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Virginia Democrat Louise Lucas Charged with Racketeering and Money Laundering in Cannabis Corruption Case, Patel Blasts Her During Press Conference

Federal authorities have charged 82-year-old Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas with racketeering, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and gun possession as part of an alleged public corruption scheme tied to a cannabis business that she co-owns.

Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate and one of the most powerful Democrats in the state, surrendered to authorities Thursday, according to a Justice Department spokesperson.

Authorities also charged and took into custody a half-dozen others in the alleged scheme.

Virginia journalist Brandon Scope wrote on X, “sources tell me that members of Sen. Louise Lucas’ family have already been arrested.”

The indictment alleges that members of the conspiracy used various business entities to disguise the proceeds of illegal marijuana distribution.

It further claims that Lucas “used her political position in the Virginia state senate to insulate” the enterprise “from criminal scrutiny, to further the goal of wealth accumulation.”

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Montana AG Opens Investigation After DNC Allegedly Offered Democrat Alani Bankhead a Job to Quit Her Senate Race

Montana Democrat Senate nominee Alani Bankhead has accused the Democratic National Committee of trying to force her out of the race immediately after she won the primary.

Bankhead claims the DNC offered her a staff position in exchange for quitting and endorsing independent candidate Seth Bodnar.

During an appearance on Montana PBS last week, Bankhead was asked whether anyone had offered her anything of value to drop out.

She answered: YES.

Bankhead said the DNC’s person who handles female veteran candidates, or something similar, floated the job offer.

“I was like, ‘Why would I go work for an organization that is actively working against me and stabbing me in the back?’” Bankhead said. “I can’t be bought, anyway. But that was the only thing that was put on the table.”

In a Washington Post op-ed earlier this month, Bankhead wrote that the DNC began pressing her to leave right after her primary victory because party leaders believed a Democrat could not win in Montana.

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With MAGA Enemies List, Jack Smith Trashes The Constitution Once Again

Evidence disclosed last week confirms what many have long suspected: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department assembled a massive database of political opponents.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has disclosed that Smith’s operation collected personal data on at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. The records included names, addresses, email addresses, occupations, employers, donation histories, and even the last four digits of credit-card numbers. Some entries tracked purchases of ordinary red MAGA hats. Grassley has called this indefensible—an effort that went far beyond any legitimate investigation into the 2020 election or January 6 and instead mapped the Republican political apparatus itself.

This is not the first time Smith has treated the Constitution as optional. The August 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago raised serious Fourth Amendment concerns. Agents searched private rooms, including those used by Melania and Barron Trump. Internal FBI assessments later indicated that Washington Field Office agents did not believe probable cause existed for a full search of the residence; the Justice Department pushed ahead anyway.

However, Smith, who was appointed special counsel three months later, did not care. Instead, he used the raid to his advantage. As I documented in my book Kangaroo Court (Post Hill Press, October 2024), Smith’s pattern of aggressive, constitutionally dubious tactics against political adversaries was already evident.

The newly disclosed database compounds the problem. Where the Mar-a-Lago raid implicated the right to be secure against unreasonable searches, the compilation of hundreds of thousands of names of ordinary Americans who bought hats or made small donations strikes at the First Amendment rights of free speech and free association.

The Supreme Court has long held that government compilation or compelled disclosure of membership and association lists for the purpose of intimidating citizens is unconstitutional. In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Court unanimously ruled that Alabama could not force the NAACP to surrender its membership rolls. Justice Harlan explained that “immunity from state scrutiny of membership lists” is inseparable from the right of individuals “to associate freely with others” in the pursuit of lawful interests and ideas.

Forced disclosure would expose members to reprisals and thereby chill the exercise of First Amendment associational rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The state had shown no “controlling justification” that outweighed that deterrent effect.

Other cases followed. In Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960), the Court struck down municipal ordinances that required local NAACP branches to disclose membership lists under the guise of occupational tax enforcement. Justice Stewart wrote that freedom of association “for the purpose of advancing ideas and airing grievances” is protected from state invasion, and that the cities demonstrated no relevant correlation between their tax power and the need for the names.

That same year, Shelton v. Tucker invalidated an Arkansas law requiring public-school teachers to list every organization to which they had belonged or contributed over the preceding five years. The Court again recognized that compelled disclosure of associational ties impairs the right of free association because the information can be used to penalize political or ideological affiliation.

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In LA, More Evidence That Single-Party Rule California Is A Madhouse Where Nothing Ever Works

A transportation project in Los Angeles may start to serve passengers next year, or it may collapse into financial chaos, abandonment, and a desperate search for someone to start running the thing after lenders bail out and it all falls apart. But first, the courts will have to work through the allegation that an engineer spied on a legal strategy session, and the builders will have to figure out why electrical arc flashes are charring the tracks.

It’s not the state’s infamously late high-speed rail project, but all of the same themes are there. Democrat-run California is the place where delivery never has any relationship to the promise, the cost estimate never comes close to suggesting the actual cost, the scheduled completion date is an open joke, and the failures and misunderstandings descend into allegations so bizarre they seem like a series of Mad Libs answers.

With the summer Olympics bringing crowds to Los Angeles in 2028, the City of Los Angeles decided to reduce traffic congestion at its famously nightmarish airport, LAX, by at-long-last linking the terminals and off-site rental car facilities with an automated train. The 2.25-mile SkyLink project was approved in 2018 and broke ground in 2019, with a promised opening date of 2023, at a budgeted construction cost of $1.9 billion. A larger dollar figure cited in that approval, totaling just under $5 billion, was supposed to be the cost of construction plus the cost of operating the system, covering the first thirty years of the project.

Today, the project is hoping to start serving passengers sometime in 2027, and construction costs alone are expected to top $3 billion. The empty trains slowly circle the airport, being tested again after recent structural failures that caused damage and uncertainty.

To understand everything that comes next, you’ll need to know the abbreviations for the two entities that make up SkyLink’s public-private construction partnership: Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency of the City of Los Angeles, and LAX Express Integrated Solutions (LINXS), a Delaware LLC created in 2018 by the consortium of construction and engineering contractors who are building the project.

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Rep. Scott Perry Ad Highlights Police Complaint Alleging Democrat Janelle Stelson Exposed Herself to a Child

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) has released a campaign advertisement highlighting allegations that Democrat congressional challenger Janelle Stelson was naked outside her home in view of a neighbor’s grandchild, referencing a written statement from a neighbor who claims to have photographed the incident.

“Disgraced TV reporter Janelle Stelson has been exposed, literally,” the advertisement’s narrator says. “First Stelson got caught making a degrading racial slur live on TV. Stelson got exposed using illegals as campaign workers. One Stelson illegal was even arrested for exposing his genitals in public.”

“Now police have been called to investigate Stelson for exposing herself totally naked to a neighborhood child,” the narrator continues. “Janelle Stelson. She’s not fit to serve.”

According to an October 21 report from PennLive, Stelson’s neighbor Sharon Orr alleged in a written statement that she contacted police on August 14 around 3:15 p.m. after observing Stelson “walking around outdoors” with her “breasts and buttocks fully exposed and in plain sight of my minor aged grandchild.”

The neighbor also claimed to have photographed Stelson and alleged that she had previously observed the congressional candidate insufficiently clothed.

According to Orr’s statement, East Pennsboro Township police informed her that Stelson had described herself as wearing “a nude bra and panties.” Orr maintained that the photograph she allegedly captured contradicted that explanation.

However, the photograph has not been publicly released, and Perry’s campaign acknowledged that it does not possess the image.

East Pennsboro Township police confirmed to PennLive that officers responded to the complaint at Stelson’s and Orr’s homes but declined to release any reports or records. No criminal charges have been filed against Stelson in connection with the allegation.

In an August 26 letter provided to Breitbart News, East Pennsboro Township Police Chief William S. Diehl denied a Right-to-Know request seeking incident reports involving an address on Oyster Mill Road, citing exemptions under Pennsylvania law for criminal and noncriminal investigative records.

The letter did not disclose the contents of any police reports or identify a specific incident.

“This false accusation is a pathetic, desperate attempt by Scott Perry to rescue his failing campaign, with easily disproven lies,” Stelson campaign manager Alma Baker told PennLive in an emailed statement.

Baker added that Stelson “has been a victim of stalking and harassment before” and “now she is a victim of Perry’s supporters making up totally unsubstantiated claims to smear her reputation.”

The allegations have also drawn differing reactions from Stelson’s neighbors.

According to PennLive, several Perry campaign signs were displayed along Orr’s driveway and attached to a railing facing Stelson’s residence, located only a few feet away. When a reporter approached Orr’s home Tuesday afternoon, she threatened to contact police and declined to discuss her statement or share the photograph. “Nobody has talked to me about even releasing or talking to anybody” in the news media, Orr said.

Another neighbor, Steve Dillon, who lives on the opposite side of Stelson’s residence, questioned the accusation. “All I know is that she wasn’t [naked],” Dillon told PennLive. “She was just sitting in her back yard or her back deck.” Although Dillon acknowledged he was not home at the time of the alleged incident, he said he frequently observed Stelson sitting outside, “clothed,” while taking breaks from campaign work.  He suggested that flesh-toned clothing could have been mistaken for nudity, but said being entirely naked “would not be in character with what I’ve gotten to know of her.” Dillon also noted that their homes border a creek frequently traveled by canoeists and kayakers, questioning how such an incident could have gone unnoticed by other residents.

Perry’s advertisement also references the arrest of Chimaobim Adedayo Igbojekwe, a Nigerian national who allegedly exposed himself in a residential neighborhood near a park in East Pennsboro Township. As Breitbart News previously reported on October 7, Igbojekwe, who entered the United States legally in 2017 but overstayed his authorization, reportedly told police he was waiting to distribute Stelson campaign flyers and produced a stack of them. Prosecutors subsequently dropped an indecent exposure charge and one disorderly conduct count before he pleaded guilty to a remaining disorderly conduct charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took him into custody October 1.

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The Democrat Party Platform Is Throwing Conservatives In Prison And Slotkin Just Said It Out Loud

en. Elissa Slotkin laid out Democrats’ plans for another round of lawfare against President Donald Trump’s administration in a public interview last week, saying the prosecutions would be a “deterrence message” to scare young conservatives away from politics.

Speaking to students at the University of Chicago, Slotkin said, “The people around Donald Trump … have no immunity the way the president does. … So you go after the people who do his bidding.”

“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” Slotkin continued. “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message.”

Slotkin then doubled down in a post on X days later: “America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable.”

“And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest,” her post continued.

The warning followed a September speech Slotkin gave in which she had already identified targets for her lawfare, saying “the goal here is to have a list of ‘signature cases’ that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars.” The list of targets includes former DHS secretary Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. Slotkin herself describes these efforts as “retribution.”

She’s not the only Democrat calling for jailing their opposition.

Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon said last week that her Republican opponent, former attorney general of Florida Ashley Moody, should be “locked up and punished in jail.”

When asked whether those comments sounded “like a desire to weaponize the justice system,” Nixon told the CBS Face the Nation audience that “it’s not a desire to weaponize the justice system. It’s designed to actually hold corrupt politicians accountable for what they’re doing.”

These recent Democrat promises to continue lawfare are merely the latest in a long series. Last year House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said: “The one thing that should be clear — to all of these Republican extremists and sycophants and the people who are either actively involved in corruption, violating the law, engaged in extrajudicial activity — is that the statute of limitations for any crimes being committed now is five years. It will extend well beyond the end of the Trump administration.”

But the Democrat Party has gone far beyond threatening lawfare. Democrats spent the lead-up to the 2024 election trying to throw President Donald Trump in jail and successfully jailing some of his allies.

New York Attorney General Letitia James — who campaigned on using lawfare to target Trump and called him an “illegitimate president” — accused Trump of inflating his personal wealth to get more favorable loan terms in a case in which there were no victims. A court ultimately found the judgment against Trump to be unconstitutional. The case was so political that even anti-Trump CNN political commentator Jonah Goldberg called the “prosecution … a mistake” and “very political.”

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Far-Left, Mamdani-Backed Democrat Brad Lander Detained by Israeli Forces in West Bank While Participating in Pro-Palestinian Activist Mission — Israel Accuses Him of “Harvesting Headlines”

Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, the far-left former New York City Comptroller and close ally of radical Mayor Zohran Mamdani, was detained again by Israeli authorities on Wednesday.

Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th Congressional District, was detained on October 21 alongside dozens of international activists and rabbis while participating in an olive-harvesting mission with Palestinian farmers near the village of Nahalin, south of Bethlehem, NY Times reported.

The former New York City comptroller, who previously made headlines after being detained by federal immigration agents during a confrontation at a Manhattan immigration courthouse, was released several hours later with a warning.

Lander posted a selfie from a bus filled with others, writing: “I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis & volunteers. We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nehalim in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.”

He later claimed he was released “with a ‘warning,’ apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee).”

He added that others remained in custody and should be freed immediately, framing the action as part of “state-sponsored ethnic cleansing.”

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Axios Uses Fake AI Image to Run Damage Control for Somali Politician Who Spoke Next to Upside-Down Flag

To defend a leftist politician who spoke in front of an upside-down American flag, Axios published a fake fact check claiming the video was “doctored” by AI and that, in reality, the flag was right side up.

Axios just retracted that fact check.

Naturally, Axios would like us to believe its fake fact check was an honest mistake, but Normal People know two things about dishonest, leftist outlets like Axios: 1) their “mistakes” only ever fall one way, and that’s to benefit the left, and 2) Axios was in a panic to defend a leftist, so they rushed to publish this — something Axios would never do for a Republican.

Oh, and 3) fact-checking is a hoax, a leftist psyop, a disgraced profession that has spewed more lies than Joe Isuzu.

Side note: Fai is currently a Washington County Commissioner. Officially, she holds a non-partisan office, but she is a leftist.

On October 10, Washington County, Oregon, Commissioner Nafisa Fai spoke at a Somali event in Minneapolis. A few days later, the End Wokeness X account published a portion of that speech that clearly showed her speaking with an upside-down American flag behind her.

“Oregon politician Nafisa Fai just held a rally in MN, speaking Somali, with an American flag UPSIDE DOWN,” wrote End Wokeness. “Enough with the pretending already. These are not Americans.”

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Dem Kissimmee mayor arrested on grand theft, fraud charges: AG Uthmeier

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Wednesday that earlier in the morning, Democrat Kissimmee Mayor Jackie Espinosa had been arrested. He said his office was charging her with grand theft and organized scheme to defraud.

Details on the case are currently limited. Uthmeier said that a press conference would be held at 2 pm to provide further details.

Per WESH, a special prosecutor found probable cause earlier in 2026 to initiate impeachment proceedings against Espinosa, alleging that she had withheld public funds and failed to disclose personal interests. She was accused of disbursing $50,000 in grants to businesses that had been owned by her and her family. It is unclear if her arrest is connected to these allegations.

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A Majority of California Wildfire Relief Funding Went to Low Income Housing Without Requiring Them to House a Single Victim

Here is the latest edition of Democrats being Democrats.

California Democrats spent over half of the a billion dollars the US government allocated to wildfire relief funding on low-income housing in the state without requiring the developers to house a single fire victim.

Of course, this does not surprise anyone.

The funding took place in 2019 when Gavin Newsome was

The New York Post reported via Victory Girls Blog.

California funneled nearly $369 million in federal aid intended for victims of its deadliest wildfire year to low-income housing developers — without requiring them to house a single wildfire survivor, a California Post investigation found.

The staggering sum was awarded to developers while thousands of Californians struggled to rebuild their lives after the devastating 2018 fires, which killed 103 people and damaged or destroyed more than 24,000 structures.

Victory Girls continue:

Eventually, over a billion dollars was given to California from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The $1,017,399,000 allocation from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was intended to cover recovery costs not paid by insurance or other assistance.

California’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) oversees the money, dividing it between helping homeowners rebuild and financing affordable rental housing in fire-ravaged communities.

Of the $222.4 million earmarked for homeowners, just $38 million had been spent rebuilding 110 homes by the end of 2023, according to state records. The Camp Fire alone destroyed 14,000 homes.

An NBC4 investigation found that only a portion of the $2.5 billion announced after the 2025 fires has been spent. Much of the money has been routed through state agencies.

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