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The Tennessee Legislature has passed a major reform bill that would require all absentee ballots to contain a watermark for added security. As noted by The Center Square, the state House passed the Tennessee Election Integrity Act on a 92-1 vote last week. On Monday, 27 state senators voted in favor of the measure, while one member who was present abstained from voting. This legislation will make it more difficult for fraudsters to duplicate absentee ballots.

Not long after Joe Biden claimed the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is "under control," new data reveals that Biden could not be further from the truth. Chief Patrol Chief Chris Clem tweeted that the Yuma Sector, which stretches across Arizona’s border with Mexico, apprehended over 1,600 illegal immigrants over the weekend. And that is just at one major border sector. There are dozens more.

The world’s preeminent social media site, Facebook, has made its decision on whether to allow Donald Trump back on its platform. The answer came on Wednesday when the site’s Oversight Board ruled that Trump will stay banned from the platform. Access to Facebook is seen by many as crucial to Trump’s chances of victory if he decides to campaign for president in 2024.

Hundreds of local citizens turned out to the Windham, New Hampshire, meeting at city hall with elected officials -- and they did not hold back. The Windham Board of Selectmen met at the Town Hall for its weekly meeting but when hundreds of people arrived, they caused the members to call for a recess and move the meeting to the Windham High School Auditorium. The scheduled meeting contained an item about auditing the November 2020 vote on the agenda that has gained national attention. The crowd grew more and more frustrated after the board was not addressing their concerns. Dozens...

Black Lives Matter has released an absurd updated "set of demands," and they are just as pathetic as one might expect. As detailed on their website, BLM now wants Donald Trump convicted for his actions on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The rest of the demands are equally as absurd.

A Christian pastor in the United Kingdom was arrested by police after a member of the public reported him for the “homophobic” comment of saying that marriage was between a man and a woman. Pastor John Sherwood was accused of making "homophobic" comments when he preached outside Uxbridge Station. His arrest was handled unpleasantly that the elderly man complained he was bruised and treated "shamefully," The Daily Mail reported. A video clip shows the elderly pastor being confronted by police and forcefully handcuffed before being led away.

Florida has been leading the way in the American comeback from the coronavirus pandemic because of its Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. And the governor has now taken another step in that direction on Monday when he announced the suspension of all local coronavirus-related restrictions, Bay News 9 reported. “I think that’s the evidence-based thing to do. I think folks that are saying that they need to be policing people at this point, if you’re saying that you really are saying you don’t believe in the vaccine, you don’t believe in the data, you don’t believe the science,” he said. “We’ve...

One would think by now Republicans would start to comprehend that taking sides against Donald Trump is not a wise career decision. But that has apparently escaped the grasp of Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney who now finds herself on the precipice of being removed from Republican leadership.

A top Republican who ran for president in 2016 appears to be gearing up for another run in 2024. Or at least he's keeping his options open based on what Donald Trump may or may not do. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio appeared to strongly suggest on Monday that he may be interested in running for president in 2024. “It’s possible that at some point in the future, down the road, two, four, six, eight, 10 [years], I don’t know when, that I will find myself in a position and want to pursue it, because I’ve done it in the...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are now facing fury from Democrats as to his handling, or really their creation, of the current border crisis. This week three Democrat senators, two from the border state of Arizona, criticized the Biden Administration’s handling of the border crisis.

A 50-year-old secret service agent died while training during his shift at the Bush family compound at Walker’s Point in Kennebunkport. Keith Mills, a Secret Service officer who protected the late President George H.W. Bush and former President George W. Bush, died Sunday during training, said his brother Todd Mills of Gorham. An autopsy has been conducted, but the cause of death was not released. Mills’ death is considered a line-of-duty death.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott called on a Democratic Party official in his state to step down from office following his “disgusting” racial slur regarding GOP Sen. Tim Scott. “This is disgusting, hateful, and completely unacceptable. O’Connor must apologize to @SenatorTimScott & step down immediately,” Abbott tweeted Saturday. “@texasdemocrats censure him.”

Illinois Democrat Rep. Cheri Bustos announced Friday she would retire from Congress after this term. “As I turn every corner on each decade of life, I take time to reflect and evaluate what my next chapter might bring,” she said in a statement. “That’s how, 10 years ago, I decided to run for Congress. And it’s why, today, I am announcing I will not seek reelection after completing this term.” Bustos represents a district in northwestern Illinois that has shifted to the right. Donald Trump won her district twice, and she won reelection by a narrower margin than expected in...

Georgia Secretary of State Executive Gabriel Sterling sounds very worried about the election audit taking place in Arizona. Sterling -- who claims to be a Republican but has become a darling of the lefty media -- slammed the Maricopa County audit that is analyzing around 2.1 million ballots from the largest county in Arizona. Sterling took to Twitter to call the audit "neither transparent nor likely, legal," and claimed it is an attempt to "undermine confidence in elections."

The Florida Legislature passed a sweeping election bill Thursday night that would make significant changes to mail voting in the state after a record number of Floridians voted by mail in the 2020 election. Governor Ron DeSantis said on Fox News Thursday night that he plans to sign S.B. 90. If he does, Florida would become the latest state to overhaul its election system in the wake of the 2020 election.

A massive fight broke out at Miami International Airport in Florida, leading to one arrest, authorities said. Video of the incident, shared on Twitter by documentary film director Billy Corben, shows two small fights in a waiting area. Witnesses can be heard telling the individuals to stop fighting and airport employees can be heard calling for security. A bystander can be seen ushering a group of individuals attacking one victim away, while the other altercation is broken up by a security officer, who repeatedly tells one of the individuals beating up the other victim to calm down.

The turmoil between Russia and the United States is intensifying. Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced over the weekend that the U.S. has been placed on a list of countries Russia considers to be "unfriendly." Moscow has been expelling diplomats from the U.S. embassy after the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia for the SolarWinds hacks of government agencies and election interference, both of which the Kremlin denies responsibility for. Now, the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia has released a statement asking its citizens to leave Russia by June 15. U.S.-based companies will no longer be able to hire...

A former Special Assistant to Donald Trump revealed on Thursday that a "freight train" of election audits are coming. Boris Epshteyn joined Steve Bannon on The War Room and began discussing Joe Biden’s speech to a limited joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. Epshteyn told the War Room audience that, thanks to the courage of the Arizona patriots, a “freight train” of election audits are coming in in Maricopa County.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also served as a personal attorney for Donald Trump when he was in the White House, has responded to the raid. “The Biden department of justice has completely ignored clear evidence (which the FBI has had for over a year) in texts and emails on Hunter Biden’s hard drive of failing to register numerous times as a foreign agent, child pornography, money laundering, and 30 years of the Biden Crime family taking millions and millions in bribes to sell his public offices,” the press release on his website said of the Wednesday...

A newly declassified report shows the FBI sifted through troves of Americans' communications collected by the National Security Agency without a warrant before the Jan. 6 protests to identify "far-right extremists." Despite previous warnings that the government was violating the Constitution, the report reveals how the FBI continues to use warrantless searches for routine criminal cases A newly declassified report shows that the FBI pursued extremists in November that would fit the profile of future Capitol rioters by tapping into a National Security Agency database that trawls and records Americans' communications.