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LIZ PEEK: Democrats face a socialist reckoning they are too scared to stop
Democrats have a tiger by the tail.
Democratic Socialists are bringing money and energy to their party, but also a growing crop of anti-American, anti-capitalist and often antisemitic candidates who scorn our country’s traditions and values. These challengers may ride today’s wave of anti-Trump sentiment, concern about AI and anger about high prices, and win in solidly Democrat areas, like Manhattan, but long term they will become an embarrassment. AOC and her Democratic Socialist colleagues are not going to breach the Oval Office anytime soon.
Establishment Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer know this, but are scared to death of taking on the likes of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, for fear of being primaried by Leftist candidates and run out of office. Consequently, they have left the door open and unguarded, welcoming the upstarts. Shame on them.
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Democrats believe they have an excellent chance to take back control of Congress in the fall midterm elections. The war in Iran is not popular, gasoline prices are hovering at $4 per gallon, and the President’s approval ratings have declined. The stage is set for a Democrat win.
But, as the far left invades their party, incumbent Democrat legislators are being pushed aside by increasingly bizarre and offensive candidates like Darializa Avila Chevalier, who in recent years denounced former President Joe Biden as a “rapist” and “war criminal” and on social media proclaimed the U.S. a “f**king disgrace.” Chevalier, who for good measure also posted “f**k Kamala Harris” and has attacked leftists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, has a shot at ousting long-time Democrat stalwart Adriano Espaillat who represents New York’s 13th Congressional district.
Chevalier has a deplorable history of racist remarks, is in favor of closing all prisons, legalizing all drugs and ending U.S. military support for Israel.
No one would be taking this person seriously but for her endorsement by Zohran Mamdani. New York’s Democratic Socialist Mayor shocked his party’s establishment by giving his support to Chevalier, thus undermining a five-term congressman who is head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The seat is safe, rated “Solid D” by the Cook report, but a win by Chevalier would further boost Mamdani’s power and lessen moderate Democrats’ tenuous control of the party.
Chevalier is not the only far-left candidate making headlines. As the midterm looms, Democrats eager to take control of the senate are pinning hopes on the likes of Graham Platner to defeat Republican Susan Collins in Maine, Abdul El-Sayed to fill an open seat in Michigan and James Talerico who is running against Texas AG Ken Paxton for Republican John Cornyn’s seat in the Lone Star state.
Platner and Talerico have had to scrub embarrassing social media histories in frantic efforts to reinvent themselves. In this internet era, your past is thankfully hard to erase, and rightly so. Disavowing something you said five years ago just because it now complicates your campaign isn’t persuasive.
Platner has not only had to pretend he no longer believes vulgar posts from a now-deleted Reddit account about his appetite for masturbation, that make light of sexual assaults and other sexual topics, but has also tried to explain away a Nazi-themed tattoo on his chest. Most recently, it has come to light that his wife alerted his campaign early on about sexually explicit texts Platner sent to several women that she had discovered on the oyster farmer’s phone. He also has an account on a private messaging app called Kik that some claim is often used for sexual hook-ups.
Like Platner, Texas state representative James Talerico is feverishly reinventing himself. In 2022, Talerico ran what he then described as a “non-meat” campaign, telling an audience concerned with animal welfare that climate change considerations were driving him to reduce his consumption of meat. Now, running to represent a major cattle-ranching state, and after being derided as “Tofu Talerico” by opponent Ken Paxton, the candidate declares himself a red-blooded steak lover.
Talerico is also battling early comments that “God is non-binary,” and that there are six sexes, just the kinds of goofy nonsense that GOP opponents can capitalize on. Moreover, he has embraced the canard that white people are essentially racist, which is unlikely to play well in the Lone Star state.
In Michigan, one of the front-runners in the Democratic Primary to fill Gary Peter’s seat is progressive Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left proponent of Medicare-for-all who wants to abolish ICE and who made headlines recently by recounting a story showcasing what critics say are serious anger management issues. El-Sayed, admitted to smashing a fifth of vodka on the floor of a liquor store in Detroit because the proprietor commented on the length of his beard, something with religious connotations among his fellow Muslims.
Establishment Democrats must be horrified at the turn their party is taking. Adding to their woes, Jill Biden is hitting the airwaves trying to drum up interest in her new book. The former First Lady is doing interviews about her White House years, reminding the country of the essential lie of the Biden era, perpetuated by her and by Democrat officials, that Joe Biden was fit to serve another four years.
Meanwhile, the Democrat National Committee is at war with itself, wrangling over, among other things, an incomplete and sloppy “autopsy” about how they lost in 2024. They don’t need an autopsy, they just need to listen to the few sane voices in their party which have decried Democrats’ support of biological men competing in women’s sports, defunding the police, open borders and other unpopular issues.
In addition, at some point, they will have to freeze out the radical extremists who are hijacking their party and actively working against the best interest of the United States. The voters will not stand for it.
My youngest daughter Katie was killed when an intoxicated illegal immigrant slammed into the back of the vehicle she was riding in at nearly 80 miles an hour while it sat idle at a stoplight. Ever since, I have been trying to understand how reckless public policies allowed something so horrific, and so preventable, to happen.
Katie’s death forced me to look beyond slogans and political talking points and ask harder questions about what America’s immigration system has become, who benefits from it and who ultimately bears the costs when governments refuse to enforce meaningful standards.
The more I examined the data, the more I began to notice an aspect of the problem that often seemed ignored or dismissed in public debate. Perhaps because acknowledging it had become politically uncomfortable.
According to recent data from the Center for Immigration Studies, newly arrived immigrants now possess significantly lower levels of educational attainment than earlier waves of immigration.
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During the border-surge years engineered under the Biden-Harris administration and overseen by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the composition of migration shifted heavily toward poorer regions of Latin America, bringing larger numbers of individuals with limited formal education and fewer workforce skills needed in a modern, technology-driven economy.
That matters because advanced economies increasingly depend on productivity, skills and institutional capacity. Educational attainment strongly correlates with earnings, poverty rates, tax contribution and long-term dependence on public systems.
America in 2026 is not the industrial America of 1920. Low-skill labor no longer guarantees upward mobility, even for many native-born Americans struggling under rising housing costs, inflation, healthcare expenses and stagnant wages. Yet policymakers continue expanding migration flows while insisting there will be no meaningful fiscal or social consequences.
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But consequences exist whether political leaders acknowledge them or not.
Lower educational attainment is closely associated with lower earnings, higher poverty rates and greater demand on public systems. School districts shoulder the costs of language services and educational remediation, often straining already struggling districts. Hospitals provide emergency care that is frequently never fully reimbursed, with taxpayers ultimately covering much of the burden. Cities face mounting housing pressures, while welfare systems expand to accommodate growing needs.
My own family has lived both versions of America’s immigration story. Decades ago, my parents came to the United States legally for the opportunity this country offered and not for benefits or special privileges that increasingly incentivize lawlessness surrounding immigration today.
This is personal for me.
Katie’s killer, Julio Cucul-Bol, a Guatemalan national who used a Mexican alias while in Illinois, admitted through an interpreter in state court that he had no formal education and was unable to meaningfully communicate in either English or Spanish.
So, I have to ask the question Democrat Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and many other politicians never will: What purpose did allowing Bol into this country actually serve? How did it strengthen America, improve our communities, or better the lives of American citizens?
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My daughter is dead.
Reasonable people can debate immigration levels and legal pathways. But no serious nation can maintain public trust while weakening enforcement and insisting there are no downstream consequences for public institutions, fiscal stability, or social cohesion.
Many countries benefit enormously from large-scale emigration. Remittances from migrants working in the United States generate billions in foreign income while also relieving domestic political pressure.
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In effect, the United States increasingly subsidizes the consequences of governmental failure abroad. Rather than fixing conditions for their own citizens, struggling governments can export portions of their poverty to the United States while importing remittance dollars back home.
That dynamic may benefit political elites on both sides of the border, but it does little to encourage long-term reform, self-sufficiency, or stable institutions. In many cases, mass unmanaged migration may actually delay the economic and civic improvements those societies ultimately need most.
A truly moral and compassionate approach should not simply encourage people to flee struggling nations indefinitely. It should encourage the development of lawful, stable and prosperous societies where citizens can build meaningful lives in their own countries with dignity and opportunity.
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The United States should be an example to be emulated; a nation built on lawful behavior, strong institutions, accountability and opportunity. Not one that increasingly allows itself to be taken advantage of by governments unwilling to fix conditions for their own people.
Migrants should be drawn to America because of the opportunities created by economic freedom and social stability, not enticed by self-serving politicians offering taxpayer-funded benefits while refusing to address the consequences of weak enforcement.
States like Illinois increasingly respond to the departure of productive citizens not by confronting the policies driving people away, but by attempting to replace those losses through mass migration encouraged by expansive benefits and weakened standards. Administrations like Biden-Harris accelerated that approach nationally during the border-surge years.
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That is not a serious long-term strategy for national prosperity or institutional stability.
Every public policy carries tradeoffs, and citizens should not become collateral damage to reckless immigration policies pursued for short-term political gain.
A serious immigration policy would begin with honesty: honesty that educational attainment matters in advanced economies; honesty that mass low-skill migration creates fiscal burdens; honesty that weak enforcement and sanctuary policies carry real-world consequences; and honesty that America cannot permanently function as the economic and social safety valve for the developing world without eventually weakening itself.
Compassion without limits is not governance. And no nation can indefinitely absorb the unresolved economic and institutional failures of other countries while expecting its own stability, cohesion and prosperity to remain strong forever.
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Martina Navratilova says Billie Jean King’s trans-athlete stance ‘doesn’t square’ with her own words
Martina Navratilova wants Billie Jean King to explain herself.
King is one of the most important figures in the history of women’s sports, a tennis icon who helped build the modern women’s game and spent decades fighting for equal opportunity, equal pay and respect for female athletes.
But King has also publicly supported trans-identifying biological male athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
In a 2025 interview with The Telegraph ahead of Wimbledon, King called the broader transgender-athlete debate in sports “a nightmare” and said people should listen to transgender people’s stories and make them feel included.
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That position has frustrated Navratilova, another tennis legend and longtime advocate of gay rights and women’s sports, because King has also publicly acknowledged the physical differences between men and women.
Asked how King could reconcile those two positions, Navratilova said the contradiction is obvious.
“I honestly don’t know because it doesn’t square,” Navratilova told OutKick.
Navratilova was responding to a clip of King discussing the obvious physical differences between men and women. In the clip, King said men are generally bigger and stronger, have different skeletal systems and bigger hearts, and that women never claimed they were physically the same as men.
That’s the entire reason women’s sports exist in the first place.
In 2020, King joined nearly 200 athletes in supporting a friend-of-the-court brief against an Idaho law that barred trans-identifying male athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
“There is no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind,” King said at the time. “I’m proud to support all transgender athletes who simply want the access and opportunity to compete in the sport they love.”
That’s the gap Navratilova is pressing.
“I think she thinks that they play fair and square, meaning males identify as women, take all the hormones and do everything, like Renée Richards did 50 years ago,” Navratilova said. “And that it’s just nice to include everybody.”
But Navratilova said the issue can’t be reduced to kindness or inclusion.
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She offered a hypothetical scenario: a high school boys basketball team holds tryouts, 10 boys make the team, and five boys who don’t make the boys team then try out for the girls team. If they make it, which they almost certainly would, five girls lose their spots.
“That’s not equality,” Navratilova said. “That’s a total takeover.”
And it’s not just about who wins, she said. It’s about roster spots, podium spots, awards, prize money, privacy, safety and the entire purpose of female-only categories.
For Navratilova, the answer starts with keeping sex-based boundaries intact.
“The solution is obvious,” she told OutKick. “No male bodies in women’s sports and no male bodies in women’s sex-based spaces for many different reasons, not the least of which is women’s rights to safety, dignity and fairness and privacy.”
Navratilova said her private conversations with King have made King’s public position even more frustrating.
“Billie Jean has repeatedly told me over the last four or five years that she would love to talk to me about it, that she defers to me because I know a lot more about it than she does,” Navratilova said.
But Navratilova said the conversations she expected, never really happened.
“Without talking to me really and listening to what my points were, she just went her way and put out the statement by her and the Women’s Sports Foundation about inclusion and all this stuff,” Navratilova said.
That, Navratilova said, is what surprised her most.
“I don’t think she really has heard the other side of the debate, so to speak,” Navratilova said.
Navratilova said she wants King to answer the question directly.
“Please get Billie Jean on record,” Navratilova said. “I’d like to know how she explains it because she hasn’t been able to explain it to me.”
OutKick contacted King and the Women’s Sports Foundation seeking comment and offering King an interview. Neither responded.
And Navratilova is not alone.
Nancy Hogshead, a three-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer, civil rights lawyer and former Women’s Sports Foundation president, went even further.
Asked whether King’s comments on male advantages suggested she was starting to come around, Hogshead rejected that premise.
“Oh no, she’s always known that,” Hogshead told OutKick. “She’s a hypocrite, she’s a total hypocrite.”
Hogshead said she could understand confusion several years ago, before more research and high-profile cases brought the issue to the forefront.
Her own view, Hogshead said, was not always what it is now.
“I was in favor of it too,” Hogshead said. “I thought this was about inclusion and nondiscrimination. I thought it was fair.”
That has changed.
“I was wrong,” Hogshead said. “I was dead wrong.”
Hogshead pointed to sex-eligibility disputes involving Caster Semenya, the Lia Thomas case and research on male puberty and athletic performance as part of what caused her to rethink her position.
She said the same evidence should matter for King.
“She knows, but she hasn’t made the connection,” Hogshead said. “As she says, men are faster, stronger, bigger lungs structurally, but hasn’t made the connection of like, oh, so that’s unfair to the girls to have to compete with that.”
Hogshead said her frustration with King and the Women’s Sports Foundation predates the transgender-athlete debate.
“I wouldn’t say I left,” Hogshead said of her 2014 departure from WSF. “I would say I got fired because I would not sign a contract.”
Hogshead alleged the contract would have restricted her from speaking publicly about sexual abuse and harassment involving athletes.
Asked why she believed a women’s sports organization would want to limit her ability to speak on that issue, Hogshead pointed to what she described as King’s aversion to backlash.
“Because Billie Jean didn’t want to go into any room and face hostility or having somebody be against her,” Hogshead said.
Hogshead connected that episode to the current fight over transgender athletes in women’s sports.
“I think it’s more political for the same reason, for the exact same reason that she didn’t wanna be involved in the sexual abuse issue or she didn’t want the Women’s Sports Foundation to be involved,” Hogshead said. “It’s hard to be the tip of the spear.”
To Hogshead, both fights come back to the same issue: whether women’s sports leaders are willing to take unpopular stands when women and girls need defending.
OutKick separately asked the Women’s Sports Foundation whether Hogshead’s role ended because she refused to sign a contract restricting her from speaking publicly about sexual abuse in sports and whether King was involved in or aware of that contract decision. WSF did not respond before publication.
That leaves a central question unanswered.
If men have physical advantages over women, and King says they do, then why should biological males who identify as women be allowed into female categories?
Navratilova’s position is especially notable because she has personal history with Renée Richards, the transgender tennis player who sued to compete in the women’s draw at the 1977 U.S. Open.
Richards later coached Navratilova.
That history matters because Navratilova didn’t come to the issue as an opponent of inclusion.
“Because of Renée, I was completely all-in for inclusion,” Navratilova said. “Most of us welcomed Renée into the fold.”
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But Navratilova said Richards competed at a very different moment and under very different circumstances.
Richards was 43 and not in peak playing shape when competing against women, Navratilova said. At the time, Richards was essentially a one-off case.
“It was only one because she won the right to compete in a court of law,” Navratilova said. “There were no others. Even if there were other transgender people, they would have to sue for the right to compete.”
That has changed.
In recent years, trans-identifying biological male athletes have competed in women’s and girls’ sports across the country, from high school track and field to college and junior college volleyball to cycling, swimming and other sports.
Navratilova said the change forced her to reconsider the issue in a way she did not have to when Richards was the only example. But, more importantly, Richards also has a new perspective on the issue.
“Renée herself now says she should not have been able to compete,” Navratilova said. “She realizes now she had an advantage.”
Richards made a similar argument in a 2024 position paper published by Sports Illustrated in 2025. “I believe that having gone through male puberty disqualifies transgender women from the female category in sports,” Richards wrote, adding that a “retained physical advantage persists” even after testosterone reduction
That’s why Navratilova says it’s no longer enough to rely on the language of inclusion without answering the competitive question.
“Boys are faster, stronger, quicker than girls,” Navratilova said. “And so, if it doesn’t matter who wins, why do they have to compete as a girl? If they feel like a girl, they can still compete with the boys if they don’t care where they end up. Why is it the girls that need to suck it up?”
Navratilova came out publicly as a lesbian in 1981 and became one of the most prominent openly gay athletes in the world.
That’s part of what makes the backlash against her so striking.
Navratilova has been called homophobic, transphobic, bigoted and worse for her position on women’s sports. She told OutKick the attacks are especially frustrating because many of the people attacking her don’t know what it was like for gay athletes when she came out.
Asked what she makes of being called homophobic, Navratilova dismissed the idea.
“It’s just stupid,” Navratilova said. “I came out before they were born, so they don’t know what it was like.”
Navratilova said the criticism from within the LGBTQ advocacy world has been painful because she still believes in equal rights.
“I respect everybody’s right to human rights, equal rights everywhere,” Navratilova said.
But she said equal rights do not include the right for male-bodied athletes to enter female sports or female-only spaces.
“You do not have a right to come into my space,” Navratilova said.
That doesn’t mean the verbal attacks haven’t stung.
“What does it make me feel like? Just sad,” Navratilova said. “Just really sad that they would just name-call rather than have a discussion and totally discount what I went through and twist it around.”
King’s legacy in women’s sports is undeniable.
She fought for women to have opportunities, respect, prize money and a professional tour of their own. She famously beat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes,” a moment that became larger than tennis and helped cement King as a symbol of women’s equality.
But that history is exactly why Navratilova and Hogshead say King’s current position deserves scrutiny.
Women’s sports were not created because women lacked talent, discipline or courage. They were created because biological sex matters in athletics.
King knows that. She has said so herself.
That’s why Navratilova wants an answer.
How does King square a lifetime spent fighting for women’s sports with a position that allows biological males to compete against females?
So far, King hasn’t answered that question for OutKick. And according to Navratilova, she hasn’t answered it for her, either.
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