Texas Officers Apprehend Human Smugglers, Rescue Unaccompanied Children

Texas DPS rescues unaccompanied minor

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers continue to apprehend human smugglers and rescue unaccompanied minors at the border through Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.

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Commentary: Barack Obama Is Perhaps Not the Political Genius He Tells Us He Is

President Barack Obama

Every few months, a sanitized report appears on the post-presidency activities of Barack Obama’s public advocacy. It’s a narrative that conveniently ignores the inherent problems in having a person with no constitutional role or congressional oversight take an active role in executive decision-making.

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Commentary: Trump’s Win Is a Victory for American Prosperity and Practical Energy Solutions

Oil Rig

Donald Trump’s win is a big victory for the American energy industry and for all Americans. The climate crazed don’t want to recognize the fact that more than 80% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels – coal, oil, and natural gas. They don’t want to admit that the use of all three are at record highs and are continuing to grow. Or that a thriving economy needs reliable, affordable, and abundant energy. Because the cost of energy is built into everything that we do, consume or use, even watching Netflix.

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Floridians Hulk Hogan, Lara Trump, Pitbull Floated to Replace Secretary of State Nominee Rubio in the U.S. Senate

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, Lara Trump, co-chair of the Republican National Committee, and rapper Pitbull have been floated as possible replacements for outgoing Senator Marco Rubio who President-elect Trump nominated for secretary of State.

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Michigan House Bills for National Popular Vote are Pulled After Election Integrity Warning

Election integrity advocates in Michigan warned about bills in the state House that, if passed, would make the state part of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and assign its electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote (NPV). The bills will no longer be considered this week, but could be brought up later.

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Judge Greenlights ‘Save Women’s Sports’ Title IX Suit amid More Forfeits over Alleged Trans Player

Years before University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas drew national attention to males who identify as women dominating girls’ sports through eligibility via gender identity, male sprinters who identify as girls took first and second in Connecticut high school track championships, prompting a go-nowhere Trump administration investigation and lawsuit by parents of the female athletes they defeated.

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J6 Shocker: Phone Companies Dispute FBI Testimony on Pipe Bombs Suspect, Key Lawmaker Reveals

Cellular carriers have told Congress they possess intact phone usage data from the vicinity where two pipe bombs were planted during the Jan. 6 incident, directly disputing FBI testimony that agents couldn’t identify a suspect because the phone data was corrupted, a key House chairman tells Just the News.

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Republicans Maintain House Control to Secure GOP Trifecta

Congress

Republicans are projected to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives, securing unified control of the federal government for the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

House Republicans, under Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s leadership, will win at least 218 seats necessary for control of the chamber, Decision Desk HQ first projected Monday evening. CBS News projected GOP control of the House Wednesday, with Republicans netting at least 218 seats and Democrats holding 211. Six races have yet to be called, according to CBS News.

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Commentary: 10 Priorities for Trump’s New Administration

Donald Trump

The future president of the United States has announced a “new era” for the nation. I propose 10 goals that will make the next Trump administration as solid as the beginning of Metallica’s Load.

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FEMA Supervisor Who Allegedly Directed Staff to Avoid Homes with Trump Signs Claims It Was a Widespread Practice Due to ‘Political Hostility’

Marn’i Washington and Roland Martin

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supervisor accused of directing workers to skip hurricane-ravaged homes in Florida with Trump signs, claimed in an interview Monday that the policy was widespread and that she was being scapegoated.

Marn’i Washington was fired on Saturday after whistleblowers told the Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were passed over at the end of October into November due to the guidance, depriving them of the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. She had worked for the agency since 2019.

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Michigan Election Legislation Would Clarify Early, Absentee Voting Procedures

Penelope Tsernoglou

State Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou, D-East Lansing, introduced four House bills that would expand the allowable uses for on-demand ballot printing and clarify statutory language that was missed when implementing Michigan’s Proposal 2 of 2022.

HB 6052 would allow clerks to use on-demand ballot printing for same-day registration voters in a clerk’s office or in election day voting centers. It would also allow on-demand ballot printing for ballots printed in a language other than English so that clerks could avoid having to pre-print large numbers of non-English ballots.

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In Return to Washington, Trump Shakes Hands with Biden at White House, Talks with GOP House Members

President-elect Donald Trump traveled to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to visit the White House to meet with President Biden for the traditional transition-of-power meeting and to Capitol Hill to meet with fellow Republicans who during last week’s elections retained control of the House.

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Louisiana Law Mandating Ten Commandments in Classrooms as ‘Unconstitutional’

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a Louisiana mandate requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom by Jan. 1, deeming the law “unconstitutional on its face.”

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Climate Scientists Say Lines Between Science and Advocacy Are Being Blurred and Bias Normalized

Three climate researchers took to the pages of Nature to argue that objectivity in climate science is problematic, as it gets in the way of their political advocacy, which they argue is too important to deny. Therefore, the values of objectivity in scientific research, the authors argue, should be reconsidered.

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Donald Trump Details Plan to Create the ‘American Academy’ to Provide Free Higher Education to All Citizens

President-elect Donald Trump plans to assist the nation’s population without a college degree by creating the online “American Academy” which would make higher education available to all U.S. citizens for free.

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President-Elect Trump Brings Deportation Chiefs into White House, Away from Entrenched Agencies

President-elect Donald Trump’s nods for immigration and border-related posts appear to suggest he plans to keep the major-decision making on those issues within the White House rather than in offices of executive branch agencies filled with career government employees. Trump has vowed to pursue the mass deportation of illegal aliens from the country, beginning on his first day. He has cited President Dwight Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback” as precedent for such an undertaking.

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Report: Fauci Received $15 Million Taxpayer-Funded Security Services After Retiring from Government

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci has received $15,000,000 in taxpayer-funded security services since leaving his post as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Government Watchdog, Open the Books, has found.

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Commentary: Uniparty Establishment War on MAHA Heats Up

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

by Brian Robertson   “Trump really could empower RFK Jr. to wreck public health” proclaims the headline in Vox. “RFK Jr. Wants to Reshape US Health Policy. Good Luck With That” mocks a banner in Wired. Likewise, the Wall Street Journal joined the frenzy, noting that “industry, doctors, and their supporters in Congress probably will…

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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Farewell Tour

When I was asked if I wanted to see the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band play a show on their Farewell Tour, naturally, I wanted to attend. They have long been a favorite of my husband, and I am of an age where I truly appreciate their music.

The NGDB was formed in Long Beach, California, in 1966. They toured extensively as an Americana band from 1978-1983.

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Commentary: Trump Expanded His Base Because He Kept it Real

Trump rally crowd

There are a lot of post-mortems on the election at the moment. Many who predicted a Kamala Harris victory are now trying to explain how Donald Trump was elected. Their ability to analyze the data ex ante was clearly flawed, but humility and objectivity have not been journalistic virtues for a long time.

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Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton: Democrats ‘Will Continue To Lose’ if They Keep Canceling People over Opposing Men in Women’s Sports

Rep. Seth Moulton

Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton said Tuesday that his party will continue to lose elections if they attempt to cancel people for publicly stating that biological men should not compete in women’s sports.

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Ex-FEMA Supervisor Says Not Helping Trump Supporters with Disaster Relief Is Not ‘Isolated’ Event

Marn’i Washington, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) supervisor fired for not helping supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, said Tuesday that this occurrence was not an “isolated” incident.

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Justice Alito Has No Plans to Retire: Report

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito does not intend to retire in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Trump’s election sparked speculation Alito and Thomas, 74 and 76 years old, respectively, would retire to enable Trump to appoint younger conservative justices to the bench. However, people close to the justice told the WSJ this is not a factor in Alito’s plans.

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Trump Builds No-Nonsense Team as Pollster Predicts He Could Rival Reagan’s Legacy in Second Term

Donald Trump

by John Solomon   Donald Trump sent an unmistakable message with his first few personnel choices for his second term, dispatching to the halls of power players like Elise Stefanik, Tom Homan, Lee Zeldin and Stephen Miller who take a no-nonsense approach to their jobs and will focus on everyday…

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Lawyer Working for Trump Says DOJ Attorneys Who Don’t Get on Board with Trump Agenda May Get Fired

Mark Paoletta

A conservative attorney on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team said that attorneys at the Department of Justice could face getting fired if they don’t cooperate with his agenda.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Mark Paoletta wrote on the social media platform, X.

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Commentary: The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves

Kamala Harris

“Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.” – Often attributed to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

The Democratic election postmortem immediately descended into public blame-gaming—as expected. When Joe Biden was forced off the ticket in late July, the conspirators issued a party line that he was to be praised as a veritable George Washington—in the spirit of Washington’s farewell address of 1796 about why it was a good thing for the first president not to run for a third term.

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Election Integrity 2024: Wins and More Battles Ahead

People Voting

Following the relatively few election issues that occurred on Election Day, the election integrity movement has celebrated its wins and continues to look ahead to securing the nation’s future elections.

While the Republican National Committee and its allies monitored polls on Election Day and are still watching ballot counting in places like Arizona, election integrity groups are reviewing the relative success of election security and focusing on ensuring that election policies are implemented by Republican majorities starting next year.

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Democrat Governors, City Leaders Pledge to Shield Illegal Immigrants from Trump’s Agenda

Democratic Governors

Democratic governors and other liberal elected officials have lined up to declare that they will fight back against President-elect Donald Trump’s hardline immigration agenda.

Trump, who won the election on Tuesday in an electoral landslide, has promised to conduct mass deportations across the country and withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities, along with a slate of other hawkish enforcement proposals. However, Democratic governors in Massachusetts, California and Illinois — all of whom have been speculated as potential 2028 presidential contenders — and other elected leaders have said they will use their authority to push back against the upcoming administration’s agenda.

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Kamala’s Campaign Is Still Aggressively Shaking Down Supporters for Cash

Kamala Harris

Even after her loss on Nov. 5, Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign is still hounding donors for money.

Harris’ campaign has bombarded supporters with fundraising messages following her election day defeat, with the most recent being sent out Sunday night, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Each email claims, using slightly different language, that the “Harris Fight Fund” is collecting donations to fund legal efforts and recount initiatives to help Democrats in close congressional races.

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