Wednesday, September 10, 2025

MSNBC: Third-Party Candidates ‘A Threat to Our Democracy.’

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, Tara Setmayer, former CNN commentator and senior adviser to The Lincoln Project, said that third-party presidential candidates are “a threat to our democracy.”

“I think that third-party candidates are spoilers. I mean, history could potentially repeat itself again, and now more than ever, the idea of a third party is a threat to our democracy.” Setmayer remarked during a discussion about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent campaign.

Setmayer’s assertion that giving voters in a democracy more choices in elections is a threat to democracy is odd, as The Lincoln Project is, in its own words, “dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy.” Observers have noted, however, that the phrase “threat to democracy” is increasingly becoming a catchall used by globalists to describe anything with which they disagree and threatens the globalist power structure.

“You’ll see over the course of the next couple of months. Basically, everything is a threat to democracy,” National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam noted in a January interview with Steve Bannon. “The oxygen you breathe will be a threat to democracy, elections, casting your vote — that’s a threat to democracy. Every single thing that isn’t globalism writ large is a threat to democracy in their terms, in their words,” Kassam said.

In a speech marking the third anniversary of the Jan 6 riots, Joe Biden said that “democracy” is at stake in the 2024 presidential election, a sentiment echoed by Setmayer, who also said during her Wednesday MSNBC appearance that “Donald Trump is a threat to our democratic system.”

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During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, Tara Setmayer, former CNN commentator and senior adviser to The Lincoln Project, said that third-party presidential candidates are “a threat to our democracy." show more

Democrat Organizer Charged with Mail-In Ballot Fraud.

Democratic Party organizer Craig Callaway, former President of the City Council of Atlantic City, has been arrested for “depriving, defrauding, and attempting to deprive and defraud the residents of the state of New Jersey of a fair and impartially conducted election process by the fraudulent procurement, casting, and tabulation of ballots. “

The Justice Department accuses the 64-year-old Democrat of approaching Atlantic City residents and offering to pay them $30 to $50 to act as “authorized messengers” for voters who “supposedly wished to vote by mail” in 2022.

Once recruited, these “messengers” would bring Vote-By-Mail Applications to county officials and have them approved. However, instead of taking the mail-in ballots officials provided to the voters on the applications, as required by law, Callaway’s messengers “handed the ballots to Callaway or his subordinates.”

“Many of the mail-in ballots collected by Callaway or his subordinates were ultimately cast in the names of people who have confirmed that they did not vote in the 2022 General Election — either in person or by submitting a mail-in ballot — and that they did not authorize Callaway, his subordinates, or anyone else, to cast ballots for them,” the Justice Department says, confirming that “[m]any of these mail-in ballots were counted towards in the election.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) censored social media users who questioned the integrity of mail-in voting in 2020.

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Democratic Party organizer Craig Callaway, former President of the City Council of Atlantic City, has been arrested for “depriving, defrauding, and attempting to deprive and defraud the residents of the state of New Jersey of a fair and impartially conducted election process by the fraudulent procurement, casting, and tabulation of ballots. “ show more

Biden Govt Classes Martha’s Vineyard as ‘Low-Income’ So It Qualifies for Subsidized EV Chargers.

The Joe Biden regime has classified elite getaways, including Martha’s Vineyard, as “low-income” in an effort to qualify them for an electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy program under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The EV charger tax credit program was supposed to allocate subsidies to “low-income” or “non-urban” areas.

An examination of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) eligibility map identified several upscale areas deemed “low-income” by the regime, allowing them to receive EV charger subsidies. To be seen as “low-income,” areas must either have a poverty rate of over 20 percent, a median income beneath 80 percent of their wider metropolitan region’s median family income, or not be linked to any particular metro area.

Somehow, affluent areas such as the resort destination of Nantucket Island and the Vineyard Haven section of Martha’s Vineyard have met these criteria. Other wealthy areas identified as “low-income” include sections of Cape Cod, areas of New York City’s Upper East Side, Rehoboth Beach in Delaware, and Beverly Hills.

Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama, and his wife, Michelle, are among the best-known residents of Martha’s Vineyard, where they own an $11.75 million mansion and estate.

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The Joe Biden regime has classified elite getaways, including Martha’s Vineyard, as “low-income” in an effort to qualify them for an electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy program under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The EV charger tax credit program was supposed to allocate subsidies to “low-income” or “non-urban” areas. show more

Netherlands STILL Has No Govt Despite Election Winner Wilders Making MASSIVE Concessions in Coalition Talks.

Attempts to form a populist-right government in the Netherlands helmed by Geert Wilders have failed despite Wilders making massive concessions to potential coalition partners.

Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) claimed victory in the country’s November parliamentary elections, campaigning on a populist platform that included cutting immigration and de-Islamification efforts. He was in talks with Pieter Omtzigt, leader of the New Social Contract party, Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, who helms the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), and Caroline van der Plas, leader of the Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB). Were a coalition agreement to be reached, it would have given the partners a comfortable majority in the lower house of the Dutch parliament.

In January, Wilders made significant concessions to his potential governing partners, withdrawing draft legislation that included bans on mosques, Islamic schools, and the Quran.

The talks came to a premature end after Omtzigt withdrew from the process, a move that shocked Wilders, Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, and van der Plas. “Incredibly disappointing. The Netherlands wants this Cabinet and now Pieter Omtzigt is throwing in the towel while we were still in discussions until today. I don’t understand it at all,” Wilders wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday night before telling reporters Wednesday that he was “shocked and surprised” by Omtzigt’s move.

However, Omtzigt has not entirely ruled out involvement in the next government, saying that his party “continues to work constructively but carefully to form a government that effectively tackles the country’s urgent problems. This can be done, for example, by providing constructive support to a minority Cabinet or a broad extra-parliamentary Cabinet.”

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Attempts to form a populist-right government in the Netherlands helmed by Geert Wilders have failed despite Wilders making massive concessions to potential coalition partners. show more

REPORT: Italy’s Meloni Convinced Hungary’s Orban to Back Ukraine.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has emerged as a critical partner for European Union (EU) elites. She has reportedly turned her back on the populist-nationalist philosophy that got her elected and is working to temper other European leaders’ conservative instincts. Meloni campaigned as an anti-EU nationalist but has governed as a pro-EU moderate.

When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vowed to block a new round of EU funding for Ukraine late last month, Meloni stepped in and got the Hungarian leader to back down. The two leaders met for drinks just before the European Union summit, where it was believed Orban would attempt to derail the EU’s Ukraine fund. The Hungarian told Meloni he felt other European leaders singled him out over his embrace of political populism and Hungarian nationalism. Meloni played a sympathetic ear to Orban, telling him she had experienced similar ostracism.

Meloni, however, encouraged Orban to work within the EU — insisting the European political right could achieve its goals within the group rather than without. This strategy led to decades of disappointment for the United Kingdom, which voted to leave the European Union after achieving no reforms over 20+ years. Orban dropped his opposition to the Ukraine funding plan at the start of the summit on February 1st.

The European political elite increasingly sees Meloni as someone who can help diffuse and head off potential political conflicts with the continent’s increasingly nationalist political right. Over the past year, she’s backed EU-supported electric car subsidies and dropped her support for curbing legal immigration to Europe. Meloni has also established herself as one of Europe’s most hawkish leaders in support of Ukraine.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has emerged as a critical partner for European Union (EU) elites. She has reportedly turned her back on the populist-nationalist philosophy that got her elected and is working to temper other European leaders' conservative instincts. Meloni campaigned as an anti-EU nationalist but has governed as a pro-EU moderate. show more

Biden WH Developing AI to Censor Americans.

The Biden regime is spending millions to create AI tools that can be used to “combat mis/disinformation” on social media, targeting veterans and people in rural communities.

The details: House Republicans released a report yesterday highlighting how the regime’s National Sciences Foundation (NSF) has distributed millions of dollars in funding to elite universities under a program called “Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems.”

Their goal is to create tools that can identify “misinformation” that targets people with “vulnerabilities to disinformation methods.”

Who are those people with ‘vulnerabilities’? One MIT researcher on the project specifically referred to “military veterans, older adults, military families” and those in “rural and indigenous communities.” So conservatives…

  • This researcher told the NSF that “broad swaths of the public cannot effectively sort truth from fiction online.”

What sort of “misinformation” are they targeting? A researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said they were focused on “skepticism regarding the integrity of U.S. elections and hesitancy related to COVID-19 vaccines.”

Big picture: While we don’t know what the timeline or end game is for this project, the legitimate concern is that it could be deployed by social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube ahead of the 2024 election to censor information that the regime deems unfavorable – just like they did with the Hunter Biden laptop story days before the 2020 election.

What happens next? House Republicans have subpoenaed the Biden regime agency, demanding their director Sethuraman Panchanathan “hand over all internal records discussing the suppression or restriction of online content.”

This article is adapted from the free ‘Wake Up Right’ newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.

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McConnell Says He’ll Cling On, Says Haters ‘Had Their Shot.’

Despite recent calls from his Republican colleagues to step down as Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has expressed his intention to remain in power.

“I’ve had a small group of persistent critics the whole time I’ve been in this job. They had their shot,” McConnell said in an interview with POLITICO, referring to Sen. Rick Scott’s (R-FL) challenge to his leadership in 2022.

Much has changed since 2022, however. McConnell now faces increasing criticism from his Republican colleagues regarding the Ukraine-Border supplemental funding bill. The Senate Minority Leader blamed the same “persistent critics” for the bill’s lack of hope of passage in the Senate.

“The reason we’ve been talking about the border is because they wanted to, the persistent critics,” said McConnell. “You can’t pass a bill without dealing with a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate.”

McConnell’s critics contend, however, that the ‘deal’ negotiated under McConnell’s watch contained nothing for Republicans to rally behind. While the ‘border bill’ provides billions of dollars in aid for Ukraine and Israel, it does little to secure the border.

“I think a Republican leader should actually lead this conference and should advance the priorities of Republicans,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)  said during a Tuesday press conference in which he called for McConnell to step down. Last year, a poll found that 75 percent of Republicans wanted McConnell to relinquish his Senate leadership position.

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Despite recent calls from his Republican colleagues to step down as Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has expressed his intention to remain in power. show more

OK GOP Seeks Ban on State Promotion of ‘Pride.’

Oklahoma Republicans have introduced a bill that would ban state funding of the promotion of radical LGBTQ+ ideology, including so-called ‘pride’ celebrations, and prohibit the display of flags associated with the radical LGBTQ+ movement from being displayed on state property.

The “Patriotism Not Pride Act,” HB 3217, introduced by Oklahoma state Rep. Kevin West (R) and state Sen. David Bullard (R), prohibits state funds being “used by any agency to develop, organize, administer, engage in, promote, or endorse any activity, including any event, initiative, official communication, social media post, educational program, or public campaign, that aims to promote or recognize Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Pride Month or any event with a similar theme.”

The act further states that “No flag that represents sexual orientation or gender identity may be displayed by an agency on state property or grounds.”

“Oklahoma taxpayer dollars should not be used to promote or recognize activities that are not in line with the values of most Oklahomans,” said West. “These groups would still have the freedom to express their views or opinions or tell the world about their lifestyle choices, they would simply not be able to use state resources to do so,” he explained.

The bill marks Oklahoma as the third state — after Florida and Tennessee — to introduce legislation to curtail state sponsorship of radical LGTBQ+ ideology, as Americans are increasingly pushing back against a movement many believe is trying to groom children for sexual exploitation.

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Oklahoma Republicans have introduced a bill that would ban state funding of the promotion of radical LGBTQ+ ideology, including so-called 'pride' celebrations, and prohibit the display of flags associated with the radical LGBTQ+ movement from being displayed on state property. show more
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Speaker Johnson Dumps DeSantis PAC Consultant Jeff Roe.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) re-election campaign quietly cut ties in late October with its fundraising consulting firm, Fundraising, Inc. The Republican-aligned fundraising company is a subsidiary of Jeff Roe’s Axiom Strategies. Shortly after winning the Speakership, Johnson was told by several House Republican colleagues — at the urging of Trump campaign aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles — that it would be prudent to end his campaign’s use of Roe-affiliated companies.

The departure of Johnson as a client of a Jeff Roe-controlled campaign firm is a significant blow to the high-profile Republican political consultant and Axiom Strategies. Meanwhile, some in former President Donald Trump’s inner circle are ramping up efforts to encourage Republican candidates to drop Roe, who had run the Ron DeSantis campaign-aligned SuperPAC Never Back Down. Roe resigned from his role with the SuperPAC in mid-December after infighting between Roe and DeSantis confidant Scott Wagner became public — effectively sidelining the massive pro-DeSantis operation just before the Iowa Caucus. DeSantis dropped out of the Republican presidential primary just one month later.

Roe, known for his bravado, has increasingly rubbed some in Republican Party political circles the wrong way. Critics allege Roe cares more about money than winning his client’s campaigns. They point to his penchant for bragging to potential business investors that Axiom’s network of companies can capture most of a candidate’s campaign spending.

While Roe and his Axiom team ran Never Back Down, nearly half of the SuperPAC’s spending flowed through Roe’s companies. Campaign finance data suggests the pro-DeSantis operation squandered millions in donor dollars paying political consultants — dangerously bloating the SuperPAC’s operating costs. Only a fraction of the budget was spent on tangible campaign efforts.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) re-election campaign quietly cut ties in late October with its fundraising consulting firm, Fundraising, Inc. The Republican-aligned fundraising company is a subsidiary of Jeff Roe's Axiom Strategies. Shortly after winning the Speakership, Johnson was told by several House Republican colleagues — at the urging of Trump campaign aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles — that it would be prudent to end his campaign's use of Roe-affiliated companies. show more
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Top DeSantis Ally Rep. Massie Calls McCarthy Ouster ‘An Unmitigated Disaster.’

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) said on Wednesday that the successful effort last October to oust Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House “has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster.” The Kentucky Republican — a top ally of Ron DeSantis’s failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination — made the remark in a post on X (formerly Twitter), expressing frustration with the leadership of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

“Getting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster,” Massie said before claiming McCarthy’s ouster derailed the House Republican agenda: “All work on separate spending bills has ceased. Spending reductions have been traded for spending increases. Warrantless spying has been temporarily extended. Our majority has shrunk.”

After receiving some pushback for seemingly expressing his support for McCarthy’s leadership as Speaker, the Kentucky Congressman challenged his critics to “[n]ame one thing that’s improved under the new Speaker.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz, who led the effort to remove McCarthy as Speaker, responded to Massie’s challenge, pointing to the fact Speaker Jonhnson has thus far resisted efforts to pass renewed funding for Ukraine — a measure backed by McCarthy. Following his initial response, Gaetz added: “McCarthy lied to us, made secret side deals, increased spending, got rolled by Biden, and shrunk our majority by quitting when he couldn’t run the place.” Other social media users pointed to Speaker Johnson upholding his promise to release the January 6th U.S. Capitol security camera footage to the public.

At the start of the new Congress, Massie described himself as a “barely Kevin” when asked if he’d back McCarthy’s bid for Speaker. He voted in favor of McCarthy fifteen times during the January 2023 election for House Speaker.

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Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) said on Wednesday that the successful effort last October to oust Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House “has officially turned into an unmitigated disaster.” The Kentucky Republican — a top ally of Ron DeSantis’s failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination — made the remark in a post on X (formerly Twitter), expressing frustration with the leadership of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). show more