There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Megyn Kelly goes off on Mamdani – Screencap of Twitter/X video.
Megyn Kelly is not a fan of New York City’s new communist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
During her podcast today, she tore into Mamdani over his speech after the election, saying that he dropped his mask immediately and made it look like he was ready to start going after taxpayers to fund his plans.
She also ripped him for pandering to foreign nationals who she suggests he sees as his real constituents. Finally, she slammed him for pretending to care about working class people, who rejected him.
‘Working Class Knows You’re A Phony!’: Megyn Kelly Says Low-Income Voters Aren’t Buying Mamdani’s ‘Bullsh*t’
Independent New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo won with New Yorkers making less than $30,000 against Mamdani by a 48% to 42% margin, according to a CNN exit poll. Kelly criticized Mamdani on her show for his victory speech, in which he thanked immigrants and said he would be a champion for the working class.
“Last night in his speech, he thanked every foreign nation known to man — like the Senegalese whatever, hot dog salesman, the Nepalese cab driver. That’s who he sees as his constituency,” Kelly said. “Meanwhile, he’s up there talking about how this is for the guys who’ve got the scars on their knuckles and the calluses on their hands. They voted against you, you cretin. They all voted against you. The working class can’t stand you. They’re not buying your bullshit because the working class never buys bullshit. They can’t afford to.”
“They actually have to struggle to put food on their tables and worry about their kids in school — and going to a school that’s safe and one that doesn’t have 45 different languages coming from the teachers because of the mandatory immigration laws we have now,” she added. “They cannot worry about bullshit. The working class did not vote for you. They know you’re a liar. And as I’ve been saying, a wolf in sheep’s clothing … The working class knows you’re a phony!”
Watch the clip below:
🚨NEW: @megynkelly *GOES NUCLEAR* on "CRETIN" Zohran Mamdani🚨
"This guy last night — the anger that he spewed — I mean, he dropped the mask immediately."
"The working class can’t stand you! They're not buying your bullsh*t — because the working class never buys bullsh*t! They… pic.twitter.com/ZIClekZppK
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Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race Mamdani will be the youngest New York mayor in a century, NBC News projects, after a rapid rise past Andrew Cuomo and other opponents. Democrat Zohran Mamdani has won New York’s mayoral race, NBC News projects, after the 34-year-old democratic socialist energized progressives in the city and across the country while generating intense backlash from President Donald Trump and Republicans, as well as some Democratic moderates.
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“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” —Samuel Adams (1781)
Election results in Virginia, New Jersey, Maine, etc.: Virginia voted on Tuesday to elect Democrat Abigail Spanberger as governor. Voters even allowed death-wisher Jay Jones to ride Spanberger’s coattails to victory as the new attorney general. Republican hopes were dashed in New Jersey, where Democrat Mikie Sherrill beat Republican Jack Ciattarelli for the governorship. Maine approved a “red flag law” that will allow family members to petition to have guns removed from their kin without police consultation. The Pine Tree State also rejected voter ID and other election safety measures. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s 5-2 Democrat majority was confirmed, with three justices surviving up-or-down votes. Colorado approved a wealth-redistribution measure that would have the wealthy pay for public school lunches. Overall, it was an excellent night for Democrats, with Texas’s reiteration of parental rights and citizen-only voting the only exceptions.
Mamdani and the Dems’ future: Yesterday, in a result that was long predicted and should surprise no one, Zohran Mandani won the New York City mayoral election decisively. The Democrat socialist pulled in over 50% of the vote, easily besting Andrew Cuomo, the scandal-plagued former New York governor. While Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently denied that Mamdani represented the “future” of the Democrat Party, Tuesday’s election results suggest otherwise. Long has the Democrat Party capitulated to the demands of the radical Left fringe, a fringe that is fast becoming the party’s mainstream base. Deny as they might, the Democrats are the party of extremists. They are now the home of open, proud, and unrepentant Marxists like Mamdani, who believes that capitalism is the problem. No wonder hundreds of thousands of the city’s residents are now looking to escape from New York.
Schumer Shutdown enters day 36, the longest ever: Not all records are meant to be broken, but the government shutdown orchestrated by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has surpassed the previous 35-day record. Both the House and the Senate are now seriously considering new funding legislation, as the current measure would only fund the government through November 21. House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the idea of a December funding end date for the new bill, citing last year’s Christmas funding crisis, and instead favors a January date. Senate Majority Leader John Thune seems to be on the same page, favoring a January date. Thune is also hopeful that, after the Democrats used the shutdown to juice turnout in elections yesterday, they may be willing to reopen the government before the end of the week.
Tariffs at SCOTUS: One of President Donald Trump’s favorite foreign policy tools is under threat of being pulled from his toolbox as the Supreme Court hears arguments challenging his use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to enact his sweeping tariff agenda. Trump argues the IEEPA grants him authority to “regulate” imports in response to identified emergencies. A number of Democrat-run states and small businesses sued. The justices will be weighing the fact that in 1971, Richard Nixon employed the precursor to the IEEPA, the Trading with the Enemy Act, to justify imposing a temporary 10% tariff to protect American products from unfair exchange rates. In Nixon’s case, it was temporary, but Trump has been using the IEEPA to enact longer-term trade deals. A majority of Americans oppose tariffs, which have not helped lower prices while negatively impacting small businesses across the country.
New evidence of Comey’s duplicity: A trove of new evidence released by prosecutors and the FBI belie former FBI Director James Comey’s claims that he’s the real victim in the Trump administration’s indictment. A slew of emails and notes from then-Director Comey show that he hoped to please Hillary Clinton, as he expected her to win the 2016 presidential election, and that he was aware of and cheered on media leaks he claimed he had not sanctioned. Comey also used a private email account to conduct FBI-related matters. In one email, Comey communicated with FBI special government employee Daniel Richman about influencing a New York Times reporter regarding the Clinton email scandal. In another instance, Comey misled Congress when he claimed he didn’t recall if he had been briefed on Clinton’s plan to tie Trump to Russia, when in fact he had taken handwritten notes of the briefing dated September 2016.
More hate toward a Republican: Helena, Montana, unlike Virginia, decided not to elect a candidate who wishes death on Republicans. Haley McKnight, a North Carolina expat who was running for the city council in Helena, left a threatening voicemail for Montana Senator Tim Sheehy after he voted in support of the Big Beautiful Bill in July. Haley identified herself in the voicemail before launching into a screed of insulting invective. Calling an elected official a “coward and thief” is one thing, but most Americans agree that wishing for untreatable pancreatic cancer is over the line. McKnight cautioned Sheehy about meeting her in the street because “I will make you regret it,” before ending the voicemail with “F**k you. I hope you die.” Classy. Results are not yet final, but it seems clear that McKnight has lost her race, which can only be a relief for Montanans.
SNAP funding confusion: Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was set to expire on November 1 due to the government shutdown, but then activist judges ordered the government to fund the program anyway. The White House acknowledged the court’s decision and suggested it would deplete emergency disaster funding to make 50% payments to the 42 million Americans on food stamps. Yesterday, though, President Trump confused the situation by suggesting that SNAP benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed Trump’s rhetoric while suggesting that the White House is not defying the court order. Taxpaying Americans may disapprove of welfare payments being made while air traffic controllers remain unpaid, but a lack of clarity from the White House doesn’t improve the situation.
EV sales plummet: One of the features in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was the elimination of the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit, which expired at the end of September. Unsurprisingly, EV sales in October took a massive nosedive, dropping roughly 80%. The EV tax credit was always a gimmick — an effort to push Americans to adopt the more expensive and inherently limited EVs, all under the guise of “saving the planet.” Instead of resting on free-market capitalism and trusting the American consumer to make the best choice for themselves, the government put its thumb on the scales, and as a result, everyone has ended up paying more for their vehicles, regardless of whether they chose the higher-priced EVs. Now that the EV market is in a massive slump, will automakers pull back even further on EV production? Many see 2026 as a make-or-break year for EVs.
Harvard explosion: Two men from Massachusetts were arrested on Tuesday following an explosion at Harvard Medical School over the weekend. The Boston Fire Department said the explosion was intentional but that no one was injured. Police conducted a full sweep of the building and found no additional devices. The blast occurred on the medical school’s fourth floor, which includes labs and offices associated with the medical school’s Department of Neurobiology. Early Saturday morning, an officer who responded to a fire alarm encountered two people running from the Goldenson Building on Longwood Avenue, according to Harvard University Police. There was no structural damage to the building, and all the labs and equipment remain intact.
Headlines
UPS plane disaster leaves at least seven dead, 11 injured (Fox News)
FAA resumes flights at Reagan Airport after shutdown over United Airlines flight security threat (Just the News)
Trump re-nominates Jared Isaacman to head NASA months after yanking nod (NY Post)
Chris DeMuth resigns from The Heritage Foundation (National Review)
Army’s clock must now start ticking faster when a soldier goes missing (Army Times)
Satire: Mamdani announces plan to blame racism after his policies fail (Babylon Bee)
On the one hand, last night was a terrible night for the GOP. There’s no sugarcoating double-digit election losses when there was anticipation of real competition. There’s little silver lining when the party was wiped out in numerous state elections. On the other hand, Democrats won in very blue states and cities. Who didn’t expect that, and what will it really change?
Democrats certainly hope that winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey is a harbinger of success in next year’s midterm elections. Democrat Abigail Spanberger soundly defeated GOP Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia by about 15 points. Democrat Mikie Sherrill likewise pounded Republican Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey by 13 points. Both Democrats roughly hewed to a non-radical line — they focused on the economy and the unaffordability that still dominates kitchen-table discussions while focusing a lot less on left-wing cultural insanity.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race amplified this from the other direction. “I am Muslim. I am a Democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this,” he crowed in his victory speech. And why not? He won by nine points with more than 50% of the vote in a three-way race, primarily against New York’s former governor and run-of-the-mill Democrat, Andrew Cuomo.
The city that was attacked by radical Muslims 25 years ago has now elected a radical Muslim as its mayor — and one who didn’t hide it, visiting more than 50 mosques during his campaign. He could localize the intifada and make life very difficult for New York’s Jews.
Is this New Istanbul, or what?
Furthermore, Mamdani is an unapologetic radical Marxist, who won with what the Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn dubs “happy talk about free things.” When life’s expensive (because of Democrat policies), it turns out that “free” bus rides and rent control are popular.
“There are many who say that a democratic socialist vision of governance for New York is impossible,” Mamdani said on Monday. “To them, I say: We need look only at our past for proof of how socialism can shape our future.” Given socialism’s actual history, that’s quite scary.
Perhaps most alarming was this statement in his victory speech: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”
National Review’s Noah Rothman calls Mamdani “the future face of the Democratic Party, whether Democrats like it or not.”
If that’s true, and there’s little reason to think it’s not, there could be a “bright side” in that Republicans will be able to point to that stark contrast in future elections. That’s what our Douglas Andrews hopes for, though he also offers a stern warning: “Between now and next November, Republicans had better learn how to turn out the vote when Donald Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot. And states like Ohio and Indiana and Kansas had better get on the stick and do their California-style redistricting to offset what Gavin Newsom just did. And SCOTUS had better rule constitutionally on racist gerrymandering. Or Trump’s presidency will effectively end on January 3, 2027.”
More on gerrymandering in a moment, but I believe Mamdani’s win in particular spells big trouble for all of us. He will drive Democrats further and faster left because now they know they can do so unabashedly and win.
Democrats will go with Spanberger and Sherrill when they have to, but their hearts are with Mamdani.
Virginia may be a blue state in presidential elections now, but Earle-Sears’s defeat was still a tough pill to swallow. Governor Glenn Youngkin won convincingly four years ago, and Earle-Sears is his lieutenant. His policies are popular, and Earle-Sears urged voters to “keep a good thing going.” She wasn’t especially adept at campaigning, however, and faced headwinds brought on by Trump’s unpopularity in suburban DC. Those Northern Virginia suburbs buy the Democrats’ lie that Trump is responsible for the shutdown that is hurting so many government employees in those areas. And they turned out in droves. Earle-Sears’s vote total was remarkably close to Trump’s approval rating in the state, and Democrats won every statewide race.
That includes Democrat Jay Jones, who won the race for Virginia attorney general despite having texted about fantasies of murdering his Republican opponent and wishing death upon his children. Here we are, two months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and little more than a year removed from two attempts on President Trump’s life, and Virginia’s incoming chief law enforcement officer wants to shoot Republicans in the head.
As Jonathan Turley noted, “The election of Jay Jones as the next Virginia Attorney General shows that the key to rage politics is to hate the right people. Democrats just bulldozed any moral high ground in the debate over political violence and hate speech.”
As for Virginia itself, our Mark Alexander says, “I am grieving for the state of Virginia, the cradle of American Liberty, being ruled by the statist socialists in the Beltway burbs.”
Finally, back to gerrymandering. For decades, Republicans and especially Democrats have drawn congressional districts to their advantage. So what if a district snakes all the way across a state if it includes the necessary voters to elect a Democrat? Over the summer, Texas Republicans started aggressively fighting fire with fire, working to gerrymander the state so as to evict five Democrats from House seats.
In California, Governor and soon-to-be presidential candidate Gavin Newsom promised to fight back, as if this were some new Rubicon Republicans had crossed. He made no bones about the fact that he was trying to “neuter and neutralize what is happening in Texas.” Proposition 50 takes California districting out of the hands of an independent commission and gives the power to the state legislature, which is run by the dominant Democrat Party.
Prop 50 won handily yesterday, 64-36.
To wrap it up, Trump Derangement Syndrome prevails in blue states, a Muslim socialist just took over New York City, and California Democrats will add as many as five representatives in the House next year. It was a tough night for Republicans, to say the least. The good news is that none of those things will change the status quo much, and those of us who fight for Liberty will continue to do so tirelessly.
Emmy Griffin: Pelosi’s Crazy Rant — The hateful former House speaker went on CNN, where she proceeded to call President Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the earth.”
Thomas Gallatin: What Is Christian Zionism? — Tucker Carlson claims it’s a “brain virus” and a “Christian heresy,” and he says that those who hold to this theological understanding are his least favorite people.
Sophie Starkova: Illegals DO Get Healthcare Money — Despite Democrat objections and Leftmedia fact-checks in recent weeks, money is fungible, and federal money goes to states that pay for illegal aliens’ healthcare.
Gary Bauer: Is Comey Cooked? — Emails and text messages show James Comey and his friend, Daniel Richman, celebrating their leaks to the NY Times and even coordinating other media leaks.
HE’S Offended at HER Costume? — A woke trans “woman” (man) is going viral for being offended at a woman’s Native American Halloween costume. The irony is unbelievably thick in this confrontation.
‘It’s Much Worse Than We Knew’ — Winston Marshall sits down with investigative journalist Zak Garner-Purkis for a shocking exposé on the London grooming gang cover-up that Sadiq Khan denied for years.
The Final Step to Ending Wokeness in Our Country — Author Helen Andrews gave a speech at NatCon that speaks to the reason our culture has become so woke: women have taken over nearly every industry.
“We have a president who is looking to rip up the very fabric of this city.” —Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim socialist who was just elected mayor of New York City — the site of the worst Islamist terror attack of all time
“But as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” —Zohran Mamdani, immediately and purposefully invoking the name of the Socialist Party of America’s five-time presidential candidate
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” —Zohran Mamdani
For the Record
“A year from now, you and I, Clay, will be sitting here and saying, ‘Hey, guess what? Housing isn’t cheaper in New York. Food isn’t cheaper in New York.’ … If anything, it’s going to be more expensive.” —Buck Sexton making a guarantee to his co-host Clay Travis
“The election of Jay Jones as the next Virginia Attorney General shows that the key to rage politics is to hate the right people. Democrats just bulldozed any moral high ground in the debate over political violence and hate speech.” —law professor Jonathan Turley
“From [Gavin] Newsom’s perspective, Californians who support the minority party should not have any representation whatsoever. It’s harder to come up with a greater threat to democracy than that.” —Hans von Spakovsky
“I am not at all surprised that things went poorly for Republicans in four states that voted for Kamala Harris last year.” —Stephen Kruiser
Non Compos Mentis
“I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away healthcare for 17 million Americans, and I hope you’re really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can’t even treat you for it. I hope that you die in the street like a dog. … One day, you’re going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. … You are the worst piece of s**t I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at. … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F**k you. I hope you die.” —Helena city commissioner candidate Haley McKnight to Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy
Friendly Fire
“I think the mistake with it being Kamala [Harris] is that she had to run against her own record. And it’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ … I think it was a mistake, quite honestly.” —actor George Clooney, who helped coerce Joe Biden into stepping aside
Political Futures
“Republicans need to play tough and they need to play smart — that’s how the president feels. And we know that Democrats, if they are ever given a chance at power again in this city, they will absolutely take away the filibuster.” —White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Trump’s call for Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster
And Last…
“This is an ego-driven shutdown. Sen. Schumer’s poll numbers led to this goat rodeo more than any policy did.” —Sen. John Kennedy
Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York City marks the most significant socialist victory since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset in 2018. His win represents a dramatic power shift to the far-left wing of the Democratic Party and exposes a widening ideological divide between socialists and moderates.
Mamdani campaigned alongside Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez, promising sweeping progressive reforms including rent freezes, free childcare, city-run grocery stores, fare-free transit, and steep tax hikes on corporations and high-income earners. His campaign embodied globalism, DEI, and socialism while attacking President Trump’s nationalist policies. Drawing support from young voters, immigrants, and left-wing activists, Mamdani positioned himself as a defender of New York’s working class, promising expanded public services and legal protections for illegal aliens.
It is ironic that he claims to defend the rights of his constituents while supporting illegal aliens, as most of the “rights” he advocates for them are not rights at all but taxpayer-funded benefits. Mamdani’s core proposals include universal childcare for children six weeks to five years old, freezing rent on rent-stabilized apartments, making city buses fare-free, creating city-owned grocery stores, and raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030. He plans to fund these initiatives through higher taxes and by raising the corporate tax rate to 11.5 percent.
His platform is an extension of the socialist movement seeking to transform New York into a so-called “global city” governed by identity politics rather than traditional American values. The result is a model that weakens business confidence, undermines national sovereignty, and threatens public safety.
So-called progressives like Mamdani somehow believe they can best serve their constituents by being soft on crime. At a 2021 protest in front of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, Mamdani declared that “violent crime is an artificial construct, defined by the state,” adding that the term is used even for nonviolent offenses such as burglary if a housing unit happens to be in the same dwelling.
His statements reflect the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform, which he endorses a platform calling to “pressure, reduce, and abolish” state prison systems, viewing detention and police surveillance as “instruments of class warfare.” It also proposes ending enforcement of laws for so-called “minor offenses,” which in New York include theft under $1,000, drug possession, unarmed assault, and driving under the influence.
Mamdani’s pledge to shut down Rikers Island aligns with groups like the No New Jails coalition, which opposes the construction of any new detention facilities. While city officials claim crime is down, what’s actually declining is reporting, classification, and prosecution. Crimes are being downgraded or reclassified to make statistics appear better, while actual crime rises. New York City does not adhere to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting definitions, which significantly undercounts violent major felony offenses.
Though major felonies are officially reported as declining in 2025 compared to 2024, the overall crime rate remains about 30% higher than pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Felony assaults increased by 5% in 2024 and now stand more than 40% above 2019 figures, while rape, larceny, harassment, and misdemeanor assault have all surged. Between 2023 and 2024, New York recorded the largest rise in violent crime and assaults among the ten most populous U.S. cities, and the smallest decline in murders.
Much of this trend can be traced to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s policies. In 2022, he downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors, up from 39% in 2019. By 2023, that number reached 60%. His office’s felony conviction rate dropped to 51% in 2022 from 68% in 2019, while misdemeanor convictions fell to 29% from 53%.
Bragg declined to prosecute 1,119 felony cases in his first 11 months, 35% more than in 2019, and his “Day One” memo instructed prosecutors not to charge certain crimes at all and to downgrade armed robberies to shoplifting in many cases. The result is a justice system where violent crimes are reclassified as minor offenses, making New York appear safer on paper while victims grow increasingly disillusioned.
Because serious crimes are often reduced to misdemeanors with little or no punishment, many victims no longer report offenses. In 2022, only 42% of violent crime victims and 33% of property crime victims registered complaints. Business owners report losing confidence that police will respond promptly or that prosecutors will pursue charges. The National Crime Victimization Survey confirms that violent and property crimes have actually increased, contradicting official FBI data showing declines.
Across the city, victims of muggings and “minor” assaults have decided it’s not worth filing reports when offenders, if caught, are likely to walk away with a warning or a brief community service sentence.
Mamdani’s anti-Israel views, his past arrest at a pro-Gaza protest outside Senator Chuck Schumer’s home, and his refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada” have drawn widespread criticism. Jewish organizations and hundreds of rabbis have denounced his record as dangerous and discriminatory, while critics argue that his history of calling the NYPD racist and anti-queer, combined with his pro-Palestinian activism, makes him too divisive to lead the nation’s largest city.
His campaign mastered social media, reaching millions through TikTok and Instagram, and successfully mobilized young, progressive, and immigrant voters. Mamdani’s win cements him as the first Muslim and South Asian mayor of New York City and signals the rise of a radical socialist movement that many fear could reshape urban politics far beyond New York.
Omar Mahmoud Fateh, the first Somali American and Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate, is now running for mayor of Minneapolis. Born in Washington, D.C., to Somali immigrant parents, Fateh identifies as a democratic socialist and has been backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Initially endorsed by the Minneapolis Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Party for the 2025 mayoral race, his endorsement was later revoked by the state party.
Fateh’s campaign reflects a broader trend of growing Somali American political participation across the United States, with eleven Somali Americans currently running for legislative seats in Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, and others already serving on city councils and school boards.
President Trump endorsed Andrew Cuomo and warned he might cut federal funding to New York if Zohran Mamdani won, calling him a “100% Communist lunatic.” Mamdani responded defiantly, vowing to use the courts and public pressure to resist Trump’s threats and to defend illegal aliens and other groups he claims are targeted by federal policy.
While cities and states have the right to govern themselves and implement internal policies as they see fit, legitimate questions are being raised about whether federal taxpayers should be forced to subsidize socialist agendas at the state and municipal levels.
Republicans are taking heavy losses tonight, with Democrats dominating key races across multiple states.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger has won Virginia’s gubernatorial race. Democrat Mikie Sherrill secured New Jersey. Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City, and arguably worst of all, Jay Jones — the Democrat wishing for death on his political opponents and his children — won Virginia’s attorney general race.
It looks like a bad omen for a midterm nightmare. But not so fast, says conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly, whose words on NewsNation went viral.
O’Reilly explained, “[Tonight’s results] have nothing to do with the midterms” — to which Cuomo replied, “You better hope.”
But Cuomo’s expression turned from confident to confused when O’Reilly said: “Between now and this next year… it’s going to be a completely different country than it is now.”
Bill O’Reilly leaves Chris Cuomo looking completely stumped with an election analysis that went straight over his head.
O’REILLY: “[Tonight’s results] have nothing to do with the midterms.”
“Now, I can’t predict which way that’s going to go.” O’Reilly continued.
Looking stumped, Cuomo interjected: “Then how do you know it’s going to be a completely different country?”
“Because there are so many things that have to be decided. There are too many undecideds,” O’Reilly explained.
“And you can start with the Supreme Court ruling on the tariffs… That will give Trump then a free field to see if, in the next eight months, the tariffs can kick in to bring prices down and to help people. That’s what the midterms are all about. It’s about economics here. It’s not about China. It’s not even about Putin. It’s about that.”
In other words, “It’s the economy, stupid.” And Trump now has exactly one year to make Americans feel like it’s working for them.
Newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers his victory speech, pledging a sweeping socialist agenda. (Screenshot: PBS News)
The radical left’s takeover of America’s largest city is complete, and it comes with open attacks on President Donald Trump, capitalism, and even the very foundations of Western civilization.
Zohran Mamdani, a self-described “democratic socialist” and the first Muslim mayor-elect of New York City, delivered a fiery, Marxist-tinged victory speech that sounded less like an American mayor and more like a disciple of Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, and Eugene Debs rolled into one.
Mamdani not only quoted socialist Eugene Debs but also invoked Jawaharlal Nehru, the Marxist “founding father” of socialist India, who “crushed Hindus and empowered Jihadis.”
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🔥 BREAKING: NYC’s New Mayor Just Quoted JAWAHARLAL NEHRU – the Socialist Who Crushed Hindus and Empowered Jihadis 🔥
Zohran Mamdani didn’t quote Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln.
He quoted Jawaharlal Nehru – the Marxist “founding father” of socialist India, who:
Mamdani also declared his intention to “freeze rents,” make “buses fast and free,” and bring “universal childcare” to New York — an agenda right out of a socialist manifesto.
Calling himself a “Muslim democratic socialist,” Mamdani celebrated toppling what he called “a political dynasty” and said his victory marked the “dawn of a better day for humanity.”
He vowed to make New York a city where “the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.”
Translation: higher taxes, more regulation, and open hostility toward landlords, small businesses, and anyone daring to succeed under the free market.
Mamdani couldn’t finish his remarks without unleashing a tirade against President Trump, the city’s most famous native son. “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him,” he boasted, “It is the city that gave rise to him.”
He went on to mock Trump and his supporters as “billionaires and bosses who seek to extort workers,” calling his administration “a despot” and promising that “to get to any of us, you’ll have to get through all of us.”
Mamdani: After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one.
So, Donald Trump—since I know you’re watching—I have four words for you: turn the volume up.
We will hold bad landlords to account, because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections, because we know—just as Donald Trump does—that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become very small indeed.
New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant. Hear me, President Trump: when I say this, to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.
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NEW: NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges President Trump in his victory speech:
“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants. And as of tonight, led by an immigrant.”
Mamdani’s speech wasn’t a victory address, it was a manifesto.
He proudly declared himself a Muslim and a “democratic socialist” who refuses to apologize for it.
In his words, New York will “respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with strength,” but in reality, his plan replaces individual liberty with state control.
This is the new Left, obsessed with tearing down not only Trump but also the millions of Americans who believe in faith, freedom, and the rule of law.
A poll sent out to Democrats in Virginia in October found that 93% of Democrats approved of Republican politicians being murdered and their children dying in their mother’s arms.
Virginia Democrats on Tuesday voted in Jay Jones for the Commonwealth’s Attorney General. Jones famously called for killing the children of a prominent Republican
Democrats are no longer safe to be around. They offer nothing to the country but still want to kill Republicans and their kids.
A poll was sent out to Democrat voters in Virginia
The poll asked if the texts sent out by Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones that called for the murder of Republicans, their kids and police we’re disqualifying to run for AG
93% of Democrats responded NO
We cannot coexist with liberals. They literally want us dead
John Fredericks discussed the above poll that shows how Virginia Democrats feel about Jay Jones’ texts that Republicans should be killed and their families will suffer.
John Fredericks: So I just got a poll. Just came out last night. Got it when I got up today. This is really going to not sit well with you. A poll was sanctioned by the John Reid for Lieutenant Governor campaign. So I got the insight on it. It hasn’t been released yet.
But here’s the one number that is going to make you sick to your stomach. Here’s the one number – When Democrats in Virginia were asked, did the text that Jay Jones sent to a colleague calling for the assassination of, at that time, Republican Speaker Todd Gilbert, his wife, his kids, hoping his kids would die in her arms so she could suffer, calling for police to die so he could get policy on qualified immunity. When asked the question, Are these texts disqualifying for your candidate for attorney general?
7% of Virginia Democrats said yes. 93 said no. Basically, if you’re a Virginia Democrat, you have no problem with your candidate for attorney general threatening his assassination of a speaker of the House, his wife, his kids, and want to see the kids die in her arms. We have to see cops die in Virginia.
Only 7% reject that.
Here is a copy of the text messages by Jay Jones on murdering Republicans. Jones is running for Attorney General in the state.
Here is the video, via Wall Street Apes.
Ohh my god…. A poll was sent out to Democrat voters in Virginia
The poll asked if the texts sent out by Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones that called for the murder of Republicans, their kids and police we’re disqualifying to run for AG
Ohh my god…. A poll was sent out to Democrat voters in Virginia
The poll asked if the texts sent out by Virginia Attorney General nominee Jay Jones that called for the murder of Republicans, their kids and police we’re disqualifying to run for AG
Zohran Mamdani has won New York’s mayoral race, NBC News projects, after the 34-year-old democratic socialist energized progressives in the city and across the country while generating intense backlash from President Donald Trump and Republicans, as well as some Democratic moderates.
New York City has fallen tonight, fallen into a pit from which there will be no escape, either for New Yorkers in particular or Americans in general. That Zohran Mamdani could win, with his open antisemitism, his well-documented hatred of Israel, and with his Socialist promises of a benevolent government takeover of all industry shows you the true temperature of our nation. As the kids say, we’re cooked. And that’s the memo tonight.
“For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.” Deuteronomy 32:28 (KJB)
Anywhere you look tonight, America is a nation sitting in spiritual, moral and political darkness, tonight’s election proves we’ve forever lost our way with no hope of recovery. This is what it looks like when God takes His hand off, and allows judgment to commence. Zohran Mamdani is just the first of many Socialist Muslims who will take office and finish the job that was started on 9/11. There are all types of Jihad, and tonight, you are watching the hardest type of all to combat, biological Jihad. Soon, you will no longer recognize America, if it even will exist at all.
Socialism, like it’s sisters Fascism and Communism, is the death knell of freedom and individual liberty. Tonight will be long remembered as the night when the lights went out. Who will weep for America?
Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
FROM NBC NEWS: Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, on Tuesday handily defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who ran as a third-party candidate after having lost the Democratic primary — and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa. Mayor Eric Adams, who mounted a third-party campaign for re-election after he won as a Democrat in 2021, dropped out of the race in September and endorsed Cuomo last month.
The victory caps a meteoric rise through New York politics for Mamdani since he launched his campaign roughly one year ago, transforming him from a virtually unknown state assemblyman who barely registered in polling to the incoming leader of America’s largest city.
If you're wondering what New York City will look like with Socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani as mayor, it will look a lot like this. No, it will look exactly like this. And what about the Jews? Oh, you know how that movie ends. Go read Lamentations. @ZohranKMamdanipic.twitter.com/0XGhsCWa3I
Along the way, he pushed aside the heir to one of New York’s most iconic political dynasties not once but twice within five months.
Now a nationally known political figure, Mamdani will attempt to enact the sweeping policy platform that inspired his supporters while managing an enormous municipal bureaucracy — and influencing national politics, as one of the most prominent democratic socialists and Democrats in the country. Among other goals, Mamdani wants to freeze rent on rent-stabilized units, enact universal child care, create a free bus program and launch city-run grocery stores.
Mamdani’s victory is sure to reverberate not just throughout New York City but around the nation. READ MORE
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani issues a statement blaming Trump for the bomb threats at NJ polling stations. Credit: Fox News screenshot
What an absolutely sickening night.
Not only have Democrats won the governor races in Virginia and then New Jersey, it now appears that Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist (communist) candidate will win the mayoral race in New York City.
This race changes New York City in ways that people have not even considered yet.
Decision Desk HQ called the race at 9:03
Decision Desk HQ projects Zohran Mamdani to win the New York City Mayor election.#DecisionMade: 9:03 pm ET
Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Just awful.
BREAKING: Communist Zohran Mamdani officially projected to win the NYC mayor’s race, according to Decision Desk.
Some people have suggested that a Mamdani win will be bad news for New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul, but even if that’s true, it does not change how absolutely terrible this is for New York City and the nation as a whole.
The Bernie/AOC wing of the Democrat party will be enabled by this and will become much bolder and outspoken. They will spin this as a mandate and more Democrats will become even more radicalized.
Zohran Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in Bryant Park on Oct 27th 2024 (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
A recent poll shows that college students are increasingly turning away from capitalism and embracing socialism.
According to a new Axios-Generation Lab poll conducted in late October, a staggering 67% of college students have a positive or neutral view of socialism, compared to just 40% for capitalism.
This alarming trend raises serious questions about the influence of leftist ideologies in higher education.
The survey, which included 1,574 students from two and four-year colleges across the nation, highlights deep dissatisfaction with the free-market system that has long been the backbone of America.
Only 17% of respondents hold a somewhat or very positive view of capitalism, while 34% feel the same about socialism.
Negative perceptions tell an even starker story, as a 53% majority view capitalism unfavorably, versus just 23% for socialism.
Independents report 31% favoring socialism and 17% capitalism.
The pollsters attribute this disillusionment to real-world economic pressures, including soaring costs for rent and healthcare, as well as “he rising influence of billionaires in politics, tech and media.”
“Affordability emerged as another transcendent issue: 74% of those surveyed say they’re extremely or very concerned about the cost of basic things such as groceries, gas, rent, and utilities,” Axios reports.
Additionally, 80% expressed worry over a potential federal government shutdown, signaling that these young voters are more engaged with national policy than stereotypes might suggest.
Looking ahead, 77% of these young socialism fans plan to vote in the 2026 midterms.
The pollsters also report, “Asked who they’d like to see as their party’s next nominee for president if the election were held today, Democrats surveyed say their top pick is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at 19%, followed by a tie between ‘not sure’ and former Vice President Harris, at 17%.”
“Republicans say their top pick is Vice President Vance at 36%, followed by ‘not sure’ at 26%.”
Zohran Mamdani gets emotional at a press conference in the Bronx as he spreads a hoax about his aunt’s supposed harrowing experience in New York City after 9/11. Credit: ABC 7 New York screenshot
Muslim communist New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been caught spreading a hoax so grand it would make Jussie Smollett green with envy.
Last Friday, Mamdani claimed during a press conference in the Bronx regarding ‘Islamophobia’ that his aunt suffered after 9/11, saying she felt unsafe in her hijab.
“I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims in New York City,” Mamdani said before pausing for several seconds as he fought back tears. “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt…Who stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
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Zohran through tears: “My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.”
Mandani clearly saw a moment to garner sympathy from the adoring national media and his fellow Muslims as he closed in on becoming the Big Apple’s next mayor.
It turns out, however, that Mamdani’s aunt DID NOT wear a hijab nor even live in New York City during that time.
In fact, she lived in Tanzania, thousands of miles away.
Zohran Mamdani’s aunt neither wears a hijab nor lived in NYC before, during, or after 9/11.
Legendary feminist author Naomi Wolf uncovered that Mamdani’s aunt is supposedly an expert in reproductive and sexual health and rights and gender equality.
Such activities are forbidden in Islamist culture.
This is Zohran Mamdani’s aunt’s bio. A mover and shaker! She allegedly wore a hijab after 9/11 but she is an expert in “reproductive and sexual health and rights, gender equality” and other “haram” or forbidden-in-Islam secular NGO priorities. She also is not wearing hijab in… https://t.co/dP4YxHOnz9pic.twitter.com/CeWKzwkNvX
— Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. (@naomirwolf) October 26, 2025
This is the man New Yorkers are poised to elect as their next mayor, even though so much about his overall background remains unclear to the average person.
How many more stories has he told that will soon prove false?
Screenshot of protester outside of TPUSA Event via TPUSA Frontlines X Account
A new report being shared with Democrats is filled with bad news about their party.
Their brand is in the gutter and they are experiencing growth only among white liberals, while alienating pretty much every other group. This is something that we all began to see with the outcome of the 2024 election, but this report confirms it.
Part of the party’s problem is that they don’t stand for anything other than being anti-Trump. When they do stand for something, it’s on the 20 percent end of an 80-20 issue. How much longer can they drag on like this?
Exclusive / Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns
Democrats have badly weakened their party with left-leaning ideas and rhetoric, growing only with self-described “white liberals” while losing ground with other voters, according to a new center-left group’s report shared first with Semafor.
The group, called Welcome, consulted hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its broad findings, including that 70% of voters think the Democratic Party is “out of touch.” Most voters, the group found, believe the party over-prioritizes issues like “protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” and “fighting climate change” while not caring about “securing the border” or “lowering the rate of crime.” (Welcome began as a PAC in 2022, then founded a nonprofit with the same name for political research.)
Elected Democrats will receive copies of the report after its Monday publication, followed by events to promote it in DC and New York. The report urges party members to abandon some of the progressive language about race, abortion, and LGBTQ issues that Democrats began using after the 2012 election — and recommends the nomination of more candidates willing to vote with Republicans on conservative immigration and crime bills.
“The Democratic Party had better listen — for the good of our nation,” former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos, who ran the party’s House campaign committee when it lost seats in 2020, wrote in her endorsement of the report.
The only people who will be surprised by any of this are elected Democrats and the base of the party.
They live in an alternate reality where they only hear opinions that match their own. They have grown increasingly isolated from average Americans and don’t even seem able to see it.
What a surprise, Democrats lost because they’ve moved so far to the left that it’s an unrecognizable party
In response to this, they’ve decided to make socialists Zohran Mamdani and AOC the face of the party https://t.co/KL98fYQJLX
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat Socialist frontrunner in New York City’s mayoral race, has built his campaign around promises of rent freezes, free bus service, and a city-run grocery system.
But while his platform is marketed as a local, working-class agenda, new filings reveal that a majority of his campaign money is coming from far beyond the five boroughs.
According to the latest campaign-finance records, Mamdani raised about $1.05 million in just five weeks.
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Of that total, more than $532,000—or 53%—came from donors outside New York City.
This means nearly half of the funding fueling his campaign is coming from individuals who will never vote in the mayoral election.
That figure is unprecedented in a city where campaigns are traditionally funded by residents directly affected by local policies.
In fact, an analysis by City Limits found that Mamdani has taken in more out-of-state contributions than his two main rivals combined.
His donor base stretches nationwide, pulling in checks from activists and progressive organizations across the country who see Mamdani as a national figure rather than a local candidate.
For Mamdani’s supporters, the outside contributions prove the strength of his grassroots network.
His campaign points out that the average donation size remains relatively small, suggesting he has tapped into the same progressive donor pipeline that powered Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
They argue this fundraising model frees him from dependence on Wall Street or real estate donors that dominate city politics.
But critics see it differently. New York’s mayor holds one of the most powerful municipal offices in the country, responsible for decisions that shape housing, policing, transit, and public services for more than eight million residents.
Opponents argue that when over half of Mamdani’s financial support comes from people outside the city, it raises questions about whose interests his policies will prioritize.
The optics matter even more under the city’s campaign-finance system.
New York offers an eight-to-one match for small donations from city residents, multiplying the influence of local contributions.
Mamdani’s reliance on outside donors could limit his access to matching funds while fueling the perception that his base lies outside the city he seeks to govern.
Still, the fundraising surge has given him momentum in a crowded field.
With polls showing him ahead of former Governor Andrew Cuomo and radio host Curtis Sliwa, Mamdani’s strategy appears to be resonating, at least for now.
The central question remains whether outside donations translate into votes inside the five boroughs.
As the primary approaches, Mamdani will need to prove that his financial backing reflects more than national enthusiasm—that it represents the will of New Yorkers themselves.
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer address the media outside the White House
For anyone saying that the Democratic Party does not have strong links to communism, the proof is now in the pudding.
On Friday afternoon, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries officially endorsed Zohran Mamdani, a proud Muslim communist who is likely to win the New York City mayoral race.
Jeffries, who had held off on endorsing Mamdani since his victory against Andrew Cuomo in May’s Democratic primary, said that although the two men had “areas of principled disagreement,” he was still offering his endorsement to the entire Democratic ticket.
“Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,” Jeffries said in a statement to The New York Times.
“In that spirit, I support him and the entire citywide Democratic ticket in the general election,” he continued.
Breaking News: Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the race for mayor of New York City. Jeffries emphasized that the party needed to unite in the face of an “existential” threat from President Trump. https://t.co/jSvwq7emT5pic.twitter.com/caUQr3ey9h
The endorsement comes several weeks after New York’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, also confirmed she would be supporting his candidacy.
In a statement at the time, Hochul said that Mamdani was “focused on making New York City affordable, a goal I enthusiastically support.”
“In the past few months, I’ve had frank conversations with him,” she said at the time. “We’ve had our disagreements.”
“But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family.”
New York City deserves a mayor who will stand up to Donald Trump and make life more affordable for New Yorkers.
Schumer Shutdown update: Today marks the 16th day of the Democrat-caused partial government shutdown. Yesterday, once again, the Chuck Schumer-led Senate Democrats refused to allow a floor vote for moving forward with a continuing resolution funding the government, allowing the Senate to wrangle over a new budget deal. Therefore, the Trump administration acted to ensure that military members got paid by tapping into unused research and development funds. However, as House Speaker Mike Johnson observed, that action is just a “temporary fix” if Democrats don’t end the shutdown soon. Meanwhile, Schumer has welcomed the ongoing shutdown, stating, “Every day gets better for us. It’s because we’ve thought about this long in advance, and we knew that healthcare would be the focal point on September 30, and we prepared for it. … Their whole theory was — threaten us, bamboozle us, and we would submit in a day or two.”
Dems point fingers at Young Republicans to protect Jay Jones: Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones wished for the death of a Republican coworker and his children in a text sent to another Republican coworker. No Democrat in leadership has denounced Jones’s comments or required anything from him but a half-hearted apology. As Jones’s story was trending in the news cycle, Politico broke a story about a group of New York Young Republicans making racist and offensive jokes in a private group chat. Out of 2,900 pages of chat material, involving around a dozen people and spanning from January to August, Politico found 251 messages deemed front-page worthy. That includes an obviously satirical message saying, “Great. I love Hitler.” Young Republican leadership nationwide denounced the messages and called for those responsible to resign. Until Democrats can police their own side, Republicans clearly own the high ground.
Harrisburg airport hacked by anti-Semite: On Tuesday evening at the Harrisburg International Airport in Pennsylvania, a hacker briefly took over the airport’s public address system and began spewing anti-Trump and anti-Semitic messages. The hacker, who called himself “Turkish hacker Cyber Islam,” said “Free Palestine” and “F*** Netanyahu and Trump.” Immediately following the hacker’s message, a Delta flight that was boarding at the time was searched, with a Delta spokesman explaining, “Delta followed the direction of TSA to return to the gate and complete a security check of the aircraft. We appreciate our customers’ patience and cooperation.” Back in July, the FBI warned of the notorious cybercriminal organization “Scattered Spider,” noting, “They target large corporations and their third-party IT providers, which means anyone in the airline ecosystem, including trusted vendors and contractors, could be at risk.”
Probation for DOGE staffer’s assailants: In August, Edward Coristine, known by his nickname “Big Balls,” made famous during his time at DOGE, was attacked by a gang of criminal teens during their attempted carjacking. Coristine was left with a broken nose and a concussion, but he was able to prevent the carjacking. Of the 10 or so teens that jumped Coristine, only one boy and one girl, both 15, were apprehended, and a judge more interested in rehabilitation than punishment has sentenced them to probation. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this kind of slap on the wrist is exactly why crime has run rampant in DC. U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro says that for crimes such as this that do not lead to death, she is unable to prosecute and therefore is advocating for a lowered age of criminal responsibility.
“No Kings” protests this weekend: Apparently, Democrats think another fruitless and valueless protest against a problem that doesn’t exist will shore up support for their shutdown. Leftists around the country will be taking to the streets on Saturday to protest an issue that was solved when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. More than 2,500 events are planned across all 50 states, and organizers claim the crowds will be larger than the five million participants they allegedly had in June. Republican Senator Roger Marshall put the thoughts of conservatives into words: “Hopefully it will be peaceful — I doubt it.” Republican House leadership called the event a “hate America rally.” Adam Swart, CEO of Crowds on Demand, a group that provides paid protesters for events, says he turned this event down, not wanting to “be part of the noise.” However, he suggested that paid agitators will likely be present.
Judge blocks Trump admin’s federal layoffs during shutdown: On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston issued a temporary block on the Trump administration’s layoff of federal workers in response to the Democrats’ government shutdown. In her decision, Illston sided with two labor unions representing federal workers who claim the layoffs are an illegal effort to reduce the number of government employees. Prior to the layoffs, Donald Trump warned, “These are largely people that the Democrats want. Many of them will be fired.” Thus far, the Office of Management and Budget has laid off roughly 4,000 government employees coming from seven departments, including Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Homeland Security, and Treasury. OMB Director Russ Vought has warned that upwards of 10,000 government employees could be laid off.
Trump touts impact of FBI’s crime crackdown: “Operation Summer Heat,” the FBI’s latest crime crackdown, has netted some serious results. More than 8,500 arrests have been made, representing a 250% increase from June 24 to September 20. Additionally, 557 missing children were identified, and enough drugs to kill tens of millions were seized. FBI Director Kash Patel commented, “This is what happens when you take out the fangs of weaponization.” Trump bragged that over 170 organized gangs have been destroyed or severely disrupted. Washington, DC, and Memphis, Tennessee, have already been hosting National Guardsmen, leading to remarkable results for law and order, and Trump suggested that San Francisco might be next.
Health insurance premiums to rise thanks to pricey new drugs: According to the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Americans’ health insurance premiums provided by private employers will jump by 8.5% next year. That represents the biggest rate increase since 2012, just two years after ObamaCare was passed. According to Gerard Anderson, a health policy and management professor at Johns Hopkins University, “Pharmaceutical prices are the main reason for higher costs, primarily because a number of very high-cost drugs have entered the market recently.” Last year, the FDA approved 50 pricey new drugs used to treat common medical conditions like obesity and mental illness.
Videos emerge of Hamas militants executing Palestinians: With the ink barely dry on the Israel/Hamas peace deal, Hamas is back out on the streets of Gaza in an attempt to, in the terrorist group’s words, “restore law and order.” However, CBS reports that new videos show armed Hamas militants gathering up Palestinians they accuse of being gang members collaborating with Israel and executing them. According to Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin, these Palestinian militant groups, who were opposed to Hamas, were armed by Israel during the war in an effort to weaken Hamas’s power. Baskin elaborated that these gangs were the types involved in illegal smuggling and selling drugs in the past. Seems like an impossible situation for regular Palestinians (if there are any) if the “governing” groups are also gangs and terrorists. They all need to be disarmed and kicked out by the incoming Board of Peace.
Headlines
Trump issues black ops kill order for Venezuela (OutKick)
Mamdani doesn’t “really have opinions” on Hamas — but doubles down on call for Netanyahu’s arrest (National Review)
One of the bodies Hamas released was actually “a Gazan wearing IDF uniform” (Washington Free Beacon)
Starving Gazans somehow gained back all their body weight one day after war ends (Not the Bee)
War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plane makes “unscheduled landing” after windshield crack (Fox News)
Humor: Clarence Thomas gently explains to KBJ that not all black people are mentally disabled, just her (Babylon Bee)
Here we are in 2025, and Democrats are still demanding “separate but equal” policies for minorities.
That’s the essence of their argument before the Supreme Court in the case regarding majority-minority congressional districts. Leftists argue that, somehow, minorities are disenfranchised if they aren’t drawn into separate but equal districts so they can choose a member of Congress who best represents the melanin level in their skin.
It’s race-based identity politics that artificially benefits Democrats.
The background in Louisiana v. Callais is a series of lawsuits over Louisiana’s congressional districts under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, specifically Section 2. First, Louisiana’s map had only one majority-black district. Black voters sued, alleging that packing black voters into one district violated the VRA. After a lower court ruled in their favor, the state redrew the map in 2024 to include two majority-black districts. White voters sued, calling it “unlawful, intentional discrimination based on race.”
Louisiana initially defended the map at a Supreme Court hearing in March. The Court punted, asking for a second hearing this week. The state now alleges that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the 15th Amendment’s right-to-vote provisions.
The conservative justices appeared poised to rule that way, which would open the door for significant shifts in election maps going forward.
Arguing for the state, Louisiana Solicitor General Ben Aguiñaga asserted that VRA standards “have placed states in impossible situations, where the only sure demand is more racial discrimination for more decades.” He believes there should be a sunset of sorts for certain VRA provisions, and several justices seemed to agree.
For example, Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that “race-based remedies are permissible” under the VRA, but that they “should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint.”
The facts bear that out. As Jason Riley notes in The Wall Street Journal, “In 1964, a year before the Voting Rights Act passed, black voter registration in Mississippi was less than 7%, the lowest in the region. Two years later, it was nearly 60%. Black voter registration in the South today is higher than it is in other parts of the country, and black voter registration nationwide has been rising for the past three decades.”
Obviously, the Left wants to perpetuate the segregation.
“If we take Louisiana as one example, every congressional member who is Black was elected from a Voting Rights Act-opportunity district,” argued NAACP attorney Janai Nelson. “We only have the diversity that we see across the south, for example, because of litigation that forced the creation of opportunity districts under the Voting Rights Act.”
Across the nation, just 15 of the 60 black members of Congress represent VRA districts.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson found a rather unique way to argue that states should continue counting by race when drawing congressional districts. She drew a long comparison with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), saying that Congress passed it “against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities, and so it was discriminatory in effect because these folks were not able to access these buildings.”
By comparison, she wondered, “We are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don’t have equal access to the voting system, right? They’re disabled.”
That sounds remarkably similar to the Democrats’ effective argument against voter ID laws. Blacks and other minorities, Democrats assert, are somehow less capable of obtaining legitimate IDs than white people; ergo, it’s discrimination to require IDs.
What a profoundly racist argument in both cases. It’s beyond ironic that a black Supreme Court justice is the one making it.
Just as racist is the idea that all blacks, minorities, women, gender-confused, etc., must think alike and vote Democrat. Counsel for Louisiana made this point: the map assumes “a black voter, simply because he is black, must think like other black voters, share the same interests, and prefer the same political candidates.”
Even Justice Jackson agreed that Section 2 of the VRA does not require majority-minority districts. So what’s the problem here? Why won’t this be a 9-0 ruling?
I do not doubt that the justices are well aware of the political implications, which could indeed be significant. One estimate predicts that redistricting that eliminates majority-minority districts would cost Democrats 12 congressional seats. Another estimate puts it at 19.
Obviously, that would outrage Democrats. What angers me, by contrast, is that Democrats have built their political power by dividing Americans into competing interest groups.
It’s 2025. Let’s do away with segregation and the “separate but equal” doctrine, once and for all.
Samantha Koch: Candace Owens’s Goal of Dividing the Right — Most of Owens’s recent, questionable claims have already been publicly debunked. Yet she is doubling down, backed by a loyal audience as an incentive to keep going.
Thomas Gallatin: Hegseth’s Journo Stomp — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth sets new media access rules for the Pentagon, prompting the mainstream media to cry foul and refuse to play along.
Emmy Griffin: The Gender-Bender Activists’ Authoritarian Regime Is Crumbling — The heyday of gender pathology occurred just a few short years ago. Now, polling shows that young people are less likely to identify as transgender, nonbinary, or queer.
Sophie Starkova: Irony Alert: Iran, the Trans Capital — In a bizarre revelation that you would never expect to hear coming from a strict Muslim nation, apparently, Iran is seeking to become a destination for “transgender” surgeries.
Gary Bauer: Enemies Within — The National Education Association is teaching our children that the Palestinians are the “indigenous people” in the Holy Land. That is raw antisemitic propaganda.
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A Sob Story — This noncitizen, non-English-speaking truck driver can no longer legally drive under the new sensible rules.
‘Eighty Million Slaughtered’ — Dr. Andrew Bostom explains how the origins of jihad can be traced back to Muhammad’s early campaigns in Medina, where a religious mission evolved into an imperial conquest.
“Some people have actually said I was the most qualified candidate ever to run for president.” —Kamala Harris
Projection
“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election.” —Barack Obama
Race Bait
“The Republican Party in the past 10 years has moved down the road of racism. So it’s not surprising that you see their open embrace of Nazism, of anti-Semitism… The Republican Party under Donald Trump has doubled down on its racism.” —CNN panelist Keith Boykin
Non Compos Mentis
“I think transgender female athletes are women athletes and they should be able to compete.” —California gubernatorial candidate Betty Yee
Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes
“Republican leaders are still trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown even though they control the House, the Senate, and the White House. It would be like Trump blaming January 6th on Joe Biden.” —Jimmy Kimmel
For the Record
“Today, if it weren’t for the bold leadership of President Trump … everyone needs to understand that 1.3 million active duty service members would be missing a paycheck.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson
“If Donald Trump were a king, there would be no court battles. There would be no government shutdown. The Senate Democrats wouldn’t be able to put roadblocks in Trump’s way. The courts wouldn’t be in a position to even delay, let alone deny a presidential diktat.” —David Strom
Re: The Left
“The fact is, the [Democrat] party has no leader now. It doesn’t control the presidency, the House of Representatives or the Senate, which means there is no individual Democrat with formidable institutional authority. That’s just a fact of life for parties completely out of power.” —Byron York
“[Jay Jones’s text messages are] far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl-clutching when powerful people call for political violence.” —JD Vance
“Shame on the U.S. media for making the celebrations of Palestinian families welcoming their Jew-hating, terrorist sons home and Israeli families welcoming home their innocent loved ones as somehow equivalent.” —Gary Bauer
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
“It would be hard to begrudge MAGA-minded Americans, or anyone else really, wondering how the same administration that earlier eliminated the U.S. Agency for International Development, which had an average annual budget of $23 billion, just spent close to that sum to purchase Argentinian pesos.” —Jim Geraghty
Food for Thought
“As part of this initial phase of Trump’s peace agreement, over 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have been released, and among them, individuals directly responsible for deadly terrorist attacks. … How many future Yahya Sinwars just walked free?” —Ian Haworth
Stranger Than Fiction
“Crazy time for HAMAS. They lose control of the hostages but they’re about to gain control of the New York City Mayor’s Office.” —Jimmy Failla
Straight From the Horse’s Mouth
“I inflicted this thing on the world, and I kind of regret it in some ways.” —Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger
“[Wikipedia] simply cannot be taken seriously as a neutral source.” —Larry Sanger
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A recent poll conducted earlier this month found that 64%, nearly two-thirds, of likely voters are “concerned…that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through internet connections during voting,” according to Rasmussen Reports.
The same poll found that 41% of likely voters prefer to vote on a paper ballot, whereas just 28% prefer an electronic voting machine and 29% believe “it does not make much difference.” Men were more likely (46%) than women (26%) to prefer paper ballots, but neither group favored electronic voting machines over paper.
President Donald Trump has raised public concern regarding “inaccurate” electronic voting machines last month following a March 2025 executive order that called for all electronic voting machines to meet certification standards consistent with the Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines 2.0 (VVSG 2.0).
At this time, only one voting system has been certified under the most recent VVSG 2.0. VVSG 1.0, the previous standard, was adopted in 2005 and predates the iPhone.
According to the Rasmussen Reports poll, this is not as partisan an issue as it was portrayed following the 2020 Election and Mockingbird Media reporting. Rasmussen found that 77% of Republicans, 56% of Democrats, and 61% of unaffiliated voters “are at least somewhat concerned that electronic voting systems may allow votes to be changed remotely through internet connections during voting.”
As voters seem more and more concerned about the security of electronic voting machines, it is worth re-examining circumstantial evidence from the 2020 Presidential Election and beyond.
On March 25th, 2025, President Trump signed the “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” executive order, which gave the EAC 180 days to “review and, if appropriate, re-certify voting systems under the new standards…and to rescind all previous certification of voting equipment based on prior standards.” The 180-day period expires later this month.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on issues with the electronic voting machines. In January 2024, The Gateway Pundit reported on devastating hacks of the Dominion ICX systems performed by Dr. J. Alex Halderman in federal court during Curling v. Raffensperger. Dr. Halderman showed how inexpensive, widely available products from Amazon and other retailers could be used to manipulate votes without the voter’s knowledge, even if they checked to confirm the ballot marking device’s accuracy on the physical paper ballot.
The Gateway Pundit also first reported the story about “erroneous code” that was discovered and reported by the Elections Assistance Commission in 2022 in Williamson County, Tennessee. The “QR Code Signature Mismatch,” as it was written in system log files.
The EAC reported:
“On November 3, 2021, the EAC received a report from the Tennessee Secretary of State’s (TN SoS) office that they were planning an investigation into an anomaly observed in Williamson County, Tennessee during a municipal election held on October 26, 2021, regarding Dominion D-Suite 5.5-B ImageCast Precinct (ICP) tabulators. Close poll reports from 7 of the 18 ICP tabulators used during the election did not match the number of ballots scanned. Subsequent tabulation on the jurisdiction’s ICC central count scanner provided the correct tally. The central count tabulation was confirmed via hand count of the paper ballot records on October 27, 2021.”
“When these events were logged, the ballot was rejected. Subsequent resetting of the ICP scanners and additional tabulation demonstrated that each instance of the anomaly coincided with the previous mentioned audit log entries, though not every instance of those audit log entries resulted in the anomaly,” the EAC report reads.
“Further analysis of the anomaly behavior showed that the scanners correctly tabulated all ballots until the anomaly was triggered. Following the anomaly, ballots successfully scanned and tabulated by the ICP were not reflected in the close poll reports on the affected ICP scanners.”
This report was focused on the Democracy Suite 5.5B software used in Williamson County, however, the same anomaly appeared in system logs reviewed by several investigators in Georgia, including logs reviewed by the Gateway Pundit for several counties. Of the 66 counties whose system logs were reviewed in Georgia, 64 of them (97%), had the “QR Code Signature Mismatch” error in the logs.
Coincidentally, during a speech on January 6th at the Washington Monument, attorney John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani pointed out a very similar discrepancy they observed based on the January 5th run-off in Georgia. The thread below reviews the “QR Code Signature Mismatch”:
🧵 1/ Georgia Election Thread:
John Eastman said this on Jan 6.
I'll explain why that could be so significant to what happened in Georgia, and maybe elsewhere.
The Gateway Pundit reported that over the weekend, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a formal investigation into the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County, Georgia, citing “unreconciled election data, improper procedures, and the failures of the Georgia election system overall” as justification.
In March, around the same time as President Trump’s EO on elections, Rep. Pete Sessions announced that he would be introducing the Make Elections Secure Act (MESA), as first reported by The Gateway Pundit. The bill would eliminate electronic voting machines and ensure hand-marked, hand-counted paper ballots while significantly limiting mail-in balloting.
Behind Mamdani is the rising Islamic takeover of the city.
In 2023, Mohammed made its appearance on the list of the top 10 most popular names for boys in New York City. Anyone paying attention to this seemingly minor statistic could have predicted the emergence of Zohran Mamdani as the Democrat nominee in the upcoming mayoral election.
Mohammed had appeared as the sixth most common baby among ‘Asians’ in New York City in 2013. By 2017, the name of the genocidal warlord of Islam had become the most common baby name among ‘Asians’ in the city. The rapid growth showed the power of demographics.
Nearly 300 Mohammeds (under various spellings) were born in New York City in 2021 accompanied by over 150 Ahmeds, and dozens of Alis, Omars, Adnans and many others.
The Muslim population of New York City is still undetermined. While Islamist groups claim that there are over 1 million Muslims, they tend to exaggerate to build up their influence, but a Pew survey estimated Muslim settlers as making up 3% of the population of New York City.
Mamdani only won the votes of 5% of the population of New York City. That’s within 2% of the estimated Muslim population of the city. Whatever the actual size of the Muslim population of the city may be, it was more than enough to make the difference in a mayoral primary that few New Yorkers bothered to vote in because they found all the candidates repugnant even while mosques successfully turned out the bloc vote to rig an election for their candidate.
Mamdani was not a popular candidate, but he toured the city’s mosques and told the members of one Hamas-supporting mosque that this is “an opportunity — to tell the world that Muslims don’t just belong in New York City but that we belong in City Hall.”
That message, delivered in a mosque, combined tribal nationalism and Islamism.
How many mosques are there in the city? There were 285 in 2015. Some current estimates place the number at over 500 now. While Islamist groups do build mosques that they don’t need and can’t fill in order to build up influence with projects like the Ground Zero Mosque and other mosques in Manhattan (which unlike Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, does not have a significant Muslim population below 125th Street) they reflect a growing Muslim population.
The vast majority of that growth happened after 9/11. The old Arab Muslim population which cheered on the rooftops after the September 11 attacks and was responsible for pre 9/11 terrorist attacks like the World Trade Center bombing mainly lived in New Jersey and parts of Brooklyn are a minority now with the massive influx of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and other Muslims from the vicinity of India colonizing the city.
One of the most important things to understand about Zohran Mamdani is that he isn’t just a Muslim, but he’s an Indian Muslim. His rise reflects the growing numbers of Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indian Muslims who have taken over entire neighborhoods in the city.
There are an estimated 100,000 Bangladeshis occupying parts of New York City. From around 35,000 in 2010, the colonizing population rapidly increased, taking over parts of Queens, once home to middle class Greek, Italian and Jewish populations, but now Mamdani territory.
The Queens district that Mamdani used as a springboard to seize power in New York had formerly been held by Aravella Simotas, a fairly typical representative of the next generation of old school Democrats, before being ousted by Mamdani using Muslim bloc votes.
On paper, both Simotas, a child of a Greek-American family who had lived in Africa, and Mamdani, the son of Indian Muslims also out of Africa, were both young ‘progressive’ Democrats who had all the right left-wing positions. Mamdani was backed by the Democratic Socialists of America while Simotas was backed by the Queens Democratic Party.
There was virtually no difference between their actual positions forcing Mamdani to adopt increasingly insane leftist positions that are now coming back to haunt him to stand out..
“I’ve worked with Aravella, and I’m not quite sure how you could be more left-leaning than she is,” a councilwoman said.
Simotas had lived her whole life in Queens while Mamdani, who had been living in Manhattan, wasn’t even from Queens but had moved there for the election. Why Queens? According to Mamdani, he moved to the area because he liked the Muslim population already there.
Mamdani had moved into Queens to run in a Muslim district against a fellow leftist Dem.
The 2020 Democrat primary came down to a narrow victory for Mamdani at 51.20% over 48.62% by a margin of around 400 votes. That began Mamdani’s career in politics.
Mamdani’s victory was part of a larger pattern.
Even while Mamdani used Muslim votes to seize control of District 36, ‘Mary’ Jobaida, a Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant, tried to take control of Assembly District 37 also in Queens. Jobaida, like Mamdani, ran on a hard left social justice platform, but still lost. She now wants to run for Mamdani’s seat if he takes over City Hall.
In Assembly District 24, David Weprin, who is Jewish, has been the target of repeated Muslim candidates running on leftist platforms including Misbaah Mahmood, Mahfuzul Islam and Mahtab Khan: an anti-Israel Islamic activist running on the slogan “Tax the Rich”.
Mamdani’s rise reflects a larger Islamic campaign in President Trump and David Horowitz’s former neighborhood.
In 2019, I warned that Queens was becoming ‘Queensistan” after describing the rise of Islamic terrorism and colonization in the borough. “Grand Central Parkway, where Awais Chudhary, the latest Islamic terrorist operating out of Queens, planned to drop bombs on passing cars, passes a few blocks from President Trump’s childhood home. There are 5 Islamic centers within a little over a mile of where Trump had grown up.” Now Queenistan has given us Mamdani.
And that’s not the end. Mamdani is a symptom of a larger crisis. Demographics is destiny and Muslim mass migration is proving a much greater threat to New York City than hijacked airplanes.
California gubernatorial candidate and Fox News contributor Steve Hilton on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom, arguing that his redistricting push violates the California Constitution.
Hilton announced the lawsuit outside of the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and US Courthouse in Santa Ana, California.
I’m announcing today that I will file a lawsuit today in federal court. We’re outside the federal building in Orange County. I’m filing a lawsuit to stop Gavin Newsom’s grotesque assault on our democracy, Gavin Newsom’s attempt to make a democrat vote in California worth eight times a Republican vote in California. This is obscene. We’re going to try and stop it every way we can, and we’re going to try and stop him wasting $250 million of our money on what is effectively a contribution to his presidential campaign.
We are filing this lawsuit in federal court. This is not like the previous lawsuits filed by Republicans that have filed in California courts. This is federal court, and we are filing that today. We’re going to stop Gavin Newsom’s obscene assault on our democracy. Thank you very much.
Despite Trump winning 6,081,697 votes in 2024, 38.3% of the vote, Republicans only won 9 of 52 House seats, or 17%.
Under Newsom’s proposed plan, Republicans would only win four Congressional Districts, and Democratic votes would be worth eight times more than Republican votes based on the number of voters per House seat. While Republicans represent nearly 40% of the state, they will receive less than 8% representation in Congress.
“Equal protection means fair value for every vote. Under this new scheme, a Democrat vote is worth eight times a Republican vote. That is not democracy, it is voter suppression,” Hilton said in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit.
“The Constitution does not say one person, one vote sometimes. It does not say one person, one vote only for the majority party. It says one person, one vote for everyone. If this map is allowed to stand, millions of Californians will have their voices silenced and their votes devalued.”
The California State Assembly passed Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8 (ACA8) last month, sending Proposition 50 to the ballot for a statewide special election this November. If passed, Proposition 50 will authorize the new redistricting maps, which were drawn by the legislature under Assembly Bill 604.
Hilton’s lawsuit against Gavin Newsom and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber argues that the state of California plans to violate the US Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. The Legislature “has not ensured that districts are largely equal in population,” and some Congressional Districts “will not be equal to that of other Congressional districts in the state,” it states.
“The legislature took no account of the fact that huge communities have experienced massive reductions in population as, for example, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena, in the Los Angeles area, as a result of devastating fires that displaced tens of thousands of residents, and ACA8 will therefore contract the value of some votes and expand the power of other voters.”
Hilton says, “Five years after the last census, with hundreds of thousands leaving the state and entire communities displaced by wildfires, it is impossible to guarantee equal representation.”
Additionally, the California State Constitution stipulates that only the Citizens Redistricting Commission “shall adjust the boundary lines of congressional, State Senatorial, Assembly, and Board of Equalization districts,” and that it must be done “in the year following the year in which the national census is taken under the direction of Congress at the beginning of each decade.”
The lawsuit argues that “ACA8 does not specifically repeal that section of Article XXI that limits redistricting to occur only in the year following the national census.” Further, Assembly Bill 604, which redraws the maps under the constitutional amendment “takes no account of the breakup of communities of color and ethnicity, thus diluting the voting power of those affinity groups.”
“This is not about whether you are a Democrat or a Republican. It is about whether your vote counts the same as your neighbor’s. No Californian should accept a system that tells them their voice is worth less,” Hilton said.
You can support Steve Hilton’s bid for California Governor here.
Gavin Newsom speaking at a podium in Sacramento. (wikimedia)
In defending his state’s sanctuary laws, California Governor Gavin Newsom warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement might show up at polling places to “chill participation.”
That statement was an admission: Democrats know non-citizens are voting—and they are relying on it.
For years, Democrats and allied media have insisted that non-citizen voting is a “myth.”
WATCH: TEXAS Democrat INDICTED—STOLE Thousands from TAXPAYERS with SIBLINGS
Yet extensive research contradicts them. A 2014 Electoral Studies paper found that about one-quarter of non-citizens were likely registered, and over six percent voted in 2008.
The study concluded those votes “likely” changed key elections for Democrats, including Electoral College outcomes and a Senate race that enabled passage of Obamacare.
It also reported that 81.8% of non-citizens who admitted voting in 2008 supported Barack Obama.
Those findings were reinforced by Just Facts, which updated the estimates using 2022 Census data.
They determined that between 10% and 27% of non-citizens nationwide are illegally registered to vote.
With 19.7 million non-citizen adults counted in 2022, that means two to five million names appear illegally on voter rolls.
Given turnout rates, between one million and nearly three million non-citizens could cast ballots in 2024.
That is enough to swing battleground states and determine control of Congress.
The argument that those numbers are “too small” collapses when compared to recent election margins.
In 2020, Biden carried Arizona by just over 10,000 votes. Georgia’s margin was fewer than 12,000.
If even a fraction of the non-citizen votes identified occurred in those states, outcomes could have flipped.
🚨BREAKING: Newsom ADMITS Illegal Immigrants Vote in U.S. Elections
A 2014 Electoral Studies paper found that approximately one-quarter of non-citizens were likely registered, and over six percent voted in the 2008 election.https://t.co/e8PyTItsD3
Yet Democrats dismiss the issue, even while their governors admit illegal immigrants are participating.
Republicans have responded with legislation requiring proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. That should be the bare minimum.
Democrats resist every reform. When Trump’s Election Integrity Commission requested publicly available voter-roll data, Democrat officials refused and filed lawsuits to block it.
California’s secretary of state falsely claimed the commission asked for “personal data.” In reality, it only requested public voter registration lists.
Blocking transparency has become a cornerstone of Democrat election policy.
Polls show non-citizens overwhelmingly favor Democrats. Surveys between 2006 and 2022 found 73% to 82% supported Democrat candidates.
That aligns with promises of amnesty, welfare expansion, and sanctuary protections. Each illegal ballot cancels the vote of an American citizen—and Democrats benefit from nearly all of them.
Newsom’s remark stripped Democrats of denial. He acknowledged that immigration enforcement near polling places would deter “participation.”
The only participation deterred would be from people not legally allowed to vote. Newsom admitted the system is compromised.
President Trump has been vilified for saying non-citizen voting undermines elections.
The data prove him right. Democrats like Newsom, instead of protecting ballots, enable fraud that erodes trust in democracy.
The question is no longer whether non-citizens are voting. The question is whether Americans will allow Democrats to keep pretending it isn’t happening.
Proverbs 19:5 says that a false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. Many on the Left believe that deceiving others bears no heavenly consequence. But God Almighty is fully aware of every single lie and will act accordingly. It is God’s will for deception to be exposed so the truth can be revealed.
The first lie told by the Left this week comes from the mouths of the Democratic Socialists of America. At their recent convention in Chicago, they claimed, “We’re in charge now,” insisting that Zohran Mamdani’s recent nomination wasn’t an “anomaly,” but rather “the start of the DSA’s rise to power.” Convention participants held up signs that read, “Socialism beats Fascism,” while others wore masks as they mingled among the crowd.
Palestine, Freebies, and “Saving Democracy”
During a speech, an overzealous delegate from Atlanta declared, “We need to run campaigns that win. Campaigns like Zohran Mamdani, which put forward a bold vision of a socialist society. Zohran shows that Palestine is a winning issue. That socialism is a winning issue. The time for protest campaigns and messaging is over. The time for winning is now. We can win the Democratic primary in 2028. There are polls now that show that a majority of the Democratic primary electorate supports Palestine and would want a Democratic socialist to win the presidential primary in 2028.”
Congresswoman and socialism sympathizer Rashida Tlaib delivered the keynote speech address on Friday, where she “denounced her congressional colleagues who support Israel as a Jewish state.”
During a panel discussion, DSA organizer Daniel Goulden proudly stated, “With Zohran, we’re in basically the best possible position to seize state power that we could be in…we wrote the platform with him…Zohran is literally attempting to do what conservatives say we want to do, which is provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free. We’re gonna fly people in and pay for their hotel rooms.”
Down with the Nuclear Family
The lies continued as the DSA declared the nuclear family is “an inherently repressive, racist, hetero-sexist institution that functionally reinforces and produces capitalism.” They urge their people to get ready for a “revolt.”
J Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy warned, “This isn’t about saving democracy. It’s Lenin-speak for seizing power. The Bolsheviks were a tiny group of fanatics whom others wrote off as a freak show. Recognize subversion when you see it.”
A Sinister Power Grab
The goal of Democratic Socialism is to tear down the foundations of American society, particularly moral and ethical boundaries. Though socialists insist they want to free people from religion, capitalism, and “restrictive” norms, the truth is that their system of governance would create a nation of morally bankrupt, impoverished slaves who answer to a cruel master. Their support of terrorists such as Hamas is further evidence of their sinister plot, which seeks to use force and fury to control the masses.
Taking DC Back
The second lie told by the Left this week revolves around President Trump’s plan to “take the nation’s capital back.” During a news conference at the White House, President Trump vowed to restore law and order to the streets of Washington, D.C., declaring “a crime emergency in the District of Columbia.” He quickly jumped into action by calling in the National Guard and federal law enforcement, as well as federalizing the Metropolitan Police Department.
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers reported, “In less than one week, over 100 violent criminals have already been arrested and taken off the streets in Washington D.C.” Additionally, at least 70 homeless encampments have been removed by U.S. Park Police.
The Left Claims Crime Isn’t a Problem
The Left is not happy about President Trump’s bold moves. They are condemning what they insist is an “authoritarian incursion” of their city. Many are insisting that DC has no problems with crime, and Trump is creating a distraction so his supporters will forget about the Epstein files. The Leftist media is parroting the same lies, hoping Americans will believe that escalating crime is a conspiracy theory.
The Democratic mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser, urged residents “to protect our city, to protect our autonomy, to protect our home rule, and get to the other side of this guy and make sure we elect a Democratic House so that we have a backstop to this authoritarian push.”
Make America Safe Again
President Trump is unfazed by the Left’s rhetoric. He explained that when it comes to crime, Democrats are “afraid to do anything because they don’t want to be criticized. But fighting crime is a good thing.”
Charles Lipson, an expert on international politics, writes, “President Trump’s initiative to restore law and order to the streets of the nation’s capital is a smart political move. All Americans consider Washington ‘our city’ and we want it safe. We can see on the nightly news that it is not, and we’re not happy about it. If Trump can turn it around, he will get well-deserved credit, not from the legacy media, but from the public…if he can lessen the muggings, car jackings, and armed robberies, if he can move the homeless off the downtown streets, he will highlight the difference between his approach and the painful failures of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and other major cities, all of them governed by Democrats.”
The Left wants Americans to turn a blind eye to muggings, carjackings, rampant drug problems, never-ending homeless encampments, and violent attacks. “There’s nothing to see here,” claim the Leftists. The game is up, and people have had enough. It’s time to crack down on lawlessness and the leaders who refuse to stop crime in their cities. Americans deserve a country where anyone can walk down the street and feel safe.
Obama’s Leftist Post
The third lie told by the Left this week comes from former President Barack Obama, who recently posted this message on X: “Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care. Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly weakening the law and hoping you won’t notice. We can’t let them.”
Obama’s comments stirred up quite a response, with several lawmakers setting the record straight. Former Navy SEAL and Arizona Representative Eli Crane fired back by saying, “You’ve done enough damage. Probably best to sit this one out.”
Obamacare Made Healthcare Anything but Affordable
Senator Mike Lee of Utah pointed out, “Obamacare was a great deal—for huge healthcare companies, but it’s made healthcare less affordable for hardworking American families, who have seen their healthcare costs skyrocket—while a small handful of healthcare giants have reaped a windfall of billions of dollars a year.”
Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin, noted, “The worst part of Obamacare was putting able-bodied, working-age adults on government assistance instead of helping them find employment. I’ve been vocally against this since day one. Medicaid should be for needy children, families, and seniors. Not for those who can work!”
Leftists praising Obamacare promised healthcare for everyone at affordable prices, but the reality became skyrocketing insurance premiums and deductibles for a large portion of Americans. Moreover, prescription drug prices have become unaffordable for many, while the quality of healthcare has decreased dramatically. In reality, Obamacare did the opposite of what it claimed to do because it made receiving medical treatment more difficult for the average American.
The Left repeats the same lie over and over, hoping people will believe it. The truth is that the Affordable Care Act has created a medical system that is anything but affordable. In truth, Americans are suffering physically and financially because of bad policies that were doomed from the beginning. It’s time to axe the ACA once and for all.
Lord Jesus, the lies grow bigger by the day, but with your help, we are more than capable of countering them with the truth. Please guide our reactions and actions as we tackle these deceptions on a daily basis.
These are just a few of the lies the Left told this week. How are you praying?
Angela Rodriguez is an author, blogger, and former teacher who studies the signs of the times, as well as the historical and biblical connections between Israel and the United States. You can visit her blogs at 67owls.com and 100trumpets.com.She is also the author of Psalm 91: Under the Wings of Jesus and Hallelujah’s Great Ride. Photo Credit: Danny Butlin-Policarpo on Unsplash.
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