September 28, 2026

02a U.S. Politics – Conservative

The establishment strikes back in New Hampshire Senate primary– www.theblaze.com
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The political establishment has carried the day in the Senate primary elections in New Hampshire.

U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) won the Democratic nomination on Tuesday to succeed three-term Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, while former Sen. John Sununu captured the Republican nomination, setting up an open-seat general election critical to both parties’ hopes of running the Senate.

‘I’m New Hampshire.’

With nearly 88% of the expected vote counted, establishment favorite Pappas crushed socialist Karishma Manzur 65% to 33%, with the remaining Democrat vote split among David Jarvis, Maxwell Saal, and John Vail.

Sununu faced a challenge from former Massachusetts senator and Trump administration alum Scott Brown, but ultimately beat him 68.5% to 26.7%. Several other Republicans finished in the distant single digits.

New Hampshire has not elected a Republican senator since 2010, but August University of New Hampshire polling shows Sununu leading Pappas 45% to 43%.

“We’re taking nothing for granted, this is a purple state,” Pappas told MS NOW. “We’ve got a path to victory. But it’s going to be a tough race.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris carried the Granite State by just three points in 2024, with all 10 counties shifting right since 2020.

RELATED: Is the DSA about to scalp another establishment Democrat?

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Pappas has represented New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District since 2019 and served on the state’s Executive Council from 2013 to 2019. He is co-owner of his family’s Puritan Backroom restaurant. Pappas received endorsements from Sens. Shaheen and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Kamala Harris.

Pappas raised over $15 million during the primary campaign, dwarfing Manzur’s $415,081. Manzur tacked far to Pappas’ left, repeatedly accusing him of being a pro-Israel stooge and corporate cut-out.

“Chris Pappas’ hypocrisy is evident. He talks about getting big money out of politics, then turns around and takes bribes from special interests,” a Manzur campaign spokesperson previously told Blaze News. “He talks about standing up to Netanyahu, yet he has voted to send billions of our tax dollars to support Netanyahu’s war.”

On the Republican side, Sununu served in the House from 1997 to 2003 and the Senate from 2003 to 2009. His father and brother were both governors of New Hampshire.

“I’m New Hampshire. I said in my campaign announcement that I’ll have one job: standing up for New Hampshire every single day,” Sununu told the Dartmouth when asked about his primary challenger Scott Brown. “I’m not focused on another office or currying favor with anyone outside this state.

Brown previously served as senator from 2010 to 2013 after winning the special election prompted by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). Brown supported Trump in 2016, netting him an ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa.

Sununu received President Donald Trump’s endorsement despite authoring a 2024 op-ed titled “Donald Trump is a loser” in support of Nikki Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign. Sununu later walked back the barb by saying the publication Union Leader chose the headline.

A UNH poll headed into Primary Election Day showed Sununu leading Brown 60% to 20%.

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Stewart: ‘It Is a Contemptuous Position’ To Not Mandate Baking Gay Wedding Cakes– www.newsbusters.org
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After taking all of August off, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show returned on Tuesday with host Jon Stewart welcoming Utah Gov. Spencer Cox to the show to promote his new book on helping Americans not hate each other as much. At one point Stewart questioned Cox’s commitment to the idea when he demanded to know why Cox hasn’t forced Utahans to bake cakes for same-sex weddings even if that would violate their religious beliefs.

The context for such a question was Utah making it illegal to fire someone for being gay but maintaining First Amendment protections for people such as wedding cake bakers. For Stewart, such a compromise was not good enough, “I think that it’s certainly an admirable effort. It is hard for me not to look at it as there is a vulnerable—there is a power disparity in that equation and that the gay community in Utah is not equivalent to the Christian community in Utah.”

 

 

Stewart further claimed, “You are asking a community of people whose humanity has not been recognized as total to accept that they will be—you will still be—we can’t fire you, but we will still view you as aberrant, and we will enshrine that in the law because it does—if you flip that and you say to somebody, ‘I will not bake a cake because you believe in Jesus for your wedding,’ I think you can see that that is a contemptuous position.”

Finally getting to something resembling a question, Stewart wondered, “And so asking a group that is traditionally less righted to accept a bargain for their humanity still strikes me fundamentally as—I don’t want to say contemptible, but boy, there are some synonyms that are hard for me—it is a hard one to swallow as a victory. Does that resonate in any way?”

Cox, who was the first conservative/Republican guest on a late night comedy show in 13 months, began to reply, “I mean, it resonates, but I don’t think that that was how it was viewed, and again, You can talk to them. I’ll let them have that conversation.”

Stewart then interrupted to joke that he won’t be doing that, “I’m not going to end up—I do one show a week, man! I spent my whole August reading this thing. Yeah.”

After the laughter from the audience died down, Cox resumed, “What I will say is those protections went both ways, and it’s not about contempt. It is about religious freedom, which is really important to people. You wouldn’t have to bake a cake for Christians if you didn’t want to. That is also included in the law. We’re not going to force you to do that piece. And yet at the time. Again, this was incredibly rare. It had never happened. Those types of protections in a red state, and it didn’t have to happen. That is the point.”

The last year has been defined by the late night comedy shows trying to portray themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment, but when it comes to defending the First Amendment rights of a common baker, Jon Stewart thinks the First Amendment is disposable.

Here is a transcript for the August 8 show:

Comedy Central The Daily Show

9/8/2026

11:44 PM ET

JON STEWART: I think that it’s certainly an admirable effort. It is hard for me not to look at it as there is a vulnerable—there is a power disparity in that equation and that the gay community in Utah is not equivalent to the Christian community in Utah.

And so the difficulty I have in that, just being honest—

SPENCER COX: Yeah.

STEWART: —is that you are asking a community of people whose humanity has not been recognized as total to accept that they will be—you will still be—we can’t fire you, but we will still view you as aberrant, and we will enshrine that in the law because it does—if you flip that and you say to somebody, “I will not bake a cake because you believe in Jesus for your wedding,” I think you can see that that is a contemptuous position.

And so asking a group that is traditionally less righted to accept a bargain for their humanity still strikes me fundamentally as—I don’t want to say contemptible, but boy, there are some synonyms that are hard for me—it is a hard one to swallow as a victory. Does that resonate in any way?

COX: I mean, it resonates, but I don’t think that that was how it was viewed, and again—

STEWART: Right. Fair enough.

COX: You can talk to them. I’ll let them have that conversation.

STEWART: I’m not going to end up—I do one show a week, man! I spent my whole August reading this thing. Yeah.

COX: What I will say is those protections went both ways, and it’s not about contempt. It is about religious freedom, which is really important to people. You wouldn’t have to bake a cake for Christians if you didn’t want to. That is also included in the law. We’re not going to force you to do that piece. And yet at the time—

STEWART: Yeah.

COX:  — again, this was incredibly rare. It had never happened. Those types of protections in a red state, and it didn’t have to happen. That is the point.


FLORIDA WARNS UK: Boycott Israel, Florida Will Boycott the UK– gellerreport.com
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Britain’s threatened sanctions against Judea and Samaria will not come without a punishing price. Under Florida law, any company participating in a boycott of Israel can be stripped of state and local contracts, hit with civil penalties of at least $2 million and barred from bidding on public business for three years. As Rep. Randy Fine warns, British companies forced into London’s anti-Israel crusade could find themselves effectively shut out of one of Britain’s largest American trading partners—costing them billions. Florida’s law helped break Airbnb’s 2019 boycott of Jewish communities, and its message remains unmistakable: If Britain chooses to wage economic war on Israel, Florida can wage economic war on Britain. Boycott Israel—and Florida will boycott you.

Britain has formally announced the policy, not merely floated it. The UK will prohibit imports of goods from Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and bar British companies from supplying financing, construction, infrastructure, real-estate and advertising services there. The measures are expected to take effect within six to nine months. France and Canada announced similar action, while several European governments pledged support.

Florida’s law is unusually broad because its definition of boycotting Israel expressly covers discrimination against businesses operating in “Israeli-controlled territories”—meaning Britain cannot evade it by claiming it is boycotting only Judea and Samaria, rather than Israel itself. Florida can terminate public contracts of any amount with participating entities, refuse future contracts and divest state investments after the statutory review process.

Britain’s boycott is not merely symbolic foreign-policy theater. By ordering British companies to discriminate against Jews doing business in Judea and Samaria, London is placing those companies on a collision course with Florida law—and potentially forcing them to choose between obeying Britain and retaining access to Florida’s lucrative public market. Britain wanted to punish Israel. It may instead punish its own companies, workers and economy.

Congressman Randy Fine:

As the British government considers forcing British companies to boycott portions of Israel, it should be aware that a Florida law that I passed as a member of the Legislature would ban any British company forced to comply from doing business with any state or local government in Florida.

It would also end any British business participating in that boycott from doing any business in Florida if it needed any official interaction with state or local government to operate (permits, tax collection).

Florida is one of Britain’s largest trading partners. They should understand that their vanity project in support of Muslim terror could cost them billions of dollars.

And for those who doubt the power of this policy, it was this same law that broke Airbnb’s misguided effort to boycott portions of Israel in 2019. They realized that this law would have bankrupted their company.

Florida has made it clear. Any company — or nation — that boycotts Israel is boycotted by Florida.

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The ‘Woke Language’ Interim Seattle Police Chief Uses to Describe Shooters Is Not Going Over Well – RedState– redstate.com
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Like many Democrat-run cities across the country, Seattle is a hot mess when it comes to combating crime, with city “leaders” often demanding hands-off approaches to things like confronting street thugs, repeat offenders, violent wacktivists, and the like.

Though this approach has been favored for some time now by the Democrats and socialists who hold all the power, Seattle’s openly socialist mayor, Katie Wilson, took things to a whole new level once she took office, making stupid and dangerous decisions like these, for example:

A United Nations committee is issuing a decree to white majority western countries to pay reparations to African descendants of slaves. Tops on that list were America and Britain. The committee insisted, “States Parties must implement comprehensive reparatory measures for people of African descent, covering all aspects of remedies.”

U.N. Committee Says 182 Countries Must Consider Reparations for Transatlantic Slave Trade › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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A United Nations committee is calling on countries, including the United States and United Kingdom, to provide reparations to people of African descent for the continuing effects of the transatlantic slave trade, potentially including financial compensation.

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued guidance Monday arguing that countries have present-day obligations under the legally binding 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

“States Parties must implement comprehensive reparatory measures for people of African descent, covering all aspects of remedies,” the committee said.

The guidance applies to the 182 countries that are parties to the convention, including the United States, United Kingdom, France and Portugal.

The committee’s position represents what it describes as a “paradigm shift” in the reparations debate. Rather than determining whether slavery violated international law when it occurred, the committee argues that governments have a current obligation to address racial inequalities it attributes to slavery and colonialism.

Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld is claiming Lawfare prosecutor Letitia James’ office is instructing their attorneys to find reasons to prosecute President Trump and his allies. Wiesenfeld claimed his supervisors told him “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”

Letitia James Whistleblower Exposes Anti-Trump Order to ‘Find Crimes’– slaynews.com
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A prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office accused his supervisors of directing him to target President Donald Trump and affiliated individuals and companies first, then search for crimes afterward.

Assistant Attorney General Daniel Wiesenfeld reportedly sent an agency-wide email on Friday to blow the whistle on the order.

Wiesenfeld is alleging that his supervisor instructed him “to find and pursue crimes committed by specific individuals and organizations affiliated with Donald Trump.”

According to the Times Union, which obtained the message, Wiesenfeld said Investor Protection Bureau chief Shamiso Maswoswe directed him to investigate targets including “Trump himself, Truth Social, Hewlett Packard (DOJ approved merger) … without having a credible reason for targeting this organizations and individuals.”

The email was reportedly sent to hundreds of employees across the attorney general’s office.

However, the email was swiftly deleted from the agency’s servers.

Wiesenfeld then sent a follow-up message warning colleagues against using the office to pursue James’s political enemies.

The Chinese Communist Party has been allowed to set up propaganda outreach programs in 83 U.S. Colleges according to a report by Defending Education.

The report claims the program is called “The Young Envoys Scholarship,” which sends 50,000 U.S. students to study or visit China. The program is “run by the China Education Association for International Exchange, an organization guided by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism.”

Chinese government program at 83 U.S. colleges aims to ‘influence’ students: report– www.thecollegefix.com
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Program is run by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ organization with CCP ties

A Chinese government program at 83 U.S. colleges is part of an “ongoing effort … to influence American students’ perceptions of the communist country,” according to a recent report by a conservative watchdog group.

The Young Envoys Scholarship is an international exchange initiative launched by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2024 to bring 50,000 U.S. students to study or participate in cultural visits to China, according to the Defending Education report.

It is “run by the China Education Association for International Exchange, an organization guided by ‘Marxism-Leninism’ and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism,” the report states.

Reagan Dugan, Director of Higher Education Initiatives at Defending Education, told The College Fix that the program is operating in American schools without students and families knowing its real agenda.

Dugan added that the program needs greater monitoring. “US oversight must apply the same diligence to American students traveling to China at the behest of the CCP that they do to foreign students studying in America,” she said.

A policy expert also raised national security concerns.

Niger Junta Claims to Thwart 24-Hour Mutiny with Help from Russian Mercenaries– www.breitbart.com
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The military government of Niger, which seized power in a 2023 coup, claimed on Sunday it was able to suppress a violent 24-hour “mutiny” by disgruntled soldiers with the aid of Russian mercenaries.

The unrest began on Friday night with reports of gunfire exchanged between government forces and the insurgents in the vicinity of the main airport in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. The airport complex includes a military base and is located near the presidential palace.

The leaders of the mutiny included young special forces officers who were normally based outside Niamey. They launched simultaneous attacks on the Diori Hamani Airport, the presidential palace, and a national guard camp near the airport, as well as attempting to seize control of Niger’s public TV broadcaster.

The TV station remained off-air until 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, when a news anchor read a statement from Defense Minister Gen. Salifou Mody. The minister said, “a group of soldiers, in breach of military regulations, tried to detain some of their comrades at Base 101 in Niamey and opened fire on certain sensitive sites in the city of Niamey.”

“The prompt reaction of the defense and security forces made it possible to contain this heated moment, and they gradually took back control of these sites,” Mody said.

Reporters in Niamey said that despite these confident pronouncements, the mutineers actually remained in control of Air Base 101 until late Saturday afternoon, and they kept trying to convince senior officers to join their bid to overthrow junta boss Gen. Abdourahamane Tiani.

President Trump has announced an historic deal with Venezuela that secures 65 million barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, which more than doubles the U.S. oil reserves.

The President posted on Truth Social, “The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!… This Historic Transaction MORE THAN DOUBLES American Oil Reserves, greatly increases our Oil Supply, and will substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future, while helping to continue to set Venezuela on a course toward Tremendous Success and Great Prosperity”

Trump Announces ‘Historic’ Deal With Venezuela That ‘MORE THAN DOUBLES’ U.S. Oil Reserves– dailycaller.com
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President Donald Trump announced an historic energy deal with Venezuela in a Truth Social post Friday night.

The president called the deal “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY.” Trump wrote that the United States secured “majority U.S. control” of over 65 million barrels’ worth of Venezuelan oil reserves.

Trump credited Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez and “a partnership with private business.”

The president stated that the deal more than doubles American reserves and will “substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans.” He added that the deal would strengthen the “already growing relationship” between the two countries. (RELATED: Trump Says Venezuela Turning Over Huge Stockpile Of Oil To US)

In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump wrote that the agreement was “the biggest oil deal, by far, in World history!”

The president has shown great interest in Venezuela’s oil reserves since the capture of Nicolas Maduro in January 2026. The South American country holds the largest oil reserves in the world — close to 303 billion barrels worth of crude oil.

Trump announced just days after Maduro’s capture that American oil companies would invest “at least $100 billion of their money,” planning to support the construction of important infrastructure. The president stated that Venezuela agreed that the United States would refine and sell 50 million barrels of crude oil, which he said “will continue indefinitely.”

Venezuela’s interim government opened the nation’s oil to the private sector later that month, which Rodriguez called “a generational reset.”

 

Following up on an historic drop in pharmaceutical drug prices, President Trump has announced an agreement with major drug makers that could lower the prices even more. President Trump stated, “Our most favored nations’ discounts represent the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in the history of our country.”

Trump Announces Drug Pricing Deals Projected to Save Americans $600 Billion › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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President Donald Trump announced new agreements with major pharmaceutical companies Monday that he said will bring U.S. prescription drug prices in line with the lowest prices paid by other developed countries and save Americans more than $600 billion.

The agreements expand Trump’s most-favored-nation drug pricing initiative, which seeks to end the significantly higher prices Americans have historically paid for many prescription medications compared with patients overseas.

“Our most favored nations’ discounts represent the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in the history of our country,” Trump said during an Oval Office announcement attended by executives from some of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

The administration now has most-favored-nation agreements with 26 pharmaceutical manufacturers representing 89% of the branded prescription drug market, according to the White House.

Americans have long paid substantially more for prescription drugs than patients in other wealthy countries. A 2024 RAND Corp. analysis found that U.S. prescription drug prices averaged nearly three times those in comparison countries, while prices for branded medications were more than four times as high.

President Trump’s New Order on H-1B Visas Sends Shockwaves Through Immigrant Communities – RedState– redstate.com
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The Trump administration is widening its crackdown on the H-1B system, targeting two major benefits tied to the program: work permits for certain visa holders’ spouses and the grace period that allows laid-off foreign workers to remain in the country while seeking another job.

The Department of Homeland Security has revived a plan to eliminate employment authorization for certain spouses of H-1B workers who are in the United States on H-4 dependent visas.

At the same time, a separate DHS proposal to eliminate the current 60-day grace period for H-1B workers after they lose their jobs has cleared review at the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, putting that rule on track for public release.

Together with the administration’s newly proposed $103,265 fee for cap-subject H-1B petitions, the moves represent a broader effort to reshape a visa program that critics have long accused corporations of using to import cheaper labor while American workers compete for the same jobs.

Under a rule adopted during the Obama administration in 2015, certain spouses of H-1B workers became eligible to apply for employment authorization while their families waited through the employment-based green card process.

Not every H-4 spouse qualifies. The benefit generally applies when the H-1B worker is the beneficiary of an approved Form I-140 immigrant petition or has received certain extensions beyond the ordinary six-year H-1B limit.

For those who do qualify, however, the Employment Authorization Document allows the spouse to work independently in the United States. Trump’s DHS is now considering taking that authorization away.

The proposal appears on the department’s regulatory agenda under the title, “Removing H-4 Dependent Spouses From the Classes of Noncitizens Eligible for Employment Authorization.”

Trump Calls For NBC’s Kristen Welker To Face FCC Discipline For Comments On Endorsement Record– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that NBC News journalist Kristen Welker would be reported to the Federal Communications Commission for “rebuke or punishment” after she described his 2026 primary endorsements as having “mixed results.”

Welker, the current host of NBC’s Meet The Press, made the remarks during an appearance on Washington, D.C., affiliate WRC-TV, not on the Sunday program itself. “He’s going to loom large over these midterms. There’s no doubt about that. He, of course, has endorsed a slate of candidates in the primaries. He’s had some mixed results, but most recently, his pick of Senator Darline Graham, of course, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was successful in her primary battle, so now she takes on Dr. Annie Andrews in South Carolina,” she said.

In a Truth Social post, Trump responded by noting that his endorsement success rate is very high. “Kristen Welker, the Unpopular ‘Hostess’ of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has ‘mixed results’ on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House, recently and over the longterm,” Trump wrote.

“How can anyone be allowed to say this, working for freely given Public Airwaves? Results are attached. Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment,” he added.

The president then noted that he has successfully sued multiple mainstream media outlets over incorrect or inaccurate reporting, including CBS News for selectively editing an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos for falsely claiming that he was “found liable of sexual assault” by a jury.

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Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas James Comey’s Longtime Advisor in New Classified Leak Investigation– slaynews.com
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A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey’s longtime friend and adviser as the Justice Department launches a new investigation into allegations that classified information was leaked to the media.

The subpoena issued Monday targets Daniel Richman, a longtime Comey confidant and former attorney who played a central role in an earlier investigation into disclosures to The New York Times, multiple law enforcement sources reportedly told Fox News Digital.

The development indicates that federal prosecutors have reopened scrutiny of the alleged leaking after the matter was investigated during President Donald Trump’s first term but discontinued after former President Joe Biden took office.

The investigation is separate from the federal case already pending against Comey over his controversial “86 47” social media post concerning Trump.

Comey Confidant Subpoenaed

Richman, a law professor who previously served as a special government employee for the FBI, has been closely connected to Comey for years.

He emerged as a significant figure in the original leak investigation in 2018 and later sued federal prosecutors over material seized from his electronic devices during investigations conducted in 2019 and 2020.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in Richman’s favor in that dispute in December 2025, finding that prosecutors had violated his Fourth Amendment rights.

Over 96,000 Americans Sign Petition To Ban Mamdani From the Solemn Commemoration of 9/11– gellerreport.com
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Mamdani is planning on ignoring them. Hitler-with-a-happy-face is counting on the sharia-compliant Democrat socialist media axis to frame his visit in a positive way and censoring any protest or the tens of thousands of people who will turn their back on him.

The Change.org petition: we respectfully ask that the organizers carefully consider whether Mr. Mamdani’s participation would align with the intention of the ceremony and the expectations of the families most directly affected by the tragedy (Change).

Kevin McCullough: Think about that. A man who lost his wife that morning is asking the mayor of New York City not to come…. Referring to what we’re seeing from today’s Democrats: This is something else. A political movement increasingly afraid to say the words “Islamist terrorism” while portions of its own coalition flirt openly with ideas that are hostile to American law, American institutions and, in some cases, America itself. And now we’re having the argument at Ground Zero. That’s what gets me. Ground Zero. There are approximately eight million other places in New York City where politicians can conduct their ideological experiments. Leave this one alone. Because September 11 belongs first to the people who never came home. It belongs to the firefighters whose photographs still hang in firehouses across the city. It belongs to the police officers who walked into hell. It belongs to the children who grew up without mothers and fathers. It belongs to people like Giovanni Galante, who has lived twenty-five years without his wife (Townhall).

GOP Would Rather Cede Texas To Dems Than Its Own Voters– thefederalist.com
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Sometimes the GOP establishment is fairly crafty at hiding its disdain for voters. Other times, not so much.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., took a break from making folksy quips to let the mask slip during a Sunday interview about Texas’ Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. While often unpredictable in its accuracy, public polling has shown the race to be one of the most contested in the country.

Yet, despite the race’s apparent closeness and major fundraising disparities between the two candidates, the milquetoast Kennedy wouldn’t commit to the Senate GOP deploying money to aid Paxton’s election. He said that the Senate GOP’s campaign arm simply doesn’t have the money to spend in Texas (after pouring millions into the state primary alongside other establishment forces to try and save incumbent Sen. John Cornyn).

“There’s no sense bubble wrapping it — we’ve got a race in Texas. … [Paxton] is going to have to point out the deficiencies of Mr. Talarico. … [But] you can’t win an election by saying the other guy’s worse than me. Money is an issue,” Kennedy said. “We in the Senate don’t have the money budgeted for Texas. We need help from the president. The president says he has $850 million in his campaign accounts. That’s a lot of jack.”

Southern Methodist University cancels ‘Unapologetically Muslim’ student conference– www.thecollegefix.com
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A student conference organized by CAIR-Texas to be held at Southern Methodist University has been canceled, with campus officials citing a proclamation from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as “terrorist” organizations.

The “Unapologetically Muslim: Youth in Action” conference for high school and college students had been slated for Sept. 19 at the Dallas-based campus.

In a statement provided to local media, a campus spokesperson said “SMU welcomes a wide range of organizations and perspectives to campus as part of our commitment to open inquiry and the free exchange of ideas.”

However, after “reviewing plans for an upcoming unaffiliated youth leadership symposium advertised to take place at SMU, the University has determined that permitting the event to take place on campus, given the State of Texas’ current designation of the symposium’s organizer, is inconsistent with our mission and related University policies. As a result, the event will not take place on campus,” the statement read.

The event was slated to include “interactive sessions,” “mock testimony,” and “power mapping,” according to an online flier. Power mapping is a community organizing tool used to influence political leaders by pressuring the people and systems around them.

“Designed for high school students and rising college freshmen and sophomores, MYLS brings together young Muslims from across Texas for a full day focused on leadership and civic engagement,” CAIR-Texas’ website states.

Exclusive – Sen. Ron Johnson Seeks ‘Covid Reckoning’: Make Sure ‘Fauci’s Reputation Is Completely Destroyed’– www.breitbart.com
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) called for a “COVID reckoning,” saying officials involved in the government’s pandemic response must be exposed and held accountable.

“I think it’s crucial that we have a COVID reckoning,” Johnson said during the Fight Club Roundtable hosted by Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle. “These people need to be held accountable.”

Johnson said public exposure may be the most significant form of accountability because criminal prosecutions would be difficult. He accused officials of avoiding written records and destroying emails that could have documented their actions.

“They didn’t leave much of a trail,” Johnson said. “They learned how to destroy emails. They didn’t memorialize things in emails. They’re not that stupid. So it’s going to be difficult.”

Johnson said his staff is reviewing roughly one million pages of material and continues to uncover information from new devices. He said investigators are organizing the records rather than releasing them all at once.

“We keep finding more things, trying to reveal that and expose it in an organized fashion so it actually makes sense to people rather than just dumping it on the public,” he said.

Johnson added that investigators must withhold some documents while interviewing witnesses so those involved do not know what evidence the committee has obtained.

DHS Planning Major Voter Fraud Investigation Surge Ahead Of Midterms– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to dramatically expand voter fraud investigations across a group of battleground and Democrat-led states beginning Tuesday, putting federal investigators on the ground just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections.

Homeland Security Investigations will launch what officials are calling a “coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative” beginning September 1. The effort is expected to run through mid-October and will involve investigators pursuing leads, interviewing individuals and preparing potential cases for prosecutors, according to internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN,

Nine states are expected to see investigative action: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. The deployment marks another significant escalation in the Trump administration’s effort to investigate allegations involving noncitizens who may have illegally registered or cast ballots.

HSI, an investigative arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, traditionally focuses on crimes including human trafficking, drug smuggling and child exploitation. Under President Donald Trump, however, the agency has increasingly been tasked with election-related investigations, particularly cases involving suspected noncitizen voting.

The timing is notable. The initiative will take place as states move closer to November’s midterm elections, when control of Congress will be decided.

Historically, federal prosecutors have been discouraged from taking highly visible investigative steps close to elections if those actions could affect campaigns or voting. That Justice Department policy does not directly bind DHS, however, and the internal DHS guidance reportedly makes no mention of those traditional timing concerns.

NEW: Trump Admin Shutters 270 Truck Driving Schools For Providing Licenses To Illegal Aliens– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday, August 31, that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is removing 110 commercial driver’s license training schools from the federal Training Provider Registry and issuing notices of proposed removal to more than 160 additional schools, a combined total of about 270 locations. The removals come as the Trump Administration continues to crack down on illegal aliens operating commercial vehicles on American roads.

The 110 schools must immediately stop administering curricula, using training facilities, and conducting behind-the-wheel instruction. Officials said those providers were linked to more than 5,000 drivers later cited for failing English-language proficiency checks during roadside inspections.

Each of the 110 schools had passed at least 10 such drivers, according to a press release from the Justice Department.

Duffy described the first group as the largest sources of those violations. “Today, what we are announcing is an emergency executive shutdown of 110 driving schools,” he said. “These are driving schools that account for 5,000 of the violations for English proficiency.”

The secretary went on to stress the administration’s emphasis on English proficiency tests that have often been ignored by many of the affected locations. “You have to speak English to operate a commercial motor vehicle. I didn’t create that rule. President Trump didn’t create that rule. That rule has been in place for decades,” he noted.

For the additional 160 locations that were given notices of proposed removal, Duffy cited inadequate space for required maneuvers, unlicensed instructors, missing documentation, and classrooms that did not meet federal standards.

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Breaking: SCOTUS Gives Trump’s Ballroom Construction the Green Light– www.westernjournal.com
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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed construction of a new White House ballroom to continue.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Court found that the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States did not have standing to file the suit in the first place, on which lower courts had based their decisions.

“This Court has not found standing in circumstances like these before. To the contrary, we have repeatedly held that mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury under Article III [of the Constitution]. As we have put it, ‘this Court has long made clear that distress at or disagreement with the activities of others is not a basis under Article III for a plaintiff to bring a federal lawsuit.’”

Adopting the Trust’s view of what constitutes a legal injury “would seemingly usher in a world where virtually every citizen had standing to challenge virtually every government action that they do not like,” the majority wrote.

The justices added, “Today, we do not pass upon the legality of the government’s East Wing project. We conclude only that, based on the submissions before us, the government is likely to prevail in showing that the Trust lacks Article III standing to challenge the project in federal court and that the remaining stay factors favor relief.”

Earlier this month, Chief Justice John Roberts placed a stay on a lower court ruling blocking the project from moving forward, indicating the full Supreme Court would be taking up the matter.

However, in Monday’s ruling, Roberts sided with dissenting liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, concluding Trump did not have the authority to undertake the project.

RNC bans CBC from midterm convention over memo saying 9/11 wasn’t ‘terror attack’ | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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The RNC sent a letter to the Canadian state-funded news network denying their press credentials for the two-day Dallas event.

The Republican National Committee is holding a midterm convention next week in September, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is not invited. The RNC sent a letter to the Canadian state-funded news network denying their press credentials for the two-day Dallas event.

At issue for the RNC was a recent leaked memo sent out by CBC Senior Director of Journalistic Standards and Public Trust saying that the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States should not be referred to as a “terrorist attack.” In a memo sent to CBC staff from Basem Boshra, reporters were told, “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks” unless they were attributing the comment to another person.

This means reporters and editors were not to take as fact that the attacks were terrorism. “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed. (The September 11 Digital Archive is an excellent resource for details about the attacks. It was created by several U.S. universities, historical societies and foundations,” Boshra told staff. Warren Kinsella revealed the memo in the Toronto Sun.

The backlash was so severe that Boshra had to reverse course and wrote a post on the editor’s blog, saying “After reviewing our current language guidance, we have decided to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not required for describing the historic events of 9/11 as terrorism.” He said in the post that the memo “has caused significant concern, anger and hurt for many people who believe CBC News seeks to minimize or obscure the horror of that day and who was behind it” and that this was “the last thing we want to do.”

Breaking: US Forces Decimate Iranian Launchers, Stop IRGC’s Attempted Retaking of Hormuz– www.westernjournal.com
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Military action returned to the Persian Gulf Sunday as American forces attacked Iranian rocket launchers.

“I can confirm that earlier today U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces ​were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into Strait ​of Hormuz,” a U.S. official said, according to Reuters.

The attack was the first from the United States since late July.

Last week, U.S. Central Command cleared mines from the strait’s international shipping routes, according to Fox News.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed the U.S. strike killed and wounded several Iranian soldiers and civilians and said in a statement that the “terrorist enemy’s aggression on Larak Island will be met with punishment for the aggressor.”

“The American-Zionist adversary, once more acting out of frustration over its domestic challenges and waning influence in the region, aims to resurrect its malevolent presence and sway public perception,” the statement read.

The Guardian reported that what appeared to be a retaliatory strike on U.S. forces in Jordan failed, with all missiles intercepted.

Florida Gov Desantis Designates Hamas-CAIR a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION– gellerreport.com
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Governor Ron DeSantis: We’ve designated CAIR, named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terror financing trial in history, as a foreign terrorist organization. All states should follow suit.

We’ve also removed Soros-backed DAs who refuse to honor their oaths to enforce the law.

Trump admin set to target George Soros nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center and CAIR in major tax crackdown: sources
By James Franey, NY Post, Aug. 27, 2026, 3:18 p.m. ET

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS could revoke the tax-free status of left-wing nonprofits such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, three sources familiar with the matter have told The Post.

It is part of a Trump-backed crackdown on “bogus” charities, and Treasury officials are drawing up a sweeping audit of outfits deemed to be using and abusing Uncle Sam’s tax code, the three people briefed on the Treasury Department’s internal policy deliberations said.

Bessent’s inner circle is drafting a blueprint that could ultimately strip non-compliant organizations of their 501(c)(3) status, according to two of the people familiar with the plans. The reviews could result in massive back payments and civil penalties, the same sources said.

First Circuit rebukes judge who ruled parents can’t wear ‘XX’ wristbands to protest boys in girls’ sports– www.thecollegefix.com
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‘Cannot favor one side of a debate involving parental speech on an issue of prominent public concern’

The First Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled against the judge who sided with a school district in forbidding parents from wearing “XX” wristbands to protest males playing in female sports.

Over a year ago, U.S. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe sided with New Hampshire’s Bow School District in asserting the wristbands were “demeaning,” “harassing,” and “intimidating” to a boy playing on an opponent’s girls’ soccer team.

McAuliffe said the parents had “acted within their First Amendment rights to protest,” but that school officials “acted within their legal authority to restrict” them as school sporting events are “limited public forums.”

The judge further claimed the wristbands could “reasonably be understood as directly assaulting those who identify as transgender women” (emphasis added).

But this past Wednesday the First Circuit said Bow School District officials “cannot favor one side of a debate involving parental speech on an issue of prominent public concern, and which, in those parents’ views, concerned the safety of their children.”

“The school’s legitimate interest in regulating certain kinds of speech on the playing field sidelines, however, is not demonstrated by the evidence in this record,” the First Circuit’s decision reads. “There is no evidence that appellants’ protest caused a material disruption.

There was no disruption until school officials chose to intervene, after which the referee suspended the game for approximately fifteen minutes and the school officials chose to impose restrictions on appellants’ speech and impose sanctions. The appellants did not stage any pregame demonstrations; did not march, shout, chant, or otherwise disrupt the game; and did not confront [the transgender athlete] or any other player. Instead, they waited until halftime before donning the “XX” wristbands in a passive, silent gesture of protest. There is also no evidence of harassment, given there is no evidence in the record that any player actually saw the wristbands.

Florida Bar Rejects Leftist Scheme To Investigate DHS Attorney– thefederalist.com
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The Florida Bar has officially rejected a plea from leftist groups and former judges to investigate a Department of Homeland Security lawyer for criticizing rogue judges.

In an Aug. 18 letter obtained by Fox News’ Bill Melugin, the state bar shot down a request to probe DHS General Counsel James Percival. The organization said that it does not “investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office,” and that such prospective actions “could encroach on the authority of the federal government concerning these officials and the exercise of their duties.”

As The Federalist previously reported, the left-wing Democracy Defenders Fund (DDF), Lawyers Defending American Democracy, and 128 former state and federal judges filed the Aug. 18 complaint against Percival because of a July 23 X thread. In his posts, Percival described rogue judges’ overreaching actions in several immigration-related cases involving the administration and how they conflicted with its policy agenda.

The left-wing groups and former judges claimed that Percival’s posts and accompanying media commentary on the subject “constitute[d] serious professional misconduct.” In demanding an investigation, they further accused him of “threaten[ing] the rule of law and increas[ing] the risk of violence against judges.”

The leftists’ complaint prompted pushback from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who asked the Florida Bar to dismiss the “meritless” complaint last week. The Republican official said that one does not have to agree with Percival’s criticisms to acknowledge that they do not violate existing bar rules.

SO DUMB: California Now Planning to Force Companies to Disclose ‘Historic Links to Slavery’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Mike LaChance– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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California has seen a mass exodus of companies from their state in recent years due to ridiculously high taxes, burdensome regulations, and the draconian lock down policies of Gavin Newsom during Covid-19.

Are they trying to fix any of this in order to retain the businesses that haven’t fled? Nope. In fact, they are about to make things even worse.

California is now planning to force companies to disclose any historic ties to slavery. Is Governor Newsom aware that California never even had slavery?

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The bill is facing pushback from insurance companies, which argue it largely repeats an earlier California law requiring insurers to disclose past policies issued to slaveholders that covered the death or injury of enslaved people.

New York Life Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company and American International Group, known as AIG, were among the companies that disclosed ties to enslaved people and slaveholders.

Some reparations advocates have viewed the measure as a significant step forward, while others have questioned how much of an impact it would actually have.

The bill, known as Assembly Bill 2599, would require companies with more than $100 million in annual worldwide sales to search their records for evidence that they, their predecessors or subsidiaries bought or sold enslaved people or provided financial support for those transactions, including through insurance or loans.

The measure would only take effect if the Legislature sets aside funding for it, a requirement added through late amendments.

Once funding is allocated, the California Civil Rights Department would be required to create a digital platform for the disclosures.

Canada’s anti-American boycott goes so far it targets California wine: ‘These Canadians hate us so much’– www.theblaze.com
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Ontario officials are cracking down on American alcohol so aggressively that even a grocery store display of California wine sparked a government response after a citizen tipped off local media.

“We were alerted to this by a viewer who said a store in Kemptville had set up a full display in the front of the beer and wine section, prominently selling wine from California,” CTV News anchor Dylan Dyson reported.

“I saw the wine on display this morning, and within hours of contacting Loblaw, the dusty U.S. bottles were pulled from the shelves once again.

“When CTV News reached out to Loblaw, the parent company of the independent grocer chain, it said the wine was put on the shelves without the approval of the store owner,” he continued.

“And once identified, it was removed immediately,” he added.

“I don’t know why they would do it,” one resident told cameras in response to the store having American wine on their shelves.

Ontario’s minister of finance responded as well, saying, “We have been clear — US alcohol will remain off shelves. We expect all retailers, including this grocer, to follow the rules.”

According to the CTV News Ottawa report, the incident helped in “reigniting shoppers’ patriotism amid trade tensions with Donald Trump and the United States.”

“If these Canadians hate us so much, why not boycott all 30,000 American businesses that dominate your craphole country? You know why they won’t?” BlazeTV host Pat Gray asks.

“Because they can’t. They’re far too dependent on us to actually put their money where their inflated egos are,” he adds.

Gray notes that Canada is also dependent on the U.S. for protection.

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of Transgender Service Members › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the Pentagon to remove 29 transgender service members from the military, arguing that federal courts are improperly interfering with the military’s authority to determine who is eligible to serve.

Solicitor General John Sauer urged the justices to take up the case before a trial scheduled for January, describing the dispute as a matter of “exceptional importance.”

“The authority of the U.S. military to determine who may serve in the Nation’s armed forces is a matter of exceptional importance,” Sauer wrote in the government’s petition.

The dispute involves a Trump administration policy restricting military service by individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

The Supreme Court last year allowed the administration to implement the policy while litigation continued. But in a separate lawsuit, U.S. v. Talbott, lower courts prevented the Pentagon from discharging the individual service members challenging the policy.

Sauer called that decision “gravely erroneous” and argued that it conflicts with Supreme Court precedent requiring substantial judicial deference to military decision-making.

Leftists Freak Out Over CBS’s Headline About Muslim Marxist Abdul El-Sayed as His Insensitive 9/11 Tweets are Revealed– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Abdul-El-Sayed appears on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. Credit: Meet the Press screenshot

The left is throwing a fit after one of their legacy media outlets wrote a provocative headline about Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.

On Monday, CBS News went viral after writing this X post, which has so far garnered over 12 million views:

“As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack,” The post reads.