Democrats Discover That Their Socialism Is Turning Off Hispanic Voters

By William Teach September 4, 2026 – 10:30 am

Just Hispanic? Of course, Democrats like to put everyone in a box

Democrats worry rising socialism turning off Hispanic voters

Democrats have been trying to regain lost ground with Hispanic voters since the bruising 2024 election.

But as they attempt to win back voters who migrated to the GOP, Democrats are also gripping with the rise of democratic socialism within their own party — a movement they see as a turnoff to some Hispanic voters, particularly the older set who hail from nations like Cuba and Venezuela.

Democratic strategists say while they may prevail in the midterms, they worry that the socialism label will take hold in the 2028 presidential election if centrists in their party don’t sound the alarm.

“Socialism is a nonstarter in places like Florida, where there are big swaths of Hispanic voters,” said one Democratic strategist in the state. “The word in and of itself is toxic.” (snip)

Polling shows that democratic socialism has yet to gain traction among Hispanic Democrats.

A Pew Research Center survey released earlier this year found that just 20 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning Hispanic voters viewed political leaders who identify as democratic socialists favorably — compared with 21 percent of Black Democrats, 30 percent of Asian Democrats and 40 percent of white voters in their party.

What’s not to like?

  • Abolishing the U.S. Senate. (nah, let’s just repeal the 17th)
  • Expanding the House of Representatives to an unspecified number (I actually think it should be at least tripled, since each rep right now represents over 700K, meaning there really is no representation)
  • Abolishing the Electoral College and having Congress elect the president and Supreme Court (meaning all leftists)
  • Ridding the system of lobbyists and “dark money” (which is a 1st Amendment violation. And the left takes tons of dark money)
  • “End Mass Incarceration and Police Immunity:” (they mean to end jails and police)
  • Reparations
  • “Feminism for All:” (yeah, this is a much longer bit of insanity)
  • Support for Hamas
  • Don’t forget how many are Muslims, and support hardcore Islamic extremism. And then non-Muslims are wackjobs who support Islamism, hate Israel, hate Jews
  • Defund America’s military, you know, the thing mentioned specifically in the Constitution
  • Support for Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela’s hard left authoritarian deposed regime
  • “You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.” (your landlord is the Government, so, you best Comply with their beliefs)
  • Government controlling your healthcare, forcing your kids into Government pre-K
  • Taking your guns away, restricting your ability to defend yourself.

And so much more.

Miranda said last year’s election of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), who is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has “helped to ease some concerns” about the DSA. But he said Democrats will need to stand up to some of the “extreme” views of the organization, including abolishing the Senate and the presidency.

Historically, Hispanic members have made up a small sliver of the DSA. The organization’s national membership survey in 2021 revealed that 9 percent of respondents identified as Hispanic. An internal survey of New York City DSA members this year found that 14 percent of respondents said they were Hispanic. At the same time, 60 percent of those surveyed identified as white.

It’s primarily uber-white leftists, especially the women, who support this crap, and so many are, in fact, affluent. They don’t worry monetarily. They know, or at least think they know, that the authoritarianism of Modern Socialism won’t affect themselves.

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Climate Cult Upset Over Gas Powered Streetlights From the 1800s

By William Teach September 4, 2026 – 7:15 am

Is there nothing they won’t whine about?

What can Cincinnati’s gas streetlights teach us about climate change?

Gas streetlights are iconic fixtures in some Cincinnati neighborhoods, from Clifton’s Gaslight District to Pleasant Ridge’s Gas Light Cafe. They’re more than a century old, and have been the focus of preservation campaigns, public safety efforts and budget cuts over the years.

Now, gaslights are the subject of a study from University of Cincinnati researchers, illuminating barriers to tackling climate change. Their findings are published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Professors Amy Townsend-Small and David Stradling say there are currently about 1,100 gaslights in the city. They run on natural gas and burn 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And, the researchers say, they’re leaky.

The professors found gaslights emit about 4% of the fossil fuels they consume, adding climate-warming methane to the atmosphere.

Her testing shows the average Cincinnati gas street light emits 1.7 grams of methane per hour. For comparison, gas stoves release 0.07 grams of methane and water heaters emit 0.2-0.3 grams per hour.

She says as Cincinnati works to transition away from fossil fuels and address climate change, there’s an opportunity to electrify gaslights. Converting the gas-powered lamps to electric is listed as a priority action in the city’s playbook to reduce emissions, the Green Cincinnati Plan.

They seriously wasted time doing this.

In the late 1800s, Cincinnati had about 10,000 streetlights. Approximately 1,000 remain today.

Professor Stradling studies history and says gas lights have been replaced over the years for reasons from cost to the fact that they aren’t as bright as electric streetlights.

The people in the neighborhoods love them. But, Warmists are upset about pretty much anything.

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CAIR Warning Illegals Not To Fly Or Something

By William Teach September 4, 2026 – 7:00 am

Oh, good, the Muslim Brotherhood backed, unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land terror funding case, and a group that backs all Islamic extremists and extremist groups has thoughts

CAIR-WA warns noncitizens to reconsider air travel amid ICE arrests

A Washington nonprofit is warning people who are not U.S. citizens to consider limiting air travel and speak with an immigration attorney before flying, citing recent immigration arrests at airports and increased enforcement across the country.

The Washington chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-WA, issued the travel warning this week as Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests continue in Washington communities and at airports.

Wild, the Credentialed Media is really using CAIR as their go to source, calling them a “non-profit”

The warning applies even to domestic flights.

“We encourage our community to try to limit domestic travel, even international travel if possible,” CAIR-WA Executive Director Imraan Siddiqui said. “Emergencies come up. It’s better to stay safe.”

CAIR-WA is particularly urging people with pending immigration matters to understand their individual circumstances before traveling. The organization is not saying every noncitizen who flies will face arrest, but says recent enforcement actions have made it difficult to assure immigrants that traveling carries no risk.

In other words, they’re concerned with their own Islamic extremist comrades. The woman detained appears to be another Islamist. CAIR would surely like as many Islamic radicals coming in to the U.S. to affect their takeover.

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UN Says World To Miss 1.5C (arbitrary) Target, Doom To Come

By William Teach September 3, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Well, hey, maybe they could hold a few more conferences where 50K+ attendees take long, fossil fueled trips

Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

Global heating will reach at least 1.8C under even the most optimistic future, well beyond the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C, according to a UN report that warns every fraction of temperature rise intensifies destructive extreme weather, glacier melt, ecosystem loss, and island and coastal city submersion.

The report by the Nairobi-based UN Environment Programme confirmed overshooting the 1.5C goal inscribed in the landmark Paris agreement of 2015 was now “unavoidable” and, despite some progress in addressing the human-caused climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels, likely in the next few years.

It said: “There are no good outcomes above 1.5C”.

Heating of up to 3C above preindustrial levels could lead to glaciers losing more than a quarter of their mass by 2100, raising sea levels by up to 13cm. Global food production could decline by up to 14% by 2050 if there are not effective strategies to adapt.

Human health, water supplies, nature, cities, infrastructure and economies could all be severely damaged. Some losses would be irreversible. Many communities may have to relocate or change their livelihoods.

Doom! Love the use of “global heating”. So culty.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 3, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

 

 

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on “U.N. Says Global Warming Can’t Be Stopped—Still Wants $1.3 Trillion A Year”

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Data Center “Backlash” Is Hitting State General Assemblies

By William Teach September 3, 2026 – 10:30 am

Are data centers really this bad, or, is it just scaremongering? Is this a fad like pet rocks and eating cinnamon? A lot of the opposition seems to be based on fear, anecdotes with no basis in reality, and a small smattering of actual issues (like water quality) (you can read the whole article at Internet Archive)

How the data center backlash is growing in U.S. statehouses

As public backlash erupts against data centers, AI companies have found themselves in a race with state lawmakers.

Companies are rushing to construct facilities for the servers that power their platforms. Legislators, across the country and the political spectrum, are increasingly racing to limit them.

State lawmakers have already introduced at least 375 bills on data centers this year, according to an analysis of legislative records by The Washington Post. Just over halfway through 2026, that number exceeds the total number of such bills in the three previous years combined. Roughly three-quarters of those bills introduced this year seek to restrict data centers in some way.

As with most legislation, a majority of the bills failed to pass, The Post’s analysis found, though many are still pending.

Data centers are now a rare issue uniting Americans of both parties in their opposition. About 7 in 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them, according to a recent poll from Gallup. Many cited concern about electricity costs and data centers’ environmental impacts.

But, do data centers really cause electricity to rise, or, is that from the policies in Democrat run states, which is where most of those complaints come from? Are they really bad for the environment? A lot of anecdotal stuff, but, no actual proof, and what they call environmental they really mean climate doom

Still, few politicians are embracing grassroots demands for full bans or pauses on data center construction.

Democrats are sensitive to labor unions that back the projects. Republicans are trying to balance supporters’ outrage with President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic support of data centers.

There are so many articles on the pros and cons on data centers, but, almost none have cons as “ZOMG, this is horrible!” What’s the reality? Does anyone have anything that should really put the kibosh on building them, also knowing full well that if America doesn’t build them we’ll end up using ones in China?

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Good News: UN, USAID Spent Money On Stupid Instead Of Warning Systems In Nepal

By William Teach September 3, 2026 – 7:15 am

But, see, if that money was spent on warning systems instead of Woke crap they wouldn’t have been able to siphon off at least 60% (via Green Jihad)

From the article

Even before Nepal was devastated by deadly flooding, questions were already emerging in Congress and elsewhere about whether the Asian nation used its U.S. foreign aid assistance to focus on woke ideology vanity projects like assisting transgender sex workers instead of shoring up its defenses against the threat of annual monsoons. (big snip)

While USAID money did go to some helpful programs in Nepal, questions about whether U.S. taxpayers should have been funding education and health initiatives in the country aside, at least some went to questionable services such as transgender employment. Last month, the Associated Press lamented the fact that USAID funding cuts have led to lower employment for transgender aid workers in Nepal.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, responded to the article on X.

“Our tax dollars no longer fund employment for transgender Nepalese sex workers,” he wrote. “Thank you for reminding us why defunding USAID was long overdue.”

Other USAID initiatives also went toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals, rather than tangible assistance. One program, estimated to cost $20 million, sought to “improve equitable educational outcomes for marginalized children,” including “equity and inclusion activities” to keep students in school.

Instead of spending the money on things that actually matter (I can think of 1 reason to fund this: a lot of Americans go to Nepal to visit, hike, and climb, and this would protect them. Around 90 Americans are still missing)

In late July, Bangladesh had similar catastrophic flooding but used its early warning systems to evacuate tens of thousands of people and keep the death toll much lower. Fifty-nine people died in the flooding, according to the United Nations. Much of USAID’s funding in Bangladesh, a more conservative country than Nepal, went to disaster management and food security, rather than DEI initiatives – although there was some funding for that as well.

The priorities for the UN and USAID were totally FUBAR. But, then, the people involved also got their own kickbacks.

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DOJ Threatens To Pull Funds From States That Do Not Report Their Illegal Alien Residents

By William Teach September 3, 2026 – 7:00 am

I like it!

DOJ says states must report all undocumented immigrants — or lose federal funds

The Justice Department has adopted a sweeping new legal interpretation designed to compel states to assist the Trump administration’s immigration crackdowns.

The new opinion from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel — which provides advice to the attorney general — outlines a new path for the federal government to yank federal funding from states that don’t aid the administration’s mass deportation push.

It says any state that draws on massive federal programs to provide financial assistance to low-income residents — which every state does — must report to the Trump administration any immigrant it believes is residing in the country illegally.

Prior administrations concluded that the requirement to report known undocumented immigrants applied only to state agencies implementing those federal programs.

But the new opinion instead determined that the reporting requirement extends to the entire government of a state receiving federal funding through either the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program or Supplemental Security Income — two enormous safety net programs for low-income families as well as elderly and disabled residents.

“Congress wrote this requirement plainly,” Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser said in a statement. “When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States. Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.”

Oh, this is going to cause massive teeth gnashing from the moonbats, eh? Of course, yeah, some wacko liberal judge, probably one of the same old same old ones, will rule against this, be reminded they can only speak for their own district, then get reversed on appeal

I doubt they will actually do this, but, I wouldn’t be surprised if ICE agents in full ICE apparel show up around some polling places in the first days of early voting, simply to discourage illegals from showing up. That’s really what this is about.

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Is Data Center Hatred Being Driven By Climate Cult Zealots?

By William Teach September 2, 2026 – 5:18 pm

I’m rather agnostic on the issue of data centers, but, really, the US is going to build them or China will have them all. And, certainly, there is some opposition amongst Republicans. But, among Democrats, there seems to be some serious hatred

Inside the far-left’s anti-data center push and what experts say is driving it: ‘Playbook we’ve seen before’

As the development of data centers continues to grow into one of the top hot button political issues in the United States, some experts are sounding the alarm on the various left-wing groups and climate activists who are pouring money and resources into data center opposition campaigns.

“It’s a playbook we’ve seen before,” Larry Behrens, communications director at Power The Future, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“I think Americans saw this with the Dakota Access Pipeline. They see this with oil or natural gas production within the United States. This seemingly grassroots organization pops up, but yet they’re all wearing the same T-shirts. They’re all singing the same playbook, and they’re only carrying the same signs, and so when we see that, we see that that’s not really a grassroots organization that money is coming from somewhere, and in this case, against data centers.”

Several left-wing organizations backing data center opposition have benefited from major progressive funding networks, including Public Citizen, which has listed George Soros’ Open Society Foundations among foundations whose “generous support” makes its work possible, and the Sierra Club, which received $3.6 million from Arabella Advisors’ Sixteen Thirty Fund between 2014 and 2022.

This explanation goes on for a bit, where even wacko anti-war groups like Code Pink (which disappeared during the Obama and Biden years) are involved, where the groups pushing ICE hatred and “No Kings” (weird, because the “king” is allowing them to protest) are backing data center hatred. Even as they all use vast amounts of data, making the data centers necessary.

The main driver of left-wing groups opposing data centers, in addition to ideological disdain toward President Donald Trump, who has been a staunch supporter of American AI dominance, is the opposition to fossil fuels, Behrens says.

“It’s the same thing that they’ve always opposed, any real progress they’re going to be against, anything that strengthens America, they’re gonna be against, and when it comes to data centers, the reason they’re against them is absolutely clear because it represents American jobs, and it has to be supported by American energy,” Behrens explained.

“And those are two things that the environmental left just absolutely cannot stand. And they’re gonna use delay or distracting tactics. They’re gonna use tactics like saying it’s about the water, it’s about land use. But lo and behold, when it comes time to grow cannabis, they’re more than happy with the water use. When it comes time to plaster solar fields across farmland, they don’t care about land use. When it comes time to put their solar fields across an endangered species area, they don’t care about that endangered species. It’s never what they say it’s about, it’s always against progress and production for American energy and American workers really.”

Is that the case, or, just that these are simply fellow travelers, because most on the Left are nutballs

In a recent Fox News Digital op-ed, Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild made the case that data center developers ignoring the concerns of the consumers’ has been a problem that could cost the United States victory in the AI race.

“Climate radicals who spent decades trying to kill fracking, pipelines, and American energy dominance have found their next target,” Hild told Fox News Digital. “They are hijacking legitimate consumer concerns to fuel a massive disinformation campaign aimed at frightening Americans into shutting down the technology infrastructure. The same activist machine that fought American oil and gas is now mobilizing against modern data centers, because its answer to American innovation is always to stop building begins.”

It is true that the cultists do like taking over every issue.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 2, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds rolling in, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on “No Tats for You! Florida Puts a Stop to Welfare Cash Being Used for Ink”

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