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  Hi there, It’s Wednesday. Last night in New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political power with all three of his endorsed congressional candidates winning their Democratic primaries. This includes the ousting of Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Adriano Espaillat, who lost to Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year old PhD student. In addition, eight people were sentenced this week to between 30 and 100 years in federal prison for their roles in a July 4, 2025, protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Texas — sentences longer than any handed down to participants in the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. One defendant received 30 years not for violence, but for moving a box of zines, poetry, and personal journals after the protest. Yet too much media coverage treats these sentences as straightforward criminal justice outcomes — focusing on the shooting and the charges while largely ignoring the broader context: a White House that designated antifa a terror...