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Former DOJ Official Ed Martin Launches Gun Rights Group

Former U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin is launching a new gun rights group aimed at restoring firearm access to Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes, an initiative that seeks to boost conservative turnout in this fall’s midterm elections.

Martin, who left the Justice Department last week, said the group, Firearm Rights for Americans, was an idea encouraged by President Donald Trump during their final Oval Office meeting.

Trump told Martin he wanted to make sure his administration received “credit” for expanding gun access, Martin added.

“When you turn out Second Amendment voters, they vote right,” Martin said, referring to the Republican Party. “You gotta go sell that message.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Martin said the group planned to produce and distribute written and video testimonials from individuals seeking to regain gun ownership.

The strategy aims to mobilize single-issue Second Amendment voters in competitive congressional swing districts who may feel the administration has not acted quickly enough on gun rights.

He hopes the effort could help Republicans preserve their House majority this year and build momentum toward the 2028 presidential election.

In August, Attorney General Todd Blanche and Martin announced the finalizing of a federal regulation allowing individuals disqualified from gun ownership to petition for the restoration of their rights.

The collaboration between the two senior officials followed more than 30 other proposed rule changes to ease gun access, many backed by gun rights groups.

Through Firearm Rights for Americans, Martin said he hopes to ensure potential applicants and Second Amendment supporters know about the change, and as a result sway disaffected voters to go to the polls.

The group will also produce guides for eligible individuals to navigate state and federal regulations.

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Portland Teen Gets Five Years in Prison After Stabbing Man He Says Sent Him Child Sex-Abuse Videos — The Lawyer He Stabbed Faces No Charges

In Democrat-run Portland, a teenager who called 911 and told officers, “I stabbed a pedophile,” is headed to prison. The older man he accused of sending him videos of child sexual abuse is not.

Elijah Cruz Valenzuela, then 19, plunged a knife into the chest of 46-year-old Joshua Field at Field’s downtown Portland apartment on the night of Aug. 11, 2025.

Valenzuela told police he had met Field on the dating app Sniffies, that Field sent him child sexual abuse videos that were later deleted, and that Field invited him over to watch more while asking if he was “pervy” and interested in “younger guys,” Oregon Live reported.

Valenzuela said he originally planned only to beat Field. He then grabbed a knife inside the apartment, stabbed Field in the chest, ran to the lobby, and called 911.

Body-camera video obtained by the news outlet captured him telling officers after his arrest: “I stabbed a ped*phile.” Field survived.

On Aug. 21, 2026, Valenzuela, who had no prior criminal record, pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree assault and first-degree burglary. Multnomah County Circuit Judge Christopher Marshall sentenced him to five years in prison.

With “good time,” that stretch could shrink to a little more than three. He is already at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.

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Convicted child sex offender wants to serve his sentence in a women’s prison

There are a lot of bad hombres serving time within the walls of the Niagara Detention Centre in Thorold, Ont. But there is one particular monster who deserves special attention: convicted pedophile Daniel Senecal.

26-year-old Senecal is a repeat offender, locked up for the sexual assault of young children. His most recent victim was a three-year-old girl in Welland, Ont., last year. Armed with a screwdriver, Senecal forced his way into a basement apartment around 3:30 a.m. and proceeded to choke, torture, and sexually assault the toddler.

He would later plead guilty to six charges in a St. Catharines courtroom. Among those charges were aggravated sexual assault on a person under 16, sexual interference, assault by choking, possession of child pornography, and breach of probation.

So, why is Daniel Senecal back in the news?

Two reasons.

First, the Crown is requesting that Senecal be given dangerous offender status, making sure this creep will likely remain behind bars forever. A decision will be made on that request later this month.

The second reason Senecal is making news: Daniel is now apparently identifying as “Dani.” Translation: he is now claiming to be a she.

That’s right. We have another grifter gaming the system, preposterously claiming he’s a woman “trapped” in a man’s body, and he would much rather serve his time at the Grand Valley Institute for Women in Kitchener. And say, what could go wrong by allowing a violent male sex offender to be incarcerated with hundreds of potential female victims?

Do you want to know who wants “Dani” to get his/her way? Well, that would be the Mark Carney Liberals.

Earlier this week, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced that the federal government has filed its Statement of Defence in an ongoing constitutional challenge to its policy or permitting trans-identifying male inmates to be transferred to women’s prisons. The document is fascinating given that it reveals “transwoman” (male) inmates have already faced sexual-assault charges following complaints by female inmates — even as Ottawa denies that its policy violates female inmates’ Charter right to life, liberty, and security of the person (section 7).

Lawyers funded by the Justice Centre launched the constitutional challenge in April 2025 on behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR). The lawsuit challenges Correctional Service Canada’s Commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender Diverse Offenders, arguing that allowing trans-identifying male inmates to be housed in women’s prisons exposes female inmates to physical and psychological harm and violates their Charter rights.

In its Statement of Defence, the federal government acknowledges that several so-called “transwomen” have sexually assaulted biological females behind bars. Despite this admission, the federal government “wholly denies that any alleged harm to inmates housed in women’s institutions flowed from the implementation of CD 100.”

What the hell?

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Ottawa admits trans-identifying male inmates faced sex assault charges after transfers to women’s prisons

The federal government has acknowledged that trans-identifying male inmates faced sexual-assault charges following complaints from female prisoners, while defending the policy that allows inmates to be transferred to women’s institutions based on gender identity.

The admissions are contained in Ottawa’s Statement of Defence responding to a constitutional challenge filed by Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights, or CAWSBAR.

According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which is funding the challenge, the government confirmed that an inmate identified as S/M was charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of criminal harassment in May 2020 after a female inmate complained.

Ottawa also confirmed that another inmate, identified as KF/R, was charged with two counts of sexual assault after a complaint from a female prisoner in October 2024.

Charges have not been proven in court.

The government’s defence acknowledges other complaints involving trans-identifying male inmates in women’s facilities. They include a 2018 complaint that led to a police investigation but no charges, a 2021 complaint alleging sexual and physical assault at Fraser Valley Institution and a 2019 sexual-assault report at Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge.

Despite those incidents, Ottawa “wholly denies that any alleged harm to inmates housed in women’s institutions flowed from the implementation” of Correctional Service Canada’s gender policy.

The government argues that individualized assessments and institutional safeguards provide an appropriate framework for managing risks.

CAWSBAR launched the constitutional challenge in April 2025, alleging that permitting biological male inmates to be housed in women’s prisons exposes female prisoners to physical and psychological harm and violates their Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person.

“Female inmates are being exposed to real risks and real harm,” constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury said. “This case is about protecting their safety, dignity and constitutional rights.”

Correctional Service Canada introduced its current gender-diverse-offender policy in May 2022.

In May 2026, the Federal Court rejected Ottawa’s attempt to strike the lawsuit and granted CAWSBAR public-interest standing. The federal government is now asking the court to dismiss the challenge with costs.

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Appeals court blocks Minnesota’s censorship of election integrity group over felon voting

Minnesota is a leader among states testing First Amendment limits on regulating speech and expression in the name of protecting the public, with its mandatory social media warning labels and criminal bans on AI-generated “nudification” – including barechested men – and election-related “deepfakes” that mock politicians.

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which refused to block the deepfake law by reading an unwritten parody exception into it, wasn’t so tolerant when it came to Minnesota’s potential censorship of an election integrity group.

A three-judge panel ordered a lower court to block a voter-interference law as applied to the Minnesota Voters Alliance and its members as their case moves forward, leaving them free to publicly assert — without risking prosecution — that the Land of 10,000 Lakes violates its constitution by letting felons vote before their “civil rights” have been “restored.”

“A group of Minnesotans want to express their belief that certain felons cannot vote. Can the state criminalize their speech? In denying a preliminary injunction, the district court thought so. We disagree,” Judge David Stras wrote for the unanimous panel, nominated by presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, faulting the law as a prior restraint without “procedural safeguards.”

House File 3 works in tandem with HF 28, which restores voting rights to felons whenever they are “not incarcerated for the offense” – even if they are still serving the sentence – by criminalizing the spread of certain information within 60 days of an election. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed both laws in 2023.

HF 3’s “deceptive practices” section prohibits transmitting information that “intends to impede or prevent another person from exercising the right to vote” and is known to be “materially false,” including “the qualifications for or restrictions on voter eligibility at an election.” 

“The Alliance is worried that it already has a target on its back” from both state and county prosecutors, who can “pursue gross-misdemeanor charges” against alleged violators and civil actions “to prevent or restrain a violation,” Stras’s opinion says. The law also lets anyone “injured by” a supposed violation bring civil actions.

Anoka County buttressed MVA’s case by bringing a counterclaim after it sued Attorney General Keith Ellison and Anoka County Attorney Brad Johnson, by seeking money damages and an injunction against MVA for violating the law, according to the voter integrity group.

ACLU supports election censorship law

The Upper Midwest Law Center and Liberty Justice Center, which represent MVA and its members, cheered the ruling. 

“The First Amendment does not allow the government to end an argument by threatening prosecution,” UMLC President Doug Seaton said. 

Minnesota cannot “silence political debate simply because an election is near,” LJC senior counsel Reilly Stephens said.

Ellison’s office told Just the News “we’re evaluating all of our options to best protect Minnesotans’ freedom to vote.” 

Protect Democracy United counsel Cameron Kister accused the 8th Circuit panel of violating its own precedent. 

“The Minnesota Deceptive Practices Provision is not a statute that targets falsity and nothing more; it is a statute that targets falsity deployed to accomplish a harm the common law has recognized for centuries,” the progressive activist wrote.

In line with its turn against free speech for select groups since the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, the ACLU supported Ellison and Johnson in a friend-of-the-court brief, arguing the election censorship law is narrowly tailored and responded to “incidents of purposeful, targeted election disinformation aimed at preventing voters from exercising their constitutional right.”

The elected Democrats already triumphed over MVA’s constitutional challenge to the felon-voting law itself, which the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed on the grounds that the “taxpayer standing” asserted by MVA and its members “does not exist when a taxpayer simply seeks to generally restrain ‘illegal action[s] on the part of public officials.'”

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Islam’s Quiet Takeover: How Britain’s Prisons Became Dawa Centers

Nick Timothy MP, Britain’s shadow justice secretary, just put numbers on something that’s been muttered about for years. Ministry of Justice data shows one in five Muslim prisoners in England and Wales is white. That’s nearly four times the rate in the general population. White Muslim inmates went from 2,767 in 2022 to 3,218 by June 2025. Overall, Muslim numbers in prison rose from 14,037 to 16,051 in the same stretch. They’re now about 18 percent of the prison population in a country where Muslims are only 6.5 percent of everyone else.

Timothy says the gap “raises serious questions.” Experts have been warning for a long time about Muslim gangs pushing conversions behind bars. He wants the Labour government to look into it properly. The Ministry of Justice’s answer is the usual line: they don’t tolerate intimidation or faith-based coercion. Okay. That still doesn’t explain the figures.

Not every conversion is forced, of course. Some guys convert for the structure, the food, or just to have people watching their back. Some white Muslims grew up in the faith. Fair enough. It still doesn’t account for the size of the shift.

Jonathan Hall KC, who reviews terrorism legislation, found Muslims running parts of prisons as self-styled “emirs.” They pull in lonely or vulnerable inmates with food, advice, small gifts — and sometimes the threat of violence.

He named Usman Khan, the London Bridge attacker, who spent years inside pushing other prisoners to take Muslim names and dress the part. Colin Bloom’s review picked up the phrase “convert or get hurt,” and Qurans were left on new guys’ beds. Don’t identify as Muslim, and you can lose the protection of the main group on the wing. Ian Acheson, who looked at this for a previous government, said some of it is just practical: you convert because that’s who runs the place.

There’s an official side to this now. Figures linked to Timothy’s data show 140 Muslim prison chaplains against 87 Church of England and 94 Catholic. A wider parliamentary count in 2025 put the Muslim total at 263 out of more than 1,200 faith workers. Employed Muslim chaplains went from almost nothing in the early 2000s to well over a hundred later on. No other non-Christian group has anything close.

Most chaplains just do the job — visits, Friday prayers, classes, checking on people at risk. But for some, dawa (inviting people to Islam) is part of it. One Muslim prison chaplain has written that she “gives Dawah to the captives,” hands out books, and helps inmates take the shahadah, including English women. Once you register as Muslim, you get regular visits, Islamic classes, and Friday prayers from the professional chaplains. For a lot of these men, it’s the first proper teaching they’ve ever had. When the strongest group on the wing is already Muslim, that setup works as a pipeline.

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Write Code, Go to Prison. Slaughter Children, Get a Pardon: Welcome to American “Justice”

If you want to understand the true nature of the American justice system, look at who it pardons and who it cages. This is a regime that hands full clemency to executives who admit, in writing, to laundering money for hackers and drug cartels, while it hunts down software developers who never touched a single dollar that wasn’t theirs, who had zero victims, and then buries them under decades of federal time. The hypocrisy is not incidental. It is the modus operandi of the machine: the state does not actually care about fraud, laundering, or victims. It cares about control, and control is exactly what open-source financial privacy takes away from it.

We said it after Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht in January 2025: the pardon was a great start, but the debt owed to the rest of the political prisoners rotting in federal cages was nowhere near paid. Nineteen months later, that debt has been settled only for the defendants with the most useful political connections, while the actual innovators, the ones who built tools instead of stealing from innocent people, are still being ground up by the exact same machine.

Take for instance, Roman Storm, who is still fighting for his freedom for the “crime” of writing code. A Manhattan jury convicted him in August 2025 on a single count tied to Tornado Cash, a privacy protocol, and deadlocked on the far more serious and entirely unprovable money-laundering and sanctions charges, and rather than take that hung jury as the warning it was, federal prosecutors are pushing for an October 2026 retrial on the very counts they couldn’t get a conviction on the first time. This is happening while the Justice Department’s own March 2026 report to Congress admits that lawful Americans have every right to use mixers to protect their financial privacy. The state knows it is prosecuting a man for building something it has since conceded is legal to use. It is pursuing him anyway. Storm’s own team has called this what it is, an attempt to make writing code a crime, and this past week Storm pointed out that if prosecutors’ theory of liability were applied honestly, it would put Google and OpenAI in a federal courtroom right alongside him.

If you want to be even more angry, read about Dexter Taylor’s case. Taylor is still in a maximum-security cage for building firearms in his own apartment that he never sold, never trafficked, and never used to harm a single human being. He is three years into a ten-year sentence, parole-eligible only in 2032, still appealing a conviction his attorney says could take years and go all the way to the Supreme Court. A software engineer with zero prior criminal history is serving longer than plenty of people convicted of manslaughter, for a hobby with no victim, and the state has shown no interest in correcting that.

Ian Freeman already lost his appeal, which is what happens when the machine runs its full course, and the state simply wins by default. Freeman helped people convert cash into Bitcoin through Bitcoin ATMs and church-run kiosks, and for that he was locked in a state-run cage after a federal appellate court affirmed both his conviction and his sentence in the summer of 2025. He is still in that cage today for giving people a way to hold their own money outside the banking cartel.

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Mom sentenced to prison for trying to rescue her son from transitioning into a girl…

There are cases where the law tells you what happened but leaves out almost everything that explains why it happened… and that can be very troubling, and you go straight into the weaponization pool.

Shana Gaviola’s case feels like one of those situations.

The federal government’s version of this case is brutal and really straightforward. They say Gaviola violated a restraining order involving her teenage son, arranged to have him taken from California to a Christian boarding school in Missouri, and the people transporting him kept him handcuffed for more than 24 hours.

She broke the law, a jury convicted her, and now she’s been sentenced to three years in federal prison.

But that very dry and clinical version of the story leaves out the chunk that turned this case into a rallying cry for parental-rights warriors.

According to Gaviola and her supporters, this fight began after her teenage son wanted to transition into a girl, and the people around him, including his school, affirmed his decision without his mother’s approval. Gaviola believed her confused child was headed toward a life-changing decision he would likely regret, and she refused to just stand by and watch it happen.

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Video Shows Democrat Roy Cooper Lying to Reporters About Releasing 4,200 Prisoners

North Carolina Democrat Senate candidate Roy Cooper lied to reporters when asked about his soft-on-crime record at a recent campaign appearance.

When asked about his record, Cooper said, “Independent fact checks show most of what they’re saying is simply not true. I’m the only one in this race who’s actually prosecuted violent criminals and worked to keep them behind bars.”

In this matter, it is Cooper who is not telling the truth.

Court and public records confirm that Cooper settled a lawsuit filed by far-left groups in order to release a minimum of 3,500 convicted criminals from prison — the only governor in the country who signed a legally binding agreement requiring their state to release prisoners, as Breitbart News previously reported. The total ended up being 4,200.

Cooper’s campaign has sought to discredit reporting that DeCarlos Brown, the man charged in the murder of Iryna Zarutska, was on the early release list. However, his offender identification number appears on a list Cooper’s administration hid from public view until a Fox News Digital story reported on the case.

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Trans Leader in ‘764’ Satanic Cult That Grooms Children for Sexual Abuse, Torture, Terrorism and Blood Rituals Sentenced to 77 Years in Prison

A transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.

Kyle William Spitze, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2024 to producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM and helping distribute animal torture videos, but he wasn’t sentenced until Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. The judge sentenced him to the entirety of what the prosecution had sought.

Spitze is a leader of the “HarmNation” group, which is part of the “764” satanic accelerationist cult-like online network.

The decentralized network of mostly teen boys and young men grooms its minor victims into producing child sex abuse material of themselves, mutilating their bodies, abusing or killing animals and, in some cases, committing suicide and/or killing others. They often target victims on online gaming platforms popular with children, such as Minecraft and Roblox.

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