Members of several parties in the Germanparliament are set to introduce a motion to begin the process of banning the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently seeing success after success in regional elections. More than the 37 German lawmakers required to introduce the motion support it, including members of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and their Green coalition partners, the Left Party, and the notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel.
The parliament cannot outright ban political parties by itself, so the motion calls on the German Constitutional Court to begin proceedings to ban the AfD. It also argues that the AfD should be cut off from all public party financing.
However, not all lawmakers support the motion. SPD politician Gesine Schwan warns the ban process could be “politically counterproductive” and actually increase public support for the AfD.
Sahra Wagenknecht, whose left-populist BSW party has also seen recent election success, called the move “the stupidest application of the year.” While economically left-wing, Wagenknecht shares some of the same concerns about mass migration as the AfD and is seen as socially conservative on many issues.
German politicians have been talking about banning the AfD for at least a year, with CDU lawmaker Marco Wanderwitz drafting legislation last October. Since then, the AfD has come second in state elections in Saxony and Brandenburg and finished first in Thuringia. Support among the German youth is surging for the party, with some polls showing it to be the most popular among young voters.
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Members of several parties in the German parliament are set to introduce a motion to begin the process of banning the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is currently seeing success after success in regional elections. More than the 37 German lawmakers required to introduce the motion support it, including members of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and their Green coalition partners, the Left Party, and the notionally center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) formerly led by Angela Merkel.
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A new poll shows that over half (53 percent) of the British Conservative (Tory) Party’s members favor joining forces with Brexit leader Nigel Farage and his populist Reform Party. Compiled by the Popular Conservatism (PopCon) organization, the poll indicates that 70 percent of respondents favor a closer relationship with Nigel Farage’s party if not an outright merger.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg, head of communications at PopCon and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Reform’s predecessor, the Brexit Party, said of the results: “Every Conservative activist and canvasser knows people who had been Tories but voted Reform UK in July.”
Rees-Mogg’s brother, Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a former Cabinet minister for the Conservatives, previously urged the party to consider an electoral pact with Reform.
Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, he suggested the Conservatives should step aside in nearly 100 constituencies where Reform had finished second to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party in the last election. Rees-Mogg argued that a strategic alliance with Reform would benefit both parties.
The Conservatives, currently amidst a leadership contest, experienced a massive loss in parliamentary seats after Britain’s July 4 snap election. Reform garnered millions of votes, many of which were from young voters. The party even outperformed the Tories with voters under 30.
Last month at the Reform Party conference, Farage did not mention a possible alliance with the Tories but said he wanted to professionalize the party.
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A new poll shows that over half (53 percent) of the British Conservative (Tory) Party's members favor joining forces with Brexit leader Nigel Farage and his populist Reform Party. Compiled by the Popular Conservatism (PopCon) organization, the poll indicates that 70 percent of respondents favor a closer relationship with Nigel Farage's party if not an outright merger.
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A guest of the far-left MSNBC network claims that Hispanic voters are turning toward former President Donald J. Trump because they “want to be white” instead of being associated with immigrants. Maria Hinojosa, a host on the publicly funded broadcaster NPR, argues that the surge of support for Trump among Latinos is due to them wanting to be white, saying, “Latinos want to be white. They want to be with the cool kids.”
Hinojosa alleges many Hispanics “don’t want to be identified with all of those other immigrants that Donald Trump speaks so badly of, including me as a Mexican immigrant, so they’re like, ‘Let’s be with him.’”
Hinojosa admits that Hispanic support for Trump is a major issue for Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign, saying it could even cost Harris the election in November.
Her comments come just months after leftist journalist and author Paola Ramos bizarrely claimed that “white supremacist tendencies” are driving Latino support for Trump.
“We can be minorities, but we too can perpetuate racism. Latinos, particularly the more generations are in this country, are not immune to nativism,” Ramos said.
In July, a report revealed that Latinos, who make up 20 percent of Nevada’s overall voters, are turning away from the Democrats, largely over immigration issues and the disastrous border policies of the Biden-Harris regime. A poll released in June revealed that as many as two-thirds of Hispanic voters want illegal immigrants deported back to their home countries.
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A guest of the far-left MSNBC network claims that Hispanic voters are turning toward former President Donald J. Trump because they "want to be white" instead of being associated with immigrants. Maria Hinojosa, a host on the publicly funded broadcaster NPR, argues that the surge of support for Trump among Latinos is due to them wanting to be white, saying, "Latinos want to be white. They want to be with the cool kids."
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Austria’s populist Freedom Party (FPOe) achieved its largest election success in the party’s history on Sunday, September 29, as young voters flocked to support the anti-mass migration party and its “remigration” policies. The FPOe won 29.2 percent of the national vote, beating their previous record of 26.9 percent back in 1999 when the party entered a coalition government as the junior partner of the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OeVP).
Herbert Kickl, leader of the FPOe and an ally of Hungary’s Viktor Orban in the European Union (EU), ran on an anti-mass migration platform and endorsed the concept of “remigration,” which could see large-scale deportations of illegal aliens and possibly incentives for migrants to return to their home countries.
“These invaders want to harm us, endanger our security and our prosperity,” Kickl said during the election campaign, calling for “Fortress Austria.”
The FPOe has become very popular among young voters, attaining first place among those under the age of 34 and winning 37 percent of the vote among those aged 35 to 59.
Despite winning the election, Kickl and his party will have to form a coalition government with another party for a majority in the Austrian parliament. Unlike Germany‘s Alternative for Germany (AfD) and France’s National Rally (RN), there is no so-called cordon sanitaire against the Austrian populists, with all other parties colluding to shut them out of office. This means there is a realistic prospect the FPOe could form a government with the center-right OeVP.
The OeVP last formed a coalition with the FPOe in 2017, which lasted until 2019. However, the OeVP was the senior partner in that coalition, and it is unclear whether it would accept a junior role with Kickl rather than an OeVP politician becoming Chancellor.
The Social Democrats, Greens, and liberal NEOS group have all ruled out working with the FPOe.
Austria national parliament election today: Final seat count: FPÖ-PfE: 56 (+25) ÖVP-EPP: 52 (-19) SPÖ-S&D: 41 (+1) NEOS-RE: 18 (+3) GRÜNE-G/EFA: 16 (-10) +/- vs. last election
Austria's populist Freedom Party (FPOe) achieved its largest election success in the party's history on Sunday, September 29, as young voters flocked to support the anti-mass migration party and its "remigration" policies. The FPOe won 29.2 percent of the national vote, beating their previous record of 26.9 percent back in 1999 when the party entered a coalition government as the junior partner of the center-right Austrian People's Party (OeVP).
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Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) published a detailed letter on Thursday to the House Ethics Committee declaring he will no longer cooperate in the investigation against him. The letter and its attached exhibits provide overwhelming evidence that the ethics investigations star witness Joel Greenberg fabricated allegations that Gaetz engaged in drug use and sexual contact with a 17-year-old female as part of an effort to get his criminal prison sentence reduced.
Additionally, Gaetz accuses the committee of purposefully circumventing several procedural norms to prolong the ethics investigation past its typical limit as an act of political retribution.
“It seems the fix is in,” Gaetz writes to the House Ethics Committee. He adds: “The Committee has refused to establish an Investigative Subcommittee, as is customary, perhaps because doing so would have time-limited this investigation long ago, and diluted the influence of those on the full committee who are seeking revenge.” Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has pursued several attempts to remove Gaetz from Congress stemming from the latter’s successful ouster of the California Republican from power last year.
The Florida Congressman notes that the Ethics Committee has repeatedly “released public statements which cast [him] in a negative light” but chosen to ignore the plethora of exculpatory evidence he has provided. In a significant revelation, Gaetz details testimony from a jailhouse informant who has provided testimony that exonerates him entirely.
According to the informant who met Joel Greenberg in prison, the disgraced Florida politician—who is in prison for sex trafficking and financial fraud—is colluding with his victim to frame Gaetz. Greenberg hopes that by offering damning testimony—notably absent physical evidence—against Gaetz, federal officials will see fit to reduce his prison sentence. Additionally, the informant states that Greenberg’s sex trafficking victim, at the time a 17-year-old female, is working with Greenberg in exchange for monetary compensation.
Gaetz’s letter cites a Florida civil lawsuitrevealing textmessages Greenberg sent in which he claims to be paying for his victim’s own attorneys. In addition, Gaetz notes that he has provided the committee with evidence that the 17-year-old has subsequently sought monetary compensation from Greenberg in exchange for her backing his accusations.
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) published a detailed letter on Thursday to the House Ethics Committee declaring he will no longer cooperate in the investigation against him. The letter and its attached exhibits provide overwhelming evidence that the ethics investigations star witness Joel Greenberg fabricated allegations that Gaetz engaged in drug use and sexual contact with a 17-year-old female as part of an effort to get his criminal prison sentence reduced.
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Far-left blogger Ken Klippenstein has published an internal campaign vetting dossier on the 2024 Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH). Klippenstein, who previously worked as a journalist with The Intercept and the far-left progressive commentary web show The Young Turks, posted the material believed to have been hacked by the Islamic Republic of Iran on his Substack on Thursday. The National Pulse is choosing not to link to the dossier, given the plethora of personal information contained therein.
The dossier published by Klippenstein contains a bevy of private information belonging to Vance, including his social security number, personal phone number, physical addresses, and private email addresses. Klippenstein made no effort to conceal other private details and contact information for the vice presidential nominee, potentially constituting a threat to Vance and his family.
The 271-page document itself is fairly typical for any campaign’s vetting process. It raises several concerns about past policy positions and statements and weighs how these may impact the presidential ticket. The vetting materials make note of Vance’s early opposition to President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 campaign and some concerns over his ‘conservative’ bona fides.
Throughout the vetting document, Vance is revealed to be far less radically right-wing than portrayed by national Democrats and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. The Ohio Republican comes across as thoughtful and open to a wide array of policies and ideological propositions.
While the materials do not appear to be the explosive exposé alluded to by some members of the corporate media who received the documents from Iranian agents who hacked the Trump campaign, the publishing of private and personal details is concerning. The American intelligence community has made it abundantly clear that there is a concerted effort by the Iranian Islamist regime aimed at assassinating President Trump in order to prevent him from retaking the White House.
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Far-left blogger Ken Klippenstein has published an internal campaign vetting dossier on the 2024 Republican Party's vice presidential nominee, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH). Klippenstein, who previously worked as a journalist with The Intercept and the far-left progressive commentary web show The Young Turks, posted the material believed to have been hacked by the Islamic Republic of Iran on his Substack on Thursday. The National Pulse is choosing not to link to the dossier, given the plethora of personal information contained therein.
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Federal agents searched New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘s official residence, Gracie Mansion, early Thursday morning. The operation occurred just hours before the indictment against the Democratic Party politician was unsealed.
Mayor Adams’s attorney, Alex Spiro, stated that agents arrived at 6 AM to retrieve the mayor’s phone, which had already been seized once during the investigation late last year. Meanwhile, the unsealed indictment against Adams reveals the New York City mayor faces five counts ranging from wire fraud to bribery to accepting campaign donations from a foreign national.
The indictment alleges that Adams knowingly solicited campaign contributions from Turkish foreign nationals beginning in 2018 in the lead-up to his 2021 run for mayor. Federal prosecutors further allege that Adams and his campaign conspired to hide the illegal contributions through straw donors and fake paper trails, concealing the criminal activity. In exchange for financial support from representatives of the Turkish government, Adams pressured officials in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) to approve Turkey’s consulate building in Manhattan despite safety issues.
Furthermore, the indictment alleges that Adams used illegal foreign donations to fraudulently increase the public matching funds his campaign received in the 2021 election. In addition, federal prosecutors claim the New York City mayor received not just financial kickbacks through the campaign finance scheme but was granted other benefits from Turkish officials, including free or discounted travel on Turkish Airlines.
The charging document contains a bevy of evidence detailing Adams’s free luxury hotel stays and transportation clandestinely provided by the Turkish government. Already, several individuals close to the New York City mayor have either been raided by federal law enforcement, forced to resign, or pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges.
Federal agents searched New York City Mayor Eric Adams's official residence, Gracie Mansion, early Thursday morning. The operation occurred just hours before the indictment against the Democratic Party politician was unsealed.
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Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—chairman and CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—is taking on the services of establishment Republican money man Brian Baker to help smooth relations with GOP lawmakers and center-right think tankers in Washington, D.C. Baker is no stranger to the Facebook co-founder and billionaire, having helped Zuckerberg’s so-called “election infrastructure” efforts during the 2022 midterm elections.
Baker has a long history in Republican establishment politics in Washington, D.C., serving as the political money man for the billionaire Ricketts family out of Nebraska for over a decade. Former Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (R) currently sits in the U.S. Senate as one of the state’s two Republican senators. The family also owns the Chicago Cubs professional baseball franchise.
Additionally, Baker—a Chicago, Illinois native—heads Ending Spending, Inc., a nonprofit group that engages in electioneering. In 2017, Ending Spending, Inc. paid Baker $3 million.
The GOP establishment money man is a fixture—alongside lobbyists for companies like Apple, Comcast, and Microsoft—at political fundraisers around the nation’s capital, with many center-right think tanks and candidates hoping to gain access to the Ricketts family wealth. His longstanding ties on Capitol Hill and history as a conduit for wealthy GOP donor money will undoubtedly make Baker an effective force of influence for Zuckerberg and Meta.
Prior to the 2016 election, Baker was a staunch opponent of Donald J. Trump. Though following the America First leader’s Republican primary victory, Baker eventually formed a SuperPAC focused on funding anti-Hillary Clinton campaign advertisements.
ZUCKBUCKS & ELECTION INTERFERENCE.
Zuckerberg’s relationship with America’s political right has deteriorated drastically since the 2020 presidential election. The Meta CEO has been accused by many on the right of using his vast wealth and companies to interfere in American elections.
He admitted that his social media platform, Facebook, was pressured by the Biden-Harris government to censor Americans who posted about the COVID-19 pandemic on his website. Additionally, the tech billionaire acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had warned them about potential Russian disinformation regarding Burisma and the Biden family, which directly resulted in the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story being suppressed on Facebook.
Meanwhile, the Facebook founder’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) pours vast sums of ‘Zuckerbucks’ into what are supposed to be improved voter access initiatives, such as new absentee ballot drop boxes. However, the schemes overwhelmingly benefit Democratic-leaning areas, with election integrity groups arguing they grant leftists greater voting access than conservatives and are, therefore, unlawful.
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Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg—chairman and CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—is taking on the services of establishment Republican money man Brian Baker to help smooth relations with GOP lawmakers and center-right think tankers in Washington, D.C. Baker is no stranger to the Facebook co-founder and billionaire, having helped Zuckerberg's so-called "election infrastructure" efforts during the 2022 midterm elections.
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A new bar in Washington, D.C., whose political theme focused on bipartisan agreement and debate, succumbed to partisan pressure before the establishment could even serve its first drink. Originally billed as Political Pattie’s, the bar was flooded with complaints by liberals who said the establishment’s logo—specifically the Republican Elephant—was offensive and ‘hurtful.’
The complaints have prompted Political Pattie’s owners to not just paint over the elephant—along with its accompanying Democrat Donkey—but to apparently drop the “political” theme altogether. New photos of the bar’s exterior—and new paint job—show its name now simply being “Pattie’s.”
D.C. liberals celebrated the harassment campaign’s achievement, tweeting, “Bullying works.”
While the concept of a politically themed bar in the nation’s capital might seem ironically kitschy, it’s perhaps a bit too on the nose.
Residents of Washington, D.C. would be hard-pressed to name a bar in which at least one person isn’t discussing the political topics of the day. The city, after all, hosts Marx Cafe, a bar and restaurant that serves Greek and Italian fare and is dedicated to Karl Marx and the communist revolution.
Political Pattie’s—located among a string of gay bars along Washington, D.C.’s U Street corridor—promised to be ill-conceived and maybe even dangerous before its hasty rebranding following the left-wing backlash. The cocktails on its menu all have—or had—politically themed names like the “Capitol Mule.” However, perhaps most concerning was the owners’ insistence on placing toy gavels on the tables in the establishment. While most political debate in the capital is peaceful, placing small plastic weapons near inebriated think tankers, lobbyists, journalists, and Capitol Hill staffers may not have been the best idea.
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A new bar in Washington, D.C., whose political theme focused on bipartisan agreement and debate, succumbed to partisan pressure before the establishment could even serve its first drink. Originally billed as Political Pattie's, the bar was flooded with complaints by liberals who said the establishment's logo—specifically the Republican Elephant—was offensive and 'hurtful.'
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Democratic senators fear polls are underestimating former President Donald J. Trump’s level of support. RealClearPolitics gave Vice President Kamala Harris a lead of 2.2 points nationally as of Monday, September 23—a narrower margin than Joe Biden’s seven-point lead and Hillary Clinton’s three-point lead over Trump at similar times in the 2020 and 2016 election campaigns. On election night, Biden’s lead over Trump nationally was significantly lower, at four points. Clinton‘s was also lower, at 2.1 points—and she lost the Electoral College.
One Democratic senator, speaking anonymously, called the numbers “ominous,” adding: “There’s no question that [they are] concerning… My sense is there’s not a lot more you can do than we’re already doing.”
Another anonymous senator lamented, “I don’t think any poll right now means much of anything,” complaining that voters are looking back on the Trump economy as “being so good” compared to the Biden-Harris economy.
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake told the media, “I, too, share the concern that there are going to be some surprises” on election day.
“What accentuates my concern is when you poll people who have not voted in ’20 but are planning to vote today, they are disproportionately Trump voters,” she added.
A poll earlier this month also shows Trump gaining major ground among independents and Latino voters, leading over Harris in both groups.
Democratic senators fear polls are underestimating former President Donald J. Trump's level of support. RealClearPolitics gave Vice President Kamala Harris a lead of 2.2 points nationally as of Monday, September 23—a narrower margin than Joe Biden's seven-point lead and Hillary Clinton's three-point lead over Trump at similar times in the 2020 and 2016 election campaigns. On election night, Biden's lead over Trump nationally was significantly lower, at four points. Clinton's was also lower, at 2.1 points—and she lost the Electoral College.
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