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AOC Taking Major Steps Toward 2028 Presidential Bid, According to New Report

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is actively positioning herself for a potential run for president in 2028, according to a new report.

The New York congresswoman has begun a “de facto national tour,” visited key early primary states, held meetings with Democratic insiders, and continues to build the kind of infrastructure that could fuel a White House campaign.

While AOC has not formally announced any decision, her recent moves, combined with strong early polling and a history of hiring veterans from Bernie Sanders’ presidential bids, have led many to speculate that she has something up her sleeve.

In a new report from Axios, reporters Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein detailed how Ocasio-Cortez is making concrete steps toward a presidential campaign.

The report described her as “one of the biggest X factors in the 2028 Democratic primary,” noting that Democratic operatives believe she could “easily raise $100 million just from small-dollar donors, mobilize many supporters of Sanders’ past campaigns, and command attention as few other candidates could.”

The report points out that just this month, AOC has:

  • Rallied voters in Philadelphia for a left-wing congressional candidate in a competitive primary.
  • Spoken at a rally in Montgomery, Ala., about voting rights.
  • Addressed the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta with Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock. (Democrats note that Warnock, the church’s senior pastor, doesn’t always allow visiting politicians to speak at this church. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg didn’t speak when he visited in March.)
  • Met with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter at the King Center in Atlanta to talk about data centers and voting rights.
  • Visited Morehouse School of Medicine, also in Atlanta, to discuss Black maternal health.
  • Rolled out several endorsements in races across the country.

Speaking at an event at the University of Chicago with former Obama adviser David Axelrod earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez responded to questions about 2028 by saying, “They assume that my ambition is positional… They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.”

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69-Year-Old Army Veteran and Owner of ‘Trump House’ in Southern California Dies After Being Brutally Beaten

Kerry Sheron, the 69-year-old owner of the ‘Trump house’ in Southern California, has died after being brutally beaten by a Navy veteran.

Sheron, an Army veteran, was violently assaulted by 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler in an unprovoked attack on May 20 outside of Sheron’s home.

Kerry Sheron decorated his Escondido home with Trump banners and American flags.

The Trump-supporting Army veteran died Sunday night just days after he was hospitalized in critical condition.

Butler was previously charged with attempted murder, elder abuse, making criminal threats and battery. His charges will be upgraded after Sheron died from his injuries.

Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia said Sheron was violently attacked by Butler.

“It was a single punch to the jaw,” Ross Garcia said, NBC San Diego. “The victim then falls to the floor, and there are subsequent hits to the victim’s head area.”

The New York Post reported:

The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten to a pulp allegedly by a Navy veteran.

Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known locally for covering his residence with MAGA banners and American flags, died Sunday night after nearly a week hospitalized in critical condition.

The attack happened May 20 outside Sheron’s home in Escondido, police said.

Prosecutors allege 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler attacked Sheron in what officials described as an unprovoked assault.

Butler, who has been described in local reports as a Navy veteran, has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, criminal threats and battery.

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Husband of Former Scottish PM Sturgeon Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Over $540,000 in Party Funds – Peter Murrell in Custody Pending Sentencing

The former chief executive of SNP used stolen funds to finance his luxurious lifestyle.

Another ‘progressive’ politician has been shown to be pocketing money to advance himself.

The husband of former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pleaded guilty today (25) to embezzling more than half a million dollars (400,000 pounds) from the Scottish National Party.

Associated Press reported:

“Peter Murrell, 61, who was remanded into custody in the High Court in Edinburgh after his plea, admitted using party funds to buy a high-priced motorhome, two cars, including a Jaguar, and luxury goods, including Bremont watches and household items that included two toilet seats.

‘By embezzling from the SNP, Peter Murrell was stealing the hopes, the dreams and the aspirations of thousands of people all over Scotland, people who gave what they could over many years in the hope that it would help contribute to a better country’, SNP leader John Swinney told a press conference. ‘I am horrified; I am betrayed’.”

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Western Democracy?

Two pronounced — and inverse — trends in Western societies have long been observable, and yet they are rarely noticed or discussed.

There is a reason for that. These trends tell us something deeply revealing about how our societies are shaped by structural forces — forces that individual office holders can do little to shape through their own values or personalities.

These forces operate rather like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them. They are the very opposite of how most Westerners imagine power works — that is, that it derives from the will of the people and is democratically accountable.

The first trend is this: the nearer to power a politician or official gets, the more their behaviour has to align with the structural interests of the billionaire class. Or put another way, the only route to power for any individual in our societies is by subordinating their personal beliefs and values to the interests of a rapacious, predatory class of capitalists.

The second trend illuminates the first. The further a former office holder moves away from the centre of power, the more room there is for their humanity to resurface — assuming they were not a hollow vessel for power to begin with, or turned permanently sociopathic through years of service to elite interests. (Yes, Tony Blair — I’m looking at you.)

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The Devil Neither Political Party Will Name

The widening wealth inequality gap is the political third rail nobody in power truly ever wants to touch.

Politicians will scream at each other all day over taxes, healthcare, immigration, tariffs, student loans, climate policy, or whatever outrage is currently driving engagement on cable news and social media. But the second the conversation turns toward monetary policy, toward the machinery of money creation itself, the room suddenly gets very quiet.

That’s because monetary policy has quietly become the single most powerful force reshaping wealth distribution in modern America. And unlike the endless partisan theater surrounding fiscal policy, monetary intervention oddly enjoys remarkable bipartisan support.

Republicans and Democrats may pretend to be existential enemies on television, but when it comes to flooding the financial system with dollars, both parties reliably fall into line. And that support is precisely why this topic is politically radioactive: once people understand how the system works, the illusion of two competing economic ideologies starts to collapse. Republicans want less spending, Democrats want higher taxes…but both parties want the Fed to keep printing dollars.

Since the early 2000s, and especially after 2008 and the COVID era, America has effectively entered a permanent regime of monetary intervention. Quantitative easing, near-zero interest rates, endless debt monetization, emergency lending facilities, and the mainstream acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory-adjacent thinking have fundamentally altered the structure of markets beyond recognition.

When Ben Bernanke first rolled out quantitative easing during the 2008 financial crisis, Americans were repeatedly assured it was a temporary emergency measure. Bernanke described the programs as targeted interventions designed to stabilize markets and support recovery, not permanently redefine the financial system.

QE1 was supposed to calm panic. Then came QE2. Then Operation Twist. Then QE3 became effectively open-ended, with the Fed purchasing tens of billions in bonds every month indefinitely. What began as a supposedly temporary crisis tool metastasized into a permanent feature of the modern economy. And every subsequent crisis only justified bigger interventions: larger balance sheets, lower rates, more liquidity, more market dependence on central bank support.

The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet exploded from under $1 trillion before 2008 to nearly $9 trillion after the pandemic era. Like nearly every government “emergency” program in history, the temporary measure never truly disappeared, it simply normalized, expanded, and embedded itself deeper into the system. It culminated in Neel Kashkari taking to national television to let the world know the Fed has “infinite” cash.

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Thomas Massie Vows to Read Redacted Names in Epstein Files on House Floor Before Leaving Congress, Says Todd Blanche and Kash Patel “Perjured Themselves”

Rep. Thomas Massie on Sunday said that he plans to read the names of Epstein’s clients on the House Floor before he leaves Congress in January 2027. 

While speaking to Kirsten Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, Massie vowed to use his speech or debate immunity and read the names. Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution provides that, with the exception of Treason, Felony, or Breach of the Peace, Representatives “shall not be questioned in any other Place,” prosecuted, or sued over “any Speech or Debate in either House.”

Massie previously threatened to name the names of Epstein’s coconspirators in September 2025.

Massie told Welker on Sunday that he will read redacted names from the Epstein Files in the coming weeks and months, adding, “There’s still millions of files they haven’t released.”

“Todd Blanche is violating the law,” he said with reference to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law last November, forcing the DOJ to release all files related to the Epstein investigation.

Massie continued, “I don’t think it’s possible to get to convictions with Todd Blanche at the top and with the FBI Director, Kash Patel, at the top because they’ve effectively both perjured themselves by saying that there’s nobody else in the files.”

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Turkish Police Storm Opposition Party HQ, Fire Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets at Supporters

Erdogan is moving against opponents.

Today (24), Turkish Police stormed the offices of the country’s main opposition CHP party.

The shock troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets at party supporters and officials hiding inside for the last three days.

Associated Press reported:

“It was a violent end to a standoff between members of the Republican Peoples’ Party, or CHP, and a leadership team appointed by an appeals court.

Footage taken by local media Sunday in the courtyard and inside the building showed clouds of tear gas as riot police stormed through the premises, before journalists were removed by the police. Supporters initially attempted to resist the police by spraying them with fire extinguishers, but were quickly stopped. Doors, furniture and the ground floor windows were destroyed.”

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Rep Rick Crawford Weighs in on AI and Evolving National Security Threats

Rep. Rick Crawford was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest host Jackie DeAngelis to discuss AI and evolving national security threats to the US.

“AI is helping us do tremendous things even to the extent of seeing where these drones are going and being able to intercept and destroy them,” DeAngelis said.

“Technology is making things move at an exponentially faster rate, so we are having to adapt on the fly,” Crawford said.

“You are hearing more of these companies that are bringing technology to the front so that we can actually combat the threat of things like drone swarms that we’ve seen in Ukraine and that we are seeing the Iranians deploy against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” Crawford said.

“This technology is going to continue to evolve and develop, and it definitely is changing the battlespace,” Crawford continued.

“AI has been driving this. There is a lot of confidence from investors that AI will make things better, not worse, but part of the Democrat narrative right now is fearmongering. AI is going to take your job. AI is coming and the world is going to implode,” DeAngelis commented.

Rep Crawford explained that China has been responsible for feeding fear into American citizens about AI. He explained that they use social media to exploit people’s fears about AI by creating a false narrative.

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Fairfax County’s Political Ecosystem Protects Illegal Immigrants at the Expense of All Others

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a federal civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano over allegations that his office gave preferential treatment to illegal immigrants accused of serious crimes.

This Thursday, mere days after that announcement, Descano—who has received more than $650,000 from George Soros-backed PACs and affiliated groups—is scheduled to testify before Congress at a House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the dangerous consequences of sanctuary policies in Fairfax County, Virginia. 

Indeed, Descano is a key player contributing to the increasingly dangerous environment in Fairfax County. In February, police arrested Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, and charged him with the fatal stabbing of Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother, at a bus stop in Fairfax County. Jalloh had previously been arrested more than 30 times, only to be released back onto the streets. In more than a dozen of his arrests, Descano’s office entered “nolle prosequi,” a legal term meaning it chose not to pursue the charges. 

Sadly, Jalloh is one of many illegal immigrants in Fairfax County whom Descano was committed to keeping out of jail following violent crimes. In fact, Descano openly stated his intentions on his since-deleted 2019 campaign page. He wrote, “If two people commit the same crime, but only one’s punishment includes deportation, that’s a perversion of justice and not a reflection of the values of Fairfax County.” 

The Department of Justice is right to investigate Descano for discriminating against Americans, but he is only the tip of the iceberg. Descano and other county leaders seem to believe that the “values of Fairfax County” include protecting illegal adult criminals in K-12 public schools. 

For background, English language learners are permitted to attend school until they are 22. The number of English language learners in Fairfax County’s schools increased precipitously due to former President Joe Biden’s open southern border and the inception of the sanctuary policy, up to a total of 47,438 English language learning students in 2025. 

Disturbingly, a recent Freedom of Information Act request found that there are 339 adult male English language learning students attending K-12 public schools throughout the county. By design, it is unclear how many of them are in the country illegally.

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Thomas Massie Says He “Will Not Rule Out” 2028 Presidential Run: “I Will Stay Engaged in Some Way or Shape”

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Sunday revealed that he’s not ruling out a bid for the White House in 2028 following his loss in the primary last week to Trump-backed Republican challenger Ed Gallrein. 

Massie joined NBC’s Kristen Welker for an interview on Meet the Press, where she asked him about the potential 2028 run.

“I will not rule out anything, and right now I’m not going to rule in anything,” Massie said.

“I’ll take some time and decide what’s next, but I think I will stay engaged in some way or shape,” he continued. “Maybe it’s from the outside. I’ve been exposing what’s going on in Washington, D.C. for years, and I’ll keep doing it.”

Asked about whether he would run as a Republican, Massie again said, “I won’t rule anything out,” adding, “I won’t rule out a run for county commissioner. I used to be the County judge executive here. That was probably the best job I ever had in politics.”

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