An Italy-based organization provided key infrastructure for violent leftist movements in the U.S., including Antifa and Jane’s Revenge, the Trump administration announced this week.
The State Department and the Treasury Department exposed how Autistici/Inventati, also referred to as the A/I Collective, provided key online services for Rose City Antifa in Portland, the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, and the pro-abortion agitators who targeted pro-life pregnancy centers and called themselves “Jane’s Revenge.” This move highlights the administration’s focus on dismantling the networks enabling leftist terrorism.
The State Department stated that Jane’s Revenge, which claimed responsibility for firebombing pregnancy centers after the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion, relied on A/I Collective tools and services “to publish official communiqués and claims of responsibility for violent and criminal acts to incite copycat attacks.”
While federal officials previously prosecuted individuals connected to some Jane’s Revenge attacks, the State Department’s designation publicly places the group within a broader international network and identifies a foreign platform that allegedly helped disseminate its message.
What Is the A/I Collective?
The State Department describes the A/I Collective as an Italian extremist group that “builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world.” The collective’s hackers and tech developers provide “encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming, anonymity shields, and a suite of other technological tools,” aiming to “support the operations of far-left terrorist networks.”
“The group has become a key node in a transnational campaign by violent and criminal far-left networks to destabilize the United States and its partners across Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and beyond,” the department notes.
The A/I Collective claims to host roughly 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs on its platform.
Empowering Antifa and Leftist Agitators in the US
The State Department claims the A/I Collective provided tools for anarchists who sabotaged rail systems across France, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands this year, along with the anarchist cell that took responsibility for sabotaging the Transalpine Pipeline in March, halting crude oil flows to Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic. The latter anarchist cell reportedly used the platform to disseminate a manifesto calling for further attacks on infrastructure, referring users to a platform with maps of vulnerable critical infrastructure across North America.
Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon, relied on the collective’s tools and services “to organize and incite violent and criminal acts domestically, including an attack on Customs and Border Protection helicopters that led to a federal indictment.” The State Department also accused Rose City Antifa of using the collective’s tools to reveal the personal information of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The anarchist cell that aimed to prevent the construction of a law enforcement training center in Atlanta, Georgia—a movement calling itself “Stop Cop City”—also reportedly relied on the collective’s tools when claiming responsibility for violent attacks on law enforcement officers. The State Department warns that the cell remains active and is still using the tools “to incite violent and criminal acts against government officials, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure.”
The leftist agitators who targeted Catholic churches and pro-life pregnancy centers in firebombings after the leak of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health draft opinion in 2022 also used the collective, the report states. The agitators called themselves “Jane’s Revenge.”
The State Department lists other foreign terrorist organizations that used the collective’s tools, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamas, Hizballah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The Broader Context
The State Department designation and sanctions block A/I property subject to U.S. jurisdiction and expose those who transact with the group to potential penalties. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also sanctioned the A/I Collective, applying similar penalties.
These actions align with the administration’s focus on combating leftist political violence after President Donald Trump issued National Security Presidential Memorandum-7.
“Far-left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned in a statement Wednesday. “Political terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.”
The State Department’s findings represent one of the clearest public statements yet linking Jane’s Revenge to a broader international extremist infrastructure.
Some progressive politicians have awoken to the fact that their far-left language is hurting them with voters, reports Axios. Terms like “birthing people” (women), “unhoused people” (homeless), “criminal justice-impacted individuals” (inmates), and “substance abuse disorder” (addiction) are just plain weird and make officials who use them seem out of touch. At a Michigan Democratic fundraising dinner in April, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) urged candidates present to “talk like a normal human.” That should be a low bar to clear.
Beshear is not the only Democrat to make this point. Senator Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) recently argued, “‘social equity’ — why do we say that? Why don’t we say, ‘We want you to have an even chance’?” Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel advised his party to “ignore the culture police.” Even California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) keeps urging Democrats to become more “culturally normal,” advice he could well afford to follow.
In fact, some Democrats have been pointing out the problem ever since their electoral loss. “Some words are just too Ivy League-tested terms,” Gallego complained in a May 2025 Washington Post article. The same piece quoted Beshear in harmony, “Democrats have begun to speak like professors and started using advocacy-speak. … It makes Democrats or candidates using this speech sounding like they’re not normal.”
In August 2025, the Democratic group Third Way published a memo to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump and MAGA” to stop using several dozen ridiculous terms. “For a party that spends billions of dollars trying to find the perfect language to connect to voters, Democrats and their allies use an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying,” they said. “To please the few, we have alienated the many — especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant.”
Thus far, few Democrats have heeded the appeals of their fellow partisans to be normal. Days after the Third Way memo, the Democratic National Committee unanimously approved a resolution in support of DEI.
The bizarre vocabulary has even made its way out of rhetoric and into policy. Last year, the public library in Baton Rouge, La. fired a bi-vocational pastor who refused to use the preferred pronouns of a trans-identifying coworker. In June 2026, the New York legislature enacted a bill that did nothing but replace 22 instances of “father” and “mother” in family law with “gestating parent” or “non-gestating parent.”
And the hits keep coming. This year, Rep. Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) introduced a bill to replace the term “ex-felon” in law with “qualified criminal justice-impacted individual.” In January, Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) announced a joint resolution that recognized health systems who helped “birthing individuals” and “birthing people.” In May, Governor Newsom announced new apartment space in Los Angeles for “formerly unhoused people.”
As far-left candidates associated with the Democratic Socialists of America continue to steamroll their way through Democratic primaries, the party is likely to drift even further to the left.
A handful of self-aware leftists are right to observe the problem with their language. Successful politicians practice making their ideas sound normal and acceptable, not weird and extreme. By letting “‘advocacy speak’ seep into our Democratic language,” said Beshear, politicians on the Left “make it feel like we’re talking down to people, like we’re talking at them, instead of to them.”
But the weird language is a symptom of weird ideas. And politicians like Beshear are proposing a cosmetic change to their agenda, not a systemic one. “The idea [behind woke language] was, we reduce stigma,” he said. “But we don’t reduce stigma by changing words. We reduce stigma by changing parts.” To put it differently, Beshear will shed the woke words if it means getting to implement the woke ideas behind them.
If anything, the leftist push to revise its language is an exercise in insincerity. The Left wants to change what it says without changing what it means. It recognizes that its words are offensive and off-putting to Americans. Good. It must also recognize that its ideas are just as unacceptable. So, why does it continue to push them? And will Americans be hoodwinked?
Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) used the terms “birthing individuals” and “birthing people” in a joint resolution. Only Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) used those terms in a press release announcing their joint resolution.
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America’s housing affordability crisis isn’t a result of too little government intervention or socialism, but a tragic consequence of massive federal intervention gone awry, a new Heritage Foundation report argues.
“When it comes to housing, our problem isn’t a lack of socialism but too much socialism,” John Gibbs, Heritage’s economics director, told the Daily Signal. “Heavy government involvement in mortgages promised to make homes more accessible but instead made them more expensive.”
Gibbs released a report Wednesday noting that despite heavy federal intervention aimed at increasing homeownership, rates have remained essentially stable since the 1960s. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the homeownership rate in the U.S. stood at approximately 62%-63% in the early 1960s and remains at approximately 65%.
“We do not make homes affordable by making debt affordable,” Gibbs explained. “We make homes affordable by reducing the policies that inflate home prices in the first place.”
“Federal mortgage policy has become a $10 trillion experiment in boosting housing demand,” he added. “The evidence suggests much of the result has been higher prices rather than higher ownership.”
Many housing economists attribute the housing affordability crisis to local zoning restrictions, environmental reviews, permitting delays, and other barriers to construction. Gibbs argued that federal mortgage subsidies deserve greater scrutiny because they increase demand for housing and therefore push prices higher when supply cannot expand quickly enough.
As the report explains, the federal government aims to boost homeownership in two ways: by directly providing insurance for home loans, and by purchasing mortgages from lenders, pooling them into mortgage-backed securities, and guaranteeing those securities.
The Federal Housing Administration insures certain mortgages, while government-managed enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase mortgages from lenders and package them into mortgage-backed securities.
Taxpayers ultimately stand behind many of these guarantees, making the loans less risky for lenders. Gibbs argues that this encourages more lending and allows buyers to borrow more money, putting upward pressure on housing prices.
When the government takes some of the burden, it frees lenders to offer more loans. That’s one of the major reasons why the federal government now provides some security to between 70% and 80% of new mortgages and outstanding mortgage credit, according to the Heritage report.
Most European countries do not subsidize home loans to nearly this degree. Even Canada only secures the debt of between 30% and 40% of housing, Gibbs told the Daily Signal—about half the rate the U.S. does.
The federal government backs about $11.7 trillion in home loans, but this massive intervention hasn’t meaningfully increased homeownership, the report notes. Instead, it has driven up prices.
“The federal government has spent decades making mortgages easier to get,” Gibbs told the Daily Signal. “The result has been higher home prices, while homeownership remains roughly where it was a generation ago.”
Why does this drive up prices? Just as government-backed student loans have increased the cost of college, government-backed home loans increase the cost of homes, he argued.
“When the government intervenes to expand access to credit or subsidize loans, it artificially raises borrowers’ willingness to pay, increasing demand faster than supply can respond,” the report explains.
This government intervention makes housing less affordable and transfers wealth to those who already own homes, the report states.
“Rising prices reward existing owners on paper, but rapid appreciation reduces affordability for prospective buyers by raising the cost of entering the market—especially when wages fail to keep pace,” the report warns.
If Americans truly want housing to be cheaper, they should urge the government to stop buying so many mortgages, Gibbs argued.
His report recommends reducing the government footprint by setting a maximum value for loans the government will purchase, aiming to stop the government’s purchase of loans for expensive homes. It also recommends the government offer shorter-term mortgages that help homeowners accumulate wealth more quickly.
While the report acknowledges some progress in the 21st Century Road to Housing Act—a bill Congress passed this summer that streamlines the process of housing construction by waiving certain environmental regulations—it warns against too much federal intervention to expand housing supply.
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The Iranian regime is offering a $10 million bounty for the death of Barron Trump, according to a three-minute segment that aired this weekend on Iranian state television. The explicit threat is also a tacit admission. Apparently, the President of the United States is too secure a target for Iranian assassins. So, how about his college-enrolled son?
The monstrous offer shows in stark contrast the difference between Iran’s Islamist regime and the United States of America. In America, government officials only provide large monetary rewards for information leading to the capture of heinous criminals — terrorists, traffickers, serial killers, and the like. Iran, meanwhile, is offering a monetary reward for an innocent college student whose only imaginable offense is being related to his father. Oh, and the reward is not for his capture, but for his death. What monstrous barbarism!
But the Trump family are not the only ones who must worry about Iranian assassins. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared in a radio interview that “Iran tried to murder one of my sons.”
Why is Iran so fixated with the children of its enemies? Perhaps it knows that men like Trump deeply care about their families and will go to great lengths to protect them. By striking at Barron, Iran believes it can create another point of leverage to manipulate President Trump’s decisions.
More likely, however, Iran is simply treating the leaders of other nations as it treats its own. Technically speaking, the U.S., Israel, and Iran are all republics or democracies of one brand or another, not hereditary monarchies. But, when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed at the outset of fighting on February 28, Iran’s remaining leaders selected his son, Mojtaba Khamenei to replace him.
Mojtaba was a strange pick to lead the battered regime through war, as he was already underqualified for the position and gravely wounded to boot. Thus, his appointment can only be described as a bit of dynastic loyalty bleeding through, even though the Islamic Republic of Iran technically has no dynasty.
Thus, by striking at the sons of President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Iranian regime was simply treating the families of those leaders as it treated its own — as an elected dynasty of sorts.
Such elected dynasties were never the intention of America’s Founders. The authors of the Federalist Papers defended the Constitution’s sparse qualifications for federal elected office on the grounds that it would result in candidates being selected for their merit. Thus, the office of representative was “open to merit of every description, whether native or adoptive, whether young or old, and without regard to poverty or wealth, or to any particular profession of religious faith” (Federalist 52). Those would become senators “whose merits and talents may claim a share in the public confidence” (Federalist 62). And the office of president “will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications” (Federalist 68). Alas, even the Founders could guess wrong sometimes.
At first, the fledgling nation inched along the prescribed path. In his prize-winning biography, historian Ron Chernow suggests of George Washington that the general’s path to the presidency was helped by the fact that he had no biological children. In an age of kings, Washington could never become a king, at least not a hereditary kingdom. Thus, power was considered safe in his hands.
That changed quickly. The nation’s second president was John Adams; his son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth president. Adams once wrote to his wife, “I must study Politics and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy.” As it turned out, at least one son studied politics, too. Politics quickly turned into a family business.
Since then, America has seen other family “dynasties,” as it were, who remain politically powerful across generations. President Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of President William H. Harrison. Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were cousins. Just in the past half-century, two generations of Bushes sat in the oval office (and another tried), Hillary Clinton nearly succeeded her husband Bill (16 years later), and people named “Kennedy” somehow keep popping up in positions of power.
The last two presidents were surrounded by a constellation of people named “Biden” or “Trump” who had murky official status but nevertheless sometimes played a role in policymaking (most significantly, Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, negotiated the Abraham Accords).
That such family coincidences are merely the result of merit is too preposterous to believe. It turns out that politics, especially in a party system, is more about connections and popularity than merit. In fact, when individuals of true talent do rise to the top, it almost seems to be by accident.
So then, how should we understand this phenomenon? Is it merely a subconscious reversion to monarchy? Some zealous defenders of liberty might say so, but that seems too uncharitable. It overlooks the natural human instincts to make provision for one’s children, and to raise children in the footsteps of their parents. A business owner might hope that his son will one day take over the family business; when the “family business” is politics, it becomes a “dynasty” of sorts.
In a system of popular government like America, such passing of the governmental baton between relatives also requires cooperation from the voters. This week, South Carolina Republicans elected Darline Graham, younger sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham to be their candidate in November’s election. Does Ms. Graham have the same foreign policy bona fides that characterized Lindsey’s tenure? In the senatorial debate, she admitted that she does not. But voters gave her the chance to succeed her brother anyways because they believe she wants to carry on her brother’s legacy.
It also seems to be the case that some voters simply like to keep the same name in office. South Carolinians replaced Graham with Graham. When Luke Letlow (R-La.) suddenly died after winning election to Congress, his wife Julia ran for the empty seat and won. Kentuckians have now been governed by two generations of Beshears. Alaska Democrats tried to sow confusion by recruiting a man named Dan Sullivan to run for the seat held by Senator Dan Sullivan.
Yet, although America has seen many well-connected families, it has not seen total family dominance. In a recent primary in New York City, voters rejected Jack Schlossberg, a grandson of President John F. Kennedy, because there weren’t really any reasons to vote for him, besides his family legacy.
Although cases of nepotism arise from time to time, America remains fundamentally a republic, not a hereditary system. Voters can choose candidates based on their name association with a beloved candidate. But they can also choose candidates for their merits and reject candidates who have none, despite a famous name. For now, America seems to be riding something of a wave of family connections in politics. But that will likely fade as the old guard must hand over the standard to a new generation. As always, in America, the people decide.
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With the midterms coming, an astonishing number of Republican voters cannot name three things President Trump has accomplished. Which is remarkable when you consider that Donald Trump has accomplished more in a year and a half than any other president ever did in four.
Indeed, he has accomplished so much, so fast, across so many fronts that most people cannot keep up. The Enemedia buries the victories, while Republicans do an abysmal job of explaining them.
So here is the cheat sheet. It barely scratches the surface. And yet each and every item here is a game-changer, and your befuddled black-pilling friends need to know it.
This is not a list of promises. It’s a list of laws enacted, cases won, policies implemented, agreements secured, and measurable results.
You don’t have to memorize all 25. Learn five. And when somebody says Trump “hasn’t done much,” show them the receipts.
In a matter of months, Trump reduced illegal border crossings to their lowest level in half a century. Catch-and-release is finished. The wall is going up and even being expanded, “Remain in Mexico” is back, and the Administration reduced releases into the country by an incredible 99.9 percent.
America recorded negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century. So far, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the country, whether voluntarily or involuntarily: more than 675,000 forcibly deported and the rest “self-deported.” Many of those self-deportations were facilitated by the President’s innovative program to offer plane tickets and cash bonuses for illegals to leave, not only incentivizing good behavior but significantly reducing the cost of deportations. Citizenship and the law actually mean something again.
Named for an innocent girl murdered by an illegal alien, the Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain illegals arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting police, or any crime causing death or serious injury. It also lets states sue officials who refuse to enforce it.
Laken Riley should still be alive. This law will prevent tragedies like hers.
According to FBI data, violent crime in America dropped an incredible 9.7 percent in 2025 — the largest one-year decline in history. Murder fell 18.1 percent, robbery fell 18.5 percent. And America’s violent crime rate is its lowest since 1900.
The One Big Beautiful Bill locked in the largest tax cut in modern history, including the doubled standard deduction, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and 100 percent expensing for factories and equipment. It also delivered No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, an abolition of most taxes on Social Security benefits, and major relief for seniors.
Every Democrat voted no. With the 2017 act set to expire in December 2025, that would have resulted in the largest tax hike in American history.
In fiscal 2025, federal agencies finalized 646 deregulatory actions and just five regulatory actions: 129-to-1, and in nearly every case, the “one” was to repeal the others! OIRA says the savings exceeded those of Trump’s entire first term. That is more freedom, lower costs, and less bureaucratic sabotage.
Of these, the crown jewel was the repeal of Obama’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”, the legal foundation for the Green New Scam’s vehicle mandates. EPA calls it the largest deregulatory action in American history and estimates that by itself, it will save Americans more than $1.3 trillion. Trump also killed the federal EV mandate, restored Americans’ freedom to buy the cars and trucks they actually want, and even eliminated the incentives behind the almost universally hated start-stop button.
That’s nearly two-thirds the size of the entire American economy, building American factories, chip plants, data centers, energy projects, steel mills, shipyards, and supply chains employing American workers. Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Micron, Hyundai, U.S. Steel, Ford, Taiwan Semiconductor, and many corporations and sovereign wealth funds are betting big on Trump’s America. And it’s just getting started.
Ford is moving Lincoln production out of China. Toyota is shifting Tacoma production from Mexico to Texas. GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and others are expanding U.S. production. The capital equipment pouring into the country is the machinery that’s building the growing boom.
Trump used tariffs as leverage to reverse 80 years of lopsided trade deals that favored everyone but America, and to win new or improved agreements with trading partners accounting for more than half of global GDP. Those agreements open foreign markets, attack non-tariff barriers, defend strategic industries, and make it more profitable to build in America than to export American jobs.
Once the world’s largest energy importer — “exporting” $700 billion a year to our enemies — America now outproduces Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The U.S. is also setting new records in oil, natural gas, and LNG exports, becoming the first country ever to export more than 100 million metric tons of LNG in a year.
Trump also opened land, accelerated permits, expanded pipelines and export terminals, and made American energy a tool for prosperity and peace.
For more than 40 years, not one new privately developed non-light-water reactor reached criticality in America. Trump ordered at least three by July 4, 2026. DOE delivered four by the deadline, then a fifth just one month later.
In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in 90 years that Article 2, Section 1 is still part of the Constitution: the President may fire subordinate officials in the executive branch, overturning the 1935 precedent that insulated “independent” agencies from voters’ control.
Ever wonder why elections often seem to change nothing? How about one President and 5,000 political appointees vs. 2.8 million unfireable, unaccountable bureaucrats? THAT is the “Deep State”.
Trump then made that victory real. For the first time in a century, all policy-making bureaucrats can now be fired for misconduct, incompetence, or defying lawful directives. The permanent bureaucracy no longer gets to veto the voters.
In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court sharply limited nationwide injunctions. A single, local, district judge should not be able to block a national policy for everyone, everywhere; and yet that’s exactly what they’ve done, nonstop, ever since Trump (and only Trump) took office in 2017. In restricting that unconstitutional power, the Court kneecapped the Black Robe Bureaucracy’s favorite tool of unlawful judicial supremacy.
USAID had become a taxpayer-funded machine for exporting abortion, gender ideology, censorship, and left-wing politics. It had a bigger budget than the CIA and the State Department combined, absolutely no accountability whatsoever, and a penchant for overthrowing governments.
Trump terminated it — completely — and moved real humanitarian aid under the State Department. Immediately, seven socialist Latin American governments lost re-election. Coincidence?
From a high under Biden, the federal workforce is now its smallest since 1966. Workforce reductions, agency closures, and spending cancellations mean fewer bureaucrats paid to resist the voters.
What’s more, when Biden left office, 94 percent of federal employees “worked” from home. The Trump administration cracked down: as Elon Musk put it, “you can work from the office or you can pretend to work somewhere else.”
Trump eliminated federal DEI offices and barred race- and sex-based preferences across the executive branch. Government hiring and contracting are returning to merit and equality under the law, ending the grotesque Democrat idea that “fighting discrimination” requires the federal government to discriminate.
In his first term, Trump delivered the judges that overturned the abominable Roe v. Wade. Hardly anyone believed it could be done, or that Trump would do it. But he did, and a half-century nightmare finally ended.
Since returning to office, Trump has enforced the Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting federal funding of foreign abortions, ended federal fetal-tissue research, strengthened conscience protections, protected Medicaid from funding large abortion providers, and pardoned 23 pro-life activists prosecuted by Biden’s weaponized Justice Department.
He’s also done everything within the Executive Branch’s power to defund Planned Parenthood. It would be nice if Congress did likewise.
No President has ever done more to protect life. No one.
The United States government once again officially recognizes two sexes: male and female. Trump ended federal support for the chemical and surgical gender mutilation of children, stopped taxpayer funding of such irreversible abominations, and forced more than three dozen health systems to end or suspend their programs as well.
Trump also enforced Title IX as written: women and girls deserve their own teams, trophies, scholarships, and locker rooms. The NCAA and other athletic organizations changed their rules in response. After years of Democrats doing everything they could to destroy women’s sports and ruin girls’ lives, Trump’s administration protects women and girls again.
As part of the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump enacted America’s first-ever nationwide school choice program. The new Education Freedom Tax Credit helps fund scholarships for tuition, books, and other educational costs.
That’s on top of the new Trump Accounts, which give every child a tax-advantaged stake in America’s future, including a $1,000 federal seed for eligible newborns. Parents gain power. Bureaucracies lose it. And children learn first-hand about free markets and future orientation.
Trump created the White House Faith Office, Religious Liberty Commission, and Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. He restored conscience protections and made clear that Christians do not surrender their First Amendment rights merely by entering public life.
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He Restored Peace Through Strength and Put America First
For decades, wealthy European governments underfunded their militaries, effectively sending America the bill and using American taxpayers to subsidize their bloated welfare states. Trump forced NATO to replace its old two-percent-of-GDP spending target with an enormous five percent by 2035.
Allied spending is rising, American defense orders are soaring, and Europe is becoming a partner instead of a dependent.
China spent years building strategic beachheads at both ends of the Panama Canal, in Cuba, and in Maduro’s Venezuela. Trump forced Panama out of Belt and Road, expanded American security access around the Canal, and captured Maduro, who now sits in a New York jail cell awaiting trial.
Beijing’s planned encirclement of the United States collapsed. The Monroe Doctrine is back. Call it the Donroe Doctrine.
In eight months, Trump brokered peace in eight conflicts spanning four continents, including wars that had gone on for as much as 40 years. It’s a record unmatched by any other President.
Trump with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan, concluding a peace treaty to end their 40-year conflict.
Ronald Reagan dreamed of making nuclear missiles obsolete through his Strategic Defense Initiative. Today, Trump is actually building it: a layered homeland shield with space-based sensors and interceptors, conventional defenses, and new technologies including microwave systems to destroy drone swarms and directed-energy weapons (yes, lasers) that can replace an $11 million missile with $2 of electricity.
Congress has funded the initial $25 billion, with far more on the way once it passes the NDAA this fall. Better a shield than a sword.
After years of missed targets under Biden, every active military component met or exceeded its 2025 recruiting goal. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refocused the newly renamed Department of War on actually winning wars, while pouring resources into shipbuilding, munitions, drones, missile defense, and America’s atrophied industrial base.
Young Americans once again believe their Commander-in-Chief is worth serving. And they’re showing up en masse.
Now Act Like It Matters
Those are not tweets or campaign promises. They are changes in law, power, investment, sovereignty, culture, and the structure of the Republic itself. And they’re just the top 25: I could give you hundreds more.
Midterms are turnout elections. We do not need to convince Democrats to love Donald Trump. We need Republicans and friendly independents to understand what is at stake — and to show up.
And let’s be clear. When you say (as some of you will) “the Republicans need to do a good enough job telling this story”, you’re pointing at yourself. You are “the Republicans.” The Democrats don’t rely exclusively on their elected officials to tell their story: everyone from their media lackeys to their lowest-level supporters are constantly spreading their “news”, whatever that “news” happens to be.
Today’s conservatives have more ability to find whatever you want to know than any group of people in human history, yet half of them couldn’t name any of the accomplishments in this essay, and if they were to read it, they would just complain that something else they wanted hasn’t happened fast enough to suit them.
This is called “black-pilling.” It’s a loser mindset, and if you engage in it, you deserve to lose: horribly, painfully, personally. And guess what: you will, unless people who are serious step up to save you. Which is frankly pathetic, but for the rest of our sakes, necessary.
So tell people our story. Donald Trump is delivering great things, whether or not heaven on earth has broken out quite yet. Do the work, send the team he needs to Washington to finish the job, and get ready for 2028 afterward.
Take the time to learn at least five of these victories. Share this list with someone who needs it. And vote as though the most consequential Presidency in modern history depends on what you do.
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More than a dozen U.S. states have passed legislation or constitutional amendments designed to restrict state courts from applying foreign or religious law—commonly referred to as “American Laws for American Courts” (ALAC) legislation.
American Laws for American Courts (ALAC)
American Laws for American Courts (ALAC) is a state-level legislative measure designed to prevent U.S. state courts from applying foreign laws or legal doctrines that conflict with the rights and privileges guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org+1.
Purpose and Scope
The ALAC Act aims to protect American constitutional values—such as due process, freedom of religion, speech, press, and privacy—from being undermined by foreign legal systems. It explicitly prohibits courts from basing rulings on “foreign law, legal code, or system” if doing so would deprive parties of the same fundamental liberties and rights afforded under U.S. and state law www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org.
The law defines “foreign law” broadly to include international organizations, tribunals, and legal systems outside U.S. states or territories, but excludes Native American tribal laws www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org. It applies to all state courts, boards, administrative agencies, and other adjudicative bodies.
Legislative Context
Adoption: ALAC has been passed in 12 states, including Florida, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Washington Act for America.
Motivation: Supporters argue it clarifies state public policy, prevents the “creep” of foreign legal doctrines (including Shariah law) into U.S. courts, and safeguards constitutional rights new.americanlawsforamericancourts.com.
Criticism: Opponents note that some state laws already prohibit recognizing foreign judgments that violate public policy, and that ALAC’s scope could be seen as overreaching or unnecessary americanlawsforamericancourts.com.
Related Legal Issues
Comity and Public Policy: Most states already have “void as against public policy” rules, but ALAC seeks to make the state’s public policy more explicit, especially regarding foreign laws americanlawsforamericancourts.com+1.
Treaties: The law does not interfere with U.S. treaties, as they are part of the U.S. legal system under the Supremacy Clause americanlawsforamericancourts.com.
Shariah Law Concerns: Proponents cite cases where Shariah law has been invoked in U.S. courts, sometimes in conflict with constitutional rights americanlawsforamericancourts.com+1.
Why It Matters
ALAC is part of a broader movement to assert U.S. legal sovereignty and ensure that state courts remain bound by domestic constitutional principles. It reflects ongoing debates about the role of foreign law in American jurisprudence and the limits of comity in U.S. courts new.americanlawsforamericancourts.com.
If you are in Florida, ALAC is in effect there, meaning state courts must avoid applying foreign laws that would infringe on U.S. or state constitutional rights.
States Enacting Restrictions on Foreign/Religious Law
Alabama:Passed Amendment 3 in 2014 prohibiting courts from applying foreign laws, including religious law, if it violates state or federal constitutional rights.
Arizona: Passed ALAC legislation in 2011 restricting judicial consideration of foreign law.
Arkansas: Enacted ALAC-modeled legislation restricting foreign law applications.
Florida: Enacted legislation governing foreign law applicability in family court proceedings.
Kansas: Enacted Senate Bill 79 in 2012 barring courts from enforcing rulings based on foreign law systems that do not grant equal constitutional rights.
Louisiana: Passed HB 785 in 2010 banning the application of foreign law that violates constitutional guarantees.
Mississippi: Enacted legislation limiting the recognition of foreign law in state courts.
North Carolina: Passed Senate Bill 461 in 2013 restricting foreign law in family law matters.
South Dakota:Enacted legislation in 2012 restricting the use of foreign law systems.
Tennessee: Passed legislation in 2011 restricting judicial use of foreign and international laws.
Texas: Passed legislation restricting foreign laws from superseding constitutional rights in family law cases.
Key Legal Context
Explicit vs. Neutral Wording:The majority of these enacted statutes use religion-neutral language (banning “foreign legal codes” or “foreign laws” that conflict with U.S. or state constitutions) rather than explicitly naming Sharia law. This design allows them to withstand First Amendment Establishment Clause challenges.
Struck-Down Exceptions:In 2010, Oklahoma voters passed the “Save Our State Amendment,” which explicitly named and banned Sharia law.Federal courts struck down the law in 2012 (Awad v. Ziriax), ruling that targeting a specific religion violated the U.S. Constitution.
The Bottom Line
Shariah Laws are anti-American and violate our constitutional rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Shariah demands all infidels, non-Muslims, to submit or die. Sharia is:
Anti-American
Anti-Christian
Anti-Semitic
Today we are witnessing the Democrat Socialists march hand-in-hand with the Islamo-Nazis.
Supporters of Shariah law in America are called the “Red-Green Axis of evil.”
It is spreading accross America. It must be stopped or else our Consitutional Republic with fall.
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Bessent: “Let me be clear: any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. Dollar system. The clock just started ticking.”
Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working. President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged Iran’s economic shortages, saying, “The war must come to an end at some point.” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, was even more direct: “No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we don’t have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure.” Under President Trump, Treasury will continue to sever every economic lifeline sustaining this regime until Tehran stands alone.
Daugherty: More from Bessent, once again reminding the Iranian how the Berlin Wall came down: To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime, as more and more of your paychecks stop or supposedly just delayed, ask whether your commanders are leading your country to triumph or to ruin, and recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people.
Iran International: Reports of gasoline shortages spread across Tehran on Monday, with filling stations closing after running out of fuel and motorists describing long searches and queues for increasingly scarce supplies. Images, videos and accounts posted widely on Persian-language social media showed closed stations and lines of cars at others still operating, with shortages reported in several parts of the capital, including central and northern Tehran. The disruption was also acknowledged by state-affiliated media. “Some gas stations have closed without a clear explanation, creating considerable concern and questions for people,” SSN wrote, calling on the government to explain whether the closures were part of an attempt to curb fuel consumption and how long they would last. The shortages bring into the open a problem Iranian officials have been warning about for months: the country is consuming more gasoline than it can produce.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared Tuesday that Iran’s leadership is already “panicking” under President Donald Trump’s mounting economic offensive — pointing to stark warnings from Tehran’s own president and parliament speaker about the country’s deteriorating economy while vowing to continue severing the regime’s financial lifelines until it “stands alone.”
“Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working,” Bessent wrote on X, one day after the administration launched Operation Economic Outcast.
Bessent highlighted recent remarks made before Monday’s rollout from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who acknowledged the country’s mounting economic shortages while declaring that “the war must come to an end at some point.”
He also highlighted an even starker warning from Iranian Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf about whether Iran could sustain its military strength while its economy and living conditions continued to deteriorate.
“No matter how much military power we have, if people are hungry and we don’t have financial circulation, economic growth and domestic production, we will not endure,” Ghalibaf said.
Bessent pointed to the statements as evidence that Trump’s pressure campaign was already biting before Washington dramatically widened its economic offensive Monday with what officials have called an “Economic D-Day” designed to isolate Tehran and choke off the revenue streams sustaining the regime.
Operation Economic Outcast initially targeted more than 60 individuals, entities, and vessels tied to Iranian oil revenue, weapons and missile procurement, and cyber operations, while widening secondary-sanctions exposure across five sectors Tehran exploits abroad: digital assets, technology, gold, aviation, and shipping.
The administration has also put foreign governments, financial institutions, and businesses on notice that continued dealings with Tehran could see them cut off from the U.S. dollar-based financial system.
Bessent described the strategy Monday as the “economic asphyxiation” of the regime and said Washington would enforce a “zero-leakage approach” intended to leave Tehran with virtually no financial breathing room.
Trump reinforced that assessment Tuesday morning, asserting that the Islamic Republic is increasingly unable even to meet obligations to portions of its own armed forces.
“The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Calling the situation a “humanitarian crisis of epic proportions,” Trump demanded that it “must be stopped, NOW.”
The comments came amid mounting signs of strain inside Iran. The rial is trading at roughly 2 million to the U.S. dollar on the open market, while Iran’s prominent Donya-e-Eghtesad economic newspaper reported Monday that the currency had lost roughly 41 percent of its value since December. Long lines have also formed at gasoline stations in Tehran amid growing fuel constraints.
At the same time, Washington is moving to strip Tehran of another major source of leverage: its ability to disrupt commercial shipping and energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump announced later Tuesday that the Navy had completed clearing mines from international waters in the strategic waterway — and warned that any Iranian vessel attempting to restore the threat would be destroyed.
“Iran has been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed,” Trump warned.
Trump said Space Force was watching “every square inch of the Strait,” along with Pickaxe Mountain — the fortified underground nuclear complex near Natanz — and three other Iranian nuclear sites he says have already been destroyed.
“There is a Zero Tolerance policy on mine placement in full force and effect,” he declared.
Two U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the operation confirmed to Axios that the Navy had cleared the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the central shipping lane between Iran and Oman that had remained heavily mined during the war.
U.S. Navy underwater drones spent months systematically scanning the area and located more than 100 objects suspected of being mines, after which private contractors were brought in to remove or detonate them, according to the report.
The development was separately confirmed by U.S. officials to Israeli media, with the Jerusalem Post reporting that CENTCOM had cleared both inbound and outbound shipping routes, opening an additional passage expected to increase maritime traffic through the chokepoint.
Washington had already been moving substantial maritime traffic through a southern channel closer to Oman, with more than 500 vessels passing through that route over the previous 30 days, according to U.S. officials. Clearing the central lane now allows protected vessels to move simultaneously in both directions, potentially expanding the volume of oil and commercial traffic moving through Hormuz.
That directly cuts into a pressure point Tehran has repeatedly sought to wield against Washington and the Gulf states.
In the run-up to Monday’s unveiling of Operation Economic Outcast, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei threatened any country that joined Washington’s economic offensive, warning that Tehran would regard such participation as an “act of war.”
“If the economic war continues, not a single drop of oil will be exported, neither through the Strait of Hormuz nor from anywhere in the Persian Gulf,” Rezaei declared Sunday.
The U.S. breakthrough comes as Iran and Oman pursue their own framework for restoring maritime traffic through the strait.
The two countries announced Tuesday that they had discussed a phased framework establishing a temporary joint navigation corridor and mine-clearing project, with technical negotiations continuing toward a permanent route and future arrangements for managing the strait.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi called his talks in Tehran with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “constructive” and said he was hopeful that a temporary corridor and practical arrangements to restore safe navigation would soon be announced. Araghchi, meanwhile, pointed to the proposed corridor, joint mine-clearing and future management of Hormuz as a “case in point” of Iran’s “steadfast diplomacy with our neighbors.
The American mine-clearing operation, however, has already expanded the shipping routes available without a final agreement with Tehran, with U.S. officials reportedly viewing the combination of cleared mines and steadily increasing traffic through American-protected routes as a significant blow to Iran’s leverage over global energy markets and future negotiations over the strait.
The developments come as Pakistan continues trying to revive an indirect diplomatic track between Washington and Tehran. Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir met senior Iranian officials during a day-long visit to Tehran on Monday, with Islamabad subsequently saying the discussions produced “significant progress” toward preventing further escalation, reopening Hormuz, and ending the conflict.
Iranian officials said Munir carried a U.S. message aimed at reviving the stalled political process and that Tehran, in turn, provided its own conditions for returning to the June memorandum of understanding for Pakistan to relay to Washington.
A White House official stressed Tuesday, however, that there are currently “no talks or discussions” underway or scheduled directly with Iran and that the U.S. naval blockade remains firmly in force.
Tehran, meanwhile, has sought to project defiance in the face of Washington’s expanding economic offensive. Iranian Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh insisted Tuesday that the government had anticipated additional sanctions for years, developed a two-year plan to withstand them, and possessed tools of its own to fight back.
“The enemies intend to launch an economic terrorist attack on us, but we also have our own tools and know how to play the game,” Madanizadeh said.
Ghalibaf predicted Tuesday that Washington would suffer another economic defeat, while Pezeshkian rejected any suggestion that worsening conditions would force Tehran to capitulate.
“Should we give in to problems and surrender? Of course not,” Pezeshkian said.
Bessent countered that those declarations of defiance do not erase the Iranian leaders’ own increasingly stark warnings about hunger, shortages, economic stagnation, and the need to end the war. Under Trump, he vowed, Treasury will continue severing the regime’s economic lifelines until Tehran stands alone.
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
We often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists, Bolsheviks, Symbionese Liberation [Army], the Weather Underground with violence.
And the argument that they use is, we are for mandated equality and fairness and helping the underprivileged, and therefore to achieve those noble ends, which were morally and intellectually superior to those on the conservative side, we’re allowed to use any means necessary. And any means necessary is what’s happening right now.
He’s the multimillionaire podcaster, second-generation Turkish immigrant, who just recently led a cheering crowd in a song, whipped up the crowd, mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk. He even said, Charlie Kirk, Charlie Kirk. He was whipping them up in a classical demagogic fashion, cheering and celebrating the horrific televised murder of an American activist.
Remember, he’s also told us that 9/11, we essentially deserved it. It was our fault, 9/11 was.
He’s not unusual right now on the Left. Angie Nixon is a radical socialist, and she won the Democratic primary Senate campaign, and she will be in the runoff for Florida’s junior senator. She said recently that ICE, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were slave catchers and that they were targeting black people, no different than people in the Confederacy, and that the U.S. government was trying to kill blacks.
She doesn’t understand that under the auspices of DEI, which continues affirmative action, that blacks have given preferential treatment based on past transgressions that the majority of the country felt needed to be addressed.
No one is trying to kill young black people, much less the government. If you look at the murder rates, the statistics make her completely unbelievable.
Almost 9 out of 10 murders by African Americans are committed by other African Americans. And when there are interracial violence, it’s six to 10 times more likely that an African American will harm, assault or kill a white person than vice versa. White people are underrepresented as assailants in hate crimes. black people are overrepresented.
I only bring it up just to refute the slur that she’s made against the immigration system and enforcement service. ICE deported people from over 180 countries of all colors, all religions.
Then we have another luminary in this new radical extremist movement, Abdul El-Sayed. He’s running now. He won the nomination in the Michigan senatorial race. He will be running against Mike Rogers for the Senate. He said—remember, he just—he said that before that he follows Sharia law. He was caught in a hot mic saying that we should not celebrate the death of the supreme leader, [Ali] Khamenei, in Iran.
Remember, he had just ordered 40,000 of his own people to be slaughtered, that were protesting. And he said, “My constituents wouldn’t like that.” In other words, his constituents, which he’s proud of, were on the side of the Iranian theocracy that for 50 years has been the chief sponsor of terror in the world.
When he tried to attack a fellow Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman, he said, ideally, you put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message. That’s almost a blatant call to kill him and then to use that violence to intimidate other people.
When there was an attack on a Jewish synagogue by a brother of a Hezbollah member, and he was in the United States, and he was asked to comment, what did he say? Hurt people. Deep breath. Hurt people. Justifying that.
We’ve had four occasions now when the Secret Service shot at potential and actual Trump assassins. We’ve had Hollywood stars. We’ve had people like Robert De Niro, Kathy Griffin, Shakespeare in the Park in New York, celebrity cooks, and Snoop Dogg.
They’ve said they’ve all tried to compete in imagining to us an audience through public media and social media whether they should kill Donald Trump, whether they should burn Donald Trump, whether they should stab Donald Trump, whether they could shoot Donald Trump, whether they could decapitate him, whether they could throw him over a cliff, whether they could blow him up.
This comes on the heels that for the last essentially nine years there’s been no contrition, no apologies for a series of events that almost wrecked the sense of law and order in this country and severely damaged the integrity of the government and was a challenge to the Constitution.
For three years, the FBI, a rogue agency under James Comey and then later Andrew McCabe, cooked up the Steele dossier, which was a complete fabrication, and tried to take out a Republican candidate for the presidency. Operation Crossfire Hurricane was all based on a lie.
We were told in 2020 that a laptop with incriminating evidence, which the FBI had in its possession and had verified it was Hunter [Biden] laptop’s possession, it was his property with all the incriminating information on it, was cooked up by the Russians. Fifty former CIA and intelligence authorities swore on the eve of the election that the Russians and Donald Trump were colluding. It was a complete lie. No one has ever apologized.
We had four prosecutors, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith. They all made up charges, and we know now that Alvin Bragg had to take a federal charge when he was a municipal prosecutor that the federal prosecutors thought was bogus.
Ms. James went after an old loan and said that he didn’t—he exaggerated his collateral when the bank that issued the loan said he didn’t.
Fani Willis, no need—she’s been so disgraced now. She’s been fined by the court. She made up most of the charges. She was essentially hiring her own paramour and then charging the state for their junkets.
Jack Smith, he tried to rush a federal indictment of Donald Trump on the Mar-a-Lago raid, and he was trying to get insurrection. That case was thrown out.
Not enough. They raided Mar-a-Lago, the private home of an ex-president. They said he had dozens of classified material. He had 11,000 documents, and all they could find under contention were 102 documents they claimed were classified. Then they scattered the documents on the ground and made it look as if Donald Trump was some type of criminal.
At the same time, Joe Biden had done the same thing for 30 years in four locations. No one said a word.
Over 20 states tried to take a Republican nominee off the ballot for the general election so the voters wouldn’t even have a chance.
I’m not even gonna get into the social media where the FBI was partnering with social media to squash stories they felt were prejudicial to Joe Biden.
What we’re witnessing is a revolutionary movement, as I said, and we have people who are celebrating the death of their opponents. They’re dreaming of how to kill their opponents. They’re praising people who murder. This is the starkest choice in November that we’ve had in a midterm election in my lifetime.
There is a vast gulf, a huge chasm between what the Democratic Socialists are advocating and what traditional conservatives are trying to maintain.
If they win, we will see the beginning of a destroyed border, and we will return to 12 million people within a four-year period crossing unaudited. We will see a war on fossil fuels, even as we were the greatest producer of gas and oil in history.
We will see biological men green-lighted to compete in female sports. Antisemitism will be the trademark and anti-hatred, not anti-Israelism, hatred of the only democracy in the Middle East.
We will see a full-fledged return of diversity, equity, inclusion, prejudice and bias.
What we’re talking about is a revolutionary group who often is telling us, “If you elect us, you will not recognize the United States as you’ve known it. We must destroy it and rebuild it along socialist and totalitarian designs.”
Remember that when you go in December, and vote for somebody who says, “We are not ashamed of what America is. We’re the greatest nation in the world, and we’re the greatest nation in the world because of our traditions, our Constitution, our protocols, and we have nothing to apologize for.”
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Two appointees signed an anti-NYPD school-safety agenda. Others bring anti-Israel activism into the body governing New York City schools.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has installed a new bloc of appointees on New York City’s Panel for Educational Policy (PEP), placing figures with documented anti-police positions, anti-Israel activism and campaign-network ties inside the decision-making body that governs the nation’s largest public-school system.
Two appointees, Lucas Koehler and Courtney Rajwani, both former officials in the Department of Education’s (DOE) Division of Early Childhood Education, appear on the same public signature list that supports demands to sever DOE-NYPD ties and to consider non-police alternatives to school safety.
The ties between the NYPD and the DOE center heavily on public school safety, with the NYPD overseeing thousands of unarmed School Safety Agents. The current agreement’s central principle is that routine student misbehavior should be addressed educationally, with police intervention minimized whenever safety permits.
Both Koehler and Rajwani also advocate for “racial-affinity spaces” to be created in schools. These are intentionally segregated, race-specific gatherings.
Another appointee, Dr. Madeline “Maddy” Fox signed a letter accusing Israel of conducting a “genocidal” campaign in Gaza while disputing claims of a widespread campus antisemitism crisis. Raysa Segura Rodriguez leads an organization with a police-out-of-schools agenda. Mehrain Mahdi was involved in Mamdani campaign organizing before receiving her appointment.
The appointments illustrate how the DSA’s political project advances after an election: activists and aligned institutional figures move from campaigning and advocacy into positions with power over budgets, policy and public life, from which they advocate for DSA’s radical policies.
On August 8, 2026, theNew York Post reported that Mamdani had appointed anti-police and anti-Israel figures to the PEP. The article cited Canary Mission’s findings.
A Board With Power Over New York City Schools
The Panel for Educational Policy votes on key contracts, education policy and other decisions affecting New York City’s public schools. Themayor appointed 13 of the24 members—enough to shape the body’s direction. According to Chalkbeat,the appointments cement “his control over the panel that votes on major policy changes, contracts, and decisions to merge or close schools.”
Lucas Koehler
Lucas Koehler is a former seventh-grade math teacher and a former senior finance and operations official in the DOE’s early-childhood division. He is now chief financial officer of the Foundation for City College, where his official biography says he oversees financial management connected to an endowment of approximately $500 million.
Koehler’s signature appeared on the Division of Early Childhood Education (DECE) coalition materials (see below) and on the Bureaucrats for Black Lives (B4BL) public signature page.
B4BL called for eliminating admissions screens and tests and “anti-oppressive approaches” in DOE hiring and policymaking.
Bureaucrats for Black Lives was an activist network of NYC Department of Education employees who explicitly committed to pursuing anti-racism through their official roles within the agency. Its public materials called for shifting funding from the NYPD, eliminating admissions screens and tests, scrutinizing racial disparities in hiring, using racial-affinity spaces and dismantling what it described as oppressive systems within government.
According to the advocacy group, DOE bureaucracy should actively dismantle systems it considers oppressive. B4BL says members seek to understand their institution in order to “dismantle these systems of oppression.”
Koehler combines control of large education and nonprofit budgets with the appointee slate’s clearest personal anti-police record. That makes his position on school-safety-agent funding and governance especially relevant.
Courtney Rajwani
Courtney Rajwani is a managing consultant at The Lewin Group. She previously served as an executive director for policy development and support in the DOE early-childhood division.
Rajwani and Koehler signed on to the DECE Anti-Racism Coalition letter. The anti-racism coalition’s published demands call for severing all ties between the DOE and the NYPD. Its letter also attacked what it called the NYPD’s “unchecked abuses of power.”
Additional demands include “Dismantling White Dominant Culture.” This is to be achieved, in part, by:
“Create separate spaces for white people and non-Black people of color to interrogate their own internalized anti-Black racism and unlearn white dominant behaviors without causing harm to Black colleagues.”
“Acknowledge the pain by providing space for Black and brown colleagues to heal.”
“Host forums to foster conversations around race, class, gender, education, sexual orientation, and other identities.”
In a public Telegram statement written by Alex Abbasi, she was named as a member of the Shias for Zohran organizing committee. Canary Mission documented Abbasi calling for intifada (Abbasi wrote “Death to Zionism! Long live the intifada”) and supporting terrorism.
The message thanked the committee collectively for canvassing, phone-banking, fundraising and recruiting support for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. The statement separately thanked CAIR Action for infrastructure and campaign-law guidance.
Overall, Shias for Zohran claimed to raise over $500,000 for Mamdani’s campaign.
Following her efforts on behalf of Mamdani, Mahdi was appointed by the mayor to a position with decision-making power.
Instagram post from Oct 26, 2025 from Shias for Zohran account praising Mehrain Mahdi
Dr. Maddy Fox
Dr. Maddy Fox is a Brooklyn College associate professor and a faculty member in urban education and critical psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Fox’s public record combines anti-Israel advocacy with scholarship focused on policing and inequality.
Fox signed a 2025 Jewish-faculty letter that described Israel’s campaign in Gaza as “genocidal,” disputed claims of a “rampant crisis of antisemitism” on college campuses and accused government efforts against campus antisemitism of repression, racism and Islamophobia.
She also co-authored research on young New Yorkers’ experiences with aggressive policing and later participated in a CUNY labor protest at which she and other union members were arrested.
Raysa S. Rodriguez
Raysa S. Rodriguez is the executive director of Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York (CCC) and adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of Social Work.
Before Rodriguez became executive director, CCC published testimony urging the city to redirect $350 million from school policing, freeze school-police hiring and reject expanded surveillance. A later CCC statement again supported shifting funds away from school policing.
Mamdani appointed the leader of an influential organization with a sustained police-out-of-schools agenda.
The DSA Model Moves Into the School System
Mamdani’s PEP appointments include officials whose previously stated positions on school policing closely align with positions advanced by both NYC-DSA and National DSA. Both have explicitly called for the removal of police from schools in the past.
NYC-DSA has explicitly called “to get the NYPD Out of Schools.” In 2020, the chapter sponsored a march to “get the NYPD Out of Schools,” calling for “our city to divest from the NYPD, remove NYPD oversight of school safety employees, and invest heavily in more restorative justice coordinators, social workers, nurses, teachers, and school counselors.”
At its 2021 national convention, DSA adopted a political platform calling for the removal of both public and private police from all schools, colleges and universities. Under the section titled, “Abolition of the Carceral State,” DSA demanded: “Decarcerate our schools by repealing truancy laws, ending all zero tolerance disciplinary policies, suspensions and expulsions, surveillance of students, and removing police — both public and private — from all schools, colleges, and universities.”
DSA’s new 2026 national program called for steps toward “fully abolishing the police and prison system.”
Mamdani’s appointments are not merely personnel choices. They reveal the governing coalition he is building around New York City schools: officials tied to anti-police advocacy, anti-Israel activism, progressive nonprofits and the political network that helped put him in office.
The PEP is where ideology can become policy. Its members can influence contracts, school closures, spending priorities, school-safety arrangements and the direction of the public-school system.
This is the larger pattern Canary Mission has documented in its investigation of NYC-DSA’s governing strategy: activist networks do not stop at electing candidates. They seek influence over the institutions that control budgets, policy and public life. Mamdani’s PEP appointments show what that model looks like when it reaches the school system.
This country’s three most powerful Republicans have called the ascendant Democratic Socialists of America and its triumphant primary-election nominees “communists” who peddle “communism.”
“These are not social Democrats,” President Donald Trump said on June 26. “These are hardcore, godless Communists.”
“I, unfortunately, fear that’s the direction the Democrats are headed. And it is communism,” Vice President JD Vance told my Fox News colleague Laura Ingraham.
Responding to the DSA’s platform on July 26, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., warned: “Communism is no longer a far-fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES!”
Is this McCarthyite bluster, or are Trump, Vance, and Johnson right?
“Our goal is Communism,” David Jenkins, a member of DSA’s National Political Committee, said in 2023.
DSA member Cea Weaver is New York City’s tenant tsarina. She posted via X in December 2017, “Elect more communists.” The next year, she demanded: “Seize private property.”
Weaver’s boss is Mayor Zohran Mamdani. In his Jan. 1 inaugural address, he stated: “I was elected as a democratic socialist, and I will govern as a democratic socialist.” He told a DSA Zoom call in 2021: The “end goal” should be “seizing the means of production.” Mamdani also said, “The abolition of private property … is preferable to what is going on right now.” These comments loudly echo Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ cornerstone collectivist text “The Communist Manifesto.”
The magnificently named Darializa Avila Chevalier rode Mamdani’s endorsement all the way to the Democrat nomination for New York’s 13th Congressional District.
When they are not trying in vain to cover their tracks, DSA types lionize former communist nations and dictators.
DSA booster Hasan Piker misses the Soviet Union: “The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th Century.”
After visiting China in November 2025, Piker said: “Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.” Never mind Mao’s killing 60 million of his subjects (three times Adolf Hitler’s body count), Piker announced, “I never would and never will” mock Chairman Mao. Indeed, Piker donned a full Mao jacket when he addressed the College Democrats Convention in Washington, D.C., last July 18.
DSA recently celebrated Cuban communist tyrant Fidel Castro. “DSA Commemorates 100 Years of Fidel,” it cheered on Aug. 13. “Fidel was an organizer, a fighter, and endures as a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle … ” The DSA ignored the struggle of the 1,314,100 emigres who escaped this workers’ paradise, the Migration Policy Institute estimates, many on rafts and innertubes.
“Workers Deserve More” is the DSA’s new platform, unveiled fittingly on July 14—Bastille Day. Adorned with raised fists, it brims with communist ideas.
“Imagine,” DSA urges, “a future without capitalism.”
“You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right,” DSA daydreams. “Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are common goods and utilities.”
“When we labor for our common good instead of private profit, we can all have a secure and dignified life,” DSA envisions. “Our enemies are not just individual bosses, but the entire global system of capital.”
DSA hopes to “draft a new constitution…create a democratic socialist republic” and build “a new society from the ground up.”
How?
“FREEDOM TO FLOURISH”—Create “a 32-hour work week with full pay and benefits, and a living minimum wage” and “cancel all student debt.”
“HEALTHCARE FOR ALL”—“Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care.”
“HOUSING FOR ALL”—“Housing is a human right. Build new, publicly owned social housing” and “establish universal rent control.”
“END MASS INCARCERATION”—“Demilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system … ”
“END THE U.S. WAR MACHINE”—“Defund the Department of War. End all foreign wars and close overseas military bases.”
“FREE PALESTINE”—DSA wants “a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. End all military and economic aid to Israel.”
“ABOLISH ICE”—End deportations and “grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status … ”
“DEMOCRACY FOR ALL”—D.C. statehood + give Green Card holders the vote.
“Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.” Also, “Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.”
“ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY”—“Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries” and “Enact aggressive wealth taxes on the richest individuals and corporations … ”
DSA honchos preach much more than communist theory. They want to torpedo America. Canary Mission unearthed, and M.A. Rothman posted, on-camera comments by several members of DSA’s National Political Committee. DSA’s website explains: The NPC “leads the implementation of DSA’s major political and organizational goals.”
DSA-NPC member Amy Wilhelm stated: “Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire’s failure.”
“We have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast,” NPC member Frances Gill pleaded. “The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within.”
“U.S. imperialism is not a thing that can be reformed away. It has to be overthrown through revolutionary struggle,” according to NPC’s Hazel Williams.
DSA’s candidates, manifesto, and top leaders confirm that it is a communist organization. They’re here. They’re clear. They’re coming for our country.
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Vice President JD Vance spoke at a factory in Middletown, Ohio, on Friday, his first appearance in his hometown since being elected to the nation’s second-highest office. In addition to sharing sentiments about his papaw working at that same factory, the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant, Vance spoke on what the Trump administration is doing for manufacturing.
The Cost of Not Investing
The announcement of a $1 billion investment in Middletown Works from Cleveland-Cliffs, thanks to a $500 million grant from the Trump administration, centered the day’s remarks. “Now, this is only possible because of my friend Chris Wright and the president’s energy dominance agenda,” Vance said about the secretary of energy.
Vance described factory workers being able to provide for their families as “the American dream” when speaking of his papaw.
“My papaw hated the politicians who ignored this place. He hated the people who saw this as the place of the past,” Vance said. “He hated the people who forgot about this town when they should have been fighting for this town.”
Those at Fault
Vance recalled how, when he was growing up, people shared that their fathers had lost their factory jobs because those factories were going overseas.
“Now, economists have measured the ways in which the opioid crisis exploded in the very locations where jobs were shipped overseas,” Vance shared, as he brought up open borders, which “brought the fentanyl trade,” and how “it left us with millions of orphan children being raised by grieved grandparents,” including his own.
Signs of Hope
“In November of 2024, you made a choice to reverse 40 years of American decline and make Donald Trump the president of the United States. And I’m not saying it’s going to be easy or it’s all going to happen overnight, but in just 18 months, we have seen an explosion of rebuilding in the American heartland,” Vance continued.
He went on to tout the successes of the Trump administration on manufacturing. “We’ve created more than 29,000 new jobs in the sector in 2026 so far, reversing years of decline in manufacturing employment. And year-over-year, manufacturing workers’ wages actually went up 4.2% where they went down under the Biden administration,” Vance explained.
Vance also insisted that companies hire American workers or otherwise face tariffs.
“For the first time in my life, America saw net migration out of the country as we sent millions of illegal immigrants back home.” Describing it as “maybe the thing I’m the most proud of in the last 18 months,” Vance brought up how the net job growth over that period “went to native-born Americans,” reversing a trend.
A Special Investment
The announcement of the $1 billion investment came from Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves, as he reminded attendees that it was made possible thanks to the Department of Energy.
That $500 million grant was later addressed by Assistant Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson, as “one of the largest investments out of [her] office,” and “a vote of confidence in the American worker in the state of Ohio and in President Trump and Vice President Vance’s staunch belief that the future of heavy industry belongs right here on American soil.”
As he introduced the vice president, Wright referred to Vance as “the leader of the reindustrializing the United States of America.”
The Need to Do More
Ohio’s Republican senators shared how their families were both affected by the decline in manufacturing.
Sen. Bernie Moreno spoke of how his father-in-law was impacted, as he had lamented that it “totally screwed up the company” to ship jobs overseas.
He went on to call on Cleveland-Cliffs to strive to become the No. 1 steel for auto production in the world.
Sen. Jon Husted‘s father lost his job at the factory, the senator revealed, lashing out against people who “thought it was OK to send our jobs to China, get back cheap products in return, and weaken basically export American manufacturing.”
Husted pivoted to a more hopeful message about “America First,” and the kind of place that Ohio has since become, which would be a theme of his remarks.
“We’ve added in this state 3,000 manufacturing jobs,” he said, as he recalled candidates claiming manufacturing was dead and jobs were gone, and the industry was not coming back. “They were wrong. We can bring back manufacturing to this great country in places like Middletown and across places across our great state,” Husted insisted.
Good News for Ohio
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, had a heavy focus on Ohio as he celebrated the “good news” of the investment. He thanked Goncalves “for believing in Ohio” and “these great workers that you see here today.”
“We are red hot,” DeWine said about Ohio, speaking of improvements in doing business, lower unemployment, and filling jobs. The governor also spoke about how companies are leaving other states for Ohio, which involves recognizing “a long history of leading in manufacturing.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee who may replace the term-limited DeWine, also spoke. He addressed the need to “successfully fix what needs to be fixed,” which involves being “first grateful for what we’re actually getting right,” as he also touted the United States and Ohio, and the humble beginnings of many speakers.
Ramaswamy concluded by making a promise about “ensur[ing] that Middletown’s best days, that Ohio’s best days, and honest to God, through Ohio, America’s best days are actually still ahead of us.”
Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.
Let’s have a periodic check on the status of the midterms that we’re now less than 80 days away from. The Democrats are riding high. They feel that historical trends, i.e., 39 out of the last 41 midterms, the in party in the White House loses seats, and there’s not very many seats Republicans can afford to lose, and they may lose the House and Senate.
They’re already, I guess you’d call it, measuring their drapes, but in the sense that they’re already explaining how they’re going to go after the Trump family, the Trump family associates, cryptocurrency concerns, any hangers-on, people going to the Middle East and investing. They’re gonna open it wide open.
These are the people, of course, who never investigated the Biden family or Hunter Biden. That’s no excuse if there’s culpability, but nonetheless, you can count on a two-year investigation of Donald Trump and a never-ending impeachment inquiry, and the end of the MAGA agenda should he lose the House and the Senate.
Donald Trump is strangely confident. He now has finally hit on a strategy that he feels will work. Earlier, I called it the “Anaconda Strategy,” the idea that he is squeezing a debilitated Iran. In other words, the kinetic 40 days of bombing have left the nuclear military-industrial complex in shambles.
And this time, he’s not just blockading, he’s not just having an embargo on goods. He is not just freezing the bank accounts of Iranian grandees. He’s not just debanking the entire country. He’s going to third parties and saying, “You and China and Russia and Europe have been trading with this country even while we were bearing the burden of defanging a potential nuclear renegade nation, and we’re going to isolate you. We’re not gonna do business with you if you do business with Iran.”
And the Iranians now are crying foul. They’re saying we’re colonialists. But what I’m getting at, after all that military damage from Feb. 28 for the next 40 days, and after all the blockades, they’re not able to withstand a renewed squeezing.
And so, time is actually on our side. The second part of this strategy is Donald Trump has now put the war on the back burner. He is saying that we don’t need to have ground troops. We might not even go in and bomb them again unless they egregiously attack an ally of ours or one of our carriers or ships.
We have managed it now. The strait is mostly open, and whatever the status of the nuclear stockpile or enriched uranium of the theocracy, it’s pretty clear they can’t get at it.
Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah don’t seem to be getting money. They don’t seem to have enough rockets to threaten the Gulf States or Israel, at least to get through their missile defenses.
And so, we’re just going to concentrate, Trump thinks, on the economy.
So, what he is doing now is he and JD Vance are barnstorming the country, and they’re starting to make headway. They’re not worried about the polls that show a generic 7% Democratic advantage and betting odds and polls that say they’re gonna lose the House because they looked at the recent primaries.
El-Sayed, the candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the Democratic senatorial seat in Michigan, was polling ahead 10 points, and he scarcely won by a point and a half.
Francesca Hong, the Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor, was polling ahead 10 or 15 or 20 points. She lost and lost handily.
Mr. [Alexander] Vindman, who was running for Senate in Florida, was polling ahead. He lost to a crazy, wacky Ms. [Angie] Nixon, a democratic socialist.
So, what I’m getting at is the polls are worthless. And what we need to look at is what the status is right now.
The war is starting to wane. If it should end or if the Iranians crack in the next 60 to 70 days, that would be a spectacular achievement that Donald Trump—you know, we’ve tragically lost 17 Americans—but at a tolerable cost in blood and treasure, he ended a 50-year problem that seven presidents said was existential.
You could not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and the pressure that he’s put on them and the damage he’s inflicted would probably, in the next year or two, prompt a renewal of internal opposition against a theocracy that is bleeding.
The second thing to remember very carefully is, as I said earlier, the redistricting, the red state redistricting and the Supreme Court prohibition on racial gerrymandering might give him an additional four or five seats.
But the most important developments are money and the agenda of the new Democratic Party.
Very quickly, Donald Trump has got a war chest of about $400 million, and he’s now going to use it. He says he’s going to use it all in his political action committees to help save the Republicans in the midterms.
Elon Musk said that he is going to match dollar for dollar the Democratic oligarchic class that if they start to donate in great amounts to Democratic candidates.
So, the money issue probably favors also, like, the redistricting and maybe the course of the Iran war that could wane and be not an issue.
But the most important thing to conclude is the Democratic Party. No one thought that the Democratic socialists would ever try to absorb and even seem to succeed in absorbing the Democratic Party. I mean, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, they’ve all said they have no problem with the Democratic socialists, that they …
It’s a big tent party, and they’re going to help them win their seats. But the problem is, once you have the money and the effort and the attention, and you show what the democratic socialists are, like, defunding the Pentagon, defunding the police, opening the border, mass amnesties, warring on fossil fuels, isolationist foreign policy, the transgender issue reopened with biological men now by statute free to compete in women’s sports. I could go on and on.
They even want to destroy the Senate and the Electoral College, not to mention packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster, and bringing in new seats in the Senate by admitting new blue states such as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
And so, what I’m getting at is, the more we learn about the democratic socialists, and the more that the Democratic Party feels they’ve already taken over the apparatus of the party and they’re going to join them, or at least they’re not going to oppose them, they’re gonna be culpable or responsible for what these people say.
And they’re saying all sorts of stuff, not just antisemitic venom, not just anti-Israel venom, but questioning the very legitimacy of the United States government, the way that our Founders created a legislative, judicial, and executive branch, the Declaration of Independence. Our entire traditions, they’re saying, are flawed at their origins.
They got worse during our maturity, and now they’re god-awful right now. That’s not a winning message.
So, the midterms are very much up in the air.
Contrary to historical precedent, there’s still a chance that the Republicans can save both the Senate and the House.
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Bill Muehlenberg recently posted at his site some thoughts — his own and those of the economist Thomas Sowell — on immigration. They are worth disseminating more widely.
In the West much is said about immigration, with most governments singing the praises of mass migration and the supposed great good of flooding a host culture with people from any and every culture. The assumption is that such an influx of migrants – including from developing nations – can only be a net plus with an overwhelmingly positive outcome for the West.
While the left thinks all migrants are good migrants and it does not matter how they arrive, and with no questions asked, most ordinary people know this is madness. A normal homeowner wants to make sure his family is safe, so he carefully monitors and regulates who can enter.
As Senator John N. Kennedy (R – Louisiana) put it: “Most Americans lock their front door at night. They don’t do that because they hate everybody on the outside. They lock their front door at night because they love the people on the inside, and they wanna know who’s going in and out of their home.”…
Migrants differ not only in their respective points of origin and destination, and in the skills they bring, they differ also in their reasons for migrating and in such demographic characteristics as age distribution. And sex ratios. Some groups acquire the culture of new lands rapidly, while others cling to their ancestral ways for generations or, in some cases, centuries…. (pp. 2-3)
And some migrants arrive with attitudes that make it impossible for them to assimilate. Muslims are the chief example of this. The Qur’an tells them that they, the Muslims, are “the best of peoples,” while the non-Muslims among whom they now live are “the most vile of created beings.” Given that, why would Muslims want to become part of a society created by the “most vile of created beings”? And Muslims know further that, as Muhammad famously declared, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.” That belief bodes ill for assimilation.
Sowell might have mentioned the Muslim grooming gangs in the UK, whose victims were girls from vulnerable backgrounds who were seduced, raped, in some cases hooked on drugs, and passed around like confetti for the sexual pleasure of dozens, or in some cases hundreds of Muslims. For a long time, the police did little to stop the malefactors, so terrified were they of being accused of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” Tens of thousands of white English girls had their lives ruined as a result.
Thomas Sowell, going strong at 95, tells us some home truths about immigration: not all migrant groups are the same; Muslims have been unable and unwilling to assimilate into the European countries; their presence undermines social cohesion; the millions of Muslims now living in Europe have made life more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for the indigenous non-Muslims than would be the case without those millions of Muslim migrants. America must learn from Europe’s unhappy experience with mass migration by Muslims, and enforce a restrictive policy based on that monitory lesson.
There is now a popular uprising in Europe, a demand that the European Union call a halt to “non-Western migration.” The European Commission has now become an enemy of Europe. It has refused to register the “Save Europe Act,” which is an attempt, supported so far by 580,000 citizens of Europe, to end migration from “non-Western countries” — which is meant, everyone understands, to prevent more Muslims from entering Europe. The bureaucrats in Brussels have rejected the effort. They claim that such a policy would constitute discrimination based on “race” or “ethnicity.” They are wrong. Islam is not a race, nor an ethnicity, but an ideology inimical to Western values. Now, as one of the organizers of this effort, Eva Vlaardingerbroek, has made clear, they will continue to raise hell — “see you in court” — with ever-swelling numbers of signatories to their petition. Europeans want to preserve Europe from those who would transform it. What is wrong with that? For European bureaucrats, everything. They would do well to heed the wise and well-considered warnings of Thomas Sowell. But there is no chance that they will do so.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says Democrats have a pecuniary interest in keeping foreign aid going because nonprofit recipients of federal largesse are big Democrat donors.
A half billion dollar fraud and bribery scheme conducted by a USAID contract officer and three conspirators that went undetected for a decade. American-bought equipment stolen by a terror group. Millions of dollars in food that spoiled in warehouses. These are but a few of the wasteful — if not corrupt ways — millions of USAID dollars have been lost.
While President Donald Trump has sharply cut foreign aid from the auspices of USAID and shifted what remains to the State Department, the massive abuse of America’s generosity to foreign countries over a decade of Obama-Biden governance is coming into clearer focus.
A Just the News review of audits and investigations of the USAID and State Department inspectors general over the last year chronicles billions of dollars lost, stolen, defrauded, or wasted because of mismanagement or years of neglect.
In many cases, tax money was given away without regard to whether the recipients could responsibly spend it or could keep it out of the hands of terrorists or other enemies, the audits show.
For instance, the USAID inspector general recently revealed that the federal government kept funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) despite evidence that 101 of its employees or associates had ties to terror groups like Hamas, including:
A deputy school principal serving as an al-Qassam deputy company commander in the Ain Gallout/5th infantry battalion.
A deputy school principal serving as squad leader for the Khan Younis Brigade/2nd infantry battalion.
A teacher serving as squad leader in Hamas’ military security department/intelligence unit who tracked assignment of explosive devices.
A teacher serving as a platoon commander of the Central Brigade/Al Quds 2nd Battalion.
A math & computer teacher with ties to an al-Qassam intelligence squad.
A teacher with expertise as a sniper for Hamas.
A teacher and Hamas soldier with orders to bring two anti-tank missiles to a prescribed location during the October 7 terror attacks
A school principal who served as an operative of the Hamas East Jabaliya Battalion, and coordinated communications with other suspected Hamas members during the October 7, 2023 atrocities committed against Israel
Similarly, the same USAID watchdog revealed that the Yemen-based terror Ansar Allah — also known as the Houthis—walked away with about $122,000 worth of U.S. government-funded equipment from a USAID-funded aid organization.
$17 million of the $21 million of food aid stored in warehouses was not distributed to emergency food providers. Some good-intentioned aid also was wasted by bad management and logistics, the audits show.
For instance, about $17 million of the $21 million of food aid stored in Djibouti warehouses was not distributed to emergency food providers.
That included $10 million of goods at risk of reaching its best-used-by date prior to arriving at its intended destination. About $2.9 million of food aid had already spoiled due to significant packaging defects by the vendor, investigators reported.
To make matters worse, taxpayers incurred at least nearly $500,000 in storage costs for spoiled, unusable food. And another $1.5 million in food became infested because USAID “did not enforce temperature control requirements,” eventually requiring additional fumigation costs, the memos stated.
U.S. food aid in Ethiopia ended up being sold for pennies on the dollar
Some U.S. food aid in Ethiopia also ended up being sold for pennies on the dollar in online stores instead of reaching people in need, one report revealed.
“The investigation identified indicators of potential vulnerabilities across multiple stages of the supply chain that could allow for diversion,” USAID’s inspector general said.
Lack of common sense was cited at USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance when it provided food and healthcare plus
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