Hakeem Jeffries Can’t Have It Both Ways

If House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wants to lead a party capable of defeating authoritarianism and rebuilding public trust, he needs to stop protecting power for power’s sake.

While bold leaders like Rep. Jasmine Crockett fight tooth and nail to speak hard truths — often facing criticism for doing so — Jeffries has elevated questionable figures like Stephen Lynch, who recently voted in favor of the GOP-led Laken Riley Act, a bill framed as an immigration measure but enables ICE to become the gestapo.

Lynch, a long-time incumbent, has often broken with the views of his voters — even stating he knows better than them. Yet instead of pushing for new leadership and fresh voices, Jeffries continues to back figures like Lynch — while pushing out and sidelining leaders such as Crockett — not for wrongdoing, but for speaking with passion and urgency.

This isn’t unity — it’s selective silence. And silence in the face of the trump monstrosity isn’t strength, it’s outright complicity.

The Blue Anchor Project is organizing across the Northeast to demand better. That means real public town halls, unfiltered conversations, and pressure on leaders like Jeffries to stop catering to comfort, and start listening to the voters.

We don’t need managed optics. We need someone who is honest, and has a backbone.