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The sacking of Rome in A.D. 410, the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, Pearl Harbor in 1941, the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of 9/11, and the October 7 raid by Hamas into Israel in 2023, all share a common element – victims were lulled into a false sense of security by aggressors. Historically, it was when the victims – believing a danger to be non-existent – failed to see what was developing, that the aggressors methodically implemented their sinister plans.

Nowhere among America's institutions has more success been achieved in implementing just such a sinister plan than in the education of our children. While we have been concentrating on outside dangers, we have taken our eyes off the danger within. It is one represented by a national school system that brainwashes our children to hate all for which America stands.

An African proverb states, "It takes a village to raise a child." The proverb conveys the message that it requires many people working together "to provide a safe, healthy environment for children, where children are given the security they need to develop and flourish, and to realize their hopes and dreams." In America, that means not only preparing students to contribute to society by providing them with the mental tools to do so but also by providing them with the proper foundation to understand and respect the values that have made our country great.

What we have lost sight of is that these values are not being taught in many of our school systems. Instead, children are being taught an ideology, permitted by irresponsible school boards and embraced by naive teachers, totally anathema to our capitalistic system. Yet whether taught as socialism, communism, or Marxism, it is being placed upon an ideological pedestal by which young people are promised all-inclusive equality. Public rather than private ownership of the multitude of ways for making money may sound good to these young minds, but such education ignores the historical perspective of such ideologies having failed miserably.

While many "villagers" are guilty of ideologically misguiding our students in this manner, one billionaire, Elon Musk, claims that another billionaire "wants to erode the fabric of civilization" as he basically "hates humanity." This civilization fabric eroder is the Hungarian-born and radical leftist billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Musk warns that "Parents don't realize the Soviet level of indoctrination that children are receiving," with such indoctrination allegedly funded by philanthropists like Soros. It is such funding that ultimately and negatively influences school board members to adopt a capitalism-unfriendly agenda.

Ryan Girdusky is one person who has closely monitored the evolution of this process within the national school system and is doing something about it. He is the founder of the 1776 Project PAC. The mission of his PAC – the first of its kind built from the ground up – is to take the fight locally in getting conservatives elected to school boards. So positioned, such conservative members can then lead the fight to purge school curricula of their Marxist-oriented classes such as Critical Race Theory.

The 1776 Project PAC has attracted several conservative supporters, including Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham. Shapiro notes, to its credit, that the PAC has already successfully shifted over 100 school board races to conservatives in just the past year.

Unlike Pearl Harbor and 9/11, which provided us with no warning, Girdusky is sounding the alarm about our school systems. We would do well to heed what he has to say before it is too late to recover from the damage already done.

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A leading data expert has issued a "bone-chilling" warning after reviewing the numbers and causes of death across America since the COVID-19 pandemic and the mRNA shots – now proven to have many and dangerous side effects – hit Americans.

A report at Slay News explains it is John Beaudoin, a renowned statistician, who found an explosive surge in deaths from fatal kidney conditions following the advent of mRNA treatments.

The report said, "Beaudoin calculated that there have been 155,000 excess deaths caused by acute kidney injury (AKI) since late 2020 in the United States alone."

He looked at government numbers for a variety of factors, including state reports on excess deaths.

"As Beaudoin explains in a new interview, excess death is the figure above the expected baseline, not the total, meaning an extra 155k Americans died from AKI," the report said.

While the death toll had been documented to have had no significant changes for years, suddenly they surged, 200% above normal, for 2021. And they were up 300% in 2022.

Then, in 2023, they continued to surge "alarmingly."

Beaudoin explained, in the report, his "investigations prove that only COVID mRNA shots, and possibly COVID-19 hospital protocols, could be responsible for the staggering excess deaths from kidney failure," the report said.

"There are more life years lost to acute renal failure alone than COVID, than polio, than smallpox … than anything in the past 100 years in the United States, except for World War II," he said.

The report noted fellow data expert Ed Dowd confirmed the trend.

"Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) database, Dowd estimates 153K excess deaths nationwide from acute kidney injury alone over the last few years."

Previous studies have suggested deaths "from all causes" actually are up significantly among those who were given the mRNA treatment.

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday an arrest was made after an American soldier was found to be in the possession of thousands of child pornography images he generated using artificial intelligence.

Seth Herrera, a U.S. Army soldier stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, was arrested and charged with allegedly transporting and possessing child sexual abuse images. Herrera had also used AI to generate child pornography images using pictures of children he knew.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said the DOJ will be prosecuting AI-enabled criminal activity and will seek increased penalties if warranted.

"The misuse of cutting-edge generative AI is accelerating the proliferation of dangerous content, including child sexual abuse material – so the Department of Justice is accelerating its enforcement efforts. As alleged, the defendant used AI tools to morph images of real kids into horrific child sexual abuse material. Criminals considering the use of AI to perpetuate their crimes should stop and think twice – because the Department of Justice is prosecuting AI-enabled criminal conduct to the fullest extent of the law and will seek increased sentences wherever warranted," Monaco said.

Herrera has been charged with one count of transportation of child pornography, once count of receipt of child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, and will be appearing in court Tuesday. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison if convicted.

U.S. Attorney S. Lane Tucker for the District of Alaska, said AI-generated sexual abuse images are still child pornography, and perpetrators will be held accountable.

"Technology may change, but our commitment to protecting children will not. We will aggressively pursue those who produce and traffic in child sexual abuse material (CSAM), no matter how that material was created. Put simply, CSAM generated by AI is still CSAM, and those who sexually exploit children, through whatever technological means, will be held accountable by our office in conjunction with our law enforcement partners, for justice and the safety of our children," Tucker said.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said the arrest of Herrera should serve as a warning to criminals who engage in these types of acts.

"As alleged, Seth Herrera possessed thousands of images depicting the violent sexual abuse of children, including infants. He also allegedly used AI to create images depicting the sexual exploitation of children he knew. Today's announcement should serve as yet another warning that the Criminal Division will aggressively pursue those who possess or produce child sexual abuse material, including where the images were generated through AI," Argentieri said.

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A redacted portion of a federal report on the problems that developed when some protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, got violent, trespassing and vandalizing, reveals that then-Vice President Mike Pence's limo driver left the area and his security detail members weren't aware of where he'd gone.

A report from Just the News explains there were multiple incidents that gave the Secret Service "clear warning signs it was slipping on its zero-failure mission" long before its actions allowed a failed would-be assassin to take sniper shots at President Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally July 13.

The report cited as among the many failures the simplest of issues: failures in radio communications.

"Delays in radio communications were cited as a reason the Secret Service driver of Pence's vehicle left the Capitol for nearby loading docks without the detail guarding Pence immediately knowing the vehicle had departed or where he went, redacted portions of the reported stated," according to Just the News.

"Another passage revealed that the transportation agent moved the motorcade without explicit permission from the detail leader because of delays in communication and a rapidly developing situation in front of the Capitol. As the motorcade began relocating, protesters stormed through the plaza, breaching the barricades at 1:59 p.m. The transportation agent said some protesters moved toward the motorcade and attempted to block some of the vehicles, the unredacted report said."

There apparently had been no plans considered for any such development.

The details were in an "after-action report" regarding the Jan. 6 events, when protesters who had concerns about the legitimacy of the 2020 vote count protested the installation of Joe Biden as president. The facts, confirmed later, showed that there were at least two major vote-influence schemes in play during that vote: Mark Zuckerberg's handouts of $400 million plus to local election officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts, and the interference by the FBI which falsely claimed the Biden family scandals detailed in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were Russian disinformation, when agents knew otherwise.

Just the News said it got a copy of a recently released Homeland Security inspector general report that detailed how Pence's escape vehicle left its post without permission and "left him stranded at an increasingly violent scene."

Also, it revealed Secret Service agents couldn't contact each other because radios and cell phones dropped signals.

It even documented how a "required explosives detection team wasn't deployed when Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris was mistakenly whisked past a live pipe bomb just before the Capitol riot started."

And it confirmed that even though the Secret Service had been warned of the possibility of "unrest," the agency didn't change its security plans, leaving a five-person detail inside the Capitol.

Just the News noted that the evidence shows, "Despite a full-scale two-year House Democrat probe into Jan. 6 many revelations about security and intelligence failures remain unresolved."

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A video of Secret Service officers bullying Americans to get out of the way so Jill Biden can go shopping is prompting a new episode of speculation about her desire for power.

The situation developed as Joe and Jill Biden took yet another vacation, this a taxpayer-funded weeklong break in Santa Ynez, California.

Jill Biden and other family members apparently decided to visit nearby Los Olivos.

The Gateway Pundit documented, "Secret Service agents violently pushed peasants out of the way so Jill Biden could go on a shopping spree on Friday afternoon. Jill Biden made a 'surprise visit' in Los Olivos and bystanders with cameras were roughly cleared out."

One security detail member screamed, "Out of the roadway! Move now! Go!" at the public, while violently pushing a woman.

A local report explained Jill Biden was out for "a little shopping" accompanied by Hunter Biden and family.

The report explained, "Jill Biden and the rest of the Biden parasites spent just 30 minutes in Los Olivos. They disrupted the small town and spent taxpayer money on nearly a dozen Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers so Queen Jill could go on a shopping spree."

It continued, "This is why Jill Biden covered up her husband's dementia. She is a power-hungry elitist who loves watching peasants get manhandled so she can stroll and shop on taxpayer dime."

The RedState page explained, "Get out of the way, plebes! Watch as the Secret Service—whose reputation has deservedly taken a nosedive this summer—shoves regular Americans aside so Jill can go purchase another dress that looks like an ugly carpet."

The report pointed out, "Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, July 21. Since then, he has gone on two vacations and has spent every weekend either at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, or the presidential retreat at Camp David, according to White House pool reports dating back to July 21."

It was investigative columnist Miranda Devine who pointed out the multitude of vacations of the Bidens, asking, "Do none of them have a job?"

In fact, a congressional report explained that in recent years, the Biden family has collected some $27 million in Joe Biden's influence peddling operations, and the presidential vacations are funded by taxpayers anyway.

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Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook's parent company Meta, has delivered a letter to Congress stunningly confessing to censoring Americans on the orders of the Joe Biden administration – and in an effort to help him politically.

It's the second major election influence scheme Zuckerberg now is known to have pursued during that time period.

The newest confession came in a letter to Congress in which he stated, "Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor COVID-19 content, including humor & satire. … I believe the government pressure was wrong & I regret we were not more outspoken about it."

He also admitted downgrading information about the scandals uncovered in Hunter Biden's laptop, which he abandoned at a repair shop and which ultimately revealed the details of a number of family issues that have shocked Americans.

It was that laptop that dozens of former intel industry officials falsely claimed was Russian disinformation in another election influence operation when the FBI already knew it was factual.

Zuckerberg's earlier scandal was his delivery of $400 million plus, through foundations, to various local elections officials who largely used it to recruit leftist voters in leftist districts who would vote for Joe Biden.

The Daily Mail characterized Zuckerberg as admitting the censoring and then pointed out he "whines" about "pressure" from the White House.

He claimed his company would resist such pressure in the future.

The letter was to House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan.

Zuckerberg wrote, "We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today."

He claimed to have told staff at the time he was against changing the content of the site because of pressure from "any administration."

In the letter, he also claimed that his cash handouts were intended to be nonpartisan. He confirmed that "some people believe this work benefited one party over the other."

A White House statement justified Biden's pressure on Zuckerberg.

"When confronted with a deadly pandemic, this Administration encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. Our position has been clear and consistent: we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effects their actions have on the American people, while making independent choices about the information they present."

The administration largely targeted what it called misinformation, disinformation and malinformation regarding COVID countermeasures, even though much of that banned information was accurate, and in fact revealed alternatives to the government-endorsed program that now has proven to have injured many people.

The Daily Mail confirmed, "He and his wife Priscilla Chan gave nearly $420 million to nonprofits that aided in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election , and heavily favored Democrat counties."

That money was used to fund "local governments to implement administrative practices, voting methods, data-sharing agreements, and outreach programs for the 2020 elections."

"Analysis shows Biden-winning counties were three times more likely to get funding from the organizations than Trump ones, and the Democrats were reportedly given a significant boost in key swing states through promotion of practices that have typically favored their vote tally, such as mail-in voting," the report confirmed.

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Gov. Tim Walz's ban on faithful Christians from teaching in Minnesota's public is set to hit the state's schools in just months.

It also bans adherent Jews and Muslims.

And a report at the Federalist warns that he is "poised to make similar bigoted, totalitarian and unconstitutional policies" for the entire nation, "should he be elected vice president."

The report from the publication's executive editor, Joy Pullmann, explains the state has new teacher licensing rules that will take effect in July 2025, and they will "ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools."

It's because under the plans of the leftist governor, the state will demand that teacher license applicants "affirm transgenderism and race Marxism."

No license? No job for anyone to teach in the state's public schools. Or private schools if they require that certification.

Specifically, the rules will demand: "The teacher fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves."

Administrative law judges already have approved the anti-faith ideologies.

The report pointed out that universities also are impacted because they must now provide the anti-Christian training.

The state already was demanding that teachers, renewing licenses, demonstrate "cultural competency," which includes evidence of "self-reflection and discussion" of the state's new ideologies.

Doug Seaton, of the Upper Midwest Law Center, said some "Christian" universities will obey, and others will not, but will disobey "quietly," to sue only when they are punished.

The report pointed out, "Faithful members of the world's largest and oldest religions cannot in good conscience 'affirm' non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities. Christians who do so publicly deny their faith, something Jesus Christ said endangers a person's soul and eternal bliss after death: 'Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven' (Matthew 10:32, 33)."

The state action actually is called "compelled speech," the report noted, which "is clearly unconstitutional."

Seaton said, "They're essentially requiring people to affirm these ideas that they don't really believe, in many cases, as a condition of being a public school teacher or being part of a program to be a licensed public school teacher. You can't force that kind of speech, you can't require adherence to ideas that aren't believed."

The Federalist report noted an investigation by the Wall Street Journal found that "ethnic studies" demands in Minnesota "mirror" the demands for affirming sexual deviations.

For example, the report said, "Fourth-graders must 'identify the processes and impacts of colonization and examine how discrimination and the oppression of various racial and ethnic groups have produced resistance movements.' High-school students are told to 'develop an analysis of racial capitalism' and 'anti-blackness' and are taught to view themselves as members of 'racialized hierarchies' based on 'dominant European beauty standards.'"

A Child Protection League analysis notes the state demands teachers "understand" that teaching is shaped by race and ethnicity, to the detriment of some "races," and that those include indigenous people, blacks, "Latinx Americans" and others.

A state lawmaker earlier condemned the "horrific chaos" Walz has brought to schools by demanding that districts "report student discipline by race and require equal outcomes."

The results could be predicted: the student achievement in the state is plummeting.

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The People's Republic of China is on the verge of starting a war with its neighbors, and by extension the U.S., as it increases its aggression in a series of situations, close calls, over the past week.

The U.S. Naval Institute reported Monday that China violated Japanese airspace after it flew a Y-9 electronic intelligence aircraft over the Danjo Islands in the East China Sea, which is part of Japan's territorial waters.

Japanese officials stated in response to the violation, Self-Defense Forces launched two fighter jets from its Western Air Command, and issued notices and warnings, and further released a protest against the airspace violation.

Japan's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Masataka Okano, summoned the Chinese ambassador to the Foreign Affairs of Japan, strongly urging the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prevent any further recurrences.

According to Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies' 2024 China Security Report, China viewed the U.S. as a threat to its Chinese Communist Party after the Cold War, however, China avoided confrontation and instead worked on promoting cooperation between the two nations.

Since the early 2000s, the report states, China has had an about-face after it began to perceive the U.S. and other Western nations as declining in power. From that point, China has tried to reform the international order, positioning China to take power without threatening its one–party government.

Under the leadership of President Xi Jingpin, China "is physically obstructing U.S. military operations and conducting more joint exercises and coordinated activities with Russian forces in China's periphery," the report states.

The report adds China is working on its nuclear capabilities to increase China's part in international discussions, as well as deter the U.S. from interfering in China's "core interests."

Growing tensions between China and the Philippines reached a boiling point last week, when Chinese vessels intentionally rammed Philippine Coast Guard ships in the disputed South China Sea.

Then on Sunday, China and the Philippines were again at odds when the Chinese Coast Guard attacked a Philippine fisheries bureau vessel as it restocked food, diesel, and medical supplies to fishermen in the Spratly Islands.

The Spratly Islands is made up of over 100 islands, and is a rich fishing ground, with oil and gas deposits. As a result, China has claimed the area as its own, despite the islands falling within the Philippines economic exclusion zone.

Colin Koh is a maritime security expert at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, and posted on X on Monday the Chinese were using bullying tactics to force the Philippines to abandon its presence in the Spratly Islands.

Gordon Chang, an American lawyer, political commentator and author, said during an interview on Fox News' Mornings with Maria host Cheryl Casone, President Xi looks like he is trying to start a war, and added it is not a coincidence Iran is ramping up tensions along the Israeli border at the same time China engaging in belligerent acts towards its neighbors in the South China Sea.

"What we're seeing is, China using its friends to distract from what it really cares about, which is grabbing Philippine islands and reefs and shoals in the South China Sea, which is consequential. You know, Xi Jinping right now looks like he is trying to start a war, and many people will say 'now we gotta talk to the Chinese,' but the problem is, we've been talking to the Chinese intensively throughout the Biden administration, and things have only gotten worse," Chang said.

Chang stated the U.S. must take a different route when dealing with the Chinese, and instead of talking, the U.S. needs to act.

"In the South China Sea, unfortunately that means we need to flood the zone with the U.S. Navy and Air Force, to show that we will defend our ally the Philippines," Chang said, adding the situation is similar to Poland in 1939 before the Nazis invaded.

A report to Congress about China's modernization of its naval fleet by U.S. Naval Institute staff shows its modernization efforts have been underway for around 30 years, and is conducting a number of operations around the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and the waters around Europe.

It further notes between 2015 and 2020, China's navy surpassed the U.S. Navy in the number of battle force ships. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, China now has the largest navy in the world with a battle force of over 370 platforms which includes submarines, amphibious ships, mine warfare ships, aircraft carriers, and fleet auxiliaries.

China also is targeting self-governed Taiwan, claiming ownership over the island nation, and executing military exercises around it.

In response, a recent report states Taiwan is bolstering its defense capabilities, with its cabinet approving a $8.88 billion budget to build submarines.

China has threatened retaliation against the U.S. for its sanctions over China's involvement with Russia, and the aid it has provided in its war against Ukraine. The Biden administration announced Friday it had added 123 entities, which includes 42 Chinese companies to its export control list.

According to the Tampa Free Press, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of Commerce condemned the actions in a statement.

"China firmly opposes the inclusion of Chinese companies in this list. These U.S. actions represent unilateral sanctions and 'long–arm jurisdiction,' which disrupt international trade, undermine global trade rules, and jeopardize the security and stability of global supply chains," the spokesperson said in the statement.

The statement further added that the U.S. should immediately cease its actions, and warned China is prepared to take steps to protect its rights and the interests of Chinese businesses.

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It is just another day in the Kamala Harris campaign for president, having been handpicked by the Democrat party's elite to replace the aging and mentally failing Joe Biden, and it's another flip-flop.

She's already, in pursuit of remaking herself as acceptable to voters, changed her ideologies on fracking, border security, single-payer health care, the confiscation of "assault" weapons, earning herself the "Kamala chameleon" nickname.

Now, even though she blasted Trump's work to build a wall along the southern border to cut down on illegal aliens entering from Mexico as "waste of taxpayer money," and a "medieval vanity project," it apparently isn't quite that bad.

Actually, hundreds of millions of dollars in materials that President Trump has assembled for border-wall construction were abandoned and have been sitting unused in piles ever since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office.

Harris' "flip-flop" was confirmed at the party's convention, when she said she would sign a bipartisan border security bill that ultimately failed.

A statement from the Trump campaign noted, "As a senator, she tried to block President Trump's construction of the border wall. And as Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall. Maybe if Kamala Harris sat down for an interview she could explain her views on the border wall, until then we can only look to her record of supporting open borders."

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While she and Kamala Harris both were in the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, just before Harris dropped out without ever getting a single vote, now-former Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who represented Hawaii for years, took Harris' record apart.

On stage and in public.

Now Gabbard has endorsed President Donald Trump, who is looking to defeat Democrat candidate Harris and return to the White House.

A New York Post report explains Gabbard "unleashed a blistering attack on the then-California senator's record as top prosecutor in the Golden State."

Gabbard now is helping Trump prepare for a coming debate with Harris.

And during an appearance at the National Guard Convention, endorsed him.

A Trump campaign spokeswoman explained Trump doesn't do a lot of traditional debate prep, but is meeting with people like Gabbard, who "pilloried" Harris at the time.

At that July 2019 event, Gabbard explained, "There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana."

Harris, debating Gabbard and others, also "charged that Gabbard's foreign policy views and criticisms of the Democratic Party establishment made her unfit to seek the party's nomination for president. "

Gabbard shot back, "Our Democratic Party, unfortunately, is not the party that is of, by and for the people," because of the influence of Hillary Clinton and others in the "foreign policy establishment."

Her endorsement is the second from an individual who used to be Democrat in just days. Late last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with a decades-long family link to the Democrat party but running as an independent this year because Democrats worked to kill his campaign, dropped his 2024 candidacy and endorsed Trump.

Fox News quoted Gabbard: "We as Americans must stand together to reject this anti-freedom culture of political retaliation and abuse of power. We can't allow our country to be destroyed by politicians who will put their own power ahead of the interests of the American people, our freedom, and our future."

She continued, "I am proud to stand here before you today, whether you're a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent. If you love our country, as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all that we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people."

She representative Hawaii's 2nd district in Congress from 2013 to 2021, but left the Democrat party in 2022 after calling it an "elitist cabal of warmongers."

Those elitists just recently shoved Joe Biden under the bus and hand-picked Harris as their top-of-the-ticket for the 2024 race.