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Politico: A federal judge has dismissed a Democratic Party lawsuit claiming an executive order issued by President Donald Trump was intruding on the independence of the Federal Election Commission. In a ruling Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the Democratic Party groups’ case was simply too speculative to justify emergency intervention from the court. The FEC had pledged to remain independent, had received no directive from the White House to change its practices and vowed to abide by the law. Without evidence undermining those promises, Ali said he was compelled to dismiss the suit. Page scroll down The...

Progressive California Rep. Maxine Waters' campaign has agreed to pay a $68,000 fine after an investigation found it violated multiple election rules.The Federal Election Commission (FEC) said the longtime House lawmaker's 2020 campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, ran afoul of several campaign finance laws in a tranche of documents released Friday.The FEC accused Citizens for Waters of "failing to accurately report receipts and disbursements in calendar year 2020," "knowingly accepting excessive contributions" and "making prohibited cash disbursements," according to one document that appears to be a legally binding agreement that allows both parties to avoid going to court.

Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign spent thousands of dollars after the election on childcare expenses for the California Democrat, raising potential ethics concerns for a lawmaker who has been accused in the past of using his campaign war chest as a "personal piggybank." According to campaign finance records, the Swalwell campaign spent at least $20,000 on "childcare" from Nov. 8, three days after the election, to March 31. The payments went to two of the Swalwell family’s longtime babysitters as well as a Washington, D.C.-area Spanish language immersion preschool where tuition is around $3,000 per month. The payments raise potential ethics...

A bombshell report from the America First Policy Institute has exposed a staggering $100 million in foreign dark money laundered through the Sixteen Thirty Fund to bankroll radical ballot initiatives across 25 states. The Sixteen Thirty Fund, a notorious hub for progressive causes, has been caught funneling foreign cash into state ballot measures targeting divisive issues like abortion, election law, and drug policy. According to the America First Policy Institute: Non-citizens can influence U.S. elections and domestic policy through donations to ballot initiatives. Instead of the ballot initiative process being decided by state residents who are affected by the result,...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) appears to be in some legal trouble that could actually stick this time. The Daily Signal reported on Thursday that the Federal Elections Commission has launched an investigation into Crockett regarding highly suspicious donations made to her 2024 re-election campaign. According to the outlet, a conservative advocacy group called The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation made the FEC complaint on March 26. FEC assistant general counsel for complaints examination and legal administration then notified Crockett via letter on April 2nd. “The respondents will be notified of this complaint within five business days,” Brown said in the letter. “You will...

The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has opened an investigation into Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over donations to her campaign that were made through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform that has recently come under scrutiny for suspicious donation activity. A complaint to the FEC was filed by conservative advocacy group the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation in March against Crockett with respect to her fundraising activity on ActBlue as well as alleged voter intimidation, according to the Daily Signal. On April 2, the group was notified by the FEC that the agency would be looking into the matter with respect to Crockett. “The respondents...

the left has been complaining about the treatment Judge James Boasberg has gotten from President Donald Trump’s administration for blocking his use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants who have been linked to Tren de Aragua and other such gangs. The latest move from Boasberg, who has ordered deportation flights to stop .. where he said he believed the Trump administration’s lawyers “acted in bad faith” and that the arguments he was getting from them were “pretty sketchy.” ... One of the individuals testifying was Jesse Panuccio, a former acting associate attorney general of the U.S. during Trump’s...

From Grok: “Yes, based on available data from the 2025 Wisconsin spring election, it appears to be true that over 100,000 more people voted in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race than on the Voter ID constitutional amendment question.”

FORT COLLINS — A Larimer County woman has found herself part of a nationwide investigation into an alleged “smurfing” campaign by ActBlue, an online fundraising platform for Democrat candidates, progressive organizations and nonprofits. In a report by the American Spectator, Sonia Immasche, of Fort Collins is shown to have donated $234,441 over a period of six years and two months in 57,138 separate ActBlue contributions under five different versions of her name, averaging out to $4.10 per donation. “Smurfing” is a form of identity theft that uses the names of legitimate political donors to report numerous small donations repeatedly without...

Major AI service providers continue to deploy content moderation algorithms designed to suppress and manipulate viewpoints, actively enforcing censorship under the guise of moderation. From Foreign PsyOps to Domestic Thought Control The censorship and content manipulation we see today did not emerge organically—it was the result of government-directed psychological operations (PsyOps) repurposed for domestic control. What was once used in foreign influence campaigns to destabilize adversarial regimes or control narratives abroad was turned inward—against the American people. The Twitter Files, exposed by investigative journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, provided irrefutable evidence that U.S. government agencies used taxpayer dollars to...

Menu ADVERTISEMENT President Trump Fires Far-left Federal Election Commissioner Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub — But She Refuses to Leave Post Claiming Her Dismissal is Illegal by Jim Hᴏft Feb. 7, 2025 7:45 am257 Comments TruthTweetShareGettrGab Photo by Carlos Osorio/Collision via Sportsfile In a decisive move to cleanse the swamp of bureaucratic resistance, President Donald Trump has officially fired Democrat Ellen Weintraub, the long-standing Commissioner and Chair of the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC). Yet, in a display of blatant disrespect for the President’s authority, Weintraub has dug in her heels, refusing to vacate her position, claiming her dismissal is somehow illegal....

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of @FEC . There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it. I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That’s not changing anytime soon.

President Trump fired Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub on Thursday in a move the Democratic official claims is illegal. Weintraub, who has served as an FEC commissioner since 2002, shared the termination letter she received from the president on X and signaled that she won’t be leaving her post quietly. “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [FEC],” Weintraub wrote on the social media platform. “There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it.” “I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the...

WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Election Commission Commissioner and Chair Ellen Weintraub said she received a letter from President Donald Trump on Thursday removing her from office. "There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it," she said in a post on X, which had the letter attached.

Within days of its founding in early August, a mysterious company called Save Our Home Planet Action, Inc. managed to get ahold of nearly $2.2 million—funds that it promptly handed over to a collection of major Democratic super PACs...Federal Election Commission records show the mysterious company shares an address with Patagonia, the self-proclaimed "activist company" that has committed to donating $100 million every year to combat climate change and uses the "Save Our Home Planet" slogan in the clothing it sells. And California business records show Greg Curtis, a former Patagonia legal officer who now heads the retailer's parent nonprofit,...

In Pennsylvania, Bucks County Commissioners Diane Ellis-Marseglia and Robert Harvie decided to count ballots that the State Supreme Court has ruled cannot be counted. Centre County, Philadelphia County and Montgomery County have made the same decision. Ellis-Marseglia asserted that "the court ruling is invalid because it violates the human right of people to be able to vote for who shall govern them. We are following the precedent we established in the 2020 election to count all ballots without respect to whether they met the requirements to be signed, dated, and received on time from duly registered voters." The Commissioner brushed...

Moments after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO, took the stage to thank those who helped deliver him the victory. “I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin’ With The Boys and last but not least, the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan,” White said. While half the country is reeling from the potential consequences of another Trump term, concerned about deepening social divisions, the dismantling of democratic norms and the normalization of far right extremism, there is one group that has emerged from this election...

IRST ON FOX: The Harris campaign cut multiple six-figure checks last month for left-leaning groups that have been vocal about defunding the police, reparations, and are tied to radical activists who have supported notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan. The Harris campaign gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a handful of Black advocacy groups who are mobilizing Black voters ahead of November's election next week, according to FEC filings released last week. Black Voters Matters Fund, which received $150,000 from the Harris campaign on Sept. 19, has repeatedly called for defunding the police and has been vocal about pushing for reparations....

The Donald Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday, alleging that the Washington Post has made illegal in-kind contributions to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign through its fawning coverage. According to the six-page complaint, the Washington Post made the in-kind contributions through an alleged “coordinated communications” strategy that benefits the Harris campaign, relying on a Semafor report that showed the paper was paying to boost critical Trump content and “neutral” Harris articles. “To wit, one of the promoted articles highlighted how the Harris digital team was pushing content on social media claiming people were leaving...

House Democrats’ campaign arm sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday to block Republicans from using a campaign finance strategy that Democratic committees employ. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) alleges in its lawsuit that Republican joint fundraising committees are exploiting a campaign finance loophole by running attack ads, which they are prohibited from doing, and simply categorizing them as fundraising ads, which are allowed, Axios reported. A joint fundraising committee formed by the DCCC and Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Elisa Slotkin, however, is running an attack ad against Republican Michigan Senate nominee Mike Rogers that seemingly uses the...