Former Democratic lawmaker Cori Bush posed during a campaign event alongside a communist streamer who once said he would “execute” a political rival and suggested that landlords should be shot. Bush, running to win back the St. Louis-area congressional seat she lost in 2024, posted a picture last week with Christopher Winston, a self-described Maoist streamer who goes by the name “BlackRedGuard.” Winston has a history of violent rhetoric and has argued the United States needs to be overthrown through revolution. The photo, flagged by Manhattan Institute investigative reporter Stu Smith, shows Bush meeting with members of the St. Louis Democratic Socialists of America on July 8. Winston can be seen standing next to Bush with a shirt reading “armed minorities.” Sharing the photo, Winston said “comrades.” “I’m so proud to have DSA by my side, united in our fight against price gouging, big real estate, and billionaires influencing our politics,” she said. I’m so proud to have DSA by my side, united in our fight against price gouging, big real estate, and billionaires influencing our politics. Let’s win this on August 4th! pic.twitter.com/0ZMAEpaRCx — Cori Bush (@CoriBush) July 8, 2026 Bush, a former member of the far-Left “Squad,” is seeking to unseat incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell (D-MO), a St. Louis County prosecutor who defeated her in the August 2024 Democratic primary. Her campaign is backed by Winston, a member of the radical Democratic Socialists of America Liberation Caucus with a long history of violent rhetoric. During a stream in March 2024, Winston said that “we’re going to execute you after the revolution” in response to a video leftist activist Shaun King made discussing fraud accusations. Winston said that he hoped that cancer “eats” King’s “a**hole out” and called him an “albino snake.” In other appearances, Winston argued that “burning a Waymo is not political violence” and argued that landlords should be greeted by “a strongly worded letter in the form of a very hot piece of metal.” Christopher “We’re going to execute you after the revolution” Winston, aka BlackRedGuard, is standing next to Cori Bush in this recent campaign photo. Watch this compilation of his insane comments. His landlord may want to hear what he says at the end.pic.twitter.com/XANkJXjDUM https://t.co/Z96QKeKC2u — Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) July 14, 2026 The Daily Wire reached out to Bush to ask if she agreed with Winston, who has made numerous posts supporting her campaign. In response, her campaign sent a link to a Fox News article of the View co-host Joy Behar defending democratic socialism, saying the clip should “clear up any questions about the DSA.” Winston, who has over 22,000 subscribers on YouTube, wrote a book called “Blood Red River: Writings of A Black Maoist in Saint Louis Post 2014.” The book’s description says that it “demonstrates how youth come to Communism through bitter experience and disappointment with reformism and other non-revolutionary paths for change.” In other statements, Winston pledged to seize homes from landowners and argued that “the ultimate form of international solidarity is to make revolution in the United States.” “Communists don’t want to take away your house. We’ll cancel your mortgage. You can have one house, not a dozen. Excess properties will be taken from landlords and distributed to actual families to live in,” he said in one recent post. Efforts by some within the DSA organization to keep Winston off of a commission set to train “unarmed community defense” failed earlier this year, the Manhattan Institute reported. Like other leftist candidates across the country, Bush has made a central focus of her campaign “solidarity with the Palestinian people” and attacking the more pro-Israel stance taken by Bell. Her campaign is backed by a cadre of radical groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) PAC, the Democratic Socialists of America, and Abortion Action Missouri.