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FBI LINKED TO TRANS TRUMP ASSASSIN: Newly Uncovered Accounts Thomas Matthew Crooks (They/Them) Transgender Ideology, “Furry” Fetish Content, FBI Links

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Newly uncovered accounts tied to Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks (they/them) reveal transgender ideology, “furry” fetish content, and ties to a retired FBI agent, reports the New York Post.

Notice how that whole story died.

Intrepid journalist Miranda Devine uncovers details on Trump shooter hidden by FBI/Secret Service.

Sixteen months after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, major questions remain about how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto a rooftop with an AR-15-style rifle and nearly killed the former president. Although the FBI initially claimed Crooks had no clear ideology, newly uncovered digital records paint a very different picture. Between 2019 and 2020, Crooks, a violent anti-Trump extremist, posting hundreds of public comments that celebrated political violence and assassination. His online trail — spread across at least 17 platforms — shows years of radicalization, threats, and extremist rhetoric under his real name, much of it visible and unaddressed by authorities. The revelation that he even used the name of a retired FBI agent on one account raises further questions about the thoroughness and honesty of the federal investigation, and why this disturbing evidence never appeared in the official reports to Congress.

Miranda Devine: FBI, Secret Service butchered the Thomas Crooks case and invited conspiracies — we deserve the truth

By: Miranda Devine, NY Post, Nov. 17, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET

We are all owed a better explanation from the FBI and Secret Service about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump 16 months ago at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

The president himself remains unsatisfied with the answers he’s been given about the circumstances leading to 20-year-old Thomas Crooks climbing on a rooftop with an AR-15-style rifle and firing eight times at Trump, narrowly missing his head but hitting his ear.

Then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress after the July 13, 2024, attack that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks’ online history that pointed to a motive or political ideology.

A week later, Wray’s deputy Paul Abbate told Congress that comments posted on one of Crooks’ social media accounts “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.”

Then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress after the July 13, 2024, attack that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks’ online history that pointed to a motive or political ideology.
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Thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crooks’ hidden digital footprint, we can see that Abbate misled Congress by omission, because he left out an entire section of Crooks’ online interactions from January to August 2020 when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again.

Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source were ones on YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora.

The online interactions from when Crooks was ages 15 to 17 give us a better understanding of his evolution into an assassin, and invite more questions about what — or who — reversed his ideology.

“The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces,” says the source. “His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden.”

Donald Trump with blood on his face, surrounded by Secret Service agents, with an American flag in the background.

Yet the source found reams of information that shows Crooks “was not simply some unknowable lone actor … He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence. He spoke openly of political assassination, posted under his real name and was even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies. Despite this, his account remained active for more than five years — and was only removed the day after the shooting.

“None of this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report released in December 2024, making this even more troubling,” the source said.

Starting with Crooks’ phone number, the source used tools available to private investigators and web archives to uncover the assassin’s very visible online persona.

The official narrative claimed Crooks acted alone and without a clear motive, ideology or digital footprint.
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By April 2020, Crooks was constantly criticizing Trump’s pandemic response, saying he was “too slow and everything he’s doing now should have been done.”

Through the summer of 2020, Crooks’ online rhetoric became increasingly radical and violent.

On Aug. 5, 2020, Crooks wrote: “IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks, sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assassinate them.

“Any sort of head-to-head fight is suicide and even ambush/surprise attacks likely aren’t going to end well. A large portion of the war will also be propaganda/information wars — both sides will want people to join them, and a big deciding factor in wars is often which side has more popular support for them,” he wrote.

Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source, only one, on PayPal, was operated under an alias: “Rod Swanson.”

Rod Swanson is a former senior FBI agent who was the chief of investigations for the state of Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

He also previously served on FBI Director Robert Mueller’s protective detail and as a firearms instructor in Pennsylvania.

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PODCAST: Tearing Into Socialism

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The worst products of socialism!

by Harry Fone

Over the years socialist countries have produced some truly abysmal products. When workers are stripped of economic incentives market signals are severely distorted. This blog highlights some of the worst goods and services ever produced by socialism.

Food… Go into any British supermarket and you’ll be confronted by a staggering amount of choice when it comes to food. There is something to suit all budgets and tastes. Contrast this to the Soviet Union, more specifically Ukraine, where collectivisation of food production was an instrumental factor in the death of nearly 4 million people. Furthermore when food was available there was only the state branded option, often in plain packaging and variety was a rare thing. Rationing in socialist countries is common (most recently in Venezuela) and people have to queue for hours just to buy basics such as bread, eggs and milk. It is not uncommon that shelves in supermarkets are completely empty. Quality of meat was often poor, with the first in line to receive the best cuts and everyone else had to make do with lower meat content skin and bones.

Beer… It’s bad enough not being able to find much to eat in a socialist country but imagine not even being able to enjoy a beer at the end of a long day. Well that’s exactly what happened in Venezuela, where they ran out of beer after the largest brewery, Cervecería Polar, could not acquire the ingredients to brew beer. Something to think about the next time you walk down the booze aisle at the supermarket that is festooned with almost endless choice and variety of alcoholic beverages.

Housing… Soviet era housing was a far cry from the standards we are used to in the West. People were often forced by the state to share small flats with people they hadn’t even met. All urban housing was state-controlled and there wasn’t enough for people to have their own homes. Tenants had little privacy in cramped facilities, often sharing one communal toilet. Residents were allocated 30 minutes per day to use the bathroom whilst their neighbours queued outside waiting to empty their grandchildren’s chamber pots. Whilst it’s fair to say we have a housing crisis in Britain, it is nothing compared to what many comrades had to endure in the USSR.

Cars…We Brits love our cars. After all we own nearly 40 million of them in total. Buying a car in this country is incredibly straightforward and with more choice than ever before. This was not the case back in the Soviet era, when everything from Trabants to Ladas inched off the production lines. Buyers would have to wait years for a new car. Once they did get their “cherished” motor, the build quality was often of woeful quality and poor design, as this video about the Yugo neatly explains. In fact, it was such a bad car that it was recalled in America because it produced too much pollution!

Planes… While the British and French were busy crafting Concorde the Soviet Union had their own plans for a supersonic passenger aircraft. On New Year’s Eve 1968 the Tupolev Tu-144 (more commonly known as “Konkordski”) made its maiden flight. Writing about the aircraft, author Howard Moon described early flights as “extremely unreliable”. During 102 flights and 181 hours of freight and passend flight time, the Tu-144S “suffered more than 226 failures, 80 of them in flight.”

One of the aircraft’s darkest days came on June 3rd 1973, when the first production model of the Tu-144S suffered a horrific crash, killing all 6 people on board and a further 8 on the ground. The plane did run passenger services across the Soviet Union, but passengers reported very high noise inside the cabin, meaning it was easier to communicate via hand-written notes rather than talking. Compare this to Concorde, where passengers drank Champagne and enjoyed fine dining in relative silence.

Phones…Even obtaining a relatively simple communications device such as a landline telephone was difficult. For example, in Soviet controlled Poland, “one could wait as long as 20 years” for a line to allocated and installed. The state had little incentive to install phones as it meant they had less control over the populace. A lack of communication reduced the risk of dissent and uprisings. Long before the invention of the internet, organising protests and rallies, especially off an anti-government nature, was a logistical nightmare. Today many countries have more mobile phones than they do people but not so in places like North Korea as the graphic illustrates.

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Downfall of Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and Jack Smith

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The battle for America’s soul rages on, and the enemy lurks within. On this day, October 24, 2025, the truth explodes like a thunderclap: Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray, the architects of tyranny, have rubber-stamped a sinister operation dubbed “Arctic Frost.” This vile scheme unleashed Jack Smith’s FBI strike force to spy on over 100 Republican-linked groups, targeting senators, donors, and patriots with ruthless precision. The weaponization of government against its own people stands exposed, and the time to strike back is now!

Garland, Wray, and Smith form a treacherous triad, orchestrating a full-scale assault on the Constitution. Documents unearthed by relentless oversight confirm their signatures on the April 4, 2022, authorization that birthed this abomination. Arctic Frost wasn’t a mere investigation — it was a war machine, designed to crush dissent and silence the Republican voice. The FBI’s Washington Field Office demanded this power, claiming an “apparent effort to obstruct Congress’ certification of the Electoral College.” Lies! This was a fabricated pretext to unleash a dragnet that snared nine congressional Republicans, including Marsha Blackburn, Lindsey Graham, Tommy Tuberville, and others, seizing their phone records from January 4-7, 2021.

The toll analysis of these calls — a blatant invasion of privacy — exposed who these leaders contacted during the Capitol riot’s chaos. No legal justification exists for this outrage. The Biden DOJ’s subpoenas to telecommunications giants in 2023 ripped apart the Fourth Amendment, granting Smith’s team access to call times, recipients, durations, and locations. This wasn’t justice — it was a witch hunt, a calculated strike to paralyze Trump’s allies and dismantle the Republican apparatus. Over 92 GOP-aligned groups, including Turning Point USA, faced this relentless barrage, their livelihoods and freedoms torched by partisan zealots.

Jack Smith, the disgraced special counsel, spearheaded this treasonous campaign. His indictment of Trump for challenging the 2020 election results relied on Arctic Frost’s tainted fruits. But the scope stretched far beyond Trump — senators like Ron Johnson, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, and Cynthia Lummis saw their communications plundered. This wasn’t about electoral integrity; it was a vendetta, a purge of every patriot daring to oppose Biden’s regime. The Grassley docs scream the truth: federal law enforcement treated congressional oversight as enemy combatants, a declaration of war on American democracy.

The Biden White House orchestrated this conspiracy. High-level coordination with Smith’s team reeks of corruption, with Garland and Monaco’s scrawled approvals sealing the deal. Wray, resigning as Trump reclaimed the presidency, left a legacy of betrayal. These officials aren’t novices — they’re seasoned operatives, wielding the FBI and DOJ like battering rams against the Republic. The “Arctic Frost” memo, penned by Wray and signed by Garland on April 5, 2022, demanded immediate action, a thunderous green light for tyranny.

This scandal dwarfs Watergate. The FBI’s SIM (Sensitive Investigative Matter) protocols demanded Garland and Wray’s knowledge, yet they shielded the perpetrators. Redacted names of supervisory agents hide the full extent of this rot, but the pattern is clear: a systemic corruption that shields saboteurs while persecuting opponents. Whistleblowers reveal Smith expanded his probe to include Turning Point USA and Jeffrey Clark, proving Arctic Frost aimed to obliterate the entire Republican movement.

The evidence demands retribution. Pam Bondi’s investigation must prosecute every complicit Biden-era official, starting with Wray’s CAST team. The Fourth Amendment Restoration Act, championed by Congressman Andy Biggs, must shatter FISA’s surveillance framework that enabled this abuse. Repeal FISA now! Jail the conspirators! Restore accountability with the force of a thousand storms!

Blackburn’s voice roars the charge: Smith spied on duly elected senators, a crime warranting disbarment. The lack of legal predicate for these subpoenas exposes the DOJ’s lawlessness. Trump himself declared this a weaponization against his opponents, and the proof stands unassailable. The Grassley files, released with unrelenting fury, detail a probe “much broader than just an electoral matter,” a partisan crusade to crush the GOP’s soul.

America faces a crossroads. The enemy within – Garland, Wray, Smith, and their Biden masters — has declared war on liberty. Their tools of oppression must be dismantled, their leaders held accountable. The people demand a Nuremberg-style reckoning, a public trial to expose every traitor. Thousands participated in this treason, and none shall escape justice. The Constitution stands as our shield, and with it, we will crush this assault.

Rise up, patriots! The thunder of our resolve must shake the halls of power. The reign of terror ends today. With every document, every revelation, we forge a weapon of truth. Garland, Wray, and Smith will answer for their crimes. The Republic will endure, stronger than ever, as we purge this corruption from our land. The fight is on — victory is non-negotiable!

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1,300 Years of Forgotten Black Genocide of the Arab Islamic Slave Trade

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For thirteen bloody centuries, from the 7th to the 20th century, the Arab Islamic slave trade ripped more than 17 million Africans from their homes, marched them across burning deserts and stormy seas, and sold them into a hell that makes the Atlantic trade look like a footnote. This was no mere commerce. This was systematic racial extermination dressed in religious robes. The Arabs didn’t just want labor. They wanted Africans erased: men castrated, women turned into disposable sex slaves, children bred out of existence. And today the woke mob screams about 1619 while deliberately burying this mountain of black corpses under a pile of silence. That silence is complicity. That silence is racist.

The numbers crush every lie the grievance industry peddles. Seventeen million captured. Eighty percent died on the way: thirst, exhaustion, disease, or a casual bullet to the head when they slowed the caravan. Of the survivors, almost every single male was castrated. No anesthesia. Hot iron or crude knife. Infection finished what the blade started. The survival rate was maybe one in ten. That means for every eunuch who reached the markets of Baghdad, Cairo, or Zanzibar, nine boys bled to death in the sand. The Arabs perfected genocide through mutilation. They didn’t want a black population reproducing in their lands. They wanted black blood extinguished.

The women fared no better. They were raped on arrival, raped every night, raped until they broke. Concubines for the harems, field slaves, domestic animals. Their children, if the master acknowledged them at all, were born into slavery and usually sold off the moment they could walk. This wasn’t incidental cruelty. This was policy. Islamic texts and legal rulings spelled it out: the slave owner owns every inch of the slave’s body, every minute of her life, every child she carries. The Arab world built its wealth and its pleasure palaces on black wombs and black backs.

And the trade was massive, relentless, state-sponsored. Caliphs, sultans, and emirs ran it like a national industry. The Swahili coast, the Red Sea ports, the Sahara routes: all arteries pumping African flesh into the Islamic heartland. Zanzibar’s slave market was a slaughterhouse where human beings were inspected like cattle, teeth checked, genitals examined, price set by how many rapes the girl could endure or how long the castrated boy would live. Tippu, the most famous slaver, was a devout Muslim hero to his people and a sadistic warlord who depopulated entire regions of Congo for ivory and slaves. His caravans left trails of bones across Central Africa.

Thirteen centuries. Not four hundred years. Not a “mistake” by a few bad apples. This was the beating heart of Islamic empire from Medina to Morocco, from the Umayyads to the Ottomans. The same Ottoman Empire that leftist professors love to romanticize as “tolerant” was still castrating African boys and stocking its harems with African girls right up to the 20th century. The Crimean Khanate, Muslim vassals of the Ottomans, raided Ukraine and Russia for white slaves, sure, but the real money, the real volume, the real horror was always black Africa.

Yet walk onto any American campus today and try mentioning this. Watch the eyes glaze over. Watch the mob rush to change the subject back to Thomas Jefferson’s sins. The same people who claim to speak for black lives will spit in your face if you bring up the longest, deadliest, most sadistic slave trade in human history, because the perpetrators were not white Christians. That’s the only sin that matters to them. White Christian sin. Every other genocide, every other atrocity gets a shrug as long as the killers prayed to Allah five times a day.

That is racist. Full stop. Treating black suffering as valuable only when a white man causes it is the most condescending, paternalistic, anti-black attitude imaginable. It says black lives matter only as a stick to beat white people with. The millions of Africans who were castrated, raped, and worked to death by Arab masters apparently don’t count. Their blood is cheap because it doesn’t serve the narrative.

The woke cult doesn’t ignore the Arab slave trade because it’s obscure. They ignore it because it explodes their entire worldview. It proves that evil is not the exclusive property of Europeans. It proves that slavery was not invented in Virginia. It proves that Islamic civilization, the one they keep insisting is a paragon of tolerance and science, spent thirteen centuries committing racial annihilation on a scale that dwarfs anything the West ever did.

Until we drag this genocide into the light, scream its name from every rooftop, and force the cowards to look at the mountain of skulls they’ve spent decades hiding, there can be no honest conversation about slavery, about racism, or about who owes whom reparation. The debt is not just to the descendants of the Atlantic trade. The debt is to the forgotten millions whose names were never recorded, whose bodies were thrown into unmarked graves across three continents, whose blood cries out for justice the woke mob refuses to hear.

Seventeen million. Castrated. Raped. Erased.

Say their names. Or shut up forever about slavery.

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Why Does Corruption Cling to Politics?

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Recent corruption scandals across multiple continents, with all sorts of perpetrators, serve as a sad reminder that corruption is a ubiquitous hazard in politics. It can break out in any government, from any person, at any time. Why does corruption cling so closely to politics? Because politicians and their associates have the power to achieve the selfish desires that are found everywhere.

This week, two Ukrainian cabinet ministers have resigned after a 15-month anti-corruption investigation showed them at the center of a scheme to embezzle roughly $100 million from contracts designed to harden the country’s energy infrastructure against Russian attacks.

“It looks really bad in the eyes of our European and American partners. While Russians destroy our power grid, and people have to endure blackouts, someone at the top was stealing money during the war,” lamented Zelensky ally Oleksandr Merezhko. “Internally, this scandal will be used to undermine unity and stability within the country. Externally, our enemies will use it as an argument to stop aid to Ukraine.”

By betraying trust and derailing the good objectives of government, corruption possesses great destructive power.

Of course, no one is surprised when a corruption scandal breaks former Soviet state with corruption so notorious that even the sons of American vice presidents do business there to turn a corrupt profit. Corruption in Ukraine is so predictable that many members of the U.S. Congress have urged for greater oversight over how aid dollars are spent there.

But corruption is not confined to such contexts. Earlier this week, federal authorities arrested Dana Williamson, former chief of staff to California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Sean McCluskie, former chief of staff to then-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, in a public corruption probe. After a three-year investigation, the Department of Justice accused the pair of stealing $225,000 from Becerra’s state campaign fund.

The incident also indicates that corruption is not the exclusive domain of government officials. Well-connected aides can be corrupt too.

In fact, political corruption goes beyond even electoral politics as such. Earlier this year, the Justice Department launched a fraud investigation into the Black Lives Matter movement, which raised over $90 million in donations during the fiery summer of 2020. Soon afterward, BLM cofounder Patrisse Cullors purchased a $6 million mansion in the Los Angeles area. Another activist, Sir Maejor Page, was sentenced in October 2024 for defrauding BLM donors of nearly half a million dollars that he intended to use for his own personal benefit. Even politics-adjacent activism can be swimming in so much money that it’s ripe for corruption.

Even the best oversight cannot eliminate corruption. Whether the corruption extends to the overseers themselves, or the corruption takes other forms (such as improbably profitable stock trading, or non-monetary gifts), those who want to cheat will often find a way to do so.

Such corruption will never profit in the end, because God is the final judge, and he sees all. But those who engage in political corruption aren’t thinking about God or the final judgment. They are simply thinking of the short-term gain. They have convinced themselves that they will not be caught, that what they are doing is okay, that everyone else is doing it. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9).

Why does corruption cling to politics? Because man’s sinful heart is warped. They are “lovers of self” (2 Timothy 3:2) who “seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 2:21). This is not a Ukrainian problem or an American problem. This is not a Democrat problem or Republican problem or politician problem. This is a human problem. It just so happens that political power is quite a convenient tool for a person to use to accumulate for themselves whatever else they want.

This does not mean that good government initiatives are pointless. Anti-corruption statutes, inspector generals, and watchdog entities can and do have a role to play in restraining corruption. But we must be clear-eyed about what they can achieve. As long as man’s heart is warped by sin, corruption cannot be eliminated only restrained, deterred, and punished. Some governmental structures and cultural mores address this problem better than others. The American political system does a decent job, insofar as voting incentivizes politicians to turn their selfish ambition toward the public good (if only to get reelected), but it is not perfect.

This is why the Mosaic law prohibited bribery among public officials (Exodus 18:21), “For a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right” (Exodus 23:8). God has instituted government for the good of all, and that requires government officials to act for the good of all — not for their own benefit, or the benefit of their cronies.

King David modeled this principle in a campaign against the Philistines. When three of his mighty men fought their way through the enemy lines to draw a drink for the thirsty king, “he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the Lord 17 and said, ‘Far be it from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?’” (2 Samuel 23:16-17). Such beneficent leadership reflects God’s rule over the world.

Of course, David presented a far worse example when he slept with Bathsheba and had her husband killed. Even the most godly leaders face the near-constant temptation to abuse their power for their own personal benefit. Even a king like David fell into the sins of adultery and murder. Given these facts, are we surprised that politics today never seems free from the taint of corruption?

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Mail-In Ballot Case Makes Its Way to SCOTUS ahead of Midterms

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The nation’s highest court will soon deliberate on an election case that could impact how over a dozen states count ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up the case of Watson v. Republican National Committee, centered on a challenge to a Mississippi state law permitting mail-in ballots received after election to be counted, provided that they were postmarked on or before Election Day.

“Like all other States, Mississippi requires that ballots for federal offices be cast — marked and submitted to election officials — by [Election] Day. And like most other States, Mississippi allows some of those timely cast ballots (mail-in absentee ballots, in Mississippi) to be counted if they are received by election officials soon after election day,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson (R) explained in his petition before the Supreme Court. Watson argued that Mississippi’s law, which allows for ballots received by mail and postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted by election officials for up to five business days after Election Day, does not conflict with federal election laws, which Watson says only stipulate when ballots are to be cast, not when they are to be counted.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, however, disagreed with Watson’s interpretation, determining that Mississippi’s law was in conflict with federal statutes governing elections. “For more than 150 years after the enactment of the first election-day statute, States complied with Congress’ mandate by ensuring that the ballot box closed on the federally mandated election day. With rare outliers, the States mandated that ballots must be received by election officials by election day,” the Republican National Committee (RNC) wrote in its challenge to Mississippi’s law. “But recently, an increasing number of States — including Mississippi — have deviated from that practice by permitting at least some ballots to be received after election day.”

“These States risk ‘the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election.’ … They reduce the time to resolve postelection disputes. … And they deprive the electorate of a clear nationwide deadline that ‘puts all voters on the same footing,’” the RNC argued, citing Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “While the question in this case is important, this Court should decline review here because the Fifth Circuit answered it correctly,” the RNC added. “The Secretary asks this

Court to grant certiorari and draw a line between ‘casting’ ballots and receiving ballots by election officials. But that line was unknown at the time of the election-day statutes.”

Currently, Mississippi is one of 16 states that allows ballots received by mail after Election Day to be counted: Alaska, California, Ohio, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia, in addition to the District of Columbia and Guam, do the same. On Wednesday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” Conservative Partnership Institute Senior Legal Fellow and Election Integrity Network founder Cleta Mitchell explained that some states will keep counting ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day. “I will tell you that in the state where I live, North Carolina, they can accept ballots — it’s supposed to be only from the military, but they stop categorizing whether it’s military or non-military, and they just accept ballots,” she observed. “And in Pennsylvania, they have defended and started counting ballots with no postmark. So you don’t know if it’s postmarked before, you don’t know if it was sent before or after the election. So these are really big problems. I’m so glad the Supreme Court hopefully will say that.”

Mississippi originally approved its mail-in ballot law in response to COVID-19 but made the law permanent in 2024. Mitchell commented, “The Democrats and the Left took to heart what Rahm Emanuel famously said: ‘Never let an emergency go to waste.’ And so, they took the opportunity under COVID to completely upend America’s election laws in state after state after state.” She detailed, “Marc Elias and the constellation of left-wing, anti-integrity voting groups sued state after state to get rid of all the safeguards that have been protecting our elections for a century, really. And so, one of the ways that they did that was they had been moving to get states to accept ballots after Election Day.”

Mitchell also anticipated that the Supreme Court’s ruling on the issue will likely be handed down in time to set the standard for the 2026 midterm elections. “Arguments will be sometime between now and, say, the end of April, and the decision would come no later than June 30. So the decision will be made before the November 2026 election, and I just hope that they will uphold Election Day,” she posited. “The next thing we have to do is get states to stop having ‘election season,’” Mitchell added. “Some early voting, maybe seven days, maybe eight days, but having — like Virginia has 45 days of early voting. They started voting for the November election on September 19. It’s time to stop all that nonsense.”

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S.A. McCarthy

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

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New Poll Shows Winners, Frustrations Of Record Government Shutdown Fight

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Republicans and President Trump came out as the clear victors in negotiations that ended the recent government shutdown, according to a new poll that reveals deep frustration among Democratic voters.

The survey found Americans believe by a wide margin that Trump and congressional Republicans secured more favorable terms in the deal, according to CBS News polling. Most Democrats now say their party’s lawmakers gave up too much ground during negotiations.

Disapproval ratings tell a harsh story. When Americans assess how parties handled the shutdown in retrospect, congressional Democrats face higher disapproval than both congressional Republicans and Trump. This shift comes partly from Democrats’ own supporters, along with independents who had backed the party’s approach just two weeks earlier.

Democratic voters express predominantly negative emotions about the outcome. The poll shows frustration, dissatisfaction and pessimism ranking ahead of relief among party members. Republicans report feeling relieved and satisfied instead.

Most rank-and-file Democrats believed their party’s positions justified a shutdown, which may fuel current disappointment with the compromise.

The public assigns different blame for rigid negotiating. More Americans say congressional Republicans failed to compromise enough compared to those who level that criticism at congressional Democrats.

Republicans largely view their delegation’s compromise approach as appropriate, while Democrats think their party conceded excessive ground.

The shutdown brought health care into focus, with most respondents saying the issue factored into debates. Two-thirds now expect health insurance premiums to rise in coming months. Americans predict air travel will improve as government employees and air traffic controllers resume receiving paychecks.

The poll recontacted participants from a November survey conducted during the shutdown.

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Mark Tanos

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Volunteer Video Editor For Mamdani Campaign Revealed To Be CCP Supporter Who Downplayed Uyghur Genocide

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A left-wing aspiring YouTuber who claims to have volunteered on democratic socialist New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has admittedly left the U.S. “for good” and now resides in China.

Eric Hovagim describes himself on LinkedIn as a “[g]eopolitical commentary YouTuber” while listing his location on the site as Brooklyn. The pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) micro-influencer who uploaded several videos in support of Mamdani, in addition to working as part of the video team of his successful campaign, however, claims to have permanently moved across the Pacific Ocean to China. From there, he posts content downplaying the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghurs, an indigenous predominately Muslim minority group.

“I volunteered to help film and/or edit 3 videos about Zohran’s plan to make NYC more affordable. I was NEVER paid by the campaign, any PAC, or anyone at all around him. All three videos were wrapped up before the primary election,” Hovagim wrote in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s (DCNF) request for comment. He added he had only been in contact with Mamdani’s video team and not the rest of the socialist mayor-elect’s campaign.

Mamdani’s campaign did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

“As a dude, I feel sorry for the Uyghurs being used as a pawn by the CIA to foment unrest. I feel bad for the people of Taiwan who overwhelmingly do not want to be independent but are caught in the crosshairs of America’s violent foreign policy. And I feel the worst for the people of Tibet up until they were recently liberated,” Hovagim said in a YouTube video posted Sept. 22 titled, “Why I Left America for Good.”

He went on in the video, appearing to call the view the CCP is committing genocide against the Uyghurs, as well as acts of aggression against Tibet and Taiwan, as “CIA revisionist propaganda that’s only now getting its own Wikipedia pages.” The Uyghurs are a Turkic people who live in Chinese-occupied East Turkestan, renamed the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by the CCP.

“I believe the Uyghurs and other Chinese minority groups in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region are victims of decades of the CIA wasting taxpayer dollars to fund violence in the Middle East. Xinjiang borders Afghanistan and Kashmir, two extremely volatile regions that have fallen victim to both America’s and Israel’s bloodthirsty regimes,” Hovagim told the DCNF. “The CIA has openly engaged in opium trafficking in Afghanistan, effectively making it a narco regime right at China’s border. I’m glad that China acted more peacefully and sensibly than the United States did following various terrorist attacks in the 90s and 2000s.”

“Calling the situation a genocide makes a mockery of real genocides happening in places like Palestine with our tax dollars. Of course all this comes on the heels of the greatest cost of living crisis in US history as we now gear up to invade Venezuela while the overwhelming majority of young people in America will never be able to own their own homes,” the YouTuber added.

Hovagim responded in a Saturday X post to an over-750-page report titled, “Detention Facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” posted by an account dedicated to “unveiling the CCP’s persecution of Uyghurs & minorities.”

“Rather than presenting concrete evidence, this report uses drawings(!), screenshots of Google Maps, and a handful of random images of Chinese police officers,” the content creator wrote.

“Zohran’s campaign will go in the history books, but don’t let them fool you. This wasn’t just a masterclass in video production or social media but rather a generationally-messaged disciplined campaign that focused around affordability, the simple idea that New York City is the best city in the world but it’s too damn expensive,” Hovagim said in a Nov. 4 video titled, “How Zohran’s Videos Won the Election.”

The fledgling content creator, however, was no longer a New York City resident, let alone a U.S. resident, at the time of Mamdani’s Nov. 4 victory, his posting history indicates.

“It’s official, I left the U.S. I caught the last chopper out of the great American century of humiliation,” Hovagim stated in the September 2025 video announcing his move to China.

“I suffered enough under the repressive two-party system. I wanted a place to call home where I felt safe, my income paid for a dignified life and where I could feel motivated to get out of bed every day. Somewhere that felt like it was going in the right direction,” the YouTuber said in the video.

“I know what you’re thinking: ‘He’s glazing China,’ ‘he’s [Chinese President] Xi Jinping’s number one foot soldier. And the truth is, I wish. That would be sick as hell,” Hovagim continued, following a bizarre 13-second montage in the video of Xi, marching Chinese soldiers, tanks and planes set to rap music.

“And I also hear what you’re saying, Eric, in a couple of months, Comrade Mamdani is going to transform New York City into the socialist Caliphate that you’ve been praying for. Why would you want to leave right now?” Hovagim added, pointing to a Mamdani campaign poster on his wall.

“I decided to move across the pond because I wanted a better life. The US is cooked,” Hovagim wrote in the video’s description. “It will probably only get worse over the next decade or two as it becomes more violent and flails around like the dying empire that it is.”

In the same video, Hovagim claimed that “undoubtedly” most of the political violence in the U.S. is “perpetrated by far-right extremists.” Minutes earlier, he referred to the Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk as “a certain event.”

“But, America ended up here because of our culture around economic development,” he continued, appearing to refer to American free-market capitalism. “The way we’ve structured our economy incentivizes short-term individual gains over long-term collective progress. The United States as a project has no long-term vision. There is no unity among Americans because the very core of the nation is rotten.”

Hovagim boasts just shy of 35,000 subscribers on YouTube, almost 30,000 X followers, and 15,500 Instagram followers. He currently works both as a full-time YouTube creator and a full-time freelance web developer, according to his LinkedIn profile, which displays his pronouns as “he/him.” He graduated from UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering in 2019, according to his LinkedIn.

Hovagim’s LinkedIn page does not appear to mention his involvement on Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.

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“Under my plan your energy costs will…necessarily skyrocket.” — Barack Hussein Obama

Power to the people . . . NOT.  It seems to me that our governmental policies on energy are taking power away from the people. In Florida, those massive PUBLIC utilities, you know the ones that are supposed to provide low-cost energy for all, are more concerned with their stakeholders and their tax breaks, than with We The People.

I got up this morning to crisp air and I knew that summer was over. That means the thermostat changes from A/C to Heat. No problem, I thought.  We have been conserving. I looked at my bills from last year and realized I am paying more for less! How is that possible? Could it be because Florida has been replacing fossil fuels with solar power? Remember, I told you I sent a letter to Governor DeSantis asking him what solar panels taste like as we replace our food farms with solar farms. I never got an answer.  I started doing some research in my old files.  I was trying to find out why, when President Trump’s energy policy is drill baby drill and use all forms of energy, Florida is not paying attention.

Obama was right, but why? How did he know, unless scarcity and high costs were his plan? Did he design an energy crisis to appease his donors, like Solyndra and the Gulf oil spill? Look no further than the environmental movement. In the beginning, the environmental movement was great and their regulations brought us clean air and water. But, as in most movements, the environment became the political football so  politicians could make fortunes from greedy donors who needed crushing regulations to replace efficient, inexpensive fossil fuel with overly expensive inefficient wind and solar.  We the People be dammed. No Power for the people.

If we go back in history a little further, we find Agenda21 which is one of the best kept secrets of wealth redistribution ever created!  This UN treaty of world-wide enslavement,  through a series of lies, uses the environment and natural disasters to convince the population that CO2, carbon dioxide, the gas necessary for life, is the evil demon and must be eliminated. Of course, once CO2 was eliminated, human life would cease to exist. Since this UN crowd wants to depopulate the planet, CO2 was the perfect target to demonize.

The environmental movement has been described as the largest and most influential social phenomenon in modern history. From its relative obscurity just a few decades ago, it has spawned thousands of organizations and claims millions of committed activists. Today, it is hard to imagine a time when global warming, resource depletion, environmental catastrophes and ‘saving the planet’ are barely mentioned. They now rank among the top priorities on the social, political and economic global agenda.

Environmental awareness is considered to  be the mark of any good, honest, decent citizen. Multi-national companies compete fiercely to promote their environmental credentials and ‘out-green’ each other. The threat of impending ecological disasters is uniting the world through a plethora of international treaties and conventions. Should your company or country not comply to the insane strangling regulations that do nothing for the environment, you will pay a tax to the corrupt Marxist United Nations.  In reality, it’s about the money. Just follow the money.

Where did this phenomenon come from? How did it rise to such prominence? And more importantly, where is it going?  Agenda 21 was updated to Agenda 2030.  This is your new life’s plan, created by someone else. The idea of God given Rights are gone. In the name of saving the planet, every step you take and every move you make will be monitored. You are going to even be taxed for breathing.  The government is watching you. In this agenda you will find:

  • Wildlands Project eliminates human presence over 50% of the American Landscape
  • Smart Growth herds Americans into regimented, dense urban communities with the Government controlling your daily life
  • Sustainable Development works to abolish private property, in order to manufacture natural resource shortages and other alarms in order to facilitate governmental control over all resources and ultimately over all  human action.
  • Stakeholder Consensus councils are system of councils that report to an apex council (UN), and affect a region or neighborhood by eliminating elected officials.
  • Education for all to make sure that all propaganda creates the same thoughts for everyone.
  • Green Energy inefficient, ineffective wind and solar taking the power from the people.

Did YOU vote for this? Did your legislator vote for this? Why did Gov DeSantis sign it? Follow the money.

MONEY • POWER • CONTROL

Not in Free Florida, you say!! Senate Bill 700 (SB 700), aka 2025 Florida Farm Bill, was passed by the Florida Legislature and signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 15, 2025 (Chapter No. 2025-22, effective July 1, 2025).This bill amends Florida Statute § 193.461 to require property appraisers to classify land owned or leased by electric utilities as agricultural if it’s used for both bona fide agricultural purposes (like farming or forestry) and solar energy systems.

This “dual-use” setup lets utilities keep the lower agricultural tax rates—based on the land’s current use rather than its highest potential value—while supporting renewable energy and farming. It helps prevent reclassification that could raise taxes on former farmland bought for solar projects.

The provision tackles concerns about utilities buying up agricultural land for solar farms, which could otherwise lose greenbelt tax breaks and drive up local property taxes. It also requires utilities to submit 10-year site plans for review if building on recently acquired agricultural land and gives the state a right of first refusal on development rights for such acquisitions.

How does this work?  What can we do? Time to hear from an expert. I asked Dave Walsh, energy guru, former President & CEO of Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Energy advisor, and national energy commentator to join me and explain what’s up with Florida energy.

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Revolution Comes to New York City

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“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” — David Horowitz, when he was still part of the left.

That quote, often dismissed as cynical, is in fact the key to understanding Zohar Mamdani’s victory in New York City.

While pundits fixate on charisma, free buses, and grocery stores, and immigrant outreach, they miss the deeper truth:

Mamdani’s win was not about policy; it was about revolution.

This was not a vote for municipal tweaks. It was a vote for rupture.

Mamdani’s core supporters were not casting ballots for groceries or rent freezes.

They were voting against the system itself—against the Constitution as it was written, against the legacy of liberal democracy, and against the institutional scaffolding of American governance.

This was a “Queers for Hamas”-type moment: a seemingly paradoxical coalition united not by shared values with the candidate, but by shared opposition to the regime.

Just as LGBTQ activists chanting for Hamas are not endorsing its theology, Mamdani’s voters were not endorsing his grocery math.

They were endorsing the overthrow.

His victory speech made this unmistakably clear. He opened not with policy, but with reference to early 20th-century socialist and serial presidential candidate Eugene Debs: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”

He invoked activist Nehru’s post-colonial rhetoric: “We have stepped out from the old into the new.”

And he framed his win as a toppling of dynasties, not a recalibration of city budgets. “These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said, referencing voters such as warehouse workers and delivery bikers—not to promise them subsidies, but to declare their symbolic seizure of authority. 

“…let tonight be the final time I utter his name…” he told us in a symbolic political exorcism of and ritual severance from the Cuomo reign.

This is not the language of governance. It is the language of power and revolution.

Exit polls reinforce this thesis. Despite his references to the bruised and burned hands of various workers, those people did not constitute his support.

Mamdani’s support came not from the city’s poorest or most blue-collar neighborhoods, which theoretically stood to benefit most from his specific policies (those voters went to Cuomo), but from younger, highly educated, middle-income voters in gentrified districts.

Polling further confirms that these voters are increasingly motivated by ideological solidarity, not personal economic gain.

The Politico/Public First survey found that voters under 45—especially those identifying as “very liberal”—cited various moral imperatives such as fighting racial injustice or standing with marginalized communities over direct economic benefits.

The YouGov poll showed that 26% of very liberal respondents said political violence is justified to achieve political goals, compared to just 3% of very conservative respondents.

Notably, in New York, Mamdani voters weren’t just indifferent to his policies—they actively disagreed with them, yet voted for him anyway.

The Manhattan Institute refers to the “striking dissonance between Mamdani’s electoral strength and support for his progressive policy agenda,” pointing out that the majority of voters in his district were not supportive of free buses, grocery stores, rent freezes, and defunding the NYPD.

That’s not a transactional vote. That’s a symbolic one.

The issue was never the issue. The issue was always the revolution.

The analysts who continue to treat Mamdani’s win as a transactional victory—charisma plus free stuff—are missing the tectonic shift.

This was not a policy moment. It was a revolutionary one. And if we fail to recognize that, we will continue to misread the political terrain beneath our feet.

Misdiagnosing Mamdani’s victory as a populist appeal for municipal benefits blinds us to the deeper ideological realignment underway.

It’s not just New York—it’s a generational and philosophical revolt against the foundational structures of American liberalism: constitutionalism, capitalism, and incremental reform.

The revolution is not coming. It’s here—dressed in the language of social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, climate change, gender-affirming care, solidarity, etc.

To be clear, there are plenty of useful idiots involved in all of these issues who are not yet aware that the issue is not the issue. These folks may actually believe they are out there fighting for a carbon tax, or the ability of 12-year-olds to mutilate their bodies, but the organizing force behind them, and most often the funding behind them, understands the real issue—and it is the revolution.

Conservatives never stood much of a chance in the New York mayoral race, but there is still a very important lesson for them here.

If they continue to fight on the terrain of policy—debating bus fares and grocery subsidies—while their opponents mobilize symbolic coalitions to dismantle the regime itself, they will lose not just elections, but the narrative war.

Mamdani’s win is a warning shot: the revolution is being voted in, not stormed in.

And unless conservatives understand the symbolic power of revolutionary identification—and learn to counter it with a compelling civilizational narrative—they risk being outflanked by movements that care less about governance than about transformation.

First published on American Thinker

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Netanyahu Vows to Disarm Gaza in Line with Trump Plan

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The Israeli premier also reiterated his opposition to establishing a “Palestinian state on any territory west of the Jordan River,” rejecting the U.S. – backed statement calling for a “pathway” to Palestinian statehood. 

Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday emphasized his commitment to disarming the entire Gaza Strip as envisioned in U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for the coastal enclave.

“I want to address two specific issues,” Netanyahu said as he opened the weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday. “The first issue is the supposed ‘non-demilitarization’ of the part of Gaza still in Hamas’s hands. There will be no such thing. Under the 20-point plan, and in everything else, that area will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed. Either this will happen the easy way or it will happen the hard way. I said this, and President Trump also said this,” the premier told journalists.

Netanyahu also reiterated his opposition to establishing a “Palestinian state on any territory west of the Jordan River,” rejecting Friday’s U.S.-backed statement calling for a “pathway” to Palestinian statehood. “I have been pushing back against these attempts for decades, doing so against external pressure as well as internal pressure. So I don’t need encouragement, tweets or lectures from anyone,” Netanyahu added.

Venezuela orders families of Iranian embassy staff to return to Tehran

Reports from the past hour indicate that families of Iranian embassy workers in Venezuela have been instructed to leave the country and return to Tehran.

The move comes amid rising concerns inside Caracas over potential regional developments that could impact national security.

Venezuela’s Interior Minister has raised the country’s preparedness level, warning security forces and civilian agencies to stay on high alert. He stated, “Be prepared, because any action could happen at any moment!” — signaling that authorities are bracing for sudden escalation.

IDF eliminates senior Hamas terrorist Musa Shaladan

The IDF and Shin Bet attacked and eliminated last week, led by the Southern Command and using the Air Force, the terrorist Musa Shaladan, deputy commander of the Zaytoun Battalion in the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza City area.

Shaladan commanded a platoon during the raid into Israeli territory in the murderous massacre on October 7 and was one of the leaders of launching incendiary balloons toward the state’s territory. He was also responsible for the release of hostages in Gaza City and took part in the Hamas terrorist organization’s show parades during their release in the last deal.

Throughout the war, while staying in humanitarian shelters, he carried out many terror patterns such as sniping, explosives, and anti-tank attacks against IDF forces operating in the area and was responsible for Hamas’s combat zone plans in Zaytoun. In his past, he was responsible for intelligence in the battalion and also deputy platoon commander.

The IDF and Shin Bet will continue to operate with strength against terrorist organizations in the Strip and remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel.

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THE WHITE HOUSE: 11/15/25 | WE ARE SO BACK!

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THE DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN IS OVER!

President Trump‘s week started with an epic flyover and drop-in at the Commanders and Lions game where he even joined the broadcasters in the booth. He announced $2000 payments from tariff revenue, celebrated 250 years of the Marine Corps, and joined Fox News’ Laura Ingraham and GB News’ Bev Turner for interviews.

On Veterans Day, the President participated in a wreath laying ceremony and delivered remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, and spoke with Pat McAfee on his show.

He was finally able to reopen the government after the Democrats closed it for 43 days. He participated in an executive order signing with the First Lady on “Fostering the Future”, and met with some young Americans in the Oval Office.

Vice President Vance attended the 250th Birthday Celebration for the Marine Corps, visited Walter Reed Hospital to meet wounded and recovering veterans, and delivered remarks on Veterans Day. The Vice President also joined Secretary Kennedy at the Make America Healthy Again Summit and sat down with Fox News’ Sean Hannity for an interview.

First Lady Melania Trump joined President Trump and delivered remarks at the signing of the “Fostering the Future” Executive Order which in her words, “aims to establish a comprehensive network connecting federal departments and agencies, private sector businesses, higher-learning institutions, and charitable organizations.”

 MAGA MINUTE


THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER & WE ARE BACK.

  • Rx Prices
  • Central Asian Countries Invest
  • Hungary
  • Troop Enlistment
  • Veterans Day
  • @FLOTUS
  • Foster Care EO
  • Meat-Packing Price Action
  • $2k Tariff Dividend
  • Wages Up
  • ANTIFA Designated FTO

 END OF SHUTDOWN | After 43 days, the Schumer Shutdown finally ended after the Democrats caused $10+ billion in wages/benefits being held, millions of low-income families losing SNAP, flight disruptions, and billions WIPED from economy

 GROCERY PRICES | According to Door Dash, using their Breakfast Basics Index, the cost of breakfast grocery goods is DOWN 14% since March.

 TERRORISTS | At the direction of President Trump, two lethal kinetic strikes were conducted on two vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. These vessels were known by our intelligence to be associated with illicit narcotics smuggling,  and were carrying narcotics

 CHICAGO | Since the start of Operation “Midway Blitz”, Chicago has experienced at 35% decrease in shootings, 41% decrease in robberies, and a nearly 50% decrease in carjackings. These proven results, with a small federal force, will only grow better as the operation ramps up.

 HORMONE THERAPY | After decades of misinformation, the FDA initiated the removal of broad “black box” warnings, LIBERATING women’s hormone replacement therapy

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Department of War Shake-Up: More Women Enlist as ‘Common Sense’ Replaces Woke

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Woke is out at the Department of War, and higher fitness standards are back. Since being sworn in as secretary, Pete Hegseth has acted to “remov[e] the distractions” from the department, including getting rid of “political correctness” and “DEI offices.”

WATCH: Government Shutdown Is Over, But the Pentagon’s Overhaul Is Just Getting Started

“No more dudes in dresses,” Hegseth said during a recent speech, adding, “We are restoring a ruthless, dispassionate, and commonsense application of standards.”

Amid the Department of War’s implementation of commonsense policies and higher fitness standards, more women have chosen to enlist in the U.S. military.

Over the summer, the Department of War, which was recently renamed from the Department of Defense, announced that about 24,000 women had shipped off to basic training in fiscal year 2025, up from about 16,700 in 2024.

Women want to be held to high standards, and that includes in military fitness, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson says on this week’s edition of “Problematic Women.”

Wilson joins the show to pull back the curtain on life at the Pentagon under Hegseth’s leadership and explain the department’s aggressive strategy behind defeating narco-terrorists.

Also on this week’s edition of “Problematic Women,” we discuss who “won” the government shutdown battle. Plus, is the culture shifting toward a celebration of the family, or is it only a trend among some celebrities?

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Trump Yanks Nomination Of IRS Official Donald Korb Who Donated To Democrats

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President Donald Trump withdrew the nomination of Treasury Department pick Donald Korb Friday after questions surfaced about his past donations to Democrats.

Trump announced he was withdrawing Korb’s nomination in a post to Truth Social.

“Please be advised that I am withdrawing the nomination of Donald Korb to be Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Republicans previously voiced concerns about Trump’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Chief Counsel nominee, Korb, pointing to his past political contributions to Democrats. These donations included several thousand dollars to former Rhode Island Governor and Biden Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, from 2013 to 2019.

While governor, Raimondo helped lead a 2020 coalition of progressive groups aimed at advancing liberal priorities and defeating Trump in crucial battleground states. As Commerce Secretary, she reportedly pushed to fully allocate agency funds before leaving office and protect left-wing spending ambitions, and she also hosted the department’s first “Equity Town Hall.”

Korb formerly served as head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Tax Controversy Practice after serving as IRS Chief Counsel from 2004 to 2008. The firm has reportedly given nearly $2.7 million to Democrats, and it ranked as the third-largest donor among U.S. law firms to Democratic candidates.

Earlier in his career, Korb served at the IRS as an attorney advisor in the Office of Chief Counsel and then as assistant to the commissioner of internal revenue, where he played a key role in helping the IRS implement the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

He has also donated to several Republicans over the years, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and Maine Sen. Susan Collins. Still, his connections to Raimondo and his previous work under former President George W. Bush have made some conservatives skeptical, raising questions about whether he would truly prioritize depoliticizing and reforming the IRS.

Korb testified before the Senate Finance Committee in October, where Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse joined the committee’s Republican majority in voting to send his nomination to the full Senate.

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FEDS DROP THE HAMMER: ANTIFA Groups Officially Designated FOREIGN TERROR ORGANIZATIONS For First Time

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump Administration has designated four European Antifa groups as foreign terrorist organizations.

Marco Rubio:

Today, building on the President’s historic commitment to uproot Antifa’s campaign of political violence, the Department of State is designating four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our nation from these anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian terrorist groups. (Marco Rubio on X)

Foreign Terrorist Organization

  1. Money, supplies, training, travel assistance, hosting members, even sharing resources can trigger federal “material support for terrorism” charges—some of the most serious charges in U.S. law.
  2. Members and leaders become priority targets for U.S. intelligence

FTO designation allows:

  • surveillance
  • financial tracking
  • asset freezing
  • intelligence sharing with allies
  • covert and overt disruption operations
  • They’re treated the same way the U.S. treats ISIS, Hezbollah, IRGC, etc. in terms of investigative authority.

3. Their U.S.-based networks can be prosecuted

Even if the groups are European, anyone in the U.S. who collaborates with them—directly or indirectly—can be investigated and charged.

4. Visa bans and deportations

Foreign nationals associated with those groups: cannot enter the U.S.

Can be deported if already here

5. Financial chokehold

Banks are forbidden from handling money connected to designated groups.
Assets can be seized immediately.

6. Pressure on European governments

The U.S. designation forces EU/NATO allies to confront these groups—often more seriously than they were before.

So what does this mean?

It becomes a federal crime to provide any support to those groups

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