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Here We Go: Maricopa County Claims “Power Related Issues” Causing Vote Center Closures – Resident Says He Was Turned Away From 3 Different Locations: “We’re Getting F*cked With Again”

Maricopa County in Arizona announced on Monday that some early in-person voting locations have been temporarily closed due to “power related issues.”

The Maricopa County Elections Department announced on X, “Due to power related issues, the Vote Centers located at Paradise Community College and Sunset Canyon School are temporarily closed. Please visit https://Locations.Maricopa.Vote to find a nearby voting location.”

However, one Maricopa County resident who spoke to The Gateway Pundit said he went to Paradise Community College, Sunset Canyon School, and a third polling location near Cactus Rd. and Tatum Blvd. in North Phoenix, and they were all closed. “We’re getting f*cked with again,” they said.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet encouraged voters not to be “deterred” and shared a link with additional voting locations.

Back in 2022, on Election Day, voting centers across Maricopa County, the largest in the state, faced vote tabulator failures at roughly 60% of voting locations, leaving the majority-Republican in-person voters stuck waiting in hours-long lines or unable to vote.

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Video Shows Man Walking into Unlocked New Jersey Early Voting Trailer with Unattended Machines an Hour Before Opening

A video posted by independent journalist Leonard Filipowski, better known as Leroy Truth, shows a Union City, New Jersey, resident walking into an early-voting mobile trailer around 9:01 a.m. on Tuesday, nearly a full hour before the site was scheduled to open, and finding the machines unattended.

The trailer at 10th Street and Summit Avenue contained two voting machines, electronic poll books, and other election materials, and no staff was present.

The footage shows the man entering the unlocked trailer and saying nobody is inside.

Speaking to The Gateway Pundit, Filipowski said several sources told him the trailer was left unlocked all night.

Hudson County Board of Elections Clerk Michael Harper later confirmed the trailer was unlocked to Hudson County View.

Harper claimed that an electrician who services the generators powering Union City’s 10 early-voting trailers had checked the site around 8:50 a.m. and “wrongfully” left the door unlocked.

“Just because he said it doesn’t mean its true,” Filipowski countered, noting that his claims were published unchallenged by the Hudson County View. “Even if he electrician story was true, it’s still a major security breach.”

Harper confirmed to the outlet that the machines were not replaced.

Harper said that officials ran a real-time diagnostic check and stated that the machines and poll books had not been powered on, Wi-Fi was off, and the vote totals matched the previous night’s recorded numbers.

Filipowski called for an independent investigation by the FBI, alleging that he also has evidence of serious corruption during past elections involving Mayor Brian Stack, who is also a state senator.

Harper said the county was “absolutely 100 percent confident those machines remained unmolested” and that password and physical safeguards, including a locked USB port, would have made “casual” tampering difficult.

Harper described the video to Hudson County View as potentially a “setup” and claimed the trailer was unlocked for roughly 30 minutes at most rather than overnight. He also said that the county had been in contact with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and is reportedly exploring trespassing charges against the man who walked in and saw the unguarded machines.

Filipowski countered that you can’t set someone up to leave the machines unlocked and unguarded.

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White House Exploring Options to Keep Netanyahu in Power Under Unity Government, Report Says

The White House is exploring ways to keep Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power under a proposed unity government, according to a report published by The Cradle on Oct. 27, 2026.

The report cited unnamed officials and stated that Netanyahu may remain in power with U.S. backing even if he loses the Israeli general election held that day. The report did not specify a timeline for the discussions or provide further details on the options under consideration [1].

The reported discussions come amid ongoing Israeli political negotiations and international attention on the Gaza war. Voting was underway across Israel on Oct. 27 amid what The Cradle described as the highest turnout in decades and attempts by Netanyahu to incite against Palestinian voters [1]. The report offered no official confirmation from Washington or Jerusalem.

The Cradle report did not identify the officials cited or provide specific details on the proposed U.S. role in a unity government framework. It stated that no final decision had been made and that the discussions were ongoing and could change [1].

Report Details and Attribution

According to The Cradle, the options under consideration include political support for Netanyahu as he faces coalition pressures. The report stated that a unity government framework would involve power-sharing arrangements among Israeli political factions. It did not specify what form that support might take or which factions would participate [1].

The report attributed its information to unnamed officials and provided no further sourcing. The White House has not publicly commented on the report.

The Cradle published the report on the day of the Israeli election, when voting was underway across the country. The report linked the timing of the discussions to the election outcome and the possibility that Netanyahu could lose [1].

Israeli Political Context

Netanyahu is on trial on corruption charges, which he has denied. He has been charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, and he will testify three times a week despite the war, having previously received delays [2]. Israel has held multiple elections in recent years, and coalition governments have been unstable.

The report said unity government talks have followed domestic protests and the Gaza war. The Cradle report did not provide details on the current status of the protests.

The political instability has been compounded by the war in Gaza. The Cradle reported that the election took place amid high turnout and that Netanyahu had made attempts to incite against Palestinian voters [1]. The report did not elaborate on those attempts.

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Poland’s Would-Be Globalist Coup

While Poland’s conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, was flying to Senegal, police dispatched by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s justice minister took control of the grounds of the country’s highest constitutional court. Tusk, a pro-EU liberal and former president of the European Council, governs with a coalition that includes Poland’s left-wing parties.

Police locked out the court’s chief judge, Bogdan Święczkowski, while a judge allied with Tusk declared herself in charge. Nawrocki turned his plane around, returned to Warsaw, and denounced the operation as a forcible takeover of a constitutional body. Poland’s conservatives are calling it a coup, accusing the ruling coalition of using the justice ministry and police to seize control of the court that can strike down its laws.

Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, orders signed by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska appeared on the court’s website. They suspended the chief judge and his deputy for one month and named Korwin-Piotrowska acting head of the court, on the grounds that she has the longest judicial career of any sitting judge.

Korwin-Piotrowska heads Themis, a judges’ association that challenged the previous conservative government over her removal from office. That government’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, removed her as vice president of the regional court in Opole in 2017. Tusk’s justice ministry appointed her president of the same court in October 2024, and his parliamentary majority elected her to the constitutional court in March 2026.

Polish law requires incoming constitutional court judges to take their oath before the president, but she took hers at a ceremony in parliament. Nawrocki has never accepted that oath, and neither he nor the court’s leadership recognizes her as a judge.

Police said they acted on letters from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek and Korwin-Piotrowska. Żurek, who also serves as Poland’s chief prosecutor, is a former judge and was a prominent critic of the previous conservative government’s judicial reforms. After taking office in 2025, he removed 46 court presidents and vice presidents.

In January, Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that he had acted unlawfully in dismissing three judicial officials. Korwin-Piotrowska’s letter warned of possible threats to the lives and health of judges and staff. Officers in riot gear secured the grounds inside the court’s fence and prevented the chief judge from entering. Police said they did not enter the building.

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Alex Padilla Set Up California with Dominion Voting Machines While Secretary of State, Now Senator Padilla Fights to Prevent Them from Being Examined

Forty of California’s 58 counties were using the same Dominion central vote-counting system by 2020. That number belongs at the center of every conversation about Alex Padilla’s defense of California elections.

Padilla ran the state office that certified voting equipment and administered the money helping counties replace it. His decisions helped shape what counties could buy with public assistance. Now he is urging the Justice Department to drop voter-roll lawsuits and demanding limits on seizures of election materials. He tells California election officials, “We have your back.”

What, exactly, is Alex Padilla protecting? His own record is a good place to start.

I began following that record in November 2020, when I asked Sacramento County’s voter registration office why it had chosen Dominion. The answer sent me looking for contracts: I was told there had been two bids, but Dominion was the only system certified to qualify for reimbursement of up to 75 percent. I recorded that explanation in a December email. Several people helped me collect county contracts in 2021.

Sacramento committed to Dominion in late 2017, with its contract taking effect in January 2018. The county’s own public explanation says Dominion was the only bidder that held the certification Sacramento required. The new state reimbursement program did not become law until June.

Dominion was selling the value of that approval. In a proposal included with San Luis Obispo County’s January 2018 contract, the company advertised its product as the “only system in California” certified to the standard cited in its pitch. Exclusivity was part of the sales presentation.

Dominion cleared the newer state standards in October 2017, 13 months before competing vendor Hart received its qualifying approval. When the new reimbursement program began, that newer certification became a condition for funding new systems. Sacramento’s experience shows how a county could receive competing bids and still have only one that met its requirements.

Counties’ cost concerns were already on the record. Legislative analysts reported doubts about affording the new vote-center model. The Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown created a roughly $134 million replacement program in 2018, initially requiring an equal county match. Padilla’s office administered it, and qualifying earlier purchases could be reimbursed.

Padilla also put his own authority behind the spending. His office said he earmarked $20 million in federal election funds to help counties buy new equipment as they moved to the vote-center model. In February 2019, he directed counties to retire older systems under a transition schedule with an extension process. Hart was already qualified by then.

That June, the Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom added roughly $87 million. For counties such as Sacramento, the state’s share rose to 75 percent of qualifying costs within their allocations, including under the earlier funding allocation. Sacramento had already chosen Dominion. The revised rules made a larger subsidy available for eligible purchases already made.

Then there is the fine print. Sacramento’s Dominion software license bars the county from reverse engineering, decompiling or analyzing the software without the company’s prior written permission. The records of authorized testing and independent reviews deserve close attention.

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Kansas Group Caught Buying Votes With Gift Cards – Trump Responds: “We Have Photographic Evidence”

President Trump announced on Sunday that in Kansas, Democrat groups have been caught bribing voters.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced on Saturday that he sent a cease and desist letter to Bluestem Kansas, a leftwing nonprofit, ordering them to “immediately stop offering voters incentives tied to voting in the November 3 general election.”

Kobach’s office said in a press release that they’ve obtained evidence from a voter who was offered a $5 gift card by a canvasser with the group.

“Under K.S.A. 25-2409, election bribery includes giving, offering or agreeing to give a benefit in exchange for voting at a public election. It is a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), separately makes it a crime to pay or offer to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes federal candidates,” the release notes.

Kobach said in a statement, “As attorney general and before that as secretary of state, I have prosecuted many cases of voter fraud in Kansas, including voting by non-citizens and double voting. But I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door-to-door three days before a general election offering voters monetary incentives.”

“This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s. As long as I am attorney general, those who violate our election laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he continued.

President Trump highlighted the election fraud on Truth Social on Sunday, revealing that Kobach has “photographic evidence” of the operative “going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes.”

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Maryland Wokies Released MS-13 Member Charged With Attempted Murder, Defying ICE

Maryland sanctuary politicians released a gang member who was accused of attempted murder and sexual assault of a child.          

According to a Department of Homeland Security press release, the Maryland wokies were trying to protect the MS-13 member accused of raping a child from being taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In Democrat-controlled cities, counties, and states, officials and judges will often release the most dangerous and vile illegal alien criminals after ICE files detainer requests for them. Their ideology is so perverse that they find it more important to undermine ICE than to ensure that illegal alien criminals face justice and are incapable of harming more Americans.

DHS explained in an October 30 press release:

On December 16, 2025, ICE lodged a detainer against Allan Adonay Contreras-Vasquez, an illegal alien from Honduras and MS-13 member, while he was in the custody of the Prince George’s County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. He had been arrested following an assault in Hyattsville, Maryland, allegedly carried out by Contreras-Vasquez and five other suspects, in which the victim was stalked after getting off a bus before being stabbed multiple times.

Prince George’s County officials refused to respect the detainer request and hand Contreras-Vasquez over to ICE. Instead, they released Contreras-Vasquez. Last February, however, he faced charges of attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit second-degree murder, first-degree assault, conspiracy to commit first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and dangerous weapon with intent to injure.

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Defense Lawyers For The SPLC Appear To Bizarrely Undermine The SPLC In Court

The SPLC’s lawyers, defending an organization that famously used paid informants for years to infiltrate targeted groups, are outraged that the government is using the SPLC’s informant as an informant, because informants are self-interested and deceitful, so using an informant is dirty. It’s like watching a snake eat its own tail. In a statement to the Times (that they repeated to CBS News), lawyers Abbe Lowell and Addy Schmitt said that the informant had “every incentive to tell the government what it wants to hear,” because he benefitted from his relationship with federal law enforcement. The use of informants is sleazy, say the lawyers defending the SPLC over its longtime use of informants.

Take a moment to really savor this: In a case that centers on the SPLC’s longtime use of paid informants, including the well-paid informant discussed in this defense brief, the SPLC’s lawyers just said that informants can’t be trusted. They specifically, explicitly, and repeatedly attack the credibility of a longtime SPLC informant, whose intelligence-gathering work inside a neo-Nazi organization sat at the center of the SPLC’s claims about American hate groups. If the government’s informant isn’t trustworthy, the SPLC itself can’t be trusted, because the government’s deceitful informant was the SPLC’s own major informant. You can’t attack one without hitting the other.

So lawyers hired to defend the SPLC are arguing in a public forum that SPLC informants are shifty and devious liars, and you shouldn’t believe a word they say. What an interesting moment.

The Federalist sent a series of questions to the SPLC’s defense team by email, and this is how that email message ended: “If his requests for payment discredit him, doesn’t that discredit the SPLC’s entire informant program? Did you mean to discredit your client?”

They haven’t responded, which has been the pattern as we’ve sent them questions throughout the life of the case.

But buckle in, because we’re just getting started. This is strange.

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Pedophile President: Trump & Epstein Argued Over Who Would Take 13-year-old’s Virginity, New House Report States

A new Democrat-led House Committee on the Judiciary report released this week sheds more light on President Donald Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The Document, entitled “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up,” is based on the accounts of eleven women, five of whom alleged Trump raped or sexually assaulted them in the presence of the disgraced financier. Two of those women were 13-year-old children at the time of the alleged events.

The report portrays both Trump and former United States Special Representative for Global Partnerships Paolo Zampolli as being members of Epstein’s trafficking inner circle, and catalogs how Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “actively obstructed the Epstein investigation into any co-conspirators” and attempted to block the release of the Epstein Files in order to protect the president.

Even so, Trump’s name still appears roughly 38,000 times in the released Epstein Files, with Epstein himself claiming that he introduced Trump’s future wife Melania to him, and that the pair first had sex aboard his infamous “Lolita Express” jet. Melania was, at the time, a model working for Zampolli’s agency.

A Host of Women Come Forward

Beatrice Keul – In 1993, Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul was in New York City competing in Trump’s American Dream Pageant. It was there that she met both the future president and Jeffrey Epstein. Trump offered to secure her a place at New York University, and for Zampolli to arrange her visa. Epstein, she said, described himself as “Don’s best friend.”

Keul went to a suite in the Plaza Hotel for what she thought was a meeting about NYU. However, upon entering the suite, she said, Trump grabbed her from behind and “brutally” raped her, tearing her dress and caused bleeding and bruising across her body.

“Katie Johnson” – (a pseudonym) alleges in a lawsuit that Trump raped and sexually abused her on multiple occassions in 1994, when she was just 13-years-old. At an Epstein party in New York, she states that she was ordered to strip down to her underwear, massage Epstein, and touch Trump’s penis. Trump and Epstein argued over who would take her virginity, with Epstein getting angry and “violently raping her” when he found out Trump had already done so.

Johnson also alleges that Trump and Epstein threatened to kill her if she went to the authorities, stating “we will make you disappear like [name redacted].”

In a separate complaint, Johnson said that, on another occasion, she pleaded with Trump to wear a condom, to which he struck her in the face and screamed that he “would do whatever he wanted.” After he finished, Johnson claimed that Trump threw money at her and screamed “get a fucking abortion.”

Jane Doe 4 – Another 13-year-old allegedly assaulted by Trump was Jane Doe 4. She told the FBI that, in 1983, she bit Trump while performing oral sex on him, in response to which he hit her in the face. She said that Epstein flew her to New York City on multiple occasions, where she was offered up as “fresh meat” at “intimate gatherings with other, prominent, wealthy men,” where she was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted, and raped by these other men.”

Stacey Williams – Williams, a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, dated Epstein in the 1990s. While at Trump’s Christmas party at the Plaza Hotel, she said that Trump groped her in front of Epstein. “His hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on, you know, my hips, up and down,” she said. Epstein berated her for letting Trump touch her.

Jill Harth – Harth alleges that in 1993, Trump bundled her into his daughter’s bedroom at Mar-a-Lago, kissed and groped her, and prevented her from leaving.

Jane Doe 1 – At just 14-years-old, Epstein brought her to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, telling him “this is a good one, huh?” to which Trump responded “Yes.” She described in detail the sexual abuse she received from Epstein and others, but did not name Trump as one of those individuals.

Maria Farmer – Epstein’s former assistant alleges that, while at the financier’s New York City office, Donald Trump marched into the office in an imposing “predatory” manner. Epstein then appeared and told Trump that Farmer was “not for you,” escorting him to another room where Farmer believes another girl was waiting. She also stated that Trump said he “thought she was 16” although she was actually 25 at the time.

“Kate” – Kate (another pseudonym) states that Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell introduced her to Trump, “with the clear understanding that she was available for sex.” This sex, she said, did not happen. However, in 1997, the British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, ran a story reporting how “America’s best known billionaire Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of a 20-year-old English girl” (Kate). It also noted that Maxwell had “introduced several of her attractive friends” to Trump. The Sunday Mirror was owned by Ghislaine’s father, Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991.

Obfuscating Reality

Many of these allegations were already publicly available. But the fact that they are appearing in an official government publication is highly significant, especially as the report concludes that “there is more than enough evidence” against Trump and that he “must be investigated and prosecuted.”

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Who is Making Billions from the Iran War?

At a campaign rally over the weekend, President Trump dismissed Americans’ concerns over high oil and gas prices, claiming that it’s a small price to pay for the hundreds of billions of dollars “we” are making from these higher prices.

“We’re making a fortune,” he said. “Hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars.”

People are paying a little bit more for gas, he explained, but it doesn’t matter because “we” are making so much money.

The question is, “Who is ‘we’?” We know it is not the American people. They are seeing wage stagnation, inflation, and more pain at the pump. An Economist/YouGov poll earlier this month found that inflation and prices are the top concern among Americans by a wide margin. And in second place were jobs and the economy.

The same poll asked Americans how they rate the state of the US economy and in first place – again by a long shot – was “poor.”

If “we” as in the American people were making hundreds of billions of dollars from the war, you would think these would not be their top two concerns.

But we understand what the President meant by “we.” He meant that part of the “private” sector directly or indirectly in bed with the government war machine. From oil companies to weapons manufacturers and everything in between, war and conflict drive up profits in well-connected corporations at the expense of the rest of us.

That is why we are in a constant state of war. Twenty years in Afghanistan and a similar length in Iraq. Endless bombing in places like Somalia. A twelve-year (and counting) proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Military bases and covert operations across the globe.

And if we find that the largest military budget in the world does not deliver enough actual weapons to win a war? Well, that’s all good too: just double military spending and accuse anyone who objects of not being patriotic!

“Private” companies with enormous political power – many of them revolving doors between government and business – “make so much money” on war, as Trump would say. Whether these wars produce US wins, loses, or stalemates, these corporations in bed with government always win. The money-printing machine makes sure the money cycles into government-favored companies, while campaign contributions are made to the politicians who support the wars.

And if you don’t support the wars? You get the Thomas Massie treatment.

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