Month: March 2026

An ‘anti-police’ New Orleans defense attorney was indicted for wire fraud on Friday.

Tanzanika Ruffin allegedly stole $250,000 from a client and used the money to fund a lavish lifestyle.

This is not the first time that Ruffin has been accused of criminal conduct.

She was fired from as an assistant district attorney in 2004 for extortion allegations.

“Ruffin was fired from the DA’s office more than 20 years ago for extortion allegations. The DA’s office later dismissed the allegations, and the Bar suspended her license for a short period,” WDSU reported.

Per the Justice Department:

On Friday, March 13, 2026, a Federal Grand Jury indicted TANZANIKA RUFFIN (“RUFFIN”), age 48, for wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, announced U.S. Attorney David I. Courcelle.

According to the indictment, RUFFIN defrauded approximately $250,000 from her clients’ family. RUFFIN made numerous misrepresentations to the family regarding the $250,000.

RUFFIN falsely told her client and his family that they had to compensate a New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) officer for various fictitious injuries and harms that the officer had allegedly suffered.

RUFFIN also falsely represented that she had confected a “Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement” (“NDA”) with the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office and the NOPD officer.

According to RUFFIN, this fabricated NDA required her client’s family to keep confidential any discussions about a financial settlement.

In truth and in fact, no such NDA existed. Instead, RUFFIN spent all the money on personal and unauthorized expenditures and did not give any funds to the NOPD officer.

If convicted, RUFFIN faces a maximum penalty of twenty (20) years of imprisonment, up to three (3) years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and payment of a mandatory $100 special assessment fee.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Another Black Lives Matter and anti-police attorney in New Orleans has been indicted for wire fraud, stealing over $250K.

Tanzanika Ruffin spent the money on lavish vacations, hair weaves, food and jewelry.

Millions took a knee for this Marxist scum. pic.twitter.com/Cl7yN4aHZl

— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) March 17, 2026

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The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released part one of its investigation into a California elections fraud cash for ballots scheme.

James O’Keefe and his team of journalists went undercover on Skid Row in Los Angeles posing as homeless people.

‘Petitioners’ told the undercover journalists that they are paid between $7-$10 per signature. Some of them earn up to $1,000 per day.

“California NGOs Encourage Fake Addresses To Homeless People To Sign Petitions & Register Voters, A State & Federal Felony. Footage Shows 28 Instances Of Cash Changing Hands For Ballot Signatures & Voter Registration Forms,” they said.

“Many of the petitioners had no understanding of the petitions’ purpose they were advertising. Circulators also instructed individuals to use fake addresses. “Oh, you can just fake an address.”” OMG reported.

“Weingart Center, which received hundreds of millions in public funding, is on tape directing people to where the fraudulent petitioners are located, and directing homeless individuals to petitioners & coaching plausible deniability,” OMG said.

O’Keefe Media Group reporters encountered “28 instances of petitioners offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana for signatures on petitions.”

“See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea,’” a Weingart Center employee told the undercover journalist.

WATCH:

CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.

“You can just put Pinocchio Lane.”

California NGOs Encourage Fake… pic.twitter.com/eoZ7W9z2Gs

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 17, 2026

US Attorney Bill Essayli responded to the O’Keefe Media Group’s latest undercover sting exposing a cash for ballots scheme in California.

“Under 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), it is a federal crime to provide false information on a voter registration form or to offer payment to complete a voter registration form,” Bill Essayli said.

“While longstanding DOJ policy prevents me from discussing specific investigations, I want to assure the public that this DOJ, under the leadership of @AGPamBondi, will aggressively pursue anyone and everyone involved in violating federal election laws,” Essayli said.

Nothing is more important than the integrity of our elections. The conduct and allegations captured on video undermine confidence in our election system here in California.

Under 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), it is a federal crime to provide false information on a voter registration… https://t.co/aXEyk1r903

— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) March 17, 2026

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, LA DA Nathan Hochman, the California Secretary of State’s office and Governor Newsom have all confirmed they are aware of O’Keefe’s undercover sting.

“This alleged activity is a felony in California. Anyone caught engaging in this activity should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” a Newsom spokesperson said to James O’Keefe.

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Senator Schmitt is right, if someone comes here and commits serious crimes or welfare fraud they should be denaturalized and deported. pic.twitter.com/SdPqsl3ffp

— Victor Nieves (@ItsVictorNieves) March 17, 2026

If someone comes to our country, becomes a naturalized citizen, and then commits serious crimes like fraud or terrorism, they should be promptly denaturalized and deported.

The Gateway Pundit reported,

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt is ramping up pressure on Congress to pass his legislation expanding denaturalization and deportation powers, targeting even “legal” migrants who commit fraud or serious crimes.

Schmitt’s call comes amid a chaotic partial government shutdown that’s crippled the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaving TSA agents unpaid and airports in disarray as Democrats dig in their heels over demands to weaken ICE enforcement.

Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Schmitt blasted the Democrats for causing the chaos.

“This is just the height of stupidity by the Democrats. It’s essentially a temper tantrum because they don’t like President Trump,” Schmitt explained, highlighting how the shutdown is exacerbating national security risks at a time of heightened terror threats.

The senator’s proposed Protect America Act would broaden the criteria for revoking citizenship and deporting individuals involved in fraud, support for terrorism, or other crimes.

The world must know that the United States is not a global charity and the taxpayer is not a helpless victim to be taken advantage of.

Our immigration system should work for the betterment of our country. How many millions of people are in our country illegally, while doing nothing but exploiting us, like what happened in Minneapolis?

For those who follow the law, this would change nothing. For those who are here to abuse us, it would send them home.

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts took a veiled shot at President Trump on Tuesday during an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, Texas.

Without mentioning Trump by name, Roberts said that personal attacks on judges are “dangerous” and must stop.

“Judges around the country work very hard to get it right and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said, according to CBS News.

“But personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop.”

CBS News reported:

Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal attacks on Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are “dangerous” and said hostility directed toward specific jurists has “got to stop.”

The chief justice was responding to a question from U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal about criticisms of the Supreme Court and its rulings. Rosenthal, who was appointed to the federal trial court in Texas by former President George H.W. Bush, thanked Roberts for his defense of lower court judges, saying judges know “you have our backs.”

Roberts acknowledged that criticisms of the Supreme Court’s decisions “come with the territory,” and sometimes come from fellow justices in the form of dissents.

“We don’t believe we’re flawless in any way and it’s important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are,” he said.

But, Roberts continued, “the problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities. And you see — from all over, not just any one political perspective on it — that it’s more directed in a personal way and that frankly can be actually quite dangerous.”

This week, President Trump slammed “nasty” and “crooked” Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, for quashing subpoenas in the DOJ’s criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Last month President Trump scorched Supreme Court justices after the high court ruled 6-3 to strike down his tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

Chief Justices Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch sided with the three liberal justices.

Trump slammed the liberal justices and others who sided against his tariffs.

Later during his remarks, President Trump accused the justices of “being swayed by foreign interests.”

He also slammed the conservative justices who sided with the liberals and called them an “embarrassment to their families.”

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On late Tuesday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at a VA Clinic in Jasper, Georgia, resulting in one employee being critically injured.

According to the Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins, a gunman opened fire at the clinic and shot a Veterans Affairs employee.

Jasper police quickly responded to the scene and fatally shot the gunman outside the clinic.

The employee was immediately airlifted to a local hospital, where their condition is unknown.

Currently, authorities have yet to release the identity of the suspect or whether the gunman had a military background.

A suspected gunman was shot and killed by officers at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Jasper, Georgia, where police say there were reports of gunfire. One victim was found at the scene and taken for medical treatment before being airlifted to a hospital. https://t.co/zBHlouezz3

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 17, 2026

Per AP:

There was a shooting Tuesday at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in a small town at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains in Georgia, and the gunman was shot and killed, police said.

A Veterans Affairs employee was taken by helicopter to a hospital after the gunfire Tuesday afternoon, VA spokesman Peter Kasperowicz said.

Jasper police responded to the scene around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the city said in a statement. Outside the VA clinic, the officers confronted the gunman, who was shot and killed, authorities said.

The gunman who was killed is from the Jasper area, Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins told reporters at the scene. But details about him were not immediately released.

“We don’t know what led up to it,” Dawkins said.

In response to the shooting, VA Secretary Doug Collins took to X and wrote, “Praying for the victim as well as all Pickens County Department of Veteran Affairs Clinic Veterans and employees.”

He added, “We are sending a team from VA HQ to Georgia tomorrow to ensure clinic employees get the support they need.”

Praying for the victim as well as all Pickens County @DeptVetAffairs Clinic Veterans and employees. The suspect is dead and the threat is eliminated. Very grateful for the quick response of local law enforcement. We are sending a team from VA HQ to Georgia tomorrow to ensure…

— VA Secretary Doug Collins (@SecVetAffairs) March 17, 2026

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A spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said that at least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul. 

Pakistan said in a statement that the strike targeted an ammunition depot.

A preliminary U.N. assessment found one section of the medical facility housing roughly 180 adolescents had been completely destroyed, with no survivors reported.

The Taliban government vowed retaliation, raising fears of a broader war.

The strike is part of a widening conflict that intensified in late February, when Pakistan declared what it called “open war” on Afghanistan after accusing it of harboring militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan. Since then, Pakistan has launched repeated airstrikes on Afghan cities and border areas, while Taliban forces have retaliated along the frontier.

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The US Senate on Tuesday voted to advance the SAVE America Act in a 51-48 vote.

Earlier Tuesday, it was reported that allies of President Donald Trump are reportedly preparing to “take over the Senate floor” today to push for action on the SAVE America Act.

A marathon debate on the SAVE America Act is now underway.

BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: The SAVE America Act has ADVANCED in the US Senate, 51-48

GREAT WORK, @BasedMikeLee!

KEEP PUSHING, PATRIOTS!

We can get this done! pic.twitter.com/W3iL8apYMV

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 17, 2026

Fox News reported:

Senate Republicans on Tuesday successfully launched their floor takeover to put Senate Democrats on record against Trump-backed voter ID legislation.

It’s a move to shift the spotlight from internal GOP divisions over the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act onto Senate Democrats, who are ultimately withholding the needed votes to pass the bill.

“Not a single Democrat will support the SAVE Act. It is a radical bill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor. “And if Republicans try to burn time on this legislation here on the floor, we will oppose them for as long as it takes.”

“Polling shows broad support for all of the issues included in the SAVE America Act. But never underestimate Democrats’ ability to get on the wrong side of what the American people want,” Leader Thune said ahead of the procedural vote.

WATCH:

Starting today, we are going to have an important fight on the Senate floor.

Polling shows broad support for all of the issues included in the SAVE America Act. But never underestimate Democrats’ ability to get on the wrong side of what the American people want. pic.twitter.com/74yYP03f2l

— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) March 17, 2026

Following the Senate’s vote to advance the SAVE America Act, Thune filed several amendments on the bill.

BREAKING: Following the successful procedure vote on the SAVE America Act, John Thune has just filed SEVERAL amendments on the bill

This *should* set the bill up for debate without Democrats being able to hijack it.

HOLD THE LINE, @LeaderJohnThune! pic.twitter.com/HoFXLAH8a0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 17, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump has already threatened to withhold his signature from all future legislation until the Senate delivers proof-of-citizenship voting requirements, strict voter ID, and an end to the Democrat-favorite mail-in ballot fraud machine.

Unfortunately, the SAVE America Act has stalled because it requires 60 votes in the Senate, and unless the filibuster is nuked, the measure is dead on arrival.

DEVELOPING…

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By Wayne Allyn Root

Despite the lies, rhetoric and propaganda we all hear in the biased mainstream media, President Trump is not only popular, he’s in the perfect position to win the midterms…

If we can pass the infamous SAVE Act.

The SAVE Act- that’s the whole kitchen sink, the whole enchilada, the whole kit ‘n caboodle, the whole ballgame!

And polls prove we have the support and momentum on our side. You might not hear these favorable polls in the media, but here they are…

President Trump’s favorability with his base is the highest in modern history. Meaning his base loves and trusts him.

Who says that? CNN’s data expert Harry Enten, who reports, “Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president’s own party’s supporters loved him at this particular point.”

How about the war in Iran? Over 90% of MAGA voters back “Operation Epic Fury.” Even more remarkably, 93% of MAGA voters approve of our USA alliance with Israel.

Sorry Tucker, Candace and Marjorie Taylor Greene, but you all failed big time.

Clearly, all your hate and hot air didn’t move the needle one inch. Your attempts to divide MAGA, and demonize Jews and Israel, failed miserably.

But nothing is more important to the American people than Voter ID. Virtually everyone supports Voter ID- including most Democrats!

Harvard CAPS/Harris shows 81% support- including 70% of Democrats.

Pew Research shows 83% support for Voter ID- including huge majorities of blacks, whites and Latinos.

Gallop shows 84% support Voter ID, while 83% support proof of citizenship to vote.

Rasmussen shows 75% support for Voter ID. Their polls also show more support for ICE than the Democrat Party!

So, the stars are aligned, and everything is coming up aces. Trump is in the driver’s seat, Republicans are in the driver’s seat, and The SAVE Act is the most popular election reform in history!

Now we get to the fly in the ointment.

The GOP Senate is filled with rat-fink, bribed, bought off, RINO cowards and traitors. Many, if not most, of the GOP Senators- even with the wind blowing at 150 MPH at their backs- don’t really want to pass the SAVE Act.

Senators claim we now might have the votes to suspend the Filibuster and pass the SAVE Act. “Might.” Do you believe them? Would you bet your life on that?

These spineless and corrupt RINO clowns and sad sacks always find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

What my gut tells me is the GOP Senate will either fail at the last minute, or they will stall, stall, stall until the clock runs out, and brag they gave it their best shot.

Anyone want to bet?

So, if it happens to pass- GREAT! But we can’t count on The SAVE Act passing the GOP Senate. We need two simultaneous options to be in motion at once.

A kind of “fail safe option.”

President Trump should defeat the RINOS at their own game by signing his Executive Order for Election Integrity right now. Make it simultaneous. Put even more pressure on the GOP Senate to act.

Because our real enemy here is time.

We are running out of time before the midterms. We know there will be legal challenges by Democrats- ie Marxist traitors trying to steal elections, so they can open borders, change the demographics of the electorate, and destroy our country.

If President Trump waits for the Senate, and it never happens, it will be too late. Too much time will go by, and with court challenges, The SAVE Act will never be in place before the midterms.

Every minute counts.

If court challenges stop the SAVE Act from being in place before the midterms, Democrats will cheat to the max. They will steal the midterms. Then the Trump presidency is ruined. It’s over. The next two years, not only will Trump be unable to pass a bill, but his administration will be bogged down by nonstop investigations and impeachments.

The smart move is for President Trump to sign his EO version of the SAVE Act right now- so no matter if the Senate passes it, or not, there is still enough time for court challenges and ultimately, a final Supreme Court ruling.

I’ve spoken to one of America’s foremost experts on this issue- John Goodman. He believes a Trump EO would actually be better than the Senate passing the SAVE Act. Why?

First, because Trump’s EO will have stricter limits on mail-in ballots. While Voter ID and proof of citizenship are important, Goodman says eliminating mail-in ballots is far more important.

The EO will fully eliminate the fraudulent use of mail-in ballots, replacing them with already Constitutionally-approved absentee ballots- only used allowed to be used by elderly, disabled, or overseas military voters.

This is precisely how Democrats are using illegal aliens to steal elections. Voter ID and proof of citizenship alone don’t stop this form of voter fraud- because millions of illegals are voting by mail-in ballot- without ever leaving their homes.

Trump’s EO will solve this issue once and for all.

Goodman also believes the SAVE Act- either a law passed by Congress, or a Trump EO- will have an ironclad 100% chance of being affirmed by the Supreme Court. Based on three provisions of our U.S. Constitution, and a 1995 Supreme Court ruling (U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton), Goodman says the Supremes will find it impossible to overturn The SAVE Act.

The issue was already decided by this 1995 ruling and our US Constitution. The Supreme Court rarely ever in history has overturned their own rulings, let alone the US Constitution.

So, if we get The SAVE Act across the finish line in any form, we will win at the Supreme Court. Therefore the real issue is…

Did we leave enough time for court challenges and a Supreme Court ruling?

So, President Trump please act now. Pass your EO version simultaneously while the GOP Senate tries to pass their version. Let’s get on two paths to victory, and get them both on record, while there is still time for multiple court rulings, plus an expediated ruling by the Supreme Court.

That’s the path to insure victory in the midterms: 2-for-price-of-1.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at 1 PM ET/10 AM PT, and his video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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