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U.S. Becomes World’s Largest Oil Exporter

June 13, 2026/in Elections, Energy, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth/by The Geller Report

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US Becomes World’s Largest Oil Exporter

Salem News Channel: Overtaking both Saudi Arabia and Russia. Salem News Channel: The shift comes after years of booming US shale production along with disruptions to Russian and Saudi exports tied to war, sanctions, and attacks on energy infrastructure. US crude and fuel exports reached about 10.5 million barrels per day in May, marking the third straight month America has led the world in oil exports.

Reuters: America’s ascendancy to the top spot marks a stunning reversal for a country that was dependent on Middle Eastern oil for decades and ‌suffered from an oil embargo imposed by some OPEC members in 1973 to retaliate against U.S. support for Israel. U.S. fortunes began to change after 2010, when oil and gas output from its shale formations soared, first making it the world’s top gas and then the world’s top oil producer…. U.S. exports of crude and fuel climbed to about 10.5 million barrels per day in May on the back of high output and the release of strategic reserves, data from ship tracking services Vortexa showed, making the U.S. the top global exporter for the third month in a row. Russian exports stood at 7 million bpd in May, according to Reuters’ calculations, while Saudi Arabia’s exports stood at 5.9 million bpd, according to Vortexa. In ⁠comparison, Saudi Arabia exported about 8.1 million bpd in 2025, while the United States shipped out 6.6 million bpd, and Russian exports stood at about 5.8 million bpd, according to Vortexa data.

Understanding America’s Energy Dominance

There’s no question White House: Donald Trump—over the course of the past decade—has played an enormous part. Indeed, in his first 100 hours this term he announced a plan to ‘unleash American energy’.

Washington Times: None of this unleashing could not have happened without American innovation via the shale revolution. Stephen Moore looks at a new study: Thanks to the shale oil revolution, the United States tripled its oil output in less than 15 years, even as the Malthusian doomsayers (and then President Obama) were assuring us that we would soon be drilling the last barrel of oil on American soil. Shale gas also helped break the back of the OPEC cartel, which, for nearly half a century, had a knife at the neck of the U.S. economy and could, by turning off the spigots, plunge the U.S. economy into a recession. Now a study shows that fracking shale oil and gas have made America rich. The University of California, Berkeley’s Energy Institute at Haas — hardly a right-wing source — has released blockbuster findings on the shale gas revolution: “It may seem like a distant memory now, but as of the mid-2000s, U.S. natural gas production had been flat for a decade, and the U.S. was importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), with plans to import much more. Then shale gas happened. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling caused U.S. natural gas production to increase significantly, and the U.S. went from being a net importer of natural gas to being the world’s largest exporter. We calculate that U.S. natural gas consumers have saved $3.1-$4.3 trillion between 2007 and 2025, equivalent to $164-$227 billion annually”.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

Iran: ‘If they respect Iran’s interests and act accordingly, the war will end; otherwise, it will continue’

June 13, 2026/in Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, Must Read, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by Jihad Watch

What’s going on between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran is not at all clear. Trump has announced that the two sides were on the brink of a deal many, many times:

He has tried to give the impression that the leaders of the Islamic Republic have taken such a beating that they are begging for a deal.

However, the Iranian leadership is consistently behaving as if it is the victor and the Americans are the ones who are begging for a deal:

That same attitude is clear in these reports from the state-controlled Mehr News Agency. Mohammad Mokhber, advisor to the supreme leader, said: “If they respect Iran’s interests and act accordingly, the war will end; otherwise, it will continue.” This is not how a defeated combatant speaks. They know how desperate Trump is for a deal, and they know they’re in the driver’s seat.

“Iran says proposed deal not finalized amid US backtracking,” Mehr News Agency, June 12, 2026, 1:16 p.m.:

TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) – Tehran says it remains steadfast on its principled redlines as authorities review a proposed understanding, firmly rejecting speculation a final deal has been reached despite Washington backtracking on recent military threats.

Following claims made by US President Donald Trump on Thursday about an imminent deal between Tehran and Washington, an informed source told Tasnim News Agency that the text of the understanding has not been approved up to this moment.

Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed that major sections of a potential understanding are close to completion. However, he rejected media speculations regarding a finalized agreement.

“Textually, the text has almost been finalized in its major parts. The problem is that the contradictory positions of the United States have always caused turbulence and disruption in this process,” Baghaei stated.

According to Tasnim, Washington recently attempted to alter the 14-point text proposed by Iran. However, American military and diplomatic pressure failed to force any concessions.

The report said the US has now announced through a Qatari mediator that there is no need for America’s recent amendments. Iran entirely rejected the new changes after Trump tried to shift Tehran’s positions through both military threats and Qatari mediation.

Any proposed text still requires review and finalization by relevant Iranian institutions. Until then, all other news and speculations are invalid, noted Tasnim.

The diplomatic retreat follows a sudden reversal by the US president. Hours after threatening to strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and seize its strategic Kharg Island, Trump abruptly canceled the scheduled bombings.

“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, canceled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump claimed via social media.

He alleged that “final points” were approved by all involved parties, though he stressed that the illegal US naval blockade on Iranian ports would remain in place.

Iranian officials swiftly dismissed the notion of surrender, emphasizing that Tehran will determine the terms of any resolution.

Mohammad Mokhber, advisor to the Islamic Revolution Leader, told CNN that the “war will continue” until Washington “respects” Tehran’s interests.

“If they respect Iran’s interests and act accordingly, the war will end; otherwise, it will continue,” Mokhber said….

“Major parts of agreement finalized despite US contradiction,” Mehr News Agency, June 12, 2026, 10:40 a.m.:

TEHRAN, Jun. 12 (MNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says major sections of an agreement to end war has been finalized despite Washington’s contradictory positions and repeated acts of military aggression aimed at disrupting diplomatic process.

Speaking in an interview late on Thursday, Esmaeil Baghaei rejected media speculations regarding an agreement and reaffirmed Iran’s resolute and principled stance.

“Textually, the text has almost been finalized in its major parts. The problem is that the contradictory positions of the United States have always caused turbulence and disruption in this process,” Baghaei stated.

He emphasized that the Islamic Republic entered the diplomatic process with goodwill and full responsibility, while American officials have repeatedly shifted positions, raised unrealistic new demands, and even carried out military attacks during the negotiations.

Baghaei noted that since the declared ceasefire in April, both the US and the Israeli regime have repeatedly violated the truce.

In the latest attacks, American forces targeted Iran’s southern infrastructure and struck two water reservoirs in Sirik.

“While they speak of diplomacy and negotiations, they simultaneously resort to force, illegal actions, and criminal behavior,” he said.

The official made it clear that Iran has shown, both in diplomacy and on the battlefield, that it will never submit to the conditions and demands of the other side.

“Iran has proven in practice that its red lines are the interests and welfare of the Iranian nation, and there will be absolutely no compromise in this regard,” Baghaei stressed.

“Had the Islamic Republic intended to retreat from its principled positions under pressure and threats, it would have done so one and a half years ago. We have proven that we stand firm,” he added….

AUTHOR

Robert Spencer

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Trump Reveals Controversial Plan to Make Americans ‘Very Rich’

June 12, 2026/in America 250, Budget and Finance, Economy, Government Transparency, Hot Topics, Policy, Social Issues, Taxes/by The Daily Signal

President Donald Trump said the public will become “very rich” due to his plan for the government to have stakes in top artificial intelligence companies.

“We’re talking about giving back something to the public, and if we do that, the public will become very rich, the people in our country, because that’s the kind of money we’re talking about, and I think they’ll do that, and I think it’ll make it very popular,” he told the Daily Signal at the signing of the Secure America Act.

Trump said Friday he planned to meet with top tech executives to discuss equity stakes in AI companies. However, subsequent reports indicated that the executives had not yet received invitations from the White House. Trump confirmed that the meeting is still going to occur.

He said he will meet with “the top 12 or 15 executives very shortly.”

“We’re having a meeting with them,” Trump said in response to a question from the Daily Signal. “It’s an amazing industry. It’s bigger than any industry anyone’s ever seen. We are leading China by a lot, and you know, whoever leads that is going to really lead the world to a large extent. That’s how big it is.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described “democratic socialist,” has made a similar proposal with legislation requiring top AI companies to pay a one-time 50% tax in stock.

Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism at the proposal.

“I don’t think the federal government should be in the business of being an equity holder in private companies,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told NOTUS.

“I’m not a huge fan of the government owning industry, and I think with this you’d combine the worst of the big bureaucrats with the Big Tech monopolist,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell is the White House correspondent for the Daily Signal. Follow on X TheElizMitchell.

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DHS Directs ICE to Deport Noncitizens Who Illegally Vote in U.S. Elections

June 12, 2026/in Courts & Law, Criminal Illegal Aliens, Hot Topics, Immigration, Must Read, News, Policy, Social Issues, The Truth, Voter REAL ID/by The Daily Signal

Noncitizens who illegally vote in U.S. elections will face deportation, among other stricter penalties, according to new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security.

The general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival, directed the leadership of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce the stricter penalties against noncitizens who vote.

Percival’s letter cites an executive order on election integrity signed by President Donald Trump in March 2025, calling for actions across federal agencies to secure the vote.

Percival also referenced the Immigration and Nationality Act, which directs the removal of aliens who illegally vote or make a false claim to U.S. citizenship.

“The importance of free, fair, and honest elections is without question. Echoing the words of President Trump, ‘the right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,’” Percival said in a public statement about the policy.

“Illegal voting by aliens dilutes the votes of American citizens and undermines our democracy. It must have consequences,” Percival added.

The department notes that this could allow for the removal of immigrants legally in the United States who are not citizens but illegally cast ballots in federal elections.

In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” which calls for federal agencies to act on verifying voter eligibility, election grant administration to state and local governments, information-sharing, enforcement of federal election laws, and criminal prosecution of unlawful voting.

Congress in 1996 passed a law making it illegal for noncitizens to vote. Still, jurisdictions in California, Maryland, Vermont, and the District of Columbia allow noncitizens to vote in municipal races for offices such as mayor, city council, or school board.

In May, the Justice Department announced four separate criminal complaints against noncitizens for allegedly illegally voting in federal elections in New Jersey. The four allegedly falsely certified that they were U.S. citizens on their voter registration forms. The agency’s criminal complaint alleged that the defendants cast at least one vote in federal elections from 2020 to 2024 before applying to become U.S. citizens. Also, this month, a Canadian citizen living in North Carolina was sentenced to two months in prison for voting in federal elections.

Meanwhile, officials in the states of Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Montana, and Kansas have flagged noncitizens on the voter rolls, including some who actually cast ballots.

A 2014 study by professors from Old Dominion University and George Mason University estimated that about 6.4% of noncitizens voted in the 2008 presidential election, while 2.2% voted in the 2010 midterm election.

The new Department of Homeland Security directive comes as Congress continues to debate the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is senior investigative reporter for the Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Follow on X FredLucasWH.

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Two “No Choice” Wars At Once

June 12, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, National Security, News, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

WATCH: Dr. Oren updates the audience on the Israeli view of Trump’s “last chance” for Iran to make a deal.

Israel Has No Choice but to Risk Open Conflict With Trump

History shows that when Jerusalem has folded under American pressure, it has earned contempt, while when it has insisted on its sovereign security needs, it has earned respect. If history is our guide, Israel has no choice but to act independently in the fateful campaign for its future.

Jun. 10, 2026 / Israel Hayom

In my media interviews, I am often asked: “Has Israel become the 51st state of the US?” With half a smile, I answer: “If only. American states have far more freedom and room to maneuver than Israel does.”

This situation is hardly new. Ever since U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion halt the Israel Defense Forces’ campaign against Egypt in Sinai in 1956, and later withdraw from Gaza, the United States has consistently forced Israel to stop fighting and agree to a ceasefire.

That was true in the 1967 Six-Day War, which Israel wanted to continue for an eighth day; in the 1973 Yom Kippur War; in both Lebanon wars; and in all our operations in Gaza. Even pro-Israel presidents such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush threatened severe consequences if Israel ignored their demands to cease fire.

In May 2021, on the eighth day of “Operation Guardian of the Walls” against Hamas, I received a phone call from a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, who asked me to convey an urgent message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Israel must end the operation tonight, or risk losing American support.” Netanyahu was furious. He wanted to keep fighting for at least three more days. But he immediately complied. The operation ended that evening.

The only difference between U.S. President Donald Trump and previous presidents is his tendency to treat us publicly as vassals who must obey his every order. This is humiliating and demoralizing for Israel and, unfortunately, it strengthens our enemies. But that raises the question: Must Israel obey the White House’s demands under all circumstances and at any price?

Historically, the answer has been “no.” U.S. presidents not only ordered Israel to stop fighting; they also opposed its decision to go to war in the first place. That was the case in every war from the establishment of the state until “Operation Rising Lion” last year. Yet Israel’s leaders, despite the risk of a rift with Washington, determined that our basic security was at stake and decided to act.

Ironically, every time Israel defied the White House and went to war—in 1948, for example, in 1967 and in the 1981 strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor—we earned America’s respect. Every time we surrendered to pressure and showed restraint—in 1973 and in the 1991 Gulf War—we earned America’s contempt.

This record is especially relevant today, when Hezbollah will undoubtedly violate any ceasefire and continue attacking us. Israel needs to defend and save the north, but in doing so, it risks not only war with Iran but also an open confrontation with President Trump. As in the past, Israel will have no choice but to act.

With its eyes wide open to the potential cost, Israel must show that it is neither a U.S. vassal nor its 51st state, but a sovereign country with an unshakable duty to defend its territory and its citizens. In the end, if history is our guide, Trump will respect us for it.

A Celebration Not Everyone Welcomes?

June 12, 2026/in America 250, Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, The Truth/by Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

As we get closer to honor America at 250, it seems like not everyone wants to celebrate.

For example, there has been some deliberate damage recently in our nation’s capital in order to sabotage America’s 250th anniversary celebration.

Writes Anthony Blair in The New York Post: “Vandals sabotaged generators at President Trump’s Freedom 250 event, according to a spokeswoman — and fuel leached into underground water tanks, contaminating them.”
And, of course, we keep hearing about celebrities now refusing to participate in America at 250 events, reportedly because they don’t like President Trump. Even Bill Maher notes that such actions can make it appear that they “don’t really love America.”
Another story speaks of a large swath of Americans who are not happy about the nation, regardless of its 250th birthday. Greg Price notes in a post on X (formerly, Twitter): “According to a new Elon University/YouGov poll, a full *55%* of Democrats said that they would rather live in a different country than the United States. Only 10% of Republicans said the same.”

In short, not every American is happy about America at 250—to put it mildly. That’s astounding—especially when you consider those who will risk their lives to come here, to try and get a shot at the potential opportunities America can still offer.

Meanwhile, it is worthy of note that when America experienced its first major birthday of sorts—that of fifty years—two of the prominent signers and designers of American independence both died on that very day. On July 4th, 1826, both Thomas Jefferson, chief author of the Declaration of Independence, and John Adams, a key founding father who had suggested Jefferson to write same 50 years earlier, breathed their last.

In his home at Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the 83-year-old Thomas Jefferson died.

Later that same day, the 90-year-old John Adams expired in his family estate in Quincy, Massachusetts. Before he died, Adams said, “Jefferson lives,” but he hadn’t realized that was no longer true.

Even if later in life, they became more liberal in their religious views, both men had a Biblical worldview when it comes to this: They both affirmed that God is the source of our rights.

Years earlier, as the storm clouds of the Revolutionary War were brewing, John Adams wrote: “I would ask by what law the parliament has authority over America? By the law in the Old and New Testament it has none; by the law of nature and nations it has none…The two characteristics of this people, religion and humanity, are strongly marked in all their proceedings. We are not exciting a rebellion. Resistance by arms against usurpation and lawless violence is not rebellion by the law of God or the land. Resistance to lawful authority makes rebellion.”

Jefferson and Adams had had a good relationship at first—during the time they served in the second Continental Congress and beyond.

But, later, during the ugly 1800 campaign for the presidency that pitted John Adams against Thomas Jefferson, the two had a major falling out.

After both were long out of the White House, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a mutual friend and key founding father in his own right, helped get John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to patch things up. History should thank them all for this.

On June 28, 1813, John Adams wrote Thomas Jefferson: “The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite….And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.”

Of course, Thomas Jefferson said famously in the Declaration that we are endowed by our Creator with our rights. Therefore, they are inalienable.

In a different context, Jefferson wrote (to John Manners, 6/12/1817): “The evidence of this natural right, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of kings.”

Perhaps some Americans today don’t realize that that reference from Jefferson is to Jesus Christ, whom the Bible calls “the King of kings.”

While some Americans today may not seem to appreciate America at 250, it’s nice to reflect on what Thomas Jefferson and John Adams appreciated about America at 50. God-given rights are non-negotiable. That was true in 1776, in 1826, and in 2026.

From Trump’s Landslide to Thune’s Takeover: The RINO Establishment Reasserts Control

June 12, 2026/in Election Fraud, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Voter REAL ID/by Amil Imani

The Captured Capitol and the Strangulation of the Seventy-Seven Million Mandate.

The American electorate did not merely cast ballots; they delivered an explicit mandate for systemic disruption. When seventy-seven million Americans voted to return Donald Trump to the White House and hand Republicans control of Congress, it was a thunderous rejection of the status quo — a demand to dismantle the entrenched managerial class, secure the southern border, and reverse decades of globalist overreach. The victory was a raw expression of popular sovereignty meant to shatter the calcified structures of official Washington. Yet, almost before the ink could dry on the election certificates, the immediate business-as-usual pivot of the Senate Republican leadership signaled a cold reality. The swift elevation of South Dakota Senator John Thune to Senate Majority Leader, succeeding Mitch McConnell, acted as a chilling bucket of water thrown upon the populist base.

For millions of voters, this transition felt less like a changing of the guard and more like a tactical redeployment of the institutional vanguard. Cultural commentators captured the growing fury, noting a profound sentiment bubbling up from the grassroots that the new leadership is viewed as a Trojan Horse for the Uniparty, underscoring an utter contempt for the supporters who voted for a transformative agenda. This chasm is not a misunderstanding over legislative drafting; it is an existential conflict between a populism demanding total reform and an oligarchy practicing clientelist politics.

To understand the intense skepticism surrounding the new Senate leadership, one must view John Thune not merely as an individual, but as a living symbol of a grand institutional apparatus. For decades, Thune has moved through the upper echelons of Washington, rising through the ranks of the Senate Republican Conference leadership as a consummate insider — temperamentally moderate, smooth-talking, and fiercely protective of the chamber’s arcane traditions. Under this dynamic, a popular mandate of seventy-seven million voters is forced through a strict Senate bottleneck where it is systematically diluted and delayed.

The institutional Senate relies on procedural norms, such as the sixty-vote filibuster shield and committee chairperson vetoes, as defensive armor to neutralize populist legislation while hiding behind the math. Rather than aggressively challenging these rules — as Democrats routinely threaten to do when pushing their own structural changes – the Republican establishment treats them as unalterable physics. This allows leaders to shrug, point to the legislative calendar, and blame a lack of bipartisan consensus, satisfying their corporate backers while telling their voters that they tried but simply lacked the votes.

The institutional arrogance of the upper chamber is structurally hardwired by the Framers, though weaponized by modern political operatives. While the House of Representatives operates on a two-year term length that forces an extremely high vulnerability to voter sentiment and hyper-responsiveness to grassroots populist movements, the United States Senate is structurally different.

A six-year Senate term was designed to foster stability, yet in the contemporary ecosystem, it breeds a profound psychological disconnect, keeping senators entirely insulated from the immediate, volatile wrath of their voters. Because a senator can spend four out of six years ignoring the base — advancing judicial confirmations or playing inside-baseball committee games — they cultivate an attitude of utter contempt toward the very people who elected them. They calculate that by the time their re-election cycle rolls around, voter memory will have faded, or a well-funded blitz of slick campaign ads will pacify the public. This long-term insulation transforms the Senate into an elite club where public opinion is treated as a temporary storm to be outlasted, rather than an instruction manual to be executed.

At the absolute center of this political fracture is a stark, irreconcilable divergence between the priorities of the populist base and the interests of the traditional donor class. The seventy-seven million voters driving the populist realignment demand explicit, tangible victories, specifically comprehensive border security with mass deportations, an aggressive economic nationalism anchored by robust tariffs to protect American manufacturing, and a decisive halt to unchecked, multi-billion-dollar foreign entanglements. Conversely, the powerful donor class that funds leadership political action committees operates on a completely different set of incentives.

Corporate benefactors, traditional business coalitions, and Wall Street lobbies quietly favor cheap labor flowing across the border, seamless global supply chains untroubled by protective tariffs, and a foreign policy that guarantees continuous defense spending. While leadership may offer passionate rhetorical support for border security on cable news, their legislative maneuvers often tell a different story, prioritizing corporate tax provisions or quietly defending international trade relationships to signal to their financial underwriters that the populist wave will be carefully managed and kept well within safe, profitable margins.

The modern Republican Party is attempting an impossible political balancing act by riding a raging populist wave to secure majorities and then expecting that wave to instantly stop churning the moment it reaches the marble steps of the Capitol. It is a dangerous, unsustainable strategy. The fierce chasm between the seventy-seven million voters who expect an absolute overhaul of Washington and an institutional leadership devoted to protecting consensus politics cannot be bridged by generic party unity press releases.

If the Senate Republican leadership continues to function as an obstacle to the popular mandate, the outcome will not be a return to the old pre-2016 consensus. Instead, it will trigger a permanent, catastrophic fracture within the GOP coalition — shattering the party from within and proving that an elite class that shows contempt for its own voters will eventually find itself a leadership without a base.

SHOT TO THE HEART OF DEI: How the Trump Admin Is Dismantling the Legal Basis for Government-Endorsed Discrimination

June 12, 2026/in Communism, Courts & Law, Culture War, Elections, Hot Topics, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Social Issues, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump just took a pivotal step toward removing government-endorsed discrimination from America’s legal system and undermining the institutional apparatus of critical race theory.

Critical race theory teaches that America is systemically racist and that even racially neutral policies are truly racist if they result in better outcomes for members of one race than for members of another. That’s the exact same logic as the legal theory known as “disparate impact.”

Cornell Law School defines disparate impact as a policy or rule “that seems neutral but has a negative impact on a specific protected class of persons.”

Government should strive to adopt policies that allow all Americans to flourish, regardless of race, but Democrat administrations have applied disparate impact theory to encourage “reverse” discrimination.

For instance, the Justice Department and the Department of Education under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden issued guidance warning that if a school disciplines students of one race more than students of another race, that is evidence of racial discrimination, even if the school’s policy is race-neutral. It doesn’t matter if particular students cause more trouble than other students—what matters is the racial breakdown of who gets punished.

In one particularly revealing case, a woman sued the Alabama Department of Motor Vehicles, claiming disparate impact from the department’s requirement that people take the driver’s license exam in English. She said the English-only requirement had a disparate impact on people who don’t speak English, even though the road signs in Alabama are in English. While lower courts found in her favor, the Supreme Court struck down her claim in Alexander v. Sandoval (2001).

Just as critical race theory teaches that American society is inherently racist against blacks and for whites, so the leftist reading of disparate impact theory finds fault with colorblind policies for their unintended consequences.

The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy released a memo Tuesday that restores sanity, however.

The DOJ Disparate Impact Memo

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency tasked with preventing racial discrimination in employment, requested legal advice on disparate impact theory, and the DOJ responded with a far better approach to the law.

EEOC’s current disparate impact guidelines “are unconstitutional because they contemplate liability based on disparate effects alone, without regard to an employer’s likely intent, and pressure employers to engage in race-based decisionmaking,” wrote T. Elliot Gaiser, assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.

Gaiser explained that if employers can demonstrate that the challenged policy “rationally serves a valid business practice,” that will constitute a valid response to a discrimination claim.

“Workplace requirements and selection procedures—such as background checks, aptitude tests, and SAT scores—are presumptively job-related,” he added. “Only irrational or arbitrary practices with no plausible job-relatedness can create disparate-impact liability.”

Finally, employees suing for disparate impact “must establish both that the challenged employment practice specifically caused the alleged disparate impact and provide evidence that an equally effective alternative practice causes less disparate impact.”

These guidelines represent a return to common sense. No longer can potential employees of certain races sue for discrimination if a firm refuses to hire them for failing aptitude tests. This undermines the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” movement that has pressured companies to hire and promote racial minorities, arguably at the expense of more qualified candidates.

Trump’s War on DEI

This important memo represents one more step in the Trump administration’s efforts to reject the DEI movement and restore sanity.

Trump signed an executive order “restoring equality of opportunity and meritocracy” in April 2025, rejecting disparate impact liability.

The EEOC moved to close most disparate impact cases by Sept. 30, according to an internal memo.

The Office of Legal Counsel memo is not a court filing, but it does represent the legal stance of the Justice Department on the issue.

Election Integrity and Disparate Impact

The memo also comes after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, where the court found that legislatures violate the law when they draw congressional redistricting maps on the basis of race. Justice Samuel Alito rejected a disparate impact argument in favor of racial redistricting.

This may bode ill for leftist arguments against voter ID requirements. In 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit struck down Texas’ voter ID law, finding that the law had a disparate impact on minorities.

Democrats have baselessly condemned the mere requirement of a legal ID to vote as an imposition of “Jim Crow 2.0,” claiming that it is more difficult for racial minorities to obtain a photo ID. According to the approach of the new DOJ guidance, a commonsense requirement that a person prove he is who he says he is in order to vote would not be presumptively unconstitutional due to some ridiculous claim of discrimination.

This guidance represents one more step toward restoring sanity after Democrat-led administrations imposed critical race theory via misreadings of the law.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior investigative reporter at the Daily Signal and the author of two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Follow on X Tyler2ONeil.

Rubio Sanctions Cuba’s Oil Machine

June 12, 2026/in Communism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, Narco-Socialism, Narco-Terrorism, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday announced multiple sanctions against the Cuban communist regime, this time targeting the regime’s cash cow.

“Today, I am sanctioning Cuba’s state-owned energy company, Unión Cuba-Petróleo (CUPET), under President [Donald] Trump’s EO 14404,” Rubio wrote on X. “Cuba’s Communist elites have weaponized energy as a tool of social control and kleptocratic profit.”

“For decades, the regime has stolen and hoarded available fuel—using it for the Castros’ private jet, the security services forces used to repress the Cuban people, to keep empty tourist hotels lit up, and to bus people in for fake protests and political stunts—all while the Cuban people have suffered blackouts and waited weeks to fill their cars,” he added.

Cuba’s communist regime has been designated as a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States since 2021. The regime has also been accused by numerous human rights organizations of severe violations, including forced starvation of its people, severe political imprisonment and executions, and censoring the information provided to its people.

The petroleum company sanctioned by the secretary serves as a leading contributor of wealth for the regime’s military arm, known as GAESA.

GAESA currently has over $10 billion in reserves, Cuban American lawmaker Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told the Daily Signal at a press conference earlier this month.

Rubio added that the sanctions are not the last action Trump’s administration will take against the Cuban regime.

“President Trump wants a new future for the Cuban people with greater economic and political freedom and opportunity. Until then, we will continue to target the Communist regime’s ability to leverage its energy trade,” the secretary said.

In May, the Department of Justice also announced criminal charges against Cuba’s former communist dictator, Raul Castro, and his family members, for the downing of a humanitarian rescue flight that took place over Cuba in the 1990s.

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Pedro Rodriguez

Pedro Boccalato Rodriguez-Aparicio is a journalism fellow at the Daily Signal. Follow on X pedrobrodrigue7.

NEXT WAVE: U.S. Launches Fresh Strikes on Iran, Hits IRGC Command and Control Center

June 12, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism/by The Geller Report

U.S. forces have completed a new round of strikes inside Iran, according to U.S. Central Command.

Harder! Faster!

Renewed aggression Trump warns Iran to make a deal or ‘we’ll bomb the s–t out of them tomorrow’ after latest strikes

The nerve center of Iran’s most powerful military force just went dark.

U.S. forces have struck and destroyed an IRGC command and control center, hitting Iranian surveillance, communications, and air defense sites across Iran in response to the regime’s downing of a U.S.

Iran: Still short of a full-scale resumption of hostilities. Iran International: Donald Trump said 49 Tomahawk missiles had been fired at Iran as he oversaw ongoing US military strikes from the Situation Room, according to Fox News. Trump said the strikes also involved fighter jet bombardment, with the closest target around 40 miles from Tehran. Trump said the bombing would stop shortly but warned that if Iran does not sign a deal, the United States would escalate further attacks.

Wall Street Journal: U.S. military forces were striking air defenses and radar sites near the Strait of Hormuz, a senior U.S. official said. No infrastructure sites were hit, the official said. Iranian state media reported explosions in areas along the Strait of Hormuz, including Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island and Sirik, and said its air defenses were engaging with U.S. jet fighters. The Pentagon cast the attacks as an act of coercive diplomacy designed to force Iranian concessions at the negotiating table.

Noah Rothman: This is the strait opening operation that has been overdue since mid-April.

CENTCOM Announces Completion of Latest Round of Strikes in Iran

From CENTCOM Wednesday night: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces completed additional self-defense strikes against multiple targets in Iran, June 10, at the Commander in Chief’s direction. CENTCOM forces launched strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across Iran. U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy assets fired precision munitions on Iranian targets that posed a threat to U.S. forces and international commercial ships transiting regional waters. The strikes are in response to Iran’s unwarranted and continued aggression. U.S. forces remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.

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Pamela Geller

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Trump Pushes $350 Billion Military Bill with SAVE America Act Election Security

June 12, 2026/in Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Voter REAL ID/by The Geller Report

President Trump just added the SAVE America Act to his $350 billion Pentagon reconciliation package, which only needs a simple majority — 50 votes plus VP JD Vance — to pass.

It is only logical that election integrity be treated as a matter of national security. Without free and fair elections, a nation cannot survive. Likewise, without a strong military to defend our country and protect our unalienable rights, the republic is doomed. The ballot box and national defense are inseparable pillars of a free nation — if either falls, the country falls with it.

The $350 billion package funds advanced projects like a ‘Golden Dome’ defense shield, naval expansion, new fighters and bombers, Space Force upgrades, and ammunition stockpiles, which Trump calls a ‘generational investment’ requested by Secretary Pete Hegseth. It attaches the SAVE America Act, requiring citizenship proof for voter registration, photo ID to vote, limits on mail-in ballots, bans on men in women’s sports, and prohibitions on transgender surgeries for children. While supporters cheer the strategy to bypass filibusters, Senate rules under the Byrd Rule and Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough pose major hurdles, as non-fiscal items like election reforms have been struck down before. Trump’s call electrified backers but tests GOP unity amid leadership tensions.

President Trump just called on EVERY Republican in Congress to immediately advance a $350 Billion Reconciliation that includes the Save America ACT.

If Thune obstructs, Thune must go.

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Pamela Geller

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Skid Row Homeless Paid to Vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman

June 12, 2026/in Election Fraud, Hot Topics, Marxism, Must Read, News, Socialism, The Truth, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

The Democrat Party has been getting away with election theft for so long—without accountability, investigation, or consequence—that they no longer even bother to hide it. The brazenness is the point. The arrogance is staggering: when there are no consequences, the fraudsters stop pretending.

Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, admitted in a federal plea deal that she illegally registered people on Skid Row to vote, sometimes using her own address for mail-in ballots Armstrong, from Marina del Rey, faces up to five years in prison for the felony of paying others to register to vote, a practice prosecutors say she used to build her signature-gathering business. The case, sparked by undercover video from O’Keefe Media Group, comes as late ballots from LA’s June 2 mayoral primary face questions, with over 7,600 voters registered at homeless shelters like Midnight Mission despite limited beds. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli called it admitted voter fraud amid ongoing probes into California’s mail-in system without ID checks, while officials monitor counts and urge fraud tips.

Skid Row homeless claim they’ve been paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman

By Jamie Paige and Katie Jerkovich, NY PostJune 9, 2026, 8:38 p.m. ET

Homeless on Skid Row claim they were paid to vote for Karen Bass and Nithya Raman

A series of shocking videos show homeless residents on Los Angeles’ Skid Row claiming they were paid to vote for Mayor Karen Bass and councilwoman Nithya Raman.

The California Post obtained copies of the videos after they were published Tuesday on the TikTok account LaneNeedsSpencerPratt.

The footage, recorded near 7th Street and Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, has since been provided to the Department of Justice. It also follows The Post’s revelations that thousands of homeless voters were registered to shelters where they didn’t live.

One shelter in Venice, where 185 Raman voters were registered, received $600,000 from taxpayers care of the socialist Raman.

In one of the clips, a man who calls himself Kevin Shepherd, claimed he received $4 to vote for Bass.

“They gave you an optional choice,” Shepherd claimed, alleging the was offered $2 but negotiated for a higher payment and ultimately received $4.

Shepherd further claimed he completed a mail-in ballot for Bass and deposited it in a ballot box.

Skid Row resident, Rene Johnson, 39, also claimed she received $5 after being told to vote for Bass.

Johnson said she supported Bass, but told the creator she was still unclear about some of the forms she had completed.

“But, you know, at the time, I didn’t know that that was going on,” she said.

A person wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt, standing outdoors with hands clasped in front of them.

“I was just trying to make five bucks, you know? But I didn’t do the fraud.”

When asked if she thought it was fraud, she said she thought that it was “fraudulent behavior.”

She also said she thought people were being taken advantage of.

Another woman, who said she was living on the street, also claimed she accepted money to vote for Mayor Bass.

“It was like two bucks,” the unidentified woman said, adding that “yeah they come out here all the time.”

The content creator behind the videos said he visited the area after being alerted by a friend who works nearby and claimed to have seen political volunteers operating in the neighborhood in the lead-up to the election.

“Everybody said it was normal,” the content creator told The Post.

“They said people came through all the time.”

The creator said he spent about two hours speaking with residents, many of whom claimed voter-registration and outreach efforts were a routine part of life on Skid Row before Election Day.

Several residents alleged that groups regularly visited the area asking people to sign paperwork, though some acknowledged they did not fully understand what they were signing.

According to multiple residents interviewed on camera, outreach workers allegedly visited the area as often as three to five times a week before the election, with several organizations purportedly involved.

Kevin Shepherd said outreach workers visited the area ”three to five times a week” before the election.
Obtained by CA Post
A fourth resident, identified as Mark Sanchez, claimed he had been approached repeatedly by political canvassers.

“To sign a petition for the mayor or different things in office and they paid me $4 or $5 in different accounts,” Sanchez claimed.

Sanchez further alleged the payments occurred multiple times.

“It happened more than four or five times,” he claimed.

The videos surfaced one day after former reality television star Spencer Pratt was eliminated from the Los Angeles mayoral race as Raman surged into contention for a runoff spot.

The California Post was unable to independently verify the claims made in the videos.

A woman with dark hair tied in a bun, wearing a dark blue t-shirt and a rosary, looking directly at the camera with a worried expression, in an urban setting.

However, The Post visited several locations with large concentrations of registered voters on Monday and Tuesday and spoke with nearly 20 individuals about voting and voter registration.

Many said they knew they were registered to vote but could not recall who registered them, whether they had recently voted or what happened to their ballots after registration.

Don Garza, a disabled military veteran who has lived on Skid Row since 1999, said voter registration is common in Skid Row and that nonprofit organizations regularly conduct voter registration drives throughout the area.

“We are tired of it. We don’t want people coming in and deciding elections and taking advantage of us,” Garza said.

“Every one of them thinks they have claim to our voice. They think they speak for us.”

A Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America openly promotes a guide instructing volunteers on how to encourage voters to cast ballots on the spot and hand them over for delivery.

The practice, commonly known as ballot harvesting, is legal in California but remains highly controversial. The guide, titled “How To: Ballot Delivery,” was published by the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in May 2022 and remains available online.

The instructions provide a step-by-step process for collecting completed mail ballots and urge volunteers to repeatedly press voters to submit them immediately. “Will you vote now?” the guide tells volunteers to ask, before adding: “Ask at least 3 times.”

The California Post reached out to Bass and Raman campaign for further comment but did not hear back.

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Iran Shoots Down U.S. Apache Helicopter in Strait of Hormuz; Crew Members Rescued, U.S. Strikes Back

June 11, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Culture War, Hot Topics, Iranian influence, Islam, National Security, News, Policy, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism, Violence/by The Geller Report

U.S. President Donald Trump announces that Washington will retaliate against Iran for shooting down a military helicopter last night over the Strait of Hormuz.

“I have just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,” Trump writes on Truth Social.

“Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” Trump adds, without elaborating on what a response might look like.

But Israel is prevented from retaliation (or minimized its retaliation) when it is attacked.

CENTCOM: The two crewmembers were rescued by a drone-boat. Central Command: At 7:33 p.m. ET on June 8, two crew members from a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache were rescued by American forces after their helicopter went down near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters. The Soldiers were safely rescued within approximately two hours and are in stable condition. The cause of the incident is under investigation. Rescue efforts were led by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 82nd Airborne Division, with support from U.S. Air Force and Navy units including U.S. 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59.

Axios: More details on the rescue: The crew of a U.S. Apache attack helicopter shot down by Iran was rescued by a drone-boat known as Corsair. It was a first-of-its-kind operation, with incredibly high stakes…. Saronic advertises Corsair as autonomous. It was not immediately clear how it maneuvered during the rescue mission. It was operated by the Navy’s Task Force 59, which was established in 2021 to experiment with unmanned tech and artificial intelligence and fold them into naval operations. Navy leadership has for years advocated for a hybrid fleet, or a mix of manned and unmanned ships. The Corsair, unveiled in October 2024, is 24 feet long. It can travel 1,000 nautical miles, carry 1,000 pounds and hit speeds greater than 35 knots.

In response the USA just launched “self-defense strikes against Iran” in response to “yesterday’s downing of an Apache helicopter”

The explosions are reported from Qeshm island, Sirik, Bandar Abbas and 2 other locations near the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States launched a series of strikes against Iranian targets following the downing of an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, which President Donald Trump directly attributed to Tehran. According to the Pentagon, American forces targeted Iranian air defense systems, ground control stations, and radar installations. U.S. Central Command announced the completion of the operation three hours after it began. In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have attacked 21 targets on US military bases in the region, including sites in Bahrain and Jordan. Kuwait reported intercepting incoming attacks. American officials have not yet commented on reports of attacks on their bases, and it is unclear whether any damage was caused. However, according to local authorities, an air alert was declared in Bahrain, and the Iranian attacks were repelled.

That description comes straight from CENTCOM: U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.

Ravid: Tuesday evening we heard of a second and third round of retaliatory strikes. Barak Ravid of Axios: Third round of strikes now, per U.S. official.

Jonathan Karl of ABC News: I was on the phone with Trump as CENTCOM announced US retaliatory strikes against Iran. Here’s what he said: “I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak.” He added: “This is a response to what they did they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is” (Karl).

Dubowitz: Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: President Trump is right to respond. But the more effective strategy is to impose—and support Israel’s right to impose—overwhelming costs on the regime in Tehran and its terror network. The lesson: perceived weakness invites aggression. Strength restores deterrence. Escalate to de-escalate.

NY Post:

Consider: Trump told the press just hours before that attack, “We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal.”

Does it feel like an Iran deal is getting closer?

A country that’s “very close” to sealing a deal in good faith doesn’t escalate against its negotiating partner.

This leaves us wondering which presidential advisers are leading him down this garden path to likely humiliation.

By one count, he’s said “nearly there” 38 times since he announced that “almost all” of the points of contention “have been agreed to” and that a “two-week period” should allow the deal to be “consummated.”

We’re now 10 weeks into that “two-week period,” and everything’s going backward.

Back then, those final issues were: 1) setting verifiable procedures for the end of Iran’s nuke program, and 2) securing permanent free passage through the Strait of Hormuz — with any benefits to Iran (beyond the end of US-Israeli bombing) to come later.

Now, suddenly, getting to the deal somehow has Washington telling Jerusalem it can’t respond to Hezbollah’s missile attacks out of Lebanon.

Bare minimum, Trump’s public bragging about ordering Israel around sure makes it look like he’s appeasing Iran’s outrageous demands.

It’s what the Iranians do: Claim they could give us what we want, stall on actually delivering it (in this case, on any way to hold them to a no-nukes promise) by never giving an inch unless they take it back a day or three later — meanwhile ginning up side issues and manipulating the other side into delivering in advance on those demands in the foolish belief that a final deal will then be possible.

Trump’s negotiators are falling into the same old trap as Carter and Barack Obama.

Are they telling him the blockade will force the regime to bend? Sorry: Iran’s leaders are perfectly willing to let the people suffer. (Heck, they proved in January that they’ll slaughter civilians in the street!) The elites can keep on living the high life, just as they do in impoverished North Korea.

A sign Trump’s getting terrible advice is his assertion Monday night that if “we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they’ll have nothing left whatsoever,” but then “you won’t have the Strait open for months.”

How’s that?

And why is just reopening the Strait not a legitimate military aim to take away the regime’s leverage?

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Pamela Geller

Senior Saudi Royal: “The only solution is to change the regime in Iran one by one. “

Primary Night is Trump’s Night

June 11, 2026/in America 250, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, The Truth/by The Geller Report

Trump endorsed 12 candidates across the June 9, 2026 Republican primaries in South Carolina, Maine, North Dakota, and Nevada.

All 12 advanced.

Every Republican who openly defied President Trump has lost their recent primary, big. The voters are standing with Trump.

Nancy Mace gets trounced in South Carolina gov’s race after Trump snub — makes a surprise endorsement

By Victor Nava, NY Post, June 9, 2026

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) conceded the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary race Tuesday less than two hours after polls closed, as returns showed the firebrand congresswoman trailing Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette by double digits.

“This isn’t the end of the fight, but it is the end of a chapter,” Mace said in her concession speech, during which she endorsed state Attorney General Alan Wilson in a runoff race against Evette.

Mace was garnering only 11.3% of the vote — putting her in fifth place in the GOP field — when she admitted defeat.

Meanwhile, Evette held about 29% of the vote, while Wilson was receiving roughly 26% — both advancing to a runoff election.

“Serving South Carolina has been the greatest honor of my life,” Mace wrote on X, shortly after conceding. “Every vote I cast, every hearing I called, every fight I picked — it was always for you.”

[….]

President Trump endorsed Evette in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster on May 29, in a massive blow to the four other Republicans in the primary field, including Mace.

The competition for the coveted endorsement from the commander-in-chief was fierce and a focal point of the race.

Throughout the primary campaign, Mace and Evette, in particular, attempted to position themselves as the most Trump-aligned candidate in the race.

Both prominently featured Trump on campaign material well before the president made an endorsement in the race.

“It’s good to have President Trump’s back,” Evette said last August, in her first campaign ad of the cycle. “I’ve backed him from Day One.”

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VP Vance Refers Tim Walz, Keith Ellison to DOJ for Criminal Fraud Investigation

June 11, 2026/in Budget and Finance, Communism, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Islam, Marxism, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Socialism, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

Washington Times: Vice President JD Vance has formally referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice Monday for criminal investigation after a new House Oversight report documented years of ignored fraud warnings. “The evidence is overwhelming that state officials knew about systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs and chose to look the other way,” Vance said in a statement. Washington Times: Mr. Vance, the administration’s fraud czar, said he was making the referral after reviewing the findings from the House Oversight Committee. The committee’s report, published Monday, alleges that Walz and Ellison were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” and did not take steps to stop it. An estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds were “lost” or placed at “serious risk,” according to the report. “As a result, potentially billions of American taxpayer dollars were allowed to flow to fraudulent actors, while vulnerable populations were harmed and whistleblowers were ignored, sidelined and retaliated against,” the report says.

Jeff Charles at Townhall: Walz and Ellison had the authority to cut off payments to fraudulent operations, but they allowed taxpayer funds to continue flowing to these entities even after the red flags emerged in the Feeding Our Future case. The report highlights how the Department of Education continued paying Feeding Our Future and other fraudsters out of fear of political repercussions.

Confirmed: Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison Knew FOR 6 YEARS of Rampant Minnesota Fraud But Said Nothing in Order to ‘Keep Somali Votes’

By: Gateway, June 10, 2026:

The scandal that has rocked Minnesota politics just got even worse.

A bombshell report released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Majority Staff concludes that Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were repeatedly warned about widespread fraud in Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded programs for years, yet failed to take meaningful action while billions of dollars were allegedly siphoned from government programs.

The 205-page report, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” paints a devastating picture of political negligence, bureaucratic paralysis, and what investigators describe as a pattern of looking the other way while fraudsters looted public funds.

According to the report, senior officials in the Walz administration and Ellison’s office were aware of credible fraud concerns as early as 2019 within the Minnesota Department of Human Services and by 2020 within the Minnesota Department of Education.

Yet despite possessing the authority to suspend payments and remove fraudulent providers from government programs, state officials repeatedly failed to act.

According to the report:

Senior officials in Walz’s office and Ellison’s office were aware of credible, systemic fraud in DHS programs as early as 2019 and in the Department of Education’s child nutrition programs by April 2020.

In the Feeding Our Future case, MDE officials identified serious deficiencies yet voluntarily continued payments for another eight months until the FBI finally raided. This was NOT required by any court order.

State agencies had clear authority to suspend or stop payments to suspected fraudsters without waiting for courts, FBI direction, or federal orders — but they refused to use it.

Officials repeatedly cited litigation threats and fear of racism accusations as the real reason they kept cutting checks. Not law. Not regulations. Politics.

The report states bluntly: “Litigation threats and fear of accusations of discrimination, not legal or regulatory barriers, were repeatedly cited by state officials as the reason for continued funding of entities suspected of fraud.”

Continue reading.

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