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On Saturday, February 12, Freedom Initiative Now hosted a GOP Gubernatorial Town Hall, featuring four of the announced Republican candidates for Governor of Illinois, with a couple hundred activists in attendance at the Embassy Suites in Naperville. State Senator Darren Bailey, former State Senator Paul Schimpf, businessman Gary Rabine, and attorney Max Solomon were seated on the dais. Three other candidates believed to be in the running - Chris Roper (who at some point had accepted), Jesse Sullivan and Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin – were not in attendance. Co-hosts Nick Richmond and Kelly Dittmann kept their introduction to a minimum,...

Jim McIngvale, better known as “Mattress Mack,” may be down, but he’s not out. “The Bengals lost, and it broke my heart, McIngvale told ESPN on Monday. “But you know what, we live to play another day. You win some, you lose some and sometimes you get rained out. I got up this morning, put on my big boy britches and went to work.” McIngvale placed more than $9.5 million in bets on the Bengals to upset the favored Rams in Super Bowl 56. McIngvale wagered $4.53 million on Cincinnati to win the game, getting +170 odds, on Feb. 3....

The Central Intelligence Agency has been collecting American’s private data without any oversight or even the minimal legal safeguards that apply to the NSA and FBI, an unconstitutional affront to our civil liberties. According to a declassified report released last week by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), the CIA’s surveillance program is reminiscent of the mass surveillance programs conducted by the NSA, though the details released thus far paint a disturbing picture of potential wide-scale violations of people’s privacy. To start, the CIA program has apparently been conducted outside the statutory reforms and oversight of the intelligence...

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Young girl physically assaulted by much bigger girls. "GRAPHIC: Video from Feb. 10 at Lady’s Island Middle School in South Carolina shows a young girl being grabbed by the hair, hit to the ground & kicked. Local police will be filing charges of 3rd-degree assault, battery & threats based on family’s insistence." Andy Ngo Twitter (30 sec video)

Congress has directed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to come up with a plan to scan 100 percent of arriving vehicles at the southern border • Currently, drug traffickers take a gamble when they smuggle illegal narcotics into the U.S. with just 25 out of 500 vehicles per hour being searched •Agency is preparing to roll out new 'nonintrusive' inspection systems to screen significantly more trucks •Powerful high-energy scanners will detect 'anomalies' inside cargo loads •'Multi-energy portals' will zap the cargo areas with high-energy waves, but use safer low-energy screening for the cab, allowing the drivers to remain inside...

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is the subject of accusations in court documents that her campaign spied on Donald Trump, but supporters in her party are shrugging off the claim ahead of her much-anticipated speech before the New York State Democratic Party Convention on Thursday. Democrats say the bombshell accusations from special counsel John Durham are just more reckless attacks, and they won’t let it spoil daydreams about Mrs. Clinton standing in for President Biden in 2024 if necessary. “I think this is going to be met with an eye roll,” Dora Leland, chairwoman of the Chemung County, New...

Kash Patel, the former chief of staff to the Acting United States Secretary of Defense, joined Greg Kelly on Monday night to discuss the explosive revelations released this past weekend that the Hillary camp and Democrats were spying on Donald Trump’s campaign and later the Trump White House. According to Durham, tech expert Donald Joffe and his associates exploited internet data from “the Executive Office of the President of the United States” to further their own political agenda. Durham investigators uncovered evidence that shows Hillary Clinton’s team paid operatives to “infiltrate” the Trump Tower and then President Trump’s White House...

Special counsel John Durham’s investigation into what triggered the FBI’s probe of purported Russian involvement in the 2016 election has “accelerated,” Fox News is reporting just days after a new court filing landed. In that filing, Durham alleges a tech firm coordinating with Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Fox News adds, tapped into “Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States.” Durham goes on to add “the Special Counsel’s Office has identified no support for … allegations” that “Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless...

Durham has run his investigation 'very professionally,' source tells Fox News Digital FIRST ON FOX: Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation has "accelerated," and more people are "cooperating" and coming before the federal grand jury than has previously been reported, a source familiar with the probe told Fox News. The source told Fox News Monday that Durham has run his investigation "very professionally," and, unlike Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his activities, and witness information and cooperation status are rarely, if ever, leaked. "Durham does this right and keeps it a secret," the source said, adding that there has been "much...

It includes machine guns, pistols, carbines, 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, sniper rifles and various related equipment OTTAWA, February 15./TASS/. Canada will donate lethal weapons and assorted support items to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Canadian Department of National Defense said in a statement...

WATCH: Surveillance video shows a huge flock of yellow-headed blackbirds fall from the sky in Chihuahua, Mexico, killing dozens. Authorities don't know what caused the event.

FOX News reports: Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe met with Special Counsel John Durham on more than one occasion and told him there was evidence in intelligence to support the indictments of "multiple people" in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, sources told Fox News… Sources told Fox News this week that during his meetings with Durham, Ratcliffe, who served as a congressman and as the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, said he believed there was "enough evidence" in those materials that he provided to indict "multiple people." The sources...

Whoops! The fact checks do NOT explain the observations. SMOKING GUN confirmed!Steve KirschI’ve written 4 Substack articles on embalmers and clots that started appearing after the vaccines rolled out:News today: Embalmers confirming most everyone are noticing these telltale clots since Jan 2021 (posted on a private chat with 14,000 embalmers) (Feb 11)Over half the deaths seen by this funeral director were likely caused by the COVID vaccines 65% of cases seen by Richard Hirschman have these clots (Feb 7).Embalmer reveals 93% of cases died from the vaccine. Anna Foster reveals that 93% of the cases she has seen recently have...

Republicans in the Florida House and Senate have proposed a map that would largely preserve the political status quo, while DeSantis wants to boost prospects for congressional Republicans. Gov. Ron DeSantis is barreling toward an unusual showdown with Florida Republicans in a redistricting fight that centers on a largely Black congressional district. Despite controlling both the Legislature and the Governor’s Mansion, Republicans are at odds over how Florida’s 28 congressional districts should look over the next decade. The intra-party debate is focused on the 5th Congressional District — which is about 46 percent Black — which DeSantis wants to divide...

I want to dump Verizon. Does anyone have experience with Patriot Mobile? Is the coverage and 4G comparable to the big, leftist outfits? I’m sick of spending my dollars supporting a company that doesn’t support my beliefs.

Feb. 15, 2022 - 9:15 - 'Jesse Watters Primetime' host reacts to Durham findings alleging the Clinton campaign paid money to penetrate Trump's servers.

Dr. Robert Malone, the co-inventor of mRNA technology, spoke with Tucker Carlson Today about his recent brush with cancel culture following his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience. “This is about political warfare and information warfare,” Malone told Carlson. “All of these chatters that many have bought into that it’s about culture wars, it’s about vaccines. No, it’s not – It’s about power and money. It’s about Spotify’s market cap dropping.” Among several bombshells dropped by Malone during the interview, the medical expert revealed that the owners of music streaming platform Spotify, where Rogan hosts his show, and vaccine maker...

Join together with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Author-ity in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

A Philadelphia ordinance that requires gun owners to tell police when a firearm has been lost or stolen was ruled illegal Monday by a state court, with one of the judges who voted to throw out the law lamenting that their ruling would put people’s lives at risk. A three-judge Commonwealth Court panel ruled unanimously against the city law and issued a permanent injunction, saying the state Uniform Firearms Act preempts it. Philadelphia Police had sought a $2,000 fine against a man charged with violating the lost-and-stolen reporting mandate. The mayor's spokesperson said the city will appeal. The defendant had...