Weeks before his New York City mayoral victory, Zohran Mamdani prepares to speak outside a Bronx mosque on Oct. 24, 2025, in the Bronx borough of New York. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
On Friday night, early votes had already been cast in their many thousands for Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani. Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, who leads the prominent Central Synagogue in Manhattan, took the occasion to slander the democratic socialist candidate, purportedly in the name of Jewish New Yorkers.
“Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has contributed to a mainstreaming of some of the most abhorrent antisemitism,” Buchdahl said.
Buchdahl didn’t cite any actual antisemitism. Her problem with Mamdani was his criticism of Israel.
Mamdani’s alleged antisemitism? Pointing out, in 2023, the establishedfact that the Israeli military has trained hundreds of members of the New York Police Department, and that the NYPD and Israeli forces have intelligence sharing agreements. The rabbi also decried Mamdani’s “false claims of genocide” in Gaza — claims shared by leading genocide scholars, and every major international human rights organization.
That is, Buchdahl didn’t — and couldn’t — cite any actual antisemitism on the newly elected mayor’s part. Her problem, as was the case for the array of establishment Jewish voices who spoke out against Mamdani, was his criticism of Israel.
Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City is a victory — or at least offers promise — for so many of the city’s working-class constituents. For our immigrant neighbors, trans siblings, and every New Yorker struggling to pay rent, eat, and access care in this punishingly expensive, brutally unequal place.
It is a particular bright relief that base Islamophobia — entrenched since the September 11 attacks, supercharged during the Gaza genocide, and drenching every campaign against Mamdani — did not prevail.
Mamdani’s win marks a rejection of the consistently Islamophobic weaponization of antisemitism. I hope it is a turning point, from which other New York institutions learn. Diehard support for the Zionist project is, finally, not a sine qua non of New York City leadership.
If Mamdani’s victory was a victory over Islamophobia and false antisemitism allegations, it was not quite a total one. The significant support for the attacks against the mayor-elect, and the purchase they found with converts to disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was jarring.
It was depressing for this Jewish writer to see significant numbers of particularly older Jewish voters back the slanders against Mamdani. The explanation, however, is simple enough: The very same Jewish figures and groups have been organizing their political lives around support for a genocidal ethnostate.
With the genocide in Gaza raging, weaponized claims of antisemitism, launched by pro-Israel forces have won the day in this city for over two years. Students, workers, and other protesters stood up to decry their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s onslaught.
At every turn, Democratic leaders bolstered and enforced calls for expressions of Palestinian solidarity to be censured and punished. Mayor Eric Adams sent police to raid Columbia University campus protests at the direct behest of pro-Israel business leaders. Baseless accusations of antisemitism went wholly unchecked.
It was a lesson in cowardice and complicity, which has only served President Donald Trump’s attacks on higher education and anti-Arab, anti-Muslim immigration crackdowns.
Setting an Example
The fact that the majority of young Jewish New Yorkers expressed support for Mamdani, as did some of the most powerful Jewish politicians in the city and the country, should have long ago served to mute the attacks against him. Yet there will be no reasoning with a worldview that treats support for Palestinian freedom, and criticism of Israel, as a threat to Jewish life.
Mamdani, however, did not have to sacrifice Palestinian solidarity to win this election. He did not have to pander to the endless false claims of antisemitism directed at him at every debate and most every mainstream press interview.
Mamdani did not have to sacrifice Palestinian solidarity to win this election.
And, when he is the mayor, there is every reason to demand that he uphold commitments to Palestinian solidarity, including ending municipal partnerships with the state of Israel as it continues its campaign of mass slaughter, displacement, occupation, and apartheid.
I have no doubt that Mamdani will live up to his vows to support and protect New York’s Jewish communities; there were never any justified grounds to believe otherwise. His mayorship, among so many other things, should set an example of how supporting Jewish New Yorkers can be paired with a refusal to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
“No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,” said Mamdani Tuesday night, addressing his supporters in Brooklyn, after being declared the next mayor of New York City.Share
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Here is the full draft text of the proposed constitutional initiative in Montana (known informally as the Montana Plan or Transparent Election Initiative) that would redefine the powers of “artificial persons” (e.g., corporations) and prohibit their spending on elections or ballot issues. Daily Montanan+1
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
NEW SECTION. Section 1. Article XIII of The Constitution of the State of Montana is amended by adding a new section 8 that reads:
Section 8. Powers of Artificial Persons. (1) Artificial Persons exist only by grant of the state and shall have no powers or privileges except those this constitution expressly provides. Daily Montanan
(2) (a) The legislature may by statute create Artificial Persons consistent with subsection (1).
(b) The people never did, and do not, intend the powers of Artificial Persons to include Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity. This section retracts all Artificial Persons’ powers and re-grants only those powers that the people deem necessary or convenient to carry out an Artificial Person’s lawful business or charitable purposes, as described in (3)(e). Powers related to Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity shall not be deemed necessary or convenient to those purposes. Daily Montanan
(3) Definitions. (a) “Artificial Person” means every entity whose existence or limited-liability shield is conferred by Montana law, including, without limitation: … Daily Montanan (e) “Artificial Person Powers” means powers necessary or convenient to carry out lawful business or charitable purposes, excluding any power to directly or indirectly engage in Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity. Daily Montanan (f) “Charter Privilege” means any benefit to Artificial Persons that exists only because the state of Montana confers it, such as, without limitation, limited liability, perpetual duration, succession in its corporate name, and tax credits and abatements. Daily Montanan (g) “Foreign Entity” means an Artificial Person organized or existing under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Montana. Daily Montanan
(4) Total Revocation of Previous Power Grants. (a) The creation and continued existence of an Artificial Person is not a right but a conditional grant of legal status by the state and remains subject to complete withdrawal at any time. All powers previously granted to any Artificial Person under Montana law are revoked in their entirety. No Artificial Person operating under the jurisdiction of this state shall possess any power unless specifically granted by this constitution. No provision of this constitution grants or recognizes any power of an Artificial Person to engage in Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity, except as provided in (5)(c). Daily Montanan
(b) Transitional Safe Harbor. Nothing in (4)(a) shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or modify any existing contract, debt instrument, security, or other legal obligation validly entered into before the effective date of [this act]; provided, however, that nothing herein authorizes any Election Activity or Ballot Issue Activity after the effective date. Daily Montanan
(5) Selective Re-Grant of Artificial Person Powers. (a) Each Artificial Person possesses the powers defined in (3)(e), unless its organizational documents limit the exercise of such powers, and no powers beyond those expressly granted. No provision of this constitution grants or recognizes any power of an Artificial Person to engage in Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity, except as provided in (5)(c). Daily Montanan
(b) Any language in articles of incorporation, organization, association, or other organizational documents purporting to directly or indirectly confer Election-Activity authority or Ballot-Issue-Activity authority to Artificial Persons is void. Daily Montanan
(c) Political committees registered under Montana or federal law are entities created for the purpose of engaging in Election Activity and Ballot-Issue Activity. Such committees may be granted the power to engage in those activities provided that they exist solely for that purpose and claim no Charter Privilege other than limited liability. This constitution does not grant any other Artificial Person the power to engage in Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity. Daily Montanan
(d) No Charter Privilege shall be construed to authorize Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity. An Artificial Person that exercises Election-Activity authority or Ballot-Issue-Activity authority, unless expressly permitted to do so under (5)(c), initially forfeits all Charter Privileges as a matter of law. The legislature shall, during its first regular session following the effective date of [this act], enact procedures that allow reinstatement upon full disgorgement, certification of compliance, and payment of civil penalties. Daily Montanan
(6) Ultra Vires Actions. Any Election Activity or Ballot-Issue Activity conducted by an Artificial Person is ultra vires and void. Such conduct results in the forfeiture of Charter Privileges as provided in (5)(d) and shall also be subject to civil action by a member, shareholder, or the attorney general for injunctive relief, disgorgement, and confirmation or enforcement of the forfeiture. The legislature shall, during its first regular session following the effective date of [this act], enact procedures for such civil actions. Daily Montanan
(7) Severability. If any provision of [this act], or its application to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remaining provisions and applications that are severable shall remain in effect. In such event, no prior grant of corporate powers shall be revived or reinstated, nor shall any court construe [this act] to authorize broader powers than are expressly conferred in [this act]. Daily Montanan
NEW SECTION. Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective January 1, 2027. Daily Montanan
As the US Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing arguments on the sweeping powers claimed by President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on foreign goods, many critics warned that the court would create a “presidency without limits” if it ruled in his favor.
In April, Trump unveiled unprecedented tariffs on nearly every nation in the world using powers granted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a law passed in 1977 that allows the president to regulate international commerce during major emergencies such as wars.
Many Trump critics believe that using this law as the legal foundation of a global tariff regime is a gross abuse of the law’s original intent, and are urging the Supreme Court to shut it down.
Brett Edkins, managing director of policy and political affairs at Stand Up America, warned that granting the president this level of authority over the taxation of imported goods would “open the door to broader abuses of power” by emboldening Trump to usurp even more authority from the US Congress.
“We’re already dangerously close to a presidency without limits,” he said. “It’s time for the right-wing majority on the court to stand up for our Constitution and serve as a check on Trump’s power, starting with this case.”
Josh Orton, president of progressive legal advocacy organization Demand Justice, also said that the tariff case before the Supreme Court “is about far more than an economic debate or a trade-law dispute,” given its implications for the separation of powers laid out in the US Constitution.
“Trump is demanding that the court hand him raw power over the economy,” said Orton. “If Trump wins here, he won’t just raise costs on American families. He will cement a precedent that expands his power as executive in a dangerous and unprecedented way—letting any president unilaterally rewrite trade law, punish certain industries, harm consumers, or leverage international allies for personal gain.”
Leor Tal, campaign director at the progressive advocacy coalition Unrig Our Economy, argued that the Supreme Court wouldn’t even need to hear the case on the Trump tariffs if Congress reasserted its authority given under the US Constitution to levy taxes.
“As the Supreme Court hears a case with implications for whether Americans can afford groceries, school supplies, and more, people will remember that Republicans in Congress could end these disastrous tariffs today and should have done so a long time ago,” she said. “These tariffs are nothing more than a tax on working Americans, and Republicans in Congress have voted time and again to keep them in place… Republicans in Congress must act immediately to repeal Trump’s tariffs and finally put working people first.”
During Wednesday’s hearing on the tariffs case, conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch raised concerns about allowing the president to usurp congressional powers in perpetuity by issuing emergency declarations that Congress must then vote to revoke before it can resume its duties outlined in Article I of the US Constitution.
“So Congress, as a practical matter, can’t get this power back once it’s handed it over to the president,” Gorsuch remarked. “It’s a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives.”
Sauer tried to counter this by pointing to former President Joe Biden agreeing in 2023 to sign bipartisan legislation ending the national health emergency caused by the Covid-19pandemic.
Gorsuch, however, countered that this only occurred with the president’s consent, and that it would otherwise take a supermajority to end a declared emergency if the president elected to veto the congressional resolution.
Gorsuch: So congress as a practical matter, can't get this power back once it's handed it over to the president.. one way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people's elected representatives. pic.twitter.com/secLyWMX7H
Justice Sonia Sotomayor also grilled Sauer on concerns about separation of powers, and she noted that the Constitution explicitly delegates taxation powers to Congress.
“It’s a congressional power, not a presidential power, to tax,” she said. “You want to say tariffs are not taxes, but that’s exactly what they are. They’re generating money from American citizens, revenue.”
Justice Sotomayor asks about tariffs being a kind of tax on Americans and compares President Trump's emergency tariff Executive Orders to President Biden's student loan forgiveness policy and a hypothetical climate emergency. pic.twitter.com/nD0MYgVjv3
Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing this week, Trump posted a frantic message on his Truth Social platform warning justices that his power to unilaterally impose tariffs was a matter of “life or death” for the United States.
“”With a Victory, we have tremendous, but fair, financial and national security,“ he claimed. ”Without it, we are virtually defenseless against other countries who have, for years, taken advantage of us.“
Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said on social media Wednesday that “Trump’s tariffs are sending small businesses to an early grave.”
“Trade authority begins and ends with Congress,” the senator added. “I’ll keep battling to rein in Trump’s tariff madness and protect small businesses, farmers, and families.”
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The contest to replace Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi had begun before she announced her decision to retire Thursday. Now it’s likely to intensify quickly, becoming one of the highest-profile battles heading into the critical 2026 midterm election.
The House of Representatives has 435 seats, and the one representing all but a few southern neighborhoods in San Francisco wields no unique power. But Pelosi did, adding intrigue to a race also heightened by President Donald Trump’s past efforts to target the city.
And while the campaign won’t affect Democrats’ effort to retake the House — no Republican can compete here — it could turn into a proxy for bigger questions facing the left: What kind of candidates will lead the way, and which messages will resonate with voters?
So far, the list of contenders includes state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who’s arguably the most progressive member of the Senate yet known as a moderate in the city; and Saikat Chakrabarti, a wealthy software engineer and former top aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
For years, political observers have speculated that Christine Pelosi, an attorney, party activist and the daughter of the former speaker, may run for her mother’s seat, but she has not confirmed whether she’s interested in the job.
Another potential candidate — and potential recipient of Nancy Pelosi’s endorsement, if it leaves the family tree — is San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, who is believed to be contemplating a bid.
The race could make history. If Wiener wins, he would be the first openly gay person to represent San Francisco in Congress, while either Chan or Chakrabarti would be the first person of Asian descent to do so. The city has been a bastion of the LGBTQ rights movement for decades and its population is more than 30% Asian.
The seat is sure to continue to draw the limelight. Pelosi had so much influence, and was subject to so much vitriol from the far right, that a man obsessed with conspiracy theories broke into her San Francisco home two years ago and nearly killed her husband.
Here’s what voters should know about the top contenders so far.
Scott Wiener
Wiener may end up as the best-known candidate when the field takes shape. He has represented San Francisco and a sliver of the Peninsula in the state Senate since 2016, when he narrowly defeated Jane Kim in the general election. As a legislator, Wiener has often taken on controversial and complex policy fights, from bills to increase housing density to protecting transgender rights to securing funding for the city’s ailing transit systems.
Before he got to Sacramento, Wiener was a member of the Board of Supervisors for about six years, representing the district that includes the Castro. He previously worked for the city attorney’s office.
Wiener formed an exploratory campaign committee in March, though he said he only planned to run in the event Pelosi didn’t seek another term. But he got tired of waiting, and late last month officially launched his 2026 bid. Wiener’s head start allowed him to start raking in campaign contributions and courting endorsements.
Being a prolific lawmaker has gained Wiener a legion of fans, from YIMBYs to climate hawks. It has also earned him a fierce, outspoken group of enemies. Wiener is simultaneously a boogeyman to the right over his pro-LGBTQ policies and despised by some progressives in the city over his support for expanding conservatorships for the mentally ill and his backing of moderates like District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and Supervisor Matt Dorsey.
Wiener’s “go big or go home” approach to legislating has made him a power player in Sacramento and given him a national profile. But he will likely have to raise gobs of money and campaign hard to stave off potential challengers.
Christine Pelosi
While she has the name recognition that comes with being the daughter of an iconic party chief, the younger Pelosi has had a long career of her own, as an attorney and political leader. She has been an executive committee member to the Democratic National Committee since 2017, and a member of the DNC since 1996. She is the cofounder of We Said Enough, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
Christine Pelosi has been consistently evasive about whether she intends to run for her mother’s seat, though she’s left the door open. “I’m 100% focused on passing Prop 50 — especially in the swing districts we need to win in CA to win the House — and think every Dem should be as well,” she said in a text message before this week’s passage of the redistricting measure.
She has never held public office, which could concern some voters as they compare her resume to that of Wiener. But not having a legislative voting record could also be an advantage in that Pelosi can’t be easily defined. And there’s precedent for San Francisco electing a representative who has not held public office. Exhibit A: her mother, who was a party leader and homemaker prior to her first election in 1987.
Saikat Chakrabarti
Saikat Chakrabarti answers questions during his campaign kickoff at The Chapel in San Francisco on Oct. 8, 2025.Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. Chronicle
The 39-year-old political activist and software engineer, who made much of his considerable wealth as a founding engineer at payments processing company Stripe, didn’t wait for Nancy Pelosi to announce her coming retirement, saying last year he would challenge her in 2026.
Chakrabarti was a top campaign aide to Ocasio-Cortez when the future progressive star, then a 29-year-old New York bartender, pulled off her stunning defeat of Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent and member of the Democratic House leadership. Chakrabarti later served as Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff and as director of organizing technology on Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign.
Like Christine Pelosi, he has never held public office. He has said he didn’t challenge Pelosi because of her age, or because she’s been in office too long.
“I don’t think Nancy Pelosi’s skills in politics (are) what the party needs right now,” he said. “I think what the party needs right now is new ideas and a real way to confront this far-right movement in today’s politics.”
Chakrabarti officially launched his campaign Oct. 8 at a rally in San Francisco. He had $244,051 cash on hand at the fundraising period that ended June 30, according to campaign filing disclosures.
The wealthy Chakrabarti likely will be able to raise enough money — and self-fund — to keep pace with any challenger, but faces an uphill climb in increasing his name recognition enough to be competitive.
Connie Chan
Chan has represented San Francisco’s Richmond District on the Board of Supervisors since 2021. A progressive who is closely aligned with some of the city’s most powerful labor unions, Chan has led the board’s budget committee since 2023, a role that’s put her at the center of the city’s efforts to close massive deficits caused by the pandemic downturn.
Chan has not publicly stated any intention to run for Pelosi’s seat. She declined to speculate about her future when she attended Pelosi’s election results watch party Tuesday for Prop 50. In a statement after Pelosi announced her retirement plans, Chan said Thursday was “about honoring Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.”
But former Supervisor Aaron Peskin, a Chan ally who employed her early in her career, said Chan had told him in recent weeks that she would give a congressional campaign “serious consideration” if Pelosi retired.
“Supervisor Chan would be formidable,” Peskin said, noting her “breadth of experience” and the fact that her candidacy would continue the city’s tradition of representation by a woman in Congress. He said Chan’s ascent would be “an incredible thing” for Asian American residents.
Chan was born in Hong Kong, moved to San Francisco at 13, and was raised by her mother in a rent-controlled apartment in Chinatown. She worked for then-District Attorney Kamala Harris and for two city supervisors, a state Assembly member, the city parks department and City College of San Francisco.
Chan could get a big boost if she secures Pelosi’s endorsement and backing from labor unions. She also knows what it’s like to prevail in a close race: She won her first supervisor campaign in 2020 by just 125 votes. She was reelected in November by a 1,300-vote margin — with support from Pelosi.
Joe Garofoli is the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at The Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He is the host of “It’s All Political,” The Chronicle’s political podcast. Catch it here: bit.ly/2LSAUjA
He has won numerous awards and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy — which he discussed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” after being told he couldn’t say the word “balls” on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh. Go Steelers!
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Before coming to the Chronicle, he reported on local government for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, where he was among the journalists awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the 2017 North Bay wildfires.
He was previously the casino industry reporter for the Las Vegas Sun. Raised in Monterey County and Bakersfield, he has a bachelor’s degree in rhetoric from UC Berkeley.
Dustin Gardiner is a state Capitol reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, with a special emphasis on covering policies related to the housing crisis, climate change, social inequities and LGBTQ rights. He joined the staff in 2019, after nearly a decade with The Arizona Republic, where he covered state and city politics. Dustin’s awards include first place honors for daily Capitol beat coverage from the Sacramento Press Club in 2023, and the “story of the year” award from the Arizona Newspapers Association in 2017. Outside of work, he enjoys running, camping, reading fiction and exploring Northern California. Dustin is a member of NLGJA, the association of LGBTQ journalists.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker emerita, speaks to reporters after a campaign event in support of California Proposition 50 in San Francisco on Monday.Gabrielle Lurie/S.F. Chronicle
Nancy Pelosi — the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the architect of the Affordable Care Act, and a top leader of the Democratic Party during some of its most stirring victories and darkest moments — will not seek reelection in 2026, she said Thursday.
Pelosi plans to complete her term, which ends in January 2027. Her departure — which will follow the death of her friend and neighbor, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in late 2023, as well as Kamala Harris’ exit from the White House in 2024 — marks the end of a historic chapter for three of the most powerful women on Capitol Hill, all boundary breakers from the Bay Area.
The 85-year-old Democrat will be remembered for her bruising style and her willingness to take on all foes, most recently President Donald Trump, with whom she still regularly trades insults. Pelosi never wavered as Republicans made attacking her a central point of their elections strategy and refused to back down after a right-wing conspiracy theorist violently attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, at their San Francisco home in October 2022 during an attempt to kidnap her.
“It seems prophetic now that the slogan of my very first campaign in 1987 was ‘a voice that will be heard,’” Pelosi said in a nearly six-minute announcement video, addressed as a love letter to San Francisco. “And it was you who made those words come true. It was the faith that you had placed in me and the latitude that you had given me that enabled me to shatter the marble ceiling and be the first woman Speaker of the House, whose voice would certainly be heard.”
Pelosi’s retirement announcement had been expected. Multiple Democrats entered the race for her seat recently, including state Sen. Scott Wiener, who has for years publicly expressed his desire to succeed Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection after historic career as first woman House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, the first woman elected as speaker of the House, said Thursday that she will not seek another term in the House of Representatives. The longtime California Democrat made the announcement in a video posted to social media. She will continue to represent San Francisco in Congress through her current term, which ends in 2027.
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Party officials will now wait to hear whether Pelosi’s daughter Christine Pelosi, an attorney who has never held public office but has been a leader in the state and national Democratic parties and has long been a rumored possible replacement, will join the race.
The outpouring from Democrats celebrating Pelosi’s legacy on Thursday was immediate and reverential.
“Nancy Pelosi has inspired generations,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “Her courage and conviction to San Francisco, California, and our nation has set the standard for what public service should be. Her impact on this nation is unmatched.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who succeeded Pelosi leading the House Democrats, called her “the greatest Speaker of all time. The United States is a much better nation today because Nancy Pelosi dedicated her life to serving the children, the climate, the country and the American people.” Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, who served with Pelosi in Congress nearly 30 years, noted that “her bold leadership paved the way for so many women and so much progress.”
Nancy Pelosi was first elected to the House in 1987 after being hand-picked to run for the San Francisco seat by the late Rep. Sala Burton. Pelosi entered a chamber that was still a boys club, with only 23 female members out of 435, and quickly rose through the ranks, becoming the first woman to lead either party in 2003.
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Pelosi became the nation’s first female speaker in 2007 and ascended to the top job again in 2019 after her party recaptured the House. She is widely seen as the architect of landmark legislation, including the Affordable Care Act during the Obama administration, and is a prolific fundraiser, harvesting $1.25 billion for Democrats since she ascended into party leadership, according to party officials.
Her power was such that as the nation’s economy teetered on the brink of implosion during the 2008 financial crisis, then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson knelt in front of Pelosi, begging her not to blow up the $700 billion bank bailout package by pulling Democrat support.
Quipped Pelosi on seeing Paulson kneeling: “I didn’t know you were Catholic.” Pelosi rounded up the support — including from many reluctant Democrats — for the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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The speaker emerita — who took on the honorific after stepping down from leadership in November 2022 — has continued to represent San Francisco in the House, and won her 20th term in Congress in November 2024.
Her clout in Washington was also a boon to the Bay Area and California, a legacy — transforming the Presidio into a national park, bringing home billions of dollars to upgrade local public transit systems such as BART and Caltrain, expanding an affordable housing tax credit — that she highlighted at length in her retirement announcement, elevating it above her historic policy accomplishments.
“There has been no greater honor for me than to stand on the House floor and say, ‘I speak for the people of San Francisco,’” Pelosi said.
Pelosi continued to act as a key adviser to the new generation of leaders in her party, and was long a close friend of President Joe Biden — but that relationship took a turn when Pelosi played a crucial role in persuading Biden to step down as the Democratic Party’s nominee. In an interview with the New York Times following the party’s widespread election losses, Pelosi steadfastly refused to characterize the results as a repudiation of Democrats.
Nevertheless, Biden praised her in a social media post on Thursday, recalling that he awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom: “She has devoted much of her life to this country, and America will always be grateful.”
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Throughout her career, Pelosi was a regular target of conservative politicians and far-right activists. She “starred” in one out of every five GOP-made ads in 2018. But over the past few years, punctuated by the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the threats of actual violence escalated.
During the Capitol attack, insurrectionists ransacked Pelosi’s office, and many posted messages and videos on social media saying they were targeting her specifically. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the frickin’ brain,” one woman who was sentenced to 60 days in prison earlier this year said in a self-recorded video during the attack. Others cried out “Oh Naaaaancy,” as shown in footage aired during former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, and demanded Capitol Police present her to the mob.
The violence wasn’t limited to her. The attack on Paul Pelosi at their Pacific Heights home in October 2022 occurred while she was in Washington, D.C. The incident echoed that of the Capitol attack, with the alleged intruder bringing zip ties and asking, “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy? ,” according to the prosecution’s filings.
Even after stepping down as speaker, Republicans continued to use her name and image to rile up their base and — most important in politics — raise money off that manufactured outrage.
Pelosi could continue to receive protection from the Capitol Police after stepping down, due to a change that came on the heels of that attack.
Pelosi’s decision will leave a rare opening for a House seat she has held since 1987, a race that is expected to be particularly contentious. Two Democrats had already announced their campaigns for the seat: Saikat Chakrabarti, a founding software engineer at the tech firm Stripe and former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Wiener.
Wiener formed an exploratory committee for Pelosi’s seat in 2023, and has been shoring up support from key Bay Area women leaders. He officially announced his 2026 bid in October.
Pelosi has rejected accusations that some of the positions she’s taken over the last year, like her opposition last year to an artificial intelligence measure authored by Wiener and backing democratic socialist Dean Preston for reelection as San Francisco supervisor — Wiener supported his opponent, the winner, Bilal Mahmood — were designed to help her daughter’s candidacy.
In September 2024, Pelosi endorsed a successful San Francisco ballot measure lowering the retirement age for city firefighters to receive a full pension. Currying favor with the powerful firefighters union would be a boon for the younger Pelosi should she run. Christine Pelosi has declined to comment on her plans.
“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” Nancy Pelosi told KQED in August 2024 when asked about various moves to help her daughter. “I find it insulting that they would equate politics with policy for the AI bill.”
Regardless of what happens in the race to replace her, Pelosi is unlikely to back down in her final months in Washington as Democrats seek to rein in Trump and prepare for the midterms.
Pelosi has been unsparing in her criticisms of the president. During his first term, Pelosi welcomed Trump to his 2020 State of the Union address with a stripped-down version of the speaker’s traditional introduction to the joint session of Congress. Speakers typically say it is their “high privilege and distinct honor” to introduce the president, but Pelosi omitted those words. At the end of the speech, she tore up a printed copy of the text. In September 2019, she launched the House inquiry that led to Trump’s impeachment.
The following month, a photo went viral of Pelosi standing across a table and pointing at Trump during a White House meeting to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Turkey’s invasion of the country.
“I hope this picture of Nancy Pelosi, the sole woman at the table, standing-up and speaking-up, inspires other bad-ass women to run for office,” tweeted Republican commentator Ana Navarro, a frequent Trump critic.
On Monday, Pelosi described Trump to CNN as “just a vile creature,” then added that he was “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”
The president fired back Thursday, telling a Fox News reporter that “the retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America. She was evil, corrupt and only focused on bad things for our country.” He added, “I’m very honored she impeached me twice and failed miserably twice. Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.”
Now exiting the political stage before he does, Pelosi seemed to acknowledge in her announcement video that her work combating Trump’s agenda and influence was not done.
“As we go forward, my message to the city I love is this: San Francisco, know your power,” she said. “We have made history. We have made progress. We have always led the way — and now we must continue to do so, by remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.”
Joe Garofoli is the San Francisco Chronicle’s senior political writer, covering national and state politics. He has worked at The Chronicle since 2000 and in Bay Area journalism since 1992, when he left the Milwaukee Journal. He is the host of “It’s All Political,” The Chronicle’s political podcast. Catch it here: bit.ly/2LSAUjA
He has won numerous awards and covered everything from fashion to the Jeffrey Dahmer serial killings to two Olympic Games to his own vasectomy — which he discussed on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” after being told he couldn’t say the word “balls” on the air. He regularly appears on Bay Area radio and TV talking politics and is available to entertain at bar mitzvahs and First Communions. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a proud native of Pittsburgh. Go Steelers!
Alexei Koseff is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, chronicling President Donald Trump’s policies targeting California and the tension between the state and the federal government, as well as how powerful Bay Area figures are shaping — or thwarting — solutions in Washington.
He is rejoining the Chronicle from CalMatters, where he covered Gov. Gavin Newsom and state government. Previously, he previously served as a Capitol reporter for the Chronicle and spent five years in the Capitol bureau of the Sacramento Bee. Alexei is a Bay Area native and attended Stanford University. He speaks fluent Spanish.
New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York on November 4, 2025. New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor with over 50 percent of the vote in the three-way contest.
(Photo by Angelina Katsanis / AFP via Getty Images)
“If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one.”
Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City on Tuesday in a victory he and his supporters say reflects the hope of a city—and a nation—ready for a new kind of politics that puts the needs of working people at the center after decades of failed leadership that put corporate interests and the desires of the wealthiest first.
Withstanding a barrage of negative ads and fearmongering by the city’s elite, the democratic socialist candidate secured 50.4 percent of the vote in a three-way race that saw disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an Independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mandani, nab 41.6 percent, and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa just over 7 percent.
“Hope is alive,” declared Mamdani in his victory speech from the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn after most major networks called the victory his shortly after 9:30 pm local time.
“While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together,” said Mamdani. “Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.”
“This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.” —Zohran Mamdani
Mamdani, a member of the New York State Assembly who ran a campaign focused on making life more affordable for the workers who make the nation’s largest city run and thrive, said that while the campaign’s unifying and inspiring spirit meant his supporters could express a collective sigh of relief after the election day win, the hard work will now be making that shared vision for the city become a reality.
“This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt,” he said. “Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care across our city.”
“Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come,” he added. “This new age will be one of relentless improvement.”
As progressives and Democrats nationwide took the victory in New York City as a sign of what a populist campaign focused on the needs of working people can accomplish, Mamdani also spoke to the underlying theme of Tuesday’s elections across the country, where Democrats claimed major wins in various competitive races and ballot initiatives—outcomes seen as a resounding rebuke to President Donald Trump’s scorched-earth second term.
“If we embrace this brave new course rather than fleeing from it,” said Mamdani, “We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.”
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him." pic.twitter.com/mvGcsN01Xt
“If there is any way to terrify a despot,” he added, “it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump. It is how we stop the next one.”
That dynamic was front and center for many who heralded Mamdani’s win as historic and called for the Democratic Party leadership to embrace his vision on economic issues and a more populist style of politics to displace the corporate stranglehold on the party.
Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, called Mamdani’s victory “the turning point in this Democratic Party that our movement has been working towards for years: electing leaders with the moral courage to unite our voters to take on Republican authoritarianism, Democratic corporatism, and billionaire greed all at once.”
“Zohran Mamdani has never backed down from standing up to Trump and the forces that threaten our democracy,” said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, a pro-democracy advocacy group focused on the climate crisis. “This is the leadership our democracy, and the Democratic Party, needs to rebuild trust with working people and fight for a future that works for everyone.”
Michael Magazine, a campaigner with the group’s local NYC affiliate, echoed that sentiment. “Tonight, the people of New York City showed up in force and reminded the world that grassroots power can beat big money,” he said. “This is more than a win for Zohran. It’s a win for the movement and for democracy itself. We’ve proven that a bold, people-powered vision can overcome the status quo, and this is just the beginning.”
“The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani’s fight for a more affordable NYC,” said former labor secretary Robert Reich following Tuesday night’s victory. “It didn’t matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who proudly endorsed Mamdani, also championed the win.
“Starting at 1% in the polls,” said Sander, “Mamdani pulled off one of the great political upsets in modern American history. Yes. We CAN create a government that represents working people and not the 1%.”
And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), one of Mamdani’s most prominent backers in the race, also heralded his victory as a major turning point, not just for New York City, but for the party.
In her remarks to MSNBC shortly after Mamdani’s victory was declared, the New York Democrat said the campaign and the “heroic effort” of its supporters was not only a fight against Trump and Republican destruction but also a battle against the Democratic Party’s “old guard,” which “essentially led us to many of the perils of this moment.”
Mamdani, she explained, “how a two-front war to win, which is what makes his win so deeply impressive” in a broader political context that should be a wakeup call for those in the party resisting the kind of policies and politics that his campaign championed and exemplified.
“We have a future to plan for. We have a future to fight for,” Ocasio-Cortez said of the party from now on. “And we’re either gonna do that together, or you’re gonna be left behind.”
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by Randy Shaw on November 3, 2025 (BeyondChron.org)
Hyde Street between Eddy and Ellis
In October 2018 the New York Times described the northwest side of Hyde Street between Eddy and Ellis as “the dirtiest block in San Francisco.” I describe in my new book reporter Thomas Fuller’s take: “a single span of Hyde Street hosts an open-air narcotics market by day and at night is occupied by the unsheltered and drug-addled slumped on the sidewalk.” This intersection only blocks from City Hall and Union Square reminded him of “developing-world squalor.”
That block of Hyde is just as dirty today. Its sidewalks remain drug-filled.
The open-air drug market still thrives.
The New York Times story did not cause Mayor Breed or the SFPD to clear the Hyde drug market for a single day. Mayor Dianne Feinstein would have closed it down within an hour. It might have taken former mayor’s Gavin Newsom and Ed Lee a few hours.
On her second day as District Attorney on July 12, 2022 I led Brooke Jenkins on a tour of the Tenderloin. Jenkins requested, despite my concerns, that she walk through the drug market on Hyde. I think that experience further encouraged Jenkins to become such an aggressive prosecutor of Tenderloin crimes.
But the Hyde Street open-air drug market remains: For over seven years City Hall has allowed a high-profile corner of the Tenderloin to become a permanent open-air drug market.
The drug market has never been cleared for a full day. Arrests are made, the drug-market is occasionally disrupted but for over seven years San Francisco has forced Tenderloin residents and workers to avoid the entire side of the main pedestrian route to Civic Center transit, the Farmers Market, and City Hall.
Why Does San Francisco Tolerate This?
I have asked this question to Mayors Breed and Lurie, to Chief’s Scott and Yep, and to every Captain we have had in the Tenderloin since 2018. Without quoting their responses, here’s my take.
The Hyde Street open air drug market has become too big to close.The SFPD does not see closing it down as the best use of scarce police resources.
Urban Alchemy has never served the block hosting the Hyde and Eddy drug market. It staffs the southeast corner but not the northwest corner where all the problems are. Urban Alchemy has told me it does not feel safe for its workers to operate on that block.
I agree with Urban Alchemy that their presence requires police to first close the drug market. That’s when unarmed ambassadors can keep the block safe.
So why hasn’t the SFPD done so?
No Powerful Voices at Hyde and Eddy
San Francisco has closed much larger open-air drug markets than the one on Hyde. The Pelosi Federal Building, Stevenson Alley, UN Plaza, 8th Street between Market and Mission, and the first block of Little Saigon are among them.
Those areas all had powerful voices pushing to close these drug markets. The Hyde drug market lacks that. It is almost entirely residential. None of the owners have political clout. Around the corner from Hyde and Eddy is a PG&E substation that occupies the entire block. Nobody lives or works there.
Brendan Murphy, whose family owns the building across the street from the Hyde drug market, describes the impact. “My tenants have to live with constant harassment from dealers and addicts. Can you imagine coming home after a long days work or school (preschool in one case) and being greeted by this. Not to mention the smell of urine. It’s nauseating. And to add insult to injury the city has previously threatened us with citations if we don’t keep the sidewalk clean in front of the building. There is something very dysfunctional about all of it. Let’s just say you don’t see this kind of thing in most other places.”
Since 2018 the SFPD has used Hyde and Eddy as a drug containment zone. City Attorney David Chiu is aggressively challenging a May 2024 lawsuit from residents and businesses claiming that the city treats other parts of the Tenderloin in the same way. Chiu has assigned multiple attorneys to fight for the right of nonprofits to distribute drug paraphernalia in the Tenderloin—is that really what Mayor Lurie wants? Is that what the Board of Supervisors and the people of San Francisco want the City Attorney to be fighting for?
Too Big to Close
The Tenderloin has a similar “Drug Market is Too Big to Close” problem at Jones and Ellis. And the 100 block of Leavenworth adjacent to TNDC’s Kelly Cullen Community Center.
As Darshil Devdhara reported on August 5, 2025, “Ellis & Jones continues to be one of the worst intersections in the city. The intersection repeatedly had over 20 daily drug users with a high of 38 on July 31. People openly use in front of the permanent supportive housing at the Mentone Hotel and across the street. It’s been completely taken over by drug/alcohol-users despite being only a block away from Tenderloin Police Station.”
He added: “Also out of control is Golden Gate and Leavenworth Street outside the TNDC-owned Kelly Cullen Center. I routinely saw 20 users/dealers with a high of 28.”
The SFPD recently imposed an effective strategy to reduce Tenderloin drug activity. It prevents parking adjacent to drug-filled sidewalks. I haven’t seen this strategy imposed at Hyde and Eddy but if so it was very temporary. Parking is occasionally blocked off on the 100 block of Leavenworth but when cars return so does the drug market.
Hyde Street is the Tenderloin’s busiest traffic corridor. It offers many San Francisco voters their only close up view of the neighborhood.
That’s why I never understood why former Mayor Breed didn’t make sure to close such a highly-visible drug market. That failure helps explain why Daniel Lurie, rather than London Breed, is now the city’s mayor.
<I>Randy Shaw is the Editor of Beyond Chron and the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, which publishes Beyond Chron. Shaw’s new book is the revised and updated, The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco. His prior books include Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century, and Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century. </I>
A man who claimed to have a subpoena to serve OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stopped by Manny Yekutiel early into a speaking event with Altman and Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco.Stephen Council/SFGATE
LATEST Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m. The man who vaulted onto the stage to serve OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with a subpoena at Sydney Goldstein Theater was indeed working for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, the agency confirmed to SFGATE on Tuesday.
The group Stop AI had claimed responsibility for the interruption, as SFGATE reported earlier, alluding on social media to plans for a trial where “a jury of normal people are asked about the extiction threat that AI poses to humanity.” Members of the group have been arrested for blocking the doors at OpenAI’s San Francisco office.
Valerie Ibarra, a spokesperson for the public law office, provided SFGATE with a statement on Tuesday: “An investigator from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office lawfully served a subpoena on Mr. Altman because he is a potential witness in a pending criminal case. Our investigators first made several prior attempts to serve the subpoena at Altman’s company headquarters and via its online portal.”
Nov. 4, 8:30 a.m. A group fighting against the development of artificial intelligence said it was its public defender who tried to hand OpenAI CEO Sam Altman a subpoena onstage at a San Francisco theater on Monday night.
Altman had just sat down for a conversation with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and host Manny Yekutiel on Monday night when a man walked onto the stage and said he had a subpoena for Altman. Yekutiel quickly moved out of his chair to intercept the man from getting to Altman, and security officials escorted him out of the building.
Overnight on social media, Stop AI — a civil disobedience group that has regularly protested at OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters and other AI companies around the city — took credit for the incident, saying the man was legitimately serving Altman with a subpoena.
“Our public defender successfully subpoenaed Sam Altman to appear at our trial where we will be tried for non-violently blocking the front door of OpenAI on multiple occasions and blocking the road in front of their office,” the group wrote on X. “All of our non-violent actions against OpenAI were an attempt to slow OpenAI down in their attempted murder of everyone and every living thing on earth. This trial will be the first time in human history where a jury of normal people are asked about the extiction threat that AI poses to humanity.”
Altman did not physically receive the paperwork the man was attempting to hand him, as Yekutiel took it and gave it to a security official over Altman’s shoulder, who then walked away with the document. But California considers a person to have been served court papers even if they refuse to physically take the subpoena, according to the California courts’ guidance to serving court documents.
Nov. 3, 9:30 p.m. A man claimed to have a subpoena for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after vaulting onto the stage at the beginning of Altman’s highly publicized conversation with Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and Manny Yekutiel on Monday.
Within moments of Kerr and Altman joining Yekutiel onstage at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in downtown San Francisco, the man left his second-row seat and bolted onto the stage.
He was holding a piece of paper out in front of him and mentioned “the public defender’s office” as he stood facing the men. Yekutiel was in the seat closest to the man and moved to stop him from approaching Altman. Two SFGATE reporters in the crowd heard the man say he had a subpoena for Altman, who did not move out of his chair.
Security officers from the theater quickly came in and escorted the man off the stage while Yekutiel passed the piece of paper on to a different person over Altman’s shoulder. The nearly full-house crowd at the theater showered the interrupting man with boos as he was walked offstage.
The man appeared to be alone at the venue and was sitting in a seat with direct access to the stage, in the theater’s front corner.
Asked by SFGATE about the incident after the event, Yekutiel said he suspected it was a stunt but that he didn’t see the paper’s contents.
Yekutiel is the namesake behind the “Manny’s” a combination dining and event space that says it intends to be “a space where the community comes together to take part in civic and political life.” Yekutiel frequently hosts speaking events at the 16th Street venue, and this specific event was an offshoot of the typical series, hosted in the much larger theater.
The event started not with any of the scheduled speakers but with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. The mayor praised both of the upcoming speakers and said the last time he was on this stage, Yekutiel was “grilling” him in a mayoral debate.
Alex Simon is the sports editor for SFGATE. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alex has been in journalism for years as an editor, reporter and adjunct professor, most recently working at Bay Area News Group. He has degrees from Elon University and Arizona State University. When not at a sporting event, Alex enjoys playing sports and finding a good dive bar, and he loves In-N-Out Burger a bit too much for his own good.
Stephen Council is the tech reporter at SFGATE. He has covered technology and business for The Information, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and CalMatters, where his reporting won a San Francisco Press Club award.
Here are just some of the 24 corporations that have already “donated” money for the gaudy ballroom Donald Trump is erecting where the East Wing of the White House stood for 123 years until he had it demolished last month:
Altria (a.k.a. Philip Morris) Amazon Apple Booz Allen Hamilton Comcast Google Lockheed Martin Meta (a.k.a. Facebook) Microsoft Palantir Technologies
Beyond the 24 known Autocrat Cafeteria sponsors, there may well be others whose monetary surrender to Trump has not yet been disclosed or uncovered.
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