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Trump dances on grave of impeachment zealot Alexander Vindman’s political career
Alexander Vindman, an import from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic who zealously criticizes President Donald Trump, ran as a Democrat to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate.
Despite his apparent “Election Day survival kit,” Vindman’s political career did not survive the day Tuesday. He failed miserably in the Democratic primary — and the president has made sure to let everyone know about it.
‘The most gratifying loss last night.’
Vindman — a former Kamala Harris booster who served as a star witness in the impeachment inquiry regarding Trump’s July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — got trounced by Florida state Rep. Angela Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
With over 95% of the votes in, the Associated Press showed Nixon leading Vindman by 56.1% to 43.9%.
“Who would’ve ever thought that a Jewish refugee would make it to the U.S. Army, to the White House, and to becoming a candidate for the U.S. Senate,” Vindman stated after losing. “Only in America is that possible, and it would not have been possible without you, Florida.”
“Rep. Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side in the fight against [incumbent Republican Sen.] Ashley Moody. I hope you’ll join me,” added Vindman.
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President Trump noted in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, “The most gratifying loss last night was that of a real treasonous creep, Alexander Vindman, to a Radical Left Lunatic, who can’t speak or think properly, and who will go down to certain defeat at the hands of Ashley Moody, a truly Fantastic Senator, from the Great State Florida.”
Moody was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Jan. 21, 2025, after being appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat Marco Rubio vacated to become secretary of state. The president endorsed Moody last summer for her run to return to the U.S. Senate.
Trump noted further: “Vindman, if you remember, was the one who lied about my ‘Perfect Call’ with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, only to find out that the conversation was routinely recorded and proved that I was 100% in the right (Completely Innocent!). It was, indeed, a Perfect Call, and the Dumocrats Fake Impeachment effort massively failed. Vindman should be prosecuted for what he did!”
Vindman, who served as director for European affairs at the U.S. National Security Council from 2018 to 2020, was among the individuals who had their access to classified information yanked last year by then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The anti-Trump critic’s loss on Tuesday is all the more humiliating since he raised roughly $16 million in his race and spent over $9 million by the end of last month, while Nixon couldn’t even raise $1 million, reported ABC News.
“We did it. We won this primary without taking a dime of corporate PAC money. No corporate checks. No billionaire-funded machine. Just a 100% grassroots campaign powered by people like you,” Nixon tweeted.
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First domino to fall? Fauci’s ‘consigliere’ pleads GUILTY to role in COVID cover-up
David Morens, a longtime acolyte of Anthony Fauci, has pleaded guilty to his role in the attempted cover-up of federal records pertaining to the origin of the COVID-19 virus and to a clandestine initiative to restore U.S. funding to the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology via disgraced British zoologist Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, according to the Department of Justice.
“This is potentially the watershed moment in seeking long overdue and morally required accountability for perhaps the biggest travesty ever foisted upon the American people,” stated BlazeTV host Steve Deace.
‘The race now is on for Fauci’s felons to rat each other out.’
Morens served as senior adviser to Fauci in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. In April, he was indicted and charged with conspiracy, destruction of records in federal investigation, and concealment of records.
Under the deal he ultimately struck with federal prosecutors, Morens pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. He now faces up to five years in prison.
“Morens obstructed the Oversight Project’s investigation and pled guilty to it today,” Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News. “I hope this serves as a lesson to other bureaucrats that it is our government and we pay them to work there and for us. It’s our information, and they should never hide it from us.”
Morens’ attorney, Tim Belevetz, said in a statement to Blaze News, “By pleading guilty today, Dr. Morens has taken responsibility for what he did, and he will continue to do so.”
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While speculation abounds, it remains unclear whether Morens has agreed to testify against the unnamed co-conspirators in his case.
FBI Director Kash Patel noted, however, that “this FBI investigation remains ongoing.”
Over concerns that COVID had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where dangerous gain-of-function experiments were conducted on coronaviruses, the National Institutes of Health terminated in 2020 a grant to EcoHealth Alliance titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” which EcoHealth Alliance had subawarded to the WIV.
‘There will be no “there” there.’
The Justice Department noted on the basis of Morens’ guilty plea that after the grant was terminated, Morens and “Co-Conspirator 2” helped “Co-Conspirator 1” restore the grant “and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab.”
Context appears to indicate that “Co-Conspirator 1” in this case is Daszak.
For starters, the DOJ noted that the NIH terminated “Co-Conspirator 1’s” grant and named the grant, which documents show was received by Daszak’s now-defunct company, EcoHealth Alliance. The DOJ noted further that Co-Conspirator 1 made the subaward to the WIV, which his company had done. Furthermore, Daszak’s name repeatedly comes up in the Morens emails previously released by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which show them discussing ways to hide their communications from public view.
Politico identified “Co-Conspirator 2” as Gerald Keusch, a former director of NIH’s Fogarty International Center who now works with the NIAD lab at Boston University.
Neither Daszak nor Keusch has been charged with a crime in this case, and neither responded to Blaze News’ request for comment.
“In anticipation that their communications would be requested through FOIA Requests, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide their communications from public view by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account,” said the DOJ.
Emails previously published by the subcommittee highlight the intentional nature of Morens’ evasiveness.
In an April 21, 2021, email to Daszak, Morens wrote, for instance: “I forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
In a May 13, 2021, email to Keusch with Daszak CC-ed, Morens referred to “our ‘secret’ back channel.”
In another email to Keusch dated Nov. 19, 2021, Morens wrote, “BOTH my gmail and phone calls are now safe. Text is NOT, as it can be FOIA’d, as can my govt email. So you and Peter and others should be able to email me on gmail only.”
Morens allegedly even sought the help of the NIH FOIA office for instruction on how to delete federal records.
“I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia’d but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe,” he wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. “Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
Disgraced zoologist Peter Daszak. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
The Justice Department noted that “the co-conspirators used Morens’s personal Gmail account to exchange non-public NIH information; correspond about their efforts to influence NIH to fund Company 1; exchange edits to drafts of letters addressed to NIH leadership for Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1; and ‘back-channel’ information to Senior NIAID Official 1.”
In addition to admitting to his efforts to keep Americans in the dark about federal employees’ damning discussions, Morens admitted to conspiring with “Co-Conspirator 1” to pay illegal gratuities.
“Co-Conspirator 1” is alleged to have said that he would treat Morens to meals at Michelin-starred restaurants around the world and gifted him wine for his “behind-the-scenes shenanigans” and even arranged for its delivery.
‘Fauci and Morens were on a radical mission to remake America.’
Morens’ guilty plea has inspired hope that Fauci might soon similarly be visited by consequence.
“Despite Anthony Fauci’s attempts to distance himself, David Morens was Fauci’s trusted consigliere and fixer for some 30 years,” Matt Kibbe, the host of BlazeTV’s docuseries “The Coverup,” told Blaze News. “They had coauthored over 40 articles together, including this Orwellian nugget from November 2020 in the academic journal Cell: ‘Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence.'”
“Fauci and Morens were on a radical mission to remake America, mad scientists who viewed the rest of us all as caged beagles in their laboratory,” continued Kibbe. “But then they got caught, and Morens’ guilty plea gives me new hope that justice will find Fauci as well. Much more receipts on Morens and Fauci in my series ‘The Coverup,’ particularly Episode 2 featuring Rand Paul.”
Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University told Blaze News, “Morens’ guilty plea is an important first step in holding accountable the malfeasant U.S. officials who funded the reckless gain-of-function research in Wuhan that caused COVID and who then defrauded the global public about the origin of COVID.”
“It seems possible, even likely, that Morens was ‘flipped’ and that Morens’ guilty plea is the product of a plea bargain in which Morens has agreed to testify against Fauci, Daszak, Keusch, and others,” continued Ebright.
Justin Goodman, the senior vice president of the White Coat Waste Project, told Blaze News that Morens’ guilty plea, Fauci’s recent contempt vote, and other recent steps toward accountability “are signs that knives are finally out for the conniving animal experimenters who caused and covered up a likely lab leak in Wuhan. Hopefully more heads will roll.”
Fauci’s legal representative and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland did not respond to Blaze News’ requests for comment.
“The COVID cartel has one less member,” wrote Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R). “Accountability has begun, and much more needs to follow.”
Editor’s note: Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.
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Bruce Campbell knows why we are leaving Hollywood for good
There is an innate desire for young actors to be in Hollywood, something that draws them in to the light.
At some point, that light dims for everyone, and their attitude completely changes. Then, an appreciation for Americana builds.
‘There’s no such thing as a perfect little town.’
Gone pear-shaped
Iconic actor Bruce Campbell knows this feeling, and he figured it out through trial and error.
Campbell has been beloved for decades for his comedic horror franchise “The Evil Dead.” He played his character, Ash Williams, in five films spanning 1981-2023, as well as a successful TV show that lasted three seasons.
Now 68, the Michigan native is clairvoyant as to why the film industry has left Hollywood behind, both personally and professionally.
In his own words, both actors and writers have “managed to piss off the industry so much” that production has fled to greener pastures.
“There’s a little piece of paper floating back down to the ground in Hollywood, you know, and it’s the last call sheet that they made for some guy,” he told fellow actor Michael Rosenbaum recently on his podcast.
Comparing it to a flailing auto industry and the dying pear production where he lives in Oregon, Campbell says Hollywood has only itself to blame. The actor’s exodus from the city was a long time coming.
“When I was 40, I just was like, ‘What the hell am I doing in a city that I never would have lived here if it wasn’t for the film business?'” he explained. That was his first run.
Campbell said he tried living without cell service for 20 years before Hollywood’s siren call lured him back, only for him to learn the same lesson again.
“[I] ran away with my hair on fire, screaming,” he said, after just one year. Next, he tried suburban San Francisco, where his daughter lives.
“Same thing after a year: screaming. How many times can a guy light his hair on fire? You know, not that many. So I bailed,” Campbell recalled.
The solution for the aging star has been simple: Trade the glitz and glamour for small-town America. Short walks to the village and a slower pace at the store have been the prescription the actor needed.
Our town
Campbell said that he came to a realization that at some point he was supposed to stop putting his “nose to the old grindstone” and instead shove his nose “in a flower.”
The flower isn’t Hollywood, and it isn’t remote living, he found out. It’s his little town.
“Our little town is not a perfect — there’s no such thing as a perfect little town,” he told the host. “There’s so many annoying things: shopping at my local co-op, where everyone is moving at 50% of their normal speed.”
Those annoyances turned to appreciation, and when he came back to the little town he “had grown annoyed with,” all of a sudden he realized, “I’m not annoyed any more.”
In fact, his opinion shifted to: “This is charming.”
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That sucking sound
As for the industry side, Campbell said he saw Hollywood do nothing to keep a stronghold on production even back in the 1970s, when the town had no plan to “stop it from going to Toronto.”
“They were faking New York City in Toronto in the ’70s. And L.A. did nothing about it because it went, ‘Ah, we’re still 92% of the business,’ you know, so they didn’t do anything,” Campbell described.
From there, the production moved to different states like Georgia, where Campbell says he can now hear an air-lock “sucking” noise as those jobs are pulled from that state, as well.
Campbell is happy where he is in small-town America, because if your next favorite miniseries sounds a bit off, like an American imitation, “you’ll know they just bailed on the country entirely. They’re shooting in Bulgaria.”
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Trans radical reaps the whirlwind for failed Bessent assassination plot
One week after President Donald Trump retook office, a trans-identifying radical marched on the U.S. Capitol with the intention of killing an incoming Cabinet official. That would-be assassin was handed down his sentence on Tuesday.
Ryan Michael English — a 26-year-old man from South Deerfield, Massachusetts, who pretends to be a woman named “Raleigh Jane” — intentionally traveled to the Capitol on Jan. 27, 2025, with the knowledge that that was the day of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s confirmation vote.
‘F**k them for pushing us so far.’
English was armed with a folding knife and a pair of Molotov cocktails, each constructed of a 50-milliliter bottle of vodka affixed with gray starter cloths soaked in an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, according to the Justice Department.
In a letter to his roommate that police later found in English’s pocket and referenced on Tuesday by the DOJ, the would-be assassin stated, “This is terrible but I cant do nothing while nazis kill my sisters. I love you. This is awful. Im so sorry. I love u. Please stay alive and heal. you can. you are strong enough. F**k them for pushing us so far. you dont deserve this. Im so sorry for lying and plotting and lying.”
Fortunately, the transvestite had second thoughts when he reached the Capitol grounds.
According to the affidavit filed by the U.S. Capitol Police in support of the criminal complaint against English, the would-be assassin approached a USCP officer around 3:12 p.m. and stated, “I’d like to turn myself in.”
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English ultimately admitted to traveling to Washington with the intention of killing Bessent and/or burning down the Heritage Foundation.
English pleaded guilty on March 26 to one count of unlawful receipt, possession, and/or transfer of a firearm and one count of carrying a firearm, dangerous weapon, explosive, or incendiary device on the grounds of the Capitol.
While prosecutors asked for English to be sentenced to over a decade in prison, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, sentenced English on Tuesday to six years along with three years of supervised release.
“No one was harmed,” said the Obama judge, reported Fox News Digital. “The plan was basically impossible to succeed, and she turned herself in before it came anywhere near fruition.”
“You’ve had a very difficult life with a lot of challenges,” Contreras told the trans radical, whom he referred to as “Miss English.”
Contreras added, “You’re young, you still have a significant portion of your life. Good luck to you.”
“My office will not tolerate attempts to intimidate or harm public officials that strike at the heart of our democratic process and are antithetical to the values we all depend on,” said U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro in a statement. “The defendant is now a convicted felon and is headed where he belongs: prison.”
Neither the Treasury Department nor the Heritage Foundation immediately responded to Blaze News’ request for comment.
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Fake Texan? James Talarico uses blowtorch and truck for cringe campaign photo op
The Democrats might not be able to define what a man is, but that isn’t stopping them from attempting to appeal to them.
And James Talarico is one of the worst offenders.
After controversy surrounded Talarico’s campaign ad where he was driving a full-sized Dodge Ram 1500 instead of his own midsize Chevy Colorado, he shared yet another video of him doing something manly.
That is, attempting to operate a blowtorch.
In the video, Talarico awkwardly holds the blowtorch before saying, “Hey, not bad for a politician.”
“So transparent that this is what he’s trying to do. He’s trying to show how Texan he is,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray comments on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”
“He was just holding it. He wasn’t doing anything,” executive producer Keith Malinak laughs.
“And just like right after he declared his campaign to be completely meat free. It was going to be a vegan campaign,” Gray says. “Then they released that picture of him taking a bite out of a rib, a barbecued rib.”
“He didn’t have his pinky up,” Malinak asks, “did he?”
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Trump-backed candidate scores major victory in one of the year’s high-stakes gubernatorial primaries
One of the most contentious gubernatorial primary races of the election season was called Tuesday night, sealing the nomination for another Trump-endorsed candidate.
On Tuesday night, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) secured the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Florida against a crowded field of candidates.
‘Now is the time for the Republican Party to unite.’
Donalds, who was endorsed by Trump, celebrated the win on X, saying, “I am grateful to my family, my team, my volunteers, and every Floridian who powered us to this victory.”
“Now is the time for the Republican Party to unite. By working together, we can make Florida more affordable and defend the Florida Dream for our families, seniors, and young people,” Donalds added.
According to a CBS report, with 99% of the votes in, Donalds clinched the nomination handily with 48% of the votes.
Jay Collins, the current lieutenant governor of Florida serving since August 2025, came in second place behind Donalds, with 25% of the vote.
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Collins released a statement on X thanking his staff and volunteers for their dedication and conceding the election.
“It has been the honor of a lifetime to meet so many incredible Floridians, earn the trust of hardworking families, and be welcomed into neighborhoods in every corner of this state as I’ve run for governor,” Collins said in the post.
“I congratulate Byron Donalds on his victory and vow to continue fighting like hell to ensure we remain the free state of Florida in November,” he concluded.
President Donald Trump celebrated the win with a Truth Social post highlighting his endorsement of Donalds, among other Republican victories.
“A lot of great WINS tonight!!!” Trump added in a subsequent post, referring to the victories of other Trump endorsees.
Republican challenger James Fishback earned 10% of the vote, coming in third behind Jay Collins.
In an address to his supporters after the race had been called, Fishback said he called Donalds and congratulated him on his victory, adding, “And the truth is that while I concede this race, I do not concede this fight — because the future of our country is on the line.”
“The truth is victory is near. Perhaps not for this campaign tonight, but victory for our movement has never been closer. I am here to tell you that America First is inevitable.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has remained neutral throughout the election season, and as of early Wednesday morning, he has not released a statement on X regarding the election’s outcome.
Byron Donalds will face Democratic nominee David Jolly in November. According to CBS, Jolly emerged as the undisputed champion of the Democratic primary with 61% of the vote, with a handful of challengers trailing far behind.
Florida has had an unbroken line of Republican governors for 27 years, since Jeb Bush took office in 1999.
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Male wearing creepy mask terrorizes random people in Philly — until one woman fights back
Philadelphia police are searching for a young black male they said wore a creepy Halloween mask in order to terrorize random people on Aug. 12.
A police press release showed various screenshots from surveillance videos around the city as police sought help from the public to identify a suspect.
‘So I was like, ‘OK, well, let’s see if you can fight,’ and he couldn’t.”
Surveillance video also showed the man running after a woman who was jogging in the area of 1500 JFK Blvd. at about 5:30 in the morning.
Police said the creep chased after the 40-year-old woman and allegedly said, “Are you ready to die?” which panicked the victim.
She tried to get away from him, but stumbled and injured herself during the incident. Police said the suspect fled to the SEPTA Suburban Station after the altercation.
Another woman said she saw the weirdo and turned the tables on the creep.
Jameka, who didn’t want to be identified by her last name, told WPVI-TV that she saw the man running behind the jogger and she tried to warn the woman, but she was wearing headphones.
“I started to wave at her from across the intersection and say, ‘Hey, there’s someone behind you, look behind you.’ And she heard me, and then she started to run away,” Jameka said.
She said the man tried to get into the La Colombe coffee shop before turning his attention to her.
“He just seemed so disoriented about what his goals actually were. I had bags; he wasn’t reaching for those. It didn’t seem like he had a clear goal to like actually get in La Colombe to do anything,” she explained.
“So I was like, ‘OK, well, let’s see if you can fight,’ and he couldn’t,'” Jameka said.
She said she kicked him in the chest and demonstrated for the WPVI reporter.
A worker at the coffee shop named Kate Egan said the creep terrorized her co-worker before a security guard intervened.
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“It’s really unsettling just trying to get to work and have a kid like this actively terrorizing women,” Egan said. “I really hope he is caught.”
Police described the creep as a black male age 16 to 20 years with a medium complexion and a thin build and standing about 5’8″ tall. He allegedly confronted about six people that day.
They said anyone who sees him should not approach him but instead contact police immediately.
The suspect will face multiple charges including terroristic threats and simple assault if he is caught, according to police.
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El-Sayed aide says Rogers ad with vintage truck and US flags is like a ‘KKK cross burning’
The campaign of Abdul El-Sayed distanced itself from bizarre comments by a campaign aide comparing an innocuously patriotic ad from Mike Rogers to a Ku Klux Klan cross burning.
The ad showed Rogers riding in a bright red antique Ford truck with two U.S. flags flapping behind as the song “American Ride” by Toby Keith plays.
‘Is it your official campaign position that old Ford pickups are akin to the KKK?’
“Gotta love this American Ride! There’s no better way to do the Woodward Dream Cruise!” Rogers wrote in the social media post.
While most Americans would likely approve of the video, El-Sayed aide Mason Pressler said it reminded him of a racist KKK demonstration.
“Mike Rogers’ campaign has the aesthetics of a 1960s white flight suburb and a KKK cross burning,” the political manager posted on social media.
The Rogers campaign seized on the comment to slam El-Sayed.
“Is it your official campaign position that old Ford pickups are akin to the KKK? That’s the statement your staff is making,” the campaign responded on social media.
In an email to Fox News, El-Sayed’s communications director, Roxie Richner, cited a caveat on Pressler’s social media profile saying his posts were his opinions only and not representative of the views of the campaign.
The Democrat is the first Muslim to be nominated for a seat in the U.S. Senate but has been plagued by the far-left comments and associations unearthed from his past.
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El-Sayed argued that the Second Amendment needed to be revoked and compared President Donald Trump to Osama bin Laden. He’s also publicly palled around with extremist Hasan Piker, who said America deserved the 9/11 terror attacks and has advocated for violence in the name of communism.
While El-Sayed winning the Democrat nomination in Michigan is seen as a victory for the far-left fringe of the party, others point to polling that showed the progressive did not compete as well against Rogers as the establishment candidate he defeated.
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The conservative base will remember this betrayal
I am an American whose family was here before there were these United States. I grew up believing that citizenship carried obligations, borders meant something, and elected leaders were supposed to defend the country we birthed. In 2024, the Republican National Convention sounded as if the party remembered that duty. Signs reading “Mass Deportations Now!” filled the hall. Tom Homan told illegal immigrants to start packing. Texas Governor Greg Abbott led chants of “Send them back!” Donald Trump promised the largest deportation operation in American history. For a brief moment, the party spoke with unusual clarity about enforcement
Two years later, parts of the same Washington establishment elite are drifting back toward the old language of “dignity,” “modernization,” and “compassion.” Bipartisan proposals promise legal status or pathways to citizenship for millions of foreigners who entered or remained in the country unlawfully.
The base has heard the promises before. It should measure Republicans by removals, enforcement, and legislation — not rhetoric.
Republican names appear on the co-sponsor lists. The same party that campaigned on deportation is again entertaining versions of the “comprehensive immigration reform” voters have heard for decades.
That is the betrayal. Republicans asked voters for power on an enforcement mandate. They should not now pretend that mandate was merely a campaign-season flourish.
Calvin Coolidge understood that immigration policy had to serve the national interest. “America must be kept American,” he told Congress, arguing that new arrivals had to be limited to the country’s capacity to absorb them “into the ranks of good citizenship.”
Theodore Roosevelt likewise demanded assimilation and undivided civic loyalty. He demanded that every immigrant become “in every facet an American, and nothing but an American.” No divided allegiance. No polyglot boarding house. Room for only one flag, one language, one loyalty.
Whatever one thinks of every policy those men supported, the underlying principle was once unremarkable: Immigration exists for the benefit of the nation receiving immigrants, and citizenship carries duties as well as rights.
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Today, even that proposition is smeared as “far right.” Washington lectures us endlessly about “our values” while avoiding the more basic questions: How many people should the country admit? On what terms? How quickly can newcomers be assimilated? What happens when immigration policy outruns the government’s ability to enforce the law or sustain public confidence in the system?
Those are not abstract concerns. Voters sent Republicans to Washington after 2024 expecting them to act on the mandate they claimed. I feel this betrayal in my gut.
Too many Republican elected officials have returned to the donor-class language of labor shortages, “workforce needs,” and legalization. They treat the voters who carried them as people who can be placated with border-wall rhetoric while the harder work of interior enforcement is postponed or diluted. Every time a Republican co-sponsors another legalization scheme, the message becomes harder to miss: The base is indispensable at election time and negotiable afterward.
That is managed decline sold as pragmatism. A country that cannot control its borders, enforce its immigration laws, and decide who may remain within its territory is surrendering one of the most basic functions of sovereignty. The argument for restriction does not require hostility toward immigrants. It requires the far simpler proposition that the American government has a first duty to American citizens and that immigration policy should be made with their security, wages, communities, and future in mind.
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The fight does not end with one election cycle. Voters should keep pressure on officials at every level of government. City councils, state legislatures, Congress, and the White House should all be held to the promises made during campaigns. Officials who drift toward amnesty should be named, challenged, and, when necessary, replaced.
Elected officials must never forget that citizenship is a privilege. Assimilation should be expected of those we choose to admit. Enforcement should not disappear the moment an election is over.
To every speaker preparing remarks for the 2026 Republican National Convention in Dallas next month: You must address mass deportation — not as a slogan to be discarded after the balloons drop, but as the concrete policy Republicans promised to pursue. If the policy was necessary in 2024, it did not become unnecessary because the election was won.
The base has heard the promises before. It should measure Republicans by removals, enforcement, and legislation — not rhetoric.
If elected officials believe the country needs a different immigration policy, they should say so plainly and defend it. What they should not do is campaign on enforcement and govern toward amnesty. That is not compromise. It is bait-and-switch.
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The two words a cruise passenger said that sent a drunk couple into a rage — ending with a 9-year-old allegedly attacked
A drunk Ohio couple allegedly forced their way into a cruise ship cabin to attack three people, including striking a 9-year-old child, according to authorities. A cruise passenger said two words to the pair that sent them into a fit of rage, police said.
Police said Ohio residents 29-year-old Gannon Jacox and his 28-year-old girlfriend, Brooklyn Hicks, were arrested on Saturday when the cruise ship they were traveling on docked at Port Canaveral – a cruise, cargo, and naval port in Brevard County, Florida.
‘If you can’t hold your liquor, then you definitely shouldn’t be out in public causing a scene like this and injuring random people, including a child!’
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced in a statement on the department’s official Facebook page that he believed the incident was fueled by “alcohol combined with an apparent lack of common sense.”
The pair were “apparently arguing loudly after taking advantage of some adult beverages” during the cruise trip, Ivey said.
The statement said a fellow cruise passenger asked them to “quiet down,” and Hicks “apparently didn’t like the request, so she decided to go confront them.”
The statement said Jacox walked over to the squabble and began recording with his cell phone, then instructed his girlfriend to “beat them up!”
Police said Jacox and Hicks “pushed” their way into the cruise ship cabin of the alleged victims, where a 9-year-old child was staying.
Sheriff Ivey stated that a “fight ensued” and Jacox hit all three people in the room, including a 9-year-old child.
“Hicks was just swinging, hoping one would land,” Ivey added.
Ivey said Jacox suffered a “pretty gross injury to his eye,” which was “either caused by one of the victims or friendly fire from the Haymakers his girlfriend was throwing!”
The sheriff pointed out, “Thankfully none of the victims were seriously injured in this ridiculous escapade!”
Sheriff Ivey added, “So what’s the moral of the story…if you can’t hold your liquor, then you definitely shouldn’t be out in public causing a scene like this and injuring random people, including a child!”
Ivey joked, “You know the deal folks, break the law in Brevard County, and I promise you the lodge will have a reservation with your name on it!”
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Jacox was arrested and charged with burglary with battery and child abuse without great bodily harm. Meanwhile, Hicks was arrested and charged with burglary with battery and battery-touch/strike.
Both suspects were transported and booked into the Brevard County Jail.
On Sunday, Jacox was released on a $31,000 bond, jail records show. On Monday, Hicks was released on a $6,000 bond, according to jail records.
Jail records show that both suspects are scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 15.
Authorities did not name the specific cruise ship where the incident reportedly happened.
Citing the Port Canaveral cruise ship schedule for Aug 15, the New York Post reported, “Four cruise ships docked at Port Canaveral on Saturday — Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas, Disney’s Disney Treasure, and Carnival Cruise Line’s Mardi Gras and Carnival Freedom.”
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Nick Freitas exposes the Marxist funder he says is even WORSE than George Soros
Sadly, the people who want to see the United States destroyed don’t just live outside our borders.
“There’s a lot of people in the United States that would also love to see us fail,” says BlazeTV host Nick Freitas.
When people think of America’s enemies within, George Soros is often the first person who comes to mind — and for good reason. The “philanthropist” has funneled tens of billions of dollars into radical left-wing causes that weaken law and order, national sovereignty, and traditional Western institutions.
But Freitas says there’s another American who trumps even the mighty Soros.
According to DataRepublican, Neville Roy Singham — the American multimillionaire software entrepreneur who sold his company in 2017 before relocating to China — “funneled $278 MILLION into a network of ~2,000 organizations that push pro-China, anti-American propaganda across five continents.”
Even though Singham has funneled far less money into destructive causes than Soros, his open Marxist ideology and close alignment with the Chinese Communist Party make him, according to Freitas and co-host Christian Hines, number one on the list of America’s fifth columnists.
Singham, says Hines, is “a just full-blown Marxist in bed with the CCP and is funding effectively an entire propaganda campaign to destroy the United States from within and huge wedge issues in America in order to agitate for leftist causes.”
“He’s not a progressive. He’s a communist,” he declares.
To show just how extreme Singham is, Freitas points to a video of him speaking at a conference he co-sponsored in Shanghai in November 2025 — an event that had the blessing of the Chinese Communist Party. At the conference, the American-born Singham released a 172-page report claiming the United States and the West did not win World War II — the Soviet Union and China did — and that it was a “fascist lie” for the West to take credit.
He went on to say that if people want the new world order proposed by President Xi and the Chinese Communist Party, they must undo the “ideological damage” caused by the Western story of World War II.
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No, the founders did not ‘tell you so’
H.L. Mencken believed in free speech “up to the last limits of the endurable.” Apparently, that makes him a cuck nowadays.
Mencken was a self-described “extreme libertarian” with little respect for authority. In 1926, when Boston banned an issue of his magazine, the American Mercury, over a mildly bawdy story called “Hatrack,” Mencken went to Boston, sold a copy himself, and got arrested for his trouble.
Are we still rational? Some days I have my doubts.
“Hatrack,” by Herbert Asbury — who later gave us “The Gangs of New York” — concerned a prostitute who took her Catholic customers to the Protestant cemetery and her Protestant customers to the Catholic cemetery.
Scandalous stuff, once upon a time.
Yet as absolutist as he professed to be, Mencken did not believe freedom of speech meant license to say anything to anybody under any circumstances. Although he rejected Catholic doctrine, he told an interviewer he had no right to plant himself outside a cathedral after High Mass and harangue Catholics as they emerged.
Write against Catholicism? Sure. Ridicule it? Mencken made a career of worse. But deliberately press his contempt upon people who didn’t ask for it? There he located one of “the last limits of the endurable.”
I thought about Mencken’s observation while reading responses to my column last week about Shiloh Hendrix, the Minnesota woman convicted of disorderly conduct after Sharmake Omar followed her with a camera, challenged her to repeat the N-word, and got exactly what he asked for. I say Hendrix behaved badly but Minnesota’s prosecution was needless. Whatever one thinks of the “fighting words” doctrine, her exchange with Omar did not look much like an “imminent breach of the peace.”
One reader informed me that I was “100% wrong” because “the founding fathers told you so.”
No, they didn’t. Sorry, dude. Not even close.
James Madison certainly understood that liberty carries abuses with it. In his “Report of 1800,” attacking the Sedition Act, Madison wrote that “some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing,” especially a free press. Better to tolerate a few “noxious branches” than prune so aggressively that you destroy the good fruit along with the bad.
RELATED: Shiloh Hendrix took the bait — prosecutors took it too far
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That is a formidable warning against political censorship. It is not an argument that nothing done with words may ever come within reach of the law.
Joseph Story was even more on point. Story was not technically a founder, but Madison appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1811. In his 1833 “Commentaries on the Constitution,” Story considered the proposition that freedom of speech and press meant an absolute right to say or publish anything “without any responsibility, public or private.” He called that “a supposition too wild to be indulged by any rational man.”
Are we still rational? Some days I have my doubts.
Nor did the Supreme Court in Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire simply declare open season on offensive words. The rule the justices upheld applied to words with a “direct tendency to cause acts of violence” by the person to whom they were addressed. The question was not whether somebody’s feelings had been hurt, but whether, in context, the words were likely to provoke an immediate breach of the peace.
You may think that rule was wrong. You may think Chaplinsky should be overruled. Fine by me. But it was not a hate-speech law in embryo.
Conservatives, of all people, should be capable of making certain distinctions. We are right to oppose political censorship, government pressure on social media companies, and “online safety” schemes — especially Trojan horse laws like Britain’s Online Safety Act and whatever American variants politicians devise — that smuggle censorship into law under the vocabulary of “harm,” “misinformation,” and “protection.”
But the answer shouldn’t be to pretend public order no longer matters.
We used to understand “ordered liberty.” The adjective was not decorative. A free society protects political dissent, unpopular opinions, vulgarity (to a point), and plenty of behavior decent people would rather not endure. It also recognizes that rights can collide and that threats, intimidation, harassment, breaches of the peace, and invasions of privacy do not become sacred merely because somebody accomplished them with his mouth.
Hadley Arkes warned conservatives about precisely this temptation in the Claremont Review of Books. In recoiling from the left’s habit of policing speech according to subjective injury, conservatives risk adopting a relativism of their own: No distinctions. No judgments. Words are words. Speech is speech. Context is irrelevant.
That posture may sound wonderfully resolute, but it merely saves us the trouble of thinking. Don’t fall for it.
RELATED: Saint Anthony Fauci’s index of forbidden questions
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Human beings use words to persuade, deceive, threaten, provoke, comfort, command, insult, and warn. Threats are words. Extortion is words. Perjury is words. Fraud very often is words. An argument is made with words. So is an epithet. Pretending all of those acts are morally identical does not make us more devoted to liberty. It makes us less capable of judgment.
Which brings me back to Shiloh Hendrix. She is a grown woman who behaved badly. Omar followed her with a camera, confronted her, and challenged her to repeat the N-word. He also behaved badly — but she took the bait. He posted the video. She was doxxed, condemned, defended, and turned into a national cause. Then Minnesota prosecuted her.
I still think that was needless. Omar wanted a viral video, not a fistfight. He got one, and the internet delivered its judgment with its Customary Restraint and Good Sense™. I still want Hendrix to win her appeal.
Arkes emailed me after my first column appeared and put the matter more succinctly: “It’s a matter of context.” Exactly. Thanks, professor!
Madison warned against destroying freedom while pruning its noxious branches. Story warned that liberty did not mean immunity from all responsibility. Mencken believed in freedom up to “the last limits of the endurable.” Arkes warns conservatives not to answer left-wing censorship by surrendering moral judgment altogether.
Public order requires us to look squarely at what Hendrix did, what Omar did, and what the state did afterward. Making distinctions does not weaken the case for free speech. It is the case for ordered liberty — which we need now more than ever.
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Cory Mills goes down in flames in Republican primary
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is not long for Congress, now that he has been soundly defeated in the Republican primary.
Polls had barely closed on Tuesday when results came pouring in from the 7th Congressional District of Florida, showing signs that Mills was in deep trouble. By about 8 p.m. ET, the race had been called for the challenger.
Mills is currently the subject of a criminal investigation at the Department of Justice.
With nearly 94% of expected votes counted, challenger Ryan Elijah was declared the winner, stomping Mills 47% to 34.3%. Elijah will now face Florida Democrat Bale Dalton in November.
Mills was first elected in 2022 with a margin of victory of 15 points. He likewise secured re-election in 2024 with a comfortable 13-point margin.
Neither the Elijah campaign nor the Mills campaign immediately responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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This loss likely did not take Mills by surprise.
Earlier this month, a Victory Insights poll warned that Mills’ numbers were “extremely concerning” for the incumbent. Then on Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) emphatically stated, “I have not endorsed Cory Mills, and I do not support Cory Mills.”
Mills is also embroiled in a mess of scandals, many of which were first reported by Blaze News. He has been accused of stolen valor, converting to Islam, meeting with a Syrian leader once labeled a terrorist, and even of threatening a beauty queen with revenge porn.
As Blaze News reported a year ago, Mills allegedly bombarded Lindsey Langston, then the reigning Miss United States, with threatening messages after she ended their three-year relationship in February 2025. Following their break-up, he allegedly sent messages such as:
“May want to tell every guy you date that if we run into each other at any point. Strap up cowboy.” “You want to date or be with someone else. Be my guest. But they need to know well in advance that if we cross paths, I don’t care this week, this month, or this decade. They better damn well know it’s coming every time.” “I can send him a few videos of you as well.”
The sextortion allegations and other forms of alleged harassment convinced a Florida judge to grant Langston a restraining order against Mills back in October.
Additionally, in late July, news broke that Mills is currently the subject of a criminal investigation at the Department of Justice. The exact nature and scope of the investigation is unclear, but reports indicate that it involves his finances.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins primary in Florida — Republican bashes her as ‘outsider’ who ‘parachuted’ into district
Longtime Democratic leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz was declared the victor in the controversial primary race for Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
The former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee announced that she would run in the 20th District after she was redistricted out of her previous seat.
‘The voters of this district deserve a representative who shares their daily life and will fight for them — not another outsider who parachuted into the race when it became convenient.’
The issue was immediately contentious to the Democrats who wanted to see the historically black district be represented by a black person.
“Our party cannot credibly denounce the dismantling of black political power by Republicans while treating one of Florida’s few remaining majority-black districts as a political opportunity for an incumbent seeking a safer seat,” read an official statement from nearly all DNC members in Florida from May.
Despite the furor, Wasserman Schultz easily won the primary Tuesday and will go on to face Florida Republican Brent Andersen in the general election for the seat.
Andersen emphasized the outrage in a statement to Blaze News after her victory.
“I live in this district with my family. Debbie Wasserman Schultz does not. She is a career Washington politician who only decided to run here after redistricting made her old seat more competitive,” Andersen said in the statement.
“For decades, District 20 has been represented by people who actually live among the communities they serve,” he added. “The voters of this district deserve a representative who shares their daily life and will fight for them — not another outsider who parachuted into the race when it became convenient. That’s the choice they will have in November.”
Andersen describes himself as a conservative businessman and a dedicated community servant on his website.
RELATED: Harry Reid torches the ‘worthless’ DNC and incinerates Debbie Wasserman Schultz
CNN noted that Schultz was the only white candidate to run in the primary against four other Democrats.
Schultz was also blamed by some top Democrats for the devastating loss in 2016 to President Donald Trump.
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Trump administration is deporting Mexicans to countries beyond Mexico — and the Mexican government is not happy about it
Mexican officials are upset that the Trump administration is quietly deporting Mexican nationals to countries beyond their country of origin reportedly in order to deter re-entries.
President Donald Trump had promised to institute mass deportations in his second term in office, and so far, he has taken many steps to fulfill that pledge.
‘Mexico consistently takes the steps necessary to ensure the safe and dignified return of all its nationals to national territory.’
According to CBS News, the administration is quietly deporting Mexicans to Honduras and Guatemala despite the Mexican government saying it will gladly take in its citizens.
The CBS report cited official sources from the Department of Homeland Security who requested anonymity.
The officials said at least hundreds of deportees had been sent to Honduras and Guatemala in recent months, but it was unclear when the policy had begun.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry told CBS the administration objected to the alleged policy.
“The government of Mexico accepts the return of all its nationals. It therefore rejects the deportation of Mexican nationals to third countries and has no such agreement in place,” read the statement from the agency.
“Mexico consistently takes the steps necessary to ensure the safe and dignified return of all its nationals to national territory,” they added.
A spokesperson for the DHS told CBS that the U.S. administration was “utilizing all lawful options to carry out the largest deportation operation in history, just as President Trump promised.”
Adam Isacson, a Washington Office on Latin America researcher, told CBS that the policy was “almost entirely punitive.”
He added, “It’s the same as the purpose of sending them to Ecuador or Africa or anywhere else: to broadcast the hardship, to make sure people know that this is a possible consequence of remaining undocumented in the United States and to encourage people to self-deport.”
CBS requested comments from the governments of Honduras and Guatemala but did not receive a response.
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VIDEO: Crazed liberal kicks pro-life group out of his coffee shop after comparing them to the KU KLUX KLAN
An Idaho coffee shop apparently locked down its social media accounts after getting backlash for kicking out a pro-life group from its business.
The owner of the Wydaho Roasters Coffee House in the city of Driggs confronted the group and compared it to the Ku Klux Klan, according to video posted by Kristan Hawkins, CEO of the Pro-Life Generation and other organizations.
‘The backlash only reminds us that we’re making an impact. We will keep showing up. We will keep speaking the truth. And we will keep fighting for Life.’
Hawkins said she and her group were acting peacefully when owner Jim Sheehan told them they had to leave over their pro-life advocacy.
“I don’t want this group meeting here,” Sheehan tells them in the video posted by Hawkins.
“Sir, we’re just meeting for the first meeting,” a woman protests.
“I don’t care! Go to the public library! This is my place of business,” he responds.
The woman and Sheehan argue in the edited video before he compares pro-lifers to the KKK.
“I did a lot of work to get people on the ballot so women would have the right to choose [abortions] in the state of Idaho, and this is something I do not support, nor does my wife. And it’s our business, so we have that choice,” he says at one point.
“It’s like if the KKK asked to meet here, I would say no,” he adds later in the video.
“So you’re saying pro-lifers are like the KKK? Is that what you’re saying?” the woman replies.
“In my world, it’s the same sort of concept,” he responds.
“I’ve made point clear. I asked you guys not to meet here.”
Earlier in the video, Sheehan admits that he said, “Everybody is welcome.”
Others online posted screenshots showing that the social media accounts for the business were locked down after the video was posted to social media.
“They compared US to the KKK … even though Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, spoke for the KKK. We paid for our food. We weren’t protesting or disrupting anyone,” wrote Hawkins on social media.
“We were simply sitting together having a peaceful conversation. We were kicked out because we’re pro-life and work to protect babies. But we aren’t backing down. The backlash only reminds us that we’re making an impact. We will keep showing up. We will keep speaking the truth. And we will keep fighting for Life.”
The Sheehans’ coffee shop had previously hosted a meet-and-greet event for an Idaho candidate who is proudly a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The shop also held a vigil for Renée Good and Alex Pretti, the left-wing activists who were shot and killed while protesting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sheehan responded to a request for comment from Blaze News and said that the video had been “selectively edited to skew the interaction” he had with the group.
“They were not kicked out,” Sheehan claimed in an emailed statement.
“I asked them to find another place to hold their meeting — she repeatedly asked if I was kicking them out, and I didn’t respond one way or the other — not sure how I would kick out dozens of people,” he added in a second emailed statement. “Typically if someone want[s] to use a private business the[y] seek permission — I don’t align with their agenda, and I made that clear in my request the day before that they not hold their meeting at Wydaho — they ignored [the request] because this was about starting a controversy.”
One user noted that the shop had a lawn sign reading “EVERYONE WELCOME” and posted an image taken from Yelp.
“Connecting, that’s the ultimate reason we have this place,” Sheehan said in an interview about his shop from May. “I want it to be a beacon that everyone is welcome here.”
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Raw chicken video goes viral, and you might never eat at Popeyes again
A new viral video has taken social media by storm, and it might change American’s fast-food habits forever.
The video shows a Popeyes employee filming himself while preparing raw chicken for customers, before disturbingly farting on the chicken. The employee then posted it on social media himself before getting fired.
“I don’t know if you eat at Popeyes. I don’t know that you’ll ever eat at Popeyes after watching this,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments.
“When I go there, I mainly only go for their biscuits, and I really hope no one’s farting on the biscuits,” co-host Dave Landau chimes in, admitting that before the release of the video, Popeyes was in his top five fast-food restaurants.
“But I mean, honestly, probably eating that chicken through the drive-thru and going is safer than going into the store,” he says. “There’s a lot of stuff that happens at those Popeyes.”
“It does feel like you take your life into your own hands a little bit, not just with the typical heart attack risk that you have at any fast-food place, but there seems to be additional risk at Popeyes,” Stu says.
However, the fart video isn’t the only problem Popeyes is facing.
“Texas customers are suing Popeyes, Dave, for $1.5 million, alleging they found a condom-like foreign object in their chicken,” Stu explains.
“What do you mean condom-like foreign object?” he asks. “Like generally speaking, you kind of know what it is, right? It’s either a condom or it’s not.”
“This stuff just grosses me out,” he adds.
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JD Vance warns Republicans: Ignore young voters’ economic pain at your own risk
Vice President JD Vance is sounding the alarm within his own party.
While rejecting socialism, Vance argued in an interview on Fox News that Republicans cannot dismiss the growing interest young voters have in it — as they are looking for answers in a struggling economy.
“Our response to socialism, which is a dangerous and destructive ideology, it’s been tried in the past and failed, our response to that can’t be just to ignore the economic concerns that I think are feeding this rising interest in socialism,” Vance said.
And Vance is letting those young voters know that they’re not being forgotten.
“And I guess I would say to that young person that you as an American citizen deserve to have a good life in this country, and you deserve to have a government that is making it easier for you to start a family, for you to afford to get a good education, for you to have a good job, for you to afford a home,” he said.
Vance went on to champion the slow but positive results the Trump administration is seeing.
“We’re seeing trillions of dollars of new investment into this country, which means good middle class jobs for young people, middle income people all across our country. We’re seeing housing prices finally stabilized. They doubled during the Biden administration. They have finally kind of flatlined during the first year and a half of the Trump administration,” he explained.
“We also want to get interest rates down, of course, so that young people can afford a home. We want people to be able to afford the good things about this wonderful country that we all live in,” he continued, before issuing a “warning” to his “fellow Republicans.”
“If we don’t get this right, don’t blame young people for being sympathetic to socialism. We’ve got to blame ourselves,” he added.
And BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t impressed with the economy yet either.
“Is it working?” Gray asks. “I hope so. I mean, the prices aren’t coming down yet, but that’s I believe almost entirely due to the Strait of Hormuz. That’s just thrown a monkey wrench into everything.”
“They’re celebrating a slower rate of inflation,” executive producer Keith Malinak says. “Well, it’s still inflation. And we mocked the Biden administration mercilessly for that kind of stance.”
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GOP Oklahoma governor candidate wants to stop voter ID and invites Dems to help — campaign says the clips are deceptive
Republican Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is battling allegations that, during his gubernatorial campaign, he called on Democrats to defeat voter ID.
Drummond is in a runoff election for the Republican nomination against former state Sen. Mike Mazzei, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump.
‘We have to vote “no” on both state questions.’
An audio recording of Drummond’s comments spliced together was widely circulated on Monday. It appeared to show him telling attendees of a government employee summit, reportedly held on August 3, to show up to defeat the two state questions that will be on the ballot.
“We have to vote ‘no’ on both state questions,” Drummond said, according to the audio. “Just don’t tell any legislator I said that, OK? Every Democrat, every libertarian, every independent needs to show up at the poll. There might be a couple of you guys in here. Go to the polls! Right? It was intentional to put it on August 25 because traditionally only the Republicans show up, and traditionally the Republicans are not as strong in education as they should [be].”
One of the two proposals that will be on the August 25 ballot would “require proof of identity to vote in any election authorized by law and conducted by a county election board or the State Election Board.”
A spokesman for the Drummond campaign told Blaze News via email that the remarks were taken out of “context.”
“These clips are a few seconds long, stripped of context, and selectively edited to manufacture a false narrative. We’re not going to pretend that spliced snippets on X are a serious representation of Gentner Drummond’s views,” said campaign chairman Matthew Parker.
Parker also stated that “Gentner was one of President Trump’s largest Oklahoma donors.”
The president reiterated his endorsement of Mazzei in a post Tuesday.
A recent independent poll showed that Drummond is deadlocked with Mazzei, and the election will likely be settled by the 14% of undecided voters.
RELATED: Top Oklahoma Democrat forced to resign after trying to pay Ethics Commission with a forged check
Mazzei has raised $946,000 since June 2, according to the latest campaign filings, while Drummond has been able to raise $2,928,000 in the same time period.
The runoff election will decide who will obtain the Republican nomination on Aug. 25. Early voting for the election begins on Thursday.
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El-Sayed’s mom worked for designated terror group that financed bin Laden ahead of 9/11: Report
Abdul El-Sayed, the Islamic Democrat hoping to win an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, is apparently not the only radical in his family.
Fatten Fathy Elkomy, El-Sayed’s birth mother, long worked for an Islamic organization that was identified by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2004 as a specially designated global terrorist organization, reported the Midwesterner.
IARA may have ‘provided direct financial support’ to Osama bin Laden and, by extension, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The Treasury Department stated in a release at the time of the terror designation that the international offices of the Islamic African Relief Agency, or IARA, may have “provided direct financial support” to Osama bin Laden and, by extension, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
“IARA is identified as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) formerly affiliated with Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK), which was co-founded and financed by UBL [Osama bin Laden] and is the precursor organization of al Qaida,” the department said.
“IARA, MK, and UBL commingled funds and cooperated closely in the raising and expenditure of funds. IARA engaged in a joint program with an institute controlled by UBL that was involved in providing assistance to Taliban fighters.”
The Treasury Department alleged that IARA leaders — who secured agreements with the U.S. Agency for International Development totaling over $1.3 million until USAID terminated those agreements in 1999 — not only hobnobbed with terrorists in Sudan and various Middle Eastern locales but provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to bin Laden two years before the 9/11 attacks via its overseas branches.
Although she was reportedly never charged with a crime or named as a co-conspirator, Elkomy’s name appears dozens of times in a list of exhibits filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri in a case against the IARA that resulted in guilty pleas from two of the organization’s board members.
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The descriptions reference her alleged involvement with multiple wire transfers, several calls between 1999 and 2002, and a request for $24,607.45 for the IARA’s Iraq office that was allegedly sent to Mubarak Hamed.
Hamed, a native of Sudan who served as the executive director of IARA, pleaded guilty in 2010 for his role in a conspiracy to illegally transfer over $1 million to Iraq in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Blaze News reached out to Elkomy and the El-Sayed campaign for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Greg Manz, Michigan GOP senior communications adviser, told Blaze News:
This report is deeply troubling. To that end, Abdul El-Sayed has yet to adequately address these reported terrorist connections.
Why hasn’t Abdul unequivocally denounced his mother’s alleged connections to groups associated with the same terrorist groups directly responsible for 9/11? And why does Abdul continue to campaign with communist influencers who think America deserved 9/11?
Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly surrounds himself with extreme, troublesome figures and consistently refuses to clearly denounce their horrific actions, vile statements, and alarming associations.
Elkomy previously denied connections between the IARA and terrorists, telling the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2004, according to the Midwesterner, “I’ve been working there serving orphans and children with at least one deceased parent, and it breaks my heart they’re not going to get any help.”
The former IARA member has apparently been following her son’s political journey.
When asked who he had heard from after securing the Democratic nomination, El-Sayed told the New York Times earlier this month, “My mom.” El-Sayed has also referenced his mother’s psychiatric work on the campaign trail.
The Democratic nominee’s campaign site does not mention his birth mother in his bio, noting that “Abdul was raised by his father, Mohamed, an Egyptian immigrant, and his stepmom, Jackie, whose family has lived in Gratiot County, Michigan, since the 1800s.”
El-Sayed, whose parents are both Egyptian immigrants, also has a radical half-sister.
Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed’s half-sister who works as a professor at the University of Chicago, was arrested last year for allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Fox News Digital recently reported that Abdelhadi, whose so-called scholarship appears to revolve around gender and Islam, also delivered an “October 7 blessing” on the first anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.
After stating “Allahu Akbar” and noting that “that phrase means God is greater,” Abdelhadi said in a video shared on Instagram on Oct. 7, 2024, that “Allahu Akbar” is a phrase she had been “thinking about a lot over the last year, because it’s a phrase that reminds us that no matter how great the brutality, the oppression, the intensity of what we’re going through, the horizon of justice is just around the corner.”
“We have an imperative to not just imagine a better future, but to build one together,” added Abdelhadi. “I’ll see you on the streets.”
The El-Sayed campaign said of Abdelhadi’s radicalism, “Abdul loves his sister and also disagrees with her on a number of political positions and the rhetoric she’s chosen to use, including on foreign policy.”
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