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April 20th, 2026 1 Minute Read by Daniel Di Martino

Chris Murphy and Tim Walz Cozy Up to Wannabe Tyrants at Communist Rally

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This past weekend in Barcelona, Spain, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took the stage alongside Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Colombian President Gustavo Petro, and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at a summit their organizers titled, without apparent irony, the “Global Progressive Mobilisation forum” in defense of democracy. The event was marketed as a progressive counterpart to President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas meeting in Miami last month. In reality, the leftist meeting was a gallery of leaders who have destroyed the very democratic institutions they now claim to champion, and all oppose the interests of the United States.

Two elected American Democrats flew across the Atlantic to lend their credibility to that anti-American gallery. They should be asked to explain it.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the Daily Wire

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Daniel Di Martino is a graduate fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a Ph.D. student in economics at Columbia University, and the founder of the Dissident Project, a speakers’ bureau for young immigrants from socialist countries.

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