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Will illegal immigrants and noncitizens be voting in and swaying the upcoming 2024 presidential election?

A top U.S. senator is sounding the alarm about the strong possibility or even likelihood.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, a member of the Senate Budget and Judiciary Committee appeared Sunday on the Fox News Channel and said: "We've seen it in various jurisdictions around the country. There are a handful of states including, I believe, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama who have done some investigating into their own voter registration files, and they've found a lot of noncitizens including a whole lot of illegal immigrants registered to vote."

Lee told Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures" that these states, "to their great credit, they're doing their best to cull through those and to remove those who they believe to be illegal immigrants. And I hope other states will do the same."

He pushed for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, which requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.

Specifically, the bill prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

The measure also indicates:

Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall include establishing a program to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens using information supplied by specified sources.

Additionally, the bill requires states to remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.

The bill allows for a private right of action against an election official who registers an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

The bill establishes criminal penalties for certain offenses, including registering an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

Lee explained: "It must come up for a vote in the House and in the Senate. And the way to do that is for us to the attach it to the next spending bill, likely a continuing resolution that'll come up in September.

"Look, the American people agree overwhelmingly, Maria, like by a margin of 3 out of 4 that, that first of all, only U.S. citizens ought to vote in federal elections and, secondly, when you register to vote in a federal election, you ought to have to be able to prove who you are, that you're a U.S. citizen, just as you have to do when you fill out an I-9 in America, you've got to provide proof of citizenship.

"So with the SAVE Act, what we're saying is we should require nothing less to vote in federal elections than you have to establish when you start a new job. When you attach that to a spending bill, and that's the best way to move that through to make sure that the 10 million plus illegal immigrants who have come in in the last three and a half years and the estimated roughly 30 million noncitizens total in the United States aren't voting in this November's election."

On the same broadcast, Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of Donald Trump and co-chair of the Republican National Committee, sounded her own warning to anyone engaged in voter fraud:

"Whether you're talking about ensuring illegals are cleaned off the voter rolls, they can't register to vote in certain states or generally sending out the message, Maria, that if you're a person who's attempting to cheat in our elections or an illegal citizen attempting to illegally vote in our elections, we will find you, track you down and prosecute you to the full extent of the law. We're watching everything, we're filing lawsuits when necessary, and we're making sure we have people everywhere, votes are being cast and counted to have eyes on everything."

Lara Trump said the 2020 election "certainly taught us a lesson, and that is that we have to pay attention."

"It is integral to who we are as a country to have faith in our electoral process. And so we have gone above and beyond anything that you've ever seen from the RNC this election cycle, obviously. We have our election integrity operation underway," she continued.

"We've already recruited 165,000 volunteers to be poll watchers, poll workers, working the tabulation centers. We have pledged 500 lawyers on the ground in every battleground state. And, in addition to that, we have had to go, unfortunately, but we have had to go state by state and make sure they're cleaning up their voter rolls, making sure there are no illegals on their voter rolls.

"We had to file a lawsuit last week in the state of North Carolina to do that. You just referenced the Supreme Court decision in the state of Arizona. This is a huge win. Look, we know … when a federal election is underway, you can only have American citizens voting in that election. Should go without saying, but there are some states that try to push back on that.

"We took it to the Supreme Court because Democrats in the state of Arizona were attempting to let people register to vote without ID. We said you need to be able to to determine whether or not these are U.S. citizens before they register to to vote. The Supreme Court agreed with that, and the great news is it sets precedent across the country so other states can take this and utilize it as well.

"You look at a state like Michigan, a very important state, a state Donald Trump, of course, won in 2016. We are fighting tooth and nail to make sure Donald Trump wins in Michigan, and we believe that if it's a free, fair and transparent election, he will.

"I'll give you an example of the way the Democrats like to operate to try and swing an election. We had 700 trained poll workers from the Republican side apply in Wayne County to be poll workers. Do you know how many of those they actually took? Fifty. Guess how many Democrat poll workers they took: 2,300. So we are filing a lawsuit in Detroit to make sure that we have parity between Republicans and Democrats."

Bartiromo responded: "Unbelievable. I'll tell you, it's hard to keep up with all of these political dirty tricks."

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a news release Thursday there had been an arrest made of a New York man who was allegedly selling information to the People's Republic of China's communist government.

A naturalized citizen of the U.S. residing in Queens, Yuanjun Tang was charged by criminal complaint with acting and conspiring to act in the U.S. as an unregistered foreign agent of China, and making false statements to the FBI.

The DOJ stated court documents showed Tang was a former Chinese citizen, but was imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party for opposing the one-party system in China. Tang defected to Taiwan in 2002, and was granted political asylum in the U.S.

After settling into New York, Tang was an active participant in his community, often attending demonstrations against the CCP. However, sometime between 2018 and 2023, Tang allegedly acted as an agent for China's Ministry of State Security – which is responsible for China's foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, espionage, and political security functions.

Tang is accused of using an encrypted email account, chats, text messages, and audio and video calls to regularly interact with the Chinese ministry, travelling at least three times to China to meet with intelligence agents. Tang is accused of reporting to the ministry about Chinese individuals living in the U.S. who had opposing views to China's political stance.

Using his position, he infiltrated Chinese dissident group chats on encrypted messaging applications, while law enforcement recovered instructions from the ministry, prosecutors allege. Numerous electronic devices belonging to Tang also reportedly included videos, documents, and photographs that he had collected to send to the ministry.

The news release further stated Tang had made false statements to the FBI, claiming he was unable to access email accounts he used to communicate with Chinese officials. He is charged with a single count of conspiring to work as a foreign agent without notifying the attorney general, and he could face up to five years in prison. Tang faces another possible 10-year sentence for acting as an agent, and another five years for making false statements.

A telecommunications and information technology worker for Verizon was arrested in late July, and was charged with working for the CCP as an agent – and instructed to gather information on Chinese dissidents and the Falun Gong religious movement. He faces a possible sentence of 15 years in prison.

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President Donald Trump, the GOP's nominee for the White House this year, often has been critical, and sometimes harshly critical, of Barack Obama, the Democrat who forcibly shoved American to the left probably more than any other president up to his tenure.

But Trump surprised many this week with his comments.

"I think he's a nice gentleman, but he was very weak on trade…' Trump said of Obama on a CNN interview. "I happen to like him. I respect him and I respect his wife."

That opinion, however, appears to have disappeared after Obama and his wife, Michelle, both used their Democrat National Convention podium time to lash out at Trump, going so low as to be making offensive suggestions even about his manhood.

The Daily Mail reported, "Donald Trump said Wednesday he was giving up being nice to the Obamas, after they used their speeches at the Democratic convention to mock his record, his crowd sizes and even his manhood."

Trump described Michelle Obama as "nasty" and pointed out they had been calling for more policy, less poison, in their exchanges – but then they tried to bomb Trump.

"I'm trying to be nice to these people," he told DailyMail.com, at a campaign appearance in North Carolina. "They were lousy presidents, and you know this one coming. It's the worst."

The "one coming" reference is to Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democrat nominee for president. "She makes Obama look like … I mean, forget it … She's a radical Marxist person that ruined everything in her path," Trump said.

The report said, "Trump and Obama have long had a prickly relationship, with the 44th president still furious about the way 45th president questioned his nationality with the 'birther' claim that Obama was not born in the U.S. Michelle Obama has become a particular target for some Trump supporters, who share memes suggesting she is transgender."

Trump said he didn't know who would make that claim, and, "I certainly wouldn't say that."

But she is, he confirmed, "very nasty to me."

"I mean, look, they say, Oh, don't be personal. Talk about policy. I want to talk about policy…. But people say, don't get personal, but then they get personal."

In fact, the Obamas were on stage at the DNC in what looked like a planned attack on Trump. There has been criticism of the convention as its speakers have been mentioning Trump hundreds of times, without addressing policy ideas they want at all.

Michelle Obama brought racism into the conversation by wondering who would tell Trump that the job he was seeking might be one of those "black jobs."

Barack Obama, the Mail reported, complained about "the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes."

At that, the report said, Obama made "a hand gesture as if to suggest he was mocking Trump's manhood."

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Only weeks ago, President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for the White House year, survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when he turned his head to look at a graphic.

A bullet intended for his head grazed his ear. That attacker ended up dead at the hands of police

Now there's been another threat and this time authorities are out looking for the suspect who has been identified but not yet found.

Fox News reports that Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, is being sought after authorities said he threatened Trump ahead of a rally.

The Cochise County sheriff's office said the suspect has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI and failure to appear for DUI and from Graham County, Arizona, for hit-and-run and felony failure to register as a sex offender.

Fox News reports that Ronald Lee Syvrud, 66, is being sought after authorities said he threatened Trump ahead of a rally.

The Cochise County sheriff's office said the suspect has outstanding warrants from the state of Wisconsin for DUI and failure to appear for DUI and from Graham County, Arizona, for hit-and-run and felony failure to register as a sex offender.

The report said Syvrud is listed on a sex offender registry in Wisconsin for "second-degree sexual assault of a child."

Fox said it reviewed court records that revealed his most recent arrest came in June when he was accused of assault, but that later was dropped.

The sheriff's office said officers are hunting Syvrud "as an investigative lead for threats to kill a presidential candidate" but did not release more details.

Fox said it later confirmed the candidate was Trump.

Authorities said there is no link to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

Fox further reported that Trump had not been informed of the threat and manhunt, as he explained while he was aware there was danger for him to appear, "I have a job to do."

Questioned about the circumstances, Trump said, "I haven't heard about that. They probably want to keep it from me."

The report noted he joked, "Thank you for telling me. Let's get out of here, right now!"

Trump said the threats come because "I want to do things that are very bad for the bad guys."

The Secret Service said it is tracking the Arizona search.

According to the Washington Examiner, "Trump's security has been treated as even more of a critical issue since the July 13 assassination attempt against his life, with a bullet grazing his ear. One man died, and two others were wounded at the rally."

Arizona is an important swing state in this November's presidential election.

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There's a rift opening between U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who multiple times was House speaker and orchestrated her party's two failed impeach-and-remove schemes against President Trump, and Kamala Harris, the party's presumptive nominee for president.

According to a report from Fox News, Pelosi is insisting that she wanted to "open" a "process" that would result in a replacement for the mentally declining Joe Biden.

And then Harris "took advantage."

"Many of us who were concerned about the election wanted to have an open process. It was an open process, anyone could have gotten in," Pelosi told the Wall Street Journal.

The party more or less pushed Biden under the bus in July, after his catastrophically bad debate performance against President Donald Trump in June. And he'd exhibited a long list of mental failings during his public appearances. He'd forget names and countries, whisper, then shout, and often mix up people, including his family members.

Technically, he withdrew from the race and endorsed Harris.

"Pelosi has denied playing any role in forcing Biden to drop out, but she's acknowledged in interviews that she worried about Biden's campaign and was unimpressed with his political operation," the report explained.

Pelosi said she'd heard from House Democrats that their campaigns were being hurt by Biden's presence on the ticket, and she relayed those worries to the White House.

Harris snapped up the opportunity, despite having no votes at all cast for her in any primary.

The report suggested her presence "seemingly reinvigorated the party," but polling already shows that the routine bump in popularity the party enjoyed because of her launch already is fading quickly.

"[Harris] had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination. But anybody else could have gotten in," Pelosi claimed.

Pelosi also credited Biden with deciding "how we would proceed," crediting him with "selflessness."

Regarding her efforts to change the name at the top of the party's 2024 ballot, she previously explained she did what she had to do.

"He decided for the country. My concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign. As he has seen with the exuberance, the excitement that has come forth in our country," she said.

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America in late 2024 has become a surreal, ever-unfolding drama of shocks, horrors and wonders.

On one hand, there's the widespread conviction that Almighty God Himself reached down and dramatically saved Donald Trump from an assassin's bullet that came within a fraction of an inch of blowing the former president's brains out.

On the other hand, America's citizens, having endured almost four years of Biden-Harris devastation of their beloved country's economy, culture, safety, freedom and sanity, are now being forced to endure perhaps the most blatantly dishonest political charade in American history.

That would be the entire Democrat-media complex suddenly pretending that Vice President Kamala Harris – who just four years ago was so unpopular that she was forced to drop out of the presidential race without winning a single delegate – is actually a brilliant, experienced, strong, wise and inspirational leader, totally qualified to become the next U.S. president. Which also means leader of the free world during an exceedingly treacherous time when nuclear war looms ever closer.

Unfortunately – as virtually everyone, Republican and Democrat alike, knew until a few weeks ago when Joe Biden was unceremoniously dumped and the grand charade deifying Kamala Harris began – she is a shallow, pretentious, dishonest, arrogant, chameleon-like and gratingly unlikable human being.

She's also mean. In fact, virtually her entire White House staff – 92 percent – quit due to her abuse. When the Washington Post interviewed 18 people in Harris' orbit, they portrayed a toxic White House work environment, with staffers' descriptions of it ranging from "uncomfortable" to "soul-destroying."

This is who Harris is. Even back when she was California's attorney general, the New York Post reported the same arrogant cruelty: "'Bully' Kamala Harris 'berated staff,' left them in tears after berating them with 'F-bombs,' intern told never to make eye contact."

But now turn the page. In addition to her negative personal traits like being both nasty and dumb – and cackling like a maniac – much more importantly, Kamala Harris is also, as Elon Musk accurately put it, "quite literally a communist." Rated the most liberal member of the entire U.S. Senate in 2019, the far-left Harris explicitly insists not on equal opportunity, the quintessential American ideal, but on equal outcomes, the quintessential Marxist/communist ideal.

Oh, and she also lies continually and audaciously. Prime example: The "border czar" who has presided over the ongoing full-scale foreign invasion of America by millions of illegal aliens including myriad drug dealers, child-sex traffickers, mental patients, gang members, criminals and terrorists, now claims in a TV ad that not only has she strengthened the border, but that Donald Trump has left the border unprotected! This, of course, is too demented for even the most notoriously dishonest Democrat politicians to match. Such embarrassingly obvious gaslighting requires a level of arrogance combined with stupidity that few people possess, even in politics. Again, not just lying, but boldly proclaiming as truth the exact opposite of the reality that virtually everyone can plainly see.

Thus, good Americans are desperately, and prayerfully, looking to November's election as their one doorway to national survival, sanity and restoration. They hope and pray they can re-elect Donald Trump, under whose administration inflation was below 2%, America's economy was booming, gasoline was $2 a gallon, unemployment – especially black unemployment – was at record lows, international respect for America was at a peak, and the nation was, therefore, at peace.

But there's a problem.

However unspeakably bad everything has gotten during the administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, today's far-left Democratic Party is single-mindedly obsessed with retaining and expanding its power, no matter what. And that means Democrats, conspiring with the Deep State, the legacy news media, Big Tech and other corporate allies, will do literally anything and everything within their power to rig, corrupt, and thereby steal the 2024 election, just as they did in 2020.

Before moving past that last statement – about powerful media, corporate, financial and governmental players stealing the 2020 election – understand that this is not a "right-wing conspiracy theory." No less than Time magazine in February 2021 – just weeks after Joe Biden took office as president on Jan. 20 – featured a lengthy essay by progressive journalist Molly Ball ecstatically documenting the massive secret plot to swing the outcome of the November 2020 election to a Biden victory.

Here's an excerpt of "The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election," Time's exultant review of the vast "conspiracy" that allowed the 2020 election to be stolen from Donald Trump:

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes … the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. … Their work touched every aspect of the election.

They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. …

This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group's inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. … That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream – a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.

Wait … "How close the nation came to disaster"? Why exactly would a Trump victory have been a "disaster" for the nation?

And why are today's elites not only perfectly comfortable with rigging an election in every way possible to retain power (even bragging about it), but also secretly convinced they have a moral mandate to win – no matter what?

Racist, fascist, terrorist Nazis!

As everyone knows, since 2016 Democrats and the major news media have relentlessly portrayed Donald J. Trump as the virtual incarnation of evil. They claimed for years that he was essentially a traitor, that he had colluded with America's mortal enemies to win the presidential election, and that he's also a "racist," "white supremacist," "Islamophobe," "fascist," "Nazi" and admirer of Adolf Hitler.

Not coincidentally, the same people likewise defame Trump's tens of millions of supporters, 74 million of whom voted for him in 2020 – Republicans, conservatives, Christians and other regular, decent, law-abiding, traditional-values Americans – as evil. "Deplorables" and "irredeemable," Hillary Clinton called them. "Semi-fascists," Biden famously labeled Trump's supporters. "Domestic terrorists," Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland branded parents who stood up at a school board meeting to protest the Marxist brainwashing of their children. "Racists" and "white supremacists," as virtually all Republicans are routinely referred to by the left.

Writing in the Washington Post, legendary columnist Charles Krauthammer once crystalized the whole issue this way: "To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil."

And the ultimate strategy leftists have long employed for hammering home the supposed evils of conservatives has been to compare them to Nazis. Indeed, even shortly after the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez couldn't resist attacking Trump again as "a racist and a neo-Nazi."

So, what does endlessly slandering Trump and his supporters have to do with Democrats' multi-tiered strategy to rig the outcome of November's election, no matter what?

Everything.

Consider that in response to the real Adolf Hitler, assassination was the most moral response – indeed, there were 16 known plots to kill Hitler. So obviously, any less extreme but equally effective strategy – say, rigging an election to remove a genocidal monster from power – would also be moral and righteous.

No rules

Thus, Democrats and their leftist allies are attempting to defeat a successful former president with an impressive track record, but about whom they have lied continually for eight years, impeached twice, subjected to an unprecedented and scandalously illegal lawfare campaign intended to imprison him for the rest of his life, and who just weeks ago narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.

In truth, likening Donald Trump to Hitler has long been the Democrats' barely disguised bottom-line narrative. It constitutes their justification for lying and deceiving others as easily as normal people breathe. And it's the nuclear core of their election strategy – as it has been since 2016.

This explains why, according to the Democrat-media complex, it was far better for Americans to vote for the always-lying, epically corrupt and preternaturally conniving Hillary Clinton in 2016 than to vote for Donald Trump. And far better to vote for the always-lying, demented, head-of-a-crime-family Joe Biden in 2020 than to vote for Donald Trump. And far better, in 2024, to vote for the always-lying, uniquely unlikable, super-leftwing cackling lunatic Kamala Harris as the next U.S. president – instead of Donald Trump.

After all, anybody is better than the genocidal monster Adolf Hitler … or somebody the elites insinuate is just like him.

And therefore, anything goes. ANYTHING. No rules – exactly how the left likes things. As famed Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu put it, "War is deception." And anyone trying to get rid of Hitler is engaged in warfare.

So, then, the Trump-is-Hitler delusion can serve as the unspoken justification for the most insane and destructive policies imaginable – say, flooding America with millions of illegal aliens. In normal times, this would universally be regarded as a treasonous policy since it degrades, damages and largely destroys the host country. But then, what if those same illegal aliens were somehow enabled to vote in U.S. elections – and could be counted on to vote against Hitler?

That might just be OK, according to the left's logic.

'Nothing less than a miracle'

With all of this swirling madness, it's easy to lose hope. Don't. There's still real hope for America. All sane people must, of course, vote for Trump. No protest votes, no Libertarian votes, no RFK Jr. votes, no "I'm-a-Christian-and-not-involved-in-worldly-things-like-politics" excuses. They can also sign up others to vote and volunteer at their polling place and support organizations actively working to maximize election integrity and minimize fraud, like True the Vote and Turning Point USA and Protect the Vote.

And they can, and truly must, fervently pray. Indeed, remember God's shining promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

Finally, consider what bestselling author and popular Christian broadcaster Eric Metaxas affirmed the day after the attempt on Donald Trump's life:

"I have said repeatedly for months that those who hate Trump would stop at nothing to make sure he doesn't get back in to the White House, including trying to assassinate him. I have also said God's hand is on him, and would protect him, if God forbid someone did try to do that. Last night we saw that happen. His survival was nothing less than a miracle. So be assured that God is not finished with this nation. But we need to pray. … We are in an existential crisis, and without God, this experiment in self-government will not continue. But it is God's will that it continue. So please pray."

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A policy revision adopted recently by the U.S. Army could spell trouble for soldiers who believe in and follow the Holy Bible.

In June, the Army issued two new directives regarding the handling and reporting of "protest, extremist and criminal gang activities" by soldiers. Army directive 2024-07 on handling extremist activity, as well as the service's directive 2024-08 on reporting extremist activity, can both be found on the website of the Army Inspector General.

WorldNetDaily interviewed Dr. Charles "Chase" Spears, recently retired after a 20-year Army public affairs career specializing in ethical military communication strategy.

"Since day one of his tenure as secretary of Defense," Spears told WND, "Lloyd Austin claimed that there is a major issue with [Christian] extremism in the military." Spears added, "This is the same military that made [Austin] a four-star general."

But the Army's new rules beg the question: "Why now, when multiple reports have debunked Austin's claim?" Even if, Spears said, the Army's directives were implemented with the intention of clarifying what amounts to "extremism," a word he says is "open to wide interpretation in the current political climate," the new policy "makes it appear that if you disagree with [the views of Austin and the Biden administration], then you're an extremist."

Attorney R. Davis Younts agrees with Dr. Spears, telling WND that he likewise fears the ambiguity in the Army's new rules. According to the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and former judge advocate general (JAG) officer, the directives encompass an "extremely broad range of activities."

Both Spears and Younts are concerned about how the new directives will be interpreted. For example, considering the 0recent Army portrayal of pro-life organizations as terrorist organizations, Younts said his concern has been heightened. "If a service member offers money or resources or volunteers to support a group that advocates against abortion, could he be viewed as supporting extremists?" Younts questioned. "What about supporting a group that advocates for … the existence of only two genders?"

Taking it one step further, Younts asked, "If I were still in the Air Force and tithed to my church, which goes out to pray in protest against a transgender story hour, would my church fit the Army's definition of an extremist group?"

To that end, Spears pointed out that Army directive 2024-07 states extremist activity includes "advocating widespread unlawful discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, or sexual orientation." He warned that "because they feel they need to please their political superiors, some military commanders will infer that because you disagree with women competing in men's sports, you are now engaging in an act of extremism."

In fact, Spears added, the Army's new reporting requirements "essentially force commanders to prove the innocence of soldiers accused of extremism, rather than guilt."

"These are now things every single Christian military member that is doctrinally aligned with traditional biblical views of life, marriage and gender must consider," Younts told WND. For this reason, he recommends "these service members should be raising the issue to their congressmen, and apply for a religious accommodation to be exempted from the policy."

"We have to get [military] leaders to clarify what they are saying in the new directives," Younts argues. "I don't think it's irrational to believe that some of today's senior leadership would view the church or another 501(c) nonprofit organization as an extremist for disavowing abortion, same-sex marriage and a host of other sins running rampant in society."

For Spears, one of his biggest concerns is the fact that the directives apply not only to active-duty Army personnel, but also to inactivated members of the Reserve and National Guard. "When reservists and guardsmen are activated, they fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice – but when not activated, they fall under civil law, like all other civilians," he explained. "The Army's new rules on so-called 'extremism' further erode the line between civilian and military life."

"This is a terrifying development that extends the Defense Department's intrusive reach into the personal lives of non-activated Reservists and National Guardsmen," Spears argued. And this, he concluded, "sends a chilling message across the force that must be overturned by the courts."

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The United States Supreme Court has affirmed an injunction against the plans by Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to rewrite the definition of "sex" in federal law so that transgender politics are reflected – and protected.

The ADF, which has fought numerous court cases over the dispute, said Friday that it is representing female athletes, Christian teachers and a school board in two lawsuits that challenge the administration's willful decision to simply change the definition of the word – and create an entirely new law in the process.

Laws, of course, are created by Congress, not the White House.

What happened was that the court denied the Biden-Harris demand that would partly reinstate its "illegal attempt to change the meaning of the word 'sex' to include 'gender identity' in Title IX," the ADF said.

That's a federal law that protects equal opportunity for women in education and athletics.

The ruling came in two different legal challenges to the Biden-Harris scheme, the Cardona v. State of Tennessee case and the U.S. Department of Education v. State of Louisiana.

"The Supreme Court's decision upholds two recent federal appeals court rulings that halted the administration's unlawful rules in the states of Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia; and Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Idaho. In one case, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent a West Virginia high-school female athlete and Christian Educators Association International; in the other, they represent a Louisiana school board serving more than 20,000 students," the ADF explained.

Jonathan Scruggs, an ADF official, said, "The Biden-Harris administration's radical redefinition of sex turns back the clock on equal opportunity for women, undermines fairness, and threatens student safety and privacy.

"The Supreme Court rightly affirmed the 5th and 6th Circuit decisions to restrain the administration's illegal efforts to rewrite Title IX while these critical lawsuits continue. This administration is ignoring biological reality, science, and common sense. Female athletes, students, and teachers across the country are right to stand against the administration's adoption of extreme gender ideology, which would have devastating consequences for students, teachers, administrators, and families."

Transgenderism, and abortion, actually, have been two of the key agenda points of the Biden-Harris administration.

Their tenure in the White House has accomplished little else, what with inflation of more than 20% hitting consumers, a wide-open southern border through which terrorists have entered the country, massive "climate" spending, and more.

The Biden-Harris team demanded last spring that it would redefine "sex" in Title IX rules so that the law then would demand that "schools … ignore the biological distinction between male and female in favor of 'an individual's sense of their gender.'"

The ADF said that injuries would follow.

"The Department of Education's fundamental and radical rewriting of federal law would force schools across the country to embrace a controversial gender ideology that harms children—including the very children it claims to help. Schools will be required to allow males who identify as female to enter girls' private spaces like restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; to participate in girls' physical education classes; and—despite logically inconsistent disclaimers saying otherwise—to play on girls' sports teams."

There also are injunctions in several other cases that oppose the Biden-Harris ideology, including State of Kansas v. U.S. Department of Education, Carroll Independent School District v. United State Department of Education and State of Arkansas v. U.S. Department of Education.

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Tim Walz, the radically left Minnesota governor who has been linked to a Hitler-promoting Muslim leader and whose state gave $2 million in grants to a group that is linked through its fundraising to an al-Qaida affiliate, visited China 30 times.

He's been a "fellow" at a Chinese foundation that is devoted to the Chinese Community Party.

He spoke alongside the chief of a Chinese group that the State Department has condemned as a CCP effort to "influence and co-opt local leaders."

And now, based on that evidence, he's under investigation by the U.S. House.

The Just the News publication noted House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., confirmed on Friday Walz, picked by Kamala Harris to be her VP on the Democrats' presidential ticket this year, is under investigation for his alleged links to CCP officials.

His committee confirmed, "Mr. Walz has visited China 30 times, served as a fellow at a Chinese institution that maintains a devotion to the CCP, and spoke alongside the President of a Chinese organization the State Department exposed as a CCP effort to influence and co-opt local leaders."

The committee announcement continued, "FBI briefers recently informed the Committee that the Bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force investigates CCP activity that is similar to China's engagement with Governor Walz. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Chairman Comer is now requesting information, documents, and communications related to the CCP-connected entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with."

The Gateway Pundit documented that Comer's review of Walz is a "high-stakes investigation."

"The inquiry comes amid growing concerns over Governor Walz's reported connections to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entities and officials," the report said.

Comer continued, "The CCP has sought to destroy the United States through coordinated influence and infiltration campaigns that target every aspect of American life, including our own elected officials. Americans should be deeply concerned that Governor Walz, Kamala Harris's vice-presidential running mate, has a longstanding and cozy relationship with China."

A statement from the committee noted, "Reporting indicates Governor Walz has concerning ties to the People's Republic of China (PRC). In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, Mr. Walz organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named 'Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,' which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself."

During his time in Congress, Walz was a "fellow" at the Macau Polytechnic University, which the report called "a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a 'long held devotion to and love for the motherland.'"

This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Kamala Harris has been caught lying in her campaign promotions and now a family whose broadcast outlet was abused and whose reputation possibly was damaged is considering legal action.

The situation is that the Harris campaign has been buying online ads and making up headlines and story descriptions, then using the names of established publications in the ads. The ads link to real news organizations, but those stories don't support the headlines being fabricated by the Harris campaign.

It is an ad scheme that other Democrats earlier had used.

Now the Daily Caller reports it is WDAY Radio, a broadcaster based in Fargo, N.D., that is reviewing its options for legal action.

The report notes "The Kamala Harris campaign deceptively edited WDAY headlines to make it look like they supported her in an ad campaign."

Harris's campaign has taken advantage of the names of publishers including NPR, CNN, the Guardian, Independent, Reuters, AP, and WDAY, the report said.

"We feel insulted and violated by what was done here," explained Steve Hallstrom, president of Flag Family Media, which owns WDAY, in an interview with the Daily Caller.

"You have a political campaign that used our news brand and our URL to effectively lie to people about the headline we wrote. They lied to every single person that saw that ad. It's misleading, it's dishonest, and it hurts us as the company, our news brand. So as of today, we're starting to make some calls here. We are considering all of our options here, including legal action," he said.

The report explained Harris used three "variations" of an ad that linked to WDAY's website: "Harris Picks Tim Walz – 215,000 MN Families Win," "Learn About VP Pick Tim Walz – Harris Picks Tim Walz," and "Harris Picks Tim Walz – Tim Walz Tapped For VP," the report said.

The ads are then linked to actual articles published by news organizations. But critically, the articles "did not have those headlines, nor did they include parts of the text included underneath," the report noted.

Hallstrom charged, "We never wrote anything close to what is alleged here. They took two different unrelated stories that we did have on our website, sort of mashed them together, and then from there, they rewrote a few words to make it look like our news organization was cheering on the selection of Walz."

Google officials said the scheme doesn't violate any of the leftist company's policies.

Hallstrom said that's part of the problem.

"I've heard the excuses about how this meets the approval of the Google Ad criteria people, and I don't care. When you see that ad, you may understand that it's an ad, that any reasonable human being would look at that and say, 'Oh, the campaign, they found a story or headline on a website that's good for them. Who would not use that? Who wouldn't use that?' But that's not what happened here."

An AP spokesman told the Daily Caller the legacy wire service was unaware of the Harris campaign's use of its name.

Hallstrom questioned the integrity of the Harris campaign.

"There are things that are right and there are wrong, and this is wrong. This is leading, it's deceptive, it's dishonest, and it was done recklessly without thinking about what's happening here. And I don't know who on the Harris staff decided that this was a good strategy. But I can't believe that on the whole that organization, that campaign would, top to bottom, feel like this is a tactful and a principled approach to getting the word out about their candidate."

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