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President Trump just said one thing about Flock cameras that will leave you speechless

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President Trump just said one thing about Flock cameras that will leave you speechless

Flock cameras are very controversial. You either love them or hate them.

And President Trump just said one thing about Flock cameras that will leave you speechless.

President Trump made clear on Sunday where he stands on Flock cameras.

He backs the cameras because it gives law enforcement a real edge in the fight against crime.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said:

“I sort of like them because of that, because of law enforcement, but some people don’t. They think it’s an infringement, but I like them.”

The president likely believes that modern policing requires modern tools.

Cameras that track license plates and flag suspicious activity let officers respond faster and smarter.

Opponents frame the technology as an attack on freedom. Trump sees the opposite.

The president has never hidden his preference for order over chaos.

His comment on the plane fits a long pattern of supporting the men and women who keep the peace.

Trump’s position will not satisfy every privacy absolutist.

It will satisfy some of those who expect their government to prioritize catching criminals.

The Trump admin hit with a ruthless attack by Congressman Jeffries

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The Trump admin hit with a ruthless attack by Congressman Jeffries

The left despises the Trump White House. That will never change.

And the Trump admin was hit with a ruthless attack by Congressman Jeffries.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took to the airwaves Thursday and decided the best defense is a wild offense. On MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” the New York Democrat labeled the Trump admin a pack of “extremists” and “radicals.”

That kind of talk lands with a thud when you line it up against what Vice President JD Vance actually said at the Republican midterm convention.

Vance told the crowd, “We’ve got to send a message this November that the country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder. This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We received this national birthright, and we are going to fight for it by electing Republicans this November.”

Those words are straightforward. They talk about inheritance, duty, and keeping the nation out of the hands of people who treat it like a marketplace.

Yet the usual media chorus treated the speech as if Vance had just kicked over a beehive.

Jen Psaki, the former White House mouthpiece now hosting the MS NOW show, piled on.

“I mean, it’s so telling. It’s dark, it’s xenophobic, it’s so many things. What does it tell you that that is the message from the vice president of the United States, just over 50 days from an election?” she said.

Calling a defense of the American birthright “xenophobic” is the kind of stretch that only works if you start from the premise that patriotism itself is the problem.

Vance did not attack any ethnic group. He attacked the idea that unelected officials and well-connected donors get to run the place.

Jeffries kept the same script going. He claimed the Trump team has “no track record of accomplishment” and “no vision to actually solve the problems that the American people would like the Congress, the president and the vice president to solve.”

Then he added, “So, of course, he turns to trying to divide us further. The reality is, the extremists are the ones who are in control right now. The radicals are the ones who are part of the Trump cartel. They’ve been selling off the government to the highest bidder and unleashing this extraordinary level of corruption that we’ve seen in this country, which is why we’ve promised to begin to hold the crooks accountable starting on day one.”

Notice the pattern. Every time Republicans talk about taking the country back from distant elites, Democrats answer by insisting the real extremists are the people who just won the last election.

It is projection dressed up as analysis.

John Fetterman just showed up at a place that will horrify Democrats

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John Fetterman just showed up at a place that will horrify Democrats

Fetterman has drawn the ire of Democrats. This latest move won’t do anything to help that situation.

And John Fetterman just showed up at a place that will horrify Democrats.

Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania stepped outside his party’s usual lines this week and delivered a message straight to Republicans gathered in Dallas.

The Democratic senator appeared via video at the Republican Party’s midterm convention.

Fetterman told the crowd he is a common-sense Democrat. He rejected socialism and what he called an “anti-American way of life.”

In a room packed with Republicans, the Pennsylvania senator chose to speak directly to people on the other side of the aisle.

“A big room of Republicans in Dallas. Yes, I’m Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania. Yes, I’m a Democrat,” Fetterman stated in the video.

He did not waste time explaining his presence. “Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I’m a common-sense Democrat,” he said.

“I’m always going to stand with America. I’m always going to reject the extremes in socialism and that anti-American way of life.”

Fetterman’s decision to appear at the convention stood out because so few Democrats are willing to criticize the hard-left direction of their own party in front of Republican audiences.

Right Populist voters have watched for years as progressive activists push policies that clash with everyday American values.

Fetterman’s message cut against that trend. He framed his position as simple loyalty to the country rather than loyalty to party orthodoxy.

The senator’s comments on socialism carried extra weight. Across the country, working families have felt the effects of policies that expand government control and weaken private enterprise.

Fetterman put himself on the side of those who see socialism as a dead end.

He also drew a line against anti-American extremism. That phrase captures the anger many citizens feel when they see institutions and cultural figures treating the nation’s history and institutions with open contempt.

Fetterman’s willingness to reject that attitude in front of Republicans showed a rare break from the usual script.

Gavin Newsom just laid out a shocking statement about President Trump

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Gavin Newsom just laid out a shocking statement about President Trump

Newsom and Trump are bitter rivals. That will likely never change.

And Gavin Newsom just laid out a shocking statement about President Trump.

California Governor Gavin Newsom is already telegraphing the Democrats’ next move if they claw back the House: another round of impeachment theater against President Trump that even he admits will go nowhere.

On “PBS NewsHour,” Newsom made clear he has little appetite for the process.

Asked by co-host Amna Nawaz whether Democrats should impeach Trump if they win the majority, Newsom replied:

“I don’t — if the facts — wherever the facts lead. And I’m not naive about the politics of that, because it will be a sideshow and a distraction. What I don’t want to do is see another impeachment that amounts to nothing except a virtue signal, and that’s important. I just don’t want a sideshow.”

He insisted Democrats should still follow “wherever the facts lead.”

Yet in the same breath he urged the party to pivot hard to domestic priorities he claims California has already mastered.

Newsom ticked off a list of state programs he wants national Democrats to push instead of another failed attempt to remove Trump from office.

Even while cautioning against a sideshow, Newsom could not resist the familiar Democratic framing.

He declared that accountability must apply “across the board” and that it is “not just Trump,” but also “all the folks that are complicit in this great grift” and “all the folks that are complicit in the rank corruption that is going on in this administration.”

He closed with a broad call for legal consequences: “anyone that’s broken the law, anyone that’s taken advantage of the American people, picked their pocket illegally should be held to account.”

For right-leaning populists, the interview lands as pure political calculation.

Newsom knows the last two impeachments produced no removal and left many voters cold.

Another one risks looking like the same partisan exercise while ordinary Americans care more about prices, wages, and border security than another round of congressional spectacle.

Democrat got schooled on their own moronic law

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Democrat got schooled on their own moronic law

It would help politicians if they read the bills they pass. Instead they just vote how their party votes.

And now one Democrat got schooled on their own moronic law.

You’d think someone campaigning to become Georgia’s next governor might have a working understanding of the state’s own criminal justice system. Apparently that’s too much to ask of Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms, who was caught on leaked audio privately telling donors she’s “deeply concerned” about President Trump’s crackdown on cashless bail — all while confidently getting the basic facts of Georgia bail law completely wrong.

The audio, obtained by the Daily Caller, captures the former Atlanta mayor pushing back against Trump’s executive order targeting jurisdictions that have eliminated cash bail requirements for violent offenders. Her stated concern was that ending cashless bail policies would disproportionately hurt poor people. Fair enough as a talking point, except Lance Bottoms went on to make a claim about how the law actually works that simply isn’t true.

“I am deeply concerned,” Lance Bottoms told donors in the recording. “I saw that President Trump is signing an executive order on cash bail bond. We want meaningful reform.” Nothing unusual so far — that’s standard progressive messaging on criminal justice reform. But then she kept talking, and that’s where things went sideways for a woman hoping to become the state’s chief executive.

“That has everything to do with who has money to pay to get out,” Lance Bottoms continued. “That doesn’t have anything to do with rising crime. You’re not letting felons sign cash bail bonds. Those are low level misdemeanors for people who, you gotta assume if I can’t renew my tag, then I probably can’t pay a bond either.” There’s just one glaring problem with that entire argument: it’s factually false. Cash bail absolutely does apply to felonies under Georgia law, a basic legal fact codified plainly in the state’s own statutes.

This isn’t some obscure technicality buried in legal fine print that a busy politician might reasonably overlook. This is fundamental, foundational knowledge about how the criminal justice system actually operates in the state Lance Bottoms is asking voters to let her run. If she genuinely believes cashless bail policies only affect people charged with minor misdemeanors, that reveals either a shocking ignorance of Georgia law or a willingness to mislead her own donors about what she’s actually defending.

Context matters here too, and Lance Bottoms’s record on this exact issue as Atlanta’s mayor should give voters serious pause. During her tenure running the city, she signed an ordinance eliminating cash bond requirements for a specific set of low-level offenses like begging, public urination, and public drunkenness. That’s a meaningfully different policy than what Trump’s executive order is actually targeting, which is jurisdictions that have “substantially eliminated cash bail as a potential condition of pretrial release from custody for crimes that pose a clear threat to public safety and order, including offenses involving violent, sexual, or indecent acts, or burglary, looting, or vandalism.”

In other words, Trump’s order is aimed squarely at policies eliminating cash bail for serious violent and dangerous crimes — precisely the kind of offenses Lance Bottoms insisted, incorrectly, weren’t affected by cashless bail debates at all. Whether through genuine confusion or convenient political spin, she’s misrepresenting exactly what’s at stake in this fight to the very donors she’s asking to fund her campaign.

Her record as Atlanta’s mayor deserves scrutiny beyond just this bail ordinance too. Lance Bottoms presided over a significant crime wave during her time running the city, a period that saw violent crime surge in Atlanta even as she pursued criminal justice reforms that critics argued prioritized ideological commitments over public safety outcomes. That track record makes her current confusion about basic bail law even more concerning for Georgia voters trying to assess whether she’s actually equipped to manage statewide criminal justice policy from the governor’s office.

This isn’t the first time Lance Bottoms has raised eyebrows with her comments on crime and justice issues either. During her time as Atlanta mayor, she once described the “symbolism” of hate crime charges as important in a Georgia shooting case, a comment that drew its own share of criticism at the time for seemingly prioritizing political messaging over the substance of actual prosecution and sentencing.

Lance Bottoms will face off against Republican nominee Rick Jackson in the general election on November 3, and this leaked audio hands Jackson’s campaign a genuinely useful contrast to draw for Georgia voters. On one side, you have a candidate whose executive order specifically targets cashless bail policies for violent and dangerous offenders. On the other, you have a candidate who apparently doesn’t understand, or is misrepresenting, how her own state’s bail system actually functions for exactly those kinds of offenders.

Lance Bottoms’s campaign did not respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment on the leaked audio, which is perhaps understandable given how difficult it would be to walk back a claim this clearly and demonstrably wrong. There’s no spin that makes “you’re not letting felons sign cash bail bonds” an accurate description of Georgia law when the state’s own legal code says otherwise.

For Georgia voters concerned about public safety heading into this fall’s gubernatorial election, this episode raises a legitimate and serious question: if Lance Bottoms doesn’t understand the basic mechanics of how cash bail applies to violent felons under current Georgia law, how can voters trust her to responsibly manage criminal justice policy across the entire state as governor? This is exactly the kind of factual gap between a candidate’s confident rhetoric and the reality of the law that deserves far more scrutiny than it’s likely to receive from a friendly national media eager to move past the story.

As this race heads into its final stretch, expect Rick Jackson’s campaign to make good use of this audio, and rightfully so. Voters deserve a governor who at minimum understands the basic legal framework she’d be responsible for overseeing, and this leaked recording suggests Lance Bottoms still has some serious homework to do before she’s ready for that job.

Ron DeSantis just made a sudden announcement that is raising eyebrows

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Ron DeSantis just made a sudden announcement that is raising eyebrows

DeSantis has been a great governor. But now he’s making a new move.

And Ron DeSantis just made a sudden announcement that is raising eyebrows.

While Washington dithers on surveillance reform, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just did something Congress has failed to accomplish at the federal level for months: he’s actually taking action against the creeping surveillance state. According to a Florida Department of Transportation memo obtained by the Daily Caller, DeSantis has ordered every automated license plate reader camera removed from the state’s highway system within 30 days.

The order, issued Monday, covers Florida’s major interstates, including I-10 and I-75, and represents one of the most aggressive state-level pushbacks against Flock Safety’s controversial surveillance network anywhere in the country. If local law enforcement agencies or Flock itself don’t voluntarily comply within the 30-day window, the memo makes clear the state government will simply remove the cameras itself.

This isn’t happening in a vacuum. The order comes amid a wave of growing bipartisan alarm over how these automated license plate readers can be — and already have been — misused by both private companies and law enforcement officers who’ve turned taxpayer-funded surveillance tools into instruments of personal stalking and unauthorized tracking. DeSantis didn’t dance around the concern when pressed on it directly.

“But, you also have to say, okay, how could this be misused? And how could a private company misuse the data, but also law enforcement? We know there was an officer in Florida who was using the LPR data to track like an ex-girlfriend or something like that,” DeSantis said, referencing exactly the kind of abuse that’s turned privacy advocates across the political spectrum against Flock’s expanding camera network.

Florida’s move already appears to be triggering a broader retreat from Flock-style surveillance at the local level. Sheriff’s departments in Putnam, Liberty and Franklin counties all announced they’re ending their own license plate reader programs following DeSantis’s announcement, suggesting the governor’s action is having a real effect beyond just the state highway system itself.

It’s worth noting the limits of the order too, since DeSantis’s directive only applies to roads falling under the State Highway System. That means cameras could still legally remain in place on city and county roads unless Florida’s legislature acts to expand the restriction during its next legislative session. Still, for a governor who has repeatedly emphasized his support for law enforcement, this represents a meaningful check on a surveillance technology that’s expanded with remarkably little oversight or public debate in communities across the country.

The Florida Department of Transportation memo also makes clear this isn’t just a temporary pause — FDOT will be denying any future permit applications for these camera systems going forward, at least under the current administration’s policy. That’s a significant statement of intent from a state that’s often been at the forefront of pushing back against government overreach on a range of issues.

DeSantis was characteristically blunt when asked about the broader surveillance concerns during a Wednesday press conference at Florida International University in Miami, describing the current state of automated license plate reader deployment as simply “out of control.” Coming from a governor who’s spent years positioning himself as tough on crime and supportive of law enforcement, that kind of language carries real weight and should put pressure on other red-state governors to take a serious look at their own states’ surveillance camera deployments.

To be clear, DeSantis hasn’t turned into some kind of civil libertarian overnight on law enforcement issues broadly. He’s been careful to frame this as a targeted response to a specific and growing problem rather than blanket opposition to police having effective investigative tools. “I think people are right to be concerned,” DeSantis said, striking a balance between supporting legitimate law enforcement needs and pushing back against a surveillance apparatus that’s expanded well beyond what most Floridians probably realize is tracking their daily movements.

DeSantis has consistently argued that the ultimate solution to these surveillance concerns needs to come from the state legislature rather than executive action alone, and he’s repeatedly called for a comprehensive artificial intelligence bill of rights that would establish clearer, permanent guardrails around how these tracking technologies can be deployed and used. That’s a meaningful distinction, because it acknowledges that his current executive order, however welcome, isn’t a permanent fix.

That temporary nature of the order is worth emphasizing, since a future Florida administration could simply reverse this decision after DeSantis leaves office in January. Conservatives who want to see this kind of surveillance rollback made permanent should be pushing Florida lawmakers hard to codify these protections into state law before DeSantis’s term ends, rather than relying on executive memos that a different governor could undo with the stroke of a pen.

This move lands at a moment when lawmakers across the country, including a growing number of congressional Republicans, have been raising increasingly urgent concerns about the expanding reach of automated camera networks and the artificial intelligence systems increasingly layered on top of them to track and identify vehicles with startling precision. Yet as reported previously, not a single bill currently sits before Congress that would actually ban this kind of technology outright at the federal level, leaving states like Florida to lead where Washington has so far refused to act.

DeSantis’s willingness to take concrete executive action, rather than simply issuing statements of concern, sets a real example that other conservative governors would do well to follow. Whether Florida’s legislature steps up to make this rollback permanent, or whether the next occupant of the governor’s mansion quietly reverses course and lets Flock cameras creep back onto Florida’s highways, remains an open question. For now, though, Florida drivers can rest a little easier knowing their movements on the state’s major interstates aren’t being tracked and logged by a private surveillance company with a documented history of abuse.

Marco Rubio excoriated Congress for this inexcusable move they just made

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Marco Rubio excoriated Congress for this inexcusable move they just made

Washington, D.C. moves at a snail’s pace. It’s crazy.

And now Marco Rubio excoriated Congress for this inexcusable move they just made.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn’t waiting quietly for House Republican leadership to find the political will to act. This week Rubio pressed the House to move forward on a sweeping Senate-passed Russia sanctions bill, arguing the legislation would give President Trump valuable leverage at exactly the moment Vladimir Putin’s economy is showing real signs of strain from the pressure already in place.

The bill in question cleared the Senate in an overwhelming 86-11 vote before senators left for their August recess, a rare show of bipartisan unity in an otherwise gridlocked Congress. Since then, it’s been sitting in the House, waiting for Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican leadership to schedule a vote that, as of this week, still hasn’t materialized.

Rubio made his case directly this week, telling reporters it would be “valuable for the president to have these tools available to him.” He didn’t stop at simply advocating for the bill’s substance either — Rubio took direct aim at House Democrats, accusing them of withholding additional tariff and sanctions authority from the president even while publicly claiming to support Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression. It’s a pointed critique, and not an unfair one, given how much of the current holdup traces directly back to Democratic objections over specific provisions in the Senate-passed text.

The legislation itself is genuinely sweeping in scope. It would impose sanctions on Russian officials, financial institutions, so-called shadow-fleet vessels used to evade existing oil export restrictions, and state-owned energy projects tied directly to funding Putin’s war machine. Perhaps most significantly, the bill would authorize tariffs of up to 100 percent on the five largest purchasers of Russian oil and natural gas, a provision specifically designed to choke off the revenue streams keeping Russia’s invasion of Ukraine financially viable.

Despite the urgency Rubio and others have expressed, House Republican leadership has offered no clear timeline and hasn’t committed to bringing the Senate bill up unchanged. The legislation remains conspicuously absent from the House floor schedule, even as Ukrainian officials make direct pleas to Washington for swift action.

Vladyslav Vlasiuk, one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top envoys, traveled to Washington specifically to lobby House members on the bill’s importance, meeting with lawmakers from both parties. The Ukrainian Embassy described the meetings as focused on “the importance and urgency” of passing what it called the “bone crushing” sanctions package needed to keep pressure on Moscow and Tehran alike.

Yet House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the panel, told reporters after meeting with Vlasiuk that he still opposes the Senate bill as written, and that he doesn’t expect the House to act on it before the midterm elections at all. That’s a stunning admission given the stated urgency from Rubio, from Senate Republicans, and from Ukraine’s own government representatives directly appealing to Congress for action.

Not every Democrat agrees with Meeks’s go-slow approach. Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, one of the bill’s lead sponsors, has called this a “moment of extreme urgency,” pointing to Russia’s deteriorating economic position as reason to strike now rather than wait. Blumenthal has cited figures showing Russia facing a looming $125 billion deficit, roughly 5 percent of its GDP, alongside a punishing 14 percent interest rate on its national debt — numbers that suggest additional sanctions pressure right now could meaningfully accelerate the economic strain already squeezing Putin’s war effort.

Even some House Democrats who share Rubio’s underlying urgency are pushing back on specific elements of the bill rather than its overall goal. Meeks has argued the tariff provisions could raise prices for American consumers while punishing U.S. allies who happen to still be purchasing Russian energy, and he’s raised concerns that the bill grants Trump too much discretionary authority to waive its provisions whenever he sees fit. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries acknowledged this week that Democrats haven’t yet reached a unified caucus position on the legislation.

But not every Democrat is dragging their feet. House Majority Leader emeritus Steny Hoyer told reporters after his own meeting with the Ukrainian envoy that he wants the House to pass the Senate bill exactly as written, without amendments. “Do I think the bill is perfect? I don’t,” Hoyer said. “But we don’t pass perfect bills here.” Hoyer specifically pushed back against efforts to bundle the sanctions bill together with additional Ukraine assistance legislation, warning that doing so would only slow things down further. “I want to pass it pristine,” he said.

Republicans on the Ukraine-focused wing of the House are similarly frustrated with the delay. Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, made clear he doesn’t want procedural squabbling over the tariff provisions to derail the entire package. “I would vote for it with tariffs, without tariffs,” Fitzpatrick said. “I’m not going to let the tariff piece stop my support for Ukraine.” He argued lawmakers should resist the temptation to let disagreements over secondary provisions block a bill that enjoys broad bipartisan support in its core mission. “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Fitzpatrick said.

Fitzpatrick went a step further, suggesting that Zelenskyy himself should return to Washington and personally lobby House members the same way he successfully did before the Senate’s overwhelming vote in favor of the bill. “He was here for the Senate. He’s got to come for the House,” Fitzpatrick said. “We’re very determined to get that done.”

House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast has offered little clarity on timing, telling reporters simply that the bill “is being examined,” but that the review “is not an examination that’ll be done this week.” With the House expected to return for only a brief session later this month before breaking again for midterm campaigning, and Meeks openly predicting no action before the elections at all, the odds of swift movement appear increasingly slim.

That’s precisely the outcome Rubio is trying to prevent. With Russia’s economy already buckling under existing pressure and Ukraine’s envoys making direct, urgent appeals in Capitol hallways, the argument for striking now rather than waiting until after November grows stronger by the week. Whether House Republican leadership finds the political urgency to match Rubio’s own sense of the stakes remains very much an open question — and every week of delay is a week Vladimir Putin gets to keep operating without the additional financial squeeze this legislation was specifically designed to deliver.

Democrat admits they have to lie to the people to get elected

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Democrat admits they have to lie to the people to get elected

Everyone knew this was the case. But rarely do they outright say it.

Now this Democrat admitted they have to lie to the people to get elected.

Every so often a political candidate gets caught saying exactly what conservatives have suspected all along, and this week it happened to Nebraska Senate hopeful Dan Osborn in spectacular fashion. Leaked audio has confirmed what grassroots Republicans in the Cornhusker State have been warning about for months: Osborn knows his real positions are too radical for Nebraska voters, so he’s deliberately hiding them.

The Democratic-backed independent, who’s challenging Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts this November, was caught on tape openly admitting he can’t be honest about his actual views if he wants any shot at winning. Townhall published the recording Sunday, and it’s a remarkable window into how the modern left operates when they think nobody outside their bubble is listening.

“I have people recording me, so I can’t say I want to abolish ICE; I can’t say those words. I’ll be f-cked,” Osborn admitted on the recording. Read that again. A candidate for the United States Senate is on tape acknowledging he actually wants to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but he’s terms it politically toxic to say so out loud in a state like Nebraska. That’s not moderation. That’s calculated deception.

Osborn went on to lay out his cynical electoral math in cold, calculating terms, noting that Nebraska runs roughly 50 percent Republican, 26 percent Democratic and 24 percent independent, and that he’d need to peel off somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the Republican vote to have any chance of winning. In other words, his entire campaign strategy hinges on convincing a slice of Republican voters that he’s not the radical leftist his own words reveal him to be.

The audio doesn’t stop there. Osborn can be heard mocking the idea of being honest about transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, snapping, “How am I going to do that by f-cking saying, ‘Oh, I love trans people, and they should be able to play in sports!’ f-ck no, Jane, that’s not how I win.” The “Jane” in question is Jane Kleeb, chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party, who Osborn was apparently pushing back against as she pressed him to embrace more explicitly progressive positions.

According to reporting from The Plains Sentinel, the audio continues with Osborn telling Kleeb bluntly, “You gotta let me run my race, man. Like, I’m going to say some shit that is going to piss you off, but you gotta know at the end of the day it’s about beating Pete Ricketts.” So there you have it, straight from the candidate’s own mouth: whatever he says publicly during this campaign is calculated theater designed to win an election, not an honest reflection of his actual beliefs.

Kleeb, for her part, didn’t exactly deny any of it. She told The Plains Sentinel that the leaked audio “shows that Dan doesn’t answer to me. He answers to voters” — as if that’s supposed to be reassuring. What it actually confirms is that Osborn and Nebraska Democratic leadership both understand his true positions are unpopular with the very voters he’s courting, and their solution is strategic dishonesty rather than an honest debate about the issues.

Kleeb went further, explaining the party’s calculation for backing Osborn over a traditional Democrat: “We choose a mechanic over the billionaire Ricketts every day.” It’s a populist-sounding line, sure, but it doesn’t change what’s on the tape. Nebraska voters don’t just deserve a candidate with a working-class background — they deserve one who’s honest with them about what he actually believes.

This isn’t Osborn’s first brush with controversy this cycle either. He previously called for “preemptive” mental health checks targeting AR-15 owners, a proposal that raised alarm bells among Second Amendment advocates who see it as a backdoor path toward disarming law-abiding gun owners based on nothing more than the type of firearm they choose to own legally.

Osborn has also faced scrutiny over reports that his daughter allegedly ran multiple pornographic cam-girl accounts, adding yet another layer of controversy to a campaign that seems to generate one uncomfortable headline after another. Osborn’s campaign team did not respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment on the leaked audio.

The RNC’s research arm wasted no time amplifying the tape, with RNC Research posting the clip on X and framing it as proof that Osborn is, in their words, “too afraid to tell voters what he actually thinks.” Given what’s on the recording, it’s hard to argue with that characterization.

What makes this story particularly damaging for Osborn is that it’s not an opposition researcher’s spin or a selectively edited soundbite open to interpretation — it’s the candidate’s own voice, in his own words, admitting to a calculated strategy of concealment. Nebraska voters heading to the polls this November now have direct evidence, straight from Osborn himself, that the version of him running for Senate is not the version who actually shows up to strategize with his own party chair behind closed doors.

Pete Ricketts, for his part, doesn’t need to manufacture a contrast here — Osborn has done the work for him. Nebraskans who value straight talk and transparency from the people asking to represent them in Washington now have a clear choice: an incumbent whose positions are a matter of public record, or a challenger caught on tape admitting he’s deliberately obscuring his own.

New impeachment warning will leave a chill down Trump’s spine

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New impeachment warning will leave a chill down Trump’s spine

Democrats want to oust the president. That’s no secret.

And a new impeachment warning will leave a chill down Trump’s spine.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is sounding the alarm on what he sees as the Democrats’ clear intent if they seize the House this November.

The Louisiana Republican is warning voters that a Democratic majority would move immediately against President Donald Trump, turning the chamber into a weapon for political payback rather than a place for governing.

Scalise laid it out plainly in a recent Fox News Digital interview. He pointed to the open talk among Democrats about targeting the president the moment they gain power.

In his words: “Democrats aren’t even being shy about it. They’re telling you what they would do. I mean, they’ll impeach the president day one.”

This is not some whispered strategy or fringe fantasy. Scalise is highlighting how Democratic lawmakers and activists have already telegraphed their plans.

They treat the presidency itself as illegitimate when it is held by someone outside their preferred circle. The goal is not oversight. It is removal.

For years, the left has treated Trump as an existential threat to their hold on institutions.

Impeachment has become their preferred tool whenever elections do not deliver the results they demand.

Scalise is reminding the public that this pattern has not changed. If Democrats control the House, the process begins on day one.

Right Populist voters have watched this movie before. The first two impeachments drained time, energy, and public trust while delivering no lasting legal consequence.

Now the same forces are preparing a third attempt the instant they regain the gavel. Scalise’s warning cuts through the usual media fog. Democrats are not hiding their priorities.

Control of the House would hand them the power to launch investigations, issue subpoenas, and force endless votes on articles of impeachment.

The legislative calendar would be rewritten around one man. Policy debates on the border, energy, inflation, and crime would take a back seat to political theater designed to hobble the White House.

Eric Swalwell got raided in a humiliating change in his fate

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Eric Swalwell got raided in a humiliating change in his fate

Swalwell tried to cast aspersions at Trump. But now the shoe is on the other foot.

And Eric Swalwell got raided in a humiliating change in his fate.

For years Eric Swalwell postured on cable news as one of the loudest and most self-righteous voices demanding accountability for anyone even tangentially connected to Republican wrongdoing. This week, the tables turned in dramatic fashion. The FBI stopped the former California congressman at San Francisco International Airport and seized his electronics, according to two sources who confirmed the encounter to the Daily Caller. Agents then executed a search warrant at his Washington, D.C. home.

Swalwell now sits at the center of a full-blown federal criminal investigation, a stunning fall for a man who once postured as a moral crusader against Donald Trump and the Republican Party while sitting on the House Intelligence Committee.

The scandal traces back to declassified documents released this week by the White House Transparency Task Force, which revealed that Swalwell had “physical relations” with Christine Fang — better known as “Fang Fang” — on at least two occasions. Fang was a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who spent years cultivating relationships with American politicians, and Swalwell’s ties to her have dogged him since the story first broke years ago.

Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese broke the news of the airport confrontation on X, writing that two sources confirmed federal agents stopped Swalwell and seized his devices before executing the search warrant at his D.C. residence. The former congressman, she noted, is under criminal investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

This latest chapter comes on top of an already spectacular unraveling for Swalwell, who resigned from Congress earlier this year after a wave of sexual misconduct allegations became too much to survive politically. At the time of his resignation, Swalwell had been considered a frontrunner in the crowded Democratic primary for California governor, a race that suddenly evaporated once the allegations went public.

One former staffer’s account of Swalwell’s conduct is particularly damning. She alleged that following a night out in New York in spring 2024, she woke up to find Swalwell having sex with her in his hotel room, and that he refused to stop even after she told him no. That allegation was serious enough to prompt the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to open its own investigation into the former congressman.

Swalwell has denied every allegation against him, insisting in a statement announcing his resignation that he would “fight the serious, false allegation made against me.” He had already suspended his gubernatorial campaign days earlier, citing what he vaguely described as “mistakes in judgment” — language that now looks even more calculated in hindsight given what’s since come to light.

It’s worth remembering exactly who Eric Swalwell built his political brand as. He spent years positioning himself as one of the most aggressive anti-Trump voices in Congress, a frequent MSNBC and CNN guest who never missed an opportunity to lecture the country on ethics and accountability. He served on the House Intelligence Committee despite his documented ties to a suspected Chinese spy, a scandal Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leadership conveniently swept under the rug for years rather than removing him from a position with access to sensitive national security information.

Now the same federal government he spent his career criticizing is knocking on his door with search warrants. The optics couldn’t be more fitting for a man who built his national profile smearing conservatives as threats to national security while allegedly carrying on relationships that raised legitimate counterintelligence concerns of his own.

Democrats who spent years defending Swalwell’s continued presence on the Intelligence Committee, waving away the Fang Fang connection as a Republican smear campaign, now have a lot of explaining to do. The declassified documents make clear the relationship was more serious and more recent than party leadership ever let on to the public.

This story is still developing, and further details about the scope of the criminal investigation are likely to emerge in the coming days and weeks. What’s already clear is that a man who spent his career in Washington demanding accountability from others is now facing the kind of scrutiny he never seemed to think would apply to himself.

For a Democratic Party still reeling from a string of scandals involving its own members, Swalwell’s unraveling is yet another reminder that the loudest voices lecturing the country on morality often have the most to hide. The FBI doesn’t seize electronics and execute search warrants on a whim, and Americans deserve to know exactly what federal investigators uncovered that triggered this dramatic escalation.

Swalwell’s political career is effectively over. Whether his legal troubles are just beginning remains to be seen, but between the sexual misconduct allegations, the criminal investigation, and the resurfaced questions about his relationship with a suspected foreign intelligence asset, it’s hard to imagine a more complete collapse for someone who spent a decade positioning himself as Washington’s moral watchdog.

Deranged political assassin learns his fate

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Deranged political assassin learns his fate

Politics can be dangerous. And some have crosshairs on their heads.

But now a deranged political assassin learned his fate.

The unhinged left has spent years pretending that political violence is exclusively a right-wing problem, but the case of Benjamin Keebler proves once again that hatred for outspoken conservatives can turn deadly serious in a hurry. Keebler, an independent voter from Kentucky, was sentenced Friday to two and a half years behind bars after admitting he cyberstalked and threatened Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the most fiercely independent-minded lawmakers in Congress.

This wasn’t some idle internet troll blowing off steam. Keebler left a trail of chilling voicemails and phone calls to numbers tied to Massie’s office, at one point telling a staffer he planned to show up with bear mace. In one particularly disturbing February 2023 recording, Keebler snarled, “Live by the gun. Die by the gun, boy.” That’s not political disagreement. That’s a threat against a sitting member of Congress, plain and simple.

It got worse from there. In February 2025, Keebler called Massie’s office asking about the congressman’s next town hall so he could, in his own chilling words, “shoot [Massie] in the head.” He didn’t stop with Massie either — Keebler also allegedly threatened a U.S. senator with what he called a “hammer visit,” though that lawmaker’s name was withheld from court records.

Massie himself broke the news on X, writing simply, “man who threatened to shoot me sentenced to prison…” No theatrics, no self-pity — just a Kentucky congressman going about his business while a man who wanted him dead finally faced consequences.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Boone didn’t mince words in court, calling Keebler’s threats “inherently corrosive to a democratic society.” That’s putting it mildly. When Americans can no longer serve in elected office without fearing for their lives, the entire experiment in self-government is under assault.

Keebler’s defense attorney tried the now-familiar playbook of blaming untreated mental illness, arguing his client wouldn’t have made these threats if he’d been properly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. A court-ordered evaluation claimed Keebler’s “perception of the current aggressive and divisive political climate provided him with a reality-based ‘target’ to project his agitated depression and mania onto.” Convenient framing, but it doesn’t erase the fact that he chose Thomas Massie as that target — not some random figure, but a Republican congressman known for standing up to the establishment in both parties.

Keebler did offer something resembling contrition at sentencing, admitting his mental health struggles got the better of him and calling his actions a “complete embarrassment.” He told the judge, “I recognize that by my own hand I have brought consequences upon myself.” At least he owned it, which is more than can be said for plenty of activists on the left who cheer this kind of behavior from the sidelines.

U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning wasn’t buying excuses either, declaring that Keebler’s threats “completely crossed the line.” As part of the sentence, Keebler is barred from contacting Massie or the unnamed senator and must undergo mandatory mental health treatment while under government supervision.

This case doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s part of a disturbing pattern of political violence that has escalated dramatically in recent years, much of it aimed squarely at conservatives. President Trump has survived three separate assassination attempts. Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was gunned down at a Utah Valley University event in September 2025, murdered simply for espousing conservative ideas on a college campus.

The violence hasn’t been limited to the right, of course. Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked in his San Francisco home back in October 2022 by an intruder wielding a hammer. And Minnesota’s House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered in their own home in June 2025 by a gunman posing as a police officer.

But let’s be honest about the imbalance here. For years, the corporate media and Democratic Party leadership downplayed and even excused threats against conservative figures while treating every perceived slight against their own side as an existential crisis. Thomas Massie has been a lightning rod precisely because he refuses to play by the swamp’s rules — he votes his conscience, challenges leadership in both parties, and doesn’t back down from a fight. That independence apparently made him a target in the eyes of a man disturbed enough to fantasize about murdering him.

Keebler’s sentencing sends a message that threatening a member of Congress carries real consequences, and that’s a good thing. But it should also serve as a wake-up call about the rhetoric coursing through our political discourse. When politicians and pundits spend years describing their opponents as existential threats to democracy, don’t be shocked when unstable individuals take that language literally.

Massie has weathered this ordeal with characteristic stoicism, refusing to let it distract him from his work representing Kentucky’s Fourth District. He continues pushing for government transparency, fiscal responsibility, and constitutional protections against an ever-expanding surveillance state — the same principles that have made him both beloved by grassroots conservatives and, apparently, hated enough by at least one man to threaten his life.

For everyday Americans watching from the outside, the takeaway is simple: political violence against conservatives is real, it’s escalating, and it deserves the same seriousness and prosecutorial vigor as any other threat to our democratic institutions. Benjamin Keebler is behind bars now. The climate of hatred that produced him hasn’t gone anywhere.

Americans are furious after Congress admitted they are doing nothing to stop this dangerous threat

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Americans are furious after Congress admitted they are doing nothing to stop this dangerous threat

Our government isn’t helping us. It’s like pulling teeth to get anything done.

And now Americans are furious after Congress admitted they are doing nothing to stop this dangerous threat.

Republicans in Congress have spent months thundering about the dangers of Flock’s automated license plate readers turning America into a surveillance state. So where’s the bill to actually kill the program? As of this week, it doesn’t exist. Not one piece of legislation currently before Congress would ban Flock-type cameras outright, despite growing bipartisan alarm over what these systems are capable of tracking.

Plenty of lawmakers, overwhelmingly Republicans, have introduced or promised bills addressing automated surveillance in some fashion. None of them go all the way to an outright ban on the technology that’s quietly blanketing American communities with government-adjacent tracking capability.

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced back on July 22 that she was drafting legislation to ban Flock cameras entirely. “I’m working on legislation to ban these,” Luna posted at the time. Nearly a month later, that bill still hasn’t materialized, and her office didn’t respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s questions about the delay.

Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett has gone further than most, introducing the Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act in July, which would bar federal agencies from purchasing or operating Flock cameras or any similar automated surveillance system designed to “identify, track, or record individuals.” It’s a serious step, but it only covers federal agencies — leaving the thousands of local police departments already running these systems untouched.

Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act back in April, requiring federal and local agencies to obtain a warrant before conducting surveillance on American citizens. That bill would block warrantless facial recognition scanning in public spaces and restrict use of license plate readers like Flock, but again, it stops short of a full ban. Massie has separately promised legislation to strip federal funding from any local municipality or police department using Flock or similar automated license plate reader systems. “I’ll soon be introducing a bill to withhold all federal funding for cameras used to track American citizens,” he said.

Texas Rep. Keith Self, joined by Arizona Rep. Eli Crane and Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde, introduced a bill in July requiring law enforcement to get a warrant before accessing state and local surveillance data, while also restricting federal funds for purchasing or installing the systems. Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman has vowed to pursue his own legislation after a Flock camera falsely flagged his license plate and got him pulled over — a personal experience that clearly radicalized him on the issue, though his bill remains in the early stages. “The repeated misidentification of innocent Americans and warrantless surveillance of millions are my two largest concerns with Flock cameras,” Stutzman told the DCNF. “No matter who you are or what you do, areas with Flock cameras are tracking you.”

Flock itself, unsurprisingly, wants Congress to stop short of a ban. A company spokesperson told the DCNF that lawmakers should pursue “strong, clear safeguards” rather than outlawing the technology outright, insisting that “more than 40 courts across the country have considered LPRs in the context of the Fourth Amendment and ruled overwhelmingly that the use of these tools in public spaces does not require a warrant.” Convenient for a company raking in government contracts nationwide.

But the real-world abuses tell a different story than Flock’s corporate talking points. Mike Fox, a legal fellow at the libertarian CATO Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice, warned the DCNF that these systems have “abysmally high false positive rates” that put innocent Americans directly in harm’s way. “How many people is this going to happen to? What if someone gets killed? What if an officer gets a false positive from someone who’s armed and one of them dies? Because that’s a real possibility. It’s only a matter of time before either a citizen, a cop or both get killed because of this,” Fox said.

That’s not hypothetical fear-mongering — it’s already happening. The Institute for Justice documented 30 separate instances of police officers using license plate readers to stalk romantic interests. One former Milwaukee officer secretly used the Flock system to track his romantic partner’s location 124 separate times. An innocent Wisconsin driver was held at gunpoint in early August after a camera made an outright mistake.

None of this should surprise anyone who’s paid attention to how federal surveillance powers have been abused in the past. Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty in 2020 to altering an email used to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump’s own 2016 campaign. The FBI abused Section 702 of FISA nearly 300,000 times between 2020 and early 2021, running over 23,000 searches after the January 6 Capitol riot alone, hitting Jan. 6 suspects, congressional campaign donors, and Black Lives Matter protesters in the process. Despite that documented abuse, congressional Republicans largely supported extending Section 702 anyway — only 19 House Republicans, including Burchett, Massie and Boebert, voted against reauthorization in June.

Where are Democrats in all this? Largely silent or worse. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi called for an investigation into Flock’s cybersecurity failures back in November, but neither introduced actual legislation to fix the problem. Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff, whose state hosts Flock’s Atlanta headquarters, hasn’t made any public statements on the cameras despite widespread use of the systems throughout Georgia communities. His office didn’t respond to the DCNF’s request for comment either.

It’s also worth noting where Flock’s money has gone. The company spent $920,000 on lobbying in 2025 and another $430,000 in the first half of 2026, employing seven lobbyists to protect its interests on Capitol Hill. Company employees have made political donations overwhelmingly to Democratic candidates and causes — including Flock CEO Garrett Langley’s $1,000 contribution to a leadership PAC affiliated with Sen. Ossoff — with over $15,000 of the company’s $17,260 total in donations going to Democrats like Fair Fight and former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Even President Trump himself has hedged on the issue, saying Monday only that Flock cameras have “pros and cons” — hardly the kind of full-throated opposition grassroots conservatives worried about government overreach are hoping to hear from the man they elected to rein in the surveillance state.

The bottom line is simple: for all the tough talk from Capitol Hill Republicans about Flock cameras threatening American privacy and constitutional rights, not a single piece of legislation currently before Congress would actually ban the technology. Americans concerned about warrantless tracking, false accusations at gunpoint, and officers stalking their exes using taxpayer-funded surveillance tools are still waiting for Washington to match its rhetoric with real action.

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