California Governor Gavin Newsom has named pro-abortion activist and Maryland resident Laphonza Butler as the Golden State’s Senator-Designate to replace the late Dianne Feinstein. Butler is a black lesbian with little political experience. She will be sworn into office on Wednesday by Vice President Kamala Harris. Newsom had previousy pledged to appoint a black woman to the position.
“Laphonza has spent her entire career fighting for women and girls and has been a fierce advocate for working people,” explained Newsom in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).
Butler, 44, has hitherto served as president of EMILY’s List, a political action committee (PAC) aimed at electing pro-abortion campaigners. EMILY’s List has “bundled over $45 million” for far-left candidates or PACs, and received $1 million from George Soros during the first three months of 2020.
Butler is originally from Mississippi. She moved to Maryland, Wisconsin, and California. She had stints as an executive at Airbnb, as an advisor to Uber, and as a senior adviser to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.
“I am honored to accept Gov. Newsom’s nomination to be a U.S. Senator for a state I have long called home. I am humbled by the Governor’s trust. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s leadership and legacy are immeasurable,” said Butler after the decision was announced.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has named pro-abortion activist and Maryland resident Laphonza Butler as the Golden State's Senator-Designate to replace the late Dianne Feinstein. Butler is a black lesbian with little political experience. She will be sworn into office on Wednesday by Vice President Kamala Harris. Newsom had previousy pledged to appoint a black woman to the position.
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President Joe Biden has claimed he managed to convince the late Democratic Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, to vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act after he left the Senate in 2009. The only problem is: Thurmond died in 2003. Actually, there’s another problem. The Act passed in 1965. Okay, there’s a third problem. That was eight years before Biden even became a Delaware Senator. Oh, and Thurmond didn’t vote for it. So, four problems.
Biden — who made the claim in a recent interview with ProPublica — was perhaps talking about the Voting Rights Act reauthorization in 1982. But that still doesn’t explain his comment, which he begins with: “When I left the Senate,” before going on to explain how he was “able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act.”
Biden has long been a fantasist and plagiarist, mixing up old stories and straight up inventing others. He recently claimed to have been at Ground Zero the day after 9/11, which even CNN called “another false claim about his own past.”
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BIDEN: "When I left the Senate, I was able to convince Strom Thurmond to vote for the Voting Rights Act."
Thurmond died in 2003, while Biden didn't leave the Senate until 2009. The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, before Biden was in office. pic.twitter.com/0Xg95MWyVN
President Joe Biden has claimed he managed to convince the late Democratic Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, to vote in favor of the Voting Rights Act after he left the Senate in 2009. The only problem is: Thurmond died in 2003. Actually, there’s another problem. The Act passed in 1965. Okay, there’s a third problem. That was eight years before Biden even became a Delaware Senator. Oh, and Thurmond didn’t vote for it. So, four problems.
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Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense, is publicly fretting that Donald Trump will retaliate against those in the deep state that sought to undermine his first term as President of the United States, telling the media that he thinks those worried about retaliation have a “legitimate fear”.
Esper recalled an alleged incident where Trump “…wanted to call back to active duty Adm. McRaven and Gen. McChrystal, to court-martial them, for some things that they allegedly said in in the public domain, and Milley and I had to talk the president out of doing that, for any number of reasons.”
The comments from the former Secretary of Defense come after Trump criticized retiring General Mark Milley last week for communicating with his Chinese counterparts “…to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States.” Trump compared the betrayal by Milley to a “treasonous act.”
Media freak outs over President Trump’s criticism of the deep state are nothing new. A senior U.S. defense official communicating with a foreign military regarding the President’s thinking on diplomatic and military matters without authorization, on-the-other-hand, is a serious breach of protocol. Similarly, the corporate media has tried to stoke fear regarding plans to staff the government with political appointees who would implement the President’s agenda – something every presidential administration does.
In both instances, the corporate media is siding with anti-democratic elements in government who act against the will of the American people and the duly elected President.
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Mark Esper, the former Secretary of Defense, is publicly fretting that Donald Trump will retaliate against those in the deep state that sought to undermine his first term as President of the United States, telling the media that he thinks those worried about retaliation have a "legitimate fear".
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Over 100 Ukrainian NGOs – including those financed by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations – have signed a public appeal to demand there be no national elections in the country next year, suggesting that holding a democratic election in which Zelensky‘s position as President would be in doubt could cause a “loss of legitimacy” in the electoral process.
The NGOs made the bizarre claim that “elections alone do not constitute democracy” and that voting is not necessarily the only means of showing a country is “truly democratic.”
They also gave a number of other reasons to postpone a general election until after the war in Ukraine is over, including the inability to ensure that all voters can participate, undermining national unity, the fact that a potential Russian missile strike could make voting impossible on election day, and that it would cost too much.
Ukraine is due to hold national elections in March next year, yet remains under martial law following President Zelensky’s swift decision to introduce it hours after Russia invaded on February 24, 2022. The Ukrainian government also banned the country’s second-largest party, “For Life,” in June last year, as well as 11 others it claimed were linked to Russia.
However, there have been growing calls among Ukrainian allies to ensure the elections go ahead next year, with figures such as U.S. Congressman Lindsey Graham arguing, “I want free and fair elections to occur in this country, even under attack… I believe it’s time for Ukraine to take the next step in its democratic development.”
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Over 100 Ukrainian NGOs – including those financed by George Soros's Open Society Foundations – have signed a public appeal to demand there be no national elections in the country next year, suggesting that holding a democratic election in which Zelensky's position as President would be in doubt could cause a "loss of legitimacy" in the electoral process.
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Rep. Dean Phillips, a powerful Congressional Democrat, has warned that his party is “sleepwalking into a repeat of 2016,” in comments made during an interview with POLITICO. Phillips said he believes Democrats need to consider an alternative candidate to President Joe Biden, adding: “…we should let Americans decide who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump because clearly the data is saying a majority of Americans do not believe, unfortunately, that it is President Biden.”
The Minnesota Democrat has served in Congress since winning election 2018. During his tenure he has voted for President Biden’s agenda 100 percent of the time according to FiveThirtyEight’s congressional vote tracker. When asked if he thought Biden’s age was a hinderance, Phillips responded saying he’s focused on the data: “The numbers are saying that despite successful policy implementation… people are not pleased.”
Responding to some of his Democrat colleagues who say Party critics of Biden need to ‘chill out’, Phillips said, “In my professional life, both in the public sector and private sector, chilling out has never been a recipe for success in addressing any problem.” He later added, “…chilling out does not make for electoral success.”
Rep. Phillips said he will continue to encourage those “more proximate and prepared to run a compelling campaign” to jump into the Democrat primary and challenge Biden in the hopes an alternative will emerge – admitting he himself might end up running if no one else will.
A recent Washington Post-ABC poll showed President Biden trailing former President Trump by 10 points in the 2024 presidential race.
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Rep. Dean Phillips, a powerful Congressional Democrat, has warned that his party is "sleepwalking into a repeat of 2016," in comments made during an interview with POLITICO. Phillips said he believes Democrats need to consider an alternative candidate to President Joe Biden, adding: "...we should let Americans decide who is best positioned to beat Donald Trump because clearly the data is saying a majority of Americans do not believe, unfortunately, that it is President Biden."
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President Trump has predicted the real number of migrants entering the United States under Joe Biden will be closer to 15 million by the end of 2023. The comments came during an interview with National Pulse Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam, wherein Trump described his administration presiding over “the safest border in the history of our country,” with “the least amount of drugs in many, many decades, the least amount of human trafficking, which is a tremendous problem – but when you look at what’s taking place now… First of all, it’s not sustainable by any country, including ours, even from a cost standpoint.”
Official figures place illegal migrant encounters at around 7.6 million, but Trump’s figures also include the unknown number of entries, as well as net migration which is now back up to pre-COVID levels in the United States.
“When you look at the numbers of people coming in, and the numbers, Raheem, are much bigger than anybody understands. I really believe it’s gonna be 15 million people by the end of this year, during this administration. That’s larger than New York State,” he stressed.
“You watch ABC News and NBC News and you watch CBS, they hardly talk about it. It’s a tremendous national tragedy – and I’ll get inflation down, I’ll get the economy roaring again, I’ll do all this, but this is a hard problem that we’ve gotta take care of,” he added.
“The other day I noticed on one of the telecasts, they said Trump had no terrorist reporting, none, for a long period of time in 2019 there were none. Now we’re setting record numbers, and that’s on just one category, a thing called terrorists. Not good. Not a good category,” he emphasized.
The former president said “people from other places, other parts of the world, and even from our part of the world… cannot believe that millions of people are pouring through our borders and we have no idea who they are,” and that, thanks to Biden, it’s a problem Americans are going to be stuck with for a while.
“But we’re going to do something in terms of deportation that’s going to be a miracle. We’re going to clean up our country,” he vowed.
President Trump has predicted the real number of migrants entering the United States under Joe Biden will be closer to 15 million by the end of 2023. The comments came during an interview with National Pulse Editor in Chief Raheem Kassam, wherein Trump described his administration presiding over "the safest border in the history of our country," with "the least amount of drugs in many, many decades, the least amount of human trafficking, which is a tremendous problem – but when you look at what's taking place now... First of all, it's not sustainable by any country, including ours, even from a cost standpoint."
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The Georgia state senator who has lead calls for a special session to investigate and remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ousted from the Republican State Senate Caucus by his colleagues this week.
“Today’s removal is a direct result of me calling on my Republican colleagues in the Senate to do their job and sign onto an emergency session to investigate Fani Willis,” Sen. Colton Moore said. “The Georgia Constitution clearly outlines the legislature’s power to call an emergency session to investigate a judicial officer. After urging my Republican Senate colleagues to join me… they responded by acting like children and throwing me out of the caucus.”
Moore has been a vocal opponent of Willis’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 others under Georgia’s RICO statute for allegedly interfering with the 2020 presidential election. In August, Moore announced he would seek the 3/5ths support of both houses of Georgia’s legislature to force a special session to investigate Willis for pushing a partisan and politically motivated prosecution. Moore said he believes “…[th]e people of Georgia are 100 percent with me. This is the fight of our lifetime, and I will continue to double down to defend the rule of law and do what is right.”
Earlier this summer, Willis secured indictments against Donald Trump and others including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney John Eastman, and former Department of Justice attorney Jeffery Clark. Last month Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp brushed off calls to remove Willis as district attorney, stating in a press conference: “Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that DA Willis’s actions – or lack thereof – warrant action by the Prosecuting Attorney Oversight Commission.”
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The Georgia state senator who has lead calls for a special session to investigate and remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was ousted from the Republican State Senate Caucus by his colleagues this week.
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Ron DeSantis booster Dave Rubin has denounced Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake as an “election denier” in the latest example of the Florida Governor’s camp weaponizing leftist smears against America First conservatives.
Lake, who shared Donald Trump’s concerns about the conduct of the 2020 election, became one of the election integrity movement’s leading lights after her own run for Governor of Arizona, successfully exposing major flaws in mail-in ballot signature verification in the Grand Canyon State.
By dismissing her as an “election denier” Rubin chose to play into the leftist narrative that conservatives with concerns about mail-in ballots, voting machines, and other questionable elements in the election processes are cranks.
Ouch, I’ve been unfollowed by election denier @KariLake for sharing her obvious lies about Florida and DeSantis.
Ironically she came up to me at the debate yesterday and said, “Don’t take it personally.”
Rubin formerly identified with the “progressive left,” hosting the Hot Gay Comics podcast and working for the far-left Young Turks, but began courting a conservative audience after Donald Trump’s election in 2016, styling himself as a “classical liberal”.
He has proven a strange fit for Team DeSantis, with Jenna Ellis, one of the Florida Governor’s leading online surrogates, having previously criticized him for using a surrogate mother to procure children for himself and his gay “husband.”
Lake appears to be a particular target for DeSantis, with the candidate himself attacking her on the far left Bill Maher show on Friday, and another of his “influencers” chasing after while screaming outside the GOP debate this week.
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Ron DeSantis booster Dave Rubin has denounced Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake as an "election denier" in the latest example of the Florida Governor's camp weaponizing leftist smears against America First conservatives.
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Former IRS consultant Charles Littlejohn, 38, has been charged with disclosing former President Trump’s tax returns to the New York Times, according to federal prosecutors.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that Littlejohn disclosed the tax returns of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals” to news organizations and shared tax information involving a “high-ranking government official” with another news outlet.
The second news organization was identified as Pro Publica, a nonprofit leftist group based in New York City.
Littlejohn allegedly stole the tax returns between 2018 and 2020, with the returns dating back more than 15 years, as stated in court documents. He has been charged with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is currently investigating the case.
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Former IRS consultant Charles Littlejohn, 38, has been charged with disclosing former President Trump's tax returns to the New York Times, according to federal prosecutors.
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Late last night, House Republicans were able to advance three of 12 appropriations bills that would fund the government for the next fiscal year – making it four total spending bills that have now been advanced to the Senate. The sudden advancement of the appropriations bills adds a new wrinkle to the fight over the federal budget on Capitol Hill with just over 24 hours left before a potential government shutdown.
The bills passed included funding for State Department and Foreign Operations, Defense, and Homeland Security and would fund roughly 70 percent of the government. The appropriations bill funding the Veterans Administration and Veteran Healthcare was passed prior to last night. The Agriculture appropriations bill failed to secure a majority of votes and will be further amended before it is reconsidered.
In the Senate, Democrats and establishment Republicans led by Mitch McConnell are preparing to vote through a Continuing Resolution (CR) that would fund the government at current spending levels – including $6.4 billion for Ukraine. The Senate will vote on final passage of the CR tomorrow morning, even though the legislation has been declared dead-on-arrival in the House because of the bloated Ukraine spending. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) is whipping Republicans to strip out the Ukraine funding, with Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Dr. Roger Marshall (R-KS) joining him. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is rumored to be pushing his own clean CR proposal that does not include Ukraine funding.
In all likelihood the government will, for a time, shutdown.
Senate Democrats led by Chuck Schumer are unlikely to take up the House passed appropriations bills. The death of Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), along with Sens Tina Smith (D-MN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) – both sidelined with COVID – leaves Republicans effectively in control of the upper-legislative body with 49 members to the Democrats 47. Despite this temporary advantage Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not indicated that he will seek to advance the House budget bills either.
As House Republicans continue to work on the remaining appropriations legislation, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) attempted to advance a 30-day Continuing Resolution that would temporarily fund the government at pre-COVID levels, including the border security bill. The new House leadership-backed CR passed a critical procedural hurdle but was ultimately defeated this afternoon by a block of conservative members including Reps. Gaetz, Buck, Boebert, Crane, Gosar, Mills, Rosendale, and Ogles. The pre-COVID spending levels was one of the key demands made by a faction of members in the House Freedom Caucus that had opposed a separate CR last week.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden continues to refuse to meet with House Republicans, even as they work to move the remaining appropriations bills.
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Late last night, House Republicans were able to advance three of 12 appropriations bills that would fund the government for the next fiscal year – making it four total spending bills that have now been advanced to the Senate. The sudden advancement of the appropriations bills adds a new wrinkle to the fight over the federal budget on Capitol Hill with just over 24 hours left before a potential government shutdown.
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