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Credit: New York Post/FBI Federal agents rolled up an alleged California election-fraud ringleader in the High Desert before sunrise Thursday, according to a New York Post exclusive. James Brass, 47, known on the street as “Lord,” was taken into custody in Victorville, San Bernardino County, after he walked out of his house around 4:45 a.m., hopped in his car, and forced FBI surveillance teams to chase him to a nearby gas station. Agents pulled him over about 6 a.m. and arrested him without incident. Prosecutors say Brass used a small firm he owns, Pinnacle Brass, registered with the California Secretary...

In this overview, Mike examines Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s effort to follow the money behind tax-exempt organizations, political campaigns, extremist activity, and what he describes as the financial architecture of the deep state.From Arabella Advisors and the Sixteen Thirty Fund to the Tides Foundation, Open Society Foundations, CAIR, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mike explains how donations can move through interconnected charities and political organizations without revealing the original donors. These networks, he argues, allow billionaire-backed operations to influence elections, protests, political movements, and American culture while retaining their tax-exempt status.

A Honduran agitator arrested earlier this year at an anti-ICE protest in Southern California was busted by Homeland Security agents Friday on charges of illegally registering to vote — part of a crackdown on suspected election fraud in California. Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, a Honduran national living in the San Fernando Valley, is accused of two felonies related to his false claims of US citizenship to complete voter registration forms, prosecutors say. Rivera Flores’ early-morning arrest outside a health-care center in Ventura is just the beginning of a war on suspected election fraud that has the full support of...

Progressive leader, Ian Bassin, tells how the left is running wargames against Republicans before the election. The enemy of the left is always Republicans and ordinary Americans. ======================================================================================== They may be stone-cold crazy and communist sympathizers but they sure are organized. Far left leader Ian Bassin told viewers this week on “The Court of History” how the Democrats are role-playing wargames before the midterm elections so they can take over Congress. The wargames involves progressive heroes Marc Elias and Norm Eisen, two of the most ruthless, Trump-hating worms on the planet. Attorney Jeff Clark tweeted out this video of former...

🚨 JUST IN: USPS confirms their new requirements for mail-in voting is OFFICIALLY in effect and applies IMMEDIATELY to the November 2026 election, after an activist judge DISSOLVED her block on Trump's order LFG! 🔥 Under Trump's order, ballots can only be mailed to those on DHS and SSA lists of confirmed U.S. citizens age 18 or older who reside in that state. The lists draw from federal citizenship, naturalization, Social Security, and SAVE-program recordsAdditionally, USPS will NOT accept or deliver those ballots if a state does not submit a “mail-in and absentee participation list” (voter names, addresses, and unique...

Left-wing voting organizations are racing back to Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in a renewed attempt to shut down President Donald Trump’s mail-ballot integrity rules before the November midterms. On Wednesday, the plaintiffs filed a 29-page memorandum asking Talwani to immediately issue a temporary restraining order and then a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service’s final Ballot Mail for Federal Elections rule. The new filing comes just hours after Talwani was forced to vacate her nationwide injunction following the Supreme Court’s August 24 ruling in Trump v. California. As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, Talwani conceded that,...

Frames federal election integrity push as ‘federal overreach’ California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday launched another lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time targeting a U.S. Postal Service final rule on mail ballots. and invited the public to watch him sell it as a defense of “election integrity.” The post quoted his earlier announcement that California and allied states were “suing to block USPS’ rule restricting mail-in voting.” Join me at 9:30 AM for an important update on California’s efforts to fight back against unlawful federal overreach and protect election integrity. Tune in at: https://t.co/biszIi59EV https://t.co/vcKeUPXZWL — Rob Bonta...

A government watchdog group is urging lawmakers to crack down on foreign money flowing into U.S. nonprofits that influence American politics and public policy, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.Americans for Public Trust (APT) is sending letters to all 50 governors and officials on six congressional committees directing them to its newly launched FollowForeignMoney.org database, which has cataloged a running total of more than $5 billion flowing from foreign governments, foreign nationals and foreign charities into U.S.-based nonprofits .... The group is calling on state and federal officials to examine whether existing laws adequately prevent...

This video discusses an emergency lawsuit filed against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (0:00 - 0:41). Key Points: Conflicting Directives: Michelle McQueer, a local township clerk in Michigan, is challenging a state directive that requires clerks to delete electronic poll book records within seven days after election certification (1:07 - 1:28). Legal Dilemma: The lawsuit highlights a direct conflict between Benson's state-level rule and federal law (52 U.S.C. § 20701), which mandates the preservation of election records for 22 months (1:22 - 1:42). Potential Consequences: Clerks are caught in a situation where they face potential federal imprisonment for deleting...

Indira Talwani (U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee) It’s official. Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, the same Boston activist who spent the last two months trying to kill President Trump’s mail-in ballot security order, has now been forced to lift her nationwide injunction. The Justice Department asked her to reconsider after the Supreme Court slapped down her other block on Monday. On Wednesday she folded. In a nine-page order, Talwani conceded that, after Trump v. California, the League of Women Voters plaintiffs are “not likely to prevail as to ripeness” unless they rewrite their complaint now that the Postal Service has...

Democratic-controlled states on Wednesday filed another lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit mail voting in this year's midterm elections. The action, filed by about two dozen states against the U.S. Postal Service, marked a new phase in the high-stakes litigation just two days after the Supreme Court ruled against them in a separate case, but did not say Trump's order was legal. The high court majority found the Democratic lawsuit was premature, but that was before the Republican administration issued a rule governing U.S. Postal Service delivery of mail ballots. Election officials warn it will be...

How Xavier Becerra’s wingman, Rob Bonta, seems determined to ensure that nothing gets in the way of Becerra’s gubernatorial victory in November. The carnival midway has always run on the same principle: the games look fair, but the house always wins. In Riverside County, California, that same principle appears to have been applied to an election. After a citizen audit uncovered a discrepancy of roughly 45,896 ballots in the November 2025 special election on Proposition 50 (affecting redistricting), Sheriff Chad Bianco’s investigators obtained search warrants, seized more than 650,000 ballots, and began a criminal investigation. Within weeks, California Attorney General...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Monday in a case over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections.The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks.The court's conservative majority...

When it comes to investigating and exposing voter fraud in Michigan, Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf is arguably the most committed law enforcement official in the state. This evening, after speaking with a whistleblower who works at the Michigan Secretary of State’s office, he dropped a major bombshell that should make every United States Senator who’s been resisting the idea of signing on to the SAVE Act, which would require every voter to prove their citizenship, think twice. MI SOS Jocelyn Benson and Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf Here’s a quick summary of Sheriff Dar Leaf explaining how non-citizens are...

I mentioned the other day that I'm less than frantic about the GOP's chances of losing the House and Senate come November, and that's regardless of what the polls say. I'm still holding to that. Maybe it's time we dove into why I feel that way. You see, there's a shift happening in voter registration numbers that I'd wager the Democrat Party would prefer stayed buried on page nine of the Pig's Knuckle, N. Dak. fish wrapper. It's real, it's large, and it's confirmed across multiple independent sources — not one cherry-picked outlet with an axe to grind. Let's run...

Andrew Paquette, Ph.D., has discovered a never-before-seen algorithm in the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) voter registration database, leaving no doubt someone has penetrated the WEC’s computer system to impose a criminal reordering on the voter files. This finding alone should draw the attention of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and FBI Director Kash Patel. Yet, to date, we see no action whatsoever from the DOJ or the FBI investigating criminal election fraud. Paquette first observed that the WEC voter role had an unusually high number of voter records that ended in zero. Assuming that the...