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Husted Campaign Fires Political Director Over Nazi, Rhodesia Posts

Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign fired its political director Friday after The Washington Post asked about the director’s social media accounts, which included a Facebook profile photo of Nazi SS troops and a Spotify playlist devoted to white-ruled Rhodesia.

Stephen Woytek, 25, had been hired by the Ohio Republican’s campaign in August.

“Steve serves our country honorably as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is a proud graduate of The Citadel. He studies military history and routinely reenacts historical battles. While he denies negative intent, his social media activity displays a complete lack of judgement and disregard for its impact on others,” a spokesperson said.

“Sen. Husted demands better of those who represent him.

“Upon learning about the social media posts today, Sen. Husted made the immediate decision to part ways.”

The Post reported that Woytek changed his Facebook profile photo in 2018 to an image of soldiers from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler division holding captured Soviet banners. The photo was still publicly visible Friday.

His Spotify account included a public playlist titled “Tales From Rhodesia,” described as “homesick for a place that no longer exists,” with tracks including “Rhodesians Never Die.” Songs were added as recently as August. The playlist was made private Friday.

Woytek said his interest in the period was historical.

“I want to be unequivocal: I reject the racist and antisemitic ideology the SS and Nazi Germany represented,” he said in a statement to the newspaper.

Woytek said he takes part in historical reenactments because “I believe it is important to educate our younger generations,” and acknowledged he should have “exercised better judgment when posting about my activities online.”

He did not answer the newspaper’s questions about the Rhodesia playlist. The campaign did not say whether it had reviewed his accounts before hiring him.

Rhodesia, the white-minority government that ruled what is now Zimbabwe until 1980, has become a symbol among white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which cautions that its imagery alone is not evidence of extremist beliefs.

The gunman who killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 called himself “the last Rhodesian.”

Woytek graduated from The Citadel in 2024 and serves in the National Guard. He previously worked as a legislative aide to state Rep. Haraz Ghanbari, a Perrysburg Republican.

It was the second departure from the campaign in two months.

Andrew Havas, Husted’s volunteer Franklin County chair, resigned in July after NBC News asked about a 2008 charge of sexual misconduct with a minor that was reduced to misdemeanor assault under a plea deal.

Husted, appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine in January 2025 to the seat Vice President JD Vance gave up, faces former Sen. Sherrod Brown in the Nov. 3 special election. The contest is widely considered a toss-up.

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OH PLEASE: AOC Claims She is ‘Amazed Watching How God Works’ Advancing Her Far Left Politics 

AOC has suddenly discovered God. Supposedly.

She was at the National Baptist Convention in Florida this week and spoke of how she was ‘amazed’ at how God works in advancing her far left political views. It’s like she was channeling James Talarico.

We are going to see more of this in the future.

The left has decided that if they can’t overcome the issue of faith and belief in God, that they must take it over and make it their own.

Breitbart News reports:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the National Baptist Convention this week that she is “amazed watching how God works” in advancing progressive politics, citing organizing efforts in deep-red states.

Speaking to the convention in Orlando, Florida, the New York Democrat framed a string of recent electoral developments in religious terms, describing them as the fruit of faith-based organizing during her 2024 rally tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). She recounted stops in states pundits called hopeless.

“Why would you go to Idaho? Why would you go to Montana? Why would you go to Utah?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I felt very called.”

The congresswoman claimed a “miracle” followed. She said that after organizing in Utah, a court intervened.

“We said we must have the faith of a mustard seed. We must organize anyway,” she said. “One year later, out of nowhere, a judge strikes down Utah’s map and they are ordered to redraw. And it is only because of the organizing that we did in faith when there was no evidence.”

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Florida Statewide Prosecutors Drop Subpoenas on Entire Democrat Broward County Commission After It Moves to Strip Sheriff’s Office of Airport and Seaport Policing

Democrat-run Broward County, long a magnet for election chaos, public-safety failure, and one-party machine politics, just got a statewide knock on the door.

At the request of Florida’s Office of Statewide Prosecution, the Broward Sheriff’s Office began serving subpoenas on Wednesday to the entire Broward County Commission, County Administrator Monica Cepero, the deputy county administrator, and several other senior ranking members of County Administration.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office issued this statement:

“At the request of Florida’s Office of Statewide Prosecution, the Broward Sheriff’s Office began serving subpoenas on Sept. 9, 2026, on the entire Broward County Commission, county administrator, deputy county administrator and several other senior ranking members of the County Administration.”

That is the entire sitting commission, all Democrats, plus the top unelected bureaucrats who run one of the largest county governments in America.

Sheriff Gregory Tony’s deputies delivered the papers. The same Sheriff’s Office that the commission has been trying to shove out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades, Local10 reported.

The subpoenas come as Broward County officials consider whether to remove the Broward Sheriff’s Office from law-enforcement operations at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Port Everglades.

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North Carolina Dem Visits Dachau, Says MAGA Supporters Belong There

Most people who visit Nazi concentration camps say that they cannot believe anyone could have ever committed such atrocities. But one North Carolina Democrat decided she would love to see her political opponents suffering in one of the most infamous camps.

Shelly Headen seems to have deleted her social media accounts, or at least made them private, because although there are screenshots of her crazy comments, I was not able to find the original posts. She has made seriously concerning comments before, but her latest one is particularly staggering.

Breitbart uncovered the latest craziness. There are many things wrong with the photo below, the first being that Headen is smiling broadly. That is not the expression you would expect from someone standing in front of ovens used to incinerate the corpses of tens of thousands of people.

Secondly, of course, she is not only advocating for locking up people with whom she disagrees politically; she’s literally calling for them to be massacred and burned in ovens, since she is literally standing in the Dachau crematorium.

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Australia: Officials Ask Parliament to Restrict Social Media Clips of Public Hearing Evidence

Just when you thought Australia’s steamrolling toward censorship couldn’t get any worse, the heads of Australian government departments want new limits on how members of parliament share recordings of officials testifying at public parliamentary hearings.

A new attempt to this end was made last week by the Secretaries Board, made up of the heads of Australia’s government departments. The board is currently chaired by Steven Kennedy, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, which advises the prime minister and coordinates policy across the government.

The proposal was contained in a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Parliamentary Standards.

The board is unhappy that politicians are using excerpts of the footage from these hearings, often to criticize the officials, and sometimes to ridicule them, by editing the clips and adding captions to highlight certain parts of the testimony.

Comments left on social media under these posts are also a major concern for the board, as they can be “highly offensive” – and sometimes even defamatory.

As examples, the board cites personal attacks on officials’ physical appearance (especially if they are women), their integrity, as well as comparisons to “Nazis, pedophiles, and other criminal offenders.”

Some of the “highlights” of the comments mentioned in the submission include “despicable,” “filth,” “political puppet,” “bigot,” “pig,” “KKK member,” “parasite,” “shill,” “criminal,” “fraud,” “clown,” and “lying corrupt grub.”

The board wants parliament to come up with “guidance” on how to use these recordings on social media, and lists several ways to do it, such as preventing “potentially harmful” use of committee evidence, and requiring that a link to the full hearing or transcript is provided whenever an extract of an official’s testimony is posted.

Another idea is to have MPs disable comments on social media when they post these clips, and make sure that the full, unedited version of the hearing, or the transcript, is made available instead of extracts.

Reporting on the submission described full hearings and transcripts as the preferred approach, with fallback restrictions on editing, captions and posts targeting individual officials.

The submission said that officials appearing at these public hearings “have not consented to a subsequent use of their image, or its use by parliamentarians and their political parties for party-political purposes.”

And the board also complained of “the increasing use of excerpts from committee proceedings on social media, particularly where material is presented without context and exposes officials to ridicule, hostility or abuse.”

The proposal was rejected by Greens Senator Steph Hodgins-May, who said that bureaucrats should not be allowed to decide how parliamentarians do their job, and that the proposed restrictions would be an attempt to “take the teeth out of parliamentary scrutiny.”

“Bureaucrats shouldn’t get to decide where to draw the line on parliamentary scrutiny, particularly when they’re the ones being scrutinised,” Hodgins-May said. “Restricting what parliamentarians can post from public proceedings is not the answer. This looks like an attempt to take the teeth out of parliamentary scrutiny. Frankly, if this scrutiny wasn’t having an impact, they wouldn’t be so worried about it.”

But the board’s proposal is not the first of its kind. In fact, the previous week, Celia Perkins, deputy secretary of Australia’s Department of Defence, made a similar request to a parliamentary hearing, asking that the committee prevent MPs from sharing video and audio of officials appearing at public hearings on social media.

Perkins said that public servants giving evidence “do not consent to the reposting of our evidence to social media sites or the reproduction of our likenesses for the purposes outside the framework of the parliament and the transparent public proceedings of this committee.”

However, the Senate committee rejected the request on the advice of the Senate clerk.

Professor Luke Beck from the Monash University Law School, who specializes in constitutional law, believes that the latest proposal may be unconstitutional because it would likely violate the implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution by “directly and expressly” burdening political communication.

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Germany: Top CDU Politician Floats Banning AfD Days After Its Landslide Win

Barely after the ballots were counted in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany’s political establishment began discussing possible legal action against the election winner.

After the AfD captured 43.8% of the vote, senior CDU politician Hendrik Wüst called for the first structured federal-state examination that could eventually open the door to a party-ban proceeding, the German press reports.

The move comes at an extraordinary moment. Voters handed the AfD its strongest result in the state’s history while Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU crashed to just 17.2%, leaving Germany’s governing conservatives facing uncomfortable questions about why so many voters have walked away.

Instead of brushing aside the ban debate, Wüst wants to formalize it. The North Rhine-Westphalia premier has proposed a working group bringing together federal and state officials, constitutional lawyers, intelligence authorities and other experts to examine the AfD and possible legal consequences.

Wüst insists the outcome mustn’t be decided beforehand. The group, he says, could recommend a prohibition proceeding, some other legal response or ultimately something short of either.

Even so, the timing has poured gas on an increasingly heated argument. A party that had just received the backing of nearly 44% of Saxony-Anhalt voters now finds itself at the center of renewed discussions over whether Germany’s institutions should explore removing it from electoral politics altogether.

Wüst says constitutional protection, not electoral arithmetic, should determine the issue. If investigators conclude that the legal conditions for banning the AfD have been satisfied, he argues, Germany’s constitutional institutions would have a duty to pursue the matter.

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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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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Claims Democrats Have Ideas ‘People Really Want to Vote For’

Democrats have ideas “people really want to vote for,” Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker said during a press conference alongside Texas Democrats on Wednesday.

Speaking about the kickoff of the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, Pritzker joined Texas Democrats in their opposition press conference and took a question about the Democrat Party’s messaging, as a questioner noted that Democrats are “still not exactly resonating with voters.”

Pritzker claimed that voters are not “pulling a lever” for a party but for individual candidates.

“Well, when people go to the polling booth, they’re not pulling a lever for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party,” Pritzker replied. “They’re pulling a lever for [Texas state Rep.] Gene Wu. They’re pulling a lever for all the folks who are on the ballot here in Texas and across the country.”

“And it’s Democrats that have the ideas that people really want to vote for,” he claimed. “We’re the ones who fight for affordability. We’re the ones who think the jam will be on the bottom shelf. We’re the ones who believe that everybody ought to have health care in this country. They’re trying to take health care away from people.”

Pritzker also accused Republicans of trying to “take food assistance away from people,” likely referring to efforts to eliminate junk food items as eligible choices for SNAP spending and weed out fraud in SNAP and other government programs. As Breitbart News reported, billions of dollars worth of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments, for example, were going to people who were not eligible for them.

The Democrat TDS governor continued, “They’re trying to take food assistance away from people. They’re succeeding in a lot of cases.”

“They’re attacking people in our streets, in our American cities,” he said, likely referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) taking criminal illegal aliens off the streets.

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LIAR: James Talarico Suddenly Says There Are Only Two Sexes After Claiming There are “Six Genders” — “I Missed the Mark on Some of My Past Statements”

After years of pushing the far-left’s extreme gender ideology, far-left Texas Democrat and Senate candidate James Talarico was caught backpedaling furiously on his past claims.

Speaking with Fox News national correspondent Brooke Taylor on The Story, Talarico admitted he “missed the mark on some of my past statements.”

Asked about his 2021 claim that there are six biological sexes, the Austin Democrat said, “There are not six sexes. There are two.” He added that he “didn’t say it correctly” at the time, then quickly changed the subject to diesel prices, groceries, utilities, and health care.

In 2021, during debate over legislation concerning transgender participation in school sports, Talarico claimed that “modern science” recognized six biological sexes.

He listed chromosomal disorders and declared that “biologically speaking, scientifically speaking, sex is a spectrum, and oftentimes can be very ambiguous.” He was arguing against protecting female athletes.

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