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Secret Service leaders meddled in an independent government investigation of the July 13 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and are still not following many basic agency security protocols for presidential candidates, presidents, and vice presidents in the final days before the election, according to emails reviewed by RealClearPolitics and several sources in the Secret Service community. As Secret Service failures came to light in the weeks after the July assassination attempt, USSS managers sent emails to employees asking them to alert them to any “direct requests for information or interview” from the Department of Homeland Security Office of...

The controversy surrounding President Trump’s upcoming rally in Albuquerque exposes New Mexico’s state leadership selectively blocking access to public spaces, sparking heated allegations of partisanship. Scheduled for Thursday at CSI Aviation, the rally faced logistical challenges when far-left Democrat New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard rejected the Trump campaign’s plan to use the Isleta Amphitheater’s parking lot. After the Trump campaign coordinated with Live Nation to set up a parking and shuttle system, the state abruptly reversed course, blocking the use of the state-owned lot. This move is irrefutably politically motivated and, at its core, an infringement...

[author comment] In a new report released by the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, Facebook executives are shown following the lead of the FBI, which gave them prior warnings to prepare to spike such stories before the election. The FBI knew that the laptop was authentic. They had possession of the laptop, and American intelligence continued that it was not Russian disinformation. One Microsoft employee wrote, “FBI tipped us all off last week that this Burisma story was likely to emerge.” However, these communications also show a knowing effort to appease Biden and Harris and effectively...

House investigators formally subpoenaed the Democrat donations platform ActBlue in a rapidly expanding probe into possible illicit foreign funding in the 2024 election after the Treasury Department confirmed to Congress its money laundering detection system has generated hundreds of suspicious activity reports related to the online fund-raising giant. The dramatic developments were communicated to House members and ActBlue itself in a series of memos this week obtained by Just the News that reaffirmed that lawmakers fear foreign adversaries like China, Iran, Venezuela and Russia may be routing illicit foreign money into Democratic coffers by using the names of unsuspecting American...

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. - The Monroe County District Attorney's Office says the company behind multiple irregular voter registration forms that were received by the Monroe County Board of Elections. Officials say that the Monroe County Board of Elections identified approximately 30 irregular forms, which were then segregated and investigated by the Monroe County District Attorney. Several of the voter registration applications and mail ballot request forms were found to be fraudulent as they were not authorized by the people named as applicants, according to the DA. Officials say that at least in one case, the named applicant was actually deceased....

Liz Cheney, a staunch “Never Trump” former Republican representative, has joined Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in key swing states in the final days of the campaign to warn voters that Donald Trump does not respect the “rule of law” or the U.S. Constitution. “[When] you think about, what are you looking for in somebody you hire, you're looking for somebody that you can trust, you're looking for somebody who's going to be responsible, who's going to operate in good faith,” Cheney told the Detroit Economic Club on Oct. 22. But new evidence has emerged suggesting that Cheney may have...

The ruling addresses a miniscule number of ballots and represents the latest legal defeat for state Republicans this election cycle. The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that election officials can count mail ballots with no postmark received as many as three days after Election Day. In a decision Monday, five of the high court’s seven justices disagreed with the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) interpretation of the law at the center of the lawsuit and determined it would not be in the public interest to change election procedures this late in the cycle. Justices Douglas Herndon and Kristina Pickering agreed with...

A Democrat staffer who has worked on campaigns for two vulnerable Ohio candidates was captured on video calling for open borders and labeling those wanting to secure the border as "racist." "Open the f---ing border, I don’t give a s--- who comes in here," the staffer, identified and first reported by Ohio.news as Kevin Oyakawa, said on a video during a conversation with a volunteer earlier this month.

Five people are charged in connection with a teacher-certification cheating ring that led to illegally certified teachers working in Texas schools, DA Kim Ogg said.

Pennsylvania GOP Committeewoman and RNC delegate Val Biancaniello was taken away in handcuffs for telling voters at a polling place in Delaware County to stay in line and vote. It is unclear if Biancaniello was booked and charged. According to Val Biancaniello, the Democrats were discouraging voters from in-person voting on Monday in Delaware County so she encouraged voters to stay in line. “I was just taken away in handcuffs at the Delaware County, Pennsylvania Government Center for encouraging people to stay in line and vote,” Val Biancaniello said. Bystanders were shocked as police handcuffed Biancaniello. “Wow! That’s crazy! You...

Ballot boxes were set on fire early Monday morning in Portland Oregon and neighboring Vancouver, Washington. The ballot box in Portland was firebombed with a device that blew a small hole in a side of the metal container, according to police. The interior of the Vancouver ballot box was set on fire, a “device” was found next to that drop box by police.

Americans have been told by their government and media that disinformation is all around them, and that is not entirely false. One of the corporate media’s favorite tactics for swaying public opinion is to isolate a small part of a story, claim to debunk it, and then to declare the larger point of the story also to be without merit. We saw a glaring example of this recently with the story out of Springfield, Ohio. The town of less than 60,000 residents between Dayton and Columbus has been swamped over the last few years with more than 20,000 migrants from...

CV NEWS FEED // The Biden administration on October 21 proposed making over-the-counter contraception free for everyone who has commercial health insurance. According to an article in Roll Call, President Joe Biden stated, “Today, my Administration is taking a major step to expand contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. This new action would help ensure that millions of women with private health insurance can access the no-cost contraception they need.” The article explains that the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Labor and Treasury jointly proposed the rule, which would “require insurance plans to cover...

U.S. — With the presidential election less than two weeks away, top Democrats warned the American people that it could be some time before we know who the winner is because it may take at least four years to count all of the ballots. Though other, far less-developed countries have been able to count all ballots by hand in much shorter periods of time, Democrats stressed the very real likelihood that counting all the ballots in swing states would probably last until the 2028 presidential election. "You just can't rush this type of thing," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer....

Tiffany Henyard, the scandal-plagued Democratic mayor of Dolton, Illinois, has suggested she'll seek to arrest political opponents, many of whom have raised concerns about her lavish spending on the taxpayers' dime. The embattled mayor, who is also facing eviction from her rented home, has made national headlines due to her alleged misuse of taxpayer funds, with former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot previously investigating her extravagant spending habits. "I will be seeking arrests for individuals involved," Henyard said, during a rambling 90-minute video she posted on Facebook Tuesday. ... In her Facebook post, Henyard says that those bringing allegations against her...

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The Biden-Harris administration is allegedly covering up an internal study conducted in 2023 that would have rendered its moratorium on natural gas projects unnecessary, according to leaders on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The White House and the Department of Energy paused permitting for liquefied natural gas export projects in January—a policy critics said would cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs—to allow time for a federal study on those projects' environmental, economic, and national security impacts. That study, according to federal officials, wouldn't be completed until early 2025, effectively throwing the brakes...

The Badger State’s troubled election regulator continues to have a transparency problem. The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) is facing possible court intervention for its refusal to turn over records related to guidance that WEC issued to local election clerks about same-day registration safeguards. According to a lawsuit filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the commission issued updated guidance in February 2023, but has stonewalled PILF’s records requests seeking communications about the creation of the guidance for “at least 397 days.” “Same-Day Voter Registration is already a vote now verify later system,” J. Christian Adams, president of the election...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Wednesday shared a website where citizens can check whether their name has been used for any political donations without their permission amid scrutiny of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue. House Republicans recently widened their probe into the ActBlue platform investigating whether four foreign adversaries--Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and China--have funneled money into Democratic Party campaigns in 2024, Just the News reported. The lawmakers specifically demanded any Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) related to monies passing through Act Blue that were filed by U.S. financial institutions as part of their money-laundering monitoring activities. "It has long been...

ATLANTA — A Fulton County judge ruled Monday afternoon an employee at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office did not act in good faith. The employee testified that he would use what he called the “Merchant Rule,” a tactic he used to delay open records requested by criminal defense Ashleigh Merchant. Monday’s hearing stems from a lawsuit in which Merchant accuses the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office of violating the state’s Open Records Act. Merchant claims the District Attorney’s office refused to provide documents related to her client, Michael Roman, who is a defendant in the election interference case against...