Maryland GOP lawmaker says removal of illegal immigrant from voter rolls after two years shows why Marylanders have lost faith in elections.
EXCLUSIVE: If Schumer’s Right, Conservatives Are More Than 60 Percent of Legitimate Voter Base While Dems Are Less Than 40 Percent. The post EXCLUSIVE: If Schumer’s Right, Conservatives Are More Than 60 Percent of Legitimate Voters – Dems Are Less Than 40 Percent appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell announcement last week that has sent shockwaves across the political world, with potential implications for the MAGA movement and the GOP as a whole. The post “It’s Immoral…I’m Out” – Tucker Carlson Ditches Republican Party After 35 Years of Support (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The President is threatening jail time for the alleged vandals he's blaming for damaging the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson faces social media ridicule for promoting a transfemicide state of emergency amid a deadly Juneteenth weekend with 39 shot.
President Trump on Monday said that a 10-year prison sentence for the destruction of the newly renovated reflecting pool and grass on the National Mall will be "fully enforced," threatening the left-wing vandals defacing the national monuments in DC. President Trump undertook the project to restore the filthy green water basin, built in the 1920s, which has been marred by issues, including sinking and leaking into the swamp beneath. The post NEW: Trump says Vandals Who Left “300 Foot Long Gash” and Dumped Chemicals in Reflecting Pool will Face 10 YEARS in Prison appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday’s runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, “tough-on-crime” campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb “narcoterrorist camps” and to abandon Petro’s peace efforts. His reported victory is also a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, whose administration is waging an intensifying “war on drugs” across Latin America, targeting left-wing leaders like Petro with false allegations and threats of military intervention. “De la Espriella clearly represents a criminal approach to politics: lying, propaganda, coordination and collusion with criminal narcotrafficking, restriction of rights, and money laundering,” says longtime Colombian activist Manuel Rozental. With his victory, says Rozental, “We expect to have military operations and a U.S. intervention within the country. We expect to have human rights abuses. We expect to have militarization. And it’s all for the extraction of resources and the link of drug trafficking to the U.S. government, U.S. interests and global mafia.”
Voting rights advocacy groups warned last week that a North Carolina House bill proposing extensive changes to state election laws is “harmful” to voting rights.Representatives from Common Cause North Carolina, Democracy North Carolina, Forward Justice, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, and North Carolina Black Alliance gathered outside the state Legislative Building at the hour state lawmakers inside were expected to vote on House Bill 958Republican lawmakers who authored the bill said Tuesday that it was intended to improve the “integrity” of the election process. But Kathleen Roblez, senior voting rights counsel at Forward Justice, highlighted a provision of the bill that would prohibit state and local election board members from “encouraging or promoting voter turnout in any election.”“This is like saying you own a restaurant, but you cannot go online and say, ‘Please come eat dinner today.’” Roblez said. “This is saying a state or county board election member cannot say ‘Today’s election day, register to vote, voting is good.’ That’s their job. This is a First Amendment violation, plain and simple.”Roblez also expressed concerns that the bill’s proposal to require military and overseas voters to provide documentation showing their most recent North Carolina address along with their registration applications would result in fewer people voting overseas.“It’s important now, as always, to remember that if your vote wasn’t so important, they wouldn’t be working so hard to take it away from you,” Roblez said.The bill would also require overseas and military voters to submit photo identification with their ballots, codifying a state Supreme Court decision in Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin’s unsuccessful attempt to throw out ballots in his 2024 race for a Supreme Court seat.The influence of the Supreme Court decision in Griffin’s case appears in the bill a second time in the bill’s move to make overseas voters who have never lived in North Carolina but vote in the state because their parents last lived here ineligible to vote in state or local elections. These voters are referred to as “never residents” in Griffin’s lawsuit.Other key changes of H958 include:Allowing state Auditor Dave Boliek, a Republican, to select counties for post-election audits instead of counties being randomly selected. Extending the deadline from three to five business days for voters who cast provisional ballots because they did not show their ID, or who have mistakes or omissions on their absentee ballot envelopes to show their ID or correct the mistakes. Gives county election boards two additional business days to announce absentee ballot counts, extending the deadline from Friday after an election to Tuesday.North Carolina Black Alliance Executive Director Marcus Bass said the bill’s provisions, taken together, will disproportionately affect younger, poorer and minority voters.“We are here to make sure that the individuals behind us don’t just operate in the cover of darkness or in the confines of this concrete building,” Bass said, “but that their actions are met by voters in the district, by individuals that they’re elected to serve, and by the citizens who deserve free and fair elections.”The state House Elections Committee approved the bill Tuesday along party lines. Republican bill sponsors had planned to fast-track it through another committee and onto the state House floor as quickly as possible. However, they delayed the bill after dozens of protesters crowded into legislative meeting rooms and hallways Tuesday. It did not resurface for debate Wednesday. House leaders say they’re continuing to work on it.During Wednesday’s press conference, advocates also expressed concerns over the rollback of early voting sites in various counties, including a decision last week in Wake County to relocate a site from NC State University’s student center to a building at the edge of campus, as well as a decision by Granville County election officials to relocate two early voting sites out of Oxford and Creedmoor, where the majority of the county’s Democrats live, into rural areas of the county that are more heavily Republican.“It is targeted to Black voters, but the fringes are also cutting a wider gap in democracy than I think that they’re anticipating,” Bass said. “Everybody should be upset about what’s happening.”
The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that strikes down a key tool for enforcing Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write in seven states.