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January 4, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
News

JAN 2024: The Biggest Political Events & Key Dates.

The first month of 2024 promises to be a busy one as the presidential election cycle heats up with the Iowa Republican Caucus happening on January 15th. And while Iowa promises to be, likely, the biggest political event in January, there are a plethora of others which promise to have sizable impacts.

The National Pulse has put together a list of important events and dates of which to keep track – many of which promise to generate some interesting news cycles as well.

  • January 3rd: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will head to the border to see for himself the growing illegal immigration crisis that continues, unabated under President Joe Biden. The crisis continues to ‘poison the blood‘ of America as drug cartels are using the chaos to smuggle shocking amounts of dangerous drugs across the porous border.
  • January 4th: Thursday could prove to be pivotal for the 2024 presidential election. The Colorado Supreme Court decision removing Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot was stayed until this date. Many expect the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision.
  • January 6th: Saturday will mark the third anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Mounting evidence suggests federal agents played a significant role in stoking the riots.
  • January 8th: The U.S. Senate returns to Washington, D.C. It is expected the upper-legislative body will continue efforts to advance a Ukraine-Israel-Border funding supplemental as well as begin moving budget bills to avoid a partial government shutdown 11 days later.
  • January 8th-9th: Doctor Anthony Fauci is expected to give a closed door deposition to Congress under oath.
  • January 9th: The House of Representatives returns to Washington, D.C. Like the Senate the lower-legislative body is expected to move budget bills as a partial government shutdown looms. The Biden impeachment inquiry is also expected to pick up steam throughout January.
  • January 9th: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hold an expedited hearing on former President Trump’s immunity claims in the D.C. Jack Smith prosecution. A ruling is not expected for upwards of a month.
  • January 9th: A constitutional challenge to Georgia’s use of electronic voting machines which have cybersecurity flaws is set for a bench trial – meaning no jury. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is presiding over the case.
  • January 10th: The last debate before the Iowa Republican Caucus.
  • January 10th: GOP nomination front-runner Donald Trump will hold a town hall event with Fox News’s Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum. It will air on the network at 9pm ET.
  • January 11th: Closing arguments will be held in the Manhattan civil fraud trail against Donald Trump. Judge Engoron and his law clerk Allison Greenfield have demonstrated extreme bias against the former President.
  • January 13th: Taiwan will hold a pivotal presidential election which could have a major impact on regional security.
  • January 13th: National March for Gaza will be held in Washington, D.C. These pro-Hamas demonstrations have often turned aggressive and even violent. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has played a role in stoking anger among protestors in the past.
  • January 14th: Deadline for Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to set the special election for the Congressional seat previously held by Kevin McCarthy who retired after being ousted as Speaker by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) last year.
  • January 15th: This day in mid-January will mark 100 days of the Israeli-Hamas war.
  • January 15th: The Iowa Republican Caucus will be held. Nearly $8 million will have been spent by the campaigns in the closing days before Iowans make their choice for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
  • January 15th-19th: World Economic Forum‘s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland will take place.
  • Mid-January: House Republicans are expected to begin holding impeachment hearings into President Joe Biden’s abuse of office and violation of public trust while serving as Vice-President in the Obama administration.
  • January 16th: The second E. Jean Carroll v. former President Donald Trump defamation trial is set to start.
  • January 17th-18th: NATO military leaders are expected to review the status of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
  • January 18th: ABC News will hold its New Hampshire Republican presidential primary debate.
  • January 19th: The U.S. federal government will face a partial-shutdown if Congress is unable to reach a funding deal.
  • January 19th: The 43rd annual March for Life will take place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
  • January 20th: With the presidential primary season under way, the U.S. will be one year away from inaugurating the next president.
  • January 21st: CNN will host its New Hampshire Republican presidential primary debate.
  • January 23rd: New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary will take place. Former President Donald Trump – the by-and-large GOP front-runner – currently leads polling in the state.
  • January 29th-30th: Turning Point USA‘s “Alternative RNC” meeting will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • January 30th: The RNC‘s winter meeting will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • January 31st: The deadline for candidates for President, the U.S. House, and U.S. Senate to file their fundraising with the FEC for the final quarter of 2023.
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The first month of 2024 promises to be a busy one as the presidential election cycle heats up with the Iowa Republican Caucus happening on January 15th. And while Iowa promises to be, likely, the biggest political event in January, there are a plethora of others which promise to have sizable impacts. show more
January 4, 2024
William Upton
News

‘No Trump Connection’ in Colorado Supreme Court Shooting, Say Prosecutors.

The arrest of a Colorado man for firing gunshots inside the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center – which houses the Colorado Supreme Court – appears to be unrelated to the recent ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot. Brandon Olsen, 44, is being held by Denver Police after he allegedly fled the scene of an accident and entered the judicial building after shooting out a window.

Once inside, Olson accosted an unarmed security guard and took his keys. He continued to fire shots while inside and ignited a fire in a stairwell. Part of the building suffered extensive damage from the fire.

Two-hours after fleeing the accident and entering the judicial center, Olson was arrested by the Denver Police. He is scheduled to appear before a judge this morning and will face three felony charges –  first-degree arson, aggravated robbery, and second-degree burglary.

According to authorities, Olson was cooperative with police interviewers. They believe the state supreme court’s Trump ruling and the break-in are unrelated. The building was nearly empty at the time of the incident, with only two individuals inside. Aside from the security guard, the other individual – a woman working in her office – told police she did not hear Olson fire a weapon and had left the building when the fire alarm sounded.

Two weeks ago, the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified former President Trump from the state’s primary ballot after ruling he had violated the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. The decision is expected to be appealed to the United States Supreme Court.

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The arrest of a Colorado man for firing gunshots inside the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center – which houses the Colorado Supreme Court – appears to be unrelated to the recent ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot. Brandon Olsen, 44, is being held by Denver Police after he allegedly fled the scene of an accident and entered the judicial building after shooting out a window. show more
January 4, 2024
Jack Montgomery
News
Politics

Lawyer Alina Habba Says Trump Concerned Over SCOTUS Verdict on Ballot Bans.

Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots.

Responding to claims that Trump is concerned the court may want to look as though it is not biased in his favor, as he appointed three of its justices, Habba confirmed “that’s a concern that he’s voiced to me, he’s voiced to everybody publicly, not privately.”

“I can tell you that his concern is a valid one. You know, Republicans… get nervous, they unfortunately are sometimes shy[ing] away from being pro-Trump… they’re trying so hard to look neutral that sometimes they make the wrong call,” she said.

“I just encourage them to really look at the law and the Constitution; it’s very clean cut,” she added.

The all-Democrat-appointed Colorado Supreme Court ruled narrowly that Trump should not be allowed to appear on the state’s GOP primary ballot, alleging he is an insurrectionist and disqualified from the presidency under the 14th Amendment.

The Secretary of State for Maine, anti-Trump partisan Shenna Bellows, has also removed the 45th President from ballot in her state.

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Alina Habba, a lawyer representing Donald Trump and advising the Save America PAC, says the 45th President has voiced concerns the Supreme Court may not rule in his favor over efforts to remove him from 2024 election ballots. show more
January 4, 2024
William Upton
Immigration
World

REVEALED: O’Keefe’s Migrant Exposé Shows US Taxpayers Funding NGO Run by Former British Foreign Minister Shipping Illegals into America.

A new video exposé by journalist James O’Keefe has exposed a facility in Arizona allegedly run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) serving as a transportation center, shuttling illegal immigrants to the nearby Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. From there, the illegal immigrants are able to board flights to other cities across the United States.

The IRC is a gargantuan, globalist non-governmental organization (NGO) which boasted a total 2021 budget of over $1 billion. David Miliband, former British Foreign Minister, member of the Labour Party, and oft-tapped future UK Prime Minister currently serves as its president.

In 2021 alone, the IRC was the recipient of $415 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars through government grants. Agencies which fund the group include the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration ($178 million), the Department of Health and Human Services ($123 million), and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance ($114 million). In addition to the U.S. government, the European Union gave the IRC $75 million in 2021.

When O’Keefe tried to question an employee at the Phoenix facility – an old school building which the organization has repurposed – he was offered a monetary bribe to go away. Another employee of the facility intervened telling her colleague – in Spanish – to “say nothing.” The facility appears to be run by Thomas Robles – who prior to joining IRC served as the executive director of an Arizona-based leftist group called Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA). In an exchange with O’Keefe, Robles called the journalist a ‘domestic terrorist’ before contacting the local sheriff’s office.

The nebulous network of NGOs and non-profit groups who are facilitating the unchecked flow of illegal immigrants into the United States making it difficult to determine the border crisis’s true cost to American taxpayers. Many of these groups receive generous government grants and act as unofficial extensions of the Biden government – but just how much remains unclear.

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A new video exposé by journalist James O'Keefe has exposed a facility in Arizona allegedly run by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) serving as a transportation center, shuttling illegal immigrants to the nearby Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. From there, the illegal immigrants are able to board flights to other cities across the United States. show more
January 3, 2024
Raheem J. Kassam
Breaking
Election 2024
War

Biden Campaign Staff in Revolt, Demand Pressure on Israel to Release Prisoners, Cite ‘Electoral Imperative’.

Seventeen Joe Biden for President campaign staff are in open revolt against their own candidate, demanding the incumbent shift the U.S. government’s foreign policy regarding Israel and Gaza as a “moral and electoral imperative”.

Writing on Substack on Wednesday, the anonymous staffers claimed: “…your administration’s response to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing in Gaza has been fundamentally antithetical to [our] values — and we believe it could cost you the 2024 election.”

They continued with five demands, which includes the release of Palestinian prisoners held by the Jewish state.

  1. Publicly call for — and use financial and diplomatic leverage to bring about — an immediate, permanent ceasefire;
  2. Advocate for de-escalation in the region, including demanding that Hamas release all hostages and that Israel release the over 2,000 Palestinians in administrative detention being held without charge;
  3. End unconditional military aid to Israel;
  4. Investigate whether Israel’s actions in Gaza violate the Leahy Law, prohibiting U.S. military aid from funding foreign military units implicated in the commission of gross violations of human rights;
  5. Take concrete steps to end the conditions of apartheid, occupation, and ethnic cleansing that are the root causes of this conflict.

“As your staff, we believe it is both a moral and electoral imperative for you to publicly call for a cessation of violence,” they concluded, finishing with, “Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict. It is not enough to merely be the alternative to Donald Trump.”

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Seventeen Joe Biden for President campaign staff are in open revolt against their own candidate, demanding the incumbent shift the U.S. government’s foreign policy regarding Israel and Gaza as a “moral and electoral imperative”. show more

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January 3, 2024
News

Jan 6 Wrongful Death Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Dismissed by Federal Judge.

A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death.

The lawsuit against Trump was initiated by Sandra Garza, Sicknick’s girlfriend, who sought damages for wrongful death, conspiracy to violate civil rights, and negligence under D.C’s anti-riot law. In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta wrote that Garza could not claim damages associated under the Wrongful Death Act because she was not legally Sicknick’s spouse or domestic partner.

“Garza does not allege that she and Officer Sicknick filed the requisite ‘declaration of domestic partnership’ under District of Columbia law. Nor does she claim that they formed a domestic partnership under the law of any other jurisdiction,” wrote Mehta. “Her contention that a ‘domestic partnership’ was established simply by Officer Sicknick having identified Garza as his ‘domestic partner’ in his will finds no basis in the plain text of the statute. Garza therefore cannot recover the damages she personally seeks under the Act,” the judge continued.

While this is an obvious legal victory for Trump, the former president still faces two of the civil counts in the suit, as well as a number of other legal challenges in the coming weeks. Sicknick did not die on Jan 6, as first claimed by the media, but rather later from a stroke.

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A federal judge has dismissed three of the five civil counts against former President Donald Trump and two others in connection with the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, including a claim of wrongful death. show more
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January 3, 2024
William Upton
Corruption
Election 2024

A Biden Appointee, Recently SCRUBBED From a Govt Website, is Behind Efforts to Boot Trump off The Ballot.

Joe Biden’s government continues to deny its involvement in attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in a number of U.S. states, with the leading proponent of the endeavor – Noah Bookbinder – recently quietly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website which previously featured him prominently as a Biden-Mayorkas appointee.

Bookbinder is the president and CEO of the left-wing lawfare organization known as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). The National Pulse can reveal that until just days ago, in late 2023, he appeared on the DHS website as a member of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’s ‘Advisory Council’. No rationale has been given for Bookbinder’s recent removal. The National Pulse has reached out to DHS for comment.

For at least four months, Bookbinder was serving as a political appointee under President Joe Biden while CREW funded and provided legal counsel to the petitioners. In fact, when State District Court Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled against CREW – finding the Office of the President did not fall under the purview of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment – Bookbinder was quoted promising the decision would be appealed, indicating he was playing a direct and active role in the lawsuit.

“We always knew this case would end up before the Colorado Supreme Court, and have been preparing for that from the beginning,” Bookbinder said in a press release at the time. “We are planning to build on the trial judge’s incredibly important ruling that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection, and we are ready to take this case as far as necessary to ensure that Donald Trump is removed from the ballot.”

That was on November 21st, 2023 – while Bookbinder was still listed as an active appointee in the Biden government. The Colorado Supreme Court ultimately overturned Judge Wallace’s ruling and removed Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot.

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Joe Biden's government continues to deny its involvement in attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in a number of U.S. states, with the leading proponent of the endeavor – Noah Bookbinder – recently quietly removed from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website which previously featured him prominently as a Biden-Mayorkas appointee. show more

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January 3, 2024
Crime

Prosecutors Want 6-Month Sentence for ‘Unique’ Ray Epps.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have “orchestrated” the violence in 2021.

Prosecutors filed a sentencing memo on Tuesday arguing that Epps should receive just six-months for his attempts to provoke the storming of the Capitol building. Other Jan 6th prisoners have suffered years in jail, including solitary confinement, already. Some are facing decades in prison.

Epps was widely suspected of being an agent provocateur working on behalf of the authorities, but prosecutors denied this, stating: “Other than his four years in the Marines, Epps has never been a federal agent.”

Prosecutors also say Epps attributed the rioting to undercover Antifa members in the sentencing memo.

Last year, Epps launched a defamation lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the network and its former host, Tucker Carlson, presented him as a key instigator of Jan 6, damaging his reputation and livelihood.

Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steve Sund, however, has said Carlson was not “crazy” to question to question Epps’s role on Jan 6, adding that it also “raises concern for me”.

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Federal prosecutors are recommending a mere six-month prison sentence for controversial Jan 6 defendant Ray Epps. Set to be sentenced next week, Epps submitted a guilty plea for a slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charge in September, despite having claimed to have "orchestrated" the violence in 2021. show more
January 3, 2024
Media
Science

Associated Press Takes Donation From Foreign Group Training Journos to be Climate Change Activists.

The Associated Press (AP) received a donation of $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit with a manifesto for rapid fossil fuels phase-out, according to the charity’s 2022 annual report. This gift was quietly added to AP’s current philanthropic supporters list in February 2023, despite the newswire’s self-proclamation of maintaining the “highest practicable degree of transparency” about its benefactors.

Part of the KR Foundation’s plan involves spurring media organizations to promote its climate change agenda significantly, seeking to transform journalists into “community activists on climate change.”. Consequently, the grant extended to the AP until December 2024 is earmarked for the Global Scholars Network, the newswire’s international platform. Despite AP’s assertion to uphold editorial autonomy from its donor community, its climate reportage often mirrors the Foundation’s principles. Examples include recent articles advocating the phasing-out of fossil fuels and questions on the brink of a climate breakdown.

Other beneficiaries of the KR Foundation include organizations engaged in coordinated efforts to expedite the stoppage of fossil fuels use. The foundation grants include financial aids to legal student groups urging law firms to retreat from fossil fuel representation, and to media training programs designed to create climate change activists. Notably, the KR Foundation donated over $488,000 to Children’s Radio Foundation in 2018 to mold radio journalists in Africa into climate change activists.

The AP, which claims readership of four billion people each day, committed to a sweeping climate journalism initiative in 2022, financially backed by organizations such as the Hewlett Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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The Associated Press (AP) received a donation of $300,000 from the KR Foundation, a Danish nonprofit with a manifesto for rapid fossil fuels phase-out, according to the charity’s 2022 annual report. This gift was quietly added to AP's current philanthropic supporters list in February 2023, despite the newswire’s self-proclamation of maintaining the "highest practicable degree of transparency" about its benefactors. show more
January 3, 2024
Immigration
NatSec
News

Biden Weakens Vetting Process for Chinese Illegals.

In April 2023, the Biden government significantly streamlined the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants, according to an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email, directed at approximately 500 Border Patrol agents, reduces the number of interview questions from around 40 to just five for Chinese migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S. border without authorization. This change came amidst Border Patrol agents being inundated with near-record numbers of illegal crossings.

“This policy change has accelerated the time it takes to process Chinese illegal immigrants — this doesn’t make America safer,” J.J. Carrell, a retired CBP deputy patrol agent in charge, told the Daily Caller. “The final result is that dangerous Chinese illegal immigrants will still be released into the U.S.” In response to this policy change, human smuggling operations have swiftly adapted to these new guidelines, coaching Chinese immigrants on how to respond to the reduced list of questions.

The obtained email also indicates that Chinese illegal immigrants who successfully answer the five “basic questions” may be allowed entry into the U.S. interior and given an immigration court date. Despite this, the Department of Homeland Security’s Special Interest Alien (SIA) list, used to assess potential national security risks, does not include immigrants from China. In November 2023, the backlog of U.S. immigration court cases reached over three million — an all-time high — and Border Patrol encounters with Chinese illegal immigrants have surged by over 1,000% between 2022 and 2023, according to government records.

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In April 2023, the Biden government significantly streamlined the vetting process for Chinese illegal immigrants, according to an internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email, directed at approximately 500 Border Patrol agents, reduces the number of interview questions from around 40 to just five for Chinese migrants apprehended after crossing the U.S. border without authorization. This change came amidst Border Patrol agents being inundated with near-record numbers of illegal crossings. show more