Texas passed CALL OF HOUSE, can ARREST Dems; Warren om Mamdani’s communist agenda; NYC Dem Socialist

The Texas House passed a Call of the House: “The sergeant and the officers appointed by her are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purposes of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest and necessary until order of the house.” Vote count: 85 eyes and 6 nays. The fleeing Democrats in Illinois can now be arrested and returned. HHS Secretary RFK Jr.: “Called me last night — he calls me three or four times a week — and says, ‘Where are you? Why are people healthy?’ He’s keeping me under pressure!” Sen. Elizabeth Warren, asked if Mamdani’s campaign is “what the Democrat Party should look like”: “You bet!” And most alarmingly, NYC Democratic Socialists of America insiders revealed their coordination with Mamdani: “We collaborated with the Zoran Mondani campaign on his trans rights platform … free gender affirming care … across the country … With Zoran we’re in basically the best possible position to seize state power that we can be in.”

The Texas Call of the House

The Texas House’s procedural vote. “The 85 eyes and six days the motion prevails.”

85 to 6. Overwhelming majority voting for the Call of the House. Republicans voting unanimously plus some Democrats still present voting with them. The fleeing Democrats are the minority.

“The sergeant and the officers appointed by her are directed to send for all absentees whose attendance is not excused for the purposes of securing and maintaining their attendance under warrant of arrest and necessary until order of the house.”

That is the specific authorization. “Warrant of arrest.” Texas House absentees are now subject to warrants. Law enforcement can pursue them. “Until order of the house” — until the House resolves the quorum-break situation.

Practically, the Call of the House activates the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and other Texas law-enforcement entities to pursue the fleeing Democrats. Within Texas, DPS can arrest. Outside Texas (in Illinois where the Democrats fled), the mechanism is more complex — federal partnership, extradition processes, or pressure on returning Democrats.

“Is this what the party should look like?” Someone asked. “You bet.”

RFK Jr. and “Where Are You?”

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described Trump’s direct engagement. “I mean we have full support from the president. He wants this done. He promised to make America healthy again and he is going to do that. He called me last night. He calls me three or four times a week and says where are you? Why are people healthy? He’s keeping me under pressure.”

“Where are you? Why are people healthy?” Trump’s framing, per RFK Jr. — not merely checking in, but pressuring progress. The implicit expectation: Americans should be healthier, measurably, during Trump’s term. Every day that passes without visible improvement is a day that requires explanation.

“Three or four times a week” is presidential engagement on a specific cabinet official’s work. That level of direct oversight is characteristic of Trump’s management style. The president personally calls cabinet secretaries, demands updates, pushes specific objectives.

“He’s keeping me under pressure.” Kennedy framing the pressure positively. The pressure produces results. Without presidential pressure, the MAHA agenda might drift. With pressure, the industry commitments (dye elimination, ice cream changes, broader food-industry reforms) are accumulating at pace.

”You Bet”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s exchange. “When someone stands up and says I will lead this city by making it more affordable and here are my plans. Real plans. Plans to deliver on childcare. Plans to deliver on housing. Plans to deliver. We’re going to experiment. We’re going to try things on groceries. That is the democratic message.”

That is Warren framing Mamdani’s positions as the model. Childcare plans. Housing plans. Experimentation with grocery prices. Those are, in Warren’s framing, “the democratic message” — what the Democratic Party should stand for.

“Montgomery is the one who said I will make this a priority and you know what he said? He said I’m really going to lean in on childcare. I’m really going to lean in on housing and I’m even going to try some new things to bring down the cost of groceries.”

“Montgomery” appears to be Whisper’s rendering of “Mamdani” or possibly another similarly-named figure. The specific policies being praised — childcare, housing, grocery prices — align with Mamdani’s platform.

“So it doesn’t concern you that he’s a…”

The reporter tries to raise Mamdani’s specific ideological positioning (democratic socialist, anti-Israel, defund-adjacent on policing). Warren declines to engage.

“I’m not going to sit around and pretend oh it’s a federal problem.”

Warren deflecting. The question is whether Mamdani’s specific ideology concerns her. Her answer avoids the ideology question and pivots to jurisdictional framing.

That is significant. Warren is explicitly endorsing Mamdani’s positions as the Democratic Party direction while declining to address concerns about his specific positions on policing, Israel, and economic policy. She is taking the benefits of the endorsement without engaging the costs.

DSA Coordination Revealed

The segment’s most striking material is the DSA insider statement. “Zoran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say you know we want to do which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free and we’re going to like ship people who are going to fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms and we’re going to do all of the like Fox News stuff.”

That is the DSA insider acknowledging that Mamdani’s plan includes exactly what conservative media (Fox News) has been warning about — NYC becoming a destination for people seeking gender-affirming care, with the city paying for travel and accommodations.

“Like we’re getting ideas from Fox News. I want to do that.”

The DSA figure is explicitly identifying Fox News coverage as the source of policy ideas Mamdani is pursuing. What conservative media presents as dystopian warnings, progressive activists are implementing as actual policy.

”Free Gender Affirming Care”

“But most importantly is we collaborated with the Zoran Mondani campaign on his trans rights platform. And what we explicitly wanted to do was use the power of New York City to provide free gender affirming care and I say free in case insurance companies decide to move us off.”

That is specific. NYC-DSA collaborated with Mamdani’s campaign on his trans rights platform. The explicit objective: use NYC’s power to provide “free gender affirming care.”

“Free” here is a specific framing. Not “affordable.” Not “subsidized.” Free. Funded by taxpayers. Available to any recipient.

“Free gender affirming care not just to people in New York City but across the country.”

NYC as the provider of nationwide gender-affirming care. That is a significant policy statement. The state-level restrictions that multiple states have adopted on gender-affirming care for minors are, per this DSA plan, to be circumvented by NYC providing the services to people from anywhere in the country.

”Seize State Power”

“With Zoran we’re in basically the best possible position to see state power that we can be in because you know we’re like this.”

“Seize state power” is the phrase. Not “gain access to government.” Not “influence policy.” Seize state power. That language is characteristic of socialist movement theory — the political objective is institutional takeover, not policy reform.

“Right, DSA has regular meetings with him. My longest team, his policy director, he’s my friend. I’ve been working with his campaign manager for well over a year. You know, I have friends who are in his staff.”

The DSA-Mamdani coordination is described as personal and extensive. Policy director is a personal friend. Year-plus working relationship with the campaign manager. Multiple friends embedded in campaign staff.

”Undermine State Bans”

“There’s no reason at all that we can’t use telehealth and mailing prescriptions to people across the country to undermine state bans.”

That is the specific mechanism. Telehealth consultations from NYC. Prescriptions mailed nationwide. The combination allows NYC-based medical providers to prescribe gender-affirming treatments (including puberty blockers for minors) to residents of states that have banned those treatments.

“Undermine state bans.” That is the explicit goal. States that have legislated against gender-affirming care for minors would have their laws undermined through NYC’s interstate medical practice.

The legal and constitutional questions raised by this framework are significant. States regulate medical licensure within their boundaries. A NYC doctor practicing via telehealth with a patient in a restrictive state operates in a gray area at best, an unlawful area at worst. Deliberately structuring medical practice to undermine state laws invites lawsuits, licensure actions, and potentially federal intervention.

”We Wrote the Platform With Him”

“The Zoran campaign was always eager to work with us. You know, we’re like that. We wrote the platform with him. The team was so happy to work with us on this.”

“We wrote the platform with him.” That is the DSA insider’s statement. Mamdani’s trans rights platform was written in direct collaboration with NYC-DSA. The policy framework reflects DSA’s priorities, not merely Mamdani’s independent views.

That collaboration pattern is revealing. Mamdani is not merely a candidate who happens to share some DSA views. He is a candidate whose platforms are written with DSA. The NYC DSA is, effectively, a co-author of Mamdani’s governance agenda.

The Cumulative Reveal

The DSA segment is one of the more revealing disclosures to emerge in recent Democratic Party messaging. Several elements:

Mamdani’s policies explicitly match “Fox News stuff” — what conservative media warned about is, in fact, the plan.
NYC is planned as a national-scale gender-affirming care provider, including for minors, to “undermine state bans.”
The DSA-Mamdani relationship is coauthorship-level, not merely ideological affinity.
“Seize state power” is the explicit framing — political takeover rather than policy reform.

Voters who have followed the Mamdani campaign casually may not have absorbed these details. The DSA insider’s disclosure makes the pattern explicit on the record. For the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential cycle, that pattern will travel in political messaging as Democratic voices continue embracing Mamdani.

Key Takeaways

The Texas House passed a Call of the House by 85-6, authorizing “warrant of arrest” for fleeing Democrats — who are currently in Illinois.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. on Trump: “He calls me three or four times a week and says where are you? Why are people healthy? He’s keeping me under pressure.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, asked if Mamdani’s campaign is “what the Democrat Party should look like”: “You bet!” — endorsing his grocery experiments and housing/childcare agenda.
NYC-DSA insider on Mamdani’s trans rights platform: “We explicitly wanted to do was use the power of New York City to provide free gender affirming care … across the country.”
“With Zoran we’re in basically the best possible position to seize state power that we can be in” — with plans to “use telehealth and mailing prescriptions to people across the country to undermine state bans.”