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Increasingly violent threats toward and harassment of public officials — from county clerks up to the president — are driving more and more of those figures out of their jobs, a particular concern among local election officials, who have struggled with attrition for years.
In the years since the 2020 election, roughly 50 percent of top local election officials across 11 western states have left their jobs since November 2020, according to a new report from Issue One, a bipartisan organization that tracks election issues and supports campaign finance reforms.
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The SAVE Act, which would require “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to register to vote, is making its way through Congress. This is popular among Americans. So, why is there a holdup? Today’s show breaks it down.
“We just want to make sure that you are who you say you are. That’s it,” Crowder said. “I either encounter people who claim racism, because they are die-hard leftists, or the second group of people go, ‘what? We don’t have any ID requirements?’”
Over 80% of Americans agree with this, according to polling data released by CNN’s Harry Enten, including over 70% of Democrats.
“Everyone supports it except the Senate Democrats, who threatened a filibuster,” Crowder said. “They are willing to die on this hill to ensure that no one needs to present an ID to vote.”
According to the left, voter ID is racist.
“Here’s the truth, of course, not. The SAVE Act is popular among all racial groups, increasing year after year,” Crowder said.
SpaceX has moved to absorb Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, bringing the smaller company and its Grok chatbot under the aerospace firm’s control. The deal continues Musk’s broader effort to align his technology businesses more closely, linking artificial intelligence with space launch systems and satellite infrastructure. The merger would allow closer coordination between AI development, space-based communications, and satellite networks. Elon Musk believes today’s AI is about to hit a wall on Earth. Analysts cited by the BBC estimate xAI’s value at around $125bn, while SpaceX is valued at roughly $1tn, reinforcing its position as the world’s most valuable private company.
Major Democrat donor Brad Karp stepped down Wednesday from his role as chairman of Paul Weiss after newly released emails revealed close ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
While the firm did not provide a reason for his departure, Karp said in a statement that “recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that is not in the best interests of the firm.”
“Leading Paul, Weiss for the past 18 years has been the honor of my professional life,” Karp stated.
The Middle East does not need another confrontation between the US and Iran, and Tehran should reach a nuclear deal with Washington, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said today.
Speaking at a panel at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, Gargash said the region had already endured a series of “calamitous confrontations” and warned against further escalation.
President Trump has expanded the Mexico City Policy, which blocked U.S. foreign aid to organizations that promote or support abortion, to also block aid going to organizations that promote gender ideology. Trump’s presidency has been characterized by putting American interests first. This revision to the Mexico City Policy reflects one element of this: standing for biological reality.
“The Department does not believe taxpayer dollars should support sex-rejecting procedures, directly or indirectly for individuals of any age,” the policy states. “A person’s body (including its organs, organ systems, and processes natural to human development like puberty) either healthy or unhealthy based on whether they are operating according to their biological functions.”
Warnings that London secondary schools may soon be forced to close due to falling pupil numbers are the latest visible consequence of a much deeper demographic problem. While policymakers routinely point to housing costs, economic insecurity, and delayed parenthood, one central factor remains persistently under-examined: the long-term impact of abortion on Britain’s birth rate.
London Councils have warned that demand for Year 7 places is now falling faster than demand for Reception places for the first time on record. Over the next four years, pupil numbers entering secondary schools in the capital are expected to drop by almost four percent, with inner London facing even sharper declines. Because schools are funded per pupil, the result is likely to be mergers, closures, staff reductions, and a narrowing of curriculum options.
New York’s anti-Trump Democrat Attorney General Letitia James has launched a bold initiative to crack down on federal immigration raids across the state.
James announced that her office will deploy legal observers to document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during raids in New York State.
These observers, equipped with purple vests, will act as neutral witnesses, gathering real-time information to assess whether federal agents operate within legal boundaries.
President Donald Trump recently called on Republicans to “nationalize” elections to avoid widespread voter fraud.
As it stands currently, each state manages elections — including for federal candidates. Trump seeks to have the federal government take over voting procedures to prevent cheating. “The state acts as an agent of the federal government in elections,” Trump said while addressing reporters at the White House on Tuesday. “I don’t understand why the federal government doesn’t handle them anyway.”
This wasn’t the first time Trump called for nationalizing elections. During a Monday appearance on the Dan Bongino Show, he said, “the Republicans should declare, ‘We want to take charge. We should oversee voting in at least 15 areas.’ The Republicans should nationalize the election process.”
When Big Tech sugar daddy Reid Hoffman isn’t trying to explain his past adventures with the late-serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he’s busy pumping cash into the campaign coffers of liberal hypocrites.
The LinkedIn co-founder over the past four years has written more than $1.8 million in checks to the Welcome PAC, a so-called “dark money” funding machine for Democrat candidates. And Hoffman’s generosity is feeding the campaigns of “moderate” Democrats like California’s Adam Gray, Michigan’s Kristen McDonald Rivet, and other left-leaning candidates facing tight midterm races.
In order to keep their community “safe” from ICE and border patrol, people in Minnesota… have turned into ICE and border patrol. They’ve created checkpoints, checked license plates, and decided who is and isn’t desirable to come into their community. The difference is that while ICE goes after criminals, these hosers are going after the people who go after the criminals.
I know “hoser” is more of a Canadian insult, but Minnesota is close enough. Plus, a case can be made to trade Minnesota for Alberta.
As reported by local news outlets, this roadblock is due to “public safety measures” to prevent ICE from enforcing immigration law.
I was like, ‘Wow, we got folks out there taking care of us, looking out for us,’” Minneapolis resident Wade Haynes said. “It’s good.”
“We need to keep our neighbors safe,” resident Kelly Piatt said.“We will be doing this again.”
It’s similar to CHAZ/CHOP in Seattle. In 2020, leftists took control of city streets to create what they called an “autonomous zone.” Basically, they claimed they seceded from America. It led to people getting murdered when ambulances weren’t allowed through, and a family of one of the victims was just awarded $30,000,000 from the city of Seattle for allowing it to happen.
This from The SundayTimes, surprisingly enough: The French were founders of the European Union and for decades, they were among its wealthiest citizens. They looked down upon poorer peoples such as the Cypriots and the Italians, and considered the Germans their economic equals. Today, however, France is in the EU’s second division. For the third year running, its national wealth per head is below the bloc’s average — and indeed below that of Cyprus, according to figures from Eurostat, the statistics office. The French are falling behind the north Europeans and are being caught up by those in the east. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Poles will be richer than them within ten years…. It is not only in Paris that the outlook is causing gloom. In an editorial, Le Télégramme, the regional daily in Brittany, said courage would be needed to overcome the country’s difficulties. It noted that little of this was in evidence among the political class (Times).
The country used to be among Europe’s richest economies but it’s being overtaken and critics warn there is no recovery on the horizon
By: The Sunday Times, February 3, 2026:
The French are falling behind the north Europeans and are being caught up by those in the east. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Poles will be richer than them within ten years.
President Trump keeps giving us indications that some very big revelations about the (allegedly) stolen 2020 election is right on the horizon.
In fact, he told Dan Bongino this just this a few days ago:
President Trump Says Something BIG Is About To Come Out On 2020 Election Fraud
Mona Juul, the Norwegian ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, was reportedly exempted from work responsibilities following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Epstein seemingly bequeathed a sum of $10 million dollars to Juul’s children, the Straits Times reported, citing local media.
Included in the files was The 1953 Trust, a 32 page document outlining over 40 beneficiaries. The document refers to separate $5 million bequeathments to Edward Roed Larsen and Emma Roed Larsen, who appear to be her two children.
The document was dated Aug. 8, 2019, and Epstein died Aug. 10, 2019.
CAIR terror group leader, “I think this is the end for ICE.” CAIR-linked leaders brag as riots escalate, illegal alien criminals are shielded, and a web of Muslim groups, politicians, and dark-money foundations mobilize to dismantle federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
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The Somali Muslim Network in the ICE Riots Including CAIR and the organization that recruited Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Police have revealed a new detail about what led to a wild brawl between an adult male with a MAGA hat and apparent high school students at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest in Texas earlier this week.
Buda Police said 45-year-old Chad Michael Watts of Kyle was charged Tuesday with two counts of assault causing bodily injury, which are Class A misdemeanors.
‘We want to be thorough in this investigation to make sure that everybody is held accountable that needs to be held accountable.’
Republicans massively out-fundraised Democrats in 2025, a massive boon to the GOP heading into the midterm election cycle.
According to recent Federal Election Commission reports, the Republican Party has almost $700 million in cash on hand across six different funding groups. The Democrats have $167 million cash on hand, but the Democratic National Committee is in debt.
“The [Republican National Committee] closed out 2025 in a position of real strength, building a serious war chest as we head into the 2026 midterms focused on defending and expanding our Republican majorities,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters.
The European Union now constantly violates fundamental Western rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion and claims the power to ban speech across the globe, European witnesses testified to the U.S. Congress Wednesday morning.
“European laws [are] now being exported by the European Union. … American speech is already being affected,” testified Lorcán Price, an Irish lawyer for Alliance Defending Freedom International.
Under “hate speech” policies that Europe is applying across the world, “Speech that is lawful today can become criminalized tomorrow. This should concern every person that values freedom,” testified Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen. Irish comedian Graham Linehan also testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. In September 2025, Linehan was arrested at Heathrow Airport by British
An interesting story from the United Kingdom is filling left-wing journalists with horror: Amelia. She’s an Artificial Intelligence creation that has escaped its left-wing government master and been rebadged as a heroine to the anti-mass migrant movement online.
The U.K. is suffering societal backlash and financial pressure due to mass immigration from cultures with little respect for women, yet the Labour Party government is obsessed with patrolling social media to inhibit “far-right” discussion of the migrant problem.
China expels defence officials from legislature amid corruption crackdown South China Morning Post
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Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – In cities in the mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), home to some of the world’s largest cobalt and copper reserves, eyes are on the outcome of a meeting happening thousands of kilometres away.
In Washington, DC, on Wednesday, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio will host the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial, where delegations from 50 countries including the DRC will discuss efforts to strengthen and diversify mineral supply chains as the US seeks to counter China’s global dominance in the sector.
Estonia’s President Alar Karis told Euronews he remains confident that the United States will honour Article 5 of NATO’s common defence despite a turbulent phase for the transatlantic relationship under President Donald Trump.
Since his return to the White House last year, the US President has rattled the fundamentals of the bilateral relationship between the two blocs, imposing tariffs on the European Union and referring to its leadership as “weak” and “decaying.”
Still, President Karis said Washington would come to the assistance of Europe if there was an attack on an allied country. Article 5 is the bedrock of NATO and obliges allies to assist each other on the basis that “an attack on one is an attack on all.”
MILAN — Many of the officials supporting the nearly 250 U.S. athletes competing in this month’s Winter Olympics arrived in Italy last weekend to a greeting they may not have expected: Hundreds of demonstrators packed a square in central Milan to protest the reported plan to deploy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the Games.
The first events in the 18-day competition, which will be shared by Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Italian Alps, begin Thursday and the opening ceremony is scheduled for Friday. Against that background, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry called the agents’ involvement “distracting” and “sad.”
BEIJING: China’s President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin hailed their countries’ “stabilising” economic, political and security alliance in the face of “turbulent” times globally, as they spoke via video call on Wednesday (Feb 4).
Moscow and Beijing have sought to present a united front against the West, with ties deepening since Russia’s 2022 Ukraine offensive.
The call comes days after top officials from both countries agreed ties could “break new ground” this year as Moscow and Beijing ramp up economic cooperation.
A professor at Bemidji State had his students reenact the 1945 Iwo Jima flag-raising to protest ICE deportation efforts, and it’s more pathetic than you think.
In support of the “ICE Out of MN” protests, Anton Treuer had his students recreate the WWII scene by planting the Minnesota flag in the snow, which, ironically, now mirrors the Samoli flag.
What’s pathetic about this is not that these people are outright delusional, although that’s part of it; it’s that they think their actions are even remotely comparable to the bravery of WWII soldiers. However, it’s even more deranged than that, though, because they believe they are on the side that’s fighting Nazis, when anyone with a brain knows that all they are doing is defending the fight of agitators to interfere with lawful federal enforcement mandates. That’s not bravery, it’s not even close.
US-Iran talks to take place Friday in Oman, Iranian media say The Washington Post
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I don’t know what we are waiting for.
As for the drone, we have Obama to thank for that. He gifted our drone technology to the murdering mullahs.
The Grammy Awards show on Sunday night was a total disgrace.
In addition to the disgusting anti-American comments from singer Billie Eilish, the host of the evening, failed former Daily Show host Trevor Noah, made an inappropriate joke about Trump and the infamous Epstein Island.
Trevor Noah told a HiLaRiOuS joke about Trump and Epstein Island at the Grammys last night. 🥴
Every so often there’s a piece of content in The New York Times or a similar publication that’s meant to create suspicion but without saying exactly why, usually for the purpose of politicizing something mundane. The story this week about National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard being on site during an FBI operation in Atlanta is one of those pieces of content, but in this case, the reason for the manufactured suspicion is obvious.
The Times on Monday wrote that it was “unusual” for Gabbard to appear at an FBI field office following the agency’s seizure of 2020 ballots from an election center in the ever-so-seedy Fulton County. You know, the place where election officials just admitted to improperly certifying hundreds of thousands of ballots in violation of the election rules. “[H]er continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies does not include on-site involvement in criminal investigative work,” the article, reported by a grand total of three people, said.
The Wall Street Journal’s crumbling credibility took another hit Monday with an “exclusive” hit piece on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that one agency official described as “one of the most disgusting cases of clickbait I have ever seen.”
DNI officials say the story, headlined, “Classified Whistleblower Complaint About Tulsi Gabbard Stalls Within Her Agency,” is a “nothingburger” on a “baseless complaint.”
“Here’s the truth: There was no wrongdoing by @DNIGabbard, a fact that WSJ conveniently buried 13 paragraphs down,” Gabbard’s Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Henning wrote Monday on X. “Even the Biden-era IC IG [Intelligence Community Inspector General] came to this collusion the Whistleblower’s allegations against DNI Gabbard were not credible.”