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Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power. Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officials have discussed whether they might need to borrow money this year to keep paying the bills. Fund-raising from major donors — some of whom Mr. Martin has still not spoken with — has slowed sharply. At the same time, he has expanded the...

Ed Martin has a plan to end the criminal weaponization of the federal government and to hold accountable those who wielded it, he explained on The Alex Marlow Show. Martin is barely a week into his new position as Associate Deputy Attorney General, but he already has an aggressive yet straightforward three-step plan to deliver on President Donald Trump’s charge to root out government corruption and hold the corrupt accountable. The first step is perhaps the simplest. “Tell the truth,” Martin told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, promising to call out those who have weaponized the government against the American people....

Charlotte bishop denounces Latin, altar rails, kneeling in leaked letterIn a letter obtained by Rorate Caeli, Bishop Michael Martin attacked core Catholic traditions, including the use of Latin, kneeling, and clergy prayers before and after Mass.UPDATE: Sources inside the diocese have attested to The Pillar that the proposed document has in fact been already laid aside by the bishop, due to widespread opposition amongst clergy in the diocese. LifeSite has not been able to corroborate this claim.CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (LifeSiteNews) — The bishop of Charlotte is set to issue even more restrictions on the liturgy in the coming days, harshly...

The new Department of Justice "weaponization czar," Ed Martin, told FBN's "Mornings With Maria" Bartiromo that three things need to happen in response to alleged government abuses: "One is that we have to figure out exactly what happened. A lot of that's hidden, a lot of it's been misleading. The second thing is to hold people accountable." "Some of it will be prosecutorial. Some of it may be outside the statute of limitations, but we can still publicly pronounce it, and the third thing is to get some help for the people who were weaponized against. Some will be outside...

Outgoing acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin said Tuesday the Department of Justice is reviewing several of former President Joe Biden’s final-hour pardons, vowing that his new office will scrutinize whether clemency was used “correctly” or politically. Martin, whose nomination to the Washington, D.C., prosecutor post collapsed last week after key Senate Republicans pulled support, confirmed that President Donald Trump has reassigned him to two new high-profile roles: Director of the Office of the Pardon Attorney and head of the DOJ’s recently established Weaponization Working Group. “I do think that the Biden pardons need some scrutiny,”...

resident Donald Trump announced Thursday evening he is appointing Ed Martin to be an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice with two jobs, Pardon Attorney and Director of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group. The appointment comes just hours after Trump withdrew Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he has capably served as interim U.S. Attorney under Trump for the past several months, in the face of Republican opposition over his support for J6ers that was led by Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The new positions do not require...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will replace interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin, his embattled nominee to serve as the top prosecutor for D.C., after 15 tumultuous weeks in office marked by his threats to investigate Trump’s perceived political adversaries and firings and demotions of career prosecutors who investigated the president and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Martin, 55, an ardent Trump loyalist whom the president named to a 120-day interim post on Inauguration Day, can serve until May 20. Addressing reporters, Trump praised Martin and expressed disappointment at the Senate’s refusal to advance his nomination. “I just...

John Strand :: I was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison—not for violence on J6, but for standing my ground and refusing to bow to a rigged political prosecution.. Now Senator Thom Tillis wants to block Ed Martin—one of the few fighting for real justice. We see you, @SenThomTillis .

In defending the Biden DOJ's lawfare against his own constituents, Sen. Thom Tillis not only could sink interim DC US Attorney Ed Martin's confirmation but end ongoing investigations at the office. At the heart of the systemically corrupt Department of Justice beats the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Nearly every politically-driven prosecution in Washington starts and ends there: for example, the first official act of Matthew Graves, the Biden appointed DC US Attorney, was to hand up a criminal indictment against Trump confidant Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress in November 2021. The office is...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is flipping off Donald Trump, announcing Tuesday he will oppose the president’s nominee for the crucial U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia just hours after Trump called for Senators to support him. Tillis’s decision, first reported by Breitbart News nine hours before Tillis’s confirmation, could sound the death knell for Trump’s nominee, Ed Martin, who has been serving in the office on an interim basis. Breitbart News reported Monday that Tillis withholding his supporting was the critical impediment to Martin’s nomination being advanced before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Without Tillis’s support, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IO)...

President Trump is meeting the leader of Ireland today. . A man who : - Tried to impose hate speech laws. - Made Irish people second class citizens under law by introducing hate crime laws. - Flooded Ireland with immigrants . - Admitted breaking the economy in 2008. - Doesn't believe in Irish sovereignty. - Imposed the longest lockdown in the EU. - Activated nationwide digital surveillance of the entire population, which remains ongoing. I don't expect the Americans to attack him in front of cameras but this tyrant needs to be pulled up on what he's doing to Ireland....

Law enforcement and divers are gearing up for a deliberate mission to bring a vehicle believed to be connected to a 1958 cold case up to the surface of the Columbia. Divers clearing debris to remove suspected Martin family car from Columbia River | 7:45 KOIN 6 | 540K subscribers | 20,256 views | March 7, 2025

Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) used social media on Thursday morning to make the entirely false claim that Trayvon Martin was “killed in an act of police brutality.” Taking to X – formerly known as Twitter – she further added to her false claim by alleging his death was somehow attributed to “racially motivated violence that plagues our country.” No sooner was posted it posted than it disappeared, however Breitbart News captured the moment. See below:

ROME — Jesuit Father James Martin has struck back at the “internet,” launching the disingenuous and counter-factual claim the Vatican “is not a walled city.” Father Martin, a gay rights activist, was responding to critics who have pointed out the obvious irony involved in Pope Francis’ harsh criticisms against U.S. immigration policy while the Vatican itself is the only walled sovereign territory in the world. The massive, 40-foot-high walls surrounding Vatican City State were built by Pope Leo IV, after Islamic Saracen troops sacked Old St. Peter’s Basilica in 846 AD. The original wall encompassed the entire Vatican hill, surrounding...

Acting US Attorney for DC, Ed Martin announced his office would be charging and arresting individuals who threatened Elon Musk’s DOGE team. Ed Martin did not name any names as he announced that arrests and charges were coming. It is unclear which laws were violated. “Our initial review of the evidence presented to us indicates that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees,” Ed Martin said. “We are in contact with the FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing,” Ed Martin added. ......

Top Democratic elected officials and billionaire donors found out they don’t have much pull at the Democratic National Committee, where party insiders on Saturday chose a steady hand — Ken Martin — over their preferred choice for chair. Neither Martin nor the pick of much of the establishment, Ben Wikler of Wisconsin, were promising a major overhaul of the party. And in selecting Martin, Democrats did little to answer some of the deepest questions their party faces as they search for a path out of the political wilderness. Instead, inside a hotel ballroom at National Harbor in Maryland on Saturday,...

Minnesota state party chair Ken Martin was elected on Saturday to serve as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Martin, a longtime chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, secured more than 246 votes out of the 428 DNC members who voted, according to multiple reports. Martin has reportedly expressed a desire to see Democrats get “back to basics” and rebuild the Party’s image following the loss of so many working-class voters who have moved over to the political right and President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement.

She enabled the race hustlers that destroyed George Zimmerman’s life and plunged America into a racial morass from which it has not yet recovered. At the time, she basked in that destructive glory. She appointed a corrupt special prosecutor and arranged for two biased, corrupt judges — one was so obvious he was disqualified -- who did their best to convict Zimmerman.

World-renowned infectious-disease epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is no longer a professor at Harvard Medical School after refusing the COVID vaccine because he had infection-acquired immunity. Refusing the vaccine is a decision that lost him his appointment at a Harvard-affiliated hospital at the time several years ago — and this month led to his termination from the Ivy League school. “Harvard Medical School has affiliation agreements with several Boston hospitals which it neither owns nor operationally controls. Hospital-based faculty, such as Dr. Kulldorff, are employed by one of the affiliates, not by HMS, and require an active hospital appointment to...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland denounces Fr. James Martin for juxtaposing Sacred Heart and ‘pride’ month'This blasphemy must stop,' the faithful bishop and defender of the faith said.Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating “Pride Month” is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom the month of June is traditionally dedicated in Catholic devotion.“This blasphemy must stop, God loves every person even the most sinful, but saying sinful acts are compatible with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ contradicts Christ’s call to go & sin...