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Senate Candidate Returns AIPAC Money As Pro-Israel Group Becomes Political Poison

In the latest indication that the war in Gaza is significantly threatening Israel’s dominance over American politics, a sitting US congressman and Senate hopeful has announced he’s returning donations received from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), and refusing to accept any more.   

“In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government,” said Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton on Thursday, one day after announcing he was launching a primary challenge against incumbent Dem Senator Edward Markey.

“I’m a friend of Israel, but not of its current government, and AIPAC’s mission today is to back that government…I don’t support that direction. That’s why I’ve decided to return the donations I’ve received and will not be accepting their support.” 

Moulton will refund $35,000 that he’s received from AIPAC. 

AIPAC quickly lashed out at its estranged beneficiary.

 “Moulton is abandoning his friends to grab a headline, capitulating to the extremes rather than standing on conviction,” the group wrote on X.

“His statement comes after years of him repeatedly asking for our endorsement and is a clear message to AIPAC members in Massachusetts, and millions of pro-Israel Democrats nationwide, that he rejects their support and will not stand with them.”

AIPAC has long been regarded as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in US politics. Historically, politicians from both parties have been eager to accept AIPAC money – and quick to accept AIPAC’s voting instructions.  Similarly, they’ve been fearful of incurring the group’s wrath, which could quickly turn into a potent primary challenge. In 2024, AIPAC and allied pro-Israel groups spent enormous sums in successful efforts to oust New York Dem. Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Missouri Dem. Rep. Cori Bush. AIPAC’s $15 million spent against Bowman helped make that race the most expensive House primary in US history.  

However, in a political earthquake emanating from Israel’s staggering destruction of Gaza with US-supplied weapons, AIPAC now finds its position in American politics wobbling like never before, as citizens across the political spectrum demonstrate growing unease with Israel’s influence over politicians and policy. Increasingly, both Republicans and Democrats find themselves under fire for accepting AIPAC money.

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Cheryl Hines says she is ‘very worried’ about husband RFK Jr’s safety amid political tension

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s wife Cheryl Hines admitted she is fearful for her husband’s safety following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.  

Hines opened up to Fox News about marrying into the Kennedy family and touched on the importance of acknowledging differing political viewpoints, revealing she worries about her husband’s safety. Her memoir “Unscripted,” which in part reveals her life with Kennedy, will be released Nov. 11.

“I am very worried,” Hines told “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “It can’t be, ‘Because you don’t think like me, I hate you.’ That’s what it feels like sometimes.”  

She reflected on how her husband, a previous Democrat turned independent, and President Donald Trump had a number of similar goals and decided to collaborate, placing Kennedy “in the middle of a Republican administration.” 

“If someone didn’t vote the same way you voted, instead of saying, ‘Oh, you’re stupid, you don’t know what you’re doing!’ — ‘Why did you vote for this person?’ or ‘Why do you believe this, about this issue?’ Then, really let it in what their response is, because maybe you’ll start to understand each other more.”  

Hines explained that the “Make America Healthy Again” movement is about a lifestyle, rather than making sure every decision one makes in their daily habits is perfect. 

While Hines said she is as MAHA as her husband, she will indulge in certain foods he will not.   

“Overall, going through the days, you’re trying to make the healthiest choices and you’re trying to do what’s best for your body to keep you healthy,” she said. “That’s basically it.”

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Jay Jones knew the children he wished dead: VA Delegate Terry Kilgore

After Democrat nominee for Virginia attorney general Jay Jones was revealed to have had a desire for the killing of GOP politician Todd Gilbert as well as his children so that Gilbert would move on gun policy, a Republican in the state assembly has said that Jones knew the children at the time he made the comments.

Terry Kilgore, a Virginia State Delegate and leader of the GOP in the state legislature revealed on the Tucker Carlson Show that Gilbert’s children were around the state assembly all the time and Jones would have known them. Carlson said to Kilgore, “This text exchange happened several years ago, and when it happened, the Republican to whom he was texting—I don’t have any idea what that was about, but it happened—sent this exchange to the Speaker who was being threatened by Jay Jones, whose children were being threatened by Jay Jones? Did he tell anybody about it? Did you hear about it then?”

Kilgore responded, “I didn’t hear about it. To be perfectly honest. I didn’t know anything about it until the Friday that all this was released. And no, I think Todd was just handling it. You know, in a way, Todd normally handles things.”

“Todd’s a great guy, good friend. You know, his two little kids are just precious little kids, two little boys, you know, in school now, but at that time, they were around the General Assembly all the time. Everybody knew the Gilbert kids. And Jay Jones would have known the Gilbert kids. That’s what’s terrible about this whole situation. It wasn’t like, ‘hey, I want to kill a kid who’s from another country.’ You would know this kid, these kids, because you’re around the General Assembly.”

Carlson called the newly revealed information, “Horrifying.”

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Democrats Block Legislation To Pay Troops During Shutdown

Democrats blocked the Senate from considering a defense spending bill on Thursday afternoon that would pay military service members during the shutdown.

Senators voted 50 to 44, with just three Democrats breaking with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to advance a full-year defense appropriations bill. The failed vote comes as Congress is locked in a stalemate to end the 16-day shutdown with Democrats largely refusing to cross party lines and reopen the government.

The defense appropriations bill would fund the Department of War for the upcoming fiscal year and ensure that active-duty troops do not miss a paycheck during the shutdown. The measure also includes a military pay raise.

Military personnel would have gone without pay for the first time in U.S. history on Wednesday if President Donald Trump had not tapped unused Pentagon funding to temporarily cover troop pay.

However, there is no guarantee of future paychecks for military personnel if the shutdown continues into November.

Democratic Sens. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire joined Republicans in advancing the defense spending bill that would fund troop pay for the entire fiscal year. The funding measure notably passed out of the Appropriations Committee with near unanimous support in July.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune blasted Democrats for filibustering the measure during a fiery speech on the Senate floor.

“After voting last week for an authorization bill to increase troop pay, Democrats just voted against the bill that would actually pay the troops,” Thune said.

“They’re happy to sacrifice any American and evidently any principle to their political goals,” Thune continued. “Democrats like to position themselves as the party of the little guy and the defender of hard-working Americans, but as this vote makes clear, who do Democrats really care about?”

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Virginia Democrat Voters Side With Assassination Fetishist Jay Jones: ‘Gotta Fight Hardball’

RLINGTON, Va. — Come hell or high water, Democrats in Virginia are standing by their attorney general candidate Jay Jones, who fantasized about annihilating the family of his political opponents in order to get them to “move on policy.”

According to Democrat voters in one of the commonwealth’s bluest districts, “the alternative,” Attorney General Jason Miyares, R-Va. — who is most well known for conducting basic law enforcement duties, working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport illegals, and defending school children from “transgender” ideology — is much more dangerous.

In the final stretch of the Virginia election, with early voting season in full swing, The Federalist interviewed multiple Democrat voters outside Arlington County’s primary early voting location at Courthouse Plaza. None would give their names, but all justified voting for Jones despite his desire to commit gruesome acts of violence over political disagreements.

Each Democrat was very much aware of how abhorrent the comments were, but was committed to sticking by him anyway. The underlying drive for their support seems to be their idea that their cause is existential and the ends justify all behavior, including talking in a very serious way about the murder of political opponents and their families.

“You gotta fight hardball the same way they do,” one middle-aged white male Democrat who had just cast his ballot for Jones told The Federalist. He explained that the text messages did not change his vote, but it “made me hesitant.” He added that if it were a primary, he would not vote for him.

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‘Two Bullets’ Jay Jones Says He’s Sorry For Vile Texts, Then Blames Trump

It’s a good thing “Two Bullets” Jay Jones isn’t applying for a line prosecutor position in an attorney general’s office. As Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has said, Jones wouldn’t pass a background check. 

But Jones, a former Virginia state delegate, isn’t applying for a line prosecutor position. He’s applying to replace Republican incumbent AG Miyares. The commonwealth’s voters in a couple of weeks, however, will determine if Jones’ vile text messages — in which he fantasized about putting “two bullets” in the head of a Republican politician he loathed — pass their background check. 

‘I Am Ashamed,’ but It’s Trump

At a debate Thursday evening between the two candidates, Jones had to again face the violent messages that some of his fellow Democrats have called indefensible and many Virginians have said are disqualifying. Jones gave another political mea culpa, telling the packed house at the University of Richmond who he believes the real culprit is: Donald Trump. 

“Let me be very clear: I am ashamed. I am embarrassed. And I am sorry,” the leftist AG candidate said. His apology sounded as sincere as the standard politician who is sorry — for being caught. 

Jones quickly pivoted to a long list of complaints about President Donald Trump, attempting to tie Miyares to the hip of the commander-in-chief and his policies. Jones, who is dealing with more unearthed skeletons than his 2022 text fantasies of murdering the children of former Virginia Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert, urged voters to remember that “the stakes of this race are too high” to consider his psychotic messages. 

Jones warned that if he is not elected there will be no one in the attorney general’s office to lead an endless lawfare campaign against the left’s Public Enemy No. 1 and his administration. 

“When Donald Trump fires [federal] workers, defunds our schools, and levies tariffs that destroy our regional economies, sends armed troops into cities, and defunds law enforcment, he has a willing cheerleader here in Jason Miyares, who will not step up to sue,” Miyares said, promising Virginia and the world that he would be a reliable foot soldier in the Democratic Party’s war on Trump and a political agenda that much of America voted for. 

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Virginia Democrat Jay Jones BLASTED in Debate After GOP AG Exposes 116 MPH Reckless Driving Conviction and Alleged Scheme to Dodge 1,000-Hour Community Service Requirement

In a fiery debate Thursday night at the University of Richmond, Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Jones was absolutely torched by incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares, who exposed the Democrat’s reckless driving conviction and attempt to manipulate his 1,000-hour community service requirement.

The debate, held Thursday at the University of Richmond and moderated by Virginia State Bar President K. Brett Marston, quickly turned into a disaster for Jones.

During the debate, the disgraced candidate said, “I am ashamed, I am embarrassed, and I am sorry.”

If he were truly sorry, he’d drop out of the race.

Jones, already under fire for past politically violent rhetoric in which he expressed a desire to kill his GOP rival, faced devastating scrutiny when Miyares opened the debate by reminding Virginians of Jones’ 116-mph joyride down Interstate 64.

Earlier this month, Miyares wrote on X, “Jay Jones was caught recklessly driving 116 miles per hour on I-64. Then, he tried to claim campaign work for his own PAC counted as community service to avoid jail. Jay Jones is too soft-on-crime — including his own.”

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Dem Running for Senate in Maine as a Humble Veteran Called Himself a ‘Communist’ and Painted Rural Whites as Stupid and Racist Online

A maverick Democrat running for the U.S. Senate insists that what he said online a few years ago is not what he means now.

Graham Platner is an oyster farmer who is challenging Gov. Janet Mills for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the 2026 midterm elections.

As noted by New York magazine, his campaign has been fawned over by progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, which has helped him amass a $4 million war chest 13 months before the election.

Then came a report from CNN that mined the depths of Platner’s Reddit posts from 2020 and 2021, all of which had been deleted before he announced his candidacy.

For example, a 2021 Reddit snippet noted, “I got older and became a communist.”

His antagonism to the police came through when he wrote, “Bastards. Cops are bastards. All of them, in fact.”

He said police misconduct is “a problem that extends deep into the profession as a whole.”

Rural America came in for criticism when he responded to a post saying, “White people aren’t as racist or stupid as Trump thinks” by writing, “Living in white rural America, I’m afraid to tell you they actually are.”

The Marine veteran shared his disillusionment with his service.

“My time in America’s imperial wars definitely radicalized me further, and I’m significantly more left today than I was back then. It is difficult to see all that horror, as well as all the grift and corruption, and not find the entire thing utterly bankrupt,” he wrote. “I did used to love America, or at least the idea of it. These days I’m pretty disgusted by it all.”

But now he says all that was just a mixed-up guy venting.

“That was very much me f***ing around the internet,” he said to CNN.  “I don’t want people to see me for who I was in my worst Internet comment — or even frankly who I was in my best Internet comment… I don’t think any of that is indicative of who I am today, really.”

The 41-year-old said he is not what his years-old comments might imply.

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Disgraced Democrat AG Candidate Jay Jones Deflects From His Own Violent Threats by Promising to “Prosecute President Trump Because He’s Bad and Orange”

During the first and only debate for Virginia attorney general, Democrat Party candidate Jay Jones was pressed on why voters should trust his judgment after disturbing revelations resurfaced from 2022, when he made politically violent comments about wanting to kill his GOP rival and his reckless driving conviction.

Marston pressed him twice on why Virginians should trust his judgment after revelations of his violent remarks.

Instead of showing genuine remorse, Jones attempted to pivot, deflecting from his own disturbing words and bizarrely claiming that his moral high ground comes from being “held accountable by his party,” which is false.

Jones then launched into a tirade accusing Attorney General Jason Miyares of being “too weak” to stand up to President Trump, signaling that his campaign is less about law and order and more about partisan vendettas.

While Miyares focused on crime, border security, and protecting Virginia families, Jones made it clear his priority is political persecution of Trump, not serving the people of Virginia. Jones could only talk about his Trump Derangement Syndrome.

K. Brett Marston:
Why should voters trust your judgment moving forward?

Jay Jones:
Well, look, Brett, I want to say one thing — Jason Miyares can’t prosecute a case against Donald Trump, that’s for sure. And I will also say this: I was held accountable by my party, and I deeply, deeply respect that. But what about when Donald Trump used incendiary language to incite a riot to try to overturn an election here in this country?

What about when Winsome Sears used violent language about people who disagree with you and her in your extreme position on abortion? What about when John Reid shared Nazi porn? You haven’t said a word. I’ve taken accountability for my mistakes. It’s time you — we — take accountability, too.

K. Brett Marston:
And let me ask this one more time, Delegate Jones, just so we’re clear and the voters understand — why do you think they should trust your judgment based upon these two events that we’ve discussed?

Jay Jones:
I’ve taken accountability for my mistakes, and I know that people in Virginia right now demand and deserve leaders who accept when they make mistakes, can acknowledge that, and have been held accountable.

This job right now demands someone who will hold Donald Trump accountable. For the last nine months, Jason has had 50 chances to sue the administration — to protect us, to protect our workers, to protect our health care, to protect our K-12 funding, and funding for law enforcement. And his office hasn’t done a thing because he’s too weak and too scared to stand up to the President.

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Rules for Thee, Fraud for Me: Letitia James Prosecuted Mortgage Fraud Case Mirroring the Charges Against Her

Attorney General Letitia James, the architect of New York state’s mortgage-fraud crackdowns, now finds herself in the position of her former defendants, accused of exploiting the very system she once claimed to defend. The hypocrisy is undeniable.

Any attempt by Letitia James to claim ignorance of the law as a defense in her mortgage fraud indictment is all but gone.

In June 2019, New York Attorney General Letitia James stood before the cameras to hail a conviction she called a triumph against mortgage fraud.

The case involved a $1.3 million scheme by Brooklyn couple John F. Iacono and Shpresa Gjekovic, whom James accused of “a deliberate scheme to enrich themselves at the expense of hardworking New Yorkers.”

At the time, she declared the prosecution was proof that “no one is above the law”.

But today, now under indictment for mortgage fraud herself, that speech reads less like a moment of triumph and more like an act of projection.

The accompanying quote from Attorney General James remains striking for its tone of moral absolutism.

“Iacono and Gjekovic falsified document after document in order to pad their own pockets,” James said. “Let this serve as a warning to all of those who try to carry out such deliberate schemes: There is no place in this state for individuals who try to cash in at the expense of hardworking New Yorkers.”

Those words, “no place in this state,” once echoed across newsrooms as the declaration of a moral crusader.

Her CUFFS Initiative (Combatting Upstate Financial Frauds and Schemes) was marketed as a model for restoring faith in financial integrity, pairing state police with prosecutors to “expose deceitful plots” and reinforce public trust.

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