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Only American citizens are supposed to vote in federal elections. Why are the Democrats so reluctant to see this law enforced? Could it have something to do with the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants they let into the country during the Biden administration?
On Thursday, Legal Insurrection posted an article the Senate Democrats’ demands to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The article reports:
Democrats are always telling on themselves, no matter what the issue is, and that’s certainly been the case with their militant opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations, which have taken place in problem blue cities and states across the country over the past year.
One “tell” in particular that helps make the GOP’s points in favor of passing the SAVE Act has come from a number of Democrats in recent months. Among them was California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who in August said that the ICE agents who showed up outside of an event he held were a “preview” of what was to come at polling places and “in front of voting booths,” that ICE would be sent there by President Trump to “intimidate people.”
American citizens (the people who should be going to the polls) are not intimidated by ICE agents–the only people who would be intimidated by ICE agents are illegal aliens who have no business being near the polling places!
The article notes:
But in perhaps the most glaring example of saying the “quiet part out loud,” the list of demands for DHS reform released by Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), which was sent to Republican House and Senate leadership Wednesday, includes a call for no funding to go towards immigration enforcement operations near polling places:
Democratic leaders laid out their demands for reform at the Department of Homeland Security in a letter to Republican leadership on Wednesday, as lawmakers race to reach a compromise before the agency’s funding runs out in less than 10 days.
…Democrats also want agents to identify themselves, use body-worn cameras, and stop wearing masks or face coverings while conducting enforcement operations, among other restrictions.
Democrats are also insisting that DHS funds not be used to conduct enforcement near “sensitive locations,” such as schools, medical facilities, places of worship, and polling places.
Are they admitting that they plan to cheat?
The Case for Homeschools Part I
Author: R. Alan Harrop, Ph.D.
Since the recent week of Jan 25-31, 2026, was National School Choice Week, it is an appropriate time to address the status of homeschools in North Carolina. The number of children being taught at home has now reached almost 200,000 students in North Carolina, which is more than the number of students attending private schools, which is about 130,000. These numbers are considerably less than the 1.5 million students in public schools, although this number decreased by about 20,000 in the past year. Let’s take a look at why parents decide to make the significant commitment to homeschool their children. By the way, homeschooling is not a new idea. Actually, mandatory attendance at public schools in North Carolina was first passed by the N.C. General Assembly in 1915. Many, if not most, of the prior generations (including the Founding Fathers) were homeschooled.
The reason parents choose to homeschool depends on individual circumstances and concerns. Declining public school performance in teaching basic academic skills such as reading, writing, math, and science is a significant factor in choosing to homeschool. According to recent data, 51% of eighth graders in public schools are proficient in reading, 46% in math, and 70% in science. Homeschooled children typically perform at 15-30 percentage points higher than public school students. They also achieve an 87% acceptance rate to college compared to 68% for public schoolers. Another important reason for parents to homeschool is dissatisfaction with the leftist leaning curriculum in most public schools. Legitimate concerns such as instruction in racial issues such as Diversity/Equity and Inclusion; so-called social justice which teaches the Marxist principle that all people deserve the same benefits in life regardless of their individual effort and hard work; teaching that gender is the choice of the individual instead of being determined by one’s biological nature; and the notion that government exists to provide the basic needs of life instead of individual responsibility are motivating parents to choose homeschools. According to a recent PEW research poll, the majority of teachers and school administrators are in lock step with the Democrat Party while only 36% favor the Republican Party. It should be remembered that all authoritarian governments use their control of public education to enhance their political power through indoctrination of students. The lack of school discipline weighs heavily on the decision to homeschool one’s children just as it is a major reason why teachers leave the profession. Not having to worry about a child’s safety and not being exposed to unruly, antisocial behavior from other students is a relief for homeschooling parents.
There are also many advantages to homeschooling. One advantage is that it fosters the integrity of the family. The time spent with children is invaluable to ensuring that they model the values and behavior of their parents. Homeschooling also ensures that the parents keep well informed about their children’s academic progress. The educational process is continuous in various family activities that provide an opportunity to teach; rather than only in specific places and times. Parents can pursue activities that reflect a particular child’s interests so that learning is an element of living–not just formal instruction, which of course has its place as well. Vacations and travel provide additional opportunities to incorporate learning activities. All educators believe that class size is an important element in effective learning as is verified by ongoing efforts to reduce class size in public schools. In the 1950’s typical class size was 30 to 35 students per teacher. Now across the U.S. the ratio of student to teacher is 15 to 1. Homeschooling obviously provides the lowest teacher to student ratio and thus more individual attention. This allows the parent teacher to utilize traditional learning activities instead of relying on electronic gadgets that in many ways are antithetical to the development of student’s ability to think and analyze on their own. How does a public-school teacher know if an essay supposedly written by the student is not some product of AI? Well, in most cases they cannot tell.
While homeschooling is not a viable choice for everyone, it does provide freedom of choice and bonding of the nuclear family that should be recognized. Part II of this article will address some of the practical aspects of ensuring that parents retain the freedom to choose how their children are educated.
When Common Sense Takes A Vacation
How stupid does Chuck Schumer think we are?
On Thursday, Breitbart posted an article quoting some of Senator Schumer’s recent comments on the Save Act.
The article notes:
Schumer said, “It’s Jim Crow 2.0, and I called it Jim Crow 2.0, and the right wing went nuts all over the Internet. That’s because they know it’s true. What they’re trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades to prevent people of color from voting. For instance, if you change — you’re a woman who got married and changed your last name, you won’t be able to show ID and you’ll be discriminated against. If you can’t find a birth certificate, or a proper ID, you’ll be discriminated against. This is vicious and nasty. And I said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate. You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate. We’re not reviving Jim Crow all over the country. And when the American people hear what exactly it is doing and what its intent is doing, they’re going to be against it as well.”
Since the majority of women who support the Democrat party are single, what’s the problem? Does Senator Schumer really believe that American women are so stupid that they can’t get a new driver’s license or social security card when they get married? I had no problem getting a real id as a married woman. I simply brought my birth certificate, my current driver’s license, etc., and promptly got my id. I think American women should be totally insulted that a U.S. Senator thinks that they are that stupid.
This Is Not Really A Surprise
On Monday, Breitbart reported that the United Nations (UN) is running out of money. Does this mean we can kick them out of New York City for not paying their rent?
The article reports:
The United Nations is going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash. Lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary-General António Guterres who fears the globalist body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees.
The former leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday the U.N. faces a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery” and money could run out as soon as July leaving the unaccountable globalist cabal destitute.
…Guterres sent a missive to all 193 member states outlining his fears and pleading they had to honor their mandatory payments or overhaul the organisation’s financial rules to avoid collapse.
It comes after the U.N.’s largest contributor, the U.S., refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets and withdrew from several agencies it called a “waste of taxpayer dollars.”
These include the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, AP reports.
The article concludes:
Guterres said a rule that the U.N. must return unspent money on particular programs to members if it could not implement a budget created a “double blow” in which it was “expected to give back cash that does not exist.”
“I cannot overstate the urgency of the situation we now face. We cannot execute budgets with uncollected funds, nor return funds we never received.”
The U.S. is the U.N.’s largest contributor, but President Donald Trump has said it was not fulfilling its “great potential” and has criticised it for failing to support U.S.-led peace efforts.
The U.S. did not pay its contribution to the U.N.’s regular budget in 2025 and offered only 30 percent of its expected funding to U.N. peacekeeping operations.
Then in January last year, Trump withdrew it from dozens of international organisations, including 31 U.N. agencies, to “end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over U.S. priorities.”
The U.N.s thirst for other people’s money appears inexhaustible as it still cries out for more.
Life gets difficult when America’s taxpayers refuse to pay for everyone else’s priorities!
President Trump Endorses…
On Sunday, The New Hampshire Journal reported that President Trump endorsed former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu in the New Hampshire Senate race. Scott Brown is also running as a Republican for the seat. Scott Brown narrowly lost to Senator Jeanne Shaheen in 2014. Scott Brown was elected as the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 2010 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ted Kennedy. Generally speaking, the conservative base elected him. He did not vote as a conservative and was defeated in 2012 by Elizabeth Warren. I am honestly not sure if he claims to be a conservative or is running as one. I would consider him a basic middle of the road Republican (borderline RINO). John Sununu has the backing of the Republican establishment, but I am not sure if that is any better.
The article in The New Hampshire Journal reports:
During the 2024 campaign, former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu wrote an editorial calling President Donald Trump a loser.
Today, that “loser” is endorsing Sununu in the 2026 GOP U.S. Senate primary. And he’s picking him over his own former ambassador to New Zealand, former U.S. Senator Scott Brown.
“It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, John E. Sununu, who is running to represent the beautiful State of New Hampshire in the U.S. Senate,” Trump posted on social media Sunday.
“John E. Sununu has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN — ELECT JOHN E. SUNUNU!”
Sununu is running to fill the vacancy created when U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen announced she’s not running again in 2026. Shaheen defeated Sununu to take the seat back in 2008.
Shaheen narrowly avoided losing the 2014 race to Brown, but it’s Sununu who’s gotten the backing of most of the GOP establishment in this primary, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
“John Sununu’s deep roots and passion for the Granite State make him built to win,” NRSC chair Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said in October.
A NHJournal/Praecones Analytica poll taken the last week of December showed Sununu is the stronger candidate to take on U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, the Democrats’ likely nominee.
Pappas held just a 42-36 percent lead over Sununu in a head-to-head matchup, while he had a 46-28 advantage over Brown. In both cases, Pappas was under 50 percent, and about a quarter of voters say they’re undecided.
One thing I like about President Trump is that he is willing to allow people who did not support him to change their mind. Think of J.D. Vance!
Missing?
On Friday, The Federalist posted an article about a recent problem with the voter fraud investigation in Fulton County, Georgia.
The article reports:
A 2020 election scandal in Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county, continues to grow with new details revealed in a State Election Board (SEB) meeting last Wednesday — and now, a week later, with an FBI raid seeking election documents from the county.
Fulton County was notoriously plagued with issues like long lines and voting machine malfunctions in the 2020 primary election, problems The New York Times described as “a full-scale meltdown.” The problems continued through November’s Election Day and beyond, prompting concerns about votes being counted without proper supervision, among other things. The county’s repeated failures in 2020 so degraded trust in Fulton County’s ability to administer elections that the election director was forced to resign.
Now, members of the State Election Board have raised new concerns about the county’s administration of the 2020 election, revealing in last week’s meeting that the “tapes” used to verify that ballot counters started their counts at zero may be missing.
When a ballot scanner is used to count ballots, election officials must start the process by printing and signing a “zero tape,” which confirms the count started at zero. After counting ballots on the ballot scanner, officials must print and sign a closing tape, which confirms the final vote tally from that machine. In December, an attorney for Fulton County admitted that the county failed to sign off on more than 100 “tabulator tapes” — equivalent to about 315,000 votes — from early voting in the 2020 election. That admission was prompted by a complaint that was investigated by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
The article concludes:
State law only requires the secretary of state to retain election documents for 24 months past the election, and local governments only retain “records related to the process of computing, tallying, and canvassing the vote” for two years, according to the Georgia Archives.
But, as Johnston noted in last week’s meeting, the complaint was submitted in early 2022, “well within the 24-month period.”
On Wednesday, a week after the SEB meeting, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County election office. According to election attorney Cleta Mitchell, the search warrant included “zero tapes” from the 2020 general election.
Meanwhile, the board is left with few answers. It’s unclear whether the tapes ever made it out of Fulton County, if they were signed, or even if they exist at all. If they do exist, they may have been handled properly but thrown away in the years since 2020. They could even still be filed away somewhere, where investigators have been unable to track them down. No one seems able to provide a paper trail.
The people responsible for the fraud probably figured that time would run out before their activities were discovered. Obviously, that is not the case. Hopefully, there will be enough trials and convictions to discourage anyone else from attempting to steal an election.
Americans Want Voter Identification
As I write this, the SAVE Act is stalled in a Senate committee–not making its way to the floor. According to what I read, there are 50 votes to pass the law. The law requires voter identification. It also requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote. I don’t think either of these requirements is unreasonable. (If the filibuster were not in place, 50 votes plus the Vice-President would pass the law). Most Americans want voter id (according to CNN–see below):
Americans agree with Nicki Minaj when it comes to voter id.
83% of favor photo voter id to vote per Pew. This includes 70%+ of Democrats and Republicans, as well as 75%+ of Americans across races…. White, Black, and Latino.
It's not controversial. pic.twitter.com/9Kocw85Uh8
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) February 3, 2026
On Tuesday, Real Clear Politics reported:
So, the bottom line is this, voter I.D. is not controversial in this country. A photo I.D. to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party, and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo I.D. to be able to vote.
The real questions here is why anyone would oppose voter id. Anyone who has a bank account, travels by air, cashed a check, gets a library card, goes to the doctor, or enters a government building needs a photo id, so it’s not hard to get a photo id. Why would anyone oppose needing one to vote?
I firmly believe that if John Thune does not successfully pass the SAVE Act, the Republicans will lose Congress in the midterms. The American people elected Congress to represent them. If the Republicans in Congress do not represent the voters, they deserve to be sent packing!
The Real Cost Of Illegal Immigration
The people getting upset over U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) enforcing the law have chosen to overlook what happens when ICE does not enforce the law.
On Monday, Breitbart reported:
The office of the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference has released its annual state immigration report revealing that in 2025, illegal migrants committed 2,183 violent offenses, including 41 homicides, 145 sexual offenses, 11 child rapes, and more.
Republican State Rep. Dan Howell said he was shocked by the report and called the data “really, really bad.”
“These are the criminals liberals want to defend while trying to defund ICE,” he pointed out.
“Forty-one Tennesseeans are dead at the hands of illegal immigrants and hundreds raped. This will not be tolerated in this great state and we will do more to keep you safe,” Howell added. (emphasis original)
The “2025 Immigration Report” released on January 30 is a required (TN Code § 4-1-425 2024) annual report from the state’s district attorneys general conference. The law directs them to “collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on the number of persons not lawfully present in the United States charged or convicted of a criminal offense in this state during the previous year.”
The article notes:
The categories of crimes revealed a shocking toll suffered by the state’s citizens at the hands of illegal migrants.
Among the categories of crime, the report includes:
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- 2,183 violent offenses
- 41 homicides
- 1,592 assaults
- 145 sexual offenses
- 11 child rapes
- 40 aggravated kidnappings
- 2,920 DUIs
- 5,318 cases of driving without a license or on suspended/or revoked
- 966 Carjackings
- 36 Felony firearms offenses
- 66 Assaults on police or first responders
The “2025 Immigration Report” is now the second such report in compliance with the state law. The 2024 report, the first of its kind, collected data from only 73 of the state’s 95 counties and found that 2,719 non-citizens had been charged with crimes.
Are these the people you want to keep in our country? Are the people protesting ICE willing to have these people living in their neighborhoods? Where were the protesters when Martha’s Vineyard threw the illegal aliens out in less than 24 hours?
Why Would A Political Party Fight Election Integrity?
The Democrats are getting ready to shut down the government again in about two weeks. At first it was because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) funding, but now it is because of the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act enforces the law that limits voting in federal elections to citizens. That should be a no-brainer, but to the Democrats that eliminates a lot of their voting base. In case you haven’t noticed, because Americans are leaving the Democrat party because it has gone too far left, the Democrats need new voters. That is the reason they are fighting so hard to keep illegal aliens here. They need voter fraud and illegal aliens to keep winning. Keep an eye on Fulton County for more information on voter fraud. Also, if they can shut down the government, they may be able to slow down the positive momentum of the Trump administration.
On Tuesday, American Greatness posted an article about the coming government shutdown.
The article reports:
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is warning that a bipartisan appropriations package will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate, if it contains the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.
Schumer announced yesterday that he’s willing to risk another government shutdown in order to block GOP attempts to add voter ID and citizenship eligibility requirements to the funding bill.
According to Schumer, “The SAVE Act would impose Jim Crow style restrictions on voting. It will be dead on arrival in the Senate.”
The reluctance of Democrats to limit voting in federal elections to U.S. citizens alone, raises deeper questions about why millions of illegal aliens were allowed to flood into the U.S. under the Biden administration.
The article concludes with a very interesting possible solution:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) explained to reporters yesterday that standing filibuster may be the best pathway forward to allow a way to break the stalemate and to maneuver around senators who are seeking to block voter ID and citizenship requirements.
Some of our Senators are so old they probably couldn’t stand up long enough to filibuster! Stay tuned.
Sometimes The Double Standard Is Glaring
It is quite possible that Don Lemon will not face serious consequences for denying First Amendment rights to church goers. The excuse will be that he is a reporter and wasn’t part of the disruption. That is garbage, but the right jury might buy into it. Let’s contrast that with the treatment of another reporter, David Daleiden.
On Friday, Jack Cashill posted the following on Substack:
While the details of church stormer Don Lemon’s arrest sort themselves out, I thought it would be a good time to remember the active oppression of real journalists doing real work by Democrats, national and local. I could go 10-deep on this story, but one prosecution stands out for its coordinated ruthlessness.
I do not use the term “fascist” lightly, but when even the liberal Los Angeles Times opens an article with a paragraph like the one that follows, I think fascist is apt: “California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is drawing fire from supporters of an anti-abortion activist whose undercover videos and identity cards were seized by the state Department of Justice this week after Harris’ political campaign sought to drum up support for Planned Parenthood.”
The activist was David Daleiden. In April 2016, California authorities raided his Huntington Beach apartment. At the time, Harris was running for California’s open U.S. Senate seat. Her campaign website was asking supporters “to take a stand and join Kamala in defending Planned Parenthood.” In the course of Planned Parenthood’s history no one had presented a greater threat to the organization’s federal funding and public support than Daleiden and his partner Sandra Merritt.
In 2013, the then 24-year-old Daleiden launched the most sustained and effective undercover journalism project in decades. Working through a journalistic entity of his own creation, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), he and Merritt learned the language and the mechanics of the fetal tissue procurement business and went to work.
The article concludes:
In 2017, Harris’s successor as attorney general, Xavier Becerra, filed 15 felony charges against Daleiden and Merritt and tied them up in court for the next eight years. In May 2020, Daleiden filed suit against Becerra and Harris, claiming Harris violated his civil rights by conspiring with Planned Parenthood to silence him.
In 2025, after nine years of politically-driven lawfare, the State of California essentially dropped all charges against Daleiden and Merritt. The damage, however, had been done. With the pair silenced, the baby parts industry continued on its barbaric way.
In the Democrats’ America, killing and dismembering unborn babies and marketing their body parts is perfectly acceptable. Reporting on the practice is criminal. If that is not fascistic, I am not sure I know what is.
Unfortunately, the uncivilized practice of selling aborted baby body parts continues.
This Might Help Deal With Some Of Our Immigration Problems
One of the differences between the current migrants coming into America and the migrants that came here during the first fifty years of the twentieth century is the welfare safety net. Until the 1960’s War on Poverty, the safety net was comprised of your neighbors and your local church. The government had nothing to do with keeping people fed or housed. Just for the record, we obviously lost the War on Poverty and we need to admit that and end it. Rand Paul may be on to something.
On Thursday, The Center Square reported:
With billions of American taxpayer dollars on the line, and funding for over a dozen welfare benefits for refugees set to continue, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is taking a stand.
Paul introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants.
As previously reported by The Center Square, nearly $6 billion in continual funding for refugees is poised to be approved.
Funding for the refugee program skyrocketed under the Biden administration as part of the Refugee and Entrant Assistant programs.
The funding rose from less than $2 billion in fiscal year 2021, the last year of President Donald Trump’s first term, to nearly $9 billion the next fiscal year – the first year of former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Right now we have too many people sitting in the wagon and too few people pulling the wagon. It’s not right to take large sums of money from people who earned it and give it to people who did not.
The article concludes:
Congressionally appropriated spending on refugee and migrant assistance programs rose sharply under the Biden administration, totaling roughly $30 billion over those four years.
In particular, lawmakers significantly increased appropriations for the Refugee and Entrant Assistance programs – housed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – which provide benefits to eligible refugees.
In fiscal year 2021, the last year of Trump’s first term, Congress appropriated $1.91 billion for REA programs. That number shot up to $8.92 billion the following year, coinciding with the influx of Afghan refugees and record-high border crossings.
Total federal assistance for refugee programs in fiscal year 2023, however, reached $10 billion, as an OpenTheBooks investigation highlighted.
“With a national debt exceeding $38 trillion, Washington should not be running a welfare system on autopilot,” according to a release from the Rand’s office. “The End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act puts America First by stopping taxpayer dollars from being siphoned into benefits for non-citizens. If we want a sustainable safety net and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, this bill is a must-pass.”
Among his first acts upon his second inauguration in January 2025, Trump suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, sayng “it would be detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
We cannot afford to continue doing what we are doing.
Shutdown Blackmail
The Democrats right now are a minority in Congress, but you wouldn’t know that by their actions. They have decided to use a strategy of creating chaos and fiscal blackmail to try to derail the Trump agenda (and work against policies that they have supported in the past).
On Monday, American Greatness reported:
Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department of Homeland Security enforcement policy be written directly into the budget agreement. Those changes would largely shut down President Trump’s deportation efforts.
Trump has already made some changes. For example, DHS removed Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino – who had become a political lightning rod – from his assignment in Minneapolis. Democrats, however, are pressing for far more sweeping changes. They want to require judicial warrants for immigration arrests, force ICE agents to be easily identifiable, and grant states the authority to conduct their own investigations of federal ICE agents. Democrats have also demanded body cameras for ICE agents, even though the current budget proposal already funds them.
After the unprecedented percentage increase in violent crime during the Biden administration, Democrats may be pushing to halt deportations to prevent Republicans from getting credit for the sharp drop in violent crime that appears to have started last year. New evidence shows that illegal aliens commit crimes at rates at least 3.4 times higher than their share of the population. At the same time, about 47% of ICE detainees have criminal charges or convictions in the United States, and it is possible that an additional 23% have criminal records in their home countries. Removing hundreds of thousands of offenders through immigration enforcement could therefore have a meaningful impact on crime in the United States and help explain the huge drop in crime last year. Strong enforcement could also deter future crimes by signaling that arrest for criminal activity is likely to result in deportation, not release back into the community.
The article concludes:
Democrats are using the threat of yet another government shutdown to force sweeping policy changes that would sharply curtail federal immigration enforcement. Some of their demands even contradict long-standing Democratic positions on federal supremacy in immigration. But Democrats have one goal in mind: Stop Trump from deporting illegal aliens.
Voting for a Democrat in the midterms is voting for less safe neighborhoods.
From my friends at Hot Air:
Ending One Area Of Government Interference Into Private Enterprise
On Sunday, Townhall posted an article about an attempt by Biden-Harris FTC, Chair Lina Khan to prevent manufacturers from giving better prices to companies that bought their products in bulk. She is now the co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team. Communism has its rewards.
The article reports:
She loved using a little-known Great Depression law, called the Robinson-Patman Act, to crack down on companies that offered bulk pricing discounts to their customers.
For example, in December 2024, Khan’s agency sued Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, an alcohol distributor, for giving better deals to national chains like Costco, Total Wine, and Kroger while charging independent liquor stores more for the same products.
Then, on January 17, 2025 — just days before President Trump’s inauguration — her FTC filed a similar suit against PepsiCo over promotional terms that she claimed favored Walmart and other giants over smaller grocers.
These companies weren’t raising prices; they were lowering them. But they still got sued by Biden’s administration through the Robinson-Patman Act.
Robinson-Patman wasn’t written to stop companies from competing on price. That, after all, is the entire point of free enterprise. The act was written to stop companies with real market power from rigging prices with the intention of squeezing out competitors unfairly.
Yet neither of these two Biden administration Robinson-Patman Act cases pointed to a single direct harm consumers faced from this price-cutting.
At the time, then-Commissioner Ferguson called this egregious Biden abuse of power out for what it was. In his January 2025 dissent on the PepsiCo case, he labeled the filing “purely political,” accusing the outgoing Democratic majority of “march[ing] staff into court with no evidence to support the most important allegations in the Complaint.” He called it an “insult to the Commission’s credibility, its hardworking and talented staff,” and “a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
Ferguson was right on target — and when he took the FTC’s reins from Khan once Trump was sworn into office, he dismissed the PepsiCo case.
The article concludes:
Which raises the question: How could the Biden team be so tone-deaf in filing these cases?
Perhaps they have never done their own grocery shopping and thus didn’t understand how we all shop or what we prioritize.
Or — and I fear this might be more likely — perhaps they know exactly what we all do, but they didn’t take that into consideration when filing the cases, because shaping the world to more closely resemble their progressive, anti-capitalist worldview was more important to them than protecting consumer welfare.
Maybe the Biden holdovers tried to take away your Costco deals because they truly hate capitalist business efficiency that much. But Chair Ferguson and the rest of the Trump administration are making sure they won’t succeed.
If that’s not grounds for a free lifetime Costco membership, then I don’t know what is.
This is very real example of the reason elections matter.
Pay Attention, Republicans
On Saturday, The Gateway Pundit posted an article about some recent comments by Republican activist Scott Presler. You may remember that Scott Presler was a major factor in President Trump’s 2024 election victory. He has become a seasoned political worker and observer.
The article reports:
Republican activist Scott Presler joined Kayleigh McEnany on FOX News to push the Save Act. Presler told FOX News that there are already 48 co-sponsors with Mike Lee sponsoring the bill. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune needs to bring it up for a vote.
The Save act requires:
** Proof of US citizenship to vote,
** Mandates states to verify the citizenship of voters
** Requires states to remove non-citizens from the voter rolls
These are basic rules to help secure our elections. Democrats are against them, of course.
Scott is urging everyone to continue to call their senators and ask them to make a public statement about moving the Save Act to the Senate floor.
The article includes the following statement from Scott:
So my warning to members of Congress that are not willing to pass election reform at the federal level, which is constitutional, is either Republicans allow for proof of citizenship and photo voter ID, or it’s very likely that Republican voters will not come out on Tuesday, November third, and we very likely could lose the House of Representatives, and you could even lose Senate. The senatorships in Alaska, Maine, North Carolina. And if we lose three seats, Kaylee, it’s 50-50, and we lose the majority. So to our beautiful Senate Republican colleagues that are in the majority right now, I ask you, bring the Save Act to the floor, and any senator against proof of citizenship must tell the American people publicly on the floor why they are against it.
The Save Act will help deal with the problem of election integrity. Right now we have tens of thousands of people in America who are not citizens and may not have a problem illegally voting. The Save Act would help deal with that problem. If the Republicans can not get it passed, what is the point of electing them?
Please follow the link to the article. It contains a video of the interview on Fox News.
Why We Need ICE
The mission of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) is to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety. Many of the people who crossed the border during the Biden administration were gang members, people with criminal backgrounds, and people with ties to terrorist countries. Most Americans do not want these people as their neighbors. The article below is an example of the reason for ICE.
On Saturday, The New York Post reported:
An alleged crack-smoking, sexual-predator migrant wanted by ICE was allowed to flee through a back door of a Manhattan courthouse — infuriating federal agents, The Post has learned.
Gerardo Miguel Mora, 45, was arrested Thursday for shoplifting and possession of stolen property after allegedly snatching $130 in items from an H&M display case in Midtown that day, court records show.
Mora, whose country of origin was not disclosed, was collared on the Upper West Side on Jan. 7 for possession of alleged crack cocaine, according to a criminal complaint. That case is pending in court.
In 2011, Mora was busted for attempted rape and strangulation after he allegedly followed a 21-year-old woman home in Midtown, choked her and tried to remove her clothes, police sources said.
He was stopped by a bystander who heard the woman’s cries and came to her aid, holding Mora down until cops arrived, the sources said.
He was presumably deported after that, and was off the radar for 12 years. But in 2023 he was back in the US and arrested for showing a false ID.
Federal authorities had been looking for Mora on a criminal arrest warrant under a section of the US code that concerns “reentry of removed aliens,” law enforcement sources said.
But on Thursday in a court hearing on desk appearance tickets, the judge let Mora waltz out of the courtroom, sources said.
The shoplifting charge itself was not bail eligible, but Judge Sheridan Jack-Browne, a Democrat who won a special election last year in Brooklyn, would have had the federal arrest warrant, two sources told The Post.
The warrant is actually put in a folder for the judge to peruse on the bench.
“Everything was sent over” to the courthouse by ICE, a federal law enforcement source said.
But instead of handing him over to waiting ICE agents, Mora was allowed to simply slip out the back door of Manhattan Criminal Court, law enforcement sources said.
“They refused to hand him over,” the irate fed said. “They let him out the back to avoid ICE.”
ICE agents realized Mora had been released, and chased him down outside, a source said.
Mora’s now in federal custody. The Department of Justice could prosecute Mora, deport him or both.
It’s a pretty safe bet that this criminal is not going to show up in the judge’s well-guarded neighborhood or living quarters, so it’s no skin off her back to let him loose. Where is the regard for the safety of her fellow New York City residents. If he attempts to rape someone, is she responsible?
Let’s Talk About The Children
When Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, we constantly heard about laws that were ‘for the children.’ Actually most of the laws she supported put the children in debt before they were born, but that’s another story. The Trump administration has done a number of things ‘for the children,’ but there is one that is very important.
On Friday, Red State reported:
One of the more horrible aspects of the mass illegal immigration that was allowed to fester under the presidency of Joe Biden and whoever was running the autopen was the number of unaccompanied illegal alien children that went missing. Most estimates place the number at 300,000. Until recently, we didn’t know what had become of those children.
Now, we have nearly half of them back. On Friday, Border Czar Tom “The Hammer” Homan took a few moments off from staring down ICE protestors in Minneapolis to take note of this on his official X account.
On Friday, Tom Homan posted this on X:
This is happening because it is a priority of the Trump administration. It was not a priority during the Biden administration (possibly they were aiding and abetting it). Many of the people that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) is attempting to deport are involved in gang activity, drug smuggling, and child trafficking. They are not the people you want living in your neighborhood. Please consider that when watching the protests.
Let The Lawsuits Begin
One of the problems with the transgenderism being pushed on some of our young children is that the children are coerced into medical decisions that are not reversible. Many of these children grow out of their desire to transition and are stuck with the results of their previous decision. Up until now, they have not been successful in getting legal recourse for their situation. That just changed.
On Saturday, The Daily Wire reported:
On Friday, a young woman who had her healthy breasts removed at age 16 for supposed transgender “medical care” was awarded $2 million, marking the first successful detransitioner malpractice lawsuit in the nation.
Fox Varian’s psychologist and surgeon were held liable by a jury in Westchester, New York, according to independent reporter Benjamin Ryan, who attended the three-week trial.
Ryan suggested the case is just the beginning of detransitioner lawsuits he’s been following and that, ultimately, these sorts of results could discourage doctors from advising or performing these types of life-altering surgeries on minors.
“My sources suggest that tort law might permanently destroy this field,” he said.
I actually don’t have a problem with the field being destroyed. If someone over 21 chooses to make that decision, that’s on them, but children under 21 can’t smoke or drink. Why are we letting them decide on permanent, life-altering surgery?
The article notes:
“Very significant US case – there are more in pipeline – they are likely to fundamentally change the US medical profession’s approach to surgically altering the healthy bodies of children questioning their gender,” columnist Sonia Sodha said. “Been a long, long time coming.”
A transitioned patient is a patient for life–it takes serious drugs to convince the body that this is the new normal. There is also the questionable practice of adding testosterone to PMS.
Don’t Expect Your Laws To Be Obeyed When You Ignore Other Laws
There is an old adage that says ‘you reap what you sow.’ I think some of our politicians who depend on law enforcement to keep the peace in their cities and states might want to think about that. On Friday, The New York Post posted an article about New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill setting up an internet site to track and take videos of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE). That seems to be interfering with the enforcement of the law, and I believe that is a crime.
The article reports:
Lefty New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill urged residents to film ICE agents operating in their neighborhoods and upload the videos to a state “portal” she vowed to launch.
“If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out,” the Democrat, just eight days into her first term as governor of the Garden State, said in a sit-down interview with The Daily Show host Desi Lydic Wednesday night.
Sherill’s administration will soon be launching a “portal,” she said, so New Jerseyans “can upload all their cell phone videos and alert people” about local immigration operations.
It was unclear how much this portal would cost Garden State taxpayers to launch.
…“Keeping New Jerseyans safe is Governor Sherrill’s top priority and, in the coming days, she and Acting Attorney General Davenport will announce additional actions to protect New Jerseyans from federal overreach,” spokesperson Sean Higgins said in a statement.
If you are truly interesting in keeping the residents of New Jersey safe, you might consider taking murders and rapists who are here illegally off the streeets.
The article concludes:
Homan ( border czar, Tom Homan) also denounced the harsh rhetoric directed at ICE and other immigration law enforcement officers from Minnesota and across the country.
“I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March — if the rhetoric doesn’t stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn’t right. I don’t want to see anybody die,” Homan said.
Sherrill, meanwhile, compared ICE to secret police forces she saw in other countries when she served in the Navy.
“We saw people in the street with masks and no insignia. So not accountable at all, hiding from the population – and we saw again and again an undermining of what law enforcement should do to keep people safe,” she said on the Daily Show.
The message from the Democrats is simple–when you elect someone we don’t like, we will create chaos; when you elect someone we like, we will sit down and be quiet. I think the correct answer to that is to arrest those encouraging the chaos as well as those causing it. This is not acceptable.
Actions Have Consequences
On Friday, Breitbart posted an article about the arrest of Don Lemon for his actions inside a Minnesota Church last weekend.
The article includes a statement by Don Lemon’s lawyer:
Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy award. Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.
Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.
What about Don Lemon’s attack on the First Amendment rights of the people in the church? It has been reported that the rioters prevented the church members from getting to their children to remove them from the chaos. That is not a protest–that is terrorizing children.
The article concludes:
A Department of Justice attempt to arrest Lemon last week was foiled by an appellate court in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota that refused to sign off on the arrest warrant. Per CBS, this arrest warrant was the result of a grand jury indictment.
Do you want ‘protesters’ coming into your church and creating havoc? There are laws against that, and Don Lemon broke those laws.
The Need To Get To The Source
The protests in Minnesota are getting old. It is pretty common knowledge that these are paid protesters. They may be sincere, but they are paid. I am not going to mention the insanity of protesting in Minnesota during the winter. I guess they are getting paid well. Obviously, the way to end the protests (which long ago passed the point of peaceful protest) is to find the source of the funds that are paying them. That seems to be happening.
On Monday, The Epoch Times reported:
FBI Director Kash Patel said more arrests are coming in Minnesota in the midst of a federal operation and local protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and said the bureau has made progress in its investigation of groups who are allegedly funding the demonstrations.
Speaking to podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday, the FBI director said the bureau is investigating alleged group funding of ongoing protests against ICE officials in Minneapolis, coming in the wake of two shootings this month that left protesters dead.
“We’ve got also investigations ongoing into the funding of this. We’ve made substantial progress,“ he said. ”We’ve actually found groups and individuals responsible for funding it ‘cause it’s not happening organically.”
Also in the interview, Patel said four people were arrested earlier this month after a federal vehicle was broken into in Minneapolis. He said that another person was arrested on Sunday.
“In a vehicle, we discovered not just [FBI] firearms, which thankfully we recovered, but also personal information about law enforcement,” Patel told Johnson. “That personal information was being used on the ground to issue threats of life to FBI agents, along with their wives and their children. There are going to be more arrests on that same matter, today and tomorrow. We’re not done.”
There is nothing wrong with peaceful protests, but peaceful protest does not include damaging private property, hampering law enforcement, or harassing law enforcement personnel. It is time for the people in charge of enforcing the law in Minnesota to start cooperating with federal law enforcement.
Some Perspective
The loss of any life is a serious matter. However, we need to keep a rational perspective on who is in danger of losing their life because of the illegal immigrant invasion.
On Wednesday, The Washington Examiner posted an article reminding us that many more Americans have lost their lives due to illegal immigration than due to the actions of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE). All lives are important, and the death of the two protesters is tragic, but what about the Americans killed by illegal immigrants? Are they important?
The article reports:
The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have led to increased calls to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other illegal immigration enforcement operations. Liberals, Democrats, and others on the Left, combined with the socialist and communist organizations organizing and funding anti-ICE protests nationwide, have escalated their attacks on ICE — verbally and physically, calling them murderers, among other insults. And while criticism continues to mount, it is important to recognize truth and fact because while Good’s and Pretti’s deaths were unfortunate, Democrats’ immigration policies have caused more violence and murders than anything ICE has done.
The Biden administration allowed a record number of illegal immigrants to enter the country. With this increase in illegal immigration came a significant rise in those entering the country with criminal records, many of whom had a history of violent crime. Former President Joe Biden and his Democratic accomplices in Congress opened the floodgates to a litany of problems and violent crime due to the refusal to enforce immigration law. And, unfortunately, many Americans paid the price for it, with illegal immigrants murdering innocent women such as Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, among others.
The article includes a chart illustrating the criminal arrests by ICE since 2017:
Do you honestly want criminals loose in your cities and towns?
The article concludes:
Consider the case of Laken Riley, who was murdered by illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra in February 2024. According to a report by the House Judiciary Committee in August 2024, Ibarra illegally entered the U.S. in 2022. Border Patrol initially arrested him but later released him because the Biden administration believed it was “warranted due to ‘urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.’” This “benefit” cost Riley her life.
He was also arrested in September 2023 in New York City for “acting in a manner to injure a child,” but he was released again. No further actions were taken by law enforcement, and Ibarra’s arrest was “expunged.” A month later, in Georgia, he was caught shoplifting, another crime that should have resulted in jail or his deportation. However, again, nothing happened, and Ibarra remained free, which ultimately allowed him to murder Riley.
Perhaps even more egregious was the rape and murder of Rachel Morin in Aug. 2023 by the illegal immigrant Victor Martinez Hernandez. An illegal immigrant from El Salvador, he had an existing arrest warrant from El Salvador after being accused of murdering a woman. While in the U.S., he also allegedly assaulted a woman and a 9-year-old in Los Angeles, according to reports. Hernandez was actually deported three times before he murdered Morin, but ineffective border security policies allowed him to re-enter. This negligence resulted in Morin’s murder.
There are numerous other examples over the years from various parts of the country. Democrats implement radical immigration policies, and Americans pay the price. Whether it’s rape, murder, assaults, or drug trafficking, the damage from Democrats’ immigration policies and decisions has endangered too many innocent people, resulting in the unnecessary loss of life. The entire country would have been significantly safer and much better off if Democrats’ radical immigration policies had never seen the light of day.
These illegal immigrants who are criminals are the people the protesters are trying to protect.
More Government Fraud
On Tuesday, Breitbart posted an article about a government program that has provided phone and internet services for more than 116,000 dead people. Why has it taken this long to uncover massive fraud in many areas of government spending? What have Congress and the Inspectors General been doing with their time?
The article reports:
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr announced Tuesday that the agency will vote next month on proposals to remove fraud from the Lifeline program, which provided taxpayer dollars to pay for phone and internet services for more than 116,000 dead people.
“If the government is going to spend your hard earned dollars, it must ensure that they go only to living and lawful Americans,” Carr wrote on X.
Carr’s announcement followed a report from the Federal Communications Commission Office of Inspector General (FCC OIG), which found startling levels of fraud in the program. Congress and the FCC established the Lifeline program to help low-income Americans receive affordable communications service, which may include voice and broadband services and is paid out of the Universal Service Fund (USF).
The fraud includes “at least 16,774, and potentially as many as 39,362, deceased people, [who] were first enrolled and then claimed by a provider after they died (i.e. they were deceased at the time of enrollment.)”
Carr wrote that it may seem “obvious” to ensure that taxpayer dollars go to lawful Americans; however, he cautioned that the inspector general report found startling fraud within the Lifeline program:
1. A new Inspector General advisory found that providers took nearly $5 million in federal dollars to provide phone and Internet service to over 116,000 dead people. And this IG advisory looked at just three states.
2. Gavin Newsom’s California was by far the worst offender of these opt-out states. On Governor Newsom’s watch, California allowed over 94,000 dead people to be used to obtain federal dollars for phone and Internet service. The FCC recently revoked California’s authority to run its own verification process.
3. The FCC’s federal Lifeline program, which spends nearly $1 billion every year, does not have adequate checks in place to ensure that only lawful beneficiaries obtain those subsidies. There has been a recent rise in non-citizens fraudulently obtaining social security numbers. And the current verification process does not do a good enough job at preventing duplicative subscriptions and similar abuse.
The article concludes:
Carr warned that current agency regulations do not ensure that these federal dollars only go to American citizens, noting there has been a rise in non-citizens fraudulently obtaining social security numbers.
“So the FCC will be voting on a plan to address all of these issues. Your hard-earned dollars should only be going to those households that Congress intended to benefit,” Carr said in a statement.
Dead people and non-citizens should not be receiving tax dollars!
