Iran's Peace Process

Judge Blocks Virginia's Referendum - Republicans Celebrate Court Win

Virginia Court Rules Democrat Redistricting Vote Unconstitutional in Major GOP Win

President Trump scored a major victory in Virginia after a judge blocked Democrats’ newly approved redistricting referendum, stopping a map that could have gutted Republican House strength in the state.

The ruling handed Republicans an immediate legal win and threw Democrats’ sweeping power play into chaos just hours after voters approved it.

Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday that the redistricting referendum was unconstitutional. The decision came one day after voters approved the Democrat-backed measure. Hurley found that all votes for or against the proposed amendment were invalid because the referendum did not meet required legal standards.

The ruling immediately froze Democrats’ effort to move the new map forward. It also showed that the legal fight over the referendum is far from over.

Republicans quickly hailed the ruling as a major breakthrough and Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced that the court had blocked certification of the election. “The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional,” Cuccinelli wrote on X.

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Evening Sky 4-22-26

The Southern Poverty Law Center Racket

So let me get this straight—you run a covert program for years, funnel millions to “sources,” hide the mechanics behind shell structures, don’t fully disclose it to donors, and then when it surfaces, it’s suddenly “nothing to see here”?

That’s a tough sell.

Southern Poverty Law Center can call it “informants,” critics can call it “paid agitators”—but the core issue is transparency and representation. If money was raised under one premise and used under another, that’s not just optics—that’s exposure.

They got Bannon for the same thing in the "Build The Wall" charity. And if the SPLC ended the practice recently, the timing matters. Questions about accountability don’t disappear just because the program did. [Luthmann]

Good Night, Patriots.

Interior Secretary exposes corruption

Democrat melts down after Secretary Doug Burgum drops bombshell about NGOs during committee hearing

Democrats had a meltdown during a committee hearing while grilling Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on all of the programs he is attempting to shut down.

And no one was ready for his answer.

HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum just revealed he found NGOs where up to 100% PERCENT of their revenue was the federal government...

...and their CEO would make $650K a YEAR, and pay lobbyists $400K.

He exposes it: "We found organizations that were receiving grants from Interior, where 80 to 100 percent of the revenue of that NGO was a grant from the federal government."

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From Pence Aide to MAGA Enemy

Former Pence staffer Olivia Troye launches bid for House seat in Virginia

Mike Pence's top national security aide stood on the Democrat National Convention stage in 2024 and begged Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris.

Now she wants a seat in Congress – and Democrats just drew her a new district to make it happen. There is just one problem with her plan that Virginia voters will decide.

Troye spent four years presenting herself to America as a Republican – a "John McCain Republican," she called herself, someone with principled objections to one man's behavior.

That’s not surprising since John McCain was always closer to Abigail Spanberger than real Republicans.

She resigned from Pence's homeland security and COVID task force team in July 2020. Within weeks she was endorsing Joe Biden and cutting anti-Trump ads for a Never-Trumper political action committee.

By 2024 she was on the Democrat National Convention stage, telling her "fellow Republicans" that voting for Harris wasn't betraying their party – it was standing up for their country.

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Iran scared to bury the Ayatollah

Iran's Leaders are Scared to Do This One Thing

Iran’s Mullahs Are So Terrified of Their Own People They Can’t Even Bury Their Dead Supreme Leader — It’s Been 50 Days

We’ve all heard of governments that can’t protect their people. But a government that can’t bury its own boss? That’s a new one. It’s been fifty days since a joint U.S.-Israeli airstrike turned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei into a footnote in history, and Iranian officials still haven’t put the man in the ground.

Fifty. Days. The guy’s own religion says you’re supposed to be buried within 24 hours. These are the same mullahs who lecture the entire world about Islamic law, by the way. Apparently the rules don’t apply when you’re too scared to hold a funeral.

Here’s what happened. On February 28th, Israeli jets dropped approximately 30 precision munitions on a regime compound in central Tehran. The CIA had been tracking Khamenei’s movements for months and learned that a big meeting of senior officials was happening. So we hit it.

Iranian state TV confirmed the 86-year-old Supreme Leader’s death the next day, and Trump posted the news on Truth Social because of course he did.

Now a normal country — even a terrible one — would hold a funeral. Mourn their leader. Put on a big show of strength. But Iran isn’t a normal country. Iran is a hostage situation where the hostage-takers are also hiding under the bed.

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Our Pharmaceutical vulnerability

A nation that cannot make its own essential medicines is a nation living on borrowed security

President Trump has recently signed a new proclamation to swiftly accelerate the onshoring of pharmaceutical manufacturing — one of America’s most strategically vulnerable sectors.

America’s vulnerability runs across all three stages of the medicine-making process. That begins with the raw ingredients, known as key starting materials; extends to the active pharmaceutical ingredients in the second stage; and finally it includes finished dosage forms, such as tablets, capsules, and injectables.

Today, more than half of the branded pharmaceuticals distributed in America are manufactured overseas. Upstream dependence is sharper still. Only 11 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients manufacturers are in the U.S., compared with 22 percent in China and 44 percent in India. And of all patented active pharmaceutical ingredients sold in the U.S., only 15 percent by volume are made here.

America’s vulnerability runs deeper still at the front end of the supply chain, where more than 40 percent of the key starting materials used in U.S.-approved pharmaceuticals are sole-sourced from China and another 16 percent from India.

While America still leads the world in pharmaceutical discovery, it no longer controls enough of the industrial base to turn that discovery into secure supply. We have become a design-and-discovery superpower with a hollowed-out production base.

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Minnesota Illegal faces a felony for illegally voting

Noncitizen in Minnesota faces felony charges after voting in 2024 election and calling it a 'mistake'

A 39-year-old man in Minnesota was charged Monday with perjury and a voting violation after authorities said records showed he registered to vote in 2023 and then submitted a ballot in the 2024 election, despite not being a United States citizen.

Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari initially denied voting when investigators confronted him, Fox News Digital reported, but later admitted to casting a ballot and told them he "made a mistake."

The case lands in the middle of a national argument over how well states guard their voter rolls against illegal participation. Minnesota officials insist their system works. Critics say the state's own policies made this kind of breach predictable.

Chaudhari faces serious consequences. The Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State told Fox News Digital that penalties for voting while ineligible may include deportation, a permanent bar on future citizenship, a fine of up to $10,000, and up to five years in prison.

For a man reportedly in the middle of a green card process, the felony charges could end more than just a legal case, they could end his ability to remain in the country.

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The State of Minnesota is culpable.

Early Morn 4-22-26

Pope gets our Deportations

Crime City of Lake Worth Beach

Lake Worth Beach has a high crime rate compared to many U.S. cities, with a 1 in 32 chance of becoming a victim of a crime.

Data indicates 32 crimes per 1,000 residents, with higher rates of both violent and property crime compared to most Florida communities.

The city has experienced recent surges in crime, though safety varies by area.

Neighborhood Scout

As soon as the crime stats come in, will post.

Evening Sky 4-21-26

Ceasefires don’t fail by accident—they fail by design. With hours left on the clock, the Iran truce is revealing what it always was: a test of intent.

One side shows up, the other stalls. One side negotiates, the other postures. And when the chair is empty at the table, that’s not diplomacy—it’s a message.

The question isn’t whether talks can continue. It’s whether they were ever meant to succeed. Because when a regime treats time as a weapon, every delay isn’t neutral—it’s strategic. And the longer it runs, the clearer the pattern becomes.

A United States delegation is en route to Islamabad for the next round of negotiations. Vice President J.D. Vance is expected to depart for Pakistan today to reinforce the American position at the highest level of the executive branch.

Iran is not at the table. Iranian officials have not confirmed their participation in today’s session and have provided no indication that a delegation is inbound to Islamabad. An empty chair on the Iranian side of the table, less than 24 hours before the ceasefire expires, is a deliberate signal of bad faith. [MICHAEL T. FLYNN LTG USA (RET)]

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TPS extended to Haitians

Ten House Republicans break with Trump to extend temporary protected status for Haitians

Ten House Republicans crossed party lines Thursday to join Democrats and one independent in passing legislation that would extend temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitian nationals, a direct rebuke of the Trump administration's effort to end the program and resume deportations to Haiti.

The measure passed 224-204, Fox News Digital reported, though it faces long odds in the Republican-led Senate and a near-certain presidential veto.

The vote marked one of the most visible breaks between GOP lawmakers and the White House on immigration policy this Congress. It came after Democrats, led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, used a procedural tool known as a discharge petition to force the bill to the House floor, bypassing Republican leadership entirely. The petition needed 218 signatures, and enough Republicans signed on to clear that threshold.

Rep. Laura Gillen, a New York Democrat, sponsored the resolution on the floor. But the story is less about what Democrats did, they were expected to support the measure, and more about the ten Republicans who chose to stand with them against their own president's stated immigration priorities.

But the 224 that voted to extend TPS also sidestep a harder question: whether a program designed as temporary relief has become, in practice, a permanent residency track that Congress never voted to create. That is precisely the concern the Trump administration has raised.

As Andy Biggs said, "Members of Congress have a sacred and exclusive duty to our American constituents, not to foreign nationals."

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Psaki Broke With the Left's Script

Jen Psaki Just Killed the Left’s Biggest Fantasy About Trump

Your liberal relatives spent three years telling you Trump was one Cabinet vote away from being removed. Now the woman who stood at Joe Biden's White House podium just told her own MSNBC audience to drop it.

What Jen Psaki said on live radio – and why Democrats are furious she said it – changes everything about where this fight is heading.

Psaki did not appear on Stephen A. Smith's Straight Shooter radio program to deliver good news to the resistance. She came with credibility built on two years of defending Joe Biden from the White House briefing room.

Then she said it anyway. "It's not going to happen," Psaki told Smith, shutting down the 25th Amendment fantasy in six words.

She went further. Calling the removal talk "not constructive," Psaki admitted what every honest Democrat already knows – that demanding a constitutional mechanism with zero chance of success is a waste of everyone's time.

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The MAMDANI Act

America Must Learn from Europe's Mistakes

U.S. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) is once again taking the lead in the fight against anti-American ideologies that threaten the very soul of this republic.

Just yesterday, he boldly introduced the Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act of 2026. The MAMDANI Act delivers a powerful and necessary response to decades of reckless immigration policies that have opened our doors to those who openly despise our Constitution, our freedoms, and our way of life.

Named after New York City’s radical mayor Zohran Mamdani — a vocal champion of Marxist ideas — this legislation amends existing immigration law to make crystal clear what should have never been in doubt.

America will no longer import or tolerate communists, Marxists, socialists, Chinese communists, Islamic fundamentalists, or anyone affiliated with totalitarian ideologies bent on destroying Western civilization from within.

The bill targets the dangerous Red-Green Alliance that has already devastated Europe and is now advancing aggressively on American soil.

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I would add Democrats to the list.  😀

Confused uninformed Whoopi

Whoopi’s Draft Panic Goes Off the Rails

Whoopi Goldberg lit up another round of controversy on The View after saying Trump was “planning on a draft” to fight Iran.

The problem is straightforward: there is no evidence of any draft plan. No announcement. No policy. No proof.

The segment started with Alyssa Farah Griffin talking about Iran as a long-term threat. She said, “Keep in mind the Iranian regime is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism. Ten years from now, 20 years from now, they may try to strike the homeland, they may try to strike troops in the region. This doesn’t go away just because you sign a piece of paper.”

Goldberg then took the discussion in a very different direction, saying, “No, nothing goes away. And that’s why they’re planning on a draft! They’re planning on a draft! And you’re bitching and moaning that there are women who are part of the – the Army, Navy, all the – and you’re getting rid of people and talking about who shouldn’t be — what the hell are you people doing?!”

Goldberg said, “It’s a draft! I can sorry, it’s a draft! Because if you are 18 to 25, they’re looking at you!”

That is where the confusion matters. A draft and a registration rule are not the same thing. One means forced military service. The other is a paperwork issue tied to the Selective Service system. Mixing those up on national television is a big miss, especially when the topic is war and young Americans.

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"If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, New York, New York"

FDNY proposes steep ambulance fee hikes as EMS workers head for the exits

New Yorkers who dial 911 for an ambulance could soon face a bill nearly a third higher than what they pay today.

The FDNY has proposed raising the cost of a basic life support ambulance ride by 29 percent, from $1,385 to $1,793, and boosting the fee for on-site emergency treatment by 42 percent, from $630 to $896. A public hearing on the plan is set for May 15.

The proposed rule, first reported by the New York Post, would mark the first increase in medical transport fees since May 2023. Advanced life support trips would jump by roughly 30.7 percent. Level 1 rides would climb from $1,680 to $2,196. Level 2 rides would go from $1,692 to $2,012. The per-mile charge for the trip to the hospital, currently $20, would stay the same, and oxygen administration would remain at $66.

The department framed the hike as a matter of fiscal reality. In its proposed rule, the FDNY stated:

"The Fire Department is proposing this rule because of increased costs and to help offset the City's cost of providing these services. The proposed rates reflect increases in personal services costs and other than personal service costs required to provide emergency ambulance services and have been calculated to reduce the portion of such costs that is currently borne by City taxpayers."

Put plainly: the city says it can no longer absorb the gap between what ambulance runs cost and what patients are charged. Somebody has to pay. Under this proposal, that somebody is the person on the stretcher.

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Energy Prices

Trump says Energy Secretary got it wrong

Trump overrules Energy secretary on gas prices, insists relief will come faster than Wright predicts

President Trump flatly rejected his own Energy secretary's forecast on gas prices Monday, telling The Hill in a phone interview that Chris Wright was "totally wrong" to suggest Americans might not see prices fall below $3 per gallon until next year.

The public rebuke landed just one day after Wright appeared on CNN and hedged on a timeline for relief at the pump. Asked when drivers could expect sub-$3 gas, Wright said Sunday: "I don't know. That could happen later this year. That might not happen until next year." He added that "prices have likely peaked and they will start going down."

Trump was having none of it. In his interview with The Hill, the president tied cheaper gas directly to the resolution of the Iran conflict, saying prices would drop "as soon as this ends."

That framing puts the timeline squarely in the administration's own hands, and puts Wright's caution at odds with the White House message.

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California bill AB 2624 --Stop Nick Shirley Act

Confronting California Democrats on Fraud

'You're a psycho scam artist' says one Democrat

Independent journalist Nick Shirley confronted California lawmakers seeking to criminalize investigative journalism which exposes fraud in a video posted Saturday.

Democratic California State Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, the wife of Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta, introduced Assembly Bill 2624 (AB2624) in February. In a 25-minute YouTube video posted Saturday, Shirley interviews multiple lawmakers about the bill, which has moved through the Assembly's Privacy and Consumer Protection and Judiciary committees.

"It was only until I exposed fraud that they actually cracked down on the fraud and made some arrests here, especially with the hospices. And do you know that, if this bill were to pass, it'd make it illegal for someone to go after fraud, especially if it's based off of immigrants — for instance, Armenians in California?" Shirley asked one lawmaker.

Watch Nick Shirley confront California Dems trying to criminalize exposing fraud.



This bill AB 2624 will:
Criminalize journalists with misdemeanors, $10,000 fines, imprisonment, and content takedown
Let immigrant based NGOs' funding be confidential
Take away freedom of the press from journalists
Protect any "immigration support services" information from being public (healthcare, legal services, etc)

Sunrise 4-21-26