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Sen. Slotkin under fire for suggesting college grads who work for Trump could be prosecuted– www.thecollegefix.com

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Sen. Slotkin under fire for suggesting college grads who work for Trump could be prosecuted– www.thecollegefix.com
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin is under fire for suggesting recent college grads who consider working for the Trump administration might want to think twice — as they could be prosecuted.

Speaking Oct. 13 at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, the Michigan Democrat said potential legal problems should be a deterrent against working for Trump.

“I wanna look at these signature cases, and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin said. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds like fun. I might get an opportunity.’”

“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,” she said. “I want that deterrent message.”

The Chicago Thinker student newspaper, which broke the news of the comments, posted the clip Saturday with the comments: “U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.”

Trump’s attack on California voting is false, and a bit funny– www.latimes.com

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Trump’s attack on California voting is false, and a bit funny– www.latimes.com
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In what may be one of the most comical self-owns in recent politics, the esteemed attorneys of the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that despite the extravagant and terrifying misuse of their investigative power under the Trump administration, they have so far been able to identify only 28 people in all of California who may have voted illegally.

“The announcement today by the United States DOJ makes the point that there is no widespread voter fraud,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said after the news conference announcing the results of “Operation Protect the Vote.”

Twenty-eight people out of about 23 million registered voters in the state — and not all of them even tried to vote, according to the feds. That’s about 1 in 820,000 folks allegedly registering or voting illegally, a rate that roughly matches how often people in the United States get struck by lightning in a given year.

So much for Trump’s endless claims that there is a vast, organized conspiracy between Democrats and undocumented people to have them vote in large numbers to steal elections. I’ll point out here that none of those charged Monday have been accused of colluding with one another or with Democratic overlords.

Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown– boingboing.net

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Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown– boingboing.net
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In 2013, Politizane explained America’s untenable and growing wealth gap in what would become an all-time classic of data visualization. Thirteen years on, they’re back with a four-part update. It makes for grim viewing: the wealth gap has become runaway income inequality, with the world’s first trillionaire in the mix, a fast-sinking middle class, and a tax system that offers elites a myriad of legal dodges. — Read the rest

The post Data visualization exposes just how bad income inequality has grown appeared first on Boing Boing.

 

The Democrat Party Platform Is Throwing Conservatives In Prison– thefederalist.com

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The Democrat Party Platform Is Throwing Conservatives In Prison– thefederalist.com
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Sen. Elissa Slotkin laid out Democrats’ plans for another round of lawfare against President Donald Trump’s administration in a public interview last week, saying the prosecutions would be a “deterrence message” to scare young conservatives away from politics.

Speaking to students at the University of Chicago, Slotkin said, “The people around Donald Trump … have no immunity the way the president does. … So you go after the people who do his bidding.”

“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin continued. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message.”

Slotkin then doubled down in a post on X days later: “America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable.”

“And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest,” her post continued.

Illinois School District Placed Male Roommate Overnight With Teen Girls, Legal Group Claims– www.dailysignal.com

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Illinois School District Placed Male Roommate Overnight With Teen Girls, Legal Group Claims– www.dailysignal.com
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An Illinois school district allowed at least one male to share overnight accommodations with female high school students while withholding that information from parents, according to a legal group representing concerned parents.

Community High School District 128 in northern Illinois directs staff not to disclose a student’s “transgender” status, to assign overnight-trip rooms according to gender identity, and to incorporate transgender materials into curricula and libraries, according to a legal demand letter from Liberty Justice Center.

“We’re aware of several families whose daughters were directly affected by these policies, meaning not only exposure to unconstitutional curricula and ‘secret gender transition’ policies, but also being forced to share overnight accommodations with a biological male,” Kathryn Cosgrove, counsel at Liberty Justice Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Friday.

Since the policy directs schools to assign rooms based on gender identity while restricting disclosure of a student’s transgender status, parents were not informed when the school reportedly assigned a male to room with their daughters, Liberty Justice Center claims. The district serves between 3,300 and 3,500 students at Libertyville High School and Vernon Hills High School.

The district allows for students to sleep “in a single bed,” as an exception to the standard minimum of three to a room, but the student “would incur any additional cost for this accommodation,” according to a copy of the overnight trip policy provided by Liberty Justice Center. The policy states that “students will be assigned to rooms with students of their same gender identity.”

Why Mamdani won’t act to reverse soaring subway violence– nypost.com

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Why Mamdani won’t act to reverse soaring subway violence– nypost.com
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With Saturday’s mid-day murder in the tourist-packed 7th Avenue subway station at 53rd Street, the city has now seen seven transit killings since January — almost double the number over the same period last year — and the politicians plainly won’t do what’s needed to seriously reverse the trend.

That grim milestone indicts Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his movement’s anti-public-safety policies — as he all but acknowledged Monday with a long, ugly silence before claiming to be “heartbroken” over the death of Darrel Rodriguez and vague noises about addressing gun violence.

Progressives have been on a “criminal justice reform’ roll for over a decade now — starting with the disastrous “success” of getting city district attorneys to quit prosecuting fare-beating, even though such perps are regularly wanted for more serious offenses.

The state and city measures that followed — from Raise the Age and the no-bail law to How Many Stops — along with the steady shrinkage of the NYPD’s headcount have made it brutally tough for cops to fight crime.

And prog refusal to face facts about serious mental illness, especially among the homeless, further undermines public safety.

And so repeat offenders’ arrests for felony assault more than doubled from 2018 to 2026 over 2018.

NPR’s Left Right Center Puts Anti-Trump Sarah Longwell on the Right– www.newsbusters.org

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NPR’s Left Right Center Puts Anti-Trump Sarah Longwell on the Right– www.newsbusters.org
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“Public” broadcasting in the United States demonstrates routinely that it cannot stand conservatives and their arguments. The spectrum of debate on their show is often from far left to liberal Democrat. This is especially comical on the NPR talk show Left Right & Center, where their October 16 show filled the “Right” side with…..Sarah Longwell, a former Republican who campaigned with and for Kamala Harris in 2024.

The show’s host, David Greene, introduced her as the right’s representative: “She is the New York Times-bestselling author of How to Eat an Elephant, One Voter at a Time. She is publisher of the Bulwark, and also hosts the Focus Group Podcast.” She was fiercely anti-Trump on this show. When they discussed the execution of Islamist mass shooter Nidal Hasan, he said Trump supporters have a “perverse bloodlust” and are “fundamentally cruel, fundamentally indecent.”

This is the leading blurb for Longwell’s book: “The playbook for consigning MAGA-style politics to the ash heap of history (where it belongs).” They say she “draws on her own unlikely political journey from a lesbian Republican operative to the vanguard of the anti-MAGA movement.” Does that sound like the opposite of NPR?

And yet, in a fundraising announcement at the start of the podcast, Greene has the audacity to boast that there are “A lot of places where you could go for political news right now. A lot of takes, a lot of outrage, a lot of people who seem very, very certain that they’re right. Well, here at Left Right & Center we try do to something different. Every week, we bring people together who genuinely disagree…” Wow. Shameless.

Angie Nixon doubles down on comments to target political opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Angie Nixon doubles down on comments to target political opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!

Check out our Election 2026 Dashboard to keep track ot the upcoming midterms!

Angie Nixon, a Florida State Representative who believes she is the right fit to serve in the U.S. Senate, has decided to double down on recent remarks she made calling for jailing her political opponent, and it is worse than you think.

Someone should remind her that in America, people have rights. Just because you disagree with your political opponent or have a hunch about a vague accusation does not mean that is grounds for an investigation or prosecution. Typically, you need evidence of a crime first.

These are the remarks she is doubling down on:

How is she not embarrassed to double down on such tyrannical and delusional rhetoric? Someone should really inform her that prosecuting your political opponent is no longer a winning campaign strategy, as proven by the left’s efforts to go after Trump.

According to The Hill:

“It’s not a desire to weaponize the justice system. It’s designed to actually hold corrupt politicians accountable for what they’re doing,” Nixon said. “Again, I want an investigation done. I would like the Department of Justice to investigate because nearly $10 million was stolen from sick kids, and people are pointing the finger saying they don’t know who did it, and so we need to bring that in.”

“Look, this is Donald Trump 2.0 here in the state of Florida, and we really need to work to push back. I’m wondering how many kids are going to die because 10 million dollars was taken from Medicaid that was supposed to make sure that those sick kids had the treatment that they needed,” she continued.

Incoming House Socialists Vow to Target Trump and ‘All the Cronies That Helped Get Him Elected’– slaynews.com

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Incoming House Socialists Vow to Target Trump and ‘All the Cronies That Helped Get Him Elected’– slaynews.com
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Two socialist Democrats likely headed to Congress are arguing that impeaching President Donald Trump a third time would backfire against their party, while outlining plans to use congressional investigations against his administration and political allies.

Melat Kiros, the Democrat nominee in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, and New York Democratic Party nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier raised concerns during a Politico podcast that impeachment could give Republicans a political advantage.

Both candidates are members of the Democratic Socialists of America running in deep blue districts, and they are expected to win their races next month.

Their hesitation centers on strategy, not support for Trump.

Chevalier said she remains open to impeachment, while Kiros accused him of impeachable offenses without identifying specific conduct.

Chevalier Worries Impeachment Would Play Into Trump’s Hands

“You know, I support accountability,” Chevalier told Politico’s Dasha Burns.

CNN Blames El-Sayed Controversy On ‘Institutionalized Xenophobia’ In Politics– www.newsbusters.org

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CNN Blames El-Sayed Controversy On ‘Institutionalized Xenophobia’ In Politics– www.newsbusters.org
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On Monday, CNN’s Inside Politics discussed the recent controversies of Democratic Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed, including being asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a campaign event. Host Dana Bash called El-Sayed’s shift from the question to gas prices ”fascinating,” while senior political analyst Mark Preston related the controversies to “institutionalized xenophobia and racism” in politics.

Last week on NBC Nightly News, El-Sayed gave a feisty response to NBC’s Tom Llamas when asked about his family’s possible ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, as if he was insulted by the question

Bash first recalled the Muslim Brotherhood disavowal moment over the weekend at a campaign event:

El-Sayed was asked by a man named Tommy over the weekend in a clip that went viral if he condemns the Muslim Brotherhood. There was a long back-and-forth exchange, and during that, El-Sayed responded, “Sure, yeah, absolutely.” But Rogers said that wasn’t a total disavowal.

NY Mayor Mamdani Demands Parking Lot Owners Ban ICE Agents– www.breitbart.com

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NY Mayor Mamdani Demands Parking Lot Owners Ban ICE Agents– www.breitbart.com
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New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to block ICE operations in New York by denying overnight parking slots for federal agents’ vehicles.

Mamdani, the leader of the state’s communist and environmental coalition, along with 100 Democrat officials across the sanctuary state, joined together in a letter asking parking lot and parking garage owners to tell Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal officers that they are not welcome, according to the Gothamist.

“Make it known to ICE that it is not authorized to use your garages and lots,” the radical mayor says in his letter.

Judge dismisses Trump’s NYC sanctuary lawsuit over 10th Amendment

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A Biden-appointed judge dealt the Trump administration another legal blow Thursday, tossing its lawsuit seeking to upend New York City’s sanctuary policies after ruling that the Justice Department’s arguments amounted to a “backdoor around the Tenth Amendment.”

The Trump administration sued New York City in July 2025, alleging that its sanctuary laws unlawfully hinder federal immigration enforcement by restricting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal authorities.

The New York City case is one of more than two dozen lawsuits the Trump administration has filed against state and local jurisdictions over sanctuary and related policies restricting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

But U.S. District Judge Ramón E. Reyes Jr. ruled the federal government lacked standing to challenge New York City’s restrictions on honoring ICE detainers and rejected the Justice Department’s claims that the city’s sanctuary policies are preempted by federal law.

If Thune Doesn’t Censure Slotkin, He Supports Nuking GOP Staff– thefederalist.com

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If Thune Doesn’t Censure Slotkin, He Supports Nuking GOP Staff– thefederalist.com
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Democrats have been unusually mask-off heading into midterm election season, trying to get voters to believe it’s “moderate” to accept Islamist communism because of high gas prices. The latest foreboding reveal came from Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin over the weekend.

She bird-handed the formerly subtextual part on camera: “I wanna look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘[Anti-Christian blasphemy], that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message.”

Trump sold out Ukraine for a bad diesel deal. Every ally is watching– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Trump sold out Ukraine for a bad diesel deal. Every ally is watching– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump’s apparent decision to cut Ukraine’s military off from the use of a key technology that allows it to strike targets deep inside Russia is shortsighted and deeply unwise. It is yet another example of how the president’s penchant for rapid, 180-degree shifts in policy undermines America’s ability to work with allies, thereby undermining national security.

The technology at issue is Starshield, a military application of Elon Musk’s Starlink. Starshield apparently allows Ukraine’s drone operators to pilot and guide the drones over Russian airspace at high speeds. This allows the operators to avoid Russian air defenses and ensure the weapons hit their targets.

Propaganda Media Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots– thefederalist.com

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Propaganda Media Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots– thefederalist.com
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Propaganda media exist for one reason and one reason only — to advance their left-wing political allies’ destructive agenda. Anyone who tuned into their coverage of this weekend’s French riots experienced this unspoken mission statement firsthand.

As far-left radicals and Islamists dressed in dark clothes and masks and wielding Palestinian flags desecrated historic buildings and landmarks throughout the once-respectable republic, the “democracy dies in darkness” crowd worked overtime to convince audiences at home that these violent riots were nothing more than “student protests” against school policies.

While characterizing the riots as “some of the worst violence the country has ​witnessed for decades,” Reuters described the leftist and Third Worlder violence as “demonstrations against rising living costs and declining public services [that] spiralled out of control.” The Associated Press similarly dubbed the riots “nationwide protests against rising living costs and poor conditions in schools.”

On X, the Seattle-based KOMO News summarized this weekend’s violence as “student demonstrations over teacher shortages and poor school conditions [that] broadened into a nationwide protest over rising living costs and fuel prices.” The English division of the Qatari-backed Al Jazeera also described the riots “spreading” in France and other European nations as “student protests.”

DSA Member Angie Nixon Says She Wants To Use The Police To Go After Republican Opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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DSA Member Angie Nixon Says She Wants To Use The Police To Go After Republican Opponent– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!

Check out our Election 2026 Dashboard to keep track ot the upcoming midterms!

Oftentimes, the left likes to pretend they don’t engage in political lawfare. Sometimes, however, they get a candidate dumb enough to admit the quiet part out loud. Angie Nixon is one of those people.

According to Nixon, it is a lie to claim she wants to defund the police, as she wants to see her political opponent jailed. She can’t do that if they are defunded. Duh.

I mean, Chris Murphy says it all, doesn’t he?

You don’t have to know anything about politics to realize she is an objectively dumb person.

According to Fox News:

“The fact remains that Ashley Moody is a lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person who basically took $10 million from sick kids for the Medicaid program. And she rerouted that into two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives,” Nixon told CNN host Kasie Hunt. “She also voted to end healthcare for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida. And they are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, of saying things like, “I want to abolish prisons and I want to defund the police.”

Left Wing Student Group at NYU Demands 20 Percent Black Enrollment– legalinsurrection.com

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Left Wing Student Group at NYU Demands 20 Percent Black Enrollment– legalinsurrection.com
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Left wing students always think they’re in a position to make demands. It’s so funny.

Campus Reform reports:

NYU student group demands 20 percent black enrollment despite Supreme Court ruling

New York University’s (NYU) chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is demanding that the school raise Black student enrollment to 20 percent within five years and hire more Black faculty.

Students rallied in Washington Square Park, urging NYU to boost Black enrollment, after a 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard addressed race-conscious admissions policies.

Organizers point to a post stating that Black students make up 3.4 percent of the class of 2029, down 20 percent relative to the 4.2 percent from the class of 2028. New York City’s Black population, by comparison, was 20.2 percent in the 2020 census.

The campaign began with an Oct. 2 Instagram post from SDS stating that “Education is a Right[,] Not Just For The Rich and White.” The post lists four demands, including that NYU “Release detailed admissions and enrollment demographic data,” “Create a designated space for Black students within a year,” and “Increase Black enrollment to 20 percent within 5 years.”

SDS said in a separate post that “NYU continues to fail its Black student body” and that it plans to host a “Black Townhall” on Oct. 22.

One speaker at the rally said: “I started by asking, ‘Do I really belong here?’ Today, I think NYU has to answer a different question. What is this university willing to do to make sure Black students know that we belong?”

WNBA teams SKIP national anthem during playoffs despite league rules | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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WNBA teams SKIP national anthem during playoffs despite league rules | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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“Appalling. 162 regular season games plus multiple playoff rounds, wouldn’t catch a MLB team pulling that garbage.”

The WNBA‘s rulebook requires that players and coaches stand and line up along the sidelines when the national anthem is played. However, at Saturday’s game between the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries, both finalist teams ignored the rule and left the court. The league has remained silent over the matter.

Reporters at Outkick reached out to the league, and the WNBA has yet to answer for the teams’ absences. The teams had been warming up before they left the court ahead of the national anthem, leading to heavy backlash from online users who said that it was disrespectful.

The 2026 rulebook for the WNBA includes a provision that players, coaches, and trainers must be at the sideline or foul line when the anthem plays, but nothing of the sort took place at Game 1 of the WNBA finals. After the teams left, they were back second after the anthem played.

Game 2 is set to take place on Monday evening at the Chase Center, but when pressed by reporters at Outkick, neither team said what their plans for the anthem are going to be. Users online were outraged that the teams did not take the time to recognize the anthem.

Feds Just Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in This Blue State– townhall.com

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Feds Just Busted a Major Noncitizen Voting Ring in This Blue State– townhall.com
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Federal authorities announced the arrests of more than two dozen foreign nationals in California on Monday.

The suspects are facing charges for illegally registering and voting in U.S. elections, according to Spectrum News.

The statewide sweep is part of a Trump administration effort to root out noncitizen voting ahead of next month’s midterm elections, even though data shows that the problem is incredibly rare, difficult to prove and has not been shown to change the outcome of races.

The arrests also reflect a further escalation in a simmering voter roll fight between the federal government and California that came into focus last week when the Justice Department sued the state and later warned that local election workers who knowingly process or tabulate ballots submitted by noncitizen voters are at risk of investigation and potential prosecution.

The Justice Department said all of those arrested as part of a sweep dubbed Operation Protect the Vote are lawful permanent residents — but not U.S. citizens who are permitted to legally vote. They are charged with crimes including making false statements on a naturalization application and submitting fraudulent voter registrations.

The New York Post noted that most of the arrestees “allegedly cast illegal ballots.”

Alexander Muñoz, a 72-year-old Belizean national, allegedly registered to vote in September 2019, claiming he was a citizen. He voted in 2020 and twice in 2022 and 2024 and allegedly lied on his naturalization application. He faces felony charges, including false statements on the application.

Democrats Don’t Want Anyone Watching the Vote Count. Ask Yourself Why.– townhall.com

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Democrats Don’t Want Anyone Watching the Vote Count. Ask Yourself Why.– townhall.com
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The NAACP and three of its members sued Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, and the Department of Justice, challenging President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy about 1,000 federal “election monitors” to polling places for the midterm elections.

The lawsuit invokes the Voting Rights Act’s protections against voter intimidation and demands a complete list of the jurisdictions the administration plans to target.

The NAACP poll monitors lawsuit has turned the 2026 midterms into a courtroom battle over who gets to watch Americans vote — and why. On Friday, October 16, 2026, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization sued the Department of Justice in federal court, asking a judge to block the Trump administration from deploying 1,000 federal poll monitors to voting sites across the country ahead of the November 3 midterms.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, does not challenge poll monitoring as a concept. It argues that this particular plan — 1,000 monitors dispatched with what the NAACP calls an explicit mission to root out voter fraud — is a pretext for intimidation. “There is no federal statute that gives Defendants the authority to turn polling places into interrogation rooms,” the NAACP wrote, as Democracy Docket reported.

The lawsuit asks the court to block the deployment under the Voting Rights Act’s anti-intimidation protections and demands that the Justice Department hand over a complete list of the jurisdictions it plans to target. With early voting already underway and just 16 days until Election Day, the case sets up a fast-moving legal fight over the physical atmosphere of American polling places — and over whether federal power will be used to protect voters or to pressure them.

Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC– www.bbc.co.uk

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Ukrainians dying because US restricting intelligence sharing, Zelensky adviser tells BBC– www.bbc.co.uk
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Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is still not receiving reliable US warnings of incoming Russian attacks, according to a key adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov told the BBC that lives had been lost because there had not been time to warn citizens about ballistic missile strikes, saying: “It’s dangerous… I think it’s really very bad… People [have] already died.”

The adviser also said restrictions to Ukraine’s use of the Starlink internet network were ongoing.

The White House said there had been no changes to intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

Trump Approval Drops to Historic Low

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The Trump approval rating has hit 33% ahead of the midterms. The same poll shows Democrats are more trusted on the economy than Republicans. Both polls portend poorly for the American republic in the upcoming midterm election, which is an election about Americanism that has been hijacked by the “affordability” narrative.

Trump approval hits record low, handing Democrats a clear midterm edge – The Washington Post– www.washingtonpost.com
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  1. Trump approval hits record low, handing Democrats a clear midterm edge  The Washington Post
  2. Ahead of the midterms, most voters cite the economy and cost of living as top issues and favor political change  AP-NORC
  3. Ahead of US midterms, voters are frustrated with Trump, want change: Poll  Al Jazeera
  4. Transcript: Fox News Poll Shocker Is an Absolute Disaster for Trump  The New Republic
  5. Trump approval hits new low with conservative pollster before midterms  Newsweek

 

Support for Criminalizing Offensive Speech Spikes

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Four in 10 U.S. students support criminal prosecution of “offensive speech,” which is up 7 points from last year. The survey came from the Buckley Institute. At the same time, 73% of students agreed the Constitution is an important document for the U.S., not an outdated one.

Four in 10 students believe offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution: poll– www.thecollegefix.com
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Four in 10 college students believe offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution, according to the results of a nationwide survey published this month by the Buckley Institute.

The students were asked whether they agree or disagree with the statement: “Offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution.”

“Four in ten (40%) agree that offensive speech should be subject to criminal prosecution, while 52% disagree. Agreement is up seven points from last year and is the highest in the three years this question has been asked,” according to the survey, which polled 803 undergrads at four-year colleges across the country in mid-September.

The survey also found 46 percent of college students agree it is sometimes appropriate to shout down or disrupt a speaker on campus, while 47 percent disagree.

Another 45 percent agreed physical violence can be justified to prevent a person from using hate speech or making racially charged comments, while 50 percent disagreed.

Trump Threatens Jail Time for California Officials Over Alleged Noncitizen Voters › American Greatness– amgreatness.com

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Trump Threatens Jail Time for California Officials Over Alleged Noncitizen Voters › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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President Donald Trump is warning California election officials they could face lengthy prison sentences if they count ballots cast by suspected illegal aliens and noncitizens in the upcoming midterm elections.

“They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!” Trump declared Friday on Truth Social, sharing a Department of Justice letter warning Los Angeles County officials of potential criminal consequences for allowing illegal votes to be counted.

The warning follows a federal lawsuit filed Thursday against California after the Justice Department provided election officials with citizenship data identifying approximately 20,000 registered voters flagged by the Department of Homeland Security as possible noncitizens.

Federal officials gave California 48 hours to compare the names against state voter records and requested that ballots associated with individuals whose citizenship could not be verified be set aside pending confirmation.

The administration maintains that knowingly allowing noncitizens to vote in federal elections violates federal law and could expose election officials to criminal prosecution.

When Does Religious Belief Become Hate Speech in California? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com

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When Does Religious Belief Become Hate Speech in California? – PJ Media– pjmedia.com
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California’s next workplace lesson comes with an uncomfortable question: When does a religious belief become “hate speech”?

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1803 on September 27. Beginning Jan. 1, 2028, employers covered by California’s harassment-training law must teach workers to recognize, report, and confront certain workplace remarks.

The legislation gives employers a new assignment but leaves a contentious phrase open to interpretation.

The law addresses workplace speech that “vilifies, humiliates, or incites hatred” based on protected characteristics, including religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Existing training already covers harassment involving gay and transgender employees. AB 1803 adds no separate course or mandatory hours, and employers may write their own lessons. It even says training on unlawful harassment and abusive conduct can satisfy the new requirement.

Those limits matter, but so does the lack of a precise statutory definition of the speech the bill names.

Consider two employees at a California business. One is a Christian who says their church teaches marriage is between a man and a woman. The other is Muslim and expresses the same religious conviction.

University of Michigan voting hub where foreign student illegally voted remains active– www.thecollegefix.com

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University of Michigan voting hub where foreign student illegally voted remains active– www.thecollegefix.com
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County GOP leader calls for more election integrity measures

The location where a student illegally voted at the University of Michigan in the last election remains active heading into this month’s midterm voting, prompting some election integrity concerns.

In 2024, 19-year-old Chinese national Haoxiang Gao was charged with voting illegally in the 2024 presidential election at a voting site set up in the university’s Museum of Art. He has since fled the country.

Currently the museum is listed as one of two “Campus Voting Hubs,” where early voting will start Oct. 21 and run through Nov. 1 and will be open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

The University of Michigan’s media relations division did not respond to requests from The College Fix asking what measures have been taken to ensure that no illegal voting occurs at the museum site again.

Suicidal Christian empathy in Minnesota– www.americanthinker.com

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Gad Saad is a professor and evolutionary Psychologist who coined the term “suicidal empathy” to describe what is happening to Western Civilization:

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That an Islamist like Abdulraman Mohamed El-Sayed could be elected to the U.S. Senate in any state is a prime example. Islam rejects the separation of Church and State. An Islamist’s loyalty is to Islam, family, and tribe, never a nation. Here are several other quotes from Saad, who hopes to soon become an American citizen:

 

The Democratic Party in the United States has been captured by the parasitic mind virus, with leaders exploiting white guilt and emotional past to maintain power.

 

An unexpected groundswell against wokeness in the Democratic Party signals a potential return to common sense and rejection of suicidal empathy.

 

The Second Amendment in the US serves as a powerful deterrent against the rise of totalitarianism and suicidal empathy.

‘No’: Mike Rogers Shuts Down Reporter’s TDS in Exchange on El-Sayed’s Muslim Brotherhood Ties – RedState– redstate.com

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Down the homestretch of the campaign, Republican Mike Rogers is laser-focused on hammering home the point that DSA-backed Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is unfit to represent Michigan in the United States Senate because his loyalties are with America’s enemies.

It’s something the GOP Senate nominee has done on the campaign trail, at debates, on social media, and in interviews as part of a comprehensive effort to outline the stark differences between himself and El-Sayed so Michigan voters can be better informed before they head to the polls.

On Sunday, Rogers did an interview with CNN State of the Union co-anchor Dana Bash, where they talked about the Senate race, foreign policy, and the economy. But along the way, Bash let her TDS shine through when she kept pressing Rogers on whether he agreed with President Trump’s assessment that El-Sayed was a “terrorist.” Rogers smartly did not take the bait, and instead pointed to why people might feel that way about the Democrat nominee:

Listen, I have never called him a terrorist. I wore the uniform in the United States of America, so people can pray any way they want. That is not the issue here.

Queers for Palestine: The woke left’s unholy alliance with Islamism– www.theblaze.com

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Queers for Palestine: The woke left’s unholy alliance with Islamism– www.theblaze.com
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In our essay last month, we proposed that presumed incoming Alabama governor Tommy Tuberville (R) pursue an aggressive and innovative political strategy to stem the growth of Islam in his state. His challenge, however, is no longer confined to the spread of the so-called religion of peace.

Since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, what had largely been an implicit alliance between Islamist activists and two predominant elements of American progressivism — gender anarchists and racial idolators — has increasingly declared itself in public.

Muslim scriptural and legal traditions often escape the scrutiny applied to Christian texts in progressive circles.

Consider the coalition behind Columbia University’s Gaza encampment in April 2024. Columbia University Apartheid Divest brought together 116 student organizations, including the Muslim Students Association, Columbia Queer Alliance, Genderev, the Black Student Organization, and White Coats 4 Black Lives. Its members made common cause under the banner of fighting interconnected systems of oppression. That January, the American Muslim Task Force for Palestine, representing organizations including CAIR and the Muslim American Society, partnered with the left-wing ANSWER Coalition to organize a massive demonstration in Washington.