The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
The survey indicates that the BSW has surged to 17 percent support in the polls. The party was launched earlier this year by Sahra Wagenknecht, formerly of the Left (Die Left) party. Like the AfD, it is highly critical of mass migration. BSW also rejects net zero policies and wants to halt weapons shipments to Ukraine.
The governing SPD, under Brandenburg Minister President Dietmar Woidke, is currently polling at 19 percent, down from 26.2 percent in the previous state election. Many other parties on the left of the political spectrum have also seen decreases in popularity.
The rise in popularity of populist parties is a trend seen across Europe, including France, where Marine Le Pen’s National Rally nearly doubled their seats in the French parliament earlier this month.
show less
The German state of Brandenburg will hold state elections on September 22, with a significant political shift underway. According to the latest survey conducted by the opinion research institute INSA, the right-populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to be the strongest party, with 24 percent of the vote. The left-populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is also rapidly gaining strength, and is now nearly on par with the establishment right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the leftist Social Democrats (SPD).
show more
Peter Navarro, former top trade adviser to President Donald J. Trump, was released from federal prison on Wednesday after completing a four-month sentence for defying the corrupt January 6 Committee. Navarro, aged 75, headed directly to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee to support the former president.
News of Navarro’s release was shared on social media by his staff, who optimistically wrote, “The best is yet to come.”
At the convention, he delivered a speech saying the committee had demanded he “betray” Donald Trump and break the law, and Joe Biden’s “Department of Injustice” punished him for refusing to do so.
“They did not break me, and they will never break Donald Trump,” he declared.
JUST NOW – Peter Navarro’s full RNC speech after being released from prison this morning pic.twitter.com/k1FdTYKtnS
In September, Navarro was found guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 Committee. A leftist federal judge in Washington sentenced him to four months in prison and a $9,500 fine.
A three-judge appeals court panel in Washington rejected Navarro’s request to delay his sentence. Subsequently, he sought emergency relief from the Supreme Court, but Chief Justice John Roberts denied his initial request to remain free during his appeal. The full Supreme Court later declined a renewed effort by Navarro.
Navarro became the first former White House official to serve prison time following a contempt of Congress conviction.
Stephen K. Bannon, former White House chief strategist, is currently serving a four-month sentence in a federal prison in Connecticut for similarly defying the January 6 Committee.
show less
Peter Navarro, former top trade adviser to President Donald J. Trump, was released from federal prison on Wednesday after completing a four-month sentence for defying the corrupt January 6 Committee. Navarro, aged 75, headed directly to the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee to support the former president.
show more
France has yet to form a new government after last week’s snap legislative elections, which saw President Emmanuel Macron’s Ensemble bloc lose its majority. Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, but no one has emerged as a likely replacement. The Macronist bloc in the National Assembly has the second-largest share of seats, behind the far-left New Popular Front (NFP), but this faction also has too few lawmakers to govern alone.
THE LEFT DIVIDED.
The New Popular Front is a coalition of communist, socialist, and green parties, mired in internal conflicts. So far, it has put forward six candidates for Prime Minister and cannot agree to unite behind any of them.
Its major issue is that it has no real leader. The anti-NATO, pro-Palestinian Jean-Luc Melenchon is its leading figure, and his France Unbowed party is its largest faction. However, the Macronists are determined to exclude Melenchon and France Unbowed from any deal with the far left.
Internally, the Socialist Party has rejected all of France Unbowed’s proposed prime ministerial candidates, including Melenchon, suggesting their own leader, Olivier Faure, should get the job.
POPULISTS SEEK INFLUENCE.
Marine Le Pen‘s populist National Rally (RN) came first by share of the popular vote but third by share of lawmakers, compared to the far-left and Macronist party coalitions. Nevertheless, hers is the single largest party in the National Assembly following the elections.
On Tuesday, Le Pen called on all parties to be allowed to participate in the functioning of the parliament.
Jean-Noël Barrot, Attal’s Secretary of State for European Affairs, surprisingly echoed her comments on X, saying that excluding parties who won millions of votes will undermine the legislature’s legitimacy.
“Let us fight extremes tirelessly, but without ever weakening institutions,” he said.
The National Rally also faces judicial hurdles, with prosecutors confirming they have launched an investigation into the party shortly after the elections concluded.
MACRONISTS SEEK TO RETAIN POWER.
President Macron is advising his lawmakers to try and forge a majority coalition or make a pact to allow legislation to go through. This would likely involve attempting to peel the Socialists and other parties besides France Unbowed away from the New Popular Front.
Macron’s bloc could also appeal to some members of Les Republicains (LR), an establishment-right faction that contains some RINO-like politicians that may be open to supporting an anti-populist coalition.
Republican lawmaker Philippe Juvin confirmed on Tuesday that his party is in discussions with the Macronists, and that the Republicans will also oppose any prime ministerial candidates from France Unbowed.
Such a “rainbow coalition” of the Macronists, far-left defectors, and the establishment right would lack democratic legitimacy. Still, it could allow Macron to snatch a form of victory from the jaws of electoral defeat.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
show less
France has yet to form a new government after last week's snap legislative elections, which saw President Emmanuel Macron's Ensemble bloc lose its majority. Macron has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, but no one has emerged as a likely replacement. The Macronist bloc in the National Assembly has the second-largest share of seats, behind the far-left New Popular Front (NFP), but this faction also has too few lawmakers to govern alone.
show more
Voters who backed Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally (RN) party in the French snap elections are accusing establishment parties of using “dirty tricks” to steal victory earlier this month. “Nine parties had to join together to beat one, which still increased its number of [lawmakers],” RN activist Luna Aimé told the BBC in a recent interview.
Jordan Bardella, the president of the RN, slammed the globalist-progressive bloc aligned with President Emmanuel Macron for allying with an extreme left coalition to stop an RN victory. “An unnatural alliance prevented the French people from freely choosing a different type of politics,” Bardella said.
RN placed first by share of the popular vote, but third behind the far-left bloc and globalist blocs by share of National Assembly seats.
On Monday, the Macron-allied Renaissance party in the French parliament vowed to block the RN from taking any key positions in the National Assembly. However, the group’s members also agreed to do the same to the far-left France Unbowed (LFI), which won the most seats of any individual party in the far-left bloc.
Macron’s outgoing Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, convened the meeting where these policies were decided to, ensure unity among the ‘Macronist’ faction and prevent RN and LFI from gaining significant roles.
Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, has predicted the differences between the far left and the Macronists will lead to chaos in the legislature, with the possibility of another snap election in the not-too-distant future as they fail to agree a government program.
The corporate media, the left, and even the justicesystem have been on the attack against the RN since the election.
Prior to the election, deep state officials banded together to declare that they would defy Le Pen and her party if they won the election outright and formed a government.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
show less
Voters who backed Marine Le Pen's populist National Rally (RN) party in the French snap elections are accusing establishment parties of using "dirty tricks" to steal victory earlier this month. "Nine parties had to join together to beat one, which still increased its number of [lawmakers]," RN activist Luna Aimé told the BBC in a recent interview.
show more
Charles Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor convicted of stealing former President Donald J. Trump’s tax returns, has revealed he could access sensitive taxpayer information easily. Littlejohn, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton and possessed an IRS-issued email address and laptop, admitted to being able to retrieve tax returns of any American without impediment.
In a deposition on March 19, Littlejohn disclosed that he pilfered tax returns from approximately 7,500 wealthy individuals and shared some of the data with journalists. “I was able to access tax returns at will,” he bragged.
Before the deposition, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed the judge in the case that Littlejohn had taken the job in question solely so he would have access to Trump’s tax returns.
Following his admission, Littlejohn reached a plea agreement with the IRS. He is due for release from the Marion Federal Correctional Institution in Illinois on July 13, 2028.
The case raises significant concerns about the security of taxpayer data held by federal agencies.
Nigel Farage has criticized the “mainstream media narrative” against former President Donald J. Trump following the assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania. “The narrative that is put out there about Trump, by these liberals that oppose him, is so nasty, it’s so unpleasant, that I think it almost encourages this type of behavior,” he said. “There are some things that are said on social media that aren’t acceptable. But there is also a mainstream media narrative and I’m afraid it’s very, very one-sided.”
Farage said the BBC, Britain’s state broadcaster, “is a part of this,” citing the way it has encouraged hatred against him, as well. “One of the many times that I had a drink thrown at me, a so-called comedian on a BBC show said, ‘Well, why not battery acid?'”
Farage also recalled recent comments by Joe Biden that “Trump must be put in the bullseye,” suggesting such rhetoric has contributed to a dangerous political environment.
Farage also referenced BBC presenter David Aaronovitch making a supposedly satirical social media post calling for Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered.”
While media and politicians have mostly condemned the shooting, MSNBC had to pull its flagship show, Morning Joe, on Monday, reportedly over fears one of its anti-Trump hosts or guests may say something inappropriate.
Prior to the shooting, a litany of celebrities, journalists, and politicians have called for violence against Trump, some even calling for him to be killed.
I remember when Jo Brand asked “why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”.
When David Aaronovitch said “if I was Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered”.
Nigel Farage has criticized the "mainstream media narrative" against former President Donald J. Trump following the assassination attempt against him in Pennsylvania. "The narrative that is put out there about Trump, by these liberals that oppose him, is so nasty, it's so unpleasant, that I think it almost encourages this type of behavior," he said. "There are some things that are said on social media that aren't acceptable. But there is also a mainstream media narrative and I'm afraid it's very, very one-sided."
show more
A new populist bloc, the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), has emerged in the European Parliament, announced by its freshly elected leader on Wednesday. The alliance, comprising 25 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), is spearheaded by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and Poland’s Confederation party.
ESN also includes members from Bulgaria’s Revival, France’s Reconquête (Reconquest), Slovakia’s Republic Movement, Hungary’s Our Homeland Movement, Lithuania’s People and Justice Union, and the Czech Republic’s Freedom and Direct Democracy.
On Monday, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz united to establish the Patriots for Europe group, replacing the disbanded Identity & Democracy group. The group has 84 MEPs.
Patriots for Europe saw Spain’s VOX, who left the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, join as well.
The group also contains Matteo Salvini’s League (Italy), Chega (Portugal), Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (Czech Republic), Oath and Motorists (Czech Republic), Christian Democratic People’s Party (Hungary), Freedom Party (Austria), Party for Freedom (Netherlands), Vlaams Belang (Belgium), Danish People’s Party, Voice of Reason (Greece), and Latvia First.
CAUSES OF DIVISION.
ESN aims to take a more radical stance compared to the Patriots and came about after members of the AfD, the largest party in the group, were kicked out of the former Identity & Democracy group over alleged scandals involving AfD MEP Maximilian Krah, just prior to the European Parliament elections.
Krah himself is not a member of the ESN but remains a member of the AfD in the parliament.
However, globalist and left-wing blocs intend to impose a cordon sanitaire on both groups, aimed at limiting their influence over legislation for the next five years.
Despite their small sizes, one of the group leaders will attend the influential Conference of Presidents meetings, shaping the Parliament’s agenda and managing internal affairs.
Christine Anderson, an AfD MEP chosen as the group’s chief whip, described the founding meeting in Brussels as highly successful.
René Aust of the AfD emphasized the group’s commitment to shaping Europe’s future through strategic and decisive actions, stating, “We embark on this path not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary to realize our vision of a strong, united, and forward-looking Europe of Fatherlands.”
show less
A new populist bloc, the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN), has emerged in the European Parliament, announced by its freshly elected leader on Wednesday. The alliance, comprising 25 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), is spearheaded by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and Poland’s Confederation party.
show more
Liberal celebrities, journalists, and politicians, up to and including the sitting president, had been steadily intensifying incitement against Donald Trump prior to the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.
CELEBRITIES.
Hollywood liberals have been threatening violence or wishing violence upon Trump for years. Among others, Robert De Niro called Trump a “dog” and a “pig” in 2016, seething about wanting to “punch him in the face.”
The alleged comedienne Kathy Griffin infamously posed with a bloody model of Trump’s severed head in 2017. She claimed to be remorseful after receiving backlash—and a drop in job offers—but repeated the stunt in 2023.
Theater director Oskar Eustis put on a version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar portraying the Roman leader as Trump, complete with a bloody assassination, the same year.
While in the United Kingdom in 2017, Johnny Depp asked a festival audience, “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president? … [I]t’s been a while and maybe it’s time”—referencing the murder of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
Previously, Madonna had said she “thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House” at the 2017 Women’s March.
Mickey Rourke, like De Niro, spoke of his desire to give Trump a “left hook from hell” on multiple occasions, most recently in 2019.
JOURNALISTS.
The corporate media has been inciting the public against Trump for many years, ramping up its efforts with particular intensity in recent weeks as he rises in the polls.
Earlier this month, The New Republic ran a cover portraying Trump as Adolf Hitler, complete with mustache, under the strapline ‘American fascism,’ insisting he is “damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”
In December, Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post ran an article titled, ‘Yes, it’s OK to compare Trump to Hitler.’
On July 2, The Huffington Post website ran an article on the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have a presumption of immunity from prosecution—if not impeachment—for official acts with the headline, ‘Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump.’
Similarly, BBC presenter David Aaronovitch responded to the ruling with a “satirical” social media post recommending that Biden should “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.”
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s Morning Joe issued an unhinged rant in November warning Trump was “running to end American democracy” and would exile, imprison, and even “execute” his opponents once reelected.
POLITICIANS.
Politicians have also played a prominent role in stirring up fear and hatred against Trump, largely by scaremongering about him becoming a dictator.
“It’s just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be eliminated,” Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman recently told former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, in a clip that has been widely recirculated following Saturday’s assassination attempt.
Robert Kagan, the war hawk neoconservative husband of war hawk former Biden official Victoria Nuland, wrote a 6,000-word essay declaring that a “Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” adding: “When a marauder is crashing through your house, you throw everything you can at him—pots, pans, candlesticks—in the hope of slowing him down and tripping him up.”
In April, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, actually put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection, in anticipation of a possible prison sentence for Trump in Manhattan. This was widely interpreted as a move to make it easier for someone to kill him.
In 2017, Democratic state senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri posted, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” on Facebook. Congressman Maxine Waters said she wanted to “go and take Trump out” the same year.
As long ago as 2015, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said the “GOP donor class” was “going to have to go out and put a bullet in” then-candidate Trump.
BIDEN.
Perhaps no politician has done as much to incite the public against Trump as Joe Biden. The incumbent, up to the day of the assassination attempt, was posting on social media that Trump means to become a dictator.
On July 5, referencing the aforementioned immunity ruling, he claimed the former president “really could” become a dictator if reelected.
“Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy,” he said on June 28, adding: “He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
It is a theme he has been playing on for years: “Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soulofthis country,” he posted in 2022.
Biden uses similarly inflammatory rhetoric in private, telling donors in a July 8 call reported by the press: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
NEW from @thenatpulse: EXC: Steve Bannon Reacts to 45 Assassination Attempt: 'Trump Wears the Armor of God.'
Liberal celebrities, journalists, and politicians, up to and including the sitting president, had been steadily intensifying incitement against Donald Trump prior to the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.
show more
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, faces an uphill battle in her bid for re-election as European Union (EU) representatives vote on July 18 to decide whether she will serve a second term. To remain President of the Commission, which functions as both the EU’s executive branch and primary initiator of EU-level legislation, von der Leyen needs 361 votes out of the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
The globalist European People’s Party (EPP) group, von der Leyen’s main ally in the European Parliament, holds just 188 seats following this year’s European elections, forcing her to seek support from other factions.
Right-wing European Parliament groups that might consider backing von der Leyen, such as the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) led by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, have recently weakened. The ECR lost Spain’s VOX to the new Patriots group, led by Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is less willing to compromise his principles than the Italian leader.
After becoming Italy’s Prime Minister, Meloni collaborated extensively with von der Leyen. She faced criticism for aligning too closely with the EU establishment despite its failure to tackle the the bloc’s illegal immigration crisis, which has been hitting Italy especially hard.
However, Meloni may now be less inclined to support the EU establishment, as the EPP and socialist and liberal euro-groups have shut her out of key EU positions following the European elections despite her compromises.
Even with the support of the ECR, which holds 78 seats in the European Parliament, von der Leyen would still fall short of the 361 votes she requires.
If von der Leyen fails to win re-election, leaders from the European Council, composed of the EU’s national governments, will need to select another candidate to present to the European Parliament.
show less
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, faces an uphill battle in her bid for re-election as European Union (EU) representatives vote on July 18 to decide whether she will serve a second term. To remain President of the Commission, which functions as both the EU's executive branch and primary initiator of EU-level legislation, von der Leyen needs 361 votes out of the 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
show more
Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, says that the European Union (EU) offered him a secret, “illegal” deal to quietly censor posts on the platform.
Posting on X, Musk said, “The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. 𝕏 did not.”
Musk was replying to European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager, who announced on Friday that X is not complying with the EU’s censorious Digital Services Act, and the bloc is taking legal action against it.
The Commission, a body not accountable to European voters, claims that X allows anyone to be a verified user, allowing “motivated malicious actors” to abuse verification to mislead.
The Commission also claims that X does not provide enough transparency regarding advertising and does not provide sufficient access to its data to “researchers.” Musk believes the people in question are not “researchers” but “political operatives” whose goal is “to force X to restaff the censorship squad fired when Elon took over.”
The EU began investigating X in December of 2023, and it could be the first platform to fall foul of the DSA. Musk faces multi-million dollar fines from the EU for violating the DSA.
“We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth,” the tech entrepreneur says.
Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, says that the European Union (EU) offered him a secret, "illegal" deal to quietly censor posts on the platform.
show more
Share Story
FacebookTwitterWhatsappTruthTelegramGettrCopy Link
Real News Fan? Show It!
Many people are shocked to learn that because of active censorship, we currently have to spend more time making sure you can even see The National Pulse, than on producing the news itself. Which sucks. Because we do this for the truth, and for you.
But the regime doesn’t want you being informed. That’s why they want us to go away. And that will happen if more people don’t sign up to support our work. It’s basic supply and demand. So demand you get to read The National Pulse, unrestricted. Sign up, today.
We don’t sell ads, and refuse corporate or political cash. It all comes down to you, the reader. I hope you can help.
