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President Trump and his allies vowed to oust the Indiana Republicans who opposed the president’s proposed redistricting efforts last year — and on Tuesday evening, they largely made good on that promise.
Indiana voters headed to the polls on Tuesday for the state’s primary elections, with Trump-backed challengers handily defeating at least five of the seven state senators who opposed the president’s effort to eliminate Democratic congressional representation in the Hoosier State late last year as part of a mid-decade redistricting tit-for-tat between the parties.
Over the weekend, we saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio getting down in the DJ booth at a family wedding in Florida. At some point in the next 24 hours, he's going to hop on a plane to go have a nice little diplomatic chat with the pope and top Italian government officials. On Tuesday afternoon, he took a few moments out of his busy schedule to stop by the White House to fill in for Karolina Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.
The result? A masterclass in foreign policy.
As I write this, "Rubio 2028" is trending on X.
We still don't have many details about what happened the first time the Trump administration tried to deliver small arms to resistance groups inside Iran earlier this year, other than the president's comments that the guns never got to where they were going. Still, President Trump appears to be willing to give it another go, based on remarks he made to Salem Media's Hugh Hewitt on Monday. The White House amplified those comments on Tuesday with a post on X. Those comments certainly suggest that Trump is willing to make another attempt at arming some elements of the Iranian public. The bigger question is how would we go about it?
Senate Republicans add $1 billion into
spending package for Trump White House
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spending package for Trump White House
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The Senate Judiciary Committee late Monday added $1 billion to a proposed spending package for the U.S. Secret Service to help boost security to the White House ballroom.
The added funds do not specifically state that it must be used on the ballroom, but it does mandate that it's used on security upgrades to the White House. The funds are part of a $72 billion budget reconciliation bill proposed by the Judiciary panel and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
The committees said the $1 billion will be for “the purposes of security adjustments and upgrades, including within the perimeter fence of the White House compound —
On Tuesday, a grand jury indicted the alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner attacker, Cole Allen, on four counts in the attempted attack on President Trump, other administration officials, and presumably anyone who got in the way. [Tweet]
You can see the indictment here.
The counts include:
On or about April 25, 2026, in the District of Columbia, the defendant, COLE TOMAS ALLEN, did knowingly attempt to kill the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. (Attempt to Assassinate the President of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1751 (c)).
The penalty for attempting to assassinate the president is:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is on maternity leave, so Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed the press today, and he didn’t disappoint. The Florida Republican remained calm as he handled the hectic scene inside the briefing room, where reporters were eager to learn about the developing situation in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran.
Rubio, who is considered a potential 2028 contender, likely enjoyed the media attention, though he made jokes about two-parters from the pool while joking that he needed a laser pointer, as his pointing to reporters while taking questions wasn't effective.
President Donald Trump flexed his grip on the GOP base in Indiana on Tuesday, vanquishing a majority of the Republican state senators who had dared cross him on redistricting.
It was a show of force in the year’s first major test of Trump’s power over the GOP. Trump aligned groups dumped millions against the eight GOP lawmakers who blocked his effort to gerrymander the state. And on Tuesday night, at least five lost reelection.
Trump’s loyal and energized supporters turned out to punish the incumbents, showing that his endorsement remains the gold-standard of GOP politics.
President Donald Trump has recently floated a rebrand of the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) to NICE as a means of baiting the liberal media and Democrats into complementing the vital piece of his administration every time they mention it.
What started as a joke on Trump’s Truth Social has begun to take shape toward a real policy change, as the White House and the Department of Homeland Security have unveiled what the rebranded agency would look like. [Tweets]
Of course, the Democrats are already throwing a fit over the posts (while still spreading falsehoods).
The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into a recent Antifa mob attack on a conservative journalist in Portland Oregon.
Post Millennial reporter Katie Daviscourt was assaulted by antifa domestic terrorists late Friday while covering an anti-ICE “May Day” riot outside the Portland ICE facility.
Daviscourt posted footage early Saturday showing how she was surrounded by the screeching, menacing mob and hit in the face with a rock.
“Aright, so—I’m pretty sure I’m in danger and I am going to leave,” Daviscourt can be heard saying just prior to getting pelted. “They just threw a rock at my face!” she exclaimed, breaking into a run,
The Iranian regime is just chock-full of delusional officials.
Then, this morning, Baghaei was throwing a fit about X removing Iranian regime account checkmarks.
However, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, may be vying for the crown for the most ridiculous remark. He was the guy we reported on earlier who claimed that Iran was a "superpower," just like the United States. That was pretty bad.Oh, boo hoo. Cry more. I thought you were a "superpower," and you're complaining about a checkmark?
They're lucky they are even allowed to be on X at all.
Decision Desk HQ has called the Ohio Governor's Race. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has defeated his Republican challenger, YouTuber and car designer Casey Putsch, to move to the November 2026 general election. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has won Ohio’s Republican primary for governor, NBC News projects, advancing to what could be an expensive and competitive general election in a state that has been brutal for Democrats in recent elections.
Amy Acton, a former state health director, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday without opposition.
Ramaswamy, 40, defeated Casey Putsch, a political novice known for his “car guy” videos on YouTube.
Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library is hocking pricey merch shaped like the unsightly Chicago tower — as the project’s architects revealed the former commander-in-chief himself was behind the “Death Star” design that’s been widely mocked since construction began.
Ungainly lapel pins that “capture the silhouette” of the Obama Presidential Center are going for $30 in the online store.
“The pin represents the intersection of bold design and global leadership,” the website reads, noting the proceeds go to the Obama Foundation “to inspire, empower and connect people to change their world.”
Alabama teen battling bone cancer flown
to LA for life-saving treatment after
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to LA for life-saving treatment after
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An Alabama teen flew to Los Angeles for life-saving treatment in his fight with stage four bone cancer after the Trump administration stepped in to help.
Will Roberts, 15, made a plea for help on his mom’s Facebook page on April 22, appealing to the president and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I’ve been fighting osteosarcoma for the last 16 months. It’s a very, very, very deadly and very hard-to-treat bone cancer,” he said in the video clip, asking for help from anyone with connections to the White House. “My chemos are just not working, and I’ve been fighting it for a little bit now, January of 2025.
It’s not 1973 anymore, and that’s a very good thing for the United States.
Back then, the United States imported more than a third of its oil, much of it from the Middle East — and it paid the price.
Now it’s in a transformed position. “Drill, baby, drill” is arguably the most successful public policy of the last 20 years.
It started life in 2008 as a catchphrase coined by Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and has now been effected, with enormous economic and strategic benefits to the United States. On top of sweeping innovations forged by private industry, President Trump has driven a stake
United States President Donald Trump announced that Washington's effort to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the so-called "Project Freedom," will be "paused for a short period of time."
Citing a request made by Pakistan and "other countries," as well as "Great Progress" with Iranian representatives, Trump said the halt will serve "to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed."
Washington's blockade of Iranian ports, however, "will remain in full force and effect," the US president noted in his post on Truth Social.
Alito vs. Jackson
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Justice Sam Alito has emerged as a spokesman for the conservative (or, at least, moderate) majority on the Supreme Court, while Justice Ketanji Jackson seems to be auditioning for a role on MSNBC as a left-wing pundit. We wrote here about the Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, where the Court held, correctly, that the Voting Rights Act cannot be interpreted to require racial gerrymandering. That decision was handed down last Wednesday.
Yesterday, the Court issued a follow-up order directing a prompt entry of judgment. The Court’s per curiam said, in full:
In its recent Callais decision, the Supreme Court held that districts gerrymandered solely so that blacks can have a separate and special say in politics are unconstitutional. While past elections cannot be changed, future elections must be corrected.
Callais asked that the Court immediately certify the decision, which is normally a 32-day process. Louisiana agreed. Because November’s elections are quickly approaching, the Supreme Court held that, yes, it could immediately certify the opinion. Callais is final.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a strong dissent to this procedural holding.
She opened by pointing out that Louisiana
Donald Trump is getting accused by antisemites from across the political spectrum of being controlled by Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Tucker Carlson, in particular, has been railing not just against Israel and accusing Netanyahu of forcing Trump to attack Iran, but has even implied that American politicians support Israel out of literal fear for their lives. Of course, Tucker also thinks that President Trump can cast magic spells on Americans and could be the Antichrist.
Condemnations of Israel and Jews around the world are everywhere, as well as accusations that AIPAC controls American politics, and a willingness to overlook the fact that Israel doesn't make it into the top 5
Ever since the Never Trumpers left the Republican Party and rushed into the arms, politically and financially, of the Democrats, it's been pretty clear that all the "conserving conservatism" talk was a smokescreen. They wanted to run the Republican Party, and when they were rebuffed, they exited to grift off the Democrats.
I wrote about Jeb!'s former communications director now embracing Hasan Piker and Nick Fuentes because he wants to preserve "democracy" against Donald Trump, and we all know that David French, who ran into the arms of The New York Times, argued that the best way to fight abortions was to vote for abortion-until-birth Kamala Harris. Bill Kristol...
Pro-Second Amendment organizations said they would launch court challenges against a bill in Rhode Island that would give owners of modern semiautomatic firearms six months to dispose of them.
Democratic Rhode Island state Sen. Tiara Mack introduced S2710 on Feb. 27 with eight co-sponsors, legislation that tightens the state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” by prohibiting possession of the firearms. Under the terms of the legislation, those who own prohibited firearms would have until Dec. 31 to either sell them to a licensed dealer or transfer them to an out-of-state resident who could legally own them, something pro-Second Amendment organizations say would violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
I've written recently about Russia's crackdown on social media. Many Russians were used to using Telegram, a messaging app that supposedly couldn't be hacked, but in the past few months Putin's regime decided that was a problem and gradually shut down servers until Telegram became non-operational. The government encouraged people to switch over to a new Kremlin controlled messaging app called MAX which everyone assumes is being monitored by the FSB.
But it turns out this paranoia goes beyond social media. Putin himself seems to fear he'll be a target, either of Ukraine or possibly of someone looking to carry out
A Federal Aviation Administration employee in New Hampshire was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump, whom he criticized for the war against Iran, the U.S. attorney’s office in Concord said Tuesday.
Dean DelleChiaie, 35, who was arrested Monday, allegedly conducted internet searches on his government work computer in late January for terms that drew the attention of the U.S. Secret Service, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Those subjects included “how to get a gun into a federal facility, previous assassination attempts against the President, the percentage of the population that wants the President dead, and the phrase ’I am
The FBI has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into NIH virologist Vincent Munster, one of Anthony Fauci’s top bat coronavirus researchers at the high-security Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, after he and a colleague were caught smuggling dangerous pathogen samples.
The samples Munster and his colleague were caught with included monkeypox virus, from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to an explosive exclusive report from Paul Thacker, Munster and NIH lab scientist Claude Kwe Yinda were stopped during airport security screening upon their return from Africa earlier this year.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft. After months of battling a serious heart condition, we are thrilled to report that Jim’s heart surgery this morning was a complete success!
For the past several years, Jim has quietly suffered from a severe heart issue caused by an infection he contracted while hospitalized following knee surgery nearly 15 years ago. The infection ravaged his heart and even caused him to lose vision in one eye. Despite the pain and fatigue, Jim rarely spoke about it. He is a humble man who never seeks attention or sympathy.
Even when he wasn’t feeling well, Jim almost always said