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McConnell Sparks New Health Fears After Unsettling Reaction To Midterm Blowout

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is facing renewed scrutiny over his health after appearing to freeze when a reporter asked him about Republicans’ devastating midterm election losses.

The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican was approached by Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt, who asked for his reaction to the GOP’s election setbacks and what he believed needed to change.

McConnell briefly looked toward the camera before staring straight ahead without answering. After several awkward seconds, an aide appeared to wave the reporter away.

The footage quickly went viral, reportedly attracting more than 4 million views on X and sparking fresh calls for congressional term and age limits.

The incident comes amid longstanding concerns about McConnell’s health.

In 2023, the former Senate Republican leader experienced two widely publicized freezing episodes during press appearances, including one in Kentucky when he remained silent for approximately 30 seconds.

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‘A perfectly normal 2 million NEW votes?’ Questions mount over Texas election data as GOP demands answers

After Democrats took hold of Texas on Election Day, many Texans are raising questions of whether the election was fair and if fraud took place.

Numerous irregularities in Texas’ voter totals are causing many across the state to wonder if illegal votes were cast in the Texas election.

Election observers have noted some highly unusual facts about this year’s midterm results in Texas. First, Gina Hinojosa, the state’s new governor-elect, received a whopping 1.7 million more votes than Democrat gubernatorial candidates Beto O’Rourke in 2022 and Lupe Valdez did in 2018. James Talarico, the state’s new Democrat senator-elect, received nearly as many votes as President Donald Trump did in 2024.

In 2018, Gov. Greg Abbott received 4.6 million votes, while his Democrat challenger, Valdez, received 3.5 million. In 2022, Abbott received 4.4 million, while O’Rourke won 3.5 million. However, in 2026, it appears that Democrats gained 1.7 million votes, as Abbott received nearly the same number of votes, 4.5 million, while Hinojosa received 5.2 million.

Additionally, in the U.S. Senate race, Talarico received 5.45 million votes, compared to Republican Ken Paxton’s 4.25 million. Trump received a total of 6.39 million votes from Texas during the 2024 presidential race, and Talarico was only 940,000 short of that entire number during a midterm election—when voters are less likely to turn out.

Former Texas state Senate candidate Joseph Trahan is among those pointing out the odd circumstances of the midterm election, sharing that 2 million new votes “only came from 5 counties.”

“Mayes Middleton was ahead by 647,903 votes in the 249 of the 254 Texas counties. Then BOOM…2 Million NEW VOTERS showed up Democrat Nathan Johnson in Harris, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis & Bexar counties that had NEVER voted before,” Trahan wrote on X, citing unofficial secretary of state numbers.

Trahan then broke down the statewide numbers in the Texas attorney general race, where Republican Mayes Middleton received 4.5 million votes, and Democrat Nathan Johnson received 5.1 million.

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Hillary Clinton Attacks ‘Trump and His Cult’ – Says the ‘Pussy Grabbed Back with All Claws’ After Shocking Midterms

Twice-failed Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton gloated after the Democrats seized control of the House and Senate after last Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Clinton took a swipe at President Trump during an appearance on the “On with Kara Swisher” podcast.

Kara Swisher referenced Trump’s 2005 “grab her by the p*ssy” Hollywood Access tape that Hillary Clinton released as an ‘October surprise’ in 2016.

In October 2016, Hillary Clinton’s campaign, through the Washington Post, released a video of Trump and TV host Billy Bush having a private conversation about groupies.

“I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything…. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything,” Trump told Billy Bush.

Of course, Hillary Clinton’s October surprise did not work, and Trump went on to win the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.

Kara Swisher began her post-election podcast by teeing up Hillary Clinton.

“So Madam Secretary, has the pussy finally grabbed back?” Kara Swisher asked Hillary.

Clinton chuckled, “With all claws!”

“This is a total rebuke of Donald Trump and his cult and the many wrongheaded evil policies that he’s inflicted on us and the world,” Clinton added.

“But it’s also a real tribute to Democratic candidates and the campaigns they ran and how strong they were on the main issues of affordability and corruption. We had to finally lift the poisonous cloud that Trump has put over our heads for the last ten long years, but we also have a new crop of very exciting public servants,” Hillary Clinton said.

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Democrats, Please Take Note: Peace Is Good Politics

Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should take the anti-war message of the election to heart, because they suffered the same verdict two years ago, when voters rejected the Biden administration’s wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Last week Israeli voters rejected Netanyahu’s reckless wars, and European voters are also rejecting parties that prolong the Ukraine War. The message of voters is the same everywhere: diplomacy is safer, more effective, and trillions of dollars cheaper than war.

On election night Trump conceded to Fox News, “I think a part of it was Iran.” The next day Vice President JD Vance was far blunter, posting on X: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night… everyone knows why we lost.” In the AP Voter Poll, about 60 percent of voters said the decision to use military force against Iran was wrong, and about 90 percent called the cost of living a crucial or major factor in their vote.

The war and the cost of living were of course utterly intertwined. Gasoline prices, around $2.80 per gallon before the war began on February 28, had risen by about 55 percent by mid-May and reached a monthly average of $4.43 in September. The 10-year Treasury yield climbed from below 4 percent before the war to above 5 percent in the autumn, and the Pentagon sought more than $200 billion in supplemental war funding. Every family with a mortgage, a car loan or a credit card balance suffered from the war.

Voters everywhere are sending the same message: peace through diplomacy.

The first duty of the new Congress is to restore its constitutional authority over war and its power of the purse to ensure that US forces are not sent back into combat in Iran or anywhere else on the whim of a president and the behest of domestic or foreign lobbies. Trump must of course refrain from restarting the war, which was never remotely necessary or justified. Remember that on February 28, the day the US and Israel launched the war, Oman’s foreign minister, who was mediating the U.S.-Iran talks, had said that a deal was within reach.

The Democrats should not imagine that the anti-war lesson applies only to Republicans. Kamala Harris lost in 2024 because voters held the Biden administration responsible for the costs of its own wars. The energy shock that followed the escalation of the Ukraine war in 2022 drove up inflation, and gasoline topped $5 per gallon for the first time in June 2022. Biden twice rejected negotiations that could have ended the conflict: in December 2021, when his administration refused to negotiate on NATO enlargement in response to Russia’s draft security treaty, and in April 2022, when the Istanbul talks were abandoned at the behest of the US and UK.

The Gaza genocide also cost the Democrats directly. Among Americans who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but not for Harris in 2024, 29 percent named ending Israel’s violence in Gaza as the main factor in their decision, the most frequently cited issue. The party’s voters have moved far ahead of its leaders. A New York Times/Siena poll in May 2026 found that roughly three-quarters of Democratic voters oppose US military and economic assistance to Israel.

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American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers

People across America rejected data centers during last night’s midterm election. Proposals related to data centers were explicitly on the ballot in more than 40 races across 13 states. People voted against data centers in 38 of them and counting. Six cities voted to ban data centers outright and 12 put limits on the amount of megawatts such buildings could draw. In addition to specific ballot measures, candidates who supported data centers lost across the country.

One of the most striking repudiations of pro data center politicians was in Texas, where Gregg Abbott lost a bid for a fourth term as governor. Abbott had made Texas a data center friendly place. The state has more than 300 working data centers and there are plans to double that number. “Texas is the epicenter of AI development,” Abbott said in 2025 at a press conference with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. “We must ensure that America remains at the forefront of the AI revolution, and Texas is the place where that can happen.” He went on to accept more than $9 million from data center-related donors.

When public sentiment turned against data centers, Abbott attempted to ride shifting political winds by issuing a “pause” on new projects. The pause wasn’t real. Texas regulators continued to approve data center projects after Abbott’s announcement and only shut down the state’s permitting web portal when 404 Media reported it.

Gina Hinojosa, Texas’s Democratic governor-elect, made Abbott’s stance on data centers a central part of her campaign. Abbott’s words about making Texas a data center-friendly AI state played on TVs and the internet over and over again. He lost by more than 700,000 votes.

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End of DEI? Wisconsin Voters Pass Amendment Limiting DEI At Public Colleges – While Voting Radical Democrats into Office

According to a recent report at  Campus Reform, “Wisconsin’s public universities could face changes to their admissions, hiring and scholarship policies after voters approved a constitutional amendment restricting preferential treatment in government institutions.”

Whether or not this holds remains to be seen, as every time DEI seems to be on the way out, it seems to make its way back.

“The Republican-backed measure passed Nov. 3 with approximately 56.4 percent of the vote, CBS News reported.”

As we have reported, this was one of the few victories for common sense conservatives on election night.

“The amendment prohibits government entities from discriminating against or providing preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin.”

This amendment seems like basic common sense, yet sadly such thinking has become controversial in Woke parts of the country.

“Its provisions apply to public education, employment and contracting, including the Universities of Wisconsin and the state’s technical college system.”

Voters continue to reject Wokeness at the ballot, yet political figures on the left and University professors continue to deliver DEI nonetheless.

“State Rep. Dave Murphy, who sponsored the proposal, argued that it would strengthen merit-based hiring and equal treatment. ”

The amendment, however, does not spell out DEI directly but alludes to it by opposing racial- or ethnic based hiiring.

“The measure follows a similar constitutional amendment approved by Michigan voters in 2006 and later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

The University has yet to comment or detail what, if any, changes will take place following this amendment being voted in.

“Wisconsin Republicans advanced the proposal through the constitutional amendment process, which does not require the governor’s signature.”

DEI is unpopular, yet despite opposition, schools and Democrat officials continue to impose it on the American public.

It remains to be seen if this amendment will lead to the end of woke, at least in Wisconsin, but judging by previous efforts, it is highly unlikely.

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Newly Elected Democrat Arrested for Killing Someone Just One Day after Being Elected

An Iowa judge was arrested on felony charges just one day after voters approved keeping her on the bench, following a crash that killed one pedestrian and seriously injured another. District Associate Judge Lynn Poschner, 45, was arrested November 4th, 2026. She faces charges of homicide by vehicle and serious injury by vehicle, both involving allegations of reckless driving. The collision occurred weeks before Election Day.

The crash happened September 25th on 86th Street north of Aurora Avenue in Urbandale. Police responded around 9:15 p.m. after a vehicle struck two people crossing the street, and both pedestrians were transported to a hospital with serious injuries. The driver remained at the scene. One of those struck, 60-year-old Urbandale resident Jasmira Kadic, died from her injuries October 28th.

Poschner’s name appeared on the November 3rd ballot for a judicial retention vote in Polk County. Unofficial results showed 95,762 votes in favor of keeping her in office and 43,313 against, giving her approximately 68.9% support. Voters were deciding whether the incumbent should remain in her position, with a yes vote supporting retention and a no vote opposing it.

Those election totals were published by SpectrumVote. According to a criminal complaint described in Iowa Public Radio’s reporting, Poschner told police she looked down at her phone and tapped the screen to adjust audio through her vehicle before hitting the pedestrians. She said she didn’t see them. Investigators subsequently examined the phone and found its screen had been on and unlocked around the time of the collision.

Poschner had served on the bench for years before the election. Her Iowa Judicial Branch biography lists her appointment as May 2018 and identifies her position as district associate judge in District 5C, which covers Polk County. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 2003. She graduated from Drake Law School with high honors in 2007 and worked in private practice before becoming a judge.

Libs of TikTok drew attention to the arrest in a post on X, identifying Poschner as a Democrat and emphasizing the timing of her arrest. “She allegedly admitted to police that she had been looking at her phone and did not see the pedestrians,” the account wrote. A 2020 Iowa judicial voting guide also listed her political affiliation as Democrat. Her judicial retention election was nonpartisan.

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Election Worker Claims Republican Votes for Andy Biggs Were Discarded During Ballot Adjudication — Over 54% of Adjudicated Ballots Flagged as Overvotes

A stunning message from an inside adjudicator at the Maricopa County Ballot Tabulation Center (BTC) is raising fresh red flags about the 2026 Arizona gubernatorial race, where Democrat Katie Hobbs was declared the winner over Trump-endorsed Republican Rep. Andy Biggs.

Rachel Alexander, a journalist for Townhall and Arizona Insiders (and a former Maricopa County elections attorney and prosecutor), shared the account on X. The source, identifying as a working adjudicator, described ongoing anomalies targeting Republican ballots.

Alexander wrote on X:

“Nothing to see here, and the MaRICOpa County Supervisors wouldn’t let anyone investigate anyway. I received this message from someone:

Hi. I am working as an adjudicator in the Maricopa County BTC. There are and continue to be anomalies in adjudication. What we are seeing is Republican ballots that were voted Biggs but also voted Hobbs. With an X through the Biggs vote. This takes the ballot to adjudication as an over vote. Adjudicators will then remove the Biggs vote because the X shows voter intent to change their mind. The vote goes to Hobbs. We have also been seeing votes for Biggs and Lombardo together. Creating another over vote. Only this time the Biggs vote isnt counted and neither is Lombardo. This is how they stole votes and shaved votes imho. The anomalies also appear on Prop 144 and others. There is something going on with adjudication. The ballots were stored in a hallway that wasn’t secure, boxes an…”

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After Bibi’s Unity Plea, Israel’s President Gives His Rival First Shot At Power

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has given opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form a government, a setback for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose bloc finished 14 seats short of his rival’s backers. Herzog announced the decision Saturday night, a day earlier than expected, according to the Associated Press.

The timing was pointed. AP reported that the announcement came shortly after Netanyahu released a video calling for a “national unity government” and warning against “hastily swearing in a government with terrorist supporters,” an apparent reference to the Arab-led parties that now sit at the center of the count.

Eisenkot, a former military chief who led the challengers’ bloc, did not take the offer. His Yashar party answered on X, and AP said it urged Likud members to disavow their alliance with “radical parties,” an apparent reference to the harder-right partners in Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist base. Eisenkot himself said, as relayed on X, that “those who have divided and torn apart Israeli society from within only mention the word ‘unity’ when they realize their time in office is coming to an end.”

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Lawsuit: Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola’s Campaign Wants Names of Rejected Absentee Voters

U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s (D-AK) campaign is taking legal action to find out the names of rejected absentee voters as the heated midterm race continues in Alaska.

Her campaign filed the suit on Friday against the Alaska Division of Elections in Anchorage Superior Court, the Alaska Beacon reported. The point of the legal action was to reveal the names of voters whose absentee ballots were tossed out by the division.

“Alaskans for Mary has asked for expedited consideration and is requesting both an injunction and temporary restraining order that could expose the names before the election is certified later this month,” the article read.

The campaign claimed it was working to have transparency, timeliness, and accuracy as officials were still counting votes.

The report continued:

According to the suit, the campaign filed a public records request seeking “a copy of the absentee register showing the accept or reject code for each absentee ballot… or any other documents sufficient to show the identities of voters whose absentee ballots… have been rejected as well as the reasons for each rejection.”

The request by Alaskans for Mary — the main organization boosting Peltola’s challenge to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan — comes just days after the group argued in federal court in a different case that “Alaskans’ bedrock rights (include) the right to cast secret ballots, the right to cast ballots that will not be retroactively invalidated, and the right to be treated equally to other voters.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Peltola and other Democrats misled a federal court regarding a scheme to find a second Daniel Sullivan candidate to appear on the ballot against Peltola and Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan (R-AK), Breitbart News reported in October.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Sen. Sullivan should be given the vote totals for the other candidate named Dan J. Sullivan out of fairness.

“The vote totals for the Fake Dan Sullivan, plus the other ‘slug’ that the Dems put on the Ballot, should be immediately given to the REAL Dan Sullivan, and the Election is over — He easily wins. There is no other fair solution! President DJT,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.

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