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Texas County Accused of Election Fraud Now Failing to Enforce Federal Voter Law

A Texas county at the center of a 2020 election controversy and previously run by a serially accused potential fraudster overseeing machines for 90 Texas counties is lacking the necessary legal compliance.

There is, of course, a great deal of debate surrounding how one of the most solid Republican bastions suddenly switched blue in one election cycle. Some people pointed out the 20 million votes that materialized for Democrats across the country as fraud, and others argued that Democrats changed or exploited voting rules to register many U.S.-hating migrants.

Whatever the explanation, it certainly does not help that Texas, while requiring ID to register for voting, does not verify all registrants’ citizenship, relying on their honesty to affirm they are citizens. And there were nearly 3 million new voter registrations in Texas just between 2022 and 2024.

Another piece of the puzzle is Heider Garcia, a Venezuelan Hart InterCivic vice president who helps oversee the election machines for 90 Texas counties, as mentioned above. He previously also worked for Smartmatic when officials in the Philippines accused him and his machines of dangerous and egregious fraud. Garcia subsequently served as an election official in California and more than one Texas county, including Tarrant County, which is the one I am looking at in this article.

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Oklahoma Sheriff Got a Judge to Title a Stolen ATV to His Office the Same Day, Then Cited Repair Costs for Keeping It

Stacey McCurry of Stillwater, Oklahoma, is suing the Grady County Sheriff’s Office for an ATV that was stolen in Payne County in 2020. The office’s reason for not handing it back, as KGOU reported it, is that a judge has already titled the machine to the county and the county paid to fix it.

The ATV surfaced in Grady County in 2021, according to KGOU. On June 9, 2025, Sheriff Gary Boggess filed a handwritten petition saying it was unclaimed and on a list to be destroyed, and a judge granted the sheriff’s office title the same day, KGOU reported. McCurry learned where the ATV was this year, when it was flagged in the National Crime Information Center, the FBI-run database police agencies use to check for stolen vehicles and other property, and the Payne County sheriff’s office called. Grady County turned down the request to return it. Undersheriff Kori Brewer said the title had already been transferred and the office had spent tax money repairing the ATV, KGOU reported.

McCurry filed McCurry v. Grady County Sheriff, No. CJ-2026-00297, in Grady County District Court in Chickasha on Aug. 28. The docket lists a petition for replevin, conversion and a request for an order to stay, and classes it as civil relief of more than $10,000. Replevin is the suit an owner files to get a specific piece of property back. Conversion is the claim that someone treated that property as their own.

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Judge Takes Off Jihadist’s Ankle Monitor So He Can Focus on Romance and a New School Job

A judge has taken the ankle monitor off an individual indicted for activities aligned with Hamas and for putting university employees’ families on a hit list. The judge decided that the ankle monitor interfered too much with the Jew-hating, would-be jihadi’s romantic life, Islamic prayer practices, and new job at a Milwaukee kids’ school.

The fact that a school (Islamic or not) is even allowed to hire someone who has an ankle monitor for fantasizing about committing Hamas-style massacres in America is absolutely insane. Reportedly, the judge cared more about Ahmet Kerem Körkaya’s sex life and facility in performing prayers to his demon-god than about the possibility that he could actually carry out one of his multiple threats. We have no idea if Körkaya actually decided to be peaceful now, and since he doesn’t seem to be suffering any long-term consequences for his actions, why should he be?

The Daily Wire reported that the “Michigan 8” include ringleader Körkaya, who “engaged in a coordinated campaign of violent, criminal acts seeking to pressure University of Michigan leaders and other businesses in the Eastern District of Michigan to cut off all ties with Israel.”

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RAIR Foundation USA reported on November 6 about the update in Körkaya’s case. Apparently he tried to obtain the address for the university regent because he had put the regent’s family on his “hit list.” One of his co-conspirators suggested burning down another target’s house. The group also used Hamas symbols and made calls for genocidal war against Jews, such as “intifada,” when putting graffiti on properties.

Federal prosecutors allege that following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel that killed over 1,200 people, Körkaya and other activists became involved in organizing what they described as “autonomous actions” against individuals they believed were connected to or were supportive of Israel… In a brief for Körkaya’s detention hearing, prosecutors stated that Körkaya embraced Hamas symbolism and propaganda to such an extent that investigators recovered from his electronic devices videos described as Hamas propaganda material depicting militants using inverted red triangles to designate targets before killing them. Federal prosecutors charge that Körkaya and several co-defendants also exchanged and possessed videos showing Hamas attacks and killings, arguing that the imagery later resurfaced in vandalism campaigns directed at individuals and institutions targeted by the group…

‘Körkaya allegedly wrote that he intended to become “the dirtiest f*cking doctor ever” and claimed he would like to become a target’s physician in order to “poison her ass slowly.”’

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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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NYC Rapper “Principal” Collects Nearly $200,000 for a School That Never Opened

This is ludicrous. A 33-year-old New York City Department of Education administrator is pocketing a principal’s salary of $192,374 a year for running a high school that does not exist and was never approved.

Caleb Haraguchi-Combs, who also performs as the rapper Cal Combs, was handpicked in January to serve as project director of the proposed Next Generation Technology High School in Lower Manhattan. The promotion came with a $50,000 raise from his prior assistant principal pay of $141,960 at Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics in East Harlem.

Months later the school is dead, he is not assigned to any actual campus, and the checks keep clearing.

Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels killed the proposal in April after opposition over its merit-based admissions model and broader anxiety about artificial intelligence in classrooms. The planned FiDi school was supposed to focus on AI and computer technology. Instead it became another casualty of the city’s allergy to anything resembling rigorous standards.

A project director of a planned school normally becomes its principal once doors open. That never happened here. According to the New York Post, a DOE source said officials “never should have named a principal before the school was approved” and that, without tenure, such appointees are typically returned to assistant principal roles when a project collapses. Haraguchi-Combs never served as principal long enough to seek tenure in the role.

The Department of Education’s official line is that he is “developing new proposals and supporting in-progress proposals.” A DOE insider strongly disputed that framing, calling the continued principal-level compensation a huge waste of resources when actual schools need principals.

When a Post reporter approached Haraguchi-Combs outside his Downtown Brooklyn high-rise this week, the response was not an explanation of his duties. “You came to my house? Outrageous,” he said.

The arrangement surfaced in an October letter from anonymous Manhattan high school principals demanding an investigation into Superintendent Gary Beidleman. The letter catalogued organizational dysfunction, hiring of unqualified candidates, failure to meet class-size rules, and specifically flagged Haraguchi-Combs’ status.

Zilvinas Silenas, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, called the salary an insult to taxpayers. “This is a new level for New York, when you are getting paid nearly $200,000 for a job you’re not doing,” Silenas said. “Most taxpayers have never even dreamed of making that kind of money.”

Haraguchi-Combs calls himself “half hip-hop artist, half English teacher.” His 2017 album “Carmel,” named for an Indiana city where he once lived, includes lyrics describing a drug deal that turned violent: “So now I got a nine hidden in my backpack… They said that they would meet us at the spot at seven thirty/we packed a bag and arrived five minutes early.”

Another track, “Roundabouts,” references cocaine use and heavy drinking: “One more bump on that key/one more drink and I’m free/one more shot to forget/how much I hate me.”

He began his education career as an English teacher in Tokyo in 2015 and took his wife’s last name. A Manhattan Center official confirmed he is no longer at that school.

New York already spends more per pupil than almost any other state while producing mediocre results. Paying nearly two hundred thousand dollars to an unassigned project director whose proposed selective tech school was scrapped for ideological reasons is not an anomaly. It is the system working as designed.

Scripture is blunt on the subject: “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10).

Taxpayers who do work are funding both the salary and the administrative apparatus that refuses to reassign or demote him.

Schools that actually open still struggle with vacancies, overcrowding, and the fallout from earlier decisions that prioritized equity rhetoric over competence. Haraguchi-Combs’ situation, brought to light by fellow principals tired of the dysfunction under Beidleman, shows how far the Department of Education has drifted from any basic expectation that public employees do the jobs for which they are paid.

The school never existed. The paycheck does.

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Zelensky’s Nazi-style ‘torture chambers’ rake in billions – MP

The Kiev regime is making around $7 billion a year from a network of secret detention and torture facilities, where civilians and mobilized men are reportedly held for ransom, Ukrainian MP Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed.

The lawmaker, detained on treason charges since November 2023, made the allegation on Telegram on Friday following a scandal over a suspected torture site operated by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi-linked Azov formation near Kiev.

Citing figures from a joint briefing by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) and National Police, Dubinsky claimed that more than 1,000 such facilities operate across Ukraine, each holding 30 to 40 people. With an estimated 40,000 detainees and an alleged average ransom of $15,000, he calculated that the network could generate $600 million a month, or $7.2 billion annually, assuming the same number of people paid for release each month.

“$7.2 billion a year – that’s the math behind the profits of [Vladimir] Zelensky’s torture chambers and concentration camps. Just like the Nazis, whose concentration camps were also designed to generate profits,” he wrote.

The MP has spent nearly three years in pretrial detention following his arrest in November 2023 on suspicion of treason and cooperation with Russian military intelligence. He denies the accusations, claiming he is being persecuted for criticizing Zelensky’s government.

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Texas Democrat Vows Taxpayer Voucher Money for Islamic Schools, Including One Funded by Iran-Linked Bank

Democrat Sarah Eckhardt, who defeated incumbent Republican Don Huffines in the Nov. 3 race for Texas comptroller, said at her first news conference on Nov. 4 that she would ensure Islamic and other religious schools are not blocked from receiving money through the state’s $1 billion Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) school voucher program, according to the Houston Chronicle. As comptroller, Eckhardt will oversee the program, which Islamic schools sued to enter this year.

In February, Eckhardt said in a statement that the comptroller “has been instructed by the GOP to illegally discriminate based on religion” by keeping Islamic schools out of the program.

At the Nov. 4 news conference, she said, “I am not a fan of this policy. However, it is a policy that has passed the Texas Legislature, and it is the law. So as the comptroller, I will implement it, because it is the law.” She also said she would review the program’s spending and the data collected by the vendor that runs it.

Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, one of the Islamic schools now in the program, describes itself on its own website as “a model Islamic educational institute” whose mission is to develop “practicing Muslim Leaders.” The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington think tank, reported that the school received $995,000 from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

The bank is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and is affiliated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a bloc of 57 Muslim-majority countries. Iran is the bank’s third-largest shareholder, while Qatar and Turkey are also among its top 10 shareholders, according to an Oct. 21 FDD report. The U.S. government has designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism.

The Oct. 21 report found that IsDB has given more than $17 million to at least 50 private Islamic schools in the United States.

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‘Super Intelligence’ Fraud Ring Impersonated CEOs And Lawyers To Steal $129 Million, Feds Say

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment Thursday charging three foreign nationals with using what they call “super intelligence” to mimic the voices and images of corporate chief executives and big-firm lawyers, and so talk employees at companies around the world into wiring about $129 million, according to the Justice Department.

Jacob Soall, 41, of Marbella, Spain, and the United Kingdom, was arrested in Spain on June 17. Sharon Hazan, 54, of Israel, was arrested in Spain on Aug. 5, and Guy Sheetrit, 42, of Israel and the United Arab Emirates, was arrested in the United Kingdom on Sept. 7. Extradition requests for all three are pending. The release also lists aliases: Soall as “Seba Clarke” and “Rocky Balboa,” Hazan as “Superman Cash,” “Impossible Mission,” “Fat Boy” and “Ron.”

The scheme ran from 2024 to 2026, prosecutors say. The crew allegedly opened with a call to an employee in which a faked voice of the company’s CEO asked for help on a confidential financial transaction, then steered the employee to “lawyers at large international law firms” who were supposedly working on the deal. Those lawyers were fakes too. One of them would finally tell the employee to wire a large sum to an account the conspirators controlled.

The release puts the haul at more than $129 million from “Victim Companies all over the United States and the world,” and lists six examples totaling about $31.9 million: $11.6 million from a U.K. financial technology company, $5.2 million from a Florida pet food company, $4.8 million from a Missouri hospital system, $4.6 million from a Massachusetts mutual fund company, $3.0 million from a California hospital system and $2.7 million from a Rhode Island bank.

The money did not stay where it landed. Prosecutors say the victims’ wires went to accounts in the United States, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Austria, Slovakia and China, and the conspirators then converted the cash to cryptocurrency to hide its source and split it among themselves.

Soall, according to the release, mainly played the British lawyer, working from a handwritten script titled “Lawyer Call” that included language to convince victims not to discuss the calls with colleagues. Hazan and Sheetrit are accused of laundering the proceeds. Hazan allegedly boasted that he had been laundering money since 1994, had laundered over $400 million in the past three years and was “number one all over the world” among professional launderers. Hazan was convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in 2008.

Each man faces seven counts: conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud (20 years each), two counts of aggravated identity theft (two years each), and money laundering conspiracy and two money laundering counts (20 years each). The release notes that Congress sets those maximums and a judge decides any sentence. The charges are allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said the technology “offers tremendous potential,” but that “the public should recognize that there are some who seek to use this emerging technology to pursue criminal goals,” and urged the business community to “consider how to best protect themselves from the emerging threat of SI-enabled crime.” FBI Assistant Director James Barnacle Jr. said criminals “continue to weaponize emerging technologies.” The case is with the office’s Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, and prosecutors thanked Spain’s Policía Nacional and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency for the arrests.

The release does not say how the voices and images were generated, how any victim company’s bank flagged the transfers, or how much of the $129 million has been recovered. It asks anyone who believes they were a victim to use the FBI’s tips page.

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Was Philly “House of Horrors” Killer Protected by the Mayor and Police?

Over the past several months, the world has been learning about a potential serial killer and snuff producer named Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. He died in 2025, but police are now investigating seven missing women connected to his former Philadelphia home following the arrest of his son, Eugene, on June 19 of this year. Eugene was parked illegally in a BMW in front of the Liberty Bell early that morning when police approached him. He was arguing with a woman who said her life was in danger, so police searched the car, finding $8,000 worth of crack and numerous weapons, including a cattle prod, a switchblade, and two guns, one of which had its serial number removed. Even more suspicious were the fake FBI and DEA credentials he attempted to pass off to police.

This arrest led to a search of the home that Eugene inherited from his father, Raymond, where police found what they described as a “house of horrors.” Inside, police discovered a makeshift laboratory with corrosive chemicals that could have been used to chemically cremate bodies. There were also 55-gallon drums connected to the sewer system, further supporting this theory. The search also revealed a cache of photographs, videos, and written material in which Horsch depicted lifelike scenes of death and murder. The evidence was so realistic that police are still unsure which footage is fictional and which, if any, is real.

The search has continued for months, with unidentified cremated remains and human DNA discovered in the house.

In the months since Eugene’s arrest, multiple women have come forward to describe their encounters with him and his father, painting a picture of a well-planned operation that stretched back over fifteen years. Raymond targeted homeless women who were experiencing drug addiction, taking advantage of their vulnerable condition and paying them in drugs to act out ultra-violent, pornographic scenes for films and images that Raymond produced and sold. He did not hide this part about his life; he advertised it openly, appearing on podcasts to speak about his work and writing books that blurred the lines between fact and fiction. In his book Empathy, he wrote an “autobiography” from the perspective of what he called an “empathetic serial killer,” who took the lives of women who were addicted to drugs as a way of putting them out of their misery. Initially, this was seen as a twisted work of fiction, but it’s now starting to look like more of a confession.

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No, MAGA Didn’t Cut Israel Aid, They Hid It — And the Left Has the Same Plan

On the morning of Election Day, with polls open and the war in Iran dragging his party toward a historic beating, Donald Trump phoned into Fox & Friends with a surprise. The United States, he said, would stop sending roughly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel at the end of 2026, under a deal he claimed he and Benjamin Netanyahu had struck months ago. For a base that spent the past year watching its “America First” president drag the country into another Middle East war, it sounded like a long-overdue win.

It wasn’t, and the man who did more than anyone in Congress to force this issue into the open said so within hours. Rep. Thomas Massie called it “pennies on the dollar” and “a desperate Election Day lie,” warning that the same taxpayer money would simply flow through as military coordination instead of as a separate line item in the appropriations bills. He’s right, the paper trail proves it, and it fosters less transparency, not more.

Start with the motive, because Trump practically confessed it on air. He complained that Israel aid had become “a bad talking point” and asked why Republicans should “suffer the slings from lunatics” over money Israel doesn’t “need.” That is a campaign problem being managed, not a foreign policy being changed, and Bloomberg reported he pitched it explicitly as a way to blunt election-year attacks.

It also came with no plan. Trump never explained how the money would actually stop, even though the memorandum guaranteeing Israel $3.8 billion a year runs until September 2028 and Congress wrote those levels into the 2021 defense bill. A president doesn’t undo a statute on a morning show, and the deal he says was made months ago reportedly blindsided Israeli security and financial officials, who noted next year’s budget was already drafted around the existing agreement.

Meanwhile, Israel has been angling for more, not less. Axios reported a year ago that Israel was seeking an unprecedented 20-year security agreement likely worth at least $4 billion a year, repackaged with “America First” provisions to win over Trump’s base. Nobody negotiating a two-decade package is preparing to walk away from the money, which raises the obvious question of where it’s going instead.

The answer is the Pentagon. The Congressional Research Service, hardly a hotbed of antiwar agitation, laid out the mechanism months ago: replace grant aid with joint programs funded from defense accounts, and shift congressional oversight away from the foreign affairs committees toward the defense ones. The Quincy Institute was blunter, calling it not a reduction in support but a reorganization that moves billions out of State Department grants and into general Pentagon procurement.

That reorganization is already moving through Congress. The House-passed defense bill authorizes $750 million for U.S.-Israel cooperative programs and extends the weapons stockpile authority for Israel, and the source for that is AIPAC’s own press release celebrating it. The same bill creates a new U.S.-Israel defense technology initiative that critics warn would be harder for future Congresses to unwind and would shift the relationship away from highly visible aid votes. Lawmakers and military experts told The Intercept it was highly irregular, a near-copy of an AIPAC-backed bill that had already died.

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