Hat-tip to Stephen Green at Instapundit on this one. For many years I have said that, if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. The only “principle” they have is a lust for power.
ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis pleaded the Fifth Amendment during his closed-door deposition before three key House committees, sources familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital.
The Committee on House Administration, House Oversight Committee, and House Judiciary Committee are conducting a joint investigation into ActBlue, a massive fundraising platform for Democrats, over allegations that lax fraud prevention standards may have allowed foreign donations to seep into US campaigns.
DeBergalis’ deposition, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, lasted less than half an hour. . . .
A report released by the committees in April 2025 claimed that “ActBlue executives and staff are aware that both foreign and domestic fraudulent actors are exploiting the platform but do not take the threat seriously.”
As Mike Benz points out, with Democrats, every accusation is a confession — they habitually accuse Republicans of wrongdoing that Democrats themselves are guilty of, in this case, foreign interference in American elections. ActBlue was perfectly OK with their system being used to launder foreign contributions into Democratic campaign coffers, with the big-money foreign donors using the stolen identities of Americans to disguise these illegal contributions.
For more than two years during his first term, Democrats made “Russian collusion” the centerpiece of their efforts to undermine Trump’s presidency, and it has subsequently been demonstrated that this was a hoax — Democrats manufactured phony “evidence” (i.e., the Steele dossier) and then used subversive elements of the national security apparatus (e.g., Brennan, Comey, Clapper, et al.) to give this hoax the semblance of credibility. This stuff was fed to the news media, who hyped it up, and Democratic politicians loudly proclaimed that this foreign interference (which, to repeat, was a hoax of their own making) was “a threat to Our Democracy.” To this day, Democrats refuse to admit what they did, and the fools who believed Democrats don’t want to admit they were deceived. They are invested in the Big Lie, and justify that investment by crude demonization: ORANGE MAN BAD!
Do you see how the Threat to Our Democracy™ rhetoric functions to support an “end justifies the means” excuse for whatever crimes Democrats may commit in their anti-Trump crusades? Convince the public that Trump is literally Hitler, and then they lie, steal and cheat to stop Hitler, because protecting Our Democracy™ matters so much.
All of this, you understand, is because Democrats do not consider any government legitimate unless they are in charge. Democrats are so accustomed to being in charge of everything — in the news media, in schools and colleges, in every major city — that they are shocked and offended whenever a Republican wins an election. Vast parts of America, including the states of Texas and Florida, are viewed by Democrats as anti-democratic fascist regimes simply because those states are run by Republicans. If you live in such a state, and vote Republican, you are considered by Democrats to be subhuman, Lebensunwertes Leben.
It turns out that Our Democracy™ — the rhetorical ideal that Democrats claim to be defending — is not democratic at all, because what Democrats actually want is a one-party totalitarian regime, where they wield all power, never lose an election, and can effectively outlaw opposition.
The worst part of the ActBlue scandal is that Democrats and their media allies keep pretending that it’s not really a scandal. No, according to Democrats, the real scandal is that Republicans hold a House majority, and therefore control the committees that are investigating this criminal enterprise. If Democrats win the midterm elections, those investigations will end, which means they will have gotten away with their crimes.
That is what Our Democracy™ really means — absolute immunity for Democrats, no matter what laws they break to gain power.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is searching for the woman who stabbed a pregnant woman outside the Harris Teeter [grocery store].
It happened on Wednesday [March 18] around 11 a.m. in the Cotswold Village Shopping Center.
The 38-year-old pregnant woman told Channel 9 she was getting her toddler out of her car when the woman who pulled out of the space behind her stopped her car, got out, cursed at her, and attacked her with a knife.
“I was facing my toddler, getting him out of his seat, and thankfully turned around, and she was coming at me with a steak knife,” the victim, who asked not to be identified, said.
The woman was stabbed in the sternum, but she is okay. So is her unborn child. She tells Channel 9 she has never seen the woman who attacked her before and has no idea why this happened.
“I pushed and kicked and screamed, and thankfully I think that scared her off,” she said.
Marvina Marie Hardy-Butler, of Waxhaw, has been arrested in Florida in connection with the stabbing of a pregnant woman in a Cotswold shopping center parking lot, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced on Monday afternoon.
The arrest comes two weeks after the initial attack was first reported.
Hardy is currently in custody in Flagler County, Florida, and awaiting extradition back to Mecklenburg County, where she will be charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill/inflict serious injury, and battery of an unborn child.
She has an extensive criminal history.
Gosh, what could they mean by “extensive criminal history”? How about 24 prior arrests? And this was what prompted the question:
What in the actual hell is happening in North Carolina?
I feel like every day I hear about another horrific crime that’s been committed either by a repeat offender an illegal alien
Readers will recall that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., who fatally stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, also had an extensive criminal history. It is natural that readers wonder why such leniency toward habitual offenders — a “revolving door” policy — has become standard practice in North Carolina. One word: DEMOCRATS.
Because North Carolina is a “swing” state that has shifted back and forth in presidential elections, and because it’s in the South, many Americans probably think of it as a moderate, and perhaps even conservative sort of state. The problem with that belief is that, first of all, Democrats have a pretty good record in statewide elections, having controlled the governor’s office for all but four years since 1993. Even though 10 of the state’s 14 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are Republicans, therefore, Democrats are much more influential in the state government than their congressional representation would suggest. Secondly, much of the crime in North Carolina — including both of these recent horrific stabbings — is concentrated in the urbanized “Triangle” region of the state, which includes includes Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), Wake County (Raleigh), Durham County and Orange County (Chapel Hill).
In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried North Carolina by a three-point margin, 51% to 48%, over Kamala Harris. However, Harris got 80% of the vote in Durham County, 75% in Orange County, 65% in Mecklenburg County and 62% in Wake County. In these four counties, Harris got a combined 989,332 votes (66%) to Trump’s 478,164 votes (32%). If you subtracted these four counties from the statewide totals, Trump would have won by a 17-point margin, 58% to 41%.
What you have, then, is a Democrat-dominated “blue” urban area plunked down in the middle of a conservative “red” state. And in the urban “Triangle” counties, the attitude toward crime looks a lot more like San Francisco or Chicago than it does the fictional “Mayberry.”
The grocery store where the pregnant woman was stabbed is in one of the “nice” parts of Charlotte, and the suspect is from Waxhaw in Union County, about 20 miles south of the grocery store, near the South Carolina state line. So you could be shopping in what seems like a perfectly safe neighborhood, and be attacked with a knife by a criminal maniac with 24 prior arrests who traveled 20 miles to choose you as her “random” victim. Nobody is safe, when Democrats are in charge.
CORRECTION: Charlotte is not part of the “Triangle.” Thanks for the commenter who pointed out my clumsy error. Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are the “Triangle,” while Charlotte is nearly 150 miles to the southwest. My apologies for the error.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum is always wise policy, which Democrats never follow whenever one of their enemies die. Democrats hate without apology, but become indignant if Republicans return the favor.
Readers might notice that the headline of this obituary is perhaps not a model of journalistic objectivity, but that’s the whole point. You see, I spent a decade at the Washington Times, which gave me a chance to study how our liberal competitor, the Washington Post, always slanted everything, including obituaries. Liberal journalists find ways to sneak in tendentious words and phrases like controversial and scandal-plagued when writing about their chosen enemies, and I think this is as good an occasion as any to repay the favor in the case of Bob Mueller.
It is worth pointing out that, prior to 2017, few liberals would have thought of Mueller as a hero. He had a long career as a federal prosecutor before becoming Assistant Attorney General in the first Bush administration, and was subsequent chosen in 2001 by Bush the Younger to be FBI Director. His reputation was as a conservative Republican, and he remained in the job until 2013, when Obama named James Comey as his successor. Four years later, after Trump had fired Comey (after learning that the FBI had illegally spied on his campaign), Attorney General Bill Barr recused himself from the case and appointed Mueller as special counsel, tasked with investigating the whole matter of “Russian collusion.” Mueller was 73 years old at the time and appears to have functioned as a figurehead for a witch-hunt conducted by his underlings.
For nearly two years, the Mueller investigation dragged on, ruining the lives of various Trump allies entangled in the case, as the witch-hunters tried to bring pressure on them to implicate Trump in something — anything — illegal. All that while, the talking heads on MSNBC were gleefully cheerleading Mueller, telling their Trump-hating audiences that “the walls are closing in” on the Bad Orange Man. Ultimately, however, these sadistic fantasies were disappointed: Mueller’s final report failed to find any evidence of “collusion” between the Russians and the Trump campaign. It was all a hoax from start to finish. And when Mueller was called to testify before Congress, it became apparent that he was well down the path to becoming completely senile.
? ? Watch John Ratcliffe expose Robert Mueller’s “Russia Investigation” from 2019.
“It was not the special counsels job to conclusively determine Donald Trump’s innocence or to exonerate him. Because the bedrock principle of our justice system is the presumption of innocence.… pic.twitter.com/r2S2V6QVnU
It is an objective fact that Mueller was disgraced by his participation in the “Russian collusion” witch-hunt. However, because his phony investigation was useful to Democrats — it disrupted Trump’s first term and arguably helped Democrats win control of Congress in the 2018 midterm elections — all the usual suspects in journalism are now obligated to praise him as a hero. They get paid to lie.
As bad as the “Russian collusion” witch-hunt was, however, it perhaps wasn’t the worst stain on Mueller’s record. As FBI director, Mueller authorized the Bureau to use informants to organize neo-Nazi rallies:
In 2007, Orlando residents were furious to discover that an FBI informant had organized a neo-Nazi rally through one of the city’s mostly black neighborhoods a year earlier.
“To come into a predominantly black community, which could have resulted in great harm to the black community? I would hate to be part of a game,” Orlando City Councilwoman Daisy Lynum said at the time, calling for a “full-scale investigation” into the matter.
However, an FBI agent testified that his informant participated in the event, but didn’t organize it. The city’s uproar passed without a public investigation, full-scale or otherwise — until now.
Thanks to a trove of previously unpublicized law enforcement records and interviews with several players involved, Headline USA can reveal that the Orlando neo-Nazi rally was indeed organized by the FBI. The Orlando event also seems to have been part of a larger program to hold Nazi rallies across the country. And according to FBI records, the bureau sponsored those events despite knowing they led to an increase in the number of card-carrying Nazis in America. . . .
Former NSM member and prison inmate Bill White describes how law enforcement failed to keep the Nazi demonstrators separate from the counterprotestors at an FBI-sponsored 2005 Toledo rally
The coverage on CNN — and all the other mainstream media — frames the story the same way: Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by a grand jury because of “Trump’s revenge.” The context of what Comey actually did is an afterthought, if mentioned at all, and the accusation of perjury and obstruction is treated as if were just commonplace for senior government officials to lie under oath and attempt to conceal evidence. Oh, and this was five years ago, they emphasize, without even a hint of recollection about what year it was that E. Jean Carroll claims she got raped in the dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman — The Crime of the Century, but not this century. Anyway . . .
All the experts have assured us that election fraud is impossible. No election is ever “rigged” or “stolen” in America, and anyone who says otherwise is emphatically denounced as a crypto-fascist threat to Democracy. Meanwhile, in south Georgia . . .
The mayor of a small southwest Georgia city and two former election officials are now free on bond after being indicted on multiple counts of election interference and conspiring to shut down a special election in November. Camilla Mayor Kelvin Owens has been released on a bond of $6,000; City Clerk Cheryl Ford is free on a $10,000 bond; and former Election Superintendent Rhunette Williford posted a $7,000 bond, an official from the Mitchell County (Ga.) Sheriff’s Office told The Federalist Monday afternoon. The public officers face a combined 13 counts, including felony election interference charges, after being indicted by a Mitchell County grand jury last Wednesday.
The scandal, stemming from the attempted cancelation of a special city council election in which Owens’ political ally was disqualified from running has stunned the community of 5,000 people, located about 60 miles north of Tallahassee. Only the special election, held on Election Day, was interrupted; the Nov. 5 general election, including the presidential election, went on unmolested.
Owens, who is black, has blamed racial politics for the legal scuffles that led to the misconduct allegations. So have black community members and activists who see “systemic voter suppression” in the indictments. . . .
You can read the rest of that at The Federalist, and I wish to commend their senior elections correspondent Matt Kittle for attempting to make sense of this story, which still makes no sense at all. When I saw the first Associated Press version of the story last weekend, I immediately texted my friend Dianna Deeley, who lives in Valdosta, about 70 miles east of Camilla: “What the heck is going on in Camilla?”
Chaos roiled special elections for a pair of city council seats in Camilla last November amid a long-running legal battle over local politics in the town, a farming community of about 5,000 people in rural southwest Georgia.
The case revolved around Venterra Pollard, a city council member removed from office last summer after a judge ruled he wasn’t a Camilla resident. Pollard ran to regain the position in the fall special election. Another judge ordered Pollard disqualified and ruled that votes for him should be discarded. In addition, the city was ordered to post signs saying votes for Pollard wouldn’t be counted.
On Nov. 4, the day before Election Day, both Williford and Ford quit as the city’s two top elections officials. Their joint resignation letter blamed “mental duress, stress and coercion experienced by recent court decisions regarding our role in elections.” . . .
The Georgia NAACP said in a statement on Facebook that it was “deeply alarmed” by the allegations of election interference as well as the arrests of Owens and the two former election officials, all of whom are Black. “We were shocked that there were indictments,” said Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia NAACP. “We are still in a fact-finding mode to see what actually happened.”
All this uproar, including a lawsuit that was appealed all the way to the state Supreme Court, over a city council seat in a podunk town? I was as confused as Joe Biden in a national security briefing, and so I’ve spent hours digging into this story over the past few days. Pour another cup of coffee and grab a seat, folks, because it’s a long story.
Mitchell County, Georgia, may not be exactly in the middle of nowhere, but it’s not far away from it. The whole county’s population is 27,755. Pecans are a major crop in southwest Georgia, and driving through the region you’ll see many beautiful groves of pecan trees. Other agricultural products include soybeans, peanuts, cotton and cattle, and my brother Kirby — a truck driver who did a lot of hauling in our native Georgia — informs me that there’s also lots of tomato farming down that way.
A recent college graduate in Camilla was running for a position on the city council, but the election superintendent said his residency disqualifies him. Corey Morgan, 22, went before the election superintendent last week to answer questions about the status of his residency.
A councilwoman accused him of not living in the city during the year leading up to the election.
During the hearing, it was revealed Morgan had switched his voter [registration] to Troup County, where he was a student at LaGrange College.
Monday, officials determined that since Morgan had not been living in Mitchell County for the required one-year period leading up to the election, he was unqualified to run during this year’s election cycle.
That’s understandable, right? But two years later, Morgan qualified to run and, at age 24, won election to the city council in Camilla.
Did I mention that folks in Georgia are crazy about football? Because it so happens that Corey Morgan played football for LaGrange College, as a defensive lineman. And his roster page informs us that in high school, Morgan played at Pelham High. Wait a minute — if Corey Morgan is from Camilla, which is where Mitchell County High School is located, why did he attend high school in Pelham, 10 miles down the road? Never mind. We’ll get to that later, meanwhile, in 2017, Venterra Pollard was elected to the Camilla City Council, and it was the attempt to elect Pollard again in 2024 that resulted in the current charges against Mayor Owens and his two co-defendants who suffered such “mental duress” during the election.
Venterra Pollard (left) and Corey Morgan (right)
What was Venterra Pollard’s occupation before he got elected to the city council? Good luck finding an answer to that question, because I wasted an hour trying to turn up an answer with Google searches, to no avail.
By the way, what do they pay city council members in Camilla? A town of barely 5,000 residents probably wouldn’t have a lot of money to pay elected officials, and this is part of the mystery underlying this whole saga — why such a big fight over municipal offices in this tiny town, given the fact that the salaries for these positions aren’t really lucrative?
In January 2024, after a judge ordered them removed from office, Morgan and Pollard described themselves as members of “a progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity both socially and economically.” Also, maybe there was some money to be made? But now we’re getting ahead of the story. It was Joe Bostick, chairman of the Mitchell County Development Authority (MCDA) board, and MCDA board member David Cooper, who in 2022 filed a lawsuit accusing Morgan and Pollard of violating the residency requirement.
During the investigation, a private investigator performed 75 days of video surveillance of the 70 Dogwood St. residence in Camilla where Pollard has claimed to reside and the 74 Sunset Circle residence where Morgan has claimed he lives, Cohilas said. During that time neither council member spent a night in Camilla.
According to court documents, Pollard was served with the lawsuit at that Albany residence and threw the paperwork on the ground. Morgan was not served at the Camilla address but picked up his copy of the lawsuit at City Hall in Camilla.
Both also have been surveilled driving to and from Camilla for council meetings, in Pollard’s case to and from Westover Place apartments in Albany, and for Morgan a Pelham residence, according to court filings. Neither has a lease for a Camila residence or pays property tax on residential property in the city.
In fact, the apartment in Albany where Pollard was living offers Secton 8 subsidized rent. Pollard claimed to be living at his sister’s house in Camilla, while Morgan claimed to be living with his grandmother there, but were unable to provide evidence substantiating these arrangements.
The judge ordered both Morgan and Pollard removed from the city council, but they continued to attend meetings and vote while appealing the verdict. When the state court of appeals upheld the verdict in December 2023, the attorney for Cooper and Bostick, Chris Cohilas, called the ruling a “tremendous victory” for the residents of Camilla, “who have lived under the tyranny of a pattern of corrupt decisions.” Indeed, these men were voting on how taxpayer money was spent while they themselves didn’t pay a nickel of taxes in Camilla, where neither of them resided. Despite this, Owens and two city election officials tried to claim Pollard had “requalified” for the council and tried to put him back on the ballot in a 2024 special election. Cohilas said in October 2024: “This is exactly what happens whenever you have corruption in government, is that the first thing you try, the first thing that a corrupt government will always try to manipulate is the election.” But . . . why?
That’s the big mystery here. My friend Dianna Deeley took a look at the Camilla City budget and, incredible as it may seem, this town of 5,000 people had $13 million in revenue during the fiscal year 2024. According to Dianna, much of that revenue came from the city’s airport and I’m sure many readers are saying the same thing I said: “What? The city owns an airport? That generates millions of dollars of revenue annually?”
Yes, it’s true: Camilla-Mitchell County Airport has a 5,000-foot runway, which means it’s big enough to handle small private jets, and here’s an interesting detail:
Prominent area businesses generate a significant amount of corporate air traffic throughout the year. Considered a hunting destination, Camilla-Mitchell County is home to some of the finest, world renowned quail hunting plantations in southwest Georgia. Hunters from across the nation fly in to the Camilla-Mitchell County Airport to enjoy quality hunting experiences, relaxed and refined accommodations, and Southern hospitality at its best.
“World renowned quail hunting plantations”? Never would have guessed that corporate jets were flying in hunters “from across the nation” to hunt quail in Mitchell County. Five such plantations are listed on the county’s web site, including CoveyRise:
CoveyRise Plantation is located on the banks of the Flint River in game rich Southwest Georgia. We are a family run, full service lodge dedicated to bringing you “The ultimate quail hunting experience”. We hunt where the quail are plentiful and where every possible preparation is made to ensure an enjoyable stay and a successful hunt.
How much do hunters pay for that experience? Lots. And guess what? It’s good for the environment, because the owners maintaining quality habitat for quail are the only reason these thousands of acres aren’t being farmed by some gigantic agribusiness conglomerate.
Well, quail hunting probably has nothing to do with this mess in Camilla, except for the fact that the city owns the airport, and might we suspect that the council’s “progressive majority that believes in equity, inclusion, and diversity,” also believes in getting a slice of the action?
Mind you, I have seen no evidence of any kind of graft or kickbacks involving the Camilla City Council, but doesn’t it seem suspicious that Mayor Owens and his allies are so determined to control the council that they would bring in a couple of non-residents to put them on the council, if there was no financial benefit to them? After examining the city budget, Dianna Deeley says roughly a third of municipal revenue comes from the airport, so if there’s any financial corruption in Camilla — which again, I have no evidence of such — it probably involves the airport.
As might be expected, accusations of racism — “RAAAAACISM!” — have ensued since Mayor Owens and his two alleged accomplices were indicted, but I think this story is actually much more complex. It seems to me that citizens of Camilla ought to ask the state Attorney General’s office to investigate the city finances, just to be on the safe side. Experts might dismiss my suspicion as a “conspiracy theory,” but then again, the experts said there was no such thing as election fraud, and how’d that turn out?
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Wow, what a week it’s been, huh? Elon Musk’s young wizards at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have applied their superpowers — weaponized autism — to the simple question: Exactly who has the federal government been giving our tax dollars to? The resulting revelations, especially at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), have been shocking — the biggest scandal of my lifetime, and perhaps the biggest since Teapot Dome.
These headlines are just a tip of the iceberg of shady spending that the DOGE geeks have turned up in the past week, and the way they were doing it, apparently, was by doing automated searches through federal payments by the Empoloyer Identification Number (EIN) of recipient organizations. The discoveries are mind-boggling. Hello, the government was paying millions for subscriptions to Politico?
We’re all missing the important question.
The question is “Is the US Government Politico’s biggest customer?”
From the looks of it, the answer is yes.
But in any case, it’s very clearly a payoff. We’re wasting effort arguing about how this payoff was structured to look legit. https://t.co/4CtYCsUb1a
The reaction of Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) to these revelations was a simple three-step process:
Deflect
Distract
Demonize
The deflection involved claiming that all the bizarre spending by USAID was normal and/or trivial. The distraction involved claiming that the real scandal was not the corruption uncovered by DOGE, but rather the “unfettered access” to federal data with which DOGE was making these discoveries. The demonization involved making Elon Musk a scapegoat, with the slogan “Nobody Elected Elon” being repeated by Democrats.
If you’re getting your news from any establishment media organization — CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, etc. — you’ll find that their coverage is entirely structured around this deflect/distract/demonize narrative. They are devoting zero coverage to what it is that DOGE actually found about federal spending, except to mention “right-wing outrage” as a reaction to these revelations.
All of this distracting noise generated by Democrats and their media handmaidens was necessary to buy time for them to obtain an emergency injunction from an Obama-appointed judge in New York:
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk’s Team
A federal judge early Saturday temporarily restricted access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems, saying there was a risk of “irreparable harm.”
The Trump administration’s new policy of allowing political appointees and “special government employees” access to these systems, which contain highly sensitive information such as bank details, heightens the risk of leaks and of the systems becoming more vulnerable than before to hacking, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said in an emergency order.
Judge Engelmayer ordered any such official who was granted access to the systems since Jan. 20 to “destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from the Treasury Department’s records and systems.” He also restricted the government from granting access to these categories of officials.
The defendants — President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — should show cause on Feb. 14 before Judge Jeannette A. Vargas, who is handling the case on a permanent basis, Judge Engelmayer said.
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed on Friday by Letitia James of New York along with 18 other Democratic state attorneys general, charging that when President Trump gave Mr. Musk the run of government computer systems, he had breached protections enshrined in the Constitution and “failed to faithfully execute the laws enacted by Congress.”
The attorneys general said the president had given “virtually unfettered access” to the federal government’s most sensitive information to young aides who work for Mr. Musk, who runs a program the administration calls the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, though it is not an actual department.
While the group was supposedly assigned to cut costs, members are “attempting to access government data to support initiatives to block federal funds from reaching certain disfavored beneficiaries,” according to the suit. Mr. Musk has publicly stated his intention to “recklessly freeze streams of federal funding without warning,” the suit said, pointing to his social media posts in recent days.
Several things to note here: Judge Engelmayer was appointed by Obama, while Judge Vargas — she who is “handling the case on a permanent basis” — was appointed by Joe Biden. And, of course, New York AG Letitia James is under investigation for colluding with the Biden administration in her witch-hunt prosecution of Trump. Of course, the basis of their lawsuit — the claim that DOGE’s investigation of federal spending, ordered by the duly-elected President, are somehow violating “protections enshrined in the Constitution” — is absurd.
You know it’s absurd, I know it’s absurd, the federal judges know it’s absurd and the “journalists” reporting this story also know it’s absurd. They don’t care. They’re at the stage of desperation — viewing Trump as an existential threat — where they don’t care about the plausibility of the claims they’re making. Evil Orange Man is trying to stop their access to taxpayer money, and this must be prevented By Any Means Necessary.
Eventually, of course, this case will make it to the Supreme Court, where the majority decision will be brief: “LOL. GFY.” What Democrats are banking on is that the appeals process will take a couple of years, and that in the meantime, Democrats will take back Congress in the 2026 midterm elections, which will have the effect of neutralizing the Trump administration. Obtaining a delay in DOGE’s operation through the judicial process is therefore quite valuable to Democrats, even if they know darned well that they will ultimately lose at the Supreme Court.
The best thing that Ordinary Americans can do is simply to start focusing on the 2026 midterms. If Democrats lose in the next midterms — when historic trends suggest they should gain seats — that would serve as the proper rebuke of their obstructionist actions. Democrats obviously learned nothing from their 2024 defeat, and so it is our to duty to teach them a lesson in 2026 that they will never forget.
Yes. And the funds were filtered through nonprofits.
Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams provided an update on Wednesday on her office’s investigation of approximately 2,500 fraudulent voter registration applications.
Adams said Lancaster County Detectives are continuing to review suspected fraudulent applications to determine who participated in completing and providing the fraudulent applications. . . .
Adams said her office believes that the fraudulent voter registrations are connected to large-scale canvassing operations for voter registrations dating back to June.
Election workers noticed irregularities while preparing to process the applications and immediately notified Adams’ office.
At a press conference held last week with the Elections Board, Adams announced that her investigators immediately found indicators of fraud, including incorrect and non-existent addresses, false personal identification information, as well as false names and incorrect social security information.
In other cases, Adams said, applications contained accurate voter identification information, but the application was determined to be forged.
Lancaster County Detectives worked through the weekend to review applications that were suspicious or unable to be confirmed by the voter registration office, Adams said.
In addition to finding hundreds of fraudulent voter applications, hundreds more were unable to be verified by detectives, meaning that none of the identification information provided on the application was able to be located (in any police or public source databases) and therefore unable to be verified.
OK, but . . . here’s the real issue: We only know about these fraudulent registration forms because county officials caught them. Do you think election officials in Philadelphia are as scrupulous in processing registrations? If thousands of bogus applications were filed in Philadelphia, would officials catch them? Would the Philadelphia DA hold a press conference to announce an investigation? Doubtful. So while we know about dubious registration forms in four Republican-leaning counties, we’ve got no idea how many fake voters there might be on the rolls in Philadelphia, but I’ve got a hunch the number isn’t a small one.
An Arizona-based consulting firm that has taken a considerable amount of cash from national Democrats is under investigation for allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms in Pennsylvania.
The Monroe County Board of Elections in Pennsylvania determined that several voter registration applications and mail-in ballot requests are fraudulent because they were not authorized by the people named on the documents, with at least one of the individuals in question being deceased, District Attorney Mike Mancuso announced on Wednesday. A subsidiary of FieldCorps, an Arizona-based consulting firm, was responsible for submitting the forms in question, according to Mancuso. FieldCorps has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Democratic political committees since 2018 for work such as get-out-the-vote operations and canvassing services, campaign finance records show.
Among the political organizations that paid out a total of roughly $430,000 to FieldCorps since 2018 are the Arizona Democratic Party, Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign and Democratic Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton, according to campaign finance filings.
York County, also located in Pennsylvania, is investigating forms submitted by the FieldCorps subsidiary, Greg Monskie, the county’s chief clerk, confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. He disclosed that the forms were submitted on behalf of the Everybody Votes campaign. Of the 3,087 ballots the county received as part of a bulk delivery, only 47% were verified as legitimate, with the remainder either having incomplete information or being declined pending further review, according to a county press release.
The Everybody Votes campaign is a national left-of-center voter registration operation that received tens of millions in funding from the Soros family’s philanthropy network and Arabella Advisors‘ Democratic-aligned dark money network, according to public records. The organization focuses on turning out demographics that tend to support the Democratic Party. Everybody Votes did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Lancaster County, again in Pennsylvania, is also investigating potentially fraudulent registration materials from a “third-party organization” after receiving approximately 2,500 applications in two waves, Fox News Digital reported. It is unclear if FieldCorps submitted these materials as well.
FieldCorps’ ties to liberal organizations go even deeper.
The firm is owned by Francisco Heredia, a longtime progressive activist. Heredia, currently the vice mayor of Mesa, Arizona, was previously the national field director of Mi Familia Vota, a group that supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposes former President Donald Trump. Mi Familia Vota, like Everybody Votes, has also received funding from the Soros family and the Arabella Advisors network. Heredia has endorsed Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in Arizona’s upcoming Senate election as well.
So, non-profits funded by Soros hire a consulting firm owned by “a longtime progressive activist” to register voters in Pennsylvania and — just coincidentally — thousands of those registrations turn out to be fraudulent. But if you dare say Democrats are trying to steal the election, why, you’re a right-wing conspiracy theorist spreading misinformation!
Something nobody ever seems to ask: Whence this recent mania about the urgent need to register new voters? Why are tax-exempt “philanthropic” organizations spending money on such efforts? It’s not difficult to register to vote. Most people get registered automatically when they sign up for their driver’s license, but otherwise, anybody can do a quick Google search to locate the county election office and go fill out a registration form. Doesn’t cost anything, and only takes a few minutes. And yet, for some reason, you have these organizations running around doing these voter-registration drives — for whom? Who are all these would-be voters who can’t be bothered to go down to the county courthouse or whevever local voter registration normally takes place?
Never an explanation for this, because nobody even asks. We’re just supposed to take it for granted that there are all these people out there who want to vote, but for some reason, never registered to vote. And therefore George Soros pours out money like water to pay for voter registration projects that seem to be registering “voters” who don’t actually exist. But there’s nothing suspicious about this.
The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. . . .
Jurors deliberated for three days. . . .
In his five-hour closing argument on Tuesday, federal prosecutor Paul Monteleoni urged jurors to hold the New Jersey Democrat accountable for his alleged misconduct.
“This is a big case,” Monteleoni said. “But it all boils down to a classic case of corruption on a massive scale.”
During the trial, prosecutors used cited emails and text messages from Menendez – as well as FBI testimony – to present evidence they argued shows the senator accepted extravagant gifts from foreign governments. The gifts totaled more than $100,000 worth of gold bars, in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed throughout Menendez’s New Jersey home.
Menendez was charged by federal prosecutors with 18 counts since he pleaded innocent last year, all relating to a multiyear alleged bribery scheme involving the Egypt and Qatar governments.
In March, an 18-page indictment was wrapped into Menendez’s existing charges already against him and his co-defendants — including his wife, Nadine — for allegedly acting as a foreign agent and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to benefit the Egyptian government through his power and influence as a senator.
New Jersey voters really know how to pick ’em, eh?
