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EXCLUSIVE: Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers Still Awaiting Justice 3 Years After Firebombing, Vandalism Spree

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The FBI has yet to solve at least five cases it opened into arson attacks targeting pro-life pregnancy centers in 2022, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Biden FBI offered cash rewards in 2022 for information on suspects responsible for firebombings around the country, mainly directed at pro-life facilities, after the preemptive May 2 leak of a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the abortion precedent established by Roe v. Wade. Five local FBI field offices told the DCNF that the bureau is still offering the incentive for cases in Colorado, North Carolina, Washington state, Oregon and New York, indicating suspects were never found or convicted.

The FBI’s Seattle field office told the DCNF that it’s typical for the bureau to update or delete the bulletins asking the public for information if suspects are caught, and if they’re on the website, the FBI is still looking for answers. The FBI’s national press office did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Enforce The Law Equally’

One targeted facility’s CEO, Jim Harden, told the DCNF he got a phone call from an employee around two in the morning on June 7, 2022, that changed his life. The Amherst, New York, building that was home to his organization CompassCare was set ablaze in what was eventually determined to be arson. The FBI released footage showing what it said were two suspects arriving in a car at night and throwing Molotov cocktails at the building.

Harden’s team had been on high alert that summer, having already contacted the FBI over concerns about a heightened risk of violence. Soon after the fire, he moved with his wife and children to flee an onslaught of threats against them as extremists lashed out at CompassCare, a Christian nonprofit providing free medical care to pregnant mothers to steer them away from abortion.

“Our lives are very different now,” he said in an interview with the DCNF. “We had to relocate our family … we had people riding past our house pointing guns at our kids.”

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in April that there were more than 200 cases of pregnancy resource centers “violently attacked by activists with no action by law enforcement, federal or state” in the past several years. Family Research Council documented almost 50 instances of vandalism and other attacks on pregnancy centers and pro-life organization buildings from May through June 2022.

“I can say we are taking them seriously now and will be for the duration,” Dhillon told the DCNF about such cases. Dillon declined to comment about any specific prosecutions that may be ongoing or forthcoming.

“This Department of Justice is committed to protecting crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations and places of worship from targeted acts of violence and will work to ensure justice is served to criminals who engage in this unlawful behavior,” a DOJ spokesperson said in response to questions about the unsolved cases.

The spree of violence even resulted in arson at a Portland pregnancy center run by a self-professed pro-choice woman in July 2022. As in the five cases involving pro-life groups, the FBI told the DCNF it is still offering a reward for information. The Dobbs opinion leak, which was investigated but never solved, also inspired an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh near his home.

The Portland facility did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The other pregnancy centers with unsolved cases in Longmont, Colorado and Portland did not respond to multiple requests for comment, while one in Seattle declined to comment.

Harden, the CompassCare CEO, said the pro-abortion Biden administration seemed apathetic about solving the cases, despite the FBI interviewing him about the Amherst bombing. He recalled reaching out and asking urgently for updates, leading to a moment when he said an FBI agent “was screaming” over the phone that the bureau was not required to update him.

“Their job was to enforce the law equally,  and it did not appear as if they were doing so,” Harden said.

‘Mountain Of Evidence’

While announcements about pro-abortion vandalism cases were scarce, the Biden administration boasted in press releases about several prosecutions of pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for protesting at abortion clinics. On his first week in office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-lifers accused of federal crimes.

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland explained the discrepancy in March 2023 by telling Congress that “it is quite easy” to identify and charge pro-lifers protesting in daylight.

“Those who are attacking the pregnancy resources centers, which is a hard thing to do, are doing this at night in the dark,” Garland said.

Harden did not — and does not — buy Garland’s explanation whatsoever.

“There’s a mountain of evidence,” Harden said of the vandals, noting that the authorities can search for license plate numbers, body mechanic imagery and cell phone IP addresses. “It’s just not possible they don’t know who they are. The FBI [is] the most technically advanced law enforcement agency on the planet.”

Some attacks on pro-life centers in 2022 were linked to a leftist group called Jane’s Revenge, with activists posting online threats in response to news about the leaked Dobbs decision. The FBI said the CompassCare vandals left the spray-painted message, “Jane was here.”

Harden told the DCNF his Amherst building was repaired at “miraculous” speed in 52 days thanks in part to volunteer workers, but the damage cost millions of dollars.

The attack inspired Harden to become more outspoken about political issues via media interviews. He also launched a campaign on a pro-life platform to fill Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s House seat in a New York special election. Stefanik announced she would remain in her role in April after Trump pulled her nomination to represent the U.S. in the United Nations.

‘Heart Problem’

Paula McSwain, executive director of the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Lincolnton, North Carolina, told the DCNF she received a letter from the FBI in August 2024 saying its investigation into arson at her building in June 2022 was closed. Surveillance footage showed someone at nighttime throwing what the FBI said was a Molotov cocktail.

The Lincolnton case is one of several for which the FBI is still offering a reward for information on any suspects, according to the bureau’s Charlotte field office.

McSwain said she was fortunate enough to get the pregnancy center up and running fairly easily.

“If they wanted to destroy the building, they could have done a better job,” McSwain told the DCNF.

The pro-life leader decided to respond to her ordeal by limiting public outcry.

“That’s what they were seeking, was attention,” McSwain said of the vandals.

Harden and McSwain said that if they could give any message to their attackers, it would be one of forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

“If you throw fire at any building, you’ve got a heart problem and there’s something not right with your life … We don’t seek revenge, we just pray for them,” McSwain said.

“The only reason I can forgive you is because forgiveness has been made available to me, and so I would encourage you to come out of the darkness and into the light,” Harden said his words to the criminals would be.

“Nothing is going to go unpunished if it’s sin,” Harden said.

AUTHOR

Hudson Crozier

DCNF Crime and Extremism Reporter.

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Roman Baber’s 1st speech to Parliament offers some hope that at least a few politicians actually understand what is happening in Canada

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Recently, we posted a video of a speech by a newly elected member of the Canadian parliament who was a doctor and a refugee from communism. It was an important speech which has the potential to open the Overton window on the true nature of many Western governments today.

He had stated that Canada went full communist under Trudeau’s various Covid measures. We would say the same except we would say that Covid was the excuse created in order to go full communist. Covid was the great revolution, dialectically named as, “The Great Reset”.

Thanks to A.P. we were made aware of another speech by another newly elected MP who also came from behind the Iron Curtain and had a lot to say about Canada and the Marxist-Leninist Liberal Party as it is under Carney/Trudeau. This is a little longer but really worth the watch. Especially the two Liberal MPs who attempted to derail him. Guess what the influences and motives of those MPs are.

WATCH: Roman Baber initial speech to Parliament Canada on the communist nature of Carney’s govt

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Latest FBI revelations show Mueller probe hid key evidence using secret classification

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A recently declassified FBI document reveals that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team used a hidden classification system to conceal documents from other investigators—raising serious questions about the integrity of the Russia collusion investigation and the transparency of the Justice Department. 

According to the FBI’s internal “Electronic Communication” (EC), dated September 2019 and declassified by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the bureau’s Sentinel case management system includes a designation called “Prohibited Access.” This setting not only restricts documents from being opened by other agents, but also makes them invisible in keyword searches—creating the illusion that no such records exist.

Mueller’s team reportedly used “Prohibited Access” to shield Trump/Russia-collusion case files, making them undetectable to other FBI agents, including those investigating whether Fusion GPS contractor Nellie Ohr lied to Congress. The EC indicates that on May 3, 2019, relevant documents about Ohr were inaccessible due to this restricted status, undermining the ability of investigators to pursue potential criminal misconduct.

This revelation has raised legal and constitutional alarms. The concealment of potentially exculpatory or impeachment evidence may violate the government’s obligations in both criminal and civil cases. It also calls into question whether Special Counsel John Durham, internal watchdogs, and congressional oversight committees received full access to the relevant information.

The EC also outlines strong evidence that Nellie Ohr—wife of former senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr—lied during her testimony to Congress about her involvement in the discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation. It also suggests that her research may have contributed to the controversial Steele dossier and Alfa Bank allegations.

Legal experts were stunned by the existence of “Prohibited Access.” Jay Town, a former U.S. Attorney under Trump, said he had never heard of it, calling the disclosure “staggering.” While one former assistant U.S. attorney acknowledged knowing of the designation, many career DOJ and FBI officials were reportedly unaware such a system even existed.

The findings raise urgent concerns about DOJ transparency and accountability during one of the most politically sensitive investigations in modern American history.

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Journalists of the World, Do Your Homework!

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Christiane Amanpour is an English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent. She compared recently ​the U.S. with North Korea. It is not only incompetence, but political illiteracy. Christiane Amanpour​ like many other world journalists, has a short memory about “a famous murderer of the 20 century”— Comrade Stalin. She hasn’t read my latest column: Ideas of Stalinism – The Basis of New Radical Democrat Party. I am a former Soviet defense attorney, who has written about Stalinism for the last 44 years. Here is a reminder for the journalists of the world:

Failed American Intelligence: North Korea, Syria, Putin, and the Obama Connection

November 15, 2024 by Simona Pipko

Many Americans were surprised by the recent Russia/North Korea Defense Pact, June 19, 2024. In fact, it wasn’t a surprise for the students of history. History is a mother of all sciences and Vladimir Putin is a devoted disciple of Comrade Stalin. Soviet history of Stalin’s era can explain the origins of the recent Russia/North Korea Pact and the ideology of Soviet Fascism. The Dem’s party was building Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism in Biden’s America; you just don’t recognize it yet. Please, read my column, written on August 20, 2017.

​The tension rises overseas; Syria and North Korea dominate the world media with a wide variety of discussions, stories, and predictions in April 2017. Yet, nobody connects these two countries ideologically. Alas, as usual, the media has forgotten Stalin’s era of building Socialism. As a matter of fact, Stalin’s long-range strategy included building Socialism world-wide and creating a One World Government under the Kremlin rule. Stalin planned to be a President of the World, his actions proved and confirmed his intent. Do you remember the First Communist International and the second one? Both were established in the 20th Century. As General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Stalin was its leader.

Don’t be confused by the fraudulent term Communism/Socialism. Carefully crafted Stalin’s political correctness has been working since the Socialist Revolution of 1917 in Russia to manipulate the human mind. Pay attention to the history and the facts of life. The expansion of Soviet Socialism started immediately after the revolution: Mongolia, China, North Korea, and so on. Both North Korea and Syria are Stalin’s states built on Stalin’s Doctrine of One World Government under the Kremlin’s rule, to dominate the world…

Stalin’s North Korea

Let me give you a part of a lecture I presented at New York University in 1990. We were discussing the book Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America, by Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. Clarion House, 1990. The book was stunning to me. The author knew well the machinery of the Soviet government and its modus operandi. He used the murky time in Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall and temporary openness in Russia; he visited the KGB archives, copying precious documents.  The book is a pearl of a documentary and should be read by all decent people in the world. That exact reading I recommended to my students. Here is a part of the lecture presented in 1990.

“Reading the book, you’ll learn about the so-called ‘medical facilities’ in North Korea. For that reason, I want to bring you to another part of the world and take the subject of the KGB even further back in time. Let me give you some examples. In 1945, World War II had ended, but not for Stalin. He had in mind his Second Front—Asia. He viewed it as a strategic region of paramount importance.

​“At that time, defeating Japan had left a political vacuum in North Korea, and Stalin used it. A Korean Army was formed, trained, equipped to the teeth with Soviet arms, and supervised by KGB men sent to implement Stalin’s formula in North Korea. Stalin personally chose its leader—a captain of the Soviet Army, Kim IL Sung. Since then, the connection between the Soviet military, the KGB and the Korean military has never ended—the Soviet General Staff had worked out the plan for aggression in 1950 and the Soviets military fully participated in the Korean War.

“After the communist victory of 1949 in China, under the slogan ‘Stalin and Mao—friendship forever,’ tens of thousands of Soviet advisors flooded China. These were Stalin’s apparatchiks and bureaucrats. All of them taught the Chinese how to build and instill the party machine and infrastructure of the Soviet system, with its institutions. Under the same slogan, hundreds of thousands of young Chinese flooded the Soviet universities. I met some of them in law school. By that time, they spoke Russian fluently. While studying, most of those students had been recruited by the KGB, and upon return to China they deepened implementation of Stalin’s model. Cultural similarities have been conducive to success.” Baltic Winds: Testimony of a Soviet Attorney, pp. 529-555, Xlibris, 2002.

​Seventy years later, you saw a massive military parade, Soviet style, a quite provocative celebration of Kim IL Sung’s birthday on April 15, 2017. The grandson Kim Jong-un presented his grandfather as “the Sun or a Son of God,” but the real history tells us that Kim IL Sung was a ‘Son of Stalinism.’ Look at twenty-five million Koreans living under the regime today—it is Stalin’s GULAG, enslaving human beings. And it is not a coincidence that the Korean missile test failed, but don’t take comfort in that. The military machine of North Korea is working non-stop like the Soviet one and the master-puppet Putin is there with full military capacity to undermine global tranquility. Rising tensions in Asia are a result of Russia’s intent to test Trump’s administration. Flying over Alaska is the same as testing Trump’s administration in the Pacific…

Unfortunately, Stalin’s Doctrine of destruction did not die with Stalin: his devoted disciples in Russia have continued its expansion across the world. The Middle East and especially Syria presents a vivid example of how Soviet Socialism has been disseminated with the Influence of Russian Intelligence. It is this force that provided all its satellites with WMD: Saddam got Sarin and Mustard Gas, Assad-Sarin. Watch WMD within ISIS and al-Qaeda… Though China definitely has power over North Korea, the Russian security apparatus still has long arms with the intent to dominate the world. Syria is another example.

Syria

If Arafat was the first molding of a Soviet style leader in the Middle East, Hafez al-Assad was indeed the second one. He participated in the 1963 Syrian coup d’état which brought the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party to power, and was appointed Commander of the Syrian Air Force by the new leadership. In 1966, Assad participated in a second coup, and was appointed defense minister by the new government. In 1970 Assad seized power and then appointed himself the undisputed leader of Syria in 1970–71. He was Prime Minister from 1970 to 1971 and President of Syria from 1971 to 2000. This amounted to thirty years of total Soviet influence in Syria under Papa Assad.

That was the usual Soviet strategy of infiltrating the Middle East. Under Bashar Assad, Syria has once again become a Soviet Arab Socialist Republic with all the consequences of Stalin’s Doctrine and his Formula for Power. By the way, Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq the same way in 1979 as did the Ayatollahs in Iran in 1979. Don’t be surprised at the connection between ISIS and al-Qaeda—all terrorists groups regardless of their names have the same parents—Soviet Fascism. Please read my analyses of the years 1970-1980, pp. 145-161, Chapter 8, What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, Xlibris, 2012

As a matter of fact, Syria, which is comprised of several major incompatible tribes, is a strategic center of the Mideast. It was a typical Soviet Socialist State, equipped with a huge arsenal of Soviet arms and weaponry since 1971. The city of Tartus hosts a Soviet-era naval supply and maintenance facility, under a 1971 agreement with Baathist Syria, Tartus is practically a Russian military base in Syria. The close relation between the Russian intelligence and military with Syria has been going on since. “The facility hosts the Amur (Russian) class of floating workshop PM-138, capable of providing technical maintenance to Russian warships deployed in the Mediterranean in the 21st century.”

Hence Russia has free access to the Mediterranean, which means the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. You can see on a map of the area that there is also a corridor from Iran and Iraq to Lebanon, a route for shipping arms to Hamas and Hezbollah. Remember Stalin’s Doctrine worked at the time and it worked well in the Middle East as well. Moreover, Putin needed Crimea for this particular reason: to have a free avenue for the Russian fleet to the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Stalin’s design to use Islam is alive and well, you are witnessing it every day by the criminal activities of terrorism. Today Russians have several military installations in Syria. Read Socialist Lies: From Stalin to Clintons, Obamas, and Sanders, Xlibris, 2016.

However strange it sounds; I had some experience in connection with Syria. Once, a client came to my law office, a man who had a question about his apartment in Tallinn. In talking to me he said that he was leaving in a week, as he was working in Syria. I asked him what he was doing there, he answered very calmly that he was an instructor in the Soviet Terrorist training camp in Syria. It was in the end of the 1960s or beginning of the 1970s. I wasn’t surprised; the people living in Socialist countries had known Russia’s agenda in the Middle East where constant attacks were taking place daily. Today, in 2017, you can see the long-range strategy of Soviet Socialism and the Stalin’s addiction to expansion—one of the reasons, I called the regime Soviet Fascism.

The ideology of Soviet Fascism

Stalin’s ideology has created special kinds of people, affecting them with subversive political correctness. They ignore the reality of the world and the war waged by Soviet Fascism against Western civilization during the last hundred years. But reality is very stubborn—Stalinism connects Putin, Assad, Kim Jong-un, and many others like an umbilical cord to the ideology. Those leaders know that they are criminals and that the power they amass is the only thing that will save them from prison. The unfortunate result of their existence across the world is obvious—the rise of Anti-Semitism, the genocide of Christians, unspeakable violence, orchestrated protests—the attributes of Soviet Fascism. All of those we, the former Soviet citizens, had experienced in the Soviet Union. We called it Stalinism.

Researching the ideology for the last twenty-five years, I am convinced that the globe is dealing today with Soviet Fascism, which is one of the reasons for the push to Globalization, a KGB invention. Nor has America escaped it. For the sake of our country, the term Soviet Fascism should be accepted, analyzed, and discussed. Therefore, my conclusion is two-fold: 1. Knowledge of Stalin’s Russia is a must. 2. The Investigation the Obama administration and the current activities of his shadow government is imperative. Both investigations, if successful, will have vital global ramifications…

I have to remind you my opinion about a list of military collaborations between the U.S. and Russia executed under the Obama/Putin joint venture:

  1. Killing of bin-Laden
  2. Invasion of Libya, conspiracy of Obama, Putin, and French Pres. Sarkozy.
  3. Benghazi, murder of the U.S. ambassador Stevens.
  4. “On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American specialists … Fifteen of the Navy SEALsthat were killed were members of the Naval… “

If investigated, the listed events will open up a huge panorama of activities of the DNC leadership directed against the American Republic. My two assignments are inextricably intertwined. President Trump was right, speaking about “inherited mess.” The mess was so tremendous, he initially asserted, the “swamp” indeed was deeper and more harmful and dangerous. I dedicated many pages to this “swamp,” I called it the Obama/Putin joint venture. A chronicling of this joint venture has been presented in detail in Socialist Lies. It is a protocol and diary of the Obama’s regime from its beginning in 2008. American Intelligence failed to expose Obama and the Democrat Party for aiding Putin in many different occurrences overseas to the detriment of American interests, including the Opioid epidemic in America. My book reveals just that…

In this connection, I have to correct our media and politicians: Putin will not stop at restoring the Soviet Union—Putin wants to be a President of the World, like Stalin’s intent—hence awareness of Stalinism is imperative. Alas, America did not escape the implementation of some elements, and attributes of Soviet Fascism by Obama’s regime.  Therefore, a person like Steve Bannon, who is talking about destruction of the administrative State, and who quotes Lenin by heart is extremely valuable to the Trump team. In our days—knowledge of the enemy is the best recipe for success…

To be continued at www.simonapipko.com  and drrichswier.com/author/spipko/

©2024 Simona Pipko. All rights reserved.

EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed Police Reports Shine Light On Abrego Garcia’s Alleged Involvement In Human Smuggling

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While Democrats continue to decry Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation, newly obtained police records show that the suspected human smuggler is connected to another individual ticketed for cramming around 10 people in a car on a cross-country border trip.

Abrego Garcia — a deported Salvadoran illegal migrant who has since been brought back to the U.S. to face smuggling charges — was once pulled over with the same vehicle and license plate driven by another man more recently caught driving about 10 people from Texas to Maryland, according to police and court records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Democrats have pulled out all the stops for Abrego Garcia — going as far as traveling to El Salvador and protesting his deportation from a cushy five star resort.

“Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not a ‘Maryland man,’ but likely an illegal alien gang member transporting other aliens from Texas to Maryland as part of a human trafficking operation,” Dale Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), told the DCNF.

“Those who pushed the narrative of Abrego Garcia as an innocent man deported unfairly have been gaslighting the American people,” Wilcox continued. “They have no credibility to attack the Trump administration’s much needed actions to remove dangerous aliens from our communities.”

‘Approximately 10 People Inside’

On Feb. 8, 2018, a man identified as Ismael Alexander Melara Flores was pulled over in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and cited for not wearing a seat belt, online court records show. He was driving a 2004 Toyota with a Maryland license plate.

Two months later, police in Frederick, Maryland — about 50 miles away from where Melara Flores was pulled over — cited Abrego Garcia for driving without a license and failure to provide a license to an officer, according to a police report obtained by the DCNF. The report noted he was driving a 2004 blue Toyota Matrix, and an online court record of that incident listed the same Maryland license plate for that car.

Melara Flores was pulled over again in November 2022, this time cited for an illegal window tint and hauling people in spaces not meant for passengers, according to a law enforcement citation obtained by the DCNF. Law enforcement personnel at the time of the citation noted that Melara Flores’ vehicle, a 2011 Honda Pilot, was sagging to the ground due to the sheer weight of roughly 10 people being crammed inside.

The trooper was told by the vehicle’s occupants that they were in the process of driving from Texas to Maryland, the law enforcement citation shows.

“Observed illegal window tint. [Vehicle] clearly sagging in rear due to excessive weight,” the report reads. “Had approximately 10 people inside of the vehicle. Taking them to Maryland from Houston. Crack stretching all the way across the windshield.”

Melara Flores was ultimately cited that day in Arkansas for an improper window tint, windshield obstruction and for driving people in spaces not meant for passengers. The law enforcement report was obtained with assistance from IRLI’s investigative team.

Law enforcement officials have suspected similar actions to be related to migrant or human smuggling — which was what the Tennessee Highway Patrol suspected when they stopped Abrego Garcia in 2022 for driving eight people in his car from Texas to Maryland.

Police caught Abrego Garcia without a valid driver’s license and discovered he was transporting eight other individuals in the car with him on Dec. 1, 2022, according to Department of Homeland (DHS) documents previously shared with the Daily Caller. Like Melara Flores, he told the officer that he was driving everyone from Texas to Maryland.

Law enforcement suspected human smuggling was at play, given the fact that they were driving across the country, but not a single individual was carrying luggage, according to the documents. Additionally, every passenger listed Abrego Garcia’s address as their own.

“There’s eight people in there,” one officer says to another during the Tennessee traffic stop. “So he’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say.”

Despite the suspicions, Abrego Garcia and his passengers were reportedly let go at the request of the FBI. A spokesperson for the FBI directed a request for comment about this incident to DHS. However, a spokesperson for the department did not respond.

The vehicle Abrego Garcia was driving the night he was pulled over in Tennessee was owned by Jose Ramon Hernandez-Reyes, a Mexican illegal migrant convicted of smuggling other illegal migrants, DHS confirmed to the DCNF.

The illegal migrant clients who paid for the Hernandez-Reyes-led operation were caught overpacked in a vehicle being driven from Texas to other parts of the country — in similar fashion to Melara Flores’ and Abrego Garcia’s road trips.

‘Even If He Kills Me, No One Can Do Anything To Him’

In addition to the alleged human smuggling connections, Abrego Garcia has been accused of repeated domestic abuse by his U.S. citizen wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura.

Sura swore in an April 2021 restraining order that he repeatedly hurt her and was aggressive during their marriage, claiming in court documents that he once “punched, scratched me on my left eye, leaving me bleeding.”

Sura, who has become an outspoken advocate for Abrego Garcia’s return since he was deported, framed the revelation of the protective order as an isolated incident and something she only undertook as a precautionary measure. In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she didn’t bother showing up to court for the protection order, causing it to be dismissed, and claimed that the altercation was a singular incident.

However, several days after that interview was published, DHS revealed an additional protective order Sura had filed in August 2020.

Sura claimed that, between December 2019 and March 2020, Abrego Garcia dragged her out of a vehicle by her hair and left her on the street, broke down doors and pushed her against a wall, and also claimed to have a recording of him stating that “even if he kills me, no one can do anything to him.”

Abrego Garcia has been suspected by law enforcement of affiliation with MS-13, the brutal international criminal syndicate made up of Salvadoran nationals, since his arrest on local charges in Maryland several years ago.

A “past proven reliable source” informed Prince George’s County law enforcement that he was a member of MS-13 following his 2019 arrest outside of a Home Depot, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. An immigration judge and members of the Board of Immigration Appeals later ruled that the accusations of gang affiliation were credible.

Sura’s ex, Edwin Trejo, accused Abrego Garcia of being a gang member in 2018 court papers when seeking an emergency court hearing on the custody of Sura’s and Trejo’s two children.

“The facts are clear: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a violent illegal alien who abuses women and children,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a previous statement. “He had no business being in our country and we are proud to have deported this violent thug.”

Five-Star Resort In El Salvador

Despite mounting accusations of gang affiliation and domestic abuse, Democrats remain steadfast in their demands to bring Abrego Garcia back to the U.S.

Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen in April became the first in his party to travel to El Salvador to demand a meeting with the deported illegal migrant. He was soon followed by four House Democrats who travelled to the country later that month.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey spent his Memorial Day weekend traveling to El Salvador and demanding a meeting of his own with Abrego Garcia. During his trip, Ivey posted a video on social media indicating that he was denied access to the prison facility currently holding Abrego Garcia and was asked to return with the proper documentation.

Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker directed state officials in April to examine boycott options against the country of El Salvador until Abrego Garcia is returned to the U.S.

The Salvadoran national claims he left his home country to escape gang violence and illegally entered the U.S. around 2011, according to court documents. The alleged gangbanger eventually began a relationship with Sura, now his wife, and did not run into immigration trouble until his March 2019 local arrest in Prince George’s County.

He was transferred into federal custody while he fought deportation orders and accusations of gang affiliation, according to court documents. He caught a break in October 2019 when he was granted a protected status known as “withholding of removal” after an immigration judge agreed with his claim that he would likely face persecution by gang members if repatriated back to El Salvador.

Following his withholding of removal order, Abrego Garcia was released from custody and continued living in Maryland — until President Donald Trump returned to office and began a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration.

Immigration officers pulled Abrego Garcia over on March 12 after he finished a work shift in the Baltimore area, informed him that his status had changed and took him into custody, according to court documents. By March 15, he informed his wife that he would be sent to a maximum security mega-prison in El Salvador built to detain MS-13 gangbangers and other members of notorious crime syndicates.

Democrats and other immigration activists have pointed to Abrego Garcia’s withholding of removal protection as reason why he should’ve never been sent back to El Salvador. He has since been transferred to another, lower security facility in Santa Ana, El Salvador, as the court challenge against his deportation continues on.

On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that Abrego Garcia landed in the U.S. to face human smuggling charges.

“Upon completion of his sentence, we anticipate he will be returned to his home country of El Salvador,” Bondi said, adding that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele agreed to release him to face the charges. She said Abrego Garcia is believed to have made over 100 trips smuggling migrants across the U.S.

AUTHOR

Jason Hopkins

Immigration Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Launches Investigation Into Mohammed Sabry Soliman And His Family

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is leading a Republican-led investigation into the suspected illegal immigrant linked to the recent terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.

Jordan will send letters obtained by the Daily Caller to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, expressing concern over federal immigration enforcement.

Specifically, the Ohio congressman sharply criticized the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of visa vetting, using the case of Mohammed Sabry Soliman as a key example.

Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian national, entered the U.S. during the Biden administration and remained in the country after overstaying his visa, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). He faces charges for allegedly attacking several people at a demonstration supporting the 58 hostages of Hamas with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails. 

“The issuance of Soliman’s visa and his admission into the United States raise serious questions about the Biden-Harris Administration’s application of federal immigration law and the adequacy of visa vetting procedures more generally. The Trump-Vance Administration, by contrast, has applied increased scrutiny to aliens seeking to obtain a visa or other immigration benefit,” Jordan wrote in the letter. “Soliman’s antisemitic attack also comes in the wake of oftentimes violent anti-Israel protests and harassment across the United States, including on college campuses.”

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“During his first month back in office,” he continued, “President Trump quickly acted to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish students from foreign nationals who weaponize the U.S. immigration system to attack American values.”

Citing the committee’s authority to oversee federal immigration policy, Jordan added, “Pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized to conduct oversight of federal immigration policy and procedures. To assist the Committee with its continued oversight of federal immigration policy and procedures, we ask that you please provide the following materials regarding Mohammed Sabry Soliman, his wife, and his five children.”

In his request, Jordan specifically asked for “case history information, including, but not limited to, the aliens’ immigration history, immigration benefits applications, the alien file (A-file) or consular file (including all consular notes), and immigration detention status and history.”

He also requested information regarding the time, date, and place of any and all entries the aliens have made into the United States by June 20.

“The Colorado Terrorist attack suspect, Mohamed Soliman, is illegally in our country,” a DHS spokesperson stated Monday to the DCNF. “He entered the country in August 2022 on a B2 visa that expired on February 2023. He filed for asylum in September 2022.”

The attack injured eight individuals — four men and four women, ranging in age from 52 to 88 — who were treated at hospitals for burns and various injuries in the Denver metropolitan area. One of the victims is a Holocaust survivor.

A federal judge in Colorado appointed by Biden blocked the Trump administration from deporting the family of Soliman.

The decision pauses removal proceedings for Soliman’s wife and five children.

AUTHOR

Ashley Brasfield

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Liberal Media Is in Its Death Throes — What Will Replace It?

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The slow, painful death of the liberal media is hard to watch … okay, not really. Once again, the liberal media has lost all credibility, but haven’t we been here before?

It seems the apparatus of far-left talking heads and “journalists” has a zombie-like ability. The same reporters and news operations keep suffering fatal blows to their journalistic integrity, and yet they manage to struggle on as ratings — and credibility — fade away.

Take just this week, for instance. The Washington Post gleefully published a report that Israeli soldiers fired on Gaza residents waiting to receive humanitarian aid and killed more than 30. If the story sparked your skepticism, you may have better news judgment than many D.C. reporters.

This glaring lie — and the anti-Semitism that it and other lies like it help fuel — are not even surprising from the media class that is frantically grasping at the last shreds of its credibility. Meanwhile, in a move of incredible audacity, CNN’s Jake Tapper is now promoting his new book on the cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental health decline. Polling shows that most Americans could see Biden’s decline with their own eyes. Collective memory and the magic of video tape shows us that Tapper helped lead the charge of that cover-up. In fact, he once lambasted Lara Trump on air for daring to question Biden’s mental fitness. Lara Trump was not the only one to receive such treatment from Tapper.

Now, Tapper is being widely mocked on X and the new crop of center-right podcasts that have gained more political influence — and usually viewership — than cable news shows.

MSNBC saw a plummet in support after President Donald Trump’s election, though they have begun to recover in ratings, if not in credibility. The network axed a handful of anchors, including the notoriously bombastic, and often racist, Joy Reid. Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has taken a slot, which is so far a major flop as ratings plummet and MSNBC scrambles for relevance.

Tapper, Reid, and Psaki are the three horsemen of the liberal cable news apocalypse and the perfect face for this downfall. Tapper represents the hollowness of established cable anchors. Tapper has been in the business for decades and fails to perform the first function of a journalist: holding the powerful accountable. Reid symbolizes the liberal anti-white racism and anti-man sexism that has spread like a cancer through the Democratic Party and helped push an entire generation of young men into the arms of Trump. Psaki symbolizes cable news’s incestuous relationship with the politicians they are supposed to hold accountable. Psaki covered up Biden’s mental decline and was rewarded with a cushy anchor slot. On these shows, there is little room for real thinkers or diversity of thought, only rightly programmed Democratic messengers.

CNN’s Abby Phillips has managed to create a show relevant to the news cycles. Clips of her show regularly go viral, but they usually involve Scott Jennings blistering some poor Democrat. Despite how it helps prop up her show, Phillips never looks overly pleased.

We know from history that communist and totalitarian regimes cannot survive long without propaganda. China has state-owned media, as do North Korea and others.

To build its secular, communist takeover of the U.S., the far Left needs a media propaganda machine (state-owned media) to repeat lies and slander opposition. During the Biden administration, that apparatus grew sizably. The White House leaned on social media companies with great success to silence dissenting views on COVID and other topics. Shadow-banning of conservative viewpoints of all kinds became commonplace on social media. Those who did not toe the line of the LGBT agenda were accused of “hate speech” with a serious tone and deplatformed or demonetized. But the apparatus came crumbling down as the lies about COVID, the vaccine, the Russia hoax, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and more were exposed.

We have a biblical paradigm for this familiar cycle. False prophets, purveyors of the lies of the age, haunt the halls of wicked kingdoms, from the Pharaoh’s magicians in Exodus to Ahab’s 400 false prophets in 1 Kings. In our time marred by evil, do not be surprised when false prophets are found in places of influence.

What does this all mean? The far Left has a problem. Over the last five years, they have seen the credibility of the most reliable propagandists gutted all while media increasingly moves online. More importantly, it means you should expect in the next decades direct attempts to censor dissent and clamp down on internet freedom. Remember, state media shuts down opposition and propagates lies. This will likely be done by weaponized terms like “hate” and “fascism” and “far-right extremism.”

For now, liberal media is on its back foot. But political battles are only won temporarily. You can be sure the liberal media and their puppet masters are scheming about how to regain their power, both through rebuilding their operation and by silencing their opponents.

A false regime can’t thrive without propaganda. Keep exposing the propagandists. Stand up for free speech and against censorship. And the rest of us have a chance to have our children grow up in a free country.

AUTHOR

Casey Harper

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Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It from Parents

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It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral has outperformed everyone’s expectations. But in this process of rolling back decades of corporate wokeism, one thing is clear: this isn’t over. No matter how much success conservatives have, not everyone will go quietly. When it comes to LGBT activism, some businesses are playing for keeps.

While most of this week’s coverage seems to be about who isn’t joining the parade, there’s a proud contingent of CEOs who have no intentions of backing off their radicalism. To those who would shrug and say, “It’s just a few splashy logos. What’s the big deal?” the reality is much more sinister. This isn’t about slapping a few Progress flags outside headquarters or queering the Sesame Street puppets. It’s about financing a dangerous enterprise to keep children in bondage and parents in the dark.

The corporate darling of this year’s celebration, The Trevor Group, isn’t just another rah-rah LGBT crusader. Billed as a youth suicide prevention organization, one look under the hood shows that this group is anything but uncontroversial. And yet, sponsors are lining up to finance the group — to the tune of millions of dollars. The heavy-hitters, who are giving upwards of six-figure donations, are mostly familiar names: Macy’s, Petco, Abercrombie & Fitch, Pure Vida, Guess Watches, Kohl’s, Lululemon, MAC Cosmetics, and a collection of lesser-known brands.

A lot of these businesses will ring a bell, simply because they’ve been stubbornly clinging to their LGBT alliances through months of nationwide backlash (along with headstrong lefties at Levi’s, Converse, and Nike). Interestingly, the brands that are listed as year-round Trevor Project partners also happen to rank the highest on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. With a few exceptions, almost every company that submitted their information to HRC earned a perfect score — meaning they’re completely on board with transgender insurance coverage and benefits, gender-neutral restrooms and dress codes, and preferred pronoun usage, as well as LGBTQ hiring quotas, non-discrimination standards, sensitivity trainings, recruitment efforts, community outreach, philanthropic support, and lobbying on local, state, and federal issues. In other words, the hardest of the hard core:

  • $1 million: Abercrombie (100%), Lululemon, Macy’s (100%)
  • $500,000: AT&T (100%), Deloitte (100%)
  • $250,000: Coca-Cola (100%), GenDigital (100%), Gilead (100%), Harry’s, Hot Topic Foundation, Jingle Jam, Sephora (100%), MAC Cosmetics, Procter & Gamble, Rare Beauty, The Game Company
  • $100,000: David Yurman, Delta Airlines, Delta Dental, Dolce Vita, FedEx (85%), Forever 21, H&M, Humble Bundle, Kate Spade, Kohl’s (100%), Lemonade, Makeship, Maybelline, National Education Association (NEA), Native, NFL, OPI, Pair of Thieves, Petco (95%), Saks Fifth Avenue, United Airlines (100%), Wells Fargo (100%), Williams-Sonoma (90%), XBox

And while The Trevor Project claims to be harmlessly dedicated to “advocacy, education, and crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people,” it’s the nature of that advocacy and education that should disturb Americans. For starters, this is a group that, just three years ago, was exposed for stealthily grooming children online. A suspicious mom, whose daughter struggled with gender dysphoria, logged onto the organization’s TrevorSpace chat room to see what kind of advice she was getting — and was horrified at the graphic and disturbing nature of the site.

She sent the screenshots to National Review, a “Pandora’s box” of “sexually perverse content, aggressive gender re-assignment referrals, adults encouraging minors to hide their transitions from their parents, and many troubled kids in need of psychological counseling. Like most moms, she said she’d turned to The Trevor Project in “desperation.” “‘I thought my child was going to kill herself,’” she admitted. “In TrevorSpace,” NRO explains, “she got a bird’s-eye view of the progressive non-profit giant that is claiming to save young lives but is really driving them further into existential rabbit holes, depravity, and potential danger.”

At one point, “Rachel then dove into an abyss of concerning sexual conversation. Some transgender-identifying adults confessed in detail their [fantasies and deviances].” In some cases, “users under 18 spoke with adult users about their sexual preferences, including BDSM, polyamory, and others.”

Equally as disturbing, The Trevor Project has its hooks in countless K-12 classrooms across the country with its so-called “resources for educators and school officials, including the Is Your School LGBTQ-Affirming? checklist and Creating Safer Spaces in Schools for LGBTQ Young People, which can help determine whether a school is adequately supporting LGBTQ+ students.” The website “also offers several educational guides for adults working with LGBTQ+ young people, including the Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth, How to Support Bisexual Youth, and Preventing Suicide.”

“We’ve increased our efforts in public education,” the project’s website brags — and that’s exactly what parents should be afraid of. The group’s resources include a Model School Policy Booklet that it distributes to “ally” teachers, counselors, and volunteers across the country. Among other things, it urges educators to hide information about students’ sexual orientation or gender identity from parents:

  • “Information about a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be treated as confidential and not disclosed to parents, guardians, or third parties without the student’s permission. In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents.”
  • “While parents and guardians need to be informed and actively involved in decisions regarding the student’s welfare, the school mental health professional should ensure that the parents’ actions are in the best interest of the student (e.g., when a student is LGBTQ and living in an unaffirming household).”
  • “In the case of parents who have exhibited rejecting behaviors, great sensitivity needs to be taken in what information is communicated with parents. Additionally, when referring students to out-of-school resources, it is important to connect LGBTQ students with LGBTQ-affirming local health and mental health service providers. Affirming service providers are those that adhere to best practices guidelines regarding working with LGBTQ clients as specified by their professional association (e.g., apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx).”

These are the kind of anti-parent zealots Macy’s, Abercrombie, Petco, and others are donating your June dollars to. Sometimes it’s 10% of the purchase price. Other times it’s the change you round up. But whatever the amount, it’s fueling a team of ideologues intent on destroying America’s children — and keeping it a secret while they do.

Don’t get me wrong. This country should be jubilant about all it’s accomplished. Robby Starbuck and other activists who’ve been fighting this war before most people knew we were in one deserve medals. But the biggest mistake any of us can make is believing we’ve won. Because a single dollar in the wrong hands is a weapon. And the pain, thousands of parents and their young patients will tell you, lasts a lifetime.

AUTHOR

Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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Dr. Fauci and China’s Killer Fungus

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Just when you thought you’d heard everything about corruption inside the National Institutes of Health under Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, this week federal prosecutors arraigned two Chinese nationals in Detroit for allegedly attempting to import a “killer fungus” into the United States.

Thirty-three year old Yunqing Jian, and her colleague, Zunyong Liu, 34, were charged with attempting to import a “potential agroterrorism” weapon into the United States that could wipe out our wheat, barley, maize, and rice crops.

It wasn’t the first time that Ms. Jian made such an attempt. Just by luck, an earlier effort last year to get a colleague in China to mail her similar products failed.

But the real kicker to this story were documents uncovered by Just the News showing that Jian and Liu worked in a University of Michigan research laboratory led by another pair of Chinese nationals. And worse, that their project to study “plant immunity” had received $7.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health during the Collins-Fauci era.

Just like the funding Fauci and Collins provided to the Wuhan lab that the FBI now believes engineered the COVID-19 virus, these modern-day Dr. Strangelove characters were once again backing research with apocalyptic consequences, all in an effort to prepare for apocalyptic events that without their funding would not occur.

So why would the Chinese Communist Party want to unleash a mass killer fungus into the agricultural heartland of America?

Perhaps for the same reason they have installed what federal prosecutors now call “undocumented communications channels” inside Chinese-made inverters sold to solar power customers.

The inverters are the units, usually installed inside a house with solar panels on the roof, that connect your energy-producing plant to the electric grid. They constantly communicate with the grid, in order to modulate how much electricity you take from the grid, or supply to it.

In Sweden, for example, these home power plants produce over 40.6 gigawatts of power daily, roughly 14% of what Sweden consumes.

Now just imagine that the Chinese Communist Party decided to use these inverters to conduct a cyberattack on the national electric grid. “Open a channel, Spock! — or rather, Jian” – and poof, in comes a virus.

The grid could go down before any of our power companies realized what was happening.

And now for the trifecta.

This week, Democrat governor Katie Hobbs of Arizona vetoed legislation, voted on by Democrats, that would have prohibited the Chinese government and Chinese government owned enterprises from buying or leasing land in the state.

At issue was an attempt by the Chinese government to lease buildings near the Luke Air Force in Glendale, Arizona. Hobbs claimed the bill “opens the door to arbitrary enforcement.”

This Democrat governor thinks protecting the Chinese government from “discrimination” is more important than protecting US national security.

This is the kind of misguided goody-two-shoes approach to national security that led to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks.

Here are three separate cases in just one week. Does anyone really believe any longer that the Chinese Communist government wishes us well?

I discuss this, as well as Ukraine’s spectacular drone attack against Russia airfields, Putin’s response, and Donald Trump’s stepping back from the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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Relative vs Absolute Risk Reduction 2

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Don’t be fooled. 

I wrote about this EXTREMELY important matter here. Please review that post, as it explains in a simple fashion the enormous difference between these two very significant numbers.

I recently came across a two-minute video that tackles the same issue…

This is a VERY big deal for citizens to understand, as a variety of self-serving parties try to take advantage of the fact that many citizens are technically challenged — and fool them by using relative (not absolute) risk reduction.

Hopefully, this will be one of the many things that RFKjr will see is fixed at the FDA and CDC…

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Most Of The Building Blocks For Revolutionary Action In The West Are Now In Place, But Which Revolution?

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Palestinians | MEMRI Daily Brief No. 784

What would you do to stop what you consider ultimate evil? If you are truly sincere, the likely answer is that you would do whatever it takes. “Genocide,” an incandescent, inciting word much used these days, would seem to be part of what many would regard as evil.[1] But these days that incitement, in terms of public rhetoric, is used almost exclusively in regards to the State of Israel, Jews and Israel’s main supporter, the United States of America.[2]

Several writers – I was one of them – have compared the student unrest seen over the past two years against Israel and the Gaza War with Sixties anti-Vietnam War activism in the United States and Western Europe.[3] That large, usually peaceful, movement did spin off several very small, extremely violent, leftist revolutionary movements that endured for years even after the war that had initially triggered student protests had ended. These groups, of which the Weather Underground is the perfect example, had made two transitions: They moved from a specific criticism (the Vietnam War is bad) to a more general, systemic one (the system or the regime is bad and is irredeemable) and they embraced revolutionary violence.

In early 2025 we have seen several examples of what could be seen as revolutionary violence in the United States inspired by opposition to Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza:

On April 13, 2025 a 38-year-old man firebombed the official residence of the governor of Pennsylvania while Governor Shapiro and his family slept inside. The arsonist, Cody Balmer, said that he wanted to kill Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat, because of what Shapiro “wants to do to the Palestinian people,” according to the Pennsylvania State Police.[4]

On May 21, 2025, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez shot to death two local employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., outside of a public event hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Jewish National Museum.[5] Rodriguez was an enthusiast of left-wing and anti-American causes but his immediate motivation was “Free Palestine,” as he himself chanted for the camera after his arrest.

On June 1, 2025, Egyptian illegal migrant Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Islamist who arrived in the United States only in 2022, used Molotov cocktails and a homemade flamethrower against a Boulder, Colorado gathering of Jews supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza.[6] Soliman also called for “Free Palestine.”

On the surface, Balmer (who seems to have mental issues), Rodriguez, and Soliman are very different individuals. Two are American and one is a foreigner. Balmer seems to have been vaguely left-wing, while Rodriguez was a far-left true believer. Soliman is an enthusiast of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Three very disparate individuals, and yet all three were motivated to take direct, violent action against Jews by the cause of Palestine, specifically the situation in Gaza.

We have so far, a pretty good fit between some of the elements that prevailed with the situation in the late 1960s and today: a war generates a widespread, student-led protest movement; the protest movement combines or agglomerates other causes; the movement transcends the specifics of the war that generated the protests in the first place; targeted violence – not just the three mentioned but many other lesser examples – connected to the cause ensues.

Here the similarities fray and the comparisons end. We do not yet have, that we know of, actual political movements committed to revolutionary violence along the lines of the Weather Underground or the Black Guerrilla Family. We do have a broad swathe of organizations and individuals – Antifa and Leftist/Socialists – who practice a lower level of direct street action that approaches violence and includes things like simple assault, seizing and destroying property, and disturbing public order. This is not insignificant but is not – not yet – the clandestine, terrorist revolutionary action we saw in the Days of Rage.

Here is where our near future diverts radically from the situation in the heyday of the Weather Underground. Back then, the revolutionaries got older, some died and others were captured, others started families, America society moved on from Vietnam, the Seventies led to the Reagan years and the capitalist and consumerist excess of the 1980s and beyond.[7]

Today, we see a much different scenario unfolding. Instead of revolutionary ardor being curbed by rising prosperity, we see an age of looming economic disruption. Not only is the West, including the United States, saddled with enormous debt, but family formation and home buying, activities that tend to move people toward the political right, among the young at historic lows.[8]

Even worse, especially for the young is the rise of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace. Not only does AI threaten jobs in general, its immediate target will be entry-level white-collar jobs, the very positions that new university graduates would be looking for as they start their careers.[9] College-educated women may be hard hit by the end of office work.[10] This means that we may see in the West – very soon – that phenomenon many of us have seen in third world countries in pre-revolutionary situations: hordes of well-educated young people with nothing to do – no job, no house, no marriage prospects.[11] Just time to seethe and ponder.

Maybe they will become the harbingers of a “Free Palestine” themed violent revolution, melding leftism and Islamism into a potent revolutionary cocktail, the continuation of the so-called Red-Green Alliance we already see in several Western European countries.[12] But the reality is that we do not know what these masses will do – just that they are likely to exist and to be very dissatisfied.

Perhaps their cause will be instead an anti-AI Luddism or even, one can hope, we are on the verge of a mass religious revival or a turning toward the, often derided and battered, and yet eternal wellsprings of the West – Classical and Christian, as economist Philip Pilkington has suggested.[13]

Revolution is coming. It will be disruptive and even violent. But what it is for and what it will be against and what comes out of it is not at all clear.

AUTHOR

ALBERTO M. FERNANDEZ

Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice President of MEMRI.

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SOURCES:

[1] Jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/from-blood-libel-to-genocide-libel/

[2] Mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2024/12/the-onslaught-against-the-jews-is-an-onslaught-against-the-west, December 26, 2024.

[3] See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 551, Blinking Terror Lights – But What Kinds Of Terror?, December 8, 2023.

[4] Abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-arsonist-targeted-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-palestine/story?id=120860365, April 16, 2025.

[5] Justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/federal-charges-filed-after-deadly-shooting-israeli-diplomats-dc, May 22, 2025.

[6] See MEMRI TV Clip No. 12048, Boulder, CO Firebomber Mohamed Sabry Soliman Recorded Video Before Attack Declaring: Jihad Is More Beloved To Me Than My Mother, Wife, And Children; Allah Is Greater Than The Zionists And America, June 3, 2025.

[7] Time.com/4549409/the-weather-underground-bad-moon-rising, November 2, 2016.

[8] Ifstudies.org/blog/the-societal-cost-of-the-marriage-decline, March 5, 2024.

[9] Msn.com/en-us/news/technology/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-could-wipe-out-half-of-all-entry-level-white-collar-jobs/ar-AA1FEPBU?ocid=BingNewsSerp, May 28, 2025.

[10] Msn.com/en-gb/money/other/how-the-ai-takeover-might-affect-women-more-than-men/ar-AA1FiQne?ocid=BingNewsSerp, May 22, 2025.

[11] Carnegieendowment.org/sada/2024/04/algerias-graduate-studies-dilemma?lang=en, April 18, 2024.

[12] Start.umd.edu/publication/emerging-red-green-alliance-where-political-islam-meets-radical-left, 2013.

[13] Multi-polarity.com/episodes/episode/1ccca10a/special-edition-pilkington-launches-the-collapse-of-global-liberalism, June 5, 2025.

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VIDEO: AEI Housing Market Indicators, May 2025

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AEI Housing Market Indicators May 2025 Briefing

You don’t want to miss this update! This month, we highlighted the following hot housing topics:

  • Recent movements in rates, demand, and supply: Mortgage rates remained elevated at 6.75%, while purchase rate lock volume dropped to a multi-year low—down 24% from the same week in 2019 and 5% year-over-year.
  • Home price appreciation (HPA) and months’ supply trends through March 2025: HPA slowed to 3.0%—its second lowest April rate in the series—while months’ supply declined to 3.2 months, just below pre-pandemic levels as inventory grows faster than seasonal trends
  • FHA appears not to be properly tracking its partial claims, costing taxpayers: FHA is not and collecting partial claims in about a quarter of cases, and taxpayers will be providing free money to certain FHA borrowers. Assuming an average partial claim amount of $23,000-$27,000 and 1.3 million unique claims since 2020, the taxpayer could lose $6.75 billion—not including partial claims completed before 2020.
  • An update on Bureau of Land Management sales to build starter homes: Making just 250 sq. miles of developable BLM land available for sale in 12 Western states would enable the private sector to add 1.75 million homes, a much of which would be family-sized starter homes for the working class. The 2025 Budget Reconciliation process provides an opportunity to address the Western region’s housing and development needs by expediting the disposal of target Federal lands for competitive sale at market prices.
  • Preview: The AEI Housing Success Playbook: The AEI Housing Center’s Housing Success Playbook provides five straightforward, proven policies to build an additional 1.6 million homes annually, and without subsidies. These include allowing smaller lots in new subdivisions, legalizing conversions of single-family homes, permitting backyard cottages and ADUs, enabling residential overlays in commercial zones, and developing starter homes on BLM land.
  • The surprising role of large developers in solving the housing crunch: The nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers, with 51.2% of their new construction sales going to FTBs in 2024, up from 38.6% in 2014. This transformation has been driven by building smaller homes and offering financial tools like rate buydowns, while median lot sizes declined by 1,050 sq. ft., enabling greater affordability and access to starter homes.

The AEI Housing Market Indicators (HMI) provide accurate and timely metrics for the housing market. These include mortgage risk/leverage (with a particular focus on agency first-time buyer volume and risk), house prices and appreciation trends, housing sales (new and existing sales whether institutionally financed, cash, or other-financed), and inventory levels. Since the housing market is influenced by many different factors, all need to be considered together to better understand market trends.

WATCH: AEI Housing Market Indicators May 2025 Briefing

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June 6th, 2025 is the 81st Anniversary of D-Day

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June 6 is the 81st Anniversary of D-Day 

Eighty-One years ago, over 156,000 soldiers from the United States, Britain, and Canada, stormed the beaches of Normandy to bring down Hitler and his sadistic Nazi regime.

D-Day was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. 2,501 Americans died on the first day of the battle.

These Allied troops fought to preserve the ideals of Christian Western civilization.

General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, spoke to his troops on the eve of the invasion.

President Ronald Reagan, during his speech on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day at Normandy, closed with these inspirational words:

“Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.”

Take time today to remember the sacrifices our troops made on the beaches of Normandy 81 years ago and take action wherever you are to ensure their sacrifices were not in vain.

God Bless America,

Richard Thompson, Esq.
President and Chief Counsel
Thomas More Law Center

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Trump Orders Probe Into Biden’s Presidential Actions

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President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday evening directing a probe into “who ran” the U.S. during former President Joe Biden’s time in office.

Questions regarding Biden’s mental state have rapidly developed among Democrats since the release of Jake Tapper’s and Alex Thompson’s “Original Sin,” detailing the former president’s mental decline while in office. In the White House’s press release, Trump said the memorandum will direct the investigation into “whether certain individuals conspired to deceive the public about Biden’s mental state and unconstitutionally exercise the authorities and responsibilities of the President.”

“The Memorandum also mandates an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Biden’s purported execution of the numerous executive actions during his final years in office, examining policy documents signed with an autopen, who authorized its use, and the validity of the resulting Presidential policy decisions,” the statement added.

Prior to the 2020 presidential election, Republicans began to sound off over concerns about Biden and his mental state. While some Democrats have still supported Biden following the book’s allegations, others have begun to question his time in the White House and the issues he oversaw.

According to the White House’s statement, Biden’s use of the “autopen raises serious concerns about the legitimacy of his actions,” citing reports that indicate the former president suffered from “serious cognitive decline.”

“Despite Biden’s cognitive deficiencies, the White House issued over 1,200 Presidential documents, appointed 235 judges to the Federal bench, and issued more pardons and commutations than any Administration in U.S. history,” the statement reads. “The authority to take these executive actions is constitutionally reserved for the President, yet the Biden White House used an autopen to execute the vast majority of Biden’s executive actions, particularly during the second half of his Presidency.”

In his final month in office, Biden issued a wave of pardons, notably commuting the sentences of 37 out of the 40 “most vile and monstrous criminals on Federal death row,” the White House said.

Tapper’s and Thompson’s new book, based on interviews with multiple sources, reveals Biden’s decline had become so alarming among aides that some considered placing him in a wheelchair following the 2020 election.

Though Democrats initially rallied behind Biden as their 2024 nominee, lawmakers and pundits quickly reversed course after his disastrous June debate against Trump, where the now-former president froze mid-sentence and struggled to complete his arguments. Questions about whether Biden could last another term spread immediately.

As calls from lawmakers mounted, Democrat donors also paused millions in contributions until Biden exited the race. By July 21, Biden announced his withdrawal and endorsed former Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s next nominee.

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Great New Film: “The American Miracle — Our Nation Is No Accident”

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Did the hand of God have anything to do with the birth of America? There’s a great new movie that gives a resounding, “Yes,” and it’s called “The American Miracle.”

It’s based on the best-selling book with the same title by Michael Medved, a popular radio show host, author, political commentator, and film critic. Medved hosts the new movie, weaving commentary throughout the film, which features on-screen insights from Paul Kengor, Jane Cook, Professor Robert George, Mary Thompson, Stephen Meyer, and many others.

Recently, I interviewed Medved about “The American Miracle” for a radio segment. He told our listeners, “[The founding fathers] agreed on one thing, which was that there was a higher power that was directing their events and was allowing them to do amazing things.”

He continued, “In fact, George Washington, when he was delivering his First Inaugural Address as our first president in 1789, thanked ‘the Invisible Hand,’ as he saw it, who had guided their success in the Revolution.”

Medved added that he had actually thought about using that phrase, “The Invisible Hand,” as the title for the film—but then he feared people would think it was a horror movie!

“The American Miracle” comes out soon, and I’ve gotten to see a sneak peek of portions of the film, and it’s wonderful.

The film is a docudrama with a beautiful intermixing of dramatic reenactments and great commentary.

Actors in the film include Daniel Shippey as George Washington, Pat Boone as the older Thomas Jefferson, Kevin Sorbo as the young Jefferson, and even Richard Dreyfuss, However, the star of Jaws doesn’t act, he makes some remarks that show his appreciation for what America has to offer.

Very early in the film, words on the screen declare: “When a people does not know the history of their nation, they can quickly lose the freedoms that millions have fought and died for.”

Just before the title graphics of “The American Miracle,” the film defines the word “Providence”: “the belief that all things are ordered and regulated by God towards His purpose.”

Providence is an uncommon concept in our secularized society, but American history has many examples of what could be interpreted as God’s hand on the creation of the nation.

The first such example highlighted in the film is that two key founders of America, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both died the same day—exactly 50 years after July 4, 1776. Adams’ last words were to the effect that all is well since Jefferson still lives (although he had died earlier that day).

Through the long Revolutionary War, weather favored the American cause in example after example. Such as the fog that rolled in and allowed the American troops to use all boats available in order to cross the East River in New York and thus escape from Brooklyn Heights to Manhattan. That event took place in August 1776 and has been likened to Washington’s Dunkirk.

But most importantly, God seemed to put His protective hand on George Washington, the military leader who was able to lead us to victory.  The film re-enacts several examples where the father of our country could have been killed, such as in a 1755 battle during the French and Indian War.

A Native-American chief told his warriors to aim at George Washington. After several missed shots, he then told them to stop—as it seemed a higher power was protecting the young man.

An eye-witness to the battle was quoted as saying, “I expected every moment to see him fall. Nothing but the superintending care of Providence could have saved him.”

By the end of the massacre, Washington was the only British or American officer unharmed, with 714 Americans and British either killed or wounded (versus three officers and 30 men dead among the French and Indians).

In the movie, Dr. Robert George of Princeton notes, “Were these all just coincidences? Well, maybe they were. Logically, it’s possible—maybe—that coincidentally we had coincidence after coincidence after coincidence, all favoring Washington and favoring the American side. Leading to what would seem to be this miraculous victory of this American revolutionary. This rag-tag bunch over the greatest military power on earth. But Washington saw the hand of a supervening providence in these so-called coincidences. He saw miracles, where a skeptic or a cynic might see coincidences.”

Michael Medved remarks near the very end of the movie: “An isolated incident of fortunate coincidence or eerie congruence may count as an anomaly. But a long chain of seemingly haphazard, but consistently beneficial, occurrences suggests something else entirely. A pattern or more accurately, a design.”

“The American Miracle” is an encouraging film for generations of Americans to come. It makes a thought-provoking case for the film’s central premise: “America is no accident.”

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