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Nearly half of Americans report that the recent spike in inflation is making it harder to make ends meet... Monmouth University released a poll Wednesday showing 46% of Americans are “currently struggling to remain where they are financially.” That figure is the highest point recorded by this pollster since Joe Biden took office and far higher than during his predecessor’s term. “In polls conducted between 2022 and 2023, this number ranged between 37% and 44%,” Monmouth said in its report. “In prior polls from 2017 to 2021, this sentiment was much lower at 20% to 29%.” Prices have risen about...

A State Department official has been caught on camera admitting the truth behind the ‘Great Replacement Theory.’ This theory is often dismissed by the far-left as “one of the most dangerous white supremacist conspiracy theories out there.” They argued that the “Great Replacement conspiracy theory is a white supremacist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant concept that posits white people are being replaced by immigrants, Muslims, and other people of color in their so-called “home” countries.” The footage, recorded by Project Veritas, exposes a chilling reality: the Biden regime is knowingly allowing criminals into the United States to change the country’s demographics....

The Biden administration has decided to move Ukraine to the top of the list on countries receiving air defense weapons, and effectively making American allies wait at least 16 months for those same weapons. The administration said it was because in recent months Russia has stepped up its missile and drone attacks in Ukraine in an attempt to destroy its energy system ahead of the winter. “This is not a new tactic for them, but they have certainly applied a lot more energy and effort into it in recent months,” National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told...

. In Los Angeles, a median-income household would need a nearly impossible 81.1% down payment ($780,203) to afford the typical home, highest in the country. In San Jose, the down payment needed is more than $1.3 million (80.9%) — that’s more than the typical home is worth in every other major market. Outside of California, median-income households would need to put more than 60% down in the New York City metro area (75.3%), Miami (64.5%), Boston (61.7%) and Seattle (61.3%).

Polls this week have broadly continued the pattern we've seen over the course of the election campaign, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes. Labour retain their commanding lead of around 20 points over the Conservatives but both parties have seen their average score drop - with Labour now on 41% and the Conservatives on 21% on the BBC poll tracker. Reform UK's poll average has continued to edge up. They're now at 16% - their highest since 2019, when they were called the Brexit Party. There is some back-and-forth over the positions of the Conservatives and Reform UK. The...

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, continued the course of not supporting former President Trump during the 2024 election. Last week, Trump had a closed-door meeting with Republican senators where he pitched a new policy position that could win over workers in key swing states ahead of the November election. Romney attended the meeting, though he told CNN reporter Manu Raju on Tuesday that he did not go to support Trump. "I didn't go there to support former President Trump. I went there to listen to what he was planning on doing if he became president," Romney told Raju. Romney reportedly acknowledged...

Matt Loesby, Secretary of the Libertarian Party of Idaho and 2024 candidate for Idaho’s first congressional district, issued an open letter to the Libertarian National Committee on Monday urging the removal of Chase Oliver as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee. In his letter, which was shared by Region 1 Representative Adam Haman with the LNC public list on Monday, Loesby cites Oliver’s positions on parental rights and medical decisions for minors, particularly regarding puberty blockers, as contradictory to Plank 1.5 of the Libertarian Party’s platform. He compares the use of puberty blockers to chemical castration, asserting that their effects are...

The Nevada Democratic Party is suing to keep the Nevada Green Party off the 2024 ballot, claiming state Greens failed to collect enough valid signatures. The lawsuit was filed in the First Judicial Court of Nevada earlier this month. Editorial note: The Nevada Green Party has collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, according to Nevada election officials as of Tuesday. However, as of this article, the lawsuit by the Nevada Democratic Party is still pending, with a hearing scheduled for later this month. The lawsuit, reported on by the Daily Indy this past Friday and dated June...

I’ve said it over and over again, they’re not defunding the police, they’re defunding your police protection.They will always have walls of men with guns protecting them. When you call the police though, you’ll be told, “Sorry, we have no men available, have you considered checking your privilege.”Look at Chicago where Mayor Brandon Johnson, the anti-police radical, has plenty of police protection. Ordinary Chicagoans however, not so much.How many officers should be on patrol in a Chicago police district overnight? Let’s say it’s the Central (1st) District, which generally covers the area between the river, the lake, and 31st Street....

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan predicted on Thursday that the contempt case against Attorney General Merrick Garland will go to court, now that the Justice Department (DOJ) said it would not charge him.The DOJ said last week that Garland's refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena does not "constitute a crime." The subpoena instructed Garland to turn over an audio recording of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden's handling of classified documents. The House has voted to hold Garland in contempt.Jordan said he believes the House has a strong case in court, because the...

Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire entrepreneur and former Democratic presidential candidate, has given nearly $20 million to help President Biden’s reelection effort, according to people familiar with the donations. The transfer of funds includes a $19 million check to FF PAC, a independent pro-Biden group also known as Future Forward, and a max-out donation of $929,600 to the Biden Victory Fund, an amalgamation of Biden campaign and Democratic Party committees. Bloomberg endorsed Biden’s reelection Thursday in a statement to The Washington Post, in response to a request for comment on the donations. “I stood with Joe Biden...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Discards the Psalms"Not all the Psalms - and not every Psalm - can be repeated and made their own by Christians, and even less so by modern man," Francis waffled at the Wednesday audience on 19 June.Nobody knows what "Christians" means for Francis and who his "modern man" is. While for Christians the Psalms are part of the Word of God, Francis believes that they "sometimes reflect a historical situation and a religious mentality that is no longer our own". The term "our own" refers to Francis, who in this case uses the pluralis majestatis.Trying to reconcile...

AMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida woman was arrested after she reportedly called 911 on herself while trying to steal a car from a dealership so she “could do it legally.” Christy Turman, 37, called the Lee County Sheriff’s Office because she wanted authorities to know, deputies said. “Because I’m trying to steal a car that’s not legally mine,” Turman said during the 911 call. “So, y’all better come make a report. I’m reporting this.” Deputies arrived at the dealership a short time later, where they say they found Turman exiting the driver’s side of the stolen Toyota Corolla. The...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump We have a new Biden Migrant Killing - It’s only going to get worse, and it’s all Crooked Joe Biden’s fault. He’s a disgrace to the Office of President, he’s a disgrace to America. I look forward to seeing him at the Fake Debate on Thursday.

Donald Trump rocked Washington last week with his proposal to fund the federal government solely from tariffs. Until roughly a century ago, tariffs composed the vast majority of national revenue, but today income and business taxes make up the lion’s share. Can Uncle Sam go back? Taxing imports to pay Washington’s bills has a certain political appeal. Domestic taxes, often progressive in nature, are unpopular. Better to tax foreigners if we can. The problem with this thinking, however, is that non-Americans largely don’t pay for tariffs in the end; U.S. households and businesses do, in the form of higher prices...

One of the Bidenary impacts to economic analysis and/or economic outcome review has been the inability of any government statistical data to make any sense.Quite frankly, almost every financial pundit in mainstream media pretends the data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) or the Dept of Commerce is accurate. It’s not, and we all know it.Just like every other institution in Washington DC, the systems of economic tracking have lost all their credibility.That said, even with all the pretending intended to prop-up the Biden administration, eventually the results on Main Street are so...

"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." Revelation 20 1 And...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt in Oakland took a dramatic turn as gunshots rang out, leaving 15 people injured.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, following its victory that resulted in the disbanding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group,” America First Legal (AFL) is releasing the first tranche of the group’s internal meeting notes, exclusively obtained from litigation. This is the first installment of #DeepStateDiaries, a multi-part series of releases including newly obtained documents.As part 1, newly obtained documents reveal that the advisory committee that included John Brennan and James Clapper discussed ways for DHS to increase efforts to collect intelligence on Americans across the country, including attempting to “get into local communities in a non-threatening...