Mike Bouchard has no delusions about the daunting task that lies ahead of him.

“This is going to be one of the toughest races in the country,” Bouchard admitted to Blaze News.

‘When I got in this race, I got in this race because I planned to win. … We’re going to win in November.’

Bouchard, a 32-year-old Michigan Army National Guard captain and the son of longtime Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, easily secured the Republican nomination for Michigan’s 10th Congressional District on Tuesday night.

“I want to thank the voters of the 10th District for putting their faith in me,” Bouchard said in a statement after his race was called.

“They didn’t vote for a candidate — they voted for a mission. I’ve worn the uniform of our nation and faced America’s enemies abroad. Now the job is here at home: rebuild Michigan manufacturing, keep our families safe, and put this district first. I’m ready to deliver on day one.”

The 10th District is about as purple as it gets, encompassing most of Macomb County, considered a bellwether in presidential elections. Rep. John James, who just won the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Michigan, has held the seat for the past four years, but he won election in 2022 by the narrowest of margins: just 1,600 votes.

One major challenge Bouchard anticipates as he gears up for a battle against Democrat Christine Hines, who also cruised to victory in the primary, is funding. “This is going to be one of the most expensive races in the country. Because we’re in the new trend media market, it’s going to be extremely expensive,” Bouchard said.

Bouchard indicated that raising funds for his campaign has been a difficult adjustment for him, especially considering his background. “I hate asking for money. I hate asking for things. I’m in the military. You are what you bring to the table every day,” he explained.

Still, Bouchard says his campaign has managed to collect a significant number of small donations from across the area.

He also holds a Trump card. On June 22, President Donald Trump issued a “Complete and Total Endorsement” of Bouchard.

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“As your next Congressman, Mike will fight tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our incredible Military/Veterans, Advance Election Integrity, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment,” Trump posted to Truth Social.

Bouchard called earning Trump’s endorsement an “honor” and claimed that it has fueled him to work even harder on this campaign.

“I was incredibly honored to receive this endorsement, but I was also really excited to start getting to work to get things done better,” Bouchard said.

“You know, the president, he’s taken a bullet for this country. Not a lot of politicians can say that.”

In fact, Bouchard suggested that Trump’s tough “peace through strength” approach in the Middle East may even have saved his life during his time in Iraq last year. Bouchard claimed that while he was there, he and the other soldiers on base received word about an impending attack from some “Iranian-aligned Iraqi militia” who outnumbered them about eight to one.

“I remember I was putting grenades in my pockets. I was putting magazines. We were grabbing as much ammo as we could just to prepare,” Bouchard recalled. “And they never came, never attacked. … So we talked to some people who knew them and they knew us, and they said they didn’t attack our base because they knew that President Trump’s administration and the commander in chief of the U.S. military would kill them all.”

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Mike Bouchard hugs father Sheriff Mike Bouchard at a campaign event on August 1. Blaze News

Though Bouchard expects the congressional race against Hines to be close, he remains confident: “When I got in this race, I got in this race because I planned to win. … We’re going to win in November.”

“I think a lot of voters feel that whenever they send somebody to Lansing or D.C., they don’t get the everyday representation they want. It’s my promise to them that I’m going to be present. I’m going to see them all the way through my time in D.C.,” he added.

Bouchard’s father, who has been Oakland County sheriff since January 1999, likewise believes that his son faces a real “battle” in November but that he will ultimately prevail because the Democratic Party has shifted too far to the left.

“In this district, hardworking men and women who are in both parties don’t identify with socialism and feminism. They identify with hard work, rolling their sleeves up, and doing the right thing every day. And whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, the choice is clear in this election cycle that my son in this district represents that embodiment,” Bouchard Sr. told Blaze News.

“He wants to serve the country, and he wants to protect the affordability of the American ideals that come with it. That’s why he put on the uniform.”

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Another nemesis of President Donald Trump has bitten the dust, politically speaking.

Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) has voted as a far-left radical since he was first elected to Congress in 2022. He has even introduced articles of impeachment against Sec. of War Pete Hegseth, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, and, of course, the president himself.

The district is a safe Democrat seat.

But Thanedar was always an awkward fit for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. He was born in India, often speaks in broken English, and doesn’t really even seem to know the area. A year ago, Thanedar went viral for all the wrong reasons after he struggled to name a city in his district other than Detroit.

Earlier this year, Thanedar seemingly threatened Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott, warning him during a congressional hearing, “You better hope you get pardoned.” And like Tony Fauci, Thanedar has also been accused of harming beagles, though he has denied wrongdoing.

Despite the controversies, this year, Thanedar once again asked the people in his district for their vote. This time, they said no.

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In the Democratic primary election on Tuesday, democratic socialist challenger Donavan McKinney quickly jumped out to a lead, and with 99% of votes counted, McKinney ultimately defeated Thanedar, 51.9% to 48.1%.

Thanedar conceded defeat before noon on Wednesday: “This morning, I called Rep. Donavan McKinney and congratulated him on his win. I offered him full cooperation and a smooth transition.”

The district is a safe Democrat seat, and McKinney is expected to coast to victory over Republican Taras “T.P.” Nykoriak in November.

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The youngest black professor in Cambridge University’s 800-year history is under attack.

At least that’s what some of Britain’s most prominent academics, politicians, and racial activists would like you to believe.

Anyone curious about why the allegations refuse to disappear can examine some of the evidence for himself.

“Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism,” declares a petition organized by the Good Law Project. “We can’t let them.”

The letter describes the allegations against Jason Arday as “entirely false” and repeatedly calls them “baseless,” while warning that continued scrutiny of the Cambridge professor sends a dangerous message to “aspiring Black and Brown young people.”

Among the signatories are members of Parliament, peers, professors, the leader and deputy leader of Britain’s Green Party, a Black Lives Matter organizer, and, perhaps most remarkably, the master of Arday’s own Jesus College at Cambridge.

These are educated people, so presumably they know what “baseless” means.

An accusation is baseless when there is no factual basis for making it. Whatever else can be said about the allegations against Arday, that plainly isn’t true.

Researchers didn’t simply announce that they suspected him of plagiarism. They produced side-by-side comparisons identifying extensive passages in Arday’s academic work that appeared identical or strikingly similar to previously published scholarship. Universities and journals subsequently investigated those allegations and declined to find intentional misconduct.

That is evidence that Arday may have been wrongly accused of plagiarism. It does not magically erase the evidence that prompted the accusations — the basis for these accusations, if you will.

‘Unlikely story’

Arday himself has acknowledged errors in his academic work while denying deliberate plagiarism. As questions have spread from his scholarship to the extraordinary claims in his biography, he has offered a simple defense: “Nobody lives their life having a receipt for every single thing they say or they’ve done.”

Fair enough. But few people have a résumé quite like Jason Arday’s.

A man who couldn’t read until he was 18 goes on to earn a doctorate and become a professor at Cambridge University. Along the way, he runs 30 marathons in 35 days, the final nine with a broken leg. He raises £5.5 million for charity. He runs 600 miles in six days. He survives a brain tumor. He plays semi-professional football. He appears as a child on a celebrated television documentary series.

Even the Guardian, in a glowing 2023 profile, called Arday’s biography “an unlikely story.”

In retrospect it does sound a little too good to be true.

But then came the details that turned an old-fashioned inspirational story into something considerably more valuable in our DEI-obsessed era: Arday achieved all of this while overcoming poverty, autism, and the disadvantages of growing up black, the son of Ghanaian immigrants, on a council estate in south London.

Now it was too good not to be true.

No fact-checking, please

And therein lies the problem.

Arday wasn’t merely an extraordinarily accomplished man. He embodied a story that Britain’s academic and media establishment desperately wanted to tell: about race, class, disability, perseverance, and the institutions enlightened enough to recognize his brilliance.

Once enough people had invested in that story, questioning it meant questioning considerably more than Jason Arday. What would once have been called fact-checking now required something closer to apostasy: risking running afoul of elite culture’s modish yet already entrenched creed about race, adversity, and its own enlightened virtue.

The moratorium on skepticism now appears to be over. One of the peculiarities of groupthink is how quickly it can run in reverse: once somebody finally pulls the first thread, everyone else suddenly becomes quite eager to participate in the unraveling.

The plagiarism allegations came first. Then journalists began attempting to confirm the extraordinary athletic and charitable claims that had been repeated for years. Arday acknowledged that his supposed 600-mile run took 12 days, not six, and that he had not personally raised £5.5 million for charity but had participated in a fundraising syndicate of around 100 people.

Who were the other 99?

Arday says he can’t name them because he signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Run, Forrest, run

Then there’s Arday’s Forrest Gump-like brush with British television history.

During a 2022 talk, Arday recalled appearing as a child on “Seven Up,” the landmark British documentary project that began following a group of 7-year-olds and returned to them every seven years. Arday said he participated at 7 and was removed from the project at 14.

There’s a problem.

“Seven Up” first aired in 1964. Its subjects were born in 1957. Arday was born in 1985.

The BBC later produced a similar series called “Up: Millennium Generation,” but that began in 2000, when Arday was 15. The BBC says he wasn’t in that one either.

His academic résumé reveals similar discrepancies.

Arday’s official Jesus College biography lists him as a visiting professor at both the University of Glasgow and Ohio State University.

The University of Glasgow now says that isn’t true.

“I can confirm that Professor Arday isn’t a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow,” a spokesman told the Herald. Asked whether he had ever held the position, the university was even more categorical: he “was never a visiting professor here.”

The confusion is easy to understand. Arday really was a professor at the University of Glasgow’s School of Education beginning in 2021 before leaving for Cambridge in 2023. Somewhere along the way, however, that former professorship appears to have been transformed into an ongoing visiting one.

Ohio State says it has “no record of an employee by that name.” Arday’s profile specifically places him in Ohio State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, which closed last year.

Paper trail

And then there is the matter that started all of this: the plagiarism allegations.

As his defenders are eager to point out, Arday has already been investigated and cleared of deliberate academic misconduct. But anyone curious about why the allegations refuse to disappear can examine some of the evidence for himself.

As far back as 2023, David Harris, professor emeritus at Plymouth Marjon University, had raised concerns with Cambridge about Arday’s published work; three of Arday’s papers were subsequently corrected.

Then on July 21 of this year, former Cambridge academic Nathan Cofnas claimed on his Substack that he ran Arday’s doctoral thesis through plagiarism-detection software and found passages “lifted with minimal editing.” The Telegraph followed with its own reporting, identifying more than 100 passages similar to an earlier doctoral thesis by Paula Zwozdiak-Myers.

Cambridge responded by denouncing what it called a “vile campaign to undermine his credibility.” Even the Guardian acknowledged that the controversial racial views of Harris and Cofnas “appeared to inform Cambridge’s response.”

And there, in miniature, is part of the problem. The evidence could no longer be separated from the supposedly disreputable people who had found it. Asking whether passages had been copied became entangled with asking why these particular men wanted to know.

Receipts, please

As for Arday, he denies deliberately plagiarizing anyone and has attributed some of the problems with his work to his autism. He says his way of making sense of information has relied heavily on mimicry.

“I can’t make people believe me,” he recently told the Times. “Nobody lives their life having a receipt for every single thing they say or they’ve done.”

Certainly not.

But nobody is asking Arday for documentary evidence of what he had for lunch on his 23rd birthday.

Professorships, multimillion-pound charity drives, near-record-breaking athletic achievements, television appearances, and published academic scholarship are precisely the sorts of things that tend to leave receipts.

So do police investigations. Arday previously said that a pig’s head was delivered to his parents’ home as part of a campaign of racial intimidation. He said police investigated and even located a butcher who had sold a whole hog on the morning of the incident.

This time it was the Guardian — three years after publishing one of the glowing profiles that helped establish the Arday legend — that started asking questions.

The Metropolitan Police could find no record of the investigation Arday described. The butcher reportedly identified in his account denied that police had visited.

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Don’t ask

Timing is everything. Had the Guardian gone after Arday any earlier, it may have run into the resistance Times Higher Education reporter Jack Grove faced.

In late 2025, Grove began looking into Arday after academics alerted him to apparent plagiarism. He emailed Arday, Cambridge, and Liverpool John Moores with questions about the thesis and Arday’s extraordinary fundraising and endurance-running claims.

For this, Grove ended up under investigation by Scotland Yard.

Police spent four months investigating a harassment complaint before closing the case without taking action. Grove wasn’t interviewed. In fact, he says he didn’t even know he had been investigated until an officer called to tell him the case had been closed.

The officer nevertheless asked Grove not to contact Arday again because, according to Grove, his questions had affected the professor’s mental health.

Arday also hired Carter-Ruck, the famously aggressive British law firm. In a letter to Times Higher Education, it suggested the publication’s “apparent attack” on him might be “racially motivated.”

Cambridge says it neither made the complaint against Grove nor knew one had been made.

New rules

How did so many extraordinary claims get this far?

Arday’s Cambridge professorship was decided by a nine-member Board of Electors chaired by Baroness Sally Morgan, master of Fitzwilliam College and a deputy to Cambridge’s vice chancellor. Cambridge says the other members included “distinguished academics from other universities.”

This was the culmination of a rapid ascent through academia, none of which seemed to have questioned any of Arday’s claims. Simon & Schuster agreed to publish his memoir, “Great and Unfortunate Things,” under its 37 Ink imprint; it comes out next week. Meanwhile, newspapers such as the Guardian celebrated his glittering career and repeated the extraordinary biography that accompanied it.

By the time Cambridge appointed him, Arday’s story had already acquired the reassuring sheen of institutional consensus.

In a new essay entitled “The Racial Crossroads,” Helen Andrews points out that under a sufficiently entrenched ideology, “proficiency in the ruling ideology is a criterion for advancement in any kind of career.”

The Guardian’s 2023 profile is especially instructive because it allowed Arday to demonstrate just that proficiency.

Arday said his appointment represented “another strand of Black excellence.” He described Oxford and Cambridge as “thousand-year-old white establishments” and explained the difficulty faced by a person of color who “penetrates those legacy spaces.” Part of his mission at Cambridge was to dismantle its elitism.

You’re either cheering Arday on, or you’re part of the elitism he has come to dismantle. Once the incentives are made this clear, potential gatekeepers tend to police themselves. A sufficiently confident newcomer need only learn which doors nobody wants to be seen closing.

With that in mind, a line buried in the Guardian profile reads rather differently now.

“Arday does not view himself as intellectual, necessarily, but as someone who has determination,” the Guardian observed.

Or, as Arday himself put it: “If you have the will, it will always supersede skill.”

It’s hard to think of a more apt motto for the diversity regime that helped propel Arday to Cambridge.

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In his June 2026 interview with Vice President JD Vance, Bill Maher noted that the Democratic Party’s direction — specifically the embracing of democratic socialists — could cost it his support.

“If this is where they’re going, my vote is in play,” he admitted.

Although Maher took a lot of flak for his honesty, he has refused to soften his stance. During a recent episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the longtime Democrat illustrated why his vote was up for grabs by reading aloud statements from the Democratic Socialists of America platform.

His audience audibly gasped.

“This is not a conservative audience. It’s not a church crowd in Tulsa. It’s Los Angeles, an audience that shows up on a Friday night to laugh at Republicans,” says Glenn Beck, who played the clip of Maher.

“Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic Socialists of America are actually communist, that’s not one of them. And it’s not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates,” said Maher.

“’You work as much as you are able and no more than needed,’” he read from the DSA platform, then responded, “If that was any closer to Karl Marx’s dictum ‘from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,’ they’d be sued for plagiarism.”

He then noted that in 2020, New York City’s socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani actually tweeted this exact quote from Marx.

“Their most popular influencer, Hasan Piker, thinks communism is so groovy, he laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history: the Soviet Union and Chairman Mao’s China,” Maher continued.

He then turned his sights to Mamdani’s radical housing czar Cea Weaver.

“Cea Weaver said, ‘If you don’t believe in the government’s sacred right to seize property, it’s over’ and ‘impoverish the white middle class,’” Maher quoted.

But it was Weaver’s 2017 tweet — “Elect more communists” — that made the audience gasp.

Maher praised their reaction, saying he was “glad” they were shocked.

Glenn is encouraged too — but even more so that it’s Bill Maher who’s sounding the alarm.

“We’re in a moment here right now, and Bill Maher may be the most important man on the planet to stop this,” he says.

“Everything he said in that entire monologue, and I urge you to go watch the whole thing and then share it, is published. It’s sitting public,” he adds, emphasizing the DSA’s unapologetic communist sentiments.

The country, Glenn says, needs to understand the gravity of the situation we’re in right now right as the DSA grows ever more popular.

On its website, beneath its spiel about creating a communist utopia, is a list of objectives that ought to make our blood run cold. Glenn reads several of them:

“Abolishing the police and prison system”;“Abolishing the Senate”;“Abolishing the electoral college”;“Replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress, answerable only to Congress”;“Defunding the Department of War”;“Closing all of our overseas bases”;“Abolishing ICE”;“End to all detention and deportation”;“Amnesty for everyone regardless of status”; and“End to sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran.”

“And in the preamble, the sentence that ties the whole thing together, they are building a party to draft a new Constitution and to create a new Democratic Socialist republic,” Glenn adds.

Many people, he notes, mistakenly believe that DSA supporters are “fringe,” but they’re wrong.

“This isn’t a small organization anymore. On the Fourth of July, they announced they passed 121,000 members, which according to their own numbers, makes them the largest socialist organization in American history, larger than Eugene Debs’ socialist party at its peak in 1912,” says Glenn.

“Also, the Marxist Unity Group Faction, the one that Maher named, holds three of the 25 seats on that national board. Five of their members won congressional primaries this year,” he adds, noting that the “loudest voices” calling out the DSA right now are actually Democrats.

Right now, the most important thing, says Glenn, is not that we “beat” the DSA; it’s that we “provide the introduction” to the DSA, like Maher did for his audience, so that the public can see firsthand the evil agenda it has planned for the country.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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An Indiana woman is accused of fatally stabbing her elderly father, who was found late last month with his heart cut out, authorities said.

According to Porter County court records cited by USA Today, 32-year-old Serena Dolnics was charged with murder July 28 in the death of her father.

‘Recently my father was murdered by my sister.’

USA Today obtained a probable cause affidavit noting that deputies with the Porter County Sheriff’s Office conducted a welfare check at a Valparaiso home July 26 and found 69-year-old Gregory Dolnics dead.

The affidavit stated that law enforcement responded to the property after a relative calling 911 was unable to make contact with Dolnics.

Citing court documents, WTHR-TV reported that a family member informed a police dispatcher that the deceased man’s daughter, Serena Dolnics, was living with her father.

When a family member asked the daughter to speak to Gregory Dolnics, the daughter made “odd statements,” according to court documents.

WTHR added that while a family member was on the phone with 911, Serena’s boyfriend allegedly sent text messages and made phone calls to the family, saying he was at Gregory Dolnics’ home and that Serena was “covered in blood.”

Court docs also indicate that the boyfriend sent text messages saying he believed Serena stabbed her father and that she was suicidal.

The boyfriend told police that Serena had locked him out of the house and told him that she was “covered in blood,” according to court records.

Court documents said an officer peered through the windows of the home and noticed blood drops on the floor and a body on the floor covered in dried blood.

The affidavit said police forced entry into the home and discovered a body on the floor with multiple stab wounds to the head, neck, hands, and arms.

The body also had an open chest wound that “appeared to be empty, as if something was removed,” according to court documents.

Police noted that what appeared to be his heart was “laying on his stomach.”

Officers found Serena in a bedroom with blood on her feet and legs, and she was wearing a tank top that “contained a large amount of blood,” court documents stated.

Serena was transported to a local hospital because she had multiple injuries on both of her hands that were “consistent with being from a knife slipping through a hand,” according to court docs.

Police found three bloody knives in the home, the affidavit said.

WTHR reported that three bloody footprints that apparently were made by a barefoot person were found near Gregory Dolnics’ body.

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Court documents said Serena told police that her dad “wasn’t feeling too good” and he “laid around” while she was watching the “Game of Thrones” TV show.

Charging documents indicate that Serena told investigators she and her father got along, that she didn’t see him hurt, and that her hand injuriesn were while she was gardening with a weed whacker or a small saw, the Times of Northwest Indiana reported.

Police noted, “There was no garden, no bloody shears, or small saw located on the property.”

An autopsy ruled Gregory’s death a homicide caused by multiple sharp-force injuries, according to the Times.

Serena was booked at the Porter County Jail and is being held without bond, according to Porter County Sheriff’s Office arrest records.

The New York Post reported that Serena pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Citing court records, the Times reported that Serena has previous convictions involving methamphetamine possession, operating while intoxicated, and public intoxication.

Serena’s sister, Jennifer Naccarato, launched a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for her father’s funeral expenses.

“Recently my father was murdered by my sister,” the campaign said. “This incident came and took a complete toll on me and my family.”

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An Indian-born federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama has dismissed J6-related criminal charges against eight members of the Oath Keepers — and was clearly cut up about it.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the defendants’ seditious conspiracy trials in 2022 and 2023, made no secret that he issued the order on Tuesday “reluctantly” and fretted that the dismissal “bestows upon [the defendants] unearned grace by wiping their records clean.”

‘That is not in the public interest.’

Mehta also complained that “today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of [Jan. 6, 2021], denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle.”

In connection to their involvement in the Jan. 6 melee at the U.S. Capitol, Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel, and Edward Vallejo were all convicted of obstructing an official proceeding.

All but Rhodes were convicted of conspiracy to prevent members of Congress from discharging their duties. All but Rhodes and Harrelson were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. All but Watkins and Harrelson were convicted of seditious conspiracy.

In April, the Trump Justice Department moved to vacate the Oath Keepers’ convictions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The circuit court granted the motion on May 21 and remanded the case back to the district court, where a day later, federal prosecutors requested that Mehta formally dismiss with prejudice the militiamen’s criminal case.

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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images.

The motion stated that the government had “determined … that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice.”

Mehta initially declined to oblige the government until he was provided with additional information, claiming that he was “not satisfied” with prosecutors’ “bare-boned justification” for the dismissal.

Prosecutors apparently delivered the goods, to Mehta’s chagrin.

The Obama judge noted that the government did not claim among its justifications for dismissal that the charges were legally deficient, that the evidence to sustain the convictions was insufficient, that there was prosecutorial misconduct, or that there was “any legal error that resulted in an unfair trial or a wrongful conviction.”

“Remarkably, then, the government does not maintain that dismissal is in the public interest to rectify a fundamental error or grave injustice,” wrote Mehta. “Its lead argument is rather that dismissal is appropriate to protect Defendants from harassment.”

Mehta complained that the dismissal would “erase the legal judgments that these Defendants broke the criminal law. And not just any criminal law — laws aimed at punishing those who conspire to commit extralegal violence to prevent the execution of the laws or the carrying out of official duties. … The government thus asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United States itself. In this court’s view, that is not in the public interest.”

The Obama judge admitted, however, that his opinion in this matter is worthless, that he “cannot write a different ending,” and that he lacks the authority “to deny a prosecutor’s Rule 48(a) motion to dismiss charges based on a disagreement with the prosecution’s exercise of its charging authority.”

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says that Bill Gates had a “private editor” who worked at the National Institutes of Health.

At the same time, Paul released documents that point to Gates having the highest level of access at the Department of Energy as well as getting insider briefings from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

‘Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?’

Known as “Q” clearance, the DOE classification is the department’s rough equivalent to Top-Secret National Security Information clearance for access to Restricted Data, the DOE’s special category of classified information.

In a huge document dump as part of his ongoing investigation into the origins of COVID-19, Paul showed that Gates held the clearance for seven years, “including during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The period spanned from June 11, 2014, to December 6, 2021; those dates were provided to Paul in a June 30 letter from the DOE.

Further documents revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci served as Gates’ “private editor,” with Gates requesting Fauci’s feedback on a memo in April 2020. The memo was titled “Pandemic I: The First Modern Pandemic,” which “set out how Gates was thinking about the COVID pandemic.”

Gates later asked Fauci to edit his book “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.”

Another item in the released files stated that DARPA had given the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation a private briefing on four military biological threat programs. This included a 90-minute session on programs like PREEMPT, which has a stated aim of “targeting viruses in animals before they emerge in humans.”

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Much of the revelations were in regard to the Gates Foundation (formerly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and its ties to the federal government.

“When the NIH director urgently asked what his agency’s ties to the Gates Foundation were, the answer came back that the foundation had been funding pieces of NIH,” the documents explained. An internal review at the NIH included that the foundation had “funded various components of NIH.”

Gates’ influence even led him to making suggestions to the president at the White House. In 2018, NIH Director Francis Collins reported that Gates met with President Trump in the Oval Office to discuss promoting a universal flu vaccine.

Collins allegedly asked, “Is this coordinated in some way, or is Bill going rogue?”

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As further evidence of the Gates Foundation being intertwined with federal agencies, Paul said at the end of July that Collins told Gates’ wife that much of his tenure had been spent bringing the NIH and the foundation closer together.

In October 2021, just after announcing his resignation, Collins wrote:

“It has been a privilege to work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation over these 12 years, and I am glad to have had the chance to bring our global health efforts even closer together than ever.”

Paul was clear, summarizing the relationship between Gates and the NIH as one that included “personal access” to the federal government.

“Bill Gates had a Q Clearance and a private editor at NIH. Across nearly 20 years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation built a relationship with the federal government that ran on personal access as much as formal partnership.”

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected after publication to note that Gates met with President Trump, not President Biden, in 2018.

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Spain is offering the United States a warning we would be foolish to ignore.

For years, Democrats have pursued an immigration agenda built around weak enforcement, mass amnesty, and the surrender of national sovereignty to globalist priorities. Americans who want to see where that agenda can lead should look at Ceuta.

Codify secure borders now or prepare to watch the crisis return under the next Democratic administration.

In recent days, an estimated 60,000 migrants — many military-age men — attempted to overwhelm the small Spanish enclave on the Moroccan border. They arrived by land and sea, swamping local authorities and producing deadly chaos.

This was not an isolated event. It followed Spain’s moves toward amnesty for illegal immigrants, effectively signaling that unlawful entry might eventually be rewarded.

Spain’s Civil Guard described the border as totally collapsed. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez rushed to the enclave, denounced the surge as a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity, and deployed the military.

By then, however, the warning was unmistakable. Ceuta has a population of roughly 85,000. A migrant surge approaching three-quarters of that number threatened to overwhelm the enclave in a matter of days.

Americans should recognize the pattern because we recently endured our own version of it.

During the Biden-Harris administration, the United States suffered four years of relentless border disorder. Record numbers of illegal immigrants crossed the southern border while the administration expanded catch-and-release, abused immigration parole, and allowed migrants to exploit an asylum system never designed to handle claims on that scale.

The result was a border that functioned less as a boundary and more as a processing center for unlawful entry.

President Trump’s return to office and his decisive executive actions have restored deterrence and operational control. But executive actions are temporary. A future Democratic administration could reverse them as quickly as Biden reversed Trump’s first-term policies.

Conservatives rightly insist on “no amnesty.” Honesty, however, requires us to confront a harder truth: Unless Congress closes the loopholes embedded in current law, America remains one presidential election away from another invasion.

The vulnerabilities exploited during the Biden years remain.

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The Flores Settlement continues to encourage family units and unaccompanied minors to arrive at the border knowing that current law may lead to their release into the interior. The asylum system remains vulnerable to economic migrants who use dubious claims to gain admission. Mass parole authority and catch-and-release remain available to an administration determined to abuse them.

Presidential resolve is not enough. Congress must harden the law itself.

The House Freedom Caucus has used its leverage to advance the reforms necessary to do that. This summer, we secured a House Judiciary Committee markup for Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s Permanent Trump Secure Border Act, H.R. 9773.

The bill carries forward the strongest border-security provisions of H.R. 2, which passed the House in the 118th Congress with overwhelming Republican support. It offers Congress a vehicle to make Trump’s successful border policies permanent and protect Americans from the next open-borders administration.

Its provisions are serious and targeted.

The bill would reform asylum by barring claims from migrants who passed through safe third countries, raising the credible-fear standard to “more likely than not” and limiting asylum applications to ports of entry.

It would end the abuse of mass parole, require detention or prompt return when operational control cannot be maintained, and mandate safe-third-country agreements.

It would also close loopholes created by the Flores Settlement that encourage the release of families and minors, crack down on visa overstays, and expand the criminal bars to asylum eligibility.

These reforms directly address the gaps the Biden-Harris administration exploited.

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When Congress returns in September, Republican leaders must bring the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act to the floor immediately.

Partial measures will not suffice. Neither will another round of promises to address the border later. The left has not abandoned its vision of demographic transformation through unchecked migration. It is waiting for another opportunity to impose it.

Ceuta offers a preview of what can happen when government signals that borders are optional and unlawful entry may be rewarded.

America has restored order for now. The question is whether Congress will make that restoration durable.

The House Freedom Caucus has provided the blueprint. Republicans need to pass it.

Codify secure borders now — or prepare to watch the crisis return under the next Democratic administration. Our sovereignty, security, and rule of law depend on getting this right.

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