Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would seek the death penalty in the case of Elias Rodriguez. On May 21, 2025, Rodriguez is alleged to have opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum, killing Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, apparently without knowledge of their place of employment and attacking them as random attendees of an AJC ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception organized by the American Jewish Committee. ACCESS is a leadership development program for young Jewish professionals in which, per their website, “participants play an active role in AJC’s vital work to combat antisemitism and strengthen Israel’s standing in the world — while building meaningful leadership skills along the way.” Apparently, the attack was, like Anders Breivik’s 2011 attack on the summer camp at Utøya in Norway, an effort to weaken the next generation of the alleged perpetrator’s political enemies. Unsurprisingly, given the popularity among lefties of cheering assassinations, some people supported the double homicide. The hard left pro-Palestine group Unity of Fields (formerly the US branch of Palestine Action) issued a statement calling the murders  “a legitimate act of resistance” and “fully justified.” The DSA’s Liberation Caucus quote-tweeted the statement, adding, “Excellent statement that we are proud to add our name to. Free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners.” For those unfamiliar, DSA has a number of internal caucuses (read: cliques) of varying sizes and ideological stripes. Some of these are associated with outside groups or publications; some are large, and some are fringe. DSA’s Liberation Caucus is actually Maoists. The DSA is a big tent. When the larger DSA balked, condemning the murders, the Liberation Caucus agreed that their position was within the DSA but did not represent the organization. Obviously, that made everything all right. Not only did the DSA take no action against the Liberation Caucus for cheering people being murdered in the street, but its governing National Political Committee (yes, righty meme traffickers: their governing body is in fact called the NPC) voted against removing a member of that caucus who fiercely advocates such murders from its security committee, a situation Stu Peterson wrote up admirably in City Journal. Nothing happened to the caucus, either, but while members can be expelled and chapters closed, there’s no actual mention of caucuses in the DSA bylaws, so short of expelling all their members, it’s hard to deal with them. Which raises the question: if championing murder isn’t enough, what do you have to do to get removed from the DSA, anyway? You can (in theory) be a Zionist. In August 2025, the DSA passed a resolution to become “a fighting anti-zionist organization.” In theory, this meant that, to give specific examples listed in the resolution, saying “Israel has a right to defend itself” or writing op-eds against Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions would be grounds for expulsion from the DSA. In practice, it’s functioning as a chilling effect for however many Zionists there still are in DSA and perhaps a deterrent to too many mainstream liberals coming in; nobody’s gotten the bum’s rush for it yet. You can be insufficiently anti-Zionist. In 2021, Jamaal Bowman let his membership lapse after DSA committees called for his expulsion for voting for additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome. In 2023, the Detroit DSA and Congressman Shri Thanedar disagreed over whether he had resigned from his local chapter or been expelled following his turnaround on Israel (an enlightenment that followed a pro-Israel PAC spending over $4 million against him). You can work for the wrong sort of union. Danny Fetonte was a lifelong union organizer and a member of the DSA’s National Political Committee. What he neglected to mention when he ran for office was that he had worked for a police union. In 2017, this caused a social(ist) media firestorm and an effort to remove him from office. The NPC’s vote did not meet the necessary threshold for expulsion. Fetonte was censured. Amusingly, for those who remember the soundbites of red-baiting Congressional hearings, the NPC’s statement about the affair went on to note that Fetonte “is not, and never has been, a police officer.” Fetonte died of cancer in 2022. You can endorse a sitting governor. In 2023, Massachusetts state representative Mike Connolly left the Boston DSA ahead of a vote on expulsion on grounds that included endorsing officials (including the governor) who were opponents of the DSA’s brand of socialism. (Connolly pointed out there was no issue with this at the time he did it.) Formally, though, whether National or Local, the governing body — the National Political Committee at the national level, the Steering Committee at the local level — needs a two-thirds majority to expel someone. Criteria for expulsion in the national DSA bylaws list “substantial disagreement with the principles or policies of the organization” or consistent “undemocratic, disruptive behavior.” Local chapters may be more specific; DSA-LA, for example, notes in its bylaws that a lengthy misconduct policy may also decide who gets the boot, and both DSA-LA and DSA-East Bay contain language specifically stating that members can be expelled from their chapters for entryism for the benefit of another organization — that is, joining the DSA as part of another group in a subversive effort to gain power; you know, the thing that hard lefties like the DSA do to everyone else, everywhere, and all the time. In March of 2024, DSA-LA informed one member of the Just Break Already caucus that he was being expelled for entryism; in January 2025, Just Break Already stated that a colleague had been expelled from DSA-East Bay. It is unclear whether the same individual was involved in both cases. The irony is that the modern DSA is the product of entryism. It just goes to show you: when some people reach the top, the first thing they do is pull the ladder up after them. No entryism. No undemocratic, disruptive behavior. No substantial disagreement with the principles or policies of the organization. Cheering and advocating murder, on the other hand, is apparently not “substantial disagreement with the principles or policies of the organization.” Which is important to know for those not in the DSA. *** David Hines has a background in forensic science and international human rights, has written for the Federalist and the American Conservative, and loves books. Possibly even yours.

The latest ad for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt is a send-up of the theme song from the 90s sitcom, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” The hit show, which first aired in 1990, followed Will Smith’s character as he moved from the dangerous streets of West Philadelphia to live with his well-off aunt and uncle in their Bel-Air mansion. The new ad followed Pratt on a slightly more political journey. Pratt’s long-shot campaign to unseat Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has seen a dramatic groundswell of support, thanks in part to a number of AI-generated viral ads and a televised debate, and the former reality star posted his latest effort with the caption, “Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down …” Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down pic.twitter.com/Zes4VRdZxX — Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 18, 2026 “…And I had to take a minute to run for mayor, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air,” Pratt said, stepping out of the Airstream trailer that has replaced his Palisades home that burned to the ground in early 2025. “In West Los Angeles, Palisades, in my backyard is where I spent most of my days,” Pratt sang. The graffiti on the fence behind him screamed “THEY LET US BURN!” in reference to the deadly Palisades fire. “Feeding hummingbirds, relaxing all cool, avoiding all the bums outside of the school, when a couple politicians that were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood.” “I got in one little fire, my mom got scared, and said, ‘You’re moving in with Harvey Levin in Bel-Air,'” Pratt continued, name-checking the founder of entertainment site TMZ. “I pulled out from my lot about seven or eight, and I yelled to the rubble, ‘Yo home, smell ya later,'” he added. “I moved to my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as a prince of Bel-Air.” The scene finished with Pratt, sitting on the bumper of his trailer as it was parked outside in front of the Hotel Bel-Air, in another dig at TMZ over a recent hit piece about the former star of MTV’s “The Hills.” The piece had criticized Pratt, who has been vocal about the issues he and others have had getting approvals and permits to rebuild in the Palisades, for living in a hotel instead of the trailer he said he was living in. Pratt pointed out the recent threats against him had made living in the trailer — along with his wife and two young boys — an unacceptable risk. He also reminded everyone that the fire that destroyed his home, in addition to prompting his run for office, was the only reason he wasn’t still living there.

As New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gave an update for his city-owned grocery stores, he surprised the crowd by quoting former President Ronald Reagan. “Standing here this morning, I cannot help but think of the words of our fortieth president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” The socialist mayor said it’s a “good quote,” but added that he disagrees with the message. “I think nine more terrifying words are actually, ‘I worked all day and can’t feed my family,’” he countered.  MAMDANI: “Ronald Reagan…famously said ‘The nine most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help’…I DISAGREE.” pic.twitter.com/cAXqjRz9iI — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 18, 2026 Unlike Reagan, who pushed for a limited government, Mamdani said his new city-owned grocery stores would act as proof of concept for expanded government.  “We are going to use the power of government to lower prices to make it easier for New Yorkers to put food on the table,” he said. “When government understands its purpose as serving the very working people that it has left behind time and again, it can make a difference in the most pressing struggles facing our city today. It’s not just that government can help, it’s that the government must help, and our government will help.” On Monday, Mamdani shared that the first city-owned grocery store is set to open in the Bronx in 2027 at the site of the Spofford Juvenile Detention Facility. He secured $70 million in funding to not only remodel the detention center into a grocery store but to also build four more grocery stores.  Mamdani previously announced that one of the stores would be placed where his favorite mayor opened a store 90 years earlier, the La Marqueta in East Harlem. The second store is expected to open in 2029.  Mamdani praised NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who created a “municipal market” that consolidated independent vendors into a permanent place to sell their goods. The market functioned like a public farmers market rather than a city-owned and stocked supermarket. La Marqueta ultimately saw rapid decline in the 1970s as New York City teetered toward bankruptcy and crime skyrocketed.  While two of the five properties have been selected, Mamdani has put out a casting call for the others. Through an application on the city’s website, property owners can submit their storefronts to be selected to house a public grocery store. It is not clear whether the city would then purchase the property from the landlord or become a tenant.  Once the space is acquired, however, the city will select a third-party operator to run the grocery store, which the Mamdani administration claims has “no plans to turn a profit.” Those who want to run the store will go through a “future request for proposals (RFP) process.” The documents do not disclose who is eligible to apply or how much operational control the city will retain.  While the city has not fully detailed how it will implement the program, officials have already outlined what they expect the results to be. “In these stores, prices will be cheaper. Workers will be paid fairly and treated with dignity. Going to the grocery store will no longer cause that same anxiety for so many New Yorkers,” Mamdani said. After Mamdani won the 2025 mayoral election, The Daily Wire asked a bodega owner about his thoughts on the new grocery stores. The bodega owner questioned the fairness of the city government forcing him to compete against a grocery store not obligated to pay rent or property taxes. 

Monday morning on “The Michael Knowles Show,” host Michael Knowles unveiled the latest addition to his bestselling party game franchise: the Yes or No: America 250 Expansion Pack, a limited-edition release commemorating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Preorders are open now at DailyWire.com/shop. What began as a viral internet show — in which Knowles posed provocative statements to guests and forced them into a binary yes-or-no verdict — has grown into one of the most popular party games in the conservative space. Since its debut, Yes or No: The Game has reached tens of thousands of households, repeatedly selling out and earning a reputation as the game most likely to end a friendship, help a couple discern marriage (which has been confirmed to have happened at least once), or ruin Thanksgiving dinner. The original game shipped with 200 cards and supports up to nine players at once. Knowles himself has called it “the bestselling and most important game at the Daily Wire.” Its success spawned three expansion packs, each tackling a different cultural fault line: The Conspiracy Expansion Pack, which dared players to weigh in on Epstein, the moon landing, and the Denver airport; The Politics, Philosophy, & Religion Expansion Pack, which dragged the dinner table into the deepest waters of human disagreement; And the Dating & Relationships Expansion Pack, which forced players to decide whether watching “adult content” counts as cheating and if “fur-babies” are replacing children. All three expansion packs have sold out multiple times since launch. The America 250 Expansion Pack continues the tradition with more than 120 new cards built around the founding, the future, and the great debates that have animated American life for two and a half centuries. Topics span the Founding Fathers, the Civil War, foreign policy, pop culture, and the ongoing argument over what America actually is — and what it ought to be. A sneak peek at some of the prompts players can expect: Greenland should be the 51st state. Canada is America’s evil top hat. The Salem witch trials didn’t go far enough. America is still a Christian nation. 1776 is a better musical than Hamilton. Truman was right to drop the atomic bombs. The Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The expansion is perfectly aimed at giving families, friend groups, and dinner parties an unusually patriotic excuse to turn on each other. Given the sellout history of every previous Yes or No release, customers are encouraged to preorder now to secure a copy before supply runs out. The Yes or No: America 250 Expansion Pack is available exclusively at DailyWire.com/shop. Yes or No: The Game is required for play and sold separately.

In Kibbutz Be’eri, the air inside a child’s bedroom was still. Behind a small bed, a doll lay where it had fallen. The wall above it was scarred with bullet holes and blood stains. The scene needed no explanation. An Israeli girl had hidden behind her bed as Hamas terrorists rampaged through her home, clutching her doll in the dark and hoping to survive. However, she was found and murdered for nothing more than existing. Credit: Jason Miyares As the father of three teenage daughters, this room left an indelible impact on me during a post-October 7th visit to Israel, and I worry about what it means that the world has largely moved on already. The October 7th massacre revealed how quickly some will rationalize evil when the victims are Jewish. The same hatred that fuels barbaric terror against Jewish civilians in Israel does not stay contained. It spreads, adapts, and rebrands itself globally with new slogans and justifications. Credit: Jason Miyares Here in the United States, antisemitism has reemerged across the political spectrum in recent years. On the far left, it is generally dressed up in ideological language, presenting hostility toward Jews as moral or political virtue, and often merges into the legitimization of Islamist aims. On the far right, it has evolved too, from old nationalist branding into a foreign-amplified “groyper” rhetoric targeted at young men who feel alienated, rootless, and eager for a cause. To comprehend why antisemitism keeps returning, one must realize what it offers — a shortcut around reason. Once hate hardens into a kind of faith, words lose their meaning, and arguments no longer need to make sense. In the aftermath of October 7th, antisemitism moved from the margins to the mainstream. In Virginia, Jewish students were prevented from walking on sidewalks at the University of Virginia. Outside agitators tried to occupy the Virginia Commonwealth University campus. At George Mason, antisemitic threats led to law enforcement intervention. After returning home from my trip to Israel, the first image I saw on TV at the airport was of American students waving Hamas flags and chanting pro-terror slogans. Virginia had a duty to act, and we did so quickly. Our efforts were rooted in an understanding that the fight against contemporary antisemitism requires a multi-faceted strategy, spanning policy, law enforcement, and education, with a focus on concrete steps to prevent violence before it occurs. We prioritized training for law enforcement. Hundreds of Virginia State Police officers have participated in antisemitism awareness seminars, facilitated by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), where they learned to identify and counter extremist threats, resulting in real-world outcomes that have made Virginia’s communities safer. We focused on maintaining order on college campuses. To do so, we met with the general counsels of every public higher education institution in Virginia to help them navigate First Amendment questions while ensuring schools had increased security and resources. Working with law enforcement agencies and university leaders, we proactively prepared for the unrest seen in other states before it arrived in the Commonwealth. We ensured families and students understood their rights, providing clear guidance on how to report and file formal complaints when antisemitic discrimination occurs. For elementary, middle, and high schools, the Task Force developed a new curriculum module about Jewish religion, culture, and history to counter distorted narratives about the Jewish people that frequently circulate among students. In 2025, we became involved in a case where three young Jewish siblings were expelled from their school after their parents complained about antisemitic harassment one child suffered at school. The eventual settlement saw the school agree to implement a new nondiscrimination policy, including adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. Important action was taken against support for foreign terrorist organizations when we initiated a criminal investigation into potential violations of state charitable fundraising laws by Hamas-linked Americans for Muslims in Palestine (AMP). I was also proud to participate in Virginia’s first-ever state-level summit against antisemitism, organized by CAM in June 2024. Reflecting on my term as attorney general, I remember that child’s room in Be’eri and the abandoned doll. It strengthens my resolve to refuse the world’s excuses and insist on better. As Virginians and as Americans, we should be clear-eyed about what antisemitism is, honest about how it proliferates, and unafraid to counter it wherever it appears. That is what this moment in history calls for. *** Jason S. Miyares served as Attorney General of Virginia (2022-2026) and is now a member of the U.S. Advisory Board of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM).