Posts on Thursday, August 13, 2026

What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans? This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime. “The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been

Since disgraced Democrat Graham Platner exited under immense pressure from party leaders who were terrified he was going to lose, the Maine Senate race has mostly dropped out of the national news cycle, with one of the few "interesting" things being the process the state party used to pick its replacement nominee, Platner-backed Troy Jackson, a couple of weeks later. The other interesting - and far more cringey - thing that's been revealed is that Jackson, a former state senate president who has been endorsed by the Maine DSA, is "romantically partnered up with his second cousin and the two have produced offspring," as RedState previously reported.

President Donald Trump’s deputies managed to deport hundreds of criminals from within California’s amnesty zone, or “sanctuary state,” U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Wednesday. Essayli launched the operation last year. He said the strategy worked well enough to serve as a blueprint elsewhere in the country. “This program is a model for the rest of the nation and a proven strategy to compel states to hand over criminal illegal immigrants to @ICEgov,” he said. The operation resulted in the arrests of 362 illegal aliens who had previously been deported, according to the New York Post. Federal authorities use illegal reentry charges to obtain warrants for illegal aliens already being held in local jails.

Trump advisor Stephen Miller appeared on the Will Cain show on Wednesday afternoon and tore into AOC for laughing off the era of woke during a recent interview with Jon Karl of ABC News. During the same interview, AOC lied about the radical platform of the DSA and refused to condemn radical Hasan Piker. This was the moment when she tried to laugh off the destructive forces of the woke left. Stephen Miller was not buying this, and reminded viewers that during this period, people’s lives were ruined and many people even died.

The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday restored parts of a 2021 Texas election law that reformed the state's regulations regarding mail-in ballots and assisted voting. The law had faced several lawsuits over accessibility concerns, which were consolidated into a single law, The Texas Tribune reported, and a district judge blocked nine of the law's provisions. These blocked provisions included requiring Texas voters to provide an identification or social security number on mail-in ballot applications, which were required to match state records. The judge also blocked rules that created processes for curing defective ballots and required voters and those who assist them in filling out their applications—

New Jersey recently exposed a problem poised to change the national conversation about election administration. State officials disclosed a so-called processing error at the Motor Vehicle Commission that resulted in approximately 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens registering to vote between June 2023 and June 2024. The numbers are troubling, but they are not the most important part of the story. Those individuals reportedly did not falsely claim to be citizens. They told the government they were not U.S. citizens, yet they were registered anyway. Election officials often assure the public that such incidents are isolated anomalies, clerical mistakes, or software glitches. One case, standing alone, may deserve that description.

Pro-migration activists have funded some 20,000 lawsuits to release roughly 17,300 illegal migrants — including many criminals — mostly with the aid of judges nominated by President Joe Biden. The massive resistance to President Donald Trump’s 2024 deportation mandate has been outlined by Politico: POLITICO is tracking the surge in litigation triggered by the administration’s novel policy that began in July, and releasing our database, below, of the 20,000-plus cases in which federal district courts reached a ruling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention practices. “Millions and millions of dollars are wrapped up in that lobby,” Michael Howell, president of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project,

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused his predecessor Xavier Becerra of gutting a team responsible for policing fraud across trillions of dollars. “My predecessor, Xavier Becerra, when he came into my agency, there were only 80 people in program integrity, 80 people,” Kennedy said. “This is for 50 states and five territories.” Becerra allegedly stripped nearly the entire team tasked with guarding $2.2 trillion in annual HHS payments against fraud, said Kennedy during a White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud press conference. Kennedy said those employees were responsible for monitoring roughly four million transactions each day. He claimed Becerra then reassigned 76 members of the team.

A mysterious aircraft was spotted flying over the McConnell Air Force Base, in Kansas, with observers speculating that it could have been a rare sighting of America’s pricey, top-secret stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider. The video, taken near the Wichita airbase on Tuesday, showed a large gray plane with a silhouette similar to a stealth bomber flying in the sky. While the aircraft has yet to be identified, many believe it’s proximity to the Air Force base suggest it could have been a test for the rarely seen B-21 Raider. The high-tech new aircraft is a “nuclear-capable, penetrating strike stealth bomber,” and has an average per-unit price of $692 million,

The left's favorite billionaire oligarch, George Soros, has poured money into the campaigns for secretary of state and district attorney candidates over the years in an effort to place anti-law enforcement and anti-incarceration activists in control of elections and law and order—the very foundations of civil society. Now, the left is coming for your county sheriff—the last local law man or woman elected to office by the people. This odious idea is happening mostly along the West Coast, Messed Coast™ in San Francisco, Riverside County, and California cities, but it's also happening in Arizona, the woke areas of

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in Los Angeles on Tuesday to announce the Trump administration’s latest push to overhaul the state’s response to the homelessness crisis. California has long struggled with homelessness, and recent scandals involving taxpayer dollars flowing to troubled nonprofits have intensified scrutiny. The Trump administration announced in June that it would cut off federal funding to Los Angeles. At a press conference held at the Dream Center, a faith-based nonprofit, Turner told the Daily Signal the administration wants to see actual results—people getting off the streets and receiving treatment.

The Department of Justice refused Wednesday to appeal a ruling that found National Firearms Act (NFA) restrictions on suppressors and other items unconstitutional because the removal of associated taxes invalidated the law, marking a significant victory for gun-rights advocates. Republican Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde posted on X Wednesday that the Trump administration confirmed it would not appeal a ruling by United States District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee, granting a motion for summary judgement from attorneys representing the Silencer Shop Foundation in a 66-page opinion issued August 5. Hendrix ruled that since taxes on suppressors, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns and other items

Kathy Hochul received $55,000 in campaign contributions from social adult daycare centers (SADCs) in fraud-plagued Flushing, Queens, records show. Almost half of those donations can be linked to two men: local powerbroker Baoli Zhang, and Jiemin Shang — who own two of Flushing’s biggest daycare businesses, both of which were empty of patients when visited by The Post last week.

Nearly half of young American adults are living with their parents, while a similar share rely on financial assistance from family or others to cover everyday expenses, according to new Federal Reserve data highlighting the mounting economic pressures facing younger generations. The Federal Reserve’s Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households found that 49% of adults ages 18 to 29 live with their parents. Another 47% received financial assistance from someone outside their household to pay expenses during the previous year. The share of young adults living at home has climbed 6 percentage points since 2022 and 12 percentage points since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

If gun control works, as anti-gunners repeatedly claim, then the lack of gun control should lead to predictable results. In fact, anti-gunners make this case every time they lose. They do the whole "the streets will run red with blood" bit on social media, screaming to high heavens that this is a disaster and innocent people will die. And they trot out the studies to "prove" this is the case. Pretty much every bit of research out of academia backs up their claims. The problem is that the real world isn't the same as the one created by biased researchers. How do we know this? A simple comparison highlights this beautifully.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday. “Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump, ICE is making our nation safer by removing illegal aliens from our communities.” “When you remove criminal illegal aliens like these from our country, crime rates fall, and the American people are safer,” Mullin added. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that nearly 70% —

A Texas high school teacher was reduced to tears and broke down in front of his class when he realized the seniors he was teaching couldn’t complete a writing exercise. Darius Williams, a teacher for Houston Independent School District’s Wheatley High School, said he couldn’t get through the first class of the second day of school before his students’ poor literacy skills were too much for him. “I just finished a three-hour class, and I literally broke down in the middle of class,” Williams said in an Instagram video during his lunch break on Tuesday. Williams, a New Education System (NES) Career and Technical Education (CTE) staffer,

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a two-count indictment charging 11 individuals for orchestrating a massive, decade-long marriage fraud network that arranged over 1,000 sham marriages. Federal prosecutors described the operation as one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in U.S. history, spanning “from 2016 through July 2026 and generating tens of millions of dollars in illegal revenue.” The criminal scheme primarily aimed to secure fraudulent green cards and lawful permanent residency for foreign nationals, predominantly citizens of the People’s Republic of China, the DOJ noted. According to the 21-page indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,

What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans? This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime. “The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat,

A former credit union branch manager in Columbus, Indiana, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after admitting to stealing more than $381,000 from customer accounts, including accounts belonging to elderly and vulnerable customers. Teresa Palmer, 55, of Columbus, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $381,400.05 in restitution. U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker imposed the sentence after Palmer pleaded guilty to two counts of bank fraud.

There's an old saw in conservative circles that says, "When a liberal calls you a racist, that means you're winning the argument." For the most part, that's true. Leftists shout "Racism!" reflexively, not thoughtfully. Also, their responses to conservatives are based on fictional evil caricatures that, in their minds, justify their unhinged emotional responses to anything we say or do. A classic example from recent times is the noxious diaper-filling lefties experience whenever they see a MAGA hat. "Make America Great Again"="racism" in the Democrats' fever dream. I am not saying that racism has been eradicated in the United States or the world. However,

Former Obama advisor David Axelrod was on a CNN panel talking about the primaries that were going on Tuesday. In the process, the panel spoke about election fraud issues. As our sister site Townhall reported, that's when Pete Seat, a former spokesman for President George W. Bush and the Indiana Republican Party, dropped some news of which many were not aware. Seat explained the problem with how Barack Obama got on the ballot in a county in Indiana. Seat explained that Democrats were accused of submitting false ballot petition signatures, including for Obama, and that people were convicted over that.

Jen Psaki admitted something horrible about the Democrat Party on MSNOW last night, during their coverage of the Wisconsin Democrat primary for governor. Psaki came right out and admitted that the leaders of the Democrat Party typically choose the party’s nominees, not the voters. Everyone knows this is true. Obviously, no one voted to make Kamala Harris the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, but you don’t expect to hear someone like Psaki admit this on the air. From the Vigilant Fox: Jen Psaki admits on MSNBC that Democratic Party leadership used to “SELECT” the nominees, and nobody was allowed to say it out loud until now.

One of the more surreal things about the new Democratic Party is its habit of charging Trump with legal and ethical transgressions that Democrats themselves normalized years ago. The result is a strange sort of projection, in which the Left’s charges often reveal its own prior wrongdoing. And after undermining norms, they now lament the loss of what they destroyed. Too Cozy an Attorney General? Democratic Senators voted unanimously against Todd Blanche for attorney general, claiming that, as a former Trump attorney, he was too close to the president. Really? Even if true, the model came from the Democrats—

We knew that Penny Flanagan winning the Democrat Senate primary in Minnesota on Tuesday was going to yield some campaign trail hilarity, but we didn't know it would start this soon. Flanagan, as Tim Walz's current lieutenant governor, is a known quantity – and none of it's good. Depending on the day, you might find her wearing a t-shirt condoning violence or donning a hijab to show she's one with the Somali Muslim community. In short, she's bat-guano crazy. And although her name makes it sound like she grew up catching leprechauns in Kilkelly, Ireland – and she is part Irish –

Paramount is considering the option of moving CBS News out of the Big Apple as his legal battle with New York and California’s attorneys general is heating up, The Post has learned. One point of leverage for Paramount is potentially moving its news operations out of New York City as California AG Rob Bonta leads a coalition of 12 lefty states in an effort to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, people close to Paramount told The Post on Wednesday. While CEO David Ellison would prefer not to relocate CBS News, there have been broad discussions internally about a potential move to another city.