Priorities: Mamdani Minion Claire Valdez Wants to Abolish TSA PreCheck

June 27, 2026
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In a city already flirting with the kind of soft-authoritarian “public safety” schemes that treat every law-abiding traveler like a presumptive threat, New York State Assembly candidate Claire Valdez is now floating the idea of scrapping TSA PreCheck—the very program that lets millions of screened, low-risk Americans move through airports without the ritual humiliation of removing shoes and laptops. Valdez, who has openly aligned herself with the defund-the-police crowd and Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, frames the move as “equity,” but the subtext is unmistakable: if you can’t make everyone equally inconvenienced, better to punish the responsible. For the 2A community this is more than an airport annoyance; it’s another data point in the larger project of normalizing the idea that private citizens who take reasonable precautions are somehow suspect. The practical effect would be longer lines, more arbitrary screening, and an expanded bureaucracy that already struggles to distinguish between a retired Marine with a clean record and someone on a watch list. PreCheck exists precisely because risk-based screening works; abolishing it in the name of leveling outcomes is the same logic that produces magazine bans, “ghost gun” registries, and red-flag laws that skip due process. When politicians start treating the ability to travel efficiently as a privilege that must be rationed rather than a baseline expectation for vetted citizens, the Second Amendment community recognizes the pattern: erode the presumption of law-abiding conduct until every exercise of a constitutional right requires prior government permission. What makes this proposal especially telling is how casually it pairs with the rest of the Mamdani-Valdez agenda—attacks on qualified immunity for police, hostility to private security, and reflexive skepticism toward any program that rewards personal responsibility. The 2A takeaway is straightforward: today it’s PreCheck, tomorrow it’s the carry permit, the next day it’s the firearm itself. Voters who still believe that government exists to facilitate ordered liberty rather than manufacture equal misery should treat this as the warning shot it is.

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The practical effect would be longer lines, more arbitrary screening, and an expanded bureaucracy that already struggles to distinguish between a retired Marine with a clean record and someone on a watch list. PreCheck exists precisely because risk-based screening works; abolishing it in the name of leveling outcomes is the same logic that produces magazine bans, “ghost gun” registries, and red-flag laws that skip due process. When politicians start treating the ability to travel efficiently as a privilege that must be rationed rather than a baseline expectation for vetted citizens, the Second Amendment community recognizes the pattern: erode the presumption of law-abiding conduct until every exercise of a constitutional right requires prior government permission.

What makes this proposal especially telling is how casually it pairs with the rest of the Mamdani-Valdez agenda—attacks on qualified immunity for police, hostility to private security, and reflexive skepticism toward any program that rewards personal responsibility. The 2A takeaway is straightforward: today it’s PreCheck, tomorrow it’s the carry permit, the next day it’s the firearm itself. Voters who still believe that government exists to facilitate ordered liberty rather than manufacture equal misery should treat this as the warning shot it is.

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