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Tina Peters Calls for Federal Action to Preserve Fulton County Election Machines
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Tina Peters Calls for Federal Action to Preserve Fulton County Election Machines

By Tina Peters | Commentary, TinaPeters.us Fulton County, Pennsylvania hard-drive evidence is under pressure. The Speckin forensic report is public. Call the people who can still secure it. America still has a chance to secure the evidence. In Fulton County, Pennsylvania, forensic imaging of election equipment hard drives produced findings the public can still read for itself. That record is not a rumor thread. It is a dated forensic report. And right now, the danger is simple and urgent: If the machines are wiped, replaced, or destroyed under vendor pressure and seven-figure legal threat, the physical evidence goes with them. Tina’s ask is not complicated: Tell the DOJ to seize these machines now — before they are destroyed Call the pe...
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Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt as investigators obtain COVID-era phone
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Senate panel votes to hold Fauci in contempt as investigators obtain COVID-era phone

By Jefferey Jaxen | Commentary, Jefferey Jaxen (Substack) *BREAKING: Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress by an 8-5 vote. Next steps for the fast-tracked rstates that the President of the Senate, Vice President JD Vance, "shall certify" the committee's referral and report directly to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia at the Department of Justice. Limited hangout: A public relations and media strategy where an organization or government admits to a portion of a damaging truth after a cover-up fails. By releasing controlled, selective facts, they satisfy public curiosity and prevent deeper investigation while keeping key secrets hidden. Today is the vote heard around the world. It’s unclear at this point if the Justice Department would act on that ref...
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Biden Pardon and Fauci Fifth Amendment Fight Headed for the Courts
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Biden Pardon and Fauci Fifth Amendment Fight Headed for the Courts

By Just the News Contributor | Just the News Whether Fauci was legally entitled to invoke Fifth Amendment may ultimately depend on how courts balance broad immunity conferred in Biden pardon against remaining risk of post-pardon criminal exposure. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the country's COVID pandemic response, invoking the constitutional right against self-incrimination last week during a contentious Senate hearing on the response and the virus's origins has sparked a fierce legal – and political – debate whose origins date back to a late-1800s Supreme Court decision and that will likely be resolved in court.  Sen. Rand Paul, the Senate committee chairman, argues the constitutional privilege no longer applies because the sweeping, preemptive pardon for...
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Clinton Era Tactics Still Shape Democrat Crisis Response
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Clinton Era Tactics Still Shape Democrat Crisis Response

By: Chris Bray | Commentary, The Federalist Delay, delay, delay, then dismiss the scandal as old news. Clinton 101. Democrats always lie the same way, so pattern recognition becomes a kind of vaccine, except that it actually creates immunity. Once you know how they do it, they can never fool you again. Unless you’re also a Democrat, in which case you were born to be fooled, and you can just go back to sucking your thumb in a basement. Back in the political Pleistocene, a slippery American president who was known as “Slick Willie” slogged through scandal after scandal, often in the company of his amoral and tone-deaf grifter wife. Perpetually embroiled in controversy because of their own behavior, this shameless couple developed a set of reliable techniques for t...
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Convention of States has a Colorado bill ready for 2027. It still has no sponsor.
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Convention of States has a Colorado bill ready for 2027. It still has no sponsor.

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Convention of States Action (COSA) says more than 62,000 Coloradans have signed its petitions calling for a constitutional convention to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power, and set term limits for Congress.  The organization has a draft bill ready for the 2027 legislative session.  Its representatives have met with senior policy staff in the Governor's Office.  According to Michael Forbis, a 20-year Army veteran and Colorado Springs resident who volunteers on COSA Colorado's Legislative Liaison Team, House Republican staff distributed an earlier version of the proposal to the caucus's 22 members. What it does not have is a single Colorado legislator willing to spons...
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Report Says Billions Lost to Fraud as Federal Programs Flow Through States
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Report Says Billions Lost to Fraud as Federal Programs Flow Through States

By Brett Rowland | Just the News Programs in question include Medicaid, food stamps and disaster relief. Twenty federal programs that route nearly $1.1 trillion through state governments – including Medicaid, SNAP and disaster relief – are vulnerable to fraud because of how the money is distributed, the Government Accountability Office reports. The money rarely goes straight from Washington to a recipient. It passes through states, then often to subrecipients, contractors and subcontractors. Every layer, GAO found, adds another entry point for fraud while making oversight harder to enforce. The report is the first in a planned GAO series examining fraud in state-administered programs. It reaffirms the agency's estimate that the government loses between $233 bi...
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Newly Released Messages Reignite Questions About Fauci And COVID Origins
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Newly Released Messages Reignite Questions About Fauci And COVID Origins

By: Hans Mahncke | The Federalist The greatest threat to public trust comes when powerful people and institutions use their authority to suppress the truth. The latest revelations from Sen. Rand Paul’s investigation into the origin of COVID expose what may be one of the most consequential scientific deceptions in history. The 1,123 pages of private Slack messages exchanged among the authors of the highly influential “Proximal Origin” paper reveal that the scientists who publicly declared that a laboratory origin of Covid was not plausible privately held a very different view. They repeatedly acknowledged that a laboratory origin remained possible, discussed flaws in their own arguments, and struggled to defend the natural origin theory. In ...
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Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement
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Trump Rolls Out Self-Funding Immigration Fee System With Tougher Enforcement

By Amanda Head | Just the News The new fees, including a $100 charge to apply for asylum and annual penalties for pending cases, also become a self-funding hammer to enforce stricter borders and deter abuse in a system that President Donald Trump has long derided as broken. On Wednesday, the Trump administration gave notice of the start of a sweeping array of new immigration fees, creating a no-lose scenario where the new fees either deter applicants from coming, thus reducing immigration, or they proceed with their application, putting more money into resources to scrutinize claims. The rollout, triggered by notices under last year's “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” signed last year, layers fresh costs onto everything from work permits for protection seekers to juv...
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Town of Hudson Sued Over Approval Process for Planned ICE Detention Center
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Town of Hudson Sued Over Approval Process for Planned ICE Detention Center

By: Nicole C. Brambila | The Denver Gazette A nonprofit organization filed a lawsuit against the Town of Hudson Wednesday, challenging plans to reopen a former federal prison in the town as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility. Together Colorado, along with Janet E. Carlson, filed the case in Colorado District Court in Weld County, alleging the town is not “powerless to act” and that the proposed detention facility violates the town’s zoning laws. “Under Colorado law, Hudson has not only the authority but the obligation and the duty to treat the proposed facility the way it would treat any other new facility proposed within the Town: by applying and enforcing its own Land Development Code,” the lawsuit says. In addition to the ...
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Boebert Says Government Must Show Probable Cause and Secure Warrant Before Tracking Citizens
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Boebert Says Government Must Show Probable Cause and Secure Warrant Before Tracking Citizens

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado From Flock cameras to facial recognition, mass surveillance is advancing; at the same time, privacy protections are eroding. The government can access, or buy access to, vast troves of data on Americans' emails, texts, bank records, even cloud data and justify it in the name of national security. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican who represents Colorado's 4th Congressional District, knows that firsthand. The Coloradan had just taken the oath of office in 2021 when Jan. 6 happened, and she became the subject of an FBI investigation dubbed Operation Rampart 12. "And this was all because I brought my family to the Capitol and had a tour," she said. Democrats accused her and at least three other Republ...
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