Alma Hernandez is a Democrat, and a state senator in Arizona. Unlike many of her fellow Democrats, she understands the Iranian threat and the need for the Americans and Israelis to help bring down the regime that has been oppressing its own people, and threatening both Israel, the Little Satan, and America, the Great Satan, for the past 47 years. More on Hernandez’ defense of Operation Epic Fury can. be found here: “Message From a Democratic Legislator: Iran’s Long Oppressed People Deserve to Be Free,” by Alma Hernandez, Algemeiner, March 18, 2026:
Yesterday’s election results in Illinois sent an unmistakable message: the American people are rejecting the far left’s reflexive opposition to the war with Iran.
In Illinois, every member of the Squad on the ballot lost their primary, a stunning repudiation of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wing of our party that has spent years excusing Iranian aggression, undermining our alliance with Israel, and treating supporters of human rights and democracy as warmongers. The voters have spoken, and I am proud to stand with them.
As an elected Democrat, I have no interest in endless wars in the Middle East. What is happening in Iran is, I believe, not a repeat of the mistakes of the Bush administration. It is instead an American-led effort to put an end to the war that Iran has been waging against its people, its neighbors, and the United States of America for the past 47 years.
The people of Iran have long suffered at the hands of their government. The Islamic Republic denies basic human rights to Iranians, particularly women, the LGBTQ+ community, and religious and ethnic minorities. As a Democrat, the Islamic Republic stands in opposition to every value that I cherish.
Iran’s now former Supreme Leader, the theocrat Ayatollah Khamenei, deserves no mourning. On the other hand, Iran’s long-suffering women deserve both our prayers and our efforts to eliminate their tormentors. The women of Iran are subject to a puritanical head-to-toe dress code in public. They are also subject to “male guardianship” by their fathers, husbands, or other male relatives.
The situation is equally as bad for Iran’s beleaguered LGBTQ+ community. Homosexuality is illegal in Iran and can be punished by death, sometimes carried out by hanging victims from giant construction cranes in the center of major cities, a medieval punishment with a surreal modern twist.
Non-Muslims are similarly persecuted. Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians have some protections as “Peoples of the Book,” but these are quite limited in practice. Iranian Jews have been arbitrarily arrested and tortured for allegedly “spying for Israel,” and Iranian Christians have been sentenced to up to 280 years in prison for religious practices as simple as putting up a Christmas tree. Believers in other faiths are not tolerated at all by the regime….
When Operation Epic Fury began, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tweeted, “President Trump, along with his right-wing extremist Israeli ally Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun an illegal, premeditated, and unconstitutional war.”
Senator Sanders could not be more mistaken. The right-wing extremists waging a premeditated war are the fanatical Islamist clerics in Tehran. This is a war they have been waging since 1979 against their own people, their neighbors, and against Americans.
What makes her piece remarkable is not only its cogent summing-up of the threat posed by Iran to America, to Israel, and to the region, and the need to deal with the Islamic Republic once and for all to remove that threat, but the fact that she is a Democrat. She’s a female version of Senator John Fetterman, a Danielle come to judgment. Let’s hope Alma Hernandez rises high, beyond the state level. Her party needs such people.
Blame the Left says
Just because 1% of the Democratic Party is sane is no reason to vote for them.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Absolutely true. That said, if in a race, the Republican tends to pander to islam while the Dem tends to be someone sensible like Rara Avis or Jackie Rosen in Nevada, then definitely pick the Dem
James Lincoln says
I am shocked – shocked!
A well-written piece.
And Alma Hernandez is a….. Democrat!
GE says
She serves Tucson north of me. She is indeed a rarity. She converted to Judaism in 2015. She became interested in the religion after learning her maternal grandfather was Jewish.
In 2021 she sponsored a bill requiring Holocaust education in public schools which passed the state legislature.
She has opposed the governor on occasion, stating that “she serves the people of Arizona, not Katie Hobbs.”
She’s outspoken in her support of Israel, and has been targeted for it in her home neighborhood.
She’s the Arizona version of John Fetterman.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hopefully she can replace Katie Hobbs at some point
OLD GUY says
God bless her and keep her safe, we need more politicians that serve the people rather than their party.
Jim says
A strong woman no doubt. Stand firm and free. Remove islam from the face of the planet !!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One thing that I disagree w/ her on: Iran’s islamic regime is not “right-wing”. If one wants a right-wing entity in Iran, it’s the Pahlavis. Iran prior to 1979 was a right-wing country, which is why, aside from the ayatollahs, the communist Tudeh party and the MEK both wanted to oust the Shah. Yeah, the commies and MEK are Leftists, but the islamics aren’t anywhere on that political spectrum. They are beyond even a parody that the Left has of Right-wing reglious fanatics, be it Christian, Jewish, Hindu or whatever (except muslim)