Number of Suspected Undercover Federal Assets in Jan. 6 Grows to 50

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Number of Suspected Undercover Federal Assets in Jan. 6 Grows to 50

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Last week, a defense attorney in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition trial said the number of identified undercover agents, informants and police officers in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest crowd was at least 40.

Over the weekend, the DOJ disclosed another 10 to 12 undercover DC Metropolitan Police Department officers who participated in Jan. 6, bringing the total now to at least 50, according to attorney Roger Roots, who is representing Jan. 6 defendant Dominic Pezzola.

And just this past weekend, the defense learned that there were at least 10 to 12 additional, previously unknown plain-clothes MPD officers among the Proud Boys on January 6. This brings the total number of informants among defendants on or around Jan. 6 to 50 or more,” Roots said Monday in a motion seeking a retrial.

Observers, such as Jan. 6 defendant William Pope, who is facing trial in a separate case, have cautioned that Roots may be estimating the number of informants.

But according to Roots, “there are reasons to suspect the true number [of informants] is higher.”

Roots said Monday that federal prosecutors recently allowed defense attorneys to interview three undercover MPD officers.

During one interview, an officer apparently said that he was not one of the undercovers serving on the MPD’s previously disclosed “electronic surveillance unit.” Rather, he was dispatched as part of an undercover “narcotics special investigation division” in response to a “1033” code asking for “everyone to come” on Jan. 6, according to Woods.

“Most significantly of all, [the undercover officer] said his assignment was simply to record evidence on his bodycam. Nothing else. Yet he said he didn’t know if the other 10 to 12 narcotics undercovers were recording at all,” Roots said.

“[The undercover officer] said he had destroyed his iPhone and that all his text messages (including, apparently, messages about Proud Boy structure and recruitment) relating to Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, had been autodeleted.”

Roots argued that all this evidence is clearly exculpatory for his client. He said the DOJ committed multiple legal violations by not providing him with this information sooner, as the trial is heading into its final week.

Accordingly, Roots is seeking a retrial.

The DOJ has yet to respond to Roots’ motion. The trial is set to resume tomorrow.

Pezzola is one of the defendants in the ongoing Proud Boys sedition conspiracy trial, along with Zachary Rehl, Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs.

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

Texas Teacher Tried to Smuggle Illegals to Houston in Back Seat of His Car

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Texas Teacher Tried to Smuggle Illegals to Houston in Back Seat of His Car

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A teacher from Houston, Texas, was charged with four counts of human smuggling after he was caught near the U.S.-Mexico border with illegal immigrants in the back seat of his car.

Patrick Henry Middle School teacher Brandan Gracia was stopped by authorities for a traffic violation in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, where he was caught with four illegal migrants in the car, according to the Daily Caller. The Houston Federation of Teachers Union confirmed that Gracia is a current teacher.

“What we’re gathering is he was contacted on social media, wanted to make some quick money, came to the border, picked up at a pre-determined location and was headed back to Houston,” Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe stated.

“The individuals were in the backseat laying down trying to conceal themselves.”

Coe also said that smugglers are often promised $1,000 to $5,000 per person they transport, but, in the end, usually never receive the money that was promised to them.

“He’s looking at state jail time. He could get up to six to eight years for all this. Best I can tell this is his first time,” Coe said.

“We are catching some that have no criminal history, never been in trouble before in their life, and they’ve hit a point in life where they think they need money bad enough that they’re going to try this. So we need to turn the economy around. We need to educate people, and we need to find the source.”

In March 2021, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched a state initiative “Operation Lone Star” to fight border issues, such as smuggling. So far, the initiative is successful. The Texas government reported that “Operation Lone Star” has resulted in more than 336,000 migrant apprehensions, more than 23,000 criminal arrests, with more than 20,000 felony charges.

Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Blocks 3 Election Security Bills

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Ariz. Gov. Hobbs Blocks 3 Election Security Bills

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Arizona Democrat. Gov. Katie Hobbs thwarted three election integrity bills, including one that her own office championed as state secretary of state.

Hobbs claimed the bills, which included laws cleaning voter rolls and increasing signature verification processes for early mail-in ballots, were unnecessary and called for voting access to be expanded instead in a veto letter.

“Arizona’s Active Early Voting List is secure and convenient for voters,” the Democrat governor claimed. “I stand ready to sign bills that make voting more accessible, accurate and secure. This bill accomplishes none of these goals.”

Republican lawmakers slammed Hobbs’s vetoes.

“Right now, Arizona has no laws setting any signature verification rules for early ballots, which help ensure that only lawful early voter’s vote,” Arizona Rep. Alexander Kolodin said in reference to vetoed bill HB2322. “What ground could be more common making her own rules the law?”

This particular bill, which had gained bipartisan support with 16 House Democrats voting in favor of it, sought to codify the Arizona state department’s own election rules into state laws, policies that Hobbs herself championed when she was secretary of state. “The standards in this bill are already several years old,” Hobbs said.

The bill, however, would have mandated the secretary of state to seek legislative approval before amending the policy. As of right now, the state department can unilaterally bend the law to their wishes. 

“Instead of legally enforceable rules, she would like ‘ongoing’ signature verification ‘guidance’ that is non-binding and can be changed on a whim by a single person,” Kolodin told the Arizona Mirror. “That is hardly democratic – or sober and responsible governance.”

The three vetoes are part of Hobbs’s campaign promise to push back against election integrity. Shortly after allegedly winning the hotly contested 2022 gubernatorial election, which is still being litigated, Hobbs claimed that Arizona’s election laws did not need to be overhauled and promised to block any attempts that aimed to do so, according to the Washington Post.

HB2415 would have ended the permanent absentee voter list, which automatically mails unrequested ballots to registered voters if they do not participate in an entire election cycle. One of the key issues with unrequested ballots is that they are the ones “most susceptible to being stolen, altered and forged,” according to a Heritage Foundation report. The bill would have avoided mail ballots from being sent to old addresses.

“If you’ve ever moved and ever had your mail go to your old address for three years, you’d understand why we need more frequent voter roll clean up in terms of the early ballots,” said Kolodin in a speech before the state legislature. “I think that’s a common sense thing. This is a common sense reform.”

SB1074 was the last election integrity bill to be thwarted. The bill would have prohibited electronic ballot tabulators and mandated for all components of voting machines be manufactured in the United States, Democracy Docket reported.

FBI Flags Sen. Mike Lee for ‘Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism’

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FBI Flags Sen. Mike Lee for ‘Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism’

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In its continued hunt to target any dissension from regime rhetoric, the FBI has compiled a glossary of slang words that it claimed are associated with violent, white supremacist extremism.

The glossary includes the word “based,” which would flag Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, as a supporter of “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”

“Based,” according to the FBI glossary, denotes a “term to refer to someone who has been converted to racist ideology, or as a way of indicating ideological agreement.”

In its “Domestic Terrorism Reference Guide” the bureau devoted a section to “Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremism,” concluding that people using or tweeting certain phrases indicated they likely affiliate with racist or white supremacist groups.

The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project uncovered the FBI’s linguist watch-list, which also detailed key words the bureau said were affiliated with “Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.”

Some of the words flagged by the FBI included:

  • Incels: Involuntary celibate violent extremists “who seek to commit violence in support of their belief that society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention, to which they believe they are entitled.” These Incels, “most of whom are men — blame political or social movements, such as feminism, for empowering others to deny them romantic or sexual attention.”
  • Red Pill: “In the context of RMVE ideology, taking the red pill or becoming ‘redpilled’ indicated the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs” and the belief the “society is corrupt, and that the believer is a victim of this corruption.”
  • Black Pill: “specific to Incels, refers to a belief that this corruption can only be changed through massive societal restructuring, often including violence.”
  • LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing): “RMVEs and their associates use the term online to deride individuals accused of not being as extreme”
  • Looksmaxxing: “The process of self-improvement with the intent to become more attractive.”
  • Stacy: “Idealized version of a female, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from men”

“Makes you wonder if there are any FBI materials on BLM or violent transgender extremists. Likely not,” the Oversight Project tweeted.

“Our government is officially now engaged in an all-out assault on unapproved speech,” said the Pragmatic Constitutionalist Steve Baker. “I’ve never needed a ‘red pill’ because I was apparently born already ‘based.’ That said, I’ve also never engaged in or advocated for ‘Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism.’”

Backlash from the Twitterverse was harsh.

“Maybe they need to start looking at pronouns, tbh,” tweeted one commentator, while another noted, “While the pronoun mafia continues its actual violence.”

“Who else is red pilled, based and doesn’t care that the @FBI thinks we’re extremists?” scoffed Robby Starbuck.

Big Pharma Signs Letter Opposing Judge Pausing Sale of Abortion Pills

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Big Pharma Signs Letter Opposing Judge Pausing Sale of Abortion Pills

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) More than 300 biotech and pharmaceutical CEOs and executives have signed an open letter Monday calling for the reversal of a Texas judge’s ruling that issued a national injunction on the abortion pill mifepristone.

The letter, signed by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Biogen President Alisha Alaimo, called the ruling “judicial activism.”

“Judicial activism will not stop here,” the letter read. “If courts can overturn drug approvals without regard for science or evidence, or for the complexity required to fully vet the safety and efficacy of new drugs, any medicine is at risk for the same outcome as mifepristone. … This decision ignores decades of scientific evidence and legal precedent.”

U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk released his ruling on April 7 that suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug and stopped sales while a court case is heard in a Texas courtroom.

Planned Parenthood stated that the FDA approved the drug nearly 20 years ago. Planned Parenthood said the drug has a safety record of over 99%.

The National Right to Life said that the Kacsmaryk ruling would save lives.

The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine sued the FDA in 2002, two years after the FDA approved chemical abortion.

National Right to Life pointed to the judge’s ruling that the case against the drug had been purposely dragged out by the FDA.

The judge’s ruling claims the U.S. Food & Drug Administration stonewalled judicial review for more than 16 years.

“Why did it take two decades for judicial review in federal court?” the judge’s ruling asked. “Simply put, FDA stonewalled judicial review – until now.”

The judge’s ruling stated that the FDA waited 4,971 days to act on the plaintiff’s first petition and then 994 days to act on the second petition.

“Had FDA responded to Plaintiff’s petitions with the 360 total days allotted, this case would have been in federal court decades earlier,” the ruling stated. “Instead, FDA postponed and procrastinated for nearly 6,000 days.”

Feds Borrowing $6 billion Per Day, Budget Group Says

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Feds Borrowing $6 billion Per Day, Budget Group Says

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) The U.S. Congressional Budget Office said Monday the federal government has borrowed more than a trillion dollars in debt only six months into the fiscal year.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released a report pointing out that those figures amount to an average of $6 billion per day so far in fiscal year 2023.

“Our fiscal challenges will only become more difficult the longer we wait to do anything,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the CRFB. “In just five years, the national debt will surpass its record as a share of the economy – set just after World War II, when we had no choice but to borrow to win the war. However, we’re in no such emergency now. It’s long past time that policymakers figure out a way to sustainably finance their priorities, not just add the costs to the national credit card.”

The data figures come as Republicans and Democrats approach a deadline to raise the debt ceiling or face defaulting on the national debt, an unprecedented event that would have huge ramifications for the U.S. and global economy.

Republicans have pointed to those figures as proof of the need for spending cuts.

President Joe Biden, though, has shown no interest in negotiating. Democrats argue the fiscal deadline is too risky to play with in negotiations.

The CRFB said if nothing changes, the annual deficit will hit $3 trillion by the end of this decade.

“That amount of borrowing outside of a national emergency is plainly unacceptable,” MacGuineas said. “Budgeting requires tradeoffs – often painful ones that politicians don’t want to grapple with. However, that is what they were elected to do, and they should consider the needs of both current and future Americans in upcoming fiscal negotiations. We simply cannot afford to ignore our unsustainable borrowing any longer.”

Los Angeles Is Sitting on $1B for Water Storage

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Los Angeles Is Sitting on $1B for Water Storage

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) As the West faces extended droughts and water shortages, Los Angeles officials thought they would get ahead of the curve by investing about $1 billion into water storage solutions. Now, four years later, the droughts are intensifying while that money sits unspent, according to the according to the New York Times.

The Times reports that California used to have a state-of-the-art flood control system, with dams and channels to control flooding from heavy storms. However, more frequent and intense droughts are creating a greater demand for stored water, but the systems are not designed to hold back much water, meaning tens of billions of gallons are flowing back into the Pacific Ocean.

To remedy this, LA County began collecting money to increase the storage capacity of their flood control systems. Over four years, it has collected around $1 billion, but has yet to spend most of it.

Regarding the slow pace of expenditures and lack of plans, the Times writes that, “The era of great dam building passed long ago, owing largely to the multifronted environmental wars California is fighting and the county has been slow to adopt alternatives.”

Now, bureaucrats are proposing spending $300 million per year on hundreds of small water capture projects that, in 30 to 50 years, could hold as much water as just building a new mountain dam. Experts are already warning, however, that this “greener” approach “will be expensive and may deliver less than expected,” despite the project not even starting yet.

LA County could use its taxpayers’ money to improve the quality of life of its citizens, but thanks to a strong environmental lobby and a slow-moving bureaucracy, residents are left with less money and less water.

Conservative-Friendly Actor Mark Wahlberg Plans to Open Vegas Movie Studio

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Conservative-Friendly Actor Mark Wahlberg Plans to Open Vegas Movie Studio

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Mark Wahlberg, the Catholic and conservative-friendly actor, has moved to Las Vegas and intends to open a Movie Studio there.

Wahlberg explained his move to Vegas, according to Breitbart News.

“[I left California] to give my kids a better life,” he explained.

Wahlberg said that he was seeking a place more friendly to his Catholicism.

“[My Catholicism is] not popular in my industry,” he said. “[Faith] it’s everything. It’s afforded me so many things. We want to be better versions of ourselves, and through focusing my faith, it’s allowed me to do that.”

The former Hollyweird actor explained that the move has been very good for those he brought with him to support his acting career.

“When I moved here, I brought probably like 15 or 20 people that work with me also moving here,” he said. “They went from three-bedroom houses that they were really struggling to pay rent for. And now they have a six-bedroom house. And it’s, you know, half the cost.”

Wahlberg summarized the reason for his move to Nevada in a single sentence.

“It’s just a much better lifestyle here and more affordable,” he said.

Wahlberg’s new studio is great news for Conservatives, as he has long been known as a latent conservative, or at the very least, hostile to woke culture and leftism.

Townhall ran an article describing Wahlberg’s conservative tendencies in 2018.

In 2018 a comedian named Billy Eichner blamed Wahlberg for the rise of Trump in a tweet, according to Men’s Health.

Wahlberg responded.

“Wow! Interesting. I think we’ve got to blame people who are out of touch with middle America,” he said. “Hollywood celebrities don’t pay people’s bills. People in America have got real lives. Let’s stay connected to the people.”

Again, in 2017 speaking of President Trump, Wahlberg expressed a hope that Americans could rally behind him.

“I had a strong opinion and I didn’t choose to voice it out in the public,” he said. “But now that somebody is in office, let’s all just come together and rally around him and make sure he has the best chance to succeed.”

Wahlberg also said he’d share a meal with President Trump, according to Yahoo News.

“I’ve shared a golf course with him, so I’d certainly share a burger with him,” he said.

He further praised Nevada’s Republican Governor Joe Lombardo, according to Breitbart News.

“There’s lots of opportunity for growth here,” he said. “And the government, especially our new governor, is really looking for opportunities to create jobs outside of gaming.”

Though these comments offer clues of Wahlberg’s political leanings, Wahlberg doesn’t engage in public political commentary.

“Look, I’ve never gone out and talked about politics. I’m an actor,” he reasoned. “A lot of Hollywood is living in a bubble. They’re pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family.”

Many of the films Wahlberg has starred in appeal to a conservative audience.

  • Last year’s blockbuster Father Stu, focuses on the redemptive role of Catholicism and the way faith empowers courage and sacrifice.
  • The Fighter tells the story of an underdog Boston boxer who scrapes his way to title contention.
  • Lone Survivor was a film about a Navy Seal enduring much suffering to serve God and country.
  • Patriots Day is a film depicting the heroic life and efforts of a Boston cop going after the Boston Marathon Bomber.

Wahlberg’s new studio creates the potential to produce more films in the same vein.

Soros’s Son Visited Biden’s White House at Least 14 Times

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Soros’s Son Visited Biden’s White House at Least 14 Times

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The son of billionaire leftist megadonor George Soros visited the White House 14 times to meet with top U.S. officials since Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office.

According to the Daily Wire, Alexander Soros, 37, is a chairman of the Open Society Foundations, the network that was founded by his father specifically to destroy the United States by donating to leftist causes and political candidates. Alexander Soros visited the White House 14 times since October 2021, according to visitor logs reviewed by the New York Post.

The leftist billionaire’s son’s most recent visit to Biden’s White House was on Dec. 1, 2022, when he met with then-Chief of Staff Ron Klain’s adviser Nina Srivastava. He also attended a dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron that was put on by Joe and Jill Biden on the South Lawn.

Alexander also met with Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer and National Security Advisor executive assistant Kimberly Lang on Oct. 6, 2022. He also met with Finer on three separate occasions. In October 2021 and April 2022, Madeline Strasser, another adviser to Klain, also met with the younger Soros.

Mike Howell, Heritage Foundation Oversight Project director, said that Soros’s son’s time spent in the White House is concerning because the Soros family “has done incalculable damage to our country.”

“The death and destruction of their policies are evident at our borders and in our crime-infested cities,” he said. “The left is addicted to their money, and they don’t even bother hiding it anymore.”

According to his Instagram photos, Alexander also met with other prominent Democrats, such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama.

 

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The Daily Wire reported that Alexander donated over $11 million to leftist PACs since 2010 and, in 2018, he donated $2 million to the Senate Majority PAC.

Biden Says He’s Planning on Running Again, But Won’t Make Official Announcement

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Biden Says He’s Planning on Running Again, But Won’t Make Official Announcement

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden said this week that he plans to run for reelection in 2024 but that he is not ready to make an official announcement yet.

During an interview with NBC’s Al Roker for the Today show, Roker asked Biden whether he plans to host future Easter events — a nod to his reelection ambitions.

“I plan on at least three or four more Easter egg rolls. Maybe five. Maybe six, what the hell? I don’t know,” Biden said

“Are you saying that you would be taking part in our upcoming election in 2024? Help a brother out, make some news for me,” Roker babbled.

“I plan on running, Al,” Biden added. “But we’re not prepared to announce it yet.”

Biden’s team has repeatedly insisted that he plans to run for reelection, despite his sagging approval ratings and growing concerns about his physical fitness. When asked whether voters’ low approval of Biden would have any effect on his decision to run, Biden shrugged off their concerns.

“What is your message to them and how does that factor into your final decision about whether or not to run for reelection?” a reporter asked last November.

“It doesn’t,” Biden said.

“What’s your message to them?” the reporter continued.

“Watch me,” Biden said.

The latest reports indicate Biden might make an official announcement this summer.

Biden’s hopes for reelection were buoyed by Democrats’ better-than-expected midterms performance. It’s likely he also thinks his chances of reelection will be much higher now that former President Donald Trump has entered the 2024 race. Last year, Biden even said he hoped Trump launched another campaign.

“In the next election, I’d be very fortunate if I had that same man running against me,” Biden said.

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