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Hazleton Mayor Jeff Cusat announced on Tuesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed its voting rights lawsuit against the city. The DOJ filed the suit in January of this year, alleging that the city’s “at-large” method of electing city council members resulted in Hispanic citizens having less opportunity than others to participate in electing candidates of choice. The city filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which had been pending at the time the case was withdrawn. …

A new survey reveals that most white Christians and Hispanic Protestants supported President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election as discussions continue about the influence of voters’ religious beliefs on their political affiliation. The Public Religion Research Institute released a report examining the results of the 2024 presidential election broken down by religious affiliation. The report is based on responses collected from 5,772 adults and a subsample of 4,757 adults who voted in the 2024 presidential election between Nov. 8 and Dec. 2. The respective samples have margins of error of +/-1.7 percentage points and +/-1.9 percentage points. Trump,...

A Florida GOP congressional candidate was recently secretly recorded threatening Republican rival Anna Paulina Luna with “a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad” that would make her “disappear.” That’s according to a recording obtained by Politico that comes from a conservative activist who says she taped her conversation with William Braddock over concerns about his “unhinged” dislike of his competitor. During a 30-minute call with a conservative activist that was recorded before he became a candidate, William Braddock repeatedly warned the activist to not support GOP candidate Anna Paulina Luna in the Republican primary for a Tampa Bay-area congressional seat because...

Democrats and liberal commentators are desperately trying to explain away one of the biggest shocks of the 2024 election: Donald Trump’s 46% share of the Hispanic vote, a modern-day Republican record and remarkable improvement over the 32% he received four years ago. But their explanations demonstrate striking elitism and lack of self-awareness and accountability. For example, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), likely the next Congressional Progressive Caucus chair, chalked up Latino voter erosion to right-wing “misinformation.” Joe Scarborough, co-host of Morning Joe, blamed “misogyny” and racism from Latino men. Several pundits, such as CNN’s Jim Acosta, claimed Hispanics voted against their...

Hispanic Americans cast their vote in historic numbers for Republican President-elect Donald Trump, flipping historically blue counties red. According to an NBC national exit poll, 54 percent of Hispanic/Latino men went for Trump. In Maverick County, a border region including Eagle Pass, 59 percent of the vote went to Trump while 40 percent went to Kamala Harris—a 19-point victory for the Republican. In 2020, the county vote went to Biden by 9.5 percentage points.The county voted Republican down the ballot, choosing U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Congressman Tony Gonzales, and voted only for Democrat Eddie Morales for state representative. Maverick...

Hundreds of people in Miami took to the iconic Calle Ocho, the heart of Little Havana, to celebrate former President and now President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday night, waving American and Cuban flags and dancing in the streets. The former president is the projected winner of the 2024 presidential race, and he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris with a significant victory in the state of Florida. Trump reportedly won nearly 55 percent of the vote in Florida, according to counts at press time. Local media reported that Trump is the first Republican to win Miami-Dade County since 1988, leaning...

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday to give $19 million in grants to schools that serve Hispanic students. The University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus received $5 million of the share, with four other schools across Florida, Illinois, and Texas sharing the rest. This money is part of the Education Department's Research and Development Infrastructure Grant Program, which has a fund of about $49 million to split among historically black, tribally controlled, and minority-serving colleges and universities. This latest allotment comes with less than a week until Election Day. Since Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue stated that the Hispanic community has been “exploited” over the last four years under the Biden-Harris administration due to their economic, foreign policy, and immigration stances “And that’s why you’re seeing this community head over heels toward Donald J. Trump.”

There's a lot of polling data floating around out there that looks very encouraging for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in terms of who has the most momentum heading into Election Day, who seems to be connecting best with the voters they need to, whose ground game appears to have the edge, etc.Understandably, conservatives are very wary of being given too much in the way of good news in one direction after the "Red Wave" of 2022 that never really materialized. There's a real concern out there of a repeat of that in 2024, where GOP voters excitedly tune in...

Former President Trump held a roundtable with Latino leaders in Miami on Tuesday, hours after a new poll showed him leading Vice President Harris in the key voting bloc by 11 points. The former president held the event at Trump National Doral Miami, where he was joined by Latino leaders like Florida GOP Reps. Maria Salazar and Carlos Gimenez, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo. During the event, Trump criticized Harris, who was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday and did not have any campaign events. "She’s sleeping right now, she couldn’t go on...

The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has admitted to holding former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon illegally, in violation of the First Step Act (FSA) of 2018. The First Step Act, which was signed by President Trump, reduced mandatory minimum sentences and expanded the safety valve. The safety valve allows courts to sentence low-level, nonviolent drug offenders to less than the required mandatory minimum. A letter obtained by The Tennessee Star, addressed to Bannon’s legal team, confirms that Bannon, who was due for early release under accrued good time credits, has not been released due to bureaucratic delays purportedly caused...

Members of the audience at a town hall glowered as former President Donald Trump described January 6 as a 'day of love' and tried to minimize the seriousness of the violent clash at the Capitol. Questioner Ramiro Gonzalez, a Republican construction worker from Tampa, said he wanted to give Trump 'the opportunity to try and win back my vote,' then issued a series of blunt statements during the Univision town hall this week... The Kamala Harris campaign later posted about it on X, in a post that zooms in on the puzzled expressions of audience members during the broadcast by...

With the presidency on the line in battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why would Donald Trump venture into California, one of the most solidly Democratic states, just weeks before Election Day? Trump is almost certain to lose California, and that won't change after his scheduled Saturday stop in Coachella, a desert city east of Los Angeles best known for the annual music festival bearing its name. Still, there are practical reasons for him to visit, despite the Republican nominee's prospects Nov. 5 in the most populous state. The former president lost California in a landslide in 2020. He did get...

With all the mad hype you would think that the Joy candidate during a period of high inflation and general economic misery would be performing well among a large group of Americans. Instead, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows that Kamala is not only losing white voters 46/50 but also Hispanics 44/52. Notably, these numbers show Trump performing better among Hispanics than he is among whites. Kamala is winning blacks 83/10 which would be better news if Obama hadn’t won this group 93% to 6%. To paraphrase a certain presidential candidate, I knew Obama, Kamala is not Obama. Even worse, Kamala...

According to two recent overnight polls, Kamala Harris' popularity as a presidential candidate plunged with Hispanic voters compared to Democratic candidates in recent years. A Forbes / HarrisX survey has put Harris tied at 39 percent with former President Donald Trump. The Friday, July 19 through Sunday, July 21 poll was conducted prior to Biden's withdrawal from the race, making Harris still a prospective candidate in the survey of 2,753 registered voters, with a margin of error of 1.9 points.The record-low favorability among Hispanics is reflected in a second poll from Quinnipiac University, which also places Harris at 39 percent...

[T]he 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle. brought up the fact that I'm Hispanic and, you know, I'm for Trump. And he said, 'Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?'" Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday. "No. He's great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid."

President Biden's meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Friday didn't go as planned, with one lawmaker even urging him to drop his re-election bid, according to two sources briefed on the matter. Why it matters: It's a rare instance of a lawmaker actually telling the president in a direct encounter that he should exit the 2024 presidential race. One lawmaker who was told about the meeting described it as going "haywire." The latest: Biden was an hour late to the Zoom meeting with Hispanic Caucus members on Friday, which was held through the group's political arm, BOLD...

ACalifornia Democrat held back tears earlier this month when a Republican lawmaker said it would be unfair to make Asians and Latinos pay slavery reparations to African-Americans. The exchange happened on June 11 during a meeting of the California Assembly Committee on Judiciary. The lawmakers were discussing SB 1331... ... Assemblywoman Kate Sanchez, a Republican from Santa Margarita... cited economists who analyzed the proposal from California's reparations task force and found it could cost $800 billion...."That's two and a half times the size of our entire state budget," she said. "To pay for that, you'd need a major tax hike...

(Discern Report Newsletter)—The weeping and gnashing of teeth can almost be heard in the opening sentence of a recent article on left-wing propaganda outlet Axios: “Democrats no longer hold the robust advantage among Latinos they once did on immigration, according to a new poll.” Not only is their advantage no longer “robust,” it’s non-existent. An Equis poll of 1,592 registered Latino voters showed 41% trust Donald Trump on immigration compared to only 38% trusting Joe Biden. Perhaps even more foreboding to Democrats than the shocking poll numbers are the reasons cited for why Latinos are switching sides: “Broken Promises” about...

The freak-out is real. Never Trump Republicans and their fellow travelers on the left cannot accept the trend that former President Trump is gaining support among Latino voters. The worst critics are the strategists and pundits who once made a living off the Republican Party. Trump effectively made them irrelevant in 2016. Professional traditional Republicans held no sway with Trump. He went his own way. For advisers like Ana Navarro, the gravy train was over. She, like others, switched sides and threw in with Democrats to remain relevant in some circles. Grifters are gonna grift. Navarro was a longtime adviser...