Author: HP McLovincraft

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Developing: Democrat Fundraising Juggernaut ActBlue Likely Lied to Congress About Foreign Donations

In early 2025, the law firm, Covington & Burling out of Washington DC, raised legal concerns that ActBlue’s CEO lied to GOP investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.

This shocking development was published in The New York Times this week.

Laura Ingraham and Chip Roy discussed this latest ActBlue scandal on Thursday night.

** The Gateway Pundit Was First to Report on Democrat Money Laundering Using ActBlue – President Trump Called for an Investigation – The Seditious Six Now Implicated

In early December 2022, after the 2022 election, we were the first to report on what we labeled “voter mules”. These were individuals who made sometimes thousands of donations to Democrat politicians across the country, totaling up to millions of fraudulent donations. “Preacher” Raphael Warnock received $24 million from hundreds of unemployed donors, giving over 358,000 donations.

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RFK Jr. Announces Investigation Into Removing Microplastics From the Human Body

The federal government will spend $144 million to investigate microplastics and figure out how to remove them from human bodies, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials announced on April 2.

The program—Systematic Targeting Of MicroPlastics (STOMP)—is tasked with measuring, researching, and removing microplastics and nanoplastics from humans.

Tests reveal that microplastics, or small pieces of plastic, have been found in many people and have been associated with health problems. Ingestion can occur through consumption of food and water, as well as contact with the air.

“We are not dealing with a distant or theoretical risk,” Kennedy said during a news conference in Washington. “We are dealing with a measurable and growing presence inside the human body.”

However, officials said more data are needed, including ways to safely remove the microplastics.

“We cannot treat what we cannot measure,” Kennedy said. “We cannot regulate what we don’t understand.”

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Girl Who Went Missing in 1994 Found Alive

A cold case from another era finally reached its conclusion this week in Gila County, Arizona.

On Wednesday, the Gila County Sheriff’s Office announced via news release that Christina Marie Plante, who was 13 when she disappeared from Star Valley, Arizona, in 1994, has been found alive.

The Sheriff’s Office posted a copy of the news release to Facebook.

“Christina was reported missing after she vanished without a trace from her community,” the press release read. “At the time of her disappearance, extensive search efforts were conducted involving local law enforcement, volunteers, and regional resources. Despite exhaustive ground searches, interviews, and investigative follow-up, no viable leads were developed.”

The Sheriff’s office credited the subsequent formation of its own cold case unit, which led to “new leads” and eventually a “breakthrough.”

“Investigators have confirmed her identity,” the press release noted.

As for what happened to Plante nearly 32 years ago, authorities remained mum.

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Associated Press runs paid PR ads for Chinese telecom Huawei as CCP seeks to influence UN agency

The Associated Press is running paid public relations advertisements on X and on the wire service’s own website on behalf of Huawei as the blacklisted Chinese telecom behemoth and the CCP seek influence over a key United Nations tech agency.

The U.S. government has long pointed to the national security threat posed by Huawei and has sought to limit the firm’s spread inside the United States and around the world. At the same time, the AP took cash from the Chinese company to promote Huawei’s efforts to burnish its image as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seeks to influence the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and increase the penetration of Chinese telecoms and networks worldwide.

The paid tweet by the AP — sent on Mar. 12 and now boasting more than 75 million views — highlighted Huawei’s links to ITU and its efforts on the world stage, and a paid article from Huawei published by the AP promoted Huawei’s efforts in AI. The tweets are clearly marked as “Paid advertisement.”

“National Champion” firms

The U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence stated in 2021 that “national champion” firms such as Huawei help “lead development of AI technologies at home” and “advance state-directed priorities that feed military and security programs.”

“China is the most capable competitor in the AI space, and aims to displace the U.S. as the global AI leader by 2030,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed in March. “China is driving AI adoption at scale — both domestically and internationally — by using its sizable talent pool, extensive datasets, government funding, and burgeoning global partnerships.”

Michael Sobolik, a China expert and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Just the News that “the Associated Press claims to provide ‘news without an agenda,’ and says that its mission is ‘journalism, not profit margins.’ It’s hard to square those praise-worthy goals with taking money from a CCP-controlled company to boost its propaganda.”

“The AP isn’t alone in doing this either. It’s the latest in a number of American reporting outlets that willingly become propaganda conduits for Beijing,” Sobolik added. “There’s no First Amendment in China, but CCP-controlled companies can push their message in America for the right price.”

Neither Huawei nor the Associated Press responded to a request for comment from Just the News.

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White House Denies Daily Mail Claim That Bondi Was Fired for Tipping Off Swalwell About FBI’s Release of Fang Fang Files

The White House denied The Daily Mail’s claim that Pam Bondi was fired in part for tipping off Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s push to release salacious Fang Fang files.

Trump fired Bondi as US Attorney General on Wednesday evening before he delivered his Iran speech.

According to reports, Trump was not happy with Bondi’s leadership at the Department of Justice.

The Daily Mail reported that Trump fired Bondi for tipping off Swalwell to Kash Patel’s push to release files on his relationship with Chinese spy and honeypot Fang Fang.

The White House denied The Daily Mail’s report.

The New York Post reported:

A senior Trump administration source has denied sensational claims Pam Bondi was fired for tipping off Rep. Eric Swalwell about FBI plans to release files tied to his links to a Chinese spy.

The source told The Post that while President Trump personally likes Bondi, he had grown dissatisfied with her performance and had been weighing her removal for some time.

“The president has been considering this change for a long time,” the source said.

Eric Swalwell is panicking as Kash Patel pushes to release salacious files related to his relationship with Chinese spy and honeypot Fang Fang.

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Newsom spends $20M on consultants in struggling DOGE-inspired plan to cut waste

Gov. Gavin Newsom has paid upwards of $20 million to a consulting firm that employs his former cabinet secretary to eliminate wasteful spending — but the effort has come up well short of the goal as state lawmakers blasted the move.

Newsom — who signed an executive order to cut spending in the state, à la Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficienc is hitting roadblocks with the plan amid a multibillion-dollar state budget deficit.

California contracted with one of the world’s largest consulting firms, Boston Consulting Group, for up to $20 million in an effort to cut $2 billion in spending from the departments of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Social Services, and Health Care Services by the 2028-’29 fiscal year.

But the group — which hired former Newsom cabinet Secretary and Department of Finance Director Ana J. Matosantos — is now expected to only find $810 million in savings, according to legislative analysts.

That number may even go down later in May, analysts added, as indicated by the Newsom administration.

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White House Debunks Fake News Reports of Tulsi Gabbard’s Firing

Left-wing outlet The Guardian pushed a shaky narrative suggesting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard could be on the chopping block.

But the White House wasted no time obliterating the report, calling it fake news.

According to The Guardian, Trump had allegedly been “considering” whether to fire Gabbard, citing anonymous sources who claimed the president was frustrated over her handling of former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent, who resigned after criticizing the administration’s rationale for confronting Iran.

White House spokesman Steven Cheung issued a blistering statement to the press, setting the record straight:

“@POTUS has total confidence in @DNIGabbard, and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news. The President has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the American people.”

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Trump’s Tone-Deaf Sales Pitch for More War

The President’s address to the nation was a tone-deaf sales pitch for more war, delivered on the first night of Passover.

Civilian and military casualties are mounting across the region. Lives are being extinguished while triumphalist and violent rhetoric is offered as justification. War is being escalated in the name of peace, a contradiction that demands moral clarity, not political acceptance.

Each life lost carries equal value. No nation’s suffering is expendable. No people exist as collateral.

Iran is not an abstraction, nor just a target on a map. It is one of the great cradles of civilization, a society whose cultural and intellectual contributions long predate the rise of the modern West. To speak casually of bombing such a nation ‘back to the Stone Age’ reveals a colonial mindset that dehumanizes others and diminishes our own humanity in the process.

The extensive bombing of Iran by the United States and Israel, along with Iran’s counterstrikes, is already taking innocent lives. The global economy is destabilizing as a result.

Energy markets are being disrupted. Oil and gas production is constrained. Fertilizer supply chains are impaired. Critical materials are being cut off.

These consequences will be felt worldwide. Yet the deeper crisis is not economic, it is moral.

We have seen this before. The repeated invocation of a nuclear threat echoes the false claims of ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ used to justify the invasion of Iraq. That war cost thousands of American lives, the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and trillions of dollars, while leaving a legacy of instability and grief that endures to this day.

If the President truly sought to prevent a nuclear Iran, he would not have abandoned the JCPOA, an agreement that placed verifiable limits on Iran’s nuclear program. Instead, we are presented with a cycle of escalation that defies logic and invites catastrophe.

Political rhetoric is becoming increasingly radical and dangerous. This is not a question of partisan politics. It is a question of conscience with very real global and domestic consequences.

The American people are not called to accept this. They are called to stand against it.

Members of Congress must have the courage to exercise their constitutional authority and rein this in.

War framed as strength is destruction. Violence presented as necessity is gratuitous violence, with consequences already accelerating destabilizing shifts in the global order.

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Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: How Ukraine Meddled In the U.S. Election

Sometimes, political events far from American soil strike directly at the heart of U.S. policy. The upcoming parliamentary elections in Hungary on April 12, 2026, and the heated campaign now unfolding there are exposing information with profound implications for President Trump’s Administration and its relationships with nations long viewed as reliable partners – if not outright allies.

A single incident rarely commands attention on its own. But when it surfaces amid a pattern of events all pointing in the same direction, it demands serious scrutiny.

Hungary, that picturesque Central European nation, has become a vital strategic asset and trusted partner for the current administration.

The warm personal friendship between President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is well known, but the deeper bond rests on shared principles: robust democracy rooted in national sovereignty, strict controls on migration, energy security, military strength, economic prosperity, and technological leadership.

Orbán’s platform mirrors our own “America First” agenda. He battles the same globalist elites in Brussels who enjoy the quiet backing of the Democratic Party. In many respects, the Hungarian government is fighting the very war Trump waged here at home.

Recent statements from Trump Administration officials affirming U.S. support for Orbán’s Fidesz party only underscore this alignment.

Then, at the close of March 2026, Orbán dropped a political bombshell. He publicly charged that Ukraine under President Zelenskyy had funneled billions of dollars – laundered through Hungary – into efforts to support Kamala Harris during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Hungarian officials, including Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, detailed transfers of Ukrainian aid money routed westward to boost Democrats.

Why would Kyiv interfere in the election of its biggest benefactor? The motive is as obvious as it is cynical: a Democrat in the Oval Office might have guaranteed endless blank-check billions with minimal oversight, allowing Zelenskyy to prolong a bloody conflict indefinitely.

The backdrop of Ukraine-Hungary relations makes the accusation even more credible. Tensions have skyrocketed in recent months. Budapest has repeatedly demanded that Kyiv repair the Druzhba (Friendship) oil pipeline so Hungary and Slovakia could once again receive affordable Russian crude.

Zelenskyy refused, citing “infrastructure damage” without providing evidence, and barred technical inspection teams from assessing the site.

During a tense, media-covered meeting in his presidential office, Zelenskyy reportedly blackmailed Orbán over the issue.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Targets Anti-Christian Bias

The Chicago Bulls recently released Jaden Ivey from his contract for being outspoken about his Christian beliefs when he expressed discontent with the NBA’s Pride Month celebrations. Discrimination against Christians isn’t exclusive to the world of professional sports — and thankfully the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), following a Trump administration executive order, has begun to increase efforts to counter violations of Christians’ religious rights.

This week, the EEOC announced it is suing the Cogar Group, a private security company, after it allegedly forced a disabled veteran working as a security guard to resign over his Christian beliefs. In February 2024, the Virginia-based company told the security guard that his schedule would be shifted so that he would be required to work on weekends, according to an EEOC press release. The guard had previously informed the Cogar Group in March 2021 that he was unable to work on Sundays due to his religious beliefs, as he identifies as a devout Baptist and a church deacon. The EEOC says that the Cogar Group refused to honor the employee’s religious practice, forcing the security guard to resign.

Employers who don’t make accommodations for their employee’s religious beliefs are violating Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

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