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The Trump-Vance campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee alleging that the Washington Post had given the Harris-Walz campaign numerous illegal “in-kind” contributions through its coverage.

The filing noted that the Washington Post had publicly declined to endorse a presidential candidate but went on to accuse the outlet of “aggressively” boosting its paid advertising campaign to increase the reach of its articles related to the election.

It was a ‘reasonable inference’ that the Harris team had ‘communicated’ strategy to the Post.

The complaint relied on independent reporting showing the Post had boosted articles that were “neutral” with their coverage of the Harris campaign but were far more negative when covering the Trump campaign.

“To wit, one of the promoted articles highlighted how the Harris digital team was pushing content on social media claiming people were leaving President Trump’s rallies early,” wrote Gary Lawkowski, an attorney for the Trump campaign.

“A month later, The Washington Post published an article, which was reportedly boosted by The Post, on the same topic, with a similar editorial framing,” the complaint said.

He goes on to say that it was a “reasonable inference” that the Harris team had “communicated” strategy to the Post and that it was boosting articles that defend and support a narrative to favor the Democrat narrative.

“The Commission should find reason to believe a violation has occurred and passes an appropriate penalty for this infusion of dark money into the 2024 campaign,” the complaint said.

The complaint comes on the same day that talk radio show host Hugh Hewitt quit as a contributor to the Washington Post after blowing up on a livestream feed over the mischaracterizations by others at the Post about election irregularities.

“This is the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of. You guys are working. That’s fine,” said Hewitt as he took off his headset. “I’m done!”

Many in the media and on the left went into full meltdown mode when the Washington Post refused to endorse a presidential candidate.

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On Friday, radio host Hugh Hewitt abruptly quit the Washington Post shortly after walking off the Post Live’s “First Look,” accusing the liberal panelists of engaging in an “unfair election ad” rather than objective journalism.

Hewitt had been a contributing columnist for the Post since 2017. He told Fox News Digital on Friday afternoon, “I have in fact quit the Post but I was only writing a column for them every six weeks or so.”

During a roundtable discussion, the “First Look” host, Jonathan Capehart, repeatedly attempted to “fact-check” Hewitt’s remarks without giving him a chance to respond.

Trump ‘was right, and he won in court. That’s the story.’

The show reached a boiling point when Capehart and Ruth Marcus, the Post’s associate editor, accused former President Donald Trump of “laying the groundwork” to contest the upcoming election. As a united front, the two journalists claimed that Trump has been making unfounded allegations of “cheating.” Specifically, they mentioned a recent lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee against Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The lawsuit was filed after locals claimed that the county illegally turned them away from voting centers. On Wednesday, Trump and the RNC won the case against the county, forcing it to extend early voting through November 1, Blaze News previously reported.

“Is it me, or does it seem like this week Donald Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating was taking place in Pennsylvania by suing Bucks County for alleged irregularities?” Capehart asked Marcus. “And this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses, it’s because of cheating.”

Hewitt shook his head during Capehart’s question, clearly already frustrated with the direction of the discussion.

Marcus responded, “Uh, yeah. That’s what he’s been laying the groundwork for this, just not in the last week but in the last umpty-umpth months. No election can be fair in Donald Trump’s mind unless Donald Trump wins it. And I think we are going to see him both rev up his supporters to contest elections outside of courtrooms and go to every courtroom he can in America where it’s relevant to make whatever arguments he can, no matter how far-fetched.”

Hewitt responded, “Bucks County was reversed by the court and instructed to open up extra days because they violated the law and told people to go home. So that lawsuit was brought by the Republican National Committee, and it was successful.”

“We are news people even though we have opinions, and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story. So, yes, he’s [Trump] upset about Bucks County, but he was right, and he won in court,” Hewitt added. “That’s the story.”

After Hewitt concluded his remarks, there were several moments of silence as Capehart slowly dragged his pen over his apparent notes with a seemingly smug and unenthused grin.

“I’ll let you keep going, Jonathan,” Marcus stated, filling the dead air.

“Um, no, I’m just — don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when, Hugh, many times you’ve come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact,” Capehart remarked.

“I won’t come back, Jonathan,” Hewitt snapped as he removed his earpiece.

“This is the most unfair election ad I’ve ever been a part of. You guys are working. That’s fine.”

“I’m done!” Hewitt declared as he walked off camera.

Capehart attempted to continue the discussion with Marcus, but her video feed froze mid-sentence. He explained that the show tried reconnecting with Marcus but that the attempt was unsuccessful.

“Okay, we lost her again,” he stated before abruptly closing the show.

The Washington Post told Fox News Digital, “As the newsroom’s live journalism platform, Washington Post Live is known for its dynamic conversations and thought-provoking perspectives on top issues of the day, such as this morning’s ‘First Look’ program.”

Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, acknowledged in an opinion piece early this week that the public no longer views the media, including the Post, as accurate, Blaze News previously reported. He noted that the newspaper would not endorse a presidential candidate because it would “create a perception of bias” and “non-independence.”

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It’s four days until the election, and Democrats across the country are working overtime to suppress the vote, allow noncitizens to vote, and stop any kind of actual oversight. At the same time, Democrat allies in the media are working overtime to suppress reporting or complaining about it as Republican conspiracy theories. Fortunately, for the first time in modern history, both Republicans and parts of the judiciary appear willing to push back on the nonsense.

First, the shenanigans. There’s a lot out there, including unverified incidents and those where the chance of stupidity is higher than the chance of malice, so we’ll just stick with the clearest ones here.

Democrats in the media are gaslighting the country into believing it’s all just a big Trump conspiracy theory.

You’ve got verified voter suppression in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This isn’t a Republican talking point. It’s a decision by a Democrat judge in a blue state, who ruled that police clearing voters out of early voting lines hours before the polls closed had broken the law — and mandated the Keystone State’s early voting window get extended by a few days to make up for it.

Bucks County, just outside Philadelphia, isn’t red — it’s a swing county that went for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by less than one point in 2016 and President Joe Biden by more than four points in 2022. Someone on the ground, however, seems to have seen something he did not like. It’s not certain who directed the police to suppress the vote, but “it appears the fake ‘voter protection’ workers — who are in fact Democrat Party operatives (not elections officials) — appear to be the ones directing the offices to shut down the lines and telling people they can’t vote,” RNC political director James Blair wrote Wednesday.

There’s no doubt that any such incident in a Republican-run swing county of a swing state would elicit a swift state and federal response. Thus far, the Biden Department of Justice has been silent. Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his attorney general have not launched any known investigation into the illegal suppression. None of the above responded to Blaze News requests for information on any digging they might be doing.

A bit farther west in the state, Lancaster County election officials have already flagged 2,500 ballots they say look suspicious. The ballots, ABC reported, were “apparently part of a larger effort to sign people up” and also impacted Monroe and Cambria counties. “It appears to be an organized effort at this point,” Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams (R) said.

“In at least one example, the named applicant is in fact deceased,” Monroe County District Attorney Mike Mancuso wrote in a Tuesday Facebook post. Both Monroe and York counties traced the ballots back to an Arizona company, Field+Media Corps, which contracts with Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. The company is owned by a Mesa, Arizona, councilman and “voting rights activist.”

Over in Nevada, Democrats fought for months to delay a lawsuit challenging undated ballots. By the time it finally came before a judge this week, the judge ruled in favor of Democrats, saying there was no evidence that a bunch of late, undated ballots would favor the party that fought tooth and nail for their inclusion.

In Virginia, the Biden-Harris administration fought the governor to stop him from removing noncitizens from voter rolls. The fight went all the way to the Supreme Court, which sided with the Old Dominion over the feds.

In Ohio, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose reported that similar efforts to restrict American voting to American citizens were being thwarted by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, whose administration refused to share its citizenship data. “Not only were they suing to stop these efforts, but they’re also withholding essential citizenship records needed to do this work,” he wrote on X Wednesday afternoon.

The Democrat-aligned ACLU attacked his effort to keep non-Americans from voting in American elections, calling it a “discriminatory requirement.”

In Colorado, Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold posted passwords to voting machines online without protections. Colorado reporter Kyle Clark later revealed she’d known about the password problem for five days but had neither taken them down nor told county clerks. She only acted after state Republicans exposed the security breach.

When Clark asked her if she would have told the clerks (or the public) about the breach without Republican pressure, she declined to answer, claiming she’d spent those five days “investigating” with the Biden-Harris administration. The civil servant responsible, she claimed, is no longer with the office.

Earlier in the year, Griswold argued in front of the Supreme Court that former President Donald Trump’s name should not appear on the state’s ballot, which would have barred Coloradans from voting for him at all. After the Supreme Court forced her to put his name back on, she unironically appealed to the American people to step in and “save democracy in November.”

A Democrat judge in Illinois did the same, ruling that Trump must be stricken from the ballot in response to a lawsuit brought by a Democrat-supporting nonprofit, Free Speech for People. That organization’s founder and president is unironically the former executive director of the National Voting Rights Institute.

In Maine, Democratic Secretary of State Shenna Bellows followed suit, removing the former president from the 2024 ballot. This effort was ultimately thwarted by the Supreme Court ruling.

Democrats and their supporters led less successful efforts to nix Trump from the ballot in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

In Democrat-run Dallas, a working “sample ballot” was posted online. It didn’t include the word “sample” anywhere and could easily have been downloaded and printed until it was called out by a local Republican activist.

In Vancouver, Washington, an incendiary device was set off at a ballot box, destroying hundreds of ballots meant for an incredibly close House race pitting first-term Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez against Republican Joe Kent. While no person or group claimed responsibility for the crime, the devices were marked with “Free Gaza” — a frequent refrain at Democrat and left-wing rallies. Another ballot box was similarly attacked in nearby Portland, a hotbed of Democrat-aligned political violence.

And while all this is going on, Democrats in the media are gaslighting the country into believing it’s all just a big Trump conspiracy theory.

“This week, Trump is laying the groundwork for contesting the election by complaining that cheating is taking place in Pennsylvania,” Jonathan Capehart lisped on his Friday internet show, “by suing Bucks County for alleged election irregularities; and this is on top of his continual assertion that if he loses it’s because of cheating.”

“Uh, yeah!” Democrat columnist Ruth Marcus responded. “He’s been laying the groundwork for this just not in the last week but the last umpty-umpth month.”

It was all too rich for mild-mannered Republican radio host Hugh Hewitt, who explained that it was all very real and there’s no need to use “alleged” when it’s been found by a judge, before storming off camera.

But it wasn’t just Ruth and Jonathan gabbing on. “Trump is laying the groundwork to challenge an election he might lose,” Politico claimed Thursday. “Pennsylvania is ground zero.” “Trump and his allies ramp up election fraud allegations in Pennsylvania,” a Wednesday NBC News headline reads. An ABC story from Oct. 8 explains, “How Trump is laying the groundwork to possibly challenge the 2024 election results.”

It all reads like that classic NBC headline from last October: “Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory that Biden won’t be on the ballot.” There’s been no update on that gem yet from our star reporters, Matt Dixon, Dasha Burns, and Alex Tabet.

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The guys behind that Hayek vs. Keynes Tea Party-era rap battle are back with a battle royale wrestling match over immigration, starring fake Stephen Miller, a bunch of professors, and over 10 minutes of rap. Just what you needed, right? Probably not, but they actually do a good job with it. Check it out here.

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Just four days out from the election, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are holding dueling campaign events through crucial battleground states.

Yesterday on the trail, Trump held rallies in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Henderson, Nevada, and appeared alongside Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona. As the campaign season wraps up, Trump touched on policy priorities like immigration and the economy while also making a point to hammer his opponent and her supporters.

‘Look, she’s a deranged person, but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war.’

“There are some people who thrive under pressure, and there are some people who crack under pressure,” Trump said of Harris in Albuquerque. “She’s a cracker.”

“Are you better now than you were four years ago?” Trump asked the crowd in Henderson, to which many responded “no.”

Apart from Trump’s usual rally appearances, two moments stood out for the former president yesterday.

Trump’s most notable comments from his Thursday campaign stops took place in Arizona at an event alongside Carlson. The former president criticized former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, for her and her father’s hawkish track record on foreign policy as well as her endorsement of Harris.

“Well, I think it hurts Kamala a lot actually,” Trump said of Cheney’s endorsement. “Look, she’s a deranged person, but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war.”

“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump continued. “Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face? You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send, 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'”

Trump was clearly calling out Cheney’s hawkish foreign policy. It’s a lot easier to hold Cheney’s worldview when you’re able to call the shots from a cushy federal job, but she would likely have a different opinion if she was thrown into active combat. That is obviously the comparison Trump was making, full context of the clip shows.

Like clockwork, countless headlines from the corporate and mainstream media attacked Trump for “using violent language,” called his comments “firing squad threats,” and insinuated that he wanted to attack Cheney.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” Cheney said in response. “They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

On the note of questionable endorsements, American businessman and Harris supporter Mark Cuban criticized the women in and around the Trump camp.

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever,” Cuban told “The View” Thursday. “It’s just that simple.”

“Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong,” Trump said in response to Cuban’s comments. “This guy is such a fool, he’s constantly on Television being critical, and only for the reason that I tuned him out completely while President because he called incessantly.”

“I may, in fact, be surrounded by the strongest women in the World, including Heads of Countries, who make Mark look like a ‘baby!'” Trump continued. “All strong women, and women in general, should be very angry about this weak man’s statement.”

As for Trump’s running mate, JD Vance followed in the former president’s footsteps and made an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. In the over three hour-long episode released Thursday, Vance came off cool, calm, collected, and importantly, likable. In between exchanges on policy, Vance let listeners in on his personal life and shared familial anecdotes with Rogan. The podcast amassed over 7.5 million views in fewer than 24 hours.

While Harris has yet to make her long-anticipated appearance on Rogan’s show (an appearance which is still up in the air), she held competing rallies in Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Harris racked up another celebrity endorsement from Jennifer Lopez in Vegas and was briefly interrupted by protesters in Phoenix and again in Reno.

Harris stuck to her usual talking points, emphasizing the importance of women’s “choices,” a euphemism for abortion, and boasting about “fighting for democracy.”

The two candidates are now headed to the Rust Belt. Harris is traveling from Vegas to Wisconsin, where she is scheduled to hold events in Janesville and in Little Chute. Afterward, Harris will be hopping over to hold a concert rally in West Allis alongside rappers Cardi B, Glorilla, and Flo Milli, to name a few.

Trump is making stops to hold rallies in Warren, Michigan, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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President Joe Biden upheld the long-standing Democratic tradition of belittling Republican voters this week,
claiming in a videotaped call Tuesday with Voto Latino that Trump supporters are “garbage.”

Keenly aware of how damaging Biden’s remarks were to Democrats in general but especially to Kamala Harris, who has recently been juggling Nazi accusations and promises of unity, elements of the liberal media
attempted to fudge the record. They were not alone, however.

The White House also tried to gaslight Americans into thinking the president said something else entirely. It turns out that doing so not only resulted in a discrepancy between public and official records but was likely illegal.

Citing two U.S. government officials on an internal email, the Associated Press
revealed Thursday evening that the White House press office ultimately released a transcript different from that prepared by official White House stenographers.

According to an internal email from the head of the stenography office, the change was made after the White House press office “conferred with the president.”

‘The Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently.’

In the email, the supervisor claimed that the press office’s revisionism constituted “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”

Here is what the White House transcript
claimed that Biden said when complaining about comedian Tony Hinchliffe’s Puerto Rico joke at President Donald Trump’s Oct. 27 rally at Madison Square Garden:

In my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.

This is the version posted on the White House website and repeatedly
shared online by White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates.

The addition of an apostrophe to “supporters” radically changes the meaning such that in a world where there was
no video of Biden’s remarks, Democrats could argue, perhaps with greater success than they have this week, that the president was just suggesting Hinchcliffe’s supposed demonization of Latinos was unconscionable garbage.

There is, however, video evidence of remarks, where Biden clearly says:

The Puerto Rican that that I know — or Puerto Rico where I’m fr — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.

The Associated Press confirmed that “supporters” in the original transcript prepared by the White House stenographers contained no apostrophe.

“If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,” the supervisor noted in the internal letter. “Our Stenography Office transcript — released to our distro, which includes the National Archives — is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.”

‘The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law.’

The stenography office supervisor reportedly wrote to White House communications director Ben LaBolt, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other Biden officials, “Regardless of urgency, it is essential to our transcripts’ authenticity and legitimacy that we adhere to consistent protocol for requesting edits, approval, and release.”

The supervisor apparently declined to comment, whereas Bates doubled down, suggesting, “The President confirmed in his tweet on Tuesday evening that he was addressing the hateful rhetoric from the comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. That was reflected in the transcript.”

On Wednesday, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.)
penned a letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel, demanding that the Biden White House retain and preserve all documents and internal communications pertaining to the release of the doctored transcript.

Stefanik and Comer suggested that by releasing a false transcript, the Biden White House may have violated the Presidential Records Act.

“Americans were rightfully insulted when President Biden, seeking to boost Ms. Harris’s presidential campaign, referred to an enormous swath of the country as ‘floating … garbage,'” the Republicans noted in their letter. “President Biden’s vindictive words were unsurprising, given his previous statements regarding people who choose not to vote for his preferred candidate. Unsurprising too were the White House’s actions after he said them.”

“Instead of apologizing or clarifying President Biden’s words, the White House instead sought to change them (despite them being recorded on video) by releasing a false transcript of his remarks. The move is not only craven, but it also appears to be in violation of federal law, including the Presidential Records Act of 1978,” added the letter.

The lawmakers also demanded that the White House issue “a corrected transcript with the accurate words.”

Biden and his allies should by now be accustomed to correcting the record.

The Biden-Harris FBI recently had to
change its crime statistics for 2022. Whereas the bureau originally claimed that violent crime fell by 2.1% that year, it actually spiked by at least 4.5%.

Blaze News
reported in August that the Biden-Harris Bureau of Labor Statistics came clean about overstating job gains by 818,000 and was forced to revise down the total in its preliminary annual benchmark review.

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The election isn’t even close to over, but as Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” says, “the wind is at our back.”

“Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, they’re all pivoting. That’s how much wind is at our back. The people in power with the most money in America,” Whitlock says after noting that Bezos refused to allow his paper, the Washington Post, to endorse Kamala Harris.

In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Bezos explained that trust in journalism and the media has annually “fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.”

“But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working,” Bezos wrote, continuing, “Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.”

“Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility,” he added.

Bezos went on to explain that a presidential endorsement from a biased newspaper that only those looking to confirm their biases read will “do nothing to tip the scales of an election.”

What a presidential endorsement does, he continued, is “create a perception of bias” and a “perception of non-independence.”

“Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one,” he concluded.

Whitlock is thrilled with Bezos’ explanation of his decision to refrain from endorsing a political candidate.

“If you start talking about the four richest people in America — Bezos, Elon, Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison — either they’re conservative or they’re moving our direction. We’re winning massively. Things are about to change,” he says.

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A county judge excoriated the Democrat secretary of state of Arizona for arguing that supporters of former President Donald Trump would become violent and endanger Arizonans who did not provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

The issue stems from a decades-old error in the Arizona system that erroneously denoted that drivers who applied for a license renewal after 2004 had provided proof of U.S. citizenship when applying for their first license sometime before 1997, Blaze News previously reported.

As those residents never actually provided documented proof of citizenship, which is required to vote in state and local elections, they should be issued federal-only ballots in 2024, Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican, argued in mid-September.

Initially, reports indicated that about 98,000 residents between the ages of 45 and 60 from all across the state of Arizona were affected. A few weeks later, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) discovered that the number was actually closer to 218,000.

‘The Defendants further proffered no evidence that EZAZ.org has ever weaponized information to harass or intimidate voters … singled out voting locations to protest or harass voters, or subjected voters to threats.’

At the time, Fontes claimed that the issue was discovered too close to the election and would affect mainly Republican-leaning voters. The state supreme court ultimately agreed and determined in late September that these registrants could vote in federal, state, and local elections in 2024.

However, Fontes changed his tune after America First Legal, a legal group with strong ties to Trump, sued on behalf of EZAZ.org, a right-leaning nonprofit, to demand that Fontes release the list of affected residents as a matter of public record.

On Monday, Fontes and his attorneys argued before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Scott Blaney that releasing the list would subject the listed residents to violence and intimidation from EZAZ.org associates and other Trump supporters.

The defense even enlisted the help of Prof. Robert Pape — a radical leftist obsessed with “White Rural Rage” and January 6 — as an expert witness. According to Blaney’s ruling, issued on Thursday, Pape’s testimony was egregiously biased against Trump supporters, focusing “almost entirely on allegations of past and anticipated prospective violence from only one side of the political spectrum, and only related to former president Donald Trump.”

Because Pape’s opinions were so one-sided and were effectively based solely on “national statistics” and on “speculation” about possible “violence and harassment,” Blaney said he gave them “only minimal weight.”

Pape was not the only one to denigrate Trump supporters during the hearing. Fontes also basically testified that he wanted to withhold releasing the voter registration records if doing so “could save just one life,” despite a “lack of any evidence that any individual’s life was in danger,” Blaney recalled

“Secretary Fontes argued that providing the list of 218,000 Affected Voters would necessarily lead to violence – even sure death – of one or more Affected Voters, even if this Court specifically ordered that EZAZ.org could only distribute the list of Affected Voters to county recorders, leadership for the Arizona state legislature, and the Arizona Senate and House Elections Committee,” Blaney wrote. “The Secretary’s claims were not credible and not supported by evidence.”

“The Defendants further proffered no evidence that EZAZ.org has ever weaponized information to harass or intimidate voters, conducted mass voter challenges, singled out voting locations to protest or harass voters, or subjected voters to threats,” Blaney added.

Between the specious argument that residents on the list of affected registrants were somehow in danger and the fact that Secretary Fontes admitted on the stand that his office has access to these records through the registration database and that “his office routinely responds to and releases copies” of the database to third parties, Judge Blaney sided with plaintiffs EZAZ.org and AFL.

Fontes and his office now have until Monday to release to EZAZ.org the original list of the 98,000 affected residents and any identifying information about the other 120,000 registrants on the full list as well as datasets and communications between various government agencies about the issue. Defendants must also cover the plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees and costs.

Plaintiffs have been ordered not to canvass or contact any of the voters on the list. They also may not release any personally identifiable information about any voter on the list prior to Wednesday, the day after the election.

In a press release, AFL called the ruling “critically important to the integrity of the upcoming presidential election.”

“When Secretary Fontes discovered the glitch that allowed 218,000 individuals to register without providing proof of citizenship, he should have immediately shared the list of affected individuals with Arizona’s county recorders, who are in charge of verifying the citizenship of voters. Instead, he has jealously guarded the list, refusing to share it with anyone,” said a statement from James Rogers, America First Legal senior counsel. “It is unfortunate that Secretary Fontes so aggressively opposed our common-sense efforts to help restore trust in our state’s election system. This was a case we never should have needed to file.”

“A majority of Arizonans no longer trust the election system of our state. One of the reasons is the lack of transparency from our state’s elected officials,” Rogers added.

“This suit was about restoring transparency and ensuring that county recorders can do their jobs by verifying the citizenship of voters.”

Fontes’ office did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and Democratic activist Stacey Abrams still maintains that voter suppression tactics are being implemented in the state despite voter turnout reaching record levels.

Almost four million Georgians have already cast their vote in the highly contested general election, but Abrams told CNN that does not mean that nefarious activity to suppress votes is not happening.

Democrats have falsely claimed voter laws in Georgia were similar to Jim Crow laws and aimed at preventing minorities from voting. Abrams specifically complained about the mail-in voting in 2024 being restricted compared to 2020.

Proper identification is also needed to vote via absentee ballot.

“Well, while we are excited about who’s showing up, we have to understand that turnout does not mean there is not voter suppression activity. A lot of those voters in 2020 were able to vote by mail. One of the reasons we‘re seeing early lines is because they can no longer use the easier method of voting by mail because of SB 202, because of SB 189, laws that [Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger and [Gov.] Brian Kemp supported and pushed forward,” she said.

“People who are disabled, people who have lost their homes are facing harder times casting their ballots, but they refuse to be silenced. And what we are excited about is that here in the state of Georgia, despite the government making it harder to cast your ballot, people are willing to fight to make it happen anyway,” Abrams continued. “So they’re showing up; they’re standing in lines they shouldn‘t have to stand in because they believe their voices matter and that this election matters. And we believe they‘re standing in these lines especially to support Kamala Harris.”

Georgia voting laws include needing a valid ID to vote in person, and many ID options are accepted. Absentee ballots are also an option, but “to protect against voter fraud, Georgia law only allows close relatives and caregivers to request and return absentee ballots for another person.” Proper identification is also needed to vote via absentee ballot.

Nearly half of the expected voting population has already voted in Georgia, mirroring a few other swing states that will determine the victor in next week’s election. Over 3.4 million early voters voted in person, and over 226,000 submitted absentee ballots, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

By day 15 of early voting in 2024, a record-breaking 3.2 million Georgians had already cast a ballot. By day 15 in 2020, just under two million had voted early and only 1.6 million in 2022.

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Former President Donald Trump lashed out at billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban for saying that Trump doesn’t have strong or intelligent women around him because he’s intimidated by them.

Cuban, who has endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, criticized Trump while he was a guest on “The View” Thursday.

‘Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out!’

“Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them,” said Cuban.

While the comments infuriated many of the women on the Trump campaign, the former president put out a long statement bashing Cuban and defending his female entourage on Friday.

“Mark Cuban, a really dumb guy, who thinks he’s ‘hot stuff’ but he’s absolutely nothing, is now out there saying that I don’t surround myself with strong women. Actually, he is very wrong, I surround myself with the strongest of women – With the understanding that ALL women are great, whether strong or not strong,” wrote Trump.

He went on to claim that Cuban would call him incessantly when Trump was in office until he told Cuban that he simply didn’t have time for his calls.

“In any event, that affected him greatly, because he’s a very insecure guy, and a MAJOR LOSER, always has been and always will be!” Trump continued. “Nobody likes him, nobody respects him, and he’s unattractive both inside and out! He should go back to talk about the person he was forced to support, because I didn’t want it, Lyin’ Kamala Harris. Also, he’s got no clubhead speed!”

Cuban’s comments may have come from frustration at the Harris campaign that she is underperforming greatly among male voters. The gender gap has been blamed for Trump besting Harris in some polls in battleground states.

“All strong women, and women in general, should be very angry about this weak man’s statement,” Trump concluded.

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Hate crime and terrorism charges have been filed in the case of an Orthodox Jewish man who was shot while on his way to synagogue in Chicago last weekend.

The new felony charges against the suspect — Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22 — were announced Thursday and stem from what police are now calling a “targeted” attack, WMAQ-TV reported.

‘We did not secure these charges because of public pressure or because of media attention.’

Police Supt. Larry Snelling said detectives found “digital evidence” on Abdallahi’s phone that “indicated he planned the shooting and specifically targeted people of Jewish faith,” the station said.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx added that the attacker “sought out this particular community, sought out this particular faith,” WMAQ noted.

After Saturday morning’s shooting, prominent members of Chicago’s Jewish community were outraged that hate crime charges weren’t brought against Abdallahi, particularly because the shooting victim reportedly was wearing a kippah — the Jewish skullcap — when he was attacked.

City Alderman Debra Silverstein — who attends the same synagogue as the shooting victim — earlier this week said in a message to constituents that she was “very disappointed” that hate crime charges had not been filed despite “evidence that seems to suggest an anti-Semitic motive for the shooting.”

The Jewish United Fund, an advocacy group, said Chicago police indicated during a Monday meeting with the group that Abdallahi shouted “Allahu Akbar” during a shoot-out with cops that occurred about a half-hour after the Orthodox Jewish man was shot.

WMAQ reported in a separate story that the JUF said police who met with its members indicated Abdallahi shouted the well-known Muslim declaration while firing at officers, which led to a concern that hate played a role in the incident. However, WMAQ said police haven’t confirmed those details to the station.

In addition, Abdallahi reportedly is an illegal immigrant from Mauritania — a majority-Muslim country in northwest Africa. Fox News, citing four law enforcement sources, said he was released into the United States after being captured in Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector in March 2023.

Fox News noted that the Department of Homeland Security considers illegal immigrants from Mauritania as “special interest aliens” due to security concerns and that they’re supposed to receive additional DHS vetting.

More from the cable network:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had initially told Fox News Digital that it had no interaction with him. Law enforcement sources say that there is detainer request on Abdallahi — a request that he is transferred to ICE custody in the event of his release — but that “sanctuary” policies in Cook County, Illinois, prohibit local authorities from cooperating with it.

Previously Snelling said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Abdallahi with a hate crime.

“We do investigations [that are] based on facts that we gather into evidence in order to present charges,” Snelling said earlier this week, according to WMAQ. “Until we have those facts, we will not announce charges. It’s about what we can prove at the time based on the facts.”

After Snelling announced the hate crime and terrorism charges Thursday, WMAQ noted that he insisted “we did not secure these charges because of public pressure or because of media attention. We will never go out in public, make statements, allegations, accusations or attempt to bring charges without any proof of what we’re attempting to charge someone for. Gathering evidence and facts takes time, and we have to do it in a timely fashion so that we don’t impede the possibility of getting charges. … We will never do things just on belief. We need proof.”

Snelling told WMAQ that Abdallahi remains hospitalized and detectives haven’t been able to interview him, which has made it difficult to determine a motive.

Abdallahi’s court appearance earlier this week was postponed due to his hospitalization, WMAQ said. His next scheduled court date is Nov. 7, officials told the station, adding that a public defender has been assigned to him.

Police said that evidence indicates the gunman was “working alone” and they don’t believe there are any additional suspects, WMAQ added.

What’s the background?

Chicago police said Abdallahi was identified as the offender who shot the 39-year-old man in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. At a Monday news conference, Snelling said the suspect shot the victim “in the shoulder without saying a word,” according to NBC News, which added that the victim was treated in a hospital and discharged Saturday afternoon.

Police said about 30 minutes after the first shooting, Abdallahi fired at responding officers and paramedics multiple times from various locations. Police said officers returned fire, striking the offender, who was placed into custody, taken to an area hospital, and charged. Police said a weapon was recovered at the scene. Police said no officers or fire department members were injured. The suspect was in critical condition, investigators told WGN-TV.

Abdallahi was charged with six counts of first-degree attempted murder, seven counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm upon a police officer/firefighter, and one count of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, all of which are felonies, police said.

You can view video here apparently showing part of the suspect’s second wave of gunfire, and he hollers something at the 43-second mark after firing a shot. While that same moment is included in WLS-TV’s video report at the 13-second mark, the station cuts the audio just before the suspect’s outburst.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said an investigation into the incident captured the scene on body cameras, WMAQ noted, adding that the video is expected to be released within 60 days of the shooting.

You can view a video report here about the newly added hate crime and terrorism charges against Abdallahi.

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Former Bill Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris predicted that Donald Trump will secure an “electoral landslide” in the upcoming presidential election against Kamala Harris.

During a Thursday interview on “The Jeff Katz Show,” Morris said he anticipates an “absolute wipeout.”

‘If Trump wins, we’ve got control even if we don’t pick up another seat.’

Morris told Katz, “I think Trump is going to win, and I don’t think it’s going to be that close. I think he’ll win the popular vote narrowly, but that will translate into an electoral landslide.”

He explained that in 2016, Trump defeated his opponent, Hillary Clinton, in a “wipeout,” despite the Democratic candidate winning the popular vote by 2.6%.

“I think that’s what’s going to happen here,” Morris continued. “I think Trump is going to carry all of the swing states, with the possible exception of Wisconsin.”

Morris predicted the Republican presidential nominee would win Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

“Trump will pick up a few surprises, like maybe Virginia and maybe Minnesota,” Morris told Katz. “With those kinds of numbers, I think Trump is going to win about 360 electoral votes, and Harris is going to win about 100 electoral votes. So it’ll be an absolute wipeout.”

Katz said he has a “sneaking suspicion” that Trump will win Virginia. Morris agreed that Trump has a “very good chance” in the state.

Katz asked Morris whether he predicted that Trump’s success would carry down the ballot and secure him a Republican majority in the House and Senate.

“I think he’ll clearly keep the House and probably add five or 10 seats to the margin. And in the Senate race, I see him obviously picking up West Virginia, which is kind of the given, and Montana, which looks very safe. And then Ohio looks like he could win it,” Morris said.

Morris stated that the polling data from Michigan and Wisconsin look “very positive” for Trump but added that he is “not sure he’ll win those states.”

“He’ll come very close, and he may well win them,” Morris concluded.

“It’s important to understand that in a Senate race, that if your opponent is under 50%, which most of these incumbents are, the undecided usually breaks against. Because if you’re undecided, it’s like saying you can’t be married to the same woman next year,” Morris told Katz.

“I think that indicates some discontent with the Democratic incumbents.”

Morris explained that many of the Senate races “are hanging by one point,” but with the Democratic incumbents under 50%, Republicans could gain five to six seats.

“The point is that if Trump wins, we’ve got control even if we don’t pick up another seat, even if we lose West Virginia,” Morris continued, noting that Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (Ohio), would vote Republican.

Katz asked Morris to share his thoughts on Trump’s McDonald’s shift and garbage truck briefing.

Morris responded, stating that Harris’ efforts to frame Trump as an out-of-touch, “elite billionaire” are not working.

“Trump looks great,” he added.

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Super Bowl champion Brett Favre rallied for Donald Trump in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and told attendees that a vote for the Republican candidate was a vote to secure the future of their children and grandchildren.

“I have never done an event like this before. Do I even have to explain why?” the 55-year-old asked the raucous audience. “I knew I would come back to Green Bay at various times, but I never thought I would come back in this setting,” Favre said to applause.

During his speech, Favre seemed personally offended when addressing President Joe Biden’s comments that Trump supporters are “garbage.”

“I can assure you, we’re not garbage,” Favre went on. “How dare he say that? Looking out, I see police officers, teachers, nurses, grandparents, students, I see everyday Americans that make this country great.”

During his time in Wisconsin, the Mississippi native took time to meet with police officers and military service members, which may shed light on why he took Biden’s comments so strongly.

‘The stakes are incredibly high.’

The three-time NFL MVP likened his former team the Green Bay Packers as winners and likewise said, “Donald Trump and his organization was a winner.”

“The United States of America won with his leadership,” he added.

Pointing to his children and grandson in the audience, Favre mentioned he felt it was important to bring the young boy to the rally so he could have the experience. The quarterback then put special focus on the economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration and how they might affect future generations.

“Our young kids … are the ones who are going to be affected directly,” Favre said of the election.

“The stakes are incredibly high. Families across Wisconsin are struggling to make ends meet. People’s salaries haven’t kept up with inflation. It’s getting harder for younger people to buy their first home. People are losing hope in the American dream,” Favre continued.

The former football gunslinger hammered home a message about the American dream, saying that while he had already lived it, he wanted to “make sure that future generations get to, as well.”

“That would be my grandson Parker and his two brothers.”

Favre has not made many political splashes since retiring from football in 2010, but he did support Tucker Carlson during the host’s exit from Fox News in 2023.

“I’m with Tucker,” Favre said at the time. He then called for a boycott of Fox News “until they come to their senses.”

Fox News and Carlson never reconciled, with Carlson going on to start his own network.

Recently, Favre has remarked that he is a fan of the idea of Elon Musk heading up government efficiency programs, and the two have interacted on Musk’s platform since the Wisconsin rally.

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In addition to Trump hatred, the other pillar of Kamala Harris’ campaign is her claims that she was this brutal prosecutor in California, where she served as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011 and the state’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017.

Allow Mark Levin to set the record straight.

“She talks about her prosecutorial record, [but] she’s never prosecuted a single case from beginning to end in what we call the first chair. That is, she’s overseen an office. Now that’s important, but when she says, ‘I know these transnational gangs, I prosecuted them’ — no, she didn’t,” says Levin. “I’ve looked everywhere … nothing, zero.”

When it came to prosecuting members of the clergy accused of sexual abuse in San Francisco during her reign as district attorney, “Kamala Harris didn’t do a damned thing; she didn’t bend a finger,” says Levin.

As California’s AG, “she would prosecute people for marijuana use or the sale of minimal amounts of marijuana,” but “when she ran for attorney general,” she lied and said “she did not” prosecute people for marijuana, he adds.

However, Levin points to another source — an unlikely one — that’s also exposing Harris’ prosecutorial record: CNN.

In a recent piece, the network exposed two additional scandals related to Harris’ time as a prosecutor — the first being the murder of San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza by David Hill, an admitted gang member in 2004, right after Harris had been elected as the new DA.

Following Espinoza’s tragic death, she publicly announced that she would not seek the death penalty for Hill.

“Life without possibility of parole is a serious consequence,” she argued at the time.

However, 10 years later, when Harris became California’s attorney general, she defended capital punishment when a judge tried to rid the state of the death penalty.

The second scandal CNN unearthed related to California’s Truancy Law, which Harris vehemently championed as AG. Under this law, prosecutors could seek jail time for parents of truant children. And they did. Ayman and Alice Haddadin, whom CNN interviewed, had no criminal history whatsoever but were nonetheless arrested when their middle school son missed 12 nonconsecutive days of school due to severe allergy issues.

However, in 2019, when Harris first ran for president, she criticized California’s Truancy Law and said that it was “never the intention” to jail parents.

Harris is “a nasty person,” says Levin. “She’s coldblooded.”

To hear more of his commentary on Kamala Harris’ prosecutorial record, watch the clip above.

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According to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump will weaponize the Department of Justice and jail his political opponents.

While Trump was already in office for four years and did not do anything of the sort, the Biden-Harris administration has done exactly what it’s predicting Trump will do — and to innocent American citizens who disagree with the administration politically.

But weaponization of the DOJ hasn’t happened solely under Biden’s reign, and if you dig a little deeper into Kamala’s past, you’ll see that she’s been using her power to hurt innocent American citizens for more than just political disagreements for a very long time.

One horrific example of this is when Kamala was San Francisco district attorney in the mid-2000s. The now vice president filed charges against a handful of San Francisco parents whose elementary school-aged children were consistently missing school.

“She was very proud of this endeavor,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments. “She really bragged about it, and a lot of parents sadly and unjustly lost their jobs, lost their freedom, lost much of their wealth, or their ability to even pay the bills because of Kamala Harris’ overbearing truancy policy.”

And brag she did.

“I believe a child going without an education is tantamount to a crime. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy,” Kamala said in a clip from 2010 during which she followed up by laughing that her staff was “concerned.”

While it was funny to Kamala, it was not funny to those who were actually affected.

One mother, Cheree Peoples, was handcuffed in her pajamas in front of the press — who had collaborated with Kamala to capture the moment — because she had been struggling to care for her daughter who had been suffering in the hospital with sickle cell anemia.

The school was well aware of Peoples’ plight and was negotiating a plan to provide accommodation so the student could be educated in the hospital and at home. However, because the plan was not yet arranged, she was technically “truant.”

“This mother faced jail time because of the policy that Harris advocated for, and even after the facts of the situation were revealed, prosecutors continued to pursue the struggling mother, exacerbating her difficulties,” Stuckey explains.

Cheree lost her job, could not pay her rent, and became homeless. Her daughter was hospitalized while she stood trial.

“That’s Kamala Harris. She is cruel,” Stuckey says.

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Donald Trump
did not say that he wants to shoot Liz Cheney.

On Friday, the legacy media suggested that Trump engaged in “violent” rhetoric against Cheney, a former congresswoman who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. They used it as evidence to scaremonger voters into believing their narrative that Trump is a fascist and wannabe dictator.

Daily Beast: “Trump Fantasizes About Shooting Female Rival in the Face”
CNN: “Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents”
NPR: “Trump, using violent language, attacks ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney”
The Washington Post: “Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face’”
The New York Times: “Trump Attacks Liz Cheney Using Violent War Imagery”
Axios: “Trump suggests Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face'”

The Harris campaign even claimed in a statement that Trump suggested he wants Cheney to “face the firing squad.”

‘You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, “Oh, gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”‘

The problem, of course, is that Trump did not say what the media and Harris’ campaign claim.

Speaking with Tucker Carlson in Arizona on Thursday, Trump was discussing Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney when he criticized the former congresswoman for being a “radical war hawk.”

“I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter,” Trump said of the former Republican vice president. “But his daughter’s a very dumb individual, very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk.

“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” he continued. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’ But she’s a stupid person. I’d have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.”

The context is clear: Trump is criticizing Cheney as a “war hawk” and suggesting that she would not flippantly support sending Americans to die in war if she had firsthand combat experience.

Trump did not threaten Cheney, nor did he “fantasize” about shooting her in the face, nor did he say he wants Cheney “fired upon,” nor did he say he wants Cheney to stand before a firing squad. He simply suggested that it’s easy to send other people to die in war when you yourself will never face and have never faced the physical or life-ending consequences of war.

Trump is saying that firsthand combat experience would give American leaders a different perspective about being pro-war.

American political discourse, in fact, has invented a term to describe such individuals: chicken hawks, or people who support war but refuse to have any skin in the game.

For her part, Cheney claimed Trump essentially issued a death threat against her.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she said.

Trump, of course, is no dictator — as his first four years as president proved — and he did not threaten death against anyone.

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Amalgamated Bank is one of the smaller and lesser-known U.S. financial institutions, controlling less than $10 billion in assets. Yet it has scored numerous high-powered clients, such as Harris for President and the Democratic National Committee, plus a host of Democratic legislators and candidates.

That’s no coincidence: Amalgamated is a partisan, agenda-driven institution. But given that it is both attempting to gaslight America on hate and trying to interfere with contributions to causes with which it disagrees, Amalgamated’s deep associations and influence within the Democratic Party are not only problematic but dangerous.

Democratic donors may be unknowingly supporting hate in America, and it’s up to the campaigns to put an end to it.

Amalgamated presents itself as not merely above reproach but morally advanced. It provided seed funding for the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, claiming its mission is to “redefine philanthropy,” while, unlike many foundations, it has commingled its leadership, with Priscilla Sims Brown, president and CEO of Amalgamated Bank, also serving as the chairman of the ACF’s board.

It also claims to be in a position to lecture others. Besides operating a donor-advised fund of its own, the ACF also sponsors a campaign called “Hate Is Not Charitable,” directed at other DAF providers. Though it presents itself as reasonable, appropriate, and humanitarian, this campaign is an effort to suppress support for those who oppose Amalgamated’s partisan and even bigoted views.

Donor-advised funds are a common vehicle for donors, desirable for convenience and anonymity. Donors give to a DAF, receive an immediate receipt for their gift, and, over time, instruct the fund to disburse parts of the deposited money to causes of the donor’s choice. Besides permitting donors to schedule tax deductions to maximal advantage, having a DAF write the check means the donor’s contribution to an organization never shows up on the donor’s 1040 or the recipient charity’s Form 990. DAFs routinely reveal the donor’s identity only to the beneficiary; this information is not made public, and thus donors cannot be identified or targeted for the charities that they support.

Where is the IRS?

This is where Hate Is Not Charitable comes into play. Although it claims to be “deeply concerned” that charitable funds can be used to fund “organizations that foment hatred,” Amalgamated’s Hate Is Not Charitable campaign targets other DAFs rather than the organization certifying American charities: the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

“Donor Advised Fund providers,” Amalgamated intones, “should filter out hate,” but not by using the neutral standards of the IRS, which, of course, DAFs are already required to do. Amalgamated arrogates to itself and its partners the ability to decide whom others should consider hate groups. It knows that if deprived of the anonymity of a DAF, donors could be easily targeted and shamed by Amalgamated’s “empowered” activists for supporting unfavored causes.

Amalgamated claims that Hate Is Not Charitable was prompted, in part, by “white nationalist violence in Charlottesville,” where marching neo-Nazis chanted “Jews will not replace us.” Yet a site search of Amalgamated returns no mention of anti-Semitism in its literature, and it isn’t mentioned as an issue the bank cares about. Instead, the campaign concerns itself with allegedly “anti-LGBTQ groups, anti-Muslim groups, anti-immigrant groups, [and] a white nationalist group.”

Amalgamated’s main resource is the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC’s “Hate Map” is hardly neutral; it was used in a hate-fueled terror attack on the offices of the Family Research Council in 2012. According to the Coalition for Jewish Values, the organization I serve as managing director, the Hate Map is inherently “detrimental and even dangerous to the Jewish community.” The SPLC fails to identify radical Islamic groups as hateful, while besmirching those who confront the dangers posed by those groups as “anti-Muslim.”

The SPLC worked together with the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a 40-page guide to “Hate-Free Philanthropy,” which recommends, among other things, Amalgamated’s Hate Is Not Charitable campaign. CAIR was originally identified as a partner in the Biden administration’s national strategy to counter anti-Semitism, only to be unceremoniously dumped after it blamed Israel for the Hamas atrocities of October 2023, a pogrom that CAIR’s director celebrated with glee.

Amalgamated not only touts CAIR as a charter signatory of its campaign but also gave the organization at least $175,000. And this is far from Amalgamated’s only association with groups inciting anti-Semitism and endorsing terrorism.

Ties to October 7

Earlier this month, U.S. and Canadian authorities identified Samidoun, an organization that helped organize anti-Semitic protests on American college campuses and the Freedom Plaza protests that called for “Death to Israel,” as a “sham charity” that existed to support the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a participant in the October 7 attacks. Samidoun is not independent. It is a project fiscally sponsored by the Alliance for Global Justice, a charity that also sponsors campaigns to boycott Israel and other left-wing causes.

According to its own public filings, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation gave over $1 million to AFGJ between 2020 and 2022, the most recent year for which records are available. The Capital Research Center also identifies Amalgamated’s donor-advised fund as a key money conduit for AFGJ. This is especially troubling because, since 2020, credit card companies have blocked donations to Samidoun, and in 2023, several credit providers, including Stripe, PayPal, and Salsa Labs, stopped serving AFGJ directly.

House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) in September called for the IRS to strip AFGJ of its tax-exempt status due to its role as the sponsor of Samidoun’s efforts “to incite violence and instill chaos.” If Amalgamated truly wanted to fight hate, it would have already cut ties with AFGJ, Samidoun, CAIR, and other organizations that celebrate or sponsor terrorism.

Instead, Amalgamated targets neutral groups to advance its partisan agenda — an agenda partially funded through its financial relationships with major Democratic campaigns and the Democratic National Committee. It’s regrettable that Democratic donors may be unknowingly supporting hate in America, and it’s up to the campaigns to put an end to it.

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Footage showing a Kentuckian attempting to vote for President Donald Trump but having her selection switched to a vote for Kamala Harris
went viral this week, prompting concerns about possible vote rigging as well as about potentially deceptive video edits — with some partisans prematurely concluding, “This never happened.”

Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown (R)
initially suggested Thursday that the apparent malfunction reported at the Laurel County courthouse annex in London could not be recreated but later confirmed the video was in fact genuine and that the glitch was replicable.

“The Attorney General’s office has been to the vote center to check the device that has been shown across social media today,” Brown
noted on Facebook. “In full disclosure, after several minutes of attempting to recreate the scenario, it did occur.”

‘It went back into service.’

Brown indicated that the glitch took place when “some area in between the boxes” was touched. Although officials observed the issue reoccur on one occasion, Brown noted that “after that we tried for several minutes to do it again and could not.”

The county clerk clarified that the ballot marking device seen in the video shows voters their selections for every race and issue, then confirms that they are satisfied before printing the ballot. If the printed ballot contains an error, voters can spoil it and receive a new one. However, Brown indicated Kentucky law permits only two spoiled ballots.

Brown shared a video where the same machine allegedly functioned “with no issues,” indicating that while it was temporarily taken out of service until a representative from the state attorney general’s office arrived to investigate, there have been no issues “since it went back into service.”

‘I hate that this has occurred here in Laurel County.’

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman
stated, “The Kentucky Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI) quickly responded to the complaint from Laurel County. Detectives have been in touch with the county clerk and recommended they change out the voting machine.”

“All Kentucky voters can have confidence that our elections are secure and any potential issues will be addressed quickly,”
added Coleman.

Brown added that the voter whose selection was ostensibly switched from Trump to Harris ultimately “did cast her ballot which she said was correct.”

“I hate that this has occurred here in Laurel County,” continued Brown. “We strive to have accurate, secure and safe elections that we are proud to provide to our citizens.”

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams
stressed shortly after Brown confirmed the glitch was replicated at least once that “there is no ‘vote-switching,'” reiterating that the voter who took the video ended up with a ballot correctly printed “as marked for the candidate of her choice.”

“Get your voting information from legitimate sources, not TikTok or cat turds,” added Adams.

Adams appears to have been referencing a viral post of the
malfunction video on TikTok, which has over 241,000 likes, as well as a post by Phillip Buchanan, the individual behind the popular Catturd account on X, that had netted over 2.3 million impressions by Friday morning.

Michon Lindstrom, Adams’ spokeswoman, indicated the secretary’s office “has received no complaints about ‘vote switching’ or other long-ago debunked rumors,”
reported the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Laurel County
overwhelmingly voted for Trump over then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020, 23,237 to 4,475. Trump won the state by over 25 points that year.

Coleman implored Kentuckians to
report suspected election law violations to his office’s election fraud hotline at (800) 328-VOTE, noting, “Our dedicated team of investigators, prosecutors and support staff is working tirelessly to protect every vote.”

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CNN last week revealed an excerpt from a new book in which Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized both Donald Trump and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). The headline said, “McConnell says ‘MAGA movement is completely wrong’ and Reagan ‘wouldn’t recognize’ Trump’s GOP.” With the election less than a week away, such attacks are not only divisive but harm the Republican Party’s chances of success.

Only a few hours before CNN published this article, McConnell gave this quote to a Fox News reporter: “I’m still a Traditional Republican… there are some on my side now who don’t sound that way. I’m going to be arguing more with them probably than the Democrats.”

The next Republican leader must uphold a view that all senators are equal, which is rooted in respect for the will of voters.

McConnell’s statements reflect a mindset that prioritizes defending the status quo of the Republican establishment over reflecting the will of Republican voters. McConnell has taken this approach in both campaigns and in managing the Senate floor.

On the campaign side, McConnell has not only publicly criticized the party’s presidential standard-bearer two weeks out from an election, but he has also withheld support from high-profile Republican senators such as Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rick Scott. This undermines party cohesion and damages our prospects in close races.

Cruz and Scott have both famously been critical of McConnell’s approach to managing the Senate. The McConnell-aligned super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, has to date not spent any money defending Cruz or Scott in their electoral battles to hold their Senate seats and help Republicans win a majority in the Senate.

A leaked internal memo from SLF, first obtained by Politico, reveals that the super PAC is aware of the struggles faced by Cruz in Texas. “We still have a lot of work to do to maximize our gains in this critical Senate election,” the memo states. “We need to add media markets and expand into the final week in all our target states. We also have to guard our flanks.”

The memo adds: “In Texas, Colin Allred has crept up on Ted Cruz by heavily outspending him for weeks.”

While claiming an intent to “guard our flanks,” the McConnell-aligned super PAC has spent precisely zero dollars to help Cruz. Likewise, SLF spent nothing to defend Cruz in his similarly close 2018 race.

McConnell’s approach exemplifies the mindset of our current leadership — a mindset that prioritizes establishment republicanism over conservative victory.

In managing the senate floor when he was majority leader, McConnell used a procedural power of the floor leader known as “filling the tree” to block both Democratic and Republican senators from offering amendments. He told us time and again that this was important for protecting senators in tight re-elections from taking tough votes.

Both McConnell’s actions regarding campaigns and his ironfisted rule of the Senate demonstrate a drive to shape the Republican Senate conference and the party to reflect his vision of republicanism. Rather than having an unbending view that all Senators are equal and the priorities they represent for their constituents deserve debate, McConnell has taken the approach that he knows better than his Republican Senate colleagues and better than Republican voters. Strong leadership means operating with the support of — rather than against — the Republican conference and the people who elected us.

With McConnell stepping down as GOP Senate leader, it’s a critical time to reflect on what type of leadership will best serve the party going forward. A Senate GOP leader’s primary role is to support colleagues, not sabotage them. Such unity directly impacts voter trust, morale, and the party’s effectiveness in delivering results.

I make this argument not to kick Senator McConnell on his way out the door but rather to make the case that Republican Senate leadership must take a new approach. As we look to the future, candidates vying to replace McConnell must offer clarity on how they will lead and support all GOP candidates, regardless of personal differences.

The next Republican leader must uphold a view that all senators are equal, which is rooted in respect for the will of voters. This commitment to equality is essential to strengthen and restore the United States Senate to the world’s greatest deliberative body that it once was.

We need leaders who will prioritize the interests of all Republicans and foster a spirit of support and solidarity. With this approach, we can move toward a stronger, more cohesive Senate GOP that’s ready to lead and win.

​Senate, Republicans, Mitch mcconnell, Leadership, Mike lee, Opinion & analysis 

A new website called Vote Fair 2024 will empower voters to stay informed on election integrity issues in their state and to hold their election officials accountable to process and count votes quickly and fairly, one of the organizers told Blaze News.

Many Republicans responded with alarm when Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, appeared to tell “Face the Nation” last week that only “70%, maybe even 75%, of all the vote totals” from his state would be reported by 8 p.m. on election night.

It turns out that Raffensperger’s comments were widely misunderstood. The full context of his statements reveals that the 70%-75% figure referred only to the share of the total vote represented by early voting.

Raffensperger later clarified that nearly all Georgian votes — with the exception of military and overseas ballots postmarked by Election Day — will be tabulated by election night.

“Early absentee and early in-person votes will be reported by 8 p.m. on Election Day,” he said, according to the Center Square. “Election Day votes are reported a few hours later. Votes of military and overseas citizens have until Friday to arrive if postmarked 11/5. That’s the law. We follow the law and the Constitution, always.”

‘To ensure that only legitimate U.S. citizens vote and that results reflect the true will of the people.’

Only about 21,000 military and overseas ballots were requested this year, Raffensperger claimed, so Georgia appears to be on track to provide fast, accurate election results in accordance with SB-189, passed earlier this year.

Cleta Mitchell, founder of the Election Integrity Network and a senior fellow with the Conservative Partnership Institute, isn’t taking any chances. Through the FAIR Election Fund, Mitchell and others at EIN developed Vote Fair 2024, a website that not only gives guidance for voting on state referenda across the country but offers calendars that make plain when votes must be counted and reported in key swing states.

What is Vote Fair 2024?

First and foremost, Vote Fair 2024, unveiled earlier this week, is concerned with protecting American election integrity and preserving the gravitas of the right to vote.

“Fair elections are the cornerstone to ensure that only legitimate U.S. citizens vote and that results reflect the true will of the people,” the website states. “We must require proof of citizenship and support measures that retain the partisan primary system.”

The website also excoriated the practices of “no excuse” absentee voting as well as ranked-choice voting, claiming both pose a significant risk of voter fraud.

Conservative voters, however, will likely appreciate the practical voting information the website offers.

For one thing, the website offers a breakdown of proposals related to election integrity that will appear on the ballot in 17 states. Some of these proposals are straightforward, using clear language that average voters can understand without conducting extensive research.

Others are more obtuse. For example, Arizonans will have the opportunity to consider Proposition 140, which has the following descriptive title:

Requires direct primary elections for partisan offices to allow each recognized political party to nominate and place on the next general election ballot as many candidates for each office as there are open positions. Provides that direct primary election laws enacted by the legislature supersede inconsistent city laws.

It might be difficult for some voters to discover under what circumstances city “direct primary laws” have been “inconsistent.” Others reading that title might also stumble over the explanation about the purpose of direct primary elections.

‘These protracted periods of voting before the election and the protracted period for receiving and processing ballots after the election are simply ridiculous and only provide opportunities for mischief.’

While Vote Fair 2024 gives a helpful rundown of the pros and cons of the bill, it also provides clear direction to conservative-minded Arizonans regarding Proposition 140: “Oppose — Vote No.” It provides similar guidance for voting on the other election-related propositions in Arizona and elsewhere this year.

‘Here’s what the law requires’: Election calendars for swing states

Perhaps the most valuable information Vote Fair 2024 offers, however, is all the election-related deadlines in key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. In a statement to Blaze News, Cleta Mitchell explained that the calendars clearly delineate “the post-election dates for receiving, processing, curing, counting, and reporting ballots” in those seven states.

On an appearance on “Blaze News Tonight” last week, Mitchell told hosts Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson that, in short, the calendars “will say, ‘Here’s what the law requires.'”

During that appearance, Mitchell expressed particular concern about state elections officials who have projected lengthy vote-count times in 2024. Earlier this month, officials in Maricopa County, Arizona, suggested that vote counts in some local races might not be known for nearly two weeks.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates insisted that such long vote-count periods are not evidence of wrongdoing. “It unfortunately does lead to people speculating about what might be going on,” he said, according to KJZZ. “But number one, I come back to this, I will 100 out of 100 times take accuracy over speed.”

‘Never leave a polling place after you’ve checked in unless you also check out.’

While Arizona law permits early votes to be processed and tabulated as soon as they began to flow in, voters there have so many propositions to consider this year that their ballot is four pages long. Such long ballots increase processing times, officials said.

“With races that are going to be tight, it’s going to be difficult, and people may need to have some patience,” said Jennifer Liewer, deputy elections director for communications.

Mitchell is dubious. “These protracted periods of voting before the election and the protracted period for receiving and processing ballots after the election are simply ridiculous and only provide opportunities for mischief,” she said in a statement to Blaze News.

“We ought to be saying, ‘No … that is not going to happen,'” she added on “Blaze News Tonight.”

Indeed, the Arizona calendar at Vote Fair 2024 reminds voters that vote tabulation has been going on for weeks, ostensibly implying that they should not tolerate unnecessary delays. “Tabulation of ballots may begin immediately after received and then delivered to early election board,” it says.

October 9 is also marked on the Vote Fair 2024 calendar as the day when “Early Ballot tabulation begins” in Arizona, reminding voters to vote early to be sure their votes are cast and counted.

To help guard against potential problems, Mitchell does advise voters to cast their ballots early if possible. “We say to everybody, ‘Go to your polling place in advance and vote early in person.'”

“Make sure you stay, and … make sure you check out,” Mitchell said on “Blaze News Tonight,” addressing early voters in Arizona and elsewhere. “Don’t let them say, ‘This glitch has cost you your ability to vote.’ Never leave a polling place after you’ve checked in unless you also check out.”

Know your rights

Just this week, voters waiting in line for ballot applications in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were turned away hours before the 5 p.m. deadline on Wednesday. A judge was so disturbed by the incidents of possible voter disenfranchisement that he extended the deadline until Friday at 5 p.m.

The ruling came about after several Pennsylvanians of good faith captured on video what appeared to be attempts to suppress the vote. They then shared those videos on social media. Not only did these ordinary citizens demonstrate remarkable courage in the face of possible voter intimidation, but they knew their rights and weren’t afraid to stand up for them.

‘We are in desperate need of restoring trust in our elections.’

Vote Fair 2024 offers voters a similar means of staying informed about their rights as well as the responsibilities of local, county, and state election officials.

“These are the dates that will be in effect for 2024,” Cleta Mitchell told Blaze News about the Vote Fair 2024 calendars, “and we wanted the public and the media to have the information available to be able to follow along. It may be a while in some states before all the votes are received, counted, and reported.”

Unfortunately, the calendars offer only the information as mandated by law on a state-by-state basis, not necessarily what may be in the best interest of election integrity.

“Note that there are extended post-election deadlines in some of these states,” Mitchell’s statement to Blaze News continued. “So the election process extends well past Election Day, unfortunately.”

Still, the calendars and the information on state-level, election-related referenda are important resources in the waning days of election season.

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson is encouraged that Mitchell and others of influence are taking action in the fight for free and fair elections.

“As trust in our institutions continues to decrease in America, we are in desperate need of restoring trust in our elections. This should not be a partisan issue, although the problem was created by partisan efforts to change and game the system,” Peterson said in a statement to Blaze News.

“Cleta Mitchell has been at the forefront of the movement to establish a fair and accountable common-sense voting process, and efforts like this are vital to stabilize politics in our country.”

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If Vice President Kamala Harris truly wishes to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration, she should look at the massive left-wing influence campaign I call the Woketopus.

The left’s vast dark money funding apparatus not only helped the anti-Israel protesters on college campuses but also bankrolled the pressure groups that helped set open-borders policy in the Biden-Harris administration.

Activist groups behind the scenes want to transform America into a ‘sanctuary country’ that puts legal immigrants at the back of the line.

A network of left-wing foundations — including the George Soros-founded Open Society Foundations, the nonprofits founded by Arabella Advisors, the Tides Foundation, and others — bankroll woke nonprofits that have deep ties to the administrative state. Bureaucrats go from government to these nonprofits and back, and these nonprofits often draft policies that agencies go on to implement.

At least three nonprofits helped shape policy at the Department of Homeland Security, aiming to transform the DHS’ mission. This transformation enabled at least 10 million illegal aliens to cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Center for American Progress — which Politico dubbed “the most influential think tank of the Biden era” — urged a “reorientation of cultural norms at DHS.”

The CAP called for the DHS to shift “toward a more service-driven department that treats immigration as an asset to be managed rather than a crime to be enforced against.”

Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union urged the DHS to “reject our existing immigration system’s reliance on the punitive, enforcement-based approach driven by mass detention and mass deportation” and instead create a system “focused on helping people navigate a byzantine immigration system and on a pathway to citizenship.”

Finally, the nonprofit America’s Voice claimed that “undocumented immigrants” are “essential to our economy and essential to our democracy.”

When Biden put together his transition team for the DHS, he tapped America’s Voice’s Ur Jaddou and the ACLU’s Andrea Flores. Jaddou currently leads U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The CAP’s former vice president for immigration policy, Tom Jawetz, became general counsel at the DHS in March 2021.

These groups’ influence did not begin with Biden, nor will it end with him. But the Biden-Harris administration’s extreme record on immigration highlights their impact.

Not only has the Biden-Harris administration loosened border enforcement, halting wall construction, pausing deportations, and eliminating Trump-era policies that required asylum seekers to “Remain in Mexico” while their cases worked through U.S. courts, but it has also directed more funding to what I call the “immigration industrial complex.”

Many non-governmental organizations — most of them faith-based — receive hefty grants from the U.S. government to house and resettle illegal aliens throughout America. According to an analysis from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, immigrants who went through these resettlement agencies have found their way to 431 of America’s 435 congressional districts.

Let that sink in.

The Biden-Harris administration is using your tax dollars to resettle illegal aliens throughout the country, after working with groups that call illegal aliens “essential to our democracy.”

Americans believe in helping the less fortunate and in providing a home to refugees who really need it, but the activist groups pulling the strings behind the scenes want to transform America into a “sanctuary country” that puts legal immigrants at the back of the line.

These activist groups shouldn’t be dictating policy in Washington.

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