Whitmer Used Pandemic Relief Funds for Teacher Courses Promoting CRT

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Whitmer Used Pandemic Relief Funds for Teacher Courses Promoting CRT

(Brendan Clarey, The Center Square) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used federal pandemic relief funds to create virtual courses for teachers about anti-racism and social justice, which encouraged teachers to engage with sources espousing critical race theory.

The CARES Act in 2020 included funds for governors to award to education-related entities via the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund. Whitmer and state officials allotted $1.4 million to Michigan State University College of Education, the University of Michigan’s School of Education and Michigan Virtual to create professional learning modules for K-12 teachers.

According to an email from MSU’s Office of K-12 Outreach sent out Monday, educators are able to take a “newly relaunched” course developed in partnership with MSU’s educator school for free.

Republican lawmakers have previously introduced legislation to the Michigan Legislature that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in classrooms. Other states have passed laws that prohibit its teaching.

The way the program was funded has come under scrutiny from federal oversight agencies.  The Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General said in a report released in September that the state could not support the process it used to select Michigan Virtual, MSU and UM to develop the modules.

“The purpose of the program was to train teachers on how to implement the teacher professional learning standards developed by the Governor’s Education Advisory Council,” said a report from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, which investigated how federal money was spent by the state.

The Governor’s Education Advisory Council was created by Whitmer via executive order in 2019, and she handpicked all 15 members of the public who serve on it. She signed off on granting the money to Michigan Virtual, MSU and UM to develop the teacher professional learning programs and other entities, according to the federal watchdog report.

The courses include “Anti-Racism and Social Justice Teaching and Leadership” and “Anti-Racist Trauma-Informed Practice in PreK-12 Education,” “Social-Emotional Learning: Equity Elaborations,” “Social-Emotional Learning: Assessment Mechanisms” and 11 others.

The “Anti-Racism and Social Justice Teaching and Leadership” module developed with MSU staff aims to teach educators about how to see racism and privilege and how they play out in school and society, analyze theoretical frameworks for anti-racist and social justice teaching, recognize system oppression and apply strategies to dismantle it and examine how to connect with staff and communities.

The material in that course asked teachers about how they could respond to a classroom situation in the most anti-racist way possible.

That course linked to materials including a video of Bettina Love explaining “spirit murdering” and its explicit origin in critical race theory.

“I really wanted to put language, and take it out of critical race theory, and put it in education to say this is what’s happening to our schools,” Love said in the video educators were told to view as part of the course and apply what they learn to their own schools.

Another resource cited this key principle of critical judgement: “I will take responsibility for what I don’t directly control – structural racism, systemic oppression, and all forms of bias – and attempt to influence transformative change within seemingly entrenched systems.”

The second module developed in conjunction with UM seeks to heighten educators “awareness of trauma and oppression” and support them in “individually and collectively imagining ways to disrupt sources of oppression and harm in order to transform classrooms and schools, to facilitate the learning and well-being of students in a holistic way.”

One of the required readings in that course was an article by healing justice trainer Candice Valenzuela, which argued educators need to look at unresolved historical trauma.

“Trauma-informed training cannot be facilitated by anyone who has not faced the generational, historical trauma of racism, White supremacy, heteropatriarchy, ableism and capitalism within their own bodies, communities and practices,” Valenzuela writes. “We must not only hyper focus on the trauma of youth of color, but also ‘research up’ into the traumatic implications of White dominant society’s historical narcissism, historical amnesia and colonialist perpetration of violence.”

Other resources included in both modules offered less contentious views of how educators and administrators can evaluate their practices to help students who have suffered traumatic experiences or approach marginalized communities with empathy while continuing conversations about race and racism.

For example, in the anti-racism module’s scenarios, respondents were encouraged to find ways to handle a racist incident in a classroom or talk to a student who was wearing a confederate flag T-shirt with the goal of helping students understand that racism is not acceptable and that their actions affect those around them.

Regardless, the federal education watchdog was critical of how the state had allotted federal money to the entities that developed the modules.

“Congress intended the GEER grant to be an emergency appropriation to address coronavirus-related disruptions and support a state’s ability to continue to provide educational services to students and to support the ongoing functionality of [local educational agencies and institutions of higher education],” the OIG report said.

Whitmer made the decision to award funds to the four entities without using “selection criteria” or include the “names of all the entities that were evaluated and did not document the evaluation of the 14 external requests” as is required.

The state never made information about the other entities who applied for the grants available to the agency, according to the report.

“Michigan did not maintain sufficient documentation related to its decisions to award funds to any of the education-related entities selected and not to award funds to other entities that submitted requests for GEER grant funds,” the report found.

In 2021, The Center Square reported that federal taxpayers paid millions for a critical race theory program for future educators, called RISE, which was awarded funds in 2016.

That program gave teaching students a $5,000 stipend and encouraged participants to use critical race theory as a way to to evaluate teacher quality, according to The Center Square.

New Patriot Anthem ‘Trump Won’ Crushing Social Media

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New Patriot Anthem ‘Trump Won’ Crushing Social Media

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) In what could become a soundtrack for watching the revelatory J6 videos that have shattered regime lies about the Capitol uprising, a new music video from Christian music artist and conservative firebrand Natasha Owens is skyrocketing to acclaim on social media.

The music video, aptly titled Trump Won, was released earlier this month on YouTube and Rumble, racking up nearly a million views and spreading the message of the fraudulent 2020 presidential election.

“Trump won and you know it,” Owens sings. “The fake news will never show it. We’ve got dead people voting, drop boxes and Dominion. Facts are facts, it’s not just my opinion. Trump won and you know it.”

Owens said her inspiration for the music video came from mounting evidence that Trump won the 2020 tilt and that the truth was being suppressed on all fronts with people reluctant to voice their agreement with facts for fear of reprisals.

“Thousands of people filled stadiums for President Trump while no one was showing up for the Joe Biden rallies,” Owens said. “We all stayed up watching the election and we were so hopeful. But we all woke up to unexplainable events that happened overnight. In the months and years that followed there wasn’t much that was investigated and wrongs were not righted.”

The next step was obvious, she said, “So I decided, it’s time for someone to sing about what is not talked about. Trump Won and You Know It.”

The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft gave the tune high marks for highlighting “the popular belief that the 2020 election was stolen and Joe Biden is an imposter.”

“Natasha mixed her belief with a catchy tune. You will love it,” Hoft wrote. “It is not clear yet how the FBI and deep state will react to Natasha’s forbidden speech. Surely they are holding meetings and paying social media to clamp down on such heresy.”

The music video has drawn wildly positive reviews, with one YouTube fan calling it “truth set to music.” Another hailed it “for speaking truth to power.”

“What a hoot,” shared one fan. “How are they going to stop us singing along? God at work!”

DeSantis, Florida GOP Ready to Pass ‘Constitutional Carry’ w/ Major School Safety Upgrades

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DeSantis, Florida GOP Ready to Pass ‘Constitutional Carry’ w/ Major School Safety Upgrades

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Florida took another step closer to enacting constitutional carry legislation that law enforcement officials have said will make communities more secure and could have helped prevent at least one mass shooting, while also making schools safer moving forward.

A state Senate committee last week voted to approve constitutional carry legislation that aligns with a bill the state House approved earlier this month. The legislation moves forward for consideration in both bodies and is expected to be approved and signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“We also understand that part of fighting crime is to protect Floridians’ rights to defend themselves,” DeSantis said Wednesday. “A constitutional right should not require a permission slip from the government. It is time we joined 25 other states to enact constitutional carry in the state of Florida.”

In addition to providing upwards of $50 million for improved school safety, Senate Bill 150 removes a requirement to obtain a license and complete what critics contend was largely ineffective training to conceal-carry a weapon.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri called the state’s existing concealed carry permit requirement a “roadblock” that “serves no purpose” and “has no bearing on who goes and buys a gun,” WUSF reported. 

“You’re still going to get background checked. You’re still going to have to go through all the process. You’re still going to have a waiting period,” Gualtieri noted about the constitutional carry proposal.

“On one hand, we have people who feel the gun is the problem,” said state Sen. Jay Collins, who sponsored the bill. “On the other, I believe that as a law-abiding citizen, that gun is a tool to help protect those things we love and that the answer to criminals with guns is good people, and law-abiding citizens, there to protect our citizens.”

The legislation has received nearly universal opposition from Democrats. Even some Republicans, who think the bill doesn’t go far enough in allowing open carry, have expressed reservations.

The Senate bill, which the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Florida Police Chiefs Association have endorsed, doesn’t change who is eligible to obtain a carry permit and would require a person to have a valid ID on them while carrying. It also allows non-Florida residents to carry a concealed weapon while in the state if they meet requirements, including having a valid license to carry a firearm in their home state.

Senate Bill 150 would also let private schools “partner with a law enforcement agency or a security agency to establish or assign one or more safe-school officers,” an option currently available to only public or charter schools.

Safe-school officers would be required to obtain more hours of training on active shooter or assailant scenarios, doubling from eight to 16, and the bill directs each law enforcement agency to create and maintain an active assailant response policy.

The legislation directs $42 million to the state Department of Education for “school hardening” upgrades to improve the security of school buildings, along with $400,000 in recurring funding for schools to provide firearm safety training. The bill also provides $1.5 million for local law enforcement agencies to provide firearm safety training.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd referenced the tragic Parkland school mass shooting, in his support for the legislation.

“It’s important to remember this,” Judd said. “On that day, at that moment in time .. had there been people on that campus right there, at that moment in time, with a firearm, well-trained, and used it, there wouldn’t have been a massacre at Marjory Stone Douglas.”

Another Defendant Flips in Whitmer Kidnapping Conspiracy Trial

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Another Defendant Flips in Whitmer Kidnapping Conspiracy Trial

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Wisconsin resident Brian Higgins pled guilty Wednesday to assisting the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.

Higgins, one of the five men who were facing state charges of providing material support for terrorism, was accused of conducting surveillance of Whitmer’s second home in Antrim County.

The allegation has been widely denounced as dubious, at best. According to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, Higgins drove with two other defendants, but there’s no evidence proving they were actually driving by or anywhere near Whitmer’s home.

“They literally just drove around in the rain and then parked and tried communicating on the walkie talkies,” said a person with direct knowledge of the matter, whose name Headline USA is withholding for privacy reasons.

Despite the dubious allegation, Higgins changed his plea from innocent to guilty on Wednesday.

His decision came after the presiding judge revealed his bias in the case, publishing a decision that erroneously said “the independent evidence demonstrates that [Daniel] Harris, [Brandon] Caserta” “acted in concert” with Higgins to conspire to kidnap Governor Whitmer and/or harm law enforcement officers.” This is a clearly false statement because Harris and Caserta were acquitted of their charges by a federal jury last March.

The judge has also waivered from his previously held position that all the documents related to the trial will be made public.

Fourteen people were charged in three different courts. The U.S. Justice Department secured convictions against four men in federal court, including Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox, who are currently being held in supermax facilities and are unable to communicate to the public.

Three men charged with aiding Fox were found guilty in Jackson County in October and are serving long prison terms.

Higgins won’t be sentenced by Judge Charles Hamlyn until after the August trial of his four co-defendants. His cooperation could improve his chances for a lighter sentence.

Independent journalist Christina Urso is working on a documentary about the case that will aim to show how the FBI infiltrated the Midwest militia movement and fomented the plot to kidnap Whitmer.

The Associated Press assisted with this report.

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

Newsom Toasts SVB Bailout, His Wineries Are Clients

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Newsom Toasts SVB Bailout, His Wineries Are Clients

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom praised the federal government for bailing out the failed Silicon Valley Bank without mentioning that he is one the bank’s depositors.

On Sunday, Newsom cheered the Biden administration after the federal government announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation would cover all depositor losses from the SVB collapse through taxpayers’ dollars, according to the Daily Wire. SVB’s largest depositors were surprised about the bailout because FDIC insurance is guaranteed to cover only up to $250,000 per account.

Newsom, who actually believes that he can become a President of the United States after destroying once-prosperous conservative state, said that the “Biden Administration has acted swiftly and decisively to protect the American economy and strengthen public confidence in our banking system.”

 

He also added that the FDIC’s decision would have “profoundly positive impacts” on California businesses. Unsurprisingly, the reason why he thinks like that is because his own wineries may stand to benefit from the FDIC’s unusual action. CADE, Odette and PlumpJack — Newsom-owned wineries — all banked with SVB and each of these wineries was at risk of losing its deposit if it held over the $250,000 threshold in a single account.

Newsom also had personal accounts at SVB.

“Governor Newsom’s business and financial holdings are held and managed by a blind trust, as they have been since he was first elected governor in 2018,” a Newsom spokesman said.

The blind trust didn’t have anything to do, however, with Newsom calling top government officials — including the ones from the White House — to repeatedly and urgently encourage the bank be saved.

“Over the last 48 hours, I have been in touch with the highest levels of leadership at the White House and Treasury,” Newsom said.

“Everyone is working with FDIC to stabilize the situation as quickly as possible, to protect jobs, people’s livelihoods, and the entire innovation ecosystem that has served as a tent pole for our economy.”

Newsom is not the only one in his family who has ties to SVB. His wife, Jennifer Siebel, founded the California Partners Project, a charity that received a $100,000 donation from the bank in 2021.

Senate Republicans Aim to Abolish Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

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Senate Republicans Aim to Abolish Pentagon’s Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The Senate’s first female combat veteran and other pro-life Republicans decided to fight against the baby-murdering policies of the Pentagon.

On Wednesday, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and 35 pro-life Senate Republicans introduced legislation to halt the Pentagon’s policies. On Feb. 16, the Defense Department announced it would provide three weeks of paid leave and taxpayer-funded reimbursement of travel expenses for military personnel and dependents who live in the blue states and want to murder their babies, according to the Daily Signal.

The Pentagon’s new policies could increase the annual number of abortions from 20 to 4,100 among U.S. servicewomen, a study from Rand Corporation estimated.

Earlier this month, Ernst, a veteran who worked in the military for over 23 years and fought in Iraq, pointed out that Pentagon is not supposed to help its employees to murder unborn babies, when she joined other Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee to criticize Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision.

“The Pentagon should not be mobilized against the unborn. The Department of Defense exists to defend life, not destroy it,” Ernst said.

“Biden DoD’s policy is not just unlawful, it’s immoral. Congress has been clear: the Hyde Amendment protects taxpayers from being forced to fund abortions. I will continue to ensure the unborn and your tax dollars are protected.”

A January survey that was conducted by the Marist Poll and commissioned by the Knights of Columbus revealed that 54% of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion and, therefore, support the Hyde Amendment that prevents taxpayers from funding abortions.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Defense Department issued a memorandum on Oct. 20, “Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care,” and promised to provide easier access to abortion for U.S. military personnel.

GOP Rep. Chip Roy Gives DeSantis Early Presidential Endorsement

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GOP Rep. Chip Roy Gives DeSantis Early Presidential Endorsement

(Headline USA) U.S. House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, preemptively endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president on Wednesday, citing the popular governor’s proven “ability to win at the ballot box time and time again.”

The public showing of support appears to be DeSantis’ first endorsement from a member of Congress and comes as the governor has been courting conservative lawmakers ahead of a formal announcement expected after the end of the state legislative session in May.

Roy wrote in an email sent from his campaign that the party needs “a new generation of leadership” at the helm, and he argued that DeSantis has “proven his ability to win at the ballot box time and time again.”

“When other Republicans were faltering in key races, Governor DeSantis provided a positive vision for the future with prudent, conservative action. The result was crystal clear: Republicans enjoyed sweeping, historic performances statewide,” Roy wrote.

Roy made clear that he will support the eventual Republican nominee even if it isn’t DeSantis.

“America has been built upon and defined by the sacrifices of one generation for the next,” Roy wrote. “When Republicans choose our 2024 presidential nominee — whom I intend to support against Joe Biden or any other Democrat candidate — I believe it’s time for a new generation of leadership. It’s time for younger, but proven, leadership to offer America eight solid years of transformational change.”

His endorsement of DeSantis could open the door for other members of Congress to defy former president Donald Trump by backing DeSantis as well. More than two dozen House members have already endorsed Trump’s reelection bid, including the No. 3 House Republican, Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York.

Roy also attended a weekend retreat hosted by DeSantis last month that included Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie.

Roy has clashed with the former president in the past and voted to certify the results of the 2020 election. The congressman has held a House seat since 2019 and emerged as an effective leader of the chamber’s Freedom Caucus. He was a key holdout against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership election earlier this year.

The endorsement came the same day that MAGA, Inc., a Trump-supporting super PAC, filed an ethics complaint against DeSantis in Florida, accusing him of violating campaign finance and ethics rules with a shadow run for the White House. A DeSantis spokesperson dismissed the complaint as “frivolous and politically motivated.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

N.C.’s Newly Conservative Supreme Court Seeks to Revisit Activist Redistricting Decisions

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N.C.’s Newly Conservative Supreme Court Seeks to Revisit Activist Redistricting Decisions

(Headline USA) A newly formed and now Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court listened on Tuesday to arguments that could determine the extent to which state legislators can create electoral districts and help move forward from the electoral mess that redistricting activists had created.

The new 5-2 GOP majority allowed a “rehearing” of the case last month. The redistricting litigation was ruled on just three months ago, when Democrats held a 4-3 seat advantage. That edition of the court threw out out a state Senate map the legislature drew and upheld congressional boundaries drawn by trial judges and supported by Democrats.

That ruling stemmed from a landmark February 2022 decision declaring the state constitution barred partisan gerrymandering — especially when lines fail to give voters the ability to elect favored candidates commensurate with their level of voting power statewide, and particularly when Democrats are out of power.

The Republicans on the court at the time disagreed, saying the constitution doesn’t address partisan considerations in redistricting, so such decisions are left solely to lawmakers. Since then, the court’s majority flipped to the GOP after two associate justice election victories in November. Republican legislative leaders asked for the rehearing, which the new court granted.

The state’s redistricting efforts have long been a target of leftist activists like former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and his goons from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. Republicans noted that the NDRC gave $200,000 contribution to Anita Earls, a Democrat justice on the state Supreme Court.

The arguments marked the first of two days of rehearings for the justices. The same Republican majority also ordered a hearing for Wednesday on another 4-3 decision in December that upheld a trial court decision striking down a 2018 voter photo identification law.

There’s no timeline when the Supreme Court will rule.

A favorable decision for the GOP legislative leaders could give them an easier time to draw legislative and congressional maps for 2024 and beyond with more favorable partisan tilts, a long-running tactic of Democrats from their tenure in control. While Republicans current hold majorities in the General Assembly, the congressional delegation is split 7-7 after two more Democrat seat victories in November.

Harper is also involved in a related case at the U.S. Supreme Court, where oral arguments were held in December. Legislative Republicans asked the U.S. justices to declare that the state Supreme Court improperly tossed out the congressional districts the General Assembly drew. The federal case could become moot if the state Supreme Court reinstates congressional lines the legislature drew.

Phil Strach, a lawyer for the GOP lawmakers, told the court on Tuesday that the 2022 decisions show that state courts lack the ability to calculate and determine what are considered politically fair maps.

“Some things, your honor, are beyond the power of this court,” Strach told Associate Justice

Attorneys for the voters and advocacy groups that initially sued over the maps said in legal briefs that the facts in the cases haven’t changed — only the combination of justices have— and so the redistricting decisions should be left intact.

The Supreme Court didn’t give specifics for why they agreed to rehearings. But they can be granted based on arguments that the justices “overlooked or misapprehended” facts or laws.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Texas Republicans Propose State Immigration Police Force

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Texas Republicans Propose State Immigration Police Force

(Headline USA) Republican lawmakers in Texas are proposing legislation that would make it a state felony to cross the border from Mexico illegally and create a new border police force that could deputize private citizens, the latest in the state’s continued push to test the limits of the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Civil rights organizations, immigration advocates and Democrats immediately decried the proposals, which began drawing attention after Friday’s deadline for filing bills in Texas’s ongoing biennial legislative session.

Since President Joe Biden took office, illegal crossings have soared. Many migrants have turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents and were released in the U.S. to pursue their cases in federal immigration court.

The Republican proposals in the Texas Legislature would continue pushing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s massive, $4 billion border mission known as Operation Lone Star. That has included the governor heavily increasing patrols near the border with Mexico and building more barriers along the international boundary.

The effort also has included directing officers to detain migrants who trespass on private property and bused thousands of migrants to Democrat-led cities, including New York and Washington, D.C. The moves have put a spotlight on Abbott, who aides say is weighing a run for president.

Bills filed this session would allow a newly created unit of state police to arrest, detain and deter people crossing into Texas illegally, construct more and maintain existing barriers between Texas and Mexico and return immigrants to Mexico if they are seen crossing into Texas.

State border officers would serve at the direction of a chief, who would be appointed by the governor. According to a draft bill, which will have to pass reviews by both of the state’s Republican-controlled legislative chambers before the end of May, the chief will be able to employ licensed state and local police officers to serve on the border force, as well as “law-abiding citizens” without felony convictions.

Private citizens employed by the force would be allowed to participate in “unit operations and functions” and have the same criminal and civil liability immunity on the job as the licensed officers. But, they will not have arresting power, unless trained and authorized by the governor, according to the bill’s current form.

People arrested for crossing into Texas illegally would face up to 10 years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines for each violation.

The proposal cites a U.S. constitutional clause on state powers when facing invasion and imminent danger and follows numerous calls from former Trump administration officials and sheriffs in several South Texas counties for Abbott to declare what they have called an “invasion” under this clause.

Neave Criado said language such as “invasion” matters and has been used by individuals such as the North Texas man who drove to El Paso and killed 23 people in a racially motivated rampage.

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, said in a statement that “addressing our state’s border and humanitarian crisis” was a priority. Phelan said the proposed border police as well as a proposed Legislative Border Safety Oversight Committee, which would provide border safety policy recommendations and oversight to the new policing unit and work on issues in South Texas, were a “must-pass issue.”

Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Civil rights organizations and state Democrats quickly denounced the legislation. The proposal also drew comparisons to a 2017 “ban on sanctuary cities” that allowed police to ask a person’s immigration status and threatened sheriffs and police chiefs with jail time if they refused to cooperate with federal authorities to enforce immigration law.

That proposal was signed into law and but was later challenged in court and is pending a resolution, according to Alexis Bay, legislative coordinator with the Beyond Borders at the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Bay said the powers and immunity that would be conveyed to private citizens serving on the proposed border force is unlike anything seen in recent Texas history.

“It is designed to create racial profiling,” Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa told The Associated Press on Monday. “Something that is just horrendous.”

A spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the agency does not comment on pending legislation.

Tensions at the border with Mexico remain high. Over the weekend, video showed hundreds of apparent Venezuelan migrants brush past Mexican National Guard members while trying to cross a bridge into El Paso, Texas, before being blocked by U.S. agents.

Authorities said Sunday that at least eight people were killed when two migrant smuggling boats capsized off the coast of San Diego in one of the deadliest maritime human smuggling operations ever off of U.S. shores.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

REPORT: Pelosi Needed Jan. 6 ‘Emergency’ to Fulfill 2020 Coup

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REPORT: Pelosi Needed Jan. 6 ‘Emergency’ to Fulfill 2020 Coup

(Abdul–Rahman Oladimeji Bello, Headline USA) A bombshell analysis by conservative media outlets suggested that the “crisis” created by the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol may have been necessary for corrupt deep-state actors to finalize their steal of the 2020 election under special emergency rules in Congress.

Following the recent release of video footage from the Capitol, the conservative Last Refuge blog questioned whether then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., may have had a hand in coordinating the so-called insurrection, which her daughter and son-in-law were conveniently on hand to film.

Many skeptics have argued that undercover operatives from the intelligence community—or other agencies—were planted in the crowd to foment violence as part of a false-flag operation that would undermine then-President Donald Trump.

Pelosi was officially in control of the U.S. Capitol Police, who were seen allowing protestors into the building and helping to usher them around. She also refused Trump’s offer of National Guard support until late in the day with the unrest already in progress.

At least 1,000 tourists, many of whom had attended a Trump rally that morning have since been arrested, indefinitely detained and charged with felonies for entering the Capitol as the Joint Session of Congress sought to certify the disputed results of the 2020 election.

Several Republicans were in the process of challenging the specific slates of state electors when the Capitol breech was announced.

The session was temporarily suspended, but Congress was able to reconvene later in the day from a secured location—this time operationg under special “emergency” rules established by Pelosi.

As noted by the Gateway Pundit, the challenges raised by Republican lawmakers were legally recognized procedures that would have required the House to halt the certifications and vote to determine the next line of action.

“The crisis was created to eliminate the motion challenges to halt the certification and to begin voting to look into voting irregularities and fraud,” said the website.

The tables changed when Congress returned that night as Pelosi was now in charge instead of then-Vice President Mike Pence, who had, per the U.S. Constitution, presided over the earlier Joint Session.

With the new rules in place, no one had the ability to consider halting the certification, and there was no disagreement from House members.

Although there was some question over whether Pence had the authority to halt the certification or whether he simply presided over the ceremony, the state of “emergency” helped settle the question once and for all, assuring there was no legal or political remedy for issues relating to fraud or doubts about electoral irregularities.

Headline USA’s Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

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