Three ISIS-Linked Illegals Entered the Country Through Biden’s ‘Asylum’ App

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Three ISIS-Linked Illegals Entered the Country Through Biden’s ‘Asylum’ App

(Headline USA) The Biden administration let in at least three suspected terrorists with ties to ISIS through its CBPOne app, according to a report from the House Judiciary Committee.

The three illegal immigrants from Tajikastan were arrested in the U.S. after being released into the country via the  CBPOne app, which allows illegals to claim asylum and schedule entry appointments before reaching the U.S.’s southern border.

More than 680,500 illegals have used the app to schedule entry appointments, data from the Department of Homeland Security revealed, with most being released directly into the country upon arrival.

The CBPOne program claims entrants are “thoroughly screened and vetted [via] biographic and biometric checks,” and that “individuals who pose a national security or public safety concern are detained.”

However, the release of suspected ISIS members into the country proves many illegals are barely being vetted. In fact, the Biden administration estimates it has released at least 99 other suspected terrorists into the U.S, in the last two years, the House Judiciary Committee said.

“The open-borders policies of President Joe Biden and border czar Vice President Kamala Harris have allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the United States, including terrorist organizations and other bad actors looking to harm Americans,” the Judiciary Committee said in a statement.

“With the border in chaos under the Biden-Harris Administration, the terrorist threat to the homeland has skyrocketed,” the committee added. “This border insecurity has been the Administration’s choice, and it is a mistake.”

The three Tajik illegals were part of a group of eight illegal immigrants from the region apprehended by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in June.

All eight suspects had been on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, but were released into the country after their criminal background checks came back clear, according to DHS.

Political Website Axios Cuts 10% of Staff, Cites Shifts in Reader Habits

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Political Website Axios Cuts 10% of Staff, Cites Shifts in Reader Habits

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Left-leaning news site Axios announced this week that it was planning to cut roughly 10% of its staff in the latest round of corporate media layoffs, the New York Post reported.

Axios Chief Executive Jim VandeHei announced in an email Tuesday that the company would cut 50 positions in what he called a “difficult moment.” Axios currently employs around 500 people.

“We’re making some difficult changes to adapt fast to a rapidly changing media landscape,” VandeHei wrote, citing the proliferation of artificial intelligence, along with changing reader habits.

“We’re eliminating about 50 positions to get ahead of tectonic shifts in the media, technology and reader needs/ habits,” he continued. “This is a painful but necessary move to tighten our strategic focus and shift investment to our core growth areas.”

According to VandeHei, the reorganization is necessary as a response to the media climate, and does not reflect any failure on the part of Axios employees.

“This isn’t a reflection on anyone’s work—it’s because of changes in the media business,” he said. “If you’re understandably upset by the decision, please direct your frustration at me.”

VandeHei was one of the co-founders of Politico before undertaking the new venture alongside charter Politico columnist Mike Allen. Both companies have been innovative in their revenue streams, relying on online and print advertising, as well as subscription-based content and newsletters.

However, much of the mainstream media has seen its credibility sullied by recent scandals—including, most recently, the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and overt cheerleading or collusion on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.

That has led some truth-seekers to look to other sources for reliable information instead of relying upon political insiders who may have been infiltrated as part of the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird.

In a rare move early in his term, Biden dismissed White House communications staffer TJ Ducklo for making threats against a Politico reporter who was investigating his relationship with Axios reporter Alexi McCammond.

The report of Axios’s layoffs comes on the heels of another round of firings at CNN, which cut 100 jobs last month.

“Today is a tough one,” he concluded in an attempt to ease the blow of the mass layoffs.

In a memo to CNN staffers, network CEO Mark Thompson wrote that CNN, “a great news organization,” must be turned toward the digital future.

“Today’s announcements do not answer every question or seek to solve every challenge we face,” Thompson added. “However, they do represent a significant step forward and I hope you will read about them in that spirit.”

On top of that, NBC announced in January of this year that it would be laying off dozens of employees in an attempt to trim down overhead.

Walz’s Wife Boasts about Huffing Tire Fumes During BLM Riots

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Walz’s Wife Boasts about Huffing Tire Fumes During BLM Riots

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Gwen Walz, wife of newly minted Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, claimed that throughout the 2020 race riots that ravaged the Twin Cities following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, she left the windows of her house open in order to take in the aroma, the Daily Caller reported.

“In those first days, when there were riots, I could smell the burning tires,” she said in an interview aired on KSTP-TV’s 5 Eyewitness News Nightcast. “That was a very real thing, and I kept the windows open for as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”

The “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests lasted for three days.

Many on the Left appeared to relish the destruction wrought by organizations like the Marxist Black Lives Matter, believing that the economic toll was justified if the civil unrest harmed then-President Donald Trump politically in the months leading up to the 2020 election.

As governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz delayed sending in the National Guard and instead allowed the city to burn, maintaining that armed forces would simply incite further rioting.

“I want to just be clear: There’s philosophically an argument to be made that an armed presence on the ground in the midst of where we just had a police killing is seen as a catalyst,” Walz said at the time, according to CNN.

He did not report his level of enjoyment of the scent of burning tires.

Critics on social media found his wife’s apparent enjoyment of the phenomenon to be “terrifying,” “demonic” and “grotesque.”

Dustin Grage, a Minnesota-based campaign strategist, alleged that the Walzes’ daughter was coordinating with rioters and providing sensitive information to them, potentially jeopardizing the safety of law enforcement, while her father was ostensibly tasked with mitigating the damage.

“Her daughter also coordinated with rioters to let them know that the National Guard would not be activated one night,” Grage wrote.

Despite efforts to rebrand him as a centrist, Walz has earned a reputation for being radically leftist, even saying during a recent Zoom call in support of current Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democrat nominee for president, that “one person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.”

Homeland Security IG Discredits Jan. 6 Committee’s ‘Star Witness’ Once and for All

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Homeland Security IG Discredits Jan. 6 Committee’s ‘Star Witness’ Once and for All

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The fictitious story that President Donald Trump lunged toward his security detail and tried to grab the steering wheel to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has already been widely debunked.

But in case there was any doubt left, DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s report about the Secret Service’s security failures put the final nail that story, which was repeatedly told by Cassidy Hutchinson, the “star witness” of the  Democrat-led January 6th Commission.

In his report released last week, the DHS IG said he interviewed Secret Service agents about the story. An untold number of agents said it was false, he said.

“We asked [REDACTED] agents whether the President reached for the steering wheel of the limousine or lunged toward the detail lead when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, and [REDACTED] witnesses said those actions did not occur,” the report said, redacting the number of witnesses interviewed.

IG Cuffari further said that the White House Deputy Chief of Staff—whom Hutchinson claimed told her the story about Trump lunging at his security—claimed ignorance about the incident.

“I do not recall being made aware of any details about the President’s return trip to the White House and, as such, I do not recall speaking with anyone about it,” the former White House official told the DHS IG.

The DHS IG report comes nearly five months after the GOP-led House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight released its initial findings on the Jan. 6 protests. That report also debunked Hutchinson. The report also accused Reps. Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney of knowing that Hutchinson’s story was fake, but including it in their final report anyways.

“Reps. Thompson and Cheney were aware that the Secret Service agent driving the SUV on January 6 directly refuted Hutchinson‘s testimony. Despite this, they still included her testimony in the Final Report and insisted it was credible,” the report’s summary said.

Subcommittee on Oversight Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., touted the fact that the DHS IG corroborated his initial findings.

“The DHS OIG report confirms what this Subcommittee has learned from first-hand witnesses who were interviewed by the Select Committee but whose testimony was never released publicly by the Select Committee,” he said last week.

Loudermilk has indicated that he may pursue criminal charges against the members of the Democratic January 6th Commission who destroyed or suppressed evidence about the Capitol Hill uprising.

According to Loudermilk, his subcommittee has  recovered over one hundred deleted or password-protected files from the J6th Commission, including some files that were deleted days before Republicans took the majority.

The Jan. 6 Commission also hid multiple transcribed interviews of witnesses who had firsthand knowledge of Trump‘s actions on January, according to his subcommittee report.

Wall Street Whiplash: Analyzing the Recent Meltdown and Recovery

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Wall Street Whiplash: Analyzing the Recent Meltdown and Recovery

The financial landscape experienced a seismic shift last week, reminiscent of hitting rumble strips on the interstate—jerking investors awake to the underlying economic dangers.

Monday’s drastic stock market selloff, triggered by various catalysts, left investors reeling, though the panic seemed to abate by week’s end. But is everything truly back to normal, or was this a premonition of more significant issues to come?

Monday’s Market Meltdown (August 5, 2024)

Monday's Market Meltdown (August 5, 2024)

The week kicked off with a dramatic stock market decline, evoking memories of the 1987 crash. Here are the stark numbers:

  • Dow Jones: Down 1,399 points (2.6%)
  • NASDAQ: Down 576 points (3.43%)
  • S&P 500: Down 3%
  • Russell 2000: Down 3.33%

Globally, the fallout was significant, with $6.4 trillion wiped off stock markets. Japan’s Nikkei index alone plummeted 13.2%, primarily due to rate hike news from the Bank of Japan.

Catalysts Behind the Chaos

Catalysts behind the chaos

Two main events triggered the selloff:

  1. Bank of Japan’s Rate Hike:
    • Raised the key interest rate to 0.25% from nearly zero, marking only the second hike since 2007.
    • The higher rate strengthened the yen, prompting investors to unwind carry trades, where they had borrowed yen to invest in higher-yielding assets elsewhere. This led to a scramble to sell dollar-denominated assets.
  2. Disappointing U.S. Jobs Report:
    • July saw only 114,000 new jobs, significantly below the expected 175,000.
    • Unemployment jumped to 4.3%, against a forecast of 3.1%.

These factors triggered widespread investor anxiety, fearing that the Federal Reserve’s slow response in cutting interest rates might tip the economy into recession.

Central Bank Policies and Market Reactions

Central bank policies and market reactions

Central bank policies often create malinvestments by incentivizing borrowing through low interest rates, leading to massive debt bubbles. Japan’s prolonged low rates led to extensive carry trades, exacerbated by the yen’s sudden appreciation.

The Federal Reserve’s current stance, with rates at 5.5%, is seen as precarious. Though not high enough to quell inflation completely, these rates risk bursting economic bubbles. Historical trends show the Fed’s tendency to cut rates rapidly in crises, often too late to prevent damage.

Gold and Silver: Safe Havens in Question?

Amid the market turmoil, even traditional safe havens like gold and silver saw declines:

  • Gold: Fell 3.2% at its lowest on Monday, closing down 1.3% by day’s end.
  • Silver: Dropped by 7.2% intraday, reflecting fears of reduced industrial demand.

Such selloffs are typical early in stock market downturns as investors liquidate gold to cover margin calls. Historically, gold recovers faster and more robustly than stocks post-crisis.

The Bigger Picture

Despite the quick recovery post-Monday’s selloff, underlying issues remain:

  • The economy is still heavily debt-laden, and malinvestments from post-2008 policies persist.
  • The Fed faces a dilemma: ramp up monetary stimulus, risking hyperinflation, or maintain high rates, risking a severe economic downturn.

Long-Term Economic Health

The Fed’s interest rate policies have created a cycle of dependence on easy money, akin to an addict requiring increasing doses of a drug. Historically, average federal fund rates since 1970 hover around 4.95%. Current rates, slightly above this, seem normal compared to the near-zero rates post-2008.

Moving forward, the question remains: how much more can the Fed inject into the economy before an overdose occurs? The Fed has shown a remarkable ability to push boundaries, but it’s a matter of when, not if, the economy will crack under this strain.

Investor Takeaways

Investor Takeaways

While last week’s panic has subsided, savvy investors should remain cautious. Market volatility is likely to continue, and now might be an opportune time to strengthen positions in gold and silver, especially during dips. It’s prudent to prepare for potential inflationary pressures and economic downturns, ensuring that one’s financial portfolio is robust enough to withstand upcoming shocks.

For those interested in hedging against future crises, Money Metals Exchange offers various options to secure your investments in gold and silver, providing a buffer against economic uncertainties.

Stay informed and be prepared. As history shows, it’s not a matter of if another economic upheaval will occur, but when.

Abortion Panicmongers Debunked as Study Shows an INCREASE Since ‘Roe’ Overturned

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Abortion Panicmongers Debunked as Study Shows an INCREASE Since ‘Roe’ Overturned

(Headline USA) The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a report released Wednesday found.

A major reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states enacted laws to protect doctors who use telemedicine to see patients in places that have abortion bans, according to the quarterly #WeCount report for the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion access.

The data comes ahead of November elections in which abortion-rights supporters hope the issue will drive voters to the polls. In some places, voters will have a chance to enshrine or reject state-level abortion protections, and Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to capitalize off the decision.

Harris has strategized to pin former President Donald Trump as an anti-women boogeyman who wants to eliminate abortion at a national level, despite consistent pleas by Trump to keep abortion at the state level.

The changes from the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization have remade the way abortion works across the country. The #WeCount data, which has been collected in a monthly survey since April 2022, shows how those providing and seeking abortion have adapted to changing laws.

The survey found that the number of abortions fell to nearly zero in states that protect life in all stages of pregnancy and declined by about half in places that only protect life after six weeks of pregnancy. Fourteen states guarantee absolute protection of life at all stages of pregnancy, with some exceptions, and four others bar abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy.

Numbers went up in places where abortion remains legal until further into pregnancy — and especially in states such as Illinois, Kansas, and New Mexico, which border states with bans.

The report estimates that if not for the post-Dobbs bans, there would have been about 9,900 more abortions per month — and 208,000 total since — in those states. The numbers were up by more than 2,600 per month in Illinois, about 1,300 in Virginia, 1,200 in Kansas, and more than 500 in New Mexico.

Abortion pills and telemedicine play a key role. In March, doctors in states with laws to protect medical providers used telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills to nearly 10,000 patients in states with bans or restrictions on abortion by telehealth — accounting for about 1 in 10 abortions in the U.S.

Laws to protect medical providers who use telemedicine to prescribe abortion pills started taking effect in some Democratic-led states last year.

“It eases the burden on clinics,” said Ushma Upadhyay, a University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine professor who co-leads #WeCount. “So it creates more space for the people who are coming to clinics.”

Pro-life opponents say the fight over the abortion drug mifepristone isn’t over after a narrow Supreme Court ruling that preserved access to it for now. But so far there have not been legal challenges to shield laws.

The latest edition of the survey covers the first three months of this year, when it counted an average of just under 99,000 abortions per month, compared with 84,000 in the two months before Dobbs. January was the first time since the survey began that it has counted more than 100,000 abortions across the country in a single month.

Before the shield laws began kicking in and #WeCount started tallying them, people were still getting some pills in places with bans.

Upadhyay said that even before the fall of Roe, abortion demand was greater than access. She also said that even with the changing patterns, some women are continuing pregnancies that would have ended if they could have.

One of the states where abortions increased was Florida. That changed in April when a ban after six weeks’ gestation took effect. The data doesn’t yet reflect that change.

The policy could change again through a November ballot measure that would make abortion legal until viability, generally considered to be around 23 or 24 weeks into pregnancy. It would take at least 60% approval to add that to the state constitution.

One vote against it will come from Mia Adkins, a 20-year-old senior at Florida International University. She said the overturning of Roe and changes in Florida’s law have brought more attention to abortion and have strengthened her belief that there should be limits.

“Instead of pushing for more abortion legal later in pregnancy, we should be pushing for laws that protect these pregnant parents and students and provide them with the support that they need,” said Akins, a senior at Florida International University.

Florida is one of six states where abortion-related measures are already on the ballot. Determinations from election officials about adding similar questions are pending in four more states. In one, Nebraska, there are dueling amendments: One to allow access until viability and one to keep the current policy, which bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion supporters have prevailed in all seven abortion ballot questions in the U.S. since 2022. That tracks with public opinion polling that has shown growing support for abortion, including a recent Associated Press-NORC poll that found 6 in 10 Americans think their state should allow someone to obtain a legal abortion if they don’t want to be pregnant for any reason.

An amendment to protect access could be on the ballot in Arizona, a political battleground state where court cases have swung abortion policy — and access — since the Dobbs ruling.

The state Supreme Court ruled in April that Arizona should enforce an 1864 ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, only for lawmakers to repeal that law. The state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy remains. The ballot measure would expand it to 24 weeks.

Natalie Harper, a 23-year-old independent who usually doesn’t vote, said the potential of bringing back the Civil War-era ban “absolutely” impacts her decision to head to the polls and support the ballot measure this November. “Seeing that as a possibility really made me realize that everyone’s pro-choice voices need to be heard in hopes it never goes in that direction again,” she said.

In Missouri, which has outlawed almost all abortions and where nearly none were reported in the new data, election officials could soon certify whether a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights received enough petition signatures to qualify for the ballot in the reliably Republican state.

University of Missouri political scientist Peverill Squire said that if the measure is put before voters, it could draw out enough Democratic voters to help swing a few competitive legislative races.

“They can seize on the personal freedom arguments the Republicans have generally owned over the recent elections,” he said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Republican Activist Becomes First Person to be Convicted in Arizona Lawfare Campaign

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Republican Activist Becomes First Person to be Convicted in Arizona Lawfare Campaign

(Headline USA) A Republican activist who signed up to serve as an alternate elector became the first person convicted in Arizona’s alternate elector case as a result of the chilling lawfare acts taken by the state government.

Loraine Pellegrino, a past president of the group Ahwatukee Republican Women, has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false document, Arizona Attorney General’s Office spokesperson Richie Taylor said Tuesday, declining to comment further. The court hasn’t yet posted records documenting her guilty plea. Still, court records show Pellegrino was sentenced to unsupervised probation. Before the plea, she faced nine felony charges.

Seventeen other people had been charged in the case, including 10 other Republicans who had signed a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and defended that Trump had carried Arizona in the 2020 election. Joshua Kolsrud, an attorney representing Pellegrino, said in a statement that his client has accepted responsibility for her actions. “Loraine Pellegrino’s decision to accept a plea to a lesser charge reflects her desire to move forward and put this matter behind her,” Kolsrud said.

On Monday, former Donald Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, entered a cooperation agreement with prosecutors who have asked for her charges to be dismissed. The remaining defendants, including Giuliani and Trump presidential chief of staff Mark Meadows, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges.

Pellegrino and 10 other people who had been nominated to be Arizona’s Republican electors had met in Phoenix on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign the false document. A one-minute video of the signing ceremony was posted on social media by the Arizona Republican Party at the time. The document was later sent to Congress and the National Archives, where it was ignored.

Prosecutors in Michigan, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin have also pursued aggressive lawfare against alternate electors in their states.

Arizona authorities unveiled the felony charges in late April. Overall, charges were brought against 11 Republicans who submitted the document declaring Trump had won Arizona, five lawyers connected to the former president and two former Trump aides.

Trump himself was not charged in the Arizona case but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

FBI Allowed to Keep Secret the Names of ‘High-Priority’ Witnesses from 9/11 Investigation

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FBI Allowed to Keep Secret the Names of ‘High-Priority’ Witnesses from 9/11 Investigation

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A U.S. federal judge has allowed the FBI to keep secret the names of “high-profile individuals” involved in its investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, while requiring the bureau to disclose the names of others.

The judge’s ruling last week stems from a request the FBI made in June to limit the disclosure of evidence in the long-running 9/11 civil litigation. The FBI’s move to suppress 9/11 evidence came days before a bombshell 60 Minutes report revealed that the FBI had been hiding footage of a Saudi Arabian official Omar al-Bayoumi “casing” Capitol Hill in June 1999—months before al-Qaeda made the decision to include Washington DC in its terrorist plot.

Specifically, plaintiffs and the FBI had been arguing over the disclosure of “30 high priority names” from the bureau’s investigation.

According to plaintiffs, “those 30 individuals are at the center of the events, transactions, and relationships concerning the support network established and led by Saudi Arabia’s officials.”

The FBI argued that the disclosure of those people might lead to harassment.

The judge struck a compromise—allowing the FBI to redact the names of its informants and witnesses among those 30 individuals, while forcing the bureau to disclose the others.

“Names of certain individuals that are merely discussed in FBI materials, but who are not themselves investigative sources or witnesses, may be publicly disclosed,” U.S. Judge George Daniels said in his July 29 order.

Meanwhile, last December a military judge at Guantanamo Bay ordered the FBI to produce 3,000 pages of documents about al-Bayoumi, who was a subject of FBI investigations for more than 20 years because he was the handler for two of the plane hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. In that case, the Justice Department struck plea deals with the Gitmo defendants—but Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overturned them shortly thereafter.

Shockingly, information from the Gitmo litigation states that at least two FBI agents said the CIA had attempted to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar.

Families of 9/11 victims have lamented that alleged terrorists at Gitmo are being able to access more information about the incident than they are.

“The defense counsel for those accused of mass murder on 9/11 is getting more access to documents than the terror victims themselves,” a man who lost his father from 9/11 told the national security podcast SpyTalk.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

FBI Seizes Phone of GOP Lawmaker Leading Impeachment Effort against Kamala Harris

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FBI Seizes Phone of GOP Lawmaker Leading Impeachment Effort against Kamala Harris

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI has executed a search warrant on Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., about two weeks after he introduced articles of impeachment against Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

The FBI seized Ogles’s phone during the search, reportedly as part of an investigation into his campaign finances. The Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint against Ogles in January, alleging that he did not disclose the assets that he purportedly used to personally loan $320,000 to his campaign committee.

In a statement on Tuesday, Ogles acknowledged that he made mistakes in his campaign finance disclosure. He expressed surprise that the FBI escalated the matter.

“It has been widely reported for months that my campaign made mistakes in our initial financial filings. We have worked diligently with attorneys and reporting experts to correct the errors and ensure compliance going forward. Last Friday, the FBI took possession of my cell phone,” he said on Twitter/X.

“It is my understanding that they are investigating the same well-known facts surrounding these filings. I will of course fully cooperate with them, just as I have with the Federal Election Commission. I am confident all involved will conclude that the reporting discrepancies were based on honest mistakes, and nothing more.”

The FBI and Justice Department reportedly declined to comment on the matter.

Ogles is looking to impeach Harris for allowing illegal aliens to invade the United States while she was “border czar”, as well as for misleading the American people about Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive health.

“Time and again, Kamala Harris has refused to uphold her oath to the U.S. Constitution, and she must be impeached. Her breathtaking incompetence as Border Czar has allowed a crisis of drugs, rape, and murder to flood the streets of America,” Ogles said when introducing articles of impeachment last month.

He then said that Harris “knowingly breached the public’s trust by failing to invoke the 25th Amendment after it became clear that Joe Biden was mentally and physically unfit to serve as president” and declared that “immediate action must be taken.”

Ogles, who is facing a Republican primary in his state’s 5th Congressional District on Aug. 1, 2024, and has been endorsed by Donald Trump, also introduced articles of impeachment against Biden and Harris last year.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Another ‘Squad’ Member Defeated as County Prosecutor Clinches Win in Missouri’s Democratic Primary

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Another ‘Squad’ Member Defeated as County Prosecutor Clinches Win in Missouri’s Democratic Primary

(, The Center Square) A second member of “The Squad,” the radical band of non-white progressives in the U.S. House, was defeated in a primary on Tuesday.

County prosecutor Wesley Bell defeated incumbent Cori Bush in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s 1st District.

Bell, who dropped out of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Josh Hawley, won with 52% of the vote to Bush’s 47%, with 40% of precincts reporting to the Missouri Secretary of State.

Bell received 56% of the vote in St. Louis County, where he’s currently prosecutor, but Bush received 55% of the vote in the City of St. Louis.

Bell raised $4.7 million to Bush’s $2.9 million, according to federal election data. Millions more supported Bell through political action committees in the hopes of ousting the ethically challenged lawmaker, who also has openly espoused support for Hamas and anti-Semitic views.

“Running a positive message in a campaign is the right thing to do,” Bell told supporters at a gathering in downtown St. Louis televised by several outlets. “Words matter. We ran a campaign on issues. That’s what we do.”

Bell decided to face Bush last October after she criticized Israel and accused its government of an “ethnic cleansing campaign.”

U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York in June was the first member of “the Squad” to lose a Democratic primary after criticizing Israel.

“Babies, dead,” Bush posted on X. “Pregnant women, dead. Elderly, dead. Generations of families, dead. Millions of people in Gaza with nowhere to go being slaughtered. The U.S. must stop funding these atrocities against Palestinians.”

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee issued a statement congratulating Bell.

“Once again, a progressive pro-Israel Democrat has prevailed over a candidate who represents the extremist fringe that is hostile to the Jewish state,” according to the statement.

Bell and Bush gained notoriety during the 2014 Ferguson riots surrounding Michael Brown, a drug-abusing shoplifter who was killed while trying to bum-rush police officer Darren Wilson following a routine traffic stop. In Bush’s television campaign ads, Brown’s father accused Bell of not fulfilling a promise to ensure justice for his son.

In 2018, Bell became the first black prosecutor in St. Louis County when he defeated prosecutor Bob McCulloch, who led the Ferguson investigation and didn’t indict Officer Darren Wilson. In 2020, Bell’s review of the case also found no charges against Wilson.

Bush defeated U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay in 2020. Clay and his father held the seat for decades.

Bush voted against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, one of six Democrats to vote against the bill.

She strongly voice opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning the federal abortion mandate established by Roe v. Wade and talked in television campaign commercials about an abortion she had as a teenager after being sexually assaulted.

Other key races in Tuesday’s state primaries:

U.S. Senate: Lucas Kunce, who lost the 2022 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate to Trudy Busch Valentine, won a four-candidate race for this year’s nomination with 66% of the vote. Republican incumbent Josh Hawley wasn’t opposed in the primary.

U.S. Representative District 3: State Senator Bob Onder, the only candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary race, won the nomination with 47% of the vote. The seat’s previous occupant, retiring Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, endorsed former state Sen. Kurt Schaefer, who received 37% of the vote in a seven-way race.

All of the other incumbent Republican U.S. Representatives who had primary challengers won their elections.

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