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Last week, former President Donald Trump announced that he is running for a second term as president. Great! Let the 2024 race begin, democracy proceeds! Unless. Unless Attorney General Merrick Garland gets his way in a full-scale assault on democracy. In the style of a banana republic, Garland said this: Based on recent developments, including Trump’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the current president’s intention to be a candidate in the next election, I have concluded it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. Got that? Because Joe Biden...

The congressional midterm elections are thankfully over. Predictions of a red wave, including by yours truly, didn’t materialize. Instead, it was more of a pink trickle with the GOP flipping the House. The Senate is still up for grabs, with the best outcome for the GOP being a 50-50 split, depending on the Georgia run-off results. Red wave predictions made sense at the time, given President Biden’s unpopularity and incompetence, leading to a declining America. This includes 40-year high inflation, a recession, open borders, energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, World War III simmering in Ukraine, and a woke culture ruining...

In July, Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, told CNN the southern border is secure. Of course, this was an outright lie and everyone knows it including Secretary Mayorkas. Over 5.5 million illegal aliens have entered the US in the first 20 months of Joe Biden’s administration. There are no barriers keeping out illegals and they are welcomed into the US as soon as they step foot into the country. Once again on Tuesday DHS Secretary was asked if the US southern border is secure. Mayorkas, once again, answered, “Yes.” This is the type of evil we are...

A common trope from supporters of the likely presidential run of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is that he stopped COVID lockdowns in his state during the height of the pandemic while President Donald Trump was pushing them from the White House.But the record shows that this is not what occurred. DeSantis used his authority as governor to enforce lockdowns, shuttering businesses, and use the power of the state to punish noncompliance with his edicts.Video from June 2020 shows DeSantis threatening bars with revoking their liquor licenses unless they abided by his arbitrary restrictions enacted supposedly in the name of science:For...

On Thursday night, with midterm races still yet to be called in key states that will determine the balance of power in Congress, former President Donald Trump issued a statement targeting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who walloped Democrat Charlie Crist in one of the few clear GOP victories of what was supposed to be a national "red wave" night in repudiation of President Biden's agenda. Trump's lengthy statement began by using his new nickname for DeSantis — for whom he voted in Florida this week — "DeSanctimonious," and called him "an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations" who "has...

I’ve written before about data analyst David Shor. He’s a progressive who found himself canceled back in 2020 after he tweeted some data suggesting that riots made for bad politics. That didn’t go over well in the BLM summer and he got fired. But he’s become a leading figure on the left both for analyzing election data but also for warning Democrats about repeating deeply unpopular phrases like “defund the police” or terms like “Latinx.” He wants Dems to win and he can see certain woke terms are just off-putting to voters.Today New York Magazine published an interview with Shor...

Former President Donald Trump has been under attack since he began stumping for GOP candidates ahead of the midterms. Those incendiary remarks have gone into overdrive since Election Day on Wednesday, even from Republican supporters who spoke out against him after he referred to Florida governor Ron DeSantis as “Ron DeSanctimonious” during a final rally pre-midterm rally in Pennsylvania.Throughout the election, Trump has been a top supporter of Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, which earned his criticism, most notably from one of his biggest media adversaries, Maggie Hagaman of the New York Times. After Oz’s stunning loss to John...

As late-breaking Midterm election results continue to roll in, it’s turning out to be more wins for Republicans John James declared the winner in his election for U.S. House in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District flipping that precious Democrat-held seat Republican. Decision Desk HQ projects John James ® wins election to the U.S. House in Michigan’s 10th Congressional District.D to R Flip.#DecisionMade: 3:46pm ESTFollow more results here: https://t.co/J7J00UR5CG pic.twitter.com/wBrUfGEW4J— Decision Desk HQ (@DecisionDeskHQ) November 9, 2022Juan Ciscomani also won in Arizona’s 6th Congressional District flipping that Democrat-held seat Republican:Decision Desk HQ projects Juan Ciscomani ® wins election to the U.S. House...

Resolute ‘America First’ proponent Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona, told her supporters that voters are “tired of shoddy elections run by imbeciles” as the state continues to wait for midterm election results to be announced.Lake, one of Donald Trump’s most high-profile election-integrity candidates, is neck and neck with Democrat Katie Hobbs in the race for governor. But Hobbs’s grip on power is slipping away, and Lake is ready to declare her victory.Arizona is a battleground state that could determine which party controls Congress; however, it could take several days for Democrats to get their head around...

United States District Judge Carl Nichols has ordered a stay of Steve Bannon's prison sentence, pending appeal. Bannon was sentenced to 120 days for contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena from the January 6 Committee.The Order Staying Sentence Pending appeal reads that "the Court finds that the Defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, (a) is not likely to flee or pose a danger to the safety fo any other person or the community if released and (b) that his appeal is not taken for the purpose of delay but rather raises substantial question of law that is likely to...

Russian mobiks, as the newly mobilized recruits are called, have been complaining for weeks that they were sent to the front lines in Ukraine with no training and little to no equipment. As you would expect when troops with no discipline and no equipment are sent to the front lines, the results are not good. Over the last few days there have been reports that hundreds of mobiks sent to the front lines in they city of Makiyivka in eastern Ukraine were wiped out. Here’s a map created by the Guardian which show the location of Makiyivka:The report about what...

Democratic anger and desperation have reached the boiling point as polling shows Republicans appear poised to take control of Congress on Tuesday. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn embodied those feelings by lashing out against Republican candidates running on election integrity on Sunday. Clyburn told Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream that these candidates are causing “a deterioration of democracy” and creating an environment akin to 1930s Germany and Italy. “I taught history and I’m telling you what I see here are parallels to what the history was in Germany, in Italy.” Advertisement - story continues below Bream then asked Clyburn...

On Monday Rep. Janel Brandtjen, Chair of the Assembly on Campaigns and elections sent out an election fraud alert. Rep. Brandtjen received three authentic military ballots to her home addressed to “Holly,” a woman who has never lived there. Brantjen believed this was part of a scheme to steal votes in Wisconsin. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in several battleground states where military ballots mysteriously went almost entirely to Joe Biden. We posted evidence that this occurred in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.

As the Tuesday midterm elections loom, there is scrambling to adjust to the expectation that Republicans will fill the seats in Congress. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on her way out, and Democrats will need to have a minority leader in place when the turnover happens.If Democrats fail to hold the House, Pelosi is widely expected to step down — not just from leadership, but from Congress, Politico reported.Republicans are currently favored to win the House of Representatives, according to Five Thirty-Eight, and are expected to announce leadership positions a week after the midterms. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy will likely take...

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter set hair ablaze from the start, and things have only escalated over the last week. The billionaire’s reshaping of the social media giant started with the top executives at the company, including chief censor Gadde Vijaya, getting kicked to the curb. On Friday, that expanded to seeing over half the company’s workforce laid off. ====== SNIP ====== Elon Musk @elonmusk · Follow Twitter will not allow anyone who was de-platformed for violating Twitter rules back on platform until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is calling out former President Trump for not spending more of his $100 million war chest to boost Republican Senate candidates ahead of next week’s midterm elections. “I will say by the way I wish Trump was spending some of his money,” Cruz said. “Trump’s got $100 million and he’s spending almost none of it to support these candidates.” Cruz also accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of withholding critical political dollars from “pro-Trump” candidates, while funneling money into races where “moderates” and Trump critics are running. “It would be nice if Trump would spend...

A man arrested in the home invasion beating of Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is an illegal immigrant ... Fox News journalist Bill Melugin, citing a source with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, tweeted that David DePape is in the country illegally. The source described DePape as a “longtime” visa overstay, Melugin said. ... In interviews with CNN, relatives of DePape said he grew up in British Columbia before moving from Canada to California decades ago. ... KRON-TV in San Francisco reported that DePape is part of a nudist activist group in the city’s...

The state of California cannot mandate the public release of personal information on gun owners, according to a judge’s ruling late last week. San Diego Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal in San Diego County issued an injunction against California’s Assembly Bill 173, ruling that by allowing the law to remain in effect while it was being challenged in court unconstitutionally risks the privacy rights of California gun owners. “Accordingly, plaintiffs have shown that the balance of harms weighs in favor of issuing the injunction,” she noted in her order. The Reload reports: The injunction represents a win for gun-rights advocates...

The US economy officially entered recession in July after two straight quarters of negative GDP growth. Inflation in the US today is the highest its been in over 40 years. Gas prices are soaring and peaked over $5 a gallon before receding slightly to their current rate. Granholm announced in August, “We know it’s a transition. But ultimately we are pressing on the accelerator to be able to move to ‘clean’ because if we don’t have to rely on the volatility of fossil fuels or of countries that are exporting fossil fuels that don’t have our interests at heart.” The...

Russia is a dangerous place to take a fall. Every year, Russian citizens are killed by accidental falls, either out of windows or down staircases. I do not want to tell Vladimir Putin how to run his country, but really: He should set up some version of OSHA to make windows and stairs safer for Russian VIPs. Russia is such an perilous place that it’s worth considering what might happen if Putin himself were to slip and fall out of a window.