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DNC Reportedly May Need To Borrow Cash To Keep Lights On

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been grappling with infighting and a decline in donations in recent months, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

DNC Chair Ken Martin, who was elected in February, has overseen slowing fundraising from major donors, the NYT reported. Some top DNC officials have even floated the idea of whether it may be necessary to start borrowing money to continue paying the bills, according to the NYT.

Six anonymous sources told the NYT that major Democratic donors have been extremely slow to donate to the party this year. Additionally, two anonymous sources told the outlet that senior DNC officials have even floated the idea of potentially borrowing money in the coming months.

Rufus Gifford, who served as the finance chairman of former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, told the NYT that Democrats “need to come together and focus on the issues at hand.”

“What they are seeing is headline after headline of incompetence and infighting, and I think that is a real problem not just for the DNC but for the larger Democratic brand,” Gifford told the outlet. “We need to come together and focus on the issues at hand. That’s got to happen now. And I mean today. And if that can’t happen, we need to shift course.”

Democratic Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan told the NYT that the recent drama in the DNC was “worse than some high school student council drama.”

Martin told the NYT that he believes many major Democratic donors were “frustrated” by the results of the 2024 elections.

“People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result,” Martin told the outlet. “They want answers. I don’t take it personally. I wasn’t in charge.”

“I know there’s a lot of people that are carrying grudges, that are still litigating the campaign that their person didn’t win,” Martin told the NYT. “I am not one of those people. There’s no sense of living in the past. I have no enemies other than Donald Trump and the Republican Party.”

The NYT’s report comes shortly after David Hogg, a gun control activist who was elected to serve as one of the DNC’s vice chairs in February, sparked massive backlash in the Democratic Party after he announced in April plans to primary incumbent Democrats. On June 11, the DNC voted to remove Hogg from his vice chair position and require him to run again due to a procedural complaint, Politico first reported.

On June 8, leaked audio revealed that Martin expressed concern about Hogg’s ability to lead the party due to the infighting his decisions had ignited, according to Politico. Martin notably paused twice and appeared to choke up during the recording, according to the outlet.

Moreover, Randi Weingarten, the longtime head of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, announced they were leaving the DNC, the NYT reported on Sunday. Both of the union leaders had backed Martin’s main opponent in the DNC chair election earlier this year, Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler, according to the NYT.

Still, some Democrats have defended Martin’s leadership, including Maria Cardona, a longtime DNC member, who told the NYT that he “does the work” and “rolls up the sleeves.”

“Everything that Ken has done, regardless of the drama that it has caused, has been the right moves,” Cardona told the outlet. “He does the work. He rolls up the sleeves.”

A DNC spokesperson did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Ireland Owens

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How Did America Reach Level 5 Anti-Semitism?

While two slain Israeli Embassy members lay in a bloodbath on the streets of this nation’s capital, how can we account for this lethal level of antisemitism in 2025? How did America reach this extreme stage of antisemitism?

Going back to 2019, one and only member of Congress was willing to vociferously and officially protest antisemitism spewing from the walls of America’s highest legislative body. He posted his condemnation on the Internet and then followed up with House Resolution 241 in March.


116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION

H. RES. 241

Condemning the anti-Semitic comments of Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 14, 2019

Mr. STEUBE (for himself, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. DUNCAN, and Mr. GOHMERT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs and Ethics, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

RESOLUTION

Condemning the anti-Semitic comments of Representative Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.

Whereas in 2012, Representative Omar tweeted, ‘‘Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.’’;

Whereas in 2018, Representative Omar posted, ‘‘Drawing attention to the apartheid Israeli regime is far from hating Jews.’’;

Whereas the latest controversial tweets from Representative Omar suggest Jewish people are buying political support.

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Rerence to a song about $100 bill, and AIPAC, a pro Israeli lobbying group;

Whereas Representative Omar stated during a town hall, ‘‘Iwant to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for the allegiance to a foreign country.’’;

Whereas Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced Representative Omar’s statements saying, ‘‘We condemn these remarks and call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize’’ is not going far enough;

Whereas, on March 7, 2019, Democratic leadership failed to primarily and directly address Representative Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks in a resolution that should have been specifically about anti-Semitism so as to address the rising threat thereof;

Whereas Jewish people are subject in the media and political campaigns to numerous other dangerous anti-Semitic myths, including that Jewish people control the United States Government or seek global, political, and financial domination and that Jewish people are obsessed with money;

Whereas accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel or to the Jewish community than to the United States constitutes anti-Semitism because it suggests that Jewish
citizens cannot be patriotic Americans and trusted neighbors, when Jewish citizens have loyally served our Nation every day since its founding, whether in public or community life or military service;

Whereas all Americans, including Jews, Muslims, and Christians and people of all faiths and no faith, have a stake in fighting anti-Semitism, as all Americans have a stake
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Whereas Representative Omar’s comments reflect negatively on the House of Representatives: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
2 (1) directly disapproves the anti-Semitic com3 ments made by Representative Omar;
4 (2) rejects the perpetuation of anti-Semitic
5 stereotypes in the United States and around the
6 world, including the pernicious myth of dual loyalty
7 and foreign allegiance, especially in the context of
8 support for the United States-Israel alliance;
9 (3) condemns anti-Semitic acts and statements
10 as hateful expressions of intolerance that are con11 tradictory to the values that define the people of the
12 United States; and
13 (4) seeks to ensure that the United States will
14 live up to the transcendent principles of tolerance,
15 religious freedom, and equal protection as embodied
16 in the Declaration of Independence and the First
17 and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

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Democrats and Their Media Lapdogs Oppose South African Refugees Escaping Genocide….Because They Are White

Dozens of refugees from South Africa arrived in Washington on Monday as part of President Donald Trump’s decision to accept South Africans who have been discriminated against by their government.

South African leaders have been calling to kill white people and the media won’t cover it.

Escaping “shoot to kill, kill the Boer, the farmer.”

The Democrats feral opposition to white refugees from South Africa is real racism. And further proof that their illegal migrant invasion under the Biden regime has nothing to do with helping the oppressed and everything to do with destroying America. Imagine if Republicans opposed migrants because they were black.

ADDRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to address serious human rights violations occurring in South Africa.

As encapsulated in its recent land confiscation act to seize disfavored citizens’ property without compensation, the government of South Africa blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority descendants of settler groups.

As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country.

The United States will establish a plan to resettle disfavored minorities in South Africa discriminated against because of their race as refugees.

STANDING UP AGAINST INJUSTICE AND OPPRESSION: President Donald J. Trump is committed to holding South Africa accountable for its actions.

South Africa has taken positions against the United States and its allies.

Merely two months after the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, South Africa accused Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice.

South Africa also strengthened ties with Iran, which supports terrorism globally.

While championing terrorism and autocratic regimes abroad, South Africa has committed similar human rights violations at home. The recent Expropriation Act enables the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority descendants of settler groups’ agricultural property without compensation.The Expropriation Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.

Years ago, the South African government disbanded volunteer forces defending rural farmers, turning a blind eye to the ensuing farm attacks.

REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS: A commitment to human rights is central to President Trump’s America First agenda.

President Trump: “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people very badly […] I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”

President Trump believes in sending a clear message to the world’s bad actors—and to their victims—by condemning human rights abuses in no uncertain terms.

MSNBC’s Yamiche Alcindor Whines After 59 White South African Refugees Waving American Flags Arrive in US (VIDEO)

By: Cristina Laila May. 12, 2025:

The first group of white South African refugees arrived in the United States on Monday.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar welcomed the refugees, who are fleeing violence, racial discrimination and persecution.

Fifty-nine white South African refugees were welcomed in DC, proudly waving American flags.

The new refugees beamed as they waved American flags.

MSNBC’s Yamiche Alcindor said a lot of people are appalled after the Trump Admin reportedly said South Africans assimilate better.

“So the Trump admin, they’re saying that essentially these white South Africans assimilate better, and they’re also not as much of a security risk,” Yamiche Alcindor whined. “That’s really causing a lot of of of people to be appalled, frankly.”

“And I also should tell people that this violence that they’re talking about that are dealing with these Afrikaners,” she said.

“I’ve been hearing from people that say there is violence in South Africa, but it’s affecting everybody of every single race,” she added.

WATCH: White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration

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‘Sh*tshow’: Florida’s Democratic Party Turning Into Circular Firing Squad Following Mass Exodus

The Florida Democratic Party has been grappling with a series of hurdles in recent months, including losing two costly Congressional special elections and seeing some high-profile members unexpectedly exit the party.

Florida Democrats have been struggling with rising tensions and intraparty fighting since the 2024 election cycle, Politico reported on Wednesday. The report comes after former Florida state Senate Democratic leader Jason Pizzo, who was once viewed as a potential gubernatorial candidate, announced in April that he was registering as an unaffiliated voter and stepping down from his leadership role.

Pizzo said at the time that the Florida Democratic Party was “dead.” He added that he thought his state’s political system was akin to the “infighting, power struggles, corruption and decline of civic virtue that pervaded and eventually ushered in the fall of Rome.”

Pizzo’s office referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to his prior comments on why he left the party, when reached for comment.

“It’s a sign of larger problems we all know about,” one Democratic political organizer told Politico about Pizzo leaving the state’s Democratic Party. “This party right now is in shambles and has been in shambles for I don’t know how many years. At this point, we have been doing the same thing for 30 years and there’s just nothing happening.”

One anonymous Florida Democrat told Politico that the state’s Democratic Party is “such a goddamn shitshow.”

“What Democratic Party?” another anonymous Florida Democrat asked the outlet.

Pizzo’s departure from the party comes after two Florida state representatives, Hillary Cassel and Susan Valdés, announced in December 2024 that they were switching to the Republican Party, one month after winning reelection as Democrats. The pair of defections expanded the Florida GOP’s supermajority in the Florida House of Representatives to 86 seats, compared to the Democrats’ 34.

Miami filmmaker Billy Corben, who exited the party in 2024 after serving on the Miami-Dade County Democratic executive committee, told Politico he realized the Democratic Party of Florida was “far worse than I expected and far more dysfunctional and grim than what I had reported from the outside looking in.”

The Democratic Party lost two special elections in Florida in early April, despite the party’s candidates massively outraising their GOP opponents.

Florida was long considered a swing state and was viewed as being competitive in presidential election cycles as recently as 2020. However, after years of trending rightward, it is now considered to be a deep red state.

In the 2024 presidential election, Trump carried the Sunshine State by 13 percentage points, receiving 56.1% of the vote to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 43%. Trump’s performance in Florida marked the best performance of any Republican presidential candidate in the state since 1988.

In 2020, the president won Florida by a significantly smaller margin, notching 51.2% of the vote to former President Joe Biden’s 47.9%. Meanwhile in 2016, Trump had barely carried the state over failed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, securing 48.6% of the vote compared to Clinton’s 47.4%.

Florida Democrats were also dealt a blow in the down-ballot races during the 2024 election cycle as voters rejected two ballot initiatives the party had heavily backed, Florida Amendment 3 and Florida Amendment 4. Amendment 3 would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state and Amendment 4 would have legalized abortion until fetal viability, usually defined around 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Political analyst Susan MacManus told WUSF in a November 2024 interview that the state’s Democrats suffered significant losses in the 2024 election cycle because the party prioritized issues that did not connect with many Floridians.

The Florida Democratic Party did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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‘They Are Animals’: Tom Homan Reminds Democrats That MS-13 Gangs Hurt Immigrant Communities The Most

Border czar Tom Homan reminded Democrats Thursday that MS-13 gang members are disproportionately harming immigrant communities they claim to want to protect.

Democrats have continued to show support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 gang member who entered the U.S. illegally in 2011, with a few even traveling to El Salvador in retaliation to President Donald Trump’s administration. Homan said on Fox News’ “America Reports” that Democrats are choosing to ignore the heinous, inhumane crimes committed by members of Tren de Agua (TdA) and MS-13 against U.S. citizens and immigration communities.

“I knew that [on] day one of the inauguration that we’re gonna be fighting the courts and we’ll be fighting the Democrats, we’d be fighting the NGOs, the activists, we knew the fight was coming and we’re gonna take that fight on,” Homan said. “But you know one thing I know that they don’t, all the ones yelling about this? I’ve seen, in 40 years, what MS-13 and TdA are capable of. I’ve seen the horrific things they have done not only to American citizens, but aliens that live here. I’ve seen their capability. They are animals. I can’t even compare it to animals, animals kill to survive, MS-13 and TdA kill for pleasure, to instill fear not only in American community, they put fear in the immigrant community. That’s who they attack the most. The migrant community.”

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MS-13 and TdA are notorious for committing heinous and violent acts against Americans and other individuals, including beheadings and dismemberments. In November 2017, about ten suspects of MS-13 beheaded a man and ripped his heart out after stabbing him more than 100 times in Wheaton, Maryland, Sky News reported.

The two Venezuelan nationals who killed 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, were said to be members of TdA. The men strangled the child to death and dumped her body in a nearby river.

Four Democrat lawmakers, including Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, traveled to El Salvador to visit Garcia, though their visitation was denied by El Salvadoran officials. Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador and sat down with Garcia in what appeared to be a restaurant.

Democrats have accused the Trump administration of deporting Garcia without due process since the deportation was a clerical error, though administration officials have maintained that he should remain in El Salvador. Democrat Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar cursed at Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell Thursday for simply asking if she believes Democrats should continue traveling to El Salvador.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama-appointed judge, ordered the administration to quickly effectuate Garcia’s return to the U.S., which the administration challenged. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily blocked the judge’s order in an April 7 ruling, stating that the U.S. cannot “compel El Salvador to follow a federal judge’s bidding.”

The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled in April that the administration must “facilitate” the return of Garcia. El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on April 14 that he will not “smuggle” Garcia back into the U.S.

Police records and court documents indicate that Garcia smuggled people into the U.S., had a good standing with MS-13 and physically abused his wife.

In 2019, an immigration judge issued a deportation order for Garcia, according to court documents. A judge gave Garcia a protected status known as “withholding of removal” in October 2019 after determining that he would likely be persecuted by gangs if deported back to El Salvador.

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Most Dem-Voting Federal Bureaucrats Say They Would Disobey ‘Legal’ Orders From Trump, Poll Shows

A new poll found that a majority of federal employees who previously voted Democrat are geared up to act against the interest of their elected boss, President Donald Trump.

The data, released Thursday by the Napolitan Institute, shows that 76% of voters for former Vice President Kamala Harris working under Trump say they will “resist” his plans, while 75% say they would hypothetically disobey, or “do what [they] thought was best,” when given a legal order that they disagreed with. The Napolitan Institute said the numbers show a “deep partisan divide in the Administrative State” as Trump moves to bring the numerous halls of government in alignment with his agenda.

“Our research confirms that the Administrative State is not composed of thoughtful, nonpartisan experts who are making neutral decisions for voters,” Napolitan Institute founder Scott Rasmussen said in a press release. “The deep partisan divide within the federal bureaucracy and the shifting public opinion present significant challenges for the current administration.”

The survey asked respondents to “imagine that you were the head of a federal government agency” and “President Trump gave you an order that was legal but you believed was bad policy.”

“Would you follow the president’s order or do what you thought was best?” The questionnaire asked.

The results showed that 75% of bureaucrats who voted for Harris for president would “do what [they] thought was best,” in regards to Trump’s orders, while 9% were unsure and the rest would obey him. This contrasted with 80% of Trump-voting officials who said they would follow the president despite their disagreements, with 2% saying they were unsure and 18% saying they would not.

Harris supporters in the government also said their own “political efforts” will be to either “strongly resist” or “somewhat resist” Trump’s agenda by 56% and 16% said they would “neither support nor resist,” the Napolitan Institute found.

The group surveyed 500 officials “living in the National Capitol Region and earning at least $75,000 annually,” noting a margin of error of 4 percent.

Trump’s efforts to bring the bureaucracy to heel included a day-one hiring freeze “throughout the executive branch,” payouts for federal workers, funding cuts for left-wing priorities like transgender ideology as well as the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has cleaned house at several agencies.

“The silver lining is that with such high levels of chaos in this bureaucratic ‘civil war’, there may be an opening for the common sense voice of the American people to rise above the political noise and once again become the shaping force of the nation’s dialogue,” Rasmussen.

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The UK Knows What A Woman Is — When Will Democrats Figure It Out?

Each era is granted its mass hysteria. Granted, a dancing plague is mild compared to “convincing young girls to cut off healthy body parts” — but signs point to reality reasserting itself.

Look no further than a recent judgment from Britain’s Supreme Court, ruling that men who self-identify as “trans women” are not to be legally regarded as women. The court “holds that the terms ‘man,’ ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the EA 2010 refer to biological sex,” reads their press summary.

 

The ruling is hardly a wholesale repudiation of the nonsensical logic which underpins transgender theory. The court draws a distinction between sex and gender, tacitly claiming the latter can be “reassigned” via surgery, and acknowledges “transsexual people” as a protected class.

“On the one hand, women have historically suffered from discrimination in our society and since 1975 have been given statutory protection against discrimination on the ground of sex,” reads the judgment. “On the other hand, the trans community is both historically and currently a vulnerable community.”

Regardless, even the obvious assertion that “men are not women” would have been difficult to eke out of a judiciary during the height of transgender mania.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson infamously claimed she could not define the word “woman” in her confirmation hearing.

“Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t,” said Jackson in response to Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn. “Not in this context, I’m not a biologist.” Britain’s Supreme Court will be stunned and pleased to know they’ve acquired a bachelor’s degree in biology overnight. As will the billions of common-sense human beings who are capable of drawing this fundamental distinction.

Such common-sense people are fed up.

One of Donald Trump’s most effective campaign ads during his 2024 presidential run spoke to this fatigue: “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.” Some Democrats, like Democratic Gov. of California Gavin Newsom, appear to be distancing themselves from the contentious issue. Others employ a higher-risk strategy in response to the American people: closing their eyes and covering their ears and whistling really loudly.

Transgenderism was supposed to be the next great frontier of civil rights. It has amounted to nothing more than a puzzling historical footnote with a tragic human cost.

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‘Assassination Culture’: Poll Shows About Half Of Liberals Believe Killing Trump, Musk Justified

A new survey finds an “assassination culture” growing on the American left since the attempted killing of President Donald Trump in July 2024.

Data released Monday from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) found “48% and 55%” of “left of center” people “at least somewhat justifying murder for Elon Musk and President Trump, respectively.” The findings come after a historically violent election season in 2024, which saw two assassination attempts on Trump in July and September.

“These attitudes are not fringe—they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the NCRI wrote. The group produced its study with the Rutgers University Social Perception Lab and surveyed 1264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence.

When surveying all respondents, only 38% said killing Trump would be “at least somewhat justified,” meaning there was “significantly higher justification” among self-identified liberals specifically, the NCRI said.

The group also found that 39% of U.S. residents think “it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest” of Musk, who now leads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) but is also Tesla’s CEO.

The NCRI’s work adds to other data from July by United Kingdom-based researcher Eric Kaufman showing that a third of Democrats say they wish the first attempt on Trump’s life had succeeded in killing him. The first known assassination attempt against Trump nearly killed the president at a Pennsylvania campaign rally as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot him in the ear, barely missing his head, and killed an attendee.

The NCRI said online platforms such as BlueSky “play a strong predictive role in amplifying” the culture of violence on the left. “In these ecosystems, violence is not just justified — it is stylized, gamified, and embedded within a broader ideological narrative,” the organization said.

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VIDEO: Karoline Leavitt Brings Receipts Of Dems Echoing Trump’s Concerns About Trade Policy

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt brought receipts of prominent Democrats making the same critiques about trade policy as President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s press briefing.

Trump has come under Democratic scrutiny for imposing reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports in order to create fairer trade practices and return manufacturing to the U.S. Leavitt said that Democrats simply do not want to admit that they agree with Trump on the need to change current trade practices, which prompted her to read direct quotes from high-profile Democrats who expressed concern over the status quo on foreign trade.

“Everybody in Washington [D.C.], whether they want to admit it or not, knows that this president is right when it comes to tariffs and when it comes to trade,” Leavitt said. “In fact, Democrats have long said that the United States of America has been ripped off by the countries around the world. They just don’t want to admit it now because it’s President Trump saying that.”

The press secretary quoted former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said in June 1996 that her colleagues must “fight against the status quo trade policies that had contributed to America’s trade deficit with China.” She further quoted now-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former Democrat Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown remarks from 2007 and 2012, when they both sounded the alarm on the U.S.’s trade deficit costing American workers “millions of jobs.”

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“These are the words of Democrats years ago,” Leavitt said. “It is about time America finally has a president who is taking action to restore those millions of jobs back to the United States of American to boost our manufacturing industry. He’s doing what’s right for the American people. It will take a lot of labor, it will take a lot of effort. That’s exactly what the American people elected this president to do.”

CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings said he found it “amusing” on Monday that Democrats have suddenly become proponents of free trade and lower taxes while they criticize Trump’s attempts to cut corporate and capital gains taxes.

Trump’s officially imposed the tariffs on April 2, which he deemed “Liberation Day,” with the intention of preventing foreign nations from “ripping off” the U.S. and to help American workers. Several union workers celebrated the tariffs, stating that their industries will benefit from more job positions and more domestic production.

The tariffs caused U.S. stocks to take a steep downturn, with the Dow Jones sinking by 2,200 points on Friday. The markets faced a positive rebound on Tuesday as the Dow jumped 179 points.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow on Monday that up to 70 countries have gotten in contact with Trump to begin negotiations. Trump stated on Truth Social that nations across the globe are talking with the U.S. to negotiate on tariffs.

“Countries from all over the World are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese Prime Minister this morning. He is sending a top team to negotiate! They have treated the U.S. very poorly on Trade. They don’t take our cars, but we take MILLIONS of theirs. Likewise Agriculture, and many other ‘things.’ It all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!” Trump said.

The administration is set increase tariffs on Chinese tariffs to 104% due to the country’s retaliation against the U.S., Leavitt said. The White House had initially planned in February to impose 20% tariffs on China for its role in causing the fentanyl epidemic, while Canada and Mexico received 25% tariffs for the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigration coming into the U.S.

The tariffs led former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to cave to the president’s demands on the border. Trudeau invested billions in securing Canada’s border and appointed a “Fentanyl Czar,” while Sheinbaum deployed 10,000 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Nicole Silverio

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Guess How Many Democratic Party State AGs Are Now Fighting Trump’s Executive Order To Stop Voter Fraud

Nineteen Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit Thursday against President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

In the lawsuit, attorneys general from 19 states called to block provisions of Trump’s executive order, alleging the president is attempting to “seize control of elections” in an unconstitutional manner. The lawsuit was filed by Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.

“The Elections EO violates the Constitution. It interferes with States’ inherent sovereignty and their constitutional power to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections,” the lawsuit states.

“It also usurps Congress’s powers to legislate (under the Elections Clause) and to appropriate (under the Spending Clause) because Congress has not chosen to implement the changes the President seeks to impose by decree,” the lawsuit said. “The critical funds at issue have in large measure already been appropriated by Congress.”

On March 25, Trump signed an executive order to “protect the integrity” of U.S. elections, mandating voter “citizenship verification [in every state]” and banning foreign nationals from interfering in U.S. elections. The order also directed attorneys general to collaborate with state election officials to ensure compliance, placing conditions on federal funding to whether states require voter ID.

“Free, fair, and honest elections unmarred by fraud, errors, or suspicion are fundamental to maintaining our constitutional Republic. The right of American citizens to have their votes properly counted and tabulated, without illegal dilution, is vital to determining the rightful winner of an election,” Trump wrote.

Over the years, states like California, Oregon, New Mexico, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Maryland have enacted laws that no longer require documentation to vote.

According to the lawsuit, the attorneys general argue that the order “sows confusion and sets the stage for chaos,” as states will need to allocate staff and resources for new training, testing, voter education and coordination, or risk losing federal funding.

“Donald Trump’s Executive Order to seize control of our elections, intimidate voters, and attack Americans’ right to vote is unconstitutional and undemocratic. I’m suing to stop the President’s authoritarian power grab and protect people’s right to vote and our democracy,” New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote on X.

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Rashida Tlaib, Other House Dems Refuse To Condemn Attacks On Tesla Dealerships

Some Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday refused to answer questions concerning whether or not they condemn the recent string of violent attacks targeting Tesla dealerships.

Tesla dealerships and charging stations across the nation have been targeted by vandals in recent weeks amid ongoing backlash against Elon Musk due to his ties to President Donald Trump, as well as his attempts to eliminate unnecessary spending and reduce waste at federal agencies as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Several congressional Democrats have publicly criticized Musk and Tesla in recent weeks, including Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who claimed in a Feb. 7 post on X that Musk is an “unelected billionaire” who is “dismantling our democracy.”

Tlaib on Tuesday refused to answer a question from Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell about whether or not she condemns recent acts of vandalism at Tesla dealerships, instead asking him, “are they paying you well … because I believe you should be paid fair wage.”

Tlaib also wrote in a Feb. 10 post on X that Musk “is now calling the shots and Republicans are blocking our efforts to hold him accountable,” adding that “this is oligarchy.”

Democratic Nevada Rep. Susie Lee did not respond when asked by the DCNF whether or not she condemns Tesla dealerships being attacked. Lee has previously criticized Musk, such as claiming in a Feb. 8 social media post that he is “a billionaire with massive government contracts and business ties to the Chinese government.”

When asked about whether he denounces the recent Tesla attacks, Democratic Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost told the DCNF that “we condemn all attacks,” but added that he does not condemn people “being mad” at Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi condemned the recent cases of vandalism at Tesla dealerships in a March 20 statement, referring to it as a “wave of domestic terrorism.” President Donald Trump criticized Tesla vandals in a March 21 post on Truth Social, stating that he is looking forward to “watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla.”

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Ireland Owens

Contributor. Myles Morell contributed to reporting.

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Turns Out Top Execs Of Org Picked For Billions By Biden EPA Are Big Time Democrat Donors

Top executives of a green organization that the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected to receive billions in public funds have collectively made hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal political donations to Democratic candidates and organizations in recent years, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) data found.

The Biden EPA chose the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) as an awardee of $5 billion in taxpayer funds through the administration’s massive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program in April 2024. Reed Hundt, the CGC’s former CEO and chairman, has personally donated nearly $60,000 to Democratic candidates and aligned political organizations going back to 2013, while Richard Kauffman — the group’s CEO who replaced Hundt in January — has personally donated more than $600,000 to help Democrats since 2020, according to FEC data.

Hundt made donations of $10,000 to the Harris Victory Fund and Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2024, and he also cut a $10,000 check to the Democratic State Central Committee of Maryland in 2016, FEC records show. Kauffman, meanwhile, gave $150,000 to the DNC in 2020 before giving another $20,900 to the DNC in 2024, the same year in which he made a $50,000 contribution to the Harris Victory Fund, government records show.

Kaufmann also donated to numerous state-level Democrat Party organizations and to boost Democrat Senate candidates like former Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey in the 2024 race, FEC records show. Notably, the CGC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, meaning that it may not directly or indirectly engage in politics, at least as far as the Internal Revenue Service is currently concerned.

“Between 2009 and 2023, CGC and its network mobilized more than $25 billion in public and private capital across America to deliver more affordable electricity, clean air and water, as well as the power to help ensure America’s AI leadership,” a CGC spokesperson said in a statement to the DCNF. The CGC spokesperson declined to address specific questions about how it squares the political spending of Hundt and Kauffman, as well as the political connections of other board members, with the organization’s official status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Hundt formerly worked in the Clinton administration as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and was a close ally of Vice President Al Gore, while Kauffman was a senior advisor to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu during the Obama administration, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Notably, Hundt’s personal account on X featured numerous anti-Trump posts — including ones endorsing efforts to remove Trump from the ballot — before it was deleted. Hundt did not respond to a request for comment.

The CGC has received funding in the past from left-of-center and environmentalist nonprofits including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the ClimateWorks Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The CGC features a number of other Democrat insiders in its ranks, the DCNF reported in 2023 when the group was rumored to be on the shortlist for a major EPA payday. For example, its board of directors includes David Hayes, who served as a climate advisor to former President Joe Biden; Cecilia Martinez, a former official in the Biden White House Council on Environmental Quality; Julie Greene Collier, chief of staff for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a major organized labor federation that endorsed Biden and, subsequently, former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race. The union donated cash to help Democrats in the 2024 cycle, according to FEC records.

“Coalition for Green Capital, like so many organizations funded by the Biden Administration, has no business receiving a dollar of funding from the federal government, much less billions of dollars,” Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center, told the DCNF. “It is plain to see that the organization is intended to be a slush fund for bailing out the floundering green energy investments of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors.”

Notably, two other groups that the Biden EPA picked to receive billions of taxpayer dollars — Power Forward Communities and Climate United — are also loaded with Democrat insiders, the DCNF reported previously. The political connections that each of these recipients possess caught the attention of congressional Republicans in May 2024, and current EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is working to claw back as much cash from the GGRF as possible.

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Nick Pope

Contributor.

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America Is Seriously Unimpressed By Congressional Democrats, Poll Finds

Americans’ approval of Democrats in Congress just plummeted to an all-time low while approval of congressional Republicans soared to an all-time high, according to a new poll.

Only 21% of voters approve of the way that congressional Democrats are handling their job, which is a record low, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published on Wednesday. Of those surveyed, 68% said they disapproved of how Democrats in Congress are handling their positions, and 11% did not offer an opinion.

Meanwhile, the survey found that a record number of Americans approve of how Republicans in Congress are handling their job. Of those surveyed, 40% approved of congressional Republicans’ handling of their jobs, while 52% disapproved and 8% did not give an opinion.

Still, 40% of Democrats said they approve of the way the congressional Democrats are handling their job, while 49% disapprove and 11% did not offer an opinion, according to the survey.

“It’s a sobering slap down of historic proportions for the Democrats in Congress,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy wrote in a Wednesday press release. “Their Republican counterparts take a victory lap as the Democrats try to get their footing.” 

President Donald Trump has recently notched higher approval ratings in the first several weeks of his second term than he did during his first term, with a CBS News poll released on Feb. 9 finding that 53% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing during his current presidency. Notably, a poll published toward the end of January found that overall approval ratings for the Democratic Party neared an all-time low.

The Democratic Party has faced various hurdles since Trump’s resounding victory in the 2024 presidential election, primarily struggling to formulate a plan to combat the new administration’s agenda, while Republicans have continued to expand their base. Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin acknowledged in a Tuesday memo that his party lost a share of working class voters and are now often viewed as the “party of elites.”

Quinnipiac University’s poll was conducted from Feb. 13 to 17 and surveyed 1,039 registered voters. The survey’s margin of error is three percentage points.

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‘Excuses Go Up In Flames’: California Dems Paved The Way For Los Angeles To Be Consumed By ‘The Big One’

Southern California was known for years to be vulnerable to potentially devastating wildfires, but Democratic officials did not take sufficient action before proceeding to botch the response to fires currently devastating the Los Angeles area.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to follow through on a signature 2019 initiative to revamp the state’s approach to wildfires and neglected to adequately manage wildfire kindling while a key reservoir reportedly sat empty in the lead-up to the fires that have rocked Southern California this week. While there is nuance to these shortcomings, the results of the crisis makes clear that California’s top officials failed to effectively handle a predictable and dire emergency, according to emergency management and policy experts.

“We saw this coming, and we have said, ‘I told you so’ every time there’s been a super fire. This time, the super fire happens to be even more catastrophic, because it’s happening in one of the most densely-populated areas in the United States,” Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s the same message, which is that we have neglected our water infrastructure. We have mismanaged our forests and chaparral in the name of environmentalism, and we’re paying the price.”

“Anybody who says this is being politicized should be ashamed of themselves, because every time this happened in the past, the people defending the policies blamed it on climate change, which is a completely politicized issue,” Ring added. “And instead of making the hard decisions that might challenge environmentalist priorities, they did things like outlawing gasoline engines and mandating electric cars. Things like that have nothing to do with land management, they have absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem that needs to be solved.”

Ring said that inadequate use of prescribed burns and the regulation-induced decline of timbering in California have increased the density of vegetation available to fuel fires, making “the whole state a tinderbox.”

Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy, who has fought wildfires in the past, also said in a Wednesday Fox News interview that “the big one” was foreseeable, adding that the devastation unfolding in Southern California is largely attributable to government mismanagement of the emergency. Some forecasts, including those issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the California Office for Emergency Services, warned that Southern California was at high risk for serious fires in January before the fires began ravaging Los Angeles.

Joe Rogan also recounted in July 2024 that a Southern California firefighter once told him that the area had been fortunate to avoid a massive fire emergency, but that the region’s luck would run out one day when the conditions were right for a devastating blaze that could threaten the entire city.

Newsom launched a $1 billion executive order in 2019 to bolster the state’s preparedness and resiliency for wildfires. However, a 2021 investigation by CapRadio — a California-focused National Public Radio outlet — concluded that Newsom’s administration was falling short on some key facets of the program while embellishing its success publicly. Specifically, the report found that “Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns” in forestry projects identified as critical for wildfire preparedness.

The 2019 executive action was taken in response to the Camp Fire of 2018, a massive fire started by downed power equipment that ravaged Northern California and killed 84 people. In response to that fire and others, news outlets and subject matter experts repeatedly pointed out that California’s lax approach to forest management creates danger by allowing fire fuel to accumulate too much.

Additionally, California’s water infrastructure has attracted scrutiny for its role in the ongoing crisis amid multiple reports that fire hydrants in some of the hardest-hit areas failed to dispense water for firefighters battling the flames. A huge spike in water demand reportedly overwhelmed underground water storage tanks and their pumping systems in higher-elevation areas as fires jumped through neighborhoods.

“The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” Izzy Gardo, Newsom’s communications director, said in a statement provided to the DCNF.

The state has dealt with water scarcity issues for years, and it has not built a new major reservoir since 1979 despite major population growth over the same period of time. California also allows billions of gallons of runoff water to enter the Pacific Ocean each year instead of harnessing a portion for use because the state lacks sufficient infrastructure to capture meaningful volumes of stormwater, The Los Angeles Times reported in March 2024.

However, the fire hydrants failing happened primarily because the city’s water infrastructure could not handle a massive demand spike rather than a lack of available water in the wider system, according to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones. Additionally, a large reservoir in the vicinity of Pacific Palisades — one of the hardest-hit communities — was empty and offline when the fires exploded into a full crisis, The Los Angeles times reported Friday.

In 2014, California voters chose to enact Proposition 1, which authorized a $2.7 billion bond that would be used to fund new water storage, reservoir and dam projects. Not only did this funding fail to result in any new major reservoirs in the state, but officials actually moved in 2022 to get rid of Northern California’s Klamath River dams in order to protect salmon and steelhead.

Newsom announced Friday that he is calling for an investigation probing the factors that led up to fire hydrant failure and the reported unavailability of that articular reservoir.

Rick Caruso, a former Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor and former head of the LADWP, said in a Thursday interview that there is ultimately no excuse for crucial infrastructure to fail when it is needed most.

“I think that career politicians have making excuses down to a fine art, and you see it rolling out and trying to explain why there wasn’t water,” Caruso said during the interview with Fox 11 Los Angeles. “Nobody wants to hear an excuse for why they lost their home, why they lost their business. The reality is, they were not prepared enough … The preparation just wasn’t right. It wasn’t enough.”

Notably, Quiñones was hired in May 2024 to run the LADWP and take home a $750,000 salary, according to local outlet ABC7. Her salary is significantly higher than that of her predecessor, and the city council said at the time that the compensation increase for the position was meant to attract top-tier talent from the private sector.

Apart from Quiñones, eight of the top ten highest-paid Los Angeles city employees in 2023 worked for the LADPW, according to analysis by OpenTheBooks, a government transparency group.

Other municipal officials have also received sharp criticism for their actions before and during the crisis. As of Friday morning, at least ten people have died, while early projections for total damages from the fires range from about $50 billion to as much as $135 billion.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana when the fires broke out as part of a delegation sent to the country by President Joe Biden. On her way back to the U.S., a Sky News reporter confronted Bass at an airport with basic questions about the disaster, but Bass ignored the questions until she was able to get away from the journalist. (RELATED: Citizens Arrest Arson Suspect Possibly Connected To Los Angeles Fires: REPORT)

Bass addressed the fire in public remarks delivered on Wednesday night in the city, though she received criticism for making a gaffe that indicated her prepared comments had not been adequately edited before she got up to the podium.

Additionally, Bass approved a budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) for the current fiscal year that contained $23 million less than the prior year’s amid ongoing negotiations between the city and the firefighters’ union, according to The New York Times. The city set aside unappropriated cash expecting that a deal would eventually be reached — which eventually happened in November 2024 — before moving the funds over to the fire department’s accounts, with LAFD ultimately receiving $53 million more than last year all in.

Either way, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley complained about the budgeting issue — including reductions in funding available for overtime pay — in December 2024, writing in a memo that the cuts presented “unprecedented operational challenges ” for her department.

Crowley’s leadership of LAFD has also been scrutinized in light of the unfolding disaster. She took over the top job in 2022, with her official LAFD bio page and media reports touting her sexual orientation as a key credential.

Throughout her tenure atop LAFD, Crowley has emphasized the importance of fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in her department to complement the LAFD’s official 2021 “racial equity action plan” suggesting that a demographically diverse fire department is an effective one.

“Politicians and officials can spin whatever narrative they want to cover their tracks,” Frank Ricci, a former fire department battalion chief in Connecticut who now works as a fellow for the Yankee Institute, told the DCNF. “But, when it comes to emergency management, the brutal truth is this: your preparation is only as good as its performance in a crisis. If your systems fail when they’re needed most, all your excuses go up in flames.”

Representatives for Bass and the LADWP did not respond to requests for comment.

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WARNING: The Globalists Never Retreat

“I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


2025 is a New Year and America is getting a second chance. We still must understand no matter how much exposure communists get, they will never go away unless…We recognize it it up to We the People to take back our power. Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises but he can’t fix America on his own. It will take all of us to expose the corruption that the communist DNC will deny at all costs. We must be the ones to conduct oversight on our legislators. WE have no idea what they do behind the scenes but we must remember what they have done and how they did it. Globalists never retreat, they go underground and march forward.

First Communists/Democrats/Globalists (a.k.a. Globalists) came for the Constitution…they call it a living breathing document subject to constant change. They want it replaced with their UN Declaration of Human Rights which claims the Government and UN grants your rights. Whatever man grants, man can take away.

Then the Globalists got patriots to sign way their liberty for security. As a result of the Patriot Act Americans have neither liberty or security.

Then the Globalists got Congress to sell out the American citizens without due process in the name of fighting terror while refusing to name the real terrorists — NDAA

Then the Globalists turned the children on their parents. Reporting is done in school through a series of probing questions on the computer using specific algorithms on the national data base designed for children to report on their parents. The Trans agenda coupled with Common Core learning is designed to keep the people ignorant while destroying the family unit.. Approximately half of Americans are functionally literate.

Then the Globalists came for the Judeo-Christians by demanding they participate in killing their unborn in Obamacare and arresting them for praying in front of abortion clinics. Oppressive power hungry Globalists closed churches due to Covid the CCPvirus.

Now Globalists are coming after “We The People/Americans” by promoting communism in a fraudulent election.

The Green New Deal (GND) is a copy of Agenda 21/2030 following the UN programs of sustainability (do more for less). It is the goal for the UN take over of the sovereignty of America, causing a loss of American freedom and liberty and elimination of private property. Elimination of the 2nd Amendment is on the menu. UN Agenda 21 is the plan using the environment to control human activity. Pres Trump said NO Way but it is up to us to make sure that Congress is on the same track.

Another goal of UN Agenda 21 is to depopulate the planet by claiming there are too many humans. Progressives use phony science of man made global warming designed to control human activity not save the planet. If people are guided into believing in warmth, they will not prepare for extreme cold. Crops will freeze, less food will create food shortages which will kill people. Inflation couples with using corn for fuel caused food prices to escalate. Was CCPvirus designed to kill off the older population (less useless eaters.) Goal accomplished.

Globalists are atheists and many believe in GAIA, “mother earth is god” They have waged war against all religious groups. They are determined to remove all mention of GOD (you know, the “THING”) from every place possible because God must be replaced by your allegiance to the STATE and the UN. They fail to realize that God and morality are part of the soul of America and can not be removed by eliminating mere words. Question should be asked, if there is no g-d, then where do your rights come from?

Globalists are Republicans or Democrats who are cloaked in their new definition of Globalism. Students are taught to repel America and replace America by becoming global citizens Americans, now are describes as the enemy, will you be silenced by fear. You will be cancelled. Americans are finally realizing the only way Globalists have power is if Americans give it to them.

Globalists want your land for the good of the collective and use unproven, overly expensive central planning (never presented with financial information) for sustainable developments designed to redistribute your wealth and steal your private property through rezoning schemes and conservation easements. With the rise of Nationalism, we learned through this last election Globalists are in the minority. They are comprised of ignorant Americans, mostly young adults and politically ignorant adults assisted by a compliant media carrying the communism message cloaked in warm fuzzy words. Globalists are determined to secure the prize, America, (with all of its natural riches) and transform America into a communist police state.

Bush 41 Executive Order 12803—Infrastructure Privatization allowing countries to purchase American land. Today China, Canada Iran own American farmland and roads. According to the US Constitution, the Federal government doesn’t own land. They hold it for We the People. This unconstitutional Executive Order must be repealed.

We are many, they are few. This election proves that. The only way Globalists can win is by cheating. If you are silent you allow them to control you.

Is America worth saving? What can you do:

Contact your legislator and demand they follow the law. What good are laws if they are not applied equally?

Remember:

  1. Everything is connected
  2. Nothing is random
  3. There are no coincidences
  4. Everything has a plan. ALL PLANS ARE BASED ON LIES.

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