Free Beacon Jessica Costescu

Jessica Costescu is a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with a major in International Politics and a concentration in Foreign Policy. She also holds an Associate Degree in Administration of Justice from Cypress College. She can be reached at costescu@freebeacon.com


Dem Nominee in Tennessee Special Election Called on White Candidates To Forfeit to Minority Opponents—Then Knocked Out a Black Rival

'Ask yourself in this moment "is my voice more important?" And if you think it is, your campaign is more about you than your policy agenda,' Aftyn Behn wrote

Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’

‘We’re not going to beat them on their terms. We’ve got to build our own weapons,’ the Democrat says

Maine’s Platner Calls To Abolish ICE, Drag Agents Before Congress: ‘People Need to Go to Prison’

‘Organizations that are used to kidnap Americans are not organizations that should exist in the future,' the Democrat says

Maine’s Platner Says Democrats Should Be ‘Party of Taxing the Rich’

Platner, billing himself as working class, wants to ‘remake’ the Democratic Party

Dem Nominee in Tennessee Special Election Smeared Her Own State As ‘Racist’

'Racism is in the air we breathe, permeating the State Capitol,' wrote Aftyn Behn

Harvard Rhodes Scholarship Recipient Lauded Hamas's Oct. 7 Attack: 'Daring To Resist'

Sazi Bongwe participated in anti-Israel campus activism, including illegal encampment

Graham Platner Calls To Stack the Supreme Court and Impeach ‘At Least Two’ Sitting Justices

'If we retake the Senate … we need to use every single lever of power that we have to deal with the Supreme Court,' Maine Democrat says

Graham Platner Confronted by Sexual Assault Survivor Over Reddit Posts Blaming Victims for Their Rapes

‘Can you look me in the face, as a survivor, and offer me more than shallow words?’ woman asks at town hall