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As Denver congressional candidate Melat Kiros—a socialist who said the Sept. 11, 2001, and Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks were “inevitable”—faced mounting criticism from Jewish voters, “Jews for Melat” came to her defense, publishing video endorsements and organizing “liberatory” shabbat dinners meant to showcase the “coalition of Jewish Coloradans” rallying behind her.
The leaders include a disability activist, Al Cannington (“she/they”), who has assailed “disability rights organizations” for their “silence on #Gaza”; a self-described rabbi, Michael Kengmana, looking to create “a Judaism beyond Zionism”; an activist, Max Mankoff, who says that “anti-Zionism goes hand in hand with Jewish values”; and a former social worker, Spencer Hacker, who has argued that Israel is to blame for rising antisemitism.
Cannington, a self-described “white, disabled, queer, ashkenazi jew whose heart is deeply broken and fully enraged by the ongoing annihilation of Palestinian lives” issued a “crip call to action” in November 2023 urging “disabled people living in the US” to call for a “long lasting ceasefire in Israel-Palestine.” The call to action includes “content warnings” for “settler colonialism” and “eugenics.”
Another “Jews for Melat” leader, Kengmana, is a self-described rabbi who doesn’t appear to lead a congregation but rather holds monthly anti-Zionist Shabbat services with the First Unitarian Society of Denver and weekly Havdalah services with an online synagogue “dedicated to inclusive, musical, and progressive Jewish worship.” As a rabbi, he aims to create “a Judaism beyond Zionism,” according to a description posted by the First Unitarian Society of Denver. Kengmana was listed alongside Cannington as a point of contact for a “Passover grief vigil” the Denver/Boulder chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) held outside an immigrant detention facility in April in which the protesters demanded “collective liberation for all people unjustly detained from Colorado to Palestine.”
Mankoff, who helps run the group’s Instagram account and routinely posts interviews with Kiros, says that “anti-Zionism goes hand in hand with Jewish values.” Mankoff said in June that accusations of antisemitism against Kiros are “really hurtful” because “it takes the attention away from the actual dangers.”
A founder of “Jews for Melat,” Hacker in an Instagram post accused the media of “fomenting antisemitism by attacking Hasan Piker,” the socialist influencer who said that “America deserved 9/11” and that Israel is “much worse” than Hamas—and a Kiros ally. “Antisemitism is increasing but this is due to the actions of Israel and the false notion that Israel speaks and acts on behalf of Jews,” Hacker wrote in the caption. He spent a year working in Denver Public Schools as a social worker but wrote on his LinkedIn profile that he left “due to politics and restrictions from building and district-level leaders that hampered my abilities as a social worker.”
All four have spoken to the press—and post prodigiously on social media—about the Jews for Melat effort. “I am looking to have a leader representing us in Congress who truly is fighting for a world for all of us, who is unapologetic about stopping arm sales to Israel, defunding ICE, supporting people with disabilities, healthcare for all, and economic justice,” Cannington told Boulder’s Yellow Scene Magazine for an article about a “liberatory shabbat” dinner hosted by Jews for Melat in mid-October.
Cannington also served as a leader with Denver/Boulder JVP, which organized four days of protests with the Colorado Palestine Coalition—which has also endorsed Kiros—outside a pro-Israel conference in December 2023. “It, like, tears me up that supporting Palestine is equated to being anti semitic,” Cannington told a local news outlet at the time. “We have to create pathways where Jews, Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians are all safe. The path of standing with Israel uncritically will never get us there.” During the protest, agitators banged on the convention center’s windows, and several were arrested for destruction of property. On the fourth day, another 15 were arrested after chaining themselves together and then to a parked car they had placed in the middle of a major intersection for over an hour.
Cannington’s and Kengmana’s rhetoric aligns closely with Kiros’s own remarks, which have elicited concern from Jewish leaders. Shimon Blau, a Jewish doctor, launched a longshot bid challenging Kiros as an independent, citing her repeated refusal to call a 2025 firebombing against a Jewish group in nearby Boulder antisemitic. He said he has received hundreds of antisemitic comments since then.
In May, meanwhile, Jewish Community Relations Council of Colorado senior director Brandon Rattiner accused Kiros of making “opposition to Israel central to your campaign,” causing “the people you hope to represent feel threatened by some of your rhetoric and policies, particularly amid rising anti-Semitism.”
Other leaders of the “Jews for Melat” coalition leaders have been present at violent events. Mankoff, who organized a Shabbat dinner for Kiros, joined a high school walkout protesting ICE, which was promoted by “Jews for Melat.” Dozens of students, at the urging of adult agitators, mobbed counterprotesters, leading to three hospitalizations. Three juveniles were arrested for graffiti, and one adult with ties to Kiros was arrested for assault. Kiros spoke at the protest and praised the truants.

 

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Election Day is finally here, and no one really knows what’s going to happen.
Most polling suggests Republicans are in for a shellacking. House and Senate, gone. On the one hand, that seems perfectly plausible. The opposition party typically does well in midterm elections. Democrats are frothing at the mouth. They’ve waited two years for this moment.
Republicans just want it to be over. Donald Trump is unpopular and somewhat unfocused. His most consistent message in the closing days of the campaign: Jon Husted, the GOP Senate candidate in Ohio, has a fabulous ass. The vibes are such that few would confidently dismiss the possibility that James Talarico, a drag queen-loving avatar of insufferable wokeness, will be the next U.S. senator from Texas.
On the other hand, a Democratic rout would mean the polls were basically right. That would be genuinely shocking. If they’re wrong, and Republicans do better than expected—retaining control of the Senate while narrowly losing the House, for instance—Democrats will struggle to maintain their composure. They might start to question the sanctity of our democracy. If they fail to capture either chamber, the meltdown will be extraordinary.
What We Know: The Intifada Will Be Socialized
Regardless of the outcome on Tuesday, the House Democratic caucus is guaranteed to get measurably crazier in 2027. Radical left-wing candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America won primaries across the country this year and face no meaningful opposition in the general election. They campaigned with Hasan Piker, the Los Angeles-based anti-American influencer who loves Mao Zedong almost as much as he hates Israel. Here they come.
The incoming class will include New York’s Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Columbia graduate student and professional activist (pardon the redundancy) who attended a pro-Hamas rally the day after the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. Avila Chevalier’s boyfriend, Ramzi Kassem, is a former al Qaeda lawyer who currently serves as chief legal counsel to New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
They’ll be joined by Melat Kiros, the 29-year-old Ph.D. student from Colorado who ousted a 15-term Democratic congresswoman in the primary. She said the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was the “inevitable” result of America’s colonial aggression, and declined to say whether Mohamed Sabry Soliman—the Egyptian immigrant who firebombed a Jewish march in Boulder, Colo.—was motivated by antisemitism.
Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb, who praised a notorious cop-killer and called for the mass execution of corporate CEOs, and New Jersey’s Adam Hamawy, a Brazilian butt lift specialist who testified on behalf of the Islamic cleric who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, are heavily favored to win.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) is in line to become speaker of the House if Democrats take over. The party’s radicals—freshmen or otherwise—may be reluctant to support him without significant concessions on their priorities: abolishing Israel and imprisoning Republicans. Good luck!
What We Don’t: All Eyes on Michigan
Regardless of what happens elsewhere, the outcome of Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is likely to have the greatest implications for Democrats heading into the 2028 election cycle. Abdul El-Sayed, a committed socialist and anti-Israel enthusiast, is the only swing-state Senate candidate endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) in the primary, and the only Senate candidate to campaign with Piker.
El-Sayed’s campaign is a test run for the eclectic coalition some Democrats hope to assemble in 2028. He’s backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) as well as Hassan Qazwini, the Muslim preacher Sanders once denounced for “spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories.” He supports sex-change surgeries for minors, and prays at a mosque whose imam preaches that homosexuality is “against human nature.” The top-ranking Jewish Democrat, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer of New York, wants El-Sayed to win, as does Osama Siblani, the Dearborn activist who praised Hamas and called for Israeli Jews to be sent “back to Poland.”
Democrats are already in a state of disarray over Michigan after Rep. Haley Stevens (D., Mich.), the establishment-backed candidate El-Sayed narrowly defeated in the primary, endorsed Republican Mike Rogers days before the election. “We can’t stand with hate,” she told reporters on Sunday. “We can’t stand with Hasan Piker.”
Democratic leaders and other anti-Trump commentators loudly denounced Stevens for refusing to put party before country. The angst will surely intensify if El-Sayed narrowly loses and Republicans keep the Senate. “If, God forbid, Abdul loses, this will be a watershed moment in Democratic politics,” wrote left-wing podcaster Wajahat Ali. “The fire will rise. It’s over. People will be radicalized against corporate, pro-Israel Dems. There will be a reckoning.”
Even if El-Sayed wins, Democrats are bound to keep squabbling as the presidential primary kicks off. Especially if he wins. El-Sayed has said himself that getting elected to the Senate would give him a platform to push the Democratic Party in a more radical direction. For obvious reasons, he is particularly keen to support a primary challenge against Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) in 2028. “You put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different,” he said in July.
If you thought the midterms were crazy, just wait.
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With the midterm elections almost here, ABC’s World News Tonight took one last opportunity to pump viewers full of Democrat propaganda. They did so by continuing to tout the wild last-minute outlier poll published by The New York Times.Watch as correspondent Rachel Scott breathlessly goes through the NYT polling in each of the featured races, showing Democrats winning big in red states: WATCH: @ABCWorldNews’ Election Eve coverage touts the wild outlier NYT polls promising a Dem romp pic.twitter.com/uAk092keoB— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2026 DAVID MUIR: And one more note tonight showing just how fascinating this night could be tomorrow night, it could be a real nail biter. The new polls tonight on several key Senate races, many in normally deep red states. And what these polls show. So let’s bring in Rachel Scott. She’s already over at the big board getting ready for the big night. And what do these polls show, Rachel?RACHEL SCOTT: Well, David, these polls coming in the 11th hour right ahead of Election Day. I want to take you right to it, starting in Maine. It is the Democrat, Troy Jackson, 51%, polling ahead of the Republican incumbent, Senator Susan Collins, who is at 45%. Let’s take you to Michigan. Abdul el-Sayed, the Democrat, 53%, several points ahead of the Republican Mike Rogers, who’s trailing behind at 42. Over to Ohio, the former Senator Sherrod Brown ahead here, 49% of the incumbent Senator Jon Husted, a Republican who is at 44, and over to Iowa. I mean, take a look at this. This is a dead heat. The Democrat Josh Turek 48%. The Republican Ashley Hinson 47%. This race is neck-and-neck over to Texas. An unexpected battleground. Democrat James Talarico at 50% polling ahead right now, the Republican Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, he’s at 43%. And then the red state of Texas(sic), it is the Democrat, Adam Hamilton, sitting at 49% heading into Election Day ahead of the incumbent, Roger Marshall, who is at 45- 44%. David, many of these states have not sent a Democrat to the Senate in decades.This is ABC’s second crack at pumping these polls, as our own Curtis Houck pointed out earlier. Scott was equally enthusiastic about gas prices as a driver of voter discontent. But the gas price argument has its limitations.In order to manufacture a doomsday scenario for Republicans, Scott breathlessly stated that the $4.14/gallon average price is the highest ever on Election Day. This doesn’t consider inflation. The $3.80/gallon in 2022, adjusted for inflation is $4.38 today. The $3.06/gallon from 2010 adjusts to $4.73 today. This arbitrary gas price figure is little more than a fake statistic intended to further inflame the electorate into pulling the lever for Democrats so that ABC can resume their role as enthusiastic Democrat regime media.ABC doesn’t just want to spur liberals, they also want to help demoralize Republicans. We leave you with the words of the late, great Rush Limbaugh:The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News tonight on Monday, November 2nd, 2026:DAVID MUIR: And one more note tonight showing just how fascinating this night could be tomorrow night, it could be a real nail biter. The new polls tonight on several key Senate races, many in normally deep red states. And what these polls show. So let’s bring in Rachel Scott. She’s already over at the big board getting ready for the big night. And what do these polls show, Rachel?RACHEL SCOTT: Well, David, these polls coming in the 11th hour right ahead of Election Day. I want to take you right to it, starting in Maine. It is the Democrat, Troy Jackson, 51%, polling ahead of the Republican incumbent, Senator Susan Collins, who is at 45%. Let’s take you to Michigan. Abdul el-Sayed, the Democrat, 53%, several points ahead of the Republican Mike Rogers, who’s trailing behind at 42. Over to Ohio, the former Senator Sherrod Brown ahead here, 49% of the incumbent Senator Jon Husted, a Republican who is at 44, and over to Iowa. I mean, take a look at this. This is a dead heat. The Democrat Josh Turek 48%. The Republican Ashley Hinson 47%. This race is neck-and-neck over to Texas. An unexpected battleground. Democrat James Talarico at 50% polling ahead right now, the Republican Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, he’s at 43%. And then the red state of Texas(sic), it is the Democrat, Adam Hamilton, sitting at 49% heading into Election Day ahead of the incumbent, Roger Marshall, who is at 45- 44%. David, many of these states have not sent a Democrat to the Senate in decades.MUIR: Yeah, a lot of these states are deep red states, at least normally speaking. Very different midterm election on tap here. We should point out that many of these races are within the margin of error. We’ve seen polling errors before, but what this does show is it going to be a very close night. So we want everyone to tune in. In the meantime, you’re tracking another key number because we know what voters have been telling us about the key issue this election.SCOTT: The economy, the economy. It’s top of mind. I want to take you to one more number here. The average price for a gallon of gas, $4.14 a gallon. The average price for diesel right now averaging $6.29 a gallon. If these two numbers hold, it will be the highest gas and diesel prices on record ever on Election Day. David.MUIR: All right, Rachel Scott, this time tomorrow, you have some company. Rick Klein will be at the big board with you. And of course, John, Mary, Lindsay and Martha will be up here at the desk. Thanks so much for being here tonight. Early. The entire powerhouse political team will be here. And our correspondents from Alaska, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, Maine, so many other states, too, all across this country. Our coverage begins tomorrow night on World News Tonight. And then right at 7 P.M. Eastern, we come on the air right through the wee hours of the morning this time tomorrow night. Thank you.