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Maine Democrat Troy Jackson Channels Zohran Mamdani – Backs Government Seizure of Private Property

Troy Jackson is the far left Democrat who replaced Graham Platner, after his campaign imploded due to credible allegations of rape.

In terms of ideology, Jackson appears to be aligned with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He apparently agrees with the idea of using the government to seize private property.

It’s hard to believe that rugged Mainers would support this.

FOX News reports, via AOL:

Government land-grab agenda hits key Senate race as Dem backs property takeovers echoing Mamdani

Graham Platner’s replacement in the Maine Senate race suggested the government should be able to take over private property when necessary, appearing to echo socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s housing agenda.

Troy Jackson, a Democrat running for the Senate, came under fire for suggesting the government should be able to take over private property when necessary. The comments drew fresh scrutiny to a candidate the Pine Tree State’s GOP chair previously dubbed “Maine’s Mamdani” to Fox News Digital, as debates over government intervention in housing and private ownership gain new attention.

“It’s a major issue. The greed that’s happening right now in this country that people in mobile home parks are feeling is like something I’ve never seen,” Jackson told a small crowd of residents at Blueberry Ridge Mobile Village, one of several Maine trailer parks where concerns about costs, quality-of-life and ownership arose.

“The other thing that I do hear a lot about, too, is how [landlords] won’t do anything for services. And that is completely unfair and not right. And we have to make that change. I feel strongly that if needed, the state should be able to come in [and] take these places over. Some people will say that that’s insane,” Jackson told the residents in Wells, the town next to the politically-notable Kennebunkport.

“But until the people get the chance to start a co-op or whatever, there should be a way to hold these, so that you don’t see private-equity coming in and making the killing on these parks.”

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Claims Democrats Have Ideas ‘People Really Want to Vote For’

Democrats have ideas “people really want to vote for,” Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker said during a press conference alongside Texas Democrats on Wednesday.

Speaking about the kickoff of the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, Pritzker joined Texas Democrats in their opposition press conference and took a question about the Democrat Party’s messaging, as a questioner noted that Democrats are “still not exactly resonating with voters.”

Pritzker claimed that voters are not “pulling a lever” for a party but for individual candidates.

“Well, when people go to the polling booth, they’re not pulling a lever for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party,” Pritzker replied. “They’re pulling a lever for [Texas state Rep.] Gene Wu. They’re pulling a lever for all the folks who are on the ballot here in Texas and across the country.”

“And it’s Democrats that have the ideas that people really want to vote for,” he claimed. “We’re the ones who fight for affordability. We’re the ones who think the jam will be on the bottom shelf. We’re the ones who believe that everybody ought to have health care in this country. They’re trying to take health care away from people.”

Pritzker also accused Republicans of trying to “take food assistance away from people,” likely referring to efforts to eliminate junk food items as eligible choices for SNAP spending and weed out fraud in SNAP and other government programs. As Breitbart News reported, billions of dollars worth of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments, for example, were going to people who were not eligible for them.

The Democrat TDS governor continued, “They’re trying to take food assistance away from people. They’re succeeding in a lot of cases.”

“They’re attacking people in our streets, in our American cities,” he said, likely referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) taking criminal illegal aliens off the streets.

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FCC Chairman Says Agency May Issue Guidance On ‘Fake Polls’ Ahead Of Midterms

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency may soon issue guidance to television broadcasters over what he called “fake polls,” particularly if they are intended to suppress voter participation ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Carr said Sunday that broadcasters face federal public-interest obligations because local television stations use FCC-licensed public airwaves, unlike cable networks and online platforms.

“There’s a lot of interest right now in fake polls that are out there,” Carr said. “And so the FCC may put guidance out soon to remind broadcasters about their obligations with respect to not airing fake polls, particularly if they’re done to suppress people heading into the fall.”

Carr’s comments follow criticism from President Donald Trump over media coverage of political polling and his endorsement record in Republican primaries.

Trump recently called for the FCC to take action against NBC News’ Kristen Welker after she said on a local NBC affiliate that Trump had experienced “mixed results” with candidates he endorsed in this year’s primaries.

Trump disputed that characterization and said Welker should be reported to the FCC for “rebuke or punishment.”

NBC News defended Welker.

Carr did not announce a formal investigation of Welker.

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LIAR: James Talarico Suddenly Says There Are Only Two Sexes After Claiming There are “Six Genders” — “I Missed the Mark on Some of My Past Statements”

After years of pushing the far-left’s extreme gender ideology, far-left Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico was caught backpedaling furiously on his past claims.

Speaking with Fox News national correspondent Brooke Taylor on The Story, Talarico admitted he “missed the mark on some of my past statements.”

Asked about his 2021 claim that there are six biological sexes, the Austin Democrat said, “There are not six sexes. There are two.” He added that he “didn’t say it correctly” at the time, then quickly changed the subject to diesel prices, groceries, utilities, and health care.

In 2021, during debate over legislation concerning transgender participation in school sports, Talarico claimed that “modern science” recognized six biological sexes.

He listed chromosomal disorders and declared that “biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous.” He was arguing against protecting female athletes.

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Michigan Man Says Voting Records Show Two Absentee Votes He Never Cast — Mother Turned Away After Poll Workers Said She “Already Voted”

A Flint man says Michigan’s official voter file is showing absentee ballots he never requested and never mailed, and that his mother was refused an in-person ballot after election workers told her she had already voted.

Kevin Tay laid out the claim in an interview with Dave Bondy of Keeping it Real. Bondy published the sit-down on Tuesday.

“It never, it never happened,” Tay told Bondy, according to The Midwesterner. “I actually only voted one time in my life, and I voted at the city of Flint up on the third floor in the council chamber, and that was for (former) Mayor (Karen) Weaver.”

Tay said he has never used an absentee ballot.

“No, I don’t even know what an absentee ballot looked like,” he said.

When he checked his own voter information, the record showed two prior absentee votes. Tay says that is false. He voted once, in person, for Weaver.

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Trump Promises $5,000 Dividend To Every American Adult If Republicans Hold Congress

In Dallas last night, President Trump promised the American people that if the GOP keeps the House and the Senate, every adult citizen will receive $5,000 in a direct dividend from his tariffs.

Speaking at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Wednesday evening, Trump explained that the $5,000 payment would be issued by the President if Republicans maintain control of the House of Representatives and Senate, thanks to their America First economic strategy that globalists predicted would never work. “Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders,” he said of the payment.

The reason the profits of tariffs are to be distributed to the adult citizens of the country in the form of dividends is because for decades the politicians in Washington have been running the country into the ground, waging foreign wars, spending trillions of dollars of NATO revenues and other foreign pay to conduct bureaucratic busy work and fail to enhance the prosperity of American working citizens and businesses.

“Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders,” Trump said.

It has to be spent in the United States, he explained. So, no money can be spent in Canada, or China, or Germany for example. It is a closed economic system that rewards American businesses and American workers for their country’s success.

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Supreme Court Denies Missouri’s Emergency Appeal to Use State’s New GOP-Favored Congressional Map in Midterms

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri’s emergency appeal to use the GOP-favored Congressional map in this year’s midterm elections.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri’s emergency application without comment.

Missouri will now have to use its 2022 Congressional map.

The Missouri Supreme Court last Thursday threw out the state’s new congressional map that favored the GOP and eliminated one Democrat seat.

The new map will only go into effect in 2028 if voters approve it during the 2026 midterms.

Last year, the Missouri House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.

The “Missouri First” map promised a fierce partisan restructuring ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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Whoopi Goldberg of ‘The View’ Campaigns for Democrats in the Midterms: ‘Our Lives Literally Depend on This’

The View came back from a summer hiatus this week and dove head first into campaigning for the Democrats in the 2026 midterms.

Among the conversations on the show today were, invoking the 25th Amendment on President Trump, and voting for the Democrats because, according to host Whoopi Goldberg, ‘our lives literally depend on this.’

This type of open electioneering for one side is why The View has come under a microscope with the FCC. ABC News is not supposed to do this, but they allow The View to do it all the time.

Transcript via NewsBusters:

BEHAR: Let me ask you, you say the emperor had no clothes what if he took all his clothes off?

FARAH GRIFFIN: People would tell him he looks great and he’s in great shape.

BEHAR: If he took all his clothes off and started running around the pool. Would they get him out then?

HOSTIN: 25th Amendment!

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: All of these things, all of these things are in our hands.

BEHAR: Vote, vote.

GOLDBERG: This is what we can tell you, if you want to see change, you got to make the change. It doesn’t matter your color. It doesn’t matter if your a Democrat or Republican, if you want change, you got to get out there and make it happen.

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Cops Called to Ohio Democrat Nominee Amy Acton’s Home During Drunken Rage — Terrified Daughter Called Police Saying “Mom Has Been Drinking and Throwing Things”

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate and radical COVID-lockdown architect Amy Acton had an absolute trainwreck of a weekend, demonstrating once again why the mainstream media’s darling is totally unsuited to hold higher office

First, Acton appeared totally unhinged and appeared to be visibly intoxicated during a high-profile campaign appearance on Saturday night.

It was truly something you had to see to believe.

Then on Sunday, Acton and her team immediately rushed to play the victim, spinning a tall tale about being “attacked” by an armed individual during a speech at the Canfield Fair.

The fake news narrative crumbled fast. Candidate Acton was never in personal danger, was never attacked directly, and did not even realize the disruptive individual at the campaign stop was carrying a firearm until local authorities made an arrest.

The man, who was lawfully carrying two registered weapons, was taken into custody by local police after an altercation broke out when he tried to move to the front of the crowd, resulting in minor charges involving an attempt to push past bystanders.

Now this…

In August, Laura Loomer published a never-before-released Bexley Police Department 911 call log from August 17, 2019 from the night Acton was still Ohio’s health director.

The priority-one call was placed at approximately 9:45 p.m. and classified as a domestic disturbance.

According to the dispatcher’s written narrative, Acton’s daughter reported that her mother and stepfather were fighting and that her mother had been “drinking and throwing things and breaking glass.”

The daughter reportedly left the residence and headed to her father’s home before officers arrived.

The accompanying field-interview report states that Amy Acton and her husband, Eric Acton, had become involved in a verbal argument over her extended work hours.

Acton “became upset,” felt he was “antagonizing her,” and, while going down the stairs, “grabbed hold of the mirror on the wall and pulled it down, shattering the glass.”

She went to the garage to get in her car and leave. He talked her out of it. Both said they had been drinking. Acton told police she had taken “an unknown amount of prescription medication.”

Columbus Fire medics checked her and advised a hospital trip. She refused. Officers wrote there was “no evidence of any physical violence” and called it a “verbal dispute only.”

Acton’s campaign told NBC News she had one drink at dinner, insinuating her daughter lied, “bumped into a wall hanging which fell,” and was asleep when police arrived.

Eric Acton later took the blame, saying he drank too much, started the argument, and that Amy “only had one drink.” The campaign now calls the prescription a routine migraine medicine. Acton herself recently dismissed it as “a normal routine fight” and accused critics of dragging family into politics.

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BUSTED: AirTags Lead Police Straight to Home of Retired Columbus State Professor and Democrat-Donor Wife After Conservative Candidate’s Campaign Signs Disappear

A conservative-leaning independent candidate in Columbus, Georgia, got tired of watching his campaign signs vanish. He hid Apple AirTags inside them.

The trackers did not ping a dumpster or a random yard. They led straight to the home of a well-known local reverend and her husband, a retired Columbus State University educator.

Stephen Acorn is running as an Independent write-in against longtime Democrat incumbent Debbie Buckner for Georgia House District 137.

After signs kept disappearing near Matthews Elementary School and County Line Road, Acorn cut open replacements, slipped AirTags inside, and waited.

“I feel like I outsmarted the perpetrator,” Acorn told NowGeorgia.com, which first reported the story.

Within 24 hours, Acorn received an alert showing that two of the signs were moving.

The tracking devices eventually led Acorn and police to the residence of retired Columbus State educator Richard Spencer Garrard and his wife, Rev. Dr. Cindy Cox Garrard.

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