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TALLAHASSEE, FL — After an election night in which the Sunshine State successfully tallied all its votes within hours of the polls closing, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained to California Governor Gavin Newsom that the secret to counting ballots in one night is not committing fraud. Sources revealed that Newsom called DeSantis late Tuesday night to express amazement at Florida's vote-counting efficiency, with DeSantis helpfully responding to his fellow governor that tallying ballots is much faster and simpler without the widespread implementation of election fraud schemes. "You'd be shocked at how easy it actually is without all the fraud," DeSantis...

NON TWITTER USERS: https://xcancel.com/AnthonyAguero/status/2089460429328400758 ======================================================================== Anthony Aguero: I drove across the country to the US northern border on a 30 day mission to investigate and get a better understanding of how the US-Canadian border is currently being exploited. It’s the southern border all over again, only much quieter. Since the southern border is more secure many migrants are taking a flight from Mexico in to Canada (as they are both still part of the Global Compact for Migration) walk right in to these American ghost towns now pretty much ran by criminal organizations. It’s so vast and open that it’s...

Megyn Kelly tore into Sen. Jon Ossoff for dragging Trump aide Natalie Harp into an attack on the president — accusing the Georgia Dem of insinuating that the pair are having an affair without evidence and then refusing to own it. “I think … this is despicable because — why would you attack a 35-year-old cancer survivor as a possible affair partner to the president of the United States when you have absolutely nothing to back that up?” Kelly said on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show.” The former Fox News star was reacting to remarks Ossoff made...

Tiny East Texas Town of Under 1,000 Implodes Over Dirty Water Cover-Up, Retaliatory Arrests, Fired Judge, Mass Resignations, and 15 Years of “Bad Policing” The Henderson County District Attorney and County Attorney have informed the Trinidad, Texas Police Department that they will no longer accept ANY cases for prosecution solely investigated or filed by the department until further notice. The letter, obtained by local media, effectively neuters the Trinidad PD’s ability to bring meaningful criminal cases. The Henderson County Sheriff’s Office will now handle crimes inside city limits. Pending cases will be reviewed one by one. The prosecutors themselves requested...

A leftist New York City leader who has campaigned to tax the rich lives in a seven-figure Brooklyn home purchased by his parents that was named on his boss's controversial 'shame the rich' list. Gustavo Gordillo, the co-chair of the NYC chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), resides in a $1.5 million two-story pad in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, property records showed. Despite his privileged position, the 38-year-old has called for lawmakers to 'tax the rich' and insisted on the redistribution of land 'from landowners to the landless.' He has also called for a rent freeze and last month...

President Trump confirmed Wednesday he plans to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un later this year, the third sitdown between the two across the commander in chief’s two terms.*** “I get along with him, and you know what? The fact that I get along with him-that’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” Trump told reporters at the White House, adding that Kim has “57 very powerful nuclear weapons.”Should have never allowed it to happen,” the president added. “They should have never allowed it. If I were president, I wouldn’t have allowed it. But he’s got them.” Past...

The owner of a local coffee shop ordered a group of pro-life advocates to leave after comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan. According to video of the encounter, Jim Sheehan, owner of Wydaho Roasters Coffee House, approached members of the Campaign for Abortion Free Cities as they sat with drinks they had purchased and began their first meeting to organize an “Abortion Free Teton Valley” effort. No one in the group wore political clothing or carried signs, aside from one person in a white hat with the initials “CK” for Charlie Kirk. Sheehan told the group he did not...

Irish TV personality endorses ‘women priests’ during ‘homily’ at Knock shrineMary Kennedy’s talk included a tepid homage to ‘Catholicism,’ her suggestions for the religion’s improvement, and self-congratulations for being a ‘good Catholic.’Irish television personality Mary Kennedy endorsed “women priests” in a talk she gave during Mass on Friday at the Knock Shrine.Kennedy, a self-described “à la carte” Catholic, was invited to give a talk after the Gospel at the Knock Shrine in commemoration of the National Public Novena to Our Lady of Knock that takes place annually at the shrine from August 14 to 22.The bulk of Kennedy’s talk was...

CNN commentator Scott Jennings is being pushed to replace Karline Leavitt as White House press secretary, according to a new report. According to the Daily Mail, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is pushing for Jennings, 48, to replace Karoline Leavitt, who is stepping down to spend time with her family. “It’s his if he wants it,” the Daily Mail quoted a source as saying. “And he does.” The report said President Donald Trump is partial to having a female press secretary. The report said Jennings and Wiles were meeting even before Leavitt’s plans were ever made public. Over...

Islam is playing chess with the West; their opening is a masterclass in “divide and conquer.” We need to see it, and win the game. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) insist upon an immediate, head-on collision between America and the Third World. And the DSA is hoping that through sheer strength of numbers, the Third World will win. Until now, America has been playing against the Third World’s junior varsity team. At least Latin America is Catholic, so illegals from there aren’t trying to subvert the fundamental Judeo-Christian nature of America. But now, we’re playing against the Third World...

Harold Ford Jr. is, by any honest measure, the smarter liberal who joins the table on Fox News' The Five. That's not saying much when the other option is Jessica Tarlov, but hey, it’s something. Tarlov is a party booster every step of the way. She pushes Democrats' talking points blindly. Ford is far more willing to call out his party when it deserves it, which he did on Tuesday, when he admitted that Democrats will lose if they embrace the DSA’s policies. "If we believe that the DSA, their ideas are the right ones for the country, then we're...

It was literally the one thing she couldn’t do. But she did it anyway. And now her Senate campaign is over. Darline Graham has just lost the Republican nomination for her late brother’s Senate seat.

President Trump suffered a pair of losses in Florida’s primaries and another in Wyoming on Tuesday as three of his endorsed candidates were defeated in key primaries, showing the limits of his influence with sagging approval numbers. Embattled Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) lost his chance at renomination against former TV reporter Ryan Elijah, who appears on track to win by double digits. Mills has been among the president’s strongest supporters in Congress since he was first elected in 2022, but he has faced mounting controversy amid a House Ethics Committee probe into his conduct. The committee has for months been...

BUTLER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — Pennsylvania democrats are claiming victory in Butler County's special election Tuesday night with a win secured in the State House, a position formerly held by the GOP for nearly 30 years.Brandon Dukes is leading in the unofficial results for the state’s 12th District by less than 100 votes.He ran against Republican Scott Timko, after former Rep Stephanie Scialabba resigned earlier this year.Before Scialabba, Daryl Metcalfe held the house seat.If the results stand, the win would give PA house democrats a two seat majority in the chamber until November.Governor Josh Shapiro commented on the race.Chairman of...

Convicted killer Karmelo Anthony has won his first legal battle as he seeks to have his conviction for killing Austin Metcalf thrown out. The 19-year-old was convicted in June and sentenced to 35 years behind bars for murdering the 17-year-old athlete at a high school track meet in April of last year. On Wednesday, the trial judge who presided over the case was removed from the case as Anthony appeals his conviction. His legal team argued that a retrial was warranted in part because state District Judge John Roach enforced overly strict courtroom rules and gave an interview after the...

FAR GREATER THAN THESE SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, what is our greatest treasure? Dear friends, if we possessed all the lands of this fallen world, mountains of gold and precious jewels, or even somehow called the countless stars and trillions of galaxies our own, we would still possess nothing that could compare with Almighty God Himself! Every created thing came from Him and exists by His power, yet our ETERNAL Creator loved us with such incomprehensible agape love that He came into this fallen world and gave Himself for our sins! I don’t know how to say anything more wonderful than...

President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday a temporary pause on 50% tariffs on Canada as both countries race to finalize a trade deal. The President’s announcement came hours before a series of tariffs set to cover about $20 billion worth of imports into the U.S. from Canada were set to take effect. “I have paused the 50% tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a deal!” Trump said on social media. Canadian Prime Minister Mark...

Progressive Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon has pulled off a major upset in the Democratic primary for US Senate, defeating former National Security Council aide Alex Vindman, according to projections from multiple networks on Tuesday. Nixon will face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody in the general election. Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran who became nationally known after testifying during President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment hearings, had been considered the strong favorite heading into Tuesday's primary. Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, campaigned as a progressive challenger seeking to demonstrate that insurgent left-wing politics could...

Shares of Merck (MRK) and Moderna (MRNA) spiked in the premarket on Wednesday after the companies said that their jointly developed messenger RNA-based cancer therapy, intismeran autogene, succeeded in a late-stage trial for patients with melanoma, a type of skin cancer. The Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial was designed to evaluate intismeran in combination with Merck's (MRK) blockbuster anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda in more than 1,100 patients with stage IIB-IV melanoma whose cancer has been completely resected. According to its topline data, INTerpath-001 met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a secondary endpoint of distant metastasis-free survival, marking the first late-stage...

We see what you did there, Mr. Todd C. Frankel. The reporter for the Washington Post, whose motto is "Democracy Dies In The Darkness," went absurdly opaque on Monday as to shedding light as to what type of "modern" cars have gone incendiary in "They were told to park outside. Then their cars burst into flames." The subtitle does narrow it down to "modern" cars without any more specificity: "Modern vehicles don’t need to be moving — or even turned on — to catch fire. That’s fueling lots of safety recalls and tough choices." The first couple of paragraphs come...