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Shasta County Election Chief Exposes Employees Allegedly Bypassing Security to Enter Restricted Rooms Without Leaving a Log — FBI Asked to Seize Ballots Before They Are Destroyed

Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has released explosive security footage that he says shows longtime Elections Office employees deliberately bypassing badge readers to enter secure election rooms without leaving their names in the official access logs.

Now, instead of aggressively investigating the alleged security breaches, county bureaucrats have publicly rebuked Curtis, employee unions have issued votes of no confidence, and the embattled election official is facing demands that he resign.

According to reporting by Elisa Ballard of Shasta Unfiltered, the footage, presented by Curtis during an August 19 appearance on Catherine Engelbrecht’s True the Vote podcast, shows one employee sliding a card through a double-door entry to unlock a secure room while another stands guard.

Employees are reportedly required to enter using their individual security badges, creating a record containing the employee’s name and the time of entry.

Curtis said that after taking over as Registrar of Voters in 2025, he reviewed the electronic access logs and discovered hundreds of entries in which no employee name appeared.

He now believes the video explains the disturbing gaps.

Employees, Curtis alleges, were intentionally bypassing the badge readers so their identities would not appear in the official room-entry records.

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Gov. Abbott: AI Data Centers ‘Dug Their Own Grave’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned the booming artificial intelligence industry that data center developers have only themselves to blame for mounting voter backlash, saying they “dug their own grave” by failing to secure the support of local communities.

Abbott, a Republican who once hailed Texas as the “epicenter of AI development,” has taken an increasingly tough approach toward the industry as Texans raise concerns about soaring electricity demand, water use and infrastructure costs.

“Gaining the support of people in local communities is essential,” Abbott told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.

“They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he continued. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.”

Abbott’s warning marks a notable turn from last November, when he joined Google to announce a $40 billion investment in three Texas data center campuses.

But as projects have multiplied, Abbott has moved to make developers shoulder more of the costs.

In June, he directed state regulators to require data centers to pay the full cost of the electrical infrastructure they require and called for phasing out tax incentives for the industry.

Earlier this month, Abbott ordered regulators to audit data centers seeking to connect to the Texas power grid before allowing projects to move forward.

He also told “Fox News Sunday” last week that fewer than 10% of data center companies responded to a state request for information officials need to forecast future electricity demand.

Abbott’s approach has drawn criticism from President Donald Trump, who has argued that Texas should embrace the industry as America races to maintain its technological edge.

“For Texas to say no to data centers is a mistake,” Trump said, adding the industry “could be bigger than oil.”

The growing resistance to artificial intelligence computing centers is not limited to Texas.

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Man Who Called for the Mass Slaughter of President Trump and The Entire Secret Service is Identified and Arrested

The FBI has taken a dangerous madman off the streets who wanted to kill President Trump and Secret Service agents.

Libs of TikTok exclusively broke the news a short time ago that the FBI has identified Ayden Langevin as the person who made these threats and has taken him into custody.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Libs of TikTok shared a post from a lunatic fed up over the failed assassination attempts on Trump and called for mass action.

The man raged on TikTok that leftists have no choice but to grab guns, rush the White House with the intention of killing Trump and the entire Secret Service.

How he proposed to do this against several armed agents was unclear.

“It’s as simple as: we all grab guns,” he shouted. “We all group together.

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Ukraine’s Military In Turmoil: 576 Soldiers Desert Daily, 10X More Than Russian Army; What’s Going Wrong?

In the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, one of the most significant issues facing Kyiv is a shortage of manpower. In a battle of attrition, the manpower and quantity of equipment are the biggest strengths of a military force.

Ukraine has been able to somewhat compensate for its lack of equipment with Western supplies. However, the lack of manpower has consistently hindered Kyiv’s ability to defend itself against the Russian onslaught.

Before the war began, Russia’s population was already nearly 3.7 times bigger than Ukraine’s. However, since the war started, a significant part of Ukraine, along with its population, has merged with Russia. Additionally, millions of Ukrainians have fled to European countries to escape the war.

Ukraine has demonstrated considerable ingenuity in repelling the Russian invasion; however, its limited manpower means that Kyiv is consistently at a disadvantage against Moscow.

In addition to this handicap, Ukraine now faces a new concern—the rising number of desertions from the frontline.

Ukraine’s Rising Desertions From The Frontline

According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, since the war began in 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have witnessed more than 250,000 desertions. These numbers include both AWOLs (absences without official leave) and desertions from the front line.

More than 250,000 criminal cases have been opened into soldiers’ absence without leave (AWOL) and desertion since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing the Prosecutor General’s Office.

The official data was provided under the “Unified Report on Criminal Offenses” under Article 407 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Unauthorized abandonment of a military unit or place of service).

As many as 202,997 criminal cases were opened into unauthorized abandonment of military units, also known as absence without leave, from 2022 to July 2025. A total of 15,564 people were officially charged with the crime.

The Prosecutor General’s Office also said that 50,058 desertion cases were opened in the same period, and 1,248 individuals were charged with desertion.

Under Ukraine’s martial law, men aged 25 to 60 can be conscripted into the armed forces.

Some 250,000 desertions in more than three years may not seem like a large number. However, as the saying goes, ‘Devil is in the Detail,’ these numbers hide a brutal truth, which is that the number of desertions in the Ukrainian Army is rising continuously, and that also at an alarming pace.

For instance, there were nearly 7,000 AWOL cases in 2022, 17,658 in 2023, 67,840 in 2024, and 105,500 from January to July 2025.

Similarly, for desertion, there were approximately 3,400 cases in 2022, 7,900 in 2023, 23,300 in 2024, and 15,400 from January to July 2025.

Together, the Ukrainian Army recorded nearly 10,400 desertions (including AWOL) in 2022, 25,558 in 2023, 91,140 in 2024, and 120,900 in the first seven months of 2025.

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Romania’s Globalist Foreign Minister Ramps Up War Rhetoric as Critics Accuse State of Psychologically Preparing the Public for Armed Conflict with Russia

Romania’s globalist, Brussels-backed government has escalated its language of military confrontation, declaring itself ready to respond with force to security threats from the war in Ukraine—rhetoric that veteran journalist Ion Cristoiu warns is nothing less than an attempt to condition the Romanian public for a war with Russia, which the population never sought and does not want.

Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu announced that Bucharest already has “a set of measures prepared” after consulting the increasingly unpopular President Nicușor Dan, who is widely viewed by his lack of popular legitimacy.

She explicitly linked these preparations to drone incidents near Romania’s borders and in the Black Sea, stating: “We are prepared to respond both militarily and diplomatically in order to defend the safety of our citizens on our territory.”

In a country still reeling from political instability and exceedingly deep public distrust, this type of language from the highest levels of government seems to many as far more than routine defense talk. They signal a readiness to treat spillover from a neighboring war as grounds for direct military engagement with Russia.

The most-publicized incident occurred on Aug. 20 near the Neptun Deep offshore gas project. A commercial vessel reported a small maritime drone drifting several hundred meters from the platform.

Romania scrambled two F-16s; one fired its cannon, and naval specialists later destroyed the craft, confirming it carried explosives. Several hundred workers were on the platform.

Defense Minister Radu Miruță framed the action as necessary to protect lives and critical infrastructure. Ukrainian authorities told Romania the drone was not theirs. Romanian officials promptly pointed toward Russia, despite Țoiu herself admitting there was no evidence Moscow had deliberately directed the craft at Neptun Deep.

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FDA Acting Commissioner Woodcock Admits Adverse Events After COVID-19 Vaccination

This one email from FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in May 2021 epitomizes everything wrong with our government’s treatment of vaccines and the vaccine injured.

Woodcock emails Fauci and Collins (head of NIH) to inform them that “a number of people” including healthcare workers she personally knows contacted her about injuries from every one of the available Covid-19 vaccines. She admits that:

(1) these injuries would not be picked up by FDA or CDC surveillance systems;
(2) there is no money set aside to study these harms (while billions are given to pharma companies for vaccines);
(3) no one will take these injured people seriously;
(4) no one knows how to treat them;
(5) there is no effort to study this serious issue; and
(6) “the industry” will not support the necessary studies.

I also agree with her sentiment that, “if you let a problem fester, then it will come back to bite you later…” Later is here.

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A New Threat Resurfaces as Europe Battles Wildfires and Droughts: Buried Active Bombs from WWI and WWII

Buried dangers have a way of resurfacing.

We have been reporting here on TGP that Europe is facing a hot summer, leading to major wildfires and severe droughts in its most vital rivers.

From the bottom of the river beds, military vehicles and weapons from the WW2 are resurfacing: German warships, Wehrmacht motorbikes, and bombs.

At the same time, during the battle against the wildfires, a deadly new threat is increasing the danger: unexploded ordnance from WWI and WWII.

Euronews reported:

“Fires have burned through huge areas of land in western Europe in recent months as the continent has battled scorching temperatures and droughts, and firefighters have faced the additional threat of exploding shells.

The fires and droughts are unburying and reactivating what was previously stable.

“One fire close to the city of Bordeaux in southwestern France has revealed a hoard of what is thought to be World War II-era ammunition, while in the province of Liège in eastern Belgium, local governor Hervé Jamar said emergency services were adapting to account for munitions buried in a fire area and that ‘a few sporadic detonations’ had been heard recently.”

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El-Sayed Calls the GOP ‘Pedophile Protectors’ – Then Shares a Stage with a Cleric Who Married Off His 13-Year-Old Niece

A convention program tells you everything a stump speech tries to hide. This Labor Day weekend in Detroit, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed will take the stage at the Islamic Society of North America’s 63rd annual convention – and the roster of fellow speakers reads less like a religious gathering than a roll call of radicals.

ISNA was founded as an American arm of the Muslim Brotherhood and named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding case. El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Tayeb Jukaku, has sat on ISNA’s founding committee since 2007 and funneled $300,000 into a PAC backing his son-in-law’s campaign. In case you’re wondering – yes, it’s exactly as cozy as it sounds.

But the real story is who else will be behind the microphone.

The company he keeps

Start with cleric Baqir Berry, who offered this during a June sermon:

From Fox News:

We pray to Allah to save our people in South Lebanon from the evil of these Zionists, to support the Muslims and the mujahideen on His path in the East and the West, especially our mujahideen in Palestine, Lebanon, and everywhere. Oh Allah, grant them a mighty victory.

Then there’s Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Institute of America, who appealed to God to “grant victory to our brothers in Iran” – a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism. Even Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign denounced Qazwini for pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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Democrats To Use ‘Thirst Trapping’ Tactics for 2026 Midterms

What Democrats are actually doing: a visual brand strategy, not a vibe accident

Axios’s reporting frames the shift with provocation — “Democrats enter their thirst trap era” — but the operative substance is straightforward: national Democrats are prioritizing looks, vibe, and shareable social content as part of candidate brand positioning. Think unbuttoned TV hits, bicep-forward rally images, and TikTok-ready b-roll designed to travel. The point is not the garment or the camera angle; it’s the positioning effect. The article’s “Why it matters” distills the aim: fresh faces that read young, energetic, and even desirable, often eclipsing the party’s older guard. That is not idle commentary about aesthetics. It is a description of intent.

Intent shows up most clearly in the party’s digital shop. Paulina Mangubat, who leads digital content and creative for the DNC, tells Axios the team is deliberately using social graphics and fan edits to reach “millions of voters and potential new voters,” punctuating the message with a line crafted for the algorithm: “Our 13.9 million followers agree: Fighting for Americans is sexy.” She adds that Democrats are “really working hard on TikTok” and that “rizz, for lack of a better word, is the dominant feature” — a blunt acknowledgment that platform-native charisma is now a design brief, not a bonus.

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Switzerland’s Asylum Crisis: 80% of North African Applicants Accused of Crimes as Calls Grow for Mass Deportations

Switzerland is facing renewed demands for mass removals of failed asylum seekers after an internal government analysis found that 80.5% of applicants from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia were accused of at least one criminal offense during or after their asylum proceedings.

The same group, interestingly, has virtually no prospect of being allowed to remain—around 99 percent of their asylum applications are rejected.

The figures, compiled by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Migration and reported on by Blick, have intensified criticism of an asylum system that opponents say allows large numbers of young foreign men with almost no chance of receiving protection to remain in the country long enough to commit offenses.

The contrast with other asylum seekers is stark. Among applicants from all other countries of origin, 12.3% were recorded as accused in criminal proceedings—a fraction of the rate among Maghreb (North African) nationals.

“Only one fifth of this group of people did not attract criminal attention during their stay in Switzerland,” the SEM said in its internal assessment. Officials say the figures confirm a problem that police and asylum-center employees have confronted for years.

SEM chief spokesman Daniel Bach said young men from North Africa account for a disproportionate share of incidents inside federal asylum centers. “They commit most of the crimes that are attributed to asylum seekers,” he said.

The overwhelming rejection rate has made the figures particularly damaging politically. If roughly 99 percent of these applicants ultimately have no entitlement to Swiss protection, critics argue that the priority should be swift removal rather than prolonged accommodation inside an asylum system financed by working taxpayers.

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