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James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of voter
fraud. His own voter registration is raising questions. replies
fraud. His own voter registration is raising questions. replies
Texas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himself nearby, a practice that may have violated state voting laws, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found.
This comes weeks after Talarico accused Attorney General Ken Paxton, his opponent in the race for U.S. Senate, of voter fraud for similar actions. The news organizations reported in July that Paxton voted using an address where his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, said he hasn’t lived for two years.
Paxton has made eradicating voter fraud a cornerstone of his time in office by advocating strict enforcement of the law
NBC News projected early Wednesday that Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the state's Democrat senatorial primary. Our partner DDHQ has also just called the race. Establishment Democrats are freaking out right now. Bernie Sanders’ organization Our Revolution also declared victory in the race. "Last night, Michigan delivered one of the clearest messages of this election cycle: people power can beat big money,” Joseph Geevarghese, Executive Director of Our Revolution, said in a statement. “Abdul El-Sayed was outspent by nearly ten to one, facing the largest single-race AIPAC investment in history and tens of millions of dollars from billionaire-backed super PACs determined to buy this election.
A Westchester County police bigwig and her ex-con hubbie chaperoned their gangbanger son to a botched hit on a rival in the Bronx – then she took over as the getaway driver, officials said Tuesday.
Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, 49, and her husband James Lackard drove their 20-year-old son Chase Lackard to Concourse on June 29 at around 11:57 a.m. and helped him plan a brazen hit right outside the Bronx Criminal Court, according to police and court records.
Once there, the proud parents sat in the front of the family’s Chrysler Pacifica while their “Slutty Gang” member son opened fire with a semiautomatic out of the window
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has reached a $3.2 million settlement with OpenAI over allegations the company deliberately discriminated against American workers.
Investigators found that OpenAI preferred temporary visa holders when filling certain high-paying technology positions.
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According to a DOJ press release, OpenAI failed to post some of these job openings on its public career website, even though that was its standard practice for other positions. The company also required applicants to submit paper applications by mail while allowing electronic applications for most other jobs.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist dream of government-run grocery stores is off to a bad start. He’s already had to admit that customers will have to carry proof of residency to shop in them, that private companies — not the city — will run the stores, and that the first one won’t open for more than a year, and others not for three years.
But Mamdani’s likely to face an even bigger problem if no legitimate grocer wants to get into bed with him.
The “request for proposals” tacitly admits that his idea of government-run stores was stillborn, since he wants bids from private companies that have extensive experience
Is America going socialist?
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Socialists have won one Democratic primary after another this year. Of course, Democratic primary voters represent a thin slice, the leftward-most portion, of our electorate. Still, socialism as a viable popular movement in the United States represents a radical departure from our history. How wide is the appeal of socialism, really?
Rasmussen headlines “Voters Overwhelmingly Reject DSA Policies,” and its findings are interesting. But while the Rasmussen survey tests four policies being advocated by the Democratic Socialists of America, socialism is not one of them. And I don’t find the results to be particularly reassuring:
Liberals are quick to blame forest fires on “climate change,” without any evidence as to how the conditions under which a particular fire broke out are different from those of last year or decades ago.
In fact, acreage lost to wildfires is at an all-time low because of improved forest management techniques. Worldwide, acreage burned by wildfires is believed to be lower than ever before, including pre-human historical times. In the U.S., acreage burned is down by around 80% since the 1920s and 1930s, as the Healthy Skeptic notes: (Chart) The recent slight uptick is due, I believe, to the fact that California has turned forest management over to environmentalists,
Islamo-Marxist Abdul El-Sayed Beats So-Called
Moderate Haley Stevens in Michigan Senate Race replies
Moderate Haley Stevens in Michigan Senate Race replies
UPDATE: NBC has officially called the Michigan Senate race for far-left Democratic Socialist Abdul El-Sayed.
Islamo-Marxist Abdul El-Sayed appears on track to defeat the so-called moderate Democrat in the Michigan Democratic Primary for Senator.
Stevens was backed by Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Senator Chuck Schumer.
El-Sayed will now face former Rep. Mike Rogers, who ran unopposed in the GOP primary, in the November general election. El-Sayed has denied that he is a socialist, but he’s attended and spoken at at least six DSA events over the years, according to Fox.
“I’m not technically or practically DSA,” he claimed in an interview last month. “I am not somebody who is a socialist.
Spanish immigration crisis exposes cracks
in European Union, opportunity for right-leaning parties replies
in European Union, opportunity for right-leaning parties replies
The Spanish immigration crisis has exposed cracks in the European Union and an opportunity for right-wing leaders heading into elections next year in Spain, Italy and France.
Last week, tens of thousands of migrants poured over the Spanish border at Ceuta, a North African exclave ruled by Spain since 1580. The small coastal city is situated on a narrow peninsula on the southern edge of the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco — the only place where a European border touches Africa.
Instead of fully backing Spain as they may have done in the past, more than 20 European leaders instead criticized —
Apparently, in Michigan Democrat Party politics, you can never be antisemitic enough. If you support Israel's mere right to exist, you will be excommunicated from polite company.
That's not much of an exaggeration. Pux Cider bar in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a longtime Democrat Party hangout, both because its proprietors are lefties and because it happens to be located next door to the Kent County Democrat Party headquarters.
It's the sort of place where they hold LGBTQ+ World Cup watch parties or events for Democratic women, such as the one that recently featured Haley Stevens and other Democrat Party women.
The U.S. military said the Strait of Hormuz was open for all commercial vessels to transit, after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that an Iran deal is close.
U.S. Central Command said the “southern route of the Strait of Hormuz remains free and open” in a post on X, highlighting that it had assisted more than 1,000 vessels in transiting the waterway despite “unwarranted” Iranian aggression.
The southern route passes through Omani territorial waters, rather than the part closer to Iran. The announcement comes as oil prices also fell sharply Tuesday, following remarks by U.S. Treasury Scott Bessent that there
There’s a controversy in the Woman’s National Basketball League. The controversy is whether a transsexual man-to-woman player should be allowed to play.
This controversy is currently a purely hypothetical one – there are no actual transexual players in the WNBA. But the question has been posed, should there be?
We know that men have inherent physical advantages over women. They’re bigger and stronger. They have denser muscles, due primarily to their much greater testosterone levels. That muscle density makes them not only stronger but also faster, quicker and able to jump much higher.
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, has just stirred up a lot of controversy. He said that he wanted to go after property owners who had homes worth more than $5 million, and they were likely to be second homes.
In other words, they had a primary residence elsewhere, either in the state of New York, outside the state, or in a foreign country.
A resolution the Senate is scheduled to vote on this week states that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during Congressional testimony did not apply because the conduct he was questioned about occurred during time covered by a preemptive pardon given to Fauci in 2025 by outgoing President Joe Biden.
Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, read an opening statement during the July 29 hearing before saying, in answer to every single question, he was invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Even after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the panel before which Fauci appeared, told
A California man was arrested Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes after allegedly monitoring security planning activities days before the president’s visit and was later found with a cache of weapons, authorities said. Jeanine John Taele, 38, of Downey, was arrested Sunday after plainclothes federal agents spotted him walking the golf course grounds taking photographs and videos while appearing to monitor security planning activities, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Deputies from the Lomita Sheriff's Station responded around 3:30 p.m. and determined Taele was already under investigation for robbery by the El Segundo Police Department. During a pat-down, deputies allegedly recovered a 16-round magazine loaded
As voters head into the midterm elections, they’ll be looking at how the GOP has delivered on its mandates, especially its clear directive on immigration.
Voters elected President Donald Trump on a platform centered on large-scale removals of illegal immigrants and an end to the Biden-era open border policies. The influx of millions of illegal immigrants placed significant strain on almost every aspect of American lives, from housing to jobs. The electorate rejected this and demanded a fundamental reversal. Instead, Congress and members of the Trump administration consistently push for moderation rather than the much-needed intensity of the original agenda. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Markwayne Mullin has disappointed
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pointed to three key economic metrics to declare that the U.S. is in an economic "golden age."
While the ongoing war in Iran has led to increases in gas prices, and inflation continues to impact grocery costs, some metrics have turned positive, and Trump is eager to seize on them.
"Manufacturing is BOOMING! Factory activity just hit its fastest pace in more than FOUR YEARS, far exceeding expectations. New orders have expanded for SEVEN straight months. American Manufacturing is BACK!" he posted on Truth Social. "The Stock Market is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and setting Record after Record because Investors know America is WINNING!"
The repatriation of illegal aliens from the United States to wherever they came from is still ongoing, and it seems to be picking up. In July, reports indicate that Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests broke all previous records: 51,000. Bear in mind that this number also includes people arrested for interfering with ICE operations. Color me skeptical on that last item, especially coming as it does from a nameless immigration attorney.
Here's the interesting part: At least one ally of President Trump on this issue is calling for a change in focus.
The DOJ Fraud Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Pennsylvania Attorney General today announced criminal charges against 19 defendants, including owners and employees of home care companies, for their alleged participation in various fraud schemes involving over four million dollars in claims to Medicare and Medicaid.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General also announced a plea agreement involving the final defendant in a previously-charged 21 defendant case involving over $1.7 million in claims.
Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
Olha Stefanishyna says she resigned. Volodymyr Zelenskyy says she was removed. Regardless of which storyline is accurate, the Ukraine Ambassador to the United States is no longer in position. There is no replacement.Stefanishyna is also under investigation for her connection with financial irregularities involving the Asset Recovery and Management Agency, although she has not been formally charged, yet.
New York Socialist Brian Romero has not yet reached Albany, but he has already launched his first public spending initiative: covering his own rent.
Romero, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 34th Assembly District, launched a GoFundMe asking supporters to cover his rent and groceries while he waits to take office. The campaign sought $2,000 and collected more than $1,000 from 13 donors before disappearing Friday.
The timing was apparently a coincidence. Romero pulled the fundraiser shortly after the New York Post started asking questions.
Socialist Dem Gov. frontrunner can’t
just say ‘no’ when asked if she wants
to cancel Thanksgiving replies
just say ‘no’ when asked if she wants
to cancel Thanksgiving replies
A socialist Dem running for Wisconsin governor became visibly uncomfortable and served up a word salad when asked whether she still stands by her call to “cancel Thanksgiving” because it is “celebrating colonialism.” At the height of the Covid pandemic, Francesca Hong, who is the frontrunner to become the Democratic nominee in America’s Dairyland, said that the beloved holiday needs to be scrapped, and that America “should have done this in 1621.” She added: “If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it.”
The prevailing talking point among the Democrat establishment in recent weeks, in response to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) insurgency taking place, has been to tout the supposed "big tent" nature of the party, where all kinds of differing viewpoints are allegedly welcome. That canned answer is quite revealing when one considers the interview DSA co-chair Megan Romer did with Fox News in late July, where the extremist DSA platform was laid bare for all to see: support for abolishing the presidency, the Senate, prisons, borders, the Supreme Court. And that's just for starters. Another DSA co-chair, Ashik Siddique, admitted in a different interview that "our goal is communism."
New York City's socialist bad boy mayor Zohran Mamdani just made his latest move against the city's business leaders — and this time, he hit the leadership of Gracie Mansion's own Mayor’s Fund Board of Advisors. Plus, I have the latest news on Mamdani's incredibly wrong-headed plan for city-owned grocery stores in today's double-header of socialist stupidity. The New York Post reported early Tuesday that Mamdani "axed the advisors of a major nonprofit that channels private sector donations to fund city initiatives in his latest hostile act toward New York business leaders."
Also, according to the Post, the board has "raised hundreds of millions since its 1995 inception –