April 30, 2026

02 U.S. Politics

GOP Knows Only Way They Could Keep House ‘Was If They Cheated’– www.breitbart.com

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On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) argued that Republicans “understood that the only way they could possibly maintain a majority in the House of Representatives” “was if they cheated, if they went seeking seats in places like Texas, which is why the president began this effort.”

Host Lawrence O’Donnell asked, “You’ve just come from the House of Representatives, to the governorship, in this last election. In your view, what would it mean if the Republicans were able to conspire with Donald Trump to increase the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives so that they could cling to control of the House of Representatives for two more years?”

Spanberger answered, “Well, I think they very much understood that the only way they could possibly maintain a majority in the House of Representatives — of course, they have a slim, slim majority at the moment — was if they cheated, if they went seeking seats in places like Texas, which is why the president began this effort. Because he knew that, at the midterms, much like, back in 2018, when I was first elected to Congress, that his poor leadership, the chaos that he is creating, the war he’s begun with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, failed promise after failed promise, would be enough to propel yet another blue wave in a midterm, in the 2026 midterm election.”

Another medical emergency uncovered at notorious Colorado Planned Parenthood– www.lifesitenews.com

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Yet another medical emergency was spotted this month at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility with a checkered history on patient safety.

Operation Rescue reported that an ambulance was spotted on April 10 arriving at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood, where the EMS radio dispatch reveals that a 19-year-old woman came in a day after her abortion complaining of chest pains that could indicate any number of issues. However, EMS’ use of the code “Charlie Medical” indicated fears that the situation was potentially life-threatening.

Planned Parenthood staffers also indicated the woman had “moderate bleeding,” which they claimed was “normal,” according to the dispatch. However, Operation Rescue opined that it “seems more likely Planned Parenthood staff have no idea of what a ‘normal’ amount of bleeding might be, nor how dangerous it is to the patients they continue to injure” based on the location’s history.

In February 2025, Alexis “Lexi” Arguello came to the facility for an abortion at 22 weeks. She suffered an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE), a known potential complication of late-term abortions in which amniotic fluid enters the mother’s bloodstream. She was transported to a hospital, where despite the emergency staff’s best efforts she passed away as her grandparents waited helplessly.

SPLC Targeted The Federalist For Publishing A Speech– thefederalist.com

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left outfit that disparages conservative organizations by categorizing them as “extremist” alongside actual racist groups, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday night for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. According to the indictment, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million it received from unsuspecting donors toward racist groups by paying “a covert network of informants” who were part of “violent extremist groups.”

One of the SPLC’s chief activities is what it calls “tracking hate,” which includes cataloguing racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan as well as mainstream civil liberties groups like Alliance Defending Freedom. The smear campaign it wages against Christian and conservative organizations by equating them to actually extreme groups threatens not just their reputations but their fundraising prospects and even their physical safety. In 2012, a gunman opened fire at the D.C. office of the Family Research Council, intending to “kill as many as possible” because he didn’t “like what they stand for.” He told law enforcement afterward that he was inspired by the SPLC’s inclusion of the Family Research Council on its list of so-called “hate” groups.

The Federalist has also found itself in the SPLC’s crosshairs. In the summer of 2017, the SPLC posted an article under its “Hatewatch” category attacking The Federalist as a “rabidly partisan” purveyor of “anti-LGBT and specifically anti-trans writings.”

Intersectionality – The Rise of a Dangerous Anti-American Ideology and How to Stop it– legalinsurrection.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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Fox News Digital exclusively reviewed a report that details how diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices have continued to thrive on hundreds of U.S. campuses through a more deeply rooted ideology, “intersectionality.” The Legal Insurrection Foundation and the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies issued the report.

“Intersectionality’s toxic influence must be confronted head-on,” the report said, emphasizing, “The future of our education system and the safety of our nation depend upon it.”

Despite several executive orders by Trump banning DEI, the report found that progressive school administrators across the country continue to profile students by group identity and to teach students to view America and Western society as global oppressors. The result, the report says, is increasing social discord and even violence spreading across America.

The report’s authors urge the president to take executive action to address intersectionality specifically by name, arguing that doing so will close a loophole that allows DEI practices to continue under the intersectionality banner. The report also calls on the administration to replace this school of thought with education programs that promote traditional American values.

Meet the Iranian Regime Mouthpiece Pushing Anti-U.S. Memes From His California Home – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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One of the regime’s more influential propagandists has been quietly operating from the safety of suburban Southern California — all while reportedly collecting a fat monthly paycheck from Tehran.

Meysam Zamanabadi, a longtime close advisor to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who has deep ties to the Iranian regime stretching back to his days as Tehran mayor and head of law enforcement, has been living in Glendora, California, for nearly a decade.

Zamanabadi manages Ghalibaf’s English-language X account, churning out slick, meme-heavy anti-American content aimed squarely at impressionable—nay, gullible—U.S. audiences.

Is it any wonder that Democrat politicians are so easily duped by blatant Iranian propaganda on social media, when certain operations are generating from American soil, by operatives who speak English and post using emojis and Gen Z memes?

Trump Just Cost Republicans The House As Virginia Voters Pass New Map Boosting Democrats– www.politicususa.com

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Trump’s scheme to steal the midterm election by getting red states to gerrymander more Republican House seats was a poorly thought-out effort with great potential to backfire from the moment it was launched.

The president assumed that Democrats would not fight back. Trump also assumed that red states would line up around the country to carry out his wishes.

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Democrats did fight back by playing by the same rules that Trump established. In California, Democrats romped to a new map that could net them five House seats. While in red states like Kansas and Indiana, Republicans refused to redraw their maps. Ohio Republicans rejected a full-scale gerrymander and went with a fairer map after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries threatened them with a ballot referendum.

Trump claims Iran is ‘collapsing financially’ and ‘doesn’t want Strait of Hormuz closed’– www.washingtonexaminer.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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President Donald Trump took to his social media account on Tuesday night, posting on a variety of topics. In two posts, he commented about the continued standoff between the United States and Iran regarding the Strait of Hormuz. The president asserted that Iran did not want to close the Strait so it could financially benefit from vessels passing through it, claiming that Iran was “collapsing financially” as a result of the Strait being closed.

“Iran is collapsing financially!” Trump posted late Tuesday night, the second such post he made about Iran and the Strait in a span of a few hours. “They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately- Starving for cash! Losing 500 Million Dollars a day. Military and Police complaining that they are not getting paid. SOS!!!”

Iran Found Its ‘Nuclear Weapon’. Now The US Has To Adapt– www.ndtv.com

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For decades the US and Israel have drawn a bullseye around Iran’s nuclear programme, arguing that allowing Tehran a nuke risks triggering an arms race and destabilising a region that produces a third of the world’s oil and gas, as well as large quantities of fertilisers.

For the US, the risk is also loss of strategic control – since a nuclear-powered Iran rewrites power equations with neighbouring Arab states – over a critical global trade and transit hub.

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Air strikes, this year and last, on nuclear and military bases were meant to destroy Iran’s ability to enrich uranium past the current 60 per cent threshold and degrade its missile arsenal.

The strikes have been relatively successful; satellite images showed damage to nuclear and missile capabilities, particularly after the US dropped ‘bunker busters’ on Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow in June 2025, and on missile depots in March 2026.

‘The GOP should’ve done more’: Virginia Republicans point fingers after gerrymandering loss– www.politico.com

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After a narrow loss in Virginia, Republicans are pointing fingers as President Donald Trump’s national gerrymandering fight slips into a stalemate.

Multiple Republicans say the party should’ve spent much more, much earlier to have a better shot at blocking Democrats’ Virginia map, which could give the party as many as four more House seats. And pressure is now growing on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to make up for Democrats’ gains with a GOP-led redistricting effort in his state, as soon as next week.

“You’d be hard pressed to find a single Republican tonight who doesn’t think the GOP should’ve done more in Virginia. It actually hurts more that it was so close,” said a GOP operative, granted anonymity to speak candidly, like others in this article.

There are mounting signs that Trump and the GOP have used valuable time and political capital on an arduous tit-for-tat that is so far looking like it will be close to a draw. Even if Republicans squeeze out gains in a new Florida map, their total gains are likely to be modest at best.

House Republican: Dead & Missing Scientists Probe Was Launched After ‘UFO General’ Vanished– slaynews.com

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A congressional investigation into a growing number of missing and deceased scientists was triggered after the disappearance of a high-ranking Air Force official tied to some of the nation’s most classified research programs, a House Republican has revealed.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) revealed that the probe was sparked in part by the sudden disappearance of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland.

As Slay News has been documenting, McCasland vanished in February from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Burlison described McCasland as the “UFO general.”

It’s Not Over — the Courts Could (And Should) Neuter Virginia’s Anti-Democratic Gerrymandering Gambit – RedState– redstate.com

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For the moment, the Democrats have won. Their Machiavellian gerrymandering scheme passed by a slim margin Tuesday night, slicing and dicing Virginia’s congressional districts into a ridiculous jigsaw puzzle that most closely resembles Illinois’ comical maps — meaning they have no logic, other than to rig the result and disenfranchise millions of voters.

 

DUKE: Virginia Approves Heinous ‘Lobster District’ Map That Rips Power From Rural Voters– dailycaller.com

pgnewser April 22, 2026 0

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Virginians voted Tuesday to approve a redistricting map introduced by Democrats that allows wealthy, Democratic residents in northern Virginia to outvote rural residents in the state. 

The new gerrymandered map changes the balance of power from 6-5 to 10-1 in Democrats’ favor, even though the state went just under six points to Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Democrats claim it is a “temporary measure” — existing through the 2030 Census — to combat President Donald Trump.

Former President Barack Obama was one of the chief spokespeople for the new map, alongside Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger, who ran in the 2025 election as a moderate Democrat. 

The map itself is truly something to behold. The so-called “lobster district” — Virginia’s new 7th congressional district proposed by the map — starts up north with a sliver of blue Fairfax County and then splits into two arms just north of Charlottesville, where the University of Virginia is located. The proposed 8th district similarly starts in Fairfax and then snakes down to the area east of Richmond. 

Hormuz is just a ‘dry run’ if China and U.S. go to war in the Pacific, Singapore foreign minister warns– www.cnbc.com

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Should a war break out between China and the U.S. in the Pacific, “what you are seeing in the Strait of Hormuz will be a dry run,” Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Wednesday.

Balakrishnan made the remarks at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE event in Singapore, responding to a question on whether the city-state was facing any pressure from Washington and Beijing to choose between the two.

Singapore has relationships with both the countries, and is uniquely positioned to take advantage of developments in the U.S. and China, Balakrishnan told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick.

The U.S. is Singapore’s largest foreign investor with around 6,000 American companies based in the city-state. Singapore also runs a goods trade deficit with Washington to the tune of about $3.6 billion, according to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Ketanji Brown Jackson So Unhinged, Other Liberal Justices Won’t Touch Her Dissent– dailycaller.com

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson penned a sole dissent in District of Columbia v. R.W., a case decided Monday. The case concerned whether a police officer’s actions were supported by reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

A D.C. metropolitan police officer entered a parking lot in a marked police vehicle around 2:00 a.m. He noticed two people immediately dash out of a car. The police officer “had not done anything other than simply pull up,” according to court documents. The driver, “R.W.,” then began to reverse out of the parking space with at least one rear door open.

President Trump Throws Cold Water on Hopes for a Peace Agreement in Islamabad – RedState– redstate.com

pgnewser April 21, 2026 0

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Tuesday morning, President Trump did a brief telephone interview with Joe Kernen of CNBC’s Squawk Box. The subject was Trump’s prognosis for how the negotiations would proceed.

President Trump doesn’t seem to have high hopes. He points out that even though the Iranian leadership has stated it would not attend the new round of negotiations in Islamabad, it is participating, so long as the U.S. continues to blockade Iranian ports. Trump did not back off (see VIDEO: USS Spruance Lights Up Iranian Blockade Runner in a Formidable Demonstration of FAFO – RedState) and yet here we are. He frames their attendance as being under duress, “[T]hey just got the okay to go forward, which I knew they were going to do anyway. I mean, I don’t think they had a choice. They have to negotiate.”

Trump lays out a stark choice for Iran: “And you know, the one thing I’ll say is this: Iran can get themselves in very good footing. If they make a deal, they can make themselves into a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again. They have incredible people, but they seem to be, you know, bloodthirsty. They’re led by some very, very unfortunately tough people. And I don’t mean tough in a good way. I think it’s very negative for the country because we’re much tougher than they are — like not even close. But they have to use reason and they have to use common sense, and they can get themselves into a great position to make themselves into a great country, but a legitimate country, not a country based on death and horror.”

Ship Seized in Strait of Hormuz Carried Chemical Shipments for Missiles– gellerreport.com

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley: The ship the U.S. seized in the Strait of Hormuz this weekend was headed from China to Iran and is linked to chemical shipments for missiles. It refused repeated orders to stop. Another reminder that China is helping prop up Iran’s regime—a reality that can’t be ignored (Haley).

Wall Street Journal: The Iranian cargo ship seized by U.S. forces in the Gulf of Oman this weekend is part of a fleet that often sails to China, one of Tehran’s most important backers—and includes vessels that have been accused of transporting chemicals for Iran’s ballistic-missile program. The ship, the MV Touska, visited the southern China port of Zhuhai twice in the six weeks before it was intercepted Sunday on its way to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, according to shipping analysts. The Touska ignored six hours of warnings from the USS Spruance, a guided-missile destroyer, according to the Pentagon

US Iran War Live Iran Tanker ‘Silly City’ Slips Past US Blockade Despite Warning: Report– www.ndtv.com

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An Iranian tanker called “Silly City” successfully reached the country’s waters despite a naval blockade and threats from a US Navy task force. According to reports from local media, the vessel reached a southern Iranian port overnight after passing through the Arabian Sea with full security and operational support from Iran’s navy.

“Despite numerous warnings and threats from the US Navy Fleet Group, the Iranian oil tanker Silly City, with the operational support of the Iranian Navy and in full safety, entered Iran’s territorial waters last night after crossing the Arabian Sea,” the Iranian military said in a statement on Tuesday.

Shipping industry intelligence site Lloyd’s List reported that more than 20 Iranian so-called “shadow vessels” had transited past the US blockade

The Strait of Hormuz in peacetime sees around 120 daily transits, according to the site.

Dem Chris Murphy slammed for replying ‘awesome’ to report Iranian vessels ‘bypass US blockade’ in Strait of Hormuz | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com

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“Awesome,” Murphy said as he shared an article headlined “At least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade.”

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy is cheering for the United States to fail in Iran because he hates the president. “Awesome,” Murphy said as he shared an article headlined “At least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade.”

“A Democrat Senator is now publicly rooting for Iran. Did ActBlue start accepting donations from the regime’s oil revenue?” Said Montana Senator Tim Sheehy.

“The Democrats are rooting for Iran—literally,” said commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon. “Senator Chris Murphy may be the most psychotic example of this, but he is the apotheosis of a vibe that is utterly pervasive in the anti-Trump Left and Right. Donald Trump has a super-power: He exposes the most despicable qualities in his opponents, revealing them to be utterly beneath contempt.”

School Counselor Awarded Massive Lawsuit Settlement After Being Fired for Concerns With Gender Policy– www.westernjournal.com

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An Indiana school counselor who was fired after discussing the district’s policy regarding “gender identity” with a reporter was awarded a $195,000 payout as part of a lawsuit settlement.

Kathy McCord, who has been an educator for 37 years, was dismissed after the South Madison Community School Corporation unveiled the new policy in August 2021.

The policy said that counselors and other employees were required to use “names and pronouns for the student that do not correspond with his or her sex” upon request of that student, according to a Wednesday release from Alliance Defending Freedom.

The policy sometimes “required employees to hide the new names and pronouns from parents,” the legal advocacy group said.