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City prosecutors have filed criminal charges against six men involved in a chaotic legislative town hall, including the private security guards who dragged a Post Falls woman out of the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium. Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg and Jesse Jones, all of whom are associated with the security firm Lear Asset Management, are charged with the misdemeanor crimes of battery and false imprisonment. The five men and Alex Trouette were also cited for security agent uniform violations and security agent duties violations. Post Falls resident Michael Keller is also charged with battery, a misdemeanor. The charges...

House Democrats are diving back into GOP districts to conduct town halls during the long spring recess, escalating an unusual tactic they’re hoping will help them win over battleground voters. The gambit — aimed at districts held by Republicans facing tough reelection contests — was initiated after House GOP leaders advised Republican lawmakers not to meet face-to-face with voters in large, public forums amid the outcry over President Trump’s efforts to remake Washington. In March, a handful of Democrats ventured into GOP districts to stage town halls put on by grassroots activists and local party affiliates. They’ve expanded the effort...

Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) revealed on social media Saturday that she was confronted by a man inside a makeup store in what she characterized as a politically motivated incident. “Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off — and I won’t be backing down,” Mace posted on X. “I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.” The video—attached to her post and now going viral— shows a man confronting the congresswoman with questions about...

WATCH: Rep. Byron Donalds, (R-FLa.), shouted down by leftist voters after he attempted to have a conversation with them regarding the issues "I'm gonna be your Governor, trust me," Donalds said.

Representative Chuck Edwards (R-NC) held a town hall in Asheville, North Carolina. He took questions regarding Hurricane Helene recovery, the Ukraine-Russia war, firings of federal workers, and other topics. An audience member claiming to be an Army veteran shouted that Representative Edwards did not "get to take away our rights" before being escorted out by law enforcement.

Nebraska Republican Mike Flood was heckled at a town hall event he hosted on Tuesday in Columbus, with a section of the crowd at one point chanting "tax the rich" at the House representative. Newsweek contacted Flood for comment on Wednesday outside of regular office hours via telephone and voicemail message. Why It Matters Flood is the latest in a succession of Republican politicians to receive a rough reception at town hall meetings across the U.S. since President Donald Trump's inauguration, with House Speaker Mike Johnson advising his GOP colleagues to stop hosting the in-person events earlier this month. Criticism...

A House Republican town hall began and ended in chaos Tuesday night as angry protesters jeered for over an hour in a small Midwestern city and accused Republicans of trying to gut critical government programs. Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., was the only House GOP lawmaker whose office set up an in-person town hall this week while Congress is in recess – and left-wing groups appear to have seized on the opportunity to disrupt. The event kicked off on a contentious note just minutes after an opening prayer, with the moderator's first audience question accusing President Donald Trump and Flood of...

This week, multiple states have seen an uptick in town hall meetings, reportedly driven by constituents eager to confront their representatives. However, Republican officials have pushed back, claiming that Democratic activists are orchestrating disruptions at these events, often paying individuals to create chaos. Wednesday night, the group "Good Neighbors Getting it Done in WNY" organized a town hall meeting inviting their Congressman, Nick Langworthy, to discuss pressing issues. However, Langworthy did not attend, prompting backlash from organizers who left an empty seat intentionally saved for him. “Every congressman has a duty to talk to their constituents,” event organizer, Kathleen King...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - As Republican lawmakers are being discouraged to hold town halls, Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) powered on as the crowd chanted, “tax the rich.” “So your proposal to solve this is to tax the rich?” Flood asked the crowd. They responded with cheers. From social security to international relations, Nebraskans grilled Flood. “Would you oppose going to war with Canada?” one person asked. “Yes,” said Flood. “Canada is a long-time important ally of the United States of America.” The crowded liked that answer. Others elicited boos. This tense town hall is just a snapshot of politics across...

In two congressional districts and vastly different political environments, two Republicans in the U.S. House were met with far different reactions at public meetings they held late last week. Against the suggestion of their leader, House Speaker Mike Johnson, to refrain from holding public meetings with constituents, second-term Reps. Chuck Edwards and Harriet Hageman went ahead with their evening sessions. In Asheville, North Carolina, chants of opposition greeted Edwards on Thursday as opponents hooted at almost every answer he gave and chanted outside. In Evanston, Wyoming, at the southwestern corner of a sparsely populated and heavily Republican state, it was...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — A legislative town hall meeting hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) descended into violence on Saturday when three unmarked men forcibly removed a woman from the auditorium. Leading to her receiving a citation which has since been rescinded. The Coeur d'Alene Police confirmed Lear Asset Management was the company that employed those three men. Teresa Borrenpohl was at Coeur d'Alene High School, where Republican legislators had gathered to provide updates on the current legislative session. The KCRCC and the Coeur d'Alene Police confirmed that the KCRCC hired the private security company. According to...

Since Jan. 6, when hundreds of protesters breached Capitol security as Congress certified Joe Biden's ostensible Presidential victory, the prevailing narrative blamed President Donald Trump and his supporters for the subsequent mayhem. But as facts come to light, a different picture emerges. Evidence suggests that Antifa staged the breach to discredit Trump and his supporters. Trump's opponents then would manipulate the disorder to justify another impeachment attempt and repress his supporters further. In the ensuing bedlam, however, federal agents who penetrated Antifa took valuable information -- including a laptop belonging to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House....

In one of the undercover video segments released by O'Keefe, one of Creamer’s consultants, Scott Foval ⸺who in 2011 established a consulting firm called the Foval Group ⸺provided key details about the Democrat bird-dogging strategy. Specifically, Foval explained that the operation was structured in a manner that ⸺if the public were ever to find out about it⸺ would allow the DNC and the Clinton campaign to pretend that they knew nothing of it. “The thing that we have to watch is making sure there’s a double-blind between the actual campaign and the actual DNC and what we’re doing,” said Foval....

Politico reports that James O’Keefe has been sued for an undercover video sting he released last year: O’Keefe and his organization posted some of the videos online last October, purporting to show efforts by Democrats to provoke violence at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies and events. The recordings led two Democratic operatives, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval, to leave their posts even as they decried O’Keefe’s tactics. In the new civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington Thursday, Creamer, his Strategic Consulting Group and a related firm called Democracy Partners accuse O’Keefe and several colleagues of conspiring to violate...

Anti-Trumper wearing Pali Kaffiyeh is giving an anti-Trump speech in a mall with a bull-horn. Mentally disturbed man rushes down staircase screaming, "You IDIOT..!", tackles lib speech-maker, knocking him down the stairs. Examination shows man pre-positioned on stairs, calmly filming as if he knows what is about to occur. Cops close in, taking away both. I believe this was a total SET-UP, might be a case of bird-dogging. VENUE LOCATION STILL UNKNOWN

The University of Pennsylvania campus was roiled Friday by racist hate messages targeting the school's African American freshmen in a cell phone text-messaging app under the group name "N----- Lynching." The first message in the GroupMe app, popular among college students, was sent at 10 a.m. with the question "Sup N-----s," from someone under the alias "Daddy Trump." A calendar function in the app scheduled several "N----- Lynchings." Subsequent messages named 161 people, including those who created the group and the students who were targeted. A second message, from someone who posted under the name GORT, said "message Heil Trump."

An email published in recent days by Wikileaks shows the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in cahoots with controversial Democratic operative Robert Creamer to “get some folks out front” of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to protest Donald Trump at a meeting the presidential candidate held with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. The closed-door, May 12, 2016 meeting at the RNC’s headquarters in Washington between Trump and Ryan featured scores of supposed anti-Trump protesters outside being filmed by the mews media.

Protesters threw beer and opened a can of pepper spray during a visit from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) visit to the Town Pump Tavern in Detroit on Sunday night where she was slated to campaign for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and participate in an interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly. . . . Shortly after Palin’s arrival at the Detroit bar, two men began to yell obscenities and anti-Trump rhetoric before they were removed by the owner. According to an eyewitness, a woman threw beer on the bar owner while he was walking the men out of...

The man whose protest at a Donald Trump rally in Nevada led the Secret Service to rush the GOP nominee offstage said he went to the event "with a simple sign" to "voice my displeasure with the nominee that the party picked." Austin Crites, who said he is a registered Republican, said in an interview today with ABC News' "Good Morning America" that he held up a sign proclaiming "Republicans Against Trump" at the rally in Reno on Saturday. After he raised the sign, "of course there was the booing going on around me," Crites told "GMA." "Then a couple...

The FBI is investigating the torching of a black Mississippi church that was also vandalized with the words "Vote Trump." "The FBI Jackson Division is aware of the situation in Greenville, and we are working with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners to determine if any civil rights crimes were committed," FBI Public Affairs Specialist Brett Carr said in a statement Wednesday. ...