They talk tough. They pound the table. They hold hearings, issue subpoenas, and flood social media with outrage. But when it comes time to act, to actually hold anyone accountable, too many Republicans fold.
Today on Stinchfield, Grant calls out the phony Republicans who have turned politics into performance art. While Democrats weaponized the system to go after President Trump and countless conservatives, what have Republicans really done in response? Endless hearings. Fiery speeches. Zero consequences.
How many more “bombshell” Senate hearings do we have to sit through before something actually happens? The American people are tired of waiting. Tired of watching Republicans grandstand while the other side plays for keeps.
Because make no mistake, Democrats aren’t hiding their plans. They are telling you exactly what they will do if they regain full power. More investigations. More prosecutions. More punishment for anyone who dares to challenge them.
And the most dangerous part? They mean it.
So the question is simple. Why aren’t Republicans acting with the same urgency? Why does it feel like only one side is willing to fight?
This episode pulls no punches. Names are named. Excuses are over.
If Republicans don’t find their backbone soon, it won’t just be President Trump in the crosshairs. It will be you.
With the United States forces engaged in destroying the Iranian military, it’s easy for Americans to think the enemy is on the other side of the world.
But a Department of Justice operation that resulted in the arrests of three Iranian-born computer engineers on the virtual eve of Operation Epic Fury has a different kind of message:
The danger can be much, much closer to home.
As the New York Post reported Monday, two sisters and the husband of one of the women were arrested in mid-February, 10 days before military operations against Iran began, and charged with stealing trade secrets from Google and other Silicon Valley powerhouses.
A Department of Justice news release from Feb. 19 identified the trio as Soroor Ghandali, 32; Samaneh Ghandali, 41; and Samaneh Ghandali’s husband, Mohammadjavad Khosravi, 40.
The Ghandali sisters are former Google engineers who went on to work at another unidentified tech company; Khosravi worked at a third tech company, the release said.
And they apparently operated like trained professionals.
“As part of the alleged scheme to commit trade secret theft, the defendants used their employment to obtain access to confidential and sensitive information,” according to the DOJ release.
“The defendants then exfiltrated confidential and sensitive documents, including trade secrets related to processor security and cryptography and other technologies, from Google and other technology companies to unauthorized third-party and personal locations, including to work devices associated with each other’s employers, and to Iran.”
In official terms, the three are charged with “conspiring to commit trade secret theft from Google and other leading technology companies, theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, and obstruction of justice,” according to the news release.
But as the U.K.’s Daily Mail noted, “trade secrets” in this case sounds more like a euphemism for technology that can pose a direct danger to American troops, and the country itself.
“The case has intensified fears that foreign adversaries are increasingly turning to insiders, employees with legitimate access, to penetrate America’s most sensitive industries,” the Daily Mail reported.
“And the stakes could hardly be higher. The technology at issue — advanced chips, cryptography, and secure processing systems — sits at the core of modern computing and defense infrastructure.”
All three were in the country legally, according to the Daily Mail: Samaneh Ghandali is a naturalized citizen; Khosravi, her husband, is a legal permanent resident; and Soroor Ghandali has a student visa.
All three are free on bond after pleading innocent on March 2, according to the website Courthouse News: Bonds for Samaneh Ghandali and Khosravi were each set at $150,000; Soroor Ghandali’s bond was set at $75,000.
But judging by the DOJ news release, it appears they went to great lengths conceal their alleged activities, including “submitting false, signed affidavits to victim technology companies about the conduct and the stolen trade secrets; destroying exfiltrated files and other records from electronic devices; and concealing the methods of exfiltration to avoid detection by the victim technology companies (for example, manually photographing screens containing the documents’ contents instead of exfiltrating complete documents using a third-party communications platform).”
During a December 2023 visit to Iran, the Justice Department said, Samaneh Ghandali and Khosravi took steps to access stolen information, apparently with the intent of passing it on to a recipient in the Islamic Republic, no doubt under the watchful eye of the dictatorship in Tehran.
The case highlights the hidden dangers facing an open society like the United States.
While most sane Americans by now are aware of the criminal threat of illegal aliens allowed into the country in droves under the Biden administration, and the problems posed by politically active, anti-American agitators like the pro-Palestinian protesters that have struck American campuses, the potential hazard of potentially hostile agents burrowed deep in the country’s corporate infrastructure is a different matter.
Of course, an individual doesn’t have to be born abroad to be a danger — God knows the United States has enough native-born lunatics who are willing to play footsie with enemies (just look at Hollywood or any college campus where keffiyehs are a sign of both terrorism and terrorist chic).
But Iran has been at war with the United States since the triumph of its Islamic Revolution in 1979. And all three of the suspects in this case came of age in the era of the ayatollahs, in a country where “death to America” was the veritable national slogan.
It’s not shocking that they’ve been charged with what amounts to economic espionage. It’s really only shocking that there haven’t been more cases like it.
Because it’s a rock-solid bet that there’s plenty more of it — closer to home than most Americans think.
American leftists traveled to Cuba to undermine U.S. foreign policy. They made no effort to engage the regime or call for democratic or human rights reforms. Photo courtesy of Cuban News Agency.
A bunch of American liberals, in cooperation with various transnational communist and socialist organizations, set out to “break the U.S. blockade of Cuba.”
They delivered millions to the Cuban regime and never once addressed the fact that citizens have almost no human rights, no protected freedoms, and do not vote in free and fair elections.
The Nuestra América Convoy arrived in Havana on March 21, 2026, and was greeted by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. The convoy, named after an 1891 essay by Cuban writer José Martí, was organized by Progressive International in coordination with a coalition of aligned groups.
The organizing network consisted of hard-left and anti-capitalist organizations, including the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, which was designated by the CIA during the Cold War as a Soviet-aligned front organization, and Progressive International, whose published materials endorse socialist central planning and express support for communist revolutionary movements.
It was modeled on the Venceremos Brigade, a Cuba solidarity organization co-founded in 1969 by members of Students for a Democratic Society, the Communist Party USA, and the Black Panther Party, and co-created with Cuban government officials. A 1975 U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report called it “one of the most extensive and dangerous infiltration operations ever undertaken by a foreign power against the United States.”
A 1976 FBI report documented that Cuba’s intelligence agency, the DGI, used it to recruit Americans it hoped would one day obtain positions inside the U.S. government, providing access to political, economic, and military intelligence.
The convoy’s immediate trigger was Executive Order 14380, signed by President Trump on January 29, imposing an oil blockade on Cuba and threatening sanctions against any country that directly or indirectly supplies oil to Cuba.
Prior to 2026, Cuba had received most of its oil from Venezuela and Mexico.
Following the U.S. intervention in Venezuela, that supply was cut off, and Mexico was threatened with tariffs for continuing to ship oil to Cuba.
Cuba produces approximately 40,000 barrels of oil per day but requires roughly 100,000, leaving a gap that subsidized imports from Venezuela, Russia, and Iran had historically filled.
With those supplies gone, Cuba faced blackouts lasting up to 20 hours per day in some areas, along with shortages of food, fuel, and medicine.
However, it is important to note that when Trump initiated an oil blockade, the country was already experiencing prolonged outages, deteriorating infrastructure, runaway inflation, and widespread shortages of food, medicine, fuel, and other basic goods and services.
The convoy delivered an estimated 20 tons of aid, including food, medicine, solar panels, and bicycles, by air from Europe and Latin America and by sea from Mexico.
The maritime component, including the vessel Granma 2.0 and two sailboats, departed from the ports of Progreso, Yucatán, and Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, on March 19–20. In total, 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations participated.
Code Pink, one of the convoy’s key organizers, chartered a plane for 100 people and delivered 6,300 pounds of medical supplies valued at $433,000.
However, observers noted that roughly 20 tons of aid is insufficient to meet Cuba’s needs, and the convoy arrived just days before Cuba was expected to receive its first shipment of Russian oil.
Code Pink is estimated to have spent between $50,000 and $150,000 on the plane alone to deliver $433,000 worth of medical supplies, meaning a significant portion of the operation’s cost went toward transporting the activists themselves rather than the aid. Additionally, Code Pink charged each participant $1,600 for the trip to Cuba.
The $433,000 worth of medical supplies were collected by Global Health Partners, a nonprofit. Based on this, it appears that none of the participant fees went directly toward helping the people of Cuba.
Notable participants included former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Irish musical group Kneecap, U.S. labor leader Chris Smalls, Colombian Senator Clara López, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
Isra Hirsi, the adult daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), traveled as part of a People’s Forum delegation within the convoy.
The People’s Forum is a communist organization that received $20 million from Neville Roy Singham, a shadowy figure with ties to the Chinese Communist Party who sponsors many of the anti-U.S. protests in the U.S., including pro-Hamas, and “Hands Off Iran.”
Rep. Omar, born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and a naturalized U.S. citizen, publicly declared herself “incredibly proud” of her daughter’s participation, calling Hirsi an “unflinching justice warrior.”
Hirsi had previously been suspended from Barnard College over her involvement with an anti-Israel encampment that laid siege to part of the neighboring Columbia University campus in 2024.
The convoy was explicitly organized to challenge established U.S. foreign policy. The embargo is codified in multiple statutes including the Trading with the Enemy Act, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, and the Helms-Burton Act of 1996.
Organizers framed the mission as an effort to “break the siege” and called for it to serve as a catalyst for a broader global movement against U.S. sanctions.
To be clear, Omar, a sitting U.S. lawmaker, praised her daughter for engaging in behavior in support of a foreign government and undermining U.S. foreign policy.
At the welcome ceremony in Havana, attended by Díaz-Canel, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin stated she was “horrified” by what the U.S. government was doing to Cuba.
Speakers from multiple countries criticized U.S. foreign policy and called for continued international opposition to the blockade.
On the ground, the convoy’s activities included concerts, mural painting, meetings with Cuban government officials, and content production for social media audiences.
The Irish rap group Kneecap held a concert in Havana at which the crowd shouted slogans against Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Piker broadcast from inside his hotel room at the five-star Gran Hotel Bristol Meliá Collection, where rooms ranged from approximately $130 to $520 per night, while Cuba experienced a nationwide blackout.
Piker claimed U.S. law required Americans to stay at such hotels, but an X Community Note clarified that U.S. regulations only prohibit Americans from staying at Cuban government-owned properties, not from choosing budget accommodations.
Cuban exile leader Ramón Saúl Sánchez warned before the convoy arrived: “What are they going to do if they give it to the regime? The regime is going to sell it.”
Reuters reported the maritime shipment delivered “14 tons of food, medicine, solar panels, and bicycles to Cuban authorities.” The handover to the government is not disputed.
The Nation confirmed that distribution across the island was coordinated by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, a government-linked body that CIA documents allege is a front for Cuban intelligence services.
PBS NewsHour, citing AP reporting, stated that international aid to Cuba “is usually distributed free of charge by the state through the network of stores that Cubans use to buy food, except in cases where a donor specifies that a shipment should have a specific destination, such as medicine for hospitals.”
However, this framing is dishonest. Cuba’s rationing system, operated through the libreta de abastecimiento (“supplies booklet”) introduced in 1962, allocates fixed monthly quantities of subsidized goods per household.
Products are sold at subsidized prices, not given free, and citizens can only obtain their allocation at the specific bodega assigned to their registered address.
Citizens pay for goods using the libreta, and the quantities are fixed and cannot be supplemented by earning more; the allocation is determined by household size, not income or need.
The government itself has confirmed that it distributes donations through this system.
Cuba’s Minister of Domestic Trade, Betsy Díaz Velázquez, publicly stated that the ration booklet “continues to be the main mechanism used by the Cuban state to distribute regulated products and international donations to the population.”
This statement confirms that aid is “sold” for ration cards, not given away for free. However, the reality is even worse.
According to WSVN Miami, citing Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca, aid donated to Cuba from Mexico was appearing in the island’s stores and being sold for U.S. dollars.
The radical left’s open border nightmare just got even more disgusting and deadly.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is sounding the alarm on how Joe Biden’s border catastrophe and Illinois’ insane sanctuary policies aren’t just flooding American communities with violent illegal aliens… they’re bringing full-blown diseases straight into our backyards, killing innocent young women and sticking taxpayers with the bill for their medical care.
According to Rep. Miller, Julio Cucul-Bol, the criminal illegal alien accused of the murder of Katie Abraham, allegedly entered the United States while suffering from advanced AIDS.
Even more infuriating to many Americans is the case involving the suspect in the murder of Sheridan Gorman, Jose Medina, an illegal alien from Venezuela.
Medina failed to appear in court because he was receiving treatment for tuberculosis, treatment reportedly costing taxpayers nearly $30,000.
Rep. Miller laid it all out during an interview with American Sunrise on Real America’s Voice:
“Katie Abraham’s killer, an illegal alien, had full-blown AIDS when he came over the border. And now we know that the killer of Sheridan Gorman has tuberculosis. He didn’t show up to his hearing because he was receiving medical care, which costs almost $30,000—paid for by taxpayers.”
WATCH:
As The Gateway Pundit has repeatedly reported, 20-year-old Katie Abraham from Glenview, Illinois, was brutally killed on January 19, 2025, in a horrific drunk driving hit-and-run in Urbana.
She and her friend Chloe Polzin, 21, were struck and killed by Guatemalan illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol, who was illegally in the country, using aliases, and had previously been deported.
Cucul-Bol entered the U.S. with HIV, according to Rep. Miller, which went completely undetected thanks to zero screening under Biden’s catch-and-release madness. No health checks. No background checks. Just released into the heartland to prey on Americans.
The Abraham family has slammed Pritzker’s sanctuary state policies that shielded this killer every step of the way.
DHS even launched “Operation Midway Blitz” in Katie’s honor to round up criminal illegals, but it’s too little, too late for her grieving family. Katie is gone forever because Democrats prioritized illegal invaders over American lives.
And now, the horror repeats in Chicago.
As The Gateway Pundit reported just last week, 18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was executed in cold blood while walking with friends near Tobey Prinz Beach Park in Rogers Park.
The gunman was 25-year-old Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina, who crossed under Biden in 2023, was caught and released at the border, then released AGAIN by Chicago cops after a prior shoplifting bust, thanks to sanctuary policies that protect criminals over cops and citizens.
Medina now faces first-degree murder charges. But get this: He didn’t even bother showing up to his first court hearing this week. He was too busy getting taxpayer-funded treatment for tuberculosis at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
According to Rep. Miller, the “$30,000” tab for his medical care is on YOU, the American taxpayer, while Sheridan’s family buries their daughter.
These illegals aren’t just crossing the border illegally, they’re importing AIDS, TB, and God knows what else while Democrats look the other way. Biden-Harris let in millions without vetting.
The Trump administration has finalized a massive deal with French energy conglomerate TotalEnergies to abandon offshore wind projects along the U.S. Atlantic coast and instead pour nearly $1 billion into American fossil fuel production.
According to the Department of the Interior, TotalEnergies agreed to walk away from costly offshore wind leases and reinvest that capital into U.S.-based oil, natural gas, and LNG development.
In return, the federal government will reimburse the company up to roughly $928 million, the value of the leases originally purchased under the Biden regime.
According to NBC, offshore wind turbines dwarf their land-based counterparts. To put that scale into perspective, here’s how one of the largest models available—General Electric’s 12 MW Haliade-X—stacks up against several well-known structures.
Credit: Nelson Hsu/NBC
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum framed the agreement as a decisive victory for American energy independence, declaring that offshore wind had become a “subsidy-driven scheme” that burdened taxpayers while delivering inconsistent power.
Instead, the administration is steering investment toward “reliable and secure” domestic energy production, including liquefied natural gas facilities and expanded drilling operations.
TotalEnergies itself confirmed it will redirect the funds into U.S. oil and gas projects and has pledged not to pursue any new offshore wind developments in America moving forward.
The deal effectively kills two major planned wind projects off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, projects that were still in development but represented part of the broader push for renewable energy expansion.
Read the press release below:
“The Department of the Interior announced a landmark agreement with TotalEnergies for the company to redirect capital from expensive, unreliable offshore wind leases toward affordable, reliable natural gas projects that will provide secure energy for hardworking Americans.
TotalEnergies has committed to invest approximately $1 billion—the value of its renounced offshore wind leases—in oil and natural gas and LNG production in the United States. Following their new investment, the United States will reimburse the company dollar-for-dollar, up to the amount they paid in lease purchases for offshore wind. Under this innovative agreement driven by President Donald J. Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda, the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.
Additionally, in light of the national security concerns, TotalEnergies has pledged not to develop any new offshore wind projects in the United States.
“This agreement is yet another win for President Trump’s commitment to affordable and reliable energy for all Americans,” said Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. “Offshore wind is one of the most expensive, unreliable, environmentally disruptive, and subsidy-dependent schemes ever forced on American ratepayers and taxpayers. We welcome TotalEnergies’ commitment to developing projects that produce dependable, affordable power to lower Americans’ monthly bills while providing secure U.S. baseload power today—and in the future.”
“Today’s agreement prioritizes affordability for hardworking American consumers over the prior administration’s ideological, ineffective energy policies,”said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.“Americans will benefit from this significant investment in our energy industry, which will also enhance our national security and grid reliability.”
“TotalEnergies is pleased to sign this settlement agreements with the DOI and to support the Administration’s Energy Policy. Considering that the development of offshore wind projects is not in the country’s interest, we have decided to renounce offshore wind development in the United States, in exchange for the reimbursement of the lease fees Furthermore, these agreements, under which we will reinvest the refunded lease fees to finance the construction of the 29 Mt Rio Grande LNG plant and the development of our oil and gas activities, allows us to support the development of U.S. gas production and export. These investments will contribute to supplying Europe with much-needed LNG from the U.S. and provide gas for U.S. data center development. We believe this is a more efficient use of capital in the United States,” said Patrick Pouyanné,Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of TotalEnergies.
For its part, TotalEnergies will invest $928MM, on the following projects in 2026:
The development of Train 1 to 4 of Rio Grande LNG plant in Texas;
The development of upstream conventional oil in Gulf of America and of shale gas production.
Following TotalEnergies’ $928 million in investments in affordable, reliable and secure U.S. energy projects, the United States will terminate the following leases and reimburse the company:
Lease No. OCS-A 0535. The lease is located in Carolina Long Bay area. This lease was fully executed by TotalEnergies Renewables USA, LLC on June 1, 2022, after payment of $133,333,333.
Lease No. OCS-A 0538. The lease is located in the New York Bight area. The lease was fully executed by Attentive Energy, LLC on May 1, 2022, after payment of $795,000,000.
These reinvestments by TotalEnergies will directly advance the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to lower costs for American families, increase baseload and grid reliability and help maintain global leadership in artificial intelligence.”
Iranian mobile users across the country received government-distributed text messages promoting an “international campaign to reward the assassination of Trump,” marking a disturbing shift from isolated threats to mass public incitement.
From State Television to Personal Devices
The Iranian regime crossed a dangerous threshold when screenshots emerged showing mass text messages promoting assassination rewards sent directly to citizens’ mobile phones. This represents a quantum leap from previous threats broadcast on state television or whispered through intelligence channels. The regime now uses telecommunications infrastructure to distribute calls for political murder, transforming every mobile phone into a potential propaganda delivery system. Screenshots shared with Iran International confirm the campaign’s existence, though the full scope remains unclear regarding how many Iranians received these disturbing messages or their geographic distribution across the country.
A mass text message sent to mobile users in Iran promoted what it described as an “international campaign to reward the assassination of Trump,” according to screenshots of the message shared with Iran International.
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) March 25, 2026
The Shadow of Soleimani Looms Large
Trump became Iran’s primary target in January 2020 when he authorized the drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force. That decision fundamentally reshaped U.S.-Iran relations and established Trump as the focus of Iranian retaliation efforts. The regime has never forgiven or forgotten, viewing Trump’s continued survival as unfinished business. Federal prosecutors have documented this vendetta through multiple criminal cases, including charges unsealed in November 2024 regarding an IRGC plot to assassinate Trump before the presidential election. An operative named Asif Merchant allegedly attempted to hire assassins for five thousand dollars upfront, demonstrating Iran’s willingness to invest resources in eliminating Trump.
A Pattern of Escalating Threats
The text message campaign represents the latest chapter in an evolving threat landscape. In January 2026, Iranian state television IRINN broadcast footage showing a mourner at a ceremony holding a placard featuring Trump’s image from the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where he was shot in the ear. The Farsi text read “this time it will not miss the target,” a chilling reference to the July 2024 assassination attempt by Thomas Crooks, which U.S. authorities determined was unrelated to Iran. This public taunting demonstrated the regime’s confidence in making explicit threats without immediate consequences. The progression from isolated plots to state television broadcasts to mass text distribution reveals a deliberate strategy of normalization and escalation.
: Iranian media shares an image of a missile that reads:
“This is the gift that Trump said, “Open your arms and receive it!” The promise is true.” pic.twitter.com/e5P67uyWbj
The assassination campaign unfolds against a backdrop of widespread anti-government protests in Iran, where thousands have been killed or detained. Trump repeatedly threatened military strikes if the regime continued its violent crackdown, warning “we are locked and loaded and ready to go.” This rhetoric provides Iran’s leadership with a dual motivation for the text campaign: rallying domestic support by redirecting public anger toward an external enemy while simultaneously warning the United States against military intervention. Trump has claimed the “killing has stopped in Iran” and that violent unrest is beginning to quell, though the situation remains highly volatile with unresolved tensions on both sides.
The Credibility Question
Should Americans take these threats seriously? The documented history argues yes. U.S. federal courts have examined undercover video evidence and testimony regarding Iran-linked assassination plots. The Department of Justice has unsealed criminal charges detailing IRGC operations. Intelligence agencies maintain heightened threat assessments regarding Trump’s security. However, the public nature of the mass text campaign suggests a propaganda dimension alongside operational intent. Regimes serious about assassination typically operate in shadows, not through mass public messaging. The campaign may serve primarily to mobilize domestic support and project strength during a period of internal instability, while simultaneously maintaining pressure on U.S. decision-making regarding military intervention.
Dangerous Precedents and Future Implications
The use of mass communication infrastructure to promote political assassination establishes a troubling precedent. State control over telecommunications networks, combined with willingness to use them for incitement, creates a model other authoritarian regimes might emulate. Trump faces an institutionalized, ongoing threat that extends beyond his current presidency, as Iranian leadership has invested substantial political capital in maintaining Soleimani’s memory and demanding retribution. The broader implications affect regional stability, U.S. allies who could become targets of Iranian retaliation, and global energy markets vulnerable to disruption from military conflict. The international community watches nervously as rhetoric escalates without clear diplomatic off-ramps, raising the specter of miscalculation or unintended military confrontation between nuclear-threshold adversaries.
Why is the left so insistent that voter fraud isn’t real?
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Perhaps the left’s greatest contribution to public discourse is to threaten anyone who disagrees with them with financial ruin, slander, embarrassment, condemnation, homelessness and prison—and then announce the existence of a “consensus.”
Their signature consensus-by-threat technique has been used to prove the truth of global warming, Russian interference with the 2016 election, Covid-19 lockdowns, Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, and—especially important today—the nonexistence of voter fraud.
Although I’m sure it’s fun, browbeating people into a terrified, cowering silence isn’t proof of anything. In fact, it kind of suggests beliefs of such dainty substance that raising the slightest objection could make the whole thing fall apart.
Ask Soviet scientists who were sent to the gulag for refusing to renounce Lysenkoism about it. Oh, you can’t. They’re dead.
Today, we’ll examine the left’s “consensus” on the question of voter fraud. With the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act under debate—which would merely require proof of citizenship to vote—we’re getting a lot of categorical, sweeping statements for which there can be no proof, such as, “the 2020 election was the most secure in U.S. history!”
Seventeen intelligence agencies agree! Wait—no, that was about Putin hacking the 2016 election to elect Donald Trump.
To the extent liberals bother trying to marshal any proof that voter fraud doesn’t exist, their evidence is:
1) Promiscuous use of words like “without evidence,” “misinformation,” “conspiracy theory,” “lies,” and “you’re more likely to be struck by lightning.” (All those are from a single New York Times article on voter fraud.) It’s like lefty Tourette’s. Shohei Ohtani hit a towering home-run to center field, without evidence. 2) Name-calling—extremely effective among kindergarteners and New York Times readers; and 3) Citing the rarity of voter fraud convictions.
The Entire Media Blabosphere: THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS VOTER FRAUD!
Can we look?
The Entire Media Blabosphere: ARE YOU A DENIER? THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS VOTER FRAUD!
Thus, a Times opinion piece proved that voter fraud is a “myth” by citing the book The Myth of Voter Fraud. Not sold yet? Just wait. The book noted that, in 2005, there were more prosecutions for migratory bird law violations than voter fraud. (Perhaps liberals wouldn’t be so glib about migratory bird prosecutions if they knew that 90 percent of the cases are brought against oil companies.)
I was previously unaware of the “No Convictions, No Crimes” mathematical proof. Now that I know about it, I’ve got a banger. This should at least win me a Booker Prize, if not a Nobel.
I can prove that there were no lynchings in the Old South from 1877 to 1950. Convictions for lynchings were vanishingly rare, and punishment rarer.
There, I’ve just eliminated about 30 percent of universities’ core curriculum.
Remember back in 2006 and 2007 when President George W. Bush fired seven of his own U.S. attorneys for not investigating voter fraud, and all hell broke loose?
About a decade earlier, in an unprecedented act, Bill Clinton had fired all 93 U.S. attorneys a few months into his presidency—including one who was about to bring criminal charges against Clinton’s crucial ally, Representative Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL). It was a legit prosecution: The following year, Rostenkowski pleaded guilty and went to prison.
Not a peep of protest. But when Bush fired eight of his own U.S. attorneys for nonperformance on—what was it again?—voter fraud cases, there were congressional investigations, an inspector general’s report and hysterical denunciations from the media.
The Times alone ran a dozen editorials, calling the firings a “scandal,” a “political purge” a “cover-up,” and demanded the resignation of the Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. If that isn’t proof that there’s no such thing as voter fraud, I don’t know what is.
The science is settled! Voter fraud does not exist.
When Trump put (now) Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach in charge of his Commission on Election Integrity in 2017, left-wing groups promptly filed a dozen lawsuits against the commission’s work—more than had ever been brought against any presidential commission in history.
The lawsuits were nonsense, but responding to them consumed all of the commission’s time, preventing it from, you know, looking into voter fraud. Kobach had no choice but to shut down the whole thing and head back to Kansas.
And that’s how we know for a fact that there’s no such thing as election fraud. It’s as fake as Hunter Biden’s laptop. As bogus as natural immunity. As phony as lynchings in the Jim Crow South.
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In Iran, Russia Pays America Back for Aiding Ukraine
Even a superpower isn’t exempt from reality.
President Donald Trump continues to do his worst. He assures us that all will be well as he carelessly wreaks death, destruction, and chaos abroad.
His reckless Iran war is roiling the Middle East, devastating America’s Persian Gulf protectorates, empowering the radical Israeli government, distancing Washington’s European allies, draining Washington’s finances, wasting America’s military stocks, ravaging world energy markets, and threatening the global economy. It is an extraordinarily perverse achievement for a president who piously preens as a peacekeeper deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump’s best strategy would be a patented retreat portrayed as a grand, even historic triumph of epic proportions. Claimed conversations with Tehran, if true, offer hope of such a result, but the involvement of ignorant and partisan interlocutors such as Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff remains a substantial barrier to progress. Peace in the Gulf would benefit virtually everyone on the planet, other than Benjamin Netanyahu, who seeks political survival through endless war, and Vladimir Putin, who enjoys increased oil revenues.
Despite widespread concern over the minatory Israeli state’s pursuit of regional hegemony, few U.S. officials are willing to confront Jerusalem. In contrast, those advancing the counterproductive, increasingly dangerous proxy war against Russia are ever ready to challenge Trump’s Moscow policy. They are particularly angry over reports that Russia has been aiding Iran in targeting American bases and forces in the Mideast. Administration critics demand that it do something, though exactly what is not clear.
In this, members of the Washington commentariat mimic distraught Europeans whining about Moscow’s presumed hostile clandestine activity in their nations. The assumption that “we” are entitled to do whatever we please, including wage war, both direct and proxy, without consequence, continues to dominate official policy on both continents.
The Europeans have been wailing about apparent Russian misbehavior for months. Last year the Associated Press detailed 145 incidents in a “sabotage campaign” by Moscow. The Center for European Policy Analysis charged that “Europe as a whole is under a sustained assault.” Explained Piotr Arak of the Atlantic Council:
[BLOCK]Russia has expanded the battlefield into the daily life of European societies. Moscow’s objective is clear: weaken Western unity by creating a constant sense of vulnerability, without crossing the threshold that would trigger a formal NATO response.[/BLOCK]
There is little reason to doubt the truth of such charges, though Europeans do appear to blame any otherwise unexplained and seemingly hostile incident on Russia. The most dramatic example was the almost universal rush to denounce Moscow for blowing up its own natural gas pipeline, a nonsensical claim later recognized as false. Similarly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Russia for a deadly (and accidental) Ukrainian missile strike in Poland. Nevertheless, the only surprise would be if Russia abjured any hostile response against countries that have done so much to bolster Ukraine.
Although Moscow’s murderous aggression against the latter is unjustified, European governments invited Russian retaliation by joining the conflict via proxy. Last November, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski complained after one incident: “This time, it was not just sabotage, as before, but an act of state terrorism, as the clear intention was to cause human casualties.” However, the allies intend the same, only to kill Russians, as many as possible.
So does the U.S. Yet American officials and commentators are outraged that Moscow would stoop so low, helping another country to—cue manifold expressions of fury and outrage—kill U.S. military personnel. (Some have also claimed that Russia provided intelligence to the Yemeni Houthis targeting Western merchantmen and American warships in the Red Sea, and, less credibly, paid the Taliban to kill Americans in Afghanistan.) Such critics of Moscow are like Captain Renault, who famously discovered gambling occurring at Rick’s Café Américain in the movie Casablanca. Shocking! Shut the establishment!
Those demanding action offer few helpful suggestions, preferring, for instance, to call on the administration to “respond with clarity and resolve.” Meaning what, precisely? Perhaps provide financial and military support to Moscow’s adversary, even planning the latter’s battlefield operations. Oh, wait! That is what Washington has been doing for years. And doing so openly, making no attempt to hide its involvement. U.S. officials even took credit for killing Russian generals and sinking a Russian ship. Which is why, when asked about possible Russian support for Iran, the president said Putin “may be helping them a bit, yeah.” However, added Trump, “They do it, and we do it.”
Although Putin apparently denied the charge, some Russian officials reportedly offered to drop their aid for Iran if Washington did the same with Ukraine. Alas, the Trump administration said no. American sympathies understandably lie with the Ukrainian people. However, fundamental U.S. interests are against acting as a belligerent against a nuclear-armed power fighting a war that it views as existential. The president’s refusal to use his disastrous Mideast misadventure as an excuse for mutual proxy disarmament is tragically unwise.
Indeed, as Washington crashes world markets by fighting Israel’s war against Tehran, it is important to remember that the U.S. shares responsibility with the Islamic Republic of Iran for turning Washington and Tehran into enemies. Without question, the latter is a terrible, repressive, even murderous regime. However, the U.S. has routinely tolerated worse. For instance, Saudi Arabia is a murderous country which until recently exercised totalitarian social as well as political control. Yet Trump gloried in his decision to “save” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the latter had a critic—and American resident—murdered and dismembered.
Unfortunately, Washington has long treated the Iranian people as enemies. In 1953, the U.S. assisted a coup, destroying a functioning democracy and installing a rapacious, oppressive dictator—because the government nationalized British oil interests. In 1978, the Carter administration backed the tottering Iranian monarchy against a broad opposition movement, encouraging a brutal military crackdown. Reported the New York Times:
[BLOCK]Over lunch at the Knickerbocker Club in New York, Mr. Carter’s special envoy to Tehran, Gen. Robert E. Huyser, told the Project Eagle team that he had urged Iran’s top military leaders to kill as many demonstrators as necessary to keep the shah in power.[/BLOCK]
The following year Washington gave the deposed shah refuge, fueling Tehran’s fears that the U.S. would attempt to overthrow the new regime. The Reagan administration backed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s subsequent invasion of Iran, which triggered a horrendous eight-year war in which hundreds of thousands died. In 1988, the U.S. Navy, busy safeguarding Gulf oil shipments used to finance Baghdad’s war, shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 people aboard. Since then, Washington has routinely threatened and regularly sanctioned Iran. Is it any surprise that the Iranian regime feels insecure and seeks to bolster its defense, including by preserving the possibility of creating a nuclear deterrent? Nevertheless, before Washington attacked, a diplomatic settlement was apparently close, only to be tossed aside by Trump.
Alas, actions have consequences. Even a superpower is not exempt from reality. Bluster and fantasy are no substitute for judgment and competence. After ending his misbegotten war with Iran, President Trump should drop the proxy war against Russia. If he really wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he should actually promote peace, starting with America.
Doing everything by war is in fact difficult, expensive, and unsustainable.
President Donald Trump is making big noises about calling off the Iran War. Good. As the local TV warlord Pete Hegseth would have it, we’ve made a complete mess of the place; you can watch it in the official Department of Defense X account, where footage of explosions has been intercut with clips from movies and videogames in what is the new historical standard for tastelessness. And now it looks like we’re offering the Iranians something like what was under consideration before the bombs started falling. Great success! Fire up the luxury jets! Get J.D. Vance out to Islamabad, now!
The problem is that it’s difficult to really put your heart into believing the gang at 1600 Penn. The Iranians are denying that any direct negotiations are taking place, and Washington’s latest great white hope, Iran’s Speaker of the Parliament Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, has said that the announcements to that effect are an effort to settle the stomachs of Western markets. (More than one observer has noted that the pause on Trump’s ultimatum about striking Iranian energy infrastructure is set to expire right after markets close Friday.) It is also worth mentioning that the last two rounds of negotiations with Iran have been cover for military buildups preceding attacks—and, lo! some thousands of U.S. ground troops are in transit to the Persian Gulf region at this very moment.
No wonder the Iranians are suspicious and have said they will not entertain overtures from the White House just yet. Vance will have to cool his heels at Observatory Circle for a bit, maybe put out some more leaks about how he actually had reservations about the war even as he publicly calls for internal opponents of it to resign from the administration. (Has anyone you’ve ever seen in politics been so thoroughly dog-walked as J.D. Vance? Make a high-profile conversion to Catholicism and be forced to defend abortion pills on the TV, embrace a more restrained foreign policy and be forced to defend the most mindlessly destructive war, if not in history, certainly in recent memory. It’s so painful to consider that you almost hope he doesn’t actually believe any of it.)
There is little doubt that the United States can continue to dominate the field of battle. This has in fact been the case in every conflict America has fought since the Korean War. But this is a bit different from “total victory.” The question is at what cost for what benefit; put in the words of pointy-headed political scientists, whether the political ends are served by the means of military action. The fact is that it will be very expensive and very painful to stop the Iranians, who do not seem anywhere close to state collapse at the moment, from lobbing projectiles at regional targets—Scud-hunting is a less viable technique in the drone era—and doing so will exact a cost from American readiness in other theaters and from global economic activity. A recent congressional study found that the war so far has exhausted a third of our THAAD interceptor stockpile; the knock-on effects of constricted oil and gas supplies are already being felt in manufacturing and agriculture.
The hysterical war hawks at the Wall Street Journal editorial board and among my remaining neoconservative friends calling this war America’s “Suez moment” are in some sense correct. The Suez conflict was a strategic misstep that provoked a crisis—that is, the British and the French picked a fight that was forbiddingly difficult to win outright. This is starting to look familiar. But the sane argument should be that the war should not have been chosen, not that the gamblers should keep putting chips on red. The United States must learn that it cannot in fact rule the world purely by force. This is not an articulation of particular weakness; this is an articulation of physical reality. War is a tool for achieving political ends; diplomacy is also a tool.
But our diplomatic strength is looking pretty shabby at the moment. When you blow people up without ceremony in the middle of negotiations, it reduces your credibility. (In this genre also should be the Venezuela raid, which did not in fact secure any material concessions that were not on the negotiating table, and the Ukrainian strikes on the Russian strategic bomber fleet in the middle of American–Russian meetings.) You will have to do more by force, because you can no longer do it without force; when you do things by force, people have a tendency to fight back. This becomes a vicious cycle of ever-greater military extension.
Nor does there seem to be much will to revive American diplomacy. I am not a vindictive man, so I will not rub my critics’ noses in the fact that I was very, very right about how the Venezuela caper would result in harmful distortions to American politics and our way of making war and peace. Once the executive discovers it can start using military force without any kind of deliberative checks, well, it looks an awful lot like it will do so whenever the opportunity arises. Those checks are there for reasons of prudence as well as principle; they are a damper on rash decisions, not merely a concession to threadbare ideas of self-government and constitutionality.
Can American diplomatic credibility be restored? Difficult to say. But something will have to give.
President Trump delivers remarks at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraising dinner – March 25, 2026
President Trump on Wednesday took a break from his teleprompter while speaking to House Republicans, and he cooked the Democrats for how they behaved during his State of the Union address last month, where they refused to stand for American heroes and victims of the Democrats’ pro-criminal policies.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Democratic Party’s anti-American attitude was on full display during Trump’s State of the Union when they refused to stand for two Medal of Honor recipients and the mother of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was murdered last August by a repeat criminal thug on a Charlotte, North Carolina public train.
Trump went off while delivering remarks at the annual NRCC fundraising dinner, slamming the Democrats as “crazy” in off-teleprompter remarks.
“You don’t mind if I go off this crazy teleprompter? You know, it’s boring when you do the teleprompter thing, very boring,” Trump said before tearing into the Democrats for “sitting like dead people” with “no movement, no heart, no anything” when he recognized the crying mother of Iryna Zarutska and called for justice. Similarly, for two war heroes, the Democrats remained seated “without movement.” Conversely, GOP lawmakers “did very well,” Trump said. “You were going wild for all of them.”
Trump further slammed the Democrats for only beginning to show positive expressions after “they were called in by people watching on television,” and began “passing notes.” Trump continued, “They were saying, ‘You guys are being killed tonight! Start clapping!’ And they were clapping for everything, everything I said, even good Republican things, they were clapping wildly, but it was too late. They have no heart, and now you see what they’re doing.”
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Trump: Our country’s at stake. Really, our country’s at stake. These people are crazy that we’re dealing with. The State of the Union speech— You don’t mind if I go off this crazy teleprompter? You know, it’s boring when you do the teleprompter thing, very boring. But no, it’s we had the State of the Union speech the other night. I announced all these heroes, and I announce women that have gone through tragedy like the incredible woman who’s lost her daughter to a maniac when he slashed her from behind, right? And I say, please, please say hello. And she stands up, devastated, and the Democrats are sitting like dead people, like dead— no movement, no heart, no anything.
Then I announced a Congressional Medal of Honor being bestowed on the captain, a helicopter pilot who helped us win in Venezuela by landing a helicopter, when his leg was practically shot off with blood pouring down. You know, they land the big Chinooks, a lot of people, a lot of great soldiers in that helicopter. And he was shot from underneath with machine gun fire. Leg was practically shopped out. And if you know about helicopters, you land the helicopters with your legs, and he had legs that were not in good shape. And he landed, and he was high up, and he was able to land it exactly where it was supposed to land. Without that, the mission would have been a failure probably. Had to land exactly in that spot, exactly on time. And he got it in, and then he said, Okay, I’m going to pass out now. Take over. Can you imagine that? And we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor, and the Democrats sat there without movement.
Then we gave another Congressional Medal of Honor to a 100 year old hero, 100 years, who was a legend in the military for what he had done. We gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor, 100 years old, and the Democrats sat there emotional, there’s no clapping, nobody standing. Republicans, you did very well. You were going wild for all of them.
Now, at the end of the evening, they were clapping on everything I said because they were called in by people watching on television. Did you see they were passing around notes, and they were saying, “You guys are being killed tonight! Start clapping!” And they were clapping for everything, everything I said, even good Republican things, they were clapping wildly, but it was too late. They have no heart, and now you see what they’re doing.
They’re just creating chaos. They want to create chaos. It’s all they’re good at, creating chaos. They can’t do policy, no good. But they’re doing it for two reasons. Number one is they want to deflect from all of the tremendous success that we’re having in this military operation. I won’t use the word war because they say, if you use the word war, that’s maybe not a good thing to do. They don’t like the word war because you’re supposed to get approval. So, I’ll use the word military operation, which is really what it is. It’s called a military decimation. But they don’t like the good publicity. They don’t like to see us succeed. They want to see our country fail.
And also, what they really want is they want illegal immigrants to come in, criminals, doesn’t matter, because they want to get their votes. They think they’re going to get their votes, and we’re not going to let this happen. We’re not going to let our country be destroyed by these people.
The President awarded two Medals of Honor during his State of the Union Address last month.
One recipient was Captain Royce Williams, a 100-year-old former Navy fighter pilot, who Trump described as a “living legend,” who “led the takedown of four enemy jets” while “massively outnumbered and outgunned” over Korea in 1952. “His exceptional airmanship, coupled with his complete disregard for his own personal safety, resulted in the destruction of three enemy MiG-15s and severe damage to a fourth, and undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of Task Force 77 sailors. By his undaunted courage, bold initiative, and total devotion to duty, Lieutenant Williams reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service,” Williams’s Medal of Honor citation reads.
The other was Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, who was injured while leading the operation to capture Nicolas Maduro in January. “Slover planned the mission and was the flight lead in the cockpit of the first helicopter,” when he was “hit very badly in the leg and hip, one bullet after another,” Trump said.
According to his citation, “Despite the intense and effective enemy fire, and at great personal risk, Chief Warrant Officer Five Slover maintained his situational awareness and aircraft’s position in the line of fire to ensure the safe infiltration of the military forces. After the force disembarked, and despite suffering significant life-threatening injuries, Chief Warrant Officer Five Slover identified hostile heavy machine gun positions that were engaging his aircraft and targeting the ground forces. He maneuvered his aircraft to enable his door gunner to deliver effective fire, successfully neutralizing the threats. Chief Warrant Officer Five Slover’s heroic actions undoubtedly saved countless American lives and ensured the complete and overwhelming success of the mission. His gallantry under fire and extraordinary valor are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.”
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