Day: June 16, 2025

Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an Election Integrity Champion, Sues Maricopa County Board of Supervisors over Usurping His Office

Rachel Alexander
Justin Heap

After months of unsuccessfully attempting to recover key parts of his office back from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS), Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, who was elected on an election integrity platform last year, filed a lawsuit against the MCBOS. Represented by America First Legal (AFL), he demanded back control over early voting, ballot drop boxes, his IT department, and the ability to speed up ballot tabulation, areas that were negotiated away from him last fall by previous recorder Stephen Richer, an election fraud denier.

“The Board of Supervisors’ bad faith tactics in the SSA negotiation, compounded by their unanimous May 19 budget vote to cement the Board’s seizure of my statutory duties through the budget process is deeply disappointing, forcing us to take this issue to court,” Heap said in a statement. “Despite their repeated misinformation and gaslighting of the public on these issues, defending the civil right to free, fair, and honest elections for every Maricopa County voter isn’t simply my job as County Recorder, it’s the right thing to do and a mission I’m fully committed to achieving.”

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Tennessee Poised to Become U.S. ‘Energy Hub,’ Top Bitcoin Mining Destination, Says Sen. Bill Hagerty

Tom Pappert
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U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said in a Monday interview that Tennessee is poised to become a top “energy hub” for the United States, making it an ideal destination for Bitcoin mining, after the U.S. Senate passes his landmark cryptocurrency bill.

Hagerty made the remarks during an interview with Bitcoin Magazine, telling correspondent Frank Corva that Tennessee stands to tangibly benefit from the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, which would establish congressional regulations for the issuance of digital currencies tied to the American dollar.

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Nashville Mayor Wants to Create New Government Office Funded by Nonprofits, Including Group Behind ‘Belonging Fund’

Tom Pappert
Freddie O'Connell

The Metro Nashville Council will vote on Tuesday on Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s request to establish the Mayor’s Office of Financial Empowerment, which would operate with grant funding from two nonprofit organizations.

Should the Metro Council approve the mayor’s request, the office would receive more than half of its funding through a grant from the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund, but would also depend on nearly $130,000 from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT), the nonprofit announced as Nashville’s partner for the “Belonging Fund” created in the wake of a federal immigration enforcement operation that saw nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained.

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Support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia Diminished Among the Left, Reporter Says

Kaitlin Housler

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the underwhelming crowd of support for Kilmar Abrego Garcia that gathered in Nashville while the citizen of El Salvador appeared in court to face federal human smuggling charges signals that the support among the political left for the falsely-branded “Maryland man” has significantly diminished.

Last Friday, Abrego Garcia pleaded not guilty in a federal court in Nashville after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged him with participating in a criminal conspiracy to smuggle illegal aliens throughout the country for nearly a decade.

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White Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Sues USDA for Holding Out on Axing Biden-Era DEI Programs

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The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Monday, claiming the agency is continuing discriminatory practices established under the Biden administration.

WILL filed suit against USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins in federal court on behalf of Adam Faust, a dairy farmer from Chilton, Wisconsin. The lawsuit alleges that the USDA has preserved three programs that violate the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by disproportionately benefiting minority and female farmers.

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Heavily Armed Minnesota Suspect Had ‘Hit List’ of Democrats, Abortion Providers: Docs

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Vance Boelter

The man charged with killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband was heavily armed and had dozens of possible targets, documents show.

Authorities ended a nearly two-day manhunt by capturing 57-year-old Vance Boelter on Sunday after he allegedly gunned down Democratic Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in their home and injured Democratic Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife two nights prior. A criminal complaint says Boelter left behind a “police-style vehicle” with “at least three AK-47 assault rifles,” a ballistic vest and a hit list that reportedly included dozens of Democratic lawmakers and abortion providers.

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Trump on U.S. Military Involvement in Israel-Iran: ‘I Don’t Want to Talk About That’

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The Hill   President Trump sidestepped a question Monday on what it would take for the U.S. military to get involved in the escalating military strikes between Israel and Iran. “I don’t want to talk about that,” he told reporters on his first day of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Alberta, alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.   Israel and Iran exchanged strikes for the fourth consecutive day Monday. Iran fired a missile attack that killed at least eight people, and Israel warned people to evacuate Tehran because it achieved air superiority over the Iranian capital, The Associated Press reported. READ THE FULL STORY 

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UK Gov’t Admits ‘Clear Evidence’ of Tie Between Pakistanis and Child Rape Grooming Gangs

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Breitbart   Longstanding efforts by the legacy media and the political establishment to downplay the issue of ethnicity in the child rape grooming gang scandal have been overturned by a public inquiry from Baroness Casey of Blackstock, which found a direct tie between Pakistani men and the abuse of mostly young working class white girls. A report from Dame Louise Casey has explicitly linked the grooming gang scourge to Pakistani-heritage men, whose crimes were “institutionally ignored for fear of racism”. The review also called for police in England to improve the collection of ethnicity data in child sexual exploitation cases. Unveiling the findings of the report in the House of Commons on Monday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the audit “identified clear evidence of over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”, The Times of London reported. She further said that the report highlighted “examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist or raising community tensions.” READ THE FULL STORY                       

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Tim Kaine to Force Senate Vote on Trump Authority to Attack Iran

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Washington Examiner   The Senate will vote on the United States’s involvement in Israeli operations against Iran, with a new Democratic-led resolution attempting to bar President Donald Trump from joining the conflict without the approval of Congress. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a resolution Monday that requires congressional debate and a vote before the U.S. takes any offensive measures against Iran. Trump has so far provided defensive support to Israel, which launched military strikes against Iranian nuclear sites on Thursday, but the president said Sunday that the U.S. could get more “involved.” “It is not in our national security interest to get into a war with Iran unless that war is absolutely necessary to defend the United States,” Kaine said in a statement. “I am deeply concerned that the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could quickly pull the United States into another endless conflict.” READ THE FULL STORY     

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Foreign Graduates Are Crushing Natural-Born Americans in Pay, Analysis Finds

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College graduates who immigrated to the U.S. on student visas earn substantially more than their native-born counterparts, according to an analysis by the Economic Innovation Group (EIG).

The median salary for natural-born U.S. college graduates, as of 2023, is $87,000, while graduates who initially came to the U.S. on student visas earned a median of $115,000, the EIG’s analysis of the National Survey of College Graduates showed. The findings follow the Trump administration’s heightened scrutiny of foreign students amid concerns over national security and antisemitism on campuses.

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Green Group with Ties to Chinese Communist Party Part of Network Influencing U.S. Policy

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Climate Justice

A national-security watchdog group is asking members of Congress to take a closer look at an energy transition advocacy nonprofit that has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to State Armor, the watchdog group, nonprofits are coordinating with U.S. climate groups to influence climate policy, advance the interests of the CCP and undermine U.S. national security.

A new report by State Armor argues that the CCP is co-opting the American progressive climate change lobby to advance a transition away from fossil fuels. The alternative technologies being pushed by this lobby, according to the report, create significant economic and geopolitical advantages by undermining U.S. energy dominance and leaving it dependent on Chinese supply chains for its energy production. 

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Conservatives Livid over Farm Worker Deportations Pause, Some Blame Brooke Rollins

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President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pause deportations at farms and hotels has drawn ire from his supporters, many of whom have blamed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and the agricultural lobby for what they perceive as a betrayal.

“Brooke has always been suspect on immigration, among other things,” wrote American Majority CEO Ned Ryun. “She’s a Perry/Bush Republican who grifts off the America First movement to self promote.  Before America First she grifted off of the conservative movement in Texas.  She’s always been a grifting establishment ladder climber who will be whatever she needs to be to advance herself.”

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Appeals Court Hears Oral Arguments for Ohio Lawsuit Challenging Biden-Era Price Controls on Prescription Drugs

Tom Pappert
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District last Wednesday heard oral arguments in the court case brought by the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over a portion of the controversial Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed by Congress under former President Joe Biden, which contains provisions requiring drug manufacturers to sell specific products at prices set by the federal government. 

Filed in June 2023 against former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the lawsuit claims the IRA infringed upon the First Amendment rights of companies to set their own prices, created a negotiation process that robbed drug manufacturers of their Fifth Amendment right to due process, established excessive fines in violation of the Eight Amendment that are imposed on manufacturers unwilling to sell at the government-approved prices, improperly delegated authorities to HHS, and that the legislation exceeded the powers assigned to Congress in the U.S. Constitution.

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