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What you don't know that you NEED to know. The Gathering Storm is a groundbreaking initiative addressing the critical gaps in our nation’s preparedness for emerging terror threats following the botched Afghanistan withdrawal. Through an unprecedented public-private partnership, this project fosters collaboration across federal, state, and local levels to identify threats and implement best practices. We have partnered with the top Global War on Terror intelligence professionals and special operations veterans to inform YOU on the potential for a terrorist attack in YOUR community. The mission of The Gathering Storm is not to create fear as happens in legacy media...

Four men accused of murder were executed by gunfire last Friday in crowded sports stadiums across Afghanistan. The Taliban leader defended these public killings as necessary under sharia law. That night, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem announced that the Trump administration would revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for Afghans who evacuated to the United States after their country fell to the Taliban in 2021. This sets the stage for more than 9,000 people to be deported, beginning May 20. A DHS spokeswoman says Noem made this decision based on a “review of the conditions in Afghanistan.” To claim...

Kamala Harris is trying to figure out her next chapter — and it might start with a think tank. The former vice president, who lost to President Trump last fall, is weighing whether to launch an “institute for policy and ideas,” with longtime adviser Brian Nelson quietly reaching out to universities — including Stanford and Howard — about hosting the venture, according to multiple reports. Harris, 60, “jokes to friends that she is unemployed for the first time,” the New York Times reported. But time is ticking. Aside from public service pensions, former vice presidents don’t receive the same post-office...

Kamala Harris has reportedly consulted Hilary Clinton over whether she should run for California governor. The former vice-president is said to have drawn on the expertise of the former secretary of state as she weighs up her options over her next political move. Speculation has grown in recent months that Ms Harris is planning to mount a bid to replace Gavin Newsom, whose gubernatorial term comes to an end in November next year. (snip) Behind closed doors, the former Democratic candidate has allegedly been hosting gatherings of donors and speaking on the phone with trusted operatives and advisers. Mrs Clinton,...

Robby Soave and Niall Stanage weigh in on CNN's Jake Tapper pressing Tim Walz on why the Democratic Party continues to, "gaslight," the American people.

The new book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes was released on April 1. The book shares behind-the- scenes reporting of the 2024 campaign of former President Joe Biden, his decision to drop out of the race and the subsequent Harris campaign, which ultimately failed.(snip) "She was completely shocked, and Tim Walz was shocked. We take you inside his hotel room at the Mayflower, and he's sitting there stunned. He has no words," Parnes said on the podcast. "And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her....

A new book claims that Kamala Harris was stunned by her loss on election night 2024. She actually expected to win the race. Like many people on the left, she apparently believed the faulty polling that suggested she was ahead of Trump. Of course, we all know how that worked out in the end. It’s fun to imagine the reaction from people in her inner circle when it became obvious that Trump was running away with the win. FOX News reports: Harris was ‘completely shocked’ by defeat, believed she could’ve won with more time, author says

Former Vice President Harris made a surprise appearance at a leadership summit for Black women in California on Thursday, previewing her political future after losing the 2024 election to President Trump. “I’m not going anywhere,” Harris said during her nearly 8-minute speech at the Leading Women Defined gathering. Harris, who represented the Golden State in the Senate from 2017 until becoming vice president in 2021 under former President Biden, is widely thought to be mulling a run for California governor in 2026. She’s expected to make a formal decision by the end of the summer. Former Health and Human Services...

Failed vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) admitted during a recent interview he can sometimes be “a train wreck.” In an article published by New York Magazine, the Intelligencer told Walz “It doesn’t feel like the party was very bold when you and Harris got on the ticket in the latter half of the 2024 campaign.” Walz said he thinks they are “cautious by nature,” adding that “I said this and I told the vice-president, I said I know my strengths and weaknesses. I said about 90 percent of the time, I can be really good, but about...

President Barack Obama’s first act as a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009 — nine months after he took the oath of office — was to try to wriggle out of accepting it. “The morning the prize was announced, his staff investigated whether anyone had failed to travel to Oslo to receive their prize,” writes Nobel insider Geir Lundestad in “The World’s Most Prestigious Prize” (Oxford), out this month. Apparently, the president was among the 61 percent of Americans who believed he didn’t deserve it. “It is true, Obama did not do much before winning,” Lundestad, 74, a member of...

In a bombshell segment featured on The Shawn Ryan Show, a podcast hosted by a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA contractor, Sarah Adams, who worked with the CIA as a targeter, revealed how he Department of Defense (DoD) wasted $60 million to teach Afghan women farming, despite the Taliban banning women from leaving home. For context, The Shawn Ryan Show is a popular podcast that often covers military and geopolitical topics, featuring insiders critical of U.S. policy. Ryan has interviewed prominent conservative figures such as Vivek Ramaswamy and has frequently criticised the massive waste in U.S. foreign policy. Describing...

Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance, and revoked clearances and access to classified information for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman.

Mel Gibson for California governor? A poll has emerged citing him as a popular Republican candidate to run for the office although he has expressed zero interest in pursing it. In a new Lost Coast Outpost poll formulated on Wednesday, Gibson emerges as a surprising third place and the top Republican candidate with 12 percent of the vote. California Globe looked at the figures and surmised former Congresswoman Katie Porter now has a slight lead amongst all candidates, but the rest of the field is mixed: According to the poll, which was a straight straw poll with no demographic data...

According to Jason Lemon, senior politics editor at Newsweek, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is increasingly being discussed as a leading star within the Democrat Party. He writes, “with some suggesting she could be a 2028 contender for the party’s presidential nomination. Lemon suggests this is their response to their defeat in the 2024 election. Ocasio-Cortez “has emerged as one of the Democrats many see to be pushing back in a way that resonates with the party’s base,” the editor writes. He notes she has held massive rallies with [fellow communist] Bernie Sanders. He doesn’t mention that the same thousands appear at every...

The radical left’s violent fantasies toward President Trump and his supporters extend to the party’s last VP nominee. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz went on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast in an episode released on Tuesday to discuss how Democrats could win back voters lost to President Trump. As expected, the two were long on gripes but short on actual solutions. Then, things soon took a bit of a turn. After both Newsom and Walz said that it was important to show some decency to the other side to help the Democratic Party’s brand recover, Walz sent a message that could...

Senator Chuck Schumer’s sudden decision on Thursday to support a Republican-written bill to avert a government shutdown so enraged his fellow Democrats that some were already talking about primary challenges to the 74-year-old Democratic leader from New York. The eruption of anger about Mr. Schumer’s seeming surrender thrust into public view a generational divide that has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s deepest and most consequential rifts. Younger Democrats are chafing at and increasingly complaining about what they see as the feebleness of the old guard’s efforts to push back against President Trump. They are second-guessing how the party’s...

VIDEOChuck Schumer CAVED and is voting FOR the Republican funding bill thus ENRAGING much of the looney left Democrat base. And that base include the Bluesky Bolsheviks and, as you can see in this video, their hate for Chuck now knows no bounds.

NEW CNN POLL : AOC leads when Democratic-aligned voters are asked which leader "best reflects the core values" of the party.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing several planned events this week to promote his new book, “ Antisemitism in America: A Warning,” after some liberal groups had planned to stage protests The cancellations of events in Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and other cities came amid widespread criticism from the party’s liberal base over Schumer’s vote to move forward with Republican spending legislation last week. Risa Heller, a representative for Schumer’s book, said that the tour would be rescheduled “due to security concerns.”

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York went off on members of her own party Thursday amid a looming government shutdown, saying, "American people, whether they are Republicans, independents, Democrats, are up in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting of federal agencies across the board." snip AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare