CAUGHT INSIDE MINNEAPOLIS POLLING BOOTHS: Minnesota Poll Workers Tell O’Keefe, Dressed in Muslim Garb and Cam Higby, in a Burka, That They Can Vouch for Eight Unregistered Voters
Without ID, Allowing them to Vote in Minnesota Primary Election Election worker says, “You’re the ID,” referring to the registered voter serving as identification for the people they are vouching for. Election worker confirms O’Keefe’s question about unregistered voters being vouched for: “I can vouch for them. They are not registered… That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!” Election worker explains that a registered voter in the same precinct can vouch for up to eight people: “If you’re all in the same precinct and you are already registered, you can vouch for them as ID. Eight people.” More reports coming soon from the Justice League.
James O’Keefe, OMG undercover reporters, and members of the Justice League went undercover at polling locations across Minneapolis on Minnesota Primary Election Day, August 11, 2026, to put the state’s voter “vouching” system to an extreme test.
Under Minnesota Statutes § 201.061, a voter who is already registered in a precinct can sign an oath stating that they personally know another individual is a resident of that precinct. One registered voter can vouch for up to eight people.
O’Keefe and members of the Justice League dressed in traditional Muslim attire and entered Minneapolis polling locations, presenting an intentionally extreme scenario to expose what they see as the lunacy of the state’s “vouching” system.
At the first location, O’Keefe explicitly told an election worker that the people accompanying him were not registered and asked whether he could vouch for them.
“I can vouch for them. They are not registered.”
“That’s okay. That’s fine. Yeah!” the election worker responded.
O’Keefe then pushed the scenario further, asking whether he could leave and return with five more people. The worker told him he could vouch for up to eight.
“Up to eight people?” O’Keefe asked.
“Yes,” the worker responded.
O’Keefe told the worker he would go back, get additional people, and return to the polling location.
The team then moved to another Minneapolis polling location to see whether they would receive the same response.
There, an election worker explained that if the individuals lived in the same precinct and O’Keefe was already registered there, he could vouch for them as proof of residency.
O’Keefe again pressed the worker about how many people he could bring.
“How many people may I vouch for?”
“Eight.”
“Eight? I can vouch for eight people?”
“Mm-hmm.”
During the encounter, the role of the voucher was summed up in one striking statement from an election worker: “You’re the ID.”
O’Keefe repeated the statement back: “I am the ID.”
OMG undercover reporters continued to additional polling locations, to push the system further.
There, an undercover reporter asked what would happen if the people being vouched for did not have identification. The election worker explained that the reporter could vouch for up to eight people, provided he personally knew them and knew they lived within the precinct.
The OMG reporter then pressed the worker on what actually happens after someone is vouched for.
The worker explained that the voucher signs a legal oath affirming that they know the individuals and know they live in the area. The individuals being vouched for also sign an oath affirming their identity and eligibility to vote.
When the reporter asked whether their eligibility was actually verified, the worker responded:
“After the fact, yeah.”
Minnesota Statutes § 201.061 allows an individual to establish residence for voter registration by having a voter already registered in the precinct sign an oath, in the presence of an election judge, vouching that they personally know the individual is a resident of that precinct.
The OMG investigation was designed to take that system off the pages of the statute book and put it to an extreme real-world test.
Across Minneapolis, O’Keefe and OMG undercover reporters repeatedly presented election workers with the same basic scenario: multiple unregistered people, no standard identification, and a registered voter willing to vouch for them.
The team wanted to determine how election workers would respond, what safeguards they would describe, and how far they would allow the vouching process to proceed.
Not every election worker reacted the same way.
While several workers explained how the undercover team could proceed under the vouching rules, others became suspicious of the group and took issue with the investigation. Some workers communicated concerns about the team over their radios.
That contrast became another part of what OMG documented: the same conduct that some election workers treated as permissible under Minnesota’s vouching rules raised immediate concerns among others.
The investigation captured how Minnesota’s vouching system was explained and applied by election workers inside Minneapolis polling locations when O’Keefe and OMG undercover reporters deliberately pushed it to an extreme.
The investigation is part of an ongoing Justice League series, with additional reporting from Anthony Rubin and Cam Higby, members of the Justice League, coming soon.
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New Jersey recently exposed a problem poised to change the national conversation about election administration. State officials disclosed a so-called processing error at the Motor Vehicle Commission that resulted in approximately 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens registering to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.
The numbers are troubling, but they are not the most important part of the story. Those individuals reportedly did not falsely claim to be citizens. They told the government they were not U.S. citizens, yet they were registered anyway.
Election officials often assure the public that such incidents are isolated anomalies, clerical mistakes, or software glitches. One case, standing alone, may deserve that description.
But Virginia recently removed more than 6,500 voter registrations associated with declared noncitizens, while North Carolina is investigating nearly 1,600 registrations flagged by the federal SAVE system. Alabama, Iowa, and Ohio have reported similar findings, including documented voting histories among some noncitizen registrants.
At what point does a “glitch” become a systemic vulnerability?
A responsible election system should protect eligible citizens from erroneous removal while also identifying registrations that do not belong on the rolls. Those objectives are complementary, not contradictory.
This is not simply a matter of imperfect databases. Federal prosecutors have recently brought cases in Texas, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey involving noncitizens who registered or voted unlawfully. In Texas, British citizen Ada Ngozi Otuka pleaded guilty after prosecutors said she voted in multiple elections over more than a decade despite never becoming a U.S. citizen.
The evidence is no longer hypothetical. Noncitizens do make it onto voter rolls, many have cast ballots, and election officials sometimes do not discover the problem until years later—if at all.
Removing ineligible registrations protects future elections, and prosecuting those who knowingly violate election law punishes offenders, but neither can retrieve an unlawful ballot after it has been counted and incorporated into a certified election result.
Every unlawful ballot counted dilutes the weight of ballots lawfully cast by eligible American citizens.
At the same time, voters themselves are demanding stronger safeguards. This November, voters in Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, and West Virginia will decide on measures explicitly reaffirming that voting is reserved for U.S. citizens. Those initiatives reflect growing public recognition that citizenship should be verified, not simply assumed.
States deserve credit for conducting citizenship audits and for removing ineligible registrations, all while protecting the rights of eligible citizens. Every audit to discover ineligible entries improves voter confidence in future elections. But the current push exposes a prior weakness: Noncitizen voters should never get on American voter rolls at all.
The SAVE America Act can shore up these weaknesses. Existing law already limits voting to U.S. citizens. Thus, the issue is not whether noncitizen voting is legal, but whether citizenship is verified before someone is added to the voter rolls. The SAVE America Act would move that safeguard to the beginning of the registration process rather than relying primarily on audits, database comparisons, and criminal investigations years later.
Reasonable people can debate the details of how that verification should work and how best to protect naturalized citizens from erroneous removal. But ensuring only citizens are able to vote should not be controversial.
Election officials should know whether an applicant is eligible before adding that person to the voter rolls, not years later after another audit, another prosecution, or another election “glitch.”
States are proving that voter-roll maintenance works because they are finding invalid registrations. They deserve credit for doing so.
But cleanup is not prevention.
The real measure of election integrity is not the number of post-hoc removals for ineligible registrations but whether such ineligible registrations are prevented in the first place.
The SAVE America Act offers the preventive answer: Citizenship verification before registration, rather than prosecution after an illegal ballot has already been cast.
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Seven states enacted laws in 2025 and 2026 that include key provisions of the SAVE America Act, an election integrity measure that the Senate has failed to pass despite President Donald Trump’s insistence.
The federal SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo ID when casting federal ballots. SAVE is an acronym for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act; the bill has passed the House multiple times but stalled in the Senate.
In addition to the seven states with new mandates for both proof of citizenship and voter ID in elections, five states previously enacted laws requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration, according to Ballotpedia.
However, a 2013 Supreme Court ruling limited states’ ability under the National Voter Registration Act to demand proof of citizenship for voting in federal elections. The NVRA is better known as the “motor voter law” because it set up most voter registration at state Department of Motor Vehicle offices.
Here are the states that passed versions of the SAVE America Act.
1. Thune’s Home State
While Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has had difficulty corralling his caucus to support the SAVE America Act, his home state’s Legislature passed the South Dakota SAVE Act.
Gov. Larry Rhoden signed Senate Bill 175 in March, requiring an individual registering to vote to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. Acceptable documents include certain driver’s licenses and identification cards, tribal identification, birth certificates, passports, consular reports of birth abroad, and naturalization certificates.
2. Saving Kansas From Democrat Veto
In 2011, Kansas enacted a law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. However, a federal appeals court ruled that requiring additional documentation to register for federal elections violated the National Voter Registration Act.
In 2026, Kansas adopted a new measure known as the SAVE Kansas Act, which requires the secretary of state to compare the state’s voter registration list with the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database to clear its lists of ineligible voters.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the bill, but the Republican-controlled state Legislature overrode her veto.
3. Sunshine for SAVE Act in Florida
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Florida SAVE Act in April, and the law takes effect in 2027. The act requires the state to check the citizenship status of new and updated voter registrants against Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles records. If citizenship cannot be verified, the voter can be required to provide documentary proof of citizenship, including a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization document.
Florida’s law also requires election officials to verify citizenship using available state and federal government sources when necessary and establishes procedures for removing voters determined to be ineligible.
4. Mississippi SHIELD
Mississippi enacted Senate Bill 2588, known as the SHIELD Act, requiring election registrars to compare voter registration information against state driver’s license and identification records and, when necessary, the federal SAVE database. Applicants flagged as potential noncitizens can be required to provide proof of citizenship. The law took effect July 1, 2026.
Mississippi’s law also requires the secretary of state to conduct an annual comparison of the statewide voter registration system with the SAVE database.
5. Utah Citizenship Proof
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed HB 209, which allows voters who have provided documentary proof of citizenship to cast a standard ballot; voters who have not provided such documentation may vote only in federal races.
The law also authorizes election officials to use the federal SAVE database to determine whether registered voters are U.S. citizens.
6. Ohio Transportation
Ohio’s 2025 law, part of a transportation bill, required proof of citizenship only when registering to vote at the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
The legislation nevertheless received criticism and was the subject of litigation.
7. GOP Clash in Wyoming
Wyoming enacted a proof-of-citizenship mandate in 2025 that also included a 30-day residency requirement to register to vote. Republican Gov. Mark Gordon supported parts of the legislation while questioning the 30-day requirement, but he let the bill become law without his signature.
In Arizona, voters approved Proposition 200 in 2004, requiring evidence of citizenship for voter registration.
Georgia, a key battleground state, required proof of citizenship in a 2010 law.
Alabama enacted such a requirement in 2011, while Louisiana and New Hampshire enacted versions of the law in 2024. However, these states have yet to implement these proof of citizenship requirements based on various legal and procedural challenges, according to Ballotpedia.
Despite limiting states’ ability to police noncitizens voting in federal elections, the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling still gives states flexibility in verifying citizenship. That in turn could help them maintain their voter rolls, said Cleta Mitchell, an election lawyer and co-founder of the Only Citizens Vote Coalition. She noted New Jersey and numerous other states recently were found to have thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls.
“States always say it was just a glitch,” Mitchell told the Daily Signal. “Even people at a DMV who check the box to say they are noncitizens still frequently get asked to register to vote. … States could, today, require the DMV confirm citizenship status before providing. There is nothing in the high court ruling that would prevent that.”
States should still enact election integrity measures now with the future in mind, said Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project.
“Even if the SAVE America Act is passed by Congress, no law is permanent. It could be undone by a future Democratic president and Democrat majority in Congress could reverse it,” Snead told the Daily Signal. “That’s why states should act now. States should pass election protections now as if they expect a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a leftwing majority in Congress.”
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It is the one issue that has bipartisan support across the nation, voter ID.
Senate Democrats vote against bill requiring photo ID to cast ballots
Story by Nicholas Ballasy
Senate Democrats voted against advancing a bill early Saturday that would have required photo ID to cast ballots, leading to the failure of the measure.
Under the bill, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 would be amended to require voters to show photo identification to vote.
The final vote was 52-46, which wasn’t enough to pass it.
Speaking out against the bill on the Senate floor, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said the bill is “stricter” than the rules in some states with voter ID laws.
Padilla said it would require voters to input a copy of their identification when voting by mail.
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democrat Party’s candidate for the United States Senate from the state of Michigan, and he is just the latest on an ever-growing list of Democrat candidates who would deride Uncle Joe Stalin as a reactionary capitalist roader. The Democrat establishment is feeling the heat, but one of El-Sayed’s most fervent and prominent boosters, the fiendishly anti-American and antisemitic social media star Hasan Piker, is in no mood for reconciliation.
On the contrary: flush with El-Sayed’s victory, Piker is ready to move in for the kill and take over the Democrat Party, which is already a hollowed-out shell, for the authoritarians and oligarchs who claim they’re the champions of the common people. Piker insists that there will be no “mending bridges” with the establishment Democrats. Like Stalin rooting out the “rightists” (including many of the Bolsheviks who helped establish the Soviet Union and even some who helped Stalin gain absolute power) and sending them to their deaths, Piker wants the Democrat Old Guard to leave the arena, giving up the hollowed-out shell that is today’s Democrat Party and allowing the Marxists to gain full and official control.
Dearborn, Michigan – “Down with AIPAC,” the crowd chanted at a campaign rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed in a suburb of Detroit.
AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — has become the main topic of conversation in the Democratic primary in Michigan, which analysts say could affect the party’s approach to Israel for years to come.
Michigan state legislator Alabas Farhat vowed at the rally in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn on Friday that voters would make the pro-Israel group “burn” millions of dollars by electing El-Sayed to the US Senate.
“The status quo has told us for a long time that we don’t have money for modern schools; we don’t have money for clean water to drink, for health care, for affordable housing,” Farhat told the rally.
“But when we call up money to go and bomb children in Gaza, to do an ethnic cleansing campaign in South Lebanon – this administration seems to find that money.”
Several speakers, including Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, also took to the stage but the name of El-Sayed’s opponent in Tuesday’s election, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, was hardly mentioned.
Instead, AIPAC – which is breaking records in campaign spending to defeat candidates critical of Israeli policies, such as El-Sayed — was repeatedly brought up, booed and denounced.
El-Sayed, a progressive epidemiologist and former public health official, is running against Stevens, a four-term Congress member, to replace retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. The winner will face former Congressman Mike Rogers, the likely Republican nominee, in November.
Michigan state legislator Alabas Farhat vowed at the rally in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn on Friday that voters would make the pro-Israel group “burn” millions of dollars by electing El-Sayed to the US Senate.
“The status quo has told us for a long time that we don’t have money for modern schools; we don’t have money for clean water to drink, for health care, for affordable housing,” Farhat told the rally.
“But when we call up money to go and bomb children in Gaza, to do an ethnic cleansing campaign in South Lebanon – this administration seems to find that money.”
Several speakers, including Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, also took to the stage but the name of El-Sayed’s opponent in Tuesday’s election, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, was hardly mentioned.
Instead, AIPAC — which is breaking records in campaign spending to defeat candidates critical of Israeli policies, such as El-Sayed — was repeatedly brought up, booed and denounced.
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As political candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) continue to win elections and gain increasing national prominence, a key factor in their success appears to be the growing influence and money provided by far-left American socialists and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sympathizers who are operating from within China.
On Sunday, The Free Press published a profile of Eric Hovagim, a video producer who “helped film or edit three primary campaign videos” for Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who won New York City’s mayoral race in November 2025. Hovagim, who also helped produce a documentary about communist apologist Hasan Piker’s goodwill trip to Cuba in March, has amassed over three million online followers as a “geopolitical commentator.” As noted by The Free Press, his commentaries “echo positions of the Democratic Socialists of America and often hinge on three themes: conspiracy, anti-Americanism, and glorifying political violence, often connecting all three.”
These views include seeing America as “the fourth Reich” and Israel as “the most dangerous threat to humanity.” While claiming that he is “against … violence of any kind,” Hovagim also displays a hypocritical penchant for violence. He called Elon Musk “a valid military target,” called the New York City street where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered “hallowed ground,” and affectionately referred to Thompson’s accused killer, Luigi Mangione, as a “bisexual sweetheart” who did it on behalf of “all working-class Americans.”
Perhaps most telling about the underlying goals and ultimate direction of the DSA is Hovagim’s unabashed enthusiasm and defense of Xi Jinping’s communist regime. He moved to Shanghai following Mamdani’s NYC mayoral victory in order to “enjoy the fruits of socialism firsthand,” according to a social media post. As highlighted by The Free Press, his social media accounts are full of him posing with paintings of former dictator Mao Zedong, whose policies directly led to the deaths of 70 million of his own people. As one historian noted, “At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China” during Mao’s four-year “Great Leap Forward” from 1958 to 1962.
But Hovagim can’t be bothered with such inconvenient historical facts. He also dismisses the CCP’s mass incarceration and extermination of the Uyghur minority as “CIA propaganda.” This way of thinking lines up with many prominent DSA members such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who act as apologists for communist regimes like Cuba.
As influential as Hovagim has become, another far-left socialist American also living in Shanghai has even more clout: billionaire financier Neville Roy Singham. During “Washington Watch” last month, Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) Co-Founder Joel Finkelstein chronicled how Singham has became a tycoon of far-left communism.
“[H]e shares a building with a Chinese owned company called Mako Media,” he explained. “This is a CCP asset which is responsible for laundering China’s reputation in the global south and facilitating propaganda across the world about China’s bright future. This mogul has sold his business for … nearly $1 billion and now work[s] closely … with Chinese executives and leadership in the CCP. He regularly commits … over $200 million to 501(c)(3) [organizations] across the United States. Now, these not-for-profit organizations have been responsible for some of the most disruptive behavior in recent protests history in the United States — confrontation with law enforcement, shutting down bridges such that emergency vehicles can’t pass, invading Columbia [University], locking up janitors in closets, tearing down American flags. This kind of activity I think our legal system has formally corroborated as being criminal, and so it’s quite strange to see it now formally labeled as charitable and worthy of tax deductions.”
NCRI has also “linked Singham’s network to content defending the Iranian regime, North Korea, and Chinese state policy in Xinjiang and Taiwan.”
The DSA’s support for communist China is now becoming increasingly public, with over a dozen high-ranking members recently pledging to “support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism,” according to a report from The Times last week.
In addition, CCP officials are now reaching out to the DSA to organize trips for members to visit China, according to the report. “A five-person delegation of DSA members to China last year is understood to have been organised and co-ordinated by the office of foreign affairs of Guizhou, a province in southwest China,” it noted. After a 2024 trip to China, New York City DSA member Dee Knight wrote, “The provincial foreign affairs department staff called us ‘VIPs’ and treated us royally … There is a serene and comfortable spirit of confidence and conviviality among our Chinese hosts.”
Knight went on to dismiss the widespread and verified reports of the CCP’s enslavement and forced organ harvesting of the Uyghur population after visiting the Xinjiang region, describing the reports as “scandal stories” and insisting he “found nothing to support western accusations of slave labour.”
Experts like Alexander Reid Ross, a Portland State University professor specializing in radicalism, told The Times that the CCP’s efforts to work with the DSA are part of its far-reaching plan to undermine the U.S.
“While these seem like quirky activist trips to get people to like China, they’re treated as extraordinarily important vehicles to change the western perception of China by the Chinese Communist Party,” he emphasized. “They exhibit fingerprints of extraordinarily high-level co-ordination by the People’s Republic of China.”
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Let’s put renewed pressure on Senate Majority Leader John Thune. The Senate has been back from vacation since April 13, but he hasn’t spent one minute on the SAVE America Act. Remember, the Senate can pass the bill without 60 votes and without changing the rules. It’s simple but strenuous: Assemble all Republicans on the floor. Start the debate and do not ‘adjourn’ every day, but instead ‘recess’ each night. That seems a minor point, but it is the only way to make it work.
The Talking Filibuster: How It Works
Historical engraving of the United States Senate in the 19th century showing a senator delivering a floor speech — the original talking filibuster tradition The United States Senate — where the “talking filibuster” was born. A senator holds the floor, speaks until exhausted, and gives way only when the debate ends. This is the tradition Majority Leader Thune can invoke today to pass the SAVE America Act by simple majority.
Each Senator is allowed to give only two speeches. Some will talk for a day or so — until they must end their speech for a meal or the bathroom. Most Democrat Senators won’t be able to last more than a few hours. So it could be over in a week or two.
Once they exhaust their vocal cords, a vote is held and the Act can pass with just 50 votes plus the Vice President.
Why Pressure from Constituents Matters
A few RINOs and Never-Trumper Senators won’t vote for it. So we need to make sure every other possible Senator will support it.
Note that a strong Majority Leader can pressure his Senators to do almost anything. “Don’t support it? Pity you’ll lose your membership on the Agriculture Committee…” That’s how the Democrats always have near-100% unity to pass their bills and oppose anything a Republican proposes. It’s not pretty, but it’s the way the Senate works.
“The elections are just months away—we can’t wait. Start the talking filibuster. Use your influence to get 50 Senators onboard.” — THE MESSAGE TO DELIVER TO MAJORITY LEADER THUNE
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Bill Maher told his audience that the Democratic Party is being taken over by communists, and the crowd’s stunned reaction proved his point.
The HBO host used the closing segment of Friday’s “Real Time” to argue that the Democratic Socialists of America have embraced communism openly, according to a clip Maher released on X. Maher said that when President Donald Trump labels the group communist, the description holds up. “Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that’s not one of them,” Maher said in the clip.
Maher built his case by reading statements from DSA figures and candidates. He pointed to the DSA platform’s borrowing from Karl Marx and noted that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani once posted Marx’s words directly. Maher also cited a faction called the Marxist Unity Group, which he said now holds sway inside the organization and describes its aim as a classless society, “in a word, communism.”
I’m not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it’s the World Cup. pic.twitter.com/0iBVs5poXg
The audience went silent when Maher recounted a social media post from Cea Weaver, a top Mamdani aide, urging voters to back communist candidates. “Yes. Good, I’m glad you’re shocked,” Maher said. “People got to realize this is going on.”
Maher framed the shift as a hostile takeover of his own party. “You know what’s being colonized now? The Democratic Party,” he said. He referenced the “Promise to America” pledge, a centrist declaration stating “We are capitalist, not socialist,” and claimed only eight lawmakers signed it. Reporting from Newsweek puts the count higher, at 10 House members plus five candidates, with Reps. Tom Suozzi and Adam Gray leading the effort.
Maher first floated his shifting loyalty during a June exchange with Vice President JD Vance, later expanding on it in an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, The Washington Times reported. Former Florida prosecutor Dave Aronberg warned Fox News that the DSA’s rise could erode Democratic support in November, the outlet reported.
Maher closed by saying he would sooner vote for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin than any DSA-aligned Democrat, calling her a “bimbo” who could still name something she admires about the country.
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“If Senators Cornyn and Tillis, both upset because I wouldn’t Endorse them (they lost, and quit, respectively!), aren’t going to approve Todd Blanche, one of the most respected professionals, according to everybody, in the Country, to be the United States Attorney General, then I will keep Todd as Acting A.G., and push hard to get the Anti-Weaponization Bill, which takes care of those who have been so badly treated by the Crooked Joe Biden (and Obuma!) Administration (I get nothing, although I was treated horribly!), PASSED. Todd Blanche was a voice of reason! It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
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Republican Wisconsin House candidate Michael Alfonso discussed the importance of supporting the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement as a new father in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Alfonso, 26, is endorsed by President Donald Trump as he vies in a five-candidate Aug. 11 GOP primary for a sprawling northwestern Wisconsin district the president won by more than 22 percentage points in the 2024 election. If elected, he would likely be the youngest member of Congress and the first member born in the 2000s.
“As a young guy, I just had a daughter. The rising costs of health care is one of those scary things that scares not just my generation, but even the older generation. Prescription drugs, you name it,” he told the DCNF. “But if we’re going to have a serious discussion about the rise of health care costs, we can talk about how us as a nation, we have an obese crisis.”
Alfonso added that he “believes” in the MAHA movement led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“This idea of getting food from the farmers to the … local sellers to the local consumers. I stand behind that 100%.,” he stressed. “We have a chronic disease crisis. If we want to lower the cost of health care, one of the easy things we can do is just be healthier.”
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The young candidate is running to represent Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District to replace incumbent Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is instead running for governor. Alfonso’s father-in-law, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, represented the district from 2011 to 2019. Alfonso previously worked as the producer of The Dan Bongino Show, a popular conservative podcast, and as an accountant at a Catholic Church.
In addition to his support from Trump, Alfonso also received an endorsement from MAHA Action — a group aligned with the broader MAHA movement. The organization supported seven candidates at the time of the DCNF’s interview with Alfonso, a number that had grown to ten by Friday. All candidates it backs are Republicans.
A few MAHA-Action backed candidates including Republican Louisiana Senate nominee Julia Letlow and Republican Iowa gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn already won contested primaries this cycle. Lahn’s win over a Trump-backed opponent was considered a major upset and came after he spent much of his primary campaign focusing on his support for the MAHA movement.
Alfonso told the DCNF of a solution he thinks can both make the American food supply healthier and benefit farmers in his district.
“There’s a lot of discussion about food dyes in our foods, particularly Red 40,” he said. “One of the alternatives to red dye 40 is actually using cranberries as a natural dye.”
He alluded to the fact that Wisconsin produces about 60% of the nation’s cranberry supply.
“So, we’re very excited about that. I was just with a couple cranberry growers, and they’re already getting some plans ready for if those decisions come down,” Alfonso told the DCNF.
However, the fact that Alfonso is only one year older than the minimum age to run for Congress has caused some to call him unprepared for the job, with one three-time Trump voter telling The Associated Press in early July, “it’s insulting to people in the 7th that someone who lacks qualifications and any life experiences and any kind of demonstrable leadership skills or experience is even being touted as a candidate”
The 26 year old told the DCNF that he has been working since he was 14.
“Whether it’s Ace Hardware or putting myself through through college, doing construction or producing one of the largest conservative podcasts in the entire country, I’ve been on the frontlines of the working class and this battle against radical leftism my whole life,” he said. “And I do ask the question, what has experience ever gotten us in politics?”
Alfonso’s two main primary opponents are former Iran hostage and county GOP leader Kevin Hermening, and Jessi Ebben — who works in public relations and is backed by the Club For Growth and Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Business owner and self-identified moderate Republican Niina Baum and contractor Don Raihala are also vying to win the GOP primary race.
While polling on the race has been sparse, a TIPP Insights survey sponsored by the League of American Workers released in early May showed Alfonso as the frontrunner with 35% support, with Hermening at 21%, and Ebben and Baum tied at 5%. Thirty-four percent of respondents were undecided.
Ebben accused Alfonso of nepotism during an April debate.
Alfonso responded to these attacks in April, telling journalist Emily Jashinsky “It’s rich. When people start losing in a race they’ll throw anything at you.”
“If Republicans are going to be serious and actually win races, we need to raise money,” he added, attributing a recent landslide loss for a conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate to poor fundraising.
During his interview with the DCNF, Alfonso also observed how unionized workers — a longtime reliable Democratic voting bloc — have trended right in recent years, especially under Trump’s leadership of the GOP.
“When I talk about, the Teamsters, the unions, the guys that are actually building America, they look at the Democrats and they say, ‘My grandfather was a Democrat. My father was a Democrat. I must be a Democrat,’” he said. “But then they see the Democrats with these green New Deal, Green new scam policies where they’re not building anything.”
“They’re telling them, ‘Hey, go take a hike,’” Alfonso emphasized. “We don’t need your job anymore.”
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This is simply amazing. The FBI has told a federal court that, at a rate of 500 pages a month, processing records from the “hidden room” at FBI Headquarters would take approximately 158 years.
The room — now dubbed the “burn bag room” — holds over 2 million pages of records, according to the FBI’s own filing. Then-Deputy Director Bongino said in May 2025 that some of the records were found stashed “in bags.”
In the filing, weasked the court to allow it to question the FBI, through a limited deposition, about its handling of the records — including who discovered the room and when, who had access to it, its security classification, how records ended up stored in file cabinets, safes, boxes, and burn bags, what the FBI has done to bring them under standard records management, and whether the records were ever searched in response to other FOIA requests.
The FBI reports that it has yet to access a safe believed to contain records. The agency alsoalleges that “it will take approximately 158 years to process at a rate of 500 pages a month.”
The FBI opposes the request for discovery. A status conference is scheduled before U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on August 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Our 2025 complaint sought all records in the room, which it described as “[a]ll documents referenced by Deputy Director Dan Bongino” concerning a room at FBI Headquarters, as well as internal FBI communications among officials in the offices of Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Bongino about the discovery of the documents, and any directives issued on how the records should be handled. The FBI currently says it has no records responsive to the Patel/Bongino communications and directives categories. The plaintiff is challenging the government’s search for these records as well.
In a Fox News interview on May 29, 2025, then-FBI Deputy Director Bongino disclosed the room’s existence, stating:
“There was a room [in FBI Headquarters], and we found stuff. A lot of stuff … hidden from us at least and not mentioned to us. And then found stuff in there. A lot is from the Comey era. We are working … right now to declassify. And just so you know, because I get the public—I totally understand people saying ‘well do it now.’ The process is: not all of the information is ours to declassify. Some is other intelligence agencies’…. We literally can’t do it. Once that gets done … and you read some of the stuff we found—that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing and putting in FBI records. We found it in bags, hiding under Jim Comey’s FBI. You’re going to be stunned.”
We previouslyuncovered that the room is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) containing several safes—now identified as twenty file cabinets—holding between roughly 950,000 and 1,900,000 pages of records, split into two categories: “legacy files,” older records mostly tied to two closed historical investigations and more recent files tied to active investigations and prior Special Counsel records, reportedly including material connected to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
American citizens should be outraged that the FBI just told a federal court judge that its stonewalling means it will take 158 years to release the 2 million weaponization and lawfare records in its secret ‘burn bag’ room. The American people need to know today how the FBI was used as a political weapon against Donald Trump and other innocents.
This is the latest in a series of Judicial Watch investigations targeting shady FBI weaponization and abuse of power.
In August 2019, we uncovered “302”report material from FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, who was removed from his position as U.S. Associate Deputy Attorney General in December 2017.
In March 2019, wereceived heavily redacted records from the Justice Department that reveal that Ohr remained in regular contact with former British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steelewas terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media his position as an FBI confidential informant.
In December 2018, weuncovered U.S. State Department documents showing classified information was researched and disseminated to multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to Trump’s inauguration. The documents reveal that among those receiving the classified documents were Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), and Sen. Robert Corker (R-TN). We obtained the documents through a FOIA lawsuit for records of the Obama State Department’s last-minute efforts to share classified information about Russia election interference issues with Cardin.
In August 2018, we announced that in response to a ourFOIA lawsuit, the Justice Department admitted in acourt filing that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA warrants.
Also in August, we forced therelease ofheavily redacted records about Christopher Steele, the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting Trump during last year’s presidential campaign. The documents show that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS) after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The documents also show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document that he was admonished for unknown reasons in February 2016.
In July 2018, we releaseddocuments about FISA warrants targeting Carter Page, who had been a Trump campaign adviser.
Virginia Removes 6,531 Declared Noncitizen Registrations from Voter Rolls
Records from the Virginia Department of Elections show the commonwealth cancelled 6,531 “declared noncitizen” voter registrations between June 2024 and June 2026 after we launched an inquiry.
The Virginia Department of Elections produced records in response to the below June 2026 Judicial Watch request:
Pursuant to Section 8(i) of the National Voter Registration Act (“NVRA”), Judicial Watch, Inc. respectfully requests from your office all pertinent records in the past two years concerning “the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency” of the Virginia official list of eligible voters. Specifically, Judicial Watch requests the following:
1. All records concerning the names and addresses of registrants removed from the official list of eligible voters pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427(B)(iii) and Va. Code Ann. § 24.2-427.
2. All records concerning all voter registrations that may not to be United States citizens by reason of reports from the Department of Motor Vehicles or from the Department of Elections based on information received from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program (SAVE Program).
3. All ERIC reports, data, match lists, or other records received from or related to the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) system concerning potential voter deaths, change-of-address notifications, or other eligibility issues (including any associated processing, verification, or removal actions taken by the Department of Elections in response to such ERIC reports).
No voting histories were produced for the cancelled declared noncitizen registrations.
According to an April 2026, Virginia Attorney General letter:
DMV [Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles] creates a list of “all persons who have indicated a noncitizen status” when applying for or renewing a license, or identification document. In practice, DMV compiles a list of any individual who checks “no” in response to the question “Are you a citizen?” in an online portal. There are reports that this method has resulted in flagging eligible citizens due to inadvertent user error. DMV furnishes this list of self-attested noncitizens to ELECT daily. ELECT then electronically matches the DMV list against the voter registration list, and transmits, for each match, information from the DMV list to the appropriate registrar. After independently confirming that the individual flagged by DMV matches a voter registration record, registrars must send a notice of intent to cancel, allowing the person 14 days to submit a sworn statement confirming citizenship. If the person does not respond and confirm their citizenship, the registrar must cancel their registration. For clarity, in this opinion, this second program is called “Self-Attestation Removals.”
Also in April 2026, Virginia entered into a settlement with leftist groups in which Virginia agreed to pause the program to remove declared noncitizens from voting rolls for the 90-day period before federal elections. (The Attorney General letter cited above confirms this new policy.)
A federal law –18 U.S.C. § 1015(f) — makes it a crime to knowingly make a false claim of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote or vote in any federal, state, or local election. 18 U.S.C. § 611 — is the direct prohibition on aliens voting in any election for federal office.
It is disturbing beyond belief that as many as 6,531 noncitizens were registered to vote in Virginia. We are demanding more details and so should federal law enforcement, especially as Virginia is set to stop removing declared noncitizens from the rolls in the run-up to the November election. These Virginia numbers show that the New Jersey noncitizen voter scandal is just the tip of the iceberg and is a national crisis.
We are a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced its intention to file a motion to intervene in our federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a California political candidate and a state political party against the State of California due to its failure to maintain accurate voter rolls as required by the NVRA.
A federal court in Illinois ruled that our lawsuit to force the cleaning of voter rolls may proceed in that state.
In January 2026, in a historic case we filed, the Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.
Judicial Watch Sues FBI for 30 Million Transferred January 6 Phone Records
The infamous House January 6 Select Committee didn’t target just President Donald Trump. Republican senators were also dragged into scandal.
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records concerning the committee’s transfer of approximately 30 million lines of telephone toll data to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (Judicial Watch, Inc., v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. 1:26-cv-02557)).
We sued after the FBI failed to comply with an October 2025 FOIA request for:
Communications of former Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Denver Riggleman (R-VA) with FBI officials regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data.
All FBI records and internal communications regarding the reported acquisition or offer to provide the telephone toll data collected by the House January 6 Committee.
In February 2022, the FBI opened “Arctic Frost,” an investigation into alleged efforts by Trump campaign associates to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election. The probe aggressively targeted dozens of GOP officials and organizations before closing in January 2025.
A December 2023 FBI FD-302 interview summary reveals that Kinzinger proactively offered the January 6 Committee’s massive database to the FBI. The summary states:
Kinzinger stated the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (the “Select Committee”) collected and linked a substantial amount of telephone data, and noted the FBI may already possess such data. While former Congressman Denver Riggleman worked with the Select Committee, he (Riggleman) had a contact and was able to obtain toll information, including for White House “root” or switchboard numbers via congressional subpoena. Kinzinger noted that he (Kinzinger) did not conduct the analysis himself, but that Riggleman had identified certain telephonic connections between numbers identified as being associated with the White House and certain individuals….
Kinzinger indicated that Riggleman may have never received direction on what to do with the toll data, which included approximately 30 million lines of data. Kinzinger believed it was in an electronic format, but did not know if it was the original [redacted] returns.
In October 2025, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported that “the FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phones for ‘tolling data’ as part of its Arctic Frost investigation. One Republican member of the House of Representatives was also impacted. The Arctic Frost investigation formed the basis of [Special Counsel] Jack Smith’s elector case against President Donald Trump.”
The FBI must stop concealing the truth. Thirty million lines of Americans’ phone records weaponized by a partisan committee and federal investigators against President Trump and his supporters represents one of the most brazen abuses of power in modern history. The American people deserve every record — no more stonewalling.
We have conducted a massive, independent investigation into the events of January 6.
On July 6, 2026, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department released to us over 1,000 hours of body-worn camera footage in 1,627 videos from the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol event. The videos were released because of an April 2026 court ruling in a DC FOIA lawsuit. The videos are available via the Judicial Watch website here.
In August 2025, we announced that the U.S. Air Force would finally provide full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021. Babbitt was the only official January 6 homicide victim. The Biden administration had previously denied Babbitt and her family these honors in retaliation for being at the U.S. Capitol that day. This decision came on the heels of a massive, nearly $5 million Trump administration settlement to her family for wrongful death and other claims against the U.S. Government.
In July 2025, we sued the Justice Department for records on accelerated January 6 prosecutions after Trump was elected president in November 2024. The Biden administration, anticipating President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue pardons for January 6, 2021, defendants, is believed to have accelerated prosecutions in the final months of Biden’s term.
In March 2024, we received Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) records from the Justice Department in a FOIA lawsuit that showed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed personnel to Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
In October 2023, we received the declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police (USCP) in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.
Judicial Watch Sues for Robert Mueller Records
The American people deserve a full accounting of Robert Mueller’s record—from the FBI’s dramatic expansion of surveillance powers after September 11 to the abusive special counsel investigation targeting President Trump. The Justice Department should immediately release every record concerning Mueller so Americans can judge his work for themselves.
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) failed to respond to a March 24, 2026, FOIA request seeking:
All records in any form related to the former FBI Director, Robert Swan Mueller, III, born on August 7, 1944, in New York City, NY, who died on March 20, 2026.
Mueller served as FBI director from September 2001 to September 2013. During his tenure, the FBI significantly expanded its domestic surveillance authorities. Among other powers, the bureau made extensive use of expanded authorities under the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001, including National Security Letters, which allowed the FBI to compel the production of financial, telecommunications and internet records without prior judicial approval while often prohibiting recipients from disclosing the requests.
Three years after Mueller left the FBI, the bureau launched “Crossfire Hurricane,” also known as “Russiagate,” into allegations of links between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel in May 2017 to continue the investigation. Mueller served in that role until March 2019.
Mueller’s investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”
In May 2023, Special Counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI failed to uphold its mission of “strict fidelity to the law” when pursuing Crossfire Hurricane and found that the bureau lacked sufficiently corroborated information to justify opening a full investigation.
In March 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum, calling for the immediate declassification of materials “related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.”
We have pursued dozens of FOIA lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump and his associates.
In October 2020, we uncovered emails between former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, who joined the Mueller team in 2017, and former FBI attorney Lisa Page showing that Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange server had to recreate multiple meetings that were “missing” from Page’s initial calendar entries. These missing meetings included the subjects “Going Dark Strategy Meeting,” “Twitter” and “702 Reauthorization Strategy Coordination Bi-Weekly” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In September 2020, we received Justice Department records showing that senior members of Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office repeatedly and “accidentally” wiped phones assigned to them (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-02693)).
Also in September 2020, we uncovered Justice Department records that included a May 2017 email documenting that Mueller informed the attorney general’s office he was withdrawing from consideration for FBI director. The email raised questions about Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in July 2019, when he said a May 2017 interview with Trump was “not about me applying for the job” as FBI director (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In July 2020, we uncovered emails showing that Strzok, Page and other top FBI officials in the days before and after Trump’s 2017 inauguration discussed a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we made public Strzok-Page emails showing direct involvement in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane. The records also showed additional “confirmed classified emails” were found on Clinton’s unsecured non-state.gov email server “beyond the number presented” in then-FBI Director James Comey’s statements; Strzok and Page questioned the access the Justice Department was granting Clinton’s lawyers; and Page revealed that the Justice Department was making edits to FBI FD-302 reports related to the Clinton Midyear Exam investigation. The emails also detail a discussion about “squashing” an issue related to the Seth Rich controversy (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)).
In February 2020, we uncovered Rosenstein’s communications with former Obama officials, such as Eric Holder, as well as information sharing with the media in the days immediately surrounding the inception of the Mueller investigation (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In October 2019, we released Rosenstein’s communications that included a one-line email to Mueller stating, “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions,” and “off the record” emails with major media outlets around the date of Mueller’s appointment. In May 2017, Rosenstein had written a memo to President Trump recommending that FBI Director James Comey be fired. That day, Trump fired Comey. Three days later, on May 12, Rosenstein sent the email assuring Mueller that Trump and his staff were not included in their “discussions” (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00481)).
In May 2019, we released Justice Department records containing text messages and calendar entries of Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann showing he led the hiring effort for the special counsel team. Weissmann was formerly the Obama-era chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Fraud Section (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01356)).
In July 2018, we received FBI records concerning the assignment of Strzok to Mueller’s operation, showing that Strzok insisted on retaining his FBI security clearance, declassification and other authorities before moving to the Mueller team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (No. 1:17-cv-02682)). Strzok was removed from the Mueller investigative team in July 2017, with the move becoming public in August. He was reassigned to a human resources position.
SPLC’s Radical Curriculum Used to Train Educators Across U.S.
Do you know what they’re teaching your children? Do you know what they’re teaching your children’s future teachers? Our Corruption Chronicles blog has a disturbing report.
The leftwing ideology deeply embedded in the American public education system is being fortified with the incorporation of a radical “Learning for Justice” curriculum—often funded with taxpayer dollars—in colleges across the country that are training future teachers, assuring that the indoctrination continues for generations to come. A new report published by an education nonprofit reveals that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a controversial leftist group that slanders conservative organizations in an interactive “Hate Map”, created the program lessons, resources and Social Justice Standards (SJS) in the educator training classes at Colleges of Education (COE) across the country. In some cases, federal grants pay for the biased teacher training that blends social justice standards into virtually all lessons.
The outrageous Learning for Justice curriculum is used to train future educators in 38 states plus the District of Columbia and at least 100 COEs nationwide utilize it, according to the probe conducted by the nonprofit Defending Education. The Virginia-based group confirms that the COEs that have adopted the SPLC’s material are responsible for preparing K-12 classroom teachers as well as the continuing education of present teachers and administrators, which means they play a major role in what content, materials, best practices and perspectives shape the educators. “This report also examines academic journal articles, doctoral dissertations, and master’s theses to provide additional insight into how SPLC materials and Social Justice Standards are incorporated into Colleges of Education, teacher preparation programs, and K-12 classrooms,” reads the report published by the charity that aims for the reestablishment of a quality, non-political education for all students. “Importantly, few COEs outwardly acknowledge their use of SPLC materials; instead, many COEs hide their usage and promotion behind faculty login pages.”
Among the cases outlined in the report is a $275,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for a venture between Northern Arizona University and the Flagstaff Unified School District that incorporates Learning for Justice’s SJS into its computer science curriculum. In another example, the Department of Education gave a California graduate program $3.3 million to “develop and cultivate educators-in-training” with “social justice teaching ideas and practices,” including “Social Justice Standards from Teaching Tolerance.” The University of Maryland College of Education’s master’s for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers features a key theme of “Equity, Access, and Anti-bias Education” that integrates social justice standards and critical practices from the SPLC’s Learning for Justice into its programs. The entire Maryland State Department of Education also incorporates Social Justice Standards into its regulations governing new teacher induction programming run by school districts. The University of Michigan’s education program is centered on a “more just and equitable elementary science teaching” that draws from Learning for Justice and Kutztown University in Pennsylvania forces future educators to complete a special “teaching tolerance module” to fulfill a requirement of developing an understanding of diversity.
The list of examples goes on and on, with colleges in California, Oregon, Washington State, Massachusetts and Virginia using the discriminatory SPLC material. Even top public universities in Republican states have adopted it and mandate it in educator training courses. The University of Florida’s College of Education has a required course called “Equity Pedagogy Foundations” that aims to define educational equity by exploring the foundational concepts of race, class, ability and sexuality as they impact children in schools. Florida Atlantic University trains future teachers with courses such as “Introduction to Diversity for Educators, Equity Issues in Multicultural Education and Education in Multicultural Society.” The University of North Texas makes future educators take an advanced teaching course that features required readings from Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. The University of Kansas incorporates the SPLC’s “importance of multicultural education” in all teacher programs and Western Kentucky University mandates a diversity in the classroom course that requires students to read a book called “There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom.”
This latest report on the SPLC’s enormous influence in training the nation’s educators comes on the heels of an equally disturbing investigation that revealed the leftwing group has received millions of taxpayer dollars to spread its hateful message and materials across the United States, including in public schools. The money came from states, cities, counties, universities, school districts, and other public entities to help fulfill the SPLC’s stated mission of “dismantling white supremacy” and “creating a world where Black and Brown communities are represented and respected by our democracy.”
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To hear the mainstream media tell it, the November elections are just a formality. Republicans, bogged down by the economy, Donald Trump’s sagging approval ratings, the Iran war, and their base’s general malaise, don’t stand a chance, they insist. But the Left’s echo chamber — while correct on the historical trends for the party in power — has one goal, and one goal only: deflate the Right at all costs. But is the GOP’s obituary already written, or is there hope of a conservative comeback? Here are five areas where the president’s party might have an unexpected edge.
1. Fundraising
One of the things that surprised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) most about his new job in 2023 was the amount of time he was expected to devote to raising money. At one point, Punchbowl News reported, the Louisianan balked at the duty, declaring that the Founding Fathers “didn’t intend for the speaker of the House to be the primary fundraiser of the party.” But, as reporter Jake Sherman pointed out, “[T]hey also couldn’t have foreseen that the House would be a billion-dollar battleground every two years.”
Whether or not he wanted to do it, this speaker has more than excelled at it — smashing records for the GOP and building an impressive war chest heading into the bloodiest battle he’s experienced at the helm. By 2025, he’d even set a Republican high-water mark, the most ever raised by a speaker in a single year. Facing strong headwinds, the Louisianan’s shocking talent for raking in cash will be a major comfort to his vulnerable members. Between April and June of this year, he socked away another $19.1 million for a total of more than $135 million during this election cycle. A half-million of that has gone to two dozen “battleground incumbents,” and his sidekick, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), has pumped $55 million into the chamber’s coffers.
Even The Washington Post admits that the Republican Party has “a lopsided cash advantage” down the home stretch, thanks in part to the movement’s super PACs. Right now, the GOP is sitting on a $300 million-plus advantage over their Democratic counterparts, Axios reports, “and that doesn’t include the $400 million sitting in Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC.”
Add that to Elon Musk’s latest announcement that he’s getting off the sidelines to help the GOP in the midterms, and Republicans are almost certainly striking fear into Democratic headquarters. The billionaire’s financial backing in 2024 — a whopping $260 million — was a huge reason for the party’s success. This time around, his America PAC will focus on “door-knocking, digital advertising and direct mail aimed at turning out the conservative base, including voters who typically are less inclined to cast ballots in a non-presidential election year,” Musk’s team explained. “By focusing on voter turnout,” Axios notes, “Musk’s group will allow other GOP groups to gear their efforts toward TV ads.”
2. Polling
The landscape has looked incredibly bleak for Trump’s party these last few months, but that picture is slowly changing, experts say. Despite the perfect storm of issues plaguing the GOP, Americans are gradually inching back into the conservative camp. In the generic ballot contest, which is a great indicator of midterm success, Republicans have been down as many as 10 points. They’ve cut into the Democrats’ lead by as many as five to seven points, according to both Reuters/Ipsos and Economist/YouGov.
“If the Republicans are within two, that’s a good sign,” Breitbart’s John Nolte stresses. “As we all know, pollsters tend to underestimate Republican turnout because most pollsters are leftists more interested in wishcasting and manipulating public opinion than reporting on it.”
Now, obviously, trying to make up ground in this hostile environment isn’t easy. Over at RealClearPolitics, the GOP is still trying to claw its way out of a five-point deficit, an unsurprising gap given the affordability crisis in America, Trump’s unusually low approval rating, and the drag always felt by the majority party. “The political party in power, especially the one that holds the White House, tends to go into the midterms with a big disadvantage,” Nolte warns. “The reason for this is simple: the voters who lost the White House two years earlier feel motivated to register their displeasure, while those voters who won the White House tend to be pretty satisfied with things and therefore not as motivated to vote.”
That said, the Democratic Party is wildly unpopular right now. “A staggering 63% of voters now view the Democratic Party UNFAVORABLY, while just 33% still hold a favorable view. That’s nearly two-thirds of the country.” So we’ll see.
3. The Rise of Democratic Communism
Speaking of unpopularity, the best gift Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could give Republicans right now is his party’s lurch toward the Democratic Socialist movement gripping the deepest blue states. Everyday voters are still picking their jaws off the floor after the DSA’s radical list of goals: abolishing prisons, the presidency, U.S. Senate, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and ICE; public ownership of every company; single-payer medicine; a new American Constitution; and a basket of other insanely extremist demands that would burn our nation’s longtime traditions to the ground.
The president and GOP leaders have seized on the Democrats’ crazy train, warning that this latest alliance with the fringe Left will “destroy” the country. “They’re siding with the radical Left communists taking over the party,” Trump emphasized. “… [N]ormal socialists who can destroy a country too. They’re not going fast enough. Do you remember, like, in one of my State of the Union speeches, I said, we will never be a socialist country. But I was right. We’re going to be a communist country,” he continued. “That’s what they want. They skipped socialism.”
The campaign ads on the DSA’s wish list alone — which they refuse to disavow — write themselves. Speaker Johnson, in a conversation with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, was blunt about the threat. “You and I were talking off stage a little while ago, and I said, ‘You know, if somebody had told us even 10 years ago that on the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation in the history of the world, we would be in an open contest about whether we were going to maintain a constitutional republic or go down this dark, dangerous, deadly road to communism, [I would be shocked],” he shook his head. “That is what we are facing in a midterm election. And that’s why I think this midterm is unlike any other.” This isn’t “a referendum on Donald J. Trump,” Johnson insisted. “It’s a referendum on Thomas Jefferson. I mean, the foundational principles of the nation are imperiled. And you have a rising number of barbarians who are coming up through the primary system in the Democrat[ic] primaries.”
While the DSA has had a surprising amount of success in primary and mayoral elections, their appeal is only in the deepest of blue states. And the traditional Democrats know it. They’re panicked by leadership’s public indifference to the pendulum swing. “In Ohio, in Nebraska, and parts of Arizona, far-left candidates are just not going to win,” incumbent Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-Ohio) implored. Others, like Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) echoed that concern. “We are the ones that overperform because of our ability to get moderate Republicans to support us. That’s how we win in the toughest seats.”
Johnson couldn’t help but underscore the crisis. “By my count, we’re up to, I think, 29 of these people,” he told Perkins. “And they espouse crazy, radical, un-American views. They want no borders. They want no prisons. They want to eliminate entire institutions like the U.S. Supreme Court. They want to remove the presidency. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They think the House itself should run the whole government, which, by the way, they want to assume all the power or control over production. And it’s madness,” he contended.
“There’s a bunch of them coming up through the system,” the speaker said. “I will be administering the oath to people who have open disdain for the founding principles of their country. It’s an unprecedented time. And so, I’m telling you, people who love America and common sense have to get off of their good intentions right now and get engaged. Your neighbors, your family, your friends at church. Everybody needs to understand this one’s for all the marbles. And we are not overstating that. It’s not campaign rhetoric.”
4. Redistricting
It feels like forever ago that Texas Democrats fled the state over the GOP’s congressional map that would do away with what the Supreme Court has now affirmed as unconstitutionally gerrymandered districts. Over the next 12 months, that redistricting battle would become a nationwide war that raged in states from coast to coast. Now, a year into the Republicans’ efforts to do away with the unfair race criteria of the Voting Rights Act, they’re finally reaping the rewards.
That unique arms race, as it was coined by so many reporters, did ultimately result in a congressional map that’s more favorable to Republicans heading into these midterms. Ten states have new district lines, which has radically reshaped the GOP’s odds for November, Cook Political Report notes. This week, in an updated look at 2026, the highly-respected outfit released a report with the caption, “Re-Redistricting Yields a More Republican, Less Elastic House Map.”
“The Cook Political Report has updated its Partisan Voter Index (PVI) scores for all ten states that redrew their lines for 2026. And although 80% of states didn’t redistrict, the shift is still dramatic: the median House seat now sports a Cook PVI score of R+3, two points redder than prior to this cycle’s gerrymandering arms race,” they share, “making it exceedingly difficult for Democrats to win the House in anything other than a favorable political environment. In other words, even if Democrats do take back the House majority in 2026, they will be under increased pressure to retaliate in the states they control to keep it in 2028.”
Under these new lines, they continue, “assuming both parties win all the seats where the partisan fundamentals strongly favor them (today, no House Democrat represents a seat redder than R+5 and no House Republican represents a seat bluer than D+5), Democrats would need to win 57 of the 77 seats in the D+5 to R+5 range (74%) to win the barest possible majority. Under the old lines, they would have needed to win 59 of the 87 seats in that range (68%).”
Adding to Jeffries’s woes, “More Democratic-leaning seats became GOP-leaning than vice-versa,” Cook explains. Of course, they add, “None of this is to say that Democrats are no longer favorites to take back the House in 2026; in fact, winning a chunk of seats with PVI scores of R+3, R+4 or R+5 is very realistic, even probable, in a midterm wave environment. But this cycle’s redistricting race to the bottom makes Democrats’ task considerably harder by lowering their ceiling for gains, and makes the House much less elastic and less responsive to the vicissitudes of the national mood.”
FRC Action’s Matt Carpenter put it this way to The Washington Stand, “History shows, with few exceptions, that the party out of power makes gains during midterm elections. Midterm elections almost always generate lower turnout than presidential elections, and often the base of support for the party out of power is more enthusiastic to vote than that of the majority.” He adds that in recent years, “the list of truly competitive races in the House has dwindled to between 20 and 30. The result has been House majorities built on the slimmest of majorities. The 2026 midterms are shaping up to be historic — not necessarily because of any these conditions are missing — but because of the introduction of something new: the rare mid-decade redistricting battle. Republicans were able to net more safe districts for their candidates than the Democrats and have thus narrowed the path for a Democratic majority in the House, by forcing them into the position of having to basically run the table of toss-up and leans-Democrat districts.”
That dynamic changes things, Carpenter highlights. “Given the imbalance, to the advantage of House Republicans, in campaign spending, we could see Republicans buck history and retain the Speaker’s gavel after November. To be clear, Democrats have their own advantages, their candidates are raising a lot of money, and their voters are itching to vote. But those Democratic advantages could be blunted by the party’s embrace of candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America promises that hurt the party’s appeal in less urban, more moderate districts. The fact remains, with a little more than three months to go until election day, there is still plenty that can happen. Control of Congress is essentially a jump ball.”
5. Time
Three months is a lifetime in politics. A lot could happen — especially in the Iran war, which is the nexus of a lot of angst about the economy, the president’s priorities, etc. Between now and then, the GOP plans an unprecedented midterm political convention, which could make a dent in the Republican base’s enthusiasm and also help outline the clear contrasts between the two parties’ very different values.
Nolte observed, “There will be a ton of news cycles between now and Election Day, along with an equal number of surprises. So we are still in Anything Can Happen Land. My primary point here is that if you only paid attention to the media, you’d think the GOP had zero chance of holding on to the House,” he wrote. “Well, that simply is not true. That wouldn’t be true regardless of the polling because Trump is the only person in the country who has a national movement behind him, and it’s one of the largest political movements in American history. That matters. Turnout will win or lose the House, and Trump can turn them out.”
As Johnson reiterated, “It’s going to come down to a handful of votes in just a couple of districts. Cook Political Report currently says … on election night you should expect 212 Republican seats, 205 Democrat[ic] seats. It leaves less than 20 seats in the middle as the jump ball,” the speaker summarized. “So the whole balance of Congress, I think, will come down to less than 20 seats. … We have a slight fundraising advantage over Democrats right now because people believe the stakes are so high. I’m absolutely convinced God’s not done with America yet. We’re going to grow this House majority, and we’re going to keep this thing going so we can save the greatest nation in history.”
In the meantime, he asks for prayer. “My familiar refrain [is] we need wisdom, stamina, discernment. Probably in that order. So we appreciate those prayers.”
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Elon Musk is the very definition of a great American patriot.
When the history of this extraordinary era is written, Musk will be remembered as one of the men who helped save this great nation.
Musk is reportedly launching a massive midterm investment through America PAC to defend President Trump’s congressional majorities. The effort will deploy door-knocking operations, digital advertising and direct mail to drive Republican turnout—critical in an off-year election.
Musk has also been holding private talks with Trump’s team about where he can make the greatest impact.
“America PAC was an essential partner for our historic GOTV operation in 2024, and their return for 2026 is a huge boost for Republicans across the country,” said Trump-allied strategist James Blair.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is jumping into the midterms with a huge investment in a plan to boost Republican voter turnout, Axios has learned.
Driving the news: Musk is resuscitating his dormant super PAC, America PAC, which spent more than $260 million to help get President Trump elected in 2024
America PAC will focus on door-knocking, digital advertising and direct mail aimed at turning out the conservative base, including voters who typically are less inclined to cast ballots in a non-presidential election year, sources with knowledge of the plans tell Axios.
Musk’s representatives declined to specify exactly how much he’d spend. But given what he donated in 2024, the number is expected to be high.
Zoom in: Musk’s pro-Trump donations through America PAC in 2024 made him the largest individual political donor in a single election cycle in U.S. history.
“America PAC was an essential partner for our historic GOTV operation in 2024, and their return for 2026 is a huge boost for Republicans across the country,” James Blair, President Trump’s senior political adviser, told Axios.
“We will again outsmart our opponents and ruthlessly execute our mission for the GOP between now and Election Day,” Blair added.
The big picture: Musk’s investment will add to a huge Republican cash edge over Democrats at a time when Trump’s low approval ratings — particularly on the economy and the Iran war — have put GOP control of the House, and perhaps the Senate, in jeopardy in the Nov. 3 elections.
GOP super PACs and committees have a $300 million-plus advantage over their Democratic counterparts — and that doesn’t include the $400 million sitting in Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC.
Republicans are hoping their money will offset the political environment favoring Democrats.
Behind the scenes: Musk, the world’s richest person, has been in talks with Trump’s team about how he can help.
America PAC, which has said it knocked on more than 10 million doors in 2024 across more than a half-dozen swing states, will coordinate with the other groups in the Republican ecosystem.
By focusing on voter turnout, Musk’s group will allow other GOP groups to gear their efforts toward TV ads.
Musk’s effort will be led by his top political adviser, Chris Young.
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What they’re saying: “The president’s political team and the rest of the GOP apparatus have built a top-notch operation that will put Republicans in a strong position to buck history and retain control of Congress this fall, and we’re excited to again be part of the team,” America PAC spokesperson Andrew Romeo told Axios.
Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative.
The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”
However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”
Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility.
Further, supporters of the ballot initiative contend that state law requires state officials to “give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure” in developing ballot language, KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento reported. The lawsuit calls the state’s updated description “not a true and impartial statement of the measure’s purpose.”
The lawsuit names both Bonta and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber as defendants.
A Weber spokesman told the Daily Signal in an email that the office doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
A Bonta spokesperson told the Daily Signal in an email statement: “We are reviewing the petition. We take our duty to prepare a title and summary and ballot label seriously, and we are confident the court will agree we have faithfully executed that duty here.”
Plaintiffs are seeking an expedited decision from the court, as the review period for ballot language questions runs from July 21 through Aug. 10 before materials go to the printer, Courthouse News Service reported.
“The lead characterization in the title, summary, and label, that the measure ‘prohibits citizens from voting,’ is affirmatively inaccurate,” the complaint says. “By its terms the measure regulates which ballots are counted, not whether a citizen may cast one.”
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