Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is pushing legislation that would reverse the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC. “My goal is to get corporate money out of our politics,” the Missouri Republican said in an interview. Hawley says the unchecked corporate influence over politics and elections as a detriment to both American workers and democracy.
His legislation would return some aspects of campaign finance law to a quasi pre-Citizens United state. Publicly traded companies would be barred from engaging in political activities like making independent expenditures and contributing to SuperPACs. Non-profit organizations would not be impacted.
The wild west of campaign finance law created by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 has allowed corporations to inject themselves into into more than just electoral politics. It is this aspect of political spending that has especially animated Hawley’s push to rein the decision in, with the Senator asserting that corporate political giving has moved beyond just backing candidates, and into backing pet liberal issues. Corporations “now want to dictate voting laws in the states” and “…dictate rules on biological men playing women’s sports,” he said.
Hawley’s biggest critique of Citizens United is that it has allowed a dangerous union of corporate and progressive money to coalesce into a Democrat dark money operation that dominates U.S. politics. Progressive groups like Arabella Advisors have been able to transform non-profits into clearing houses for individual and corporate cash and funneled that money into radical left-wing causes.
While Hawley’s legislation may garner support among political populists and some Senate Democrats, it is unlikely to receive enough support in either legislative body of Congress to reach President Joe Biden’s desk. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tore into Sen. Hawley during a meeting of Senate Republicans on Tuesday. Corporate-backed McConnell warned colleagues that anyone who backed the effort to rollback Citizens United would receive blowback from the political right.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is pushing legislation that would reverse the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC. "My goal is to get corporate money out of our politics," the Missouri Republican said in an interview. Hawley says the unchecked corporate influence over politics and elections as a detriment to both American workers and democracy.
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The number of American households classed as “food insecure” – that is, unable to meet the cost of feeding themselves on a reliable basis – is soaring at its sharpest rate since the financial crash under Joe Biden, having reached its lowest level in decades under Donald Trump.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics Research Service has reported the number of food insecure households in 2022 at 12.8 percent – “significantly higher than the 10.2 percent in 2021 and the 10.5 percent in 2020” – including 5.1 percent with “very low food security.”
The figures are even worse for households with children under 18, with their food insecurity rate rising to 17.3 percent – around 6.4 million American families.
High inflation under Joe Biden is obviously playing a major role in the crisis, with Lisa Davis of poverty-focused nonprofit Share Our Strength observing: “If you don’t pay the rent or your mortgage, you don’t have a place to live. If you don’t put gas in the car, you can’t get to work. Food is the place that folks turn when they have to tighten the belt even more.”
The number of American households classed as "food insecure" – that is, unable to meet the cost of feeding themselves on a reliable basis – is soaring at its sharpest rate since the financial crash under Joe Biden, having reached its lowest level in decades under Donald Trump.
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On day two of the case deciding whether to kick Donald trump off of the Colorado ballot, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) legal team brought their star witness to the stand – sociologist and witness-for-hire Dr. Peter Simi. An associate professor at Chapman University, Simi is a purported expert on extremist groups and political violence – boasting an over 20-year career studying the subjects.
When he’s not in the classroom – or living amongst Neo Nazis for research – Simi moonlights as a paid witness in cases that involve instances of ‘right-wing extremism’ and is a go-to quote for several corporate media outlets. According to Simi himself, he is being paid $35,000 for his testimony – and has a rate of $300 an hour as an “expert”. Simi was previously a paid witness for the Unite the Right trial over the death of Heather Heyer at the hands of white supremacist James Fields.
Testimony from Prof. Simi dominated the second day of the Colorado Trump ballot case, as the CREW-backed legal team guided the sociologist though almost three hours of testimony before cross-examination. According to Simi, former President Donald Trump had formed a political bond with right-wing extremists from the very start of his entry into politics as he “spoke their language” and wasn’t afraid to support “conspiracy theories” such as “birtherism” – the idea that Barack Obama was born outside of America and was therefore ineligible to become President. Simi also claimed that invoking the year 1776 or displaying the Betsy Ross Flag could indicate an individual is affiliated with right-wing extremism.
During his testimony, Simi insinuated that Republican politicians – not Democrats however – who reference stolen elections or corrupt elections were sending signals to extremist groups to engage in political violence. The Chapman professor also insisted that Trump’s condemnation of the violence during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was in fact an example of “double speak”, wherein Trump actually signaled support for extremists and they understood his need for creating “plausible deniability”.
Under cross examination from Scott Gessler – a member of former President Trump’s legal team – Simi’s testimony was exposed as being more conjecture and opinion than fact. Earlier in the day, Simi asserted that Trump driving his motorcade by the Million MAGA March was a signal to extremists in attendance to engage in violence. When pressed by Gessler, he admitted he was in fact not present for the march, and despite claiming that documents showed it was “Proud Boys” who instigated violence against Antifa, Simi had not included such documents in his expert report to the court.
Gessler honed in on Simi’s use of terms like “double speak”, humorously comparing the idea to the “So you’re telling me there’s a chance” scene from the popular comedy movie Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carrey’s character is unable to take the hint that his love interest isn’t all that in to him. Gessler repeatedly illustrated how Simi appeared to engineer desired conclusions through the selective use of data. Ultimately, the Chapman professor admitted he had no material evidence that Trump intended or proactively called for political violence in his speeches and rallies.
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On day two of the case deciding whether to kick Donald trump off of the Colorado ballot, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) legal team brought their star witness to the stand – sociologist and witness-for-hire Dr. Peter Simi. An associate professor at Chapman University, Simi is a purported expert on extremist groups and political violence – boasting an over 20-year career studying the subjects.
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The leftist media meltdown over Christian conservative Mike Johnson replacing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives is intensifying, with Salon.com claiming his ascension is symbolic of “the incel-ization of the modern GOP”.
An “incel” is an involuntary celibate, i.e. a person incapable of finding a sexual partner. Speaker Johnson is accused of harboring “strong incel energy” not because this appears to an issue for him – he is married with four children – but because he subscribes to Christian teaching on sexual morality, which Salon’s Amanda Marcotte characterizes as “the politics of bitter sexual obsession”.
Johnson, Salon complains, once described same-sex marriage as “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic,” adding “If only it were that exciting!” and accusing him of bigotry:
Johnson is also accused of being an incel because he opposes abortion, with Salon taking particular umbrage with his 2016 observation that “[w]hen you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, that it’s expendable, then you do wind up with school shooters.”
Johnson, for his part, has stood by all his past remarks, saying he “genuinely love[s] all people regardless of their lifestyle choices” and urging critics: “Go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it – that’s my worldview. That’s what I believe, so I do not apologize for it.”
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The leftist media meltdown over Christian conservative Mike Johnson replacing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives is intensifying, with Salon.com claiming his ascension is symbolic of "the incel-ization of the modern GOP".
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Muslim American voters are threatening to sit out the 2024 presidential election unless President Joe Biden pressures Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hamas, the terrorist group that governs the Gaza territory. Prominent Muslim political leaders in key 2024 swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania have given Biden until 5pm ET today to demand that Israel pull back its forces from Gaza and enter into talks with Hamas.
In a letter, the National Muslim Democratic Council – an organization representing the interests of Muslim voters and political leaders in the Democrat Party – warned that they will “withhold endorsement, support, or votes for any candidate who endorses the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people.” The letter directly addressed President Biden and his government’s support for Israel after the barbaric October 7th terror attack perpetrated by Hamas, stating:
Your administration’s unconditional support, encompassing funding and armaments, has played a significant role in perpetuating the violence that is causing civilian casualties and has eroded trust in voters who previously put their faith in you.
Over a million Muslim Americans voted in the 2020 presidential election, making up significant portions of the electorate in Michigan and Minnesota – 71 percent of registered Muslim voters cast a ballot in the presidential contest. In a state like Michigan, which was decided by a narrow 2.6 percent margin in 2020, a drop off in support among Muslim voters could be catastrophic for Biden’s re-election campaign. Current polls show the race in Michigan between Biden and former President Donald Trump to be a statistical dead-heat.
On October 7th, the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas launched a horrific surprise attack on neighboring Israel, resulting in the deaths of 1,400 Israeli citizens and soldiers. In addition to the Israeli deaths, 31 American citizens were also killed in the attack with others taken hostage and held in Gaza.
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Muslim American voters are threatening to sit out the 2024 presidential election unless President Joe Biden pressures Israel to accept a ceasefire with Hamas, the terrorist group that governs the Gaza territory. Prominent Muslim political leaders in key 2024 swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania have given Biden until 5pm ET today to demand that Israel pull back its forces from Gaza and enter into talks with Hamas.
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The National Archives is now saying it has located 82,000 pages of emails sent or received by known pseudonyms used by President Joe Biden. The existence of the emails, sent by Biden while serving as Vice-President under Democrat President Barack Obama, was revealed in a court filing made public earlier Monday. Previously the National Archives said they had 5,400 emails sent by Biden under a false name.
The existence of the new massive trove of pseudo-anonymous emails sent by Biden was only made public by a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit brought by the Southern Legal Foundation. “NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis,” stated a status report filed in a federal court in Georgia on Monday. “Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.”
The report continued: “NARA has identified approximately 82,000 pages of potentially responsive documents, and it is currently processing those documents and preparing any non-exempt responsive documents for production on a rolling basis.”
Three years ago, when copies Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop were accessed by members of the press, it became apparent that Biden, while serving as Vice-President, was communicating with his son regarding business decisions through the pseudo-anonymous email of “Peter Henderson“. Since then it has been revealed that Biden used multipole dummy email accounts to avoid federal disclosure laws, including robinware456@gmail.com, JRBWare@gmail.com, and Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov.
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The National Archives is now saying it has located 82,000 pages of emails sent or received by known pseudonyms used by President Joe Biden. The existence of the emails, sent by Biden while serving as Vice-President under Democrat President Barack Obama, was revealed in a court filing made public earlier Monday. Previously the National Archives said they had 5,400 emails sent by Biden under a false name.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is scheduled to stand trial on April 15, 2024 for a securities fraud case filed against him. The announcement of a trial date arrived just under two months following his acquittal in an impeachment trial, in which Paxton had faced politically motivated and vague charges of wrongdoings.
The roots of the securities fraud case date back to April 2014, preceding Paxton’s election as Attorney General. Paxton was reprimanded and fined $1,000 by the Texas Securities Board for soliciting investment clients without the necessary registration as stipulated by law. Paxton acknowledged his mistake in this case. Within the same year, he was elected as state Attorney General. Not long after taking office, namely less than seven months, Paxton was indicted by a Collin County grand jury on two counts of first-degree securities fraud and one third-degree charge of failing to register with the state securities board.
In addition to the securities fraud charges, Paxton is also dealing with a whistleblower lawsuit. Paxton, however, has denied any wrongdoing in relation to this case. The outcome of these respective trials hold considerable importance for the Attorney General’s future political career.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is scheduled to stand trial on April 15, 2024 for a securities fraud case filed against him. The announcement of a trial date arrived just under two months following his acquittal in an impeachment trial, in which Paxton had faced politically motivated and vague charges of wrongdoings.
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Strategists for Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis have reportedly been left “flabbergasted” as their attempts to smear Donald Trump over COVID lockdowns amongst other issues have not just failed to land, but actually backfired on the Florida Governor. Speaking to the Washington Post‘s Hannah Knowles, one DeSantis strategist noted that voters “were furious about lockdowns, mandates and former White House coronavirus adviserAnthony S. Fauci but were ‘simply unwilling to attach any of that blame on Trump'”.
The behaviors and attitudes of voters in fact more accurately reflect COVID history, something DeSantis and his team have clumsily attempted to rewrite. This weekend, DeSantis praised former Vice President Mike Pence, who was in fact the head of the COVID-19 taskforce which appointed Fauci and his colleague Deborah Birx, as well as taking direction from the Big Pharma-linked Alex Azar.
Conservatives are often “simply unwilling to attach any of that blame on Trump,” the Post’s source said, adding that indictments of the former president by Joe Biden’s Justice Department have strengthened grassroots resolve to defend the MAGA leader.
DeSantis’s attempts to put criticism of Trump’s approach at the heart of his campaign have put his actions in Florida under greater scrutiny. There is now greater awareness of the fact DeSantis reopened slower than the Trump White House recommended, and that DeSantis’s team called for Fauci to receive the Medal of Freedom. The Florida Governor also failed to remove the state’s own “Fauci” – Dr. Alina Alonso – despite claiming he would have removed the real Fauci from the White House.
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Strategists for Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis have reportedly been left "flabbergasted" as their attempts to smear Donald Trump over COVID lockdowns amongst other issues have not just failed to land, but actually backfired on the Florida Governor. Speaking to the Washington Post's Hannah Knowles, one DeSantis strategist noted that voters "were furious about lockdowns, mandates and former White House coronavirus adviserAnthony S. Fauci but were 'simply unwilling to attach any of that blame on Trump'".
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House Speaker Mike Johnson believes Joe Biden “very likely” committed impeachable offenses is committed to “follow the truth wherever it leads.”
Under his Speakership, Johnson said, the House investigation into whether the Biden family financially benefited from foreign connections during his time as Vice President. Johnson drew attention to possible bribery, listed in the Constitution as a reason for impeachment, saying, “Bribery’s listed there, and it looks and smells a lot like that.”
“The reason we shifted to the impeachment inquiry stage on the president himself was because if, in fact, all the evidence leads where we believe it will, that’s very likely impeachment,” he explained.
The Speaker added, however, that House Republicans are “going to engage in due process because, again, we’re the rule of law party… [P]eople are getting anxious and they’re getting restless, and they just want somebody to be impeached, but we don’t do that like the other team.”
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer is currently pressing Biden on why he received a $200,000 check from James Biden on the same day his brother received a similar amount from a U.S. health corporation.
President Biden claims the check was repayment for a loan, but Rep. Comer is demanding evidence, asking White House consel Edward Siskel to “provide the loan documents, including the loan payment, loan agreement, and any other supporting loan documentation” that would substantiate Biden’s explanation.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson believes Joe Biden "very likely" committed impeachable offenses is committed to "follow the truth wherever it leads."
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The George Soros-backed ‘Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’ (CREW) is arguing in a Colorado court this week that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot. The judge overseeing the case appears to be as equally radical-left and partisan as CREW itself.
INSURRECTION.
“Four years after taking an oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution as President of the United States… Trump tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, leading to a violent insurrection at the United States Capitol to stop the lawful transfer of power to his successor,” the CREW lawsuit states.
“By instigating this unprecedented assault on the American constitutional order, Trump violated his oath and disqualified himself under the Fourteenth Amendment from holding public office, including the Office of the President.”
During Trump’s presidency, CREW waged a campaign of frivolous lawsuits against the president and those who served his administration. Often, the lawsuits would use tortured interpretations of obscure constitutional provisions in the hopes of finding a ‘silver bullet’ that would remove either Trump himself or his appointees from office. The Soros-backed group’s novel legal arguments failed to sway any judges at the time, but a rigorous effort of “venue shopping” landed CREW a friendly judge in Colorado it appears.
JUDGE SARAH WALLACE, LEFTIST.
Colorado District Judge Sarah B. Wallace, who will hear the case this week, has a history of making partisan-liberal political donations and has openly expressed disdain for former President Donald Trump. Wallace, appointed by a Democrat governor, is a financial backer of the far-left Colorado Turnout Project (CTP) – an organization dedicated to preventing politicians who “refused to condemn the political extremists who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021″ from holding office. Wallace donated to CTP as recently as last year.
Campaign finance records show Judge Wallace has also made campaign contributions to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), the Colorado Democrat Party, former Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), and Jamie Harrison a failed Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina who now runs the Democratic National Committee (DNC). CREW, meanwhile, is a member of the Democrat dark money cartel overseen by Arabella Advisors and their network of non-profits that serve as clearing houses for contributions made by far-left foundations and liberal billionaires.
KEEPING TRUMP OFF THE BALLOT.
The 14th Amendment argument being brought by CREW against former President Trump is a novel legal theory that has been met with little enthusiasm by election officials and legal scholars in other states thus far. This past August, New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan brushed aside the idea Trump is disqualified from the ballot by the 14th Amendment. Scanlan said Trump would appear on the New Hampshire ballot along with the other qualifying candidates.
Steven Calabresi, a law professor who co-founded the Federalist Society and the originator of the argument claiming the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from the ballot, now says his idea and interpretation of the constitutional provision are wrong.
Calabresi points to the fact that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment specifically disqualifies “officers of the United States” who have taken and betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution. According to Calabresi, the President or Vice-President are not disqualified under this provision as they are the officials vested by the Constitution to appoint said “officers” and not officers themselves.
Judge Wallace has denied five separate motions by former President Trump’s legal team to dismiss the case so far. The trial, which begins today, is expected to last the entire week. If CREW prevails, it would likely be appealed all of the way to the United States Supreme Court.
The George Soros-backed 'Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington' (CREW) is arguing in a Colorado court this week that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies former President Donald Trump from the 2024 election ballot. The judge overseeing the case appears to be as equally radical-left and partisan as CREW itself.
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