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Monday, October 5, 2026
Trump Heads to Nebraska to Help Defend Senate Seat
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President Donald Trump is taking his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska on Monday, campaigning alongside GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts,
who is running against an independent candidate backed by national Democrats. Trump is headed to Grand Island, Nebraska, located in the solidly conservative south-central part of the state. It’s part of what the Republican president says is a 32-day blitz of rallies ahead of Nov. 3 that so far has taken him to ruby-red territory such as Oklahoma and Alabama. On Wednesday, he'll make his second stop in two weeks in Texas with a rally in San Antonio. “The president’s coming to Nebraska to help me campaign, so I can get reelected,” Ricketts told the Associated Press last week on Capitol Hill. Ricketts, a former governor of the state, was appointed then later elected to fill Sen. Ben Sasse’s seat when he left to run the University of Florida in 2023. Now he is running for his first full six-year term against independent Dan Osborn —
a race that initially was not expected to be competitive but is now being watched by the national parties. Trump's handling of the economy is a major issue for rural voters who have backed the president and his party in recent elections. The administration’s plan to allow more imports of foreign beef has particularly roiled the agriculture-rich state of Nebraska. Trump wants to lower beef prices for consumers, but ranchers have rebelled against the import proposal, arguing it would undercut them. “The plan to import low-quality foreign beef is not helping Nebraska ranchers,” Ricketts told the AP. “I would advise the White House to change that policy and look for longer-term things that will help us build the size of the herd and ultimately bring the price of beef down for consumers.” In the House of Representatives, the Grand Island area is represented by Republican Rep. Adrian Smith, whose race is not expected to be close. But Nebraska has a competitive House race farther east in Omaha, considered the “blue dot” of the state because the area’s electoral vote in presidential elections often goes to Democrats. Osborn, a former labor union chief, ran against Republican Sen. Deb Fischer in 2024 and lost by 7 percentage points. Though national Democrats support him, he has refused to say what party he would caucus with should he be elected in November. Other independents in the Senate, including Maine’s Angus King on the moderate end and Vermont’s Bernie Sanders on the left, caucus with Democrats for organizational purposes and committee assignments. With the Democrat brand remaining deeply unpopular in conservative states, Osborn isn’t the only declared independent running for the Senate against Republicans this year. In South Dakota, Navy and Air Force veteran Brian Bengs is campaigning as an independent against Republican Sen. Mike Rounds. Bengs ran as a Democrat for the Senate four years ago and was handily defeated by now-Senate Majority Leader John Thune. It’s a similar dynamic in Idaho, where independent Todd Achilles is challenging GOP Sen. Jim Risch. Democrat voters in Nebraska chose Cindy Burbank as their party nominee earlier this year, but Burbank specifically campaigned on ensuring that no votes would be siphoned from Osborn in the general elections in November, and she has since formally dropped out of the race. Osborn has been traveling across Nebraska to hold meetings in all 93 counties, and has repeatedly criticized Ricketts for not holding town halls to meet with constituents. Ricketts, whose family founded TD Ameritrade and owns Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs, served as governor from 2015 to 2023. Credit: newsmax.com |
There Are Big Holes in Xavier Becerra's Carefully Crafted Origin Story, and CA Press Has Been MIA
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Democrat nominee for California governor Xavier Becerra reminds me of certain Black activists and influencers: many of them pretend to have suffered racism and hardships to give them street cred. Whether it's complaining about their experiences of racism in their mostly-white, well-heeled neighborhoods, or that they ran from gangbangers and bullets when the only gangstas they knew about were in rap songs, they take on a manufactured persona that is meant to give them credibility with the audience they are seeking to influence or fleece; sometimes a combination of both. This is ultimately what Becerra has done: created an origin story for his parents, and specifically his father, Manuel Guerrero Becerra, in order to craft a backstory for himself which doesn't exist. Becerra claims his parents came to California "with $12 in their pocket." Independent journalist Anthony Cabassa has done the work to expose Becerra's invention, noting that Becerra first came up with this yarn for this April 2025 Contra Costa News campaign press release.
And in this April 2026 campaign video, he reinforced the narrative. Before Becerra's campaign began, there was no recorded knowledge of this tale. Little Xavier/Papa Becerra's ObituaryManuel Guerrero Becerra passed away in 2020, and his own obituary pokes holes in Xavier Becerra's accounting. Important because, according to the obituary, Manuel Becerra came back to California from Mexico as a "young teenager," and not in his 20s.
Maybe Manuel Becerra had $12 in his pocket or maybe he didn't, but he certainly wasn't married at the time, and he was no "migrant." Manuel Becerra was born in the United States then left with his parents and chose to return as a young teenager so he could go to school as well as work. Xavier Becerra is simply using his father's tome to paint himself as being "down with the struggle."
It would be a touching story if he could only get the facts straight. Instead, it comes off as a manufactured background to match his own manufactured image and horrible record. As Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) in the Biden administration, over 300,000 unaccompanied minors went missing on his watch. Additionally, those illegal alien minors who came across the Southern border were quickly farmed through processing centers, then handed over to mostly unvetted sponsors to be used as slave labor or trafficked for sex work. As his GOP gubernatorial opponent, Steve Hilton,
observed, Becerra was caught on tape demanding the Office of Refugee Resettlement staff farm these children through like an assembly line.
So, not only does Becerra have to manufacture a background in order to give him a veneer of substance, but he has to campaign from the basement, like his old boss Biden, in order to try to keep his poor record away from scrutiny and exposure. With less than 30 days to November 3, Hilton, who is a true immigrant, has been on a campaign to expose Becerra's fakery and his corrupt record. In these final days, Hilton is making his case for why Californians should vote for him.
It shouldn't come as any surprise that the same California press that spent months trying to sabotage Spencer Pratt for living outside the boundaries of the City of Los Angeles after his house burned down hasn't been at all curious about the truthfulness of Becerra's origin story. Editor’s Note: The 2026 Midterms will determine the fate of President Trump’s America First agenda. Republicans must maintain control of both chambers of Congress. Credit: https://redstate.com |
Here's More Info on the Overnight Georgia Mass Shooting the MSM Are Barely Covering for Some Reason
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Overnight, there was a mass shooting in Georgia that left two people dead and 35 people injured. According to local reports, the shooting occurred around 1:20 AM Sunday during a Dooly County High School homecoming block party in Vienna, GA, that had somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 attendees:
Fox 5 noted that the party took place at the Dooly County Recreation Department's gym and that Mayor Eddie Daniels (D)
indicated during a presser that a permit for the party had not been issued. The school is also saying they didn't sponsor the party. It's not clear what the seating capacity is for the gym, but somebody knew in advance that this block party was happening because law enforcement was stationed nearby to monitor it. Relatedly, officials say that shots were fired in two locations a block apart from each other. Here's a WGXA news report confirming some of the details. It also includes an interview with a fed-up resident in the community: The two unidentified deceased victims were both men. One was 20 years old, and the other was 23 years old. Of those who were injured, the county coroner, Brett Walls, speculated that roughly two dozen were hit by the gunfire and the other dozen may have gotten hurt in the rush to flee the scene, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The AJC also observed that "This isn’t the first major shooting to rock the small town. In 2018, a fight between two rival gangs at Klub Money nightclub led to a shootout in the street that killed one." "After a three-year investigation, the GBI announced 15 were charged, according to a news release from the time," they went on to write. Vienna, I should point out, is roughly an hour away from Macon, GA, which was the scene of another early morning mass shooting a week ago where 12 people were injured:
Words were exchanged, and then gunfire rang out. There have been five arrests in that case so far, including these two upstanding Georgia citizens: But there have been no arrests so far in the Vienna case. Interestingly, the national MSM have been unusually slow to get a piece up on this mass shooting for some strange reason. I didn't see a report from The New York Times on it until late Sunday afternoon. And I'm still not seeing anything on the pages of The Washington Post. Perhaps they're on standby to find out whether or not the shooter or shooters are right-wing MAGA types before determining whether they will dive more into the details and share them with readers. Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI):
Credit: https://redstate.com |
Roy Cooper's 'Racial Equity' Task Force Secured Sweetheart Plea Deal for Illegal Alien Teen Killer
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While governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper put radical leftist ideology ahead of public safety in an effort to turn the Tar Heel State into an East Coast California. Under Cooper's so-called leadership, he turned the state's justice system into a revolving door for violent criminals, including thousands who were released early and went on to reoffend, including committing murder. That soft-on-crime approach also extended to illegal aliens who shouldn't be in our country in the first place. This includes Saul Lopez Perez,
an illegal alien who stabbed a teen to death last December. His victim, Marvin Alonzo, was only 16 years old. Perez was originally charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. But thanks to Roy Cooper, Perez was able to cut a sweetheart deal with prosecutors that reduced his charges to voluntary manslaughter, meaning Perez will only spend 51 to 74 months in prison. The charges concerning first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon were dropped completely.
How did this happen? How did an illegal alien get what amounts to a slap on the wrist for murdering a teenage boy? It starts with Chief Superior Court Judge Carla Archie,
a supporter of Roy Cooper's Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. In a 2020 LinkedIn post, Archie wrote of the task force, "The task force, led by Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls and Attorney General Josh Stein, will recommend solutions to stop discriminatory law enforcement and criminal justice practices, and hold public safety officers accountable." That task force has a mandate requiring to review and reduce sentencing disparities, and Archie followed that mandate. At the same time, Mecklenburg District Attorney Spencer Merriweather — a Cooper appointee — dropped the violent charges. Mecklenburg is a sanctuary county, thanks to three bills vetoed by Cooper that would have required local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE. Perez now has an ICE detainer, and all it took was a dead teenager to get it. All of this can be traced back to Cooper, who applauded and cheered the task force and its racist recommendations. It was those policies, including cashless bail, that led Judge Teresa Stokes to release DeCarlos Brown, Jr.
He would go on to kill 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail system. Judge Teresa Stokes was confirmed by Judge Carla Archie. Archie also recently released a violent criminal, Zyvarius Jylarrius Franklin Webber, who was charged with rape, kidnapping, and strangulation. DA Merriweather dropped those serious charges. Webber then hijacked a car and led police on a dangerous chase. Despite this, Cooper called the task force a "major accomplishment." When you ditch bail, reduce tough sentences, and shield illegal aliens, you don't get equity or public safety. You get dead teenagers, emboldened criminals, and a broken justice system. That's what Roy Cooper did in North Carolina, and what he'll do if he's elected to the Senate. Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly support President Trump’s law and order agenda. Credit: https://townhall.com |
Sophie Cunningham Rips WNBA Player Over Not Having Thicker Skin in Dealing With Fans
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Sophie Cunningham can’t stand this nonsense. As if the beatdowns of Caitlin Clark, the face of the WNBA, aren’t enough, along with the league’s laughable front office and its inability to define what a woman is, we have this fan nothingburger involving Las Vegas Aces player A’Ja Wilson,
who stormed into the stands when a fan pointed at her, which is not unusual. Wilson needs to get a thicker skin, as does the rest of the league. She was assessed a technical during the game against the Indiana Fever on September 29, when Vegas lost 99-89. They would win game three and the series on October 1, 94-83. The fan was not ejected after everyone with brain function realized he did nothing wrong. Ladies, get tough, because this was weak sauce. On her podcast, Cunningham said that Wilson and everyone who got huffy over this needs to grow up:
She’s not wrong. At the same time, on the Fever’s end, we don’t need the general manager defending the team like this: we know the fan did nothing wrong, and there’s no racism involved except in the minds of people who are already mentally ill. Not every public relations incident needs a statement or a presser. Credit: https://townhall.com |
The Lessons and the Lies of the Gross Cornell Scandal
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My mom was a sensible daughter of Pennsylvania, as well as one of the first female assistant district attorneys in San Mateo County, a criminal defense lawyer, and a Superior Court judge, and after she swore me into the California Bar, she gave me this advice: “Everybody lies.” I think about that a lot, especially when I consider something like the Cornell Seven controversy. Since it appears that Jane Doe is telling two different stories — one apparently under oath to the authorities and one in a civil complaint a couple of years later — that pretty clearly establishes Judge Mom’s maxim. One of her stories has to be a lie, if not both. We’re told that we are supposed to believe all victims, but why? First of all, how do we know they are victims? When you declare someone a victim, you’ve already accepted the claim without hearing the evidence. The technical term in a criminal matter, when there is no dead body or stolen property and the existence of the alleged crime is itself disputed, should be accuser. In a civil lawsuit, which she has filed, it is plaintiff. Here, the issue is whether there was a crime, or, in the lawsuit, whether there was a tort. She says yes, and the men presumably say no. So we don’t know if there even is a victim yet. Assuming there is assumes the truth of the charge. But then, apparently you don’t get a presumption of innocence if you have a penis. We don’t owe accusers anything except to treat the accusation seriously, to investigate both sides’ claims, and to test the admissible evidence against clear laws. But that’s not what the leftists and feminists want to do here. That’s not what New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wanted done by appointing New York Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor. Hochul had already framed the young woman as a victim who was “literally gang raped,” and said she deserves to have “justice pursued.” Her catspaw James is supposed to run an objective criminal investigation? That’s a travesty. She has her marching orders, and she will march accordingly. To the left, this is a feature and not a bug. The nightmare of leftist justice is that rules don’t matter, nor does evidence. Only the outcome matters, and that outcome is predetermined by what is most convenient to the left. That’s why Derek Chauvin is in prison when George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl. Chauvin was a symbol. That’s why they would like to put the seven young men in jail. They are a symbol, too. I will agree with one thing the leftists and feminists say. When a society is governed by clear rules to which you apply admissible evidence, you have a patriarchy. It’s a distinctly male way of looking at things: dispassionately, without emotion, an objective process where the outcome of the analysis is not predetermined. In fact, they get mad at having to comply with procedures, where the men have a chance to test the evidence, to contradict the woman, to cross-examine her. Why? Because if you can actually defend yourself, you have the capacity to disprove the claim. That can’t happen. The objective truth is irrelevant. There’s a higher truth, which is whatever outcome maximizes their power at any given moment. Being able to defend yourself gets in the way of the preferred outcome. The system under the patriarchy, where guilt must be proven by evidence in proceedings that ensure fairness, and where you can be found not guilty if the evidence doesn’t show your guilt, is a foundational component of Western civilization. It is the exact opposite of the feminine construct that the leftist feminists seek to impose, one in which you can be convicted by consensus. In their model, there are no clear rules by which men can govern themselves to avoid retroactive liability. Six months later, if a woman who had a sexual encounter with a man decides she regrets it, the act changes from something lawful and acceptable to something illegal and punishable. Think of the power you would have if you could just declare those who are your opponents guilty by decree. This makes a mockery of the idea of justice, but they’re not interested in justice. You saw that with Lindsay Clancy. Justice demands accountability for the three children she strangled. The feminists demand accountability from everyone else for failing to satisfy the needs and emotions of a woman. Explains a lot about their abortion fanaticism, doesn’t it? That’s unacceptable, and we should not accept it. Women are no more important than men. They have no special right to be validated, or to have others comply with their demands or wishes. They’re not special. They get treated like men. They have to prove their claims with actual proof. You don’t get to skip to the end by skipping over the rights of the accused, even if they are accused penis people of pallor. Just wait until the left realizes that several of the Cornell Seven are not even the WASPy white boys the left is drooling to make the villains here. But just because these young men are facing a legal injustice does not make all of them innocent. Those of us on the conservative side have been outspoken in demanding that women take responsibility for their own actions and for exposing themselves to risks, particularly grody, sexually charged ones. It doesn’t relieve a true rapist of guilt to point out that a woman shouldn’t drink a lot, go into an alley with a guy, and not expect bad things to happen. There’s no justification for the bad things on the part of the rapist, but you’ve got to look out for yourself, and conservatives (and those who advocate treating women like adults, such as Camille Paglia) have been outspoken in demanding that women be expected to do that. When you don’t use reasonable care to look out for yourself, you are negligent. The law already recognizes that more than one person can be responsible for a bad outcome. Someone can be fully responsible for something, and yet somebody else can also be responsible. That recognizes the fact that women have agency and the ability to influence the outcomes they experience. But so do men. We need to apply that standard to the frat brothers as well. While they may not be legally liable for sexual assault under a fair legal process — which Letitia James will in no way provide them — that does not mean they are all blameless. Understanding that there is some lack of clarity about the behavior of some of these young men, it is clear from the allegations that others decided they would take a girl who was drinking and taking drugs and join her in drinking and taking drugs in a frat-house room. At least one allegedly texted his buddies to come join them in a most grotesque fashion. A number of them apparently did. That’s disgusting, and we need to say so forthrightly. This isn’t a romantic hookup between two horny young people. When you add a third party to the equation, it becomes gross. They were wrong to do it, and when you do wrong things, there are consequences. The consequences may not be fair. I don’t think the legal proceedings here are fair, because what happened does not appear, on the basis of the evidence I’ve seen, to violate the applicable law. But we, as a society, should not limit our determination of what is wrong to what is expressly illegal. You can act legally and still be in the wrong. Adultery is not illegal, but it’s wrong. What at least the more active participants did with this girl was wrong, whether she was into it or not, and her own wrongness to illegally consent to it is not an excuse. Just because someone consents to degradation doesn’t mean you have to degrade yourself by degrading them. Don’t be surprised that when you do something bad, bad things happen. And they won’t necessarily be fair bad things. Young men, if you’re not going to do the right thing simply because you don’t want to be a sleeve perv, do better because you don’t want to be exposed to this kind of risk. You can’t be responsible for the actions of others, but you need to be responsible for your own. And no, this is not picking on young men like that ridiculous Sarah Huckabee Sanders ad, which did unfairly pick on young men. She made young white guys on a beanbag the face of welfare cheats, and they aren’t. No, this is real talk. They are men. They should be able to hear hard truths, accept them, and govern themselves accordingly. Let me sum it up. If some drunken hussy decides she wants to take you and several of your buddies into a room for a ketamine-fueled orgy, you shouldn’t do that, and you shouldn’t let your turgid skank buddies do that either. Yeah, you might think you’re covered because she was into it at the time, but you’re not. Again, if the moral bankruptcy of it isn’t enough, there’s the utilitarian aspect. Even if the true facts do not constitute a crime, understand that she may still tell a different story before some tribunal. And understand that the members of that tribunal may think that you are lying when you deny it. After all, in criminal cases, your future is going to be determined by 12 people who got picked for a jury. And let me tell you a little secret about jury picking. Lawyers very rarely pick people they think are smart. They don’t want smart people on juries. They want people on juries who are going to come to the verdict their client wants, whether their client is a frat boy plucked out of his adult life to answer for something he did after some party a few years before at the University of College, or whether it’s politicized representatives of the state fixated on getting a conviction of a designated villain above all else. Remember, the court doesn’t find the truth. The court renders judgments. And here’s the scary thing. This woman may not even think she’s lying. When you’re told that your feelings are valid regardless, the line between objective fact and vibe becomes utterly and irrevocably blurred. It’s very possible she believes that she was wronged and, in fact, she was. The guys were disgusting; they shouldn’t have taken advantage of her no matter how much she wanted to be taken advantage of. Whether that constitutes criminal or civil liability is a different question, but that’s the critical question. So, what are the lessons here? The first is that we need to reject the leftist feminist Calvinball model of jurisprudence and insist on clear laws applied to admissible facts within regulated proceedings that ensure fairness for all parties. The second is that we should not believe all victims, or even assume that anyone is a victim before all the facts are in. What we should do is believe the admissible evidence, not hearsay, not speculation, not innuendo. And third, we should demand that people take responsibility for their own actions. This would never have happened if the girl had not gotten drunk and drugged up, then decided to act out sexually for whatever reason possessed her to do so. And this would not have happened if at least some of these repellent men had not decided to take advantage of her self-destructive behavior. There’s plenty of blame to go around here, and we shouldn’t be ashamed to assign it. One of the big problems with modern society is its lack of judgment. We’re told that we shouldn’t slut-shame. That’s wrong. Sluts should be ashamed. We don’t owe them validation, and we’re not doing them any favors by pretending their self-destructive indulgences are anything but humiliating and degrading. Nor should we excuse the men who take advantage of the opportunity. Participating in such sordid mass sex acts likewise degrades them. They should also be ashamed — man-slut-shamed. That it exposes all of them to the potential destruction of their futures is yet another reason why we should demand more. But if we’re called upon to sort out these sordid disputes, we should do it with a jaundiced eye. And we should remember what Judge Mom learned from years of experience in the criminal courts: “Everybody lies.” Credit: https://townhall.com/ |
'If a bunch of goobers run': Senator Kennedy considers 2028 presidential bid
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Louisiana Senator John Kennedy floated a potential 2028 presidential run during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Speaking with journalist Kristen Welker on Sunday, Kennedy (R-La.) indicated a presidential campaign was on the table, though he gave no definite decision.
Kennedy noted, however, that his decision would lean heavily on who else would throw their hats in the ring on the GOP side.
The Louisiana senator is currently serving his second term as the Pelican State’s junior senator and has gained fame for his down-to-earth humor and pointed one-liners. Vice President JD Vance is also widely believed to be a potential candidate for the 2028 presidential election, though he has indicated he will hold off on making decisions until after midterms.
Credit: https://www.oann.com/ |
Trump announces $90 Medicare premium rebates for seniors ahead of midterms
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| U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally with Oklahoma Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Mazzei at the Choctaw Event Center on October 01, 2026 in Durant, Oklahoma. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images). Ahead of the November midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced a plan to provide $90 payments to over 20 million seniors to assist with Medicare premiums. The Friday Truth Social announcement follows a previous proposal to offer $500 rebate checks to roughly one million Affordable Care Act beneficiaries. Trump has also pledged on the campaign trail to send $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans maintain control of Congress — offering substantial taxpayer relief through a $1 trillion proposal that requires congressional approval.
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