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Members of the MAGA faithful gathered here Thursday to kick off Turning Point USA’s America Fest, the largest meeting for the organization since its founder, Charlie Kirk, was shot to death on a Utah college campus in September. Despite that somber backdrop, the event quickly devolved into a spectacle of MAGA infighting.

Border Patrol officials said the first mile of the new "smart border wall" has been completed in Arizona's Tucson Sector... ...Earlier this year, CBP and the Department of Homeland Security announced 10 new contracts valued at $4.5 billion to add a "Smart Wall" along the southwest border. One of the contracts was to construct 23 miles of new secondary border wall and 66 miles of system attributes in Arizona. "The Smart Wall is a border security system that combines steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology to give Border Patrol agents the best tools in...

A truck driver in the country illegally has been released on a $100,000 bond after a fatal wreck in Washington late last week. 25-year-old Kamalpreet Singh, of Elk Grove, California was arrested on Thursday, December 11th after a crash on SR 167 in King County, Washington. He was released on $100,000 bond on Sunday, December 14th. According to Auburn Examiner, Singh crashed into the back of a Mazda sedan that was stopped just behind a Peterbilt on northbound SR 167 south of SR 18. The force of the impact crushed the Mazda between the two semi trucks, killing the motorist,...

Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are advocating for a bill that would stop President Trump from replacing immigration judges with what the senators call “inexperienced attorneys.”The bill is led by Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and co-sponsored by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) alongside Senators Wyden and Merkley.

CASA GRANDE — The perimeter of Taco Giro, a Mexican restaurant on East Cottonwood Lane, was lined with yellow tape Friday morning and, as confirmed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was one of numerous southern Arizona locations of the company involved in a sweep that took multiple individuals in custody. In response to a request from PinalCentral to confirm ICE presence, ICE spokesperson Leticia Zamarripa stated ICE and the IRS, as well as other federal partners, had conducted 16 search warrants in southern Arizona “as part of a years-long investigation into immigration and tax violations.” ... According to a...

Federal authorities won't explain why three men who participated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, have mysteriously disappeared from the FBI's Capitol Violence Most Wanted list. One unidentified man wore an earpiece during the riot and was filmed carrying what appeared to be a concealed handgun on his left hip. The man was pictured on the FBI's most wanted list for over five months until he was removed without explanation on the same day the New York Times reported an FBI informant was at the Capitol on Jan. 6. A second unidentified man was filmed beating police officers...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0903/090309la.htm Leader of ring that moved thousands of illegal aliens across U.S. sentenced to more than 6 years in prison LOS ANGELES - A Guatemalan national who helped run a Los Angeles-based organization that harbored and transported more than 9,000 illegal aliens was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison. Francisco Andres-Francisco, 40, was sentenced by United States District Judge George H. King in Los Angeles. Andres-Francisco has been in custody since he was arrested 14 months ago in Pennsylvania after being found driving a van allegedly loaded with illegal aliens. Andres-Francisco...

PHOENIX — Police say a man and an 8-year-old girl have died, and two others were seriously injured after a shooting in a parking lot in South Phoenix on Saturday. The incident occurred around 2:45 p.m., near 19th Avenue and Baseline Road. Witnesses tell police they saw a man, identified as 28-year-old Tyrone Dee Chilly, and the driver of an SUV, identified as 30-year-old Quincy Jay Polk, exit their vehicles and engage in a physical altercation. A woman and three children were also inside Polk's SUV during the altercation. At one point, Polk and Chilly returned to their own vehicles,...

Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is irate over news that his colleague, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), is the subject of a Department of War investigation for taking part in a video urging military members to defy orders from their superiors.So much so that he's seemingly issuing threats to anyone who takes part in that investigation.A Department of War statement issued Monday stated Kelly had been accused of "serious allegations of misconduct" and that further actions against him are under consideration—including a potential court-martial or other "administrative measures."Gallego, in an interview with CNN, warned service members that once President Trump leaves office,...

... The backstory: Barco's family fled Cuba as refugees, and they first went to Venezuela, where Barco was born. He came to U.S. legally with his family when he was four. and enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17. During his time in the Army, Barco was deployed to Iraq twice. He applied for citizenship while overseas, but was told his paperwork was lost. After he was severely injured in an explosion that involved an improvised explosive device (IED), Barco received a Purple Heart. ... Dig deeper: When Barco returned to the U.S. from his overseas stint, he began suffering...

Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to the House Wednesday after a record 50-day wait, vowing to immediately join an effort to disclose files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Grijalva had expressed no special interest in the Epstein case prior to her Sept. 23 election. But she became intertwined in the fate of a bipartisan effort to disclose Justice Department files related to the disgraced financier after it became clear she could provide the final necessary signature on a discharge petition forcing a House vote on the matter.

Maricopa County election workers discovered Friday morning two sealed boxes of ballots that were mistakenly not returned on the night of Tuesday's election. Workers were inspecting equipment returned from voting locations in the Valley and found two sealed boxes containing 2,288 ballot envelopes, according to Deputy Elections Director for Communications Jennifer Liewer. Poll workers apparently placed the boxes by mistake in a blue drop box instead of returning them on Nov. 4. Liewer said a bipartisan team of election staff have taken custody of the boxes to ensure chain-of-custody protocols were followed. The ballot envelopes will now go through the...

In America's most conservative city, Mesa, AZ (Pop 520,000), a city councilwoman faced a recall election for publicly campaigning for Harris and Gallego despite representing a district that went for Trump by 16%. She was originally elected to her seat with the help of Trump voters. A recall petition was filed and Turning Point USA joined in. She lost her seat tonight in the recall election, 53-47 to a member of Turning Point USA. Charlie is avenged. Turning Point is just gettin started.

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA — A 31-year-old registered sex offender suspected of human trafficking across state lines and sexually exploiting a girl was arrested and extradited to California, the Riverside Police Department announced. Deirdrick Dayvon Bradford was arrested in Phoenix, following a lengthy investigation by Riverside Vice Unit Detectives and an associated task force. He was extradited to Riverside County in late October, where he awaits arraignment for numerous felonies, including sex trafficking of a minor, pimping, and possessing child pornography, according to jail records. ... "The victim was believed to have engaged in prostitution in Riverside and Los Angeles counties,...

Fox News reports that the inebriated judge was doing her bladder business just steps from the courthouse where she does her judicial business. Olson's husband, Jason, walked up to the scene and asked why she was being questioned.

Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet on Saturday slammed teachers at an Arizona high school for allegedly mocking the death of Charlie Kirk through Halloween costumes, while the school district insisted the attire was not a political statement.Kolvet posted a photo on X appearing to show eight teachers from Cienaga High School's math department in the Vail School District in Tucson, wearing white shirts splattered with dark-red dye and featuring the phrase "Problem Solved”***snip*** In a follow-up post, Kolvet shared the district’s official response from Superintendent John Carruth, who said the shirts were part of "math-themed Halloween costumes" and were...

Yavapai County Superior Court Judge Pro Tempore Kristyne Schaaf-Olson has resigned in disgrace after being caught urinating in public while heavily intoxicated in Prescott, Arizona. The incident unfolded in the early hours of October 4, around 1:30 a.m., when witnesses alerted police to the 42-year-old judge squatting in shrubbery with her pants down.

The Democratic Party's coronation of Kamala Harris as their 2024 presidential nominee wasn't the smooth, unified effort they wanted the public to believe. Behind closed doors, it was pure chaos, with Barack Obama furious at Nancy Pelosi for moving too fast and essentially backing Kamala’s anointing before anyone else had a shot at it. When Joe Biden finally bowed out of the race in July 2024, Nancy Pelosi wasted almost no time throwing her support behind Kamala. Less than a day after Biden's announcement, Pelosi was all in on Harris. The problem? According to excerpts from Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book,...

Former President Barack Obama was not pleased that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris the day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.In his new book Retribution, ABC News' Jonathan Karl provided new details on what had been widely known - that Obama didn't want a quick coronation of Harris, but rather 'a process' to determine who would become the Democratic nominee. The Daily Mail obtained an advanced copy. Obama called Pelosi shortly after her endorsement of Harris became public. 'The Obamas were not happy,' a Pelosi confidant told Karl. 'This...

As Maricopa County voters begin casting ballots in the off-year election, Supervisor Debbie Lesko is raising concerns about Proposition 409 — a $898 million bond proposal to fund major upgrades for Valleywise Health, the county’s public hospital system. “I’m not a fan of Prop. 409, the Valleywise Health ballot measure,” Lesko wrote on X. “This is a new tax in addition to their existing tax. If this passes, we’ll be paying for two Valleywise bonds on our property taxes.”