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A Democrat furry is running to represent Michigan’s 7th district in the US House of Representatives. 36-year-old Samuel Smeltzer, who calls himself "Elyon Badger," has made numerous controversial statements on social media and has celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Smeltzer is an LGBTQ activist, small business owner, and Michigan Army National Guard veteran, according to his campaign webpage. He is running on a platform that includes universal healthcare, legalizing marijuana, building a high-speed railway system, and free public college and trade school. On Bluesky, Smeltzer has advocated for rounding up "every single red hat wearing...

Where progressives have control, they impose upside-down world. Instead of throwing sociopaths in jail, police are investigated for challenging them. From Tucker, Georgia: A transgender woman said a DeKalb County Police officer accosted her after [he] used the women’s restroom at Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library. The media aggressively sides with the transgressing deviant, as indicated from the start by the use of factually incorrect pronouns. If only media moonbats were alone. The police department has opened an Internal Affairs investigation into the incident, according to a police spokesperson. That is, the cop is under investigation for asking a weirdo what...

Given their thoroughly documented proclivity toward violence, when mentally ill moonbats ram their transgenderism down other people’s throats, there is an implicit threat. Sometimes the threat is more explicit — even among schoolteachers. WSET reports from Danville, Virginia: A George Washington High School teacher has been placed on leave after [he] reposted a photo on [his] Instagram story. The photo shows a silhouette of a man with a rainbow gun pointed at the back of his head, with the caption “put the pronouns back in the email”. Speaking of pronouns, the media once again lies to our faces by using...

BREAKING NEWS: Hollywood actor Actor Woody Harrelson just threatened Donald Trump’s life after claiming he would ‘slip him some cyanide’ if he was Trump’s secret service agent so he could poison him to ‘get rid of him.’

Britain’s government was due to weigh in Tuesday on a feud between the BBC and U.S. President Donald Trump, who is threatening to sue the broadcaster over the way it edited a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy was set to deliver a statement on the BBC crisis in the House of Commons, with critics demanding major changes to the corporation and supporters urging the government to defend the U.K.'s public broadcaster from political interference. Outgoing BBC Director-General Tim Davie, who announced his resignation on Sunday because of the scandal, said the BBC...

The sort of moonbats who killed Charlie Kirk pay tribute to his memory in their own way: A bloody fight broke out near the University of California, Berkeley, on Monday afternoon, ahead of a Turning Point USA event on campus. While details are still unclear, TPUSA did not come looking for a physical altercation. Others apparently did. The event, which featured Dr. Frank Turek and Rob Schneider, marked the end of the “This Is The Turning Point” tour. It also marked the 2-month anniversary of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Many demonstrators wore keffiyehs and carried signs with left-wing messages....

A youth pastor in Germany has drawn fierce criticism after blessing the union of four men to each other at a pubic wedding event, insisting that the LGBTQ polucule were now “married before God.” Lena Müller initially posted the picture earlier this month in a since-deleted Instagram post, writing, “On Friday evening, I was allowed to celebrate my first poly wedding.” Müller and her church are part of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO), a progressive denomination with a membership of 880,000 and nearly 1800 churches, Each year they hold a Pop-up Wedding Festival in Berlin where people can...

If the terrorists currently trapped in a tunnel in the Al-Genina neighborhood of Rafah agree to disarm and commit to ceasing all terrorist activity, Israel will allow them to exit, a senior Israeli official told Channel 12 News. According to the report, the proposed solution is being explored in coordination with the United States and is the focus of discussions held by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Jared Kushner, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. American officials confirmed that Washington is involved in efforts to resolve the crisis, and sources in Jerusalem have conveyed that Israel is interested in ending...

Pharmaceutical companies likely would prefer advertisements for their newest wonder drugs to leave out mention of possible side effects, but the public has a right to know and that’s why television commercials expose viewers to long lists of things that can go awry, everything from “may cause pain at the injection site” to “may lead to thoughts of suicide” to “can cause death.” In that same spirit of informed consent, women should have the right to know what can happen to them after abortion. But in what can only be interpreted as a conspiracy of silence, lawmakers, media, and the...

As previously reported, Tish Hyman says she was kicked out of a Gold’s Gym after confronting a biological male who entered the women’s locker room while she was naked. Hyman, who identifies as a lesbian and outspoken advocate for women’s spaces, detailed the horrifying encounter on Facebook, where she described being naked and vulnerable when she turned around to find a man, dressed in “boy clothes” and lip gloss, staring at her. “This person told me he was a woman and demanded that I leave the women’s locker room. He said, “Straight women like dick, and they’re probably looking at...

Former New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton, once touted as the nation’s first openly “transgender” elected lawmaker, has pleaded guilty to federal child sex abuse charges. According to ABC affiliate WMUR-TV, Laughton, a 41-year-old male, entered the plea this month in a Boston federal courtroom to charges that included sexual exploitation of children. Prosecutors said Laughton conspired with his former girlfriend, Lindsay Groves, to exploit children at Creative Minds, a daycare center in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, where Groves worked. Groves admitted last month that in 2022, she photographed nude children under the age of five and sent at least four images...

* The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago sued the Chicago Board of Education, claiming religious discrimination after Chicago Public Schools barred its students from the district’s student teaching program. * The district said that Moody’s hiring policies, which require employees to uphold Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality, violate its anti-discrimination rules on religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation. * Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the legal nonprofit representing Moody, argues the district is unlawfully excluding the college because of its religious mission and seeks a federal court injunction to protect Moody’s students’ access to the program. An Illinois Christian college...

Pastors from across Michigan, across the country, and across the Body of Christ gathered in Bay Harbor, MI from November 4th to 6th at a training camp run by Liberty Pastors , to learn how to activate their congregations on key issues facing America and the Church today. The training camp came just before the Michigan March for Life, which took place on Nov. 6th in Lansing. Some of the gathered pastors from Michigan, of course, had groups from their churches going to the march. I was privileged to address the pastors on abortion, and then to participate in the...

Florida’s attorney general has launched a sweeping lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, accusing the nation’s largest abortion company of deceptive advertising that downplays the severe risks of chemical abortion pills. The lawsuit could potentially cost the pro-abortion organization up to $350 million in penalties. The 37-page complaint, filed last week under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, targets Planned Parenthood’s claims that the abortion drug mifepristone is “safer than Tylenol.” State officials allege the assertions are not only false but have endangered women’s lives and fueled billions in profits for the group, with a staggering 500% profit margin on...

Several years ago, I traveled to Amsterdam as part of the National Right to Life delegation for a multi-issue pro-family conference. The event brought together representatives from dozens of countries and organizations working in maternal health, children’s welfare, family policy, and religious freedom. Over the course of four days, the conference addressed a spectrum of bioethical concerns: euthanasia, adoption, trafficking, and the global expansion of abortion access under the guise of reproductive health. Our delegation included Dr. Wanda Franz, then president of National Right to Life, and her husband, Dr. Gunter Franz, as well as Olivia Gans. We installed NRLC’s...

@BethRigby Chatter has been swirling for days about a challenge to Starmer. As per @patrickkmaguire, I was also told this week by PM allies that Starmer will fight any challenge to his leadership rather than stand aside as No 10 operation goes on the attack ahead of a difficult Budget. The argument being made by PM allies is that any challenge would precipitate a drawn-out leadership election process, will spook the markets, and only create more chaos and further damage Labour brand. Am told that the PM is determined to fight on and has no intention of giving way just...

Zohran Mamdani campaigned to become the mayor of New York City by promising a series of expensive plans including free child care, rent freezes and free buses. As I pointed out here, the cost of these proposals is unknown but is expected to be wildly expensive. The free child care element could cost the city around $6 billion per year, equal to the entire NYPD budget. His plan for free buses is expected to cost another $800 million, but again it could be more.So where is he going to get the money to pay for all of this? Well, most...

A University of Toledo Medical Center surgery resident has been suspended from practicing medicine in Ohio after admitting to secretly obtaining and administering abortion drugs to a pregnant woman. The Ohio State Medical Board on November 5 issued an emergency suspension of Dr. Hassan-James Abbas’ medical license, finding “clear and convincing evidence” that his actions posed “an immediate danger” to the public. The board’s notice detailed Abbas’ alleged use of his estranged wife’s personal information to order the drugs and his subsequent forcible administration of them to his girlfriend, who had refused an abortion. The woman, who is seeking a...

The United States isn't supposed to be a place for political dynasties. Oh, I know, we've had a few; Roosevelts, Kennedys, Bushes, and so forth. But it's supposed to be something we, as a nation, eschew. Especially when the possible dynasty carries the name "Pelosi." Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is, as we reported here at RedState, finally retiring. Finally! She does have all that money she made with her amazing acumen for buying and selling stocks, after all, time for her to go enjoy the boodle. Now the question becomes, who will replace her?...

The unidentified suspect approached a woman sitting on a bench at the UIC-Halstead CTA Blue Line stop in the city's Near West Side at around 11.14pm on Saturday. He then took a knife out of his backpack and stabbed the woman in the chest. The man then fled the scene northbound on South Morgan Street - but not before being caught on surveillance footage with the apparently bloody knife still in his right hand. Police described the suspect as an African American male who stands approximately six feet tall and weighs between 160 to 180 pounds