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Redistricting Scrambles Florida as Alaska Pits Dan Sullivan V. Dan Sullivan

 As a long and contentious primary season nears its end, attention is turning to Florida, Wyoming, California, and Alaska, where primaries Tuesday will highlight Republican-led redistricting efforts that have scrambled congressional maps and new battles between the Democrat establishment and progressive left.

Also in the mix are a handful of scandal-plagued candidates, multiple people running with matching last names, and several incumbents at risk of defeat.

Tuesday's contests will help shape the fiercely contested midterms this fall to determine control of Congress, where Republicans have a narrow edge, and offer a referendum on President Donald Trump's second term.

Here's a closer look at what to watch.

Trump-backed Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a rising star in the Republican Party, is running to succeed term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis to become the first Black governor of the state. 

If Donalds wins, he'll become part of a historic slate of Black gubernatorial nominees that includes Republican Rep. John James in Michigan and Lisa Demuth, who defeated pillow-selling conspiracist Mike Lindell in Minnesota.

On the Democrat side, David Crowley won a razor-thin primary against a democratic socialist in Wisconsin, joining Attorney General Aaron Ford in Nevada, State Rep. Jermaine Johnson in South Carolina, and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running in Georgia to be the nation's first Black woman governor.

There is currently only one Black governor in the nation, Democrat Wes Moore of Maryland, who is seeking reelection in November.

 

The most contentious pits veteran Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz against former U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick in a South Florida district that is almost majority Black. Cherfilus-McCormick resigned earlier this year under threat of House ethics sanctions, but now wants her seat back.

Wasserman Schultz, a former national party chair seeking a 12th term in Congress, is the only white candidate competing against four Black candidates in an area of Broward County that has helped send Black Democrats to Congress since 1992. Her decision to run has raised questions about representation and stirred deep animosity, including charges by one rival that "she stabbed us in the back."

The race to fill Donalds' House seat features a cast of characters akin to a reality show reunion, including several who have spent time in prison and a handful who have run in other states.

The field includes two former members of Congress who are mounting comeback bids after departing in scandal. Former North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn's 

 tenure was marred by repeat traffic stops, guns at airport checkpoints, and a claim he had been invited to a Washington orgy. Former New York Rep. Chris Collins, who resigned before pleading guilty to insider trading charges, served prison time before he was pardoned by Trump.

Trump-endorsed Catalina Lauf ran twice for Congress in Illinois. She lost the 2020 primary to Jim Oberweis, a former state senator, who has also decamped to Florida and is running for the seat.

Another candidate, Ola Hawatmeh, previously ran unsuccessfully for Congress in New York, while Linda Sawyer once tried in Michigan.

Also in the race: John Strand, a former television actor, underwear model, and romance novel cover model, who served prison time for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault of the U.S. Capitol.

The internal battle between progressive and establishment candidates that has been roiling the Democratic Party in states like Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, now arrives in more conservative territory.

Progressive state lawmaker Angie Nixon is facing retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, a former National Security Council official who delivered searing testimony against Trump in his 2019 impeachment trial. They're both running in the Florida special election to fill the last two years of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's former Senate term.

The winner is likely to face interim Sen. Ashley Moody, the Republican appointed by DeSantis to the seat.

Other races will also put fault lines on display. In South Florida, U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz is running for reelection in a new Republican-friendly district against union organizer and democratic socialist Oliver Larkin.

Meanwhile, Republican incumbents are facing their own challenges. Rep. Cory Mills, running for a third term, has been plagued by an ethics investigation stemming from allegations of assault, domestic violence, and campaign finance violations, which he denies.

In a Senate race that is expected to be one of the country's most closely watched this fall, incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, a Trump ally seeking a third term, is facing another candidate also named Dan Sullivan.

Republicans have argued the second Sullivan, who'll be appearing on the ballot as "Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.," is a sham candidate running at the behest of Democrats to cause confusion. Dan J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher, has denied the charge.

Also in the race is former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola. She was the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress, and she would become the first Alaska Native senator if she wins in November.

Under Alaska's open primary system, all candidates appear on the same ballot, and the four who receive the most votes move on to a ranked-vote general election.

There are other surnames for Alaskans to keep straight.

Republican Rep. Nick Begich faces a crowded field in his bid for a second term in the state's lone congressional seat. His uncle, former state Sen. Tom Begich, and former state Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins are the two Democrats in the race for governor. Tom Begich is the brother of Mark Begich, a former Democrat U.S. senator whom Sullivan defeated in 2014.

For the first time in more than 30 years, Wyoming has open seats for governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House all up for grabs in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by a 7-to-1 margin.

Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis' decision to retire after a single term has set off a chain reaction, with Rep. Harriet Hageman running to replace her.

She has an overwhelming fundraising advantage and became well-known after defeating former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of Trump's harshest Republican critics, in 2022.

Nine Republicans, meanwhile, are competing to replace Hageman as the state's lone U.S. representative.

Wyoming's current governor, Republican Mark Gordon, considered seeking a third term and challenging a state term limit law but ultimately decided not to.

In California's Bay Area, voters will be picking a replacement for Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, whose resignation amid sexual assault allegations ended his run for governor.

California's 14th District will remain under Democratic control as state Sen. Aisha Wahab and Bay Area Rapid Transit Board President Melissa Hernandez advanced from a special open primary.

The race is reprising a theme that cropped up in other Democrat primaries this year: outside spending, particularly from pro-Israel lobbying groups. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee's super PAC has spent more than $2 million against Wahab and backing Hernandez, and another group with funding from the super PAC has spent nearly $2 million in support of Hernandez.

Pro-Israel group spending seemed to backfire in Michigan's recent Democrat Senate primary, where Abdul El-Sayed emerged victorious despite tens of millions of dollars backing his opponent Rep. Haley Stevens.

DHS Torches 'Sanctuary Spanberger' After ICE Deports 'Depraved Freak' Who Found Refuge in Virginia

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has placed Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) in the hot seat after it was revealed last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had deported "Marcelo Vasquez-Reyna, a depraved freak who sexually abused HIS OWN DAUGHTER."

Records from Albemarle, Virginia, show that Vasquez-Reyna, a Mexican national, 

 

was convicted back in March of this year after pleading guilty "to a charge involving a parent violating a child between the ages of 15 and 17." A local outlet reported that he was arrested multiple times over allegations that he groped his teenage daughter and tried to forcibly rape her, leaving the girl terrified that he would attack her again.

He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, with five years suspended. Six months in prison for abusing his daughter wasn't good enough for ICE and they picked him up immediately after his criminal conviction.

ICE deported a Mexican national who sexually abused his own teenage daughter in Virginia — and DHS isn't mincing words, calling him a "depraved freak" who has "NO sanctuary in our nation."

Marcelo Vasquez Reyna pleaded guilty in March to violating his daughter, who was between 15 and 17 at the time of the abuse. He was also charged with rape and abduction. According to the Daily Progress, he repeatedly groped the girl and attempted to rape her using force, causing her to live in fear of new attacks.

The case lands as Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger faces mounting criticism over illegal immigrant crime in Virginia. On her first day in office, Spanberger rescinded her Republican predecessor's order directing state law enforcement to assist federal immigration authorities — and terminated all 287(g) agreements with ICE.

After ICE sent Vasquez-Reyna back to Mexico, DHS decided to highlight the sanctuary policies of Spanberger. On her first day in office, the new governor nuked the cooperation that had existed between state law enforcement agencies and ICE, effectively making Virginia a sanctuary state.

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SEE ALSO: Fresh Humiliation for Abigail Spanberger As Fiddlers' Convention Boos Her Off the Stage

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DHS wasn't holding anything back when it tagged Spanberger in a tweet reading, "This depraved freak who sexually abused his OWN DAUGHTER is yet another illegal alien who flocked to Sanctuary Spanberger’s Commonwealth of Criminals. Virginia continues to be a HAVEN for criminals like this who know that @GovernorVA and Virginia sanctuary politicians will try to shield them from justice."

NO SANCTUARY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS. 

This depraved freak who sexually abused his OWN DAUGHTER is yet another illegal alien who flocked to Sanctuary Spanberger’s Commonwealth of Criminals.

Virginia continues to be a HAVEN for criminals like this who know that @GovernorVA and Virginia sanctuary politicians will try to shield them from justice. 

The heroic men and women of ICE will continue to hunt down, arrest, and REMOVE illegal aliens like this monster from Virginia communities.

While Spanberger is doing everything she can to put distance between Virginia law enforcement and ICE, the men and women of ICE are doing the dangerous work of removing men like Vasquez-Reyna from Virginia communities. And that makes everyone safer, something Spanberger and her fellow Democrats do not seem to favor.

Virginia's governor may chafe at the “Sanctuary Spanberger’s Commonwealth of Criminals” label, but cases like this "freak" are exactly why it’s likely to stick to her for a long time to come.

Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left's lies, new legislation wasn't needed to secure our border, just a new president.

 

CNN Throws a Hissy Fit After Trump Humiliates Reporter — There's Just One Problem

A war of words between the White House and CNN is escalating Monday afternoon following the Oval Office berating President Trump was forced to give one of the far-left outlet's reporters for her inappropriate question – and obnoxious attempt at a follow up – in the Oval Office.

Before we get to the statement that CNN just put out, the setting and context are important. 

The president invited the White House press pool into the Oval Office earlier Monday as he met with with a 16-year-old lifeguard who went viral on social media last month for rescuing a boy struggling in extremely rough surf at a California beach. 

That lifeguard, Ryder Williams, was joined by the boy he saved, 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai, as the president awarded Ryder a civilian honor for his bravery that day.

 

When the press was invited to ask a few questions, CNN's Kristen Holmes opted to ignore the boys – and the heroism being honored – to go right into the gutter with this question:

Jon Ossoff said you would rather travel with your aide, Natalie Harp, and build the ballroom than do your job as president. What is your response?

First off, a seamy allegation from a seamy politician is the best Holmes could come up with? Also, how incredibly inappropriate and unprofessional of her to go there at an event for children. 

She acted without decorum, and the president called her out on it. 

 

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SEE: Ouch: Trump Humiliates Obnoxious CNN Reporter After Oval Office Outburst

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The @RapidResponse47 X account followed up with a tongue-lashing of its own:

It seems like this tweet is what prompted the indignant response from CNN, which put out a statement calling Holmes "one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House" and praised her for asking a "tough, relevant, and newsworthy question."

“Kristen Holmes is one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House. This afternoon, she did her job and asked the President of the United States a tough, relevant, and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people. Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press. We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms.”

One thing the outraged CNN statement failed to address was that Holmes' Oval Office outburst was in direct defiance of the guidelines set forth by the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA), which calls on the press pool to be respectful and neutral when covering the president.

 

The WHCA also states that "disruptive behavior is unacceptable" and instructs poolers to keep their reporting "fair, tasteful and objective" and to "stick to relevant facts." Holmes fell far short of her own industry's standards, not that CNN will ever admit that.

All of this could have been avoided if Holmes had shown a little professionalism, read the room, and saved her gutter question for a more appropriate setting – and audience.

 

A John Cornyn Staffer Pulled a Benedict Arnold Move. Here's His New Boss. You Won't Believe It

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) lost his bid for reelection in the primary runoff to Attorney General Ken Paxton, who secured a zero-hour endorsement from President Trump. Cornyn has been licking his wounds, and now one of his staff has pulled the ultimate Benedict Arnold move: he joined the James Talarico campaign. I’m not kidding. 

This person deserves to be taken to the woodshed, but more to the point, it shows how Republicans of this stripe are really Democrats at heart. No true Republican does this. No conservative does this — there is nothing in the Talarico platform that could induce cross-party voting. Sorry, those who do are spineless moderates who should be purged from the party entirely. Oh, and the kid’s statement confirming his switch is even worse (via NOTUS):

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) August 17, 2026

Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s

 

campaign hired a staffer from Republican Sen. John Cornyn, NOTUS has learned.

Jacob Smith,

 

who worked for Cornyn for five years as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser, is taking on the role of deputy policy director for Talarico’s campaign.

“I’ve worked for Republicans like Senator Cornyn my entire career, but this year I’m proud to be joining James Talarico’s campaign,” Smith confirmed in a statement through the Talarico campaign. “Instead of playing partisan politics, Talarico speaks to the needs of everyday people who day in and day out work too hard for too little. In the Senate, James will fight to lower costs for all 31 million Texans, whether they’re Republicans, Democrats, or independents, so that Texans of all ages have a fighting chance at the American Dream of starting a family, owning a home, and leaving a little behind for their children.”

Yeah, it’s this crap that makes me chuckle. It’s so transparent. Dude, this guy isn’t some moderate, bipartisan vessel. The ‘do good’ line is laughable. You’re just pissed that this guy didn’t have the moxie to cross the finish line. Hey, maybe betraying us on gun rights in 2022 was a bad idea — just saying. 

These aren’t Republicans, folks. These are traitors. It’s the lizard people, and they need to be taken behind the barn. 

‘I’m proud to be working for a man who opposes everything I stand for, but I’m mad, so I’ll whore out for a Democrat who will kick me off the ledge if he wins’ is quite a swampy move. The good thing is Paxton will win by six or more, so it won’t matter. 

 

Holy Hell: FBI Docs Showed Evidence of Eric Swalwell Taking Illegal Chinese Donations

This is incredible stuff — we knew former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was screwing around with the Chinese honeypot. Now we have the documents to prove it, all provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Even if Swalwell avoided having his gubernatorial bid derailed in California by the sexual misconduct and rape allegations, he wouldn’t have served a full term with these new memos showing he allegedly accepted illegal donations, with Christina Fang, aka Fang Fang, as the source of these transactions. 

Swalwell admitted to a physical relationship with Fang, with the FBI later dropping Swalwell from their probe and focusing solely on her activities. They even tried to recruit her, knowing she had ties to Chinese intelligence (via JustTheNews):

#BREAKING: Declassified files show Chinese spy Fang Fang routed illegal donations to Rep. Swalwell (D-CA).

— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) August 17, 2026

 

The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially compromised a Democratic congressman from California with sex, foreign interns and illicit donations while she was being recruited to become a bureau informant a decade ago, according to bombshell memos that expose another threat to America’s political system from Beijing.

The files chronicling the relationship between Rep. Eric Swalwell and the Chinese national Fang Fang – also known by her English name Christine Fang – were declassified by President Donald Trump and released Monday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force as part of a broader effort to unmask foreign threats to U.S. political and election systems.

They show the FBI opened a predicated investigation, which is a formal law enforcement inquiry backed by a factual basis or allegation that indicates a crime or national security threat already exists.

The FBI probe targeting Swalwell and Fang was opened on March 17, 2014, and codenamed “Freshman Fifteen,” according to a now-declassified “Interim Authority” memorandum, which was reviewed by FBI headquarters and the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section. 

The FBI assessment, which later became a full-fledged investigation, centered on allegations that Swalwell awarded internships at his offices in exchange for campaign contributions. The FBI identified Fang “Christine” Fang, a Chinese national, as the alleged facilitator of this exchange and alleged she employed conduits to route illegal donations.

“Investigation has revealed Fang ‘Christine’ Fang, a Chinese foreign national residing in the United States, is the facilitator of a scheme to trade access to Swalwell and internships in his congressional office in return for campaign contributions […]” the memo reads. The FBI specifically gathered evidence that Fang “used conduits to conceal herself as a prohibited Foreign National source,” for illegal campaign contributions “at least twice in 2013 and at least two more times in 2014.”

In the early stages of the probe, the FBI team sent regular updates to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), which was then headed by the now-controversial prosecutor Jack Smith. Smith would later lead the Biden administration’s investigations and prosecutions of Trump. PIN oversees investigations and prosecutions that involve federal crimes like bribery of public officials and election crimes, including campaign finance crimes.

Eventually, however, after interviewing Swalwell on multiple occasions, the FBI determined that the investigation had found no violations of federal statutes by the congressman. As a result, the FBI eventually reclassified the probe on February 8, 2017, dropping Swalwell as a subject and focusing the investigation solely on Fang’s alleged violations of campaign finance laws.

Before the probe was opened into Fang’s alleged illegal activities, the FBI engaged in a months-long effort to recruit her using an undercover bureau employee and a fictitious company. The goal, according to contemporaneous memos, was to turn Fang into an informant on Chinese efforts to conduct influence operations targeting public officials, with whom Fang was close with several. 

The Rusty Thumbs memos, identified by the codename agents gave Fang, show that the undercover employee met with her on several occasions to get to know her background and aimed to offer Fang a consulting job where she would use her Chinese connections to help the undercover employee’s fictitious business. 

According to the memos, Fang was vague about her past in China, refused to elaborate on her parents’ Chinese government jobs and where she went to undergraduate school. However, she bragged about her political activities in the United States, including her work to connect donors to Swalwell’s congressional campaign, they show. Eventually, Fang agreed to work with the fictitious company. On June 14, 2013, she signed a contractor agreement for the consulting gig. That contract is contained in the FBI’s files.

What a scumbag. He threatened to sue Axios when the first Fang Fang breadcrumb fell, though everything seems to be true. 

BREAKING: Newly declassified @FBI files show @ericswalwell admitted a sexual relationship with Christine Fang, aka "Fang Fang," and that the bureau attempted to recruit Fang Fang without her knowledge. pic.twitter.com/3E19g1jBtX

— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) August 17, 2026

NYP: Eric Swalwell confessed to a drug-fueled sex romp with a suspected Chinese spy in newly released files that reveal the disgraced former congressman’s relationship with the woman went way deeper than previously known.https://t.co/J5lu5h03e2

— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 17, 2026

 

'Antisemitic' Fla. Congressional candidate Dan Bilzerian receives heavy backlash after posting highly offensive AI ad targeting Rep. Fine

((L-R) Randy Fine attends the Scott Jennings “A Revolution of Common Sense” Book Launch on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images Courtesy of the Rainey Center) /(R) Dan Bilzerian attends Playboy and A&E “Bates Motel” Event during Comic-Con International 2014 on July 25, 2014 in San Diego, California.

Bipartisan leaders in Washington are uniting to condemn an increasingly bitter Republican primary in Florida’s 6^th Congressional District.

The backlash follows social media personality Dan Bilzerian’s release of an AI-generated attack ad against incumbent U.S. Representative Randy Fine, one of just four Jewish Republicans currently serving in the House.

Bilzerian, who is running in the Republican primary in Florida’s 6^th Congressional District, has previously expressed immense respect for the Muslim community, praised aspects of Islamic culture and stated that he began reading the Quran out of personal interest — during podcast appearances and interviews.

He has also been an outspoken critic of Israel and a vocal advocate for “Palestinian rights.”

 

In the most shocking attack ad, Representative Fine (R-Fla.) appears adorned with the Star of David alongside images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, using artificial intelligence (AI) to sprout devilish horns from Fine’s head while referring to him as a “satanic whore.”

“It is unheard of to share an opponents television commercial. But I want you to watch it. Every second. Celebrating Hitler. Having horns grow out of the heads of Jews. Showing me violently assaulted. And if this appeals to you, I don’t want your vote. We have a choice on Tuesday, to embrace the kind of Nazism that led to the Holocaust or to repudiate this filth and reaffirm American values and character. Let’s send a resounding message on Tuesday,” Fine (R-Fla.) posted on X.

 

It is unheard of to share an opponents television commercial.

But I want you to watch it.

Every second.

Celebrating Hitler.

Having horns grow out of the heads of Jews.

Showing me violently assaulted.

And if this appeals to you, I don’t want your vote.

We have a… https://t.co/mJ12341lcX

— Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) August 15, 2026

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Who Is Dan Bilzerian?

 

Bilzerian, 45, rose to fame around 2013 on Instagram, earning the media moniker “The King of Instagram” by cultivating a viral persona centered on extreme wealth, private jets, exotic cars, firearms and lavish parties with scantily clad models that have since admitted they were paid to be around him.

Ignite International, his former company, routinely covered the cost of flights, luxury rentals, yachts and appearance fees for the models surrounding Bilzerian as a “marketing expense.” Bilzerian did not even own the mega-yachts featured in his social media posts, as he rented or chartered them for individual trips or promotional photoshoots.

Nonetheless, Ignite International Brands collapsed following massive financial losses, leadership ousters and severe federal fraud charges. Bilzerian was eventually removed from the company, and the brand became entangled in criminal indictments regarding hidden control and fake revenue reporting, per CBC.

 

Bilzerian’s father, Paul Bilzerian, 76, has been described as a former Wall Street corporate raider. In 1989, Dan’s father was convicted on nine felony counts — including securities fraud, conspiracy and tax fraud. He was sentenced to four years in federal prison and served about 13 months before being released to serve out the rest under house arrest. Then, in January 2001, a federal judge ordered him to be jailed for contempt of court after he refused to properly disclose his assets and cooperate with an order to pay over $62 million to the SEC.

Dan claims his fortune was self-made through private poker games, and he further elevated his profile through publicity stunts and minor film cameos. However, subsequent public records, court filings and investigative reporting have revealed a much different reality behind his alleged bachelor lifestyle. Investigations showed that his starting capital did not originate from poker winnings, but rather, from family trust funds connected to his father.

A 2020 lawsuit from a former executive at Ignite International Brands alleged that Bilzerian misused corporate funds to cover personal expenses, including his Bel-Air rental home, yacht charters, luxury furnishings and personal travel. Federal investigations by the DOJ and SEC also later targeted Ignite and the Bilzerian patriarch for using shell companies and using Dan as an “influencer frontman” to hide ongoing control, demonstrating that his extravagant lifestyle was heavily underwritten by hidden family trusts and misused corporate capital.

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The controversy is now reaching a boiling point ahead of Tuesday’s GOP primary election, as Bilzerian continues to push rhetoric that includes promoting Holocaust denial, urging voters to revisit the opinions of Adolf Hitler, and depicting the Nazi dictator in a favorable light.

In another separate ad, Bilzerian also refers to Fine as a “parasite.”

“District 6 understands the jewish problem,” he posted on Saturday, attaching images taken of his supporters.

Meanwhile, these campaign tactics are now drawing swift rebukes from congressional leadership in both major parties.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called the attack ads disgusting and emphasized that antisemitism has no place in political discourse, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) publicly denounced the campaign as blatantly antisemitic.

The vile attack ads against Congressman Randy Fine in Florida's 6th District are disgusting and should be condemned by all political leaders on the Right and Left. Antisemitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities have no place in our politics or in America, and we will…

— Mike Johnson (@MikeJohnson) August 17, 2026

Other federal lawmakers, including Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Representative Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), have also slammed Bilzerian’s condemnation of Jews.

The hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience.

People of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community.

This cannot and will not stand.

— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) August 17, 2026

“This is meaningless virtue signaling. Republicans will keep our house clean of antisemites. This race is not even close. How about the antisemites, Nazis, and Islamists who won Democrat primaries and Democrats are trying to send to Congress?” Cruz said in response to Jeffries’ X post.

Bilzerian, meanwhile, has since fired back on social media, utilizing vulgarities to dismiss leadership from both parties.

“Don Bacon, Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and Rick Scott all attacked me yesterday on X, the jew is scared,” Bilzerian continued on his tirade.

Don Bacon, Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and Rick Scott all attacked me yesterday on X, the jew is scared.

— Dan Bilzerian (@DanBilzerian) August 16, 2026

“If Randy fine is re-elected it’s because Christians were told to vote for a homosexual who is in a threesome relationship with a convicted pedophile Matthew Lucas, that raped a 13 year old when he was 35 and mysteriously got no jail time,” Bilzerian added in another X post.

Fine is urging district voters to thoroughly reject the extremist messaging, describing the upcoming primary choice as a fundamental test between repudiating Nazism and upholding core American values.

 

Texas AG Targets ActBlue in Election Fund Probe

Americans who care about clean elections should be grateful that someone in public office is actually following the money and demanding answers. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent more than two years looking into whether ActBlue’s fundraising platform has been used to channel suspicious, untraceable donations into American political campaigns, and his office says the pattern is too troubling to ignore. This isn’t political theater for everyday Texans — it’s a probe into whether bad actors exploited a dominant platform to corrupt the democratic process.

Paxton’s investigators began digging into ActBlue in December 2023 and formally referred their findings to the Department of Justice after uncovering what they described as evidence suggesting widespread straw donations and opaque payment methods. The Attorney General has argued that these issues go beyond partisan fundraising and strike at rules designed to keep foreign influence and fraud out of U.S. elections. If platform operators can pick and choose enforcement while millions pour through their systems, the integrity of our elections suffers.

Not satisfied with sending a referral and ringing alarm bells, Paxton filed a civil petition alleging deceptive trade practices, saying ActBlue relaxed fraud-prevention standards even as evidence of abuse mounted. The Texas petition lays out a timeline where ActBlue allegedly changed internal rules and failed to disclose the risks to donors and the public, a charge that — if true — would be a dereliction of duty by a company handling billions in political dollars. Conservatives who cherish the rule of law rightly see state attorneys general stepping in when federal regulators and platforms fail to act.

 

Predictably, the left’s legal allies moved quickly to try to shield ActBlue. A federal judge in Boston recently blocked Paxton’s effort, describing the state action as improperly motivated retaliation, a ruling that will be debated for months. The courts should be impartial referees, but Americans must wonder why apparent gaps in enforcement and oversight are treated as sacrosanct when the institutional balance of power protects a political fundraising behemoth.

ActBlue didn’t sit quietly either; the group filed its own federal lawsuit claiming Paxton used his office to target a politically disfavored organization and violated its constitutional rights. That counterpunch is exactly why this fight matters: it’s not just about money, it’s about whether public power can be turned into a political cudgel or used properly to police fraud. The American people deserve a transparent resolution, not an endless game of legal dodge-and-weave that leaves the core questions unanswered.

Meanwhile, Congress has not been idle — multiple House committees have traced a troubling timeline of lenient fraud-prevention choices and have demanded testimony and documents from ActBlue executives. If the evidence shows systemic weakness or worse, then both platform operators and federal regulators must be held to account and the rules must be tightened so foreign or fraudulent money cannot taint our elections. Patriots on both sides of the aisle should join in demanding swift DOJ action, real FEC reforms, and equal enforcement so Americans can trust that their votes and donations aren’t being stolen or bought.

 

Elon Musk's $900 Billion Triumph: A Win for American Ingenuity

 Elon Musk’s fortune crossing the $900 billion mark again is not a fluke of luck but the predictable result of American ingenuity rewarded by free markets, and it should make every patriotic taxpayer proud. After a period of turbulence for SpaceX, institutional investors disclosed big stakes and the market moved—proof that capital follows competence, not virtue signaling.

SpaceX shares jumped more than 6% to trade near $150 on Monday,

 

continuing an extraordinary rebound that followed an all-time low earlier this month and added roughly $47.7 billion to Musk’s net worth, which Forbes valued at about $911.9 billion. That surge vaulted Musk back to the top of the global rich list by a wide margin, a status earned through risk-taking and relentless focus on innovation rather than begging for government favors.

What flipped the script was a regulatory disclosure deadline that forced institutions to reveal massive positions in SpaceX, including Harvard’s roughly $2.2 billion stake and big holdings reported by the likes of Nvidia, BlackRock, Fidelity and other heavyweight investors. The lesson is clear: even the elites who posture about woke priorities park serious capital behind American rocket science and AI when real returns are on the table.

That revelation should shame the campus moralists who lecture the country about inequality while quietly cashing checks from the companies they publicly condemn; there’s an ugly double standard when institutions preach values by day and trade for profit by night. The conservative case has always been that markets—not lectures—lift living standards, and seeing Harvard’s endowment lean into SpaceX is a live demonstration of that truth.

Even the skeptics on Wall Street were forced to recalibrate after SpaceX’s earnings and analyst commentary highlighted the company’s strengths, from vertical integration to a fast-moving AI business that some firms say could drive massive revenues. When brokerages and analysts point to fundamentals, conservatives should lean in: success built on product, performance and competition deserves defense, not envy-driven taxation and regulation.

This moment is a reminder to hardworking Americans that the engine of prosperity is still entrepreneurship, not Washington fiat. Conservatives must defend the reward system that produces the rockets, the satellites, the jobs and the technological breakthroughs that secure America’s future—and applaud leaders like Musk who stick their necks out to build something the rest of the world envies.

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