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Bessent’s War On Left-Wing NGOs May Strip Soros Network, SPLC, And CAIR Of Tax-Exempt Status: Report

A new report from the New York Post maps out a multi-agency Treasury task force that could soon pursue a broad review that could strip tax-exempt status from George Soros’ far-left Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Treasury officials are drafting a framework to audit NGOs suspected of exploiting their 501(c)(3) status for political activity, illegal conduct or support of radical groups, the Post reported, citing three people familiar with the internal deliberations.

One source said Treasury Department officials were “like a dog with a bone” and reckoned that many NGOs and their donor bases could be “on borrowed time.”

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Mayor Karen Bass: Hands Off Thousands of Migrant Food Vendors Operating Illegally in L.A.

Mayor Karen Bass just made it official: Los Angeles is a sanctuary city when it comes to enforcing food safety laws with thousands of street stands that have popped up all over the city — many of them run by illegal aliens.

Bass’s announcement this week ordering police to stop issuing violations to unpermitted vendors follows a Breitbart News investigation last month that revealed the widespread lack of enforcement of city and county food safety laws, with street food stands run by illegal migrants getting a free pass while citizen restaurateurs and licensed food stands are subject to fines, high costs, burdensome regulations and even closure.

Bass’s office told the California Post Thursday that the mayor “stands firmly with street vendors” and has directed the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to stop issuing criminal citations to unpermitted vendors.

“Street vending is a quintessential part of LA’s world-class food scene and a livelihood for thousands of hardworking Angelenos. Supporting LA’s street vendors is more important than ever given ongoing attacks by ICE,” her office told the outlet.

The message is clear, say critics. If you’re in the United States illegally and operating a business illegally, you get a free pass. If you are a citizen, you must follow all the rules or face fines and even closure.

As Breitbart News reported in July, an estimated 50,000 vendors operate throughout Los Angeles but fewer than 700 have active permits, with only 53 of those for food vendors.

Besides presenting food safety problems for America’s second largest city, the tent canopies and smokey grills that accompany many operations have become a blight on neighborhoods and business districts, contributing — along with the homeless and widespread littering — to the kind of streetscape typically found in impoverished Third World countries.

Current city statutes require a city vending permit to sell food or merchandise on city sidewalks and in city parks. It must be renewed annually. Food vendors must also obtain a county heath permit, demonstrating they have met all the requirements of food safety, such as refrigeration, sanitation stations and other commonsense practices that restaurants must follow.

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Appeals court blocks Minnesota’s censorship of election integrity group over felon voting

Minnesota is a leader among states testing First Amendment limits on regulating speech and expression in the name of protecting the public, with its mandatory social media warning labels and criminal bans on AI-generated “nudification” – including barechested men – and election-related “deepfakes” that mock politicians.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to block the deepfake law by reading an unwritten parody exception into it, wasn’t so tolerant when it came to Minnesota’s potential censorship of an election integrity group.

A three-judge panel ordered a lower court to block a voter-interference law as applied to the Minnesota Voters Alliance and its members as their case moves forward, leaving them free to publicly assert — without risking prosecution — that the Land of 10,000 Lakes violates its constitution by letting felons vote before their “civil rights” have been “restored.”

“A group of Minnesotans want to express their belief that certain felons cannot vote. Can the state criminalize their speech? In denying a preliminary injunction, the district court thought so. We disagree,” Judge David Stras wrote for the unanimous panel, nominated by presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, faulting the law as a prior restraint without “procedural safeguards.”

House File 3 works in tandem with HF 28, which restores voting rights to felons whenever they are “not incarcerated for the offense” – even if they are still serving the sentence – by criminalizing the spread of certain information within 60 days of an election. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed both laws in 2023.

HF 3’s “deceptive practices” section prohibits transmitting information that “intends to impede or prevent another person from exercising the right to vote” and is known to be “materially false,” including “the qualifications for or restrictions on voter eligibility at an election.” 

“The Alliance is worried that it already has a target on its back” from both state and county prosecutors, who can “pursue gross-misdemeanor charges” against alleged violators and civil actions “to prevent or restrain a violation,” Stras’s opinion says. The law also lets anyone “injured by” a supposed violation bring civil actions.

Anoka County buttressed MVA’s case by bringing a counterclaim after it sued Attorney General Keith Ellison and Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson, by seeking money damages and an injunction against MVA for violating the law, according to the voter integrity group.

ACLU supports election censorship law

The Upper Midwest Law Center and Liberty Justice Center, which represent MVA and its members, cheered the ruling. 

“The First Amendment does not allow the government to end an argument by threatening prosecution,” UMLC President Doug Seaton said. 

Minnesota cannot “silence political debate simply because an election is near,” LJC senior counsel Reilly Stephens said.

Ellison’s office told Just the News “we’re evaluating all of our options to best protect Minnesotans’ freedom to vote.” 

Protect Democracy United counsel Cameron Kister accused the 8th Circuit panel of violating its own precedent. 

“The Minnesota Deceptive Practices Provision is not a statute that targets falsity and nothing more; it is a statute that targets falsity deployed to accomplish a harm the common law has recognized for centuries,” the progressive activist wrote.

In line with its turn against free speech for select groups since the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, the ACLU supported Ellison and Johnson in a friend-of-the-court brief, arguing the election censorship law is narrowly tailored and responded to “incidents of purposeful, targeted election disinformation aimed at preventing voters from exercising their constitutional right.”

The elected Democrats already triumphed over MVA’s constitutional challenge to the felon-voting law itself, which the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed on the grounds that the “taxpayer standing” asserted by MVA and its members “does not exist when a taxpayer simply seeks to generally restrain ‘illegal action[s] on the part of public officials.'”

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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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Florida grand jury finds DeSantis administration misused $10 million, but no charges filed

A Florida grand jury found that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money it diverted to a charity connected to his wife, but it declined to file criminal charges due to a lack of evidence indicating who specifically was responsible.

DeSantis on Thursday did not dispute the legitimacy of the secret grand jury report obtained and published online by CBS News Miami, but he insisted no laws were broken and said whoever leaked the sealed documents would face “consequences.”

The Leon County grand jury completed its report in January on investigations into Hope Florida, the charity started in 2021 by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis. Despite the lack of charges, the report ignited a new round of criticism aimed at DeSantis and other top state Republicans over the charity receiving $10 million from a state Medicaid settlement intended to help poor children get health insurance.

David Jolly, the Democratic nominee for governor, called for the grand jury probe to be reopened. He faces Republican Byron Donalds in November. DeSantis, under Florida law, cannot seek a third term.

The Hope Florida charity is supposed to help financially struggling families connect with churches and aid groups to help keep them off publicly-financed assistance programs. The $10 million was instead moved to political action committees that used the money to oppose a 2024 statewide ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana for adults in the state.

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Democrat Clerk’s Office Employee in Arkansas Gets ZERO Prison Time After Pleading to Felony for Illegally Altering 132 Voter Records

A former employee of the Democrat-run Pulaski County clerk’s office in Arkansas walked out of court this week with no prison time after pleading no contest to a Class D felony for illegally altering election records.

Circuit Judge Karen Whatley on Tuesday approved a plea agreement giving 58-year-old Deborah Smith of North Little Rock a two-year suspended prison sentence and a $300 fine.

The Class D felony initially carried a maximum sentence of six years behind bars, according to Just the News.

In other words, an election worker deliberately manipulated more than 100 voter records, and walked out of court without spending a day in prison.

Smith worked in the clerk’s Voter Registration Department when the records were altered in October 2024.

The scheme affected 132 voters assigned to Precinct 051.02 in North Little Rock. Their precinct information was switched to Precinct 001.04 in Maumelle, meaning affected voters could receive ballots containing races from the wrong city while omitting contests in which they were legally entitled to vote.

The manipulation was discovered after early voting began on October 21, 2024, when a voter complained that a desired candidate was missing from the ballot.

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Trump Has Made Up to $15M in Oil and Gas Stock Rise Spurred in Part by Iran War

President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war on Iran has helped inject millions of dollars into his personal wealth while saddling everyday Americans with a $72 billion bill, a new report reveals.

Amid the war, oil and gas companies’ stocks have skyrocketed in value as companies report staggering earnings; ExxonMobil recently reported its profits doubling year-over-year, while Chevron’s net income has increased nearly 400 percent as a result of the disruptions to the global oil market. In all, oil and gas companies reported $125 billion in profits in the first half of 2026, with a corresponding jump in stock value across the fossil fuel industry.

As a result of that rise, Trump may have profited as much as $15.5 million, and netted at least $4.6 million, from his oil and gas holdings this year, Democrats on Congress’s Joint Economic Committee (JEC) found in a report this week. In all, his oil and gas holdings went from a maximum value of $45.5 million to as much as $61 million.

The analysis was based on stocks that Trump held at the end of 2025, including Exxon, Chevron, and seven other oil and gas companies. His profits may be even higher than the report suggests, as Trump bought additional oil and gas stocks in the first three months of 2026 worth up to $3.6 million. These were bought in a period when the U.S. seized control of Venezuela’s oil profits and launched a war on Iran that has sent oil prices sky-high.

Meanwhile, the rise in energy prices has cost Americans an additional $71.5 billion in gas prices at the pump, the Democrats found, or an average of over $600 a household. That’s before taking into account the hike in prices for things like groceries and other associated costs like increased mortgage rates caused by the war.

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‘You will receive a $25 gift card’: It looks like Democrats are buying votes, investigation confirms

An investigative journalist has unleashed a new report, heading into the 2026 midterm elections, explaining that it looks like Democrats are buying votes.

It is Natalie Winters whose report cites publicized Democrat giveaways include gift cards, food and concert tickets.

She noted one situation developed just before Arizona’s 2026 primary, with a “nonprofit” run by the former executive director of the Navajo County Democrats, who also previously worked for Hillary Clinton.

That group “invited Native voters to a ‘Ballot Party’ with food and said attendees would be ‘filling out our mail-in primary ballots together,'” she explained.

Then there was Florida, where “an Instagram account operated by a recent Democratic state House candidate advertised free fish dinners for people who brought a new voter to register.”

And, “In Georgia, a nonprofit funded for voter-registration and turnout work said it would give out $25 gift cards to people who brought an adult to register,” she confirmed.

Even more, “Nationally, a nonprofit funded by the dark-money organization behind the largest pro-Kamala Harris super PAC is running 2026 giveaways offering $400 gas cards, $500 grocery cards and a concert package worth approximately $4,900—while collecting personal information that it says is matched against voter files.”

The instructions appeared clear in a flyer for a fish fry at Movement for Change in Florida: “Bring someone to register to vote and receive a free fish dinner along with your new register voter.”

That social media statement appeared to come form Haley Morrissette, a Democratic state House candidate in 2024.

“The money trail leads to Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute. Its tax filings report a $14,500 ‘GOTV’ grant in 2022 and a $9,100 ‘GOTV/Voter Registration’ grant in 2023 to Movement for Change—a combined $23,600,” Winters documented.

“You will receive a $25 gift card,” promised an Instagram account for Eyvone’s Porch In-Centive Inc., if you “bring someone 18 years or older to register to vote.”

Winters reported, “EPIC is a Moultrie, Georgia, 501(c)(3) that describes voter registration and turnout as part of its work. The organization’s website thanks Black Voters Matter as a partner and says founder Carol Simpson received a ‘Georgia Democratic Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2026. The site does not identify who issued that award.”

The investigation explained the Arizona stunt: “Arizona Native Vote published its Facebook invitation on July 11, 2026. It invited Hopi residents to a July 17 event in Polacca featuring ‘conversation, food, fun’ and ‘filling out our mail-in primary ballots together.’

“Arizona’s official calendar shows that early ballots had already been mailed. The event occurred just four days before the July 21 primary,” the report said.

The Native Vote organization got a $200,000 Henry Luce Foundation grant on March 5, 2026, for ‘Indigenous Knowledge.’ Official Katz Amsterdam Foundation records disclose another $375,000 across 2023, 2024 and 2025 for voter registration and civic engagement in rural and tribal communities. A Black Voters Matter 2024 Form 990 also lists $20,000 in general operating support,” Winters said.

She delivered multiple other examples of offerings for gas cards, grocery cards, Visa cards, concert experiences and more.

The report does confirm some offerings call themselves “incentive-driven voter-file” operations, so they are not a “proven payment for casting a vote.”

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Crime family: Police raid home of Ilhan Omar’s son, seize guns, ammo, arrest roommate

Ilhan Omar, the Somali immigrant, Muslim member of Congress representing a Somali immigrant population in Minnesota, has had a share of troubles.

Her extremist agenda includes her claim to be representing Somalia in Congress.

There’s suspicion, confirmed by arrests and convictions, of massive social services program fraud, billions of dollars, in her district.

Experts have said legislation that she pushed through Congress helped that scheme.

Long she’s been suspected, although without proof, of marrying a brother to give him legal status in the U.S.

Her worth went from a negative value, to millions, then back to almost nothing, based on her own reporting.

Then there’s a potential federal immigration investigation into Omar.

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