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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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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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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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‘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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Oregon County Clerk Registered 397 Inactive Voters in a Single Day — Investigators Say 40 Are DEAD and One “Voted” 14 Years After Dying

A shocking new election-integrity investigation out of Oregon has uncovered hundreds of suspicious voter records, including dozens reportedly belonging to dead people, and one record allegedly showing a woman voting 14 years after her death.

Independent journalist Right Side Rebel reported on X that Douglas County Clerk Dan Loomis registered 397 inactive voters in one day under instructions from Democrat Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read’s office.

Right Side Rebel, working with election-integrity investigators Samantha Frost and Richard McNamara, said they have already confirmed that at least 40 of those individuals are deceased. More than 100 are reportedly listed as over 100 years old.

But the most explosive discovery involved a voter who allegedly died in 2008 yet was credited in Oregon’s election system with voting in 2022, 14 years after her death.

Right Side Rebel wrote:

“County Clerk says the Oregon Secretary of State made him register dead voters. One of them voted in 2022 14 years after dying.

“Working again with Samantha Frost and Richard McNamara on Douglas County’s voter rolls. County Clerk Dan Loomis registered 397 inactive voters. We have confirmed 40 of them are deceased. More than 100 are over 100 years old.”

During an on-camera interview, Right Side Rebel confronted Loomis with the record of the woman who reportedly died in 2008 but was marked as having voted in 2022.

According to Right Side Rebel, Loomis attempted to brush off the revelation by arguing that the journalist possessed information his office did not have.

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NYT Killed A Story That Exposed How Democratic Spam PACs Drain Elderly Donors — And A Stanford Professor Had To Publish It Himself

You might remember that eight months ago, Stanford University political science professor Adam Bonica spent that time collaborating with The New York Times to run a massive, data-driven expose on the how Democratic spam PACs targeted and bilked elderly donors of their cash. And in the end, The New York Times killed the story after the Elias Law Firm (DCCC/DSCC lawyers) contacted The Times.

Using Federal Election Commission (FEC) data on contributions to Democratic PACs and voter registration lists with age information covering over 300 million contributions to candidates and PACs, Bonica found that the vast majority of donors to Democratic spam PACs are elderly. In fact, a surprisingly concentrated group of elderly donors are responsible for the lion’s share of money raised by these groups.

1% of Democratic donors – approximately 138,000 donors with an average age of 75 – are responsible for more than 49% of $1.4 billion raised by “spam PACs” since 2017.

These are actual cases of senior citizens being taken advantage of by Democratic spam PACs, all while consultants rake in millions. For example, an 85-year-old retired man from Oxford, Ohio sent out 7,800 donations to Democratic groups totaling $648,000 in value. That is more than double the value of his home. An elderly woman from an assisted living center in Indianapolis made 25,000 donations totaling $250,000 in value. The money she was spending on these donations was for her own care. A 93-year-old man was charged 4,208 times over the course of four months for Democratic groups, an average of 31 times per day. That came out to $32,742.

Between 70 and 85 percent of the largest spam PACs’ Facebook/Facebook fundraising ad impressions were served to users 65 and older – a demographic that comprises just 14% of the total adult user base on the platform.

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Collapse Of ‘Fake Electors’ Narrative Shows Why Anti-Weaponization Fund Is Necessary

The so-called “fake electors” narrative has finally collapsed under the weight of its own fabrication. One by one, the cases built by Democratic attorneys general against Republican alternate electors from the 2020 election have crumbled. The most recent example came in Nevada, where Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed forgery and false-document charges against the six Republican electors, including state GOP Chair Michael McDonald. The judge found no evidence they intended to deceive officials. They had openly announced their purpose, and the certificates they signed could not be legally accepted under Nevada or federal law. Prosecutors’ claims of secret fraud evaporated the moment a court examined them.

The pattern is now unmistakable. In Michigan, a judge appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer dismissed all charges against 15 alternate electors in September 2025, ruling that prosecutors failed to prove specific intent to defraud. The electors were exercising their constitutional right to seek redress—posing for a photograph and testifying under oath that they genuinely believed the election was stolen—actions inconsistent with perpetrating a criminal conspiracy. In Arizona, Attorney General Kris Mayes’s sprawling indictment against 18 defendants, including Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Christina Bobb, and John Eastman, has been repeatedly rebuked. A trial judge found that prosecutors misled the grand jury by withholding the Electoral Count Act; an appeals court refused to revive the case; and the Arizona Supreme Court shut the door. AG Mayes now scrambles for a new grand jury, a desperate admission that the original case was improper. Similarly, the case against alternative electors in Georgia was dismissed last year as well in a blow to the disgraced low IQ Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

These cases were never about enforcing the rule of law. They were poorly constructed political theatre, assembled years after the fact by Democratic AGs who coordinated their efforts with far-left nonprofits. Norm Eisen’s States United Democracy Center supplied the blueprints, Marc Elias’s lawfare operation provided legal cover, and the Democratic Attorneys General Association funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost the prosecution strategy as it was being crafted. What looked like independent state actions was actually a national scheme designed to criminalize political opposition. Yet the most damning part of the story is not the collapse of the cases. It is how ordinary the alternate-elector strategy was portrayed before Democrats decided to retcon it as a crime.

In the fall of 2020, major news outlets treated the possibility of “dueling electors” as a serious contingency, not a conspiracy. Reuters published an explainer on how competing slates in battleground states with split partisan control of governors and legislatures could deadlock the Electoral College, citing the historical precedent of 1876. An election guide posted by Politico casually walked through Republican operatives discussing alternate electors if Trump lost and claimed fraud, and Democratic governors responding with their own slates. No one called it sedition. It was framed as a constitutional stress test.

Even more striking was the war game played by the so-called Transition Integrity Project. Former White House Chief of Staff and pizza party aficionado John Podesta, playing the role of Joe Biden, refused to concede a narrow electoral defeat. He alleged voter suppression and persuaded the governors of Wisconsin and Michigan to send pro-Biden electors to the Electoral College. The New York Times reported the exercise without even an inkling of moral panic. It was treated as a genuine possibility that could come from either side of the political aisle in the case of a close or disputed election, not as some nefarious plot to overthrow the government.

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Letitia James: Postal Service and POTUS Don’t Have Jurisdiction Over Elections

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “On the Line,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said the U.S. Postal Service and the president do not “have jurisdiction over the elections.”

James said, “I and my Democratic attorneys general will continue to challenge this rule, because this rule will create nothing but chaos and confusion in the state of North Carolina. In less than 11 days, they will mail out ballots to individuals who are in the armed forces, as well as to citizens in these United States. And it’s critically important that individuals understand that the only reason why this rule was created is because individuals, particularly those in the White House, believe that they cannot run on their record and therefore they have to steal this election. This is nothing more than an attempt to suppress the right to vote. And I and my Democratic colleagues will fight this all the way to the United States Supreme Court.”

She added, “Let’s be clear, the United States Postal Service and the president of these United States does not have jurisdiction over the elections, it is states and it’s in the Constitution. And that’s why it’s critically important that individuals understand that states have the power and the duty and the responsibility to administer elections, not the president and definitely not the postal system.”

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Democrat Senate Hopeful Bankrolled by Same Donors Funding Neo-Nazi Candidate

Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed reportedly has some problematic donors.

The Washington Free Beacon published a report detailing over a dozen donors who donated to Florida neo-Nazi congressional candidate Dan Bilzerian and also to El-Sayed.

More than a dozen donors to the Hitler-praising, neo-Nazi congressional campaign of Dan Bilzerian have also contributed to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed—in many cases spreading thousands of dollars between the two candidates, the Washington Free Beacon found.

Bilzerian, a far-right social media influencer with a trust fund, and El-Sayed, a far-left epidemiologist, have no policy overlap except strong opposition to AIPAC and Israel, but their donors include a man who has equated Zionism to Nazism and a Texas subprime auto loan entrepreneur who also threw his weight behind Israel-bashing Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie.

The overlapping donor list suggests that El-Sayed’s virulently anti-Israel rhetoric appeals to the kind of Muslim-American donors who also buy into Bilzerian’s hateful Jew-baiting and offensive trolling.

The most significant Bilzerian and El-Sayed donor is Ibrahim Awad, who has given more than $19,500 between both candidates, Federal Election Commission records show. That haul included a $12,651.88 jumbo gift to the Bilzerian Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee. The figure is above the legal limit and potentially a campaign finance violation if passed along to Bilzerian’s campaign committee.

Awad is a Georgia-based personal injury attorney—with a mixed record.

Awad has been an ardent critic of Israel’s efforts to eliminate Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In a post on X, he castigated attorneys who “blamed Hamas for Israel’s genocide—but never said a damn word about Palestinians executed in the West Bank, where Hamas doesn’t even exist.”

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Watch a DSA Member Explain That Their Takeover of the Country Will be a ‘Violent Process’

One of the most amazing things about the DSA is hearing them talk in their own words when they think only other members are listening.

A clip that has been making the rounds on social media shows several members engaging in what looks like a Zoom meeting when one of them begins to detail how they are going to take over the Democrat Party and ultimately the country.

He then mentions that it will be a violent process.

This is why Democrats and media liberals must be called out when they try to claim that these people just want healthcare. It’s a total lie.

Townhall reports:

The DSA Promises Its Revolution Will Be a Violent One

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) haven’t exactly been shy about their intentions for America should they ever gain majority power. They will destroy America’s founding documents, the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court. They want to undo our immigration laws, abolish our borders, end ICE, and put the kibosh on law enforcement.

Of course, they’re also aware that tens of millions of Americans own guns and that many of us will put up a resistance to the commie takeover of the U.S.A. That just means the DSA is promising the revolution will be bloody and violent, as they usually are.

“We have seen that the Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped out,” said Michael Beyer, a DSA activist and streamer. “We can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state and steer it in our direction, but it’s going to be a, you know, violent process.”

Oliver Larkin, who is running for Congress in Florida’s 25th Congressional District, added, “Our country needs to change and this Democratic Party needs to change. I was more than glad to go on Hasan’s stream. This is we need, as Democrats, we need to go into these spaces.”

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