. Their platform calls for dismantling our republic as we know it.That’s why I don’t like comparisons to the Tea Party.Leaders like @BasedMikeLee are fighting to SAVE America—and just as… pic.twitter.com/qwYDWG1xsV— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) July 1, 2026

Neville Roy Singham, a tech tycoon based in China, is facing a federal investigation for alleged financial crimes, Fox News reported Monday. Singham is known for his underwriting of socialist, communist, and Marxist causes. According to Fox News, “the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York.” For years, Roy Singham has abused the generous tax status awarded to tax exempt organizations to fund left wing chaos and violence in our country.It’s about time he is brought to justice and he is held accountable for his ties to the CCP. https://t.co/Cv6YqeaABF— Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) June 29, 2026 The Daily Signal’s Tony Kinnett laid out Singham’s political web during Monday’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast.” “Neville Roy Singham is alleged to have ‘donated’ over $278 million into the American political system through a very, very incredible financial network,” Kinnett explained. There were patterns, such as foundations being established at hotels and a UPS store, as well as the involvement of Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, on the board, plus self-avowed communists. “Neville Singham will directly donate, likely via the Chinese Communist Party,” Kinnett summarized. The DOJ is trying to investigate “just how involved that is to several different shell organizations who then donate to a series of dozens of shell organizations and then funnel that money into activist groups like Code Pink,” which was co-founded by Evans, he further explained. Kinnett used Singham’s words to expose his views on fascism, communism, and democracy. “This fascist lie that the West says that there’s a battle between fascism, democracy, and communism. They make a fake argument that there are three systems,” Singham said last November during the Global South Academic Forum. Referencing Indian author and Marxist Vijay Prashad, who he calls a friend, he declared that “fascism is actually a face of capitalism and imperialism, as is colonialism.” Kinnett also referenced “this particular infrastructure set up by” Singham in light of foreign policy actions from the second Trump administration. “And the response appears to be while China is quietly collapsing in on itself inside continental China, what you’re seeing kind of here on the homeland in the United States is all of these Neville Singham-adjacent and funded apparatuses…  different parts of the infrastructure that Neville Singham has set up politically appears to be getting more motivated, more violent, and all of the masks are coming directly off,” Kinnett shared. Kinnett also referenced elections, on the eve of Colorado’s primary, where a Democrat Socialists of America candidate ultimately unseated a Democrat incumbent. The same happened in New York last week. “Now, if China is truly panicking and all of the kind of apparatus are coming alive at the exact same time, they’re getting all of the momentum out there, in the primary season, there’s a bit of a problem because on the flip side of this is a general population and even a lot of individuals inside the Democratic Party who don’t seem to be ready to make this shift at all,” Kinnett said. He added that “some opportunists” may be “taking a little bit of funding or at least coordinating operations with Neville Singham-backed groups.” Kinnett brought up Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., by name and his American Mobilization PAC, which gave $100,000 last year to Indivisible, which Kinnett emphasized works “closely with Neville Singham’s group.” Murphy downplayed concerns with communists, Marxists, and Islamists having such influence within his party. When asked on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” about “a moment of reckoning for establishment Democrats” following last week’s Democrat Socialists of America wins, the senator claimed instead that it’s a “big tent” party. It was “a total word salad just to suggest that the ultimate plan here, that the big move for the party, for the entire party, is to go all in on essentially cutting off any criticism while moving all in on big tent stuff, which just means funneling as much money into the DSA from individuals like Neville Royce Singham,” Kinnett said in response to Murphy. “Again, this is a grand jury investigation, which means that it is very likely right here and right now things are about to get rather spicy. This is a calm before the storm moment,” he declared.

Vice President JD Vance joined Fox News Anchor Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night to single out Republican senators who are protecting the “dying institutional norms” that are preventing the SAVE America Act from being enacted into law. The voter integrity legislation that has been championed by President Donald Trump is currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives three times, because the Senate refuses to remove the 60-vote threshold rule put in place in order to pass legislation. On the show, the former senator condemned his former Republican colleagues. “The problem that they have with all due respect is that they’re worshipping dying institutional norms,” Vance said, adding that “when the Democrats are in fact bragging that as soon as they get control, they’re going to throw that stuff aside and make it harder for Republicans to even win elections.” Vance then called out Republicans by name, including former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, for opposing the removal of the 60-vote threshold rule. “What some of these Republicans are saying is that they don’t want to give up on the norm of the filibuster, the sacred Senate institutional norm that a few senators are obsessed with including, of course, Mitch McConnell,” Vance said. “The problem, Laura, is that Democrats are saying the minute that they get power the filibuster is going out the door, so unilaterally were submitting and surrendering as Republicans,” he continued, arguing that Democrats are “openly bragging” that they will eliminate the filibuster if they regain the Senate majority. “It’s just handing your enemy a weapon that they’re going to use to strike you down,” Vance stated. Vance concluded his statements on the Senate filibuster rule by calling the Republican effort to avoid abolishing the filibuster “absurd,” hinting that some of these senators should be primaried by Republican voters. VP Vance on Republicans opposed to eliminating the filibuster: "The problem is they're worshipping dying institutional norms when Democrats are bragging that as soon as they get control, they're going to throw that stuff aside… It's handing your enemy a weapon that they're… pic.twitter.com/gYE7HVvJ6c— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 30, 2026 “It’s absurd, it doesn’t make any sense, but that’s why, frankly, we have to get better senators there in the future,” Vance concluded. Recently, senators that have opposed the legislative goals of the president, such as Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., have lost their Republican primaries in 2026 after the president endorsed their opponents.

THE CENTER SQUARE—Georgia’s largest school district has quoted a community activist nearly $40,000 to fulfill a public records request—an estimate a First Amendment attorney calls “crazy high” and potentially out of scope. The price quote came from Gwinnett County Public Schools after Tori Branum, of Dublin, Ga., filed a formal request for personnel records and internal communications concerning the hiring of teacher Nishat Kayum. School district staff wrote that the request would require 856 hours of labor, at $46.22 per hour, to review and redact more than 51,000 records. That amounts to roughly five months of full-time work. Branum is a self-described “anti-Sharia” community activist who often rails on social media against the spread of Islam. She told The Center Square she wanted to know why a suburban high school hired an English language arts teacher who wears a niqab – a Muslim veil covering most of her face. Citing the Georgia Open Records Act, Branum filed her request June 10, a day after Duluth High School posted a welcome message for new teacher Kayum on its Facebook page. An accompanying photo showed Kayum in a hijab and niqab, leaving only her eyes and part of her forehead visible. Branum said she can’t understand how a teacher can teach students when they can’t see her facial expressions or lips moving. “That’s just ludicrous to me,” she said. “I was like, I wonder what her credentials are to teach ELA.” The school district gave Branum part of what she asked for, a digital copy of the teacher’s personnel file, for a cost of just $29. The records show the teacher is properly credentialed, with a bachelor’s degree and certified by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. But the price tag for the balance of her request, for internal communications about the teacher’s hiring, was $39,669. Branum, who lost a Republican primary bid for Georgia’s 12th Congressional District last month, said the fee is designed to make her quit. She said Gwinnett is stonewalling because, for the past six months, she’s been posting against Islam on X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. “I think there’s probably stuff in there that they don’t want me to see, because it could reach a lot of people,” Branum said. 60 Seconds Per Page Georgia law doesn’t allow government officials to withhold records from people whose motivations they disagree with. A written statement emailed by Gwinnett schools spokesman Bernard Watson said, “The district did not increase the price estimate, and the estimate was not influenced in any way by Ms. Branum’s personal views or politics, whatever those are.” Interim Superintendent Al Taylor declined an interview request, and Board of Education Chairwoman Tarece Johnson-Morgan did not respond to phone or email messages. Spokesman Watson said the price estimate was based on the volume of records and the time required to review and redact them. Branum requested “email correspondence and internal memos from Duluth High School administration concerning the hiring, onboarding, or public introduction of this teacher,” during the timeframe of August 2024 to June 10, 2026. A search for emails returned 51,381 items – about 7.8 gigabytes of material, Watson said in an email. The district calculated 60 seconds to review each page. “Gwinnett County Public Schools is required by law to process open records requests based on the exact search terms and parameters submitted by the requester,” Watson said. “The district cannot independently narrow or reinterpret those terms.” A government transparency advocate who reviewed the school system’s response said both the price, and the amount of records Gwinnett says it has to cull through to answer the request, seem out of line. “It seems like a staggeringly high number of documents they’re estimating,” Clare Norins, a board member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation and director of the University of Georgia School of Law’s First Amendment Clinic, told The Center Square. “Obviously, $40,000 is a crazy high amount. Nobody can afford to pay that.” While governments can’t obstruct records over ideological differences, Branum’s price quote highlights other barriers. Georgia’s access law lays out myriad exemptions—such as home addresses, home phone numbers, bank records, medical records, social security numbers, trade secrets, and ongoing investigations—then allows governments to charge by the hour to pore through records page by page to mark out any exempt material. Norins said those 51,000 records are probably way beyond the scope of what Branum requested and many of them are likely duplicates. “Maybe they’re just doing an overly-inclusive search,” Norins said. The school district’s statement said Branum “is welcome to narrow or revise the request.” Demographics of Gwinnett Branum lives in Middle Georgia, about a three-hour drive southeast from Gwinnett County. She said other members of the group she leads, the Georgia Transparency Task Force, live in Gwinnett or close to it, and they’re alarmed to see hardline Islam creeping into public schools. Gwinnett, a suburb of Atlanta, is the state’s most racially and ethnically diverse county and the epicenter of metro Atlanta’s Muslim population, which is the largest in the southeast. The Georgia House district that includes Duluth High School is represented by Democrat Ruwa Romman, the first Palestinian American elected to public office in the state and the first Muslim woman elected to the House. Romman, who wears a hijab, told The Center Square the activist seems to be targeting and “bullying” a young teacher because of how she expresses her religious beliefs, and she understands why the school system wants to avoid accidentally leaking any of her personal information, such as her home address. But Romman also said the district probably should have worked with Branum to narrow her request, before issuing such a huge asking fee. “As somebody who does believe in government transparency, I do think there needs to be some way to be able to both protect this staff member and be transparent about that hiring process,” Romman said. Branum said she’s not bullying anyone but exercising her rights under state law. “It’s not prejudice. We have a right to have transparency,” she said. Niqabs Allowed The Facebook post that prompted Branum’s public records search set off a tempest on social media—so much so that Duluth High School has since taken it down. “The post about Ms. Kayum was removed because, unfortunately, an increasing number of comments on the post contained disparaging language directed at Ms. Kayum and her religion,” the statement from Watson said. The Center Square filed its own records request for Kayum’s school system ID photo. It also shows her face covered by a niqab. Kayum did not respond to an email sent to her school email address, and efforts to reach her by phone were unsuccessful. Asked by email if Kayum will be wearing a face-covering niqab while teaching, Watson responded that Gwinnett schools “currently has no policy prohibiting teachers from wearing the described attire while teaching.”

America’s most radical left-wing movement is no longer content to protest from outside; it is now working to dismantle the republic from within. It would be a grave error to dismiss the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as mere campus radicals or online agitators. In New York City and beyond, the group and its allies have scored primary victories, toppling incumbents and capturing nominations. The DSA wants power, and it is learning how to seize it. That is why its agenda demands scrutiny. In June, as City Journal reported, DSA national leadership adopted a revamped platform titled “Workers Deserve More!” The innocuous name belies a radical program to upend America’s constitutional order. The document calls for scrapping the U.S. Senate, replacing the president and Supreme Court with bodies chosen by and subordinate to Congress, drafting a new constitution, and creating a “democratic socialist republic.” It goes far beyond higher taxes or regulation: it seeks to abolish the separation of powers crafted by the Founders. The DSA is not demanding different policies. It is demanding a different country. The Democratic Socialists of America don’t just want to elect radical leftists. Their platform calls for dismantling our republic as we know it.That’s why I don’t like comparisons to the Tea Party.Leaders like @BasedMikeLee are fighting to SAVE America—and just as… pic.twitter.com/qwYDWG1xsV— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) July 1, 2026 While much attention has focused on the party’s socialism and hostility to Israel, the deeper threat is its hostility to the American republic itself. The platform calls for abolishing the “carceral forces of the capitalist state,” sharply cutting military power, granting amnesty to all illegal immigrants, ending sanctions on rogue regimes, and placing key industries under public ownership. It would effectively erase America’s borders by allowing free migration, demilitarizing the frontier, ending detention and deportations, and granting full voting rights to noncitizens. Taken together, these steps would render American citizenship politically meaningless. Anyone could enter, stay, receive amnesty, and vote, thereby stripping the American people of their sovereign right to shape their nation’s future. That is not democracy; it is the disenfranchisement of citizens. These proposals form a single ideological project: weakening every constitutional safeguard that constrains power and protects Americans from radical rule. The DSA views the Founders’ checks and balances not as bulwarks of liberty but as obstacles to overcome. When institutions stand in the way of the Left’s ambitions, they are branded illegitimate: the courts, the upper chamber of Congress, the police, borders, capitalism, even America’s military. What remains is raw power. America is imperfect, but the DSA mistakes its flaws for its essence. Instead of building on the republic’s strengths, it seeks to uproot them in favor of ideological rule. American Jews have rightly warned about the DSA’s anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Yet the danger extends to every citizen who values ordered liberty, constitutional government, public safety, private enterprise, secure borders, strong defense, or the rule of law. America does not need a new constitution written by those who despise the old one. It needs renewed commitment to liberty under law, limited government, civic responsibility, free enterprise, religious freedom, and human dignity. The DSA calls its platform democratic socialism. Americans should recognize it for what it is: an assault on the republic. And it must be vigorously opposed before these ideas move from the fringes to the mainstream.