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Why Are Noncitizen Voters Only Found After They’re Registered?

August 14, 2026/in Courts & Law, Democrat Socialists, Election Fraud, Elections, Featured, Government Transparency, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Regulation, SAVE America Act, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth, Treason, Voter REAL ID/by The Daily Signal

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.

AUTHOR

Ken Cuccinelli

Ken Cuccinelli is chairman of Heritage Action’s Election Transparency Initiative, which recently joined The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action to strengthen and expand their election integrity work. ETI equips policymakers with rigorous research, legal analysis, and practical solutions to emerging challenges in election administration. Follow on X KenCuccinelli.

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Thomas: Spanberger Fiddles While Virginia Burns

August 14, 2026/in Communism, Culture War, Deep State, Democrat Socialists, Elections, Hot Topics, Immigration, Marxism, Marxist, Must Read, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, Taxes, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

On the median of an intersection near the Capitol building in Richmond, a well-dressed yet disheveled beggar is seen holding a sign: “Unemployed. Will Politic for Food.”

This is the fate awaiting whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to send Gov. Abigail Spanberger to the 90th annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention.

I’m not a high-paid political operative, but I know how to read a room. What were they thinking?

Thousands of attendees were there to simply hear music and spend a week at the “Gateway to the Blue Ridge.” Those people are the very people whose gun rights the governor is trying to take away. Those people are the ones who would have been hardest hit by all those sales tax increases she and the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly wanted to levy. Galax’s median household income is about 45% below the Virginia state average of $74,957.

We’ve seen at least 40 different videos of the crowd at the event booing the governor loudly, and they are only just starting to be re-posted by GOP and conservative bloggers. In a political party that is driven by public perception of across-the-board popularity, this is bad.

How bad? On a scale where Terry McAuliffe’s “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach” gaffe is a 10, this is most likely a 7. It’s not fatal, but it makes her goal of being nominated for president in 2028 a long shot. Maybe she’d settle for a return to Langley as CIA director? Or director of National Intelligence? The irony would be great—but lost on everyone but us.

Rest assured that political action committees aligned with her opponents will have digital ads flooding each state’s primary voters with that video, with the narration saying, “If they don’t like her in Virginia …” or words to that effect.

Sending Spanberger to Galax, where she received 31.7% of the vote in 2025, shows a failure of executive decision-making. She won 21.4% in Carroll County and 21.5% in Grayson County. It’s not exactly “Spanberger Country.” And that was before the gun grabs and proposed tax hikes. That’s before the electricity bills, with Appalachian Power asking the State Corporation Commission for a $61.4 million increase in base rates to cover rising system costs.

In her defense, you can say that she went there because she is the governor of all Virginians. But if you make your first seven months in office an unending succession of attempts to damage or defame the community’s way of life, after having driven out the furniture industry that it relied on, don’t expect them to invite you for barbecue. (That’s a noun, Madame Governor.)

I guess she can hold out hope that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro gets caught not knowing what “wit’ or wit’out?” means when ordering a cheesesteak at Pat’s or Gino’s, or California Gov. Gavin Newsom brags to the black community about how low his test scores were. Oh, wait, that actually happened.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

AUTHOR

Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas is a Virginia correspondent for the Daily Signal. Follow on X JTitMVirginia.

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EXCLUSIVE: CCP Intelligence Official Buys Building Steps From White House

August 14, 2026/in Chinese influence, Communism, Culture War, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth/by The Daily Caller

A senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official is the new owner of a historic building overlooking the White House Complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Located approximately 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds, the 100-year-old Securities Building on 15th Street was purchased on July 21, 2026 for $8.4 million by the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation, filings show. The building’s new owner, Philip Qiu, has held numerous positions within Chinese intelligence and state security arms, according to university records and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements.

Qiu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“The CCP is like a kind, but firm parent,” Qiu said in 2021, according to a DCNF translation of an announcement from a Chinese intel arm. “It has guided our people out of hardship, led China’s sons and daughters to build a new country and is steering us toward great national rejuvenation.”

[Image created by DCNF with Google Earth and Canva]

Qiu’s ownership of The Securities Building poses an urgent national security threat and must be investigated by federal authorities, multiple intelligence experts told the DCNF.

“This property allows access for big splashy intel ops as well as for more classic ops — like a listening post or Stingray-like systems to collect phone calls, text messages, and digital exhaust,” Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, told the DCNF. “That’s all great for collecting targeting information to later ‘bump’ or recruit targets out in the world, who otherwise work inside a key U.S. government building.”

“But what’s especially alarming are emerging ops that properties like this allow — like hidden drone swarms or shipping container missiles,” said Wright, who hosts The Wright Report podcast. “This kind of property is where the next 9/11 will come from. It’s coming.”

‘Special Forces Training’

Qiu, whose Chinese name is Qiu Feili, has held at least four Chinese government positions, beginning with a “career as a detective in the Criminal Investigation Team in Shanghai,” a 2024 University of New Haven (UNH) Instagram post states.

Shanghai’s criminal investigation team is a unit within Shanghai’s Public Security Bureau (PSB), which functions as a local subordinate of “China’s FBI,” the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), according to DCNF translations of Chinese government reports.

While it is unclear how long Qiu worked in the Shanghai PSB, he had already received combat training by October 2011, when he enrolled in a Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) master’s program, according to DCNF translations of SJTU announcements.

SJTU photos show students carrying rifles and wearing camouflage fatigues during a team-building wargame at the program’s outset.

“Classmate Qiu Feili, who has undergone special forces training, served as a commander in the Red-Blue Battle, and not only directed his troops to successfully capture enemy positions, but also killed one-third of the opposing forces with 42 shots, achieving the best individual sniper record,” according to a DCNF translation of SJTU’s announcement concerning the training exercise.

Qiu has continued to support and cooperate with China’s security apparatus in recent years including through his role as honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Immigration Department Staff Association, with which he organized events introducing Hong Kong students to the Shanghai SWAT team in 2023 and 2024, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements and accompanying photos.

[Image created by DCNF with @yaQya social media post showing Philip Qiu on left during October 2011 SJTU wargame]

The Shanghai native has also held at least three positions in arms of a CCP influence and intelligence agency called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements. The UFWD’s operations are a “blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations” that Beijing uses to steer foreign policy and “gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Among other roles, Qiu has served on the executive committee of the Shanghai branch of the UFWD’s All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), according to a DCNF translation of a Chinese government announcement.

Qiu’s highest-ranking united front position is as chairman of ACFROC’s Shanghai Overseas Chinese Foundation (SOCF), which promotes overseas “cultural exchanges” and operates as the “only charity in the Shanghai UFWD system,” according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements. The former Shanghai detective joined SOCF as a director in May 2017 and has served as the foundation’s chairman since May 2021, according to DCNF translations of SOCF’s announcements.

“[SOCF] will continue to execute General Secretary Xi Jinping’s directive to ‘comprehensively implement the party’s overseas Chinese affairs policy, unite the hearts of overseas Chinese and serve overall interests,’” Qiu said during a 2021 foundation meeting, according to a DCNF translation of a SOCF announcement.

“With overseas Chinese hearts turned toward the party and pursuing a common dream, [SOCF] will actively embody responsibility and commitment to the overseas Chinese community in public welfare, charity and people-to-people exchanges,” Qiu continued. “[We] will strive to build SOCF into a charity with social influence to contribute the strength of the overseas Chinese community toward realizing the shared Chinese Dream.”

As chairman, Qiu has referred to the CCP as “our party” during SOCF party-building events he organized and has also represented the foundation’s party branch during Shanghai ACFROC party meetings, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements and accompanying photos. A “party branch” is the smallest “grass-roots” CCP organization and is required of Chinese institutions containing three or more party members, according to a DCNF translation of an announcement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, which is China’s agency for legal supervision.

SOCF has also employed several other individuals belonging to Chinese intelligence arms including its secretary general, who has served as a director of the Shanghai International Culture Association (SICA), which, according to Alex Joske, former analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, is a front for China’s premier civilian intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

“The MSS is roughly the CIA, with a dash of the FBI,” Wright told the DCNF. “The MPS, however, is a mash-up of DHS and FBI. The key difference is the MPS is generally the overt, visible, heavy hand of the state and party.”

As for the UFWD, it “provides cover” for MSS operations “sort of like what the State Department allegedly does for the CIA abroad when a spy pretends to be a diplomat,” Wright continued. “Bottom line: there is no real line between intel and non-intel agencies or officers in China. Anybody can be compelled for any role at any time — you don’t say no to President Xi.”

Qiu’s connections to MPS, UFWD and MSS arms should set off alarm bells in our nation’s capital, Gordon Chang, author and China expert, told the DCNF.

“No Chinese citizen should be permitted to own, lease, or occupy any real estate that gives him or her the ability to surveil any sensitive federal installation,” Chang said. “No ifs, ands, or buts.”

[Image created by DCNF with ACFROC + CAMDC pics and Canva]

‘Screamingly Obvious’

The Philip Qiu and Family Foundation is headquartered within another historic property half a mile north of the White House that is shared with six other entities controlled by Qiu — including the CCP-tied Chinese American Museum in Washington, D.C. (CAMDC), according to business filings and DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements.

CAMDC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit aiming to “advance the understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of the Chinese American experience,” according to a statement on CAMDC’s website.

Qiu co-founded CAMDC in 2017 with SOCF’s former chairman, Chen Xiaoping, whose English name is Neil Chen.

As with Qiu, Chen has also held multiple Chinese government positions, including with Shanghai branches of ACFROC and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to DCNF translations of Chinese government and state media reports. CPPCC delegates “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

CAMDC and Chen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Although CAMDC claims that the “museum and its programs are not funded, controlled, or influenced by any foreign government,” the Chinese government has co-sponsored at least eight of the museum’s programs, according to CAMDC’s website and DCNF translations of Chinese government reports.

Four of those programs received support from UFWD-controlled religious entities.

Since 2023, CAMDC has co-sponsored three Buddhist events in Washington, D.C. — including one held at the Library of Congress — with Shanghai’s Longhua Temple, which is overseen by the UFWD’s Bureau Of Ethnic And Religious Affairs Committee, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements.

All three events were headlined by Longhua’s abbot, Zhao Cheng, who is both a Shanghai CPPCC standing committee member and the deputy director of the UFWD’s municipal Ethnic And Religious Affairs Committee, according to a DCNF translation of a Chinese government announcement.

The security risks posed by Qiu’s ownership of properties near the White House are “screamingly obvious,” Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, told the DCNF. State Armor is a national security-focused policy and advocacy organization operating as a nonprofit entity, with an affiliated 501(c)(4) social welfare organization known as State Armor Action.

“CCP intelligence agents have been caught buying property around military installations and critical infrastructure where they commit espionage in preparation of sabotage,” Lucci warned. “Now, even more of our most important national assets are being put at risk by the proximity of a man who has multiple CCP intelligence and security affiliations just 200 meters from executive facilities that should be completely off limits from adversary actors. We need government action to force the sale of the commercial property controlled by the CCP associate and a ban on this happening in the future.”

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Victor Davis Hanson: JFK, Obama Did It. Why Is Trump Blamed for Doing the Same?

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson.Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Recently, the Left in general and Democrats in particular have been criticizing a lot of things that this administration has done. This came up with the confirmation hearings of Attorney General Todd Blanche, and people suggested that, though he may have been qualified, he had too close a relationship as a personal attorney, or he acted in a legal capacity with [President] Donald Trump, and therefore there would be an incestuous relationship between the [Justice Department] and the White House.

But who broke that standard? I think it was broken during the JFK administration. John F. Kennedy, the Democratic president, appointed his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as attorney general. They conferred daily. If we were worried that that was an aberration, remember Eric Holder bragged that he was, quote, Obama’s wingman. So, the Democrats have had a long history of a close relationship between the DOJ and the White House.

We’ve been told that the Democratic Party is very angry because some local, i.e., state or county or municipal, prosecutors might take a look at Anthony Fauci and see if he had criminal exposure other than federal exposure. And people said, well, what business do these local prosecutors have looking at Anthony Fauci, who was a federal bureaucrat? And if he did anything wrong, it would be a federal offense. You can’t have freelancing prosecutors all over the United States going after—yes, you can. We established that principle with Donald Trump.

Remember that Letitia James went after him for a real estate deal in which Deutsche Bank, the lender, had no problem with the loan as it was conducted. She was the attorney general of New York. Alvin Bragg could not get Donald Trump on anything other than to bootstrap a federal campaign violation that even federal prosecutors didn’t want to touch. He was just the municipal DA of Manhattan.

Fani Willis met her paramour, Nathan Wade, who was part of her legal team. He met in the White House with Joe Biden, and she was only a Fulton County prosecutor. So, long ago, we dispensed with the idea that regional or local or state or county prosecutors can’t go after a high-profile federal official, and there’s nobody more high-profile than the United States president.

Then we heard last week that they were worried that Donald Trump’s IRS may be too partisan. I think they destroyed that barrier as well. Do you remember Lois Lerner? She was pretty much conducting special audits of Tea Party groups and other conservative-affiliated groups to make sure they did not get nonprofit status, and that was going into the election year 2012.

Do we remember the New York Legislature when Donald Trump’s tax returns were released illegally by the federal IRS? The Legislature in New York piled on and said, we’ll pass a bill that says anybody this year, i.e., Trump, who is under federal audit and whose tax returns are subpoenaed by a congressional committee, once they saw them, we’re going to turn over his confidential state records as well. That was about as weaponizing the state and federal IRSs as you could imagine.

How about election denialism?

Hillary Clinton. You remember, anybody, the 2016 election? Hillary Clinton, she lost the Electoral College. She won the popular vote. What did she say almost immediately? That Donald Trump was not legitimately elected. In other words, he wasn’t our real president. Was she an outlier? No. Former President Jimmy Carter said that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. He was an election denialist.

Stacey Abrams, you remember her? She ran for governor of Georgia and lost by 50,000 votes. She toured the country for two years and said she was the real governor of Georgia, she won that election. She was really an election denialist.

Do we remember in 2000, when George W. Bush beat Al Gore? Al Gore said that he really didn’t lose the key swing state of Florida. Later, The New York Times conducted an affiliated investigation of the county returns that Al Gore had sued to get a hold of. They looked at them, and guess what? George W. Bush did win Florida and, with Florida, won the election. Did that stop the Left? No.

They said that George W. Bush was selected. He was not elected. Do you remember that? Do you remember the 2004 election, when a large contingent of the Democratic House refused to honor the vote in Ohio and voted not to accept George Bush’s popular-vote victory in Ohio that put him over the top?

So, that bar was destroyed a long time ago, and it’s pretty low or nonexistent that you don’t deny an election result. That’s what the Left taught us, at least.

We were told that the Supreme Court of the United States is too weaponized, too consistently conservative, voting in a bloc. There’s been a lot of studies. One of them showed that the six-justice majority votes anywhere from 60% to 64% in line with their conservative philosophy in cases that come up with an ideological theme to them.

And how about our three left-wing, Democratic judges? The same study found that they are a little bit more partisan. Up to 70% of ideological cases, they vote consistently with the Left.

In other words, if you believe in a weaponized Supreme Court, the greatest offenders are the three liberal justices, which you don’t hear.

We’re talking about a weaponized FBI a lot. Kash Patel has weaponized the FBI. I don’t think he has, but if he were to weaponize it, he would be tutored by James Comey. You remember James Comey? He, 245 times before a House Oversight Committee, said he couldn’t remember, or he didn’t know, or he had amnesia.

He inaugurated the bogus Operation Crossfire effort to promulgate the lie that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. That was during the campaign. Had that lie been widely publicized and widely believed, it would have affected the election. Donald Trump wouldn’t have won.

No sooner had Donald Trump been elected than, with Operation Two that was Oxford Comma, they tried to suggest the sitting president had Russian ties. That was a lie, too.

Andrew McCabe, his interim successor, lied four times under oath on ideological or political matters. His lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, forged a document and submitted it to a FISA court. That was an FBI lawyer. I could go on with Robert Mueller, the Mueller investigation, claiming under oath he didn’t know what the Steele dossier was, even though it prompted his very appointment. I would say the FBI was pretty weaponized and politicized by the time Kash Patel got there.

Finally, we hear that it’s very unfair to bring in Anthony Fauci before a congressional committee.

Why would you try to find something that was criminal in the activity of a federal bureaucrat? After all, he’s a member of government. Can he just say, I don’t want to come, or when he’s there, can he just answer a question? Why would he be forced, unless the questions were designed to embarrass him, to take the Fifth?

Well, we crossed that river a long time ago when Congress subpoenaed, for no real criminal activity, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, former White House aides. Both of them refused to participate. In other words, they refused to show up and plead the Fifth Amendment, like Anthony Fauci.

And guess what? They arrested Peter Navarro on the street in shackles. Both of them served four-month sentences in jail. Congress had them jailed.

Then we come to domestic spying, where they said Donald Trump is spying on his enemies. He’s conducting a surveillance state. It’s not true, but if it were true, where did he get that idea?

Well, Barack Obama, remember, surveilled the phone data of Associated Press reporters. They also went after Fox News reporter James Rosen. I think they even subpoenaed the calls he made to his grandmother.

And then, of course, Jack Smith, he went to the National Archives to get the phone data of prominent senators and congressmen that he felt were ideological adversaries, maybe?

He not only got their phone data, but he got their actual text messages.

What’s my point in all this? Long ago, the Democratic Party and the Left believed that any means necessary were justified for their noble ends of mandated equality, and we’ve seen president after president on the Left do that. And so it’s the height of irony, or maybe not irony, but projectionism.

So, I’ll leave you with the idea that anytime somebody on the left accuses the Trump administration of a misuse of government, it’s likely a reflection that they’ve already done that themselves.

Thank you very much. Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

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SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP AND ENDING BIRTH TOURISM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed two Executive Orders to continue to protect the meaning and value of American citizenship after Trump v. Barbara.

The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara.
The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.

PROTECTING THE VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP: President Trump recognizes that the privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift.

American citizenship embodies a sacred bond between the American people and their Nation, and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities.
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara that the Constitution extends the privilege of citizenship to children born to parents in the United States “for whom no extraterritorial fiction applie[s].”
After the Supreme Court’s decision in Barbara, the Administration continues to guard against efforts to obtain citizenship by malign foreign actors and other categories of aliens whom the Supreme Court recognized are ineligible for birthright citizenship under historically recognized exceptions.
The Administration upholds the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system by denying the entry of birth tourists who often work with malign syndicates to evade immigration laws and who plan to exploit their temporary admission to obtain American citizenship.

PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST AND RESTORING THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM: President Trump has delivered on his promise to fix the immigration system, prioritize American citizens, and protect U.S. citizenship.

In his first week back in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order invoking a crisis at the Southern Border and taking immediate action to end the Biden Administration’s record-shattering illegal immigration into the U.S.
- For 15 straight months, no illegal aliens have been released into the country.
The Trump Administration launched an unprecedented denaturalization surge targeting those who fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship.
- To date, the Trump Administration has filed claims against 88 individuals who received U.S. citizenship but were ineligible.
The Trump Administration has deported over 3 million illegal aliens, including thousands convicted for violent crimes.
The Trump Administration strengthened visa programs and their screenings and paused visa processing for 75 high-risk countries to protect the homeland and deter overstays.
The Trump Administration terminated taxpayer funded benefits for over 1.4 million illegal aliens improperly receiving public assistance and banned illegal aliens from more than a dozen taxpayer-funded healthcare programs.
The Trump Administration reformed the citizenship test to better assess aliens’ understandings of American history, government, and values, and better ensure aliens meet all eligibility requirements.
The Trump Administration moved to purge tens of thousands of illegal aliens from states’ voter rolls and are working to ensure they cannot vote in U.S. elections — a right protected for only Americans.

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Iran Is Refusing to Make a Deal Because the Refusal Helps the Dems

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If the Dems were patriotic, they would make it clear that our enemies can’t play us against each other

The political necessity for doing something doesn’t make it more doable, sometimes it makes it impossible. Iran isn’t going to make an actual deal. And while deals are impossible with terrorists anyway, Iran’s Islamic regime is going to drag this out as long as possible to help the Dems. That’s not breaking new ground. The regime did this early on during the hostage crisis to hurt the Carter administration towards which, despite Carter’s sympathy for Islamic terrorists, it harbored a special resentment.

So any time a deal appears close, it’ll blow it up.

Iran’s politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States “corrects its behavior,” issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway.

Iran’s state broadcaster published the statement by the council’s secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, who is also a commander in the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The United States must never threaten Iran again, the statement said, and must permanently end the war with Iran and its armed allies in the region. The U.S. must lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports and withdraw its military from the area. It must “completely compensate” Iran for war damage, lift sanctions and “unconditionally” release frozen assets.

So no, this isn’t happening.

If the Dems were patriotic, they would get on the same page and make it clear that our enemies can’t play us against each other, instead they’re using the crisis with Iran to score political points which amounts to coordinating with our enemies.

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WHITE HOUSE FRAUD TRACKER: Blows the Lid Off Nearly $300 Billion in Government Waste and Fraud

August 10, 2026/in America 250, Elections, Featured, Government Transparency, Hot Topics, Marxism, News, Social Issues, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Geller Report

The White House has just published the first transparent public record to track fraud across our nation. It’s massive.

And Democrats kep voting against killing billions in pure federal waste, fraud, and abuse.

White House fraud tracker exposes nearly $300 billion tab as health programs take center stage

According to administration officials, the website called “Fraud Ledger” is intended to give taxpayers a public view of fraud investigations, enforcement actions and fraud prevention efforts

The White House’s new fraud tracking website is spotlighting billions of dollars in government losses prevented, with healthcare programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services among the largest areas of focus.

The online “Fraud Ledger” said the administration has uncovered nearly $230 billion in fraud and stopped approximately $56 billion in fraudulent payments through its efforts to identify waste, abuse and improper spending across federal programs.

According to administration officials, the website is intended to give taxpayers a public view of fraud investigations, enforcement actions and fraud prevention measures carried out as part of President Donald Trump’s broader push to combat fraud in federal benefit programs. The White House has described the effort as a way to “root out” fraud and recover taxpayer dollars.

Administration officials said the administration stopped $46 billion of fraud in HHS-related programs, uncovered $96 billion and enforced $30.5 billion in recovery actions.

The Department of Health and Human Services reported more than $90 billion identified in improper payments
“Each partner agency reported three figures to the Task Force. Fraud uncovered represents total estimated fraud identified through data analysis. Fraud stopped counts the dollars saved annually through administrative actions such as provider suspensions and rule changes,” read the website. “Fraud enforced covers dollars recovered through indictments, settlements, and civil monetary penalties. All figures reflect the period since January 2025.”

Healthcare spending represents a major portion of the government’s fraud and improper payment problems.

HHS also reported more than $90 billion in improper payments across its programs in its fiscal year 2025 financial report. The largest categories included Medicare and Medicaid, with Medicaid accounting for tens of billions of dollars in estimated improper payments.

The tracker rated Medicaid fraud as its “highest-impact” anti-fraud action since January 2025.

“CMS held states accountable for the first time for Medicaid fraud, deferring federal financial participation of over $2 billion from California and over $500 million from Minnesota,” read the website.

Federal auditors caution that improper payments are not automatically evidence of fraud. The Government Accountability Office defines improper payments as funds that “shouldn’t have been made or were made in the incorrect amount,” which can include administrative errors, eligibility mistakes or insufficient documentation.

The GAO estimated that federal agencies made approximately $186 billion in improper payments government-wide in fiscal year 2025, bringing the total estimate since 2003 to roughly $3 trillion.

The Trump administration has argued that stronger data-sharing and enforcement tools can prevent taxpayer losses before money leaves government programs. The White House previously announced efforts to eliminate information barriers between agencies, saying better access to government data would help detect and prevent fraud.

HHS officials have also expanded the use of data analytics and other screening tools to identify questionable billing patterns and payment risks before funds are distributed, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Investigators have targeted Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemes involving false medical claims, phantom providers, unnecessary procedures and improper billing, while watchdog agencies continue to stress that reducing improper payments requires fixing administrative problems in addition to fraud prevention efforts.

The White House said the new tracker will continue to be updated as federal agencies report additional enforcement actions and taxpayer savings.

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One Gaza Palestinian … $547,000,000 Fraud

August 10, 2026/in Anti-Semitism, Budget and Finance, Courts & Law, Culture War, Economy, Hot Topics, Immigration, Islam, Islamo-Nazi, News, Social Issues, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Jihad Watch

A Muslim illegal alien ripped off Americans and sent the money home including to pro-Hamas groups.

In 1992, Khaled Ahmed Satary arrived in the United States on a student visa. Even though student visas are only supposed to be temporary, the Gaza ‘Palestinian’ Muslim would not leave the country, not even when the government began trying to deport him in 2008 after he spent 3 years in federal prison for running a $50 million counterfeiting ring, not as he amassed another $547 million in health care fraud over the next decade by targeting the elderly and not until he finally went on the run in 2022 and became an international fugitive.

Along the way, Satary donated to Islamic groups and remained “committed to helping the people of his native Palestine” and helped “raise more than $1 million to (sic) charities and organizations that support Palestinians” including a ‘charity’ accused of having links to Hamas.

The incredible story of how one ‘Palestinian’ from Gaza who received a student visa to study at the University of New Mexico inflicted at least $600 million worth of costs on the United States across three decades offers a snapshot of the punishing costs of Muslim mass migration.

Student visas, often fraudulent, have been used by millions of foreigners, including from the Muslim world, to come to the United States and remain here even after they have expired.

Seven years after Satary entered the country, he began manufacturing fake CDs in Atlanta as part of what authorities would describe as the largest music piracy operation in history with an estimated $50 million in losses and 127,000 fake CDs seized. The operation was sophisticated enough that, according to an FBI affidavit, Satary “hired bodyguards and used shell corporations”. CNN reported” that he was wiring the “profits to countries in the Middle East.”

At least some of the money was sent to ‘Palestinian’ enclaves in Jordan, the UAE and Israel.

Satary was busted in 2000. The DOJ accused him and two other fellow Muslim defendants, Abedullah F. Al-Qudah and Akram Abdelraham Yaqoub, of manufacturing the CDs. Satary was operating out of Lawrenceville, considered one of the fastest growing Muslim areas in Atlanta, that would serve as a hub of his crime empire and where his son still maintains a business.

Satary was sentenced to 3 years in prison and after he was released in 2008, ICE began trying to deport him. By then however, Hamas was in control of Gaza and since we had no diplomatic relations with the Muslim Brotherhood terror group, no one was available to take Satary.

A few years later, Satary had begun creating an empire of medical testing firms.

Unable to deport Satary back to Gaza, ICE had released him under an “order of supervision” that allowed him to live and work in the United States. By 2013, Satary was in the news again for donations to the senate campaign of a Republican congressman who would later support arming and training Syrian Jihadis and then go to work as a lobbyist for the Syrian ‘opposition’.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the senate campaign took in over $80,000 from employees of two Satary companies: Confirmatrix Laboratories and Nue Medical Consulting. The paper noted that “some of the contributors have strong feelings about Palestinian independence” and “most do not appear to be registered voters in Georgia.”

The money did not officially come from Satary, who in over 20 years had not achieved legal status and was under an order of deportation, but from employees who were allegedly given large bonuses by Satary’s son, told to keep a few hundred dollars and donate the rest. His son Jordan had donated thousands of dollars. Despite his criminal and illegal status, Khaled Ahmed Satary also appeared to have donated previously to the Republican Party’s NRSC.

Satary boasted of raising money for the ILM Academy: an Islamic school aimed at producing “Muslims whose thoughts and actions are devoted to Islam & Allah”, and the Alif Institute which puts on the Atlanta Arab Festival. His own site described him as a “philanthropist” who “helped build several successful healthcare businesses”, believed that “Arabs and Arab Americans have been unfairly portrayed in the mainstream media” and was “active in the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.”

An unofficial Hamas site had directed donations to PCRF: the group had been accused of funding an organization with Hamas links and ran a hospital pediatric unit that was used to conceal “explosives, suicide vests and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks.”

The President of PMRS is Mustafa Barghouti, a former official of the PLO on whose watch the infamous ‘Hamas Mickey Mouse’ had aired, teaching children that “Islam will spread to all parts of the earth” and conquer Spain. Barghouti had appeared at Hamas events and with Hamas leaders, and had declared that Oct 7 was “a glorious day for the Palestinian resistance.”

A PMRS member was caught trying to plant a bomb on a bus in Israel.

Still, few questions were being asked about Satary’s health care businesses, which his site had claimed “ grow at a rate of 23 percent each month” and 6 months after six months had grown from 4 employees and $1 million to “70 employees and revenues of $12 million”.

According to his site, this was all “due to Satary’s efforts and determination.”

In reality, something else was going on. In 2013, Confirmatrix was ranked as the most expensive lab in the country, “collecting an average of $2,406 from Medicare for each patient tested, compared to the national average of $751.” The trick was running “an average of nearly 120 different drug screens on each patient, far more than any other drug lab.”

Confirmatrix profited from the opioid epidemic by allegedly paying kickbacks to ‘pill mills’ across the country to run drug screenings of patients on pain medication. The patients ended up not only heavily addicted, but stuck with massive bills for unnecessary drug screening tests once Medicare caught on to the scheme, lowered its reimbursement rates and the FBI came knocking in 2016, at which point the ‘Palestinian’ company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

And the patients, already suffering, were hounded by bill collectors for thousands of dollars.

Khaled Ahmed Satary had reportedly put the labs and his home in the name of his then-teenage son Jordan Satary. New labs with new names like ‘Elite’ and ‘Clio’ then popped up with some of the same employees including one that billed Medicare for $8.6 million in genetic tests.

In 2019, Clio and Elite were also raided as part of a crackdown on over $2 billion in fraudulent genetic cancer tests in which a telemarketing network was allegedly used to prey on “hundreds of thousands of elderly and/or disabled patients” by promising to test them for cancer.

When the indictment came down, it accused “Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and his co-conspirators, through companies they controlled” of having “paid the telemarketers illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the doctor’s orders and medically unnecessary tests.” The labs “collectively billed Medicare for more than $547 million.”

This would have been on top of the previous millions from Confirmatrix.

Medicare had been billed as much as $10,000 for each test.

A convicted felon and illegal alien under order of deportation had been able to donate to politicians and bill the government for over half a billion dollars across six years.

And incredibly, it still wasn’t over.

Sizable amounts of money had reportedly been transferred to the Middle East. $30 million was allegedly sent to Jordan, the ‘Palestinian’ enclave that some have described as a second ‘Palestinian State’, some of which was reportedly sent to key figures in the government.

Before the raids, Satary was alleged to have paid millions for a fake passport to move to Qatar.

With all that money, foreign ties and history of fraud, federal authorities wanted to keep Satary locked up. “It’s not that difficult, when you have $20 million at your disposal, to get out of this country when you’re looking at decades in prison,” the federal prosecutor had warned.

Instead, he was allowed to travel anywhere he wanted, and when he failed to appear for his 2022 court date, Satary was listed as one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters and a global manhunt was launched suggesting that he might be hiding out in some of the Muslim settler communities in the United States in Houston and Atlanta as well as Dubai, where he had lived before coming to America, and “Jordan and the Israel/Palestine areas.”

Khaled Ahmed Satary was recently arrested with the help of unnamed “regional partners” and returned to the United States to face criminal charges a quarter century after his first arrest.

The Gaza ‘Palestinian’ has reportedly inflicted over $600 million in damages during that time.

Even if Satary is finally convicted, sizable portions of his assets were transferred to the Muslim world, including prominent figures in Jordan, or to his wife and his son, also named Jordan, who regularly brags about his wealth on social media. According to Jordan Satary, who is now operating as a “real estate investor” in Texas, he’s busy “blending Palestinian-American heritage with my entrepreneurial journey.”

And so it continues.

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A Battered President

August 9, 2026/in America 250, Commentary, Culture War, Hot Topics, Islam, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, Terrorism, The Truth, Violence/by Linda Goudsmit

Figuratively the term Waterloo means a crushing defeat and is a reference to the Battle of Waterloo, the final battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1825) when Napoleon was decisively and conclusively defeated. An interesting June 9, 2026, article by Michel Benchimol titled, “Israel’s Right to Exist & Trump’s Iran Gamble” poses the question:

The Iran Trap: Waterloo or Victory?

Trump’s Iran policy is the true test of his transformation. He has pursued maximum pressure—sanctions, tariffs on countries trading with Iran, and repeated military threats.

In June 2025, the U.S. and Israel struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in the largest Western attack since 1979.

Iran retaliated with a missile strike on a U.S. air base in Qatar.

Then came the pivot. In April 2026, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, framing it as a dramatic victory. Tehran has shown willingness to negotiate on uranium enrichment but talks stall over U.S. demands to limit Iran’s missiles and proxies.

Critics call it a disaster. They argue that Trump is abandoning regime change, legitimizing the Iranian regime, and failing to achieve the doctrine Netanyahu vowed to destroy. Some analysts say Iran could become Trump’s Waterloo if escalation leads to sustained conflict, U.S. casualties, and a midterm disaster for Republicans.

The risk is that Trump’s signature tactic—construct a narrative, declare it true, and force the world to submit—doesn’t work when the adversary is a state with nuclear ambitions and proxy networks.

Benchimol’s analysis ignores the foundation of President Trump’s signature “Let’s make a deal” strategy which assumes everyone, and everything has a price that can be negotiated. And President Trump’s negotiating strategy ignores 1400 years of religious Islamic doctrine that commits Muslims to establishing a worldwide Islamic caliphate.

For me, Benchimol is dancing around the problem and revealing his own bias by presenting Trump’s “Let’s make a deal” negotiating style as if it has a possibility of success––it doesn’t. Muslims are doctrinally obligated to destroy Jews and Christians (competing ideologies) to achieve Islam’s expansionist ambition––the establishment of the worldwide Islamic caliphate. Remember, according to Islam, there will be peace on Earth when the whole world is Muslim. That is not a slogan––it is a religious doctrinal imperative.

The better question is: Can Iran be trusted as a negotiating partner?

History is a great teacher and what we learn from history is that some enemies can be negotiated with, and some enemies must be defeated unconditionally. Iran must be defeated unconditionally to secure the peace for the Western world because Iran is ideologically, religiously, and doctrinally dedicated to establishing the worldwide Islamic caliphate.

Iran advances on its centuries-old operating principles of hudna and taqiyya. Hudna is Islam’s fraudulent signature ceasefire agreement that gives a weakened Iran time to regroup, rearm, and reattack. Taqiyya is Islam’s doctrinal religious duty to lie in the service of Islam. Iran is not moved by “peace” deals, business deals, or any other deals.

Islam is a challenger civilization with a replacement ideology that is founded in a binary, supremacist, expansionist, religious doctrine. Islam’s singular goal is to make the whole world Muslim, including America. Iran is not and never was a trustworthy negotiating partner because peace is not and never was Islam’s goal.

America’s return to the negotiating table to give Iran one more chance to become a trustworthy negotiating partner is like a battered wife returning to her abusive husband thinking that this time will be different. Being out of touch with the historical reality is a lethal choice for nations as well as for wives.

No man, not Donald Trump nor any other human being, is going to change 1400 years of Islamic doctrine with promises of peace and profits to Muslim countries doctrinally committed to the Islamic caliphate! It is an absurdity that lives in subjective reality without foundation in objective reality.

For me, President Trump now appears more like a battered wife who continues to give her husband one more chance, because she desperately wants to be happily married, or like the wife who knows her husband is cheating but refuses to acknowledge it because she desperately wants to stay married. These are flawed strategies in marriage as well as in international affairs because denial is not a survival strategy and both deny objective reality.

In my 2011 philosophy book Dear America: Who’s Driving the Bus? I present a universal paradigm of human behavior that explains why people do what they do. I explain that a state of mind is not fixed. It is constantly shifting along the growth continuum, anywhere from total, infantile narcissism to responsible adulthood, depending upon the level and stability of the individual’s inner development and the strength of the external pressures challenging it.

We are each the whole of our life experiences. The children we once were continuing to exist inside our minds. So, the narcissistic infant; the demanding two-year-old; the insecure adolescent; the rebel; the adventurer; the happy child; the angry, frightened, timid, or lonely child we once were all persist as states of mind. Each inner child is an accessible entity that seeks to be in control of the individual’s mind. The inner child’s struggle for power continues to challenge the individual’s rational adult state of mind throughout his or her lifetime.

Anytime an inner entity is at the wheel the individual has psychologically exited the factual real world of objective reality and entered the historical feelings realm of subjective reality.

The bus is a metaphor for our psychological selves. The bus travels along the timeline that is our lifetime. It picks up new passengers as we grow and develop, each new feeling and each new experience adding another rider. The driver of the bus is always selected from the passengers aboard, and the passengers are constantly competing to determine who will drive the bus.

To understand the often inexplicable inconsistencies in an individual’s behavior, and to understand how one person can perceive us in a completely different way than another sees us, we must ask ourselves the seminal question, “Who’s driving the bus?”

Sustaining our most rational adult state of mind is the challenge for preserving our constitutional republic, because freedom is an adult enterprise. It is my opinion that President Trump is being psychologically manipulated again just like he was psychologically manipulated during Covid-19.

During Covid-19 the globalist elite triggered President Trump’s young, frightened, germophobic entity and now they have engaged his businessman entity. Psychological manipulation is a powerful tactical weapon in globalism’s War on America. And anytime President Trump is triggered into subjective reality it is problematic for America.

For freedom to prevail President Trump must demand his most rational adult presidential self be in the driver’s seat. Watching the President realign himself and desperately try to make a deal with Muslim countries in the Middle East is like watching a fish flailing and flapping around on land. It will not end well. Israel knows it. Rubio and Hegseth know it. And our enemies know it because their social engineers remain in objective reality.

I thought we had learned the lesson in WWII that you cannot make a deal with a Nazi––it does not take a genius to realize that you cannot make a deal with an Islamist either. Why? Because, like Nazis, Islamists are ideologically committed to their doctrinal goals and ideological supremacy––everything else is details.

President Trump used to know this, but like the battered wife he is desperate to give the Islamists one more chance because his overarching goal is to be the man who makes peace in the middle east. He is as desperate as the bruised wife going back to give the battering husband one more chance.

The difference between President Trump and the battered wife are the consequences. The battered wife will eventually be battered to death; a battered president leaves America vulnerable and weakened. I no longer trust President Trump’s foreign policy decisions in the Middle East because I no longer trust the entity that is driving his bus.

Just as the police know what will eventually happen to the bruised and battered wife, anyone living in objective reality knows the outcome of Trump’s Iran Gamble.

The Iranian regime will survive and become even more brutal against its own population, and its proxies will be more emboldened to continue terrorizing Jews and Christians worldwide. A battered president leaves a trail of destruction behind him because a president living in subjective reality cannot protect America.

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EVERY Senate Democrat Voted Against Voter ID

August 9, 2026/in Deep State, Elections, Featured, Hot Topics, Marxism, Marxist, News, SAVE America Act, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth/by The Geller Report

My fellow Americans, we have a problem.

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.

WATCH: Senate fails to advance voter identification bill

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Pamela Geller

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Retired U.S. Flag Offficers (Generals/Admirals) Traveling to and Collaborating with Communist China

August 8, 2026/in Chinese influence, Communism, Culture War, Democrat Socialists, Hot Topics, Marxism, Marxist, National Security, News, Policy, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth, Treason/by Royal A. Brown III

Judge for yourself but in my opinion these retired Generals, Admirals and other high ranking former members of Federal Government should have their Security Clearances lifted NOW (if they still have them) and should be investigated for what information they shared with Communist Chinese military officials.

It has been alleged that most received free transportation, lodging,meals, etc. while engaged in these collaborations.

Several retired U.S. flag officers, including four-star generals and admirals, have been reported to collaborate with Chinese military officials in closed-door meetings over the past decade. These interactions have raised concerns about the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on American military leadership.

Retired U.S. Flag Officers Collaborating with China

Numerous high-ranking retired military officials have engaged with Chinese counterparts.

Participants — Some of the most powerful retired officers, including former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have participated in these meetings.
Topics Discussed — Discussions have included critical issues such as Taiwan, the South China Sea, and cybersecurity.
Duration of Engagement — These interactions have reportedly spanned over a decade, indicating a long-term relationship.
Chinese Influence — The meetings were organized by a Chinese organization linked to military intelligence, raising concerns about potential influence.

Recent reports indicate that several retired U.S. flag officers, including high-ranking generals and admirals, have engaged in extensive dialogues with Chinese military influence groups over the past decade. This collaboration has raised concerns about the potential implications for U.S. national security and military integrity.

Overview of Collaborations

The involvement of retired U.S. military leaders with Chinese entities has significant implications.

Network Formation — The Chinese Communist Party has established a private network involving senior retired U.S. military officials, circumventing direct penetration of the Pentagon.
Long-term Engagement — Some retired officers participated in meetings with a Chinese organization linked to Beijing’s military intelligence for over ten years.
Public Endorsements — Over 120 retired generals and admirals publicly supported political figures, indicating their ongoing influence.
Concerns Raised — Investigations have highlighted the risks associated with these collaborations, suggesting they could undermine U.S. military strategies

Lloyd Austin’s (former US Secy of Defense) interactions with China have been primarily through communication rather than travel. Austin spoke with his Chinese counterpart in April 2024, marking a significant step in military dialogue.

EXCLUSIVE: America’s Top Retired Generals Participated In Secret Beijing Conference Backed By Chinese Spy Group

Some of America’s most senior former military and national-security officials quietly traveled to Beijing to participate in a closed-door “Strategic Security and Stability Dialogue” supported by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), an organization repeatedly identified by U.S. analysts and members of Congress as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front influence apparatus.

The meeting was billed as a Track II dialogue, meaning unofficial and off the record. But Track II forums are not politically neutral. They are where Beijing cultivates elite Western figures who no longer hold office but still command credibility and converts their presence into political capital.

CUSEF’s role is central.

The foundation was created by former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who also served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a core United Front body. For years, CUSEF has sponsored U.S.–China dialogues, trips, and exchanges that critics say consistently advance Beijing-friendly narratives under the language of “mutual understanding.”

This strategy is not subtle. CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping himself has described United Front work as “an important magic weapon for the success of the Party’s cause.” In other words, influence – not tanks or treaties – is how Beijing seeks to shape outcomes abroad.

That context matters when examining who showed up in Beijing.

America’s Top Generals Walked Straight Into China’s Influence Machine

By Ben Smith

The Chinese Communist Party didn’t need to penetrate the Pentagon. It built a private network around it, and stocked it with some of America’s most senior retired generals and admirals.

That’s the core finding in Natalie Winters’ new report on the Sanya Initiative, a decade-plus military dialogue funded by the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) and run in coordination with the China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC). Congressional investigators have identified CAIFC as a front for the PLA’s former General Political Department, responsible for intelligence collection and “propaganda and perception management.” The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission specifically cited CAIFC’s role in Sanya.

Winters summarized the findings Tuesday on X:

The first delegation, named in CUSEF’s own 2008-2009 annual report, included retired Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Pacific Command chief Adm. Joseph Prueher, former Southern Command chief Gen. Charles Wilhelm and former Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane. By 2009, the combined American-Chinese delegation had traveled to Hawaii, Washington and New York, where they sat down with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, members of Congress and senior State Department officials.

The glossy brochures called it a peaceful exchange. What they left out was CAIFC’s actual mandate. Congressional investigators described the group as performing the “dual roles of intelligence collection and propaganda and perception management” as part of the CCP’s broader United Front system, an influence apparatus designed to cultivate foreign elites and neutralize opposition to Beijing’s objectives.

The warnings were public as early as 2011. Mark Stokes, a former Pentagon official and co-author of a landmark study on PLA political warfare, testified before the commission that the Chinese side’s intentions were spelled out in the initiative’s own first report:

“The Chinese side says we wish you would advocate these positions,” Stokes testified, adding that American editorials later appeared with a “stark similarity” to what the Chinese participants had pushed. Hearing co-chair Jeffrey L. Fiedler responded: “Sounds like it was a successful narrative that was placed.”

A 2013 investigation by John Garnaut found a striking imbalance in the initiative’s early deliverables. The American side had agreed to try to delay a Pentagon report on China’s military power until after Taiwan’s election, viewed the U.S. election cycle as an opportunity to shape military relations, and discussed writing opinion pieces to counter critical coverage of China’s military. Garnaut found no comparable list of commitments from the Chinese side. Shortly after those early Sanya meetings, Owens published opinion pieces urging Washington to treat China as a friend and end arms sales to Taiwan.

Mamdani Blames E-Bike Sellers for Crisis He Refuses to Police

August 8, 2026/in Budget and Finance, Communism, Economy, Elections, Hot Topics, Islam, Marxism, Marxist, News, Policy, Politics, Social Issues, Socialist Class Warfare, The Truth/by The Daily Signal

When real-world problems arise, you can always count on socialists to fall back on blaming their old ideological bugaboos rather than addressing them head on.

That appears to be the case in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been forced to deal with an escalating problem of e-bike fatalities.

You can guess who he blamed for the problem.

“The City has issued cease-and-desist orders to 42 online retailers demanding they immediately stop selling these illegal devices to customers in New York City’s 175 ZIP codes,” the mayor’s office announced. “The products being marketed and shipped into the city exceed legal limits for speed, weight or other safety requirements and cannot lawfully be sold or operated on City streets.”

The retailers have until Aug. 18 to comply with the cease-and-desist order.

Of course, many of the e-bikes sold by these retailers are simply modified to go beyond the original safety limits.

This measure couldn’t be more predictable and likely fruitless. On the surface, Mamdani’s policy seems somewhat reasonable.

New York City is going through a rash of pedestrian fatalities linked to e-bikes, and the problem is getting worse.

The city government should be looking to address this.

But like every good leftist, Mamdani finds it far more convenient to blame objects and the supposedly greedy corporations rather than the real culprits.

Previous Mayor Eric Adams at some point realized the e-bike problem was something he couldn’t ignore and at least targeted the source. Under his administration, the city lowered the speed limit for bikes and added criminal penalties for those who were driving recklessly.

Maybe that’s harsh, but it at least placed the burden of compliance on individual users who choose to break the law—and there are many who do.

If you spend any time walking in the city, you will encounter e-bikers, often food app delivery people, driving unbelievably recklessly.

I’ve had so many near misses with New York City e-bikers driving way too fast and breaking the law. They blow through red lights, go far above the speed limit, and frequently nail pedestrians. I often worry about myself and especially my wife when we take our daughter and stroller to the city.

Some of them make the crazy taxi and ride-share drivers seem downright tame in comparison. So, it makes sense to up enforcement and penalties on this kind of behavior.

Reporter Jesse Singal said it perfectly on X.

“I’ve said this before but basically every day I witness driver behavior that could kill someone,” he wrote. “It’s insane. Even just basic stuff like not blocking crosswalks, forcing moms w/strollers to cut into a traffic lane. Just *enforce the s—- out of potentially fatal behavior!”

Yeah, you tell ‘em.

Of course, Mamdani, like any good socialist, doesn’t believe in individual consequences, personal responsibility, or any of that business.

He immediately removed the criminal penalties for reckless e-bikers when he took office and made it seem like traffic enforcement was some kind of cruel burden.

“Every New Yorker on our roads, whether driving or biking, deserves to be treated fairly,” he said in a statement in March. “By ending criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses, we’re ensuring cyclists and e-bike riders — including those who deliver our food and groceries — are treated like others on the road.”

Since the problem hasn’t stopped, Mamdani was pushed to take further action. And hitting the capitalists was the best he could come up with. It very much reminds me of when Chicago sued automobile makers for not putting better safety measures on their vehicles when the city got hit with a spike in auto thefts.

There’s a problem with Mamdani’s plan though, even if he doesn’t think punishing individual lawbreakers is a good idea.

The city is currently awash in modified e-bikes. Mamdani was asked at the press conference announcing the crackdown if he would do something about the countless ones currently in use and said “for now, this is our focus.”

A spokesperson for the NYC E-Vehicle Safety Alliance said in an interview with the New York Post that Mamdani’s law is effectively worthless.

“He would not commit to enforcement or e-vehicle registration,” the spokesperson said. “We are left with the same failed policies that created this deadly public health crisis, which has plagued the city for five years. Look at ER stats — it is crystal clear that e-vehicle trauma admissions are only increasing, all while the mayor does absolutely nothing.”

So, Mamdani has merely created the mirage of doing something. He’s good at that. But unless New York aggressively addresses the problem of reckless driving, nothing will change.

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Jarrett Stepman

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.” Send an email to Jarrett. Follow on X JarrettStepman.

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President Trump signed a pair of executive orders that he said were aimed at cracking down on birthright citizenship.

White House: The first targets birth tourism, clarifying: It is therefore the policy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism. In the second order, protecting citizenship, the order picks up on language from the Supreme Court’s Barbara decision: that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the privilege of citizenship to children born to parents in the United States “for whom no extraterritorial fiction applie[s]”.

Rapid Response: Stephen Miller explains the first: That practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned. What that means is that no one in the world is anymore allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose… of everything [@POTUS] has done that has been so unprecedented, I would put this in the top 3 in terms of importance because it ends what has been one of the gravest and most egregious abuses of the American system and it keeps American citizenship sacred”.

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President Trump signed a pair of executive orders that he said were aimed at cracking down on birthright citizenship, renewing one of his signature policies after the Supreme Court voided his earlier, broader bid to deny citizenship to many children born on U.S. soil to non-American parents.

The executive orders, which Trump signed in the Oval Office on Thursday, seek to expand the categories of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship and ban tourists from coming to the U.S. solely to give birth.

“That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,” per Stephen Miller “This ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will NO LONGER be eligible for those benefits.”

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Politics By Other Means

August 8, 2026/in America 250, Commentary, Culture War, Elections, Freedom, Hot Topics, Islam, Marxism, News, Policy, Politics, Radical Islamic Terrorism, Social Issues, Socialism, Socialist Class Warfare/by Kenneth R. Timmerman

Inspired by his service in the Prussian and Russian armies in the Napoleonic wars at the start of the 19th Century, Carl von Clausewitz has left us with many famous sayings from his unfinished treatise, On War, published after his death in 1830.

Among them was that the “fog of war” often obscures what is really happening on the battlefield. Another, which is my theme for today, is that “war is politics by other means.”

President Trump has been criticized in recent weeks by the left and the right for his repeated threats to launch yet another “massive” military strike on Iran, only to relent at the last minute in hopes of some last minute breakthrough in negotiations that would satisfy the two major U.S. goals in this war: the unconditional reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping, and the end of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

So far, each time it has happened, the Iranians have backed away from a negotiated settlement, either by new drone or missile strikes against ships in the Strait of Hormuz, or by instructing their proxies to carry out attacks against our Gulf allies. (In recent weeks, they have used Shiite militias in Iraq to attack civilian infrastructure in Kuwait, and the Houthis in Yemen to hit Saudi vessels in the Red Sea). And each time that happens, the United States responds by taking out IRGC assets in southern Iran.

The President has repeatedly expressed his reluctance to inflict massive damage on Iran’s infrastructure, all the while threatening to do so should the Iranian regime not agree to his conditions.

I believe he is trying to find the sweet spot of just enough military pressure to achieve his political goals, without inflicting what he sees as unnecessary and unfortunate damage.

But so far, he has failed to find that sweet spot. The regime — or whoever is calling the shots in Iran — responds with increased aggression: more missiles, more drones, and more irredentist demands.

The latest, on Thursday, was a claim by the Iranian parliament that the regime had reached an agreement with Oman over joint control of the Strait of Hormuz that would inflict a toll of between 5% to 7% on ships transiting the Strait that would bring in an estimated $385 million per day to the Revolutionary Guards to oppress the Iranian people, and to use to build more drones and missiles and to arm their proxies.

The alleged deal would also bar ships from the United States, Israel, and any other country opposing the “Axis of Resistance” from transiting the Strait. That designation would bar Saudi Arabian ships, since the Saudis have been at war with the Houthis for over a decade.

Clearly, such a deal is not just unacceptable: it is outrageous.

If you read the international media, you might forget the whole reason we are even negotiating over the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. It’s because Iran mined the customary passageways in the middle of the Strait at the beginning of the war, and no one has yet removed those mines.

That’s why there is all this talk of the “northern route” transiting Iran’s territorial waters, and the “southern route” that uses Oman’s.

The historic passageway through the Strait transits through international waters. But Iran closed that passageway at the onset of the conflict, an act of war in violation of the UN Law of the Sea Treaty that should have triggered unanimous international action, spearheaded by the UN Security Council.

If it weren’t for the support that Russia and China have been providing Iran, the United States could have gone to the United Nations and invoked Chapter VII of the UN charter that authorizes member nations to use “all necessary measures” — including military action — to restore international peace and security, just as we did twice in wars against Saddam Hussein.

We actually tried that in May, with the predictable result that both the Chinese and the Russians threatened to veto any resolution against Iran.

Since then, both the Brits and the French have said they would join an international mine-sweeping force, and then promptly backed out when it became obvious that mines were not only still present in the Strait but that the IRGC was going to attack any ships trying to remove them.

So much for the international “order.” And so much for our allies.

That leaves President Trump with the course he has followed in recent weeks: apply just enough force to keep the IRGC on its heels, while not triggering a massive spike in oil prices or spooking international markets.

He has succeeded on all three counts, extremely significant accomplishments.

But the United States cannot just “walk away and go home” if our diplomacy fails, as Vice-president JD Vance suggested recently in his very unfortunate three-hour appearance on the Joe Rogan show.

There is that pesky second demand that Iran give up its nuclear ambitions. On Wednesday, reports from Israel resurfaced an earlier claim by the current IRGC Chief, Ahmad Vahidi, while he was Interior Minister, that Iran would continue to develop nuclear weapons as long as the United States and Israel possessed them. “If they disarm, we will disarm,” he reportedly said.

There has been some parsing of that quote in recent days. One Iranian commentator claimed that the correct quote was this: “As long as the United States and Israel possess nuclear weapons, activities related to national security will not cease.”

Sorry, but in IRGC-speak, that means exactly the same thing.

In the end, whether Vahidi made those public comments or not makes little difference. There is no other explanation for the massive expenditures on uranium enrichment, buried nuclear sites, the Iranian regime’s absolute refusal to discuss its nuclear programs or the recent revelations about Mount Kalang (aka “Pickaxe Mountain”).

The Iranian regime is developing nuclear weapons and thank God they don’t yet have them or they would have already used them on Israel or on us, either in direct attacks or in EMP mode to destroy our electric power grid and send us back to the 1880s, when the United States could support a population of between 80 to 90 million.

This is a regime that has already acted out its intentions to wipe Israel off the map, and has shown its willingness to destroy the entire civilian infrastructure of its Persian Gulf neighbors, including their destination plants.

If anyone has any doubts as to why President Trump is fighting this war, just think of what the IRGC would do if it actually had operational nuclear warheads.

I discuss this, as well as the latest reports of Chinese and Russian weapons shipments to Iran and Russian threats to NATO, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend. As always, you can listen live on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Yours in freedom.

Website: kentimmerman.com

Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here.

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