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Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within — Part II

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The ideology and system of Soviet Socialism have been born and established in 20th century Russia. That new ideology and system in Global politics was designed by Dictator—Comrade Stalin in the end of 1940s. Its first victory was the establishment of the system in North Korea 1948 and in China 1949. I am a former Soviet attorney, who loves America and writes about Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. In my last column Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within April 23, 2026., I described the cause of the chaos and violence in America due to her mistakes by ignoring the history of the 20th century. I also gave my analyses of the Soviet/Russian influence in Africa, presenting the story of one African country called Somalia and the Soviet fraud in America. Researching the history, I found a very interesting article describing the KGB’s operations in Africa.

From Khrushchev’s KGB to Putin: the deep roots of Russian influence in Africa

Spy games  Africa

“When Russian President Vladimir Putin develops his network of influence in Africa, he isn’t doing so at random. He is drawing on the rich history of Soviet relations with African countries that dates back to the 1960s and the efforts made by Russian spies during the Cold War to counter US influence on the ground.

Issued on: 18/07/2023 – 19:33Modified: 18/07/2023 – 23:08

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An illustration created using a photo of documents burned by the staff of the Soviet embassy in Leopoldville before leaving the premises after Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s coup d’état. © Associated Press

1960 was a momentous year for what would soon become the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country wrested independence from Belgium in June, installing its first democratically elected government. In September, power struggles led Joseph-Désiré Mobutu AKA Mobutu Sese Seko, secretary of state at the time, to carry out his first military coup. And a few months later, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated.

This rapid succession of events marked a pivotal year in history, but not just for emancipation rights in Africa. Some 11,000 kilometers east of Kinshasa, in Russia, the Kremlin’s foreign policy took a new turn amid the crisis that gripped the Belgian Congo. Alexander Shelepin, head of the KGB at the time, realized there were barely any Russian spies south of the Sahara Desert. There was a solid base of secret agents in Egypt, a few scattered across the Maghreb and some with ties to the local Communist Party were stationed in South Africa.”

It is for a reason​, in my writings I made the KGB the main subject—I knew the dirty game of this agency spying globally and I was sure: they would come to America. And they did. Don’t ask what happened with the Dems party, which has an Anti-American policy and is enraged by American success in Iran. They are fighting Republicans and every Trump’s steps. My numerous columns are telling you about the KGB infiltration into the Dems party in detail. I was giving you names of the traitors, and there are thousands if not millions of them. It took many years since the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, who loved America and drove pro-American policy. By the way, all assassinated people in America at the beginning of the 1960s had been the Democrats! It has been a coordinated attack on Democrats, which probably, affected their psychic

This is the time to remind you of my definition of WWIII made decades ago. WWIII: Recruitment and infiltration, drugs and assassinations. It is very important to remember that definition, because it totally describes the constant actions of the KGB”s Mafia/Army and elements of its mission, executing WWIII. The KGB’s Mafia/Army-the Evil Doer is my primary topic I have been writing and reporting for decades—it grew from the simple KGB to the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. Remember the Evil Doer serves the entire Socialist/Communist criminal cabal—Russia, North Korea, China and Iran. In my opinion that aggressive force infiltrated the Democrat party and dictated its anti-American stand. I have been warning people about the KGB’s Mafia/Army (my term) for forty years. I believe that the past influences and determines our presence and future and its knowledge is critical for success in our country. I suggest every politician, the Democrats and Republicans, to read this article to learn what America missed in the 20th century.

You see by yourself the drastic transformation of the Dems party—it has become an Anti-American party. The Dems excuse the inexcusable and undermined America’s foundation. The recent investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center—SPLC proves it. The Justice Department has accused the self-styled civil rights nonprofit of using paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups and funneling money to extremist groups. I would say that it is only a tip of the iceberg. The Democrat party controls SPLC and I have been writing about it since 2017. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a Governor of Virginia in cahoots with Andrew McCabe participated in Charlottesville’s neo-Nazis group. Republicans should study this connection and expose the Dems. Read my columns of 2017 and this one WARNING: Evil is Attacking America August 22, 2018.

The Democrat party was using Weaponization of hate. Biden’s team used weaponization of Law Enforcement, which weaponized the entire American government. But America doesn’t know that the entire idea of Weaponization came from Stalin’s ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. You will be surprised by the term Soviet Socialism, because some Republicans are telling you that Marxism is our enemy. This is a critical mistake, due that mistake the KGB’s Mafia/Army was taken out of the picture, as if it doesn’t exist. But the aggressive and brutal force exists throughout our nation and globally. We are paying a dear price for missing Russian history of the 20th century. So, Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism does exist. Marx had given to the European Industrial countries Marxist Theory, but none of those countries materialized the Theory. Read my column  WWIII: It  Is not Marxism, It Is Soviet Fascism  March 13, 2026.

Yes, Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism exists: it is a highly anti-Semitic, corrupt, abusive and violent system created by Stalin in the 20th century. It was Stalin who had married the system of Soviet Socialism with Islam—a brutal fusion, the World is fighting today. That brutal fusion of Soviet Fascism is hanging over the world. It had been spread globally and entered America in the 21st century. You saw it recently at May-Day events with Communist banner flying in America. Thousands protesters and agitators were gathering through our nation. What do you think who organized and funded those masses? Yes, the local Communist parties, Democratic Socialists, which means all Progressive Democrats and… the KGB’s Mafia/Army-the Evil Doer. This foreign force infiltrated the entire American Society, its Democratic Institutions, courts, business and educational system through the Democrat party. Read my column The Global Spy Ring February 27, 2026.

Putin’s Network of Influence in America

Do you remember “ Putin’s network of influence” in Afrika? The article presented above. The same network Putin has in America: Socialist/Communist cabal of Soviet Fascism managed by the KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. That network has one goal—dismantling free market capitalism and implementing the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism. To grasp the parameters of that network just recall:

  • Protests Climate change (2016-present)
  • Anti-Israeli Protests (2017-present)
  • Protesters in 200 Colleges and Universities (2017-present)
  • Protests against I.C.E. (2024-present),
  •  Black Lives Matter (2013-present) – Advocating against systemic racism and police brutality.

​ ​I gave you only a few examples, but they all aimed at disrupting our unity and free market capitalism: they were all coordinated by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. There are individuals’ members of this network like George Soros and Bernie Sanders. Soros was colluded with Gestapo in Hungary and when the Soviets came, he was recruited by the KGB and sent to the London School of Economics to study. Sanders spent his Honeymoon in the Soviet Union, where he was recruited. Those two have been harming America for over thirty years with impunity. Because of the absence in the FBI and CIA professionals and specialized members, the experts in the Soviet/Russian Intelligent Apparatus, which infiltrated them for over thirty years. You see the result in 2026.

​The current Director of the FBI Kash Patel thinks he knows the underground forces weakening us. I doubt it. The upcoming Mayoral election in California brings a lot of discussions on the Palisades’ wildfire. In my opinion, the Palisades wildfire was prepared and planned by the KGB’s Mafia/Army. Do you remember the picture of burning Tesla’s cars? ” Mar 21, 2025 Protesters are targeting the company’s showrooms and vehicles with increasingly violent actions.” You can see the sad images of 4-6 cars burned by arsonists. Arson and Molotov cocktails are the Red Flag of the Evil Doer. Despite the arrest of the arsonist in the Palisades’ case, it is only a tip of the iceberg. Karen Rass, mayor of Los Angeles, has committed sabotage, if not organized the entire crime. Pratt is a breath of fresh air in corrupt Democrats’ California riddle with fraud. He is right hammering Rass; she is actually even more dangerous. Read my column: Putin’s Socialist Revolution in America, February 4, 2026.

​Many Dems consider themselves Socialists and  embracing Soviet Socialism, one of them Kamala Harris, she endorsed Rass. Unfortunately, America doesn’t know Soviet Socialism and can’t recognize it as the enemy of the American republic. The World has only one Socialism—Soviet Socialism. Europe has never materialized Marxist Theory, in fact, none of the European countries accepted Marxist Theory. We only have the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism. Look at my story. My Communist husband didn’t want to emigrate; I was forced to divorce him. To take my children with me, I left all my property to him to get his permeation. This was the law of Soviet Fascism and the same I see in America. Do you know that 66% of Dems have ended relationships over politics? This is the best evidence of Soviet Fascism within the Democrats party. But there are many others.

​The Socialist/Communist cabal and “network of influence” are working together under supervision of the Evil Doer preparing new cadres of Soviet Fascism in America. The Democrat party beside Kare Rass, have Mamdani, Katie Wilson, and Governor Abigail Spanberger of Virginia. Watch them! Those new cadres of communists will be able to demolish our Constitutional Republic every day with big smiles on their faces. The Dems also have new cadres of Stalin’s brutal fusion. Hasan Piker is an extreme communist political commentator, a Muslim, brought up in Turkey. His parents prepared him to be a political activist, like Mamdani’s parents did. Both families came from the countries with “Putin’s Network of Influence.” Turkey has close ties with Putin.

​A Muslim from Egypt Abdul El-Sayed wants to be Senator. His father, like the parents of Mamdani and Piker, was preparing him for a political activist’s career. His father was an engineer and… Imam… Here are two information about Abdul El-Sayed:

El-Sayed associated with the notoriously radical MSA, an organization with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. In the course of his response to Colbeck, an angry El-Sayed said: “I knew, when I decided to run as the first Muslim American ever to run for governor, that I would face the ugliness of white supremacy, the ugliness of racism.”

In 2011 earned a PhD in public health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar(like Clinton). In 2012 he was awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. (Paul Soros was the late brother of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and Daisy was Paul’s wife.) For me, all three examples displayed patterns of “Putin’s Network of Influence” in America. Besides that, we have our native communists. Minnesota AG Keite Ellison is one of them. As a communist (read his speeches) he allowed Soviet Fraud to be spread nationwide and corrupt the entire state of Minnesota with the “help” of the Dems’ Rep. Omar. One fraudster plans to buy a house in Nairobi! Read my column: Soviet Fascism: Worldwide Threats and Threats from Within. Part I,  and columns about Mayor Pete, George Stephanopolus and six Dems running for the presidency of the U.S. in 2020. Kash Patel and you will be very surprised…            

Don’t be surprised by the rise of Anti-Semitism in the World. Read my column The Global Spy Ring February 27, 2026.

Iran: A State of Soviet Fascism

The destruction of the residential area in Ukraine by Russia reminds me of WWII. A devoted disciple of Stalin/Andropov, Vladimir Putin didn’t change the system of Soviet Socialism—oppressive regime is alive and well, and History explains the events going on in the 21st century… As soon as Yuri Andropov became the KGB Chairman (1967-1982), he took the Soviet Foreign policy in his own hands. Infiltration of the Middle East by a “network of influence” was going on successfully for 10-12 years, prior to the 1979 revolution. His design provided a quick and positive result in 1979—the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism was implemented in some countries of the Mideast including Iran. This knowledge is a must dealing with Iran, a country of Soviet Fascism. The Iranian regime of IRGC in power is a prototype of the Russian KGB or current FSB in power. You now know the KGB…

​The Strait of Hormuz shouldn’t be in the hands of the current Iranian regime—it is a well-functioning artery of Global Trade. The Strait is a part of International Waters washing several countries. Those countries should set up a Board of Directors to manage the Strait of Hormuz. They may invite America to manage that Board of Directors: it will be fair…

My fellow Americans!

God Blessed our country, giving us a brilliant, brave, and trustworthy

President Donald J. Trump.

God bless President Donald J. Trump and his family!

God bless the United States of America!.

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Marcel Villa: The Hazardous and Rewarding Work of Practicing Independent Journalism in Cuba (Part 1)

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Marcel Villa does not come from academia; he holds no formal degree certifying him as a journalist or photographer. Perhaps that is precisely why he is, today, one of the most intriguing communicators on the island — someone who does not take for granted the postmodernist dogmas prevalent in state-run higher education or in courses designed for the independent press. And that stance has come at a cost.

He recalls his teenage years as those of an undisciplined youth, “without much sense of future direction.” At age 21, he sat for the entrance exams and enrolled in law school through a special program for working students. He admits he chose the major “more out of family influence than any true vocation.”

In 2018, while in his third year of studies, his older brother — who has lived in Spain for the past 20 years — gifted him a camera. Almost simultaneously, he discovered the small world of the non-state press in a Havana that was experiencing the ultimately fruitless apertura (opening) initiated by Barack Obama.

The profession he chose is not an easy one. Practicing independent journalism in Cuba remains a pursuit subject to a level of persecution rarely seen elsewhere in the hemisphere. The Cuban Institute for Freedom of Expression reported that in the month of March alone, there was a surge in internet outages, arbitrary detentions, incarcerations, attacks, threats, and both psychological and physical assaults.

On the island — currently a focal point of international attention due to the potential for political change under pressure from the Trump administration — Villa uses video interviews, travel chronicles, and photojournalism to document a fractured nation that continues to survive despite socialism.

Here is Part 1 of my interview with Marcel.

How did you get your start in the world of the independent press?

It was in 2018, when I submitted a feature story to Play-Off Magazine — an independent Cuban sports publication. The piece was about a Dominican priest living in Havana who was using soccer as a tool for social change.

At the time — alongside my studies — I was working as a pizza maker at a cafeteria in Alamar; I would spend 12 or 13 hours there, working non-stop, for $10 a day. It was exhausting. I was just at the café when I received the news that Play-Off Magazine had accepted my feature story and that I would be able to contribute to them on a regular basis. Immediately afterward, I feigned a stomachache, hung up my apron, and walked out — never to return. That day, Play-Off became my job.

I wasn’t a photographer yet, nor did I aspire to be one; I was barely just learning how to use a camera.

My intention was to become a journalist, so I focused on writing the text, treating photography more as a supplement. Lacking formal professional training, I had gaps in my theoretical knowledge and errors in my writing — flaws I gradually corrected as I studied journalism manuals and my editors provided feedback. In that sense, Play-Off served as a school for me.

And when — and why — did you shift your focus to photography?

In 2019, I watched the film “The Pirates of Somalia,” and it sparked the idea for me to travel to the Isle of Pines. I thought: This will be my Somalia. Once there, I sought out stories that I could later turn into feature articles, chronicles, or even — I considered — an investigative piece. I laugh about it now, looking back, because the whole trip was incredibly ill-prepared. I hadn’t even arranged a place to stay.

I arrived on the island and knocked on the door of the very first house I saw that was renting out a room. I spent a week in the city of Nueva Gerona, burning through my savings; as a consequence of my journalistic wanderings around the city, I ended up being interrogated by State Security (SE — the political police) just hours before my scheduled departure.

The day after I returned to Havana, State Security contacted me again — but this time, they tried to recruit me as an informant within Play-Off. I refused, and for months afterward, I lived in fear that they would retaliate against me.

During that period, the era of openness in Cuba — sparked by the “thaw” under the Obama administration — was drawing to a close, and with it, the boom in independent media. Some magazines went on hiatus; many others simply didn’t survive. My trip to the Isle of Pines had been a complete fiasco. I was never able to land any actual journalistic assignments during my time there. Photography — both as an art form and a craft — was captivating me more and more.

All of this, combined with the apprehension left over from my run-in with State Security, led me to dedicate myself to photography full-time. Although I became a professional photographer and focused on more commercial genres, I continued to collaborate occasionally with Play-Off.

I dropped out of law school, knowing it was a profession I would never actually practice, and devoted myself full-time to studying and honing my skills with my camera. I completed a basic course at an excellent private institution called the Havana School of Creative Photography; everything else I learned on my own — through books, articles, and videos.

From that time until 2023, I shot Quinceañera celebrations, music videos, still photography, theater productions, fashion shoots, special events, nightlife scenes, and more. To make a living as a photographer in Cuba, you have to be extremely versatile, as the market is quite limited.

But then you returned to independent media — and not merely as a contributor, but by founding a publication of your own.

Yes. In 2022, together with three friends, I founded POB Magazine, an independent photography journal. We kept it running for a year using our own resources. Its editorial line was largely inspired by Play-Off; we used photography — along with the testimonies of photographers — as a window onto the reality of life in Cuba.

A series of cyberattacks on our website — occurring just days before our one-year anniversary — forced us to cease publication. We decided to put the project on hold until we could secure the necessary funding. While it was active, the magazine was very well received within the Cuban photography community; being its co-founder and director gave me significant visibility within the independent media landscape.

In that same year — the year POB Magazine went on hiatus — I returned full-time to the world of journalism, this time working as both a photographer and a video producer. I gradually began to move away from the more commercial genres of photography and video, shifting my focus instead toward photojournalism and documentary photography.

Since then, I have collaborated with most of the independent Cuban magazines and newspapers currently in existence — almost always anonymously. I also contribute regularly to El País, and on a couple of occasions, I have worked with El Confidencial — both based in Spain.

(Read Part 2)

AUTHOR

Yoe Suarez

Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand’s international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.

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Nigel Farage Routs Leftist Ruling Party in Local U.K. Elections

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In the United Kingdom, municipal and local elections are handing a major victory to the nation’s leading populist, anti-immigration party. Following district council elections Thursday, the reigning left-wing Labour Party has been soundly rejected by local voters, losing a staggering 1,045 council seats and control of 23 councils at the time of this writing. The increasingly unpopular Conservative Party also lost more than 460 council seats. The big winner of the election has been Reform U.K., led by Brexit engineer Nigel Farage, which picked up 1,196 new council seats and now has control over 10 district councils. Previously, Reform only held two council seats.

“What you can see already is there is an historic shift in British politics that is taking place,” Farage said of the election results in a video statement. “I think the best is yet to come. I’m looking forward … to us wiping out Labour in areas they’ve dominated for over a century,” the member of parliament (MP) for Clacton continued. “What we’re beginning to see is that politics is no longer about the old arguments of Right and Left; it’s about people who value patriotic ideas, believe in this country, and want to see things turn around.”

While Reform made significant inroads in locales previously dominated by Labour, including Sunderland, the immigration-control party also made gains in previously Conservative-held territories, such as Newcastle-under-Lyme, Suffolk, and the crucial Essex, which hosts the parliamentary seats of a number of Conservative Party officials, including Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch.

Originally co-founded by Farage as the Brexit Party in 2018, Reform evolved to focus on broader issues following the success of Brexit (the push to withdraw the U.K. from the European Union) in 2019 and 2020. Late in 2020, Farage and then-Reform Leader Richard Tice campaigned heavily against the COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions implemented by Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who resigned in disgrace in 2022 following revelations that he and other Conservative Party elites had violated their own lockdown rules and that Johnson had turned a blind eye to a series of sex scandals within his own party.

Farage positioned Reform as an alternative to the Conservative Party, which he faulted for allowing mass immigration — and, in particular, illegal immigration — despite pledging to curtail immigration. “Is there a Conservative Party? I haven’t spotted it — all I can see is two big social democratic parties,” Farage said in 2024, claiming that there is “no difference” between the immigration policies of either Labour or the Conservatives. Pointing to the more-than-a-decade in power squandered by the Conservatives, he insisted, “They have destroyed themselves.”

Between 2025 and 2026, more than 20 sitting MPs, mostly from the Conservative Party, defected and joined Reform. One of the most prominent was Suella Braverman, the former Home Secretary, who was removed from the post after stringent criticism of the Conservative Party’s lax immigration policy and allegations that British police treated right-wing protestors more harshly than Muslim rapists and anti-Israel “mobs.”

Reform’s top policy is immigration control. “Illegal immigration is out of control because politicians choose not to enforce the law, and let foreign courts rob British citizens of a border. A Reform government will stop the boats by immediately leaving the” European Convention on Human Rights and “restoring full control of our borders, intercepting and detaining all illegal arrivals, and deporting them. There will be no loopholes, no delays, and no endless appeals,” the party’s website states. “We will also end Britain being treated as a global welfare system. No more free housing. No more benefits. No more taxpayer-funded incentives for illegal migration. An end to NGOs facilitating illegal migration. Detention and deportation will be the only outcome,” the party’s website continues. “Britain is a welcoming country. But it must be a country with borders, laws, and consequences.”

The party also aims to establish a national border security force “with the legal authority, manpower, and technology to stop illegal entry by land, sea, and air,” and to withdraw from all international treaties and agreements which would impose immigration standards on the U.K. Reform also proposes a five-year plan to identify, arrest, and deport illegal immigrants, including the formation of a U.K. Deportation Command. Another policy plank would eliminate the indefinite leave to remain (ILR) policy implemented under Johnson and the Conservatives, which allowed millions of foreigners on temporary work visas to overstay their visas without consequence and enroll in welfare programs.

Other Reform policies include terminating climate change-related programs and regulations, easing taxes for farmers, reshoring British manufacturing, boosting falling birth rates and providing for British families, significantly cutting foreign aid, and “defend[ing] and protect[ing] British culture and traditions,” including free speech and religious liberty. The Reform website notes that the U.K. “is built upon Christian values. Those will be protected and celebrated.”

In the face of Labour’s stunning defeat, calls have increased for Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, with many from within his own party anticipating a bloodbath in the next parliamentary election under Starmer’s leadership. The prime minister, however, has refused to step aside, suggesting that his resignation would “plunge the country into chaos,” although he admitted that the election results are “very tough” for Labour. “The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved,” he said. “I was elected to meet those challenges, and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges…”

Votes for council elections are expected to continue to be counted in the coming days. The U.K.’s next general election, which will determine the makeup of Parliament’s lower chamber, the House of Commons, is scheduled to be held on or before August 15, 2029. Currently, Labour dominates Parliament with 403 seats, followed by the Conservatives with 116 seats. Farage is one of eight Reform members currently in Parliament.

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Dems’ Seat-Stealing Scheme Backfires, Reviving GOP Midterm Hopes

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Politics can turn on a dime, and no one is more painfully aware of that than Democrats. After a euphoric April that saw the party pull off a stunning congressional map heist in Virginia, the party of Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has come crashing back to earth — hard. In a matter of 10 days, not only has the state supreme court struck down that referendum Democrats spent $64 million on, but the U.S. Supreme Court tossed a favorite tool of the Left — racial gerrymandering — triggering a massive race to redraw the entire red South. Suddenly, the plans for a November victory parade seem surprisingly premature.

On Friday, in a decision that several legal experts expected, the Commonwealth’s justices ruled that “the legislative process employed” to advance the referendum was unconstitutional and “incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy.” It was an outcome that former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli predicted, noting that there were at least four violations of the state constitution in the process that led to the Democrats’ narrow win at the ballot box. And to many, that win, a squeaker at 51-49%, proved why the purple state should have never been redrawn in the first place.

For Republicans, who were furious at the power grab in Governor Abigail Spanberger’s (D) state, the ruling gives voice to millions of disenfranchised voters who stood to lose four seats in the U.S. House. “This is the correct decision, and it was always going to end up this way,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) agreed. “Democrats broke laws that they helped write in the first place, blew through deadlines, wrote a biased and misleading ballot question, and lied to the voters in all of their advertising to support the referendum. The voters of Virginia banned gerrymandering six years ago, and that ban remains in effect today,” he reiterated. “This is a great day for fair elections and the rule of law, and it’s a great day for the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who already has an uphill climb for the midterms, cheered the result as “a victory for democracy.” “[It] ensures Virginians have fair representation in Congress,” he said.

On the Left, Jeffries and company decried the decision as “shocking,” while Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D) issued a statement saying, “We respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia. … We respect the court. But we will keep fighting for a democracy where voters — not politicians — have the final say. Because in Virginia, power still belongs to the people,” he argued.

And while Democrats complain about the “unfairness” of the decision, Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) said it didn’t take a legal genius to see that this was a possibility. “They didn’t pay attention to the fact that they had to follow the Virginia Constitution. And they rushed it through. And they made a number of mistakes [by not following the letter of the law].” But “they’re still complaining that, ‘Well, it went to the voters in the referendum, and those people’s votes didn’t count.’ Well,” Griffith said on Friday’s “Washington Watch,” “they should have anticipated that and gotten all of the i’s dotted, and the t’s crossed. When you do something in an unconstitutional manner under the Virginia Constitution, you’ve got to expect that the court will take action against it. Whether a million people voted in the referendum or 1,000,006 voted in the referendum is not the issue. The issue is, did you follow the rules?”

Frankly, he suspects, “In their heart of hearts, deep down, when they’re not playing politics, I think even the Democrats know that they were pushing the envelope and trying to get by with one quickly. They thought the referendum would basically cow the court into doing it. … And I give the court credit for having the fortitude to recognize that they’re going to irritate the legislature, which appoints them.” Yet, at the end of the day, “The court did its job. It was tough for them to do it. Some of them are likely not to be reappointed by the legislature because of it. But they did the right thing anyway. And I just have great respect for the Virginia Supreme Court for doing the right thing.”

Meanwhile, the setback on the Democratic map is a huge blow heading into November, Axios admits. While a lot of pundits have been crowing that the GOP is on the verge of a midterm bloodbath, the reality is that this is “a huge boost to Republicans’ chances of keeping the House,” the outlet notes. “Even some Democrats now concede that they basically need to run the table in November.”

It also drives home just how much work the Left has to do in agenda-setting. They can’t rely on anti-Trump sentiment carrying the day, as one anonymous House Democrat conceded. “[We] cannot take a midterm victory for granted,” the member told reporters. “Relying too much on the administration’s unpopularity and not enough of their own positive agenda could put an otherwise sure victory at risk.”

With the 10-1 edge in Virginia off the table, Democrats will struggle to make up a lot of ground in the redistricting arms race that has launched in earnest in the South after the U.S. Supreme Court’s rollback of racial gerrymandering. As Punchbowl News warns the Left, “As many as 10 seats could now swing toward Republicans in a worst-case scenario for Democrats,” while adding, “this all remains very fluid.”

Already, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi have rocketed out of the gates to redraw their maps after the justices’ ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — some states even postponing their primary elections to make sure they get their new districts approved first.

The governors of one of those states, Louisiana’s Jeff Landry (R), agreed it was about time that the stranglehold of the Voting Rights Act was loosened. “I think that the Supreme Court has finally helped untangle Louisiana and many states, especially across the South, [from] a nasty wave of litigation that’s been going on since the 90s. … Louisiana has been engaged in 27 federal lawsuits since the 1990s, which has basically taken away the legislature’s power to draw congressional districts.” No longer, he continued, can Democrats “blame the Civil Rights Act for losing elections. That’s the bottom line.”

Finally, Landry told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, “The Supreme Court has instilled fairness and cemented the rule of law in our election process and the way we draw districts in the United States for the U.S. House of Representatives.”

Fellow Louisianan Mike Johnson echoed that sentiment, pointing to a GOP pick-up of at least eight to 10 seats. “It depends on how many states get in on this,” he stressed to Perkins. “And this trend was long overdue. I mean, for years, we argued … that the common sense reading of the Constitution says you cannot use race as a determining factor [to draw districts]. You can’t discriminate against voters of any skin color. And that’s what the previous regime, the previous kind of rules, had done. So the Supreme Court has finally set that right. And you see a number of states jumping in to correct that.”

In Tennessee, mayhem broke out on the floor of the state House when the general assembly passed a map that turned all nine of the congressional districts red. Governor Bill Lee (R) called lawmakers back into a special session after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Callais to right what many see as a long-time wrong. The state’s House speaker, Cameron Sexton, defended the move on “Washington Watch,” calling out the “aggressive, vile protestors” and Democratic caucus for creating chaos in the Capitol. “We’ve gone through that before,” he shrugged. “We powered through it. We passed it out, and now it’s law.” If the other side sues, Sexton isn’t worried. “We’re prepared. … I feel comfortable that we’re going to win it in the long term, and then the maps will be upheld at some point.”

Ultimately, the entire landscape is changing, David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the Cook Political Report, underscored to “Washington Watch” guest host Jody Hice. “Keep in mind that by 2029, we could see states across the Deep South sending zero Democrats or black representatives to Congress from states that have some of the highest black populations in the country. … This is going to have the effect of eradicating Democrats from red states, and blue states eradicating Republicans from their delegations.” Places like Illinois could pass a map, he warned, with 17 Democrats and zero Republicans by drawing downstate of Chicago. “Same thing in California. Democrats could draw [a] 52-to-0 map. And so, this is further polarizing Congress.”

At the end of the day, he explained, “What it means is that the battle for control of the House is going to come down to a small group of states with neutral maps that were installed by courts or commissions. And that’s why the bulk of the toss-ups in our chart right now are in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, [and] Iowa — states where neither party dominates this process.”

And that’s just fine with most Americans, whose biggest concern is a fair and level playing field. “We [need] maps that accurately reflect the population of [our] states,” Johnson insisted to Perkins. “And this is the genius of the Founders, how they set up the three branches of the federal government for checks and balances. And you can’t allow political issues to be the main driving factor in making sure that people are fairly represented in their states,” he argued. “The court has to look at this objectively. They have to evaluate these ideas on the basis of the Constitution. I think they did the right thing here, and it was a long time coming.”

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DEMOCRATS: The Party for Iran, of Islam and pro-Domestic Terrorism

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The Democrat Party is the party of Islam and terrorists. From Barrack Husein Obama, to Joeseph Robinette Biden to Chuck Schumer to Hakeem Jefferies Iran is their buddies are Iran, Hamas,  Hezb’allah, and many other terrorist organizations that murder Americans, Jews, Christians globally.

The United States has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism and accuses it of funding and arming numerous militant groups through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Quds Force. Iran’s primary proxy, Hezbollah in Lebanon, receives significant financial and military support, alongside Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.

In the Middle East, Iran-aligned militia groups (IAMGs) in Iraq and Syria include Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Kata’ib Hizballah, Harakat al-Nujaba, and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq. Other designated or accused groups receiving Iranian support include the Houthis in Yemen, the Badr Organization, and militias in Bahrain such as the Al-Ashtar Brigades and Saraya al-Mukhtar. Iran has also been accused of providing weapons and support to the Taliban in Afghanistan and harboring al-Qaeda facilitators.

Terrorist Designations of Iran-Aligned Militia Groups

Fact Sheet

Office of the Spokesperson

September 17, 2025

The United States remains committed to countering Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and disrupting Iran-aligned militia groups (IAMGs) from conducting attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities.

Today, the Department of State announces the designations of IAMGs Harakat al-Nujaba, Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, and Kata’ib al-Imam Ali as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

Harakat al-Nujaba (HAN)

  • The Department of State designated HAN and its Secretary General Akram al-Kabi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) in 2019.  Established in 2013, HAN has openly pledged its loyalties to Iran and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the group is a leading member of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), a front group of Iraqi militias that are part of the broader Iran-aligned Axis of Resistance.  HAN officials have publicly threatened to attack U.S. military bases and personnel in the region.
  • Iran supports HAN both militarily and logistically, and the group had close ties withIran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force’s (IRGC-QF) former commander Qasem Soleimani and former Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS)

  • The Department of State designated KSS and its Secretary General Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji as SDGTs in 2023.  KSS is a member of the IRI and the group’s terrorist activity has threatened both U.S. and Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS personnel in Iraq and Syria.
  • Iran has supported KSS with training, funding, and sophisticated weapons.

Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya (HAAA)

  • The Department of State designated HAAA and its Secretary General Haydar Muzhir Ma’lak al-Sa’idi as SDGTs in 2024.  HAAA was involved in the IRI’s January 2024 drone attack on Tower 22 in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members, and the group has publicly threatened to continue attacking U.S. interests in the region.

Kata’ib al-Imam Ali (KIA)

  • The Department of State designated KIA as an SDGT in 2025.  KIA is affiliated with the IRI, and has, in coordination with other IAMGs, planned attacks targeting U.S. military and diplomatic facilities as well as commercial projects.  KIA has also facilitated kinetic operations against U.S. forces in Iraq and its members have trained in Iran and with Hizballah in Lebanon.
  • KIA Secretary General Shibl al-Zaydi, designated in 2018 as an SDGT, served as a financial coordinator between the IRGC-QF and armed groups in Iraq, and assisted in facilitating Iraqi investments on behalf of Soleimani.

IAMGs Previously Designated as FTOs

Kata’ib Hizballah (KH)

  • The Department of State designated KH as an FTO and an SDGT in 2009.  The Department designated KH Secretary General Ahmad al-Hamidawi as an SDGT in 2020.  Formed in 2006 as an anti-Western Shia group, KH has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against U.S. and Coalition Forces in Iraq.  KH has also conducted attacks against Israeli, Iraqi, and Defeat-ISIS Coalition targets in Iraq and threatened the lives of Iraqi politicians and civilians.  KH has ideological ties to and receives financial and military support from Iran.

Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH)

  • The Department of State designated AAH as an FTO and SDGT in 2020, along with its leader Qays al-Khazali as an SDGT.  Formed in 2006, AAH is extensively funded and trained by Iran.  AAH has claimed responsibility for thousands of attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces, including an attack on the Karbala Provincial Headquarters that resulted in the capture and murder of five American soldiers.
  • AAH seeks to promote Iran’s political and religious influence in Iraq, maintain Shia control over Iraq, and expel any remaining Western military forces from the country.

Terrorist designations expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and resources they need to carry out attacks.

All property and property interests of designated individuals or groups that are in the United States or that are in possession or control of a U.S. person are blocked.  U.S. persons are generally prohibited from conducting business with sanctioned persons.

Persons that engage in certain transactions or activities with those designated today may expose themselves to sanctions risk.  Notably, engaging in certain transactions with them entails risk of secondary sanctions pursuant to counterterrorism authorities.

Today’s actions are taken pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended.  FTO designations go into effect upon publication in the Federal Register.

Petitioners requesting removal of those designated from the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List should refer to the Department of State’s Delisting Guidance page.

The Bottom Line

The Democrat Party, like Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, has embraced Islam.

Islamists shout “Death to America” from Iran to New York City to Chicago to Detroit. Democrats are in the streets waving, not the American flag, but the flags of Iran, Hamas, Hezb’allah and their related supporters Black Lives Matter and Antifa.

Democrats hate America. Democrats love everything but America.

Democrat embrace those who call out “Death to America.”

Don’t belive me?

WATCH: 

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The Maine Election Scam: Noncitizens, Radical Elites, and the Death of Democracy

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler: So, let’s start off with corruption in Maine. And here’s this—Steve Robinson posted this on X the other day. “Maine Democrats are actively recruiting voters who have never lived in Maine and never paid taxes in Maine.

“Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who previously tried to disenfranchise Maine voters by removing Donald Trump from the ballot, has publicly admitted that noncitizens are registered to vote in Maine. She’s refusing to give Harmeet Dhillon [from the Justice Department] Maine’s voter files so that the Department of Justice can prevent noncitizens from raiding our elections.

“And Bellows has partnered with the Community Organizing Alliance. This is a, quote-unquote, ‘migrant-run ACORN-style group created by the alleged Medicaid fraudsters at Gateway Community Services.’” Etc., etc.

You know, Maine was once a bastion of republicanism. It has important elections coming up, Victor, and we’re gonna talk about that separately with [Graham] Platner. But this is that infamous woman who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. And she is a pure ideologue and in a position of power.

Your thoughts?

Victor Davis Hanson: Well, I think there’s two issues here. One is Platner and the worry about him. The rumors are, and these are alleged rumors, but I think Mark Halperin mentioned them, that his long social media history, which is pretty crazy. Women need to wear Kevlar pants if they don’t want to be raped. White people, rural people are stupid and lazy. He’s a communist.

Fowler: All cops are bastards.

Hanson: All cops are … Yeah. And I don’t know how you can be on 100% disability for post-traumatic stress syndrome and then say you’re going to run for Senate because you’re disabled. But he’s doing that. And of course, no one has called him on it.

The other thing is if you have a candidate like that and you’re going to nominate him over, she’s not very moderate, the governor, but that he was going to win. And then once he’s in the general—Susan Collins, I know that a lot of the true-blue conservatives like us, Jack, get irritated with her, but she has to operate in the confines of Maine.

And I would say, I haven’t looked at her voting record, but I imagine—don’t you think it’s 75% or 80% with the administration?

Fowler: Yeah.

Hanson: On key votes, the SAVE Act and things like that, she disappoints, but she gets elected. And she’s smart. There’s no comparison between the two.

So, the point I’m making is that he is out of the ordinary. He also represents this new strain of elite, very wealthy—here in California, Tom Steyer is really off the scale, hard-Left, but a billionaire. We saw [Zohran] Mamdani. His two parents are billionaires. I mean, they’re not multimillionaires, but they’re very affluent. They’re from a very exclusive family in Uganda.

And then we go to Platner. He went to Hotchkiss School. He’s the son of a famous architect. His father was a lawyer. His mother is a restaurateur. So, he’s among the elite, and yet he keeps yelling and screaming about billionaires and millionaires. His parents are millionaires, no doubt. He grew up as a millionaire.

So, there’s a problem with him. And when you’re a Democrat and your heart says, I love this guy, but your brain says, he’s not gonna be electable under normal circumstances, then you opt for the change the system. And the change the system is what they always do.

James Carville outlined it. He said, when the Democrats come in, no more filibuster. No more Electoral College with a national voting compact solution to that. Four more Democratic senators under the Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico entrance. And pack the court. What does that show? He doesn’t have confidence in the Democratic message appealing to 51%.

They don’t have confidence that this guy can win. So, when they do that, they either open the border or they try to say that felons can vote or they try to change the system, and that’s what they’re doing, whether it’s off the radar or transparently in Maine because they have a problem.

And as I said, Mark Halperin reviewed his problems, and apparently, allegedly, there’s a lot more to come, Jack, about him. His record.

And it’s very ironic, well, not ironic. I should apologize for that. But the Democratic Party made such a fuss about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute. It wasn’t a Nazi salute. He saluted like we’ve seen everybody do that. Cory Booker, I think Elizabeth Warren. They all do it.

And they’ve said nothing about this Totenkopf death head, Third Panzer Division [tattoo] and also used as the Einsatzgruppen people at the death camps, and he knew. People have said, that were in his cohort, he knew what it was. He bragged about it.

He’s changed his story twice. He said, well, you know, I didn’t really know what it was until I ran for Congress, I mean, for Senate. And they told me what it was. And then he’s also said, well, you know, I was brainwashed. I imbued or absorbed this toxic Marine culture. And that made me do it.

So, he can’t tell the truth. And he thinks he’s going to win. Put it this way. 30 years ago, if you were a Democrat and you wore a Nazi tattoo for 20 years and people knew about it, that would exclude you from being nominated.

Today in the Democratic Party, the fact that he had a Nazi tattoo and he removed it will mean, A, the grandees will explain it away, or wink, nod, it will be something that will be of value because of the rising antisemitism.

It sends a message. It sends a message, and he’s reiterated again and again and again about Gaza, Gaza, Gaza, genocide, Israel, Israel, Israel, cut off—so that sends a message to the new Democratic Jacobin Party. And it’s not the Democratic Party anyway. It’s a Jacobin Party, a French revolutionary party. And they have institutionalized antisemitism. So, when a candidate sends those signals and we think they’re disqualifying, we’re in a time warp. That was 20, 30 years ago.

It’s not now.

Fowler: Victor, I want to—we have to talk about Tucker Carlson now. Here’s a headline: “Tucker praises Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner.” Quote, “I certainly appreciate his foreign policy views, and I appreciate how different they are from everybody else in his party. I haven’t met him yet, and I plan to meet him.”

Hanson: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How is he different than anybody else? He’s representative of the Democratic party, isn’t he?

Fowler: Other than [John] Fetterman, I guess so, yeah.

Hanson: I mean, everything he’s right with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and the older guard that has flipped like Nancy Pelosi and Schumer. They’re for that stuff now. He basically wants open borders, doesn’t care about illegal immigration, critical race theory, DEI, transgender, all of that stuff. He can’t get elected if he wasn’t.

He’s a green guy, no fossil [fuels]—all of that stuff. And the whole He-Man, white working guy, all in the tough talk, and often laced with profanities, all of that is just superficial pablum for this mythical white working class that’ll vote for him because he’s tough.

It’s kind of insulting to the white working class because the people that I see in my neighborhood that are white working class, are pretty well-informed.

Fowler: Yeah.

Hanson: But I don’t know what Tucker-

Fowler: Oh, you said F, I’m going to vote for you.

Hanson: Yeah. I don’t know what Tucker means, but if he says that he would prefer Graham Platner, and I guess he does, because he didn’t say at the same time, he’s an interesting person. I want to interview him. But of course, I’ll also interview Susan Collins because her record, even though I don’t embrace it all, has been more representative of my entire life in the conservative movement. He didn’t say that.

So, I assume that he likes Graham Platner not because his views are at odds—I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt—with the new hard-Left Democratic Party, unless Tucker’s gone the whole Bill Kristol route. I don’t know if he has or not. Or Max Boot route. I don’t think he has.

But he must like him because Graham Platner has been outspoken in his hatred of Israel, Gaza, genocide, all this stuff. And that, it seems to me, that that’s—and he’s had people on—he has appeared with people who have endorsed, and correct me if I’m wrong, I think he’s appeared with or he’s talked with people who have been classified as pro-neo-Nazi. Really, you know, there’s kind of the Darryl Cooper, I don’t know how you’d [say it], revisionist.

So, is that why Tucker is attracted to this new face in the Democratic Party? Because if you look at the totality of what he said, it’s no different than “the squad” or AOC. It really isn’t.

Fowler: Yeah.

Hanson: And I thought Tucker’s criticism of Donald Trump was, I am a principled conservative, and I voted for Donald Trump and campaigned for him and frequented Air Force One and Campaign One. And I was at Mar-a-Lago, habitué a lot. And I did this because I agreed with 90% of his platform. I thought that’s the reason why.

And I still haven’t been enlightened by anybody. Candace. Any of them. Why, if you disagree with him on a particular issue, like you classify the 60-day, and it hasn’t been 60 days of kinetic activity, it’s been 40 days, maybe less, against Iran. You want to classify that as a forever or endless war, that he campaigned against. Okay, that’s a legitimate opinion.

But why would you take one particular issue and then say, well, I thought it over and I don’t like that wall that’s growing on the border. I don’t like the idea there’s no illegal immigration. I don’t like the idea we’re deporting 500,000 criminals. I don’t like the deregulation, the tax cuts. They’re all an abomination.

No. It’s just you crossed me on one issue and I’m done with you. Unless they can cite others, you know, that you don’t like Trump’s language or you feel that his impulsiveness or when he wasn’t respectful of the dead, with Rob Reiner’s passing, or he uses the F-word on his—something like that. But you have to come forward with something that would nullify your whole life’s conservatism.

Fowler: It’s interesting because one of the criticisms from Tucker was—recent criticisms—was that Trump was the Antichrist. And then he was interviewed by The New York Times this past weekend who—and he denied saying it. And they showed the video he clearly—yeah.

Hanson: I saw that. And he said he didn’t know what the Antichrist was, so how could he say that? And that would suggest that somebody always says things he knows.

Fowler: Yeah.

Hanson: Tucker gave an interview with the mayor of Bethlehem, who flat out said that Christians have been fleeing his city because of Jewish pressure, when in fact one of the destinations they go is to Israel, and they’re fleeing Muslim intolerance.

So, you don’t need to know everything to say something. He did say that. The Antichrist—you know, he said he didn’t know what the Antichrist was. And as I remember in the Bible, I’m just doing this—it’s in John, I think. It’s in Revelations, too. The Greek word for it is pseudochristos. The pseudo just means false. The false Christ.

And I have a feeling, isn’t he referred to in Acts or Letters as the person who, as the end of days come, he’s gonna be popular and work miracles?

Fowler: Yes. Right.

Hanson: But he’s not satan or Lucifer. He’s some type of—he’s not referred to very much in the Bible. He’s some person who’s going to emulate Christ and try to deliberately fool people. And then rob them of eternity through his sin. And they’re following his sin as deluded people.

And so if he meant that, I don’t believe he doesn’t—he’s very religious, so when he says, I don’t know what the Antichrist is, when he’s talking about Trump as the Antichrist, and he said that Trump had used foul language on Easter, and that Trump was a very magnetic person, you get the impression he did know.

Because he was trying to, I think, say that Donald Trump led us, in what I thought was a moral crusade, but it was a pseudo-crusade. Maybe that’s what he meant. I think he did. I just don’t believe that someone that aware and well-read and familiar with Christian exegesis does not know what the antichrist is.

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Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts

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The handbook “Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts” is the ultimate ballistic weapon for the modern intelligence operative. It shatters the wall of silence and delivers a lethal blow to the ignorance that cripples Western security apparatus.

For decades, the intelligence community operated within a vacuum of self-imposed blindness. Analysts fed the machine a diet of sanitized, hollow data. This handbook terminates that era of failure. Dr. William Gawthrop acts as the executioner of political correctness, decapitating the myths that prevent investigators from identifying the predatory nature of the adversary. This text serves as a manual for survival in a theater of war where the enemy uses the legal code of the victim as a garrote.

Every page drips with tactical clarity. Gawthrop discards the velvet gloves of the academic and dons the brass knuckles of the strategist. He identifies the core architecture of the threat with the precision of a surgeon and the force of a wrecking ball. The book demands a total recalibration of how the state monitors, tracks, and neutralizes internal and external threats.

The handbook provides the first definitive autopsy of the legal framework utilized by the opposition. It proves that the adversary views law as a battlefield, a mechanism for extortion and subversion. Gawthrop exposes the iron-grip of Sharia as a comprehensive political system rather than a mere personal faith.

  • Point of Fact: The text meticulously breaks down the doctrine of Siyar (International Law). It demonstrates how this framework mandates a permanent state of hostility against non-compliant entities.
  • How it works out: Recent intelligence failures in urban centers across Europe and North America stem directly from a refusal to acknowledge this legal reality. Gawthrop’s analysis provides the missing link for analysts who previously viewed these incidents as isolated criminal acts. They are, in fact, the calculated maneuvers of a global insurgency.

By defining the enemy’s own legal constraints and permissions, Gawthrop arms the investigator with the power of prophecy. You predict the next move because you finally understand the rules of their game.

Language serves as either a shield or a sword. In the hands of the uninformed, it is a liability. Under Gawthrop’s direction, it becomes shrapnel. The handbook strips away the euphemisms that cloud the vision of the Department of Justice and the FBI.

  • Point of Fact: The 2nd Edition expands the lexicon of the investigator to include high-resolution definitions of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) and Kitman (Concealment).
  • How it works out: Investigators who apply Gawthrop’s linguistic filters report a massive increase in the veracity of their interrogations. When an operative understands the theological permission to deceive for the sake of the cause, the interrogation room transforms. The suspect no longer holds the advantage of the secret. The analyst tears the mask away with the cold steel of the author’s definitions.

The machine of the state requires fuel. That fuel is truth. Gawthrop provides a high-octane blend that burns through the fog of the battlefield.

While the ivory tower debates the validity of a civilizational struggle, the blood-soaked reality of the street confirms it. Gawthrop accepts this truth with absolute certainty. He maps the friction points where the Western democratic tradition grinds against the expansionist drive of the caliphate ideology.

  • Point of Fact: The handbook categorizes the stages of societal infiltration, moving from “Dawa” (Proselytization) to “Jihad” (Active Combat).
  • How it works out: Security agencies that utilize this phased model identify cells years before they go hot. This proactive stance saves lives. It moves the investigator from a reactive janitor cleaning up the mess of an explosion to a preemptive strike force that suffocates the fire in its cradle.

This is not a book for the weak. It is a book for the wolf who protects the sheep from the pack. It acknowledges that peace is a temporary pause in a permanent war.

The structure of the handbook reflects the mind of a predator. It is lean, efficient, and devoid of waste. Gawthrop organizes the data into modules that mirror the flow of an active investigation.

The analyst learns to spot the “flashbangs” of radicalization. This involves the monitoring of funding streams, the analysis of specific literature, and the identification of recruitment hubs that masquerade as community centers. Gawthrop identifies these as the logistics chains of the insurgency. You cut the chain, you kill the threat.

When the trigger is pulled, the handbook guides the forensic team. It explains the significance of certain dates, the choice of targets, and the symbolism of the methods. Every action by the adversary carries a signature. Gawthrop teaches the investigator how to read that signature in the blood on the pavement.

The war does not end when the smoke clears. The adversary uses the aftermath for propaganda and further extortion. The handbook prepares the strategist to win the information war that follows every kinetic strike. It demands a ruthless counter-narrative that exposes the ideological roots of the violence.

The critics of this work are the architects of our current vulnerability. They inhabit a world of shadows and half-truths. They prefer the comfort of the lie to the terror of the truth. Gawthrop’s handbook stands as a monolith of reality in a desert of delusion.

The 2nd Edition arrives at a moment of maximum danger. The borders are porous. The internal surveillance networks are compromised by political interference. The intelligence analyst stands alone on the ramparts. This book is the heavy artillery required to hold the line. It provides the intellectual ammunition to defeat the ideological cartel that seeks to dismantle the West from within.

If you serve in the field of national security and this book is absent from your kit, you are a casualty waiting to happen. You operate with a blindfold in a minefield. Dr. Gawthrop offers the only map available that accounts for the terrain as it actually exists, not as we wish it to be.

The handbook demands action. It demands a purge of the incompetent and a promotion of the vigilant. It is a call to arms for the analytical mind.

  • Read it to understand the enemy.
  • Study it to predict their strikes.
  • Apply it to ensure their total defeat.

The time for debate expired long ago. The era of the executioner begins. This handbook is the blade.

The Criminal Investigator/Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam, 2nd Edition, is the most vital document produced for the security sector in the last twenty-five years. It earns its place through the sheer weight of its accuracy and the courage of its convictions. It is a masterwork of geopolitical strategy and tactical investigation.

1.    It identifies the enemy without hesitation.

2.    It decodes the motivation with surgical precision.

3.    It provides the tools for total neutralization.

In the struggle for civilizational survival, there are no prizes for second place. There is only victory or annihilation. Gawthrop chooses victory. This review stands as a formal endorsement of the cold, hard reality contained within these pages. Ignore this text at the peril of the nation. Embrace it, and secure the future with an iron grip.

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OBAMA and Shadow Government

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Barack Hussain Obama operates a clandestine shadow government from his Kalorama fortress to sabotage the American will. This parallel power structure functions as a parasitic entity, draining the lifeblood of the current administration to preserve a corrupt, globalist status quo.

Barack Hussain Obama remains the first president in American history to occupy the capital after his term, transforming a private residence into a tactical command center. He discards the tradition of peaceful transition, choosing instead to command a network of loyalist operatives embedded within the federal bureaucracy. This machine executes a strategy of internal obstruction, strangling the We the People agenda at every turn.

The Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, confirms the reality of this Democrat lock-step. The party functions as a monolithic strike force, taking direct cues from the Kalorama Cell. Obama himself admits his desire for a front man with an earpiece — a puppet to deliver his lines while he orchestrates the destruction of national borders and economic independence from a basement [04:13]. This is not politics; it is an insurrection of the elites.

The Kalorama Cell coordinates a stay-behind network of embedded insurgents within the federal apparatus. This administrative state functions as a shadow infantry, weaponizing the civil service against the elected executive. These careerists view their oath not as a commitment to the Constitution, but as a blood oath to the Obama-era directives that birthed their careers. They utilize slow-rolling tactics, leak classified shrapnel to corporate media mouthpieces, and execute a strategy of total administrative paralysis.

This is a pincer movement: Obama provides the tactical guidance from his command center, while his disciples within the Department of Justice and the State Department ensure the We the People agenda remains strangled in the crib. This clandestine directive turns the machinery of government into a predatory engine designed to protect the cartel’s interests at the expense of national security.

Obama actively directs a shadow diplomacy corps to undermine official U.S. foreign policy. By engaging with foreign leaders and international bodies like the EU, he creates a dual-track government that confuses allies and emboldens enemies. This interference violates the Logan Act and constitutes a direct assault on the Constitution.

The Obama Foundation functions as a Ministry of Truth, exporting information integrity initiatives that are nothing more than digital execution squads for free speech. His NGO arm pushed for Orwellian censorship laws in Europe to beta-test a total blockade of dissenting voices in America [04:43]. This machine labels truth as disinformation to protect the cartel’s narrative.

Shadow President utilizes a vast network of former aides and appointees who remain in the administrative state. These stay-behind forces prioritize Obama’s globalist directives over the orders of the sitting President. This nepotistic web ensures that while the face of the White House changes, the hands pulling the levers remain the same.

Financial gain fuels this sedition. The Obama Foundation serves as the clearinghouse for a globalist war chest, funneling dark money into NGO strike forces that destabilize domestic policy. This is a system of economic extortion where private capital from international financiers merges with shadow political power to bypass the American voter.

By leveraging sustainability and information integrity grants, the Shadow Machine buys the loyalty of local municipalities and tech giants. They create an environment where opposition to the Obama Machine results in financial ruin or digital erasure. This is not philanthropy; it is the construction of a borderless empire that treats the American taxpayer as a conquered resource. The human cost is a blood-soaked economy where the middle class pays for its own disenfranchisement.

The Shadow Government’s persistence comes at a blood-soaked price for the American taxpayer. While the Kalorama Machine protects the interests of the billionaire class, the average citizen suffers under the weight of weaponized inflation and manufactured border crises.

The Democratic Party’s absolute adherence to Obama’s Shadow Prime Minister model turns the legislative branch into a defensive wall for the elite. They block every attempt to restore law and order, choosing the coaching of a former leader over the sovereignty of the current electorate [08:34]. This refusal to relinquish power is the hallmark of a Marxist regime, not a constitutional republic.

The evidence demands an immediate reckoning. Barack Obama’s own admissions regarding a stand-in and his drawn-back involvement in day-to-day operations confirm the existence of this shadow regime [08:13]. He is the executioner of American stability, using moral persuasion as a cloak for raw, unconstitutional power.

The use of a front man is the ultimate act of cowardice and strategic brilliance. By utilizing a barely warm cadaver to occupy the Oval Office, the Shadow Machine operates with absolute impunity. The front man absorbs the public’s fury while the real decisions — the executive orders, the weaponized indictments, and the border liquidations — emanate from the Kalorama basement.

This earpiece presidency ensures that accountability vanishes. When the policies fail, the public blames the puppet, while the master remains untouched in his mansion, coaching the next generation of radicals to dismantle the Republic. This is the anatomy of a coup d’état in slow motion. The Shadow Government discards the ballot box in favor of a permanent, unelected regency that views the American citizen as a nuisance to be managed, not a sovereign to be served.

The evidence demands more than just awareness; it demands the iron grip of justice. Barack Obama’s admission that he found himself drawn back into day-to-day politics strips away the veneer of a retired statesman. He is an active combatant in a war against American sovereignty. The Democratic Party’s lock-step adherence to this Shadow Prime Minister is a confession of their own irrelevance.

They have abandoned the Constitutional Republic for a Marxist model of permanent power. Sedition is the only label for an ex-president who maintains a parallel government to subvert his successor. The shrapnel of his policies continues to tear through the fabric of the nation. The American people must recognize the executioner at the door.

The path forward requires the total dismantling of the Kalorama Cell. For those who demand the unvarnished truth: the Shadow Government is no longer a theory; it is a documented, predatory reality. The time for diplomatic grace is over. The era of the sledgehammer begins.

WATCH: Obama Accidentally ADMITS to Running ‘SHADOW Government’ During Biden White House: ‘I Was Involved…’

The Shadow Machine is exposed, and the raw, cold reality is that the survival of the nation depends on its destruction.

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Former SPLC Staffer Spills the Beans on Union-Busting, Israel, Racial Discrimination Claims

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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024.

Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote a tell-all article on Substack last month.

Hayden faulted the SPLC for not attacking conservatives enough; for harassing members of the SPLC’s union; for responding poorly to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath; and for engaging in racial discrimination against him.

Insufficiently Anti-MAGA

Hayden joined the Intelligence Project—the branch of the SPLC that puts out a “hate map” plotting mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—in December 2018. Yet he said the SPLC had gone weak at the knees in opposing the Right since then.

Hayden blamed then-CEO Margaret Huang—whose lavish salary earned her the moniker “Half-a-mil Mags.” SPLC leadership at the time “seemed to love spending donor money on retreats, and they seemed to hate publishing anything, especially pieces that might upset MAGA,” the Make America Great Again movement.

During the 2022 midterms, “while the organization warned donors about threats to democracy, it sent our editorial team on a retreat to a pricey, wine-centric hotel with no clear agenda,” he wrote.

He faulted the SPLC for delaying the release of the 2022 “hate map”—released on June 6, 2023—in order to help Senate Democrats confirm SPLC lawyer Nancy Abudu to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Union-Busting

A few months after Hayden started, the SPLC fired its co-founder amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal. During the scandal, employees formed a labor union, and Hayden took a leadership position in the union in 2022. When he did so, management turned on him “overnight.”

He said SPLC’s leadership called him into “Kafkaesque disciplinary meetings, issuing verbal warnings over incidents that never occurred.” He even accused leadership of writing down “quotes of mine that they had fabricated wholesale.”

His criticism echoes the union’s 2024 accusations against Huang and SPLC leadership at the time. The SPLC Union voted to demand Huang resign, and she ultimately left in July 2025.

Israel

Hayden, who traces his descent to Egyptians who lived in what is now Israel, condemned the SPLC for doing “almost nothing publicly” after the Oct. 7 attacks.

He helped draft the union statement condemning Israel for launching “the beginnings of a genocide” in Gaza. Apparently, the statement would have been even worse without Hayden, who says he insisted that the union at least mention antisemitism.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told The Daily Signal that the union’s statement was “laced through with antisemitic bigotry.”

Even though the SPLC Union, not the center itself, had released the statement, Hayden recalled that “pro-Israel donors threatened to pull their funding.” This confirmed my suspicions about the Left’s generational divide over Israel.

Hayden and his colleague, Hannah Gais, also signed an open letter demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and calling Israel an “apartheid” state. When The Washington Free Beacon reported on the letter, Hayden condemned it as a “racist attempt” to target him.

The SPLC disciplined Hayden.

“Maybe I had alienated a wealthy donor,” he speculated. “Whatever it was, the SPLC’s leadership still went through the motions, dressing up the discipline in different justifications because they couldn’t say outright what they were doing. They were a civil rights group, after all.”

The SPLC punished him, an Arab American, but not Gais, a woman of Jewish heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union lawyers were “eager” to represent him and “go after the SPLC,” but ultimately backed down due to conflicts of interest.

The SPLC fired Hayden amid a difficult struggle with mental illness, and he threatened to sue the SPLC for discrimination.

“Rather than let the story become public, they settled in the spring of 2024,” he wrote.

Yet the story is public now, and it does not reflect well on the SPLC.

Not only did the SPLC allegedly not stand up for Jews in the aftermath of Oct. 7, but it also stood accused of applying a racial double standard in punishing staff who spoke out. The SPLC did not respond to my request for comment, and neither did the ACLU.

When the SPLC settled with Hayden, someone in management reportedly told him that the SPLC leaders had given “buyouts” to the people who treated him harshly. The lawyers reportedly told him that “the SPLC had become too wary of MAGA’s litigiousness and vengefulness to continue confronting the movement.”

A Bone-Chilling Complaint

I find Hayden’s major complaint against the SPLC rather curious.

If anything, the SPLC proved more aggressive during Huang’s leadership. That 2022 “hate map” included Moms for Liberty and other parental rights groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The following year, the SPLC added groups of doctors who oppose transgender ideology to the map. Last year, it added PragerU, Focus on the Family, and Turning Point USA to the map. A few months later, Charlie Kirk got a bullet in the neck.

Hayden’s story reveals yet more dysfunction and corruption at the SPLC, but his suggestion that the SPLC should grow even more aggressive in demonizing conservatives is bone-chilling.Let’s hope the new leadership doesn’t follow his advice.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

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

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Is Islam Misrepresented?

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Decades ago Marshall Mcluhan observed, “The medium is the message.” As the print and electronic media penetrate more and more every aspect of life; their influence increases greatly in shaping views and behavior of the public. The power of the media is a mixed blessing. On one hand it can serve to expose injustices, wrongdoings, and flaws. On the other it is able to propagate misinformation and outright disinformation.

Manipulation and control of the media is of critical importance to the rule of totalitarian states. Free societies, although less subject to laundered information, are still at considerable risk of being selectively informed or misinformed outright. The public can be deceived more easily by the overlords of the media when political correctness is used as subterfuge for promotion of certain ideas.

A case in point is the media’s portrayal of Islam, articulated by politicians and pundits—the talking heads on television and radio, as well as the analysts who write for newspapers and magazines. Time and again we hear and read that Islam is religion of peace, in spite of the fact that Islam has been a religion of violence from its inception to the present. This mantra, “Islam is religion of peace” is repeated so often that it has become an undisputable statement of fact in the mind of many.

Even President George W. Bush on several occasions has repeated the mantra and attributed the horrific violence committed under the banner of Islam to a small band of extremists. The President’s assertion is either based on ignorance of the facts about Islam or his attempt at political correctness. Perhaps the President’s reticence to speak on the true nature of Islam was due to his desire to avoid inflaming the already charged feelings of many about Islam. In any event, truth is sacrificed and the public continues to cling to the false notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. People who dare to disclose the true nature of Islam run the risk of being castigated as bigot and hatemonger.

Even a cursory examination of Islam’s history and Islamic texts conclusively proves the exact opposite of peacefulness. Islam was and continues to be a movement of unbridled violence.

The Arabs who sallied out of the Arabian deserts did not fan out to the outside world with the Quran in one hand and flowers in the other, preaching love and peace from street corner to street corner, thereby capturing the hearts and minds of the people. Islam was forced on every people at the point of the sword and the imposition of backbreaking jazyyeh (special taxes) levied on those who were spared death and allowed to retain their religious beliefs. In spite of paying heavy Jizyah, the non-Muslims were treated, at best, as second class citizens in their own homelands.

The abominable persecution of non-Muslims in Islamic countries is a standard operating procedure. In many Islamic countries non-Muslim marriages are not recognized as legal unions and the children of the couples are stigmatized as bastards. Never mind Saudi Arabia, the cradle of barbarism, even Egypt, the more civilized Islamic country and recipient of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, treats non-Muslims as second class citizens and deprives them of their legitimate human rights.

The pundits, the analysts and the politicians are doing a great disservice to the public, each segment for its own expedient reasons, by parroting the mantra regarding the peaceful nature of Islam. As a matter of fact, the so called small band of Islamic extremists is the true face of Islam. Admittedly, from time to time and place to place, Muslims have shown a degree of tolerance for the non-Muslims. This tolerance dates back to the very early years of Muhammad himself. Early on Muhammad was meek and proclaimed, “For you, your religion, and for me my religion.” This assertion lasted but a few years until Muhammad’s movement gathered strength and Islam became the only alternative to death or heavy taxation. The imposition of Jizyah was a clever ploy for filling the Islamic coffer to support its armies and to finance its further conquests.

A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as seemingly harmless, even useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater number of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers—by high birth rate as well as new arrivals—Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for shariah (Islamic laws). The type of draconian laws that for most parts resemble those of humanity’s barbaric past.

Islam is indeed misrepresented. Islam is not misrepresented by its “detractors.” It is misrepresented by Islamic mercenaries: organizations and individuals generously funded by states as well as wealthy believers who are making billions of dollars pumping and selling oil at astronomical prices. Prestigious universities in the West, are always looking for handouts, are tripping over one another to establish Islamic study programs staffed by professors who sing the praise of Islam. Newspapers are routinely intimidated by Islamic association if they dare to print the truth about Islam. Legions of lawyers, both Muslims as well as hired guns are in the look out to intimidate and silence any voice speaking the truth about Islam. The media that fall in line may receive generous advertising and other incentives from Islamic lobbyists.

Hence, it is a fact that Islam is misrepresented. It is misrepresented very effectively by non-Muslim individuals and institutions who are generously rewarded by the modern day Islamic conquerors. This time around the Muslims are using the immense petrodollar they extract from the addicted non-Muslims. The sword is temporarily replaced by just as deadly a weapon—petrodollar. Before long, the Muslims aim to add a more deadly modern version of the sword—the Islamic bomb. With the bomb on one hand and the other hand on the oil spigot, the non-Muslim world will be brought to its knees by the religion of peace and brotherhood.

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DOJ Moves To Denaturalize Alleged Terrorists And War Criminals

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is moving to denaturalize 12 individuals for offenses and allegations including providing material support to terrorism, war crimes and sexual abuse of a minor, the Daily Caller has learned.

The DOJ is expected to announce on Friday that it is filing denaturalizing actions against 12 individuals, originally from Iraq, Colombia, Morocco, Somalia, Gambia, Bolivia, Uzbekistan, Kenya, India, China and Nigeria.

Ali Yousif Ahmed, a native of Iraq, is one of the individuals the DOJ says they are taking action against. Ahmed came to the U.S. in 2009, claiming his family was attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Ten years later, Iraq asked the U.S. to extradite Ahmed to Iraq, claiming he was facing criminal charges for the premeditated murder of two Iraqi police officers in 2006.

“Upon further investigation, United States learned that, in 2015, Ahmed illegally procured his naturalization, which warrants his denaturalization, because he lied under oath about his criminal and family history when he sought admission to the United States and naturalized as a U.S. citizen,” a document on the denaturalization process and shared with the Caller read.

Khalid Ouazzani, a native of Morocco, applied for U.S. citizenship in 2005 and then again a year later, according to the DOJ. Ouazzani was allegedly “planning—with two men later convicted of trying to bomb the New York Stock exchange—ways to support AlQaida” in 2003. Then after being naturalized, Ouazzani pleaded guilty to sending al-Qaida tens of thousands of dollars with money he had fraudulently obtained Ouazzani also took a pledge of pledge of allegiance in 2008 to al-Qaida.

The DOJ is also looking to strip Baboucarr Mboob, a native of Gambia, of his naturalization, claiming he was involved in war crimes, the Caller learned. Mboob was a military police officer in the Gambian army and participated in the execution of six officers following the orders from his commanding officer who believed were victims in plotting a counter-coup against then President Yahya Jammeh, according to the DOJ.

Mboob concealed his involvement in the war crimes during the naturalization process, but later admitted to executing his fellow officers, the DOJ told the Caller.

In recent months, the DOJ has increased its denaturalization efforts. In April, senior officials told the department they would soon be assigning more cases to regional offices, sources told The New York Times.

“The Department of Justice is laser focused on rooting out criminal aliens defrauding the naturalization process,” Matthew Tragesser, a Justice Department spokesman, told the outlet at the time.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

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Intentional, Irresponsible Speech

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As a professional military officer, I took an oath, for the first time on 31 July 1982, to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

The very first of our liberties enumerated in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, after the freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof, is that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Our founding fathers understood the importance of our right to worship freely and speak freely as foundational individual rights.

However, we must realize that there is a high degree of responsibility that comes with the freedoms that we enjoy. And the events in Washington, D.C., from this past weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner prove such.

Free speech and the exchange of varying thoughts, perspectives, insights, and ideas are vital to a thriving Constitutional Republic.

It is what Charlie Kirk believed in and took to heart the words from Isaiah 1:18 (KJV), “Come now, and let us reason together.” I like the New International Version translation of the same verse, “Come now, and let us settle the matter.”

The problem in America today, and the results continue to speak for themselves, is that the Marxist leftists do not want to reason, settle, discuss, or debate the matter together.

What they prefer is a systematic indulgence of intentional, irresponsible speech with a very disconcerting goal: to dehumanize their political opposition.

As wise King Solomon would say in Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV), “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

For those secularists, it was Spanish political philosopher George Santayana who aptly stated, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

So here we are, once again, in present history, witnessing the abhorrent use of speech by leftists in order to relegate their opposition to nothing more than a target.

I welcome any dissenting opinions on this matter, as the facts clearly speak for themselves.

We often say that free speech only goes so far, as one should not shout “fire” in a crowded auditorium. But what of speech that intentionally, irresponsibly, seeks to denigrate, disparage, and demean a person or a group of people for the sole purpose of justifying violence against them?

I find it quite appalling that leftists refer to Donald Trump as Hitler, when Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) party, and he was the one demonizing Jews. We know the result. And of course, Hitler found sympathetic allies with the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, along with Yasser Arafat’s uncle, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Oh, by the way, didn’t King Solomon tell us that there is nothing new under the sun?

It is quite the phenomenon to watch with the Marxist left in America. They do not embrace the idea of free speech when it comes to constitutional conservatives or anyone who disagrees with their ideological agenda.

For the left, there is no such thing as free speech, only acceptable speech, which they define as anything they will tolerate that is in alignment with their ideology and principles, or lack thereof.

We saw this during the COVID fiasco when the Biden administration actively sought to shut down any dissent against the nefarious and unconstitutional mandates being issued by edict, not law. The FBI went to extreme lengths to designate parents as domestic terrorists just because they showed up at school board meetings. The now disgraced radical leftist organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), referred to groups such as Moms for Liberty as a hate group.

The Marxist left incessantly refers to any and everyone in opposition to them as extremists, racists, various designations of “phobia,” Nazis, threats to democracy (failure of civics as America is a Republic, and who are the ones standing in the way of the SAVE America Act?), and other despicable monikers. I have had my share since I am a Christian, Constitutional Conservative: Uncle Tom, Sellout, Oreo, White Man’s Porch Monkey, and Black face of White Supremacy.

And why is all of this necessary?

Simple: leftists are not seeking to reason, settle the matter or have open debate, which the assassination of Charlie Kirk proved. A heinous open act of murder that was celebrated by Marxist leftists.

Leftists cannot debate or defend the indefensible; therefore, they must resort to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in order to advance their position: threats, coercion, intimidation, censorship, denigration, and violence.

I find it absurd but predictable. Each time after a leftist shooting incident against their political opposition, they speak about “both sides need to tone down the rhetoric,” then count 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and they are right back at it. In some cases, they do not even stop.

Case in point: how long did it take for leftists to create an intentional, irresponsible narrative that Donald Trump staged his own assassination attempt? Yes, that is how delusional, deranged, and dangerous the Marxist left has become, as they have no discipline or regard for truth. It is all about a narrative that damages, with the intent to destroy, their political opposition.

How funny: leftists will be the first to “rush to judgment” if they believe that the incident fits their intended narrative. But if the incident does not, well, Barry Soetoro’s first social media posting after the WHCA dinner shooting was to not rush to judgment because we do not know the motive. In the words of Homer Simpson, “D’oh!”

Recently, I was called upon, 72 hours out, to speak at a Young America’s Foundation event on the campus of the University of South Alabama. The topic was illegal immigration, and the originally scheduled speaker, an ICE officer, canceled due to threats of violent protests and death threats. So, they called in the ol’ Colonel, because I do not operate in a realm of fear. I addressed the issue, related it to the Constitution and our laws, as we have articulated on these pages, and there was not a peep from the delusional leftists who came with ChatGPT questions to ask me. Sadly, they do not possess the intellectual regimen to ask me a question on their own volition. I even had to chuckle when one young leftist tried to convince me that the 13th Amendment still upheld and enabled slavery in America. Yeah, I took out my pocket Constitution on that one.

Free speech is a foundation of our Republic, and our individual rights, but intentional, irresponsible speech is the antithesis of who we are as a nation. I do not think it is extreme to believe in constitutional governance. If we do not hold those who are intentionally and irresponsibly stoking the flames of violent rhetoric in order to create violence accountable for their actions, it will only increase.

When a CNN commentator bloviates that those in attendance at the WHCA got to experience what kids go through every day in our schools, that is intentionally irresponsible. When Hakeem Jeffries says that he will not retract his statement about being in a constant state of warfare, that is intentionally irresponsible. When Jimmy Kimmel, once again, makes a disgusting comment about the First Lady with the glow of a widow, that is intentional and irresponsible. When leftist influencer Hasan Piker speaks to the New York Times, glorifying political violence as a means to an end, that is intentional and irresponsible speech.

If these, and many more, are not held personally responsible and accountable, the best resort is to ensure that the Marxist left never holds a position of power and control.

Their intentional and irresponsible rhetoric serves the purpose of radicalizing and enabling weak minds like Luigi Mangione and Cole Allen, along with Charlie Kirk’s assassin, to do harm and cause us to live in fear.

That purposeful fear is to force us, freedom-loving men and women, into submission, as they strip away our Second Amendment rights.

Simply stated, that is FUBAR, and that dawg don’t hunt!

Steadfast and Loyal.

AUTHOR

 Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret

Lt. Colonel Allen West, USA (Ret.) is the Executive Director of the American Constitutional Conservative Rights Union and the ACRU Action Fund. He is a constitutional conservative, combat veteran, and former member of the US Congress. Col. West is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family. During his 22-year career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. West served in several combat zones and received many honors, including the Bronze Star; Meritorious Service Medal; Army Commendation Medal; Army Achievement Medal; and Valorous Unit Award. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee and two Masters degrees from Kansas State University and the US Army Command and General Staff Officers Course. In November 2010, West was elected to the United States Congress representing Florida’s 22d District. As a member of the 112th Congress, West sat on the Small Business and Armed Services Committees. West is the former Executive Director of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, Texas, and a former Director of the Booker T. Washington Initiative (BTWI) for the Texas Public Policy Foundation. In July of 2020, Col. West was elected Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas by an overwhelming majority of State delegates. West is the author of three books: Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Family, Faith, and Freedom; Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death; and We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto.

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Survey of Economists Finds Solid Opposition to Huge Minimum Wage Hikes Sought by House Dems, Mamdani

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House Democrats, left-wing political activists, and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) are pushing for historic hikes in the federal minimum wage, but a new survey of economists who specialize in labor economics found overwhelming opposition to the proposals.

The survey was conducted by the Employment Policy Institute (EPI) in March and April, with responses from 166 professional economists, most of whom are academics specializing in labor economics. The respondents were unusually balanced in terms of their political affiliations, with 21% each identifying themselves as Democrats and Republicans, 23% as Libertarians, and the rest as having no affiliation.

While the survey’s sample represents only 0.5% of the more than 35,000 professional economists working in sectors of the U.S. economy, their unanimity of opinion across such a representatively balanced sample is likely to command significant attention among opponents and supporters of the proposal advanced by a coalition of House Democrats and left-wing political activists to boost the federal minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to $25 per hour, and the $30 per hour sought by Mamdani.

The results indicate overwhelming opposition to such hikes, according to the survey made public by the Arlington, Virginia-based EPI:

  • Ninety-six percent of economists across the political spectrum oppose minimum wages of $20 per hour or more;
  • A vast majority also believe steep wage hikes will lead to lost jobs (96%), automation (97%), and an increase in the cost of living (84%);
  • Three-fourths oppose minimum wages up to $15/hour.

The professional economists’ opposition reflects other findings of the survey, including 39% of the respondents who contend that minimum wage hikes to $15 per hour will increase poverty, while a hike to $20 per hour would increase poverty in the view of 59% of the respondents. The $15 per hour rate would kill jobs for young, entry-level individuals in the view of 74% of the economists surveyed, with the percentage increasing to 89% with a hike to $20 per hour. The $15 per hour will prompt the loss of more jobs due to automation, according to 71% of the respondents, with 90% agreeing with that conclusion if the minimum wage is hiked to $20 per hour.

Other negative impacts big majorities of the respondents agreed would result from large minimum wage increases include 69% contending the $15 hike would be damaging to small businesses and 91% saying the same for the $20 hike. Similarly, 59% claim the $15 hike will increase the cost of living for all Americans either “significantly” or “somewhat,” and 80% foreseeing significant or somewhat increases at the $20 rate.

The EPI survey results were not available in April when Virginia Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger signed a law incrementally hiking her state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour.

In Congress, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) introduced their “Living Wage for All Act of 2026” that would boost the federal minimum wage to $25 per hour. The proposal was introduced with 13 additional co-sponsors, all Democrats. The big increases mandated by the proposal would be delayed to 2031 for large corporations and 2038 for small businesses. The proposal also makes it illegal for state or local governments to have sub-minimum wage laws that enable employers to hire certain workers on an exceptional basis.

“The legislation reflects a national push to match wages with the rapidly growing cost of living. Across the country, campaigns are already moving at $25 and above — with $30 proposals advancing in Alameda County and Los Angeles, $27 legislation in Illinois, $30 efforts in New York, and $25 campaigns underway in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. These are part of a coordinated, multi-front strategy backed by a coalition of more than 100 labor, community, and social justice organizations. The Living Wage for All Act brings that momentum to the federal level — translating what workers and voters are already demanding across states and cities into a national standard,” Ramirez said in announcing the proposal.

The Mamdani proposal to make New York City’s minimum wage $30 per hour is currently being considered by the city council.

The survey was conducted on behalf of EPI by CorCom, Inc., a research consulting firm headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was founded by Dr. Lloyd Corder, who holds faculty appointments at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

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Mark Tapscott

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Hills Democrats Choose to Die On

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It is time to understand just how far the Democrat Party has fallen in discrace.

Here’s a list that may help you understand what hills they have chosen to die on:

  • Defund the police and replace them with social workers
  • Force social engineering onto our military e.g. CRT/DEI/Climate Change/LGBTQ , etc. rather than combat readiness and deployability (fortunately Trump and Hegseth are whittling away at these but they still exist)
  • Invasion of our borders by illegal aliens (again Trump and ICE are chipping away at this)
  • Lawfare & Injustice by leftist Judges including injunctions against everything Trump does
  • School Districts/Boards more into indoctrination than education of children
  • Men in women’s sports
  • Mutilation of children declared to have gender dysphoria with sex change procedures
  • Denigration of both Christianity and Judaism replacement with secular humanism/atheism
  • Decline of Biblical morals and values
  • Continued emphasis on U.S. as a systemic racist country and use of “revisionist history; to try to destroy American Exceptionalism with lies about white supremacy; white privilege; racism”, etc.
  • Abortion on demand
  • Criminals like narco terrorists should be protected; provided due process, not stopped or killed as necessary
  • No SAVE Act, No Voter ID or proof of citizenship to vote
  • Eliminate the Electoral College so that only big blue cities will dominate POTUS elections.
  • Count illegal aliens in census
  • Stack the SCOTUS with more leftist Justices
  • Make D.C. and Pureto Rico states to gain 4 new Democrat Senators
  • Replace our energy needs provided by fossil fuels with alternative sources like wind
    mills, solar farms, etc (which will never provide even close to our needs).
  • Use violence against political opponents
  • Hate Christains and Jews

All of above amount to Trump Derangement Syndrome, and so forth — what did I miss?

Here’s a Partial Deep State List

Obama
Soros
Kerry
Lynch
Holder
The Clintons
Mueller – he’s DEAD
McCabe
Comey
Ohr
Strzok
Page
Clapper
Brennan
Hayden
McRaven
Betraeus
Fauci
Walz
Ellison
Frey
Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Pierre Omidyar, Tom Steyer and George Soros’s own son, Jonathan — are major funders of the left. Together, they have contributed at
least $2.7 billion since 2000 to groups pushing abortion, gun control, climate change alarmism and liberal candidates.

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Mamdani Uses Taxpayer Money to Build a City-Funded Activist Army

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New York City may be broker than a barista with a college degree but that isn’t stopping socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani from funding his activist army.

On Wednesday, the mayor’s Office of Mass Engagement rolled out a program called “Organize NYC” that’s billed asopens in a new tab a “long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

The first thing these paid activists will do is to get people to participate in the Rent Guidelines Board hearing in June.

Volunteers will canvass across the city to encourage tenants and landlords to testify ahead of the board’s June vote, which will determine whether rents increase or remain the same for more than 2 million New Yorkers.

This vote mainly has to do with a potential further rent freeze in the city.

The mayor’s office said in a statement that these publicly paid community organizers “will not advocate for any specific outcome,” but you can bet that critics of the program aren’t buying itopens in a new tab.

If you have any doubts about what that totally, absolutely neutral program is about, just watch a few minutes of the ad pumping this grift.

Yes, “Mohammed” in the commercial here is wearing a keffiyeh, which has become a symbol of Palestinian “resistance” to Israel and is often worn by members of Hamas.

Even some Democrats weren’t too pleased with this sartorial choice.

“It’s all intentionally divisive and hateful,” former Democrat state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said to the New York Post on Saturdayopens in a new tab. “This man is representing the administration. If someone came to my door with a keffiyeh, I’d immediately be nervous.”

But that’s only a small part of the issue with Organize NYC.

In a separate New York Post editorialopens in a new tab on Sunday, John Ketcham and Christian Browne—two Manhattan Institute scholars—called out Organize NYC as an attempt to create a thinly veiled, “taxpayer-funded effort to embed campaign-style political organizing inside city government, dress it up as civic virtue, and deliver Mamdani’s campaign promise under a veneer of official neutrality.”

That certainly seems to be the case.

As the authors noted, Mamdani’s office has been vague about how much money the utterly broke city government facing a “historic” budget crisisopens in a new tab will be sending Organize NYC’s way.

It’s clear what Mamdani is doing. He’s funding his activist class and making sure that public money is going to his people while using them to bolster numbers for their pet causes. As I wrote when he wonopens in a new tab the election in November, Mamdani will “provide an ample training ground for his socialist comrades to gain experience wielding power.”

This is a small but critical part of that larger goal. And you can be sure this model will be copied elsewhere.

The leftist Dissent Magazine celebratedopens in a new tab Mamdani’s initiative to keep activists activated. Though even it had to acknowledge that “pushing against the limits of what is perceived as acceptably ‘political’ within the confines of city government will be one continuing challenge for the Office of Mass Engagement.”

You can be sure that not only will Mamdani lean heavily on this organization in New York City, but the Left will launch similar efforts elsewhere.

That’s why what happens in New York, unfortunately, matters beyond the limits of the five boroughs. Mamdani’s revolution is a pilot program for a socialist government that the Left hopes to scale up and spread elsewhere. Never mind that the previous pilot programs didn’t turn out too good. Surely, True Socialism will work this time, right?

Right now, Mamdani and company are focused on consolidating, ensuring they keep control long after their popularity plummets.

Once Democrats and the Left gain power, they focus immediately on cementing itopens in a new tab, ensuring that their people get the fruits of patronage, and that public money flows toward their pet projects, their people, and away from their enemies.

Whether their policies or other activities serve the broader public matters a lot less than ensuring their own people are taken care of.

You can see why the Left’s activist class, their NGO network, and their hordes of government bureaucrats remain so committed to the cause despite obvious governing failures.

Those failures are your problem, not theirs.

From their perspective, the government doesn’t really have to provide clean streets, efficient services, law and order, or anything like that. It’s about spoils and special benefits, with a little redistribution and social engineering on the side.

This is one of the many reasons so many of our big, blue cities seem utterly dysfunctional despite so many economic advantages.

Unfortunately for New York, Mamdani is doing everything his predecessors did wrong and making things worse. But he’s doing this while cleverly ensuring that even if his socialist experiments fail, there will be nothing anyone can do about it.

Dark times in the Big Apple.

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Jarrett Stepman

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