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The federal food stamp program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, has been victimized by millions, probably hundreds of millions, even billions of dollars in abuse.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said there's already evidence of 185,000 dead people registered to get benefits, and more than 500,000 are getting benefits twice. One person had registered the same Social Security number for benefits in six states
And the solution will involve, at least in part, a new program to have beneficiaries reapply for the program.
That cash handout was what was at risk by the Schumer Shutdown, the Democrats' agenda to shut down the government to force Republicans to reach into taxpayers' pockets for $1.5 trillion for the Democrats' specific agenda points.
That didn't happen, but SNAP resumed operations when the Democrats eventually caved in and allowed the government to reopen.
Now according to a report originally in the Washington Stand, the requirement to reapply is coming.
When Rollins took office, letters were sent to state governments requesting information on the program's use of money. Only 29 states responded, mostly from Republican administrations, but even that confirmed there's "a lot of fraud," Rollins said.
She said the stunning results included hundreds of thousands of recipients who are dead, many more getting paid twice.
"Here's the really stunning thing: This is just data from those 29 mostly-red states. Can you imagine when we get our hands on the blue-state data, what we're going to find?" she said.
She continued, "The president has made this a priority. We will fix this program."
And that includes people reapplying for benefits to "make sure that everyone who's taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps that they literally are vulnerable, and they can't survive without it. That's the next step here."
She said, "I do think what the Democrats did not include in their calculation, in their insane government shutdown, was the fact that this spotlight was going to [shine] upon one of their favorite government welfare programs that, under Joe Biden, increased 40%. All of this money that the federal government, the taxpayers are paying for food stamps, we don't even know where it goes, what happens, what they're doing with it."
In fact, four in five recipients are "able-bodied Americans" who could work.
"They don't have small children at home, they're not taking care of an elderly parent, they can work and they choose not to work, of course, because they're getting significant benefits from the taxpayer. … So this … is perhaps one of the most corrupt, dysfunctional programs in American history that—we are working now… We are cracking down. We now have a plan to fix it."
A researcher for the Heritage Foundation told the Stand there's probably $9 billion in SNAP overpayment errors for just 2024.
"Individuals commit SNAP fraud by: providing false information on their SNAP applications to increase their benefit amount (e.g., claiming they have lower income and/or higher costs than they actually do or claiming more people live in the household than actually do), stealing another person's identity to claim benefits, selling SNAP benefits for cash or other goods, or running up a balance on their SNAP card and then reporting the card stolen so they can receive more benefits," the researcher explained.
Other parts of the resolution may be to have states fund part of the costs, so they have "skin in the game."
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City officials often boast of their climate, their schools, their community life, their economy, even their sports teams.
However, a new survey has been released by WalletHub that probably will not attract a lot of attention from those public relations offices responsible for touting the benefits of their locations.
It's about the nation's most sinful cities.
It is KDVR television in Denver that noted its city ranked No. 6 overall.
No. 1 was "Sin City" Las Vegas, Nevada.
"The study looked at seven areas of focus: anger & hatred, jealousy, excesses & vices, greed, lust, vanity and laziness to determine the ranking using 37 data points including things like violent crime, obesity rates and online searches for illicit behavior," the report said.
Just what a city wants to be known for: "Online searches for illicit behavior."
After No. 1 Las Vegas came Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Following No. 6 Denver were Miami, Dallas, Phoenix and New Orleans.
WalletHub's goal was to be ranking "the darkest corners of America."
Denver exceled at "anger & hatred," which to state residents isn't a surprise based on the state's long-term agenda to attack Christians and Christianity.
The state's history of anti-Christian activism dates back more than a decade already. Phillips, of Masterpiece Cakeshop, has been in the courts for that long for refusing to submit his Christian faith to the progressive LGBT agenda in which state officials believe.
That's despite the state losing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fight.
Same thing happened with the state's demand a web designer give up her Christian faith in order to operate her business. It lost again at the Supreme Court, and taxpayers there were billed millions for state officials to waste in their legal fight.
Right now the Supreme Court is considering whether the allow the state to censor pro-Christian comments by counselors, who are urged to deliver pro-LGBT ideologies to young clients. And the state recently attempted to impose its transgender beliefs on a Christian children's camp.
Most recently, the state was sued for an anti-Christian discrimination in a program purportedly providing preschool to children.
The report said, "Data points in the anger and hatred category include violent crime rates, bullying, hate groups, gun deaths and mass shootings. In the lust category, the study looked at adult entertainment establishments, online searches for 'XXX Entertainment' and 'Tinder' and teen birth rates."
Denver was No. 2 among dozens and dozens of cities evaluated for excesses in drinking and vices.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has revealed that a suspect tried to confront Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, entering her office and destroying property there, before fleeing.
That person now is being sought.
"Last night, an individual attempted to confront one of our U.S. Attorneys — my dear friend
@USAttyHabba — destroyed property in her office, and then fled the scene," Bondi confirmed on social media.
"Thankfully, Alina is ok. Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law enforcement agents around the country."
She continued, "We will find this person, and the individual will be brought to justice. Our federal prosecutors, agents, and law-enforcement partners put their lives on the line every day to protect the American people, and this Department will use every legal tool available to ensure their safety and hold violent offenders fully accountable."
The attack comes amid numerous calls for violence against federal officials and law enforcement officers by leftists fighting President Donald Trump's law-and-order agenda.
There have been open calls for violence, there even have been death threats, against federal prosecutors, federal border enforcement agents and more, even from Democrat and other leftist officials in cities and states.
Habba said, in a statement, "I will not be intimidated by radical lunatics for doing my job."
Habba is responsible for federal criminal prosecutions and civil litigations in New Jersey when the U.S. government has an interest.
There are about 150 federal prosecutors and another 130 support personnel working in her office.
Details about the suspect, and the attack that damaged property, were not released immediately.
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California Pastor Greg Laurie and his Harvest Crusade movement will visit the site of Charlie Kirk's assassination – Utah Valley University – to bring the Gospel message.
According to a report in the Christian Post, the event will draw around 10,000 attendees.
Known as "Hope for America," the event will be held on Nov. 16 at the campus where Kirk was fatally shot Sept. 10 during a Turning Point USA event.
Harvest Crusade originally had planned to host an event in Utah next summer, Laurie told the paper, but after the assassination, he says, "We immediately reached out to the Utah pastors to offer our support. We asked if there was anything we could do. They responded, 'Come sooner. Our community is hurting.'"
Laurie continued: "We responded by committing to a date only six weeks away. That's a first for us at Harvest Crusades! Normally, we plan events at least a year in advance. But there is an urgency, and we believe the message of the Gospel is the answer."
Laurie, who spoke at a TPUSA Faith event in California in August, was on "The Charlie Kirk Show" earlier this week, where he discussed the event.
"I met Charlie several years ago, and also recently spoke at one of Charlie's pastor conferences," Laurie told the Christian Post. "I have long admired Charlie's incredible work reaching young people and have been a strong supporter of it."
Besides the on-campus event, at UVU, more than 60 congregations in Utah are scheduled to host livestream gatherings.
"Our goal is simple and urgent: to reach as many people as possible with the life-changing message of the Gospel," Laurie said. "We want to offer real hope – hope for this life and the next – that can only be found in Jesus Christ."
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Phil Weiser is Colorado's attorney general, a far-left politician in a far-left state where the governor's office, the legislature and even the state Supreme Court all are controlled by Democrats.
The state's highest court is so far into being progressives the all-Democrats there even tried to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot before being slapped down hard by the U.S. Supreme Court, just the latest in a long list of rulings against Colorado's anti-Republican and anti-Christian ideologies.
Now Weiser, who has used the public funds running his office repeatedly to attack Trump, is being called out for his "constitutionally perverse" agenda against Trump.
The commentary comes in a column by Robert G. Natelson at Complete Colorado. He's a former constitutional law professor and contributes at both the Independence Institute and the Mountain States Policy Center, and authored "The Original Constitution."
"Progressives," he concluded, "generally don't care a rodent's derriere about the Constitution's division of powers. (How many times did Weiser sue the overreaching Biden administration?) And most of Weiser's suits are constitutionally perverse: they are designed either to (1) undermine legitimate federal functions, such as immigration control, or (2) force the federal government to do things the Constitution actually does not assign to it (such as subsidizing solar power)."
He criticized that Weiser would "rather fight the duly elected president of the United States than protect Coloradans from crime," which is surging in the state.
His concern was Weiser's "troubling taxpayer-funded obsession" with Trump.
The latest scheme from Weiser is that he wants to make Colorado worse than California.
That issue is apportionment, which in Colorado is by an independent commission.
It was in 2018 voters approved a plan moving the job of drawing congressional districts from lawmakers to the commission.
"I voted against both. One reason is that I generally oppose moving political decisions away from the people's representatives and lodging them in administrative agencies. Doing so is undemocratic, and it doesn't take the politics out of the decisions. It just hides the politics from public view," Natelson wrote.
"Another reason is that lawmakers who gerrymander have to explain their conduct to the voters. An independent commission never has to do that."
He said he held doubts even then that "progressives" would keep their word if it ever became inconvenient, and Weiser's latest scheming confirms that worry.
"In Texas, reapportionment is still the prerogative of the legislature, and the legislature recently exercised that authority to create more Republican congressional districts. The legislature could defend this action as a response to the state's huge population growth and its increasingly Republican hue," he said. But in California, Democrats have abandoned their "independent" panel that already had gerrymandered districts to favor Democrats.
There, "Although Republicans garner nearly 40 percent of the vote in California, they hold only 17 percent of the state's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives," he noted.
That wasn't good enough for Democrats there, who are trying to cut that GOP representation in Congress now by half.
"Weiser has just shown that he's in the running for the Independence Institute's 'Californian of the Year Award.' He wants to pull the same stunt in Colorado."
The record on which Weiser is running already is skewed in a serious way. His "obsession" has prompted him to bring or join some 40 or more lawsuits against Trump, including:
That, of course, is only a few of the cases, "all paid for with our tax money," the commentary said.
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On the same day an Omani official invited Tehran and Washington to return to the negotiating table – Nov. 1 – Iran's foreign minister expressed readiness to resume discussions over the country's nuclear program.
However, such an act in past U.S.-Iran negotiations has often proven counterproductive, as it has always served to conceal the political and social realities inside Iran. The 2015 nuclear talks between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group (China, France, Russia, the UK, the U.S. and Germany), which likewise began under Omani mediation, ultimately left Tehran closer than ever to building a nuclear weapon.
President Donald Trump was justified in withdrawing from the nuclear deal (JCPOA) in 2018, since it not only failed to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions, but also released $150 billion in Iranian assets – funds that enabled the regime to accelerate its nuclear and missile programs, expand its regional proxy networks and deepen the economic misery of ordinary Iranians. By 2017, widespread poverty had already sparked a nationwide uprising.
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime continues to prevent Hezbollah from being disarmed and still provides financial and military support to Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi and Yemen's Houthis. It has also concealed more than 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity.
A regime sustained by repression and executions
Iran's clerical regime now stands on the edge of collapse. Rooted in medieval dogmas and propelled into the 21st Century by historical accident, it can survive only through repression at home and aggression abroad. This is why Tehran has tied its survival to its nuclear program.
To believe that Iran's rulers would voluntarily abandon their nuclear ambitions is nothing short of a delusion.
Losing strategic depth and facing its real enemy
The loss of strategic depth in Syria, the collapse of the so-called "axis of resistance" and severe setbacks in its nuclear program have brought the regime face-to-face with its true adversary: the Iranian people.
For years, the regime has tried to delay this confrontation by exporting crises abroad and fueling regional conflicts.
The leadership in Tehran knows another uprising is inevitable – only its timing remains uncertain. The next revolt will be driven by a generation of people who perceive a vast gap between the regime's official rhetoric and their lived reality. This disconnect has stripped the establishment of legitimacy and deepened public distrust.
'Crimes against humanity': Mass executions as a tool of suppression
At least 285 prisoners, including four women and one juvenile offender under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged crimes, were hanged in October 2025 alone. Such a high number of executions in a single month is unprecedented in recent decades and represents a new record of crime and brutality in the contemporary world. The number of executions this month is approximately 1.7 times that of 2024 (171 executions) and three times that of 2023 (92 executions).
Through this wave of executions, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei aims to prevent any uprising. The sharp increase in executions no longer signals power, but desperation – evidence that state violence has lost its deterrent effect and now exposes the regime's crumbling foundations.
A pattern of mass killing to preserve power
For nearly half a century, Iran's religious rulers have relied on mass killings to overcome major crises and ensure their survival. After years of declaring war with the battle cry "fight to the last house," when finally forced to accept a ceasefire in the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, ordered the execution of 30,000 political prisoners. Today, after a string of military and political failures, the regime once again appears ready to resort to mass bloodshed as its last means of survival.
'The war of wolves': Factional power struggles before an imminent uprising
As another nationwide uprising – and possibly the regime's downfall – looms, the issue of succession for the frail and aging Supreme Leader has fueled fierce infighting among Iran's ruling factions. Ordinary Iranians refer to this internal conflict as "the war of wolves."
Indeed, the regime has effectively split into two main blocs:
The first bloc, linked to former president Hassan Rouhani, ex-foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and others once close to Khamenei, who now see collapse as inevitable, advocates renewed negotiations with the United States to prolong the system's lifespan. Certain economic factions within the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) back this group.
The second bloc, loyal to Khamenei and the regime's hard core, rejects any compromise with Washington or retreat from the nuclear and missile programs, viewing such moves as the regime's premature death.
Power fractures: Harbingers of transition
In political science, a split within an authoritarian regime is among the clearest indicators – and catalysts – of a transition toward democracy. Simply put, such fractures signify the beginning of the end of the authoritarian order and the weakening of the machinery of repression.
However, engaging in deals, negotiations and appeasement with the global godfather of execution and terror is, many believe, tantamount to fueling the machinery of crime and slaughter of the religious fascists currently ruling Iran.
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One more elected official has been caught in a self-promoting video unleashing, perhaps spewing is a better word, a vile and uncontrolled rant condemning Christians.
Mayor Don Gookin, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, called Christians "mindless, cult-member morons," accused them of white nationalism and said they can "f— themselves and go to hell."
Which, according to one commenter, simply proved the accuracy of the Bible, which in the New Testament explains Christ said, "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
Gookin's spewing:
Other commenters said:
"This is what a possession looks like in case anyone needs to know."
"Canceled my stay in Coeur d'Alene. Won't go and spend money where I'm not welcome."
"So full of hate…"
"That there is demon talk."
It appears Gookin has unleashed earlier anti-Christian diatribes.
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Protesting is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
But so are church services and meetings.
And when those exercising their right to protest violate the rights of those holding services, there's a problem.
And now it's in court in California, where lawyers for First Liberty Institute and Jones Day filed a federal lawsuit because "hostile agitators affiliated with Code Pink disrupted and interfered with multiple worship services."
Destroyed were services being held by the Mission Church and the Christian & Jewish Alliance, an interfaith organization in the San Diego area.
They repeatedly have been subjected to "ongoing persecution" for trying to bring worship congregations together.
"When I pulled up to a worship event on September 7, a masked person holding a vulgar sign jumped onto the hood of our car, screaming and banging on the windshield. It was frightening," explained Ruth Mastron, a devout Jewish resident who joined the lawsuit. "We just want to be able to gather safely, pray, and worship together without fearing for our lives."
Pastor JC Cooper of Mission Church said his congregation simply wants to "be able to worship and support our local Jewish community without fear or intimidation."
Lawyer Jeremy Dys explained, "No church or synagogue should experience such vulgar harassment for simply conducting its religious activities. Blocking entrances and exits while intimidating worshipers with incessant shouting, vulgarities, and sirens violates the law."
Defendants are identified as "Daniel Brunner, Aimee Magda Werth, Kristina Turner-Brown, Patrick Hartley, Sasha Spite Miller, Jacob Pagaduan, Esmat 'Essie' Baradar, Jonathan Provance, Maya Karalius, and Does 1 40."
The events came about because Mission, of Carlsbad, believes Christians should support Jewish neighbors and the nation of Israel.
But protesters linked to the radicalized Code Pink organization "infiltrated the sanctuary, yelling epithets until they were escorted out. More protestors lined up inches outside the door, calling church members 'Nazis' and yelling 'Mission Church, you can't hide! We charge you with genocide!'"
The violent agitators came back on Easter Sunday to deliver even worse, the legal team charged.
At a third event, they "blocked entrances and blared ear-splitting sirens for three hours."
That, the new legal action charges, violates the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which protects places of worship and individual worshipers from aggressive hostiles.
The lawsuit states, "Federal and California law do not tolerate Defendants' conduct, which violated the civil rights of The Mission Church, the Christian & Jewish Alliance, and their members and guests. Defendants' actions reflect a pattern of targeting the Church and the Alliance because of their religious beliefs, seeking to interfere with and prevent their religious gatherings."
The action seeks a court judgment that the protesters are violating the law, that they trespassed, and a permanent order preventing them from futures attacks on worshippers. Also, the case seeks "appropriate relief" and "compensatory damages."
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Democrats desperately are trying to protect their minority numbers in Congress with several redistricting plans in states.
Analysts have concluded they're unlikely to gain much, but in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom, an ardent opponent of President Donald Trump and the Make America Great Again agenda, has gone so far as to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a campaign to have voters authorize a new redistricting plan.
His intention is to take away a handful of seats that now are held by Republicans, even though that might not even make up what his party lost in a redistricting already finished in Texas.
California's redistricting by law is supposed to be done by a nonpartisan committee, but Newsom's plan would have voters authorize a bypass so Democrats could gerrymander even further, a process that party already has used for years.
But President Trump is pointing out a potential problem.
And he's promising more information to come.
"The Unconstitutional Redistricting Vote in California is a GIANT SCAM in that the entire process, in particular the Voting itself, is RIGGED. All 'Mail-In' Ballots, where the Republicans in that State are 'Shut Out,' is under very serious legal and criminal review. STAY TUNED!" Trump said.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, famous for her lawfare agenda against President Donald Trump, has been revealed to be caught up in yet another federal investigation.
She's already under indictment for alleged mortgage fraud involving claims she bought a house and claimed it was her residence to get a better interest rate, then rented it out. Further, one of her mortgage application documents allegedly listed her father as her "spouse."
She had created a massive "fraud" claim against Trump and his companies, and with the help of a leftist judge, obtained a massive half billion dollar penalty against Trump, a penalty that was thrown out by an appeals court for being unconstitutional.
Now a report at the Daily Caller News Foundation explains a judge has unsealed details about her fight against a federal criminal probe for alleged "selective enforcement."
Those allegations involve her lawfare against Trump, his business operations, and even a separate case involving the National Rifle Association.
"James's effort to block subpoenas issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) touches 'on matters of national concern, with implications that stretch well beyond this action,'" Judge Lorna Schofield wrote in her order making the filings public.
"Unsealing this action is not only permissible but compelled," the judge wrote. "One simple fact drives this conclusion: the information at issue is not secret."
Just weeks ago, it was revealed acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York John A. Sarcone III subpoenaed documents concerning James's civil fraud case against Trump and his company, along with her case against the National Rifle Association.
James has claimed that an investigation of her lawfare agenda actually is "retaliation" against her.
Her lawyers have told the court that she is being targeted by Trump administration over her lawfare agenda against him.
She already faces two charges for alleged bank fraud and false statements in a case in Virginia.
WND previously reported she had claimed she is not guilty of mortgage fraud but in a commentary Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said she incriminated herself and the charges appear to be justified.
"She'll also claim, of course, 'Oh, it's a big misunderstanding, paperwork snafu, somebody else is to blame.' But under her own stated standard in the Trump case, she declared that is never an excuse. So she's hoisted on her own petard, as Shakespeare would say in Hamlet," Jarrett said.
Jarrett said that the case against James rests squarely on the paperwork she personally executed.
"It's a pretty serious case against her, Sean. You cannot claim an occupied residence, get a lower mortgage rate, and then rent it out. You're cheating the lender by lying, and James actually incriminated herself. Both her mortgage and her insurance documents said she occupied it, but on an IRS records form she admitted it was purely a rental with zero personal occupancy," Jarrett said.
"Predictably, today she just whined that the law is being weaponized against her. Spare me the moral outrage. It was phony. She was the one who campaigned on the promise to get Trump, then conjured up that ludicrous case only to get slapped down by the appellate court in an epic embarrassment," Jarrett said. "I think he or she's going to do exactly what James Comey is doing, claim selective, vindictive prosecution, try to get the case dismissed, avoid trial entirely. But, you know, under the law the burden shifts to her to prove by clear evidence that the case has an unjustifiable motive."
It was the Federal Housing Finance Agency that referred James to the Justice Department for the alleged crimes.