President Trump is expected to announce foreign interference in the 2020 election during Thursday night’s speech.

Earlier Monday, President Trump said he will be delivering a speech this Thursday at 9 pm ET.

According to MS NOW, Trump will speak about the newly declassified intelligence.

The Democrat Party spent four years calling voter fraud a myth.

Now the Justice Department just told every single secretary of state in America they can go to prison for ignoring it.

Harmeet Dhillon dropped the hammer this week – and Democrats suddenly have a lot to explain.

Criminal Charges on the Table

Trump’s top civil rights enforcer, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, sent identical letters to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on July 7.

The message was simple: clean up your voter rolls or face criminal prosecution.

“Any election officer, including the chief election officer of the state, who knowingly retains noncitizens on the state’s [voter registration list] or facilitates noncitizens in receiving and casting ballots could be subject to criminal liability,” Dhillon wrote to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.

States got five days to explain exactly how they plan to comply with federal voter eligibility laws.

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The city of Sarasota, Florida, has around 55,000 people in it. Sarasota County, though, has about 480,000 people. That’s a lot of folks, but even in Sarasota itself, it’s not exactly Tiny Town, USA. And, as it’s in Florida, there are probably a whole lot of guns floating around town, both legal and not so legal.

But never fear, Sarasota just had a gun “buyback,” where they bought back things the government never owned in the first place. The goal of such events, as always, is to reduce the number of guns that criminals might gain access to.

And did this one make a dent? Not in the least.

 The Sarasota Police Department hosted its annual “Done with the Gun” firearm turn-in event Saturday, providing an anonymous way to safely dispose of unwanted firearms.

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Police said that 12 firearms were turned in this year.

Police accepted a variety of items, including non-working firearms, antique firearms, replica firearms, pellet guns and BB guns.

What they got was a double-barrel shotgun, a break-action shotgun, a bolt-action .22 rifle, an air rifle, five revolvers–including one that didn’t even seem to have a grip on it–and three semi-auto handguns.

Of these firearms, the semi-autos and a couple of the revolvers, which were snub-noses, might be useful to a modern criminal.

That’s it. That’s the potential impact, and since I’m pretty sure these were all from lawful owners who just didn’t want them anymore for whatever reason, there will be zero impact on crime.

Then again, that’s true of buybacks as a whole. The research, which routinely seems to find a convoluted way to advance the anti-gun narrative, has come right out and proven time and time again that buybacks don’t reduce crime. The only example that a study has ever suggested otherwise was one where the buyback was held in conjunction with other efforts, but the researchers made no effort to see if it was the buyback itself or the other efforts that made a difference.

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Donald Trump has reinstated his naval blockade of Iran, barring ships from entering or leaving their ports, days after Tehran attacked another commercial vessel and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.

The President also claimed the US would be paid a 20 percent tariff for securing safe passage for commercial vessels through the Persian Gulf. The details of Trump’s demand were not immediately clear.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US ‘will be, from this point forward, known as “The Guardian of the Hormuz Strait.”‘

‘The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

The blockade will not take effect immediately: shipowners must be given 24 hours’ notice under maritime law.

Oil prices spiked by 5 percent, with Brent crude, the global benchmark, hitting $79.93 – its highest price since June 19.

Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran’s Houthi proxy terror group in Yemen, opening a new front in the war after Iran launched strikes against five US allies in the region.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels say Saudi warplanes bombarded Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. The group’s spokesman declared an ‘end to the de-escalation phase’ and warned that the ‘aggression will not go unanswered or unpunished.’

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WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Monday that the US will be “taking over” the Strait of Hormuz following another round of airstrikes against Iran overnight.

“We’re taking over the strait. They have nothing. They’ve got nothing,” Trump, 80, told “Fox & Friends” when asked about Iran’s claims to have closed the critical waterway.

“So we’re just going to hit them very hard, and we’re going to, we’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” the president later added. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait, and we should be reimbursed for that … We guarded it for nothing, and now we’re going to guard it — we’re going to get paid for guarding it.”

Before the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, Feb. 28, nearly a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil flowed through the Strait of Hormuz annually.

Prosecutors charged five former Georgia police officers over the alleged misuse of Flock Safety license plate reader camera system data.

On June 25, the Albany Police Department asked that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigate several officers after an internal audit of its automatic plate reader camera system, according to a GBI press release.

The audit allegedly found that the officers had repeatedly gone into the Flock system and used stored license plate information for purposes unrelated to official police duties.

The five former Albany police officers arrested were Tytianna Davis, 27; Jade Jackson, 32; Nicholas Richardson, 30; Brittney Smith, 23; and Issac Whitus, 24, according to the GBI. Davis faces five counts of misusing license plate data, Richardson faces 11 counts, Jackson and Whitus face two counts each, and Smith faces one count. All five were also charged with violating their oaths of office.

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(BERLIN, MD) – Maryland State Police are investigating a trooper-involved crash that occurred shortly before 8:30 p.m. yesterday in Worcester County.

A Maryland State Trooper was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, and later flown by Maryland State Police Aviation Command to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries. The driver of a Land Rover, a 16-year-old male, was also flown by Maryland State Police helicopter to a local trauma center for treatment of his injuries.

Shortly before 8:30 p.m. yesterday, troopers from the Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack responded to the area of eastbound U.S. Route 50 at Maryland Route 818 for a report of a two-vehicle crash. According to a preliminary investigation, the Land Rover was traveling northbound on MD Route 818, attempting to cross the intersection and failed to yield to oncoming traffic, subsequently striking the Maryland State Trooper, who was traveling eastbound on U.S. Route 50. The Maryland State Trooper was traveling in his marked patrol vehicle at the time of the crash.

Assistance on scene was provided by personnel from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office, Berlin Police Department, and Berlin Fire Company.

The Maryland State Police Crash Team is leading the active and ongoing investigation. Upon completion, the investigation will be presented to the Office of the State’s Attorney in Worcester County to determine whether charges will be filed.

The FBI is investigating Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday night after a brief, sudden illness.

The South Carolina Senator just turned 71 on July 9.

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,” Graham’s office said.

Audio of the 911 dispatch call reveals Lindsey Graham had chest pains before going into cardiac arrest.

Lindsey Graham recently returned from a trip to Kiev, Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

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Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger says concertgoers want to escape from politics and everyday worries rather than sit through political speeches.

Jagger made the remarks during an interview on The New York Times podcast after being asked about Bruce Springsteen, who has repeatedly used his current tour to lambast President Trump.

Host David Marchese noted that Springsteen “clearly sees his job as engaging in a meaningful back and forth” with audiences before asking Jagger what his own relationship with fans means to him.

Jagger said his priority is giving audiences a break from the outside world.

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We’re still a few weeks away from Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary, but the insurgent Senate campaign of far-left contender Abdul El-Sayed has Democratic Party officials worried, again, about an extremist who could usurp a nomination in a state they need to win.

The favorite to win the nomination was Democratic U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, seemingly the perfect candidate for Dems in a state that’s gone for Donald Trump in both of his presidential victories and which has swung to the right in recent years. But, as CNN reports, El-Sayed is tapping into the party’s radical base, following the path of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other successful Democratic Socialists of America candidates. (Not to mention, ahem, Maine’s Graham Platner.)

Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow was supposed to be a middle ground between the Democratic Socialists of America-backed El-Sayed and the very non-progressive Stevens, but McMorrow has withdrawn from the race after failing to gain traction. It’s not hard to see why when you look at some of her attempts to drum up energy — literally, here — on the campaign trail:

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Obamacare rates are experiencing massive, consecutive premium hikes, with insurers proposing a median rate increase of 14% for 2027 plans, building on a massive 20% surge in 2026. These soaring costs are driven by the expiration of taxpayer-funded subsidies, general inflation, and skyrocketing medical and prescription drug costs.

Obamacare was never going to work. This should give people a glimpse of how Medicare for All will work. Taxpayers will be on the hook for unaffordable, ever-increasing payments.

People with lower incomes still qualify for subsidies under Obamacare. However, Obamacare was providing enhanced subsidies for people with average and better incomes.

Millions of people dropped Obamacare once they lost the welfare subsidies. That has increased costs.

Obamacare has ruined healthcare and health insurance.

Large companies can get healthcare plans, but smaller ones can’t afford to.

The ACA Was Planned to Destroy Healthcare 

The Affordable Care Act was intended to drive up healthcare costs so the government could take over healthcare. It was meant to destroy the current healthcare system.

Obamacare was a halfway point to the government-funded healthcare and was never meant to last.

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Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) is pushing to BAN Sharia Law nationwide, calls out the GENOCIDE of Christians by Muslims

“This extreme ideology is straight from the pit of HELL, and it has no place in American society!”

“You won’t hear from Democrats about how radical Islamic terrorists are currently carrying out a mass genocide of Christians in Nigeria.”

“Think about this. More than 62,000 Christians have been slaughtered since 2000 by radical Islamic terrorists in Nigeria. You heard that right, 62,000.”

“And just this year alone, more than 7,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered because of their faith alone. You can’t turn on the TV without hearing about Israel’s so-called mass genocide of Palestinians every day. And yet when it comes to 62,000 Christians being slaughtered by radical Muslims, it’s radio silence.”

A single state university in Michigan is spending close to $1 million on just five employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) positions that federal standards no longer allow.

Campus Reform filed a public records request and uncovered the information about the salaries at Michigan State University’s (MSU) Office for Inclusive Excellence and Impact. Altogether, MSU is spending $879,194.81 on salaries for five employees at the office. Notably, the university has attempted to remove some DEI language and masked its DEI strategic planning in order not to lose federal funding after the Trump administration insisted on elimination of the poisonous woke ideology from taxpayer-funded academia.

There are many reasons that college is overpriced in America, with some of the biggest factors being government interference and bureaucratic financial incompetence. Another reason is that many universities spend a considerable amount of money on employees and programs that should never have existed in academia to start with.

There is absolutely zero need for DEI employees at any university, and indeed they do a great deal of harm. Yet Campus Reform reports on MSU:

The highest-paid employee identified in the records is Vice President and Chief Inclusion Officer Jabbar Bennett, who earns $383,721.15 annually. Other employees reviewed by Campus Reforminclude Diversity Research Network Director Deborah Johnson ($239,309.12), Outreach and Engagement Manager Florensio Hernandez ($91,710), Assistant Director of the Diversity Research Network Micaela Flores ($89,304.14), and Staff Assistant Lisa Fuentes ($75,150.40).

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Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died Saturday evening at his Capitol Hill home at the age of 71. His office attributed the death to a “brief and sudden illness,” and police scanner audio from Saturday night indicates emergency personnel were dispatched to the residence for cardiac arrest. No further details have been released, and funeral arrangements have not been announced.

The suddenness is difficult to overstate. Graham had returned from Kyiv that same day after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday and touring a Ukrainian drone production facility. He was booked to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning.

President Trump, who called Graham “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known” in a tribute posted to Truth Social, is expected to appear on the program instead to discuss his death.

Governor Henry McMaster said in a statement, “Lindsey Graham is irreplaceable. The fiercest of fighters for South Carolina and America, and a loyal and steadfast friend.”

The personal tributes will continue for days. The institutional consequences began the moment he died, and they are considerable. Graham chaired the Senate Budget Committee, sat on Appropriations, Judiciary, and Environment and Public Works, and was four months away from a general election in which he was the Republican nominee for a fifth term. His death sets multiple processes in motion simultaneously, on different clocks, with different decision makers.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a chilling warning that cancer cases are exploding around the world, with the disease expected to soon affect more than 90 percent of the global population.

The WHO said cancer remains the world’s second-leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease.

The disease is already killing more than 26,000 people every day.

According to the agency, the world is now seeing nearly 10 million cancer deaths and 20.6 million new cases every year.

Without urgent action, the WHO warns that the number of new cancer cases will soar to 35 million annually by 2050.

That means new cancer cases are projected to nearly double worldwide in less than three decades.

The WHO estimates that one in five people will develop cancer during their lifetime.

Lung cancer remains the deadliest form of the disease.

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Nick Shirley has once again dropped a bombshell that Democrats and bureaucrats are going to hate.

His latest hour long expose dives into what appears to be a massive Medicare fraud ring operating through senior centers catering to elderly Koreans and Chinese Americans. It is not pretty, and it is your tax dollars footing the bill.

Shirley’s video is already making the rounds online, not only for what it reveals but for how flagrantly the scam seems to operate.

“Your tax dollars are paying for elderly Koreans and Chinese to play ping pong and do tai chi, while the fraudsters give kickbacks to those who enroll,” Shirley wrote as he released the segment.

Even for the hardened political observer, it is jaw dropping.

The footage shows Shirley walking into a facility in Flushing, New York, one that has somehow billed millions through Medicare programs under the pretense of community wellness.

Shirley asked a staff member if it was true that over seven thousand people were registered there.

The man insisted that number was wrong.

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While some of us might be pleased to see former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei removed from the earth — he was a murderous despot, after all — it’s pretty sick stuff to celebrate the death of a fellow American citizen just because you don’t like their politics, or because they’re not in the political party you prefer.

I consider Joe Biden to have been one of the worst presidents in the modern era, and yet I will not pop the champagne when he dies. Nor will I laugh at the pain of his family as they say goodbye.

Then again, I am not a liberal, and the Left in this country has gone so wacko in recent times that they routinely put on the party hats when awful tragedies strike, like the assassination of father, husband, and Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk or the cold-blooded murder of a healthcare executive allegedly carried out by Luigi Mangione.

With the sad news of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham’s surprise death, we are once again seeing the ghoulish leftist psychos come out from their closets to mock him less than 24 hours after his passing.

How do these people live with themselves?

Here’s social media personality and “Trump Resistance” hall monitor Brian Krassenstein. If you find his words beyond merely “poor taste,” you should blame Trump, he ludicrously argues:

The Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights on July 10 launched an initiative cracking down on sexual predators in K–12 schools.

“The Trump Administration has observed a troubling and recurring pattern in schools across the nation of credible reports of sexual abuse and harassment by adults in positions of authority going uninvestigated or of suspected offenders being transferred to new schools or roles in the district,” the department said in a statement.

“When school administrators protect adults accused of assaulting or harassing children from meaningful consequences, enabling them to continue harming kids in another environment, it is referred to as ‘passing the trash.’”

In a July 10 guidance letter issued to educational institutions receiving federal funding, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon reminded schools of their legal obligation to safeguard children and appropriately respond to sexual misconduct allegations in line with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

In the letter, McMahon cited a 2003 study that found that 9.6 percent of students in grades eight to 11 reported some sexual misconduct involving an educator. McMahon pointed out that such a stat would have led to a national outcry in “any other setting.”

McMahon said the department will “vigorously enforce” Title IX and ESEA obligations to all applicable institutions. Her letter asked schools to ensure their policies comply with these regulations.

Officials with authority to take corrective actions on sexual misconduct allegations should be trained to identify and respond to such incidents. Schools must make sure that investigations are “thorough, timely, and genuinely responsive,” she wrote.

Institutions that fail to comply with these federal laws risk losing funding from the Trump administration, McMahon warned.

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“People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

A homeless encampment on Manhattan’s West Side has grown to span roughly 12 city blocks, prompting complaints from residents, workers, and tourist officials over alleged crime, including drug activity and prostitution.

According to a report by the New York Post, dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now stretch from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue. The sight has caused issues for local workers and residents, as well as tourists visiting the Intrepid museum.

“We can’t get rid of them,” an unidentified city parks enforcement officer told the outlet. “These ones here are stealing everything… They take what they can. And there are escorts in there too. Prostitutes. I see them, they’re right there.”

“Definitely getting worse,” she added. “People stopped parking here. People are scared to park here.”

Nearby workers have said that open drug dealing and prostitution have become commonplace, with one tent reportedly serving as a gathering place for sex work, drug transactions, or both.

“This is crazy,” said one supervisor at the Jacob Javits Center nearby. “The cops and the sanitation guys and the outreach guys, they clean up one spot and after that day, the next day they’re over here. Then they’re over there. They’re kind of just spreading around.”

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Martha Lillard, the last known American polio patient who depended on an iron lung to breathe, died June 26 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. She was 78 years old, nearly six decades past the age doctors once told her family she would reach.

Her sister, Cindy McVey, told the Associated Press that Lillard’s death certificate lists chronic pulmonary failure and post-polio syndrome as causes. McVey said long COVID contributed as well, after Lillard contracted COVID-19 twice during the pandemic. In her final two years, the disease and post-polio syndrome left her confined to the iron lung nearly around the clock.

With Lillard’s passing, a machine whose parts date to the 1940s falls silent for the last time in America. Her sister acknowledged as much through tears.

“But since she’s the last one, we don’t need that anymore.”

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The FBI has reportedly fired two intelligence analysts after they refused to participate in the bureau’s investigation into Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.

According to multiple reports, the Atlanta-based analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified and declined to work on the case.

They were reportedly escorted from the FBI office after refusing the assignment.

The FBI did not confirm the firings but defended its decision.

“The FBI will always investigate credible allegations of matters related to federal elections,” an FBI spokesperson said.

“Every employee at this FBI is to uphold our mission and adhere to our standards, any deviation will not be tolerated.”

Earlier this month, the FBI assigned 260 investigative analysts to assist with its ongoing investigation into the fraud that took place in Fulton County, Georgia, during the 2020 presidential election.

These Brooklyn cops made the mistake of pulling over and handing out bogus traffic tickets to the wrong reporter.

My driving drama began April 12, a bright Sunday afternoon, during a trip to the gym for a quick workout. I was rudely interrupted at Fourth Avenue and 86^th Street in Bay Ridge by about a half-dozen young NYPD officers who said they pulled me over for a “random traffic-safety check.”

After making me wait 20 minutes, a female officer shlepped out of a police car and slapped me with two summonses. They were for having “illegal” dealership frames on the front and rear license plates of my 2019 Infiniti.

I was shocked. I actually laughed, and told her she must be misinterpreting the law

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President Donald Trump shared a simple video of a Minnesota kindergarten graduation, one that captured a striking visual shift in American public education. Dozens of young girls, many in hijabs, marked the end of their first year of formal schooling.

Rather than reflect on what this image reveals about rapid demographic transformation and cultural integration, children’s YouTube sensation Ms. Rachel rushed to Instagram with a message celebrating the head coverings while implicitly scolding the president.

The federal government is working on a database of injuries from the shots delivered to people, some of them unwilling recipients, during the COVID-19 China virus pandemic.

It’s so that there is a determination on what injuries are compensable under the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program.

“The Table will list and explain injuries that, based on compelling, reliable, valid, medical, and scientific evidence, are presumed to be caused by covered COVID-19 countermeasures, and set forth the time periods in which the onset of these injuries must occur after the administration or use of these covered COVID-19 countermeasures,” a summary of the still-developing rule explains.

A report at the Epoch Times said the Department of Health and Human Services and one of its divisions have confirmed the proposal.

Injuries from COVID-19 shots – they’re more DNA treatments than vaccinations – fall under the CICP because “previous health secretaries declared and extended emergency declarations for COVID-19, which opened up the option of emergency clearance of vaccines and other countermeasures under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act,” the report explained.

“Under the leadership of Secretary Kennedy, HHS is restoring transparency and accountability because the American people deserve clear, evidence-based information about both the benefits and the known risks associated with medical countermeasures,” HHS confirmed to the publication.

Under the law the HHS chief “shall by regulation establish a table identifying covered injuries that shall be presumed to be directly caused by the administration or use of a covered countermeasure.”

Dr. Joel Wallskog, who sustained the neurological disorder transverse myelitis from the shots and has sued, said more needs to be done, as the main injuries like anaphylaxis and myocarditis/pericarditis, already are recognized.

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California has once again ignited concerns over election integrity after revelations that the state is recruiting noncitizen teenagers to work inside polling places during elections.

Natalie Winters first reported this outrageous development out of the Golden State.

Green card holders as young as 16, noncitizens who cannot legally vote in American elections, are being recruited to check voters off official rosters, distribute ballots, handle election equipment, assist voters, and help close polling locations.

The state admits it does not fully track how many of these noncitizen teenagers are being used in these sensitive positions of trust.

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There are stupid takes, and then there are STUPID TAKES.

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Official Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today shows Muhammad – including variant spellings – has once again claimed the top spot as the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales.

This marks the third consecutive year Muhammad has led the boys’ chart, continuing a trend that has drawn significant public attention and debate about demographic changes.

The ONS figures for 2025 births confirm Muhammad’s dominant position. In previous years, when spellings are combined, it has frequently outranked traditional English names like Oliver and Noah.

Commentators have linked the sustained popularity to the UK’s growing Muslim population, which now makes up a significant and increasing share of births in many areas.

Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe responded strongly to the news, posting: “Muhammad has comfortably topped the list for the most popular boy name for the third year running. You can call me Islamophobic, I really don’t care… This is awful and demonstrates the rapidly changing demographics of our country.”

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The battery recycler Ascend Elements was riding high in 2023, flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

The seed money provided to the Massachusetts company, which launched in 2017, was one of several large bets the Biden administration placed on the green future as it essentially created a venture capital arm at the Department of Energy and other agencies. In the movies, VCs almost always score big through their early investments in future behemoths (e.g., PayPal or Meta when it was Facebook). In real life, those jackpots are the exception, not the rule – many of the deals go south.

Alas, Washington isn’t Hollywood, and the government isn’t spending celluloid dollars. In April, Ascend Elements filed for bankruptcy, leaving U.S. taxpayers out nearly $320 million.

Government funding of private companies is receiving new scrutiny as the Trump administration is upping the ante on such efforts by demanding that the feds receive an equity stake for their largesse. While this approach is leading the government into uncharted waters, experts say the operative concept – using taxpayer money to make risky bets on private companies – has a long and troubled history. The bankruptcy of Solyndra, a maker of niche solar panels the Obama administration had given $535 million in 2009, became shorthand for the problems that occur when government tries to pick winners and losers in the marketplace.

“It generally doesn’t work,” said Steven Neil Kaplan, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Chicago’s Booth business school. “There are three problems with it, namely that the government doesn’t usually have the best information; two, it’s going to be political; and three, the incentives aren’t in place to pay for performance.”

It is still too early to assess the Trump administration’s investments in private corporations, but the hundreds of billions of dollars shoveled out the door by the Biden administration through the Investment Infrastructure and Jobs Act provide some insight into the challenges the government faces when it turns into a venture capitalist. RealClearInvestigations’ review of one sliver of that spending – $1.68 billion in grants awarded in 2023 under the umbrella of “Energy, Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Energy Programs, Energy” – demonstrates how difficult it can be to follow the money and assess the impact when taxpayer funds are doled out to private corporations.

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If only the victims were as protected as the illegal immigrants.

The Haitian man who has confessed to the caught-on-camera hammer killing of a Florida woman in April was already the suspect in another killing earlier in the year.

But he was free on the streets thanks to his “temporary protected status as a Haitian,” according to a June report by southwest Florida news station WZVN-TV.

Now, he’s facing charges in the first death, too.

Former Democratic Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy in a six-figure real estate bribery scheme.

Lumumba accepted $50,000 in campaign contributions from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers, Fox News reported. Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, who funneled the bribes, pleaded guilty on June 29.

Lumumba and Owens each face five years in prison, the outlet reported.

“Lumumba accepted the checks knowing and understanding that the money was from the Developers, and that it was being offered in exchange for official action from Lumumba in favor of the Developers’ proposed development project,” the indictment said.

Lumumba’s primary legal counsel, Owens’ office, and the City of Jackson each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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The podcaster warned a Democrat win in 2028 would reopen borders and revive USAID’s far-left foreign meddling

Podcaster Joe Rogan warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump may have accidentally handed the presidency back to Democrats in 2028 by starting an unpopular war in Iran.

Trump may have brought some normality since taking office, but he also has paved the way for the Democrats to return to power all over again, Rogan warned guest Rupert Lowe.

“For now, but if we don’t f— it, I mean, we might have f—– it up by going to Iran,” Rogan said. “I mean, this war is not something anybody that’s conservative wanted. Most people don’t want it – except supporters of Israel. They’re the only people that seem to be thinking it’s a good idea in this country.”

Podcaster Joe Rogan warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump may have accidentally handed the presidency back to Democrats in 2028 by starting an unpopular war in Iran.

Trump may have brought some normality since taking office, but he also has paved the way for the Democrats to return to power all over again, Rogan warned guest Rupert Lowe.

“For now, but if we don’t f— it, I mean, we might have f—– it up by going to Iran,” Rogan said. “I mean, this war is not something anybody that’s conservative wanted. Most people don’t want it – except supporters of Israel. They’re the only people that seem to be thinking it’s a good idea in this country.”

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The WNBA player who was banned for punching Caitlin Clark in the throat has been slammed for yet more violence in her latest game against the Indiana Fever.

The Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas served a one-game suspension without pay for the ‘non-basketball act’, after a postgame review determined that she had recklessly made contact with Clark’s throat with her closed fist.

Less than two weeks on from the unsavory incident – which sparked a nationwide storm, accusations of racial profiling and involvement from politicians – the rivalry continued on Thursday night when the Fever once again took on the Mercury.

Clark was not playing in the game due to her ongoing injury recovery, so this time it was a teammate on the end of some physical play from Thomas.

Midway through the third quarter, the Fever’s Lexie Hull – who is one of Clark’s closest friends off the court – competed for the loose ball with Thomas, before appearing to receive an elbow to the nose.

In the aftermath, she appeared bloodied as she wiped her face with a towel, and soon after was seen on the bench with tissue stuffed up her nose to stem the flow of blood.

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Nicolas “Sneako” Kenn De Balinthazy is, if you listen to any mainstream account, some sort of fringe conservative figure other conservatives ought to be apologizing for and drumming out of the movement.

I take from his Wikipedia page, if just because that represents what most people will see about this dude if they search for him and represents a decent approximation of the left-of-center view on the man: “He initially gained prominence on YouTube in the mid-2010s for lifestyle content, video essays, and street interviews. His content then shifted to far-right trolling and politics, including misogyny and antisemitism, collaborating with figures like white nationalist Nick Fuentes and influencer Andrew Tate.”

There’s a whole discussion to be had here about so-called “horseshoe theory” — that the so-called far-right and far-left aren’t that different — or even whether traditional left-right dichotomies work with people like Mr. Sneako.

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At least three people were shot at a Maryland shopping center after several gunmen opened fire forcing terrified customers to flee for their lives.

The chaos unfolded at around 4.40pm on Friday afternoon in Northeast Baltimore near the Coldspring Shopping Center, according to CBS Baltimore. 

The victims were two 24–year–old men and another 25–year–old man, the outlet reported.

They were taken to the hospital with with life–threatening injuries and listed in stable condition.

City police were called to the area near the HipHop Fish & Chicken fast food chain at the mall to reports of a shooting, SKY 11 reported.

Morgan State University police said that three unknown suspects had displayed and then fired a weapon, according to the Baltimore Sun.

After that, the suspects fled in unknown directions, per a campus police notice cited by the outlet. The university is located a few blocks from the mall.

Baltimore police are still searching the area for victims after the shooting.

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A San Francisco Giants baseball game devolved into chaos when a fight broke out among multiple fans in the stands at Oracle Park.

The incident took place moments after a game between the Giants and Colorado Rockies ended on Thursday evening.

Video captured a moment where a sizeable group of fans broke into an all-out donnybrook tumbling over rows of seats at the ballpark.

The clip begins in the middle of the action and does not show what led to the confrontation starting.

While a group of men off to the side begin shoving each other and speaking aggressively, two women begin throwing wild punches.

Two men – one wearing an Oakland Raiders Khalil Mack jersey – step in to attempt to separate the two, but to no avail.

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A black feminist historian whose work is being labeled as misleading — and who may have lost her cushy academic job — says it all comes down to an attack on black women.

The New York Times tells the tale of Kerri Greenidge, whose 2022 book “The Grimkes” was hailed for its narrative about a slaveholding family and its work in the abolitionist movement.

Publishers Weekly put the book on its list of that year’s top books, while the American Historical Association handed Greenidge the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, which honors scholars in women’s history and feminist theory.

But the glow has dimmed as the furor over her flimsy factual foundation is being linked to the end of her gig as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University — and the loss of a book deal.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure listed household assets as high as $30 million. Her revised 2025 filing puts that figure at no more than $125,000, a gap of nearly $29.9 million. When Fox News Digital pressed her on camera about the discrepancy, the Minnesota Democrat said nothing at all.

Not a denial. Not a clarification. Silence.

The numbers alone demand an explanation. Omar’s original 2024 report valued her husband Tim Mynett’s share in a venture capital advisory firm at between $5 million and $25 million. His stake in a winery was listed at $1 million to $5 million. The revised filing zeroed both out, listing Mynett’s equity interests in each business at $0. Combined household debt now sits between $30,000 and $100,000, split between Omar’s student loans and Mynett’s credit card balances. By the revised numbers, Omar may carry a negative net worth.

A 3,500 percent swing, blamed on an ‘accounting error’

Omar’s office has offered a partial explanation. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the original filing was “inaccurate” and contained “incomplete” information. The office said Mynett “has partners in both businesses” and that the earlier disclosure “mistakenly reflected the businesses’ total equity rather than his ownership interest.” The original filing, the office added, “listed assets without accounting for liabilities.”

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An indictment says Fahad Mohamed Nur’s company received “more than $9.9 million fraudulently from sites or entities involved in the Federal Child Nutrition Program.”

Most wanted poster for Fahad Mohamed Nur/FBI

A defendant in the high-profile Feeding Our Future scandal who has been on the run since 2022 was added this week to the FBI’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Fahad Mohamed Nur, a naturalized U.S. citizen who has ties to Somalia and may be living there.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has died from a “brief and sudden illness” Saturday evening, his office said in a statement.

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” the statement shared on X read. “Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at the time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.”

The 71 year old was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002. During President Donald Trump’s second term, Graham was a close ally, supporting the president’s military actions against the Iranian regime.

A longtime hawk on Iran, Graham leaves a legacy of backing policies aimed at isolating the country and limiting its missile and nuclear programs.

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President Trump again sent warnings to America about communism during a Q&A with Iris Tao of NTD.

“Communism’s easy to sell…. You’ve got free rent for the rest of your life. What they don’t say is that you’ll be living in squalor in 12 months.

You’ve got a free house. Would anybody like to have a free house? We’ll take it away from somebody. We’ll give it to you.

You’ll have murders all over the place. Communism’s a disaster. It’s been proven to be for thousands of years under different names, but same thing….

It’s never worked and it’s not going to work. What is working is the United States. So, think of it, we have more jobs than we’ve ever had. People are making more money than they’ve ever made.

I’m talking about workers now, talking about workers. They’re making higher salaries than they’ve ever made before.

It’s just the best system and it’s got flaws, but everything’s going to have a little flaw, but it’s been amazing.

I think this country with this thing that’s going around is in more danger than it was during World War I, World War II. If you talk about September 11th, if you talk about Pearl Harbor, that was big danger.

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Seeks to block military force against groups such as drug cartels

Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is seeking to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to potentially block the Trump administration from using military force against congressionally designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, such as foreign drug cartels.

A press release from Omar’s office claims her amendment, Amendment #1273, “expresses the sense of Congress that designation of a foreign terrorist organization does not constitute an authorization for the use of military force.”

While Omar’s office did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment and offered no public explanation of why she introduced the amendment, Matt O’Brien, Federation of American Immigration Reform deputy executive director and former immigration judge, told the Daily Signal that he believes the representative “is clearly seeking to curtail any legal authorities that permit the president to control the borders and prohibit foreign national security and public safety threats from entering the United States.”

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As America navigates a world still reeling from conflict in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence has delivered a sobering warning to Washington: Iran is actively weighing yet another scheme to assassinate President Donald Trump. This revelation arrives amid Iran’s national mourning for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose death in earlier U.S. and Israeli strikes has done nothing to dampen the regime’s bloodlust.

The timing is no coincidence. While crowds in Tehran chanted “Death to America” and paraded effigies of Trump through the streets, hardliners openly called for missiles targeting the U.S. leader. Posters with crosshairs over Trump’s face and warnings that “your heads will roll” were not subtle expressions of grief—they were declarations of intent.

Far from a grieving nation seeking peace, the Islamic Republic remains a theocratic tyranny fixated on exporting terror and eliminating those who stand in its way.

President Trump, speaking after coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been characteristically direct. He referenced being atop Iran’s target list and the need to excise such threats like a cancer before they metastasize. His administration’s recent strikes on Iranian assets in response to attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz underscore a refusal to tolerate weakness.

The ceasefire, fragile from the start, is now declared over—a necessary reset against a regime that respects only strength.

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A 36-year-old illegal alien was arrested after throwing improvised explosives at two churches in Queens, New York, on Wednesday night.

Yogesh Sayrange is a Guyanese citizen who is considered “unauthorized” in the US because his childhood arrival protection expired.

Surveillance footage from one of the churches shows three individuals outside the Iglesia Bautista El Mesias church when the man, dressed in a dark hoodie and pants, appears to throw a Molotov cocktail at the building.

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A seasonal railway conductor for Tennessee’s Incline Railway at Lookout Mountain has been fired after making now-viral comments, wishing riders a happy Independence Day, which triggered some passengers.

The conductor, identified as Jack Peterson, is clearly fed up with mass migration policies that are ruining our country. He hilariously told passengers on the Fourth of July, “To the very, very few Americans in here, happy Independence Day.”

He continued, “To the rest of you, welcome to the greatest country on the face of the planet, and if you disagree, you can leave.”

It is unclear how many foreigners were on board the train.

The conductor was fired almost immediately after father Charles Scherer and son Nathan Scherer caught the moment on camera and promptly reported Peterson to the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), which operates the train.

Nathan Scherer described the comments as “disparaging remarks about foreigners” in an interview, adding, “Even if you were critical of the country, the idea that you have to leave if you have any complaints… the whole thing is weird to me.”

“He doesn’t really know who is American and who’s not just by the way they look, so that kind of floored us,” Nathan’s father, Charles, said. While discussing Peterson’s immediate firing on the same day as the incident, Charles said, “That made me feel really good about CARTA and about their responsiveness to this and believing it should have been handled.

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One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers

A popular U.S.-based gaming brand owned by Microsoft is facing fury after mass employee layoffs occurred in the wake of the company being approved for thousands of foreign worker visas.

Microsoft announced that it will lay off 4,800 people total and 1,600 from the corporation’s XBOX division, which makes and sells the dominant video game console.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been approved this year to hire from foreign countries 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant workers under what is known as the H-1B visa program, according to data from U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS).

Furious online critics claim that American jobs are being unfairly handed to foreigners in an effort to cut labor costs but at the cost of leaving U.S. workers in the lurch.

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Liberal media outlets find themselves in a truly difficult position when looking at immigration in South Africa.

Black South Africans are supposedly victims — they are black and African, after all — but immigrants are victims, too.

Where does that leave us when black South Africans start expressing strong anti-immigrant sentiments against black immigrants?

It’s a quagmire for neo-Marxist ideologues in deciding which victim group to support.

Among the left-wing outlets trying to find their bearings with this news comes The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the situation on June 28.

Africans from countries like Ghana, Mozambique, and Malawi have been subjected to beatings, killings, and calls for them to return home.

South Africans have taken up spears, clubs, and whips to make it known that these people are not welcome.

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The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a crushing blow to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors when it ended a Court of Appeals stay and reinstated a superior court’s injunctions, with modifications, that returned election-administration responsibilities of the county’s elections back to the County Recorder, Justin Heap.

The Arizona Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals stay from June and reinstated with modifications the “superior court injunctions governing the allocation of election-administration responsibilities between the Maricopa County Recorder and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”

According to the Supreme Court’s News Release:

The dispute concerns which county office has the authority to perform election duties that Arizona statutes assign to “the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections.” Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap argued that those duties belong to the Recorder or to an officer designated by the Recorder.

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Another corrupt Illinois Democrat family caught with their hands in the till.

Urbana Democrat State Representative Carol Ammons and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on multiple felony counts including wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

The indictment lays out a brazen scheme where Ammons allegedly used her campaign committee, Friends of Carol Ammons, to issue overpayments and then took cash kickbacks disguised as “gifts.”

At the same time, she used her position as a state lawmaker to steer massive state grants to friendly nonprofits that then put her daughter Titianna Ammons on the payroll, WCIA reported.

US existing home sales unexpectedly fell in June as house prices hit a record high and mortgage rates remained elevated, pushing potential buyers to the sidelines.

Home sales dropped 2.4% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units, the National Association of Realtors said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast home resales would climb to a rate of 4.20 million units.

Sales increased in the Northeast, but declined in the Midwest, South and West.

Existing home sales are counted at the closing of a contract. Last month’s sales likely reflected contracts signed in April and May. Though mortgage rates have retreated after surging in response to the war in the Middle East, the average rate on the popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains about 45 basis points above its pre-conflict level, data from mortgage financing firm Freddie Mac showed.

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The party of Me Too has shown its true face in the rolling Graham Platner scandal.

Now that a liberal woman has credibly accused him of rape, the rats have deserted the sinking ship and the Democrat-endorsed US Senate candidate for Maine has dropped out.

But it’s “Me Too” late to save face.

Graham Platner announced Wednesday he was suspending his Senate campaign.ZUMAPRESS.com

Conservatives always knew the left’s effort to assert moral superiority on matters of sex, race and ideology were play-acting but now it’s undeniable for even their most blinkered supporters.

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Commissioner vote to move forward with moratorium on data centers, cable stations

Residents concerned for longtime community business

This comes as Maryland lawmakers are set to meet for a special session to pass a new redistricting bill

Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore is facing criticism for condemning rising “tribal” politics while continuing to push a redistricting effort that opponents say would eliminate the state’s sole Republican congressional seat.

Moore, a rising Democratic star who is being floated as a possible 2028 presidential candidate, gave an Independence Day speech in which he described American history as “powerful,” “painful” and “complex.”

Speaking in the Maryland State House, where George Washington resigned his military commission in 1783, Moore proclaimed that “too many feel that our politics has become tribal, that our political system once felt like a gift, but the politics of today feel like a grift.”

In response, Haven Shoemaker, the top state attorney for Maryland’s Carroll County, remarked to Fox News Digital that “Gov. Moore is proof positive that hypocrisy knows no bounds.”

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SALISBURY, Md. — Wicomico County is proud to announce that lighting formerly used at Shorebirds Stadium will be repurposed and installed at WinterPlace Park, creating the first lighted athletic field on the east side of Wicomico County.

The project represents another investment in the County’s park system and demonstrates a commitment to providing high-quality recreational opportunities while making responsible use of existing public assets. Rather than retiring the stadium lighting, the County identified an opportunity to relocate the fixtures to WinterPlace Park, where they will continue serving the community for years to come.

The addition of field lighting will dramatically expand the park’s capabilities by allowing for evening practices, games, tournaments, and community events. It will also increase scheduling flexibility for youth leagues and recreational organizations while providing families on the eastern side of the county with greater access to quality athletic facilities closer to home.

“This is a tremendous win for our community,” said Wicomico County Executive Julie Giordano. “Every child deserves access to safe, high-quality places to play, regardless of where they live in our county. By repurposing these lights from Shorebirds Stadium, we are making a smart investment that stretches taxpayer dollars while creating new opportunities for youth sports, families, and community events. WinterPlace Park has always been a valuable community asset, and these improvements will make it an even greater destination for generations to come.”

The project reflects Wicomico County’s continued focus on improving recreational infrastructure throughout the county while ensuring residents in every region have access to modern parks and athletic facilities. The new lighting will extend field availability well beyond daylight hours, allowing local organizations to host additional programming and reducing scheduling conflicts during busy athletic seasons.
The County extends its appreciation to everyone involved in making this project possible and looks forward to seeing WinterPlace Park become an even more active gathering place for youth athletics and community recreation.

When Democrats and the liberal media finally realize this, you can bet they’ll start spreading the ‘Trump is trying to steal the election’ narratives. Anything this man does is met with apocalyptic reactions from his detractors, which is both extremely annoying and somewhat entertaining. Tonight’s latest move: Trump has fired two Democrats from the federal Election Assistance Commission. A third member, a Republican, had already resigned (via NOTUS):

The White House fired two Democratic Election Assistance Commission members Thursday afternoon, completely vacating the federal agency in charge of election management guidelines after the remaining Republican member resigned.

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“Trump couldn’t rig the elections through the SAVE Act, so he’s now moving unilaterally to subvert the 2026 elections starting with sacking the bipartisan EAC commissioners,” said Tim Lim, a Democratic strategist working on election administration issues. “Between the FBI surging into Fulton County and today’s action, it’s clear Donald Trump is determined to stop a free and fair election this November.”

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Congress established the small federal agency through the Help America Vote Act after the tightly contested 2000 presidential election in order to provide best practices to state and municipal election officials, as well as to develop specifications for testing and certifying voting systems. The four-person, bipartisan panel issues voluntary guidance and holds no enforcement authority.

Republicans have tried — unsuccessfully — to eliminate the agency, the size of which former President Joe Biden doubled during his term. It now has just 65 employees after a wave of Trump cuts.

Other election officials and lawmakers have criticized the agency for not adequately advancing election security measures in the past, though the commission’s membership has been in flux throughout its existence. The EAC was without a quorum for years — frozen in its abilities to update voting guidance — until the Senate confirmed new commissioners in 2019.

Thursday’s firings could endanger the government’s ability to make bipartisan election-related recommendations ahead of the midterms, particularly as Trump moves to aggressively reshape the way the country

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President Trump made cracking down on fraud in welfare programs a priority of his second administration. The focus was on reducing fraud and removing illegal aliens from things like Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP. The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ also tightened eligibility requirements for food aid, including adding work requirements.

That means the number of people on food stamps has, of course, dropped.

The Washington Post breathlessly wrote about it like it was the end of the world.

Here’s more:

Michelle Flowers says it took eight months for her to get her food stamp benefits reinstated after they lapsed last year — and she only got it done, she said, because she was laid off from her job at a call center and finally had time.

The 36-year-old mother of four was exactly the kind of person the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was meant to help. But Arizona had ramped up the program’s vetting, scrambling to comply with new rules in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation. Even people eligible for government help were swept up in the strict implementation, analysts say, as an agency already operating on thinner staff struggled to process cases.

One year after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill tightened eligibility for food aid and pushed states to do more screening, Arizona is a striking example of how those changes — and the bureaucratic fallout — may have hurt Americans who qualified for aid. The number of Arizonans on food stamps has plummeted by half — a loss of nearly 500,000 people, including about 200,000 children, according to the latest available state data.

Federal officials praised Arizona last month for carrying out the president’s sweeping changes to the social safety net, declaring the state was “leading the way” in directing benefits to the right people and reducing “waste, fraud and abuse.” But many tracking SNAP enrollment say Arizona’s steep drop-off is instead a sign that the system is broken.

“They’re making the process too hard,” Flowers said as she waited with a friend, now navigating that system, at a benefits office in Phoenix. Just outside, a man tried the phone number he was given to set up an interview for food stamps and got a recording about “extremely high call volume” before the line went dead.

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Now, the chances of that ever happening are slim to none. Even the majority of people who understand Pastor Wilson’s frustration would likely still reject the idea. But, on the flip side, laughing at Wilson, calling him a lunatic, and moving on from what he’s saying misses the much bigger and more important issue: female voting patterns have ruined American politics?

Let’s be honest, women changed the political direction of this country. But that’s what happens when a massive new voting bloc enters the system… hence why the Biden regime was trying so hard to create the “illegal voting” bloc by opening the Southern border. The uncomfortable part for many, and what we don’t acknowledge, is that the results of women voting haven’t always been good.

Many Americans believe progressive women have helped move politics away from practical questions about safety, borders, crime, families, and national stability and into murky waters filled with emotional breakdowns, identity politics, and a radical social agenda. And the people who see this aren’t just men. Conservative women see it too, especially when they watch other women vote for policies that place families, children, and communities at risk while congratulating themselves for being compassionate.

How did we go from traditional family values to celebrating abortions?

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He said protesters should consider removing metadata from images before uploading them and avoid posting real-time updates that could expose where they are.

Senior policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Chad Marlow has released a video on the organization’s Instagram page advising protesters on how to prevent their phones from sharing information about them while protesting.

“If you’re protesting and not actively using your phone, the best thing you can do to prevent it from sharing information about you and your location is to shut it off entirely,” he said. “If you want to turn on your phone to take pictures or record videos from the day, turn off your Bluetooth and put your phone into airplane mode. That way, your phone won’t inadvertently share your private location and other data while you use it.”

Marlow then advised protesters to use encrypted apps like Signal, which he said “makes it significantly more difficult for the government to intercept your communications.”

Marlow also warned demonstrators to be careful about the information they share online, warning that social media posts, photos, and videos can potentially reveal identifying details about protesters and their locations. He said protesters should consider removing metadata from images before uploading them and avoid posting real-time updates that could expose where they are.

The video was part of the ACLU’s broader efforts to inform leftist activists about digital privacy and surveillance concerns during protests, with the clip being part of a video the organization released for June’s “No Kings” protests. The organization has previously warned that law enforcement agencies may use digital tools, including facial recognition technology and location data, to identify individuals involved in protests.

This comes after Minnesota Attorney General Daniel Rosen said in June that Antifa militants were charged with what he described as “surveillance, operational planning, and rapid mobilization against law enforcement,” including allegedly throwing blocks of ice at their vehicles. The DOJ said that the 15 co-conspirators trained extremists in surveillance, rapid mobilization, shield tactics, blockade operations, and methods designed to interfere with federal immigration enforcement.

Grab a drink and get comfortable, because this might take a while.

If you listen to spectacularly dishonest Democrat schemers like Rep. Ro Khanna, immigration- and border-focused federal agencies like ICE, CBP, and the ICE component HSI are storming around grabbing people off the street for no reason but racism and shipping them to the camps for the sake of pure bigotry. When federal immigration authorities arrest someone, what’s happening is a “violation of human rights.”

He’s lying, and he’s lying as a cruel political strategy to create fear and uncertainty.

In Los Angeles last week, a multi-agency task force led by HSI arrested 10 suspects who were allegedly trafficking minors as young as 14 for sex. A grand jury indictment alleges at length that girls who tried to escape were beaten and threatened with death. The violent coercion of teenage girls into street prostitution (often from foster care) is a long-running crisis in the city and some of its neighboring communities, a reality so horrifying that the deeply partisan New York Times has covered it in depth despite the embarrassment to the Democrats who govern the place.

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Democrats may be trying to deny Maryland Republicans representation again in their latest redistricting effort.

Maryland lawmakers announced plans for a special session next month to draft a constitutional amendment aimed at redistricting the state ahead of the 2024 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Democrats previously proposed an 8-0 map that would’ve eliminated the state’s sole Republican seat, held by Rep. Andy Harris.

“What the Maryland Governor and the new Democrat Socialist Party are doing, since they know they can’t win on the Eastern Shore with their far-left ideas, is trying to win by gerrymandering — with state legislators actually creating a gerrymandering double standard — one standard of compact districts for themselves, and another standard allowing extreme gerrymandering for Congress,” former House Freedom Caucus Chair Harris said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Maryland Democratic Party and Democratic Maryland Senate President Will Ferguson did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

“Maryland needs a durable, transparent constitutional framework for congressional redistricting that reflects the evolving legal landscape,” Democratic Maryland House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk stated, according to AP. “This special session gives the General Assembly the opportunity to respond thoughtfully to recent court decisions while ensuring that Maryland voters have the final say on any proposed constitutional changes.”

A bill aimed at redrawing Maryland’s 7-1 map to make Harris’ seat more competitive died in the Maryland Senate due to lawmakers’ concerns over whether it would survive judicial review, AP reported in April.

On the other side of the Potomac, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a similar constitutional amendment, the DCNF reported in May. The ballot measure would have redrawn Virginia’s 6-5 Democrat-Republican map to 10-1 had the court not ruled it unconstitutional.

“Last year, Donald Trump launched an unprecedented wave of mid-decade gerrymandering to protect himself from the wrath of the voters this November. He demanded that his allies in the states slice and dice communities of color to diminish their political power and rig more districts in favor of Republicans,” Common Cause senior director Dan Vicuña said in a statement to the DCNF.

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The radical left’s favorite golden boy is running the once-great state of California straight into the ground.

The Trump Labor Department announced Wednesday that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s failed administration owes more than $22 billion to the U.S. Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund.

This staggering debt comes from loans California took during the COVID-19 pandemic to pay unemployment benefits — benefits that were looted by massive fraud under Newsom’s watch. California is now the only state in the entire country with an outstanding federal unemployment insurance loan balance.

As a direct result, California business owners are being forced to pay higher federal payroll taxes to bail out Sacramento’s incompetence and corruption. Every other state that borrowed during the pandemic has repaid its loans. Not Newsom’s California.