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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.

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ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis sat before the Committee on House Administration, the House Oversight Committee, and the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday and declined to answer a single substantive question during a closed-door deposition that reportedly lasted less than half an hour. DeBergalis invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and left. DeBergalis joins a growing list of ActBlue executives who have chosen silence over testimony as Republicans dig into whether the Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform let foreign money slip into American campaigns.

EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies (Scott MacFarlane Reports)

A scathing new investigation by Democrats …

The American Mind.

Consider a simple question. The Biden Administration imported somewhere between six and ten million immigrants into the United States illegally. Do you think President AOC or President Newsom, if given the chance starting in January 2029, would let in fewer than Biden or more?

The American people don’t need a detailed policy briefing to answer that question. Amnesty and mass immigration are key features of expanding the Democratic Party coalition. Its ideology and electoral math, along with a vast government-contractor apparatus that supports the party, entrench a quasi-legal parallel rights regime.

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Neither is James Talarico.

Neither, I am prepared to argue, is any Democrat, professions and protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.

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The co-founder of the Democrat fundraising juggernaut ActBlue invoked the Fifth Amendment in a closed-door deposition before three House committees, sources familiar with the matter told the Daily Signal.

Matt DeBergalis, co-founder of the platform, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, the House Administration Committee, and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday morning to answer questions about alleged fraudulent donations. The deposition lasted fewer than 30 minutes.

House committees, as well as the Justice Department, are investigating whether ActBlue has adequately policed fraudulent donations through its portal, particularly illegal foreign donations. The organization has denied any wrongdoing and called the investigations politically motivated.

The New Neo.

But the working class in the US doesn’t seem to think so; they don’t vote for the DSA candidates, for the most part. The DSA gets its support from the dissatisfied and yet well-educated scions of the comfortable and wealthy.

Trust fund kids have no problems with socialism. Somebody else has been paying their bills all of their lives, and so they want the same treatment from the government. Arrested adolescents, the lot of ’em.

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It is true that OPD is severely understaffed by hundreds of officers. Mayor Barbara Lee is attempting to shrink the staffing gap, with plans to increase the number of officers.

But historical data throws into question whether increasing staffing will rectify OPD’s chronic overtime overspending. A recent report by several civilian city unions found that over the past 15 years, even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime went up by almost 200%.

Recent financial pressures have caused the city to lay off scores of civilian employees and freeze spending across a range of programs. Meanwhile, the number of police officers bringing in six-figure overtime packages rose dramatically.

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And, no doubt, ‘other valuable considerations’.

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The Minnesota voting scandal is reaching epic proportions as a number of stunning investigative reports have made it clear: Election integrity in the deep blue state is an absolute joke.

This is an Election Judge training video for Carver County, Minnesota, from 2024.

“Do not ask to see an identification card.”

“If a voter presents identification, thank the voter & inform them that an identification card is not required if they are registered.”

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North Carolina’s Democrat Gov. Josh Stein vetoed a bill that requires the state to cross-check voter registration rolls with death records.

An obvious attempt to disfranchise a major component of the Democrat base.

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The Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act strips away the state’s statutory ban on abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Physicians in the state can now perform abortions at any point in the pregnancy, based on their own professional judgment, with no gestational cutoff written into law. The measure also expands legal protections for providers, shielding them from consequences that once accompanied performing procedures deep into the third trimester. Critics have a simple way of describing what changed: abortion in Massachusetts is now legal up until the moment of birth.

New York Post.

It is for Democrats.

The Foundry.

Special Senate Committee on Aging Chairman Rick Scott sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James demanding answers on alleged rampant Medicare fraud in her state.

The Florida Republican’s letter noted that the number of indictments and convictions for Medicare fraud has declined under the New York Medicaid Fraud Control Unit since James assumed her role.

For instance, from 2023 through 2025, New York secured only 53 Medicaid fraud convictions, while the next-lowest state with a similar population secured 129 convictions, Scott’s letter said. In four of the past five years, New York recorded fewer than 10 criminal fraud indictments, ranking last among comparable states every year from 2021 through 2025.

In his letter, Scott added that the unit’s performance “fell off a cliff” in 2020, as fraud convictions decreased from 56 in 2019 to only 14 in 2020, and patient abuse and neglect convictions collapsed from 30 to just four over that same period.

The Foundry.

New Jersey recently exposed a problem poised to change the national conversation about election administration. State officials disclosed a so-called processing error at the Motor Vehicle Commission that resulted in approximately 6,600 people who identified themselves as noncitizens registering to vote between June 2023 and June 2024.

The numbers are troubling, but they are not the most important part of the story. Those individuals reportedly did not falsely claim to be citizens. They told the government they were not U.S. citizens, yet they were registered anyway.

Election officials often assure the public that such incidents are isolated anomalies, clerical mistakes, or software glitches. One case, standing alone, may deserve that description.

But Virginia recently removed more than 6,500 voter registrations associated with declared noncitizens, while North Carolina is investigating nearly 1,600 registrations flagged by the federal SAVE system. Alabama, Iowa, and Ohio have reported similar findings, including documented voting histories among some noncitizen registrants.

At what point does a “glitch” become a systemic vulnerability?

A responsible election system should protect eligible citizens from erroneous removal while also identifying registrations that do not belong on the rolls. Those objectives are complementary, not contradictory.

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California’s high-speed rail boondoggle may finally be running out of money. It’s bad news for Gov. Gavin Newsom, possibly good news for the people of California.

I’ve been opining about why the California bullet train will never succeed since I wrote my very first column as a young college pup. But even my accurate (though not difficult) prediction about its certain failure didn’t quite capture the sheer depth of the wasteful insanity this project has achieved.

There now may be a glimmer of hope, though a faint one, that the “project”—a word I use loosely in this case—may mercifully starve to death after fattening itself on taxpayer cash for nearly two decades.

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Gee, I wonder why?

For more than a century, Delaware enjoyed something close to an automatic presumption in American corporate law: If you were building a major company or preparing to go public, you incorporated in Delaware.

That presumption no longer exists.

On Tuesday, DoorDash, a major online delivery service, informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that the controlling stockholders approved reincorporating the company in Nevada, following unanimous approval from DoorDash’s board.

What makes the decision particularly significant is the rationale.

DoorDash pointed to what it sees as surprising outcomes in Delaware courts and an increasingly litigious corporate environment.

Nevada, by contrast, offers a more statute-focused system that the company believes can provide greater predictability.

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Following his Michigan Senate primary win, Republicans launched attack ads against Abdul El-Sayed. The ad opens with a narrator branding him “the most radical Senate candidate in America,” shows him standing alongside left-wing streamer Hasan Piker – who once said Americans deserved 9/11 – and cuts to El-Sayed declaring himself “pretty damn dangerous.” But Democrats and the liberal media are focusing on the fact that the ad uses his full name, “Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed,” and accusing the ad of being Islamophobic.

Apparently they’re afraid that using his full name makes it obvious that he’s a radical Muslim asshole.

CNN’s Pamela Brown Not Happy as Marc Short Calls El-Sayed Anti-Semitic

Oh, and that too.

Victor Davis Hanson.

What binds the new Democratic Party to the new Democratic Socialists is a set of shared issues and values. That is, the radicalism of the Democrats in the age of Trump Derangement Syndrome—lawfare, de-balloting, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and calls to destroy the Electoral College, the nine-justice Supreme Court, and the filibuster—helped give birth to the socialists.

But the overriding commonality among those on the new Left is that if they do not get their way, they blame the “system.” Then they seek to change the rules, no matter how hallowed those laws and conventions may have been or how much they themselves benefited from them in the past.

When the Left lost the White House, Congress, and, for the most part, the Supreme Court, it began clamoring to change the system. For left-wing Democrats, that angst also translated into calls to bring in two new blue states, weaponize the FBI and DOJ, ally with social media to suppress the news, and spy on congressional representatives. All the socialists and communists did was up the ante in destroying norms by calling for the end of the presidency, the Senate, the border, the police, and the Pentagon.

Babylon Bee.

The Democratic Party announced on Tuesday that U.S. citizens were not allowed to remember all those things the party said and did just a few years ago.

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And has at least for the last twenty years.

A longtime Democrat congressman says that Abdul El-Sayed’s Democrat primary victory for Michigan proves that the Left has “normalized” hate “in plain sight,” adding that this is “scary” for all Americans.

In an op-ed for the Free Press, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote that his party is “being hijacked by socialists” and is “overrun by antisemitism.”

Throughout the Michigan primary campaign, El-Sayed refused to condemn the death of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because it could “upset” some of his voters. He also justified a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist attack against Temple Israel Synagogue and Pre-School in Michigan.

El-Sayed also appeared alongside leftist influencer Hasan Piker, who, Gottheimer wrote, previously “praised Hamas, referred to Orthodox Jews as ‘inbred,’ and blamed America for 9/11.”

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A fundamental error distorts news about the Democratic Socialists of America’s takeover of the Democratic Party. Journalists claim that the DSA’s radical contenders and their comrades are defeating “moderate” Democrat incumbents. Pundits are wondering how pro-Hamas Abdul El-Sayed deprived “centrist” Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan’s Democrat U.S. Senate nomination.

While the largely triumphant DSA candidates are as left-wing as advertised, the “middle-roaders” whom they are ousting are no such thing. Far-left Democrat incumbents are losing to far-far-left DSA challengers.

To judge Stevens’ alleged centrism, consult her American Conservative Union/CPAC ratings. ACU averages key roll-call votes into lifetime CPAC scores. With 0% farthest-left and 100% farthest-right, moderate Democrats should land in the middle quintile, between 40% and 60%.

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And if you have a problem with THAT, then YOU are an ELECTION DENIER!

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Apparently, one of the best ways to make $400,000 a year in the New York area is to work for the Port Authority, according to the NY Post.

Twenty Port Authority employees, including 17 cops, cleared $400,000 in total compensation last year as the agency’s payroll sailed past $1.2 billion. And much of the magic came from everyone’s favorite government money fountain: overtime.

According to payroll data obtained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, 323 employees collected at least $100,000 in overtime alone. Of those, 189 were Port Authority cops. Eight top earners managed to rack up more than $200,000 each in OT. Police Lt. Nicholas Federico won the unofficial jackpot. His $180,691 base salary came with another $215,717 in overtime, helping push his total compensation, including benefits, to $466,775.

Detective sergeants Dewan Maharaj and Robert Zafonte Jr. weren’t exactly eating ramen either. Both finished around $448,600, with Maharaj collecting nearly $148,000 in overtime and Zafonte adding about $139,000. The NY Post writes that the overtime crown belonged to chief maintenance supervisor Reginald Bowers, who piled up $231,916 in OT and finished with $421,041 in total compensation.

Jonathan Turley.

A financial journalist once offered simple advice: “Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich…Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.”

That axiom appears to have been taken to heart by radical Democratic candidates who this week issued transparent denials of past outrageous comments. Their calculus is clearly that the last thing that voters want to hear is the truth about their past views.

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It doesn’t get much plainer than that.

Marxist streamer Hasan Piker has emerged as an increasingly visible, if unofficial, spokesman for the Democratic Socialists of America’s rapidly expanding political action network. He campaigned for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong while cultivating close ties with socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

From an electoral-risk perspective, Piker is becoming a liability for Democrats. His far-left, anti-American rhetoric provides Republicans with what we called “a gift” last week. Even Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that the GOP’s “anti-communist messaging is very effective.”

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Say what you will about the Clintons, at least they’re able to read the room.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Kara Swisher on the “Pivot” podcast that Republicans are deploying what she called a “very effective” anti-communist attack against the Democratic Party’s rising class of far-left candidates, who are increasingly defeating establishment Democrats in primary races.

Clinton told Swisher that Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is a wake-up call for the party. She said El-Sayed must unite the party by winning over supporters of moderate Rep. Haley Stevens and reassuring independent voters ahead of his general election contest against Republican Mike Rogers.

“The real fight will be, how do we make sure that people who voted for Haley feel comfortable voting for Abdul El-Sayed, and how do we get independents to feel comfortable,” Clinton said.

“It’s not just about Michigan, but the Republican messaging is ‘communist, socialist.’ It’s going to be a very effective attack,” she warned, adding, “People on the left have to be prepared to answer that and be effective in answering that.”

The Foundry.

Teachers unions such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers are using dues to push a political agenda instead of “addressing the failed education system,” the head of Moms for Liberty told the Daily Signal in an interview.

Tina Descovich, the group’s CEO, says her claim does not stem from her own personal opinion, but from years of tracking union resolutions, curricula, and meetings, as well national education data.

The Department of Education’s 2025 National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed that a record 32% of high school seniors cannot read proficiently, and almost half cannot do basic math. Fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading scores also fell, continuing a collapse that began before the COVID-19 school closures.

“The teachers unions are the reason public education is failing in America,” Descovich said, adding that they focus on “everything but education.”

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The days might still be long, but this is a dark season in our country’s politics. Everybody’s nervous and many are furious, and yet all that emotion goes nowhere, just eats you up while you watch and wait for signs that help is on the way. What would that help even look like? Maybe a concerted effort to bum-rush a whole lot of bad ideas out of American life and replace them with better ideas that are worth building a life around.

Of the two political parties that used to vie between the interests of property and of labor, there is almost nothing left — nothing coherent, anyway.

Newsbusters.

They both want to destroy Western civilization?

The principles and values of Islam, as far as I can tell, are in total contrast to the values and principles that define today’s Democratic Party.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend … for now.

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Of course it is. He’s a Democrat. I challenge you to find an honest Democrat. Just one. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Supporters of an Arizona version of the SAVE Act allege that the state’s top election official used loaded and inaccurate language to describe the measure when putting it on the November ballot.

A group of Arizona voters is suing the office of Democrat Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, alleging the office omitted key provisions, inserted political commentary, and made unsupported claims about the legal effect of Proposition 144, a proposed state constitutional amendment to add voter ID and proof of citizenship requirements in elections.

The Legislature referred the measure to Fontes’ office in the form of a four-page bill and did not propose a summary to use in ballot language. Plaintiffs contend the secretary of state is still required to provide neutral language in the summary, and are asking the court for new ballot language before early voting on the measure begins in October.

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Wealthy New Yorkers are seeking exemptions to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s second-home tax, with thousands filing applications to avoid the levy.

Time to leave, not beg favors from the government.

New York City Hall confirmed to FOX Business that as of Monday, about 4,800 property owners have started the process of applying for an exemption to the pied-à-terre tax. Of that total, about 2,000 property owners have completed their exemption applications.

The fact that exemptions are available suggests that, in addition to making a political talking point, it’s also going to serve as a vehicle for Democrat graft.

Individuals who have been notified about being potentially subject to the pied-à-terre tax have until Sept. 18 to apply for an exemption, according to the New York City Department of Finance. That deadline was extended from the original deadline of Aug. 21.

Available to the politically well-connected … and those who pony up the appropriate sweetener, no doubt. This is, after all, New York.

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This is just tremendous to see.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is running for governor, and at a debate hosted at Farmfest she told one of the biggest whoppers of all time.

Minnesota farmers were not having it.

Richard Epstein.

On July 1, 2026, New York City put into place its tax on second homes—the so-called pied-à-terre tax on high-value homes, condos, and co-ops within the city. That tax was applied retroactively from January 1, 2026, but its retroactive application is only one of the many problems with a tax whose two major supporters are New York State Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. On the day of its publication, the lead editorial of the New York Times dismissed an anticipated fuss over the new tax as though it were no big deal, billing it as a corrective against out-of-staters who freeloaded on New York’s vast cultural and social resources. The Director of Finance in the City, Richard Lee, announced that the city is “committed to implementing the new nonprimary residence property surcharge fairly and efficiently.” But the public mood sharply changed when the Mamdani administration took one large and foolish step when it published a list containing some 960,000 units that could be subject to the tax, including, as the New York Post notes, such celebrities as Woody Allen, Anna Wintour and Cynthia Nixon. The mayor thinks that he can clear $500 million per year, while the Democratic City Controller puts that number between $340 and $380 million—which, given the pace of events, could also be too high. But the bad news is out of the bag: the tax roll already “far exceeds early estimates.”

The story already looks like a colossal policy misadventure. So as the events continue to play out, it is useful to conduct a post-mortem to explain how the legal situation came to this. The driving force behind the campaign is a proud boast: TAX THE RICH. Mamdani makes no bones about it. As he stated on Tax Day, “I promised that we would tax the rich, and with our new pied-à-terre tax, that is exactly what we have done . . . to fund our parks, schools, and libraries.” At the same time, Governor Hochul pleads with the rich ex-New Yorkers to return home, knowing full well that their exodus was driven by a mix of oppressively high taxes and repressive regulations. A pied-à-terre tax is not a way to lure them home.

So now the acid test for the new pied-à-terre tax is this: what does it do to help the situation, especially when it doesn’t only tax the rich? To see how counterproductive the new pied-à-terre tax system is, look at the full table put out by the Department of Finance that covers all classes of non-primary residents, even though there can be only one primary residence, even for full-time New Yorkers with two or more homes in the city.

This says the quiet part out loud: Most of “The Rich” in New York are exactly the Wokerati that Mamdani counts on as his base. Politics is all well and good when it just means verbal virtue-signaling; when it hits the actual pocket-book, well … I suspect that the exodus from New York City will accelerate.

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Kind of a metaphor for life.

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So far, in Zohran Mamdani’s socialist utopia in New York City, it can take multiple forms of identification to shovel snow and, if his proposal is implemented, potentially to shop at government-run grocery stores.

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Raise your hand if you think that a convicted felon is going to vote Republican.

I didn’t think so.

Shortly after Virginia removed more than 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said she has restored voting rights for 10 times that many convicted felons in the state.

Virginia’s state constitution permanently disenfranchises convicted felons but gives the governor’s office broad discretion in restoring the rights. Spanberger announced Friday that 66,085 formerly incarcerated Virginians have had their voting rights restored since she took office in January.

“The right to vote is foundational to who we are as Americans. As a Member of Congress, as a candidate for Governor, and in the months since I took office, I have heard from many Virginians who have shared their personal stories of redemption with me — and heartfelt reflections of the moment their voting rights were restored by previous governors,” Spanberger said in a public statement.

Accordingly, the restoration of voting rights to a convicted felon ought to entail the same sort of scrutiny as pardoning said criminal. But Democrats need the votes, so blanket amnesty it is.

ATQUE: This November, Remember New Jersey’s Voter Rolls

New York Post.

John Fetterman is a little less lonely these days, but not because his courage has proven contagious to Democratic elders.

The Pennsylvania progressive has been branded a Benedict Arnold for speaking the truth about the ascendant, anti-civilizational forces within his own party

Bernie Sanders “keeps pushing these communists and these . . . awful anti-American people,” Fetterman argued last month after the collapse of Graham Platner’s candidacy in Maine.

His “anti-American” modifier was of special import because it cut to the core of the conflict.

The Democrats’ bloody civil war isn’t about health care, or immigration, or LGBT issues, or marginal tax rates.

It’s about two irreconcilable worldviews: one that celebrates the United States as exceptionally commendable, and the other that scorns it as exceptionally reprehensible — often using Israel as a proxy.

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Crack-heads appear to be a core Democrat constituency.

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Which is exactly what impeachment is for.

An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court’s rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial activism, and it took Republicans about a weekend to respond.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) announced he will file articles of impeachment against Burroughs on Monday, accusing her of trampling both the Constitution and a Supreme Court ruling that should have ended this fight already.

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Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly accessible database, saying it endangers landowners like himself.

Yup, sure does. Will he learn anything from that? Only time will tell.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened a new front in his ongoing battle with New York City’s wealthy after his administration published a searchable database identifying affluent property owners who could be subject to the city’s proposed pied-à-terre tax, a move critics say could expose them to harassment and public safety risks.

I’m waiting for him to call out millionaires like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Waiting … waiting … waiting….

Galloway proceeded to read out the definition of doxing as “’publishing private identifying information to expose someone to public pressure or harm without their consent,’” and said that while he is a fan of the tax, he is not a fan of how the list has become a “wanted poster” for property owners.

Well, that answers the question of whether he’s going to learn anything from this. Survey says: No.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white.

And progressive—let’s not forget that part.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive coastal enclaves. Point Dume’s population is approximately 94% white and just 0.2% black, according to a Fox News report citing the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.

She may be stupid but her husband is not.

New York Post.

Despite a career-long commitment to combating racial disparities in housing and touting the importance of living among Black people, former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new California mansion is situated in a neighborhood with virtually no racial diversity.

Harris’ new 4,000-square-foot property, which reports indicate she acquired for $8.15 million, is located in the exclusive seaside community of Point Dume and includes ocean views, multiple wine fridges, private golf greens and enough parking to accommodate five vehicles.

Point Dume is situated entirely within Census tract 8004.08, which the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimated was just 0.2% Black and roughly 94% White as of 2019.

Harris’ choice of neighborhood may surprise longtime observers given past comments she has made about the importance of living among other Black Americans.

Oh, I can assure you that most of us aren’t surprised at all.

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A generation of socialist candidates—Ivy-educated and meritocracy-perfected—has turned the ladder it climbed into a weapon against the country that provided it.

A civilization can be measured not only by what it produces, but by what its beneficiaries choose to do with what they have received.

America has produced a generation of political candidates who represent something genuinely new to our nation. They call themselves Democratic Socialists. They are on the ballot in Colorado, in Michigan, in New York’s most competitive districts. And the story being told about them is that they are the voice of the working class—champions of the paycheck-to-paycheck laborer, tribunes of the forgotten American.

That story is not true.

Look at who they actually are.

The new nomenklatura.

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In November, California voters will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 39. The measure, officially the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, would require Californians to show identification when they vote and force state officials to clean up the voter rolls and verify that the people on them are eligible citizens.

All signs suggest it will pass. A poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found in May that 71% of Californians support requiring proof of citizenship for first-time voter registration, and 54% want it required before every election. However, Attorney General Rob Bonta is trying to make sure it doesn’t pass.

His latest move came on July 21, just months before the November election, when Bonta rewrote the official ballot title for Prop 39, replacing the language he himself approved last year with a new title that proponents say is engineered to make voters reject it.

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Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative.

The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.”

However, last week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, changed the language to say: “Prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification.”

Plaintiffs supporting the passage of Proposition 39 say it would not “prohibit” any votes. Under federal law—the Help America Vote Act—voters can cast provisional ballots if there is a question about their eligibility.

Further, supporters of the ballot initiative contend that state law requires state officials to “give a true and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure” in developing ballot language, KCRA Channel 3 Sacramento reported. The lawsuit calls the state’s updated description “not a true and impartial statement of the measure’s purpose.”

And Democrats were crooked every age….