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Former Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes argued convincingly that one of the midterm hoaxes being propagated by the establishment media is that Republican candidates should distance themselves from the president’s immigration policies.
The mainstream outlets point to polling, showing that Donald Trump’s approval rating on immigration policy is underwater, though it has been improving and nearing 50 percent in some surveys, according to RealClear Polling.
Cortes says that the headwinds Republicans are facing are mostly due to higher prices, not immigration policy.
Cortes served as a senior adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign with focus on reaching Hispanic voters and joined the 2020 campaign in the same capacity, Fox News reported at the time.
In a post published Monday on the social media platform X, he zeroed in on Hispanics, which is a group where Trump and Republicans have lost support going into the midterms. An NBC News/Telemundo poll published over the weekend found the president’s approval rating sits at 27 percent with Latino voters, while 69 percent disapprove. By contrast, a CNN exit poll found 46 percent voted for him in 2024.
Republican lawmakers are faring a little better than Trump among the demographic, with 35 percent of Latinos preferring they control Congress, down from 42 percent in 2024, but up from 33 percent in 2022, when the GOP did take back control of the House.
Citing his own polling work, Cortes wrote Monday: “There is a new hoax being pushed by the corporate media and establishment Republicans: that Hispanics are angry with the GOP over immigration enforcement. It’s a lie designed to stop mass deportations.
“Hispanics are angry about prices and the economy, not immigration. My own polling proves it. Asked which concerns them more, high prices or ICE and immigration enforcement, Hispanics pick inflation by a staggering 73% to 19%,” he continued.
“But Hispanics approve, by 11 points, of removing illegal migrants who refuse the Trump administration’s generous self-deportation incentives, including paid trips home and the chance to reapply later for legal status,” Cortes wrote. “And they back full cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities by 20 points.”
In an accompanying video, he summarized, “They’re not concerned about immigration. They’re concerned about prices in the economy, which tells me, ultimately, we’re going to get that support back, but we’re going to have to earn it. We’re going to have to work to do it.”
There is a new hoax being pushed by the corporate media and establishment Republicans: that Hispanics are angry with the GOP over immigration enforcement. It’s a lie designed to stop mass deportations.
Hispanics are angry about prices and the economy, not immigration.
My own polling proves it.
Asked which concerns them more, high prices or ICE and immigration enforcement, Hispanics pick inflation by a staggering 73% to 19%.
But Hispanics approve, by 11 points, of removing illegal migrants who refuse the Trump administration’s generous self-deportation incentives, including paid trips home and the chance to reapply later for legal status.
And they back full cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities by 20 points.
We can win back patriotic Hispanic voters. But we have to earn it by tackling affordability and fixing our problems here at home.
— Steve Cortes (@SteveCortes) October 5, 2026
What is likely also true is that a majority of Americans, no matter their race, are pleased that the border is no longer a chaotic mess as it was under Joe Biden when thousands of people crossed illegally into the U.S. daily.
A look at our southern border. https://t.co/IIC2cgmiza
— The Western Journal (@WesternJournalX) October 6, 2026
If they were apprehended, they were soon thereafter released into the country by the millions, driving up housing and other costs for Americans. Tragically, many of these migrants engaged in crime.
Can there be any doubt that one reason the murder rate saw its largest decline ever recorded and other violent crimes dropped so dramatically during Trump’s first year in office is because of strict immigration enforcement?
Control of Congress is pretty much a toss-up according to the latest polling. GOP candidates should be leaning into Trump’s record on immigration and the economy, while also addressing the steps that they have taken and continue to take (in the case of incumbents) to bring down costs that rose primarily under Biden and the Democrats.
That is the key to winning at the ballot box next month.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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An Ohio political blogger will go on trial Thursday for allegedly sending a state lawmaker a picture of Shrek with an erect penis.
D.J. Byrnes, 39, publisher of the Ohio political newsletter The Rooster, has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor telecommunications harassment over the bizarre exchange with Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino.
The saga began after Cirino gave up his bid to become president of the Ohio Senate.
Byrnes, a committed leftist who nicknamed Cirino the “Young Mussolini,” allegedly sent him a taunting message celebrating his political setback.
“Good to see you finally made your humiliation public, Young Mussolini. THE PATRIOTS CAUCUS sends its regards!!!!!!!!!!!” Byrnes wrote, according to court filings.
“I don’t know who this is but I am certain you are a moron,” Cirino responded.
Byrnes allegedly sent the senator a digitally altered image depicting the famous green ogre fully nude with an exposed and erect penis.
Cirino subsequently contacted police, describing the image as “disgusting” and “pornographic in nature” and asking that charges be brought against the sender.
“I would like this harassment to stop immediately,” he wrote.
He was jailed for texting an image of Shrek’s dick to a politician.
The trial starts tomorrow.
Brush up on one of @TheFIREorg‘s most ogre-the-top cases of the year. https://t.co/jYQrtZCAwH
— Daniel Burnett (@Burnett18) October 7, 2026
Byrnes was arrested at the Ohio Statehouse on June 1 by four state troopers and spent nearly 24 hours in jail.
He later turned his mugshot into merchandise emblazoned with the words “never surrender.”
Byrnes rejected two plea agreements that would have allowed him to avoid jail and instead elected to take the Shrek case before a jury.
His lawyers argue that the messages amount to constitutionally protected political mockery rather than criminal harassment.
“This case does not involve repeated telephone calls to a private citizen,” they argued in a motion seeking dismissal.
“It does not involve threats, extortion, stalking, soliciting sex, or attempts to invade another person’s privacy.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has also backed Byrnes, arguing that political ridicule of an elected official is protected by the First Amendment.
A judge rejected Byrnes’s attempt to have the prosecution dismissed in August.
Cirino, meanwhile, is looking forward to jurors getting acquainted with the evidence.
“I can’t wait for the jury to see the image that he sent to me,” he recently said.
If convicted of the first-degree misdemeanor, Byrnes faces a maximum of six months in prison.
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J6 Political prisoner, Edward Kelley, is still in solitary confinement despite President Trump’s sweeping pardons for J6 political prisoners in early 2025.
In August, 2025, just months after the President’s pardons, Kelley was sentenced to 80 years in prison for allegedly “conspiring to kill FBI agents,” he remains in prison along with Solomon Pena, another political prisoner and former GOP candidate in the 2022 midterms.
Pena was also sentenced to 80 years in August, 2025 for allegedly orchestrating a “politically motivated shooting spree,” following his electoral loss in 2022.
Kelley previously sent out an open letter, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, where he expresses frustration for being “abandoned” by the President. He also advocates for the release of both himself and Pena.
Back in July of 2025, a whistleblower even came forward and leaked a private conversation with the FBI, calling for “revenge” against Kelley. Is Kelley’s sentence merely just payback for something that the FBI didn’t like? If so, then that is a clear violation of Kelley’s civil rights.
FBI PERJURY
The FBI called for REVENGE on a #J6 subject prior to arrest, covered it up, and lied about it at trial.
FBI ASAC Joel Feaster held an all-employee meeting prior to the arrest and calmly declared, “They threatened our people, and that’s unacceptable. So, they’re going to feel… they’re going to feel our revenge, okay. They don’t do this shit to us.”
This is the audio of his call for revenge and his trial testimony transcript.The FBI and US Attorney’s Office never disclosed this misconduct and bias to the defense as required by their discovery obligations. I reported this misconduct to FBI, DOJ-OIG, and the Court PRIOR to the trial. It was ignored and suppressed. At trial, the defense called FBI ASAC Feaster and asked if he made the “revenge” remark. Feaster lied and said ‘No’.
I then reported the perjury with a full 14-page transcript of Feaster’s meeting with his call for revenge and other misconduct. The FBI, OIG, USAO, and the court again ignored it.
What’s worse is that the SAC (Feaster’s boss) heard the revenge. At least 100 people heard the call for revenge and a handful complained about it. FBI personnel in the courtroom who heard the revenge comment and heard the perjury sat silent and did nothing. This is your FBI – morally bankrupt.
The AUSAs were aware of the revenge allegation yet didn’t bother to interview me or anyone to corroborate Feaster’s remark. Those same AUSAs sat in the court while Feaster perjured himself and said and done nothing 9 months later. Please RT to bring pressure and demand accountability of #DOJ and #FBI.
@AGPamBondi
@SenateGOP
#Whistleblowers
*Apologies for repost. Most didn’t realize the audio evidence was attached.— William Taylor (@RetFBI) July 25, 2025
Kelley himself confirmed that he has a Certificate of Pardon from President Trump in a shocking message to the American People:
“To all Americans and freedom-loving peoples,
I am the first man in history to hold in my possession a Certificate of Pardon from the President of the United States and yet still be in prison for the offenses that I am pardoned for. There are no words for the injustice that I felt when I was delivered that certificate of pardon today (Oct. 5th, 2026) in legal mail WHILE I AM STILL IN PRISON! Furious, betrayed, enraged, ignored, persecuted all combined in one still miserably fail to describe what I am thinking and feeling.
I am in the process of begging the appeals court to recognize that President Trump’s mass pardon of patriots, for all offenses stemming from and “related to” what happened at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, applies wholly to my case. I should not have to be doing that. Nobody at any level of the criminal justice system has the power or right to deny a presidential pardon. Yet people currently in the Department of Justice and the federal judiciary think that they can, sure as hell did and are getting away with it right now.
If my case is allowed to stand in the courts then the case of United States v. Edward Kelley will be used as legal precedent for generations to keep people imprisoned even if they are pardoned by the president. The pardon clause of the US Constitution will be almost completely voided by a federal judge that leaned on the non-constitutional and false precedent of ‘judicial interpretation’ to ignore my pardon and keep me imprisoned. All freedom loving people need to be something far beyond outraged by my case. People across America need to be mobilized for my freedom and the freedom of other patriots still persecuted and abandoned in the system.
This injustice against me and other patriots needs to end. President Donald Trump could end it tomorrow. I demand to know why he doesn’t.
Stay strong. Stay free. Above all else, stay faithful to God.”
The message was passed to The Gateway Pundit by Daniel Goodwyn, who is aligned with the StopHate, an organization that seeks justice for prosecuted victims in the aftermath of January 6.
President Trump promised to pardon all the J6ers of any wrongdoing and to “end a grave national injustice,” so then why are Kelley and Pena still in prison?
Kelley continues to fight for his freedom and remains a victim of the weaponization of the federal government. His message is clear, and there is still hope that justice will be served for him.
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Remember when the left wished the worst ills upon those who refused the vaccine mandate — including loss of job?
Also, remember the old idiom that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just may get it?
My guess is that the functionaries at Washington State Ferries don’t, or at least won’t recognize their lesson — because, after losing over 120 crew members due to vaccine mandates, they were brought to their knees by just 23 employees organizing a sick-out strike.
According to local NPR affiliate KUOW, “[t]housands of ferry riders in the Puget Sound region were left in the lurch Monday morning as major routes and dozens of sailings were canceled.
“Nearly two dozen engine room employees called out sick, according to the state, and backup crew declined to fill in. The union representing the workers said Monday’s shutdown highlighted Washington State Ferries’ failure to hire more staff.”
The outlet said that “dozens of sailings were upended Monday” due to the sick-out, with only a few boats in operation.
Washington State Ferries said on X that not only had the employees called out, but all employees qualified to keep the boats running declined to help out.
“All of the employees calling in sick, and declining to fill those vacancies, are represented by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA) who represent engine room employees,” WSF said.
All of the employees calling in sick, and declining to fill those vacancies, are represented by the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA) who represent engine room employees. (2/6)
— Washington State Ferries (@wsferries) October 5, 2026
As a result, all but five of the ships were out of service.
The employees who work in the engine room play a vital role in providing WSF’s safe service, which is why Chief Engineers have a base salary of $157,000, and can make more than $350,000 a year with overtime, as well as annual sick and vacation leave, and retirement accrual. (4/6)
— Washington State Ferries (@wsferries) October 5, 2026
When those positions aren’t filled, the boat cannot sail, which is what we’re experiencing today across 13 of the 18 vessels currently in service. (6/6)
— Washington State Ferries (@wsferries) October 5, 2026
If only there was something they could have done to avoid this. Oh, wait:
@wsferries Any of the 121 you fired for not taking an experimental shot willing to work ??? https://t.co/ad8Tq4eFAh
— jerry anderson (@VotePro2A) October 5, 2026
Fact check: Accurate. From a 2022 Washington State Ferries workforce planning report:
First, the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing labor shortages in the maritime labor market. An estimated 3.2 million workers nationwide left the labor market between 2019 and 2021, impacting every sector of the economy. Second, WSF was particularly hard hit by employees not complying with the state vaccine mandates. It lost 120 crew members or approximately 6% of its operational workforce. Not only is this nearly double the state employees’ rate of 3.2%, but the losses were also concentrated in critical occupations: 20 oilers and 40 temporary assistant engineers left their positions.
This sounds bad — and worse when you look at the numbers from a separate report on overtime analysis from 2021:
121 workers separated and 8 retired (60% of separations) 6.8% of WSF workforce stopped working because of the vaccine mandate … 11% of Oilers and 35.7% of Assistant Engineers separated.
Now, would any of these individuals made a significant difference? I doubt they would have hurt, particularly given the number of engine-room specialists that could simply bring WSF to its knees — just two-dozen.
Again, this is what the American left wanted in 2021 and 2022. They wanted people’s heads on a pike if they didn’t take an experimental vaccine. They got their wish, career-wise, at Washington State Ferries. And now we’re supposed to believe that they’re sorry, or at least care about staffing levels?
This is a government organization in one of the bluest corners in America — both in terms of politics and waterways that need to be straddled. Now, they get bit in the behind, years after the fact, by the mask-and-jab brigade, which has moved onto other, fresher causes.
Meanwhile, the language the Washington State Ferries information office used was telling, too. Who knows how long they’ve been operating barely above the very minimum Coast Guard requirements? Just look at that phrasing. Glad you managed to feel so safe from the unvaxxed, Seattleites. Sorry about your public transit system at all, but you know what they say about omelettes. Or you would, if you didn’t eat vegan eggs.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
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Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the shocking moments after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school back in 2023.
In 2023, the Newport News Commonwealth’s prosecutor decided the 6-year-old boy who shot a Virginia school teacher wouldn’t face charges.
Richneck Elementary School teacher Abby Zwerner was hospitalized for two weeks after one of her students shot her in January 2023.
The family of the first grader said the child suffers from “acute disability and was under a care plan at the school that included his mother or father attending school with him and accompanying him to class every day.”
In April 2023, the mother of the child, Deja Taylor, was charged with “felony child neglect and a misdemeanor for leaving a firearm that could endanger a child,” WTKR reported.
The newly unsealed police bodycam footage is shocking.
The 6-year-old child cursed out police officers as they arrived at the scene of the crime.
An elderly female teacher had the child restrained on her lap when officers arrived.
“Ya’ll wanna f*ckin piece of me, bitch!” the child shouted as police officers entered the classroom. “F*ck you bitches!”
“That n*gga retired last year!” the boy shouted after the teacher said she had warned the assistant principal of a threat earlier.
“I called 911,” the teacher told police.
“F*ck you, bitch!” the boy said to the teacher who was holding him down on her lap.
“When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?” the teacher asked the boy as she examined his hands.
“I stole that from my mom!” he shouted. “I shot my teacher!”
“What’s your name?” one of the officers asked the boy.
The child shouted at the officer: “If you wanna piece of me, come get it, bitch!”
WATCH:
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The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the U.S. withdrew its bombers from the British Fairford air base over the weekend because of concerns about a potential Iranian drone attack.
The withdrawal of about a dozen B-1 planes, which was first reported Sunday, followed British authorities announcing that several men had been arrested for plotting an attack on the base. The Post, citing a British official and “two people familiar with the decision,” said that the U.S. had received intelligence about potential attacks. Vice President J.D. Vance said the planes had been moved out of “an abundance of caution.”
Despite improved numbers of transits through the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Republic struck 11 ships in the past week. Iran has also been operating in the southeast of the country to suppress unrest from separatist elements in its Baluchistan province.
The Iran-aligned Yemeni Houthis claimed strikes on airports in the Saudi cities of Riyadh and Abha and in the Yemeni central government’s temporary capital of Aden.
Brent crude opened Wednesday at $101 per barrel. AAA reported continued easing in still-elevated consumer prices with national averages of $4.37 per gallon of regular gas and $6.30 per gallon of gasoline.
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President Trump on Wednesday said he has “no regrets at all” about his endorsement of Ken Paxton after the media’s attempts to ruin his campaign for U.S. Senate through various leaks from closed-door meetings.
Trump is also scheduled to hold a rally for Paxton in San Antonio, Texas, tonight.
The Texas Senate race has been rocked by a number of leaked audio recordings of Paxton during private events with GOP operatives, donors, and lobbyists, in which he candidly discusses his campaign. The knives are out for Paxton, but Trump isn’t turning his back on the star Texas Senate Nominee.
In one audio tape, Paxton said during a meeting with conservative donors and lobbyists late last month that the RNC midterm convention hurt him in the polls and that “everybody’s numbers dropped,” following the convention. An attendee recorded the comments at a private fundraiser in Washington and leaked the recording to the New York Times.
Still, Trump responded last Wednesday to the recording by brushing off the comments, defending the convention, and noting the massive viewership it generated.
“I haven’t heard that, but I can tell you that the convention was amazing. As you probably know, we had 107 million views,” he said. “The NFL had 25 million views, so we had four times what the NFL did.”
He went on to campaign for Paxton in Denton, Texas, the next day, unfazed by the recording.
This week, two more audio tapes emerged. In one, obtained by Politico, Paxton is heard telling donors that he has “little control” over his messaging and “it’s all coming from DC,” creating a challenge with getting his message out to regular Texas voters. The snippet appears to show Paxton expressing his frustrations with the national GOP and the current Senate Republican leadership trying to control him.
LISTEN:
In another tape, obtained by Axios, Paxton simply admits that his biggest obstacles in the race are the war in Iran and high gas prices, and explains his plan to alleviate voters’ concerns on the campaign trail. “I’m just trying to figure out ways that I can help people,” including “proposing legislation,” he said, while acknowledging that he can’t stop the war.
This is clearly a targeted campaign by the left-wing media and anonymous leakers to infiltrate and stop Paxton and drive a wedge between him and Trump. In the recordings, which are made out to be far more damning than they truly are, Paxton does not attack Trump or say anything negative about the Republican Party.
When asked if he has any regrets about endorsing Paxton in the primary race against RINO John Cornyn, Trump doubled down, praising the Texas Republican and saying, “not at all.”
“No, no, no, not at all,” Trump said, describing him as “the best, or certainly one of the few best, but the best attorney general in the whole country,” who “will be a great Senator.”
“I would have no regrets at all,” Trump added.
WATCH:
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The moral decay forced upon America by radical leftists has reached a terrifying new low right in the heart of the Midwest.
An Iowa city council opened its regular meeting this week by standing for an invocation addressed to a “dark father,” praising the “luciferian impulse,” and closing with “Hail Satan.”
The City of Ottumwa’s official YouTube channel posted the October 6, 2026, regular meeting.
After the mayor called the 5:30 p.m. session to order and invited those who wished to participate in the invocation to stand, the scheduled speaker began: “Let us pray. Dear dark father, let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times.”
He continued by urging the room to “embrace the luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old,” to judge people by “concrete actions” rather than “arbitrary social norms,” and to hold “only to that which is demonstrably true.”
He closed with the line that set off the room: “It is done. Hail Satan.” The Pledge of Allegiance followed immediately.
The city’s own invocation schedule lists the October 6 speaker as Matthew Dalbey, organization “None.” Dalbey is also listed for September 1 and November 3. The schedule is posted on the city’s website.
The clip spread after it was posted by Libs of TikTok, which tagged the city’s official account.
The City of Ottumwa, Iowa, opened its Tuesday evening council meeting with a shocking invocation addressed to the “dark father” and ending with the declaration, “Hail Satan.”
https://t.co/3UrCwDrJPe— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) October 7, 2026
The invocation did not pass without pushback.
During the official recording of the meeting, a man identified as Rick called on city leaders to “reverse that curse that was just put on our city,” referring to the invocation that ended with “Hail Satan” and an appeal to a “dark god.”
Cara Galloway objected, telling Mayor Ben Foote, “Yeah, Mayor, this should be done at EER at the end.”
Rick pushed back.
“I appreciate what Miss Galloway is saying, but that was a curse put on a city when he said, ‘Hail Satan’ and ‘oh dark god.’ Most of you know that, and we need to just stop and reverse it,” he said. “It needs to be done now.”
Mayor Ben Foote then called for 30 seconds of silence so those in attendance could pray or reflect.
Galloway immediately interrupted.
“No, we are at consent agenda. I’m sorry, but it’s time to move forward. The invocation happened,” she said.
Foote refused to be deterred.
“As the mayor of Ottumwa and the one running this meeting, I’m going to ask right now that we have a moment of silence to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on at this time, and then we will move to the consent agenda,” Foote said.
You can watch the full video below:
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