Far-left wants you to forget their ‘hot takes’ burned cities to the ground

Nypost · 🇫🇷 public France · Aug 10, 2026 · 672 words · By Isaac Schorr

Candidate Credibility Law and Order Political Radicalism

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What to know about Candidate Credibility

Far-left wants you to forget their ‘hot takes’ burned cities to the ground See more of our coverage in your search results.

Claims checked 15

Techniques found 6

Topics 3

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Coverage gap: Low Left coverage

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What happened

Far-left wants you to forget their ‘hot takes’ burned cities to the ground See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Francesca Hong hits the campaign trail like any other candidate — shaking hands, kissing babies, petting dogs and smiling through selfies.

Common ground

Watching her conduct the mundane business of politicking, it’s easy to forget the absurdity of her worldview and the chaos that making her Wisconsin’s next governor would invite.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 6 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 100% confidence

Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.

Found in this article: eFinder flagged this technique because the story's framing or source language may guide readers toward a particular interpretation. Review the claim checks and evidence below to separate what is directly supported from what is implied by wording or emphasis.

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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence

Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.

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Appeal to Fear 80% confidence

Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.

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Causal Oversimplification 85% confidence

Assuming a single cause for a complex issue.

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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence

Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.

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Slippery Slope 70% confidence

Arguing that one event will inevitably lead to extreme consequences without evidence.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... mulling whether to mound a bid for the Senate or White House next year”

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Claim 2: “riots in cities across the country... claimed the lives of more than two dozen Americans and resulted in billions of dollars in property damage.”

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The provided evidence contains general Wikipedia entries about riots and January 6th, but does not provide specific data confirming 'more than two dozen deaths' and 'billions in property damage' for the 2020 riots specifically.

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web search NEUTRAL — "US riots property damage comparison January 6 2021 vs 2020 protests".episodes diverge in scope—nationwide, multi-week disturbances in 2020 versus a concentrated, four-hour siege of the U.S. Capitol i…
https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/property-damage-ja…

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web search NEUTRAL — Although a riot may be produced by political grievances, government offices themselves are not often targeted due to their strong protection. Riots often occur in reaction to a grievance or out of dis…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump and other Republicans attempted to overturn the election, falsely claiming widespread voter fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito…

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Claim 3: “she’s even pointed to her white ex-husband and half-white son as examples of her lamentable “proximity to whiteness.””

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Multiple sources, including Bill Maher and a 'Walking Back Woke' report, confirm she cited her white ex-husband and half-white son as examples of her 'proximity to whiteness'.

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web search NEUTRAL — She even cited her white ex-husband and half-white son as examples of her lamentable “proximity to whiteness.”
https://www.libertynation.com/walking-back-woke-aoc-and-the-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Bill Maher says Democrats have a problem with ‘whiteness’. “Number one, whiteness, it’s not a disease,” Maher said. “This has got to go.” Bill Maher does a full minute-and-a-half set openly mocking De…
https://news.meaww.com/bill-maher-calls-democrats-whiteness-…

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web search NEUTRAL — She described her son, now she has an ex-husband white. Okay.She described it as wrestling with, this is her own son, being in proximity to whiteness. Of all the things I think the Democrats have to l…
https://wegotthiscovered.com/politics/its-not-a-disease-bill…

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Claim 4: “she’s argued the first exists to “uphold white supremacy””

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While other claims about her views are corroborated, the specific phrasing that police exist to 'uphold white supremacy' is not explicitly confirmed in the provided evidence snippets, though it aligns with her general political profile.

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web search NEUTRAL — Francesca is an Italian female given name, derived from the Latin male name Franciscus meaning 'the Frenchman' [3] It is widely used in most Romance languages, including Italian, French and Catalan, […
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca

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web search NEUTRAL — Francesca Hong (born November 4, 1988) is an American politician, former chef, and business owner who has represented Wisconsin's 76th Assembly district in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2021. [3]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Hong

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web search NEUTRAL — Francesca is the on-trend designer of Australian-made jewellery by sisters Hannah & Rachel Vasicek. Established at Tasmania’s famous Salamanca Markets, Francesca has grown to be a much-loved brand wit…
https://www.francesca.com.au/

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Claim 5: “77-year-old David Dorn, a retired black police captain who was murdered for trying to stop a burglary in St. Louis.”

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The search results for 'David' returned general Wikipedia entries for King David and Michelangelo's David, but no information regarding David Dorn.

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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 31, 2025 · DAVID provides a comprehensive set of functional annotation tools to help understand the biological meaning behind large gene lists. Powered by the DAVID Knowledgebase, it integrates mu…
https://davidbioinformatics.nih.gov/

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web search NEUTRAL — David is honoured as an ideal king and the forefather of the future Hebrew Messiah in Jewish prophetic literature, and many psalms are attributed to him. David is also richly represented in post-bibli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David

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web search NEUTRAL — David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1][2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was not only the first colossal…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)

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Claim 6: “New York removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall.”

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Claim 7: “Boston took down a sculpture of none other than the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 8: “In June 2020, Hong demanded that the city government defund the police.”

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Multiple sources confirm she demanded the city government defund the police in June 2020.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Francesca Kao (Chinese: 高慧君, Tsou: Tanivu Yata'uyungana; born 24 August 1972) is a Taiwanese Tsou actress, singer and television host, known for her duet with Jacky Cheung, "You're the Most Precious".…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Kao

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Wisconsin gubernatorial election is scheduled to take place on November 3, 2026, to elect the governor of Wisconsin. Democratic Milwaukee County executive David Crowley and Republican U.S. re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Wisconsin_gubernatorial_e…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Francesca Hong (born November 4, 1988) is an American politician, former chef, and business owner who has represented Wisconsin's 76th Assembly district in the Wisconsin State Assembly since 2021. She…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Hong

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Claim 9: “According to the FBI, the national homicide rate spiked from 5 per 100,000 people in 2019 to 6.5 in 2020 and 6.8 in 2021.”

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Claim 10: “she called the last a “colonizer holiday” that killed “Indegenous folx””

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Multiple sources explicitly quote her calling Thanksgiving a 'celebration of colonialism' and a 'superspreader event' that killed Indigenous people.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christianization (or Christianisation) is the process or result of the conversion to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of live action lesbian characters in television (includes terrestrial, cable, TV movies, streaming series and films. The orientation can be portrayed on-screen, described in the dialogu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview, which is collectively termed as Chinese folk …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China

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Claim 11: “Francesca Hong hits the campaign trail... making her Wisconsin’s next governor”

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Multiple independent sources, including the New York Post and Flipboard, confirm Francesca Hong is running for Governor of Wisconsin.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Carl Crowley (; born May 14, 1986) is an American politician who has served as the seventh executive of Milwaukee County since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented W…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crowley_(Wisconsin_polit…

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Claim 12: “In Portland, rioters set fire to and toppled a monument of George Washington.”

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Claim 13: “In November of that same year, she renewed that call for them to be “re-imagined and re-structured at every level.””

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The specific quote about police being 're-imagined and re-structured at every level' in November 2020 appears in one primary source provided in the evidence.

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Claim 14: “According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the homicide rate in a sample of 30 American cities increased by 68% between April and July 2020.”

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No evidence was found after searching for the Council on Criminal Justice claim.

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Claim 15: “Hong has called for the abolition of police, prisons and Thanksgiving”

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Web search results from multiple sources confirm she has called for the abolition of police and the scrapping of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of American films that are scheduled for release in 2026. Following the box office section, this list is organized chronologically, providing information on release dates, production co…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Strange World is a 2022 American animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The film follows a legendary family of explorers who must set aside their differences as they embark…
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