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Former DOJ Official Ed Martin Launches Gun Rights Group

Former U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin is launching a new gun rights group aimed at restoring firearm access to Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes, an initiative that seeks to boost conservative turnout in this fall’s midterm elections.

Martin, who left the Justice Department last week, said the group, Firearm Rights for Americans, was an idea encouraged by President Donald Trump during their final Oval Office meeting.

Trump told Martin he wanted to make sure his administration received “credit” for expanding gun access, Martin added.

“When you turn out Second Amendment voters, they vote right,” Martin said, referring to the Republican Party. “You gotta go sell that message.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Martin said the group planned to produce and distribute written and video testimonials from individuals seeking to regain gun ownership.

The strategy aims to mobilize single-issue Second Amendment voters in competitive congressional swing districts who may feel the administration has not acted quickly enough on gun rights.

He hopes the effort could help Republicans preserve their House majority this year and build momentum toward the 2028 presidential election.

In August, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Martin announced the finalizing of a federal regulation allowing individuals disqualified from gun ownership to petition for the restoration of their rights.

The collaboration between the two senior officials followed more than 30 other proposed rule changes to ease gun access, many backed by gun rights groups.

Through Firearm Rights for Americans, Martin said he hopes to ensure potential applicants and Second Amendment supporters know about the change, and as a result sway disaffected voters to go to the polls.

The group will also produce guides for eligible individuals to navigate state and federal regulations.

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Disgraced Former Louisiana Mayor Misty Roberts Walks Free After Serving Just 90 Days for Sex Crimes Against 16-Year-Old Boy

Former DeRidder, Louisiana, Mayor Misty Roberts walked out of jail Monday after serving a 90-day sentence that local residents rightly called a slap on the wrist for a child predator.

Prosecutors sought up to 17 years behind bars but the convicted former mayor received only three months in jail, probation, and suspended sentences.

State records confirm Roberts was released on September 7, according to KALB-TV.

Roberts, now 44 and a mother of two, was convicted by a jury in March of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile.

The crimes occurred in July 2024 at an alcohol-fueled pool party she hosted at her home for her own son’s birthday while she still held office.

The victim was her son’s 16-year-old friend. She faced up to 17 years. Judge Kent Savoie gave her 90 days in jail, a $5,000 fine, two concurrent five-year suspended sentences, five years of probation, sex-offender registration, therapy, and random drug screens.

The Gateway Pundit reported on this case in August 2024, when Roberts abruptly resigned and was charged days later. We followed with additional reporting in March 2026 on court documents showing her panicked texts after the incident.

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Democrat NJ Mayor’s Wife Injured After Fleeing Illegal Alien Crashes into Her Vehicle During High-Speed ICE Escape

New Jersey’s sanctuary-state disaster has delivered a brutal dose of reality to one Democrat family.

An illegal alien fleeing federal immigration officers reportedly sped through a red light and slammed into a Tesla driven by Dr. Penelope Cohen, the wife of East Brunswick Democrat Mayor Brad Cohen.

Dr. Cohen suffered a leg injury and was transported to a hospital following the September 2 wreck in North Brunswick, according to News 12 New Jersey.

The mayhem began at approximately 7:30 a.m. near Route 130 and Washington Place, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation.

According to ICE, officers stopped the Acura and ordered the driver to exit. The illegal alien allegedly refused repeated lawful commands, prompting agents to attempt to remove him from the vehicle.

Instead of complying, the driver reportedly hit the gas, barreled through a red light and crashed into the rear of Cohen’s Tesla.

CBS News New York reported that both occupants of the Tesla were transported to a hospital with minor injuries. Mayor Cohen declined to discuss the crash, saying only that he was caring for his wife.

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Seattle Police Chief Invites Widespread Internet Ridicule After Using This Absurd Two-Word Term to Describe Shooters 

A police chief in one of America’s most notorious left-wing cities has decided the word “shooter” is too mean and a more sensitive term is needed to replace it. As one would expect, this is already backfiring.

On Monday, interim Seattle Police Chief Andre Sayles held a press conference to address the three fatal shootings that occurred over the weekend in the city’s Belltown neighborhood.

The Belltown area of the Emerald City has recently experienced a surge in violence. In addition to the shootings, residents have complained about rampant illegal drug use, burglaries, and property damage.

After a reporter asked Sayles what was being done to combat the increase in violence, the police chief gave an unconvincing answer before seemingly inventing a new term to describe shooters.

“(We’re) working with our community response group and our gun violence reduction unit as well,” Sayles said. “Looking at ways to identify individuals that are…trigger pullers in our community.”

Trigger pullers sound like something a toddler would use. But Sayles is apparently so scared of offending criminals that he feels compelled to use this silly, childish term.

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Portland Teen Gets Five Years in Prison After Stabbing Man He Says Sent Him Child Sex-Abuse Videos — The Lawyer He Stabbed Faces No Charges

In Democrat-run Portland, a teenager who called 911 and told officers, “I stabbed a pedophile,” is headed to prison. The older man he accused of sending him videos of child sexual abuse is not.

Elijah Cruz Valenzuela, then 19, plunged a knife into the chest of 46-year-old Joshua Field at Field’s downtown Portland apartment on the night of Aug. 11, 2025.

Valenzuela told police he had met Field on the dating app Sniffies, that Field sent him child sexual abuse videos that were later deleted, and that Field invited him over to watch more while asking if he was “pervy” and interested in “younger guys,” Oregon Live reported.

Valenzuela said he originally planned only to beat Field. He then grabbed a knife inside the apartment, stabbed Field in the chest, ran to the lobby, and called 911.

Body-camera video obtained by the news outlet captured him telling officers after his arrest: “I stabbed a ped*phile.” Field survived.

On Aug. 21, 2026, Valenzuela, who had no prior criminal record, pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree assault and first-degree burglary. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Christopher Marshall sentenced him to five years in prison.

With “good time,” that stretch could shrink to a little more than three. He is already at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

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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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Uzbek Semi-Truck Driver Who Killed Woman on Texas Highway Caught Lying to Investigators About Crash

A semi-truck driver who killed a woman on a Texas highway last week lied to investigators about the crash.

The driver, identified as Khasan Begbaev, 39, from Uzbekistan, was charged with manslaughter after Lisa Maldonado, 33, died in the crash.

Khasan Begbaev has residency in the United States (New York), but it will be revoked, and he can be deported if he is convicted.

Begbaev initially told investigators that he took the wrong exit while traveling toward Austin on Interstate 635 and was driving slowly in the left lane with his hazard lights on.

However, dashcam footage reviewed by investigators shows that Begbaev was stopped on the off-ramp and reversed on the highway!

“Police said the camera footage showed the semi-truck stop on the ramp at 2:32 a.m. and begin slowly reversing down the highway while other vehicles passed on the right. Video captured the impact of Maldonado’s vehicle striking the rear of the backing semi at 2:34 a.m., after which the truck briefly stopped before pulling forward a short distance, according to the affidavit,” Fox 4 DFW reported.

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Outrageous! Haitian Illegal Alien Who Killed Ohio Father and Young Son in Multi-Vehicle Crash Given Huge Sweetheart Deal by Woke Judge

An unbelievable travesty of justice occurred last week in Ohio after an illegal alien who killed a loving father and his young son was given an unbelievably lenient deal.

Back on February 28, the Ohio State Highway Patrol revealed that a driver who was later identified as 53-year-old Yvio Michel of Haiti, drove his Great Dane semi-truck northbound on Interstate 75 but failed to maintain sufficient distance as he approached congested traffic. As a result, he smacked into four passenger vehicles and another semi-truck.

Lima, Ohio, resident Hurshel Gipson and his 11-year-old son, Michael, were killed in a massive crash caused by the illegal alien. Gipson’s 45-year-old wife, Amanda, who was driving the family’s 2015 Buick Enclave, was transported to an area hospital with serious injuries.

Fortunately, she managed to survive the incident.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported that four other victims were all in separate vehicles that were struck by Michel, who now resides in Florida. One of them was transported to a hospital with serious injuries, while two others were sent there with non-life-threatening injuries.

The crash closed the highway for five hours.

One would think that a Michel would have received a lengthy jail sentence for his reckless actions. But last Wednesday, a woke judge named Tammie K. Hursh decided to sentence Michel to just 20 days in prison for causing the crash.

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Trump Goes Off Following Liberal Think Tank’s Report that DC National Guard Deployment Did Not Curb Crime, Says Lawsuit Already in the Works

President Trump went off on reporting from the “foolish Center for American Lack of Progress” that the National Guard deployment in Washington, DC, and other cities across the nation had “no effect” on crime. 

Chandler Hall, Associate Director for Public Safety at the liberal think tank, Center for American Progress, wrote in July that “costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.”

“The second Trump administration is trying to take credit for the historic drop in violent crime across America despite the fact that this trend began before it took office, and it is using these declines to justify expanding policies that are unpopular, ineffective, and costly,” the article reads, claiming that data “clearly show” crime was already declining under Biden and labeling Trump’s policies as “extreme.” Chandler further claimed that Trump’s first National Guard deployment in Los Angeles to curb violent anti-ICE riots was a “road map for subsequent authoritarian power grabs.”

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Missouri Foster Mother Accused of Trading Child for a MONKEY Gets ZERO Additional Prison Time — Judge Says State “Failed” Vulnerable Children

A 70-year-old Lincoln County, Missouri foster mother who shipped a teenage girl in her care across state lines, in a scheme witnesses said was tied to a monkey, will spend exactly zero days in a Missouri prison for the felony she just admitted.

Brenda Deutsch, 71, of Winfield, pleaded guilty to first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, a Class D felony, after an adopted teenage girl in her care was shipped off to a filthy Texas residence that Deutsch had allegedly never inspected, FOX 2 Now reported.

On Thursday, Lincoln County Judge Thomas J. Frawley sentenced Deutsch to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections, but then suspended the execution of that sentence and placed her on three years of supervised probation.

In other words, Deutsch will remain out of prison unless she violates the terms of her probation.

The probation conditions require Deutsch to have no contact with the victim, undergo mental-health treatment, and complete a cognitive behavioral intervention program.

Deutsch reportedly spent 99 days in jail before her bond was reduced, according to arguments contained in her sentencing memorandum. She will serve no additional incarceration under the sentence unless her probation is revoked.

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