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During the 2020 presidential election state officials often arbitrarily abandoned their own states' laws regarding voting identification, time, place and method requirements.

Bundles of harvested votes were dumped off, and they were counted.

Further, sometimes the official "rules" were changed to accommodate a special interest group.

It resulted in a Joe Biden victory, which undoubtedly was helped, or even given the victory, by Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million handed out to local election officials and the FBI's decision to interfere in the results by falsely describing the accurate reporting about Biden family scandals in Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation.

The result was that multiple states reviewed their election integrity procedures and decided to beef them up for 2024. Some even banned private cash being handed out to officials, like Zuckerberg's 2020 scheme.

But the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Department of Justice doesn't want that.

So it has sued, according to a report at Just the News, "in an effort to thwart election integrity measures."

Already targeted are the states of Virginia, Alabama and rural towns in Wisconsin – because they've removed non-citizens, those for whom voting would be a federal crime, from voter rolls.

Lawsuits also have targeted the highly secure voting method using paper ballots and hand counting.

"Some of the jurisdictions are fighting back, arguing that they are following the law as they work to ensure election integrity," the report noted.

Stunningly, a federal judge ruled just days ago that Virginia must restored a long list of non-citizens to its voter rolls, even though their participation in the election would be a crime.

Just the News reported that fight involved the Biden-Harris administration and the election security plans from the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections.

The dispute is over the understanding of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 which doesn't let states use "systemic" procedures to remove the names on non-citizens during the 90 days before the election. The state said its program was not "systemic" in that in was only removing the names of those who self-identified as not eligible to vote.

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The 2024 election is not that far from over. Election day is next week and then the counting, which will be under strict scrutiny by Republicans who have legitimate doubts about the 2020 process.

But whether President Donald Trump and vice presidential candidate JD Vance win, or not, apparently doesn't matter to leftists in their campaign to take control of the 2028 result.

Including "Jen 'Vote Early' Rubin" of the Washington Post and MSNBC, both on the far left side of the political spectrum.

She's already started blasting Vance.

She wrote in a screed, "The sociopathic (sic) liar you saw on CNN would be running the show: In short, while Trump might be bamboozled by flattering dictators who know how to play him, Vance shows an affinity for their aims and positions. He has full-blown explanations for why we should let Putin rule the roost in Ukraine and why we should appreciate Hungary's assault on democracy. And that perhaps is why Vance is so much more dangerous than even Trump. Trump will say and do whatever is necessary to hang onto MAGA support and retain the admiration of dictators. Vance is the ideological firebrand who will craft excuses for them."

In a commentary, Twitchy explained, "Just after the Los Angeles Times announced they wouldn't be endorsing a presidential candidate this year and some staffers at that paper resigned, the Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin praised them for taking a stand for the 'democracy' that gets destroyed unless the media only backs Democrats. Then, the Washington Post announced they wouldn't be endorsing a candidate, and Rubin decided to write about who's 'worse than Trump' in the WaPo instead of resigning."

Trump, of course, already has served one term, so if elected, would be on his second and not up for re-election in 2028, opening the door wide to a vice president who served under his agenda to Make America Great Again.

Twitchy explained, "If you're keeping score at home, Trump is 'worse than Hitler' and if Trump wins, in a few years when he's running for president, JD Vance will be 'worse than the person who was worse than Hitler.'"

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The U.S. Supreme Court now has been asked to decide whether noncitizens should be on the voter rolls in the state of Virginia.

It's illegal, of course, for them to vote. But a lower court judge ruled just days ago the state must restore 1,600 names of people who self-identify as noncitizens to voter rolls.

At issue is the National Voter Registration Act that forbids "systemic" removals of names within 90 days of an election.

The state has explained its removal of those names was not "systemic" but based on the noncitizens themselves who identified as ineligible to vote.

Now the Center Square reports Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has confirmed the state is going to the Supreme Court, on an emergency basis, to block the addition of those names to the voter rolls.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which leans far left in its political ideology, affirmed the district judge's order just hours earlier.

Miyares defended the efforts by the commonwealth to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, claiming the ruling was "politically motivated."

"It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter," he said. "The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006."

The move by the Biden DOJ has been criticized as another move in its campaign to "weaponize" the federal government.

"Now their truly Weaponized Department of 'Injustice,' and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS. This is a totally unacceptable travesty," President Donald Trump said.

It is uncertain if the Supreme Court would take the dispute, or rule, before the Nov. 5 election.

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If picking a despicable name for your political opponent were a competition, Democrats and other leftists across America may have thought they had the winner as, for years, they have called President Donald Trump a "Hitler."

It was their attempt to find the most horrific, reprehensible descriptive for him.

But they lost, according to a controversial former Roman Catholic archbishop.

That church leader, Carlo Maria Vigano, who was the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. from 2011 until 2016, described Kamala Harris as "an infernal monster who obeys Satan."

The election this year is, in fact, described by many as a spiritual fight, what with the likelihood Harris would push harder for the Biden-Harris administration's top agenda items of abortion for all and transgenderism, including body mutilations, for children, both industries opposed by most Christians.

That's besides the inflation, open southern border and more that the administration has inflicted on Americans.

Vigano, in an open letter to Catholics, explained there's no question that they should vote for Trump.

He said voters in just days must decide "between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation."

Vigano, excommunicated this year, said, "The choice is between a conservative President, who is paying with his very life for his fight against the deep state, and an infernal monster who obeys Satan.

"For a Catholic, there can be no question: voting for Kamala Harris is morally inadmissible and constitutes a very grave sin. Nor is it morally possible to abstain, because in this war declaring oneself neutral means allying oneself with the enemy."

Vigano ran into trouble inside the politics of the Catholic community for his criticisms of Pope Francis, a liberal whose leftist pronouncements often have stunned the community, and the "modern" reforms in the church.

The New York Post explained, "His letter contains numerous references to numerous conspiracy theories, including references to the 'deep state,' calling the 2020 presidential election 'the fraud of 2020' and suggesting that the world governments engineered climate change to 'to make the global warming fraud credible.'"

He also condemned America's "woke" ideologies, abortion and transgenderism, and the "dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards" that American schools have become.

He explained voting is a moral duty, but the 2024 vote choice is more than that, as it is "between two radically opposed ways of conceiving the government of your Nation: you are called to choose between democracy and dictatorship, between freedom and slavery."

He said, "On one side we have candidate Donald J. Trump, who, despite serious problems in his positions – especially in the matter of abortion and assisted procreation – has as his objective the common good and the protection of the fundamental freedoms of citizens. In Donald Trump's America, every Catholic can practice their Faith and educate their children in it without interference from the State. On the other side we have a candidate and a party that promotes everything that directly opposes the Faith and Morals of the Catholic Church. In Kamala Harris' America, Catholics – but also Protestants – are considered fundamentalists to be marginalized and eliminated, and their children are considered the property of the State, which arrogates to itself the right to lead them astray from an early age in both body and soul.

"Trump's America can become great and prosperous again. Harris' America is destined for invasion and for moral, social, and economic destruction: the most ferocious dictatorship," he warned.

Democrat-run cities, for example, now are "dumps filled with derelicts and criminals, drug dealers and addicts, prostitutes and robbers. Your schools are dens of indoctrination and corruption from kindergarten onwards. In your courts, criminals are acquitted and innocents are imprisoned: new ideological crimes are prosecuted, while illegality is tolerated and encouraged. In your hospitals, multinational corporations rule, and you are their guinea pigs to be exterminated or made chronically ill so that you will be their perpetual clients," he wrote.

He described the green ideology, promoted by Biden and Harris, "lies without any scientific proof."

America now, he said, has "a puppet in the White House and a corrupt and incompetent Vice President who has never stopped lying and deceiving voters about her past and her future. Power is managed by the criminal deep state – whose names and faces we now know – that is responsible for the destruction of your great Nation.":

Under Harris, he said, American would be destined to be "manipulated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton."

"Do not think that these are remote hypotheses: wherever the woke Left takes power, it establishes the most vicious, anti-human, and anti-Christian dictatorship that humanity has ever known. And we know that every time the Left has come to power, it has never left through democratic means," he warned.

Singled out for condemnation are Obama, Clinton, George Soros, Klaus Schwab, Jeffrey Epstein, Sean Combs, the World Economic Forum, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Vanguard, BlackRock and StateStreet.

"Behind these people – by now we should know this – are people devoted to evil, united by the satanic hatred against Our Lord Jesus Christ and those who believe in Him, mainly against the Catholic faithful. We want Christ to reign, and we proclaim it with pride: Christ is King! They want the Antichrist to reign, whose tyranny is made of chaos, war, disease, famine, and death."

He pointed out while Trump holds some positions with which Catholics do not agree, he represents the "only possible choice to counter the globalist coup that the woke Left is about to implement definitively, irreparably, and with incalculable damage for future generations."

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A hospital in New Mexico has been put on notice that it is not allowed to just change its "rules" and by that means push its employees into violating their constitutionally protected religious rights and become part of the region's lucrative abortion industry.

The dispute is being reported by the American Center for Law and Justice, which has written to Presbyterian Hospital there about its scheme.

The ACLJ reported, "We sent a critical legal letter explaining that the hospital's new policy of refusing religious accommodations violates several provisions of federal law and Supreme Court precedent. If Presbyterian Hospital does not comply with the law and grants our clients a religious accommodation not to participate in an abortion in any situation, we are prepared to take aggressive legal action to defend their rights. No one should be forced to take the life of an innocent human being."

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A lawsuit has been filed that accuses Norfolk, Virginia, officials of using a network of 170 cameras to impose a warrantless surveillance scheme on residents, and visitors.

The Institute for Justice case charges that the actions violate the Fourth Amendment rights protected by the U.S. Constitution.

The system allows police "to monitor the comings and goings of all drivers in the city," the legal team said.

Lee Schmidt, a plaintiff, said, "I don't like the government following my every movement and treating me like a criminal suspect, when they have no reason to believe I've done anything wrong."

And another, Crystal Arrington, charged, "My work requires me to drive around Norfolk very often, and it's incredibly disturbing to know the city can track my every move during that time."

The institute explained that in 2023, Norfolk police partnered with a company called Flock Safety, Inc. to install 172 automatic license plate reading cameras across town.

The locations were chosen to provide a "curtain of technology" which would allow police to watch anyone "drive anywhere" without being observed.

"Unlike traditional traffic cameras—which capture an image only when they sense speeding or someone running a red light—Flock's cameras capture images of every car driving by, which it retains for at least 30 days. Artificial intelligence then uses those images to create a 'Vehicle Fingerprint' that enables any Flock subscriber to both track where that vehicle has gone and identify what other vehicles it has been seen nearby," the institute noted.

"Norfolk has created a dragnet that allows the government to monitor everyone's day-to-day movements without a warrant or probable cause. This type of mass surveillance is a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment," said IJ lawyer Michael Soyfer.

Making the violation worse, the institute noted, is that since Flock "pools its data in a centralized database, police across the entire country can access over 1 billion monthly datapoints. That means not just tracking drivers within a particular jurisdiction, but potentially across the entire nation."

"Following someone's every move can tell you some incredibly intimate details about them, such as where they work, who they associate with, whether or not they're religious, what hobbies they have, and any medical conditions they may have," said IJ lawyer Robert Frommer. "This type of intrusive, ongoing monitoring of someone's life is not just creepy, it's unconstitutional."

The scheme gives police the ability to spy on people without any judicial oversight, either.

And abuse already has been documented, the IJ said.

'In Kansas, officials were caught using Flock to stalk their exes, including one police chief who used Flock 228 times over four months to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend's vehicles. In California, several police departments violated California law by sharing data from their license plate reader database with other departments across the country. And as is the case with other databases, these can be susceptible to hacking, which can reveal private data," the institute said.

Similar agendas already have been condemned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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JERUSALEM – Of the IAF attack on Iran only a few things are certain, Israeli aircraft spent more than an hour – largely unmolested over the skies of Iran – and all the planes made it back safely to their home bases. Until open sources become available it will not be clear the level of the damage, and perhaps the humiliation, which was meted out to the Islamic Republic.

This was an operation Israel undertook alone, and was thought to include between a third to a half of Israel's entire air force. The Biden administration was informed of the attack, and U.S. planes were reportedly airborne at the time of the action, purely in a supervisory capacity.

Israel's jets flew through both friendly and enemy air space, indeed air-defense batteries in both Iraq and Syria were taken out in the initial stages of the attack. There was thought to be a high level of intelligence cooperation between Israel and CENTCOM partners to the extent they were made aware of what was happening in real-time, although they were not part of the operation.

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Israel/Middle East Morning Brief

Further details emerge about Israel's aerial bombardment of sensitive Iranian sites

JERUSALEM – The Israeli Air Force attacked military targets in the Islamic Republic of Iran early Saturday morning in 'Operation Days of Repentance' – carried out in three waves by 100 different aircraft, including F-35 stealth and other fighter jets, refueling aircraft and drones.

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Dick Lamm was the governor of the leftist state of Colorado for 12 years. He likely worked hard on building up his version of the Rocky Mountain state.

But he's remember for one comment, during his campaign to push physician-assisted suicide.

That was that elderly people who are terminally ill have a "duty to die and get out of the way" instead of trying to prolong their lives through medical innovations.

Online resources reveal Lamm, who died in 2021, made his comment in 1984, and it generated a lot of controversy, even after he tried to explain he was "raising a general statement about the human condition, not beating up on the elderly."

His comment was, "We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life."

But Lamm's influence was just talk. The Christian Institute in the United Kingdom is warning that government action there could make a "duty to die" more than rhetoric.

It is the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who said legalizing assisted suicide "could open the door to yet more pain and suffering for those we are trying to help."

He said, "Even where there is no abuse, the pressure to end one's life early could be intense and inescapable if the law were changed" and that "the right to end your life could all too easily – and accidentally – turn into a duty to do so."

He continued, "I don't want the people I love – or anyone, for that matter – to be made to feel a burden in their final months on earth. Dying in pain is not inevitable. Good palliative care can provide us with the dignity and compassion we are all searching for. My mum's last days were eased by advice and medication from a hospice. She died peacefully, heavily sedated and deeply loved. That, to me, is dignity in dying."

The UK's most senior Roman Catholic, the Archbishop of Westminster, has urged churches to contact their MP on the issue, the report said.

"In a letter, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said assisted suicide pressures 'those who are nearing death, from others or even from themselves, to end their life in order to take away a perceived burden of care from their family, for the avoidance of pain, or for the sake of an inheritance,'" the report noted.

He explained, "What is now proposed will not be the end of the story. It is a story better not begun."

The institute's reporting also documented how doctors have warned that such a plan could kill people who actually have years left to live.

Professor Katherine Sleeman, Laing Galazka Chair in Palliative Care, pointed out that the Department for Work and Pensions reviews its benefits for terminally patients every three years — even though they must be expected to die within twelve months to qualify for support."

She said a six or twelve-month prognosis ":is an arbitrary line in the sand," as it is "not possible to accurately determine someone's prognosis as a number of months."

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Experts are sounding alarms on the burgeoning threat directed toward the U.S. from the People's Republic of China, as Chinese nationals living in America maintain close ties with the Chinese Communist Party, infiltrating American political offices, and businesses.

During an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings with Maria," Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang said China views the U.S. as an existential threat, especially to communist rule.

Chang noted the Chinese are willing to go to great lengths to undermine America, including its elections. after Microsoft recently reported China, Russia, and Iran have been caught attempting to influence the upcoming presidential vote.

"China is putting much more effort on down-ballot contests, and it's far down the ballot. So for instance, in June in the New York State Democratic Party Primaries, they went after a candidate in New York City who they felt was very much against CCP interests. So it's not just senators, it's not just congressmen, it's through the ballot," Chang said.

Chang pointed out the Chinese have been "grooming" politicians throughout the Midwest and added many Chinese nationals still maintain ties with the Chinese government.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has filed an emergency lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other Biden administration officials after a Chinese migrant with rare, drug-resistant tuberculosis entered the U.S. illegally and has now potentially exposed hundreds of people to the disease.

"This particular migrant was released into the general population while she still had tuberculosis, so that is certainly a dangerous line. This says to Beijing that they can do what they want in terms of spreading disease in the U.S. Remember that secret Chinese biological weapons lab in Reedley, California, had at least 20 pathogens and almost 1,000 mice that had been genetically engineered to spread disease," Chang said.

Chang noted nothing is stopping China from developing more transmissible, and deadly diseases in the U.S., including diseases like Ebola.

"China can develop a disease, it will not affect the carrier, but it will sicken or kill everybody else, and right now with releasing these people into the United States, it means that China says 'why don't I send over a whole pack of migrants with something like ebola … Ebola has a 50% natural kill rate, now China we know is weaponizing this at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, if they can figure out how to make it more transmissible or maybe more fatal, they have a disease to exterminate the American population, and remember extermination is a topic that is permitted in China's controlled public square, and Chinese officials have secretly talked about exterminating every American," Chang said.

When asked why it always feels like America is playing catch-up and why does the U.S. not anticipate the extreme lengths that China could go to in the U.S., and prevent them before they happen, Chang said it is simply because Americans are choosing to ignore their enemy.

"We think that God has given us a right to ignore what our enemies are saying and doing. We did that with Osama Bin Laden until one day, and we're doing it with China right now. China is not hiding what it is saying, it declared a people's war on us, which they say is a toll war, they talk about us in malicious terms almost every day, and we have a political system that says 'Oh we can cooperate with the Chinese,' well no, they believe they must destroy the U.S.," Chang said.

Chang pointed out that the relationship between the U.S. and China can never flourish while the CCP remains in power in China because they despise American culture and values.

"They believe we're an existential threat, and it's not because of anything we say or do … it's because of who we are. They're worried about the inspirational impact of American values in the form of governance on the Chinese people, which means we'll never have amicable relations with China as long as the Chinese Communists rule it," Chang said.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has released its latest report on some of the biggest challenges facing the U.S., and the People's Republic of China, specifically its expanding nuclear program, is causing the greatest amount of concern.

According to the report; Nuclear Challenges: The Growing Capabilities of Strategic Competitors and Regional Rivals – China has outpaced previous growth estimates, stockpiling 500 nuclear warheads since 2018. It is estimated China will further accelerate its stockpiles, doubling it by 2030 to over 1,000 operational nuclear warheads – which are able to reach the U.S.

Furthermore, China wants more lower-yield nuclear warhead capability to use as a backup if China's larger nuclear weapons fail to deliver.

"China is undergoing the most rapid expansion and ambitious modernization of its nuclear forces in history – almost certainly driven by an aim for enduring strategic competition with the U.S. and a goal to actualize intensified strategic concepts that have existed for decades but are now being realized," the report states.

The report notes this buildup of nuclear capabilities will be the fastest and the largest in China's history, which includes ground-mobile, air-launched, and submarine-launched weapons, to challenge the global world order.

"China probably will introduce new capabilities which carry the potential to destabilize the status quo over the next decade as it develops concepts for new systems' use and integrates them into its broader warfighting and deterrence doctrine," the report states.

Beijing has had a non-first-use policy regarding the use of nuclear weapons for decades, calling for a collective commitment from other nuclear powers to do the same. However, the DIA stated in the report that China could consider striking first if threatened with nuclear force and added a nuclear strike is also possible if China was faced with defeat over Taiwan – which China claims in its entirety.

"Coupled with PLA [People's Liberation Army] officers downplaying the risks of imperfect information management during crises, inexperience managing nuclear crises, and their perceptions that they can elicit intended adversary responses while maintaining sufficient battlefield awareness, Beijing may accept greater risks as its nuclear doctrine and capabilities mature," the report states.

The DIA further noted China is planning to continue upgrades to "all three legs of its nuclear triad," including upgrades to existing weapons systems.

"This force is intended to ensure China can inflict unacceptable damage with both proportionate and overwhelming retaliatory capabilities, thus denying an adversary victory if a conflict escalates to the nuclear domain," the report states.