Politics & Elections

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Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 5, 2026

California Voters Will Decide a Voter-ID Amendment on Nov. 3

By Tommy Flynn

Proposition 39 would require a government ID in person and the last four digits of a designated ID number on a mail ballot. Sponsors say 36 states already do some version of this. The state Democratic Party calls it a Trump-backed barrier. Tommy Flynn, October 5, 2026 California...

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Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 5, 2026

Ninth Circuit Pauses Order Reinstating Seattle Prosecutor Trump Fired

By Tommy Flynn

The Ninth Circuit on Sunday put on hold a judge’s order that would have put Roger Rogoff back in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, the Seattle prosecutor President Trump fired in July less than an hour after federal judges named him. The appeals court...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth awards challenge coins to troops at General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems during his recent Arsenal of Freedom Tour, Camden, Ark.
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 4, 2026

Hegseth Orders One-Day Military Stand-Down So Troops Can Vote Before Midterms

By Tommy Flynn

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered every command in the U.S. military to halt normal operations for one day this month so service members can register, request absentee ballots, or vote ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. The directive is in a memorandum dated Oct. 1 and...

Jack Smith sporting a "No Kings" shirt at the "Power to the People Fest" in Maryland.
Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 4, 2026

Jack Smith Appears at Maryland Festival in Springsteen “No Kings” Shirt

By Tommy Flynn

Former special counsel Jack Smith was photographed Saturday at a Maryland music festival wearing a Bruce Springsteen tour shirt printed with the slogan “No Kings,” four days after he told a Senate committee his prosecutions of President Trump were driven by evidence, not party....

Screenshot from President Trump's video calling for mandatory minimums for fraudsters.
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 4, 2026

Trump Asks Congress for Mandatory Prison on Medicare and Social Security Fraud (Video)

By Tommy Flynn

President Trump on Saturday asked Congress to end probation for people convicted of stealing from Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, and to make sentences rise with the amount taken. He made the request in a video posted to Truth Social at about 9:12 a.m. Eastern. No bill...

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Immigration & BorderPolitics & ElectionsOctober 4, 2026

Newsom Signs 25% Tax on Private ICE Detention Centers

By Tommy Flynn

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a 25 percent tax on the gross income of private detention facilities, a levy that reaches every Immigration and Customs Enforcement site in California. The bill is AB 1633. Newsom signed it Tuesday with a package of about 20 other measures and...

Florida Judge Throws Out the Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 4, 2026

Florida Judge Throws Out the Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting

By Tommy Flynn

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed the Justice Department’s case against a noncitizen accused of voting in 2020 and ruled that the statute prosecutors used is unconstitutional. Biden appointed U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz, of the Southern District of Florida,...

FBI Releases Redacted Crooks Texts; Fitton Calls Release a “Slow Drip”
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 3, 2026

FBI Releases Redacted Crooks Texts; Fitton Calls Release a “Slow Drip”

By Tommy Flynn

The FBI has turned over another 249 pages on Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who opened fire on Donald Trump at a July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the bureau should stop the “slow drip” of heavily redacted records and...

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Politics & ElectionsUS NewsOctober 3, 2026

Georgia Election Board Asks Justice Department to Stop QR-Code Tabulation Before Midterms

By Tommy Flynn

Georgia’s State Election Board has asked the Justice Department to bar the state’s QR-code vote counting, force a software patch on machines used statewide, and investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office over election records and data shared with outside groups....

President Trump speaks at the Mitchell Center, University of South Alabama on October 2, 2026
Crime & CourtsPolitics & ElectionsOctober 3, 2026

Three South Alabama Students Charged With Threatening Trump Before Mobile Rally

By Tommy Flynn

Three University of South Alabama students were arrested Friday and charged with threatening President Donald Trump over social-media posts made in the days before his rally on the Mobile campus, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News. The federal cases were unsealed...

A gas station in Los Angeles shows a price of $8.99 for diesel.
Economy & BusinessPolitics & ElectionsOctober 2, 2026

G7 Agrees to Release 100 Million Barrels; Trump Drops Diesel Export Ban

By Tommy Flynn

The Group of Seven agreed Friday to a coordinated release of 100 million barrels of oil and diesel over four months, and President Trump said a U.S. diesel export ban is off. The joint statement, released by the office of French President Emmanuel Macron, said the release will...

2026 May Day protests across the country were filled with Communist propaganda, slogans and imagery. -- Screenshot of the Chicago protest from the @FrontlinesTPUSA X page.
Economy & BusinessPolitics & ElectionsOctober 2, 2026

White House Council Scores DSA Agenda at $49 Trillion Over Ten Years

By Tommy Flynn

The White House Council of Economic Advisers released a report Thursday scoring the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform at a net fiscal cost of $48.9 trillion over ten years, or about $355,000 per American household. The report, “The Real Cost of Socialism in America,”...