Two House Democrats vowed to force daily expulsion votes against Texas candidate Maureen Galindo over her antisemitic remarks about American Zionists.
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’Two Democratic lawmakers are threatening to force repeated votes to expel a fellow Democrat from Congress if Texas voters send her to Washington this November. Galindo, a sex therapist running in a Republican-leaning district, has not backed away from a campaign proposal to turn a local ICE processing center into a"prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.
" She also claimed in a social media post that many Zionists — broadly defined as those who support the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland — are pedophiles who should be castrated. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. , speaks to reporters following a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
, on June 23, 2025. FETTERMAN WARNS DEMOCRATS MUST CONFRONT ‘RISING ANTISEMITISM PROBLEM’ AFTER CLASHES OUTSIDE NYC SYNAGOGUES "My grandmother was part of the Kindertransport out of Germany. Her parents were killed in Auschwitz. My kids are never going to concentration camps," he added.
Galindo’s flurry of antisemitic comments comes as she is vying in a May 26 runoff election after winning the most votes in the Democratic primary for the San Antonio-based district. Republicans redrew the district lines earlier this year to boost the GOP's chances of flipping the seat, though Democrats could still make the race competitive. She has accused her runoff opponent, Johnny Garcia, a sheriff’s deputy in Bexar County, of being paid by"Zionist terrorism and trafficking.
" "When Maureen gets into Congress, she’ll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it’s Zionists harming the Semites," Galindo’s campaign wrote on social media last week. Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla. , left, and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.
, right, are vowing to force a vote to expel Texas Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo over antisemitic comments if she is elected to Congress.
"The Democratic Party can't get to power because we've expanded our tent so big to include this sort of insane behavior," the Florida lawmaker told Fox News Digital. "It's gone from the super extreme side to now almost mainstream," he continued, referring to antisemitism. "We've crossed the Rubicon with the stuff. " House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.
, said Galindo’s comments are"disqualifying" and accused GOP groups of seeking to prop up her candidacy.
"Texans will not be fooled and will reject her at the ballot box next week," Jeffries said in a joint statement with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. Both Moskowitz and Gottheimer suggested Galindo’s comments reflect a broader rise in antisemitism in the political sphere.
"Both parties: There should be zero tolerance for antisemitic-driven hatred that we're seeing right now," Gottheimer told Fox News, adding that Republicans should uniformly condemn podcaster Candace Owens, who frequently traffics in antisemitic conspiracy theories.that Hamas is"a thousand times better" than Israel, referred to some Orthodox Jews as"inbred," and downplayed the sexual violence that occurred during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, among other controversial statements. Hasan Piker listens as Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks in a green room before a campaign rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on April 7, 2026.
Asked whether Democrats are doing enough to combat antisemitism within the party, Moskowitz did not hesitate to respond.
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