02 U.S. Politics

VA Court Can’t Say If Dem Gerrymander Is Illegal Until After They Try It– thefederalist.com

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A Virginia circuit court ruled that a referendum vote enabling Democrats to gerrymander U.S. congressional districts can move ahead, despite leaving open the possibility that the referendum itself could be illegal.

The case involved the City of Lynchburg suing to “pause early voting” or have the court “answer questions about the legality” of the referendum vote, as reported by Cardinal News. If approved by voters, the measure would allow Democrats to redraw the congressional map to gerrymander Virginia’s congressional districts to eliminate four Republican seats, giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage.

As The Federalist reported, Republicans have apparently been relying on untrustworthy courts to stop the referendum, while essentially ignoring a get-out-the-vote effort. They now have two days before early voting starts on March 6, with “Election Day” set for April 21.

In a Monday ruling, Judge Patrick Yeatts of the Lynchburg Circuit Court refused to rule on the substance of a lawsuit aimed at stopping the referendum vote from taking place, leaving the issue in the hands of the Virginia Supreme Court.

Texas Democrat James Talarico Says Bible Supports Killing Babies in Abortions– www.lifenews.com

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James Talarico, a Texas lawmaker, won the Democratic race to run for U.S. Senate. As a Democrat, he strongly supports abortion. What has surprised many Texans is not just his position, but the way he defends it. He says the Bible supports his view.

Talarico grew up in a Christian Presbyterian church and often talks about his faith. But his explanation of Scripture ignores what the Bible teaches about the value of Life, especially the lives of babies in the womb.

Around the time the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing Texas to protect preborn children, Talarico preached a sermon that focused almost entirely on abortion.

Texas GOP Incumbent Tony Gonzales Advances To GOP Runoff Amid Staffer Sex Scandal And Suicide Tragedy– dailycaller.com

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Republican incumbent Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales was defeated in his primary Tuesday amid a staffer sex scandal and suicide tragedy.

Gonzales and gun rights YouTuber Brandon Herrera are projected to head into a runoff, according to the Hill’s Decision Desk HQ report.

Neither Gonzales nor Herrera secured more than 50% of the vote in the primary, forcing the pair into a May runoff in the GOP race for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District — a rematch after their narrow 2024 showdown.

The future GOP candidate will now face Democratic candidate, attorney, and former public school teacher, Katy Stout, in the November 2o26 general election.

The congressman, who represents

Hegseth Signals Prolonged US Commitment In Iran– thefederalist.com

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THE PENTAGON — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signaled prolonged U.S. military involvement in Iran on Wednesday morning, stating a surge of forces is “accelerating, not decelerating.”

Hegseth held a press conference at the Pentagon with Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to give an update on developments in the joint U.S.-Israel war with Iran and “Operation Epic Fury.”

“As President Trump said, more and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started,” Hegseth said. “We are accelerating, not decelerating. Iran’s capabilities are evaporating by the hour, while American strength grows fiercer, smarter and utterly dominant. More bombers and more fighters are arriving.”

Courts Must Defer To Immigration Judges On Asylum– thefederalist.com

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sided with the Trump administration on Wednesday in a dispute over the standard for reviewing the cases of illegal aliens seeking asylum in the United States.

“We granted certiorari to determine whether the Court of Appeals applied the appropriate standard of review under the [Immigration and Nationality Act] INA. We conclude that the statute requires application of the substantial-evidence standard to the agency’s conclusion that a given set of undisputed facts does not constitute persecution. Accordingly, we affirm,” Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the court.

Michigan’s Dirty And Dead-Ridden Voter Rolls Escape Scrutiny– thefederalist.com

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It appears the dead will continue to rest in peace on Michigan’s dirty voter rolls.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week summarily denied a request to review two lower court decisions that rejected an election-integrity watchdog’s lawsuit seeking to force Michigan’s far-left Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to remove the names of deceased people from the voter files.

In a release denying certiorari for dozens of cases, the court did not explain why it decided not to hear the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s challenge.

Democrats Already Dumping On Newsom › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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The recent Democratic polling for election year 2028 has been posted. There’s a field, though not a very compelling one. Some governors in blue states that people can’t flee from fast enough, progressive twits who can’t speak English all that well, and some would-be moderates hoping to recoup the working classes that broke for Trump and the Republicans in 2016 and 2024.

And then there’s California’s Gavin Newsom.

Is he the new thing that Democrats are looking for to lead them into 2028?

Current polling places Kamala Harris as the first pick for the presidential nomination.

The Energy Squeeze China’s in Over Operation Epic Fury Is Just a Foretaste of What Is Yet to Come – RedState– redstate.com

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I never thought I would say this, but this week has convinced me that the Trump Administration is possibly the first administration in decades to execute a politico-military strategy and shape events rather than just bounce, pinball-like, from one flashing light to another. Bear with me as I lay out what I think is going on, and feel free to excoriate me in the comments if you disagree.

Chris Hayes Compares Trump Bombing Iran to 9/11 Terrorists– www.newsbusters.org

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MS NOW All In host Chris Hayes made a morally obscene analogy on his Monday show as he lamented that the United States allegedly does not appreciate the fact that the people who die in war are real human beings. To prove his point, Hayes tried to claim that the terror Americans felt after 9/11 is “commonplace” in other parts of the world because of “the kinds of war of aggression that Donald Trump just started.”

Hayes started with what may have seemed to be a friendly reminder that this war is taking place in the real world with real people being caught in the middle, “But outside these borders, war is having a bomb dropped on your daughter’s elementary school, seeing some alert or getting a panicked call, or on your apartment building, or the hospital where you are receiving care. Death from above. And when you only view war through our perspective, the understanding that bombs are never coming for us, it becomes nothing more than an abstraction. Gets far too easy to wave away the loss of human life. It’s priced in. It’s the cost of doing business.”

IDF Destroys ‘Secret’ Iranian Nuclear Site and Over 300 Ballistic Missile Launchers Across Iran– gellerreport.com

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One of the greatest forces for good the world has ever known. And that is why the left hate her. The hatred of the good for being the good.

The secret nuclear facility—previously unknown to Western intelligence—was struck in the opening hours of the campaign and completely destroyed: Israeli Air Force jets on Tuesday destroyed a secret underground site on the outskirts of Tehran where Iran transferred much of its nuclear program after the war with Israel in June, the IDF said…. Following that war, in which Israel and the US targeted Iranian nuclear sites, Iran “did not halt its military nuclear activity, and continued to develop the capabilities required for nuclear weapons, while transferring infrastructure to an underground site protected from aerial attack,” said Defrin (Times of Israel). Foundation for Defense of Democracies analyst Thomas Joscelyn called it, “the most significant degradation of Iranian strategic capabilities in a generation” (FDD). Israel has destroyed over 300 Iranian ballistic missile launchers in coordinated strikes across multiple provinces, the Jerusalem Post confirmed (Jerusalem Post). Iran’s retaliatory capacity has been crippled. In an interview with Politico, President Trump said Iran is both running out of missiles and running out of launchers (Politico).

U.S. and Iran vow to step up attacks in fast-spreading war; Azerbaijan caught in crossfire– www.cbsnews.com

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The private Institute for National Security Studies in Israel has offered a range of figures that highlight the scale of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. According to the INSS, Iran has launched more than 1,600 drones at Israel, Jordan, Persian Gulf nations, and Cyprus:

Launches from Iran at:

-Israel: Approximately 200 missiles and more than 120 UAVs

-UAE: 941 UAVs, 189 ballistic missiles, and 8 cruise missiles

Iran war could disrupt supply of semiconductor materials, South Korea warns – National– globalnews.ca

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The U.S.-Israel war with Iran could disrupt supplies of key semiconductor manufacturing materials, a South Korean ruling party lawmaker said on Thursday, as the conflict in the Middle East entered its sixth day.

South Korea’s chip industry, which supplies around two-thirds of global memory chips, is also concerned that a prolonged conflict in Iran will lead to higher energy costs and prices, Kim Young-bae said after meeting with executives from companies such as Samsung Electronics 005930.KS and trade groups.

Which Kurdish groups is the US rallying to fight Iran? | Donald Trump News– www.aljazeera.com

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Iran has launched operations targeting Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in neighbouring Iraq as the regional war ignited by the United States and Israel entered its sixth day, with more than 1,000 people killed across the country.

State television, Press TV, reported early on Thursday that Tehran was striking “anti-Iran separatist forces”, referring to Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish groups believed to be based in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas near the Iran-Iraq border.

Popular Far-Left Streamer Advises Suicide Bombers to Switch to Drones for Terror Campaigns– www.westernjournal.com

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When it comes to online leftist personalities, a handful are simply more notorious than others, for a variety of reasons.

From Steven “Destiny” Bonnell to Kyla “NotSoErudite” Turner, there is no shortage of leftist personalities vying for internet notoriety in the modern online era.

Yet even within those circles, one leftist streamer has risen well above the rest in terms of notoriety — or what some may call “infamy.”

Hasan Piker, the far-left streamer who regularly produces content for large streaming platforms like Twitch, is no stranger to controversy.

Founder of Minneapolis autism center admits to paying kickbacks to Somali families in $6 million scam– www.theblaze.com

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The founder of Star Autism Center admitted that he began the $6 million scam after “investors” approached him and provided families from the Somali community to bilk the federal government out of taxpayer cash.

Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf was only 22 years old when he started running the scheme after dropping out of St. Cloud Technical College in Aug. 2020.

The more services the families signed up for, the more they would receive in kickback payments.

JUST IN: Bomb Squad Deployed After Suspicious Package Found at Trump Tower– wltreport.com

pgnewser March 3, 2026 0

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This afternoon, a bomb squad was deployed to Trump Tower in New York after a suspicious package was discovered.

Reportedly, the item was found in a mailroom.

Transit was disrupted, but thankfully, the package was eventually cleared as a threat.

Newsweek confirmed:

Police said a 911 call was received around 4:20 p.m. after the Secret Service discovered the package inside the building at 725 Fifth Avenue, but no evacuations, injuries or arrests were reported as the investigation continued, the NYPD told Newsweek via phone interview.

A large police and emergency response presence could be seen outside of the building in videos posted to social media.

New York City’s emergency notification system posted on X, “Police Activity: Expect traffic delays, road closures, mass transit disruptions & emergency personnel near 5th Avenue & West 56th Street, Manhattan. Avoid the area.”

NBC New York reported just before 6 p.m. that the package has been cleared as a threat.

Here’s some footage from the scene:

Feds Bust Brazilian Illegal Behind Fraudulent Organization That Claimed to Be Government Agency › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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The feds have busted a Brazilian illegal alien who led an organization that falsely claimed to be a government agency and fraudulently trained foreign nationals throughout the United States to become chaplains.

Mario Cesar Dos Santos Jr. is facing deportation proceedings for allegedly handing out fake federal identification cards to fellow illegal aliens under the pretense the cards would shield them from deportation. Dos Santos also sold the chaplain trainees gold badges, shirts and other merchandise fraudulently emblazoned with the seal of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Dos Santos is the chief executive of the “Chaplain Emergency Management Agency” or “CEMA,” which claims to be “an agency of the United States of America” on it’s slick, still active website.

‘Toxic indoctrination’: Dept. of War cuts fellowships at 13 ‘elite’ universities– www.thecollegefix.com

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The U.S. Department of Defense announced the cancellation of its military education fellowships at 13 top universities on Friday, citing “toxic indoctrination.”

“We are eliminating certain Senior Service College (SSC) Fellowship programs for the 2026-2027 academic year and beyond. I am also directing the compilation of a revised list of elite institutions offering equivalent programs to replace those eliminated,” the agency wrote in a memo to Pentagon leadership.

It said this change will give leaders “a more rigorous and relevant education.”

Further, in a video posted on X,  Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said, “For decades, the Ivy League and similar institutions have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American taxpayer dollars only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain.”

“They’ve replaced the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weakness,” he said.

Markets Handle Iran Strikes Brilliantly as S&P 500 Has Biggest Intraday Recovery in 5 Months Finishing Positive for the Day– www.westernjournal.com

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It’s not exactly a secret that war can have a debilitating, caustic effect on the economy.

So when Operation Epic Fury commenced over the weekend — which saw joint U.S. and Israeli forces successfully kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as much of Tehran’s leadership infrastructure — it was only logical for people to assume that the markets would have a volatile and negative weekend.

According to The Wall Street Journal, those wringing their hands were only half right.

WATCH: Hillary Clinton Throws a Hissy Fit During Deposition — Looks VERY Uncomfortable When Asked About “Frazzledrip”– wltreport.com

pgnewser March 3, 2026 0

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We finally have the full video footage of Hillary Clinton’s deposition from last week.

It’s entirely unclear to me why you would record this and then release it a few days later….why not just make it live?

But anyway, now we have it and we finally get to see her throw the fit we heard about last week.

Watch here:

Israel Launches Invasion of Lebanon to Defend Citizens From Hezbollah– www.breitbart.com

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The Israeli government says it has authorised its forces to advance into Lebanon and “take control of additional areas” to prevent Hezbollah using them to fire into Israeli border settlements as part of Operation Roaring Lion, Jerusalem’s counterpart of the American Operation Epic Fury.

Israel is reacting to the decision “of the Hezbollah terror organization to join the campaign of the Iranian terror regime” and is moving forward to occupy land used to launch attacks against Israeli border communities, they said on Tuesday morning. Air raid sirens sounded in the north of Israel again on Tuesday morning as Hezbollah rocket attacks, launched from inside Lebanon, struck the Galilee area, The Times of Israel reported.

Trump Says Attack Is Moving Much Faster Than Expected With 1,200 Targets Hit and the Entire Iranian Navy Neutralized– www.westernjournal.com

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Despite there still being quite a bit of dust left to settle, it appears Operation Epic Fury is fully living up to its name.

The joint military effort between the U.S. and Israel successfully neutralized the now-deceased Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the weekend — and that earth-shattering salvo appears to be just the tip of the spear.

According to Fox News, President Donald Trump spoke on the aftermath and fallout of Operation Epic Fury, and it appears there’s still a lot of work to do.

Marco Rubio says Operation Epic Fury was ‘proactive in a defensive way to prevent’ Iran from ‘inflicting higher damage’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the Trump administration believed that Israel was imminently planning to strike Iran before the US authorized Operation Epic Fury. “Was there an imminent threat? Did you tell lawmakers there was an imminent threat?” A reporter asked.

“There absolutely was an imminent threat,” Rubio said. “And the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded, because the Department of War assessed that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit us first, after they were attacked by someone else, [if] Israel attacked them, they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths,” Rubio said.

BREAKING: Third victim of Austin mass shooting pronounced dead | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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Police identified the victim as 30-year-old Jorge Pederson.

The Austin Police Department announced on Monday night that a third victim has succumbed to his injuries in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting.

Police identified the victim as 30-year-old Jorge Pederson. Sources told KVUE that Pederson was taken off life support earlier in the day. The other victims who died in the shooting have been identified as 19-year-old Texas Tech student Ryder Harrington and 21-year-old University of Texas student Savitha Shan.

Biologist accuses Cornell of ‘egregious’ discrimination against white men in lawsuit– www.thecollegefix.com

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A lawsuit filed by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright includes “egregious” evidence of racially discriminatory hiring practices at Cornell University, according to his attorney.

“The facts could not be more egregious – here we have documented, intentional exclusion of huge swaths of candidates based on race and ethnicity,” Leigh Ann O’Neill, chief legal affairs officer at America First Policy Institute, told The College Fix in a recent email.

In the lawsuit filed in January, Wright alleges that multiple internal emails show the Ivy League institution intentionally excluded white candidates from the hiring process in violation of state and federal civil rights laws.

Trump ‘Never Said Anything’ Suggesting Epstein Misconduct– trendingpoliticsnews.com

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On Monday, fallout continued from a closed-door deposition that is already reshaping the political conversation around Jeffrey Epstein.

Former President Bill Clinton, testifying under oath before the House Oversight Committee on Friday, made a statement that quickly reverberated across Washington: President Donald Trump never gave him any reason to believe he was involved in wrongdoing related to Epstein.

The testimony came during a high-stakes session led by James Comer (R-KY), the committee’s chairman, at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center in New York, near the Clintons’ longtime home.

NATO Chief Praises Trump’s Handling of Iran: ‘Widespread Support for What the President Is Doing’– slaynews.com

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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte voiced unequivocal support Monday for President Donald Trump’s military strikes on Iran, declaring that America’s allies stand united as Tehran escalates missile retaliation across the region.

“There is no sliver of light between us,” Rutte said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”

“The Europeans, Canada, Mark Carney, the United States, the American president… All for one, one for all, because everybody supports, here in Europe, the fact that [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei is gone, that the nuclear capability is gone, that the ballistic missile program has been now degraded,” he said.

UN nuclear watchdog says Iran nuclear site damaged in strikes– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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One of Iran’s nuclear facilities was damaged in the strikes orchestrated by Israel and the United States over the weekend, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed on Tuesday morning.

The Natanz Nuclear Facility in Iran’s Isfahan province was targeted during joint military operations, said Reza Najafi, Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA confirmed the subsequent damage from the strikes on Tuesday morning in a social media post on X.

We Knew Israel Would Attack Iran, Which Would Lead to an Attack on America– legalinsurrection.com

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio expanded on the reasons why the Trump administration chose to launch Operation Epic Fury against Iran, including knowing that Israel already planned an operation.

Rubio said:

“So, the United States conducted this operation with a very clear goal in mind. I haven’t gotten a chance to see a lot of reporting. I don’t understand what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you and I’ll do it, once again, as clearly as possible. Perhaps you’ll report it that way. The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran’s short range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their navy, particularly to naval assets. That is what it is focused on doing right now and it’s doing quite successfully. I will leave it to the Pentagon and the Department of War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress being made. That is the clear objective of this mission.”

“The second question that’s been asked is, why now? Well, there’s two reasons why now. The first is it was abundantly clear that, if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. The orders have been delegated down to the field commanders, it was automatic and in fact, it beared to be true because, in fact, the — within one hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north, for that matter, had already been activated to la launch. In fact, those are even pre-positioned.”

“The third is the assessment that was made that, if we stood and waited for that attack to come first, before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties and so, the President made the very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces and we knew that, if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed, and then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn’t act.”

Oil prices will likely fall quickly– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Because Iran has previously demonstrated its willingness to close the key trade route through the Strait of Hormuz, some media outlets are speculating that oil prices could soar to $100 a barrel or higher. They argue that this could cause a recession in the United States, which would spread across the global economy.

These fears are misplaced. Yes, the price of Brent Crude, the global benchmark, has climbed sharply to around $75 to $78 a barrel. But from the standpoint of economic activity, that is not a particularly troubling price. Several times in the past five years, Brent has traded above $90 a barrel without causing a recession in the U.S. or globally. World markets can weather oil prices in the $70s.