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#10 North Carolina Pulls 747,000 People off of Voter Registration Rolls - Emily Hallas for The Washington Examiner, Conservative News Daily, and Tara Bull on X
The North Carolina State Board of Elections has removed over 747,000 people from its list of registered voters with less than six weeks until Election Day. The records were purged from the state’s voter registration rolls over the past 20 months, according to an NCSBE press release published Thursday. “The county boards follow careful policies to ensure that only ineligible records are removed, not those of eligible voters,” the release reads. Three of the top reasons for removal were that the voter was determined to have been deceased, had duplicate registrations due to moving within the state, or had garnered an “inactive status” from election officials after failing to participate in two federal elections...
#9 New York Appeals Court Appears Receptive to Reversing or Reducing $454M Trump Civil Fraud Judgment - Brooke Singman for Fox News and on X
Judges on a New York appeals court appeared open-minded and receptive to the possibility of reversing or reducing the $454 million civil fraud judgment in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against former President Trump. Trump appealed the civil fraud ruling that demanded he pay more than $450 million. The former president’s attorneys called New York Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling "draconian, unlawful, and unconstitutional."
#8 Eric Schmitt Demands Garland Fork Over Communications Related to Jack Smith’s Latest Trump Indictment - Rebeka Zeljko for The Daily Caller and on X
Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri addressed a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) hand over internal communications with special counsel Jack Smith regarding his latest superseding indictment of the former president. Schmitt criticized Smith’s indictment in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump as well as the DOJ’s renewed interest in the “Russian election interference bogeyman” as evidence of political weaponization, according to the letter. Schmitt is urging Garland to provide relevant information regarding Smith’s latest superseding indictment on the Trump 2020 election case, as well as the DOJ’s most recent indictments against Russian nationals.
#7 Texas Official Indicted, Accused of Making Fake Social Media Posts During Election - Juan A. Lozano for AP News, Houston Public Media, and Constable Chad Norvell on X
The top elected official in a county in suburban Houston was indicted on Thursday over allegations he created fake and racist social media posts when he ran for re-election in 2022. A grand jury indicted Fort Bend County Judge KP George on a misdemeanor charge of misrepresentation of identity of a candidate. The indictment alleges that on Sept. 26, 2022, he posed as a Facebook user named “Antonio Scalywag” in a campaign communication posted on George’s Facebook page “with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election.”
#6 75-Year-Old Pro-Lifer Sentenced To Over A Year In Prison Over Peaceful Protest - Leif Le Mahieu for Daily Wire and on X
A 75-year-old pro-life Christian has been sentenced to 16 months in federal prison over his participation in a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility. Chet Gallagher was sentenced to prison in at federal court in Nashville on Thursday afternoon for his conviction on violating the FACE Act and engaging in a conspiracy against rights. The convictions stemmed from his role in a peaceful sit-in at a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility in March 2021 and the Biden administration brought charges in October 2022...
#5 Ticking Time Bomb: Microplastics Cross the Blood Brain Barrier - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, Epoch Times, and ROJ on X
For the first time, microplastics have been found in the human brain. Specifically, researchers have discovered that these toxic, degraded plastic leftovers have reached the olfactory bulb—a part of the brain responsible for processing neural signals about smells detected by cells in the nasal cavity. This discovery amplifies our previous reporting on existing concerns about…#4 Google Is Biased in Favor of Democrats Ahead of 2024 Election - Dan Schneider and Gabriela Pariseau For The New York Post, Brent Bozell, and Rob Schneider on X
While Congressional Republicans were hammering Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey for censoring conservatives on their platforms, Google’s executives sat back smugly, confident that their obscene censorship schemes went undetected. But our organization, the Media Research Center, and others have shown that Google is the most effective weapon in the left’s arsenal — the one that gets its candidates across the finish line. In the last presidential election, Google swayed anywhere from six to eight million votes in favor of Joe Biden. MRC’s studies over a 12-month period consistently showed that Google completely buried Republican campaign websites in favor of their Democrat opponents. During the presidential primary contests, MRC conducted studies searching for the campaign websites for both Democrats and Republicans...
#3 Texas AG Paxton Suing Biden Admin Over ‘Disturbing’ New Rule Pushing LGBTQ+ Agenda on Foster Homes - Blaze News, AG Ken Paxton, Greg Piper, and Texas Scorecard on X
States would lose federal funding under the new rule if they didn't accept LGBTQ+ identities. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against new regulations that would force foster care programs to support the LGBTQ+ agenda. The federal government is now attempting to hold the Texas foster care system hostage and force through their unscientific, fringe beliefs.' The rule change would make federal funding for foster programs dependent on whether those organizations accept and support a child's self-professed LGBTQ+ identity. "I'm suing the Biden-Harris Administration over a new, disturbing attempt to push the trans agenda on vulnerable children," wrote Paxton on social media...
#2 This Case Could Make Elections Actually End On Election Day - Brianna Lyman for The Federalist and on X
‘If the Supreme Court then upheld the 5th Circuit, that decision would wipe out all state statutes that allow absentee ballots received after Election Day to be counted.’uring the 2020 pandemic, Mississippi extended the deadline for mail-in ballots, allowing ballots to be received and counted five business days after the election so long as they were postmarked on or before Election Day. This extension was later codified into law. But a challenge to the law has made its way to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case that has the potential to ensure that elections end on Election Day.
#1 Desperate Democrats Throw Money at Texas, Florida Senate Races - Bradley Jaye for Breitbart, Florida's Voice, Zac Harmon, Samantha Jo-Roth, Ghost in the Machine, and Chris Cillizza on X
Democrats are rolling the dice in long-shot races as Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) grows desperate to keep his slim majority. Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is launching “a new multi-million dollar investment” in Texas, where Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) is challenging Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and in Florida, where former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is challenging Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). In a cycle where the map overwhelmingly advantages Republicans and numerous Democrat incumbents are scrambling to keep their seats, Cruz and Scott are seen as the only Republican incumbents running relatively competitive races.
