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ACTUAL FASCISM: Dem Senator Elissa Slotkin Wants to Scare Young People from Working for Trump Out of Fear of Prosecution

Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan recently appeared at the University of Chicago for the live taping of a liberal podcast.

At one point in the conversation, she described her preferred strategy of going after not only President Trump, but the people in his inner circle who ‘enabled’ him.

She then says that she wants young people coming out of college to be too afraid to work with his administration for fear of ‘a ton of problems.’

These are the people who are calling you a fascist.

Transcript:

I want to look at these signature cases, and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him.

I want young people coming out of school to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that sounds fun, I might get an opportunity.

I want them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.

I want that deterrence message sent.

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Trump Floats Sweeping Pardons for His Allies — Even Raises Possibility of Pardoning HIMSELF: “I Did Nothing Wrong… I’m Allowed to Do a Self-Pardon”

In a Newsmax exclusive interview with Rob Finnerty, President Donald Trump made clear he will not stand by while the radical left tries to drag his people through endless legal hell the way they tried to destroy him.

Trump stated bluntly that he did nothing wrong, that he is allowed to issue a self-pardon, and that he has no intention of letting loyal Americans who work for him suffer the same lawfare nightmare he endured.

“I can tell you this: I don’t want to see my people go through years of nonsense,” Trump said. “Because these people are lunatics on the left. I don’t want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense, hire lawyers and everything else — all for nothing.”

He continued: “I did nothing wrong… I’m allowed to do a self-pardon. I’m allowed to pardon… They say it’s the most powerful thing a president has.”

Trump noted he could have pardoned himself on the way out of office the first time but chose not to, because he knew he was innocent. He won those cases the hard way. Now, with the full power of the presidency restored and the Democrats’ playbook fully exposed, he is signaling he will protect those who stand with him.

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Obama to Stump for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan — Having Once Put His Sister-in-Law on a Terror Watchlist!

Barack Obama is preparing to campaign for far-left Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Obama is scheduled to appear alongside El-Sayed in Detroit on October 24 as Democrats battle to retain the Michigan Senate seat against Republican Mike Rogers.

However, court records indicate El-Sayed’s sister-in-law previously sued the federal government over her alleged inclusion on a terrorism watchlist during Obama’s presidency.

Mariam Jukaku, the sister of El-Sayed’s wife, Sarah, participated in two federal lawsuits back in 2016 challenging her placement on the government’s Terrorist Screening Database.

The lawsuits were brought with assistance from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization that supports those with ties to Islamism.

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“Were We Supposed to Get These Questions Beforehand?” — Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan Confronts Democrat Mary Peltola During Alaska Senate Debate After Spotting Her Reading Prepared Answers

Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska did not hold back during Thursday night’s high-stakes “Debate for the State” in Anchorage when he spotted his Democrat opponent, former Rep. Mary Peltola, appearing to read from scripted notes or answers.

Sullivan appeared suspicious after observing Peltola consulting her notes and suggested that her responses looked suspiciously prepared.

“We weren’t supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we?” Sullivan asked the moderators from Alaska Public Media and Alaska’s News Source.

The moderator replied firmly: “Neither one of you got questions beforehand. Absolutely not.”

Sullivan didn’t let it go. “Okay, I’m just watching my opponent read from questions that seem to be answered.”

Peltola’s response was pure Democrat confidence: “I’m prepared.”

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Wisconsin Democrat’s ‘Number One Priority’ As Secretary Of State: Driver’s Licenses For Illegal Immigrants

JoCasta Zamarripa, the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin secretary of state, told WMTV that her top priority if elected is getting driver’s licenses for people in the country illegally – and she wants David Crowley to be the governor who signs them into law.

Asked whether Crowley, the Democratic nominee for governor and Milwaukee County executive, had signed on, Zamarripa acknowledged the two haven’t discussed it yet. “We’re going to talk soon,” she said, adding that she feels “confident” he’ll back it because “as a legislator he was supportive.”

Years of Bills, None Passed

Zamarripa, a Milwaukee alder and five-term former Assembly member, has pushed “driver card” bills for undocumented immigrants for years, and none became law. One version she sponsored would have issued licenses that couldn’t be used to board a plane or enter a federal building; she pitched it then as economic development: “Latinos are great consumers.” An earlier version specified the card would not be valid for voting.

Her case now is public safety:

“Driver’s licenses for undocumented Wisconsinites is going to improve the public safety of all Wisconsinites, whether they’re fifth generation U.S. citizens or brand-new, newly arrived immigrants, because it’s going to mean more folks with a driver’s license driving on our roads, more folks accessing affordable automobile insurance.”

An Office With No Say

Wisconsin has barred undocumented immigrants from getting licenses since a law took effect in 2007. Gov. Tony Evers put licenses for all in his budget proposals, and Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee stripped them out.

The job Zamarripa is running for wouldn’t change that. Wisconsin’s secretary of state doesn’t issue driver’s licenses or run elections – the Department of Transportation and the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission do – and the office mainly keeps official records and the Great Seal. Zamarripa concedes as much: “I’ll no longer be that legislator with the vote in that way, but I believe I can use the office as a platform.”

Her pick for governor has been blunt on immigration. “When it comes to immigration, I’m not an ally; I’m an accomplice,” Crowley has said on the campaign trail. He has said he doesn’t see “any scenario” in which local law enforcement would want to partner with ICE, and Republican Tom Tiffany has built an ad around the line, cutting it between crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Wisconsin.

The Fond du Lac Case

The interview landed the same week Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney charged Elmer Jose Cardona Bustillo, a Honduran man prosecutors say is in the country illegally, with knowingly operating a vehicle while suspended, causing great bodily harm. Immigration records show he was ordered removed by an immigration judge in November 2015, Toney said.

According to the complaint, the pickup Cardona Bustillo was driving struck a 50-year-old woman with Down syndrome in a crosswalk shortly before 5:45 a.m. on Oct. 9, and he acknowledged knowing he wasn’t allowed to drive. He told officers he didn’t see her; the complaint notes it was dark and she was wearing dark clothing. She was airlifted to Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, where Toney said she is “fighting for her life.” Cardona Bustillo is presumed innocent; a preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 23.

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AOC Says Discussing Abdul El-Sayed’s Reported Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood is… RACIST!

Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York recently spoke to a reporter for TMZ in DC – an outlet that is obviously becoming one of her favorites – and explained that talking about Abdul El-Sayed’s alleged family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood is (drumroll please) racist.

To hear AOC explain it, Abdul El-Sayed is a victim here, because his family had some struggles when he was a little boy. Oh and also, if you examine anyone’s life hard enough, won’t you find some questionable connections? She actually tries to make this point.

For the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), this is probably the most important race in this election cycle. They think that if they can drag El-Sayed over the finish line in Michigan, they can do it anywhere in the country. For them, this is an important test case.

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AOC on Abdul El-Sayed – Racist Muslim Brotherhood Claims Are Dirty Politics!!!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is coming out swinging for Abdul El-Sayed … calling claims linking the Michigan senatorial candidate to the Muslim Brotherhood flat-out racist.

Charlie got AOC on Friday at a Culver’s in Michigan, where she’s been campaigning for El-Sayed … and he asked whether the Muslim Brotherhood controversy was rooted in reality or racism.

AOC didn’t mince words … saying the allegations fall “into racist very clearly” and blasting critics for dragging El-Sayed’s painful family history into politics…

AOC points out El-Sayed’s parents split shortly after he was born, and he grew up without his mother … arguing just about everyone has relatives who’ve made questionable choices, but that doesn’t mean those choices define them.

And AOC isn’t budging on her support … calling El-Sayed “one of the most patriotic people” she’s ever met.

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“Democrats for Mike Rogers” PAC Is Funded by Republicans, Records Show

Democrats for Mike Rogers, a group that has spent millions of dollars to defeat Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, has received funds from Republican-aligned organizations, campaign finance records show.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings, made public on October 16, revealed that TFM, a super PAC that has been running commercials against El-Sayed under the “Democrats for Mike Rogers” name, was funded by two other PACs that back Republican candidates.

GLCF, a pro-Rogers group, gave TFM $50,000, while American Unity PAC, whose stated mission is to promote “Republicans who support LGBT freedom,” transferred $25,000 to the Michigan group.

Other donors include three individuals in Tennessee and one Michigan resident.

The name and place of residence of the Michigan donor — Michael Sandler, of West Bloomfield — matches those of a doctor who was appointed to the Central Michigan University board of trustees in 2017 by then-Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican.

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Woke Democrat Kansas Senate Candidate Calls for “Repentance Over White Privilege” in Resurfaced Video

Woke Democrat pastor Adam Hamilton is hoping to defeat incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) in Kansas.

A resurfaced video, however, may not help his efforts in the deep-red state,

In the summer of 2020, during the height of the violent and destructive George Floyd riots, Hamilton suggested members of his congregation at the Church of the Resurrection recognize their “White privilege” and “repent.”

Hamilton said in the video, “Like part of what I know is that, is that I grew up in a way that I’m blind to certain things in our society.”

“I just am. And I have certain benefits by virtue of being educated, White, and male, right?”

“And we don’t like to hear that, especially White folks don’t like to hear that. But there are benefits that come along with that.”

He continued, “There are benefits and privileges to my place in life. I have to recognize that. To see that. And then I have to listen. I have to listen and understand, and finally be able to see the brokenness in myself, and my indifference.”

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Bombshell Report: Big Banks Debanked ‘MAGA’ And The Left’s Other Political Enemies

The Timothy Two Project International’s mission is to do as the Apostle Paul instructed his protege Timothy: Teach others to teach the Gospel. TTPI has for more than 15 years reached indigenous pastors in some 70 countries — in some of the more impoverished places on Earth where there is little or no formal biblical and theological training available. 

In 2020, Bank of America canceled the nonprofit’s account, an account the Timothy Two Project had held since 2011. Suddenly, inexplicably, TTPI was “operating a business type we have chosen not to service,” according to the financial services titan. 

Steve Curtis, TTPI’s international director, explained in the Washington Examiner in 2023 that the notice came out of the blue. 

“We opened our Bank of America account in 2011, and used it to make small grants and pay our largely U.S.-based staff members. Our ministry focus has stayed consistent in whatever may qualify as a ‘business type’ since we started our bank account, and we are accredited with the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability,” Curtis wrote. “So we were surprised and confused by the bank’s decision.”

Major financial institutes were “debanking” all manner of right-of-center individuals and organizations during the Biden years, a scary era of prosecution and persecution of the left’s political enemies. 

Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and several other mammoth U.S. financial institutions cited “reputation risk” in denying service to American consumers between 2020 and 2025, according to a damning new report issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The 45-page report titled, “Debanked: Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” is an indictment on the left’s cancel culture fury and the Goliath banks that were “willing or unwitting accomplices” in the sweeping silencing treatment, said Jeremy Tedesco, special counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.

‘Now We Have the Goods’

ADF and other First Amendment defenders had for years warned of a growing debanking effort targeting “disfavored” organizations and industries — aka the left’s ideological enemies. Tedesco said critics scoffed. They said the red flag raisers “didn’t have the goods.” 

“Well now we have the goods,” the civil rights attorney says in an upcoming episode of The Federalist Radio Hour. “We have the biggest banking regulator in the U.S. government saying, ‘This is happening, and it’s happening at a wide scale at the biggest banks in the country.’”

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A California Scandal Reveals How The State Is Governed Under Single-Party Democrat Rule

You can abuse taxpayer funds, but be warned: You won’t get away with it for more than a decade or two.

Last month, the inspector general for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority reported that consultants on the state’s much-delayed bullet train project had used hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funds to pay for “trips to gyms, a nightclub, an escape room, a tiki bar and a cigar lounge.” Traveling on taxpayer dollars, consultants also “flew first-class and were reimbursed without questioning, in violation of contracts and state policies.”

Last week, accountability arrived. Well, sort of. In an October 9 special meeting, the board that oversees the High-Speed Rail Authority sharply limited the ability of CEO Ian Choudri to personally approve contracts on the project.

If you dig into the details, though, the accountability part becomes fuzzier. Board member Lynn Schenk said she was outraged to learn about the improper use of public funds. Also, Schenk has served on the oversight board since 2003. Read these details from a report on the news website CalMatters carefully:

Board member Henry Perea suggested the travel payments are so egregious that the state should end its contract with the firms right away, something Gov. Gavin Newsom has also floated. However, Perea said he worried that doing so could set back the long-delayed rail project even further.

“I’d terminate these four (contracts) tomorrow or today, but I understand there’s a question of operational needs that we have with these folks,” he said.

These contractors have abused us in an outrageous manner, and what a shame it is that they’re going to continue serving as our contractors.

Also, as CalMatters put it, “the board did not grill the authority’s top executives for failing to catch the behavior.” Money was misspent, so don’t do that again. Anyway, moving on…

At the board meeting, Choudri walked away from reporters who tried to ask him questions. In a state with frequently complicit and docile legacy media, California journalists are pursuing this story with considerable seriousness, prompting state officials to run and hide.

But you can watch Choudri’s statement to the board, and this is where things get especially interesting.

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