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The Democratic nominee for Georgia Senate District 47 is going to prison. Justin Gillespie, 41, of Hull, was convicted last week in Madison County Superior Court of cruelty to children and battery, per 92.1 WLHR and the Madison County Journal. The case goes back to February 2021 at the Happy Kids Learning Center in Hull, where he worked: authorities said he hit a five-year-old girl in the lower ba...

For 40 years they told us steel was never coming back. On Monday the president announced that Mesabi Metallics will invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in southeast Iowa, with up to 1,750 permanent jobs and about 6,000 construction jobs, per CNBC and CBS News. The first phase is to make about 7.5 million tons of steel a year, ramping to 10 million, with production starting in 2030, and a Whi...

France is one of the most secular countries on earth, and on Saturday Paris came to church. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, celebrated an open-air Mass at the Place de la Concorde with the crowd stretching the length of the Champs-Élysées. The Vatican estimated 800,000 people, about 200,000 more than had registered, per Fox News and the Associated Press. Families held babies up to the popem...

While Xi Jinping was being welcomed at the White House, thousands of people who have lived under his government were in the streets of Washington telling America the other side. Organizers said more than 2,000 Tibetans came from across North America, joined by Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, Southern Mongolians and Chinese pro-democracy activists, per Radio Free Asia. They marched through the ci...

"A useless organization." Argentina's president, Javier Milei, stood at the United Nations General Assembly rostrum Wednesday for the third year in a row and told the room what it is: an organization that exists, in his words as reported by Breitbart News, "only to feed a caste of fatally arrogant parasites disguised as well-meaning bureaucrats." He said "this sacred covenant has been broken," per...

760,000 people are coming off Obamacare. Vice President JD Vance's White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud canceled about 315,000 Affordable Care Act enrollments covering 760,000 people, sent 419,000 more enrollments for extra verification, and put the taxpayer savings at $2.2 billion, per the Associated Press and CNBC. The task force says 40 insurance agents and brokers were behind 50,000 fraud...

Forty-seven voter registration cards for one person. That is what one local clerk in Macomb County, Michigan told her county clerk, Anthony Forlini, who posted a video from his office last week captioned "This is not how things should be run." His account, as reported by The Gateway Pundit: more than 5,000 registration cards dropped on his county, names already on the rolls, signatures that do not...

Sixteen people in seven states have been charged with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and related crimes, the Justice Department announced Friday. The states: Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan. In Texas alone, eight are accused of voting or registering to vote while they were not citizens. In Georgia, prosecutors allege one woman voted nine time...

ActBlue said it verified passport numbers on foreign donations. A new House report prints what verification meant, in ActBlue's own words. Three House committees, Judiciary, Administration and Oversight, released "Fraud on ActBlue, Part III," and unlike the first two it publishes the platform's internal messages: Slack traffic and supervisor notes. On the passport check, quoted in the report: "ver...

"I got you covered." According to the Kirk family's notice of claim, that is what Utah Valley University's police chief wrote back when a Turning Point official asked about roof access before Charlie Kirk's event. The notice, dated September 9, the day before the one-year mark, comes from Erika Kirk, Charlie's parents and his estate, and it names the State of Utah, Utah Valley University, the univ...

Somebody paid to cremate Thomas Crooks, and nobody is saying who. FBI records turned over to Senator Chuck Grassley's Judiciary Committee, first reported by the New York Post and reviewed by Fox News, include the Bureau's summary of its interview with the gunman's father, and at the very end, one line: an anonymous donor paid for the cremation. According to the records, the detail came from a lawy...

Former CIA Director John Brennan has been ordered to appear October 15 before a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, and his own lawyer says he "remains a target." The subpoena was handed to attorney Ken Wainstein last Thursday and disclosed in a court filing Monday, according to the Associated Press and Fox News. Fort Pierce is the courthouse where Judge Aileen Cannon sits, the judge who t...

Last Thursday, September 10, Turning Point USA unveiled an eight-foot bronze statue of Charlie Kirk outside its headquarters in Phoenix, one year to the day after he was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. It lasted three days. Sunday morning, just after 8:00, Phoenix Police got the calls. Somebody had been at it in the night with red spray paint: the face, the neck, the torso, the hand, th...

Twenty-five years ago this morning, 2,977 people went to work or got on a plane or answered a call and did not come home. Here is how today is being marked. At Ground Zero the ceremony starts at 8:30 Eastern, with the first moment of silence at 8:46, the minute the first plane hit the North Tower, and silences through the morning for the second tower, the Pentagon, Flight 93, and this year, for th...

On Wednesday the White House Government Transparency Task Force declassified and released the handwritten notes two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, took while interviewing General Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. The typed official summary of that interview, the form the FBI calls a 302, did not go into the bureau's system until more than 20 days later. Flynn was charged with lying in...

On Tuesday U.S. Central Command hit Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and near Jask, disabling the ships that carry Iranian crude, a day after Iran fired at least one ballistic missile at a U.S. Navy warship and missed. The man who runs Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, had already said what the answer would be: "If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost...

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has formally asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, the multi-state group that many states hand their voter rolls to for cleanup, along with a nonprofit called the Center for Election Innovation and Research. The letter went to the Justice Department on September 2. As The Federalist lays...

Seventeen of Maryland's 24 sheriffs are suing their own state in federal court over the Community Trust Act, the law that bars local police and county jails from questioning immigration status, holding anyone to check citizenship, or telling federal immigration authorities about people in their custody without a court order. An ICE detainer is not enough. The suit was filed in May in Greenbelt wit...

Homeland Security Investigations, the arm of ICE that normally works drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation, has launched what its own internal guidance calls a "coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative" in nine states, running through the middle of October. CNN found the memo. Not Breitbart, not this show. California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pe...

She admitted it on camera. Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina del Rey, pleaded guilty in June to a federal felony count of paying another person to register to vote, after James O'Keefe's undercover team filmed her on Skid Row saying "Because you haven't registered, I need to register you so I can get paid, too." Prosecutors say she paid people between $2 and $3 a signature and registered t...

Nine years before COVID, Anthony Fauci told a colleague at his own institute to destroy an email about gain-of-function research: "Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file." That is not a paraphrase. It is a verbatim record, released by Senator Rand Paul and first reported by Emily Kopp at the Daily Caller News Foundation, written the morning after Fauci complained to NIH di...

A federal agency put a form of worship on a list of possible indicators of domestic extremism. The traditional Latin Mass. Opposition to abortion. Conservative family values. A "rejection of modernity." That is not a rumor and it is not a talking point. It is the FBI's own January 2023 Richmond memo, and the Justice Department's Weaponization Working Group has now put on the record what the Bureau...

Homeland Security put it in writing: the companies behind more than 80% of America's voting machines admit their systems contain Chinese-made parts — and states that want their full federal grant awards must now run random post-election hand counts of paper ballots. Chuck breaks down DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin's August 24 letter to the White House Transparency Task Force, reported by The Epoch...

A federal watchdog has confirmed it: after Hurricane Milton, a FEMA disaster crew skipped 11 Florida homes because of Trump signs. The DHS inspector general found the crew violated FEMA policy and the Hatch Act, and per The Washington Times the crew's own notes read: "Did not visit due to a Trump flag." Chuck worked inside FEMA. He tells you what this really is, and the part of the report that sho...

Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville at 80, and the nephew who announced it at her request said she "has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus." The same day, President Trump ordered American flags lowered for a full week. Chuck remembers the poor girl from Pigeon Forge who sold more than 100 million records (per CBS News), put free books into millions of children's hands, and never onc...