Mamdani Act, Bill Would Make Joe McCarthy Blush; Write, Distrib., Possess Materials Support Leftist Ideas, Revoke Citize

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- 'A Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush,' Texas Republican Chip Roy wants to revoke the citizenship of those who engage in “writing, distributing, circulating, printing, displaying, possessing, or publishing” materials that support leftist ideas. - Truthdig, April 22, 2026. By Thom Hartmann, The Hartmann Report.
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Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this party want to take America.

Texas Rep. Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s calling the “MAMDANI Act,” named after Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected democratic socialist mayor of New York City, that would let the federal government bar entry to, deport and strip naturalized citizenship from any person who advocates for or is “affiliated with” what Roy calls “totalitarian” movements. The list includes, from Rep. Roy’s webpage:

“[A] socialist party, a communist party, the Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist party, or advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism, or Islamic fundamentalism.” The bill targets people who engage in “writing, distributing, circulating, printing, displaying, possessing, or publishing” materials supporting socialism or any of those other ideas.

“Possessing?” That single word means that owning a copy of Marx’s “Das Kapital,” or a pamphlet from a Palestinian solidarity group, or a battered paperback of Howard Zinn — or maybe even one of my books on the New Deal — would be enough to make a green card holder or a naturalized citizen “inadmissible or deportable.” “Affiliated with?”

That would prevent anybody who’s ever affiliated themselves with the Democratic Socialists of America party in New York that Mamdani ran on behalf of (along with the normal Democratic Party; New York has fusion voting so you can run on two parties simultaneously) from staying in America. Gone to a meeting, rally or put yourself on their mailing list? You’re toast. “Writing?” That means they’re coming for me, and for you if you’ve ever echoed in writing the kind of sentiments that Republicans call socialism, including food stamps and school lunches, free college, public libraries, a national healthcare system, police and fire departments, and highways that don’t have tolls.

(When billionaire David Koch ran for vice president in 1980 on an antisocialism agenda, he called for the end of all these forms of “socialism”)... - More,

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-bill-that-would-make-joseph-mccarthy-blush/