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Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, and Mike Davis of the Article III Project revealed Monday that a New York Times reporter reached out to them for comment regarding an upcoming hit piece about so-called “misinformation” — the likely objective of which is to get conservative commentators demonetized or possibly removed from YouTube.

Shapiro pre-emptively attacked the paper and its apparent collaborators at the leftist outfit Media Matters, while Carlson shared screenshots of his fiery textual exchange with Times reporter Nico Grant.

“Would I like to participate in your attempt to censor me?” Carlson wrote to Grant. “No thanks. But I do hope you’ll quote what I wrote above and also note that I told you to f*** off, which I am now doing. Thanks.”

Grant apparently opened with an introduction and the following note to Carlson on Monday: “I wanted to give you an opportunity to comment for an upcoming article that takes a look at how political commentators have discussed the upcoming election on YouTube. We rely on an analysis conducted by researchers at Media Matters for America.”

Media Matters for America is a leftist organization founded by Democratic operative David Brock. It claims to document “conservative misinformation throughout the media” and to notify “activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions.”

Media Matters, now led by Angelo Carusone — the former Democratic National Committee employee who fought to get Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck ousted from Fox News and was responsible for the “#DumpTrump” campaign in 2012 — now serves as an attack dog for the Democratic Party, characterizing dissenting views as “misinformation.”

‘So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party?’

Media Matters is presently in hot water, as Elon Musk’s social platform X sued the leftist organization last year for alleged defamation. Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied Media Matters’ request to have that lawsuit dismissed in August.

Grant asked Carlson to comment on the following points, which will apparently be including in the planned Times piece:

“Media Matters identified 286 YouTube videos between May and August that contained election misinformation, including narratives that have been debunked or are not supported with credible evidence.”
“Researchers identified videos posted by you in those four months that contain election misinformation.”
“We feature a clip of you saying: ‘…All the sadness we’ve seen after the clearly stolen election. All these bad things happen, but people I know love each other more.'”

Shapiro and Davis appear to have been asked to comment on the same points but on different quotes.

‘These outlets are beneath contempt.’

Grant gave away the plot with three follow-up questions, in all three cases, about the conservatives’ membership in the YouTube Partner Program, their track records of demonetization, and history of notes from YouTube regarding “misinformation.”

Carlson, wise to Grant’s apparent scheme, responded, “So the New York Times is working with a left wing hate group to silence critics of the Democratic Party? Please ask yourself why you’re participating in it. This is why you got into journalism? It’s shameful.”

“I hope you’re filled with guilt and self-loathing for sending me a text like this,” continued Carlson. “Please quote me.”

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales said of Carlson’s reply to Grant, “Epic.”

Elon Musk tweeted, “Perfect response.”

Mike Needham’s forward-looking conservative think tank America 2100 tweeted, “These outlets are beneath contempt. 1) Powerful activist groups (Media Matters) put out enemy hit lists. 2) The press (New York Times) publishes the names to send a signal to Big Tech. 3) Big Tech dutifully censors the enemies. They’re the enforcement arm of the Left.”

Conservative filmmaker Robby Starbuck wrote, “YouTube needs to be very careful how they respond to this story or risk a massive exodus from their site. Treating right wing content creators differently is going to become increasingly an offense that loses you a lot of business. People have alternatives now.”

Chris Pavlovski, the CEO of the video platform Rumble, noted, “The corporate media is on their campaign to deplatform as many conservative voices as possible. This type of activist garbage is not possible on Rumble. @TuckerCarlson, we have your back.”

Blaze News reached out to Grant and Media Matters for comment as well as for their definitions of “misinformation” but did not receive responses by deadline.

Grant has set his X page to private, so that his past tweets are now protected.

Shapiro referred to the anticipated Times-Media Matters hit piece as an “October surprise.”

“What, precisely, is NYT doing?” wrote Shapiro. “It’s perfectly obvious: using research from Media Matters, a radical Left-wing organization whose sole purpose is destroying conservative media … in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives ONE WEEK FROM THE ELECTION.”

While noting that he supported the view that Biden won the 2020 election, Shapiro emphasized that the Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to suggest otherwise.

“This is totally scandalous. In 2020, the legacy media shut down dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story and laundered the claim that it was all Russian disinformation, all to get Joe Biden elected,” continued Shapiro. “In 2024, they’re even more brazen: they’re openly trying to intimidate YouTube, one of the most dominant news platforms in America, into shutting down anyone who isn’t pro-Kamala.”

Shapiro worked his way up to echoing Carlson’s sentiment, concluding, “The New York Times wants comment? Here’s my comment: kindly, go f*** yourself.”

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt responded by echoing the defiant, nearly assassinated Republican president, “Fight, fight, fight!”

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Last week, I saw one of the most horrifying things I have ever witnessed in the world of propaganda: Kamala Harris and John Kelly’s blatant distortion of Donald Trump’s words to an alarming degree. I just published a book about propaganda, and having researched this topic as of late, I’m deeply troubled by what I saw. This goes beyond typical political spin. It’s part of a dangerous narrative that goes after Trump, our Constitution, and ultimately, you.

Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, made the same claim that the left has been making against Trump since the very beginning and has been escalating in recent weeks: that Trump is a fascist, drawing comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

The most unsettling part of Harris’ statement is how it smears not only Trump but also everyone who supports him.

Harris leapt at the opportunity to use this fodder for her campaign, claiming Trump wanted “generals like Adolf Hitler had,” implying that he desires a military loyal to him rather than to the Constitution. This accusation is not only unsubstantiated but also a direct insult to the very concept of the American military’s loyalty to the Constitution, a principle that sets us apart from authoritarian regimes.

Let’s be clear: In the United States, our military pledges allegiance to the Constitution, not to any individual. Service members take an oath to defend the Constitution and can reject unlawful orders. I believe Kelly was fired by Trump and that this PR stunt in Harris’ campaign is his pitiful attempt at seeking vengeance for his bruised pride.

If Trump had indeed said such a thing, Kelly as chief of staff would have been duty-bound to bring it before the American people immediately. Why are we hearing about this claim years later? Why wait until 2024 amid the Democrats’ growing campaign panic? This is clearly just another campaign tactic without any corroborating evidence.

Harris suggests that Trump would “abandon the Constitution” and accuses him of smearing his fellow Americans as “the enemy within.” She overlooks that Trump, like Abraham Lincoln, has used “the enemy within” to describe internal threats. “If destruction be our lot,” Lincoln warned, “we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

In other words, the real threat comes from abandoning the nation’s foundational values. Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, fear internal forces are pulling the country apart. Harris is the puppet of those forces.

The most unsettling part of Harris’ statement is how it smears not only Trump but also everyone who supports him. She claims that Trump would go after anyone who disagrees with him — a blatantly false accusation. In reality, her own party and the machine behind her campaign have been censoring and silencing those who challenge their narrative. If you questioned the safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines and lockdowns, raised concerns about election integrity, or criticized the revolving door between Big Pharma, Big Food, and the FDA, you became a target of censorship. This is why they are targeting figures like Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who openly challenge their agenda.

Harris’ rhetoric crosses a line. She is perfectly comfortable telling blatant lies, no matter their repercussions, so long as it benefits her campaign. If she did it to Trump, she will do it to you. If the machine goes after Elon, Tulsi, and RFK Jr., it will go after you.

This election season isn’t merely about Trump and his allies. This is about whether we will give power to the same political machine that has actively worked to discredit you and silence you for an additional four years. The decision is yours on November 5.

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The Democratic Party’s corporate media allies spent the past few days condemning a comedian for a joke he made at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

By Wednesday morning, many of those same media outlets were still focusing on that story while largely overlooking an insult by the current sitting president against Trump’s supporters, which echoed the language used in the comedian’s joke.

The liberal media outlets vehemently criticized Tony Hinchcliffe, a roast comedian, for his joke calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

‘Will the networks that obsessively covered a joke from a comedian … cover the fact that the Kamala Harris campaign is insulting half of the country?’

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden made an appearance on CNN where he addressed Hinchcliffe’s comedy at Trump’s rally.

Biden stated, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.”

Instead of reacting with the same outrage over Biden’s incendiary language, the media fell in line with the White House’s attempt to reinterpret the president’s comments.

The White House transcript of Biden’s statement included an apostrophe on “supporter’s,” suggesting that the president had referred to Hinchcliffe specifically.

In a statement, Biden said, “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

Many of the same media outlets gave the president a pass for his remark.

Politico entirely misrepresented Biden’s comments, claiming the president “said ‘the only garbage’ was the ‘hatred’ of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens.”

The outlet released the full quote from Biden but included the misleading apostrophe.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance stated, “Will the networks that obsessively covered a joke from a comedian at a Trump rally cover the fact that the Kamala Harris campaign is insulting half of the country? Will they even report honestly on this disgusting behavior from our present leadership?”

Podcaster Tim Pool also reacted to the media’s reporting.

Pool wrote on X, “Its funny because Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke, Biden was serious.”

“Also spare me your apostrophe bullshit***, that was a complete sentence,” he added.

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) also was not buying the White House’s spin on Biden’s comment.

Donalds told CNN, “The first statement from Joe Biden, is the one that he truly believes. He does not think that people who disagree with him or his party, who support President Trump, are Americans. He thinks that they’re garbage.”

He compared Biden’s Tuesday comments to remarks he made a few years ago.

“It was Joe Biden that went on the ‘Breakfast Club’, and he famously said that if you couldn’t vote for him, then you weren’t black. It’s the same Joe Biden making the same type of statement four years ago. So, this is consistent with who he is,” Donalds added.

Reporter Savanah Hernandez reacted to Biden’s comment, writing on X, “Thank God Joe Biden called us all garbage, now I don’t have to listen to the faux outrage over Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke anymore AND he stole all of the momentum from Kamala’s rally tonight.”

“Biden out here single-handedly winning Trump the election. What a patriot,” she said.

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance was forced on Tuesday to do the job of a journalist after the media appeared to cover for President Joe Biden.

For two days, Democrats and the media seethed over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico, made at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally over the weekend. Trump’s detractors used it as evidence that Trump and his supporters are racist.

‘The fact that these “journalists” are covering for a catastrophic error from Kamala’s campaign is a scandal.’

Enter President Joe Biden, who, speaking in his capacity as commander in chief, decided to one-up the comedian by declaring that all of Trump’s supporters are “garbage.”

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something,” Biden said on a call with Voto Latino. “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 demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

Despite the clarity with which Biden spoke, the White House, with an assist from the media, decided to pull a play straight from George Orwell’s “1984.”

After the comment began circulating on social media, the White House released an edited transcript of Biden’s remarks. The transcript included an apostrophe in the phrase “his supporters,” making it “his supporter’s,” thus suggesting that Biden was speaking about the “garbage” of Hinchcliffe and not directly calling all of Trump’s supporters “garbage.”

In lockstep, the media acted as stenographers for the White House. Politico, for example, directly printed the White House’s version of Biden’s remarks.

Vance responded to Politico by doing what the news outlet failed to do: He posted the actual video of Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage” rather than regurgitating an edited White House transcript. That way, Americans see and hear for themselves what Biden said.

“‘The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.’ That’s a direct quote. That’s what Kamala Harris’s boss said. This is how Politico decided to report it[.] Do [Politico reporter Jonathan Lemire, Politico head of news Alexander Burns, and Politico] have an ounce of integrity? Will they correct this obvious falsehood?” Vance said.

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“Here’s the actual video,” Vance continued. “The fact that these ‘journalists’ are covering for a catastrophic error from Kamala’s campaign is a scandal.”

“Will the networks that obsessively covered a joke from a comedian at a Trump rally cover the fact that the Kamala Harris campaign is insulting half of the country? Will they even report honestly on this disgusting behavior from our present leadership?” Vance asked.

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Later, Vance added, “A mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can’t afford rising diesel prices is not garbage. A father who wants to afford groceries is not garbage. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves.”

Not only did Democrats and the media claim that Biden did not say what he said, but they blamed Biden’s words on his history of stuttering.

Democratic loyalists, moreover, downplayed the significance of Biden’s remarks by claiming Biden is not a candidate for president. That defense, however, falls flat when the media and Democrats spent two days attacking Trump for a joke that a comedian — not Trump himself — made.

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Megyn Kelly was recently invited on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and let’s just say, their exchange was tense. Not all that surprising when you consider both their personalities and their political stances.

Dave Rubin, although he disagrees with many of Maher’s arguments, says that there’s one area where the television host deserves some credit: “He was willing to [have Megyn on the show] right before the election.”

However, the rest of the credit goes to Kelly for “completely dismantling Bill’s argument that Trump is a fascist.”

When Maher brought up “the things [Trump] has been saying and all the people in his administration who said he’s a fascist, he wants to be a fascist, he talks like a fascist,” Kelly annihilated his argument with ease.

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“I don’t care about all that,” she retorted. “They’ve been saying that about Trump for years; they’ve been saying that about Republican candidates for years.”

“If you are at all center or center right, you are used to having your candidate of choice completely demonized, whether it’s the f-word, the r-word, the misogynist word,” she continued, pointing to the way Mitt Romney was deemed “a raging sexist” and John McCain “a raging racist” by the left.

“We no longer are listening to them. Trump has incendiary rhetoric — there’s no question — but we have four years to judge him by, and the country was going pretty well when Trump was in there, unlike the four years we’ve had under these two,” she explained.

When Maher brought up the economy that “Trump inherited” from Barack Obama, Kelly fired back, “So Trump has Obama to thank for his economy, but Biden can’t thank Trump for anything?”

“Let’s get off this because it’s not really what I want to get to,” Maher responded.

“Bill, with all due respect, there’s probably a reason you don’t want to get to it,” says Dave. “She dismantled it” and “showed the hypocrisy.”

“Lefties generally don’t want to have any level of debate with people on the right anymore because … the arguments on the right, generally speaking, are much more cogent and obvious,” he adds.

To hear Kelly obliterate Maher’s argument on the border and illegal immigration, watch the clip above.

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The director of athletics at the University of Nevada has denied shocking allegations that she told female athletes at her school that a man was actually the athlete with a disadvantage when playing against women.

After the Nevada women’s volleyball team made a very public forfeit against San Jose State University — the fifth team to do so — the group of women held a press conference to explain their decision.

The primary reason: SJSU has a 6’1″ male — Blaire Fleming, born Brayden — on its roster.

‘We were told we weren’t educated enough.’

During their press conference, the Nevada players were led by captain Sia Liilii, who claimed that when the team spoke to school administrators, the officials refused to even listen to their statements:

“We were told we weren’t educated enough, and we didn’t understand the science,” Liilii said.

Furthermore, Liilii told OutKick that Nevada athletic director Stephanie Rempe told the girls that it was actually Fleming who is “at a disadvantage” when competing against women due to being on testosterone blockers and estrogen supplements.

“She told us that it’s harder for [Fleming] to play against [women] than it is for [women] to play against a male athlete,” the team captain continued.

“[Rempe] went on to say that we would be liable for a lawsuit because we would be taking an opportunity away from San Jose State to play a game,” Liilii added. “But, before [Rempe] said that, [Rempe said], ‘I don’t mean this as a threat or anything.'”

In an email to Blaze News, Rempe firmly denied the accusations made against her and said her interactions with her volleyball team lasted less than a total of 10 minutes:

The deputy athletics director and I met with the volleyball team and coaching staff on October 7, where every member of the team had an opportunity to share their feelings about the situation, ask questions, give their input on next steps and we provided the opportunity for resources.

I did not tell, and am unaware of any member of the athletics administrative team telling, members of our women’s volleyball team that they ‘weren’t educated enough,’ that they ‘didn’t understand the science,’ that they should reconsider their position or that they should ‘stay quiet’ regarding their participation in an Oct. 26 match that was scheduled against San Jose State University.

On October 14 and October 22, I spoke with the team for less than five minutes each time and those gatherings were operational in nature. At all three meetings, I shared our genuine apology for not sharing the statement released on October 3 in advance of their match against UNLV. As has been stated on multiple occasions, we continue to support the rights of the volleyball players who choose and choose not to participate.

The focus of our athletic department has always been on the well-being and success of our student-athletes, including their ability to learn and grow from their personal and competitive experiences at our University. This remains our overriding priority regarding all the members of our women’s volleyball team.

Blaze News also asked Rempe whether or not she believes that men or “transgender women” should be able to compete in the female category of NCAA athletics.

This article will be updated should be there be an applicable response from the university.

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Fleming’s inclusion in women’s volleyball has caused so much controversy in the Mountain West Conference that Boise State, Utah State, Wyoming, and now Nevada have forfeited matches. Southern Utah, which is in the Western Athletic Conference, also forfeited.

Fleming’s teammate Brooke Slusser spoke to Blaze News about the unfair advantage the male athlete has and the reason teams are forfeiting against SJSU.

“I think we all know the reason the games are canceled,” Slusser said.

At the same time, Nevada’s Liilii has stated that while her team allegedly felt pressure to play against the male, they couldn’t hold their true feelings inside.

“You could feel the fake energy because we were all trying to band together and … just put this on the shelf and not think about it for a week,” she recalled. “But honestly, as a woman, I don’t know how to shut anything down.”

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A former teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school engaged in an illicit sexual relationship with a student that included a tryst while on campus, according to a prosecutor in Ohio.

On Tuesday, Hamilton County prosecutor Melissa Powers announced in a statement that 42-year-old Emily Nutley was indicted for six counts of sexual battery — a felony of the third degree. Nutley faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on all charges. She would also be ordered to register as a sex offender if convicted.

‘Let me be very clear: this is child sexual abuse.’

Nutley had been a teacher at St. Xavier High School — an all-boys Catholic school in Springfield Township. She also was a supervisor of a program that assists students who are struggling academically.

Nutley allegedly met a 17-year-old male through the program and then began to have additional contact with the student “outside of school hours,” according to the prosecutor.

The teacher communicated with the alleged victim through text messages.

Nutley sent the boy nude photos and sexually explicit text messages, the prosecutor said.

The teacher allegedly began a sexual relationship with the underage student in mid-November 2023.

The prosecutor noted, “Nutley is alleged to have performed oral sex on the male victim at least one time while on the campus of St. Xavier High School and one additional time while off campus.”

Nutley also is accused of engaging in sexual intercourse “after hours while in her office at the school” with the alleged victim.

The alleged victim purportedly attempted to end the illicit relations, but Nutley reportedly continued to send text messages to the boy.

St. Xavier High School administrators initiated an internal investigation into the alleged child sex crimes. Once evidence was collected, school administrators notified the Springfield Township Police Department of the alleged child sex abuse.

WLWT-TV reported St. Xavier High School fired Nutley when the criminal investigation began.

Hamilton County prosecutor Melissa Powers said of the alleged child sex crimes: “This is absolutely unacceptable and reprehensible conduct from an adult towards a minor child.”

Powers added: “This child was in need of help and guidance but instead found an adult looking to act out her perverted sexual desires. This child was the victim of an adult predator who should never again have a role that puts her in contact with children. She used this child for her own sexual gratification while taking advantage of the position she held.”

Powers stressed, “Let me be very clear: this is child sexual abuse.”

Powers vowed that her office would prosecute this case “fully and thoroughly to ensure that justice is served.”

St. Xavier High School released a statement Monday that said, “We appreciate the unwavering commitment of our faculty, staff, and administration to the safety, well-being, and dignity of every student entrusted to our care. We believe this case to be an isolated incident.”

The school also stated, “At this time, we respectfully ask for continued prayers for the well-being of our students, their families, our entire staff, and for all individuals impacted by abuse. We remain committed to providing a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment for our entire St. Xavier community.”

The high school urged any students who had been sexually abused by a teacher to contact the Springfield Township Police Department.

Nutley is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 8.

WXIX-TV published a video report about the alleged teacher sex scandal.

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The Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued Virginia earlier this month in hopes of killing an initiative aimed at removing thousands of suspected noncitizens from the commonwealth’s voter rolls.

The Youngkin administration fought back and won.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares
noted, “I am pleased to announce that the US Supreme Court granted Virginia’s emergency stay to keep noncitizens off our voter rolls.”

In a
6-3 ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily overruled Democrat-appointed 4th Circuit judges and halted a Biden-appointed judge’s order, thereby allowing Virginia to resume the work of making sure that only American citizens can vote in next week’s election.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

The stay means that Virginia — where the latest
Quantus Insights poll indicates Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump are virtually tied — will not have to put over 1,500 suspected noncitizens back onto its voter rolls before Election Day.

‘Kamala’s Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the US Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls.’

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin
said in a statement, “We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General Jason Miyares on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens.”

“Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections,” continued Youngkin. “Virginians can cast their ballots on Election Day knowing that Virginia’s elections are fair, secure, and free from politically motivated interference.”

Dozens of red states backed Virginia’s defense along with the Republican National Committee.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill tweeted, “Huge victory for election integrity! SCOTUS grants Virginia’s emergency stay to keep noncitizens off its voter roles. Proud to have joined my fellow AGs in support of the American people and our most sacred right.”

Murrill was among the 27 state attorneys general who filed an amicus brief asking the high court to allow Virginia to resume the work of ensuring the integrity of the election.

The amicus brief noted, “Non-citizens are not eligible voters. They were not eligible voters before Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, they were not eligible when Congress passed the NVRA, and they are not eligible today.”

Ahead of the ruling, RNC chairman Michael Whatley
stated, “With only one week to our country’s most important election, Democrats are now taking extraordinary measures to keep non-citizens on voter rolls. Kamala’s Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls.”

Blaze News
previously reported that the DOJ sued the state over Youngkin’s Aug. 7 executive order, which requires both the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections to routinely update voter lists to remove individuals identified as noncitizens and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles must expedite the interagency data-sharing with the DOE with regard to noncitizen transactions.

According to the DOJ, the election integrity initiative violated Section 8(c)(2) of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office.

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia agreed with the DOJ, claiming the removals of suspected noncitizens amounted to a “clear violation” of the NVRA. Giles ordered Virginia to reinstate those individuals whose registrations were canceled under the program, including suspected noncitizens.

Virginia asked the 4th Circuit to put a hold on Giles’ order, but two Obama-appointed judges and another Biden appointee denied their request Sunday, prompting the state to file for an emergency stay of the injunction hours later.

The commonwealth’s
emergency application stated that the injunction sought by the Biden-Harris DOJ will “irreparably injure Virginia’s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters.”

According to Virginia, the program did not violate the NVRA as it was an individualized removal process. Further, the state stressed that Giles’ injunction was based on a provision of the NVRA that “does not even apply to the removal of noncitizens and other voter registrations that are void ab initio.”

The state told the high court that of the over 1,600 suspected noncitizens whom Giles ordered back onto the voter rolls:

About 600 of these individuals personally informed Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that they are not citizens, and about 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens through the United States’ own Systematic Alerian Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database.

The Supreme Court did not indicate which of the state’s arguments ultimately prompted its decision.

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Confidential passwords to voting systems were inadvertently posted on the Colorado secretary of state’s public website for months before being removed. Despite this, officials maintained this leak is “not a security threat” to elections.

The passwords were publicly visible on a spreadsheet posted to the website with a hidden tab that included over 600 partial passwords to Colorado’s voting systems in 63 of Colorado’s 64 counties. The passwords were “discreetly” removed from the website on Thursday after being listed since at least August, according to a press release from the Republican Party of Colorado.

‘At best, even if the passwords were outdated, it represents significant incompetence and negligence, and it raises huge questions about password management and other basic security protocols at the highest levels within Griswold’s office.’

“To be very clear, we do not see this as a full security threat to the state. This is not a security threat,” Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold told KUSA. “There are two passwords to get into any voting component, along with physical access. We have layers of security and, out of just an abundance of caution, have staff in the field changing passwords, looking at access logs, and looking at the entire situation and continuing our investigation.”

“We hear all the time in Colorado from Secretary Griswold and Governor Polis that we represent the ‘gold standard’ for election integrity, a model for the nation,” Dave Williams, chairman of the Republican Party of Colorado, said in a statement. “One can only hope that by the secretary posting our most sensitive passwords online to the world dispels that myth.”

This is not the first time Colorado has faced scrutiny over security lapses and election integrity. Under Griswold’s purview, 30,000 noncitizens in Colorado mistakenly received voter registration mail in 2022. Despite past and present hiccups, Griswold and Colorado officials maintain that their elections are airtight.

“It’s shocking, really,” Williams said in the press release. “At best, even if the passwords were outdated, it represents significant incompetence and negligence, and it raises huge questions about password management and other basic security protocols at the highest levels within Griswold’s office.

“This type of security breach could have far-reaching implications, putting the entire Colorado election results for the vast majority of races, including the tabulation of the presidential race in Colorado, in jeopardy unless all of the machines can meet the standards of a ‘trusted build’ before next Tuesday,” Williams continued.

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Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker says his attorney will ask U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper for a continuance of his Jan. 6 criminal case so that he can seek reconsideration of the judge’s refusal to dismiss charges based on selective prosecution.

In a nine-page Oct. 25 opinion and order, Judge Cooper said Baker failed to demonstrate the elements of his motion to dismiss the four misdemeanor charges against him for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Baker said defense attorney William Shipley will ask for a trial delay in order to seek reconsideration of Cooper’s decision.

“The most important legal argument that we’re bringing is this: Somewhere in the vicinity of 80 journalists of all types — credentialed employees of mainstream news organizations from the New York Times to the L.A. Times to French media to British television — went through broken windows and broken doors that day without permission,” Baker said Oct. 29.

“Included in that bunch were freelancers, independents, bloggers, podcasters, and social media influencers without credentials,” Baker said.

Reporters and photographers for those media organizations have not been arrested or charged with trespassing or other misdemeanor crimes for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6. More than a half-dozen right-of-center journalists have been prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice for being on restricted grounds Jan. 6.

Baker said Cooper’s decision does not answer the legal points Shipley raised in the original motion to dismiss the charges.

Baker was arrested in Dallas on March 1 and charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Baker’s case is scheduled to go to trial Nov. 12 in Washington, D.C. The pending motion for reconsideration could delay the trial date. A pretrial hearing in the case is set for Nov. 6.

In response to a request for comment, Daniel Ball, a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, told Blaze News: “We do not have any additional comments outside of what you can find in publicly available court filings.”

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Judge Cooper previously denied Baker’s motion to be allowed to retain his firearms during the case due to ongoing threats based on his investigative reporting. Baker said two stalkers have followed him across the country in the past six months.

Shipley appealed the firearms denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but that court upheld Cooper’s ruling.

Baker said the DOJ has extended a plea offer to him. Three charges would be dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. The offer is under consideration, he said.

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A Jewish advocacy group said Chicago police indicated during a Monday meeting with the group that the suspect in the Saturday morning shooting of an Orthodox Jewish man shouted “Allahu Akbar” during a later shoot-out with cops, WMAQ-TV reported.

The station noted that the group — the Jewish United Fund — said police who met with its members indicated that 22-year-old suspect Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi shouted the well-known Muslim declaration while firing at officers, which led to a concern that hate played a role in the incident.

‘What will it take for you to acknowledge the Jewish community?’

However, WMAQ said police haven’t confirmed those details to the station.

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling on Tuesday said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Abdallahi with a hate crime due to the suspect still being in the hospital in the wake of the shoot-out, the station said.

“We do investigations [that are] based on facts that we gather into evidence in order to present charges,” Snelling said, 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.”

What’s the background?

Chicago police said Abdallahi was identified as the offender who shot the 39-year-old male victim in the 2600 block of West Farwell Avenue around 9:30 a.m. NBC News reported that the victim is Jewish and was wearing the Jewish skullcap while on his way to services on the Jewish Sabbath.

The suspect shot the victim “in the shoulder without saying a word,” Snelling said at a Monday news conference, 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.

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.

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. Abdallahi’s detention hearing was scheduled for Tuesday, police added.

City Alderman Debra Silverstein — who attends the same synagogue as the Jewish man who was shot — said at the same news conference Monday that there’s increased fear among local Jews, NBC News noted.

“A man wearing the kippah as he walked to synagogue was shot, and this has just escalated our anxieties,” she said, according to the news network, which added that Silverstein in a later message to constituents wrote that she’s “very disappointed” that hate crime charges had not been filed despite “evidence that seems to suggest an anti-Semitic motive for the shooting.”

Silverstein told CBS News she visited the victim Saturday night after his hospital release and noted that he’s doing “OK.”

Rabbi Shlomo Soroka of Agudath Israel of Illinois told WMAQ-TV in regard to the lack of hate crime charges that “there’s no question that from an emotional standpoint, it’s disappointing. But I think it’s equally important to understand that whether or not there is a hate crime charge, that’s a technicality. That doesn’t change the reality of our experience.”

Soroka added to WFLD-TV that the victim — described as an Orthodox Jew — took his “little girls with him” to synagogue “every single week.” But for some reason, not this past Saturday.

“And this week, this particular week, he decided to go by himself, and his little girls weren’t with him,” Soroka observed. “Can you imagine what would have happened if those little girls were with him?”

Abraham Trachtman told WBBM-TV that there’s a large Orthodox Jewish community in the area and that he also was headed to a local synagogue when he was told of the shooting: “A Jewish guy walking to synagogue, Saturday morning, Sabbath morning, it just, it doesn’t make sense.”

Local Jewish leaders also noted to WFLD that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson hadn’t acknowledged the shooting or their pain. However, Johnson’s office on Tuesday issued the following statement:

On behalf of the City of Chicago, our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his loved ones from this weekend’s shooting incident that took place in Rogers Park. This tragic event should have never happened, and we recognize the dedication of our first responders who put their lives on the line during this shooting. The Mayor’s Office is in close communication with the Chicago Police Department as the investigation continues. All Chicagoans deserve to feel safe and protected across the city. There is more work to be done, and we are committed to diligently improving community safety in every neighborhood.

However, the Jewish United Fund told Johnson in response, “You failed to identify that the victim was a Jewish man, in a densely populated Jewish neighborhood, going to synagogue for Shabbat morning prayers. What will it take for you to acknowledge the Jewish community?”

This story has been updated.

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Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire said the team will address the situation with their kicker internally after the athlete showed his support for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the field during a game.

While down by 11 points to TCU last Saturday, Texas Tech’s kicker Reese Burkhardt took a fake field goal to the end zone for a five-yard touchdown run.

The fifth-year senior celebrated his touchdown by pulling up his jersey to reveal a white shirt with “Trump ’24 MAGA” written on it.

Coach McGuire, who noted he wasn’t aware of what Burkhardt’s shirt said until after the game, spoke to media at a press conference and addressed the situation.

“We have addressed it. We will continue to address it. We’re addressing internally,” McGuire said, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

‘I don’t think necessarily that’s a time or the place.’

“It’s always one of [the] things as far as whenever you’re dealing with young adults, the really young adults, I guess, the choices that we make and when we make them and when you share it.”

McGuire alluded to the fact he didn’t think it was a fair decision for the kicker to make a political statement on the field, telling reporters that being in a team sport means players need to make sure they’re “putting [their] team in the best situation.”

The coach continued, “I always think the greatest thing about football, basketball, sports like that, it’s a team sport. … And there’s places that you express your opinion and, you know, I don’t think necessarily that’s a time or the place.”

“As far as with [Burkhardt], we’re going to deal with it. Dealt with it on Saturday and continue to talk through stuff and find the best solution and keep it in house,” he added.

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The same weekend, San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa showed his own message of support for Trump on the field, albeit after the game.

While three of Bosa’s teammates were participating in a postgame interview, Bosa appeared behind the group wearing a white hat with “Make America Great Again” written in gold letters.

When asked about his political statement, Bosa later said, “I’m not gonna talk too much about it, but I think it’s an important time.”

Texas Tech’s McGuire was reportedly asked on who he plans on voting for in the federal election but declined to reveal his choice.

“I do encourage everybody to vote,” McGuire said instead.

Burkhardt did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Texas Tech’s next game is November 2 against Iowa State.

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CBS News may have acted out of loyalty to Vice President Kamala Harris when it edited her “60 Minutes” interview to make her sound more presidential and less chaotic — but it didn’t let her get away with it so easily in a recent interview with anchor Norah O’Donnell.

“So you do support restrictions after viability?” O’Donnell asked the Vice President.

“I support Roe v. Wade being put back into law by Congress and to restore the fundamental right of women to make decisions about their own body. It is that basic,” Kamala responded.

“But you know, with Roe v. Wade, there were restrictions after viability,” O’Donnell shot back.

Kamala went on to pin it on Donald Trump, telling O’Donnell that “women have died because of Trump’s abortion ban” and that “women who have survived rape and incest” are not allowed to make decisions about their body.

“We have seen women who are experiencing a miscarriage around a pregnancy they prayed for and being denied health care because doctors are afraid they’re going to go to prison,” she continued.

“And when you argue that Donald Trump, if elected, would put forward a national abortion ban,” O’Donnell began her response before being cut off by Kamala, who interjected with “just read Project 2025.”

“The former president said that’s not true,” O’Donnell continued, before Kamala started meandering on about how we shouldn’t be taking Trump’s word for it.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” can’t hear anymore of it.

“Are we really taking your word for anything after you flip-flopped on every single issue from 2020 until now?” Gray says. “You flipped on fracking, you flipped on confiscating guns supposedly, we’re supposed to take your word for that? Eliminating private health insurance, now you don’t want to do that? Decriminalizing border crossings, federal job guarantees.”

“She has flipped on everything, and we’re supposed to take her word that now she feels completely different,” he adds, annoyed.

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If you imagine the occult, you might imagine caricatures of dark brooding witches and culty campfire sacrifices — and in some cases you might be right.

But with the takeover of social media, more and more young people are being attracted to the occult under the guise of enlightenment and beauty, rather than the stereotypical images of darkness and despair.

“I grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s, and even some of this was alive and well then at such an early age, reading the magazines that tell you your astrological sign, the little power beads that were supposed to signify some kind of superpower,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” tells author Rod Dreher.

“And of course with the rise of social media, all of the personality quizzes that told you who you really were and what you should be doing in your life, there’s a lot of God of self,” she continues, calling it “trendy narcissism that has manifested itself in a kind of spiritualism and witchcraft and satanism.”

Stuckey notes that those behind this movement usually use “pink and sparkly” themes to get their messages across.

“That’s just it, it’s not blatantly satanic,” Dreher says, noting that not just young people are embracing satanism but people at the top of the U.S. government, national security, and Silicon Valley who believe wholeheartedly in UFOs.

“I’ve laughed at this all my life,” Dreher says, “but they’re like, ‘No, no, no, you need to pay attention.’ They don’t believe that they are people or creatures from other planets, they believe these are extra dimensional beings who are trying to contact us.”

“Listening to all this in their language, their nonreligious language, I’m like, ‘They’re talking about demons,’” he continues. “I’ve confirmed this with several people who believe that ‘Oh yes, the aliens are really higher entities who are leading us to enlightenment,’ and they do seances to communicate with them.”

Stuckey has also recently interviewed an ex-occultist, who, like these men and women, believed she had been in contact with aliens her entire life.

“Eventually she was just so oppressed by these demonic forces, she was on a ton of drugs, she was doing sex sacrifice rituals, I mean this young woman, and then finally one day she called out ‘Jesus,’ and he saved her in a very dramatic way,” she tells Dreher.

“I’ve noticed that very often, the drastic testimonies involve either the person saying Jesus’ name and being delivered, or someone that they didn’t know, somehow knowing their name,” she continues, adding, “I see in so many of these testimonies of people who were completely lost, some random interaction, someone locked eyes with them and said, ‘This is your name, what are you doing?’”

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Kamala Harris gave a
major campaign speech Tuesday evening at the Ellipse in the nation’s capital, once again demonizing President Donald Trump and accusing him of dividing the nation. Despite noting earlier that “it’s her night,” President Joe Biden diverted attention away from Harris’ final pitch to voters, torpedoing both her message and the recent manufactured scandal over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico.

Biden’s unforced error, reminiscent of failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s
“deplorables” comment in September 2016 and Barack Obama’s elitist “guns or religion” attack in 2008, may be enough to kneecap Democrats less than a week before Election Day.

The White House and liberal media nevertheless found a way to make matters worse by trying to gaslight the American public about what Biden really said.

The smear

On a
call with Voto Latino just before his bedtime on Tuesday, Biden tried his best to keep the fascist smear against Trump going, despite the top Harris super PAC admitting its inefficacy days earlier.

‘There’s no way to spin it: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him.’

“You know, he says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood’ of our country. Give me a break. He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship. Who the hell else said that in the last 100 years?”
said Biden.

Biden then latched onto one of Hinchcliffe’s many jokes at Trump’s
high-energy Madison Square Garden rally Sunday in New York City as evidence of Trump’s supposed divisiveness and fascistic bent.

“And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something,” said Biden. “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 demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

The backlash

Trump
learned of Biden’s “garbage” smear during a campaign event in Pennsylvania. He told the diverse crowd of Americans that had just been dehumanized by Harris’ boss, “Remember Hillary? She said ‘deplorable,’ and then she said ‘irredeemable.’ That didn’t work out. ‘Garbage,’ I think, is worse, right. But he doesn’t know. You have to please forgive him. Please forgive him for he not knoweth what he said.”

Hours later, Trump
wrote on Truth Social:

While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate. She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters ‘garbage.’ You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States.

At Trump’s rally, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
said, “[Biden] is talking about the Border Patrol. He is talking about nurses. He’s talking about teachers. He’s talking about everyday Americans who love their country and want to dream big again and support [Donald Trump].”

“We are not garbage. We are patriots who love America,” added Rubio.

The Trump campaign started
posting images of Americans of various walks of life who support Trump, noting, “This is who Kamala and Joe Biden call ‘garbage.’ President Trump calls them Patriots.”

Karoline Leavitt, the national press secretary for the Trump campaign,
said in a statement:

President Trump is backed by Latinos, Black voters, union workers, angel moms, law enforcement officers, border patrol agents, and Americans of all faiths — and Harris, Walz, and Biden have labeled these great Americans as fascists, Nazis, and now, garbage. There’s no way to spin it: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris don’t just hate President Trump, they despise the tens of millions of Americans who support him.

While some were willing to cut Biden slack on account of his decrepitude, others were not so forgiving.

Former Salomon Brothers and Citigroup investment banker John LeFevre, for instance,
noted, “These are not the words of a comedian or a rambling old man. This is what they believe. The people who don’t frame their college degrees are garbage. The people who get their hands dirty at work are garbage. The people who only wear suits to go to church are garbage. The people who don’t read the New York Times are garbage. The people who open car doors for women and think boys and girls are different are garbage. The people who proudly honor their ancestors, who created western civilization, are garbage.”

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy
joined others in suggesting the “garbage” comment amounted to an “October surprise.” Meanwhile, “Thanks Joe” trended on X.

Biden’s remarks trashed the Harris campaign’s hopes of Americans paying attention to the vice president’s speech in Washington, D.C.

Former CNN correspondent Chris Cillizza
said, “Biden’s verbal gaffe (if that’s what it was) is an absolute nightmare for Harris campaign. This is getting more attention than Harris’ closing argument speech.”

The cover-up

Biden later tried spinning his initial remarks,
tweeting, “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

Other Democrats and their allies in the liberal media dutifully embraced the revisionist history.

The White House added an apostrophe to muddle the transcript of his call with Voto Latino, such that it read, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”

NPR appeared reluctant to commit to the truth about Biden’s remarks, writing that he “appeared to say” Trump supporters were garbage.

Politico went the distance, falsely
reporting that “Biden, in a Zoom call with the organization Vote Latino, said ‘the only garbage’ was the ‘hatred’ of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens.”

After significant backlash — including from Vance — for its Orwellian revisionism, Politico changed the article but kept the White House’s similarly misleading punctuation.

Sen. JD Vance, who blasted Biden over the “garbage” remark, noted that “the fact that these ‘journalists’ are covering for a catastrophic error from Kamala’s campaign is a scandal.”

While the American left largely circled the wagons, some Democrats attempted to distance themselves from Biden and his remarks.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, for instance,
told CNN, “I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans even if they chose to support a candidate that I didn’t support.”

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It began with Brat Summer, and it’ll end with Adolf Autumn.

That’s the real-life story of a billion-dollar campaign to be president of the United States of America and the culmination of the most valued minds in Democrat politics, working in tandem to produce the party’s strategy.

Every aspect of the Democratic machine, from the campaign and its advertisements to Politico Playbook, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times, is in on it. The closing message of the final week of the 2024 election cycle is this (drumroll): A roast comedian made a joke about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally.

They’re going all in on this, and to suffer through Playbook’s read on the situation, you’d think at long last they’d finally found the former president’s Achilles’ heel. He’s a racist! And no, not because of something he said or even something said in his company, but because of a joke a few hours before he took the stage.

Every remaining day they talk about it, they’re not talking about things that actually motivate voters.

Maybe Republican bed-wetting is to blame. The elected officials of the Grand Old Party had generally gotten a lot better at not falling for the condemnation game, even in the case of spicy jokes, but this one so close to an election spooked them like a loud noise in a stable. U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joined Florida Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R) in tweeting their condemnation and assuring Puerto Rico that it is indeed a beautiful island.

It’s worth noting that the Democrats weren’t ever going to let the news coverage of a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden go well. During the lead-up, they repeatedly called Republicans Nazis and played nonstop footage of Nazis in Madison Square Garden 85 years earlier as proof. What was essentially the most ethnically and religiously diverse crowd ever seen at a Republican rally would never be reported on as such.

Even so, they’ve gone above and beyond, calling it “unfunny, racist, cringeworthy … the repulsive … disgusting … hateful … so incredibly crude … extremely vile so-called jokes …” Dana Bash (who insists it is pronounced “dah-nah” and gets angry if you don’t) said it was “too X-rated to play” on TV.

It literally took Jon Stewart, who still hosts “The Daily Show,” to call it out, playing some of the comedian’s jokes from the Tom Brady roast a few months ago, cracking on Beyoncé not playing a promised set at Vice President Kamala Harris’ Texas rally, and telling his audience, “I find that guy [Tony Hinchcliffe] very funny. I’m sorry! I don’t know what to tell you! I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes? That’d be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not having … ”

It’s not just Stewart calling out the stupidity. Future Forward, a $700 million Democrat super PAC, sounded the alarm in the New York Times, saying the campaign’s $10 million spend calling Trump a fascist and attacking his character wasn’t moving the needle with voters.

And when you pull your head out of the echo chamber, how could it? It’s been the same play since before the campaign even kicked off again, and all the while, Trump continues to climb. The official campaign doesn’t seem to know any other, however. Democrats are literally making their final pitch from the park in front of the White House to talk about the Jan. 6 riot.

Is it all ideal for Republicans? No. Was inviting a roast comedian to roast voters politically intelligent? Not really. But should Democrats look the dealer straight in the eye and move all their chips to the Puerto Rico joke? It’s amazing anyone even has to ask.

Every remaining day they talk about the joke, they’re not talking about things that actually motivate voters. Every sentence is another not talking abortion or the economy or any of the policies Harris is promising. Every breath of it is wasted.

The Democrats are spending a lot of money, and that will help them a great deal. Pennsylvania is very close, and that’s a good thing for them as well. But things aren’t going well for them, nor have they been for a while, and spending the final week on someone their voters haven’t heard of saying something that might offend them will go down as one more final dumb thing in what is undoubtedly the dumbest presidential campaign any of us have yet lived through.

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The fire rises: The New York Times: Dayton vs. Yale

Ever get the feeling we’ve been here before? Well, we have. Specifically: The Democratic Party and its obsession with Ivy League radicalism over working-class values. It was a worry then, too. (Not that anyone actually listened to the prescient warning.) David Leonhardt reports:

The book’s title is “The Real Majority,” and it appeared during Richard Nixon’s first term. Its authors were two Democrats hoping to save their party from future defeats: Richard Scammon, who had run the Census Bureau under John F. Kennedy, and Ben Wattenberg, who’d been a speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson.

Scammon and Wattenberg believed that their fellow Democrats misunderstood the country’s electorate. The energy of the 1960s had led the party to imagine that the typical voter was young and highly educated. As a hypothetical example, the book described a 24-year-old political science instructor at Yale University. In reality, the authors wrote, the typical voter resembled a 47-year-old woman living in the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio, who didn’t have a college degree and whose husband worked as a machinist.

This Dayton voter wasn’t poor, but she struggled with rising inflation. She worried about crime, student protests and drug use, polls showed. She felt ambivalent about the Vietnam War. She was one of the “plain people,” as Scammon and Wattenberg put it, who had long voted Democratic but was uncomfortable with the party’s leftward shift — toward the views of that 24-year-old Yale instructor. Unless Democrats changed course, the authors wrote, “we may well see Republican presidents in the White House for a generation.”

The book was prophetic: Republicans won four of the next five presidential elections, including landslides by Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

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We never celebrated Halloween. My family were so Protestant that they rejected any ritual or tradition that was not explicitly detailed in the Bible.

Even though we never dressed up as witches and wizards, we believed in demons. You might say it was a requirement of the “family business.”

They could hear an axe swing against one pine tree, then another, randomly and drawing nearer. This was punctuated with bursts of maniacal laughter.

My paternal grandfather was a traveling evangelical preacher who had seen and cast out demons. He’d jump on the trampoline with us, and then when we were all exhausted, he’d regale us with tales from the Bible or stories from his youth.

Family tradition

He’d grown up the third of thirteen children. One of his most memorable stories was about his father, a former Pentecostal preacher who also had a talent for ridding people of the demonic.

It happened when my grandfather and his brothers were teenagers. The family had met a middle-aged husband and wife who owned a forested island in Florida. Eventually the woman came to my great-grandfather with a problem: Her husband had demons. Could my great-grandfather help?

He could. My grandfather watched as his father cast out the man’s demons.

The axe falls

My grandfather and his brothers camped on the island that night to watch over the couple, who were now friends of the family.

There were four or five of the brothers gathered around a campfire singing gospel songs they’d learned or written and popping corn. Everything was dark except for the fire at their center and the stars above them.

Then chopping sounds interrupted their singing. It sounded like someone was cutting a tree down somewhere — which was odd, considering that they were on an island that nobody lived on except the middle-aged couple, who were certainly sleeping right now and not chopping anything.

Nevertheless, they started to sing another song.

Sound and fury

The sounds became stranger. They could hear an axe swing against one pine tree, then another, randomly and drawing nearer. This was punctuated with bursts of maniacal laughter.

Whatever it was at first seemed to be several miles away, and then two, and then only one. Now it was a quarter-mile away. The brothers had stopped singing, and they waited until they were sure that the creature — man or evil spirit — was quite close.

The brothers put their heads together and formed a plan to surround it. If it were a trespasser, they’d catch him and tell him he wasn’t allowed to be chopping trees here! They convinced themselves that they were not scared, because God was on their side — and they figured there were more of them and only one of whatever it was.

Spiritual combat

They spread out and closed in around the laughing man, who continued to chop at the trees, coming nearer to them. When they knew the voice was at their very center, they rushed at it. The creature broke into one last, long laugh.

Whoosh! They were all pushed back as something went up out of their midst. Faint laughter rose to the top of the pine trees. It stayed up there for a moment, then fell back to the ground outside their circle.

The sound of the axe chopping at the trees resumed, but this time it began traveling away from them until it faded away. They knew then that it was the demon their father had cast out of the man that day.

They returned to the campfire. Their popcorn was burnt, and they all felt a little unnerved.

In the morning they looked around the forest, but they could find no sign of any tree being cut into. After that, they would see other demons, but that particular devil was never heard from again.

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James O’Keefe looked out of his element at Mar-a-Lago last week.

The undercover journalist sported a tuxedo, not a disguise, and everyone at the red carpet movie premiere knew who he was.

‘You don’t see news correspondents really going to Mexico. You see some YouTubers ride the train, but we rode La Bestia, and you’ll see that in the film.’

O’Keefe’s “Line in the Sand,” showing exclusively on the Tucker Carlson Network, finds the muckraker outlining the atrocities along the U.S.-Mexico border by fusing his trademark undercover reportage with traditional storytelling methods.

The results are chilling, unexpected, and raw.

The documentary both evokes empathy for the wave of immigrants flooding into the country and outrage at the greed, corruption, and government excess that has kept the roiling tragedy alive so long.

Truth social

The screening attracted an eclectic group of supporters, including several MMA fighters, social media influencers, and Donald Trump’s second wife.

MMA legend Tito Ortiz savaged the media for making a movie like “Line in the Sand” necessary. The narratives in the film stand in stark relief to border press coverage.

“The mainstream media has been telling a lie for such a long time, and it’s making people believe it. This is Psychology 101. This is, if you tell somebody a lie long enough, they think it’s the truth. And, I mean, my mother’s a victim of it herself,” Ortiz said. “She’s a lifelong Democrat. I try to make her believe into the truth, but she believes what she sees on mainstream media.”

The outspoken patriot said it’s crushing to watch the current administration turn his country from the land of opportunity to a free lunch free-for-all.

“What [O’Keefe] has done is expose what is really happening and what’s going on in this country, and it’s heartbreaking for me,” he said.

Evading capture

“Line in the Sand” comes to us with an assist from Carlson, who created a new platform from scratch following his abrupt Fox News exit.

This DIY strategy is something actress Sam Sorbo knows all about. Sorbo Studios, the production company she formed with husband/actor Kevin Sorbo, allows the canceled couple to make movies on their own terms.

Such radical independence is “even more important these days because the media has so been captured,” Sorbo said. “That’s a term that’s new for us, but it’s a term that applies now. And so what they’re doing, branching out on their own in a hostile environment, even, is so difficult. And that’s why I’m here supporting them.”

Sorbo also praised “Line in the Sand” for opposing the Biden administration’s open-border policies.

“We’re left with millions of people here in the country illegally, people we don’t know, people who have not been vetted, and an extraordinary surge in child sex trafficking that is untold,” she said.

Risky business

O’Keefe, who lovingly steered his parents down the red carpet, called the documentary a “long-form” version of his undercover stings. He added that he hopes to remind Americans of the vital importance of genuine investigative journalism, something too few news outlets are willing to invest in.

“I think that there really isn’t any investigative journalism really out there. There’s a lot of podcasts, but not a lot of journalism. It’s very expensive. It’s very risky, a lot of liability associated, a lot of danger associated with it,” said O’Keefe, who put his own safety on the line to capture the footage found in “Line in the Sand.”

“You don’t see news correspondents really going to Mexico. You see some YouTubers ride the train, but we rode La Bestia, and you’ll see that in the film.”

The train in question lets illegal immigrants hop aboard and travel through Mexico toward the U.S. border.

Ex-factor

Marla Maples, visiting an old haunt from her days as Trump’s wife, said “Line in the Sand” puts the emphasis where it belongs: on the vulnerable children most affected by the border chaos, ripped away from their families or plunged into the nightmare of human trafficking.

The film’s mid-section explores this frightening reality.

It’s why she went back to Mar-a-Lago on a muggy fall day. She also defended her former husband from a non-stop Hitler comparisons.

I’ve known Donald Trump since I was 20 years old. We went to church. His daughter converted to Judaism. He has Jewish children. I study from the Torah, and I study the teachings of Christ. He’s always supported that. For my daughter’s wedding, we did a Torah session. We did a Shabbat here at the wedding for all those that were Jewish and supported all of that. So again, it’s a false narrative to try and take away his ability to help America and help the people.

Joy in the fight

Singer Joy Villa had Trump’s back virtually from the jump. And she stood there mostly alone, at least in celebrity circles.

“When I came out [as a Trump supporter], nobody was out in a very public way at the Grammys,” she recalled. “I was fed up. I felt like Madonna can come out and say, ‘I’m gonna wear a pussy hat and let’s kill the president.’

“And I’m like, ‘Wait. I live in Hollywood and I’m pro-Trump. Why am I not represented?’ And everyone loves to fight for, oh, black rights, Latino rights, which I’m black and Latino,” she said. “And it’s not about that. It’s about what do we think. Not just how we look.”

That was then. These days, figures as far afield as Dr. Phil and Dennis Quaid are openly supporting the former (and future?) president.

“Now we have an outpouring of support for Donald Trump in the public eye. It’s incredible,” she said.

That matters in her eyes.

“There’s really good people out there who are feeling like they can’t speak up or they’ll fear for their lives, their livelihood, their jobs, all of that,” she said. “So when celebrities do speak up … it makes the little guy less afraid.”

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Elon Musk is offering a million-dollar giveaway in swing states for Americans who choose to sign a petition that simply says “I support the U.S. Constitution.”

While Musk is only referencing things like the Constitution, free speech, and the Second Amendment, Soros-backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, is claiming Musk’s move is “election interference” and has begun a lawsuit against the owner of X.

The Department of Justice has also warned that Musk’s giveaway “might violate federal election law.”

“Democrats about lost their damn mind,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” says, adding, “They’re like, ‘You can’t do that, a billionaire getting involved in politics? That’s not allowed. Well, it’s allowed when we do it, but it’s not allowed when you do it.’”

But Musk isn’t giving up without a fight.

“America Pack is kind of the anti-Soros pack. You know, something’s got to be done about it. I don’t know what’s up with that guy, but honestly, putting DAs in, it’s like the joker’s in charge. Electing DAs that don’t prosecute crime is insane,” Musk told a crowd after the Democrats’ backlash.

What’s interesting about the Democrats’ claim that Musk is “influencing the election” is that all he’s doing is giving money to Americans willing to say they support America’s founding documents.

“He’s not influencing an election,” Gonzales says. “If there’s one party that is very clearly the party of the Constitution, that is very clearly the party of free speech, the party of your right to own firearms, the party of all of the things that are described in the Constitution.”

“That’s not our fault if that’s today’s Republican Party,” she adds.

Meanwhile, the DAs who have been actively fighting to destroy Donald Trump and the American conservative movement are completely in the pocket of George Soros.

“August 2020, $78 million. This is how much George Soros spent on politics in one year alone. $78 million. You think that’s influencing an election?” Gonzales asks.

“How about this? 2022, Soros pumped $128 million into Democratic efforts to preserve majorities. Uh oh, uh oh, that’s election interference,” she continues. “No, he’s for Democrats, it’s not election interference. It’s only election interference when they’re for conservatives.”

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Former President Donald Trump praised Latinos during his rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Tuesday evening after receiving criticism over a joke made about Puerto Rico at a previous rally.

Allentown is a majority Latino city with nearly a third of the population composed of Puerto Rican people.

‘Nobody likes our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community like I do.’

The Harris campaign pounced on comments made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the former president’s rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday. Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as an island of garbage and made other racially tinged comments at the event. The Trump campaign distanced itself from the comedian after the backlash.

The campaign said various Puerto Rican speakers would speak at the Allentown rally. One of those was Zoraida Buxó, Puerto Rico’s shadow senator, who endorsed Trump.

“With everything that is going on and will happen during the final stretch, it’s easy to get distracted or misled by propaganda, emotional manipulation, and distortion of the truth and the facts,” Buxó said. “We need change, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are not the option to bring about the kind of change that you need and want and certainly not the strong leadership that the U.S. needs during these times of turmoil.

Cuban-American Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida also addressed the rally before Trump gave his speech.

“I will protect our workers. I will protect our jobs. I will protect our borders. I will protect our families. And I will protect the birthright of our children to live in the richest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth,” said Trump to loud applause.

Trump brought Buxó onto the stage next to him, and she reiterated her endorsement.

“We need this man back in the White House! We need this man to be commander in chief!” she said.

“Nobody likes our Latino community and our Puerto Rican community like I do,” Trump added after she stepped away.

He went on to say that no other president in U.S. history had done as much as he had done for Puerto Ricans.

A handful of protesters demonstrated outside of the rally against Trump. The actor Martin Sheen also appeared at a small Harris event near the rally and sang “America the Beautiful” for the cameras.

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