President-elect Donald J. Trump has expressed support for Speaker Mike Johnson remaining in post, potentially bolstering his chances of retaining the House gavel. Johnson, from Louisiana, faces a difficult path in the next Congress, with opposition emerging from GOP figures such as Rep. Thomas Massie, who has vowed to vote against him. Rep. Victoria Spartz also withheld direct support during a recent media appearance, voicing criticism of the party’s leadership.
“Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!!!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Monday as part of a longer statement blasting “professional con man and instigator” Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, and others.
Trump urged Republicans to capitalize on their current momentum, noting how he carried “ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, 312 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, AND THE POPULAR VOTE BY MILLIONS OF VOTERS… Despite large scale voter fraud taking place in numerous states, including California, where votes are ridiculously still being counted, or under review!”
The America First leader appeared to signal that his endorsement of Johnson is at least partly a matter of pragmatism, noting, “The American people need IMMEDIATE relief from all of the destructive policies of the last Administration,” and that the incumbent speaker “is a good, hard working, religious man.”
Trump has repeatedly indicated that he wants his next administration to hit the ground running rather than bog down in fights over appointments and other senior roles.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has expressed support for Speaker Mike Johnson remaining in post, potentially bolstering his chances of retaining the House gavel. Johnson, from Louisiana, faces a difficult path in the next Congress, with opposition emerging from GOP figures such as Rep. Thomas Massie, who has vowed to vote against him. Rep. Victoria Spartz also withheld direct support during a recent media appearance, voicing criticism of the party's leadership.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear TikTok’s appeal against a ban that will go into effect on January 19, Democrat and libertarian lawmakers and civil liberties organizations, including the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have filed amicus briefs backing the platform, owned by China’s ByteDance.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rand Paul (R-KY), alongside Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), want an emergency injunction against the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which requires ByteDance to divest from TikTok if it is to continue operating in the U.S.
The lawmakers insist a ban would infringe on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans. They claim the federal government’s goal of preventing content manipulation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has strong ties to ByteDance, can be addressed through less stringent regulations.
The ACLU, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), and the Freedom of the Press Foundation have also filed a brief alleging there is insufficient evidence that TikTok threatens “ongoing or imminent harm.”
“This social media platform has allowed people around the world to tell their own stories in key moments of social upheaval, war, and natural disaster while reaching immense global audiences,” argues ACLU National Security Project Deputy Director Patrick Toomey, calling the divestment demand “extraordinary and unprecedented.”
TRUMP’S STANCE.
Lawyers representing President-elect Donald J. Trump, while taking “no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,” are also requesting the high court pause the ban, to afford the incoming administration “the opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case.”
Trump found success on TikTok during the presidential race and has a “warm spot” for the platform.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act was upheld by a federal appeals court earlier this month, prompting the appeal to the Supreme Court.
NEW: ACLU and partners file brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down the TikTok ban.
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear TikTok's appeal against a ban that will go into effect on January 19, Democrat and libertarian lawmakers and civil liberties organizations, including the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have filed amicus briefs backing the platform, owned by China's ByteDance.
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America First stalwart Kari Lake says she will not run in Arizona’s 2026 gubernatorial election, having previously run for the governorship and a Senate seat in two closely fought and contentious races marred by allegations of Democrat election rigging. Lake, who has been vocal about her belief that a “corrupt machine” in Arizona worked against her, announced her decision on X.
“I will never take for granted the movement we have in Arizona,” Lake stated. “But there is a corrupt machine here that is hellbent on making sure I never hold office. So, I won’t put my family (and myself) through the torture of running again,” she explained.
Lake says she is instead focused on helping President-elect Donald J. Trump’s incoming administration in Washington, D.C. The MAGA kingpin has tapped her to lead Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government-funded global news service, to “ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.”
Lake expressed her intention to “return [Voice of America] to its glory days, and help President Trump Make America Great Again.”
VOA was established as the United States Foreign Information Service during the Second World War by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dogged by allegations of anti-Trump bias, the government-funded broadcaster is reported as “highly concerned” about being overseen by a supporter of the America First leader.
This young lady at #AMFEST asked me if I was going to run for Governor again in 2026.
The answer is no.
I am going to go help President Trump turn this country around by leading @VOANews & sharing America’s story with the world. pic.twitter.com/oVaW4clTlT
America First stalwart Kari Lake says she will not run in Arizona's 2026 gubernatorial election, having previously run for the governorship and a Senate seat in two closely fought and contentious races marred by allegations of Democrat election rigging. Lake, who has been vocal about her belief that a "corrupt machine" in Arizona worked against her, announced her decision on X.
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Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark has obtained documents linking the Arizona Attorney General’s office with the States United Democracy Center—a far-left non-profit lawfare group associated with attorney Norm Eisen, a key figure in President Donald J. Trump’s first sham impeachment. The documents appear to be a retainer agreement from States United to advise the Arizona Attorney General’s office on lawfare aimed to suppress critics of how the state conducts its elections and those who might question the results.
“This letter explains and confirms the terms and conditions under which States United Democracy Center (‘States United’) will undertake to advise the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (‘you’, ‘your’) in connection with developing legal strategies to ensure the integrity and security of elections,” the letter of understanding reads. Although the primary attorneys assigned to coordinate with the attorney general’s office are redacted, the States United letter notes other attorneys or non-attorney staff with the lawfare non-profit “may handle various portions of this matter pro bono or otherwise…”
The letter confirming the partnership was sent just nine days before Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) secured a sprawling series of indictments against 18 individuals associated with President Trump over allegations they attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Notably, the grand jury empaneled by Mayes went much further than the Democrat attorney general intended, indicting both Trump campaign attorney Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis—both of whom were told by Mayes’s office that they were not under investigation.
Meanwhile, Eisen—the executive chair of States United—has a long record of anti-Trump actions. In April 2024, The National Pulse reported that Eisen hosted a weekly conference call of globalist leaders and Deep State apparachiks to strategize on how to expand the lawfare campaign against Trump.
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I’ve come into the possession of documents showing that the Arizona AG Office is working on its election lawfare with the group founded by JournoLawfare™️ and color revolution leader Norm Eisen. https://t.co/K7DvUUlnp0pic.twitter.com/8pTlgk9gkN
Former Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark has obtained documents linking the Arizona Attorney General's office with the States United Democracy Center—a far-left non-profit lawfare group associated with attorney Norm Eisen, a key figure in President Donald J. Trump’s first sham impeachment. The documents appear to be a retainer agreement from States United to advise the Arizona Attorney General's office on lawfare aimed to suppress critics of how the state conducts its elections and those who might question the results.
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Historic shifts among a broad swath of the Pennsylvania electorate helped deliver victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential race. The Trump campaign’s populist America First agenda saw broad appeal across demographics, with working-class and young voters especially drawn to the President-elect’s message.
According to exit polls conducted by CNN, Trump saw a 16-point shift among voters aged 18 to 29 compared to his showing in the 2020 presidential election. Voters identifying as political independents moved 15 points toward Trump. Meanwhile, Hispanics shifted 24 points in favor of the America First leader, while black men moved 31 points.
Even among demographics considered staunchly pro-Trump, the President-elect saw improvement—gaining eight points among non-college-educated voters and six points among men overall. Trump saw a four-point shift with voters earning under $50,000 annually—a group traditionally associated with casting ballots for Democrats.
The significant voter shift resulted in Trump capturing all four of the critical bellwether Pennsylvania counties: Bucks, Erie, Monroe, and Northampton. Notably, these areas also saw heavy voter turnout during early voting in the days before November 5. According to the Trump campaign’s chief data consultant, Tim Saler, the high turnout was driven largely by the campaign’s efforts to target and energize low and mid-propensity voters.
Saler, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), reveals: “A newly-registered voter generated from @TeamTrump target lists turned out at a 17 [percent] higher rate than all other new registrants in Pennsylvania, and 16 [percent] higher than all previously-registered voters—despite being 81 [percent] harder to reach.” Additionally, Saler notes low to mid-propensity voters contacted by campaign or otherwise-aligned canvassers “turned out at a 21 [percent] higher rate than an equivalent Harris voter.”
Historic shifts among a broad swath of the Pennsylvania electorate helped deliver victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential race. The Trump campaign's populist America First agenda saw broad appeal across demographics, with working-class and young voters especially drawn to the President-elect's message.
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At least one individual named to the State Department presidential transition landing team is raising alarm bells among MAGA loyalists, as he has a long history of promoting pro-immigration and pro-Ukraine military aid policies. Tyler Brace, who served as a key aide to former Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)—a globalist and staunch opponent of President-elect Donald J. Trump—is set to serve on the landing team which will begin hiring and onboarding political appointees at the critical foreign policy agency.
While serving on former Sen. Portman’s staff, Brace—a legislative assistant—oversaw most of the globalist Ohio Republican’s foreign affairs, intelligence, homeland security, and judiciary legislative portfolio. Additionally, the then-Senate aide acted as the point of contact for the Senate Ukraine Caucus, which Portman co—chaired at the time.
Brace frequently engaged with members of the Ukrainian government and served as an election monitor in 2014. That election saw Petro Poroshenko—a politician openly hostile toward Russia—ascend to Ukraine’s presidency. Poroshenko escalated the conflict with pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s Donbas region, resulting in a Russian military incursion backing separatist control over large areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
As a Portman aide, Brace oversaw the senator’s immigration policy. Notably, Portman was an ardent critic and opponent of President Trump’s border wall in 2018. Additionally, the Ohio senator publicly opposed the Trump administration’s family separation policy, requesting that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions place a moratorium on the action.
Also of concern is Brace’s potential stance on trade issues. The State Department plays a tangential role in international trade negotiations as the government’s chief diplomatic agency. Senator Portman was one of Congress’s most outspoken opponents of tariffs. The high-level landing team role given to Brace suggests the State Department may continue to be a beachhead of resistance to the America First agenda.
At least one individual named to the State Department presidential transition landing team is raising alarm bells among MAGA loyalists, as he has a long history of promoting pro-immigration and pro-Ukraine military aid policies. Tyler Brace, who served as a key aide to former Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)—a globalist and staunch opponent of President-elect Donald J. Trump—is set to serve on the landing team which will begin hiring and onboarding political appointees at the critical foreign policy agency.
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Far-left British premier Sir Keir Starmer‘s choice of Lord Peter Mandelson to serve as Ambassador to the United States is off to a poor start, with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inner circle taking issue with his past criticism of the America First leader. “This UK govt is special,” wrote the President-elect’s senior campaign advisor, Chris LaCivita, on X.
“[R]eplace a professional universally respected Ambo with an absolute moron – he should stay home! SAD!” LaCivita added, noting that Mandelson previously described President-elect Trump as “a danger to the world and ‘little short of a white nationalist.'”
Lord Mandelson is not a career diplomat, but a Labour Party politician with a long history of scandal. He was forced to resign from Tony Blair’s government in disgrace twice, but continued to be offered high-powered jobs, with Blair sending him to Brussels to serve as the British representative on the European Commission, the unelected executive of the European Union. His time there was also marred by accusations of impropriety, but once his term expired, he was returned to government for a third time by Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown—and given a seat for life in the House of Lords.
In addition to his harsh criticism of Trump, Mandelson’s close personal relationship with notorious American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein makes him a particularly controversial choice for Ambassador to the U.S. Mandelson maintained his relationship with the financier long after he was convicted of child sex offenses. He is even reported to have called Epstein while he was in prison for soliciting minors, asking him to arrange a meeting with J.P. Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon.
Far-left British premier Sir Keir Starmer's choice of Lord Peter Mandelson to serve as Ambassador to the United States is off to a poor start, with President-elect Donald J. Trump's inner circle taking issue with his past criticism of the America First leader. "This UK govt is special," wrote the President-elect's senior campaign advisor, Chris LaCivita, on X.
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The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolutionfunding the federal government through March next year, bringing Congress one step closer to averting a government shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to rely heavily on Democrat votes to clear the two-thirds threshold to pass the measure under the suspension of the rules. The bill is a further stripped-down version of the continuing resolution that failed on the floor on Thursday, with around $100 billion in disaster relief attached to the government funding extensions.
President-elect Donald J. Trump had pressed lawmakers to include an extension of the debt limit suspension into 2027. However, that portion of the legislation was removed to garner the support of Democrats. The debt ceiling fight, which could happen as soon as late January or early February, after Trump’s inauguration, will provide a significant point of leverage for the Democratic minority in the next Congress.
The bill will now move on to the U.S. Senate, where it is expected to receive little opposition. While a handful of Senators could move to delay passage, the upper chamber should be able to adopt the measure around midnight tonight, when federal funding is set to run out. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the funding bill.
The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution funding the federal government through March next year, bringing Congress one step closer to averting a government shutdown. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had to rely heavily on Democrat votes to clear the two-thirds threshold to pass the measure under the suspension of the rules. The bill is a further stripped-down version of the continuing resolution that failed on the floor on Thursday, with around $100 billion in disaster relief attached to the government funding extensions.
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Last night, a group of 38 House Republicans voted against a continuing resolution (CR) backed by President-elect Donald J. Trump, which cut the entirety of the extraneous add-ons from the first bill but did include several provisions for much-needed disaster relief for the victims of several recent hurricanes and healthcare extenders. Despite the compromise—a big win for conservative House members, with the bill shrinking from over 1,500 pages in its first iteration to just 116 pages in the second version—the CR again failed under a suspension vote, putting Congress back at square one on Friday morning. There are now just over 12 hours left until a partial government shutdown at 12:01 AM on Saturday morning.
Following the defeat of the second continuing resolution, Trump upped his ask of a two-year debt ceiling suspension to a four-year suspension. “Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling,” he wrote on Truth Social early Friday morning. “Without this, we should never make a deal. Remember, the pressure is on whoever is President.”
Just hours later, though, the President-elect added in a second post: “If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP.’ This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”
FREEDOM CAUCUS REVOLT.
At the center of the chaos is a group of House Freedom Caucus members who do not appear to have the appetite to vote for any continuing resolution—including one that delivers a win for the Republican Party. They appear to be led by Representatives Chip Roy (R-TX), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Bob Good (R-VA), Rich McCormick (R-GA), Ralph Norman (R-SC), and Matt Rosendale (R-MT).
Roy and Massie suggested they are unafraid of primary challenges for defying the Trump-backed CR. “It’s real for some people, but Chip Roy can survive it. I can survive it,” Rep. Massie toldPOLITICO after Trump slammed Roy on Truth Social. He added: “It’ll move the needle 20 points in a race. But if you were going to win 80-20 percent you can be okay.”
Unfortunately, as the fight drags out, it increasingly becomes a concern that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his leadership team will get jammed with an unfavorable spending bill sent down by the Senate.
The other path House leadership could take would be cutting a deal with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), which would result in a continuing resolution somewhere between the 1,500-page first version and the 116-page second version—a strategic loss for conservatives watching to reduce spending.
Last night, a group of 38 House Republicans voted against a continuing resolution (CR) backed by President-elect Donald J. Trump, which cut the entirety of the extraneous add-ons from the first bill but did include several provisions for much-needed disaster relief for the victims of several recent hurricanes and healthcare extenders. Despite the compromise—a big win for conservative House members, with the bill shrinking from over 1,500 pages in its first iteration to just 116 pages in the second version—the CR again failed under a suspension vote, putting Congress back at square one on Friday morning. There are now just over 12 hours left until a partial government shutdown at 12:01 AM on Saturday morning.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is naming Lord Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States. The Labour grandee had to resign in disgrace from Tony Blair‘s government on two separate occasions. Still, successive party leaders have repeatedly restored him to positions of power despite his scandals and unsavory connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Following his second resignation from the Blair government, he was appointed to the European Commission, the unelected executive of the European Union (EU). Scandals in the EU also plagued Mandelson, but Blair’s successor, Gordon Brown, granted him a seat for life in the House of Lords and returned him to a government for a third time once his term was completed.
Mandelson, who was “outed” in a BBC interview in 1998, is infamous for remaining “particularly close” to pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein even after he was convicted of soliciting minors. It is reported that he called Epstein in prison while serving in Brown’s government to arrange a meeting with JP Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon.
The so-called “Prince of Darkness” may struggle to build a rapport with President-elect Trump, having previously described the America First leader as “disdainful, unscrupulous, prepared to say anything to harvest the populist vote,” which makes other world leaders “frightened.”
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is naming Lord Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to the United States. The Labour grandee had to resign in disgrace from Tony Blair‘s government on two separate occasions. Still, successive party leaders have repeatedly restored him to positions of power despite his scandals and unsavory connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
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