You might not have heard of Zohran Mamdani before last month, and frankly, that’s how his backers prefer it. Quiet rise, loud revolution. But now, the man poised to take over New York City’s mayoralty is making headlines—not just for his radical policies, but for the fingerprints left all over his campaign by a familiar global influencer: George Soros.
Mamdani bills himself as a “Democratic Socialist,” which in political marketing means: “Communist, but wearing a Target blazer.” He’s floated plans to “seize the means of production,” eliminate billionaires, and slap dramatically higher taxes on white residents living in wealthier NYC neighborhoods. Sounds more like a Politburo member than a public servant.
Yet here’s the punchline: Mamdani’s ascent isn’t being funded by some grassroots, Etsy-knitting collective. It’s being bankrolled by one of the world’s richest men—George Soros—the foreign-born billionaire best known for wanting to “radically transform” America. He’s said it out loud for decades. In fact, in a 2006 interview with The Atlantic, Soros flatly declared that the United States was a “danger to the world.” Apparently, his solution was to throw $37 million behind the most far-left slate of operatives this side of Havana.
That $37 million, according to The New York Post, was funneled from Soros’ Open Society Foundations into 10 activist groups—most notably the Working Families Party (WFP)—that went all-in on boosting Mamdani over more moderate Democrats like former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
To put that in perspective: Soros spent less backing Joe Biden in 2020 than he has to push a city-level communist into power in 2025.
Now, about that web of influence. The WFP alone received more than $23.7 million from George Soros since 2016. Another $13.9 million was spread across radical-left nonprofits like Make the Road Action ($3.5M), Community Voices Heard ($2.6M), MoveOn.org ($2.3M), and Jewish Voice for Peace Action ($650K). These aren’t just generic activist outfits. These are well-oiled turnout machines—and Soros is the oil.
Their mission? Flip city power toward Mamdani by engineering endorsements, orchestrating GOTV efforts, and forming cross-party alliances that made his win possible.
Mayor Eric Adams, now an independent after years in the Democratic Party, called out the hypocrisy. “Mamdani attacks job creators and rails against wealth,” Adams said, “but he’s benefiting from millions in support from billionaires and the nonprofit network he pretends to oppose.” In other words, you don’t get to carry the hammer and sickle in one hand while accepting hedge fund checks with the other.
And Mamdani’s support didn’t stop at Soros’ checkbook. Former Open Society Foundation president Patrick Gaspard, now a senior fellow at the Soros-backed Center for American Progress, played a quiet but instrumental role. Gaspard, a former top aide to President Barack Obama, reportedly set up strategy meetings for Mamdani and even helped engineer a backroom deal between Mamdani and rival candidate Brad Lander. The goal? Defeat Cuomo and secure the mayoral nomination for Soros’ preferred son.
Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, may be up against the most stacked deck in the country—but he’s not pulling punches. “Mamdani doesn’t want to get rid of billionaires,” Sliwa said. “He just wants to destroy the ones who don’t bankroll his radical agenda.” He’s not wrong. For Mamdani and his ilk, capitalism isn’t evil if it pays the bills.
The bigger picture here? Soros is playing a long game. A multi-decade strategy to transform the United States from the inside out—city by city, DA by DA, mayor by mayor—into something unrecognizable. Mamdani isn’t a fluke. He’s a chapter in a playbook Soros has been writing since most of today’s voters were still in diapers.
And it’s working.
When Democrats suddenly start demanding the release of the Epstein files after years of silence… when the same intelligence community that invented Russiagate is still in place… when city-level races start costing more than presidential PACs… you know something’s up.
Soros isn’t just funding the fringe. He’s mainstreaming it. And Mamdani may be his most dangerous investment yet.