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For years, the left has lectured Americans about the dangers of “foreign interference” and dark money in our elections. But a sweeping congressional investigation has laid bare a vast Democratic fundraising apparatus that paved the way for just that: ActBlue, the billion-dollar financial engine of the Democratic Party, created a mechanism that encouraged illicit foreign cash – and then, investigators say, covered it up. Read on.

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Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its relocation is in the works. We have reported in the last few days and last month of Paramount’s plan to exit the left-wing state (read here & here).

The studio could move at least some operations to the Tennessee capital within two to three years, according to the report. No relocation has been announced, but the search raises the risk that California could lose a major Hollywood studio headquarters. Such a loss would deepen concerns about the state’s ability to retain businesses as its entertainment industry struggles and the exodus of businesses and residents shows no signs of stopping.

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The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a new report Thursday titled “Dangerous Imbalance: Why Law Schools Graduate an Army of Activist Election Lawyers.”

The report focuses on the disparity in election law course offerings and the overwhelming number of left-leaning professors teaching these courses compared with right-leaning professors.

Left-leaning and liberal election law professors outnumber right-of-center and conservative professors by 76 to 12, according to the report.

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Unions are a natural component of the Party of Free Stuff.

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Something like this is never a surprise over there in New England.

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My, what a surprise.

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Overachiever.

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As the Trump administration seeks to crack down on potential voter fraud in nursing homes, an election watchdog group is providing additional information to long-term care facilities, citing several past criminal cases involving political operatives and staff who took advantage of vulnerable elderly residents.

A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from late July cited two major cases in recent years, one out of Texas and another out of Wisconsin, involving elderly people being exploited in long-term care facilities for collecting votes.

The memo says facilities have a “responsibility to preserve residents’ rights to vote and to promote participation in the democratic process.” But says, “This activity should not violate federal or state voting laws.” And that staff “cannot engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”

The Antiplanner.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek recently announced that she was “pausing” work by state agencies on data centers. She announced it on X with a photo showing people demanding a moratorium on data centers at what appears to be the Oregon state capital. Small letters beneath the photo say, “Made with AI.”

Newsbusters.

How far will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul go to keep immigrant criminals in this country?

So far, she’ll even pardon a man convicted of an aggravated felony, if that’s what it takes to prevent the United States Supreme Court from setting a restrictionist precedent.

Keisy Guerrero Mariano is a Dominican who spent two years in prison for committing a violent crime: second-degree assault.

Mariano, known as “G.M.” in court documents, is exactly the sort of lawbreaker Americans overwhelmingly want to see deported.

But not Hochul — she granted him clemency on Aug. 28.

His case stood out from those of the other five people she pardoned that day:

The others were nonviolent offenders who’d committed their crimes decades ago: two in the 1980s, two in the ‘90s, and just one as recently as 2007.

G.M. was convicted in 2015.

The governor decided he merited special leniency, for political reasons.

The American Mind.

On August 21, 2024, I rolled into the Indiana Dunes at the end of an 825-mile bicycle ride from Washington, D.C.—a ride that raised over $100,000 for I AM ALS, founded by former Obama White House counsel Brian Wallach. Two days before my arrival, Wallach was just a few miles away in Chicago, addressing the Democratic National Convention (DNC) alongside his wife, Sandra.

Also inside that convention hall was one of the party’s most prolific progressive fundraisers, a woman named Evan Barker. Her recent loud break with the Democratic Party, overnight as it looked, had been a long time coming. She walked out during Oprah Winfrey’s speech, recorded a video on the convention floor, and posted it to TikTok, garnering millions of views. After the 2024 election, she wrote an essay for The Free Press admitting she’d voted for Donald Trump.

Nearly two years later, the full story behind Barker’s split from the Democratic Party is told in her new book, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative. While she isn’t the first person to write about Kansas, the working class, or the Democrats’ fall, Barker is the first to do it with a true insider’s perspective. The solution she offers reads less like a fix than a final warning to a party that looks to be spiraling out of control.

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Everyone knew exactly what the Lawfare approach entailed. Lower court judges delayed rulings, then rejected the arguments citing insufficient time for the states to comply with U.S Postal Service rule changes for mail-in ballots. By the time the Supreme Court could weigh in, the clock had generally expired. The 2026 midterm election mail-in ballot fraud will proceed as before without impediment.

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But you knew that.The Democrat Party has been moving Left non-stop for over 30 years. Polling by Pew Research from 1994 to 2017, showed a lurch to the Left for the median Democrat.

(Pew stopped issuing this poll in 2017 … my private suspicion is that the median Dem no longer fit on the graph)

But it’s now clear … Democrats ARE Socialists. It became obvious to me back in 2020. Biden won the Dem primary in 2020 by switching horses mid-stream. While he started out as a “moderate” Dem, those positions got no traction. So, after losing the first several primaries in embarrassing fashion, he basically co-opted Socialist Bernie Sanders’ positions. And with the public support of South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn, the new-version Biden won the 2020 Dem primary.

And it’s now official … in a newly released Quinnipiac University poll, 59% of registered Democrats say they support the Democratic Socialists of America.

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Because the ‘mayor’ is a Democrat and can’t be bothered.

Thirty-eight of the biggest names in American business just sent a memo to city hall, and it reads less like corporate lobbying and more like a performance review nobody asked for.

Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Nordstrom, Zillow, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, and the Seattle Mariners put their names on a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson demanding a public safety plan with a deadline, a budget, and monthly report cards. When Brad Smith and Brian Niccol start writing performance reviews for the mayor, you know the mayor’s own staff stopped writing them.

I have spent thirty years advising institutions on risk, and risk shows up first in the data nobody wants to read out loud. The coalition’s own numbers do the reading for them. A poll it commissioned in mid-August found just 34% of Seattle voters confident the city has an effective public safety plan. Every proposal the pollster tested cleared 75% support, and 90% of voters backed something as basic as foot and bicycle patrols in high-crime areas.

That is not a partisan split. That is a city agreeing with itself and watching its government do something else entirely.

Democrats aren’t about governing, any more than insurance companies are about paying claims. They’re about getting elected, oppressing the Heretics & Sinners, and dividing up the swag. Keeping people safe? Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

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What’s she gonna do, confess?

(Ever notice how many ‘black’ women do their damnedest to look anything other than African?)

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You can’t get more Democrat than that.

New York Post.

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Anything to help the Chinese win, since the Chinese are socialists, just like the Democrats.

Treason in the U.S. is defined as levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

Newsbusters.

“How the hell do you laugh while the names of those murdered on 9/11 are being read aloud? Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) asked Friday, reacting to video showing two New York Democratic Socialists – Mayor Zohran Mamdani (NYC) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – laughing and smiling at a ceremony honoring those killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack by radical Islamists.

Video of the jovial exchange between the two far-left New Yorkers while the names of the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorist attack were being read was caught on camera by national news broadcasts and quickly went viral, prompting widespread outrage.

Not that they care.

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As we reported in May, OMG Media’s James O’Keefe and Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez both went to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and discovered something quite eye-opening: petition circulators offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana in exchange for signatures on California ballot petitions. The canvassers themselves were being paid, and they in turn gave cash to the ballot signers, who used fake identities culled from voter records. The signers had no idea what they were falsely autographing — they just wanted the cigarettes.

Paying someone to register to vote or sign a petition is a crime, as is using a fraudulent identity.

Fast forward to Thursday, when First U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli announced that the DOJ had taken notice of the operations. They’re taking action to clamp down on these fraudulent activities and hold the perps to account.

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Ohio’s gubernatorial election is less than two months away, and Democrat Amy Acton has been making headlines for stances that may seem at odds with her party, including on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Is it a tactic?

An Aug. 26 headline from News 5 Cleveland noted how “Democrat Acton supports ICE collaboration” with a framing of how she “is breaking from her party … “

“We always work with the federal law enforcement, and we will do so—whatever it takes to keep Ohioans safe,” Acton, who had been asked specifically about ICE officers, said. “We need to hold anyone who comes to our state to the same standards of professionalism that we expect of our public safety officers, and I will always fight for that.”

The Daily Signal spoke with two Ohio strategists, Republican Matt Dole and Democrat Brian Rothenberg. Neither works for their party’s nominee for governor.

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A certain pattern is emerging on the far left. Political figures spend years currying the favor of other extremists with outrageous commentary, proudly proclaiming their commitment to eliminating the Senate, opening the border, and other measures. Then, they delete all of the comments and declare themselves mainstream. The idea is to run in the center but govern from the far left, the so-called Spanberger strategy. The latest example is William Lawrence, who is running for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. However, Lawrence’s prior self reveals just how radical this movement could prove.

New York Post.

Funny how all these New York City socialists are rich white nepo kids.

You’ve heard of Red Diaper Babies? I guess we can call these Green Diaper Babies.

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I could get behind a requirement that all liberal women wear bags over their heads.

Imagine all the quiet….

Power Line.

America’s leading practitioner of Democratic Socialism is the current mayor of New York City. He has a theory that little-used, second-homes in the City put an extra strain on municipal resources and must be taxed more to compensate.

Of course that’s nonsense, he just wants to punish “the rich” for the crime of being rich. But the reality of this new tax is not as advertised.

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So, around a million or so New Yorkers must prove in less than 30 days that they don’t fall under a tax meant to hit just 10,000 or so. The list of those hit with the new tax include long-time, current, full-year residents, commercial properties, homes worth only a few hundred thousand dollars, etc. Instead of using a rifle bullet, the city has used a nuclear bomb.

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Marcus Coleman is the father of Dalilah, who was 5 years old in 2024 when a semi truck plowed into her stopped car at 60 miles per hour in the Mojave Desert.

She survived with a fractured skull, no thanks to the illegal alien behind the wheel of the truck.

Mr. Coleman was invited Tuesday to speak before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement regarding a hearing “Sanctuary Policies.”

How are you guys not fighting for [ending sanctuary policies]? I reject your guys’ sympathy, to be honest. There’s no way you guys are sorry.

Not one of you guys have ever called me. No one of you guys have ever reached out to me. Not one of you guys have ever seen me in the hallway and said, ‘Hey, sorry about your daughter.’

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A Dallas County commissioner candidate is sounding the alarm about the current commissioner for District 2 bragging about having mosques as polling locations to help elect Democrats.

My, what a surprise.

Jonathan Turley.

This week, the Trump administration found itself in a familiar position: facing an injunction from Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Indeed, it had just secured an order from the Supreme Court on its emergency docket lifting her earlier injunction on the U.S. Postal Service requiring voting lists to confirm U.S. citizenship.

The case against the executive order on mail-in ballots has reasonable arguments on both sides, although (as I have said previously) the challengers are likely to prevail in defeating the rule or at least delaying the policy until after the midterm elections. The Constitution gives states the primary responsibility over “the times, places, and manner of holding elections.”

However, the U.S. Postal Service is a federal agency, and the federal government does have a role in the funding and regulation of federal elections. More importantly, the Trump administration is arguing that it is not barring mail-in voting but merely imposing “modest informational requirements.” Non-citizens cannot vote in federal elections, and the new rule “does not displace a single state election law. And it need not and should not prevent a single voter from voting by mail.”

The controversy over Talwani is not necessarily the merits of her decision that the rule convenes the constitutional framework. Indeed, the Supreme Court did not rule on the merits and could well rule in favor of her interpretation. The controversy is the pattern of sweeping injunctions by Talwani and a few other judges.

Litigants have been accused of forum-shopping by going to liberal, Democratically appointed judges to prevent Trump policies from being implemented in a wide array of areas, including immigration, elections, reduction in government bureaucracies, and foreign aid.

Like her colleague in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping. Both have issued hair-trigger injunctions, and both have been repeatedly reversed.

The American Prospect, a Voice of the Crust.

At the end of the legislative session, the Democratic governor and presidential hopeful wants to cap liability for power companies that start deadly fires.

As corrupt Democrats love to do.

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In bombshell findings, Los Angeles County sliced a wildfire housing fund in half and steered the cash toward households claiming income loss from ICE raids, detentions, and deportations – without requiring anyone to disclose immigration status.

Taxpayers who watched entire neighborhoods burn in January 2025 now watch the same government treat federal immigration enforcement as another “emergency” worthy of six-figure rent wipeouts.

After the Eaton and Palisades fires, supervisors approved $10 million to help tenants and landlords dealing with fire-related rent losses. They then kept $5 million for fire claims and moved the other $5 million into a priority category covering “economic hardship because of federal actions targeting immigrant communities.” Another $9.788 million from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund was pointed at the same category unless fire victims still had unmet need.

The Antiplanner.

In the past five years, says the Oregonian (a.k.a. OregonLive) and Oregon Public Broadcasting, the state of Oregon “has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion” for affordable housing, and one result has been that “the cost of developing each apartment has nearly doubled.” But Oregonians are denied the right to find out where all that money has gone.

Chances of getting a responsive answer from the proglodyte Democrat state government: Zero.

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When the South Carolina congressman travelled to Wisconsin in 2024 to visit with poll workers and not candidates, no one seemed curious about the intent. When South Carolina had the opportunity to redistrict that same congressman, the professional republicans in the palmetto state protected him.

Now the organizer of the AME Church network of poll workers appears on NBC to say at the first available opportunity the Democrats should pack the court with another four leftist judges to ensure all of the constitutional restraints are removed from the judiciary. Yep, that’s James Clyburn.

Clyburn begins his remarks in this segment by decrying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for not adhering to the manipulative racial expectations of his position. Clyburn then advocates for adding as many justices as needed in order to advance his agenda.

New York Post.

We know Trump-deranged New York Attorney General Letitia James campaigned on jailing the president, but an explosive all-staff email from one of her star prosecutors Friday claims her office explicitly directed him to “find and pursue crimes” to pin on Donald Trump and his allies, according to the Albany Times- Union.

In a bridge-burning email to 2,000 colleagues at 10 a.m. Friday, Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld claimed that he had been instructed by his supervisor “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”

“The best part of having f–k you money is being able to tell the truth, without fear of consequences so here we go,” his email began, before listing James’ efforts to frame Trump, according to a readout provided to The Post.

Wiesenfeld, 34, alleged his boss, bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe, directed him to target “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) .?.?. without having a credible reason for targeting these organizations and individuals .?.?.

“Presumably she acted at the behest of Tish [James] .?.?.

“Tish’s personal grudges with Trump sets the agenda. Find a crime and any crime of his would do.”

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The Ayatollah of Albany and Ayatollah of the City of New York have been asked to not attend the Ground Zero’s 25th anniversary 9/11 commemoration. Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani are planning to go regardless of the fact that they do not support law enforcement in the State of New York or the City of New York.

Newsbusters.

The vacuum speaks.

We had to rub our eyes a few times before we came to grips with the fact that pseudo-economist Paul Krugman — the poster child for TDS and Bidenomics infatuation in media/academia — is actually trying to make “Biden Derangement Syndrome” a thing.

Krugman blurted out yet another of his wild-eyed Substack takes August 27 in a piece simply headlined, “Biden Derangement Syndrome.” The unhinged wordsmith who tried convincing the world for months that Bidenflation was “transitory” snooted that “A clear indicator that Trump sycophants realize that they are caught in reality’s snare is how they respond to any question about current economic difficulties.”

That’s pretty rich coming from the same guy who browbeat struggling Americans who were fed up from Biden-era price spikes, “A lot of it is simply — a lot of people who say the economy is lousy —what they’re really saying is, ‘I hate the idea that a Democrat is president.’”

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The same federal judge who had her injunction overturned by the Supreme Court has again blocked the United States Postal Service requirement for mail-in ballots. The Lawfare communists refiled their lawsuit today, the judge ruled within hours.

The issue is at the core of leftist manipulation of elections as the blue states refuse to comply with DHS and Social Security cross-checks for voter eligibility prior to sending out mail-in ballots. The blue states do not want their voter rolls cross-checked to verify citizenship status and voter eligibility. We can only guess the number of illegal aliens on the voter rolls.

The move stalled the directive for a second time only about a week before the first mail ballots are due to be sent out for the rapidly approaching midterm elections. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani blocked the government from implementing the order for two weeks.

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Annapolis Democrats spent months insisting there was nothing to see here. On Tuesday, a Maryland judge told them otherwise — in writing, and in language sharper than anyone expected.

The bottom line: a circuit court judge just ruled that House Bill 2100, the constitutional amendment Governor Wes Moore and legislative Democrats rammed through a two-day special session to pave the way for wiping out Maryland’s last Republican congressional seat, was placed on the November ballot unlawfully.

This is the story of how we got here.

Newsbusters.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is applauding herself for signing a law that somehow protects people’s right to “health care” by violating everyone else’s First Amendment right to protest it.

By “healthcare,” she means “reproductive” and “gender-affirming” care. “Reproductive” care means violently aborting the re-production of unborn children by giving them heart attacks, before vacuuming their limbs out of the womb, among a plethora of other methods.

That type of “care” is legal at any stage of pregnancy in New Jersey, and sponsored by tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, as Sherrill boasts.

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A former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison for stealing 171 checks worth more than $1 million from mail she was assigned to deliver in Smyrna, Georgia, and surrounding areas, prosecutors said.

Socialism in action.

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A FEMA crew violated federal law and agency policy when it skipped 11 homes displaying support for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while going door to door after Hurricane Milton in 2024, according to a DHS inspector general report released Aug. 18.

This is why you don’t put signs on your lawn or stickers on your car. All it does is give some piss-ant an excuse to injure you.

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Fifteen New York country sheriffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the state’s “Local Cops, Local Crimes Act” and the newly created Office of Immigrant Trust for being unconstitutional efforts to prevent them from working with federal immigration officers to ensure public safety.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York on behalf of the 15 sheriffs who have existing 287(g) agreements to cooperate with federal agencies that enforce the nation’s immigration laws.

They also filed an emergency motion seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to stop New York from voiding existing 287(g) agreements on August 25, 2026, and from forcing the termination of federal housing agreements by November 25, 2026.

The new “Local Cops, Local Laws Act,” which was promoted and signed by Democrat New York Governor Kathy Hochul, prohibits local law enforcement agencies and local correctional facilities from entering into, remaining in, or extending 287(g) agreements or contracts to house individuals for civil immigration violations, the lawsuit explains.

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Days after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a controversial bill critics have dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” the journalist whose name became attached to the measure showed up at the California State Capitol to fight it.

The rally comes just days after Newsom signed AB 2624 into law, setting up an argument over whether the bill truly is meant to protect immigration services providers or to stop journalists from being able to investigate fraud throughout the Golden State.

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Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed a formal motion to impeach President Donald Trump ahead of a possible Democratic Party victory in the November midterm election. The Democrat congressman claims the president has committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” through the administration’s immigration enforcement.

“This is not about Democrats versus Republicans, conservatives versus liberals, or the Left versus the Right,” Green wrote in a letter to Trump sent on Monday.

“These articles of impeachment are about the Constitution and how you are reducing it to mere words on paper. It’s about how you attempt to bully judges and disrespect the separation of powers. It’s about how you condone violations of free speech and flout constitutionally mandated due process,” he continued, addressing the president.

The ‘high crime’ is apparently being Donald Trump and being an effective President.

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Democrats’ attempt to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps for the midterm elections ultimately failed, but the effort revealed an activist funding apparatus on the left.

The effort exposed an unusual coalition of House Democrat campaign groups, labor-backed nonprofits, entities linked to the leftist billionaire donor George Soros, and the Sunflower Services dark money network.

“The big fight over redistricting in Virginia shows how unions and left-wing ‘dark money’ networks like the one run by Sunflower Services/Arabella work together as one Borg to benefit their preferred political party,” Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, told the Daily Signal in a statement Tuesday.

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When you’re getting flak, you know you’re over the target.

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We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking and depressing, but none reached the level of Hasan Piker leading a huge crowd in mocking Kirk and his faith. Before he was murdered, Kirk debated Piker and called him a “socialist hypocrite.” What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning in what I have previously called an “age of rage.”

In the video, Piker leads the crowd in the meme song “We Are Charlie Kirk” at a stop of his “Fear& LIVE” tour, including such lines as “We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.” His co-hosts and the crowd seem to be laughing with joy.

Joining him at this hatefest at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on August 21 were reportedly Will Neff, QTCinderella, and AustinShow.

Hasan is wearing his now-signature Mao jacket as the young crowd and his co-hosts laugh hysterically. It is the very essence of this movement to desensitize people, particularly young people, to violence and hate.

In Rage and the Republic, I wrote about this national ragefest. It allows people to hate completely and without thought to the humanity of those being hurt. What people will not admit is that they like it. Rage is addictive, and it is contagious. Just look at the crowd in San Francisco, and you will see the addictive quality of uncut, undiluted hate:

Democrats are, after all the Party of Hate.

The Foundry.

A month after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood issued marching orders for state attorneys general to target crisis pregnancy centers and issue abortion-friendly legal opinions.

State actions after the July 12, 2022, memo suggest Democrat attorneys general followed much of the 14-point plan pushed by the nation’s largest abortion provider.

On July 25, 2022, Brittany Jenkins, policy director of the Progressive State Leaders Committee, forwarded a Planned Parenthood memo to attorneys general and their staff, according to documents obtained by the Daily Signal. Jenkins informed them that Rachel Sussman, vice president of state policy for Planned Parenthood, was set to brief them the next day “to continue our discussion of continued actions AGs can take in response to the Dobbs decision.”

The Other McCain.

For many years I have said that, if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. The only “principle” they have is a lust for power.

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As Mike Benz points out, with Democrats, every accusation is a confession — they habitually accuse Republicans of wrongdoing that Democrats themselves are guilty of, in this case, foreign interference in American elections. ActBlue was perfectly OK with their system being used to launder foreign contributions into Democratic campaign coffers, with the big-money foreign donors using the stolen identities of Americans to disguise these illegal contributions.

Politico, a Voice of the Crust.

A federal appeals court handed conservative activist James O’Keefe a significant legal victory Friday, tossing out a $130,000 judgment a Democratic consultant won against him over an undercover video sting tied to the 2016 presidential election.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said that award, which followed a 2022 jury trial, violated the First Amendment by muddling together the consequences of legal activity by O’Keefe and his group, Project Veritas, with unlawful aspects of its infiltration of the consulting firm, Democracy Partners.