The U.S. Senate in Nebraska is emerging as an unexpectedly tight contest between incumbent Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) and independent candidate Dan Osborn, a U.S. Navy veteran and laborunion leader. Typically a safe Republican seat, Osborn’s left-populism—and tacit backing by some national Democrats—has pushed the race into toss-up territory.
Polls suggest a surprisingly competitive race. An Independent Center survey last week showed Osborn leading Fischer, with 47 percent to her 42 percent. Additionally, a SurveyUSA poll sponsored by Osborn’s campaign indicated a narrow 45 percent to 44 percent lead for him. Notably, a New York Times/Siena College poll found Osborn ahead by 11 points in Nebraska’s second congressional district, which includes Omaha.
POPULIST OR CLOSET DEMOCRAT?
Osborn, previously known for leading a strike at Omaha’s Kellogg plant in 2021, filed to run as an independent candidate last October. Shortly after announcing his bid, he declined an endorsement by the Nebraska Democratic Party—stressing he’s been registered as nonpartisan in the state since 2004. Last month, he was endorsed by the Reform Party.
On the campaign trail, Osborn has found success combining a libertarian approach to social issues like abortion and marijuana legalization with pro-labor stances like raising the minimum wage and strengthening workers’ rights to organize a union. Additionally, he has stressed the need to secure the U.S. border and says he wants to cut taxes on overtime.
Osborn’s campaign has attracted significant outside funding, with $4 million in support primarily from the Retire Career Politicians PAC linked to the Sixteen Thirty Fund—the project of a Democrat dark moneyoperation run by Arabella Advisors.
BAILING OUT FISCHER.
Fischer—a rancher who has served for over a decade in the Senate—was anticipated to have a reasonably easy path to reelection. However, the Nebraska Republican’s close ties to the anti-Trump Koch Network and her more neoconservative foreign policy views have left her open to a populist insurgency. Her polling weakness against Osborn has prompted the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to step in with over half a million dollars in ads just a month before the election.
With a narrow controlling majority in the U.S. Senate up-for-grabs, the Nebraska Senate race could prove pivotal.
The U.S. Senate in Nebraska is emerging as an unexpectedly tight contest between incumbent Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) and independent candidate Dan Osborn, a U.S. Navy veteran and laborunion leader. Typically a safe Republican seat, Osborn's left-populism—and tacit backing by some national Democrats—has pushed the race into toss-up territory.
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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) was caught advocating for the total eradication of America’s Electoral College, advocating for a national popular vote to decide presidential elections instead. Speaking at a campaign fundraising event hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Walz criticized the current electoral system, arguing it does not reflect the majority’s will. Walz’s comments come as his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has lost ground to President Donald J. Trump in several critical swing states.
“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go,” Walz tolddonors at Newsom’s residence on Tuesday.”We need a national popular vote that is something. But that’s not the world we live in.”
The 2024 Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee emphasized the need for change during separate fundraisers in California and Seattle, Washington. According to reports, Walz described himself as a “national popular vote guy” and lamented that the current political reality necessitates winning 270 electoral votes.
In recent history, both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Al Gore in 2000 won the popular vote but did not garner enough Electoral College votes to win the White House.
The Electoral College system is designed to preserve the Republic as a union of States, in which the largest states cannot simply override the interests of smaller states by the weight of their populations. The eradication of the Electoral College would doubtless be an act of wanton constitutional vandalism, with its roots in the 1787 Constitutional Convention.
Responding to Walz’s statements, a spokesman for the Kamala Harris campaign emphasized the focus on securing the necessary electoral votes. Harris has refrained from endorsing any alterations to the Electoral College in the current campaign despite previous openness to the discussion in her first presidential run.
The Trump campaign criticized Walz’s position, questioning on social media why he appears to hate the Constitution.
Why does Tampon Tim hate the Constitution so much? He hates the First Amendment. He hates the Supreme Court. He hates the Electoral College.
Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) was caught advocating for the total eradication of America's Electoral College, advocating for a national popular vote to decide presidential elections instead. Speaking at a campaign fundraising event hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Walz criticized the current electoral system, arguing it does not reflect the majority's will. Walz's comments come as his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has lost ground to President Donald J. Trump in several critical swing states.
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New allegations are being leveled against Dough Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, regarding his conduct at the law firm Venable, where he was a partner prior to becoming the country’s first Second Gentleman. The accusations come on the heels of a report that Emhoff violently slapped a former girlfriend during an event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Former Venable colleagues are accusing Emhoff of exhibiting misogynistic behavior and favoritism. They allege he used expletives toward female colleagues, organized male-only office gatherings, and showed preference towards younger and more attractive associates.
In 2019, former legal secretary Marjan Rabbi filed a lawsuit against other partners at Venable, claiming sex discrimination and citing Emhoff by name. The lawsuit suggested that Emhoff hired an “unqualified” secretary due to her appearance and friendliness with influential men in the office. Although the lawsuit did not name Emhoff as a defendant, the allegations against him contribute to a broader narrative challenging his public image as a feminist ally.
Emhoff has been the subject of several scandals involving women, including an allegation of an affair with a nanny during his first marriage, resulting in the woman becoming pregnant. Emhoff and a spokesman have denied these allegations, although he admits to adultery.
In recent interviews, Emhoff has emphasized redefining masculinity and support for women, contrasting sharply with the accusations from his former workplace. Vice President Harris, in unrelated comments, has encouraged victims of sexism and abuse to speak out.
Emhoff’s past as a lawyer also includes work on controversial cases, such as defending a nightclub owner in a harassment case and representing a pharmaceutical company in a lawsuit over the side effects of a drug it produced.
New allegations are being leveled against Dough Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, regarding his conduct at the law firm Venable, where he was a partner prior to becoming the country's first Second Gentleman. The accusations come on the heels of a report that Emhoff violently slapped a former girlfriend during an event at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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A left-wing umbrella group that appears to be little more than a front for the Democratic Party’s own version of Project 2025 has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a digital and mail ad campaign promoting attacks on Project 2025 aimed at Generation Z voters.
United for Democracy, ostensibly a coalition of various progressive and Democrat-aligned activist organizations, is the group behind the ads and operates technically as a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization.
The group is running digital ads and sponsoring political newsletters like POLITICO Playbook, directing individuals to the website “Project2025.wtf,” as well as driving advertising vans around the scarcely swing district of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
“If MAGA extremists win this fall, they will pursue Project 2025 policies to gut the checks and balances that protect American Freedoms”, United for Democracy’s sponsored ad, appearing in Playbook, reads.
It continues: “You think the Courts will save us?! LOL. The six MAGA Supreme Court Justices are already implementing some of Project 2025’s worst ideas.”
CAMPAIGN AGAINST PROJECT 2025.
Formed in 2023, United for Democracy began as a campaign vehicle aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, earlier this year it appears the organization shifted its activities to electioneering, with a specific focus on The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025.
Since the start of June 2024, United for Democracy has spent just shy of $400,000 on digital and mail ads targeting Project 2025 in an effort to attack President Donald J. Trump’s bid to retake the White House. Federal Election Commission (FEC) records indicate that the group’s ad campaign has been developed and executed by Bully Pulpit International, a progressive marketing firm that has been active in European politics—especially in the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany.
The Project2025.wtf website, where the United for Democracy ads direct viewers, is a relatively simple scroll page featuring outlandish and false claims regarding The Heritage Foundation’s independent presidential transition project. While most of the messaging is focused on misleading claims regarding Trump’s abortion policies, the site also makes the absurd claim that Trump will round up documented immigrants and put them in camps.
THE LEFT’S PROJECT 2025.
While United for Democracy bills itself as a coalition of organizations, it has deep ties to the Democratic Party’s own version of Project 2025—the Center for American Progress (CAP). Stasha Rhodes, who serves as the group’s executive director, is a former CAP staffer who worked on gun control advocacy in 2017 and 2018. Earlier this year, she rejoined CAP as a senior fellow tasked with leading the progressive policy group’s democracy and government reform projects.
The Biden-Harris government’s agenda has—in large part—been directed by senior CAP staffers. Neera Tanden, who helped found CAP along with John Podesta and later succeeded him as the group’s leader, currently serves as the director of the Biden White House’s Domestic Policy Council. From 2021 until 2023, Tanden served as a senior advisor to President Biden.
Between 2021 and 2022, the Biden-Harris government hired at least 70 CAP staffers, and the organization is credited with being a powerful driver of the Democratic government’s agenda. Mirroring the political left’s attacks on Project 2025, CAP was billed by Time Magazine following the 2008 election as “Obama’s Idea Factory in Washington.”
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A left-wing umbrella group that appears to be little more than a front for the Democratic Party's own version of Project 2025 has spent several hundred thousand dollars on a digital and mail ad campaign promoting attacks on Project 2025 aimed at Generation Z voters.
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The western North Carolina counties ravaged by Hurricane Helene will be allowed a degree of flexibility in their voting plans after a vote by the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday. Adopted by a unanimous vote, the election board passed a resolution authorizing the impacted counties to change early voting and Election Day polling sites, increased discretion in the appointment of poll workers, and greater flexibility for votes on they receive and return their absentee ballots.
“We will continue to make voting accessible to voters,” said Republican election board member Stacy Eggers following the decision. He added: “Whether we need four-wheelers, horses or helicopters, this disaster highlights the need for consistency in our work and making sure that we get to the locations that the voters expect us to be.”
Areas lacking poll workers will be allowed to bring election staff from other parts of the state or reassign workers to other polling locations. In addition, those who lost absentee ballots in the storm can request a new one at their local election office, and those displaced can return their ballot to any North Carolina election office.
According to state election officials, all fourteen county election board offices that were closed in the wake of Hurricane Helene have now reopened for operations. Despite this, many of the county election officials in the western areas of the state still do not have power or running water in their homes, making the fulfillment of their duties difficult. Additionally, several previously designated polling sites have been partially or completely destroyed, making them unusable.
The election board members insist that North Carolina’s plans to begin early voting on October 17 will proceed as scheduled despite the devastation in the western counties.
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The western North Carolina counties ravaged by Hurricane Helene will be allowed a degree of flexibility in their voting plans after a vote by the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday. Adopted by a unanimous vote, the election board passed a resolution authorizing the impacted counties to change early voting and Election Day polling sites, increased discretion in the appointment of poll workers, and greater flexibility for votes on they receive and return their absentee ballots.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Pennsylvania GOP to halt several of the state’s counties from engaging in so-called “notice and cure” procedures, which allow voters to make changes to their mail-in ballots after they are cast. According to the court, the lawsuit brought by the RNC and state party was too close to the election for a ruling to be made.
Critics have long alleged that the RNC under Ronna Romney-McDaniel and its new leadership had failed to take the required actions quickly enough to materially impact the 2024 election, with this case serving as further evidence. Chris LaCivita and Michael Whatley took over the RNC from McDaniel in early March 2024, allowing for plenty of time to file the case over the summer. They sued in late September, six months later.
Previously, the state’s high court held that counties do not have to allow “notice and cure” procedures; however, over half of Pennsylvania’s counties allow the practice.
While the court’s decision to not hear the “notice and cure” lawsuit is a blow to election integrity efforts in Pennsylvania—a critical swing state in the 2024 election that some believe may determine the presidential contest—the court did deliver a win for fair elections in a second decision handed down.
The court declined to hear a lawsuit brought by Democrat-aligned voting rights groups challenging a Pennsylvania law requiring mail-in ballots to be posted with the correct date in order to be tallied. Like the RNC lawsuit, the court determined that the filing had been made too close to the election to be ruled upon.
During the 2022 mid-term election, around 10,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified because their envelopes did not have the correct date.
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to hear a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Pennsylvania GOP to halt several of the state's counties from engaging in so-called “notice and cure” procedures, which allow voters to make changes to their mail-in ballots after they are cast. According to the court, the lawsuit brought by the RNC and state party was too close to the election for a ruling to be made.
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Maye Musk, mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, attracted attention over the weekend for posting controversial advice regarding the 2024 election on social media. On Saturday, she shared a message on her son’s X platform suggesting—likely sarcastically—that Republicans should commit voter fraud to even the field with Democrats in Georgia. Additionally, she encouraged supporters of President Donald J. Trump to use false identities to cast multiple ballots at various polling places on election day.
“The Democrats have given us another option,” Elon Musk’s mother wrote. “You don’t have to register to vote. On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too.”
The Democrats have given us another option. You don’t have to register to vote. On Election Day, have 10 fake names, go to 10 polling booths and vote 10 times. That’s 100 votes, and it’s not illegal. Maybe we should work the system too. https://t.co/GZ5DlaoFPs
Such tactics would be a federal crime. According to 52 USC 10307, using false identities to vote multiple times illegally is punishable with heavy fines and imprisonment for each violation.
Earlier this year, the mayoral race in Bridgeport, Connecticut, had to be re-run for a third time after the prior two elections were found to be tainted by ballot stuffing—a similar illegal tactic to the one advocated by Maye Musk. Late last year, three Democrat officials in their respective states faced charges of tampering with votes, casting fraudulent mail-in ballots, and ballot stuffing.
Maye Musk’s post was tagged with a Community Note bluntly emphasizing the illegality of her suggestion. “This is, in fact, illegal,” it states.
Maye Musk, mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk, attracted attention over the weekend for posting controversial advice regarding the 2024 election on social media. On Saturday, she shared a message on her son's X platform suggesting—likely sarcastically—that Republicans should commit voter fraud to even the field with Democrats in Georgia. Additionally, she encouraged supporters of President Donald J. Trump to use false identities to cast multiple ballots at various polling places on election day.
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Former President Donald J. Trump and his 2024 election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, are both set to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel today.
President Trump is expected to visit the Brooklyn, NY tomb of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. This evening, Trump will host a remembrance event at his golf club in Doral, Florida. Meanwhile, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, will hold a ceremony at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
“Jewish community leaders will gather to honor the 1,200 lives lost after being taken hostage and killed on that fateful morning one year ago,” the Trump campaign said in a statement before Monday’s remembrance ceremony in Florida. They added: “The event will also remember the victims of antisemitic violence that has continued to afflict communities worldwide since that tragic day.”
Meanwhile, Vice President Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will plant a small tree on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. Harris will deliver brief remarks. Emhoff, who is recently Jewish, will also attend and receive a prayer at the American Jewish Committee’s National October 7 Memorial commemoration in Washington, D.C.
Joe Biden will mark the day at the White House, holding a small ceremony with rabbis and participating in a yahrzeit candle lighting. Biden has also said he intends to follow Pope Francis’s call for a day of prayer and fasting.
MIDDLE EAST AT WAR.
A year ago, the Hamas terrorist group launched a series of barbaric attacks against Israel, killing over 1,200 in a single day. In addition, several hundred Israelis—along with dozens of foreign nationals—were taken into the Gaza territory by Hamas as hostages. While a number have been freed, the terror group has murdered several of them.
Currently, it is believed around 100 hostages remain in Gaza—though some suspect only about 70 are still alive. It is believed that seven of the hostages still held are American citizens.
The day also marks the first anniversary of the start of a broader conflict across the Middle East. The Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon have repeatedly attacked Israel since October 7. Consequently, following a series of decapitationstrikes, Israel has launched a ground war in Lebanon aimed at dismantling Hezbollah.
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Former President Donald J. Trump and his 2024 election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, are both set to mark the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel today.
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris’s campaign.
While West has helped bolster support for his sister-in-law among the globalist corporate and financial elite, his influence over the Harris presidential campaign is rankling some organized labor leaders and economic progressives in the Democratic Party. After replacing the 81-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in July, Harris largely abandoned Biden’s more economically populist policies. Most recently, she attacked President Donald J. Trump’s tariff policies, which were largely unchanged under Biden.
TROUBLE WITH THE TEAMSTERS.
Harris’s shift away from organized labor-supported tariffs and West’s support of anti-union laws around the country is believed to have contributed to the Teamsters Union’s decision not to endorse the Democratic Party nominee ahead of the November election.
Uber’s support of a 2020 California ballot measure that would allow it to classify its drivers as independent contractors—enabling the company to deny certain employment benefits and more effectively resist unionization efforts—is said to have been a particular sticking point for the Teamsters’ leadership. Some of the union’s leaders pointed the finger at West for Uber’s $200 million campaign supporting the ballot measure.
Recent survey data released by the Teamsters suggest a significant shift in the rank-in-file from supporting Joe Biden to backing Donald Trump after the former announced he would not seek re-election.
SIDELINING BERNIE & WARREN.
West’s advisory role and influence on the Harris campaign isn’t just drawing criticism from organized labor, however. The Teamsters’ concerns are being echoed by allies of Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who contend Harris—under West’s advisement—is spending too much time attempting to win the support of Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires while ignoring the Democratic Party’s more economically progressive voter base.
“I don’t begrudge West and the Harris campaign for trying to have business outreach going on,” said long-time Sanders advisor Faiz Shakir in a recent interview. “But you don’t simultaneously see an outreach to those wanting to unrig the economy,” he lamented.
While West’s record as a DOJ attorney under the Clinton and Obama governments suggests he largely supports far-left progressive views on social and cultural issues, his record demonstrates his embrace of globalist economic interests. Progressive political activists are especially alarmed at continuing discussions regarding what role West may play in a Harris White House.
Kamala Harris’s embrace of technology billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, and Reed Hastings is doing little to assuage progressives’ concerns regarding her close political relations with her brother-in-law. Hoffman, a visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, is pushing Harris to oust the aggressively pro-antitrust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan—a darling among the progressive left and even some on the populist right.
EMBRACING THE CHENEY FAMILY.
While tensions over West’s role in building a more pro-globalist, pro-Wall Street Harris campaign has caused increasing strain with economic progressives, the Democratic Party presidential nominee’s enthusiastic welcoming of support from warmonger and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney may prove a bridge too far.
A recent report from Semafor suggests any gains made among more right-leaning voters by Harris’s embrace of Dick Cheney—whom she called “an American patriot”—is likely to be offset by her continued slide among white working-class voters.
While serving under President George W. Bush, Dick Cheney was frequently the subject of Democratic Party leaders’ ire. The former Vice President played a critical role in pushing the U.S. to go to war against Iraq—peddling false claims that the Middle Eastern country’s then-dictator, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Likewise, Harris has also welcomed the support of Dick Cheney’s daughter, former Congressman Liz Cheney. The former Wyoming lawmaker appeared alongside Harris on Wednesday in Ripon, Wisconsin—the birthplace of the Republican Party. Cheney lost her re-election bid in 2022 after being defeated in the state’s Republican congressional primary by a two-to-one ratio.
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Vice President Kamala Harris's efforts to distance her 2024 presidential campaign from much of the far-left policy stances she took during her 2020 White House bid appear to be driven—at least in part—by the influence of her brother-in-law, Tony West. A senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber Technologies with deep ties to Wall Street and Silicon Valley, West has taken a leave of absence from his role as a corporate executive to serve as an informal advisor on Harris's campaign.
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Arizona’s Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver’s license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.
The massive voter registration error was first identified last month when approximately 97,000 voters were found to be listed as full-ballot voters without providing the required citizenship documentation for state elections. Arizona requires those registering to vote in state-level elections to provide documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC). Consequently, if a voter cannot provide the required information, they’re designated as only being allowed to cast a federal election ballot.
According to the state investigation into the database issue, approximately 79,000 registered Republicans and 61,000 Democrats are impacted. An additional 76,000 voters who are registered under other political parties are also affected.
Adrian Fontes, Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State, stressed that the individuals impacted “have lived in the state for decades and have attested under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens.” According to the Secretary of State’s office, those affected can still participate in November’s elections with full-ballot rights—citing a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling on the matter. Both Fontes and the Arizona Republican Party urged the court to stop an effort by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer to restrict the voters to federal-only ballots.
In response, Arizona Republican Party Chair Gina Swoboda criticized the handling of the situation, accusing Fontes of misleading the public and failing to fulfill his duties. She demands transparency and immediate disclosure of the affected voter data to all county recorders.
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Arizona's Secretary of State has announced the discovery of an additional 120,000 registered voters who lack documentary proof of citizenship, bringing the total to 218,000. The extensive error is attributed to data coding issues involving driver's license information between the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Division and the state voter registration databases.
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