The U.S. Dept. of Justice is seeking an emergency injunction against California over 20,000 “likely noncitizen” people on the state’s voter rolls.

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Dept. requested that California segregate any ballots from those registered voters in order to preserve election integrity.

‘We filed an emergency court action against California seeking to ensure that noncitizens who received ballots in California do NOT vote in the upcoming election.’

The administration filed the lawsuit after Californian officials denied the request.

“This is of serious concern because California automatically mails ballots to every active registered voter on its voter rolls, whether a voter has requested a mail ballot or not,” Blanche said in a post on social media.

“California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law,” he added. “So, today we filed an emergency court action against California seeking to ensure that noncitizens who received ballots in California do NOT vote in the upcoming election.”

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber responded she had “serious doubts” about the accuracy of the allegations and requested information about “the underlying data and methodology” so that her office could analyze the “vague and unsubstantiated allegations” from the Department of Homeland Security.

She went on to claim that a similar effort in Nevada did not find one noncitizen among a list of 16,000 likely noncitizen voters provided by DHS.

“If the federal government possesses proof that certain registered voters in California are ineligible, we will welcome the opportunity to review that evidence and any supporting data or methodology,” she added.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta also criticized the administration’s demands.

“Mail ballots are already in most voters’ hands, and Election Day is less than three weeks away,” he posted in a statement on social media.

“Every count, recount, hand count, lawsuit, and audit has found that there’s no widespread voter fraud in the U.S.,” he added. “The Trump Admin’s last-minute demands are meritless, and we look forward to making our case in court.”

RELATED: Man given legal status under Obama illegally VOTED in at least 15 elections, DHS claims

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, expressed outrage over the lawsuit in a statement on social media.

“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” he posted.

“Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections,” he added. “We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.”

Voters in California will decide the state’s next governor in the November election, as well as the fate of 14 propositions. Some key congressional races will also help determine which party controls Congress.

“Election integrity is a top priority for Americans and the Justice Department,” Blanche concluded.

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A recent viral video asked a question that most Georgians never even imagined they would have to come up with:

Why are there patrolling robot dogs with Indian accents all over the place?

‘These thieves tried to get away from the robot.’

A video on X showed a robot security dog with bright lights at an apartment complex in Atlanta, adding that it seemed to “speak in Indian accents to the residents.”

With nearly 2 million views, the clip is just one of many of its kind noticing that the machines have “Indian accents” or are “Indian controlled.”

The answer to where the robot came from is a lot easier to field than pinpointing the source of any accents.

The bots residents are likely running into are from Atlanta-based company Undaunted, which has dozens of security dogs patrolling the city.

According to a report from Atlanta News First in May, Undaunted had already deployed bots to more than three dozen commercial and residential properties in the city in just one year. Reuters noted in August that more than 120 robodogs were being put into service.

The ANF report said apartment complexes and properties have been rife with car break-ins, loitering, and other illegal activity that has been deterred by the patrolling security.

“I love it,” one resident told the local channel.

A local property owner also said the dogs provide visibility in hard-to-reach areas that conventional surveillance cannot see.

“They can go behind bushes and into areas that, generally, our monitoring controls don’t reach,” she said.

RELATED: Flock slashes 1 in 6 jobs — as outcry builds to take down its whole camera network

“These thieves tried to get away from the robot,” Undaunted CEO Bryan Dinner told ANF. “What they didn’t know is that there are three robots on this property.”

Indeed, the bots are being spotted regularly by residents, but their presence comes with a hefty price tag.

Undaunted’s website explains its “plug-and-play robotic” guards cost $3,333 per month for its base package, which comes with two robotic guards, two charging stations, and monitoring for eight hours per day, seven days a week.

Add-ons can get the customer longer monitoring hours and additional robots.

Those live agents residents are noticing are Undaunted’s “live operators,” who intervene via audio, alert police, and notify customers, the company says.

RELATED: ‘A nightmare for individual liberties’ — Josh Hawley unveils sweeping new anti-Flock legislation

However, the CEO told Reuters in August that while the company can provide security at about half the cost of traditional humans, it will not physically intervene and does not come equipped with weapons.

“We are never going to put offensive weapons on our robots,” Dinner told ANF.

Blaze News reached out to Undaunted to ask if any of its live agents are located overseas or are employed through H-1B visas, but did not get a reply.

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The most popular podcaster in the world weighed in on the bitter debate over a joke about women dressing like “whores” at the gym.

Shane Gillis talked about his experience going to the gym in New York City during his monologue for his third time hosting “Saturday Night Live.”

‘I have no problem with women dressing like that. Have fun. God bless you. If you have a great body, especially, show it off to the world. Who cares?’

“I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like whores now? Look, I’m sorry. There’s no other way to describe it,” Gillis said.

“Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. The shorts. Have you seen the shorts?” he added. “Those neon, they’re like artificial bait-colored. And the wrinkles go around the cheeks, and all combine at the butthole. And don’t look. You’re not allowed to look. For real, don’t look because they are filming. I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now.”

Many on the left were outraged at the joke they said was misogynistic. Among those was comedic actor Dan Levy, who said in a video on Instagram that the joke would lead to more sexual assaults against women.

Joe Rogan defended Gillis, who is his friend and has appeared on Rogan’s podcast numerous times, on the Thursday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

First, he pointed out that the subject of the joke was Gillis himself, not the women at the gym.

“The joke is on Shane, ’cause the joke is that he looks like a creep in the background of all these TikToks, watching these ladies that are wearing nothing doing these exercises,” Rogan said.

“I’ve seen ladies at the gym that wear essentially sheer pink, really small shorts with no underwear on, and they’re doing deadlifts. And when they’re bending over, they’re sticking their vagina with the thinnest of cloth out into the air!” he added.

“Oh, I knew one of them was pregnant before she did. I’d say you’re about six weeks!” digital content creator Cody Tucker joked.

Rogan offered a serious defense of the joke and his friend.

“Real misogyny actually exists. … Real men who hate women do exist,” he said. “And so, when you see a guy joking around about a woman dressing like a whore, you connect it to horrible thoughts, like horrible actions. Real, actual evil men that — ’cause there’s a lot of men that genuinely hate women. Shane Gillis is not one of them. And he’s a great guy. It’s just a joke.”

RELATED: Actor MELTS DOWN over jokes about women in Shane Gillis’ ‘SNL’ monologue

He went on to say that he didn’t care what women wore to the gym.

“I have no problem with women dressing like that. Have fun. God bless you. If you have a great body, especially, show it off to the world. Who cares?”

Spotify reportedly renewed its contract with Rogan, worth an estimated $250 million. His show is the top podcast in Spotify’s chart, with over 18 million followers. He has another 21.1 million followers on his YouTube channel.

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The Muslim Democrat running for Michigan’s open seat in the U.S. Senate did not do well under pressure when questioned again about ties between his family and the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a video posted Wednesday, Abdul El-Sayed appeared outraged that NBC News anchor Tom Llamas continued to ask him to clarify whether he and his family support the terrorist group in light of comments made by his maternal half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, on social media.

‘Are you serious? … Do you think, you think, are, are you, are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?’

The X posts from Abdelhadi include:

“Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect.””My family has long been MB, but I’ve always felt that it has navigated the political sphere poorly/destructively.””Although I lean towards the Leftists; conversations with my #MB family in Egypt revealed respect for individual liberties & secular state.”

Although the posts were written more than a decade ago, El-Sayed has been unable to fully explain them.

“These tweets have emerged now,” said Llamas, who read the content of some posts. “Can you just explain it?”

“Yeah, Tom. It’s funny to me,” El-Sayed responded, visibly irritated.

“I was born in 1984 down the street in Rochester Hills,” he added. “I was raised here in Michigan, went to the University of Michigan, rebuilt the health department in the city, led the health department in this county. And you want to ask me about what was happening in Egypt in 1970? Are you serious?”

“I get it, but you were asked a question, and you gave an answer —” Llamas said before getting interrupted.

“This is kind of like the same. Yeah. I’m telling you, like, I have no ties. We have no ties,” El-Sayed rambled.

“So your mother had no ties?” Llamas asked.

“I’ve never had these conversations with my mother. I wasn’t raised by my mother,” he replied.

“So you were unaware —” Llamas asked.

“But, but, but I’m just telling you that, like, you’re using hearsay evidence from a tweet. It’s … not serious. It’s just not serious,” El-Sayed stammered.

“But you’ve also gone after the president for truthfulness,” Llamas said. “So when people ask you a question, they all do expect the truth.”

“And do you think, you think, are, are you, are you insinuating that somehow I was lying?” El-Sayed stammered.

“I don’t know. That’s why I’m asking you,” Llamas replied.

“And I’m telling you I was not,” El-Sayed angrily responded.

RELATED: WATCH: 9/11 hero’s father narrates powerful ad against Abdul El-Sayed

After a debate last Thursday against Republican Mike Rogers, El-Sayed similarly snapped at a reporter who asked about the different standards he has for President Donald Trump and for Hasan Piker, an anti-American radical who campaigned with El-Sayed earlier this year.

“That’s a serious question?” El-Sayed shot back with obvious disdain.

“Well, Donald Trump is the president of the United States, which means he has significant power, including holding the nuclear football. And when he makes war, which he has the power to do, it’s a very different thing than a streamer in California. I’m not sure if that’s clear to you, but like, when it’s the president of the United States, who is literally the most powerful person in the whole world, to equate the most powerful person in the world with a streamer in California seems to me to be just a little — I’m not going to use the word — but silly.”

El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Rogers has hammered away at El-Sayed by using El-Sayed’s own extremist statements and positions.

Former President Barack Obama has signed up to campaign for El-Sayed, which many critics take as a sign that Democrats are worried that their candidate won’t be able to cross the finish line.

The race is pivotal in deciding which party will control the U.S. Senate after the midterm elections.

The contest is still very tight in the last month of before the election, as can be seen in the Blaze News Poll Watch average of polling below.

Michigan Senate polls 2026: El-Sayed vs. Rogers

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Fans of the popular multi-season show dramatizing the life of Jesus Christ were thrilled when the trailer for the latest season was released Thursday.

“The Chosen” famously received support from one of the largest crowdfunding campaigns ever and has become a hit with hundreds of millions of viewers.

‘Season Five was the powder keg. In Season Six, it explodes.’

“This is it. We’re at the toughest part. Season Six covers the 24 hours of the events surrounding Jesus’ death,” read the description from show creator Dallas Jenkins on social media.

“It was painful to shoot, and it’s painful to contemplate,” he continues. “But if there’s one thing I want you to take away from this season, it’s that Jesus chose this path. He even tells the apostles he could be rescued from it if he wanted. He chose surrender and humility and sacrifice. Knowing that should make this story a little less painful.”

Jenkins concludes, “Season Five was the powder keg. In Season Six, it explodes.”

The show’s creator told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey that he began writing about the life of Jesus after his bright future as a director appeared to collapse along with a box office disaster.

“It was in 2017 that my feature film came out that completely bombed at the box office,” Dallas said in the 2022 interview.

“In just a couple hours, I went from being a director with a very bright future to being a director with no future,” he explained.

He said he received a message from a stranger on Facebook about the biblical story of Jesus feeding 5,000 with fish and loaves that changed his life.

“Remember, it’s not your job to feed the 5,000. It’s only to provide the loaves and fish,” the message read.

RELATED: Did Jesus really pray for Judas? ‘The Chosen’ faces backlash over ‘super unbiblical’ scene

“In that moment, my life changed. I felt more than ever like God was present. … I felt more cared for in that moment than ever,” Jenkins added.

Season 6 of “The Chosen” will be released on Prime Video November 15.

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Instead of taking accountability, men like Deion Sanders and Stephen A. Smith, Jason Whitlock argues, would rather find someone else to blame.

On “Fearless,” Whitlock puts the Colorado football coach and ESPN personality on what he calls the “Mount Rushmore of entitlement,” accusing both men of deflecting criticism instead of owning their mistakes.

“Stephen A. Smith put out some, I mean, just really hard-to-understand, ridiculous video about the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA and how the WNBA wasn’t prepared because they … didn’t have an arena big enough to host the WNBA Finals,” Whitlock explains.

“And he’s ranting and raving … but then he turns it into something about himself and critics and apologizing and making mistakes, and he turned it into the mistakes that he’s been making, and the apologies he’s been making are proof of how good he is or how righteous he is,” he continues.

This attitude is why Smith, Whitlock says, belongs on the “Mount Rushmore of entitlement” alongside Deion Sanders.

“Deion, in their last game two weeks ago against Texas Tech, made coaching blunder after coaching blunder. His team looked unprepared. Deion looked unprepared. They lost their third straight game to Texas Tech,” Whitlock explains.

Sanders took two weeks to give a press conference, which Whitlock notes didn’t help.

“With two weeks of preparation, he could offer no explanations for anything,” Whitlock says.

“It’s been reported, and Deion copped to it, that someone on the Colorado coaching staff or players left their playbook at the team hotel and Texas Tech fans found it. Deion had no explanation for that two weeks ago,” he explains.

“I’ve been around coaches my entire life. Losing your playbook is not an option,” he says.

“He won’t take responsibility for it. He won’t be held accountable for it,” he adds.

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Radical Democrat James Talarico attempted to woo Republicans and independents at a town hall in Fort Worth on Wednesday as he attempts to turn a Texas U.S. Senate seat blue for the first time in more than 30 years.

This attempt evidently relied on deception.

‘That industry is not gonna last.’

In addition to claiming that “the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion,” Talarico made a number of other eyebrow-raising statements at the event hosted by CNN and Jubilee.

One of the Texas voters in attendance asked the Democrat about border security, “regardless of what party was in the White House,” and whether federal law should require the removal of illegal aliens who have no basis to stay in the country.

“Texans understand this issue of immigration better than most people around the country because we live with it,” Talarico replied. “We live with the challenges, and we live with the benefits.”

After stating that “both political parties have failed us on this issue,” casting shade on the Biden administration’s “unacceptable” handling of the border crisis and criticizing some Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics, Talarico identified himself as a “border security Democrat.”

This purported “border security Democrat” apparently was counting on the audience to overlook the fact that he:

states on his campaign website that “our border should be like a front porch” with a “welcome mat out front and a lock on the door” and that certain illegal aliens should have a pathway to legalization;advocated in 2019 for diverting Texas’ $800 million two-year border security budget to public education, claiming that “putting a bunch of boats, planes, and border patrol agents on the physical border” “does not solve the problem” and amounts ultimately to “political grandstanding”;shared documents in 2019 advising foreigners how to “fight back” against ICE;condemned some of Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to secure the southern border, calling them “atrocities”;voted in 2021 against a bill that provided an additional $1.8 billion in state funding for border security over a two-year period;voted in 2023 against a bill that aimed at beefing up border security and cracking down on transnational criminal activity; voted in 2023 against a bill that would have expanded the law enforcement authority of federal immigration agents in Texas; andvoted in 2023 against a bill that made illegal entry into Texas from an alien nation a state crime.

The Border Patrol Union’s National Border Patrol Council said Wednesday, “JAMES TALARICO DOES NOT SUPPORT BORDER SECURITY: Talarico’s false claim that he called out the Biden Administration for failing on the border is nothing more than a #FakeNews political ad.”

RELATED: Talarico gets DEMOLISHED after he cites Bible in defense of abortion

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In addition to masquerading as a proponent of strong security at the southern border, Talarico played the role of an ICE supporter at Wednesday’s town hall.

CNN talking head Erin Burnett asked the Democrat, “Do you support abolishing ICE or not?”

“No,” replied Talarico. “And I never have.”

He did, however, lead a “Stop ICE rally” in January, accuse ICE of “terrorizing our country,” and implore Texans to rise up against the federal agency and “fight back.”

After boasting about previously having taught illegal alien students, Talarico said in his lengthy speech at the January anti-ICE rally in Austin, “It is time to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that is actually going to promote public safety.”

Talarico further denied ICE’s legitimacy, demanded that ICE agents be hauled before Congress, and claimed that the agency was “deporting the very people who keep our economy running.”

The same Democrat who months ago demanded ICE’s “replace[ment]” told Burnett on Wednesday, “We need Immigration and Customs Enforcement in this country.”

In an apparent attempt to reconcile the two statements, Talarico claimed that “what we’ve seen over the last year is a secret police force, and that’s what we don’t want in this country.”

Talarico also tried to pull a fast one Wednesday regarding his past criticism of capitalism.

Burnett noted that at a Sierra Club event in September 2020, the Democrat said that capitalism is an “oppressive system” in need of dismantling. The CNN talking head then questioned Talarico’s current identification as a proud capitalist.

“If you go back and listen to the conversation that we were having, I was talking about the system we have now, which is actually not capitalism. It’s crony capitalism,” Talarico said.

Talarico does not appear to have specified that he was criticizing “crony capitalism” at the Sierra Club event in 2020. Rather, he highlighted the supposed link between “climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country.”

“I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them,” Talarico said at the time.

A spokesperson for Talarico told the Texas Scorecard last month that “James is a proud capitalist and agrees with the majority of Texans that racism, natural disasters, and a billionaire-controlled economy are all problems we need to address.”

Madison Cercy, a spokeswoman for the campaign of Talarico’s Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, said that “James Talarico is a democratic socialist who wants to destroy economic opportunity, ban oil and gas, and raise taxes to pay for his radical agenda.”

Talarico, who told Burnett that he wants to return to old-school capitalism, also claimed at the town hall that “if the Democratic Party is going after the good-paying oil and gas jobs here in Texas, I’m going to stand up against them.”

Yet Talarico said during the same Sierra Club event, “We all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas, but in many ways that’s like being the leader in cassette tapes in the 1980s,” CNN reported.

“That industry is not going to last. And if we want to ensure we have an economy that’s going to work for our children and our children’s children, we gotta be ahead of the curve, and Texas has to lead instead of follow on this issue,” Talarico added.

This supposed friend of the oil and gas industry claimed in 2022 that “fossil fuels are destroying the planet” and suggested that Texas should “transition” to so-called renewables.

The Talarico campaign did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

Blaze Poll Watch presently shows Talarico leading Paxton 48.1%-45.1%.

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