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A federal judge has forbidden one of the president’s appointed prosecutors from participating in certain cases after saying he is serving “unlawfully.”

Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, released a defiant statement in response to the judgment Tuesday.

‘Ultimately, this question will be decided by the Supreme Court.’

“Just so there’s no confusion, today’s order is stayed and has no immediate effect,” Essayli said on social media. “I remain First Assistant U.S. Attorney and continue running the office.”

U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright said the Trump administration had installed Essayli as a U.S. attorney in defiance of a 120-day legal limit for acting U.S. attorneys.

Seabright gave the government a week to begin the appeals process so the ruling won’t be immediately in effect.

A defense attorney who challenged Essayli’s appointment back in August praised the new ruling.

“The Trump administration ignored the laws governing the appointment of U.S. Attorneys and got caught in Los Angeles,” said H. Dean Steward to the Los Angeles Times. “Trump and his Department of Justice violated the law again and again in an effort to install minions as chief federal prosecutors.”

Essayli also responded in a longer statement.

“We respectfully disagree with the court’s order,” said Essayli. “The president and the attorney general have every right to select supervisors within the Justice Department. Importantly, today’s order is automatically stayed so the government can seek a full stay and maintain the status quo pending our appeal.”

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“Ultimately, this question will be decided by the Supreme Court, and I look forward to serving in my current role until then.”

Other prosecutors appointed by President Donald Trump but not approved by the U.S. Senate have been blocked from serving through legal objections.

Seabright was appointed to the court under former President George W. Bush.

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Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign has been credibly accused of engaging in a scheme to unseat Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R).

Citing interviews with 12 people who were involved or told about the alleged scheme along with text messages and documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the Peltola campaign, the New York Times reported that top Peltola campaign aides told staffers last year: “Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.”

‘Mary Peltola and her campaign have spent months gaslighting Alaskans, denying a scheme they were running all along.’

The apparent aim of this scheme was to stir up confusion when it came time for Alaskans to vote and possibly siphon votes away from the incumbent Republican in the general election.

One staffer allegedly scoured voter records to find potential candidates with the namesake — and these alleged efforts paid off.

Daniel J. Sullivan of Petersburg, a retired teacher who was born in the Midwest, reportedly registered as a Republican earlier this year and entered the race to oust Sen. Dan S. Sullivan on May 29, just before the deadline for filing.

Sen. Dan S. Sullivan suspected something was amiss about his new challenger’s campaign from the outset, telling CNN in May that J. Sullivan’s candidacy was effectively a Democrat effort to “cheat.”

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The senator said, “Democrats recruited a guy by the name of Dan Sullivan. He is a liberal progressive, right? We’ve seen it — his donations to all the far-left groups. He’s donated to Peltola, OK? And his whole purpose of running is to confuse Alaskans.”

In its June complaint regarding J. Sullivan’s candidacy to the Federal Election Commission, National Republican Senatorial Committee general counsel Blake Murphy noted that:

J. Sullivan’s campaign logo and website “closely mimics” that of Sen. S. Sullivan’s campaign branding; J. Sullivan has donated to Peltola; the press release promoting J. Sullivan’s candidacy for Senate was authored by Amber Lee, a Democratic consultant and Peltola supporter; and FEC records show that Amber Lee Strategies has received thousands of dollars for “PAC Strategy Consulting” from a federal PAC that has supported Peltola.

KTOO-TV reported that J. Sullivan has shed his Republican affiliation and is going into the general election as an undeclared candidate.

According to the Times, the ballot-stacking scheme was intentional and involved:

The endeavor, which was internally called the ballot composition project, involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.

In addition to senior aides and lowly staffers on the campaign, the Times alleged that the scheme involved lawyers from Peltola’s Senate campaign and Democrat operatives, as well as aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

“Alaskans deserve to know the truth,” Sen. Dan S. Sullivan said in a statement to Blaze News. “Mary Peltola, her campaign, and her senior advisers colluded with the DSCC, national Democrat lawyers, and Alaska Democrat operatives to recruit a candidate to deliberately deceive and confuse voters and then repeatedly lied about it. Not one player in this operation has acted in good faith with Alaska voters.”

Sen. S. Sullivan added, “Mary Peltola and her campaign have spent months gaslighting Alaskans, denying a scheme they were running all along. We always knew this was a concerted effort to deceive voters, and Mary Peltola was hoping it would stay hidden until after the election.”

The Peltola campaign said in a statement to Blaze News, “The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign. Like Mary, our campaign is focused on lowering costs and fixing the rigged system in D.C.”

Her campaign told the Times, “The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race.” The DSCC similarly denied involvement in the alleged scheme.

Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager who was fired in August, told the Times that while the Democrat — who allegedly wished death by a “botched abortion” on a woman — was not directly involved in the alleged ballot-stacking scheme, she was “definitely aware.”

“Alaskan voters need to know,” said Rios. “There was a lot of speculation, and voters should get the full picture when making their decisions.”

Rios later attempted to retract her previous statements to the Times, which the Times published anyway, never having agreed that the interviews were off the record.

The allegations have prompted outrage among some Republicans.

“Two terms in Congress. Zero bills signed into law. But she found time to hunt down every Dan Sullivan in Alaska,” tweeted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “Control of the Senate goes through Alaska. Let’s elect the REAL Dan Sullivan.”

Sen. Tom Cottom (R-Ark.) tweeted, “This is a direct scheme to undermine the integrity of the election.”

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit last week seeking to block the certification of the election results if Dan J. Sullivan’s involvement has a material impact on S. Sullivan’s performance.

The DOJ noted in its lawsuit that many polls indicate that the race between Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and Peltola “will be within one or two percentage points, and Daniel J. Sullivan received 2.5% of the vote in the primary election. Thus, there is a realistic chance that even if a majority of Alaskans wish to vote for Senator Sullivan, Daniel J. Sullivan’s presence on the ballot will result in a victory for Peltola.”

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If Democrat Muslim Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — who has been repeatedly questioned over his family’s alleged Muslim Brotherhood ties — wins in Michigan next week, the state can expect a senator who will push Medicare-for-all government health care, fight to codify nationwide abortion access, work to abolish ICE, and raise taxes on businesses and the wealthy.

But according to Article III Project senior counsel Josh Hammer, that’s not the worst of it.

“This guy will literally be a five-alarm fire national security threat if he is elected to the United States Senate,” he tells the “Steve Deace Show” panel.

“He’s already making moves and making waves about trying to sit on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — maybe the Select Committee on Intelligence, so help us God,” he says. “I mean, this is a guy who it’s not an exaggeration to say that he is a Muslim Brotherhood asset.”

Hammer argues that although there’s no “overt collusive conspiracy,” the support El-Sayed has received from the Muslim Brotherhood’s “very sophisticated network,” which includes the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America, is substantial, coordinated, and deeply concerning for a U.S. Senate candidate.

“CAIR has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Abdul El-Sayed. His father-in-law, a very wealthy doctor in Michigan, was one of the founding members of ISNA,” he says, noting that both CAIR and ISNA “were named brotherhood front groups in the infamous Holy Land Foundation terror financing case of 2008.”

Hammer also notes that El-Sayed refused to celebrate or even comment positively on the U.S./Israel killing of Ali Khamenei in early 2026. Leaked audio showed El-Sayed telling his staff he didn’t want to touch the topic because “a lot of people in Dearborn” were sad about it.

“You know, Mr. Senate-elect hopeful, the United States and Iran are, last I checked, at war. In fact, they’ve been at war, technically speaking, for 47 years. Whose side are you on, dude? I mean, like literally, whose side of this conflict are you on?” Hammer asks.

He then brings up another concern: From 1999 to 2004, El-Sayed’s mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency.

“They were designated a terror organization by the Treasury Department in 2004 for funding Al-Qaeda and bin Laden,” says Hammer. “The mother was funding Al-Qaeda and bin Laden on September 11, 2001.”

“If [El-Sayed] goes to the Senate, God help us. He will not act on behalf of the United States. He will act on behalf of the Brotherhood; he will act on behalf of Islamism. And Al-Qaeda and ISIS will have a friend inside the U.S. Senate.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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One candidate forum took a wild turn when Fayette County Council hopeful Jaime West was asked what unpopular decision she would make in the county’s best interest.

Her answer? “Firing all Republicans.” She went on to attack MAGA voters, complain about ICE, describe alleged threats against her, and close with a startling warning: “We have guns too.”

“I don’t even talk to [Republicans]. I don’t like them. … Our own state representative voted against her own party. I mean, what do you want me to say? I don’t like being around them. I mean, y’all did this to us. You all voted for this. You made this happen,” she said.

“This ICE coming into our communities, stealing people’s jobs,” she continued, before groaning and claiming that she’s “been threatened so many times to [her] face by MAGA.”

“There’s Republicans who actually get it. You know, there are good Republicans out there. But then there’s these MAGAs who are just racist and aren’t very intelligent at all,” she added.

West then claimed that the “sheriff’s nephew threatened to blow [her] head off.”

“What are you going to do?” she asked, throwing her hands up.

“Clearly drunk,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments.

“I mean, that’s way beyond anything we’ve ever seen from Kamala Harris or Nancy Pelosi,” he adds.

West then went to “clear the air” on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” where Morgan began by saying, “I’m going to be completely straight with you. A lot of people assumed you might have had a drink before you did that interview. Did you?”

“I had a Coors Light. I had a beer,” she replied.

“How many beers did you have?” Morgan asked.

“I was nervous,” she laughed, before finally admitting that she had “three beers” before her appearance.

“That’s more than three beers,” Jeff Fisher comments.

“Yeah,” Gray agrees, “She had three beers that were a gallon each.”

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If there was one lesson to take away from Black October, it was that the internet is becoming an increasingly more dangerous place. Website vulnerabilities, data leaks, and malicious sites are just some of the dangers you might encounter on the web. To stay safe, Chrome has a powerful protection feature you should enable now.

Chrome is the most widely used internet browser on the planet. With an estimated 3.62 billion users worldwide, it is one of the most trusted ways to get to the internet. It is also one of the most targeted browsers by hackers who wish to exploit any potential flaws for personal gain.

The setting syncs to your Google account, so you only have to change it in one spot to cover all of your devices.

This is why enhanced protection mode exists. Google brought enhanced protection mode to the Chrome browser in 2020, and the company has been improving it ever since. Just this month, it added several more features to keep you safer as you surf the web.

One of those features – suspicious site warnings – can display one of two messages on your screen when a malicious website is detected.

The “suspicious sites” warning appears if Chrome believes the website might be a threat. In this case, you have the option to choose to go backward to avoid the site, or proceed at your own risk.

The “dangerous sites” warning is harder to avoid. When Chrome believes a website is dangerous with high confidence and a high risk to the user, it takes over your entire screen with a bright red warning that reads, “Attackers on the site you’re trying to visit might trick you into installing software or revealing things like your passwords, phone, or credit card numbers. Chrome strongly recommends going back to safety.” You’re only given one obvious option — a button that takes you back to safety. This ensures that you don’t accidentally reach the website and infect your device.

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When enhanced protection mode is enabled, users also now receive added ClickFix safety measures. Google describes ClickFix as “a social engineering technique that tricks users into manually copying and executing malicious commands on their own computers in order to ‘fix’ a fake issue.” For instance, if you’re on the phone with a scammer posing as tech support and they send you a message with malicious code that they want you to copy and run on your computer, Chrome can now help identify malicious copied code and display a warning to stop you from executing it.

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How to enable enhanced protection on Chrome

You can activate enhanced protection mode in Chrome either on your phone or through the browser on a laptop or desktop computer. The setting syncs to your Google account, so you only have to change it in one spot to cover all of your devices, assuming you’re logged in properly. If not, you will need to change the setting manually for every device you own.

To enable enhanced protection, open the Chrome browser on your phone or computer. I’m using a mobile phone for the sake of this guide. Tap the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of your screen. From the drop-down, choose “Settings.” On the next page, select “Privacy and security,” followed by “Safe Browsing.” On this final page, you will see three different options:

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No protection: As the label states, this setting won’t protect you from any potential threats you might run into online. Your browsing habits are wide open to dangerous websites, malicious downloaded files, and other threats that could give your device a virus or cause future trouble.Standard protection: This is Chrome’s default mode. With this setting, Chrome can help protect your device against suspicious websites, downloaded files, and even extensions.Enhanced protection: With enhanced protection, Google’s advanced AI analyzes website data in real time to scan for online threats. This feature also extends to other Google apps and services to make them safer, like emails in Gmail.

Check that enhanced protection is on, and you’re all set. Chrome will now serve as a sentry, watching over your browser activity to keep you safe from rogue sites and other online vulnerabilities that mean to do you harm.

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A biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says it is engineering cells inside a living human body in hopes of one day ending genetic diseases.

The company boasted that recent trials were performed on DNA inside of a person rather than the typical method of extracting the DNA first.

‘A major milestone in gene editing.’

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is technology used to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms. A company called Prime Medicine believes it has a more efficient way of accurately editing DNA than the CRISPR method — called Prime Editing — working directly in the body.

The company says the first disorder it is tackling with live trials is an illness called Wilson disease.

Wilson disease is a rare disorder where excess copper is abnormally stored in different places in the body, most commonly causing damage to the liver, brain, or eyes.

Prime Medicine’s aim is to “rewrite faulty DNA responsible for Wilson disease that can cause severe liver and brain damage,” wrote Max Marchione, founder of DNA testing company Superpower.

Marchione called it a “major milestone in gene editing.”

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Delivered intravenously, the medicine uses PM577, an editing product using lipid nanoparticles to “correct pathogenetic … mutations through a single” injection.

Studies explain that lipid nanoparticles “are not only limited to small molecular drugs but also include biomacromolecules such as messenger RNA (mRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), and antibodies.”

PM577a is what targets the mutations and has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Wilson disease, Prime Medicine said in a press release.

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“I never dreamed that in my lifetime I would see this applied to my rare disease,” Rhonda Rowland, president of the Wilson Disease Association in Atlanta, Georgia, told Nature. “It’s going to be a really exciting year,” she added.

Prime Medicine said it intends to develop more products to address “the majority of pathogenic variants” around the world, and it is considering targeting another gene mutation, R778L, the most common in East Asian populations.

Prime Medicine is a publicly traded company currently trading around $3.65 per share at the time of this publication.

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Vice President JD Vance repeatedly torched Democrat Abdul El-Sayed on Tuesday, highlighting the radical’s apparent hostility toward white Americans.

In his speech to rally-goers in Michigan, Vance hyped Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers and characterized the battle underway for Michigan’s Senate seat as a “proxy fight over whether America can be truly sovereign if it belongs to men who feel contempt and disdain and hatred for the United States of America.”

‘Michigan refuses to turn over its Senate seat to a man who would tear down this state and tear down this country.’

The vice president cast doubt on El-Sayed’s patriotism, highlighting how the American-born Democrat has previously claimed foreign ties.

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El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants, stated in a Feb. 11, 2017, speech that he is an “immigrant from North Africa.” El-Sayed also claimed Egyptian citizenship in a resume he shared on an academic networking site roughly a decade ago, reported the Washington Free Beacon.

He likewise stated previously that he has “dual citizenship,” though his campaign later claimed that he “is not a dual citizen by any verifiable metric and never has been.”

“Why would you tell people that you were not from the community that you’re actually from?” asked Vance. “It’s an insane claim to make.”

The vice president added that El-Sayed’s immigrant role-play “shouldn’t be that surprising” in light of his apparent animus toward the United States and its people.

RELATED: Senior Michigan Democrats make announcement sure to give El-Sayed an ulcer: ‘Party loyalty is not blind obedience’

Vance alluded to several of El-Sayed’s controversial remarks, including his 2018 statement, “I believe we owe it to the world to open our doors, and we’re better because of it,” and his advocacy in 2020 for defunding the police.

Earlier in the day, Vance told reporters that Abdul El-Sayed is a “little bit of a psychopath” who “maybe more than any Democrat running in the nation has engaged in a kind of explicitly anti-white racial hatred.”

While the vice president did not provide specific examples, there are plenty to go on.

On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 Islamic terror attacks, El-Sayed reflected on what the day meant for Muslims in America. In his op-ed, El-Sayed complained about the government’s post-9/11 focus on Islamic extremism, claiming that “it deliberately left the greatest threat to our security in the shadows — missing the most common source of American terrorism, ‘homegrown’ and ‘radicalized’ white men.”

El-Sayed further claimed that “so much of our history” has been “stained” by white supremacy.

RELATED: Leftist fire-starters and immigrants have pushed another French republic to the edge: ‘Unholy alliance’

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The Democrat has also smeared Border Patrol agents as “white supremacists”; suggested American policing is rooted in white supremacy; stated “white nationalism is a lie”; and championed DEI and other race-based initiatives.

The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

During his speech in Michigan, Vance said, “We have to understand what happens when our nation gives into these kinds of people — to young men with zero attachment to its land or to its history.”

The vice president likened El-Sayed to the rootless radicals now turning France upside down, suggesting that they are animated by a similar ingratitude and contempt.

“I think that this country belongs to the people who love it enough to defend it. I think it belongs to you, ladies and gentlemen,” said Vance. “And I believe that the state of Michigan refuses to turn over its Senate seat to a man who would tear down this state and tear down this country.”

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Some said it couldn’t be done.

For much of the past two decades, the political landscape in British Columbia has been dominated by the increasingly woke, leftist New Democratic Party and supposedly moderate Liberal governments without the nerve to reduce the power of the state.

Even the emergence of Jerry Brown, derisively nicknamed ‘Governor Moonbeam,’ in the swinging ’70s did not permanently extinguish Republican political fortunes.

That all changed Saturday night.

The Conservative Party of BC and its leader, Lorne Doerkson, humiliated NDP Premier David Eby. According to preliminary results from Elections BC, the Conservatives are leading in 63 of the 93 seats in the provincial legislature, capturing 48.06% of the popular vote.

The defeat was particularly humiliating for Eby because he had called the snap election himself, two years ahead of schedule. Instead of securing a renewed mandate, he handed the Conservatives a commanding majority and announced his resignation as NDP leader.

British Columbia has long been compared to California, not only because it occupies the West Coast of North America but because it has long been associated with crazy political leaders and even crazier political movements.

Today, British Columbia is defined by massive government spending and debt, along with urban centers struggling with homelessness, public disorder, and the consequences of permissive drug policies.

Sound like San Francisco, anyone?

But British Columbia was not always so left-wing or the very picture of economic mismanagement. And neither was California. Remember Gov. Ronald Reagan?

A Conservative comeback

Doerkson has promised a new direction for the province, emphasizing economic opportunity and a government more responsive to ordinary British Columbians.

One of the most difficult battles awaiting his administration concerns the province’s increasingly contentious Indigenous land claims and the legal uncertainty surrounding private property rights.

Doerkson has promised to repeal the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The legislation, adopted in 2019 with all-party support, was intended to bring provincial laws into alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But critics argue that the law has contributed to uncertainty about the province’s obligations to Indigenous groups and the rights of other British Columbians.

Doerkson has made his position clear. Speaking after the election, he said DRIPA had failed to resolve disputes involving land and resource development and had instead contributed to continuing litigation.

Those concerns have become especially acute following a landmark ruling involving land in Richmond, a waterfront suburb of Vancouver.

In August 2025, the British Columbia Supreme Court recognized Aboriginal title held by the Cowichan Nation over approximately 732 acres of land in Richmond, including areas containing privately owned property.

The ruling raised serious questions about the relationship between Aboriginal title and conventional property ownership. Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie warned that the decision undermined the reliability of the province’s land-title system.

“The Court’s untenable decision cannot remain unchallenged,” Brodie said in the city’s announcement of its appeal.

The city appealed, as did the provincial and federal governments. The Canadian government has acknowledged that the ruling could have significant implications for private property rights and that greater legal clarity is needed.

The decision did not order homeowners to vacate their properties. Nevertheless, it has alarmed property owners who believed their registered titles provided secure ownership.

For Doerkson, the controversy presents a formidable challenge. Indigenous land rights are constitutionally protected in Canada, and overlapping territorial claims have long complicated questions of ownership, development, and government authority in British Columbia.

His government will have to navigate those obligations while addressing the concerns of property owners who fear that the rules governing their homes and businesses are changing beneath their feet.

BC wasn’t always socialist

One mistake commentators make is assuming that British Columbia has somehow been socialist for the past century because the last government elected under the Conservative Party banner dates to 1928.

In fact, much of the province’s modern history was dominated by the BC Social Credit Party, which was conservative and populist.

Social Credit governed British Columbia for all but three years between 1952 and 1991.

W.A.C. Bennett was premier from 1952 to 1972. His son, Bill Bennett, became premier in 1975 after three years of NDP government under Dave Barrett. The Socreds remained in power until 1991, when the NDP defeated them.

The BC Liberal Party, which subsequently became the province’s de facto center-right party, took power in 2001 and governed until 2017.

So the notion that British Columbia is naturally or permanently left-wing is nonsense. Conservative governments have governed the province for much of its modern history, even when they operated under different party names.

Doerkson’s victory is remarkable, but it is hardly without historical precedent.

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Could California follow?

So can this kind of political phenomenon happen in woke, leftist California, a state struggling with enormous fiscal pressures and a myriad of destructive progressive social policies?

You can only push people toward the edge of a cliff for so long before they begin to push back.

California was Ronald Reagan country. He governed the state from 1967 to 1975. The Golden State supported Republican presidential candidates in nine of the 10 elections between 1952 and 1988, including Richard Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.

Even the emergence of Jerry Brown, derisively nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam,” in the swinging ’70s did not permanently extinguish Republican political fortunes.

Republicans George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson subsequently governed California for a combined 16 years. Arnold Schwarzenegger, another Republican, won the governorship in the 2003 recall election and was re-elected in 2006.

California’s present Democrat dominance is therefore a relatively recent development in the state’s political history.

Of course, British Columbia and California have different political systems. The BC Conservatives benefited from a parliamentary system in which winning a majority of legislative seats delivers control of the government. California Republicans would have to overcome entrenched Democrat advantages in statewide elections.

But British Columbia’s election demonstrates that political dominance can evaporate when voters become sufficiently dissatisfied with the people governing them.

Eby thought he could strengthen his position by calling an early election. Instead, voters delivered a Conservative majority and sent him packing. California’s Democrats might want to take notice.

If British Columbia can turn its political fortunes around, why not California?

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A 31-year-old gun-control activist was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly vandalizing the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

Johnathan Andrew Tijerina is accused of spray-painting the address of his anti-gun website over the engraved names of some of the 2,977 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks.

‘To deface this sacred site is absolutely disgusting and deeply disrespectful to the victims.’

A source familiar with the matter told Blaze News that the Port Authority Police Department received a tip from the 9/11 Memorial Museum around 5 p.m. on Monday that an individual had been detained in connection with vandalism of memorial panels on the north side of the memorial’s north reflecting pool.

Tijerina was placed under arrest by PAPD officers, then later transferred to Manhattan Central Booking, said the source. He has been charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti.

According to police, the vandalism caused over $2,550 in damage and was caught on camera, reported the New York Daily News.

The incident was also witnessed by a 16-year-old tourist from the United Kingdom, who told CBS News New York, “I saw somebody with red spray-paint, and they sprayed ‘just stop killing kids’ over some of the names.”

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“And then within, like, less than a minute, the police came and arrested him,” he added.

Tijerina appears to have filmed himself admitting guilt.

In a video shared to the Instagram account for the suspect’s anti-gun group, a man standing in front of the memorial states, “My name is John Tijerina, and I’ve just spray-painted ‘Just stop killing kids’ on the 9/11 Memorial.”

In a statement, Just Stop Killing Kids characterized the suspect as an “experienced civil-resistance organizer” and claimed that “this recent action draws on a tradition of nonviolence intended to compel government action.”

A spokesperson for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum said in a statement obtained by CBS News, “The 9/11 Memorial is a sacred place of reflection at the heart of a rebuilt World Trade Center that honors the 2,983 victims killed in the September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, terrorist attacks. Yesterday’s brief incident was swiftly addressed by security staff and law enforcement, and the impacted area was immediately restored to its commemorative state.”

The defacement of the memorial, which is located at the site of the former World Trade Center complex, prompted outrage — especially among individuals whose friends and loved ones are commemorated by the memorial.

“I wear on my wrist the names of more than a hundred friends and colleagues who lost their lives in the attacks 25 years ago. Their memory, and the memory of every innocent life lost that day, deserves the utmost respect,” Ret. Col. Thomas Sullivan, a Republican running for election to the New York State Assembly, said in a statement to Blaze News.

“As a survivor of the attacks who went on to fight in the Global War on Terror, I know firsthand the significance of this memorial. It is hallowed ground, a place of remembrance and reflection,” continued Sullivan. “It should be treated with the dignity and respect that those we lost deserve.”

“To deface this sacred site is absolutely disgusting and deeply disrespectful to the victims, their families, and everyone who continues to carry the weight of that tragic day,” added Sullivan. “The individual responsible must be identified, apprehended, and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

“This is the Mamdani effect,” wrote New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R).

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt noted, “I don’t recall this ever happening before Mamdani and AOC were seen laughing at the memorial on national TV.”

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It took a Trump to cool the guns in one of Europe’s most war-torn cities.

The ruined city of Oleshky in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region has been occupied by Russian forces for over four years. In addition to the persistent threat of violence, the estimated 2,000 residents trapped in the city — a city flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam — have long faced severe food, water, and medicine shortages.

‘Her personal involvement is crucial to the entire process.’

Some civilians reportedly began consuming soup made from garden weeds in recent months to survive.

After Pope Leo XIV urged Moscow and Kiev to agree to a ceasefire in the region, Melania Trump intervened and successfully brokered the deal. Mrs. Trump announced the ceasefire on Friday and gave an update on Tuesday.

The first lady said on Tuesday that “the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia took effect at 4:00am Moscow time on October 27, 2026.”

“Timing was accelerated two days ahead of schedule to protect the safety of civilians and to facilitate the delivery of critical humanitarian aid,” continued Mrs. Trump. “The ceasefire’s geographic area has expanded beyond Oleshky, within the Kherson Region, to provide safe passage for the humanitarian convoys. General Valery Gerasimov, Joint Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed.”

Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, confirmed on Tuesday evening that both Russia and Ukraine were adhering to the agreement “in designated areas related to the humanitarian mission” and that there had been no violations recorded by either side.

This ceasefire comes after multiple previous attempts failed.

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According to Lubinets, the ceasefire — which he said was mediated and coordinated by Melania Trump and was holding firm without incident on Wednesday morning — will remain in effect until 10:59 p.m. on Sunday.

Yana Lantratova, Russia’s human rights commissioner, expressed gratitude to Mrs. Trump, stating, “I would like to thank U.S. first lady Melania Trump once again for supporting the humanitarian mission and helping the residents of Alyoshki. Her personal involvement is crucial to the entire process. A huge thank-you also goes to Melania Trump’s team for their significant efforts in coordinating.”

Per the terms of the ceasefire, an American media company will document the efforts by Russian and Ukrainian civilian teams to aid the people of Oleshky. Those who wish to leave the city will be provided with support and transportation. Melania Trump suggested that some civilians “will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine.”

On Oct. 16, Pope Leo spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged for “a ceasefire to allow the delivery of food and medical assistance, and the voluntary and safe evacuation of the civilian population,” according the Holy See Press Office.

Days later, the pope spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the request to Putin, emphasizing his hope that cooperation between the warring parties will ameliorate the humanitarian crisis.

Melania Trump told reporters on Saturday that “it is great to have [the] pope’s support” and that she had spoken to the Ukrainian and Russian presidents about the ceasefire.

Mrs. Trump emphasized last week that the situation in Oleshky “is dire.”

“The people of Oleshky have limited electricity, live amid mined roads, and endure regular military attacks,” said the first lady. “It was abundantly clear that without my intervention, the possibility to bring humanitarian aid into the city and to evacuate the elderly would be impossible.”

According to the White House, the bleak circumstances in Oleshky were brought to the first lady’s attention during a private discussion at her Fostering the Future Together event during the 81st United Nations General Assembly.

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America can produce more crude oil and still fail to put much more gasoline in a driver’s tank. Between the well and the pump stand pipelines, refineries, and investments that take years to build. Politicians who promise affordability while making that work harder have a problem no campaign slogan can fix.

Americans don’t need another lecture about why they should accept higher electric bills. They need leaders willing to confront the policies that make energy harder to produce and deliver. Every family heating a home, filling a gas tank, or buying groceries pays the price. When energy gets more expensive, the cost works its way through nearly everything else.

You cannot campaign against an industry’s future and act surprised when companies hesitate to finance it.

The left wants credit for caring about working families. Its energy agenda should be judged by what those families can afford. Promises of a greener future offer little comfort to someone deciding which bill to pay late.

Affordability requires abundant energy, dependable infrastructure, and the freedom to build.

Start with gasoline. Expanding American oil production helps, but crude must travel through pipelines, reach refineries, and become usable fuel before it can get a parent to work. An energy agenda must follow the barrel all the way to the pump.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, American refineries operated at 96.5% of their operable capacity in June and July. That leaves little slack during peak summer demand. More crude cannot automatically produce a matching increase in gasoline output when refineries are already running close to capacity.

EIA identifies Marathon’s Garyville, Louisiana, facility, which opened in 1977, as the newest U.S. refinery with significant downstream processing capacity. Smaller refineries have opened since, and existing facilities have expanded considerably. Processing capacity deserves as much attention as drilling.

Democrats advocating a rapid retreat from petroleum should explain why investors would commit billions to infrastructure those same politicians want the country to stop using. You cannot campaign against an industry’s future and act surprised when companies hesitate to finance it.

China understands that industrial power requires physical infrastructure. The International Energy Agency’s 2025 investment report projected approximately $88 billion in Chinese transmission and distribution investment that year, alongside enormous investments in generation and storage. Beijing is building an energy system to support its industrial ambitions.

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America should compete through private enterprise, innovation, and the freedom to build. Those advantages cannot carry us far if our political system rewards short-term promises while long-term projects languish.

Members of the House face voters every two years. That accountability is essential, but the calendar also encourages projects that pay political dividends before the next election. A transmission upgrade won’t make a thrilling television ad. Refinery modernization won’t produce a viral moment. The infrastructure Americans depend on rarely makes a consultant’s highlight reel.

The temptation is to campaign on lower prices while ignoring the construction needed to deliver them. Republicans should resist it. A two-year election cycle cannot excuse the failure to plan 20 years ahead.

Our competitors benefit when American projects stall. Every unnecessary delay lets another chance to manufacture, innovate, or expand slip away.

And demand is growing. America wants to lead in artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing. Both require dependable electricity. The IEA projects that data centers will account for roughly half of U.S. electricity demand growth through 2030.

Conservatives should welcome that investment and insist on the capacity to support it: natural gas, nuclear power, more transmission, and renewables competing on cost and performance. Families need electricity during extreme weather. Hospitals need it around the clock. Reliability must guide these decisions.

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Large data-center developers should also pay the infrastructure costs their projects create. A retired couple should not finance a technology giant through a higher utility bill. Supporting business does not require handing its expenses to everyone else.

Permitting reform belongs at the center of the conservative agenda. Establish clear environmental standards, impose firm deadlines for decisions, and let responsible developers build when they meet the requirements. Communities deserve a voice. Investors deserve an answer. Endless uncertainty serves neither.

Americans also deserve to choose vehicles and household equipment that fit their finances and daily lives. New technology should win customers on performance and value. Politicians imposing mandates should answer for their costs.

Republicans must deliver completed projects, greater supply, and dependable service. Affordable energy allows a farmer to operate, a manufacturer to compete, a small business to hire, and a family to keep more of its paycheck.

America has the resources, expertise, and workers to build a stronger energy system. Conservatives should judge their leaders by completed projects, expanding supply, and reliable service — not promises recycled every two years. Campaign slogans cannot power a factory or heat a home.

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That bargain price on a car may be nothing more than bait.

You see the ad, compare the numbers, and make the trip to the dealership. Then come the mandatory packages, dealer fees, and discounts you may never qualify for. Suddenly, the price that got you through the door is nowhere near the price you’re expected to pay.

If you have financing arranged, say so before visiting. Confirm whether the quoted price changes if you use your own lender.

In one recent case, the Federal Trade Commission alleges the difference averaged more than $3,350, with buyers paying above the advertised price in more than 92% of the transactions examined.

For someone who has spent weeks comparing vehicles and working out a budget, that can wreck the deal. By the time the additional charges appear, the dealership already has your attention — and several hours of your day.

Thousands more than advertised

On October 8, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Greenway Auto Group over allegedly deceptive advertising. The agency’s complaint describes mandatory administrative, dealer, delivery, and processing fees, along with packages and advertised discounts unavailable to some buyers.

The FTC warned Greenway about its pricing practices in March. According to the complaint, the company responded by adding false assurances of price transparency to its websites while continuing to advertise vehicles for thousands less than their actual prices.

Under the proposed settlement, Greenway agreed to prominently advertise the actual price consumers must pay, excluding required government charges. The proposed order also prohibits misrepresentations about whether fees, products, or particular financing arrangements are required. The allegations are not findings from a contested trial.

Greenway isn’t the only dealership group facing enforcement. In April, the FTC and Maryland attorney general announced a settlement with Lindsay Automotive Group that included a $3.1 million civil penalty and refunds for eligible consumers. The agencies said more than $75 million in charges could qualify for redress; that does not mean that amount has already been returned.

Their complaint alleged that buyers encountered unavailable rebates, were told they needed dealership financing to obtain advertised prices, and were charged for unwanted products such as service plans and tire-and-rim protection. Some customers allegedly pressured to finance through the dealership already had financing arranged through military credit unions.

These practices also hurt honest dealers. A business advertising a complete price can look more expensive than a competitor leaving mandatory charges out. The customer may never visit the dealership offering the real deal.

The rule is gone. The obligation remains.

The federal Combating Auto Retail Scams Rule was vacated by a federal appeals court in January 2025 on procedural grounds and formally withdrawn in February 2026. That did not make deceptive advertising legal.

In March, the FTC warned 97 dealership groups about potentially deceptive practices, including leaving mandatory fees out of advertised prices, advertising discounts unavailable to everyone, and requiring additional purchases.

The agency followed in September with price-transparency guidance for auto dealers. Its position is straightforward: advertised prices should include dealer-required charges, with an exception for government-required charges owed by the consumer.

That includes mandatory document fees. A fee does not become exempt from the advertised price simply because a state permits a dealer to charge it.

Conditional discounts can still be advertised, but the price available to any consumer should be the most prominent. A first-responder discount, for example, should not make the headline price look available to a buyer who cannot qualify.

California adds protections

While federal regulators pursue deceptive pricing under existing law, California has gone farther, giving car buyers additional protections.

California’s Combating Auto Retail Scams Act, Senate Bill 766, became operative October 1. Its requirements address advertised prices, disclosures, add-on products, and record-keeping.

The law also establishes an automatic three-day cancellation right for qualifying used vehicles priced at $50,000 or less, subject to mileage, condition, and other return requirements. Buyers should review the written cancellation disclosure rather than assume every purchase qualifies or every return is free.

These are California protections; buyers elsewhere need to check their own states’ rules.

Get the number before you go

Whatever regulators do next, buyers can insist on clearer information before committing an afternoon to a dealership.

Ask for an itemized, written out-the-door price for the specific vehicle. It should identify the vehicle and include dealer charges, taxes, title and registration costs, and any products included in the quote. Ask which discounts depend on your occupation, trade-in, financing choice, or other qualifications.

If you have financing arranged, say so before visiting. Confirm whether the quoted price changes if you use your own lender.

At the dealership, compare that quote with the purchase agreement. Ask about every added charge. If a product is optional and you do not want it, have it removed before signing. If the salesperson says it is mandatory, ask who requires it and where that requirement appears in writing.

Never negotiate a monthly payment until you have agreed on the total out-the-door price.

An extra $30 a month over a 72-month loan adds up to $2,160. A payment that fits your budget does not establish that every product bundled into it is worth buying.

Save the advertisement, quote, messages, and final paperwork. The FTC accepts reports of potentially deceptive dealership practices, and its guidance specifically encourages consumers to identify supporting advertisements and contracts.

Dealerships have every right to make a profit. Consumers have every right to know what they are agreeing to pay.

If a dealer cannot explain the difference between its advertisement and its contract, don’t let the time you have already spent there pressure you into signing.

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Atlanta police investigating the tragic death of a 4-year-old boy have arrested a friend of the boy’s mother.

Police said they were called to a townhome in a gated community in southwest Atlanta on Monday evening at about 7:15 p.m. for a welfare check.

‘He was 4. He was just the sweetest little boy ever, always smiling, and he loved his mommy.’

After forcing their way into the home, police found the child deceased inside. They tried to resuscitate the child, but he was declared dead at the scene.

Police determined that 32-year-old Jasmaine Smoak had allegedly fled from the scene with three children.

Smoak’s vehicle was tracked by license plate reader technology to Washington, Georgia, in Wilkes County. She was arrested without incident, and the three children were recovered.

One of the children had visible injuries and was hospitalized for treatment at a local hospital in Wilkes County.

Smoak was charged with one count of second-degree cruelty to children and one count of concealing the death of another.

Atlanta police said that Smoak was a friend of the mother of the deceased boy.

“He was 4. He was just the sweetest little boy ever, always smiling, and he loved his mommy,” said the boy’s aunt to WXIA-TV.

She said the injured boy was his brother and that he was in critical condition.

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Police said the investigation was active and ongoing.

“My hat is off to our deputies and the Atlanta Homicide Detectives for their dedication, professionalism, and determination in bringing this matter to a swift resolution,” said Wilkes County Sheriff Darrell Powers.

“While most people were sleeping, these men and women were hard at work making sure this individual was located and taken into custody,” he added.

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Democratic lawmakers want the Department of Veterans Affairs to reintroduce special taxpayer-funded support staff services dedicated to assisting veterans who want to “change” their gender. If they take Congress in November, they might be able to pressure the Trump administration to do just that.

If this happens, conservatives may have the Veterans of Foreign Wars to thank for it — even though veterans tend to be conservative and there is never a need for taxpayers to pay for gender transition treatments and recovery. In fact, it’s horrible for national security. But the VFW doesn’t seem to care.

Veterans need advocates, not another organization trying to earn a medal in the culture wars instead of taking care of our actual warfighters.

Most Americans think of their grandfathers, fathers, or uncles swapping stories with their fellow vets over a beer at the local VFW hall. They think of the organization as apolitical. The reality, however, is that the organization has increasingly become political — especially in support of left-wing causes.

The most prominent one is its advocacy for LGBT issues. This past summer, the VFW backed Pride Month and bragged about supporting Pride Month ever since President Bill Clinton issued the first presidential proclamation about it in 1999.

In 2019, VFW National Commander B.J. Lawrence delivered a congressional statement calling for additional resources specifically for LGBT veterans.

Lawrence sounded more like a woke corporate human resources department than the uniting voice of a veterans’ champion when he discussed “health inequities” affecting different identity groups.

These woke health care policies became entrenched within the organization. Instead of expanding access to care for all veterans, VFW supported giving favored groups access to specialized care at taxpayer expense. Thankfully, President Trump has reversed that, axing dedicated LGBT Veteran Care Coordinator roles and reorganizing specialized support networks so they support every veteran, critics be damned.

Now, the Democrats have explicitly called for those dedicated positions to be restored, and the VFW is right on board. In congressional testimony last year, Nancy Springer, acting director of the VFW’s National Legislative Service, explicitly supported bringing woke medicine back to the VA through legislation that would establish an equity and reconciliation commission designed to remedy “institutionalized discrimination,” whatever that means.

If the VFW is lobbying for identity-specific federal programs, it opens itself to legitimate questions about its priorities.

RELATED: You don’t have to convict a Trump aide to bankrupt one

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Veterans are not all red or all blue. Some are conservative, some are liberal, and some are independent. They come from all backgrounds and walks of life, and they aren’t a monolithic political bloc. Regardless of their political views, they all deserve equal access to health care.

It doesn’t matter where you, as an individual, stand on the question of gender “medicine.” We are all free to think what we want here in America. It does matter when a veteran organization wants taxpayers to fund surgeries and other procedures that don’t improve national security or enhance veteran care.

Veterans need advocates, not another organization trying to earn a medal in the culture wars instead of taking care of our actual warfighters.

The VFW already has a big job to do. It exists to “ensure that veterans are respected for their service, always receive their earned entitlements, and are recognized for the sacrifices they and their loved ones have made on behalf of this great country.”

That doesn’t encompass partisan LGBT policy or advocating for dubious “gender-affirming” care.

Veterans are struggling to obtain mental health support, access medical treatment, navigate disability claims, and secure the benefits they earned through their service. The VFW should spend less time fighting over gender ideology and more time fighting for the veterans it was founded to serve.

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A pro-abortion U.S. Senate candidate in Texas is trying to pass himself off as a sincere Christian preacher. If he succeeds, he could be the deciding vote to allow abortion up to birth.

James Talarico has mangled Scripture to conceal the gaping chasm between Christianity and the Democratic Party’s extreme abortion agenda. Currently, 210 House Democrats and the entire Democratic Senate caucus support abortion-up-to-birth legislation: the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act. And Democrats only need to win a few Senate races to build a pro-abortion majority.

Texas voters should look at this moral grandstanding and utterly reject it.

It is critically important for pro-life voters to get informed and frustrate his attempt to sneak these radical views past Texans.

Talarico’s voting record includes opposing protecting children born alive after a botched abortion and fighting to block or repeal crucial protections for the unborn in Texas. Following the Jackson v. Dobbs decision, Talarico begged President Joe Biden to undermine Texas laws by making abortionists federal employees and putting abortion clinics on federal land.

Talarico repeated these requests during a speech as part of an appeal to restore the “soul” of the country and to imitate Jesus. However, Talarico did not explain what was so Christ-like about ensuring that abortionists can dismember babies immediately before birth.

Faithful Christians deserve better than being represented by such a pro-abortion extremist. But Talarico is trying to appeal to Texas Christians, aided by glowing profiles from outlets such as Politico and the New York Times, which have portrayed him as a model Christian statesman.

This is why it is essential that voters look at his discrediting approach to Scripture. If they do, they will notice a clear pattern of a shameless politician abusing key passages to push an extreme abortion agenda.

On “The Joe Rogan Experience” in July of last year, Talarico was asked to provide biblical evidence for his abortion views. He outrageously chose to use Mary’s agreement to conceive the Savior as part of his pro-abortion argument. Talarico even told Joe Rogan that the Torah might contain instructions for how to commit an abortion. This is, of course, totally false. Instead, the Torah contains God’s words carved in stone: “You shall not murder.”

Talarico also used Scripture to argue that life begins “at first breath” in a clear attempt to undermine the humanity of the unborn.

During a discussion on “The Ezra Klein Show” earlier this year, Talarico warned that Christians would be judged by whether they feed the hungry and care for the sick, before moving on to defend abortion. However, he voted against a bill to ensure care for babies born alive after abortions.

By contrast, his pro-life colleagues voted to feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, and to offer care to the most vulnerable of the sick.

Talarico maintains this absurd approach to Scripture not just on the campaign trail but in his sermons as well. In 2022, he suggested that defending the unborn was “Christo-fascism” and that “nothing is more un-Christian than” Texas’ laws protecting the unborn.

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Talarico, who has described God as “nonbinary,” claimed during his abortion sermon that “the Bible sometimes describes God as a female, calling her Sophia.” He also claimed that “our trans community needs abortion care too.”

In light of such statements and Talarico’s record, Texas voters should look at this moral grandstanding and utterly reject it.

Talarico tends to contrast himself morally with his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, as if he were the Pharisee who thanked God that he was not like other men. But here is the most fundamental moral contrast that swamps all others: Talarico has tried to undermine Texas’ laws protecting the unborn. Paxton has defended them.

Talarico stayed silent when a surrogate mother, pressured to abort her baby, fled to Texas. She did so reportedly due to concerns that the biological parents would deny the baby life-saving care. Paxton welcomed and defended her and her child.

But Talarico’s arguments will not go unchallenged. Because informed pro-life Texans are the key to Talarico’s defeat, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is investing $2 million in Texas races. This effort includes the Senate race between Talarico and Paxton. SBA is putting $500,000 behind a compelling new ad from the Women Speak Out PAC, which fiercely calls out Talarico’s radical abortion proposals.

Pro-life Christians fighting for the least among us, the vulnerable unborn, have the power to block Talarico and prevent a pro-abortion majority from taking power in Congress.

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The mainstream media initially claimed that the unrest sweeping France was simply about schools — but staying true to the mainstream media’s tendency to lie, that couldn’t be farther from the truth.

And Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck knew it all along.

“The French are coming out and they’re saying, ‘Oh, I guess this really wasn’t all about schools.’ This is about a Marxist takeover, and only the mainstream media is being dishonest about this,’” Glenn explains.

“Thank God most people do not pay attention to the mainstream media at this point,” he adds.

The masked rioters began their tirade a couple of weeks ago in the middle of France, breaking into a city hall and setting it on fire.

“That building opened in 1883 and it survived two world wars, but it didn’t survive the Marxists in the street,” Glenn says.

“Roof caves in, the bell tower comes down, the paintings on the wall go with it. And across France that weekend, about 2,400 people were arrested. That has continued, and it is getting worse and worse, and they are becoming more and more die-hard about it,” he continues.

“The French press spent a week explaining it. ‘Oh, this is just about school,’” he says. “The French didn’t need that explanation. They didn’t. They saw it with their own eyes.”

But the Marxists appear to have overplayed their hand.

“And the latest in polling, if the hard-left candidate makes a runoff for president next spring, he loses by more than two to one,” Glenn says.

“What is happening?” he asks. “Well, you can argue with a newspaper column. You can, but you cannot argue with your city burning down. And it’s happening everywhere. It’s not just in France. It’s the Italians, the Danes, the Dutch, the British, the Americans, the Spanish.”

“Different languages, different histories, all looking at the same thing happening on their own streets and arriving at exactly the same answer at the same time,” he continues.

“And the answer is no … I don’t want any of this,” he adds.

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Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly fled to the United States after narrowly losing Brazil’s presidential election under unusual circumstances and after Brazil’s left-wing government demanded he surrender his passports.

Bolsonaro, son of convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, has left Brazil for the U.S., two sources told CNN Tuesday. A U.S. official then seemingly confirmed the report, telling the outlet that Bolsonaro was headed for Florida before stating that his destination was unclear, CNN said.

‘Do not recognize these elections.’

Reuters, citing three sources, reported that he had left Brazil for the U.S. One source even said that the Trump administration had granted asylum to Bolsonaro and his immediate family, the outlet reported.

“After months of intense work that has been unfairly thwarted, I am not in the mood to speak to the press,” said Paulo Figueiredo, an unofficial family spokesman.

Bolsonaro lost Sunday’s runoff to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by about 3.6 points after Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin extended voting by two hours, stirring fraud suspicions. Zanin was Lula’s personal defense lawyer until Lula put him on the court in 2023.

Lula was previously found guilty of corruption and money-laundering charges. He spent over 550 days in prison before he was freed in 2019. The Supreme Court annulled his convictions in 2021 on jurisdictional grounds.

The elder Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for what some claim was a political hit job. Flávio Bolsonaro also faces allegations of money laundering and other crimes.

“It is impossible to accept the result of the elections under these conditions,” Flávio Bolsonaro said Sunday night, vowing to seek annulment.

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“Do not recognize these elections,” Eduardo Bolsonaro, Flávio’s brother, said in an X video. On Tuesday, Eduardo called reports that his brother had absconded a “lie,” CNN reported.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes signed a sealed order the night of the presidential election demanding that Bolsonaro surrender his passports. The order also prohibited Bolsonaro from leaving Brazil.

Federal Police canceled the passports Tuesday amid reports that Bolsonaro had fled the country, according to CNN.

Argentina’s Infobae reported that Bolsonaro crossed into the Misiones province to take a private jet, though this report remains unconfirmed. Argentina said it has “no record” of him entering.

“The process is confidential. We do not have any information,” Brazil’s Supreme Court told Blaze News when asked about Moraes’ passport confiscation order.

The State Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.

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A delegation of Cuban officials interrupted a speech by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, which led to a heated shouting match.

Waltz was defending the U.S. embargo against the communist regime on the island nation when the Cuban delegation began pounding on their desks.

‘Back up, ambassador! Back away! This isn’t Havana! You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with?’

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called for a point of order from the U.N. presiding official before he furiously walked toward the podium where Waltz was speaking.

“You are a liar!” he yelled.

“Imagine what happens when someone asks these questions in Havana, not in a room full of ambassadors and cameras. Imagine what happens to those people if this is the intimidation and disruption that we see,” Waltz said.

Rodriguez continued to yell.

“Your excellency, I know you don’t like to hear this. This is America, my friend!” Waltz chided. “This is the United Nations. This isn’t your communist dictatorship!”

Rodriguez continued to yell.

“You cannot silence me, and you cannot silence my colleagues!” Waltz added.

The presiding official promised to allow Rodriguez to speak, but he continued to yell and interrupt.

“This individual needs to back away from this podium! He’s not going to intimidate me,” Waltz said.

“Back up, ambassador! Back away! This isn’t Havana! You’re not going to intimidate me. Do you understand who you’re dealing with?” Waltz yelled.

At this point, the presiding officer suspended the meeting.

“This is America. Back up!” Waltz yelled back.

Cuba has been suffering from a crippling embargo that has tightened under the Trump administration. The United Nations has voted against the U.S. embargo for decades, though the motion is largely symbolic.

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Rodriguez accused Waltz of lying grossly and offending the dignity of the people of Cuba.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have heightened tensions with Cuba after he posted a message Friday many took as a provocation against the communist regime.

“To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba — now is the time,” he wrote on social media. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”

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The Department of Homeland Security has released the full video of an interview “60 Minutes” conducted with DHS general counsel James Percival.

The “60 Minutes” segment Sunday with reporter Gianna Toboni documented the plight of an illegal alien who had been deported to Ghana and claimed to have been sent to war-torn Mali, where he ended up homeless and hiding out of fear for his safety.

‘I do really reject your characterization of someone who is in this country illegally and breaking our laws as quote, unquote, law-abiding.’

While the report had a few short clips quoting Percival in defense of the deportation process, the full interview video, which the DHS shared on social media Monday night, showed him challenging Toboni’s narrative overall.

“That’s why I am going for the clarity here because I hear a lot about the violent offenders, point taken,” Toboni said at one point, referring to deportees. “But what I don’t hear about is the law-abiding folks, who, in our reporting, is more than half.”

“You’re suggesting that people who are in this country illegally are law-abiding?” Percival replied.

“Let’s say [they] don’t have a criminal record outside of an immigration offense, maybe overstaying a tourist visa,” Toboni responded.

“If you are in this country illegally, it is virtually impossible for you to live in this country and not commit additional legal violations — working without authorization, identity theft. There’s a lot of illegality that goes on when you are breaking the law,” he replied.

“But I do really reject your characterization of someone who is in this country illegally and breaking our laws as quote, unquote, law-abiding. I think that’s fundamentally inaccurate and unfair,” Percival added.

“OK, fair enough,” she accepted.

The DHS posted a clip of that interaction to social media, where it quickly garnered hundreds of thousands of views.

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Percival pointed out in an X post Tuesday that the “60 Minutes” report shared a brief video from his interview where he admitted that he didn’t know offhand what percentage of third-country removals involved illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes.

In the extended clip, he goes on to explain at length why third-country removals are necessary in difficult cases.

“What I can say is, there’s a very specific reason why this population is disproportionately criminal. Well, it’s really two reasons,” Percival said.

“Number one, when countries refuse to accept their nationals back, they disproportionately do that for violent criminals. People don’t really want to take their violent criminals back,” he explained.

“Point two is, people will sometimes get what’s called withholding of removal, that type of relief, because they are statutorily ineligible for asylum. And what creates that ineligibility in many cases is significant criminal conduct,” he continued.

He said that prior to the Trump administration, many of these violent criminals would reoffend because prior administrations were not enforcing immigration laws.

“60 Minutes” posted a video of the full interview with Percival on YouTube on Monday.

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The president said anyone who reported voter fraud would be eligible for a million-dollar reward if it led to an arrest and conviction.

President Donald Trump announced the award on his Truth Social account on Monday, just days before the pivotal midterm election day.

‘Only I can make this promise to you.’

“Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!” he wrote.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added.

It’s unclear what the source of the award money would be.

The Trump administration is currently in a legal feud with California officials over a list of people identified as likely “noncitizen” voters registered to vote.

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused an emergency request from the Department of Justice to force California to segregate mail-in ballots from those on the list.

In September, the president also promised to hand out $5,000 checks as a kind of dividend if Republicans won both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in the midterm elections.

“Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders,” he explained.

“Because we’ve done so well and because our country is making so much money, that only I can make this promise to you,” he added.

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Most pundits believe the Republicans will lose control of the House and maybe even lose the Senate as well, though some say that polling may not be capturing an accurate measure of voter sentiment.

The president has long maintained that he was cheated out of victory in the 2020 election by voter fraud.

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