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Republican Tudor Dixon conceded the Michigan gubernatorial race to incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday morning after Whitmer secured a victory late Tuesday night. Dixon, a conservative media commentator and businesswoman, said she called Whitmer “to concede and wish her well” after unofficial results showed Whitmer nearly ten points ahead of Dixon with 88 percent of the vote counted as of Wednesday morning.

When it comes to helping poor nations cope with climate change, the United States government left its wallet at home. So it hopes its friend, big business, can help pick up the tab. Unable to persuade Congress or the American public to spend billions of dollars more a year in climate financial aid, the U.S. government is trying to make it easier for private corporations to send cash to the developing world in exchange for looking green at home. The plan, announced Wednesday by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, essentially amounts to tapping...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' unprecedented efforts to endorse school board members for election paid big dividends, with 5 of his 6 favored candidates winning their runoffs Tuesday, results that deliver the Republican governor a total of 24 victories out of 30 local education candidates he backed this year. Politico reported parental rights have been a key battle cry for DeSantis, believed to be the first Florida governor to endorse school board members. The governor, who easily won reelection Tuesday, spurred the GOP-led Florida Legislature to pass bills such as the "Parental Rights in Education" law, labeled by opponents as "Don't...

Brown University Professor Emily Oster wrote an article for The Atlantic magazine suggesting that "those of us who made mistakes during the pandemic should be forgiven and granted amnesty." Among the admitted "mistakes" were exaggerating the severity of the disease, the lockdowns of businesses and schools, the censoring of dissenting opinions about policies and treatments dealing with covid, coercing people to get vaccinated, and abuse of emergency powers. Oster claims "ignorance led to honest mistakes." However, there is plenty of evidence indicating that conscious deception drove many of actions of key decision makers in the pharmaceutical corporations, health authorities, and...

NBC News described gun control as “a winning issue” for Democrats by using exit polls to show that pro-gun control voters side heavily with the Democrats. NBC News reported, “Fifty-six percent of 2022 voters support stricter gun control measures, while 40% oppose them.” They then noted, “Among the proponents of stricter measures, 76% backed Democratic candidates while 22% favored Republicans.”

Since the 2020 election, the Democrat Party’s platform was to destroy the United States as a global power in 4 years or less. It’s working pretty well. ** 5 million illegal aliens across the US southern border ** 800 deaths of illegal aliens crossing into the US – that we know about ** Record inflation – something we haven’t seen in 40 years ** Massive Failure on the international stage – Afghanistan debacle ** Arming our enemies like the Taliban with $80 billion in US weapons ** Jailing the opposition and raiding the former president’s home ** Record corruption –...

ST. PETERSBURG – The until-recently highly secretive Wagner mercenary organization continued to grow its public profile on Friday as it opened a new headquarters and technology center in Russia’s second city. The glass-fronted multistory building in St. Petersburg will not only function as the administrative hub for the military group — whose public profile has grown as it takes on an increasingly important role in Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine — but be home to an innovation hub that will incubate patriotic start-ups. “Wagnerites are achieving their goals on the frontline. We will achieve our goals here,” Ruslan Ostashko, a...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota voters on Tuesday approved the expansion of Medicaid health insurance to tens of thousands of low-income residents through a constitutional amendment. The majority vote to support Constitutional Amendment D removes South Dakota from a list of 12 states that have not expanded eligibility for the government health insurance program to people earning up to 138% of the federal poverty level — currently about $18,800 for an individual or $38,300 for a family of four. The Republican-controlled Legislature had declined to expand Medicaid eligibility under the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act, and Gov. Kristi...

Since the 2020 election, the Democrat Party’s platform was to destroy the United States as a global power in 4 years or less.It’s working pretty well. ** 5 million illegal aliens across the US southern border ** 800 deaths of illegal aliens crossing into the US – that we know about ** Record inflation – something we haven’t seen in 40 years ** Massive Failure on the international stage – Afghanistan debacle ** Arming our enemies like the Taliban with $80 billion in US weapons ** Jailing the opposition and raiding the former president’s home ** Record corruption – Pelosi...

It’s been a contentious and, at times, a controversial battle between Republican Kari Lake and Democrat Katie Hobbs to become Arizona’s next governor, and no clear winner was projected on Election Night. As of Wednesday morning, the race remains quite close, Hobbs was up 51% to 49%, with 62% of expected votes counted. CBS News said the race had moved from toss-up to “leans Democrat.” Still, early voting trends often benefit the Democrats, who are statistically more likely to vote early or submit absentee ballots. At 5:30 a.m., Hobbs carried an approximate 30,000 vote lead over Lake, but by 7:15...

According to the discussions at COP27, the World Economic Forum and the UN have a global climate plan for the world, and Joe Biden is fully on board. In the end, it’s nothing new; it’s just grander than in past dictatorships. It’s the end of sovereignty and the rise of global communism. Macron said aloud: “The Capitalist model can no longer work.” The abandonment of Capitalism is the vehicle for transformation to global communism. It begins with the first movers. THE FIRST MOVERS The First Movers Coalition was formed last year at COP26 in partnership with the U.S. State Department...

Thanks to the GOP voting in ranked-choice voting, Sarah Palin has election taken from her again. Sarah Palin deserves a special medal of honor for her attempts to make America a great country. The former governor of Alaska offered to help the helpless John McCain in his run for President and she was hammered by the media like no politician up to that point in history. After helping McCain increase his popularity with the public, McCain threw her under the bus when he lost. This past year, Palin ran for office again, this time for US Rep from Alaska. She...

Incumbent Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly has secured a second term in an extremely close election against Republican challenger state Attorney General Derek Schmidt, NBC News projects. Both NBC News and CNN called the race on Wednesday morning after waiting for remaining vote counts to trickle in. By 10:30 a.m. ET, Kelly was ahead of Schmidt by roughly 15,000 votes, 49.2 percent to 47.6 percent. Independent candidate Dennis Pyle syphoned off 2 percent of the votes.

Incumbent Kansas Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly has secured a second term in an extremely close election against Republican challenger state Attorney General Derek Schmidt, NBC News projects. Both NBC News and CNN called the race on Wednesday morning after waiting for remaining vote counts to trickle in. By 10:30 a.m. ET, Kelly was ahead of Schmidt by roughly 15,000 votes, 49.2 percent to 47.6 percent. Independent candidate Dennis Pyle syphoned off 2 percent of the votes.

Candace Owens, who had faced criticism for not offering a condemnation of Kanye West’s antisemitic comments, finally addressed the issue on Tuesday, describing statements by the rapper, who she is friends with, as antisemitic, according to JNS. .....

Democratic groups poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the final two weeks of Maloney's race in a last-minute attempt to win. New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, conceded defeat Wednesday in a phone call to Republican challenger Mike Lawler, a spokesperson for Maloney's campaign said Wednesday. Maloney's concession, first reported by NBC News, came after Democratic super PACs and organizations poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the final two weeks of his race in a last-minute attempt to win. The Associated Press has not called the race, but with 98% of ballots counted,...

There’s a lot of noise as these midterm results flow in, and a few unsettled races at the moment, but this much is clear: Republicans would control the Senate next year had they stuck to nominating good candidates. Instead, typical of the Tea Party-to-Trump Era, Republicans in many key states nominated people who were patently unfit for office. It goes back to the Massie Theorem. Rep. Thomas Massie explained the Tea Party after the 2016 election. "All this time," Massie said, "I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans. But after some soul-searching, I realized when they voted for Rand...

Rural Colorado voters were so upset with record diesel prices and record inflation that they voted in a a liberal Democrat who cheated on his wife in a storage locker. As of Wednesday morning, Lauren Boebert is losing to Adam Frisch in rural Colorado by 1% and less than 5,000 votes. As reported earlier…

Democratic consultant and political commentator James Carville said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump was the reason Democrats did not lose up to 57 seats in the House of Representatives. Co-host Joe Scarborough asked, “But James, you know, this is just the ebb and flow of politics. Bill Clinton wins big in ’92. Idiots like me get elected in ’94. Obama wins massively in ’08. The Tea Party wins in ’10. Could you explain to people who don’t know politics as well as you how historic last night was?” Carville said, “I’m going try. If you...

Abortion rights appeared to be on their way to becoming enshrined in the California Constitution Tuesday as Proposition 1 received strong support in early voting. The measure, which was expected to pass, leads with 68.2% of voters saying “yes” and 31.2% “no” with roughly a third of votes counted. The decisive win would cement California’s role as a national leader in protecting abortion access. Similar proposed amendments are also on the ballot in Michigan and Vermont, where early results show them both passing with 54.8% and 80.8% of the vote, respectively. A constitutional amendment in Kentucky that refuted abortion rights...