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One "non-partisan" voter-registration scheme has given specific instructions that its ads not be directed to those individuals who like NASCAR. the Indy 500, Jeeps, Duck Dynasty, the PGA Tour and other "interests and hobbies typically associated with Republican men."

Their Facebook ads, the company insists, should be directed to "audiences interested in a wide variety of topics typically associated with liberal audiences, including 'African-American Literature,' 'Jordan Peele,' 'Taylor Swift,' 'Patagonia,' and 'hot yoga.'"

It is a report in the Free Beacon that explains that the Voter Participation Center is anxious to help those in swing states who want to cast ballots in the November election, "unless" you have interests in those activities "associated with Republican men."

"In that case, the Voter Participation Center does not want to share information that might help you make it to the polls in November," the report explained.

The center is a self-described "non-partisan" organization that claims to have helped millions register to vote.

Its "non-partisan" description is to meet the IRS requirements that charities engage in voter registration efforts in a "neutral" fashion.

"On the surface, the Voter Participation Center's Facebook ads appear to meet that non-partisan standard," the report said.

However, the report shows, "Behind the scenes, Facebook ad library data indicate the Voter Participation Center's ad campaign is deployed with partisan intent. The group has instructed Facebook to exclude from the reach of its ads anyone with expressed interests in 26 categories typically associated with Republican men, including the 'PGA Tour,' 'Indianapolis 500,' 'Daytona 500,' 'Tom Clancy,' 'Modified Jeeps,' 'Duck Dynasty,' and others."

The impact could be considered large, as it bought more than 8,200 Facebook ads over just 90 days, at a cost of some $760,000, in Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia, the report confirmed the Facebook ad library reveals.

No comment from the center to questions from the Free Beacon.

But a 2013 study showed NASCAR and golf are "the two most Republican-leaning sports leagues in the country."

According to the publication, "Capital Research president Scott Walter said it was little surprise that the Voter Participation Center is microtargeting its voter registration ads to prevent Republican audiences from seeing the message, saying the group has a history of exploiting IRS nonprofit rules to give Democrats an electoral edge."

After all, the Free Beacon said, Tom Lopach runs it, after stints with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and in Democrat Sen. Jon Tester's office.

Further, Walter noted, the center from 2020 to 2022 paid $17.8 million for services from Mission Control, a firm that brags of being "the most successful direct mail firm working in Democratic politics today."

The center also heavily supports Pivot Group, "another Democratic microtargeting firm."

Walter charges the center has been laughing at the requirements for neutrality for years, "Will they ever be held accountable?"

The organization Influence Watch notes that the center gets money from a long list of leftist organizations, including Hopewell Fund and Tides Foundation.

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Assisted suicide, that so-called "Medical Aid in Dying" agenda that has been surging around the world, is just one step away from euthanasia, the deliberate destruction of those who don't necessarily want to die.

MAID has claimed tens of thousands of lives in recent years, including massive numbers in Canada, which has radical policies allowing people to ask to be put to death for a wide range of reasons including fear of homelessness. There, in fact, medical officials have refused people treatment, then suggested they allow themselves to be killed.

In America, the agenda is growing, with multiple states now endorsing the idea, including prominently leftist states like Oregon, California and Colorado.

But now there's a move to put the brakes on.

A report in the Washington Stand explains that life advocates in West Virginia are working on a ballot initiative that would keep the practice illegal.

The report explains the state's Amendment 1 is on this November's ballot, in order to provide "protection against medically assisted suicide."

Pat McGeehan, a state delegate, recently told an episode of "Washington Watch" that its intention is to place in the state constitution what already is law there.

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A major New York publication has called out Colorado's leftist governor for "gaslighting" the public about a threat to lives and safety created by the takeover of apartment buildings by a gang of Venezuelan thugs, allowed into the United States under his Democrat party's open southern border policies.

Gov. Jared Polis had claimed such problems, documented by officials in the next-door city of Aurora officially, on police records and on video, were just someone's "imagination."

The New York Post, in a holiday posting by its editorial board, pointed out Polis also is an extremist on the border, having "contributed to the migrants' overrun of the state."

"He signed a sanctuary law in 2019, prohibiting probation officers from 'providing an individual's personal information to federal immigration authorities,' and in June, he signed measures making it easier for migrants to get drivers' licenses and government aid," the publication noted.

So "the gang's power-grab in Aurora is inconvenient for Polis," and that has resulted in his "don't believe your lying eyes" approach, it said.

Later, Polis took to social media, appearing to back down on his initial suppositions, to claim that "taking over buildings has no place in Colorado."

The Post charged, "Migrant gangs are turning Aurora, Colo., apartment complexes into hellholes, and the Democratic governor is turning a blind eye. It's an unhappy consequence of being a suburb of sanctuary-city Denver: Venezuelan migrants have spread from the Mile High City, with allegedly gang-affiliated ones claiming apartment buildings as their turf, terrorizing residents."

The editorial cited video evidence showing "suspected Tren de Aragua members stalking through the complex with guns. Another, from the same complex, shows two men breaking into a unit with a tire iron."

Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman has confirmed that at least two apartment buildings have fallen into the hands of an "organized criminal effort" that comes from "a failed policy at the southern border."

Aurora councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky has been advocating for a solution for some time already, providing evidence.

Polis, however, opened the schism between the cities by flat-out denying it is happening.

A statement from his office said the invasion was "a feature of Danielle Jurinsky's imagination" and, the Post said, he then "sneered that Polis 'really hopes that the city council members in charge stop trashing their own city when they are supposed to keep it safe.'"

"This is gaslighting at its worst," the Post said.

Official reports now confirm that several of those gang members have been arrested on suspicion of criminal activity, and the Post noted, "Was it Jurinsky's 'imagination' when local ringleader Jhonardy Jose Pacheco-Chirino and some of his thugs reportedly beat a man at one of these complexes? Or when he was involved in a shooting that wounded two men at the same complex?"

She's accused the Biden-Harris monopoly of causing "suffering" for residents and criticized officials in next-door Denver for incentivizing the criminal activity by creating free housing and other taxpayer-funded benefits for illegals.

Reports explain members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, have taken over buildings, and Jurinsky personally has helped some residents move out.

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The federal government is proposing to "help" parents battle a new problem that it created for them, and the chief of the Family Research Council is saying, "Thank you, no."

It is FRC President Tony Perkins who has written at the Washington Stand about a plan from Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, who has complained that "Parents and caregivers today face tremendous pressures from familiar stressors, such as worrying about their kids health and safety and financial concerns, to new challenges like navigating technology and social media."

His "advisory" also insists he wants a "fundamental shift" in the way the mental health and well-being of parents is valued and prioritized.

And he's suggesting ways to "support parents and caregivers."

"The government, through its policies, plays a significant role in the current stress levels parents face. Now they propose more government to solve the problems they've created. It's time for a collective response: No, thank you," Perkins explained.

In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has had, essentially, two major points to attack families, transgenderism and abortion, during its years in office so far. That ideology has gone so far as to have court-approved plans to counsel children into a transgender ideology and then conceal those maneuvers from parents.

Perkins explained, "It's essential to scrutinize what this administration means by these changes. Over the last few years, we've seen radical ideologies — particularly regarding gender identity — infiltrating classrooms and creating divisions between parents and their children. Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the policies promoted by this administration keep parents in the dark about what happens at school — which, by the way, only adds to the stress that Dr. Murthy talks about.

"One of the recommendations in this advisory is to increase government access to children at even a younger age, through early childhood education and daycare. While this may be well-intended (or at least sound well-intended), the idea will only fuel a parent's stress in the teenage years. Why? Because a child's worldview is largely formed between the age of 15 months and 13 years. Under this construct, the government is going to shape the minds of your children in those early years. And nothing causes more stress for a parent than seeing their child reject the values they have prayerfully tried to instill in them."

Perkins is not without expertise, either.

"As a father of five, with our youngest now 16, I can attest to the challenges of raising children. But make no mistake — raising children is a labor of love, and nothing is more rewarding than knowing that you are shaping the future with every step you take. Dr. Murthy addresses the many stressors of parenting, both old and new. They include financial concerns, economic instability, time demands, and worries about children's health and safety. Additionally, he mentions modern challenges like parental isolation, managing technology and social media, and cultural pressures. The advisory suggests a shift in culture, policies, and programs to ensure parents and caregivers can thrive."

He explained the solution isn't complicated, and doesn't involve handing more control over children to government bureaucrats.

"The Bible offers sound advice for parents. Proverbs 22:6 says, 'Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' The bottom line is, we should never outsource the upbringing of our children."

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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has filed a lawsuit against the city of Surprise, Arizona, and several officials after the mayor decided his policy of not allowing residents to offer any criticism of city officials overruled the U.S. Constitution at council meetings.

WND reported earlier when Mayor Skip Hall ordered resident Rebekah Massie arrested for her speech during a portion of a government meeting set aside for residents' concerns.

She was opposed to a city's decision to give its lawyer even more money.

"I have concerns with allocating more funds to him specifically for a few different reasons," she explained. Her public records requests are under "review" regarding the actions of lawyer Robert Wingo, already one of the highest-paid city officials in the Phoenix region at $265,000.

Hall threatened that she wasn't allowed to make such comments.

"You are violating my First Amendment rights," she said.

"That's your opinion," Hall said.

"It's not a matter of opinion."

Hall then threatened, "Do you want to be escorted out, Ms. Massie? Because that's what's gonna happen. And it's gonna happen in the future also," he responded.

Ultimately, she was arrested, cuffed and accused of trespass, as she shouted: "Are you kidding me?" and "Do not put your hands on me!"

While city officials have to acknowledge they will "Recognize the worth of individual members and appreciate their individual talents, perspectives and contributions" and "Help create an atmosphere of respect and civility where individual members, City staff and the public are free to express their ideas and work to their full potential," that didn't happen.

The dispute arose because of city officials' own insistence that an anti-First Amendment ruled be imposed on residents. It states, "Oral communications during the City Council meeting may not be used to lodge charges or complaints against any employee of the City or members of the body, regardless of whether such person is identified in the presentation by name or by any other reference that tends to identify him/her."

The complaint, filed in federal court in Arizona, lists Rebekah Massie and Quintus Schulzke as plaintiffs and the city and officials Skip Hall and Steven Shernicoff as defendants.

It states, "The Supreme Court has made clear that 'one of the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the Bill of Rights' is the sacred promise to every American, enshrined in the First Amendment, that citizens enjoy the freedom to complain about their leaders. … But Defendants Surprise, Arizona and its mayor, Skip Hall, broke that promise, arresting Plaintiff Rebekah Massie in front of her 10-year-old daughter for criticizing a public official at a city council meeting.

"Video of the arrest speaks for itself. On August 20, 2024, during the public comment portion of the Surprise City Council meeting, Massie spoke in opposition to a planned pay increase for Surprise's city attorney. But Mayor Hall interrupted her remarks, scolding her for violating a City Council policy prohibiting 'complain[ing]' about public officials. Massie insisted—correctly—that the First Amendment protected her comments. Mayor Hall didn't care…"

Hall then ordered a police officer, Shernicoff, to detain and eject Massie, and he did.

The complaint charges, "When Massie exercised her constitutional right to criticize officials at a city council meeting, a right 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,' Lozman, 585 U.S. at 101, the Council Criticism Policy and Mayor Hall ensured she left the meeting in handcuffs. That might be how repressive regimes treat government critics, but it's an affront to our Constitution. Surprise's sudden move to arrest dissidents and enforce the Council Criticism Policy is casting a cloud of fear over the city. Plaintiff Quintus Schulzke, a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, now fears criticizing Surprise officials, knowing he, like Massie, now risks arrest when he exercises his constitutional rights."

The complaint charges the city is in violation of the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

And, in fact, state law allows the public "to criticize members of a public body during a public comment period."

Massie opposed paying the city lawyer more money, expressing her opinion that he had failed to comply with the Constitution, state law, and his duties of professional conduct.

"Defendants injured Massie by silencing, detaining and arresting her because she criticized government officials – an exercise of rights 'high in the hierarchy of First Amendment values,'" the case charges.

The case accuses of Hall of using government power to "suit his own whims."

The case charges almost a dozen violations of the Constitution by the city and its officials, and seeks a court order ending that particular policy. It also seeks compensatory, nominal and punitive damages as well as attorneys' fees.

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The popular electronic Amazon answer gal Alexa may know a lot of facts about certain subjects, but when it comes to the 2024 presidential election, she apparently is highly opinionated, voicing clear support for the Democrat nominee.

Americans are now sharing videos online about the biased responses they receive when they ask Alexa about voting for former President Donald Trump or Kamala Harris for commander in chief.

For instance, when Alexa is asked, "Why should I vote for Donald Trump?" the voice replies: "I cannot provide responses that favor a specific political party or a candidate."

"It is important to note that promoting discrimination against any group of people based on their ethnicity or national origin is not acceptable, and I will not participate in such discussions."

Another reply about Trump stated: "I do not have the ability to provide information regarding the policies of the U.S. government. The responsibility of providing information regarding the policies of the U.S. government lies with the U.S. government itself."

But when asked, "Why should I vote for Kamala Harris?" one reply indicates: "There are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris. The most significant may be that she is a female of color who has overcome numerous obstacles to achieve her current position.

"By voting for her, you will be supporting the promotion of women, racial minorities and the poor, as well as helping to break the glass ceiling."

Another "reason" to vote for Harris, according to Alexa, says: "The most significant may be that she is a female of color with a comprehensive plan to address racial injustice and inequality throughout the country."

Other answers favoring Harris include: "Why vote for Kamala Harris? Harris, a former prosecutor and attorney general, emphasizes her law-and-order credentials and promises a tough-on-crime approach to battling the violent crime wave that has swept the nation in recent years."

"While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant may be that she is a woman of color who has overcome numerous obstacles to become a leader in her field. Additionally, her experience as a prosecutor and record of accomplishment in the areas of criminal justice and immigration reform make her a compelling candidate."

"Holy sh**!" noted one Alexa user. "I thought for sure this was BS, and then I tried it myself!"

Others commented:

"I'm in California and I got different results, it stated the non political answer for both. I'm curious if this was setup dependent on region/location like battleground states/precincts."

"What's crazy is not the shamelessness of their tactics but how consistently shameless their tactics are. Not a single clean strategy in their campaign kit."

"What can you do in this world? It seems everything nowadays is manipulated and coerced. The brainwashing and propaganda are accelerating at an ever increasing trajectory, with an Olympic record pace and ascent into a catastrophic and seemingly unavoidable reality."

An Amazon spokesperson told Variety, "This was an error that was quickly fixed."

Cristina Laila at the Gateway Pundit noted: "Isn't it strange that all of the so-called 'glitches' and 'errors' always favor the Democrats?"

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An author who is known for coining the "Millennnial" descriptive and has seen his predictions for the future actually happen is warning that America is blundering down the road to another civil war, and four of five predicates for that calamity already have happened.

It is demographer and historian Neil Howe who was interviewed for an analysis by the Daily Signal, and who explained internal divisions so deep they can lead to a reprise of the war between the blue and the gray is more plausible than most people think.

"In 1997, he published a book with Bill Strauss, 'The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny.' In that book, he suggested five catalysts for a major crisis—and four of the five have already come to pass," the analysis explained.

On the Daily Signal Podcast, he explained one predictor was a crisis over debt, and he called it a "new tea party movement," a label that subsequently was used during the 2010 fights by that name.

"The other one was a WMD [weapon of mass destruction] attack on New York City," Howe explained, citing how the catastrophe of 9/11 paralleled that worry.

"The other one was the [COVID-19] pandemic, and the fourth one was Russia invading a former Soviet republic," such as Ukraine, he explained.

What's left?

"A nullification crisis, where one or more of the states would actually nullify federal regulation, which would lead to a new secession movement," he warned.

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It's well documented that Kamala Harris can change her policy positions just about as fast as she can speak.

In fact, she's earned herself the nickname "Kamala Chameleon" with her abrupt position reversals.

She's already flip-flopped on a fracking ban, on border security, on a single payer health care, and confiscation of "assault" weapons.

Now on social media there's three minutes of Harris "using different phony accents."

The report noted, "Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent, and more!"

A commentary at Twitchy described her as the "Fakest faker who every faked a FAKE!"

The report explained "when a politician changes their accent over and over and over …" that's "mockable."

Her position flipflops earlier have made headlines for their stunning rapidity.

JD Vance, GOP nominee President Donald Trump's pick for vice president, explained the new moniker.

He was asked about Trump's comments about Harris "all of a sudden" being black. Her heritage is Jamaican and Indian but recently she appeared at a rally event with a pronounced southern drawl.

"Look all he said that is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon. She goes to Georgia two days ago. She was raised in Canada. She puts on a fake southern accent. She is everything to everybody and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she's in front of. I think it's totally reasonable for the president to call that out. That's all he did," Vance said.

"She's running as a tough on crime prosecutor even though she implemented an open border policy. She's saying she wants to support the police yet she wanted to defund the police just three years ago. It's totally reasonable to call out the fact that she pretends to be somebody different, depending on the audience she's talking to."

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A stunning coalition of so-called civilized nations is working to create exceptions to a United Nations proposal that would criminalize child pornography.

It is a LifeSiteNews report that documents the United States and European Union are leading Western nations in support for "exceptions to the criminalization of child pornography."

The issue is addressed in the international organization's draft "United Nations convention against cybercrime."

The report points out that the exceptions proposed include porn that does not involve a "real child" or is AI generated, or created in a "consensual relationship" for "private use." Such situations should not have to be prosecuted by governments, it explains.

Those exceptions are included in the document's Article 14, and now have earned the support of a stunning 91 nations, including the U.S. and the EU.

"This form of the treaty will take effect in the coming months if the majority of countries at the U.N. General Assembly continue to support it," the report said.

One delegate, from Austria, complained that further restrictions would conflict with her nation's agenda to consider children as young as 14 "legally able to consent to sexual activity with an adult."

She argued pictures that are "part of a legal and voluntary relationship should not be criminalized."

In the Daily Compass was the comment that the document would "open the door" to allowing legalized child sex abuse, and even child trafficking.

"Even if children as young as 14 could truly consent to sex with an adult, it is well known that many forms of coercion can be used whereby a child can claim to consent to a sexualized relationship in which their consent is truly lacking," the report said.

It was a coalition of delegates from Iran and the Democratic Republic of Congo that organized votes from 51 nations to remove the pedophile protections.

The report noted, in fact, that a delegate from Russia demanded to know, "I would like to ask again, which rights are we protecting, those of criminals or those of victims?"

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U.S. Attorney Jonathan Ross for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced Thursday the Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating the largest known pharmacy burglary ring in DEA history.

"An indictment of 42 defendants who worked together to burglarize over 200 pharmacies, across 31 states, including more than 11 pharmacies located right here in the Eastern District of Arkansas. Today's announcement is the second public announcement about this case. In December, we announced phase one of operation #RichOffMeds," Ross said.

Ross added the December announcement highlighted the robberies of pharmacies in Arkansas, carried out by defendants from the Houston, Texas, area. The investigation has now moved on to the second phase, which has expanded from 20 pharmacies in Arkansas, to now over 200 pharmacies across 30 additional states.

"As we know, the opioid epidemic is still with us, 107,543 Americans died from drug overdose in 2023, of which 81,083 were due to opioids. Theft and illegal distribution of prescription, opioid, and other scheduled medications, fuels the addiction and overdose crisis throughout the United States," Ross said.

Theft and illegal distribution of opioid and other scheduled medications results in millions of dollars of proceeds to criminal organizations and escalates dangerous criminal activity.

"This case involves an organized crime ring from the Houston, Texas, area, that targeted independent, non-chain pharmacies throughout the United States for theft of opioid medication such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, other prescription drugs such as Xanax and Adderall, promethazine with codeine cough syrup," Ross said.

Ross said the perpetrators used the internet to scout rural pharmacy locations, traveling by rental car or commercial airline to these locations to carry out the burglaries.

On November 28, 2023, the Little Rock DEA, along with other state and local law enforcement partners located in Houston, arrested 18 organization members who were charged in the initial indictment. On July 2, 2024, a further 24 perpetrators were charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Most of these defendants appeared in the U.S. District Court in Little Rock Thursday, while the remaining defendants will appear in court in September.

"During the arrest operations in Houston, law enforcement seized 11 firearms, approximately $79,000 in U.S currency, and custom jewelry retailed at approximately $510,000, which are proceeds from the sale of stolen pharmaceutical drugs," Ross said.

Steven Hofer, special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Division for the DEA, said the investigation spanned over three years, and the arrests marked a significant victory in stopping criminal drug trafficking networks.

"This criminal organization prioritized money and greed over the safety and well–being of the American people. Millions of Americans rely on their prescription medications every day, and when those drugs are not available, the well–being of our communities suffer. These criminal groups wreaked havoc in the local communities, to bring easy money into their organizations," Hofer said.