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February 10, 2025
Jack Montgomery
News

CBS Poll Shock: Trump Surges, Democrats Reeling.

A recent CBS News/YouGov survey of 2,175 U.S. adults shows positive approval ratings for President Donald J. Trump in his early days back in office. The survey found that a majority of Americans view Trump as “tough” (69 percent), “energetic” (63 percent), “focused” (60 percent), and “effective” (58 percent). Seventy percent of respondents also feel that he is fulfilling his campaign promises.

On specific policy points, the survey indicates strong approval of Trump’s immigration enforcement measures. Sixty-four percent support his moves to deploy troops to the Mexican border, and 59 percent support his deportation program.

On foreign policy, 54 percent approve of the way he is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict—although a plurality of 47 percent believe a U.S. takeover of Gaza is a bad idea, with 40 percent unsure and only 13 percent positively in favor.

The poll comes as President Trump and CBS News remain at loggerheads over a heavily edited 60 Minutes interview the network aired with then-Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election campaign. Differences between previews of the interview and the final version and transcript suggest the network doctored the exchange to make the Democrat seem less rambling and incoherent, prompting the America First leader to file a lawsuit.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has since published the full, unedited interview, which shows Harris offering several “word salad” answers that were cut from the version that CBS aired.

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A recent CBS News/YouGov survey of 2,175 U.S. adults shows positive approval ratings for President Donald J. Trump in his early days back in office. The survey found that a majority of Americans view Trump as "tough" (69 percent), "energetic" (63 percent), "focused" (60 percent), and "effective" (58 percent). Seventy percent of respondents also feel that he is fulfilling his campaign promises. show more
February 8, 2025
Immigration
Lawfare

MAGA Lawyers Back Trump Move to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegals.

America First Legal (AFL) has filed amicus briefs supporting President Donald J. Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of individuals unlawfully present in the United States. The legal filings were made on behalf of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and 17 other committee members and are in opposition to an effort by several Democrat state attorneys general to secure a preliminary injunction against the presidential order.

The conservative legal group contends the 14th Amendment, properly interpreted, excludes citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in the United States.

“Specifically, the historical record confirms that the Fourteenth Amendment does not confer citizenship on the children of aliens unlawfully present in the United States,” the AFL brief states, continuing: “Because of this, ‘[a]n alien who seeks political rights as a member of this Nation can rightfully obtain them only upon terms and conditions specified by Congress,’ United States v. Ginsberg, 243 U.S. 472, 474 (1917), but Congress has never granted citizenship to the children of aliens unlawfully present, see also 8 U.S.C. § 1408.”

“Thus, the other branches are forbidden from conferring such citizenship on their own, a limitation that the Executive Order ensures is followed within the executive branch,” the brief argues, concluding: “The Court should deny Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction.”

President Trump’s executive order asserts that citizenship should not be automatically granted to those born on U.S. soil if their parents are unlawfully in the country or only temporarily present. However, the measure is being contested by several Democrat-controlled states in federal court and is expected to eventually reach the United States Supreme Court.

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America First Legal (AFL) has filed amicus briefs supporting President Donald J. Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of individuals unlawfully present in the United States. The legal filings were made on behalf of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and 17 other committee members and are in opposition to an effort by several Democrat state attorneys general to secure a preliminary injunction against the presidential order. show more
February 7, 2025
Jack Montgomery
NatSec

‘JOE, YOU’RE FIRED’ — Trump Revokes Biden’s Security Clearance.

President Donald J. Trump has revoked the security clearances of his predecessor, Joe Biden, citing his past mishandling of classified documents and failing mind. “There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings,” the America First leader announced on his Truth Social platform.

“He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents,” Trump explained.

He also referenced the Hur Report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents after his vice presidency. He recalled that the report “revealed that Biden suffers from ‘poor memory’ and, even in his ‘prime,’ could not be trusted with sensitive information.”

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report noted that, when interviewed, Biden “did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013—when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’).” Additionally, Hur noted Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”

More damningly, Hur found Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

President Trump concluded his announcement saying, “I will always protect our National Security — JOE, YOU’RE FIRED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

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President Donald J. Trump has revoked the security clearances of his predecessor, Joe Biden, citing his past mishandling of classified documents and failing mind. "There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings," the America First leader announced on his Truth Social platform. show more
February 7, 2025
Jack Montgomery
World

President Trump Sanctions South Africa for Targeting White Minority, Backs Resettling Afrikaner Refugees.

President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the “egregious actions of the Republic of South Africa.” The South African government has passed legislation allowing it to seize white-owned farms without compensation.

“In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 (Act), to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,” the order states.

“In addition, South Africa has taken aggressive positions towards the United States and its allies, including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and reinvigorating its relations with Iran to develop commercial, military, and nuclear arrangements,” it continues.

President Trump’s order mandates that all aid and assistance to South Africa should be suspended, “to the maximum extent allowed by law”—although agency heads are given discretion to maintain some aid in exceptional circumstances.

Moreover, the order states that “the United States shall promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”

“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination,” it explains.

Afrikaners, sometimes referred to as Boers, are the primarily Dutch-descended people who account for the lion’s share of South Africa’s white minority. They have been present in the country since 1652 A.D.

White farmers in neighboring Zimbabwe had their lands seized, and were in some cases killed, in the 2000s. Food production promptly collapsed, leading to famine and a dramatic economic collapse.

Image by GovernmentZA.

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President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the "egregious actions of the Republic of South Africa." The South African government has passed legislation allowing it to seize white-owned farms without compensation. show more
February 7, 2025
William Upton
Politics

Insider Reveals ‘Chilling Details’ of Government Purge Operations and They Are HILARIOUS!

Career government employees are openly rebelling against President Donald J. Trump, the elected chief executive, over actions to end rampant waste, fraud, and duplicative programs. One staffer for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has gone so far as to issue a public missive that claims to reveal a government “purge” being executed by the Trump White House and Elon Musk, who heads up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is currently evaluating numerous agencies and their spending.

However, the evidence of the so-called “purge” only further justifies Trump’s actions, and some of the complaints are downright ridiculous.

“[S]ince President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a new email address has been set up at OPM and has been sending emails—after hours, on weekends, and sometimes more than once a day—that disparage the work of our fellow public servants and demand that they resign (or take mysterious ‘buyout plans’) or prepare to be fired,” the OPM employee writes under the pen name Annie Porter—which appears to be a reference to one of the protagonists in the 1994 film Speed and its sequel Speed 2: Cruise Control portrayed by actress Sandra Bullock.

AMERICANS BACK TRUMP OVER DEEP STATE. 

The idea that receiving emails after hours or on the weekend is tantamount to a political purge would likely strike most people in the private sector as at least hyperbolic, if not outright ludicrous. Additionally, the buyout plan is another measure that those who have held jobs outside of the government would likely be familiar with—companies looking to downsize or streamline their workforce engage in such actions as a normal course of business.

According to the OPM employee—who evidently has a penchant for campy 1990s action movies and/or Sandra Bullock—the buyouts and emails  are “being deployed in hopes of dismantling the federal government.” She continues, claiming: “We at OPM are just as frustrated, confused, and traumatized as the rest of America.”

However, public polling shows that most Americans have a favorable opinion of President Trump and approve of his actions to end waste, fraud, and abuse—as well as cutting government spending. The National Pulse has previously reported that nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, and just shy of 50 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Trump—his highest rating ever—against 47.9 percent who say they disapprove.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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Career government employees are openly rebelling against President Donald J. Trump, the elected chief executive, over actions to end rampant waste, fraud, and duplicative programs. One staffer for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has gone so far as to issue a public missive that claims to reveal a government "purge" being executed by the Trump White House and Elon Musk, who heads up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which is currently evaluating numerous agencies and their spending. show more
February 7, 2025
William Upton
Election Integrity
Politics

Unhinged Democrat FEC Chairwoman Refuses to Leave After Being Fired By Trump.

Ellen Weintraub, the Democrat Chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and outspoken critic of President Donald J. Trump, refuses to leave her office after being fired by the America First leader. First placed on the FEC in 2002 by President George W. Bush through a recess appointment to fill one of the Democratic Party seats on the Commission, Weintraub has served four terms as chair of the FEC, most recently being renamed to the position by former President Joe Biden.

On Thursday, President Trump issued a brief letter to Weintraub, informing her of her firing. “Dear Commissioner Weintraub, You are hereby removed as a Member of the Federal Election Commission effective immediately,” President Trump wrote. Notably, Weintraub has repeatedly denied and challenged President Trump’s assertions of election fraud and sought to use her position to instead investigate the America First leader—most recently over alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels.

In response, the Democrat chairwoman of the FEC declared in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner & Chair of [the FEC]. There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it. I’ve been lucky to serve the American people & stir up some good trouble along the way. That’s not changing anytime soon.”

WEINTRAUB’S 23-YEAR REIGN.

The tenure of Weintraub on the FEC is one of the more controversial public appointments in the federal government, and her legal ability to hold her position has been disputed since 2007. Technically, the Democrat election commissioner’s appointment expired on April 30, 2007. However, successive presidential administrations and the U.S. Senate have either failed to nominate or confirm a successor, which has allowed Weintraub to remain on the FEC far past her term’s end date.

How Weintraub’s six-year term on the FEC dragged into a nearly 23-year reign results from how many federal commissions are structured. Commissions for government bodies like the FEC are not removed until their replacement is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. However, when it comes to nominating and appointing new FEC members, partisan politics has derailed the process in the U.S. Senate numerous times, leaving the six-person commission unable to reach a quorum and fulfill its duties.

Image by IVN.us, IVN News.

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Ellen Weintraub, the Democrat Chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and outspoken critic of President Donald J. Trump, refuses to leave her office after being fired by the America First leader. First placed on the FEC in 2002 by President George W. Bush through a recess appointment to fill one of the Democratic Party seats on the Commission, Weintraub has served four terms as chair of the FEC, most recently being renamed to the position by former President Joe Biden. show more
February 7, 2025
News

Powerless ICC Cries Foul Over President Trump’s Sanctions Order.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday criticized an executive order by U.S. President Donald J. Trump that imposes sanctions on the globalist organization, asserting that it threatens their independent judicial operations. President Trump’s directive, announced on Thursday, warned of significant consequences for those involved in investigations deemed to jeopardize U.S. national security and that of its allies, including Israel.

Previously, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza. The Israeli military began operations in Gaza to uproot and destroy the Hamas terrorist group after the latter perpetrated a large-scale attack against the Jewish State on October 7, 2023, taking several hundred hostages and killing over 1,200.

In a statement Friday, the ICC reaffirmed its commitment to its staff and its mission to deliver what it regards as justice. The court, established by the 1998  Rome Statute treaty, has the mandate to prosecute cases of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. However, neither Israel nor the United States are technically signatories to the Rome Statute—the treaty establishing the ICC—having withdrawn their assent in 2002.

Several U.S. presidential administrations have criticized the ICC, contending that the international judicial body has “insufficient checks and balances on the authority of the ICC prosecutor and judges” and “insufficient protection against politicized prosecutions or other abuses.” Additionally, the ICC has become deeply unpopular on the African continent, where numerous governments claim it only represents the interests of Western nations and their “imperial” ambitions.

Image by Tony Webster.

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday criticized an executive order by U.S. President Donald J. Trump that imposes sanctions on the globalist organization, asserting that it threatens their independent judicial operations. President Trump's directive, announced on Thursday, warned of significant consequences for those involved in investigations deemed to jeopardize U.S. national security and that of its allies, including Israel. show more
February 7, 2025
William Upton
Politics

Senate Confirmed, Russell Vought Begins Takeover of the OMB.

The U.S. Senate has finally confirmed President Donald J. Trump’s nomination of Russell Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought previously served as OMB deputy director and later director during the America First leader’s first term in office.

Democrats threw up some of their fiercest opposition to Vought, using several procedural moves in the Senate to delay his nomination in the hopes of derailing it. Vought is seen as not only one of Trump’s staunchest allies but also one of his most aggressive and effective lieutenants, charged with dismantling the “Deep State.” An architect of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the new OMB director has a long history in Washington, D.C., policy circles, where he has a reputation as both an effective and fiercely conservative policymaker.

In one of the more bizarre moments in recent years, Vought holds a strange footnote in the documentation of Cassidy Hutchinson’s lies both before the January 6 Select Committee and in a book she authored. In her book, she recalls an incident where she claims former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows unwittingly drank alcohol. In her recollection, Hutchinson says that White House Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought was also present, identifying him as a “faithful Mormon.” The only issue is that Vought isn’t Mormon and has said so publicly.

Another incident during the 2024 presidential campaign saw Vought and several other Project 2025 figures clandestinely filmed by a United Kingdom-based far-left climate change activist group. Despite selective editing to attempt to scaremonger with the video, Vought articulately described how President Trump can use executive branch authorities to deport illegal immigrants and defund Planned Parenthood—both things Trump pledged to do on the campaign trail.

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The U.S. Senate has finally confirmed President Donald J. Trump's nomination of Russell Vought as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Vought previously served as OMB deputy director and later director during the America First leader's first term in office. show more
February 7, 2025
William Upton
Education
Politics

WATCH: Democrat Lawmakers Try to Force Their Way Into Dept of Education.

A large group of Democrat Members of Congress attempted to force their way into the U.S. Department of Education on Friday despite not having a scheduled appointment with any official there. However, the lawmakers’ entry was blocked by a lone security officer who stood firm in front of the doors while Rep. Maxine Waters harassed him for his ID.

While Congress does have oversight power over the various executive branch government agencies, it is unusual for a lawmaker or lawmakers to just show up without an appointment or scheduled meeting. “We are not posing any threat here,” one of the Democrat lawmakers can be heard saying in the scrum of their predominantly elderly colleagues.

It is unclear what Democrats intended to do once they gained access to the building. One lawmaker can be heard pleading with the security officer that they just want to go “stand by the desk,” apparently admitting the political stunt was all for a photo opportunity. Notably, the U.S. Senate has yet to confirm President Donald J. Trump‘s nominee to serve as Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. The current acting Secretary is Denise L. Carter, who normally serves as the principal deputy chief operating officer for Student Aid.

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A large group of Democrat Members of Congress attempted to force their way into the U.S. Department of Education on Friday despite not having a scheduled appointment with any official there. However, the lawmakers' entry was blocked by a lone security officer who stood firm in front of the doors while Rep. Maxine Waters harassed him for his ID. show more
February 7, 2025
Wake Up Right
Media

Trump Cuts Off Biden-Era Cash Flow to Legacy News Outlets.

The Trump White House is terminating federal agency contracts with expensive legacy media outlets after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency discovered “millions” in wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars.

The details: This week, DOGE discovered that the U.S. Agency for International Development had paid anti-Trump legacy media outlet POLITICO $8.4 million in fees in fiscal year 2024 alone. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press:

  • “I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers’ dime will no longer be happening.”

Pretty penny: Annual subscriptions to Politico Pro typically cost between $12,000 and $15,000 for three users.

Spending ramped up under Biden: During Joe Biden’s term, government agencies spent $26 million on POLITICO subscriptions. For perspective, under Trump’s first term, they spent a total of $6.5 million.

President Trump responded to the news on Truth Social, writing:

  • “THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? Who else did??? THIS COULD BE THE BIGGEST SCANDAL OF THEM ALL, PERHAPS THE BIGGEST IN HISTORY! THE DEMOCRATS CAN’T HIDE FROM THIS ONE. TOO BIG, TOO DIRTY!”

Hold up: Claims have been repeated that $8.2 million came from USAID. This is incorrect. However, the cash flow still came from other areas of the federal government.

  • The misattribution, unfortunately, gave the press an opening to run countless “fact checks” on the story.

Politico responds: The company’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief put out a memo to staff that claimed the outlet “has never been a beneficiary of government programs or subsidies.”

Big picture: While the subscription payments are not technically “subsidies,” some rightfully view them as in-kind donations to a friendly media outlet. If it was revealed that the Trump administration was spending $8 million per year on subscriptions to Breitbart or The National Pulse, do you think the press would take issue with it?

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The Trump White House is terminating federal agency contracts with expensive legacy media outlets after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency discovered "millions" in wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars. show more