Posts on Saturday, January 31, 2026
Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezal has brought forward information that exposes massive seemingly-fraudulent voter registrations in the state's deep-blue Fulton County. (snip) Georgia's state law requires that voters register using their primary residence rather than a P.O. box or any other kind of address. (snip) [But, e.g., Dolezal] discovered that 70 people were registered at a single UPS store, 19 people registered at an abandoned home, 138 people registered at a location run by virtual mailbox business Physical Address, 1900 people registered at a homeless shelter (snip.) [T]housands of people were registered with a birth year of 1800 or 1900.
DOJ Epstein Files Reveal Michael Wolff's
Collaboration With Jeffrey Epstein To
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Collaboration With Jeffrey Epstein To
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Previously unreleased emails reveal sustained, strategic and often personal communications between journalist Michael Wolff and Jeffrey Epstein, with exchanges focused on political messaging, media influence, and repeated discussions about Donald Trump. (snip) In a March 2016 email titled "Patterson," Wolff advised that he needed an "immediate counter-narrative" to the upcoming James Patterson book, proposing that Donald Trump afforded "an ideal opportunity." He wrote that "becoming an anti-Trump voice gives you a certain political cover which you decidedly don't have now" (snip.)
Border Czar Tom Homan Revealed on Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in cooperation with the FBI and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, has been able to locate 145,000 illegal immigrant children, out of the more than 300,000 that were let into the United States by the Biden administration. (snip) At a press conference on Thursday, he blasted Democrats and prior administrations for creating the problem and chaos that the Trump administration is dealing with currently. (snip) "Where were they, the last 4 years, when women and children being s*x trafficked reached an all time high?"
Unearthed photo of Swalwell meeting with
top CCP official raises alarm bells: 'Very disturbing' replies
top CCP official raises alarm bells: 'Very disturbing' replies
FIRST ON FOX: A previously unreported 2013 Facebook post by China's San Francisco consulate shows then-freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., touting "great potential" for U.S.-China cooperation during a meeting with a senior CCP diplomat,[snip]The 2013 photo,[snip] showed Swalwell posing with Song Ru'an. At the time of the photo, Ru'an was the Deputy Consul General at China's Bay Area consulate in San Francisco. He would subsequently be tapped to serve as the Deputy Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong until at least 2021.
In the wake of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rise, his hard-left Democratic Socialists of America are looking to eat up more offices now held by older-school Democrats — and the moribund, corruption-plagued Dem establishment may lack the fortitude to resist. It certainly doesn’t show any hint of plans for a counter-attack: The old guard’s prospered so long by attacking Republicans from the left, it doesn’t have a clue how to stave off the same assault by the hard left. The DSA is targeting multiple seats in the Legislature this year, plus at least two House contests, and early signs are grim for traditional Dems.
The FBI raided Fulton County's Election Hub and Information Center. The raid was authorized by a judge's warrant, which is under seal. However, some news organizations have gotten a copy (snip.) ABC News reports: The search warrant authorized the FBI to search for "all physical ballots from the 2020 General Election," in addition to tabulator tapes from voting machines and 2020 voter rolls, among other documents. It is likely that the warrant also includes items that were requested by the Department of Justice in December. Those items were "all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files."
A federal judge on Friday struck down key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at tightening citizenship verification for voter registration and absentee ballot applications, ruling the White House overstepped its constitutional authority.U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the Constitution gives states and Congress, not the president, the power to set rules for federal elections. Kollar-Kotelly blocked provisions in the executive order that would have required documentary proof of American citizenship on federal voter registration and absentee ballot forms.
President Donald Trump on Saturday announced the government will not assist blue cities with ongoing anti-immigration enforcement riots unless help is requested, adding he has instructed ICE and Border Patrol to be "very forceful" in the protection of federal property. "I have instructed Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, that under no circumstances are we going to participate in various poorly run Democrat Cities with regard to their Protests and/or Riots unless, and until, they ask us for help,"[snip]the federal government will, however, "guard, and very powerfully so, any and all Federal Buildings that are being attacked by these highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists."
A woman who received a double mastectomy at the age of 16 under the guise of transgender-related healthcare was just awarded $2 million in the first successful medical-malpractice lawsuit brought by a destransitioner.
Fox Varian sued her New York-based psychologist and plastic surgeon for facilitating her gender-transition double mastectomy in 2019, independent reporter Benjamin Ryan who attended Varian’s recent trial, said. Although a host of detransitioners have sued doctors who rush to “affirm” gender confusion with life-altering surgeries, Varian’s is the first known successful lawsuit.
Since joining SCOTUS, Alito has been a staunch and reliable originalist, authoring some of the court’s most significant decisions of the 21st century. This includes the court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling, which overturned the horrifically decided Roe v. Wade (1973) and the imaginary “constitutional right” to abortion.Producing strong, consistent originalist interpretation and wisdom at the Supreme Court for two decades is no small feat. So, it only seemed fitting that The Federalist compile 10 of the justice’s best quotes from over the years to celebrate the occasion.
Peaceful ICE Arrest Of 650 Aliens In West
Virginia Proves Dems Are Manufacturing
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Virginia Proves Dems Are Manufacturing
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Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) just arrested nearly 700 illegal aliens in West Virginia with the help of local law enforcement, showing the stark contrast between state and local police supporting immigration enforcement and the Democrat-run catastrophe in Minnesota.
ICE announced Friday that it arrested 650 illegals, including those who allegedly engaged in child sex abuse, drug possession, endangering the welfare of children, and other offenses.Teams from ICE Philadelphia performed the operation, deploying to six cities in West Virginia to arrest “hundreds of illegal aliens who present dangers to
A federal judge has rejected a bid by state and local officials in Minnesota to end Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s massive deployment of thousands of federal agents to aggressively enforce immigration laws.
In a ruling Saturday, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez found strong evidence that the ongoing federal operation ”has had, and will likely continue to have, profound and even heartbreaking, consequences on the State of Minnesota, the Twin Cities, and Minnesotans.”
‘I Will Not Be Silenced’
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Don Lemon has been released without bail after appearing in a Los Angeles court Friday on federal charges relating to his coverage of anti-ICE protests at a church in Minneapolis earlier this month.The 59 year-old newsman - sporting a white suit and cream sweater - is accused of conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers.During his 20 minute appearance Lemon didn't enter a formal plea but his lawyer Marilyn Bednarski told the court that he was pleading not guilty.[snip] Judge Donahue rejected federal prosecutors' request for $100,000 bail and released Lemon on his own recognizance.
Super Bowl LX is almost here, and the NFL is making fandom a whole lot kinder. In an exclusive shared with The Hollywood Reporter, NFL executives announced that YouTube sensation Dhar Mann, 41, has been named the league’s first-ever Chief Kindness Officer. Mann also serves as the league’s “Creator of the Week” leading up to the big game. (snip) As part of the lead-up to Super Bowl LX, Dhar Mann has been tapped to partner with the NFL to help deliver the league’s “Be Nice to Your Rival” campaign.
A Detroit judge is facing federal charges, along with three Detroiters, in connection with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from vulnerable people.
Judge Andrea Bradley-Baskin, 46, of the 36th District Court, Nancy Williams, 59, Avery Bradley, 72, and Dwight Rashad, 69, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on Jan. 30, 2026. Bradley faces additional charges of wire fraud, several counts of money laundering and making a false statement to a federal law enforcement agent.
House GOP majority on the brink as all-Democrat
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Republicans are clinging to a razor-thin 218-213 House majority.
And the GOP's margin will shrink even further after a special congressional election this weekend to fill the seat in a Democrat-dominated district that has been vacant for nearly a year.
That's because the two candidates in Saturday's runoff election in Texas' 18th Congressional District are both Democrats.
Voters in the district, which is anchored by downtown Houston and surrounding areas, head to the polls to choose a successor to fill the seat left vacant when Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner died last March. Sylvester, a former longtime state lawmaker, served two terms as Houston mayor before winning election to Congress in 2024, succeeding
Jeffrey Epstein helped fund a lavish lifestyle for Obama White House Counsel (snip) Kathryn Ruemmler, who he sometimes turned to for legal advice, newly released records show. Epstein purchased a number of gifts for Ruemmler between 2014 and 2019, including designer bags worth thousands and electronics, while regularly putting down his credit card to cover expenses like facials, haircuts and spa days. (snip) A recently unsealed court filing in a civil lawsuit brought by Epstein victims suggested Ruemmler advised Epstein on legal matters, including (snip) maintaining his 2008 non-prosecution agreement (snip.) Ruemmler consulted Epstein on whether to accept an offer to become Obama's attorney general
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Wednesday said the country needs a national conversation about immigrants lacking permanent legal status who “obey the law,” as public opinion sours on the Trump administration’s deportation sweeps. (snip) “On the other hand, people do not want to give them citizenship. So there should be some middle ground here on long-term goals,” he added.
Gingrich’s comments coincide with Fox News host Sean Hannity speaking out against workplace raids during immigration enforcement crackdowns nationwide.
A Tennessee family was allegedly threatened with fines by their homeowners’ association to remove the generator that was heating their house, as the neighborhood was plunged into darkness during below-freezing temperatures.
Talia Caravello said she was told that her generator didn’t comply with the aesthetic code of her townhouse in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood of Nashville when she lost electricity during a brutal ice storm on Sunday, according to WSMV.
Caravello purchased a $1,500 generator, extension cords and space heaters to keep her family warm as indoor temperatures dropped to 30 degrees following the storm that left four people dead.
Apparently, the Senate and House intelligence committees are very concerned about what Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is doing. Almost every tweet from Senator Mark Warner in the past 48 hours has been about DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
What seems to worry them the most is that they don’t know exactly what she is doing. Triggered by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Vice-Chairman Mark Warner, the Democrats are now demanding Director Gabbard tell them her intentions and her itinerary so they can monitor her activity. Tulsi Gabbard continues to review internal government activity without consulting them. .”
I'm a business owner in Minneapolis working
16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
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16-hour shifts so my staff can stay home
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I run a fast casual chicken restaurant in Richfield, Minnesota, a suburb just south of Minneapolis. With ICE agents in the area, I don't know when — or if — staff will be able to come to work. We all have pretty set schedules, and we're tight-knit. There are only six of us operating this place, seven days a week. And I have concerns: Are my employees going to get stopped on their way to work? Are they going to be hassled or detained? Are they going to come back? It's a day-by-day thing. Over the past couple of weeks, we've adjusted
On Friday, Politico featured an article about President Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, and the announced opposition from Republican U.S. Senator Thom Tillis: This article is very complementary for Sen. Tillis, whose opposition to Warsh will certainly slow down, if not block the nomination process for Warsh on the Senate Banking Committee, where the GOP has only a 13 to 11 majority. Politico, of course, is a MSM news organ that hates Donald Trump, conservatism, and the GOP, while shamelessly in the tank for the Democrats and progressives.
This is just the latest example of what I have coined the “Tragedy of the Republican Commons.”
The scale of Britain’s PIP benefits explosion has been laid bare in new official figures, with handouts for anxiety and depression nearly tripling to £4.3 billion since Covid, payments for autism and ADHD hitting £2.2 billion and those for “back pain” reaching £1.6 billion. The Mail has the story.
The grim picture emerged in a breakdown of how much Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is being paid out for specific conditions.
The figures come amid growing alarm at Labour’s failure to bring forward any significant reforms to the welfare system.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s fate for ignoring congressional subpoenas is now in the hands of the House of Representatives.
House Republican leaders plan to vote this coming Wednesday on contempt of Congress resolutions against the former first couple, who refused to answer subpoenas by the House Oversight Committee regarding their dealings with disgraced financier and serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“The Rules Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Monday to consider the resolutions for the floor,” Politico reported Thursday.
Several Democrats on the Oversight Committee joined with the Republicans to support advancing the resolutions to the House floor —
Prominent Arizona Republican officials, including former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, have signaled that Maricopa County's administration of the 2020 presidential election should be the focus of federal scrutiny amid Fulton County's FBI raid. (snip) In 2020 Joe Biden won Maricopa County by about 6,000 votes, of the more than 2 million cast. Statewide, Biden won by less than 12,000 votes out of more than 3.3 million cast. (snip) Lake wrote "(snip) they sabotaged Election Day voting in Arizona -- preventing people from voting and having their votes counted." (snip) As of this report, no federal investigation has been confirmed into Maricopa County's handling of the 2020 presidential election.
California’s 66th Assembly District (AD-66).
AD-66 is home to Chevron’s El Segundo refinery and PBF Energy’s Torrance refinery. And until the end of last year, it was also home to Phillips 66’s Los Angeles refinery, which has now stopped producing transportation fuel entirely. Three major refineries in one Assembly district. One is already offline. Two remain, operating under growing regulatory and economic pressure.
That did not happen by chance.
Over the last four decades, California has steadily reduced its in-state refining footprint through a mix of regulatory pressure, capital flight, and policy uncertainty.
Sacramento is pervaded by a culture of corruption.
Fake non-profit organizations that win public grants. So-called “infrastructure” projects that never get built, but always get funded.
Public corruption charges tied to the governor’s inner circle. “Behested payments” to politicians’ pet causes and to charities run by their families.
A recent and troubling example involves lobbyist Greg Campbell, who pleaded guilty to federal charges last December, and, allegedly, Dana Williamson, Governor Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff. Both Campbell and Williamson were publicly celebrated for their political skills before their respective falls from grace.
‘Melania’ Humiliates Media, Exceeds
Expectations with Best Documentary Box
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Expectations with Best Documentary Box
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The legacy media are eating crow once more now that Melania has scored the best box office opening for a documentary in a decade. Over and over, Trump supporters were taunted by the corporate media about empty theaters, an imminent box office humiliation, and zero advance ticket sales.
Well, reality has once again debunked these serial liars.
The far-left Deadline reports that Melania will close the weekend box office in third place with an $8 million opening, a “result that would mark the best start for a docu in the last decade.”
Through the centuries, many Christians have made the mistake of trying to guess the exact date of the Parousia. I will avoid that error. Christ’s Second Coming will arrive in God’s good time.
I will, however, propose that the Antichrist may already have walked among us for decades.
In an op-ed titled “MAGA’s War on Empathy,” published Thursday by The Atlantic, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — yes, Hillary Clinton, of all people — opined on what she regarded as the abandonment of Christian principles by Christian leaders, only to discover that those same Christian leaders regard her disapproval as a badge of honor,
One of the more horrible aspects of the mass illegal immigration that was allowed to fester under the presidency of Joe Biden and whoever was running the autopen was the number of unaccompanied illegal alien children that went missing. Most estimates place the number at 300,000. Until recently, we didn't know what had become of those children. Now, we have nearly half of them back. On Friday, Border Czar Tom "The Hammer" Homan took a few moments off from staring down ICE protestors in Minneapolis to take note of this on his official X account.
Much ink has been spilt on the war against “wokeness”—personified by Donald Trump’s historic comeback in 2024.
Americans have seen political pundits proclaim that “woke is dead,” pointing to the Gulf of America, DOGE, and even Sydney Sweeney as proof points. Most recently, The New York Times called an end to Hollywood’s “woke era,” noting that the proxy culture war in entertainment has finally run its course.
While I have personal doubts about the death of wokeness, celebratory conservatism misses the forest for the trees. The conservatives and libertarians currently jeering and heckling their left-wing adversaries are ignoring a far more existential —
Images uploaded to social media show that hackers have taken down one of the largest websites leftist agitators have used to doxx ICE agents conducting immigration operations in the wake of the two fatal self-defense shootings in Minneapolis. We were not kidding,” a message to administrators and users of the website read. “We sent your names, logins, passwords, and locations to a bunch of government agencies.”
The hackers responsible also mocked the website's abysmal security.
“Sherman Austin is a terrible coder, so are ‘RC’ Concepcion and Matt Beran,” the message continued.
Sha'Carri Richardson, an Olympic gold medalist and one of the world's fastest women on the track, was arrested Thursday in Florida and accused of driving over 100 mph, according to jail booking records. Richardson, 25, was arrested and booked into the Orange County Jail on a charge of dangerous excessive speeding at 100 mph or more, records showed.
Bond was set at $500.
USA Track and Field and a representative for Richardson did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Richardson is a titan in the arena, having won silver in the 100 meters and gold in the 4x100-meter relay at
Dear Patriot,
Our ask is simple: Help us stand with ICE.
The men and women of ICE who are arresting and deporting dangerous illegals across the country need our support now more than ever before.
With the left-wing media and Democratic politicians calling ICE President Trump’s “Gestapo,” “Nazis,” “the SS,” “fascists,” and more, the truth needs to be told about who’s really creating the chaos and mayhem in Democrat-run sanctuary cities and who’s trying to keep the public safe.
The radical Left’s dangerous rhetoric has now resulted in the deaths of two Americans. Due to Democratic politicians and their lapdogs in the media lying about the mission,
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is looking to recruit a new “top cop” to police nonprofits that “use and abuse” their charity status to dodge taxes, The Post has learned.
Bessent wants to appoint a new senior official at the Treasury Department to scrutinize the finances of charities that engage in excessive political activities, lobbying, or even fraud.
The secretary’s recently departed chief of staff, Michael Friedman, was tasked with drumming up some names for possible candidates before he left to join the SEC three weeks ago. It comes after The Post broke the news in December that the Treasury Department was eyeing a crackdown on nonprofit organizations that enjoy cushy tax-free benefits
First came the tolling of bells: the First Church of Boston, then the Second Church, then smaller ones joining in, the sound rolling through Boston like a summons. The streets cleared quickly, barefoot boys darting to claim the best vantage points. It was summer, and the air stank of old straw laid down to soak up urine and horse droppings, mixed with the sharp tang of fresh fish hauled in from the harbor that morning. Inside inns and taverns, conversations fell away as people shifted toward windows mysteriously clean for the first time in weeks.
British officers and soldiers quieted. Something was happening, and they didn't think they'd like it.
Is Don Lemon a law unto himself?
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A Minnesota grand jury indicted nine defendants in the Cities Church riot. The indictment was unsealed yesterday. I posted a copy here. All defendants are charged with violation of the law against conspiracy to violate the civil rights of third parties and with violation of the FACE Act. The indictment specifies the statutory provisions in issue.
Two of the defendants are journalists: Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. The fog machine at the Star Tribune is working overtime to obscure the issue raised by their alleged illegal misconduct. Assuming they committed the misconduct in issue, does the First Amendment shield them from the law? In other words, do they have a First
Next Monday is Groundhog Day, but it needs updating. No, not because the PETA lunatics want us to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a hologram (see Section 3 below), but because there are other persistent things for which the groundhog indicator could be redeployed. Like ICE protests, because it is the categorical imperative of the Omnicause that protests must go on no matter how cold the weather. Or like Sydney Sweeney. If the groundhog spots Sweeney’s new lingerie line hanging on the Hollywood sign, it means at least six more weeks of Sweeney in the news. As our pal RS says sagely, if Sweeney doesn’t win all the
It’s now been over a year since the catastrophic wildfires that burned down entire neighborhoods in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of Los Angeles. The planning for such an eventuality and the Keystone Cops response to it have drawn blistering criticism from everyone from Donald Trump to billionaire developer Rick Caruso to actor Spencer Pratt, who lost his house in the conflagration and is now running to replace Karen Bass as LA mayor. Some of the harshest words, however, came Wednesday from someone who presumably knows a thing or two about fires: Redondo Beach Fire Chief Patrick Butler.
This week, Will Norman, London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, was photographed trying “the excellent new cycle lanes on Lambeth Bridge”. He was joined by two cycling groups, the London Cycling Campaign and Cycle Sisters UK. In this piece I am going to delve into the latter as an example of how ridiculous identity politics has become, so much so that there are now exercise charities only open to minorities.
Case in point: Cycle Sisters UK describes itself as “award-winning charity which creates accessible and empowering spaces for Muslim and ethnically diverse women to cycle and become more healthy, confident and connected”.
The Senate on Friday evening voted 71-29 to pass a revised $1.2 trillion funding package that will partially fund the government until September 30.
The bill will now head to the House.
The House is in recess until Monday, so the government will partially shut down over the weekend.
The Democrats and President Trump will have two weeks to negotiate the Homeland Security appropriations bill. The Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday to pass a major funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but the legislation won’t become law before parts of the government shut down at midnight.
The War on Terror Came Home
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As it currently stands in America, the criminal illegal alien is treated by the left as both hero and victim, while the ICE agent enforcing federal law is cast as the de facto villain and oppressor.
After a radical left-wing protester is killed during a confrontation with federal agents—an act authorities deem lawful self-defense—the left demands the dismantling and defunding of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But after an illegal alien rapes and murders an unarmed American woman out for a jog, the same voices continue to champion the very open-border policies that made the crime possible in the first place. The left demanded unlimited funding and military support for Ukraine,
Welcome to "The New Monroe Doctrine," where I give you an update on what's going on in the Western Hemisphere, south of our border, especially as it relates to the United States. Okay, folks. We're a month into 2026, and Donald Trump and Marco Rubio have already toppled a narco-terrorist dictator and are helping Venezuela free itself from nearly three decades of Chavismo. Plus, they are well on their way to kicking communism out of Cuba for the first time in nearly 70 years.
If the next eleven months are anything like this, we're going to have a lot to talk about.
The State Department announced on Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “took action this week to revoke the privilege of Iranian senior officials and their family members to be in the United States,” as a consequence of Iran’s bloody crackdown on protesters this month.
“Those who profit from the Iranian regime’s brutal oppression are not welcome to benefit from our immigration system,” the State Department said. Important step. Well done, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rubio. Long overdue,” said Jason Brodsky, policy director for United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI.) Brodsky noted that his organization has “long advocated this step.”
Hundreds of unruly anti-ICE protesters were locked in a hostile standoff with federal agents outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles Friday.
The mob clashed with officials, who pepper-sprayed the group as it attempted to move closer to the building. Most of the disorderly crowd covered their faces with masks or scarves and some used gas masks. At one point, federal agents deployed what appeared to be tear gas into the crowd to disperse the agitators. Some of the aggressors scrawled “F–k ICE” in spray paint along a concrete barrier — others defaced the building.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced Friday that the state, along with several individual plaintiffs, had filed suit against the U.S. Commerce Department and the Census Bureau seeking to bring an end to the counting of illegal aliens in the Census, as well as forcing a recount of the 2020 Census and 2021 apportionment. The press release from Hanaway's office gives additional details:
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – To defend our fundamental right to representation in government, Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway filed the most significant election lawsuit in a generation. This first-in-the-nation suit was filed against the United States Department of Commerce (DOC)
After Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race going away in November, the consensus among the political chattering class was that it’s a foregone conclusion the Republicans will lose in next year’s midterms. The experts said this was a referendum on President Donald Trump, and an early sign that his America First movement is cracking.
The same experts pointed to “key Democrat wins” in the New Jersey governor’s race and the New York City mayoral election as further indicators of a coming blue wave.
To be so smug in their predictions, the experts had to ignore the fact that the races were in two blue states and a deep
Money is often described as neutral, technical, or merely instrumental—a passive medium facilitating exchange within an otherwise political society. This view is not only mistaken; it is profoundly misleading. Money is the hidden constitution of every political order. It determines which actions are possible, which institutions survive, which risks are rewarded, and which failures are forgiven. While constitutions proclaim rights and legislatures debate policy, money silently governs outcomes.