02c U.S. Politics – Election

The Trump administration has filed 31 lawsuits seeking states’ voter data. Here’s where they stand.– www.cbsnews.com
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Washington — President Trump’s administration has mounted efforts in nearly all 50 states to obtain their complete voter rolls containing sensitive information about registered voters in their states.

The Justice Department has argued that the information is needed to ensure states are complying with two federal voting laws, the Help America Vote Act and the National Voter Registration Act, which aim to ensure states have programs in place for maintaining accurate voter rolls.

The administration sent letters to most of the states last year seeking unredacted electronic copies of their statewide voter registration lists, which include voters’ birthdates, addresses, partial Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers.

A number of states have turned over publicly available versions of their voter rolls, but have declined to provide their complete lists. In response, the Justice Department has filed lawsuits against 30 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to force them to hand over the voter data.

Trump Slams Radical Left Democrats, Boosts Candidates in Georgia Visit as Part of ‘Midterm Blitz’– www.dailysignal.com
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Summary

  • President Donald Trump revved up a large crowd of excited Peach State supporters Saturday night in support of Rick Jackson and Rep. Mike Collins.
  • Trump touted his administration’s successes and the destructive policies of the “Dumocrats.”
  • He predicted a big night for Republicans on Nov. 3.

PERRY, Ga.-President Donald Trump ignited a large crowd of excited Peach State supporters Saturday night, listing off all the failures of Sen. Jon Ossoff and the Democratic Party while giving a strong boost to gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson and U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins.

“Ten days from now,” Trump declared, “the people of Georgia are going to defeat your weak, radical left senator [Sen.] Jon Ossoff. And we’re going to send [Rep.] Mike Collins to the United States Senate.”

“And we’re going to elect a great friend of mine, Rick Jackson, as your next governor.”

Trump discussed the unfair financial advantage the Democratic Party has, saying, “There’s a big money advantage. All the Democrats all over the country, actually through Act Blue [a left-leaning political action committee], all over the world, which they’re not allowed to do. I hope that people are looking into Act Blue. It’s another fake deal that they have going.”

Donald Trump insists polls are fake and claims his approval rating is really at 60%– www.independent.co.uk
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President Donald Trump dismissed polls showing his approval rating falling ahead of November’s midterm elections, insisting Americans should trust his claim that his support is closer to 60 percent.

In an interview with The Washington Examiner’s Byron York, published Saturday, Trump called the polling figures “fake” when asked about a RealClearPolitics average showing 38.8 percent of Americans approved of his job performance, while 60.4 percent disapproved.

“It’s fake,” Trump said.

When York pressed him on what he believed his actual approval rating was, Trump rejected the figures and insisted his support was much higher.

“The job approval, they said it’s 37, 38?” Trump asked. “I’m not at 38.”

Trump’s Michigan Rally Was A Total Racist Disaster For Republicans– www.politicususa.com
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This is what a political party with no ideas and no plan for the future looks like. After refusing to say that he is a MAGA Republican on Meet The Press, US Senate candidate Mike Rogers brought Donald Trump to Michigan, and the point of the rally was clear from the moment that the president began speaking.

Trump came to Michigan to smear Abdul El-Sayed and scare voters into supporting Rogers.

The rally was some of the most direct and vile racism and bigotry that Americans will see in any campaign.

Trump, who stole classified documents, suggested El-Sayed would be a national security threat:

 He certainly should not give him a seat in the United States Senate. He would be the only senator that will have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate. I want him to have a metal detector.

If Abdul gets to the Senate, he would have access to our nation’s most closely guarded national security secrets And his vote would wield power over our military, our borders, our homeland security, and much more than that. And to think that so much of our military equipment is made in Michigan.

Campaigns, attorneys weigh in on Trump’s DOJ suit to block election results if Sen. Sullivan loses– www.adn.com
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The Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop Alaska officials from certifying the results of the U.S. Senate race if Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his reelection bid, and calling for an investigation into whether votes cast for a namesake challenger were intended for the incumbent.

Attorneys and lawmakers have decried the move, labeling it legally unfounded and a political maneuver.

With early voting already underway in the Nov. 3 general election, the lawsuit could create a legal hurdle if Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola defeats the Republican senator in the closely watched race.

The race for Alaska’s Senate seat is seen as one of a few battleground contests that could determine whether Democrats flip control of the chamber.

The lawsuit alleges that the presence of retired Petersburg educator Dan J. Sullivan, a Republican who shares the same first and last name as the incumbent, on the ballot “threatens to mislead Alaskan citizens who want to vote for Senator Sullivan.”

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Abortion is once again on the ballot. While the fate of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House both hang in the balance, the Trump administration can still wreak havoc on abortion rights with or without congressional approval, including a backdoor ban on medication abortion. That’s why state-level measures on abortion in the 2026 midterms elections will be so consequential in the fight for reproductive rights.

This November, voters will decide the fate of abortion rights in four states. Three of those states — Idaho, Nevada, and Virginia — have initiatives that would protect abortion rights in the state. Missouri has an amendment on the ballot that undoes the results of the referendum two years ago, in which voters approved a measure to enshrine reproductive freedom in the state constitution.

Missouri’s GOP Has a New Strategy to Ban Abortion—Attack Trans Kids – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com
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Dr. Jennifer Smith remembers canvassing to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban back in 2024. Now she’s spending her weekends knocking doors in her white coat to make sure her home state doesn’t ban abortion again.

Smith, an OB-GYN, had seen what happened to her patients after Roe v. Wade was overturned and a “trigger” law immediately went into effect banning virtually all abortions in the state.

“You could see how scared people were to just consider being pregnant in the state of Missouri,” she said. “I had husbands feel the need to tell me that I should save their wives if something should happen in the pregnancy. And that’s a pretty terrifying place to be.”

Even before the fall of Roe, abortion access in Missouri was extremely limited. The state is home to some of the most vociferous abortion opponents in the country. Among them are Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, who has made himself a leading figure in the national push to ban abortion pills; his wife Erin, a top attorney at the Alliance Defending Freedom; and Ed Martin, a stop-the-stealer who helped craft the GOP’s fetal personhood platform in 2024.

Cook Political Report Moves 19 House Seats In Dems’ Direction– crooksandliars.com
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Cook Political Report election forecaster Dave Wasserman delivered more bad news for Republicans on the midterms.

Wasserman discussed their report on this Friday’s Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN, and called some of the numbers “shocking.” After discussing how toxic the Ramaswamy ad has been, and its potential to infect other races in Ohio, Burnett asked him about their report.

BURNETT: I like the word you just used. That ad has the potential to infect other races. You know, you also shifted 19 House races toward Democrats, and that covers the map, right? We’re going beyond Ohio here, Dave. Texas, North Carolina, obviously states that Trump himself won easily two years ago, now leaning Dem.

I guess the bottom line is, when you look at all of this, does Trump have a chance at this point still to hold on to the House?

WASSERMAN: Not realistically. This is a question of how high this blue wave is going to go and how many Republican seats get swept up. And we’re looking at shocking polling numbers for Republicans, not only in districts that Trump carried by five or 10, but 15 or 20 points.

And I think to the extent there are going to be surprises on November 3rd, I’d look to places with high numbers of secular white voters and also independents. And that points to the Midwest, Iowa, Ohio. Kansas, Nebraska, more so than the Deep South, where things are more racially polarized and it’s more difficult for Democrats to win on turnout alone.

And on a really strong night for Democrats, it’s easy to see how they could exceed the total number of seats they won in 2006 and 2018, given that President Trump’s approval rating today is lower than where it was eight years ago and where George W. Bush’s approval rating was amid the Iraq war. This could get to 235 seats or more.

Another Biden-appointed District Judge has halted key parts of the DHS’ non-citizen voter investigation in what appears to be a partisan protection of the Democratic Party. The court called the investigation into non-citizen voting an “unlawful voter initiative.” The ruling cannot be reversed before the election unless SCOTUS intervenes.

Biden-Appointed Judge Blocks Key Trump Noncitizen-Voter Operations Before Midterms– wltreport.com
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A Biden-appointed federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt key parts of its noncitizen-voter investigation in nine states — just days before the November 3 midterms.

The preliminary injunction targets election-related field operations and interviews when federal agents know, suspect or reasonably should suspect that a person is a U.S. citizen. It does not declare every investigation of unlawful noncitizen voting illegal.

That distinction matters. So does the timing.

Homeland Security reiterated its position Thursday after a new voter-fraud charge was announced in New York:

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued the order Wednesday in California Nurses Association v. Mullin. The covered states are California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.

The court’s order says DHS launched its “Unlawful Voter Initiative” in August and later directed a surge of field investigations across those nine states. The judge found that plaintiffs were likely to succeed on a Voting Rights Act claim involving intimidation of citizens engaged in voter assistance and mobilization.

California’s progressive governor Gavin Newsom recently condoned a few non-citizen votes for the sake of not fully checking their voting rolls as the Department of Justice has requested. After the DOJ caught 28 illegal aliens registered to vote and planning to vote, Newsom’s government responded with indifference to the news.

Newsom claimed, “Yes, non-citizen voter registration and voting does happen in isolated instances — in California and the rest of the country alike — but it is so rare that the Trump admin is parading around town about .0001% of California voters. If the feds were serious about this, they would have done this long ago — not in the middle of people voting, which inherently and needlessly sows distrust and doubt in our democracy.”

CA Concedes That It Does Not Verify US Citizenship for Voting, and Really Doesn’t Care To – RedState– redstate.com
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The United States Department of Justice and the State of California continue to clash over operations in Operation Protect the Vote, a coordinated effort among all four of the California-based Offices of the U.S. Attorney which focuses on protection of election integrity and combatting and rooting out fraud in U.S. elections. The operation has thus far swept up more than 28 foreign nationals in the net of election fraud.

OPERATION PROTECT THE VOTE

28 foreign nationals were charged in criminal complaints with federal crimes, including that they fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots.

This was a coordinated effort among all four California-based U.S. Attorney’s Offices to combat and root out fraud in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity.

Another polling company has confessed to creating fake polls. Wedgwood Polls confessed it created fake polls to show Democrats ahead as part of a social experiment. They claimed, “Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across platforms and cited on air and reporting.”

Fake Polls, Real Damage: Wedgewood Confesses It Invented Poll Results in Michigan, Maine and Texas, and the Big Media Ran Them– gellerreport.com
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Second poll confession. Fooled The New York Times and Nate Silver’s site. Senate polls showed every Democrat winning….

We are up against an immense, hugely funded machine. The establishment right still thinks it’s the 1990s and fear Trump not the destroyers coming after us, our children, our country. Sickening.

According to Josh Holmes, those Senate polls showed every Democrat winning except one in Mississippi. Calling this a “wake-up call” evades the damage: bogus polling can steer donations, demoralize volunteers and distort perceptions of an election. As Holmes put it, “This is not a victimless crime.” A polling firm manufactured the numbers, and news outlets helped turn fiction into political influence.

Michigan Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin openly threatened to prosecute young staff members of the Trump administration to frighten young people from serving in a non-Democratic administration.

She said, “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”

Slotkin Calls for Prosecution of Trump Officials to Deter Young Conservatives From Joining Administration › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., is facing criticism from conservatives after calling for prosecutions of Trump administration officials as a way to discourage young people from accepting positions in President Donald Trump’s government.

Speaking at a University of Chicago event last week, Slotkin argued that Democrats should pursue high-profile corruption cases against administration officials, creating what she described as a deterrent for prospective government employees.

A New Mexico court is ordering Meta to pay $25 billion in a civil lawsuit for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to user data during the 2016 election. The company was working for the Trump campaign. It used that information to help the Trump campaign more effectively target potential voters.

Meta hit with $25 billion penalty over Cambridge Analytica data lawsuit– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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A New Mexico court ordered Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to pay a $25 billion penalty over data privacy violations connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The whopping penalty comes more than eight years after the stories of the data-harvesting scandal first broke and sparked political uproar in the United States. Politicians and social media users have raised concerns since the 2018 reports first broke about the United Kingdom-based firm improperly scraping up Facebook profiles without user consent, leading to multiple lawsuits and legal battles.

The DSA Plans To Incite Violence Ahead Of 2028 Election– thefederalist.com
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Over on X, DataRepublican’s reporting on documents and recordings from the Democratic Socialists of America and allied networks lays out a calculated strategy for the run-up to the 2028 elections. The goal is sustained mass violence and street clashes designed to push President Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act. Once invoked, Democratic governors and progressive organizations would treat the order itself as evidence of “fascism” and a reason to undermine federal authority.

Groups including the United Democracy Alliance, invoking Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5 percent rule, appear ready to coordinate the street actions, legal support, and media framing. Neville Roy Singham, operating from Shanghai and connected to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department, is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad.

The plan assumes Trump will choose immediate order over patience, and hand his opponents the optics they have prepared. Whether that assumption holds depends on the costs of each path.

Policing power in America is overwhelmingly local. The FBI fields about 13,700 special agents nationwide. The New York Police Department alone has more than 34,700 sworn officers. A president can protect federal property, personnel, and functions without becoming the default response for every city whose leaders have weakened policing and tolerated disorder. Broader federal action is also available. Both options carry consequences, and progressive networks are organized to contest either one.

Sleepy Republican District in Georgia Attracting Floods of Out-of-State Cash for Social Media Candidate– www.dailysignal.com
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A district in Georgia that covers parts of Milton, Roswell, and Alpharetta hasn’t had a significant Democrat challenger in more than 20 years, but the entry of a social media-savvy candidate who has attracted floods of out-of-state funding has suddenly made the race peculiar and one to watch.

Georgia House District 47 is currently led by state Rep. Jan Jones, a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives who has served as speaker pro tempore since 2010. She has held the district seat since 2013 but announced in February she would not seek reelection.

The Democrat candidate seeking to replace her, Lindsay DeFranco, is garnering lots of attention, and out-of-state funds, in what would otherwise be a sleepy district and a shoo-in for any Republican candidate.

DeFranco, who moved to Georgia with her husband in 2024, has a large social media following. She boasts 187,000 followers on Instagram, about 14,000 followers on her campaign Instagram account, and nearly 7,000 subscribers on her Lindsay DeFranco for Georgia YouTube channel.

She told the Daily Signal that her campaign is built around “a pretty simple idea [of] lower costs and higher standards.” The Democrat said she thinks she can win because “the issues we’re talking about aren’t exclusively Democratic or Republican issues.”

Watch: Pro-Katie Hobbs Canvassers Are Willing to Let Noncitizens, Felons Vote – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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Undercover video captured canvassers aligned with Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-Ariz.) saying they don’t believe in asking about immigration status or actively encouraging self-identified noncitizens and felons to register and vote. All of that, of course, is completely illegal.

Everyone knows that Arizona elections are incredibly corrupt. There is still a very significant Republican population in the state, and it voted for Donald Trump both in 2016 and 2024, and yet for some reason Democrats keep winning state and local offices. At a certain point we have to ask: is Democrat control of Arizona dependent entirely upon fraud? Would Katie Hobbs ever have become governor if it were not for fraud?

Muckraker’s team caught the Democrat activists on video and subsequently confronted them about their support of illegal voting. In the compilation of clips below, you will notice one man who specifically talks about supporting Hobbs, and who says he never gets into asking about immigration status. He seems to imply that noncitizens are included in the Democrat voting base.

When one of the undercover journalists claimed he was a convicted felon, a canvasser waved that off as if it were not an issue and encouraged him to register anyway. Yet another woman told the undercover journalist that he should share the QR code for registering to vote online with Canadian friends.

Muckraker identified the canvassers as being from the AFL-CIO union, Hobbs-aligned Worker Power and Stand Indivisible Arizona, and the Democratic National Committee’s When We Count.

Fox News Poll Shows Major Movement In Texas Senate Race– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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A new Fox News poll of Texas likely voters finds Democratic Party nominee James Talarico and Republican nominee Ken Paxton tied at 49 percent each in the state’s closely-watched U.S. Senate race. This represents a change from the network’s September survey, in which Talarico held a 51 percent to 49 percent advantage among likely voters.

The October poll was conducted from October 15-19 among a sample of 2,011 registered voters, of whom 1,398 were identified as likely voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points for the likely-voter subsample.

The movement from a two-point Talarico lead to a tie is associated with gains by Paxton among conservatives, rural voters, suburban women, and Republicans who supported Cornyn in the primary. Compared with the September Fox News poll, Paxton’s support rose by one point among both men and women, while Talarico’s support fell by one point among men and two points among women.

POLL: Will You Support Trump And His Candidates In The Midterms?

The Love Life Details That Would Destroy a Male Politician — But Haven’t Touched Maura Healey – RedState– redstate.com
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is up for reelection next month. Some details of her personal life have drawn far less scrutiny than they likely would have for a male politician in the same position.

Critics argue the media coverage has been noticeably softer, if not outright absent, due to the fact that she is a woman and has been celebrated as the first openly lesbian governor in the United States. As if that is some sort of qualification for the job.

Healey spent roughly a dozen years in a relationship with Massachusetts Appeals Court Judge Gabrielle Wolohojian that ended in 2019, while Healey was still attorney general. A few years later, she nominated Wolohojian to the Supreme Judicial Court, a move the Boston Globe’s editorial board at the time called dreadful on optics grounds and one that raised obvious questions about recusal.

“Surely a smart politician like Governor Maura Healey knows that optics count. And surely she also had to know that the optics around nominating her former longtime partner to the state’s highest court are just dreadful,” the board wrote, though it contends Wolohojian had the qualifications.

Rumors have circulated about the reasons for Healey and Wolohojian’s 2019 split, though none have been confirmed. Regardless of that background, the Globe contends that it’d be nearly impossible for bias not to creep into Wolohojian’s work.

James Talarico Wants To Win Texas In Republican Drag– thefederalist.com
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Democrat Senate hopeful James Talarico doesn’t want you to change his mind. He wants you to change yours, and he’s betting Texas Republicans are gullible enough to fall for the packaging.

Conservative commentator Steven Crowder has filed a lawsuit against CNN and Jubilee over their use of “Change My Mind,” the slogan Crowder made famous through his political debate videos.

According to Newsweek, Crowder says his trademark brand and format are being used to help Talarico ingratiate himself with conservative voters. Crowder initially threatened legal action against Talarico, CNN, and Jubilee, but the reported lawsuit names the two media companies as defendants. The Louder with Crowder host also argued in an episode of his show last week that CNN is peddling the falsehood that the format, which he created in 2017, is a “unique” concept that will “change town halls” in the future.

 

Whether Crowder’s lawsuit succeeds is for the courts to decide. From the trademark to the iconography of the “Change My Mind” meme, which features a photo of Crowder sitting at a folding table outside Texas Christian University in February 2018, the conservative commentator certainly has a trail of evidence to support his claims. Still, owning a trademark does not automatically establish that every similar phrase or debate format infringes it. The court will have to consider the scope of Crowder’s rights and the specific use by CNN and Jubilee.

Not Helping His Case: Muslim Brotherhood Backers Have Donated Thousands to El-Sayed’s Campaign, Records Reveal– www.westernjournal.com
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It’s getting more difficult by the day to pretend that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed never had any association with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Oh, sure, he gets really huffy on stage or during interviews when anyone confronts him about it. He mocks his Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, for even bringing up his ties to the organization, calling it Islamophobic: “We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, ‘He’s Muslim,’” he told a crowd on Thursday.

However, we have statements by El-Sayed in support of the terrorist organization, including his remarks during his college years and an essay for HuffPost in 2011 that said Muslim Brotherhood rule of Egypt would be perfectly fine.

Ramaswamy’s last-ditch attack shows signs of backfiring – thehill.com
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In today’s issue: Democrat Amy Acton’s chances of flipping the Ohio governor’s race seem to have received a boost as backlash to Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s controversial ad featuring her estranged mother keeps growing. Ramaswamy has doubled down in defending the ad, which depicts Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, calling her daughter a “liar” and saying she needs “help” as part of a message urging…

Abdul El-Sayed Keeps Pandering to Black Voters, and It Just Keeps Getting Worse– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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Did someone inform Abdul El-Sayed that a winning campaign strategy was to be racist towards his own race? Because in his pathetic effort to pander to Black voters, he is doing just that.

At least twice this week, Abdul has claimed Arabs were responsible for catcalling on Black women and selling kids “Lucy.” He said he is not like those Arabs. That is why you should vote for him.

“Too often when someone interacts with somebody who looks like me in the City of Detroit, they are interacting behind bulletproof glass. They are selling some kid a Lucy out the back, catcalling some women. They are denying someone access to the bathroom. It is some bullsh*t,” he said, adding that he was lucky enough to have a Black teacher to teach him otherwise.

And to call this racist would be an understatement.

Here he is earlier this week spouting some similar nonsense:

LA Election Officials Admit They Have No Way of Verifying Citizenship Beyond What Voters Attest; Case Transfers to Clinton-Appointed Judge– amgreatness.com
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Los Angeles County election officials admitted in a federal court filing Tuesday that they have no independent way to verify voter citizenship beyond the voter’s own attestation. The intensifying case, which was initially assigned to a Trump-appointed judge, was transferred to a Clinton-appointed judge on Wednesday.

Assistant Registrar Monica Flores stated the office is “not equipped or authorized” to verify citizenship because it does not independently house immigration, travel, or naturalization records.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli called this a “massive concession” in a statement on X, pointing out that Under federal law, only citizens may vote.

“Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots,” Essayli wrote. “American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.”

Governor Gavin Newsom’s press office (D.) countered on X that California has complied with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which permits reliance on sworn voter statements rather than independent documentary verification.

“18 U.S.C. § 611: It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for federal office,” Essayli posted in response. “18 U.S.C. § 2: Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission is punishable as a principal.”

Omar Wouldn’t Say For Sure Her Ex-Husband Wasn’t Her Brother: ‘Not to My Knowledge’– www.westernjournal.com
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Look, I understand that the principles of plausible deniability goes a long way in Washington, D.C. I get that a well-placed “I have no recollection of that, senator” is sometimes a heck of a lot better than a yes or a no, especially if you’re under oath.

However, if the question is whether you married a man who is your brother and the response is “not to my knowledge,” come on. 

You probably already know who and what I’m talking about, but for the uninitiated, the rumor that Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar wed her brother as part of a feint to get him permanent residency status in the United States is a lot more than a rumor now that sources say that they have DNA evidence linking the two as siblings.

The New York Post said that the DNA match had been obtained as part of a “years-long” investigation into Omar and her family, and play into a larger case investigating whether “Omar — and possibly members of her family like her father — defrauded immigration authorities.”

Moreover, the Post’s Miranda Devine noted that she had a source that had confirmed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, Omar’s second husband, was also her brother, but that her informant was scooped up by the FBI under President Joe Biden:

THERE IT IS: James Talarico Says the U.S. Supreme Court ‘Needs to be Overhauled’ (VIDEO) * The Gateway Pundit * by Mike LaChance– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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We now have confirmation that James Talarico is no different than the rest of the insane Democrats right now who want to completely destroy our institutions.

Remember when Democrats accused Trump of destroying our precious norms? That is actually what they want to do.

During a Q and A with a reporter for FOX News, Talarico said that he supports the idea of changing the U.S. Supreme Court, adding term limits, adding judges, and more. He said the court ‘needs to be overhauled.’

The National News Desk reports:

Another comment Talarico previously made was that there are six genders, which he addressed.

“I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it,” he said. “What I meant is that there are two sexes, and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities.”

“Obviously didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There are two, and I think the reason that politicians in that convention center across the street want to talk about six sexes is because they don’t want to talk about $6 diesel,” Talarico added.

Meanwhile, Talarico said the Supreme Court was “infected” with corruption, and that it “needs to be overhauled.”

If elected, Talarico said, “You’re going to expect that I will vote for overhaul to the Supreme Court. That will include binding codes of conduct for our justices. It’ll include term limits, and I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices.”

The El-Sayed Family’s Terror Ties Keep Tumbling Out on the Campaign Trail– townhall.com
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He made this an issue. Abdul El-Sayed looked directly into NBC’s Kristen Welker’s eyes and said that he and his family don’t have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. His sister seems to have an affinity for the movement that’s banned in five Muslim countries, even tweeting about it. NBC News’ Tom Illamas even cooked him on it, surprisingly. He got very testy about it.

And now, we’ve learned that El-Sayed’s mother worked for a charity with al-Qaeda ties. His uncle was its bookkeeper.

Here’s Where Dem Senate Candidates Stands On Court-Packing– thefederalist.com
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Once upon a time, calling to pack the Supreme Court with more justices for partisan gain was viewed as such a radical idea that few politicians would even consider it. Today, it has become mainstream in the Democrat Party.

Throughout the past year, Democrats far and wide have resuscitated plans to increase the number of justices on the high court as a means of garnering decisions favorable to their party. From potential 2028 presidential contenders to congressional leadership, these officials have made clear their intention to pack the court should they reclaim Congress and the White House in the next few elections.

With Americans currently heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, The Federalist has assembled a guide assessing where every major Democrat Senate candidate stands on the issue. While some candidates have already openly entertained court-packing, others have chosen to hide their position from voters.

The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech– readsludge.com
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If Democrats win control of the House in the midterms, leaders of the moderate New Democrat Coalition expect their 114-member bloc, already the largest ideological faction among House Democrats, to grow and advance its artificial intelligence agenda. The consultant raising money for the coalition’s political arm also runs a corporate-backed nonprofit that brings executives from Anthropic, Nvidia, and Oracle into private discussions with congressional staff and advises a tech industry group that seeks to shape the party’s AI agenda.

Helen Milby is the longtime treasurer and top paid fundraising adviser to the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund, a PAC that supports the coalition’s candidates. She also runs GlobalWIN, a bipartisan nonprofit with partners including Anthropic and a16z that sponsors congressional travel, private dinners, and policy discussions that connect lawmakers with business executives. Milby also serves on the advisory board of the tech industry group Chamber of Progress, whose corporate backers include Google, OpenAI, and Coinbase and which says it wants to “shape the kind of Democrats who win in 2026.”

These overlapping roles give the tech industry channels into both the electoral operation working to expand the New Democrats and the private policy conversations that reach their staff and members. The Action Fund has endorsed 50 candidates this cycle, including 36 of the 46 in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program of districts it aims to flip. Its website says it has raised and bundled more than $12 million this cycle for its candidates. “We expect that our numbers are going to swell in the next Congress,” Action Fund Chair Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat, told Roll Call this month.