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Border Invasion
August 20, 2024
Election 2024
Immigration

Record 12.5 Million Illegal Border Crossings Confirmed by Biden-Harris Government, True Number Likely Far Higher.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released new monthly border apprehension data, revealing that the overall number of illegal border crossing apprehensions reached over 10.5 million in July, with the fiscal year ending on September 30. This figure does not include the estimated 2 million individuals who evaded capture, pushing the total number of illegal border crossers to more than 12.5 million.

While the CBP estimate sheds new light on the extent of the border crisis under the Biden-Harris government, the data is incomplete. The CBP data does not account for those identified as “inadmissible” but released into the U.S. through the CBP One app or individuals released via parole programs established by the Biden-Harris government under the stewardship of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Additionally, the CBP figures exclude the hundreds of thousands admitted through parole programs from eight countries following the establishment of processing centers in Colombia and Guatemala.

Numerous parole programs have been declared illegal by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security and were used as grounds for the House of Representatives impeaching Mayorkas earlier this year. The Democrat-controlled Senate, however, declined to take up the impeachment resolution, which could have removed the Biden-Harris DHS Secretary from office.

The almost certain undercount of illegal immigrants in the country by the Biden-Harris government has led some—including former President Donald J. Trump—to speculate that the true numbers may be over 20 million.

The northern border is also seeing unprecedented crossings, with 162,865 apprehensions this fiscal year.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released new monthly border apprehension data, revealing that the overall number of illegal border crossing apprehensions reached over 10.5 million in July, with the fiscal year ending on September 30. This figure does not include the estimated 2 million individuals who evaded capture, pushing the total number of illegal border crossers to more than 12.5 million. show more
August 20, 2024
Election 2024
Lawfare

Dems Roll Out Largest Ever Election Legal Team, Adding Marc Elias.

Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign has marshaled an extensive senior legal team to counter Republican challenges to suspected ballot fraud, lax election rules, and possibly the 2024 election results. The team will oversee a vast network of lawyers and volunteers aimed at protecting election rules benefiting the Democratic candidate and managing potential recounts and litigation.

The legal operation within the Harris campaign is headed by Bob Bauer, former lead counsel to Joe Biden, and Dana Remus, general counsel for Biden’s 2020 campaign. Marc Elias, a prominent election lawyer, will focus on recount efforts. Additional members include Maury Riggan, the campaign’s general counsel, and Josh Hsu, from the vice president’s office.

The team will also rely on top lawyers from prominent law firms, such as Seth Waxman, Donald Verrilli, and John Devaney, to handle litigation. It will deploy local counsel to key battleground states and other states of interest. Vanita Gupta, a former Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) official, will serve as an informal adviser.

Ms. Remus stated that the legal team had been preparing strategically over the last four years, building capacity to press Democratic Party election interests. Already, the party’s legal efforts have scored several victories, including the dismissal of a Republican lawsuit in Nevada concerning ballot counting and a similar case in Mississippi.

In addition, a Democratic voter protection program led by Meredith Horton will operate across eight key battleground states and four other states of interest. The program intends to assist voters, thwart allegations of fraud, and manage post-Election Day procedures such as absentee ballot cure programs.

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Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign has marshaled an extensive senior legal team to counter Republican challenges to suspected ballot fraud, lax election rules, and possibly the 2024 election results. The team will oversee a vast network of lawyers and volunteers aimed at protecting election rules benefiting the Democratic candidate and managing potential recounts and litigation. show more
August 20, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
TECH

Democratic Platform Touts Kamala’s Broadband Project That Hasn’t Connected Anyone to the Internet.

The Democratic Party’s platform hails a rural broadband project overseen by Kamala Harris, which—despite a $42 billion budget—has yet to connect a single user to the Internet. In 2021, Joe Biden tapped Harris to lead the Biden-Harris government’s taxpayer-funded efforts to subsidize rural Internet infrastructure. However, ground has yet to be broken on a single project—and will not be broken until at least 2025.

Despite the lack of progress, the 2024 Democratic Party’s platform claims that “under President Biden, we’re finally rebuilding our roads, bridges, ports, airports, water systems, electric grids, broadband, and more, paving the way for a great American ‘Infrastructure Decade’ that will create hundreds of thousands of good-paying union jobs.”

According to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Brendan Carr, after over 1,000 days, not a single person has been connected to the web through the Harris-led broadband project.

Complicating matters has been the Biden-Harris government’s insistence on burdensome regulations—including climate change mandates, union worker requirements, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies—which have halted progress on expanding rural Internet access.

Additionally, Internet Service Providers (ISPs)  point to attempts by the Biden-Harris Commerce Department to regulate consumer rates in a manner beyond the agency’s authority as compounding the program’s ineffectiveness.

Commissioner Carr has warned that the government estimates for the Harris-led broadband project breaking ground even in 2025 are overly optimistic. According to Carr, the rural broadband projects won’t near completion in many underserved areas until 2030 at the earliest.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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The Democratic Party's platform hails a rural broadband project overseen by Kamala Harris, which—despite a $42 billion budget—has yet to connect a single user to the Internet. In 2021, Joe Biden tapped Harris to lead the Biden-Harris government's taxpayer-funded efforts to subsidize rural Internet infrastructure. However, ground has yet to be broken on a single project—and will not be broken until at least 2025. show more
August 20, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024

Trump Says ‘Comrade Kamala’ Has Backed Out of Fox News Debate.

Vice President Kamala Harris has backed out of a debate against former President Donald J. Trump on September 4, according to the America First leader. Trump says he is “not surprised” that “Comrade Kamala” is unwilling to attend the Fox News-hosted debate, as it would be “very difficult” for her to “defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in” without the support of friendly moderators.

President Trump highlighted Harris’s 2020 pledge to ban fracking on “day one” of a Harris administration—which she now claims she will not do, likely because it would destroy many jobs in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.

Trump also noted Harris’s “HORRIBLE Performance on the Border, [with] millions of criminals and people from mental institutions and terrorists [being] allowed to pour into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted.”

“It’s called, and she LOVES IT, an OPEN BORDER,” Trump said, noting that Joe Biden tasked Harris in 2021 with tackling the “root causes” of illegal immigration as “Border Czar”—an informal title she and her corporate media allies now deny, as illegal immigration actually reached unprecedented heights under her watch.

Her disinterest in her border role is perhaps unsurprising as, during her tenure as the Senate’s most liberal member, she compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities tackling illegal immigration to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Harris is scheduled to face Trump at a September 10 debate hosted by ABC News, a friendly outlet that attacked Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, for supporting the Child Tax Credit in a misguided attempt to provide cover for Harris.

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Vice President Kamala Harris has backed out of a debate against former President Donald J. Trump on September 4, according to the America First leader. Trump says he is "not surprised" that "Comrade Kamala" is unwilling to attend the Fox News-hosted debate, as it would be "very difficult" for her to "defend her record setting Flip-Flopping on absolutely everything she once believed in" without the support of friendly moderators. show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
NatSec

Kamala’s VP Pick Walz Lauded Communism, Oppressive Chinese Regime to School Kids.

Kamala Harris‘s 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lauded the ideals of international communism to students at Nebraska high school while teaching in the state during the 1990s. The pro-CCP remarks were published in a 1991 Alliance Times-Herald—a weekly newspaper published in Alliance, Nebraska—under the headline: “Letters from China.”

In the article, Walz extols the virtues of Chinese communism as a system where “everyone shares” and the state provides necessities to each citizen equally. “It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz is quoted telling his high school students. He adds: “The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”

Students at Alliance, Nebraska’s middle and high schools, exchanged letters with students in China, with some reflecting on the similarities and differences in their lives. Walz is also reported to have told his students about China’s one-child policy; however, the future Minnesota governor leaves out several critical details.

According to Walz, Chinese families who exceeded the one-child limit were merely taxed for each additional child. In actuality, the Chinese Communist state mandated many women to use contraception and engaged in forced abortions on women found not in compliance. Consequently, in other instances, women were sterilized against their will by the communist government.

Walz’s relationship with China has been a point of contention regarding his suitability to serve as vice president. The National Pulse reported last week that the House Oversight Committee has initiated an investigation into Walz over concerning connections to Chinese officials and operatives.

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Kamala Harris's 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lauded the ideals of international communism to students at Nebraska high school while teaching in the state during the 1990s. The pro-CCP remarks were published in a 1991 Alliance Times-Herald—a weekly newspaper published in Alliance, Nebraska—under the headline: "Letters from China." show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Breaking
Election 2024

BREAKING: Kamala Announces Back-Breaking Tax Hikes.

Kamala Harris is pledging to undo much of former President Donald J. Trump‘s tax cuts, including enacting her own proposal to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent. An increase in the corporate rate to 28 percent would put the United States on par with the average corporate tax rate among the economically struggling nations of Africa—with the continental average sitting at 27.37 percent. Meanwhile, the current North American average rate is 25.46 percent, while the comparable corporate rates in Europe and Asia sit at 19.92 percent and 19.80 percent, respectively.

In an interview with NBC News, James Singer—a spokesman for the Harris campaign—claimed the plan is “a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.” However, economists note that the higher rate would put the U.S. at a disadvantage to comparable nations around the globe in terms of tax competitiveness.

The announcement by the Harris campaign marks just the latest economic proposal to raise eyebrows and concerns among economists and America’s business class. Last week, Harris rolled out a plan to enact price controls on groceries, which was widely panned as dangerous and irresponsible—even by the ostensible Harris campaign allies in the corporate media.

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Kamala Harris is pledging to undo much of former President Donald J. Trump's tax cuts, including enacting her own proposal to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent. An increase in the corporate rate to 28 percent would put the United States on par with the average corporate tax rate among the economically struggling nations of Africa—with the continental average sitting at 27.37 percent. Meanwhile, the current North American average rate is 25.46 percent, while the comparable corporate rates in Europe and Asia sit at 19.92 percent and 19.80 percent, respectively. show more

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August 19, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Election 2024

Top Obama Economist Slams Kamala’s Pricing Policies as ‘Not Sensible.’

A top economist who served in the Barack Obama government is blasting Kamala Harris‘s price control plan—among other economic proposals—as being “not sensible policy.” Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University who served as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council under Obama, is warning that Harris’s proposal to cap the prices of grocery items could pose significant market disruptions and lead to unintended consequences for consumers.

Furman noted that if prices are not allowed to rise with demand, companies could instead choose to constrict supply, meaning fewer goods will enter the market for consumers to purchase. “This not sensible policy and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality,” the Harvard economist said in a recent interview.

What Furman details is a scenario that has played out in other countries that have engaged in aggressive price controls, which resulted in a drastic reduction in available food supplies. This has resulted in so-called breadlines in countries like Venezuela and the former Soviet Union.

Even the Washington Post‘s far-left columnist Catherine Rampell has panned the idea. “At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat,” she wrote. “At worst, it might accidentally raise prices.”

Price controls can also impact the market beyond just the cost of goods. The National Pulse reported last week that when former President Richard Nixon enacted wage and price controls in 1971, the economy went into what has been termed “The Nixon Shock.”

The aftermath saw the U.S. dollar plunge by nearly a third of its value during the 1970s, and stagflation crippled the U.S. economy throughout the decade.

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A top economist who served in the Barack Obama government is blasting Kamala Harris's price control plan—among other economic proposals—as being "not sensible policy." Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University who served as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council under Obama, is warning that Harris's proposal to cap the prices of grocery items could pose significant market disruptions and lead to unintended consequences for consumers. show more
August 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Election 2024

Democrats’ Woke 2024 Platform Opens by Declaring America Is Built on Stolen Land.

The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a “land acknowledgment,” stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. “We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands,” the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee “pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.”

The platform, which the Democrats will vote to endorse alongside presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Chicago, Illinois, over the coming days, further acknowledges that the Chicago area, specifically, comprises “the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.”

The Democrats also “acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.”

The “traditional homelands” of the American Indians changed hands between the native tribes over generations of warfare long before the arrival of the first European settlers. Much of the Great Sioux Nation, which warred with the United States through the 19th century, was established on territory the Sioux had stolen from the Crow tribe, for instance.

The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, modern-day North Carolina, on land where the regional ruler, Powhatan, had exterminated the local tribe. He did so in deference to a prophecy that he would be overthrown by a nation arising from the area and massacred the English colonists after their ships sailed away for the same reason. This set the stage for the Anglo-Powhatan Wars when more Englishmen arrived to establish the Jamestown colony.

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The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a "land acknowledgment," stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. "We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands," the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee "pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals." show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Election 2024

Massive Revision to U.S. Employment Numbers Expected on Wednesday.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is expected to issue a major revision to employment numbers on Wednesday. The agency is set to announce its preliminary benchmark revision to the 2024 establishment survey.

Some preliminary estimates and indicators suggest the agency could announce a downward revision of around one million jobs between April 2023 and March 2024.

A downward revision of the one million jobs would suggest that the U.S. job market and economy are far weaker than the corporate media and Biden-Harris government has let on. Further, the revision will likely fuel additional concerns that the BLS and other agencies under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have essentially ‘cooked the books’ to the ultimate detriment of the American people.

Such dramatic revisions are rare but not unprecedented. Earlier this year, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released data showing that all of the state’s reported job gains were, in fact, unrealized. While the state had reported significant job gains throughout the year, the LAO data revealed that the early benchmarks used to estimate job numbers in the state skewed the data in too positive a direction.

The National Pulse reported earlier this month that the July jobs report fell significantly short of estimates, though an unexpected jump in the national unemployment rate may be the more significant data point.

July’s unemployment spike suggests to some economists that the U.S. has entered a recession based on the Sahm Rule, named for a former Federal Reserve economist. The rule dictates a recession is underway if the unemployment rate—based on a three-month moving average—jumps by half a percent from its low in the past year.

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The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is expected to issue a major revision to employment numbers on Wednesday. The agency is set to announce its preliminary benchmark revision to the 2024 establishment survey. show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Election 2024

Tim Walz Advised Pro-LGBTQ Group That Discussed Sexuality With School Kids.

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic Party’s 2024 vice presidential nominee, was pushing LGBTQ gender ideology over 25 years ago as a Minnesota high school teacher in 1999. Kamala Harris‘s current running mate served as the faculty advisor to a “gay-straight alliance” group described as a “safe space” for students to discuss their sexual orientation.

The gay-straight alliance was born from the efforts of five or six students looking to promote “Gay Awareness Day” in the school. Over 150 students said they’d walk out if a day were dedicated to discussing sexual orientation—something many found inappropriate for the high school environment. However, with Walz‘s assistance, the handful of students were able to force an all-student assembly where their classmates heard guest speakers discuss LGBTQ issues.

Many parents took their children out of school during the event. Addressing Walz‘s role in the student LGBTQ organization, former gay-straight alliance member Laura Matson told the Washington Post that the Minnesota Democrat “was really steadfast in his support.” She said Walz was always available to the handful of students to discuss sexuality and give guidance, insisting: “It was important to learn how to be an ally and how to have conversations around identity at a young age.”

After entering politics, Walz continued his support for the LGBTQ agenda, including signing a sprawling human rights law as governor that removed explicit language barring pedophiles from being considered a protected class in the state.

Additionally, Walz has made Minnesota a so-called ‘transgender sanctuary state’—going so far as to legislatively bar children present in the state and undergoing gender transition from being returned to a parent living out of state.

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic Party's 2024 vice presidential nominee, was pushing LGBTQ gender ideology over 25 years ago as a Minnesota high school teacher in 1999. Kamala Harris's current running mate served as the faculty advisor to a "gay-straight alliance" group described as a "safe space" for students to discuss their sexual orientation. show more