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Honduran Migrant Arrested For Registering to Vote and Falsely Claiming to Be a US Citizen

The thing that never happens just happened again!

A Honduran migrant was arrested in California on Friday morning for registering to vote and falsely claiming to be a US citizen.

Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores was taken into custody and charged with two felonies.

California has zero voter ID laws and registers voters at the DMV. Illegal aliens and other non-citizens can get driver’s licenses in California.

Flores is in the US legally; however, he is not a US citizen and therefore cannot vote in federal elections.

If convicted, Flores faces deportation

Full statement from First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli:

This morning we arrested and federally charged a Honduran national for unlawfully registering to vote in California and falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen.

Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, of Winnetka, is charged with two felonies and faces deportation if convicted.

Because states like California allow non-citizens to easily register to vote and receive a ballot by mail, there is no telling how many non-citizens are currently registered.

It is time for California to comply with @AAGDhillon’s request for a comprehensive audit of its voter rolls to protect the integrity of our elections.

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Federal Arrests Begin for California Election Fraud

A federal U.S. attorney in Southern California has made his first arrest in what he says will be an ongoing election fraud crackdown.

Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, is a one-man fraud-fighting phenomenon. He figured out how to avoid sanctuary policies that defy ICE detainer requests by issuing federal arrest warrants against the illegal aliens, necessitating their hand-off. He has arrested numerous criminals who were stealing vast amounts of taxpayer money. And he is also trying to fix just a few of the problems with the fraud-riddled California voting system.

Importantly, Essayli emphasized that this was the start of his effort to arrest election fraudsters, implying that there will be many more. This alien voter is not an anomaly, nor is his arrest a one-off incident. No doubt California Democrats from Gov. Gavin Newsom on down will have breakdowns over the new federal crackdown.

In discussing Rivera’s case, Essayli highlighted the fact that it is incredibly easy for noncitizens in California to register to vote and request a mail-in ballot. The range of identification that California accepts for registering to vote includes everything from a passport or military ID or driver’s license to a health club card, a student ID, a bank statement, a government check, a public housing card, a discount card, or a drug prescription. Many, if not most, of these are accessible to illegal aliens in California.

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EXPOSED: You Can Register to Vote in California Today With NO Driver’s License and NO Social Security Number — Then Show a Gym Card or Insurance Card at the Polls

Fox News national correspondent Matt Finn just walked through California’s official online voter registration system.

What he found is the same gap The Gateway Pundit has been warning about for months: Democrat-run California will let you skip a California ID and skip a Social Security number, then treat a health-club card like “photo identification.”

In a post on X, Finn demonstrated that applicants using California’s online voter-registration portal can indicate that they have neither a California driver’s license or identification card nor a Social Security number.

Finn wrote:

“See it: if you register to vote online in California today you can check ‘No ID’ and ‘No Social Security number.’ The website says first time voters *may be asked to show ID at the ballot box. The CA Secretary of State lists things like a gym or insurance card as acceptable photo identification.”

The screenshots accompanying Finn’s report show both boxes checked on the state’s registration website.

California’s own Secretary of State website confirms that an applicant may leave the identification fields blank.

“If you do not have a driver license, California identification card or Social Security card, you may leave that space blank,” the state explains.

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Entertainment unions intensify campaign for corporate tax handouts as film subsidy race to the bottom accelerates

The Entertainment Union Coalition (EUC), including the California IATSE Council, Directors Guild of America, LiUNA! Local 724, Teamsters Local 399, Writers Guild of America West, American Federation of Musicians Local 47, IBEW Local 40 and SAG-AFTRA, has mounted an aggressive campaign to pressure California lawmakers to expand and protect the state’s Film and Television Jobs Program 4.0.

After successfully lobbying for the program to more than double, from $330 million to $750 million annually, the coalition is now demanding that the subsidy be made uncapped and further “modernized.” Gov. Gavin Newsom has been a leading champion of the expansion, presenting the tax credits as a means of keeping production and jobs in California.

The immediate target of the unions’ campaign is SB 122, a sweeping budget measure backed by the Democratic establishment, including Newsom. The legislation extends California’s existing $5 million annual limitation on business tax credits through 2029. Beginning in 2030, it establishes a permanent limit of $5 million or 70 percent of a corporation’s tax liability, whichever is greater. Credits blocked by the limitation can be carried forward or, under specified conditions, made refundable.

The measure was driven by the state’s fiscal crisis and is aimed broadly at corporate tax credits, particularly credits that have allowed large corporations to accumulate enormous write-offs. Newsom and legislative Democrats have presented the limits as a way to protect state revenues and fund essential programs. Film and television production was not the principal target. Its tax credits were caught in the net of a broad fiscal measure.

This is precisely what makes the dispute politically revealing. The same Democratic establishment that expanded the film subsidy to $750 million is now imposing limits on corporate tax credits because the state cannot indefinitely finance the concessions demanded by competing industries. The contradiction is not an accident. It exposes the logic of a system in which governments compete to hand public resources to corporations while simultaneously confronting the fiscal consequences of that competition.

The EUC responds by demanding that film and television credits be exempted. Because the film program itself has a separate annual allocation, the coalition denounces the business-credit limitation as a “double cap” that will supposedly make California uncompetitive.

But this argument accepts the premise that has produced the crisis: that workers must compete against one another to persuade corporations where to invest.

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Furious Parents Smash Their Way Into School Bus as Children Crawl Out Windows After Driver Refuses to Release Them for Nearly an Hour — One Parent Arrested

A California school bus ride home turned into a scene out of a third-world country Monday when furious parents smashed their way onto a Calaveras Unified bus and children started climbing out the windows because the driver refused to let the kids off.

The wild scene unfolded along Highway 49 near Russell Road in Calaveras County after students were held on the stopped bus for about an hour.

According to KCRA 3, the trouble began when a student reportedly tried to climb out a window before the bus had come to a stop.

The driver then pulled over, contacted law enforcement, and ordered the students to remain seated and roll up the windows. The children were reportedly kept aboard for nearly an hour while they waited for deputies to arrive.

Video recorded by a student shows the scene rapidly spiraling out of control as students shouted, parents gathered outside, children squeezed through open windows, and at least one adult climbed into the bus.

One 12-year-old student told KCRA that the children had been loud and excited to get off the bus before the situation escalated.

Nichole Wellington said her frightened son called her from inside the bus. She rushed to the scene and demanded that the driver release him.

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For Millions of Kids, Back to School Means Back to Pesticide Exposure

The Capistrano Unified School District in southern California has halted the routine use of pesticides and herbicides on its campuses for 60 days as concerns grow over a cluster of rare childhood cancer cases in Orange County.

The district includes Ladera Ranch, where 12 children and young adults have been diagnosed since 2023 with Ewing sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer that develops in the bones or soft tissue, primarily affecting children.

Many families believe the official count doesn’t capture the extent of the health issues affecting children in the area, according to the New York Post. Other children have had rare illnesses and pets have developed early cancer.

The decision to suspend pesticide spraying comes weeks after hundreds of residents packed a Ladera Ranch community meeting demanding answers about the link to possible pesticide exposure and the children’ s illnesses, local news station KTLA 5 reported.

During the pause, the district will review the products currently approved for use and maintain campus landscapes using preventative management practices and manual weed removal. It is considering a resolution that would establish an annual review of the herbicides and pesticides used in the district’s landscape maintenance program and encourage the use of safer alternatives.

It also plans to provide families with a frequently asked questions document explaining the review process and the policy changes being considered.

The possible link between pesticide use and the cancer cluster in Ladera is shining a national spotlight on the use of pesticides in and around schools as tens of millions of children across the country kick off the school year.

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Limits On Border Patrol Arrests In California Lifted By Federal Appeals Court

A federal appeals court on Aug. 24 rescinded a preliminary injunction that limited U.S. Border Patrol stops and arrests in California’s Central Valley.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a federal district court failed to properly analyze whether the plaintiffs had standing to seek forward-looking relief based on alleged harms in the past.

Standing refers to the right of someone to sue in court. The parties must show, among other things, a strong enough connection to the dispute to justify their participation in a lawsuit.

The Ninth Circuit sent the lawsuit challenging immigration detentions back to the district court to allow it to revisit its legal analysis after that court issued a preliminary injunction limiting U.S. Border Patrol’s ability to stop and arrest people.

The new ruling, which does not dismiss the lawsuit itself, is a tactical win for the Trump administration because it eliminates – for now – a preliminary injunction that limited Border Patrol’s ability to stop and detain people. The appeals court sent the case back to the federal district court for a limited do-over on the question of standing.

The lawsuit concerns Section 1357(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows Border Patrol agents to make warrantless arrests only if they have reason to believe two things: that the person is in the country unlawfully, and that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained. The plaintiffs in the case took the position that the agents made arrests without properly assessing whether people were actually flight risks.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued on behalf of the plaintiffs, the United Farm Workers of America and several farm workers, arguing that over a three-day period in Kern County, California, in January 2025, Border Patrol unlawfully detained individuals – including day laborers – without having a reason to believe they were likely to escape before a warrant could be issued. The enforcement project was known as Operation Return to Sender.

Residents of Bakersfield and the vicinity “started disappearing” in “the middle of citrus harvesting season,” and this alarmed local residents who contacted the ACLU, the group said in a summary.

In a federal class action, the ACLU argued the Border Patrol was using “a cruel tactic to strip people of their right to an immigration hearing and coerce them instead into agreeing to “voluntary departure,” which carries with it a ban on returning to the United States for up to 10 years.

In April 2025, U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston granted a preliminary injunction covering the Eastern District, which is California’s Central Valley.

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Californians Are Prepared To Run Their State Into The Ground

According to recent polling, the California Voter ID initiative is in danger of losing this November, even though a supermajority of Americans across the political spectrum support Voter ID. Meanwhile, a 5% billionaire tax looks likely to win, even though the evidence against such proposals could not be clearer: higher taxes mean more rich people will flee to low-tax states, thus further depleting California’s already dwindling coffers.

What’s the matter with California voters? Why are they so addicted to failure? Why do they celebrate the continued demise of their once-great state?

The state of California remains the land of fruits and nuts, and all common-sense reforms are failing. This is a hard pill for many to swallow on the right in general, among Republicans in particular, and for the rest of the world watching, but Democrats don’t care. Power is the game, and the rest is chicken feed.

They dominate the voter rolls two-to-one.

They control every level of government.

They run the unions.

They have forced a hostile political takeover of big business, too. Chevron, pharmaceutical companies, and major financial firms are all trying to get a seat at the table to protect themselves.

Meanwhile, every major identity politics special interest runs riot in the state. From LGBT to Black Liberation, to everything in between, the left-wing smorgasbord of “give me money” hunkers down on Democratic lawmakers, demanding their piece of the increasingly receding budget.

The Democratic Socialists of America have been on a tear across California, taking over major city councils and pushing out weak Democratic lawmakers for the last ten years. The 2024 election witnessed a particular bloodbath for the party’s more establishment wing.

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Cause of Death Reportedly Revealed for Missing US Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building After Being Reported Missing

The cause of death of a federal prosecutor who once served twice as acting US Attorney based in San Diego has reportedly been revealed.

As previously reported, a caller informed the San Diego Police late Wednesday evening to report that Haden might be missing.

A short time later, he was discovered dead by law enforcement in an office at 880 Front St. in Downtown San Diego.

Southern District U.S. Atty. Adam Gordon confirmed b Haden’s death in a statement, calling it “one of the darkest days in our office’s history.”

“But there was nothing dark about Andrew Haden’s life,” he added.

Now, the New York Post exclusively reports that Haden died by hanging in an apparent suicide.

This should not come as a surprise since San Diego Police Department spokesperson Ashley Nicholas previously noted that no foul play was suspected.

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Debate Over Flock Surveillance Cameras Takes Unexpected Turn in SoCal As ‘Darth Vader’ Weighs In

Well here’s some fun Saturday night nuttery for you.

We’ve written on the ongoing debate in this country about Flock license-plate reading cameras. They’ve been used to thwart mass terror attacks — but they’ve also been used by unscrupulous law enforcement officers to keep an eye on their exes. Creepy.

One thing you might not have expected, however, is for Darth Vader to come down from space and weigh in on the matter at a San Diego City Council Public safety meeting Wednesday. I have to say, the guy’s got Mr. Vader’s breathing sounds down perfectly, and his voice work is pretty solid too.

If whoever was behind the spot was trying to get attention, he achieved his goal, because the clip has been viewed millions of times. 

His little speech was way out there, but it would seem he was using the occasion to mock the city’s 500 Flock cameras installed on streetlights. Several of the folks in attendance appeared to struggle to contain their laughter.

The council member who announced that it was his turn to speak didn’t seem to flinch in the slightest when she introduced him. “Thank you,” she said to a citizen who had just finished her remarks. “Darth Vader?”

Maybe they’re used to this kind of thing on the Left Coast:

The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the Rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium, because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers… They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this.

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