Only 3.4% of Journalists Identify as Republicans

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Only 3.4% of Journalists Identify as Republicans

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A study revealed that the percentage of full-time U.S. journalists who identify as Republicans has dropped significantly over the last decade, while journalists who identified as Democrats and Independents have increased.

As a result, it was found that there is only 3.4% of journalists in 2022 who identified themselves as Republicans, compared with 36.4% of Democrats and 51.7% of Independents in the profession, according to a Syracuse University survey titled “The American Journalist Under Attack.”

A Gallup poll revealed that at the time when the survey was conducted, 28% of Americans considered themselves Republicans, 28% identified themselves as Democrats and 42% viewed themselves as Independents.

It was also discovered by the survey that the percentage of Republicans in the journalism industry has declined substantially over the decades, according to the Epoch Times.

The first survey was conducted back in 1971 when 25.7% of journalists identified themselves as Republicans — an insane figure for today’s realities of the industry. Over the years, the number drastically declined. The number dropped to 18.8% in 1982 and then declined to 16.4% in 1992. In 2002, it increased a little bit to 18% but plummeted to 7.1% in 2013. By 2022, the number dropped to 3.4%.

“Are we supposed to find this surprising?” one of the Times’s readers wrote in the replies to the article.

The survey said that the trend for journalists identifying as Democrats has remained relatively steady at around 35% over the decades. The 2022 figure of 36.4% marked the third-highest percentage of journalists identifying as Democrats since 1971.

“When asked about the ’most important problem facing journalism today,’ the journalists mentioned these issues most often: Declining public trust in the news media (20.8%); shrinking local and community news coverage (12.8%); perceived bias and opinion journalism (12.7%); fake news (9.9%); disrupted business model (9.3%),” the survey said.

The Times reported that the survey is conducted nearly every decade and covers many topics in the journalism industry, which range from using social media in their daily work to job satisfaction, journalists’ age, women in the journalism workplace, comparative pay between biological sexes and educational levels, among others.

The news source also added that the recent study was based on an online survey of 1,600 U.S. journalists in various media organizations and conducted from January to April 2022.

Ramaswamy Crushes Reporter Over White Supremacy ‘Gotcha’ Question

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Ramaswamy Crushes Reporter Over White Supremacy ‘Gotcha’ Question

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Republican presidential candidate and former biotech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy scolded a Washington Post reporter who cunningly attempted to ask whether he condemned white supremacy.

In a Wednesday viral video, WaPo staff writer Meryl Kornfield pressed Ramaswamy, preaching, “You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy though.” To which he responded sharply: “I’m not going to recite some catechism for you. I’m against vicious racial discrimination in this country.”

He elaborated, “I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism, which actually fits the test…. But do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I going to play your silly game of gotcha? No, I am not.” 

Ramaswamy predicted that the reporter’s question would trigger negative headlines, considering the media’s habit of printing damning articles about how Republican politicians respond to similar questions.

“And frankly, this is why people have lost trust, and I know you’re going to go print this headline tomorrow, I know how your game works, “Vivek Ramaswamy Won’t Condemn White Supremacy,” Because you asked a stupid question,” he continued. 

Ramaswamy stated that he condemns “discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction.”

Former President Donald Trump faced similar questions about white supremacy, despite constantly and vocally disapproving of it.

The relentless smear campaign led the Daily Wire to compile nearly 4 minutes of footage showing Trump condemning white supremacy. Similarly, the Trump campaign released a nearly 5-minute video where Trump rebuked white supremacist groups.

Despite these compilations, dubious headlines—such as “Trump Refuses to Denounce White Supremacy in Chaotic Debate” by the New York Times—have dominated coverage tying Trump to hate groups.

But Ramaswamy had enough.

“You people have been responsible for dividing this country to a breaking point, creating a projection of national division. I meet people from the south side of Chicago to meetings like this one, of every shade of melanin, multiple, men and women, it doesn’t make a difference, who are hungry for reviving unity in this country,” he said.

Ramaswamy continued: “And you with your catechism that you try to get politicians to do, with your fake headline that you’re going to print on the basis of this conversation tomorrow, that is what is dividing this country to a breaking point.”

Are Republicans at Risk of Losing Narrow House Majority Due to Attrition?

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Are Republicans at Risk of Losing Narrow House Majority Due to Attrition?

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, announced that he was departing from Congress, making the already tight GOP majority in the House even more precarious.

Johnson accepted an offer to become the head of Youngstown State University and officially planned to leave on Jan. 21, according to Politico.

“Bill submitted his official resignation from Congress today, effective at the end of day on January 21, 2024, paving the way for him to begin his presidency this month,” said Michael Peterson, chair of the school’s Board of Trustees, in a statement.

Though the Ohio lawmaker announced his new position in November, he was not expected to leave the House so soon.

After to the recent abdication of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and the removal of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., Republicans hold just a seven-seat majority over the House Democrats.

With Johnson’s departure, and the likelihood that Democrats will reclaim the district that Santos flipped red in the last election, that could soon be as narrow as five seats under the present circumstances, barring any other unforeseen events.

Johnson’s and McCarthy’s districts, by contrast, are both relatively safe for Republicans.

McCarthy, after his ousting from the role of House speaker, opted to leave the seat altogether, having spent much of his 17-year career in Congress in hot pursuit of the top leadership position only to see it snatch unceremoniously from him by his own party.

After a slight hiccup with California Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office, McCarthy’s handpicked successor, state Rep. Vince Fong, will be on the ballot in California’s 20th Congressional district on March 5.

Rumors of McCarthy scoring a possible cabinet post in the next Trump administration continue to fly as well.

Santos, whose former seat comes up for special election on Feb. 13., has similar plans.

He recently made a 2024 resolution to become presidential candidate Donald Trump’s director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We have over 50M+ people who have invaded our sovereignty over the years due to careless and neglectful immigration policy, if given the job I know exactly where to start and run the much needed raids of removals proceedings this country needs,” he said in a lengthy Twitter post.

Since his expulsion for fraud and corruption, Santos publicly criticized several of his former colleagues for ethics violations—particularly the representatives that had key roles in his ousting.

Associated Press Reveals Another Far-Left Foundation Steering Its Radical Coverage

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Associated Press Reveals Another Far-Left Foundation Steering Its Radical Coverage

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) It was a rough day for the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The far-left news service received a Twitter fact-check and was forced to make multiple stealth-edits on a blatantly biased and factually inaccurate piece attacking conservative journalist Christopher Rufo, all while going to bat for disgraced ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay, Twitchy reported.

However, the embarrassment came as little surprise to those who have watched the gradual decline of the once-industry-standard wire service into an agenda-driven mockery of its former glory.

The AP’s leadership—including woke CEO Daisy Veerasingham, may bear much of the blame for its its current woes, but external pressures are also taking their toll as the journalism industry grapples with the economic realities of the shifting media paradigm in a post-newspaper era.

The AP has continued to accept money from left-wing foundations seeking to influence its coverage—including a recent “grant” from an organization that trains climate-change activists as journalists, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

The KP Foundation, a Danish nonprofit that seeks the “rapid phase-out of fossil fuels,” gave the AP approximately $300,000 in 2022.

A year after receiving the funds, the AP quietly added it to a list of philanthropic supporters that have given money to the media outlet.

The KP Foundation purports to be interested in “significantly” altering “the media narrative around climate policy” by “infusing climate coverage in all aspects” of corporate media coverage.

The foundation also backs a ban on oil company advertisements in both Australia and the Netherlands as well as it attempts to “influence industry” by mounting public pressure campaigns against them.

They also have attempted to transform African peoples into climate change “community activists.”

However,  the KP Foundation is only the latest left-wing organization that has been helping to subsidize the failing AP.

The Free Beacon reported recently that the media company has accepted dozens of major donations from left-leaning organizations, particularly legal groups and climate change activist groups.

Among those giving money to the AP are the 1619 Project, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The 1619 Project—the creation of propagandist intellectual Nikole Hannah–Jones—infamously revised American history to make the central aspect of it the oppression of blacks.

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, which gave the AP $500,000 in 2022, recently attacked the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning affirmative action at universities, suggesting that such a move “impedes colleges and universities from selecting their own student bodies and fully addressing systemic racial inequalities that persist.”

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation gave $2.5 million to the AP’s climate education initiative and another $400,000 to its “democracy journal initiative”—democracy, in this case, meaning transgender ideology for children.

Lastly, the Rockefeller Foundation gave the AP $750,000 in 2021 for a climate-change initiative meant to “make opportunity universal.”

The AP was one of several outlets that drew heavy criticism for working with a pro-Hamas photographer who had advance knowledge of the terrorist group’s planned Oct. 7 massacre, where more than 1,200 innocent Israelis were slaughtered.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

Illegals Cross Rio Grande Feet from House GOP’s Border Security Press Conference

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Illegals Cross Rio Grande Feet from House GOP’s Border Security Press Conference

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Harrowing footage from the southern border captures illegal aliens crossing the Rio Grande mere feet away from a press conference held by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a large group of Republican lawmakers.

The video, first shared by Punchbowl News’ Founder Jake Sherman, shows what appears to be a family of four: a man, a woman, two young children and an adolescent boy.

The quintet can be seen slowly making their way through the water into the U.S., the man carrying the young children and the adolescent boy holding on to the woman. As they make their way across, a Border Patrol agent aids them, directing them presumably towards a processing center.

“Here are migrants making a cross into the United States, just feet from House Republicans’ press conference, feet—that’s House Republicans, including Mike Johnson, and those are migrants who had just crossed into the United States from Mexico, including little children,” the man recording the video said.

Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Fla., and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., were among the lawmakers who reacted to the video on Twitter. 

“This is the reality we are dealing with. There is nothing humane about Biden’s immigration policies,” remarked Díaz-Balart, while Lawmaker added, “[The immigrants] will be taken to a processing facility, where they will likely be released into the United States. Roughly 90% of those who have cross our Southern border have been released into the United States.” 

House Republicans visited the southern border to survey the immigration chaos affecting the nation. They have persistently called on the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Joe Biden to take action to secure the border and have vowed to link potential funding for the Ukrainian war to border funding. 

“Where is President Biden?” Johnson questioned on Twitter. “As a consequence of policies Biden could reverse today, there is a humanitarian and national security crisis unfolding at the southern border. We have a duty to secure the border.”

This congressional visit follows an unprecedented surge in border crossings fueled by what Republicans and some Democrats have long rebuked as Biden’s open border policies.

In December alone, over 300,000 illegal aliens were encountered at the southern border, marking the highest total ever recorded in a single month.

True the Vote Wins Fed. Election Lawsuit in Ga.

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True the Vote Wins Fed. Election Lawsuit in Ga.

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) On Jan. 2, 2024, the conservative vote-monitoring organization True the Vote won a federal election lawsuit when a federal judge ruled that the organization’s challenges to Georgia voters’ eligibility didn’t amount to voter intimidation in the 2020 election.

In a 145-page ruling that was issued a little less than two months after the end of a civil trial, U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones found that the defendants didn’t violate the Voting Rights Act, according to the Epoch Times.

Questions were raised by Texas-based True the Vote, its founder Catherine Engelbrecht and several other people about whether 364,000 Georgia voters were improperly registered because their voter registrations conflicted with their mailing addresses.

A group that was formed by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Inc., sued on behalf of several plaintiffs, which resulted in two groups fighting in court for seven days and ending the legal battle in early November 2023 in a nonjury trial in Jones’s courtroom in Gainesville, Ga.

In addition to Engelbrecht, the defendants included two data analysts, Mark Davis and Derek Somerville, mailing list printer Mark Williams and two other people, Ron Johnson and James Cooper.

“Having heard the evidence presented and the arguments made by the Parties, the Court maintains its prior concerns about the manner Defendants utilized (Georgia law) to challenge individual voters. The Court, however, ultimately concludes that, as a legal matter, Plaintiffs have not carried their burden to show a violation of Section 11(b) (of the Voting Rights Act.) Accordingly, the Court enters judgment in favor (of) Defendants,” Jones wrote.

He then continued explaining why True the Vote did not commit any crime.

“There is no evidence that Defendants attempted to make any of the voters in this case feel timid or fearful, or that they experienced any actual reasonable intimidation,” Jones added.

He then wrote about how the organization’s advertising, podcasts and press releases about the challenges weren’t intimidating in the way that direct calls to their telephone numbers would be.

Border Patrol Agent Under Federal Investigation for Returning Illegals to Mexico

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Border Patrol Agent Under Federal Investigation for Returning Illegals to Mexico

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A U.S. Border Patrol agent has come under federal investigation after he was caught returning illegal immigrants back across the U.S.–Mexico border, the Daily Mail reported.

As millions of illegal immigrants flood into America, many bringing hard drugs with them, federal prosecutors have turned their attention to Border Patrol agents who send illegals back across the border rather than detaining them.

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility is reviewing this situation,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, wrote in a Monday statement.

The incident occurred when a family of six from Venezuela tried to cross the border Sunday morning.

The Venezuelans had crossed onto U.S. soil when they were turned around.

“He told us to go back, that we can’t enter here,” the father told reporters before trying to cross at another point later that day.

According to Crystal Sandoval, an employee for the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Group, U.S. Border Patrol agents are supposed to be helping people across the border rather than stopping them from crossing.

“They’re not supposed to be turning people away, especially if they are already in U.S. territory,” Sandoval argued. “It’s not supposed to be happening.”

The Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Group is a nonprofit which envisions “a country where all immigrants have access to high-quality legal representation based on the principle of justice and human rights.”

However, Sandoval’s assessment is predicated on the assumption that all illegals have been coached by open-border activists into claiming asylum, saying they have a “credible fear” of remaining in their home country, which effectively circumvents normal immigration law.

Increasingly, some have become bolder after seeing the ineffectiveness of the Biden administration’s border enforcement efforts and now openly admit that they come solely for economic opportunities.

One group of disgruntled Venezuelans, dissatisfied by their taxpayer-subsidized accommodations in Chicago, even announced in November that they planned to return home and take their chances with the socialist Maduro regime.

“We didn’t know things would be this hard,” migrant Michael Castejon told the Chicago Tribune after complaining that he’d spent months without adequate job opportunities, housing and education for his children. “I thought the process was faster.”

J6 Protestor Pushed from Capitol Stairs Sues for Police Brutality

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J6 Protestor Pushed from Capitol Stairs Sues for Police Brutality

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Jan. 6 protestor pushed from a 30-foot-high staircase has sued Capitol Police Officer Bryant Williams and House Speaker Mike Johnson over the incident.

The protestor, Derrick Vargo, seeks monetary damages, a court order declaring that Williams attempted to murder him, and an order for Speaker Johnson to open an investigation into the police brutality that occurred during the Jan. 6, 2021, event.

Vargo’s lawsuit describes the harrowing series of events that led to his near death.

According to Vargo, he heard about the Jan. 6 protest about a week beforehand, and decided to take a bus from Ohio to DC to support Donald Trump.

After Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, Vargo joined other protestors in their march to Capitol Hill.

“People were already on the steps of the Capitol. Vargo saw another person climb up a structure and wave an American flag. Vargo thought to himself, ‘that’s awesome!’” his Jan. 2 lawsuit said.

Vargo then climbed the staircase to wave his Trump flag. Vargo carefully shuffled with his feet along the thin ledge, tightly gripping the banister, making his way towards a secure position away from the police so he could wave his flag, he said.

“Suddenly, and without warning, one of the officers sprayed Vargo in the face with pepper spray,” he said. “Vargo desperately gripped onto the banister for dear life.”

It was at that moment—18 minutes before Congress evacuated chambers—that Vargo realized police didn’t want him there, he said.

Vargo said he attempted to inch his way down the staircase, only to have Williams push him to his near death.

“Suddenly and without warning, Officer Bryant Williams stuck his hand out and intentionally shoved Vargo off the ledge, sending him plummeting 30 feet to the ground. This was an objectively unreasonable use of deadly force, as any reasonable person would have understood that there were many alternatives to deadly force in that situation,” he said.

“For instance, since Vargo was clearly gripping on to the banister for dear life, it was obvious that at that moment he did not pose a threat. The officers could easily have let him descend or grab him and pull him over the banister to safety.”

Vargo, who has not been criminally charged over Jan. 6, said he continues to suffer injuries from that day.

“Vargo was severely injured. Among other things, he severely injured his back and foot. Due to the injuries, he required surgery and other medical treatment,” he said.

“To this day, every night in his sleep he reexperiences the fall and believes it to be real every time. As a result, he wakes up and is constantly deprived of sleep.”

Vargo is representing himself in his lawsuit. He has a GiveSendGo page to support his legal action.

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

Are Dems Secretly Plotting to Vacation Biden to Death Before Election? Twitter Reacts

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Are Dems Secretly Plotting to Vacation Biden to Death Before Election? Twitter Reacts

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Newly released photos exposed President Joe Biden’s noticeably red sunburn after a worry-free seven-day year end vacation to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The new photos sparked concerns among some social media users, particularly considering Biden’s history of skin cancer removal in March 2023.

“March: Biden has skin cancer removed,” said writer John Hasson, before adding, “Today: ‘Biden departs St. Croix with wicked sunburn.’

Former Trump Campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh reacted to the images of Biden being sunburned, questioning whether the 81-years-old president was left unattended on the beach. “They put him in a beach chair and forgot about him again, didn’t they?” Murtaugh asked.

Podcast co-host Sean Haffner, also known as “Sean the Producer,” chimed in: “Really smart for a guy who has already had a few skin cancers removed to be getting *that* sunburned.”

Twitter user Kevin Dalton highlighted First Lady Jill Biden’s apparent lack of sun protection for the president. “Even a pretend doctor like Jill should know a dude with a history of skin cancer probably shouldn’t go full George Hamilton on vacation,” he said.

Notably, the first lady accompanied the president on vacation. She also had skin cancer lesions removed from her skin in January 2023. Three months later, she encouraged Americans to undergo regular health screenings.

“Lo and behold, I got cancer in a routine checkup,” she shared during an interview on Live with Kelly and Ryan, before calling on Americans to wear sunscreen.

“I spent so many summers at the Jersey Shore,” she added. “There I was on the beach. I was waitressing to get money for college, and I was in the sun every day.”

Indeed, the Bidens are avid sun lovers. Their New Year’s Eve vacation marked the latest holiday trip taken by the scandal-ridden president.

As reported by the NY Post, Biden spent more than a third of 2023 relaxing at his private Delaware residency, Camp David, or lavish multi-million dollar properties in Lake Tahoe, St. Croix or Nantucket Island.

Biden was famously photographed in Rehoboth Beach in Delaware last year. In 2023, he spent 90 days in Delaware, 22 days traveling, and 26 days at Camp David.

Responding to the extensive vacation days, the White House claimed that the president does not have to stay in D.C. to work, according to the NY Post.

“The President has taken 16 days of vacation this year, and even on those days, he has worked,” a White House spokesperson told the outlet.

“Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Americans saw the President hold a slew of foreign head of state calls before announcing a deal to release hostages from Gaza the very next day. The fact is: the President works every single day of the week whether he is in Washington, Delaware, Camp David, or anywhere else — and those around him and reporters who cover him closely know that,” the spokesperson added.

Leading Jan. 6 Documentarian Moves to Have Charges Dismissed

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Leading Jan. 6 Documentarian Moves to Have Charges Dismissed

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department’s sweetheart plea deal for Capitol Hill provocateur Ray Epps may have opened the door for other Jan. 6 defendants to have charges against them dismissed.

At least that’s what defendant William Pope argued in a Jan. 2 motion to dismiss, which came on the heels of the DOJ recommending that Epps only receive six months imprisonment—even though he helped stoke the riot and pushed a sign into a group of police officers during the event.

In his motion, Pope, who is representing himself, pointed to the fact that he faces eight charges and up to 30 years imprisonment, despite being entirely peaceful when he briefly walked through the Capitol building.

“My conduct is distinct from Epps in that I did not urge people to go into the Capitol on January 5 and January 6, 2021, I did not leave the President’s speech early and was not one of the first to run onto Capitol grounds like Epps was. I also did not push a sign into police officers,” Pope said.

“Yet, the government claims in their sentencing memorandum for Epps … that ‘a variety of distinctive and compelling mitigating factors’ in Epps case, ‘led the government to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and offer Epps a pre-indictment misdemeanor plea resolution,’ even though the government claims that ‘Epps engaged in felonious conduct.’”

Among the mitigating factors cited by the DOJ are that Epps turned himself in to the FBI on January 8, 2021, that he cooperated with the FBI by participating in interviews, and that he attempted to deescalated individuals on January 6.

Pope said he has similarly mitigating factors that haven’t been acknowledged by the DOJ.

“I reported my presence to the FBI’s tip website on January 9, 2021, the first full day I was back home in Kansas, and I participated in an interview with the FBI soon after. In fact, I did this despite not being on the FBI wanted list like Epps was,” he said.

“Yet despite me being entirely peaceful, while Epps was provoking the crowds and assaulting police, and despite the same mitigating factors being present, the government has treated me much more severely than Epps. They have brought eight charges against me, rather than one; and rather than offering a single misdemeanor plea, the government tried to force me to plead to Obstruction of an Official Proceeding, a felony with a twenty-year max sentence.”

Pope speculated that he could be treated differently by the DOJ for a number of reasons, including his extensive journalism that has knocked down the government’s narrative about Jan. 6.

Among other actions, Pope is the defendant who filed a bombshell document that exposed illicit behavior by undercover Capitol Police officers. He’s also put together numerous video packages featuring possible undercover assets who helped provoke the Jan. 6 riot.

In his motion, Pope even joked that the DOJ may be targeting him because “prosecutors resented me being better looking than themselves.”

In any event, “Lady Justice has not weighed all things equally,” he concluded.

“The government has bestowed favor upon Ray Epps that they have not bestowed equally on me.”

Pope asked his judge to toss the DOJ’s charges against him, or to compel discovery about government’s preferential treatment of Epps.

The DOJ has yet to respond.

Pope’s trial is currently set for July.

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

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