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Transgender Socialist Wisconsin Congressional Candidate Deletes Gun Range Video Shooting a Target of President Trump, Posts Weird Rant Walking it Back

Stephen Cooper, a Satanist biological male who identifies as a woman named Katrina DeVille and is running as a Democratic Socialist in the 2026 primary for Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District, has been forced to delete a campaign-related video showing him at a gun range shooting at targets that included President Donald Trump.

Cooper was subsequently banned from speaking at the Democrat Party’s 8th Congressional District convention being held this weekend at UW-Green Bay.

After facing the severe blowback for the unhinged video, Cooper posted a TikTok video attempting to walk back the controversy, claiming he does not advocate violence while still calling for Trump’s impeachment on “day one” in office.

The original campaign post included imagery of Cooper firing at Trump-themed targets.

In the damage-control video posted to social media, Cooper begins by singing “Faithfully” by Journey.

Cooper goes on to say:

“There are some things I said online last week… I do not advocate for violence. I condemn it… I don’t think that [the brewery] is entirely in the wrong by saying I’ll feel some relief when this president’s term is over… I wasn’t wishing [violence]. There’s a big difference… I want him gone… I am one of the fewest that I’ve seen advocating for his impeachment on a consistent basis.”

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US Senate Candidate From PA Threatens To Kill Trump, Congressman’s Daughter: Affidavit

A Pennsylvania man who recently launched a campaign for U.S. Senate is accused of leaving a series of violent voicemails threatening President Donald Trump and a member of Congress’s family, according to unsealed federal court documents on Friday, May 1.

Raymond Eugene Chandler III, of Wilkinsburg, was arrested and charged after a federal investigation into repeated threats made over voicemail, authorities said.

Chandler is charged with influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a federal official by threatening a family member and by threat, according to the affidavit.

The criminal complaint, unsealed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleges Chandler left multiple messages targeting an unnamed member of Congress and President Trump between April 2025 and April 2026.

In one voicemail on April 18, 2026, Chandler allegedly described a graphic scenario in which the congressman and his daughter would be attacked, saying they would be “pull[ed]… out of your house” and have their “throat… slit,” according to the affidavit.

Days later, on April 29, 2026, Chandler allegedly left another message urging the lawmaker to assassinate President Trump, telling them to “walk into the Oval Office with a gun in your hand… put it to the President’s head… and… pull the trigger,” the affidavit states.

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Do Elections Still Decide? The People of the United States v. Norm Eisen

Democracies do not usually collapse in a single dramatic moment.

They erode over time. Quietly and persistently. Often, through the habit of treating certain electoral outcomes as formally valid, yet morally unacceptable. Outcomes that must be managed, constrained, or corrected through legal, institutional, and media pressure.

No modern figure illustrates this pattern more clearly than Norm Eisen.

Eisen’s public record reflects a near-continuous arc of opposition to Donald Trump and the political movement that elected him.

From the pre-inauguration Brookings Emoluments Clause paper he co-authored, to early litigation through Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to the 2017 Brookings obstruction report, to his role as special counsel guiding the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment, the effort did not pause.

Eisen’s efforts expanded through books, legal frameworks, advocacy platforms, and coordinated institutional responses.

The work continued through A Case for the American People, the edited volume Overcoming Trumpery, multiple editions of the Democracy Playbook, legal clearinghouses, ballot challenges, and ongoing leadership roles in organizations such as the Democracy Defenders Fund.

These are not isolated actions. They form a sustained ecosystem.

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Liberal Democrats Admit Human Rights Breach After Removing Candidate “Because He is Christian”

The Liberal Democrats have admitted that they unlawfully discriminated against former journalist and parliamentary candidate David Campanale because of his Christian beliefs, in what is now one of the clearest recent cases of a major UK party breaching the rights of a Christian over matters of faith and conscience. The party has agreed to pay damages after conceding the claim, while Campanale is also seeking legal costs he says exceed £250,000. The admission has been reported across outlets including The Independent, Church Times and other outlets, and it goes well beyond an ordinary internal party dispute: it is an acknowledged human-rights and religious-discrimination breach.

Campanale had originally been selected as the Liberal Democrats candidate for Sutton and Cheam ahead of the 2024 general election, but was later deselected and replaced by Luke Taylor, who went on to win the seat. The central legal issue was whether Campanale had been treated unlawfully because of his Christian beliefs on contested moral questions. On that point, the party has now surrendered. Church Times reported that the Liberal Democrats admitted to several counts of unlawful religious discrimination, while The Independent said the party accepted it had breached Campanale’s human rights over his Christian faith.

The significance of that admission lies in what it says about the treatment of Christians in contemporary public life. This was not a outside activist dispute or a row about obscure process rules. It concerned whether a mainstream political party was prepared to accommodate a candidate whose convictions remained recognisably Christian when applied to public questions.

Earlier reporting on the case such as this 2024 article said the dispute touched on Campanale’s views on issues including abortion, same-sex marriage and trans matters. During the litigation, the party’s defence drew particular attention for arguing that Campanale should prove in court the truth of the Christian statement that Jesus Christ is “the way, the truth and the life,” a move that many Christians saw as both extraordinary and revealing.

It was reported this week that the party had also argued it was a “statement of fact” that the era of prominent Liberal Democrats with Christian beliefs such as Shirley Williams and Charles Kennedy “was over,” and had initially claimed it had a right to deselect candidates who expressed religious beliefs. Those reported positions gave the case a significance far beyond one constituency. They suggested not merely a breakdown in local relations, but a deeper hostility to the idea that orthodox Christian belief should still have a place inside a party that presents itself as liberal, pluralist and rights-based.

That is why the case has been felt so keenly by many Christians. Clearly, Campanale is not being vindicated only as an individual claimant. The outcome also confirms the broader concern that expressions of Christian belief are only permitted when they are private or ceremonial, and welcome scrutiny when touching live moral questions. GB News framed the case as a legal victory for Campanale, called “an Anglican layman” in some reports, who was prevented from standing for his religious beliefs. The party has admitted unlawful discrimination, and the issue at its heart was Christianity.

David Campanale is a former BBC investigative journalist who held a seat as a Liberal Democrat councillor from 1986 to 1994, and, having first been approved as a prospective parliamentary candidate in 2017, he was announced as the party’s candidate for Sutton and Cheam in January 2022. According to his legal claim, he was the subject of complaints made by members of the local party “almost immediately” in attempts to deselect him. The deselection eventually took place in August 2023.

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Report: Pro-China Billionaire Funded NYC’s May Day Events Where Zohran Mamdani Pushed Taxing the Rich

Two leftist groups that have directly or indirectly received funding from a pro-Chinese Communist Party tech-billionaire reportedly helped organize protesters in New York City’s Union Square for communist and socialist May Day events on Friday.

The groups called The People’s Forum (TPF) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) have in some form received money from Neville Roy Singham, according to Fox News.

“A self-identified speaker from PSL announced a People’s Forum spokesperson who was the second to speak into a microphone. The speaker rallied the crowd of demonstrators, asking them to repeat chants and later bashed capitalism. Shortly before remarks, PSL arrived with dozens of pre-made anti-Trump signs and equipment, unloading them from a van parked next to Union Sq. Park,” the outlet said, noting pro-Communism advocates handed out newspapers and encouraged people to attend future events.

“Teamsters and unions gathered downtown at Washington Square Park while TPF and PSL marched from Union Square several blocks up. The union workers’ rally ended shortly after the Singham-connected groups arrived,” the report continued.

Breitbart News Foundation (BNF) reported that Singham’s wife is left-wing Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans. Chinese government records reviewed by the BNF also showed “Singham’s deep, extensive ties with the Chinese regime.”

“Both the People’s Forum and Code Pink have received millions of dollars’ worth of funding for years. These organizations were at the forefront of the anti-Israel and pro-Hamas wave of protests across U.S. university campuses in the months following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel,” the article stated.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, spoke to attendees at the rally in Washington Square Park on Friday and said he was “working to tax the wealthiest and the most profitable corporations in New York City”.

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Legal Scholar John Yoo Says State and Elected Officials in Minnesota Could Absolutely End Up in Prison Over Fraud: ‘These People Are in a Lot of Trouble’

John Yoo is a law professor at UC-Berkeley who worked in the Justice Department under President George W. Bush. Today, he appeared on FOX News with
Kayleigh McEnany.

She asked him if there was any possibility that elected officials and state officials in Minnesota could go to prison over the massive fraud that has been uncovered there.

He said that they absolutely can, and maybe not in the way you might think.

Yoo says:

“These people are in a lot of trouble. These are not just overpayments. This is not just, as we were talking about the other day, criminal fraud.

Now that you’re seeing the money end up in the hands of foreign terrorist organizations, the Justice Department’s counter-terrorism and national security division should now get involved and see whether any of these state officers knew or were abetting these money transfers, because if they did they are giving material support to terrorists and they could go to jail for a very long time.”

Kayleigh then asks if any of these people would be covered by any sort of immunity, to which Yoo replies “Of course not.”

As an example, he points to the Wisconsin judge who was recently found guilty of trying to hide an illegal alien from federal officers. He then goes on to say that the situation in Minnesota is actually worse than that.

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Mamdani allocates $500K for reparations talks as NYC faces $5.4B deficit

Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York City has set aside $500,000 to fund community discussions on reparations and other forms of assistance for Black New Yorkers as a major budget deficit looms, internal communications show.

An internal message, dated January, detailed how more than two dozen groups would be given tens of thousands of dollars each to participate in “conversations to discuss the development of a Reparations study” and to gather “input on the early development of the citywide Truth, Healing and Reconciliation plan.” 

Funding, according to the document, “allows for each community member to receive an incentive for their time” and covers the costs of providing participants with “refreshments.”

Amid the reparations spending, New York City faces an estimated $5.4 billion budget deficit throughout the next two fiscal years. 

Mamdani thus far has not proposed service cuts to address the shortfall, opting instead to seek out increased taxes and dip into the city’s emergency cash reserves while increasing funding for racial equity initiatives.

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More Devastating News for Democrats

The Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling striking down racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act sent shockwaves through the political landscape this week — and Southern Republican governors wasted no time acting on it. For Democrats, who have spent years leaning on race-based district engineering to protect their congressional seats, the timing couldn’t be worse.

Alabama and Tennessee both called special legislative sessions on Friday to redraw their congressional maps, and the dominoes are already starting to fall across the South.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey moved quickly, calling lawmakers into special session and signaling she wants the state ready to hold new primary elections if the courts move fast enough to allow it. Right now, Alabama’s May 19 primaries are set to proceed using a court-ordered map that artificially packs black voters into two districts — a map the Supreme Court’s ruling makes unconstitutional. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed an emergency motion Friday asking the court for a quick answer on whether the state can revert to its previously drawn map, which has just one majority-black district and would almost certainly deliver an additional Republican seat in Congress.

“By calling the Legislature into a special session, I am ensuring Alabama is prepared should the courts act quickly enough to allow Alabama’s previously drawn congressional and state Senate maps to be used during this election cycle,” Ivey said Friday afternoon.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee followed suit, calling his own special session to review the state’s congressional map. The current map includes a single Democratic-controlled district anchored in Memphis, and Lee’s office has warned that “any change to Tennessee’s congressional map must be enacted as soon as possible,” ahead of the August 6 primary.

It’s not hard to read the tea leaves on where this is headed.

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Michigan Dem Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow purges X account following The Post’s report on her social media history

Michigan Democrat Mallory McMorrow, a candidate for US Senate, deleted thousands of tweets, some of which defended “coastal elites” and were critical of “Middle America,” after The Post first reported on them last year. 

Morrow, 39, purged her X account of roughly 6,000 posts, including all her tweets posted prior to 2020, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reported Wednesday. 

The journalist noted the social media cleanse came after The Post’s April 2025 scoop on McMorrow’s tweet history. 

The deleted posts even included jabs at the purple state she is now running to represent.

“Aaaand it’s snowing. Screw you, Michigan. #NYCtoLA,” read a now-deleted April 2014 X post.

“There are days like these that make me miss California even more,” McMorrow groused on Jan. 5, 2017, the day before Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton was certified by Congress. 

She also removed a bizarre post where she mused about “Middle America” breaking away from the country weeks before Trump’s swearing-in as the 45th president.

“I had a dream that the US amicably broke off into The Ring (coasts+Can+Mex+parts Mich/Tex) and Middle America,” McMorrow wrote in the since-deleted tweet. 

McMorrow, a state senator who is running in the hotly contested Democratic primary to replace retiring US Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), has positioned herself as a moderate in the race and is considered a rising star in the party. 

She expressed frustration last year that Democrats give off “elitist” and “academic” vibes, but her social media history includes posts suggesting Trump supporters are poorly educated and agreeing with users who voiced criticism of rural voters. 

“We’ve downplayed the importance of quality education for all, replaced it with fear and blaming and anger, and here we are,” McMorrow posted on Election Day 2016.

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