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(DCNF)—U.S. job growth in the year through March was much weaker than previously reported, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revisions released on Tuesday. The U.S. economy likely added 911,000 fewer jobs in the year ending in March — or an average of almost 76,000 fewer each month — according to the BLS’ preliminary benchmark revision. The report comes after job growth slowed in August, with the U.S. economy adding just 22,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by BLS. ADVERTISEMENT The jobs report revisions were even worse than the downward adjustment of 700,000 that was previously...

You’ve got to hand it to her; no one in America has worked harder than Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to earn the title of the nation’s dirtiest election official. Benson UOCAVA Online Voting On September 22, 2024, we warned of a shocking plan by Democrats to steal the upcoming general election. In the 2000 presidential election, a mere 629 votes separated the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in Florida. When the absentee overseas votes finally arrived, George W. Bush was able to take the 537-vote lead from Al Gore and win the presidency. On...

Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s California-sized meltdowns are as hilarious as they are revealing. The oily-haired idiot needs to shut up. On Thursday, his constantly moving mouth had him spilling the frijoles on why Democrats hate ICE and why the protection of illegal aliens is so important to their party’s hold on power in the Golden State. Those reasons? Illegal aliens are voting in elections! Hear Newsom yourself. (WATCH)

We analyze discrepancies in Kauaʻi’s 2024 general election vote count, which the Elections Commission says were a big deal and the Elections Office says were not... . ... accounts of just how great that discrepancy was vary — a lot. The numbers range from 25 according to the state’s chief elections officer to 39 according to the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to 661 according to an Elections Commission permitted interaction group and up to 3,772 based on the initial Kauaʻi County ballot envelope count....the state counted more ballots than the county said it delivered. ...

Good for Mayor Eric Adams for suing the Campaign Finance Board over its outrageous, undemocratic bid to rig the mayoral race against him. Even if he doesn’t receive timely justice, he’s at least helping expose a system that needs drastic reform or even complete elimination. Hizzoner wants the board to fork over $5 million in matching funds he argues it has unfairly denied him. The board’s “conduct is unconstitutional and the height of arbitrary and capricious governmental action,” Adams’ filing states. “The agency must be held to account for its pernicious conduct.” Damn straight. The board first began withholding funds...

Public perceptions about slow vote-counting lend some credence to Trump’s mail-in ballot criticism.How did Donald Trump convince so many people that the 2020 presidential election was stolen? The question is relevant again as the president renews his campaign against mail-in ballots. “You can never have a real democracy with mail-in ballots,” he said Monday, and an executive order targeting the practice is supposedly in the works. Trump’s campaign against mail-in voting in 2020 foreshadowed his efforts to delegitimize Joe Biden’s election victory. But as two studies published last month illustrate, Trump might have been pushing on an open door. Insofar...

"I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS,” President Trump declared Monday in a Truth Social post. Later that day, he promised an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they are corrupt. You know we are the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, just about, the only country in the world that uses them because of what happened, massive fraud all over the place.” Trump has remained consistent; even before the 2020 election, he warned: “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting.” Trump doesn’t need...

A member of the Democratic National Committee admitted that so-called nonpartisan voter registration schemes were always, in fact, partisan. The New York Times’ Shane Goldmacher and Jonah Smith concede in an analysis on Democrats’ cratering voter registration numbers that “For years, the left has relied on a sprawling network of nonprofits — which solicit donations from people whose identities they need not disclose — to register Black, Latino and younger voters. Though the groups are technically nonpartisan, the underlying assumption has been that most new voters registering would vote Democrat.” But it’s Democrat strategist and member of the Democratic National...

Driving the news: Trump, in a Monday Truth Social post, also said he'd also target "Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES." Trump has argued mail-in voting was a source of cheating in the 2020 election, despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud. Trump also incorrectly claimed that the U.S. is the only country in the world that uses mail-in voting. Many countries offer some form of postal voting. The latest: Asked about his post Trump said "we're going to stop mail-in ballots because it's corrupt." He said he'd start with an executive order "that's being written...

SummaryTrump warns states to comply with coming executive order Trump also targets voting machines The move would disproportionately impact Democratic voters WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to issue an executive order to end the use of mail-in ballots and voting machines ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, a move likely to disproportionately favor his Republican Party and spark legal challenges by some states.Democratic voters typically use mail-in ballots more than Republicans, who more often vote in person.Trump's pledge is his latest effort to reshape the midterm election battlefield to his party's advantage. He...

I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE...

A California high school girls’ volleyball team forfeited a match against a team that is believed to include a biological male trans athlete Friday night. Riverside Poly High School in Riverside County, California, announced its forfeit against Jurupa Valley High School in a statement. “Riverside Poly High School’s girls volleyball team will not take the court for tonight’s scheduled game against Jurupa Valley High School,” the statement said. “This match will be recorded as a forfeit in non-league standings. We understand this is disappointing for our athletes, families and supporters, and we appreciate the community’s understanding. We remain committed to...

On Friday President Trump sat for an interview with Sean Hannity following his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. During his interview with Sean Hannity, Trump disclosed that Vladimir Putin told him he won the election in 2020! Trump says that Putin told him that he knows our elections are rigged and that Trump won 2020! He went on to explain how our elections are rigged by mail-in voting. President Trump: “Vladimir Putin said something, one of the most interesting things. He said, your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. He said, mail-in voting...

In rural South Texas, prosecutors have brought forward one of the most significant vote-harvesting cases in recent state history. On May 1, 2025, a Frio County grand jury indicted six people, including multiple public officials, on felony election-fraud charges. The indictments, secured after a two-year investigation led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, expose an organized ballot-harvesting operation that allegedly influenced multiple local races in a heavily Democrat region.

It’s no secret that under the leadership of their Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Michigan has gained national attention for having the most corrupt voter rolls in the nation. From 320,000 identified “ghost” voters on Michigan’s voter rolls… To middle-aged women registered to vote at Michigan State University all-male fraternity houses...votes being cast from addresses that don't exist and dead voters galore... To at least 16 KNOWN foreigners who registered to vote and VOTED in the 2024 election... Michigan serves as the model for how dirty voter rolls and and corrupt top election officials can cause an entire nation...

There’s a host of issues with giving illegal aliens citizenship or legal status or a carveout — but the most consequential is voting.Democrats are increasingly explicit about their goals to turn illegal aliens into future voters — making Republican talk of amnesty or compromise more worrisome. Those efforts would be nothing less than hammering the final nails into the coffin of both the Republican Party and America.At a Fort Worth “The People vs. The Power Grab” rally, Beto O’Rourke laid it out plainly. “We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win...

When you think about how important illegal aliens are to the very survival of the Dem Party, everything that’s been happening at our border suddenly makes a lot more twisted sense. Under Biden’s wide-open border disaster, an estimated 10 million illegals have poured into the US, and the left isn’t just content with letting them stay; they’re counting them in the census. That single move skews population numbers, hands Dems more House seats, and tilts the Electoral College in their favor. It’s one of the biggest and most dangerous tactics in their power-grab arsenal, right up there with mass asylum...

Republican push for gerrymandered congressional maps triggers down-and-dirty from new generation – will it work?It was a stirring speech that brought Democrats to tears. “When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” Michelle Obama told them in Philadelphia in 2016. “No, our motto is: ‘When they go low, we go high.’”Fast forward to Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaking in Chicago this week. “This is not the Democratic party of your grandfather, which would bring a pencil to the knife fight,” he insisted. “This is a new Democratic party. We’re...

A North Carolina Republican has a theory about why Democrats oppose a bill requiring state and local government agencies to detain people wanted by federal immigration officials. Republicans in the GOP-controlled General Assembly hope to enact the bill, known as the "North Carolina Border Protection Act", after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed it in June. They overrode Stein’s veto in the state Senate; the House of Representatives has yet to vote on an override. State Rep. John Blust, a Guilford County Republican, said during the bill’s June 4 House debate that Democrats benefit from having a large population of people...

Nothing says "saving democracy" and "preserving norms" like totally rigging the system. It's like calling sterilizing and mutilating children "care." A complete inversion of reality wrapped up in comforting words. Since at least 2016, the Democrats have focused all their attention on rigging elections, both within their own party and for the electorate as a whole. As the Democrats have seen their coalition disintegrate, they have responded by employing ever more Byzantine tactics to ensure victory. Not that victories have been ensured, yet...they have only stacked the deck in their favor...so they move on to the next step. Let's take...