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With seven weeks until Election Day, officials are preparing for seized ballots, ICE agents at the polls and a postal system that could reject ballots by the batch. The activists staking out the ballot drop boxes in suburban Phoenix wore body armor and face coverings. With guns at their sides, they recorded residents as they deposited their votes during the last midterm elections.Voting-rights groups sued, and a federal judge put a stop to them, ruling they had to stay at least 250 feet away while armed to ensure voters were not intimidated.Four years later and 100 miles to the south,...

The emergence of artificial intelligence has given a boost to cybercrime gangs that are coming up with bolder and more sophisticated schemes to scam people out of their money. Here is The Epoch Times’ rundown of 20 of the most common scams to watch out for. CAPTCHA Scams Let’s start with one of the newest scams out there. Most of us are familiar with CAPTCHA, a challenge-response test designed to confirm a human is in charge of a keyboard. It often pops up on corporate websites, saying, “Are you a robot?” It then displays a selection of images and asks...

A small, forested island that mysteriously appeared and vanished on a reservoir in British Columbia, Canada, was not a mirage. It was on the move. Boaters first spotted the island near Finlay Bay on Williston Reservoir in late July. When BC Hydro began receiving photos and videos of it on Aug. 13, the power company initially questioned whether the images were real. The floating island near the Ospika Arm of the Williston Reservoir on Aug. 31, 2026. (Image credit: Rocky Avery/Facebook) “When we first received photos and video of a floating island covered in trees, we weren’t entirely convinced,” BC...

Take America Back (TAB)@JoinTAB_USA·15hTrump drained the oil reserves to the lowest level in history.Wait till you hear what he actually did with it.https://joinTAB.us 13 September 2026#tab #leadwhereyoulive #midterms #trump VIDEO TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~Can you believe Trump allowed America’s oil reserves to be at the lowest point that they’ve ever been ? I mean, that’s what we’re hearing, right? Well, let’s talk about the ‘Why’ and what mainstream media is not telling us. Well last night, two buddies of mine, Ace and Rich, were on a podcast and we discussed this whole thing and worked it out. And when it finally hit...

Saudi Arabia will run out of oil stocks for exports if it doesn't restart its major pipeline to the Red Sea within days, leading to a loss of up to 4% of global supply, Saudi oil buyers and traders said. A further decline in Saudi flows will worsen the global supply crunch, which has already pushed global fuel prices to record highs, spurred inflation around the world and sent U.S. bond yields to the highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis. Since drone attacks forced Saudi Arabia to shut its huge east-west oil pipeline on Friday, Riyadh has not given...

Join together with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media.'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.

~ Star Spangled Banner ~Written by Francis Scott Key (1814) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. The War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and the White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry, just to the south. On September 7th, 1814, during the build-up to the attack on Baltimore, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a...

Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema questioned whether there is still room for moderates in the Democratic Party, saying it was made "clear" they didn’t want her there before she abandoned her Democratic affiliation and became an independent. "The reason I left was because the party had decided they wanted to pursue a track of short-term gain and really sacrificing kind of longer-term issues around democracy, like the filibuster," she said Saturday on "My View with Lara Trump." "And they very much made it clear that they didn't really want me there. And so I left, which made me happy, and...

Who are really the actual Nazis? While visiting Dachau concentration camp, a leftist made the following remark as she stood, smiling, in front of the crematorium ovens. North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.” … In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies...

"The global oil supply was hit hard by unrest in the Middle East at a time when it was already under pressure due to the Ukraine conflict. And, sadly, we don’t see signs of the situation improving anytime soon. Prices at the pump are thus continuing to climb, with diesel having recently hit an all-time high then climbed above a nationwide average of $6. But if you thought expensive fuel was a problem, then you won’t be too happy to learn that things are looking even worse for motor oil. That's because it’s more profitable for oil companies to refine...

A statue of Charlie Kirk at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Arizona has been vandalized days after it was unveiled. Kirk was fatally shot a year ago on Sept. 10, 2025, at a college campus in Utah, where the 31-year-old urged students to prove him wrong. Instead, a leftist student killed Kirk because that man couldn’t beat Kirk with words. The shooter made Kirk's wife, Erika, a widow and took a father from Kirk's kids. Turning Point USA unveiled the statue to honor Charlie's legacy, but the Left couldn't handle that.

A faction of hardliners inside Tehran took advantage of the country’s phantom supreme leader to launch the summer attacks in the Strait of Hormuz that derailed a peace deal with the US, according to a new report. After the US and Iran agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding in June, Iranian moderates led by President Masoud Pezeshkian believed the cease-fire would create a pathway to permanently end the war. Those hopes, however, were dashed when Iran attacked three vessels sailing in the Strait of Hormuz, an attack greenlit not by Tehran’s army, but by its newly appointed paramilitary chief, Hossein...

“Flock cameras, you haven’t talked a lot about these Flock cameras. A lot of law enforcement say they really help them, would you be willing to back that?” “I sort of like ’em because of that, because of law enforcement. But some people don’t. They think it’s an infringement. But I like them.”

This New York pol has a secret BDSM past. Chris Gallant, 37, the Democratic nominee running against Long Island Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) was previously involved in a very different kind of campaign: selling toys as a model for a fetish sex shop, The Post can reveal. Gallant appeared in multiple pics for “Mr. S Leather,” a San Francisco-based purveyor of leather-daddy supplies, wearing collars, leather straps, neoprene, bondage gear, and more. These images of Gallant are no longer on the store’s site, but are still accessible in internet archives, which show they were online between 2011 and 2020. “The...

ransomnote: Just one more way the MSM, in this case CBS, protected Obama and his State Department from accountability.Benghazi Notes@BenghaziNotesOn the same day as Obama's Rose Garden speech (day after the #Benghazi attacks), @CBSNews reporter Steve Kroft had a previously scheduled interview with @BarackObama for the @60Minutes news program. Given the timing, this became an opportunity to ask the president about #Benghazi.Steve Kroft: "Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word TERRORISM in connection with the Libya attack."Obama: "Right." Kroft was right to press Obama on this as ALL Sr. administration...

Müller warns of an "internal apostasy" in the West in the face of the expansion of Islam Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller has warned that the expansion of Islam in Europe coincides with a profound identity crisis in the West, which is abandoning its Christian roots. “Muslims do not respect a weak Christianity that is ashamed of the Cross and reduces itself to a charitable organization or an environmental watchdog body,” stated the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.Müller made these remarks in a prepared address for the Tavole di Assisi 2026, a gathering held on...

Democratic Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego appeared on CNN this morning and said the next Democratic President should destroy all remnants of Trump, including the beautification of Washington, DC, once he leaves the White House. Trump has undertaken various projects to beautify DC, including cleaning the vandalism and restoring statues and monuments across the city, fixing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and building a White House Ballroom and a "Triumphal Arch." The Department of the Interior is preparing to break ground on the Arch on Columbia Island, where it will overlook the Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial across the...

ransomnote: related x.com post in FR post #1ColonelTowner-Watkins@ColonelTownerLet me say this a different way...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was not the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks. He was sold to the public as the principal architect. Khalid was in Bosnia bc he was trained by the CIA in AFG and part of a much bigger effort to generate the USSR follow on boogeyman: radical Islamic terror.The mujahideen provided the initial phase, al Qaeda would follow and ISIS, etc. All from the same network and all funded, trained, tasked by the same intelligence agencies...just like the Cuban exiles, Philippine terrorists and Moonies/Taiwanese...

Of all Jewish observances, the commemoration of the ninth day of the month of Av is the saddest—and one that reflects the passage of sadness through time. On this day, Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn not only the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome in 70 C.E., but also the even more ancient destruction by Babylon in 586 B.C.E. It was therefore all the more striking that this year, mere days before Tisha B’Av, Israelis unearthed a remnant of that earlier event. The Times of Israel reported: Archaeologists have discovered wooden beams believed to have been burned during the destruction of the...

A 22-year-old University of Waterloo student made 24 trips across the U.S. border to covertly map critical airport infrastructure for a suspected Chinese intelligence handler. According to a 19-page FBI affidavit filed in federal court, Chinese citizen Weiheng Zeng was arrested at the Ambassador Bridge in August 2026. Surveillance cameras at Chicago O’Hare previously caught him climbing forklifts, walking fence lines, and trying to open locked shipping containers at a FedEx facility. He carried out a similar operation at Toronto Pearson airport after being confronted inside by an employee. To evade North American surveillance, Zeng used a dedicated Huawei phone...