New York City’s Democratic Socialists of America, the political home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have been actively courting favor with the Chinese Communist Party. Internal meeting minutes reveal members eager to “interface” with CCP officials, self-censoring on Beijing’s atrocities to maintain the relationship—all under the banner of fighting “imperialism.”
In other words, they know where their allegiance will end up if they’re able to take control of America. It is the logical endpoint of a movement that now holds significant power in America’s largest city, and that power is spreading.
The revelations, drawn from extensive DSA documents obtained by Newsweek, expose a sustained effort to align with the world’s most powerful totalitarian regime.
Participants in the DSA’s International Committee China Working Group discussed developing itineraries for engagement, hiring locals to deepen ties with the Communist Party of China, and avoiding any criticism of sensitive issues like the threatened invasion of Taiwan, the crackdown in Hong Kong, or the Uyghur genocide. One activist enthused that if they played their cards right, “we’re golden.”
Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who now occupies Gracie Mansion, has long been tied to this organization. While he has publicly distanced himself from certain national DSA positions at times, the group powered his rise and shares his ideological roots. Socialism, whether wrapped in democratic rhetoric or not, inevitably drifts toward authoritarianism. History has shown this repeatedly—from the Soviet Union to Venezuela to Mao’s China itself.
The DSA’s deference to the CCP confirms what many have warned: these are not mere reformers but radicals comfortable with bending the knee to actual communists.
The Mechanics of Influence
The minutes paint a picture of ideological capture. DSA members agreed to sidestep topics that might offend their Chinese counterparts, dismissing reports of Uyghur oppression as American propaganda in some cases. They explored partnerships with pro-CCP media outlets and celebrated direct meetings facilitated by Chinese officials during trips to places like Guizhou. Chinese authorities encouraged formal exchanges, and the DSA appeared all too willing to oblige.
This is not harmless internationalism. The CCP is engaged in a long-term strategy of influence operations across the West—subverting institutions, stealing technology, and advancing its vision of global dominance. An American political organization with real sway in a major city volunteering to filter its discourse to appease Beijing represents a profound security and ideological vulnerability.
When socialists prioritize solidarity with a regime that runs concentration camps, crushes dissent, and spies on its own citizens over the defense of liberty, the mask slips entirely.
Connections extend beyond the DSA’s internal circles. Bernie Sanders, the elder statesman of American democratic socialism, has drawn scrutiny for his own engagements, including efforts that critics argue would hamstring U.S. AI development while China surges ahead.
The pattern is consistent: a reflexive opposition to American strength paired with strange indulgence for regimes that embody the very authoritarianism they claim to oppose.
A Threat to Constitutional Order
America’s Founders designed a republic to guard against concentrated power and foreign entanglements that compromise sovereignty. They understood that alliances with tyrannical governments erode the moral and political foundations of self-government.
Today’s DSA-aligned leaders in New York appear to view the Constitution not as a safeguard but as an obstacle to their transformative agenda. By cozying up to the CCP, they signal whose side they ultimately favor in the global contest between freedom and control.
The irony abounds. These are the same voices who lecture endlessly about threats to democracy while partnering with a party that has never won a free election, bans opposition parties, and maintains total surveillance over its people. They decry “fascism” at home yet make excuses for a communist superpower that exports repression through economic coercion and influence networks. The American people, particularly in New York, deserve leaders who prioritize their security and prosperity—not those auditioning for approval from Beijing.
Mamdani’s mayoralty places this ideology in a position of governance. Policies that weaken law enforcement, burden taxpayers, and prioritize ideological purity over practical governance will compound the damage if informed by a worldview sympathetic to the CCP model. New Yorkers who voted for affordability and change may soon discover the steeper price of socialist governance: diminished freedom, economic stagnation, and compromised national loyalty.
As the prophet Isaiah warned of those who seek alliances that defy God’s order, “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots… but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!” (Isaiah 31:1).
In our age, the modern equivalent of misplaced trust is exchanging American principles for solidarity with a godless regime that persecutes believers and exalts the state above all. Christians and conservatives must discern these influences clearly and stand firm for truth, liberty, and the defense of the innocent against tyranny in all its forms.
The DSA’s outreach to the CCP is a warning. Socialism does not moderate in power; it seeks fellow travelers abroad who share its contempt for individual rights and limited government. Americans committed to the constitutional republic cannot afford complacency. The battle for the soul of the nation—and its great cities—requires vigilance, moral clarity, and an unyielding defense of the freedoms that distinguish us from the authoritarian darkness now being courted in plain sight.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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