02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

Arrests, Prisoners, U.S. Warnings — What’s Really Happening on the Ground In Venezuela – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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The situation on the ground in Venezuela is a mixed bag right now, which is to be expected. One doesn’t just pluck the lead narco-terrorist from a “government” that’s basically organized crime and expect sunshine and roses within a week. It’s going to take time for Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and the United States team to pull all the weeds, and I have no doubt that, if anyone can do it, those two men can.

It’s also changing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up with everything.

That said, I’m seeing a lot of misinformation, speculation, confusion, and biased reporting out there — surprise, surprise — and I want to set the record straight on what’s happening in Venezuela right this minute. Everything I’m going to say comes from our State Department, credible human rights groups, sources on the ground, and people with whom I’ve connected who are from that country.  None of them are anonymous.

Colombia’s Socialist Leader Vows to ‘Take Up Arms Again’ to Fight Trump– slaynews.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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Colombia’s socialist leader Gustavo Petro has claimed he’s prepared to “take up arms” to fight against President Donald Trump.

Petro published a lengthy, early-morning social media post on Monday, in which he also accused Trump of issuing “illegitimate threats” toward Bogotá.

The Colombian president is a self-described socialist and former member of the now-defunct M19 guerrilla organization.

He invoked his past involvement with the group while warning that detaining him would “unleash the jaguar of the people.”

Trump Admin Freezes Childcare Funding for Blue States– townhall.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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The Department of Health and Human Services will be freezing funding for childcare services in five blue states, the Trump administration announced on Monday.

The New York Post reported that over $10 billion in childcare funding would be paused for California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York after funds were being funneled to illegal immigrants. Further, all 50 states will be required to provide increased data before releasing funds for childcare.

HHS further announced that it would close a Biden-era loophole that allowed for payouts without verifying attendance. Under the new guidelines, states can require payouts to be granted by attendance rather than enrollment and upfront payouts are no longer required.

“Paying providers upfront based on paper enrollment instead of actual attendance invites abuse,” Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill said in a statement. “In Minnesota, we’ve seen credible and widespread allegations of fraudulent daycare providers who were not caring for children at all. The reforms we are enacting will make fraud harder to perpetrate.”

Ilhan Omar advocated for funds for Somali-run addiction group later discovered to be restaurant: report | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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“The scale and frequency of fraud in Minnesota is staggering, but I fear just the tip of the iceberg.”

Representative Ilhan Omar has been accused of attempting to secure a $1 million earmark in a congressional spending bill for a Somali-led addiction recovery organization that shares an address with a Somali restaurant.

On Monday, lawmakers unveiled a new spending package totaling at least $174 billion. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said her office found that Omar had earmarked $1,031,000 through the Department of Justice for an organization called Generation Hope MN. The earmark was included alongside funding requests co-led by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith of Minnesota.

Ernst told Fox News that the earmark was presented as funding for a substance abuse clinic, but her office determined the organization was housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals who share the same residential address.

‘ICE Watch’ Trained Activists to Block Agents Days Before Deadly Minneapolis Shooting– slaynews.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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Explosive new details have emerged surrounding the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, revealing that anti-ICE activists were actively training locals on how to obstruct federal immigration agents just days before the confrontation turned deadly.

According to screenshots shared by journalist Julie Kelly, a Minnesota chapter of the activist network “ICE Watch” held a virtual training session on Monday.

The training session was only two days before Good was shot dead by an ICE agent in south Minneapolis.

David Hogg Claims Criticism Of Renee Good Is Dangerous While Blasting ‘Vice Tyrant’ JD Vance– dailycaller.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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Gun control activist David Hogg suggested during a Sunday morning MS NOW appearance that merely arguing Renee Good may have been in the wrong when she was allegedly fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent amounts to “dangerous” rhetoric.

The ousted Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair repeatedly used the word “dangerous” to refer to Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials making the case the ICE agent shot Good in self-defense Wednesday in Minneapolis. On the day of the shooting, Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Good was “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” and the agent fired the fatal shot “fearing for his life.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem likewise likened Good’s last actions to “domestic terrorism.”

“I just think about how incredibly dangerous this rhetoric is, regardless of what she wants to say about this person, they were calling her a domestic terrorist before her body was cold,” Hogg, 25, told “The Weekend” co-host Eugene Daniels on Sunday. “That is so dangerous for the government to be doing that. Across the board, we all should be agreeing that there needs to be an investigation here, before we have anybody in the Executive Branch coming and saying, ‘Well, this is exactly who she [Good] was.’”

Meet The Murderers, Child Rapists ICE Is Arresting In Minnesota– dailycaller.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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Despite Democrats’ raging against the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are continuing to arrest illegal migrant child rapists and killers in Minnesota.

Amid their enforcement surge, federal immigration authorities are nabbing “the worst of the worst” criminal illegal migrants all across the Land of 10,000 Lakes, according to ICE Director Todd Lyons. While deportation officers nab gruesome individuals throughout Minnesota, high-profile Democratic politicians are publicly demanding they leave immediately.

Texas Forces San Antonio to Stop Funding Abortions– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser January 11, 2026 0

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The City of San Antonio can no longer fund abortion-related services, including out-of-state travel, due to the passage of Senate Bill 33 in 2025 and enforcement actions by the Texas Attorney General’s Office, according to a new release issued earlier today. In 2025, the Texas Legislature passed (and Gov. Greg Abbott signed) Senate Bill 33, which prohibits governmental entities from using taxpayer funds to support abortion providers or “abortion assistance entities,” including logistical support such as travel to other states for abortions not permitted in Texas.

The City of San Antonio had previously established a $100,000 allocation within its Reproductive Justice Fund specifically to cover travel for out-of-state abortions. That program has now ended as a result of the new law and related legal action.

“We are grateful that one of our major pro-life goals from last year’s legislative session has now been fully realized,” said Dr. Joe Pojman, President of Texans for Life. “Thanks to Gov. Greg Abbott, the Legislature, and the Attorney General, taxpayers in San Antonio — and every other city in Texas — are protected from being forced to pay for abortion services, including travel to obtain abortions not legal in our state.”

Pro-Abortion Group Uses Fruit to Practice Methods of Child Sacrifice– www.westernjournal.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Pro-abortion medical students decided to reign in the new year in the most disgusting, vile, and satanic way possible — by filming themselves smiling as they practice child sacrifice on tomatoes.

Medical Students for Choice posted the footage to social media platform TikTok on Tuesday, captioning the event — from Portland, Oregon — “The type of energy we’re bringing into 2026:”

The brief clip shows students practicing abortions as the tomatoes are put where a baby’s head would be.

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Elon Musk Declares ‘War’ After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life– slaynews.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Elon Musk issued a stark public warning after a viral TikTok livestream appeared to show a Somali user making a chilling remark about his life, prompting concern and backlash across social media.

The viral clip shows an unidentified TikTok user livestreaming while playing a video of Musk on her phone.

After speaking in Somali, she briefly switched to English and said:

“I wouldn’t worry too much about him. He about to die.”

Venezuela’s Acting Gov’t Blames The Jews for Maduro Seizure– gellerreport.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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As if on cue, the Jew-hating left has descended into conspiracy, absurdly blaming Israel for a U.S. military operation against the Nicolás Maduro regime—an accusation as deranged as it is revealing. The claim is nonsense, yet Israel has every reason to support the action: under Maduro and Hugo Chávez, Venezuela severed ties with Israel, relentlessly attacked it in international forums, welcomed Iran and Hezbollah to build terror, money-laundering, and drug-trafficking networks across Latin America, and drove its once-thriving Jewish community into near extinction. Now, Venezuelan officials openly invoke antisemitic tropes—calling the operation “Zionist”—while Western activists and influencers echo the slander, proving once again that when a tyrant falls, the reflex of the Jew-haters is not to celebrate freedom, but to blame the Jews.

Shots Fired at Vance’s Home – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Someone reportedly fired shots at Vice President JD Vance’s Cincinnati, Ohio, home. The vice president and his family were not in the house at the time.

Local police did arrest a suspect following the gunfire, but there have as yet been no reports of injuries related to the incident, according to Tousi TV. Fox Business, however, reported that the Secret Service detained the suspect.

Trump says US ‘in charge’ of Venezuela, new leader is ‘cooperating’– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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President Donald Trump said on Sunday night that the United States is “in charge” of Venezuela after its mission that resulted in the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and the fall of his regime.

Initially hesitant to answer a question about who is running the country after Maduro’s ouster, saying it would be a “controversial” answer, Trump ultimately said, “We’re in charge.”

“We’re gonna run it. Fix it. We’ll have elections at the right time,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he headed back to the White House from Mar-a-Lago.

Rubio Pushes Back Against Cable News After Maduro’s Arrest– legalinsurrection.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Sunday morning’s cable news circuit once again demonstrated why senior administration officials so often spend more time correcting media narratives than explaining policy.

Appearing across Meet the Press and Face the Nation, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was subjected to a familiar pattern of questioning: assumptions embedded as facts, motives ascribed rather than examined, and repeated demands to justify actions that were already explained. The pushback Rubio delivered was not theatrical, nor was it evasive. It was corrective. And it was necessary only because the framing itself was flawed.

The first line of attack centered on Venezuela’s oil industry, with the implication that American involvement following the capture of Nicolás Maduro must be driven by resource acquisition rather than security.

Mamdani’s new housing executive calls for private property to be seized, calls home ownership “white supremacy”– www.louderwithcrowder.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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The Zohran is now the mayor of New York City, and one of his first matters of business was appointing a Communist who wants to seize private property as his, quote, director of the city’s Office to Protect Tenants. Meet Cea Weaver. She says private property should be part of the warm glow of collectivism as opposed to the rugged individualism of being allowed to own your own home, especially if you’re one of them white people.

It will mean families – especially WHITE FAMILIES – are going to have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.

The streets are saying this clip is from a November 2022 podcast called “Cities After…,” and I know what you’re thinking. “Hey Brodigan, an adult in public policy can’t be expected to be held accountable for the words that came out of her mouth prior to five minutes ago. Also, I get all my news from CNN and have trouble tying my own shoes.”

In that case, you probably won’t be interested in these nuggets from her now deleted X account:

  • 2018: “Seize private property!”
  • 2019: “Private property including any kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy.”
  • 2017: “Elect more communists.”

Protests Erupt in NYC, Philadelphia Over Maduro Capture– www.breitbart.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Protests erupted in cities such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and New York City after it was announced that the U.S. captured Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Video footage posted to X showed protesters marching through New York City carrying signs that said, “Free Pres. Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, Now!” and “No Blood For Oil.”

According to ABC7NY, “a group of people demonstrated in Times Square” over Maduro’s capture. The protesters claimed that Maduro’s capture was not “about drug trafficking or democracy,” but that it was “about stealing oil and dominating Latin America.”

Court orders Maduro VP to take over as interim president– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Venezuela’s Supreme Court ordered Vice President Delcy Rodriguez to take over as interim president for Nicolas Maduro, the now-former leader who was captured by the United States during a military operation and is now detained in New York City.

The nation’s highest court ruled on Saturday night that Rodriguez will, at the very least, temporarily succeed Maduro for the sake of “administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the Nation.”

The ruling is in accordance with Venezuela’s constitution, which states that the vice president handles presidential duties in the event of an absence. The court said in its order that Maduro is currently in a “material and temporary impossibility to exercise his functions.”

New Details Emerge Of JD Vance’s Role In Capture Of Maduro– trendingpoliticsnews.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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New details are emerging about Vice President JD Vance and his behind-the-scenes role in the dramatic U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, an unprecedented action that has sent shockwaves across Latin America and the world.

In the early hours of January 3, U.S. forces launched a large-scale, highly coordinated military operation inside Venezuela. Explosions were reported in and around Caracas as American aircraft and special operations units struck key military and security targets tied to Maduro’s regime. The operation culminated in the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were extracted from the country and flown to the United States.

Real Venezuelans Flood NYC to Counter Paid Leftist Democrat Protests Defending Bloody Dictator Nicolás Maduro– gellerreport.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Within hours of news breaking about Maduro’s capture, protests broke out in NYC with professionally printed signs and flags in support of Venezuela and other third-world countries like Cuba and Palestine.

Who paid for all of this?

Real Venezuelans are stormed NYC to counteract the white liberal Democrats protesting against Trump’s Maduro capture and strikes

Actual Venezuelans are ecstatic right now.

The Democrats are apoplectic. Democrats screaming over the arrest of the blood-soaked dictator Nicolás Maduro is the perfect hill for them to die on—after defending Barack Obama, who dropped 26,171 bombs in a single year without congressional approval, and Joe Biden, who launched strikes across Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia the same way—hypocrisy laid bare.

NYT Demands Mentally Ill Woman Euthanized by Canadian Government– slaynews.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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The New York Times is demanding that the Canadian government advances it’s rapid expansion of “assisted suicide” laws in order to swiftly euthanize a woman suffering from mental health issues.

It comes as Canada’s spiraling assisted-suicide program is once again under international fire after the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities called on the Canadian government to repeal its planned expansion of euthanasia for those suffering solely from mental illness, a policy critics warn will normalize suicide as “healthcare.”

Numbers Are In: Here’s How Many People Died During U.S. Attack On Venezuela– wltreport.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Anything coming from Venezuela at this point should be treated with a grain of salt.

Venezuela’s military officials have reported that 40 people were killed after the U.S. conducted strikes on Venezuela.

President Trump, in his own press conference, revealed that no U.S. service members died during the military operation.

The New York Times reported more details on the Venezuela death toll:

At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. attack on Venezuela early Saturday, including military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe preliminary reports.

President Trump, speaking on Fox News on Saturday, said that no American troops had been killed. He suggested, however, that some service members had been injured. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said later in the day at a news conference at Mar-a-Lago with Mr. Trump that U.S. helicopters moving to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife had come under fire. He said that one helicopter had been hit but “remained flyable,” and that all U.S. aircraft “came home.”

Nine Reasons Why Trump’s Venezuela Operation Is Great for America › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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The brilliantly executed US operation to snatch Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro benefits American citizens in many different ways.

  1. It took out the head of a major international organized crime cartel. The cartel, which the US has labeled the “Cartel de los Soles,” or Cartel of the Suns, is responsible for cocaine trafficking into the United States. Maduro had turned the upper levels of the Venezuelan government, military, and security services into a huge organized crime entity. The Department of Justice is prosecuting Maduro and others for running what a federal grand jury indictment calls “a corrupt and violent narco-terrorism conspiracy.” While no evidence indicates that Maduro’s cartel directly trafficked fentanyl into the U.S., the Treasury Department sanctioned the Cartel of the Suns last July for providing material support to the Sinaloa cartel of Mexico, which the DOJ described as “flooding the United States with fentanyl.”
  2. It took out the leader who flooded the United States with hardened criminals, organized terrorist gangs like Tren de Aragua, and millions of refugees. Once a new leadership is established in Venezuela, the country can take back its criminals and terrorists, and its refugees can return home and rebuild.

A Tale of Two Protests, San Francisco and Florida – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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San Francisco has been a nutty place for some time now. The city’s been a stronghold of liberals for years, arguably since shortly after World War 2. But over the last couple of decades, the city’s leftist population has crossed over into pure wackadoodle. It’s also a hotbed of Trump Derangement Syndrome; if President Trump found a way to generate clean, free electricity from nothing, the San Francisco left would suddenly be campaigning in favor of coal plants.

Now, in the latest chapter in “San Francisco goes completely bat-guano nuts,” San Franciscans are taking to the streets (I’m sure it’s genuinely spontaneous) to protest Trump’s ouster of Venezuela’s tinpot dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Mamdani Vows to Govern as Democratic Socialist in Inauguration Speech– www.breitbart.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) pledged to govern the Big Apple as a Democratic Socialist during his inauguration speech and declared he would revive “the era of big government.”

After taking the official oath of office with his left hand on a Quran at City Hall early Thursday morning, the newly minted 34-year-old mayor took a ceremonial oath of office from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the afternoon.

Mamdani vowed to hold to the radical views he pushed during his campaign against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Republican Curtis Sliwa.

“We will transform the culture of City Hall from one of no to one of how. We will answer to all New Yorkers, not to any billionaire or oligarch who thinks they can buy our democracy,” he said. “We will govern without shame and insecurity, making no apology for what we believe.”

“I was elected as a Democratic Socialist, and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist,” he added.

Somali Democrat’s Election Campaign Derailed Over Ties to Minnesota’s Daycare Fraud Scandal– slaynews.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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A Somali-born Democrat politician and daycare owner in Minnesota is returning to electoral politics even as the state’s childcare sector faces a sprawling fraud scandal that has drawn national scrutiny and could total billions of dollars.

Abdi Daisane, a Democrat, announced on Christmas Eve that he plans to run for the state Legislature again in 2026.

The announcement comes two years after he lost a race to a Republican incumbent.

Daisane previously ran unsuccessfully for the St. Cloud City Council in 2016.

Dems call for removal of Trump over Maduro capture—while Venezuelans celebrate | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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After President Donald Trump ordered the capture and arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro for charges of narcoterrorism, drug trafficking, and other crimes, Democratic lawmakers want to impeach the president and remove him from office. All the while, Venezuelans around the world have been seen celebrating the fall of Maduro.

Early on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement. Details to follow. There will be a News Conference today at 11 A.M., at Mar-a-Lago. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Now for Trump’s Next Feat, the Left Is About to Openly Support the Cartels – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Until the past 24 hours, Nicolás Maduro Moros and other Venezuelan high-ranking individuals in the Maduro regime ran the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles). Now that the U.S. has penetrated Venezuela’s defenses to capture and arrest Maduro, things have changed.

Maduro and his regime had corrupted the institutions of that country, including its military, its intelligence apparatus, its legislature, and its judiciary, all to aid his cartel’s massive criminal operations.

The Cartel de los Soles originated in Venezuela, and has been involved in the illicit drug trade, human smuggling and trafficking, extortion, sexual exploitation of women and children, and money laundering, along with other criminal activities. Reports are that the cartel’s name is derived from the sun insignias often portrayed on the uniforms of Venezuelan military officials; the relationship is that symbiotic.

OH Gov.’s Office Downplays Significance of Alleged Somali Fraud– www.breitbart.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R) office downplayed the significance of alleged Somali fraud occurring in the state, equating massive amounts of fraud to stores dealing with shoplifting.

While DeWine has indicated that the state “has strong safeguards in place to prevent fraud in the state’s publicly funded childcare system,” Dan Tierney, a spokesman for DeWine, used grocery stores as an example to point out that getting fraud as “close to zero as possible” would likely never happen, according to Cleveland.com.

DOJ Official Harmeet Dhillon Demands Docs From Minnesota’s Sec. of State on ‘Hinky’ Same Day Voting Registrations › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

pgnewser January 5, 2026 0

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Department of Justice attorney Harmeet Dhillon on Friday fired off a letter to Minnesota’s secretary of State  demanding records pertaining to the state’s controversial same day  voter “vouching” registrations.

Minnesota allows same-day voter registration, even for individuals who do not have identification if a registered voter from the same precinct vouches for their residency. A registered voter can vouch for up to eight people, but cannot vouch for others if someone vouched for them.

Employees of residential facilities such as nursing homes or homeless shelters are allowed to vouch for an unlimited number of residents at their facility, provided they can verify their employment.