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Missouri AG Launches Investigation into ActBlue Over Foreign Money, Gift Cards, and Fired Staff

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway opened a consumer-fraud investigation Friday into ActBlue, the liberal fundraising machine that processed nearly $1.8 billion in 2025 for about 23,000 Democratic candidates and progressive groups.

Hanaway’s office says it is looking at possible violations of the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, including fraud, misrepresentation of foreign contributions, and unfair practices.

According to a press release from her office:

Political contributions from foreign entities in any form are strictly prohibited by federal law. After investigating ActBlue, the U.S. House Committee on Administration forwarded information regarding its conduct to the Attorney General’s Office for potential investigation. The Attorney General’s investigation will examine whether ActBlue sent any funds raised through fraudulent contributions to a Missouri political office, campaign, or committee. ActBlue is a fundraising platform widely used by almost 23,000 Democratic candidates and groups. In 2025, they raised nearly $1.8 billion for progressive causes across the nation.

Recent reports indicate that through faulty, potentially deliberately unsound, donation verification processes, ActBlue could have received and used money directly from foreign sources. It is also suspected that ActBlue receives donations by way of prepaid cards or gift cards, a difficult-to-trace method that has been used by foreign donors to conceal contributions. Additionally, there is reason to believe fraudulent contributions are being made to ActBlue under false identities or on behalf of other individuals without their knowledge.

The Attorney General’s Office is also inquiring about multiple resignations, terminations, and whistleblower complaints. Employees who may have flagged weaknesses in fraud-prevention systems, objected to internal decisions, or believed ActBlue was not properly addressing fraud risk were potentially suppressed or punished for speaking out.

“When political fundraising is compromised, public trust and the foundations of our democracy are put at risk. Missourians deserve a political system built on honesty and confidence that campaigns are not being financed through unlawful foreign sources,” said General Hanaway.

“Political fundraising must never become a pathway to deception, influence, or special treatment,” Hanaway added.

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Long-Time Republican Missouri Prosecutor Found Dead Inside Courthouse at 53 Following Reported “Incident”

A long-time Missouri Republican prosecutor has been discovered deceased inside a place he regularly practiced his profession.

As Fox 4 Kansas City reported, law enforcement officials responded to the Platte County Courthouse on Thursday, where they discovered the body of Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd. He was just 53 years old.

The Platte County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Zahnd died following a reported “incident” at the Platte County Courthouse.

The building was closed at 2:15 local time on Thursday and remains shut down. All employees were sent home.

The courthouse is expected to reopen on Monday.

Authorities have not determined an official cause of death and continue to investigate. They have assured the public that there is no threat.

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway released the following statement in response to Zahnd’s passing:

I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd.

I have known Eric for many years and have always held him in the highest regard. Eric was a true patriot, a person of remarkable character and integrity, and a public servant who cared deeply about his community.

We are very grateful for his dedication to public safety, the rule of law, and Platte County.

My thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Tracy, and sons, Benjamin and Luke, during this incredibly difficult time.

Zahnd, a Republican, was the longest serving prosecuting attorney in Platte County’s history. He had been in the role since 2002.

He was recognized as Missouri’s Prosecutor of the Year in 2014.

Zahnd announced in April that he would be retiring after serving more than two decades in politics.

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In Huge Win, Federal Appeals Court Rejects Democrat Effort to Reinstate Missouri’s 6R-2D Congressional Map

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a Democrat effort to reinstate Missouri’s 6R-2D Congressional map.

Last year, the Missouri House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.

In a 90-65 vote, GOP legislators approved a redistricting plan that dismantled the Democrat stronghold of the 5th District in Kansas City, and partitioned it across rural Republican-dominated districts, according to AP News.

On Wednesday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a stay of the lower court’s order reinstating the GOP-favored map.

The three-judge panel included: Loken (George H. W. Bush), Stras (Trump) and Justin D. Smith (Trump).

Wednesday’s order comes amid a dramatic legal battle that unfolded this week.

A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon ordered Missouri to use its new GOP-favored congressional map just hours after the Supreme Court denied the state’s emergency application.

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Supreme Court Denies Missouri’s Emergency Appeal to Use State’s New GOP-Favored Congressional Map in Midterms

The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri’s emergency appeal to use the GOP-favored Congressional map in this year’s midterm elections.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri’s emergency application without comment.

Missouri will now have to use its 2022 Congressional map.

The Missouri Supreme Court last Thursday threw out the state’s new congressional map that favored the GOP and eliminated one Democrat seat.

The new map will only go into effect in 2028 if voters approve it during the 2026 midterms.

Last year, the Missouri House of Representatives, controlled by Republicans, passed a sweeping new congressional map that would reduce Democrat representation to just one seat.

The “Missouri First” map promised a fierce partisan restructuring ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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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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Missouri Rep. Burlison TEARS INTO The Surveillance State – Should Flock Cameras Be Abolished? Is China Spying On Us Through Our Cell Phones?

Rep. Eric Burlison, R-MO, blasted the Surveillance State that exists within our federal government, an ongoing debate that has existed for decades.

Following the devastating 9/11 attacks just 25 years ago, the U.S. government has ramped up efforts to spy on it’s own citizens, with most common argument in favor of this is being  that it keeps the American People safe and prevents something like 9/11 from ever happening again.

In 2026 new debates surrounding the use of flock cameras and their expansion have raised concerns that this violates our 4th amendment rights to privacy, while supporters continue to argue that it ensures public safety.

Flock camera across the country are being sabotaged in response to their expansion.

Burlison and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-KY, introduced a bill known as the “Flock-Off Act,” which would cut off federal funding for flock camera expansion and address the growing concerns in the American public over their usage.

The bill has six additional cosponsors.

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Missouri Using Taxpayer Dollars on Anti-Abortion Ads

This is wild: the Missouri Attorney General’s office not only used taxpayer dollars for an anti-abortion ad—they also wrote said advertisement with an extremist organization that doesn’t believe in life-saving abortions. Buckle up.

KSDK News reports that an ad released by AG Catherine Hanaway’s office tells viewers that “abortion clinics in Missouri are not required to meet the same basic medical standards as other healthcare facilities.”

It’s not a coincidence that Hanaway released the ad now: in November, voters will decide on a ballot measure that would codify an abortion ban into the state constitution. As you probably remember, Missouri voters already passed a pro-choice ballot measure in 2024, but Republicans have been trying to repeal it ever since. This new ballot measure is their latest attempt. They even named the proposed ban Amendment 3, because that’s what the pro-choice measure was called. (They’re hoping to trick voters into supporting an abortion ban.)

Here’s the thing: Missouri law prevents state officials from using public funds to support or oppose a ballot measure. In other words, the ad is illegal. But Hanaway claims the ad doesn’t run afoul of Missouri law because it doesn’t mention the ballot measure by name.

“It says absolutely nothing about a ballot measure,” she told KSDK. This is exactly what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in 2024, when he illegally used state funds to launch a disinformation website against the pro-choice ballot measure Amendment 4. He insisted that everything on the site was “factual” and that it wasn’t “weighing in on any particular measure, whether you should vote for or against something.” (As you’ll see later in the newsletter, a grand jury just found that the DeSantis administration misappropriated funds for this campaign.)

If the Missouri GOP doesn’t care about the law, maybe they’ll care about bad PR: to write the ad, Hanaway’s office enlisted the help of the American Association of Pro-Life OB-GYNs (AAPLOG). This is a group that believes that emergency contraception and IUDs are really abortions, that raped children should be forced to give birth, and that women with life-threatening pregnancies should be given c-sections instead of standard abortions—even when it’s too early for a fetus to survive.

Why? Because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions. In fact, they claim abortion is never necessary to save a woman’s life.

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Trump Orders Shock Voter Fraud Crackdown in Nine States, Including: WA, WI, MO, GA, CA, PA, NV, NY and CT

Cue the shrieking demons in the leftist media!

President Trump ordered a shock voter fraud crackdown on Monday in nine states, including Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, and Connecticut.

It starts on Tuesday.

Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, will launch what officials are calling a ‘coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review.’

Agents will be authorized to pursue investigative leads through mid-October — right as the midterm election season gets underway.

Today’s news comes after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin previously stated 250,000+ noncitizens were found on voter rolls in four states.

In July, Secretary Mullin sent letters to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, New Jersey Secretary of State Dale Caldwell, Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, and Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt.

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‘They are my family’: Government scolds want to stop woman from feeding neighbors breakfast

Government scolds are insisting that a woman who opened her home to a few friends and neighbors stop offering them breakfast.

Because she hasn’t obtain official permission to be a good neighbor, and, of course, subjected herself to the government inspections that officials like.

It is the Center Square that has the details about “small-town Missouri resident Kathy Kite.”

The grandmother has been warned by her local health department to stop being a nice neighbor, and now the Goldwater Institute has taken up her cause, giving the government a deadline to respond or face a lawsuit.

“Citizens should not be required to get the government’s permission before offering passers-by some coffee and a bite to eat while they socialize,” Dave Roland, of the Goldwater Institute.

The report explained how the situation developed several months ago: A local convenience shop stopped serving breakfast and when Kite asked about that, the store employees suggested she do it, and sent some locals her way.

“I said, OK, come on over, guys. I’ll make you breakfast,” Kite told the Center Square. “So the next morning, I got up at like 4 o’clock in the morning because they come at like five.”

Currently, she’s been making about two dozen servings, for about eight or 10 people, six days a week. Without charge.

She does take donations.

“My mom and dad were raised in the Depression, and so we were raised hearing the stories of how they went hungry,” Kite told The Center Square. “My mom once told me, she said, ‘You never know when you’re entertaining an angel. So if someone comes to your door, you welcome them in, and you give them something to drink. If they’re hungry, you feed them.'”

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Mom sentenced to prison for trying to rescue her son from transitioning into a girl…

There are cases where the law tells you what happened but leaves out almost everything that explains why it happened… and that can be very troubling, and you go straight into the weaponization pool.

Shana Gaviola’s case feels like one of those situations.

The federal government’s version of this case is brutal and really straightforward. They say Gaviola violated a restraining order involving her teenage son, arranged to have him taken from California to a Christian boarding school in Missouri, and the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours.

She broke the law, a jury convicted her, and now she’s been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

But that very dry and clinical version of the story leaves out the chunk that turned this case into a rallying cry for parental-rights warriors.

According to Gaviola and her supporters, this fight began after her teenage son wanted to transition into a girl, and the people around him, including his school, affirmed his decision without his mother’s approval. Gaviola believed her confused child was headed toward a life-changing decision he would likely regret, and she refused to just stand by and watch it happen.

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