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Last week’s wide-margin election wins in deep blue states bolstered the Democrat Party’s battered confidence heading into the 2026 midterms. In fact, the Dems sound downright cocky. They believe that they “can compete everywhere,” as Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin put it. “I said when I ran for this job that when you organize everywhere, you can win anywhere, and we just fundamentally believe that,” Martin told NBC News last week as he prepared to campaign for leftist Aftyn Behn in one of red Tennessee’s most conservative congressional districts. Perhaps still drunk on the champagne bubbles of last Tuesday’s...

Billboard’s number one song on its “Country Digital Song Sales” chart is called “Walk My Walk” by a band called Breaking Rust, and, according to Billboard, Breaking Rust was created by artificial intelligence (AI). Welcome to the future, baby…

Guest post by Joel Gilbert California Representative Eric Swalwell has faced a barrage of controversy in recent years, from his alleged ties to the Chinese spy “Fang Fang,” to his removal from the House Intelligence Committee over national security concerns, to his infamous on-air mishap during a 2019 interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews. Now, a new revelation raises even more serious questions about Swalwell’s integrity and eligibility to serve in Congress.

A federal judge has ordered Long Island's Suffolk County, NY, to pay $112 million in damages after hundreds of illegal immigrants were detained by local authorities on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The ruling determined that both the county and the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office violated the constitutional rights of 674 individuals who were kept in county jails in 2017 even after posting bail or resolving their criminal cases. “This decision brings long-overdue accountability,” said Jose Perez, Deputy General Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, which represented the plaintiffs. “The jury confirmed what we have argued all along, that Suffolk...

A woman who has organized a local farmers' market for years in the city of Pataskala, Ohio, was prohibited from putting on a live nativity display for a Christmas-themed market until officials backed down. Susan Conley requested in September to be allowed to set up the nativity scene on public grounds this year after previously having it located on private property. The city denied the request, despite allowing other displays that included the Grinch, Santa Claus, and Buddy the Elf. The First Liberty Institute, which represents Conley, said in a press release that city officials backtracked after the organization sent...

President Trump on Monday pardoned a trail runner who took a brief detour on a prohibited trail while attempting to break a record running up and down the tallest peak in the Teton Range of Wyoming. Michelino Sunseri, 33, ran up and down the 13,775-foot-tall Grand Teton peak on Sept. 2, 2024, in a record-shattering 2 hours, 50 minutes, 50 seconds. On his way down, Sunseri used a shortcut to avoid casual hikers, but going off-trail in a national park is prohibited due to concerns of erosion. Sunseri was convicted of a misdemeanor in September for taking the frowned-upon cut-through....

The United Kingdom is now in a rolling crisis that its leaders can neither manage nor control. We should pay attention. Hardly a day passes without some news item out of Britain that underscores the depth of the crisis in that country. Over the weekend, it was news that 1,500 migrants had crossed the English Channel illegally from France — in less than 72 hours. During a stretch of good weather, hundreds of people disembarked at migrant processing facilities in Dover on a daily basis, bringing the total number of Channel migrants this year to 38,450, well above the 36,816...

RNC Youth Advisory Council Co-Chair CJ Pearson says the leftist media describing violent college campus protests as mostly peaceful is “completely insane”. “Antifa trying to intimidate people from engaging in the free expression of their political beliefs and ideals,” Mr Pearson told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “We need to get serious about ensuring that we get to root out this indoctrination.”

The Department of Justice launched a “full investigation” into the leftist demonstrations that took place outside of a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday. Bondi said that Antifa was behind “violent riots” at UC Berkeley on Monday after leftist agitators showed up at the venue hours before the TPUSA event began on campus, harassing conservative attendees as they lined up for the event. The investigation is being led by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which focuses on international and domestic terrorism. “Antifa is an existential threat to our...

@RupertLowe10 I didn’t say the death penalty for ‘overseas and foreign’ criminals. I quite clearly said foreign and domestic. What is wrong with the BBC? An urgent correction and apology please, @BBCPolitics .

Artificial intelligence has democratized knowledge more than any invention in history. Anyone can now solve a problem in physics, medicine, or Greek literature instantly. Yet the safeguards that once verified a student’s mastery of a subject have been replaced by compliance rituals that only simulate it. [...] What once required thought, practice, and time now takes a single click. That isn’t evolution; it’s a breakthrough, disruptive technology doing what it is meant to do: collapsing the distance between skill and result. In higher education, this transformative technology has created a perfect storm where tools that make cheating effortless have collided...

Fortunately for the Great State of Texas, their Former Speaker, who is no longer Speaker, Dade Phelan, is quitting Politics. He was the one responsible for killing every Bill having to do with Voter Integrity and School Choice. Good luck in your next life, Dade!

A federal jury has convicted a Steuben County man of economic espionage and stealing critical U.S. technology. Ji Wang, 63 of Painted Post, N.Y., is convicted for stealing sensitive information on Fiber Laser research from Corning Incorporated, while working on a military defense project, and bringing that information to the Chinese Government with the intentions of starting a business. Wang was born in China and immigrated to the United States in 1998 to work for Corning Incorporated. Between 2002 and 2007, Wang was assigned to work on a joint research project and development project funded by the Defense Advanced Research...

Sydney Sweeney sat down for an interview, where the reporter clearly expected her to apologize for the American Eagle jeans ad. Sydney handled it perfectly.

Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

A man identified as Jihad Dphrepaulezz has been charged with assault and robbery after allegedly attacking a Turning Point USA attendee during a protest at the University of California-Berkeley. Left-wing protesters disrupted Turning Point USA’s Berkeley event Monday, leading to violent clashes and arrests just two months after the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. Authorities said Dphrepaulezz, 25, confronted a supporter at Monday’s event and forcibly removed a gold chain from his neck, prompting a fight that left both men bloodied, the New York Post reported. Dphrepaulezz is reportedly an employee of the California Department of Public Health. It was...

More than 150 illegal migrant sexual predators have been nabbed in Florida in a massive operation dubbed “Operation Dirtbag,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed on Wednesday. The sex offenders were among more than 230 illegals recently rounded up in the Sunshine State for a variety of crimes, including numerous drug offenses and even murder, the DHS said. The pervs had sick rap sheets — including prior convictions for child molestation and sexual assault, according to DHS. “This operation was called Operation Criminal Return. I call it Operation Dirtbag because these individuals were sex offenders, but not just sex offenders,...

California’s voters, blinded by hatred of Trump, keep empowering the corrupt coalition that’s driving the Golden State into decay, debt, and disorder. “Stick it to Trump.” That is the strategy of the Democratic Party in California, and it’s working. For 28 years, the Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature, and apart from Schwarzenegger’s interlude from 2004 to 2010, there’s been a Democrat governor since 1999. Nothing seems likely to change; this month, California’s voters approved a redistricting plan that is expected to reduce the number of Republican U.S. Congressmen to four out of 52. Democratic dominance in...

In yet another blow to immigration enforcement, a federal judge in Illinois is reportedly preparing to order the mass release of thousands of illegal aliens detained during ICE’s “Operation Blitz,” a nationwide crackdown on criminal and repeat immigration violators. According to ABC7 Chicago, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings, a Biden appointee, is weighing whether to grant what’s called “equitable relief” that could see federal immigration authorities forced to release thousands of detainees into so-called “alternatives to detention” programs, ankle monitors, smartphone check-ins, and other ineffective tracking methods widely criticized as loopholes by law enforcement officers. The case stems from the...

The Turkish Air Force C-130E went down in the country of Georgia as it was returning home from Azerbaijan. Videos show a Turkish Air Force C-130E Hercules cargo plane falling in multiple pieces from the sky earlier today. The center fuselage with the wings still attached is notably seen spiraling straight down toward the ground. The aircraft, which tragically had 20 individuals onboard, came down in Georgia as it was flying from Azerbaijan to Turkey. VIDEO AT LINK................. Footage of Turkish C-130 military transport plane crashing in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan https://t.co/6WPtqeJKc8 pic.twitter.com/ixA67w8Ndq— Polymarket Intel (@PolymarketIntel) November 11,...