In New York, professional activists Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier toppled establishment-backed contenders, aided by the political machine of Zohran Mamdani, the radical, anti-American mayor of New York City. According to The Washington Free Beacon, barring an unlikely upset in November, they will arrive in Congress next year alongside Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student who unseated a 15-term Democratic incumbent in Colorado.
This emerging trio appears destined for instant celebrity within the progressive caucus and, on paper, looks tailor-made for the notorious “Squad,” the far-left bloc led by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.). Yet their ideological fervor and unapologetic extremism raise a different possibility: that they may view the existing Squad as insufficiently radical, mere “normies” in a movement increasingly defined by open contempt for America, Israel, and Western civilization itself.
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Kiros, Valdez, and Chevalier were all backed by Hasan Piker, the U.S.-based influencer who has built a lucrative brand on anti-American agitation and open sympathy for terrorism. Piker notoriously declared that the United States “deserved” 9/11, a remark that would have ended a public career in any era that still took patriotism and moral clarity seriously.
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Omar, Tlaib, and Ocasio-Cortez have long been criticized for their hostility toward America and Israel, but compared with this new crop of candidates, they almost appear restrained. It is not hard to imagine Kiros, Valdez, and Chevalier spurning the Squad as insufficiently committed to anti-colonial revolution and instead forming their own faction, perhaps something more ominous than a social-media brand—“the Cell,” or even the “Martyrs Brigade.”
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Kiros, a former corporate attorney, was fired after publicly attacking her own profession for refusing to embrace Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. She recently described both the Sept. 11 attacks and Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre as the “inevitable” consequence of so-called colonial aggression, language that effectively rationalizes mass murder as a justified response to Western power.
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Her moral evasions extend to domestic terrorism as well. When asked about Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian illegal immigrant who firebombed a group of Jews in Boulder, Colo., as they marched in support of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, Kiros could not bring herself to label him antisemitic. “I don't know what was in the heart of the perpetrator,” Kiros said, a statement that manages to be both evasive and absurd in the face of an explicitly anti-Jewish attack.
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Valdez, an art school graduate and union organizer who worked at Columbia University, comes out of the same elite activist pipeline that has turned once-prestigious campuses into staging grounds for anti-American and pro-terror agitation. Her close alliance with Piker on the campaign trail only underscores how normalized such extremism has become within the Democratic Party’s activist base.
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Chevalier’s background is similarly steeped in the academic far left. She studied Middle Eastern studies at Columbia, where she joined an activist group committed to the “total eradication of Western civilization,” a phrase that would have been unthinkable in mainstream politics a generation ago but now passes with little pushback in progressive circles.
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Both New York candidates benefited from the support of Mayor Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, who has a documented history of “liking” pro-Hamas content on social media. Duwaji also contributed artwork to an essay collection compiled by a virulent antisemite who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” and she notably refused to back Brad Lander, an anti-Israel Jewish candidate endorsed by her husband.
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Chevalier has gone out of her way to flaunt her disdain for American symbols, boasting that she has used the American flag as a napkin. On Oct. 8, 2023, just one day after Hamas terrorists murdered and kidnapped more than a thousand Jews, she attended an “All Out for Palestine” rally in Times Square that functioned as a de facto celebration of Hamas’s atrocities.
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Her political and personal associations deepen the picture. Chevalier was endorsed by former congressman and Squad member Jamaal Bowman, who once penned an overwrought poem implying that Osama bin Laden might have been framed for 9/11, and she recently confirmed she is dating Ramzi Kassem, Mamdani’s legal adviser best known for defending al Qaeda terrorists.
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For those intent on dismantling capitalism, transforming Congress into an Ivy League faculty lounge, and mainstreaming support for terrorism at home and abroad, this is an impressive résumé. The Squad may well attempt to recruit Chevalier and her fellow firebrands, but there is little reason to think such ideologues will be content with a subordinate role in what they might see as a junior-varsity “martyrs brigade.”
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If current trends hold, it is only a matter of time before Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, and the rest of the hashtag revolutionaries find themselves scrambling to keep pace with the even more radical “Cell” they helped inspire. As the country celebrates its founding, voters are left to confront a sobering reality: one of our two major parties is elevating candidates who treat America’s birthday not as a moment of gratitude, but as an opportunity to cheer those who would see the nation—and the civilization it anchors—brought to its knees.
