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'America is an outlier on this – 46 out of 47 countries require proof before you can vote'
Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., held a press conference Thursday addressing election integrity issues.
He was joined by Rep. Chip Roy of Texas in front of the United States Capitol to argue for the passage of the SAVE Act. The acronym stands for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
"We want you to be an American citizen to vote in American elections," Roy said. "This bill, the only thing it would do is prevent illegal aliens and noncitizens in elections."
Roy also addressed allegations the SAVE Act takes away married women's right to vote. Those who believe this to be true point to many who are married no longer having the same last name as on their birth certificate. But the bill allows any "REAL ID compliant" identification to qualify under its requirements. Most state drivers' licenses are now REAL ID compliant.
The SAVE Act would require all applicants registering to vote to present a government ID to prove their citizenship. Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Oka., accused the Clinton administration of relaxing ID requirements which allowed people to "assert" they are citizens, rather than have to provide documentation. Brecheen said that it's time to return to a system that requires proof.
"America is an outlier on this 46 out of 47 countries require proof before you can vote," he claimed.
Founder of the election integrity network, Cleta Mitchell, and famed conservative activist Pastor Lorenzo Sewell also spoke. Mitchell decried inaction in shoring up the security of America's voting process, saying, "We need to save our elections so we can save our country."
Behind the podium – on the front of which a sign read "Election Integrity = Civil Rights" – were surrogates from states such as Georgia and Michigan. It is in those states, many still say, there were election irregularities in 2020, when the United States shifted to a fraught mass mail-in ballot system due to the coronavirus pandemic.
These instances are only the latest in a decades-long erosion in trust in America's elections. In 2000, a Gallup poll found that more Americans thought then-President Elect George W. Bush won that year's race illegitimately rather than legitimately. That came after a hotly contested race in Florida over punch hole ballots was decided by the Supreme Court in favor of Bush.
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Hampton Dellinger confirms departure from Office of Special Counsel
A federal employee who was fired by President Donald Trump has dropped his court case in which he was trying to overturn the president's decision and take back his job.
A report from MSNBC explains how Hampton Dellinger, of the Office of Special Counsel, has dropped his litigation.
The move comes after a court ruled against him.
He said he strongly disagreed with the court, but said he would abide by the ruling.
He also claimed, "This new ruling means that OSC will be run by someone totally beholden to the president for the months that would pass before I could get a final decision from the U.S. Supreme Court."
The office is responsible for protecting whistleblowers in the government.
It was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, one step below the Supreme Court, that paused a decision by a trial judge who said Trump could not immediately fire Dellinger.
Those three judges, appointed by Trump, Barack Obama and George H.W. Bush, said the order allowed Dellinger's removal.
The fight already had been up to the Supreme Court, which put off a decision, allowing the trial judge, Amy Jackson, to rule in Dellinger's favor.
A report at the Gateway Pundit explained Trump fired the Joe Biden-appointed Dellinger as part of his effort to bring efficiency to government.
Dellinger could have continued to fight, and the dispute may very well have ended up before the Supreme Court. But courts already have ruled several times in favor of a president's right to dismiss those who work in the executive branch, leading Dellinger to suggest he probably wouldn't win at the high court.
"I'm stopping the fight because, yesterday, circuit court judges reviewing the trial court decision in my favor granted the government's request that I be removed from office while the case continues," he said.
"I think the circuit judges erred badly because their willingness to sign off on my ouster — even if presented as possibly temporary — immediately erases the independence Congress provided for my position, a vital protection that has been accepted as lawful for nearly fifty years. Until now."
He claimed that because he no longer would be there, the office's "independence" was destroyed.
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Orders cutoff of federal contracts, security clearances, access
The Washington law firm of Perkins Coie long has been involved in "dishonest and dangerous" leftist ideologies – and practices, according to President Donald Trump.
And according to a new executive order from him, "The dishonest and dangerous activity of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP ('Perkins Coie') has affected this country for decades. Notably, in 2016 while representing failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then manufactured a false 'dossier' designed to steal an election.
"This egregious activity is part of a pattern. Perkins Coie has worked with activist donors including George Soros to judicially overturn popular, necessary, and democratically enacted election laws, including those requiring voter identification. In one such case, a court was forced to sanction Perkins Coie attorneys for an unethical lack of candor before the court," he said.
In fact, the firm was involved with the Steele "dossier," a made-up set of claims about President Trump that was given a high profile by legacy media during the 2016 presidential election. The wild claims made by the former British agency in the documents have not been supported by evidence.
Further, Trump pointed out that, "In addition to undermining democratic elections, the integrity of our courts, and honest law enforcement," the legal team has imposed racial quotas for hiring and promotion, and "proudly excluded applicants on the basis of race for its fellowships, and it maintained these discriminatory practices until applicants harmed by them finally sued to enforce change."
One of his presidential term goals is to end such discrimination, and crack down on organizations that exhibit "disrespect for the bedrock principle of equality" which, in fact, is "good cause to conclude that they neither have access to our nation's secrets nor be deemed responsible stewards of any federal funds."
His order, then, requests the attorney general, director of national intelligence and others to review and "take steps consistent with applicable law to suspend any active security clearances held by individuals at Perkins Coie."
Further, the Office of Management and Budget "shall identify all government goods, property, material, and services, including Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, provided for the benefit of Perkins Coie. The heads of all agencies providing such material or services shall, to the extent permitted by law, expeditiously cease such provision," he said.
And to further protect tax dollars, government contractors now will be required to "disclose any business they do with Perkins Coie and whether that business is related to the subject of the government contract."
Those contracts will, "to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law," be terminated.
"Within 30 days of the date of this order, all agencies shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget an assessment of contracts with Perkins Coie or with entities that do business with Perkins Coie effective as of the date of this order and any actions taken with respect to those contracts in accordance with this order," he said.
Discrimination by race also shall be investigated, he said.
Perkins Coie employees also will be barred from federal buildings, "when such access would threaten the national security of or otherwise be inconsistent with the interests of the United States."
At Gateway Pundit was the comment, "Recall that Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid law firm Perkins Coie more than $1 million to hire oppo research firm Fusion GPS to peddle the bogus 'Trump-Russia' dossier during the 2016 election. Former British spy Christopher Steele compiled over a dozen memos alleging the Russians had blackmail on Trump and that his associates were conspiring with the Kremlin to win the 2016 election."
It reported, "In 2022, the FEC fined Clinton and said her campaign violated the rules because they failed to disclose payments funneled to Fusion GPS through DNC law firm Perkins Coie. Hillary Clinton got a light slap on the wrist for her crimes."
"This was a coordinated effort by Hillary Clinton Campaign officials, by executives who were working with them, lawyers who work for the campaign, all attempting to defraud the federal government… Defrauding the government is a felony, making false statements to federal investigators is a felony," John Ratcliffe said in 2022.
"And when multiple people do it together I think that is a conspiracy and I think that's what is being revealed in John Durham's filings… If multiple lawyers from a law firm are attempting to defraud the government or lie to the government, not just commit a campaign dirty trick but to peddle a false narrative to mislead investigators an entire law firm like Perkins Coie could be subject to indictment."
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Following his campaign promise to "seal the border on Day 1," President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 22 to "suspend the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border."
Then calling upon the U.S. military to help fulfill his promise, over 9,000 U.S. troops were deployed at the southern border. But on March 1, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also ordered the deployment of a Stryker Brigade Combat Team and General Support Aviation Battalion to the southwestern border of the United States. According to Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, these forces will "reinforce and expand current border security operations to seal the border and protect the territorial integrity of the United States."
Each Stryker Brigade Combat Team is a mechanized infantry force comprising approximately 4,400 soldiers. The aviation component of the deployment will bring about 650 additional personnel to the region, along with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for command and medical evacuation, and CH-47 Chinooks for heavy lifting.
"These forces," said Parnell, "will arrive in the coming weeks, and their deployment underscores the department's unwavering dedication to working alongside the Department of Homeland Security to secure our southern border and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the United States under President Trump's leadership."
WorldNetDaily spoke to Ben Varlese, a global security expert and former Stryker brigade sniper. He described each variant of the eight-wheeled armored vehicle as "phenomenal," noting a number of different variants, ranging from mortar carriers to reconnaissance or infantry carrier vehicles.
Close-up view of the M1126 Stryker and its capabilities:
Most standard Strykers, he told WorldNetDaily, house a crew of 11, to include a driver, vehicle commander and two fire teams. "While I don't think we're calling for fire, mortars or artillery quite yet at the southern border," he noted, "the Stryker is definitely a force multiplier."
While operating from Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq in 2004-2005, Varlese was able to experience the tremendous value of the armored fighting vehicle. "A lot of the terrain was very similar to the southwest U.S.," he said, explaining, "they offer great mobility platforms for not only desert-type environments, but also for urban operations."
What's more, he told WND, "It's a big green beast, and there's no denying what it is or what it's capable of doing. Its presence alone is a passive deterrent."
With regard to its capabilities, said Varlese, "They often have a free mounted weapon system like a 50-caliber machine gun, Mk 19 (pronounced Mark 19) 40-mm automatic grenade launcher, or a videogame-like Remote Weapon System." Additionally, some also feature the long-range advanced scout surveillance system, or LRASSS, with standard or thermal viewing. And according to Varlese, "You could read somebody's name tape from a kilometer away."
"Remarkably, they're really quiet, too," he added. "We used to be able to pretty much park right in front of somebody's front door, and they didn't even know we were there until they heard the clank of the ramp dropping." Should these Strykers ever be used for conducting raids, the quietness feature is a big benefit.
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A proposal in Colorado's leftist legislature is moving "deadnaming" to an extreme.
That's the offense, to LGBT promoters, of calling someone by their name when they have chosen another name as part of their agenda for transgenderism.
Actually, according to the science, being male or female is embedded into the human body down to the DNA level and doesn't change, no matter the chemical or surgical "treatments" that may be employed.
However, a transgender person's decision to adopt a different name is recognized by many jurisdictions and using the old name, "deadnaming," actually is an offense in some of those locations.
Now a report in Westword explains how Colorado is planning to take the fight against "deadnaming" to an extreme.
It would demand "accurate" references to a person on a death certificate.
The report explained, "Before Laura MacWaters transitioned, she spent years worrying about what would happen after she died. Would anyone ever know her for the woman she was? How would she be remembered? Would her identity and existence remain invisible forever? Today, MacWaters is proudly out as a transgender woman, but a concern remains: Will her identity be accurately reflected on her death certificate?"
The report noted that Coloradans already can change their birth certificate, driver's license and state ID to match what they claim to be. That is a male like MacWaters can change "male" references to "female."
The new plan would also allow a death certificate to identify a person by their gender ideology.
"When a person's gender identity is stripped from them in their vital records, it is more than a clerical error. It is an act of erasure, a denial of who they are and of their legacy," MacWaters claimed.
"This bill ensures that the respect we fight for in life will not disappear the moment we pass. I have seen how easy it is for trans people, especially older trans people, to have their identity questioned, dismissed, erased. …I've seen the pain of those who feared they would be misgendered, even in death."
The plan already has been adopted by the state House Health & Human Services Committee.
The move comes in a national discourse for which President Donald Trump has explained the federal government recognizes only male and female.
Agenda promoters claim that they are being targeted because their documents are reflecting now their "sex they were assigned at birth."
A Democrat in the House, Kyle Brown, said, it's important to "promote dignity and accuracy in our vital records," in sponsoring the bill that would mislabel men as women and women as men on their demand.
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A member of Congress has confirmed she will be referring mayors of four "sanctuary" cities across America, Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York, for criminal investigation for their policies that prioritize illegal aliens over citizens.
A report from the Hill revealed U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., informed the mayors during a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
It's because of the sanctuary policies they practice in their cities, protecting illegal aliens, even criminal illegal aliens.
"To me after this line of questioning, it's very clear that these policies that you have all implicated are active and alive and well in your cities are in direct violation with Title 8, U.S.C. § 1324 and is a federal offense," Luna charged.
That federal law bars bringing in and harboring illegal aliens.
Her agenda is part of the Trump administration's "aggressive" approach to those locations that protect illegal aliens, the report said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi already has sued Chicago, alleging the city has obstructed the federal government from enforcing immigration laws. Additionally, Bondi issued a memo last month saying sanctuary cities will not have access to federal funding from the DOJ.
The mayors are Eric Adams, Mike Johnston, Brandon Johnson and Michelle Wu.
The mayors all are Democrats, and they claimed Congress and President Donald Trump are exaggerating crimes from the population of illegal aliens.
Adams said New York city always will "comply with city, state and federal laws.".
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The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed it will review the prosecution by the leftists in the state of Colorado of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, "on charges she helped an unauthorized person" access the local voting system in 2021, according to a new report.
Colorado Public Radio said the DOJ has filed documents entering the case against Tina Peters, who was accused by officials in the Democrat-run state of attempting to influence a public servant, impersonation and conspiracy.
The Republican was convicted and given several years in prison in her case that developed only months before Jenna Griswold, the Democrat secretary of state in Colorado, allowed lists of election systems passwords to be posted online.
Griswold then apparently schemed to conceal her actions.
WorldNetDaily has reported on the case, where she fiddled with those passwords, after scheming with all Democrats on the state Supreme Court to try to take President Donald Trump off the state's 2024 ballot.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked her agenda with a scolding.
Griswold also "played an integral role" in the case against Peters.
But prosecutors gave Griswold a pass on her actions.
The new report explains the DOJ confirmed it is reviewing the Peters case.
And while the federal agency cannot overturn a state conviction, it is true that Peters' appeal of her case now has been moved into federal court.
The report explained a court filing by Yaakov Roth, an acting assistant attorney general, said the DOJ is evaluating the Peters case based on an executive order signed by President Donald Trump and it will focus on "whether the case was 'oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.'"
Roth said, "Parallel to these proceedings and Ms. Peters' direct appeal, the Department of Justice is reviewing cases across the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process."
It's part of Trump's order "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government," the report said.
In that scenario, under the Joe Biden administration, multiple court cases were brought that had the appearance of being based on politics. At the apex of the agenda was the lawfare against Trump, where multiple Democrat prosecutors launched multiple felony charges against Trump, trying to keep him from the presidency in 2024.
One of those cases, now dropped, included felony counts against Trump for his handling of government documents after his first presidency.
But at the same time, prosecutors gave Joe Biden a pass after classified documents from when he was only a vice president were found concealed in the garage at his home and at various offices he had used.
CPR claims that Peters has become a "celebrity" in the world of "those who embrace Trump's lies that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud."
However, the facts that have been uncovered have confirmed at least two undue influences on that election result. One was Mark Zuckerberg's decision to hand out $400 million plus to mostly leftist elections officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts. Never before in American election history had such a sum of money been used to influence an election outcome.
The second factor was the FBI's decision to interfere in the voting when it falsely claimed that Biden family scandals uncovered in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden were Russian disinformation when in fact they were all true. The FBIi told media outlets to suppress the information, and a subsequent polling showed that action alone likely gave the presidency to Biden.
The political ideology used against Peters appeared during her sentencing to nine years behind bars, when Judge Matthew Barrett alleged, "You're a charlatan who used, and is still using, your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that's been proven to be junk time and time again."
During her trial her lawyers pointed out that the trial court refused to allow presentation of evidence regarding allegations about her county's voting machines.
The CPR report claimed that the DOJ's interest in a political prosecution amounted to "a new stage in the administration's effort to use the federal government to promote the president's political interests."
Peters' lawyer, John Case, said, "Tina was targeted because she executed her duty under federal law to preserve election data that the secretary of state deleted from every other Colorado county. We welcome the federal investigation."
WND reported only weeks ago that an appeals court threw out a "contempt" finding also announced against Peters by a judge because there was no evidence to support the allegation by the retired judge, Paul Dunkelman.
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Democrats attending President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday entered the room with frowns, consulted each other with pursed lips and glares at the GOP majority, and held signs expressing their politics, which often was at odds with what the American people have chosen.
But the real test of what they are for, and significant, what they are against, came in their actions during Trump's speech.
For example, the declined to applaud when Trump announced the capture of the terrorist who masterminded the Abbey Gate attack during Joe Biden's ill-executed withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. It left 13 American service members dead.
They refused to applaud a young boy fighting brain cancer as he was made an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service.
They declined to applaud a call for lower taxes for middle-class Americans.
The White House took note of their performance, explain, "Tonight, President Donald J. Trump delivered bold, forward-looking remarks before a joint session of Congress — highlighting the historic accomplishments already achieved in his second term and setting the course for four years of prosperity and strength.
"Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats were too consumed by their own hatred of President Trump, refusing to show support for lowering taxes, fighting childhood cancer, capturing terrorists, protecting women and girls in sports, or law and order — to name only a few."
The White House statement noted the comment from former White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, now a network commentator, who said, "The Democratic Party still has no common sense. They have no ideas and they have no heart. They couldn't even stand for the most inspiring moments of the speech."
The rest of the White House list of topics where Democrats, by and large in unanimity, remained silent:
Social media took note:
One commenter concluded the Democrats were "demons" and "gremlins."
One Democrat, Al Green, was ejected by the sergeant at arms for belligerently badgering the president while he was trying to speak.
Mark Halperin, a political analyst, pointed out the especially egregious refusal by Democrats to stand when Trump honored a 13-year-old boy fighting cancer. Trump's address noted that D.J. Daniel would be made an honorary Secret Service agent.
Halperin explained Democrats' attacks on Trump lose credibility when they act in an "aberrant" way.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has been mocked as "Pocahontas" for years already, ever since the truth was revealed that she falsely claimed to be a Native American in order to get various benefits.
Jobs and such.
And President Donald Trump, known for his blunt demeanor and language, used that moniker Tuesday during a joint session of Congress.
So the reaction from Nandita Bose, Reuters' reporter at the White House? She claimed it was a "racial slur."
And the reaction she got prompted her quickly to shut down responses to her wild claim.
"Seriously?" was the response from Twitchy.
Another commenter suggested, "You would think the lie about being Native American would be the racist part."
Another said, "They're more offended by the fact that Trump called her Pocahontas than by the fact that she exploited a fake Native ancestry for decades for her own profit."
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President Donald Trump did not mince words Wednesday as he issued a scathing "last warning" to Hamas terrorists still holding hostages taken on Oct. 7, 2023.
"'Shalom Hamas' means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!
"I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say.
"I have just met with your former Hostages whose lives you have destroyed. This is your last warning!
"For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance. Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision.
"RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW, OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER!
"DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."