Trump Pushes SAVE America Act in Housing, FISA Bills

President Donald Trump on Saturday renewed his push for the SAVE America Act, urging Congress to attach the election-security measure to pending housing and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation while alleging widespread problems with mail-in voting.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump declared: "THE SAVE AMERICA ACT MUST BE PASSED, NOW. Use the Housing and FISA Bills to get it done!"

Trump also claimed that Maryland had "500,000 Fake Mail-In Ballots revealed," though he did not provide evidence or additional details to support the allegation.

"We cannot, as a Country, put up with this any longer!!!" Trump wrote. "Voter I.D., and Proof of Citizenship, must be approved, NOW. Crooked Mail-In Voting must be stopped!!!"

The president's latest comments come as Republicans continue pushing the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

Trump and GOP allies have argued the bill is needed to strengthen election integrity and prevent noncitizen voting.

Critics, including voting rights organizations and congressional Democrats, have argued the legislation could make voting more difficult for some Americans, including married women whose names have changed and voters who do not readily possess citizenship documents such as passports or birth certificates.

Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in U.S. federal elections, with penalties including fines and up to one year in prison.

Trump has increasingly tied passage of the SAVE America Act to broader legislative negotiations.

Earlier this year, he warned that the bill should "go to the front of the line" and suggested he would withhold support for other measures until Congress acts on election security legislation.

The president has repeatedly called for stricter voter-identification requirements, proof of citizenship and limits on mail-in voting, making election security a central issue in his administration's domestic agenda.

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FBI Offering New Reward for Former Counterintelligence Specialist Charged With Espionage for Iran

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has pushed the manhunt for a former U.S. servicemember who allegedly took part in espionage activities on behalf of the Iranian regime into third gear with the latest development this week. The former Air Force counterintelligence specialist defected to Iran in 2013, then was indicted in 2019.

In hopes of capturing Monica Witt, the FBI has sweetened the deal with a hefty reward - $200,000:

 

The FBI is offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the capture and prosecution of former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist Monica Elfriede Witt, who defected to Iran in 2013 and is accused of providing national defense information to the Iranian government.

Monica Elfriede Witt, 47, was indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2019 on espionage-related charges and remains at large.

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SEE: Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up the Iranian Regime's Current Predicament

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My colleague Streiff wrote at the time about this curious case, in a follow up to RedState's initial story on Witt's indictment. His expertise is worth reading at length here:

Witt was not a superspy. Her intelligence experience was operating on an RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft. She served in an undefined capacity while serving in counterintelligence. After leaving the Air Force she went to work for Booz Allen Hamilton, former employer of Edward Snowden, on Army counterintelligence projects and for Chenega Federal Systems on Middle East matters. During this time she “read on” to a special access program (SAP) targeting Iran. Her major offense seems to be trying to betray former colleagues by identifying them to Iranian intelligence though I’m not downplaying divulging the existence of the SAP.

And as Streiff also wrote, the timing of the indictment - five years later - was rather mysterious:

She went missing in 2014 and until this week no one seemed to care about her.

The question becomes why was she indicted now. The FBI says this is the culmination of “result of years of investigative work” and that implies that the FBI has known about her activities since the Obama administration…if not from the time she disappeared.

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READ MORE:The Espionage Indictment of Monica Witt Asks More Questions Than It Answers

Shocking: Democrat California Mayor Resigns After DOJ Nails Her as Secret CCP Agent

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It's unknown on this too why the FBI put out the reward now. It's possible they're hoping to inspire someone in Iran to blow the whistle on her as the U.S. military's mission against Iran ensues, The National News Desk story linked above implied.

Part of the FBI's release was the Most Wanted poster with several images of Witt, including her official Air Force photo. It also included what might be the most recent image of Witt from 2013:

Hopefully, she can be brought to justice with this new enticement of American dollars. You can view the full Most Wanted information for Witt at the FBI's homepage.

 

Democrat SOS and Media Blast CO Gov. Polis for Tina Peters' Commutation; Hear How He Sets Them Straight

After Colorado Governor Jared Polis' limited commutation of the nine-year sentence for former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, he has been blasted nonstop by Democrats, left-leaning journalists, and legacy media outlets. Peters became a lightning rod for election integrity advocates and judicial reformists over her 2024 conviction for election interference and attempting to influence a public official when she exposed voting information from a Dominion machine.

 Polis considered her nine-year sentence to be unusually punitive, particularly in light of Sonja Jaquez Lewis, a former Democrat state senator, whose 2024 criminal indictment was in the same category as Peters'. 

Jaquez Lewis' indictment included four felonies: making three false statements to four public officials. Not only were these charges combined from three false statements to one, but Jaquez Lewis was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, 150 hours of community service, and a fine.

Not exactly justice equally applied. Polis outlined this reasoning in Peters' letter of clemency.

However, this is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first time offender who committed nonviolent crimes.

I agree with the principle highlighted by the Colorado Court of Appeals in your case that, “...the First Amendment generally prohibits punishing someone for their protected speech. ‘[A] court may not punish an individual by imposing a heavier sentence for the exercise of [F]irst [A]mendment rights. . . . A sentence based to any degree on activity or beliefs protected by the [F]irst [A]mendment is constitutionally invalid.’”

Further I agree, in this case, “[T]he trial court’s comments about Peters’s belief in the existence of 2020 election fraud went beyond relevant considerations for her sentencing. Her offense was not her belief, however misguided the trial court deemed it to be, in the existence of such election fraud; it was her deceitful actions in her attempt to gather evidence of such fraud.

Indeed, under these circumstances, just as her purported beliefs underlying her motive for her actions were not relevant to her defense, the trial court should not have considered those beliefs relevant when imposing sentence.”

Polis did a video explaining how and why he made his choice to cut Peters' sentence in half from almost nine years to four-and-a-half. In his interviews with legacy media, Polis continued to emphasize this point, despite legacy media's obsession with making it about President Donald Trump and 2020 election denialism. 

When Polis appeared on CNN, host Kaitlan Collins 

 

tried to steer him in that direction to further give credence to this tired narrative. Surprisingly, Polis did not play ball.

POLIS: Thousands of people, of course, have weighed in, people called my office, some incorrectly thought she didn't commit a crime, as the president did, thought she should be pardoned — we're going to fight the president's illegal pardon in court. Some like me thought she was guilty, should have had a slightly lower sentence. Others wanted her to stay there for a long time and fundamentally misunderstood the crime. Thought it had something to do with the 2020 election or election conspiracy around Trump and Biden, when the crime had zero to do with that.

COLLINS: You don't think its.. its.. had Trump not disputed the 2020 election, had Mike Lindell not become this famous figure on TV disputing the election results in 2020, that what happened in 2021 in Mesa County would have happened?

POLIS: Well, to be clear: this was the clerk that certified the 2020 election results. There was not an issue there. There were some issues around her competency [COLLINS interrupts] This was a municipal election —

COLLINS: I'm just asking, if you don't think that what happened in 2020... you don't think this would have happened? You just think that those are totally separate? That this would have occurred even if the president, if that never happened in 2020 with a major election dispute, pressure on the Vice President, and on state election officials, from Georgia to Colorado to wherever, on that. You don't think that would have happened?

POLIS: You'd have to have her on to talk about her motivation. Do I think that she was egged on or encouraged in her illegal acts by people like Mike Lindell, or perhaps, even, the President of the United States, it's certainly conjecture, but it's certainly possible. I don't know how she came to hold her beliefs. I certainly believe that there are incorrect, dangerous beliefs that are held in certain circles in our country. 

Ultimately it's a matter of free speech until you cross the line and violate the law, which she did. And that's why she committed the crime and she should do the crime with a sentence that's tough and fair. That's why she'll... her sentence has been adjusted to four-and-a-half years, which is a very severe sentence for what she did. When again, another public official in Colorado got probation only for one of these acts of felony and three other felonies.

 

Democrats Refuse To Even Talk To the American People Anymore

Of all the problems Democrats have created and unleashed on the country, the unwillingness and inability to speak to anyone who disagrees with them is among the worst. They don’t even try anymore, liberals only engage with each other in an agreement-festival that rivals a row of bobblehead dolls double-sided taped to the dashboard of the family truckster all nodding with each other as they ramble down a bumpy dirt road. 

When was the last time you heard a dissenting voice on MS Now? Anyone who dares disagree with the “progressive” narrative on CNN is spoken over, shouted down or cut off for a “correction” from the host or a quick commercial break. The left has gone from terrified of being called out for their lies to operating in a cocoon so that possibility becomes impossible. 

 

Joe Biden 

 

used to yell about how he wanted to be “the President of all Americans,” but he never gave an interview to Fox News. How can you be the President of everyone when you won’t talk to half the country for four years? He even passed on a softball Super Bowl interview – the biggest audience he’d ever have access to and he declined. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes 

 

 speaks exclusively to friendly outlets. Even the “spontaneous” questions she takes when “tracked down” in the halls of Congress are more choreographed than a Broadway musical. How do you think it is that she just so happens to be “cornered” by the anti-American, Soror-funded Meidas 

 

Touch activist group that pretends to do news? She’s always by herself, always stops, and is more scripted than an Aaron Sorkin movie. How many times have you seen her running away from reporters asking basic questions, but somehow she manages to have time for this one outlet? 

They’re likely feeding her the questions, coordinating with staff to get video of her relevant to the news cycle onto the Internet to try to improve her image with people not insane. There’s no other reason the few staffers in the video don’t run interference like they do with others or how they always manage to “find” her in cordoned off areas of the Capitol Building. 

When Katie Porter, the Democrat domestic abuser running for Governor of California, was asked how she planned to appeal to 40 percent of voters in the state who’d voted for Donald Trump the very concept seemed confusing to her. Why would she need to appeal to them, she could win without them. In other words, “screw those people creatures.”

Porter was confused by the question, then angered by her confusion, she ended the interview. 

Can you imagine a conservative politician saying people who aren’t in lockstep with them weren’t even worth talking to?

Tennessee Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen announced this week that he was not going to seek reelection because the Supreme Court declared districts like his in Memphis, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act, to be illegal because they were gerrymandered based on race. Cohen is white and Jewish, the district he represents is majority black, designed to elect a Democrat, regardless of skin color. Now it’s designed to exist with about three-quarters of a million Americans in it, of all configurations of humans. The district now leans to the right, and Cohen is out. 

Steve Cohen has been representing the area at the state and local level since 1982, and for the first time his district is not slanted 70+ percent Democrat, so he quit. He could have tried campaigning, he could have tried making a case to people who, while he may not have been their Member of Congress, he was certainly known by them through the media, but he didn’t. He quit. 

Cohen quit while insisting “I’m not a quitter.” 

He’s actually the very definition of the word. 

More importantly, and more telling, is how he didn’t try. The prospect of having to sell himself and his party’s ideas to people who do not immediately acquiesce to all of it was so daunting of a task that quitting was the more viable option.

College campuses across the country are overrun with leftists who would rather shout down speakers or physically attack people rather than allow them to speak to people who actively choose to hear them. School administrators indulge these little fascists in the hope that they mob doesn’t turn on them, but it always does. College Presidents are now targets of goon squads demanding a policy of Jew hatred and anti-Americanism. And they’ll likely get it.

Democrats don’t make a case for their ideas anymore, they make threats to those who won’t get in line and obey them. What was fear and laziness is now a way of life. They can only win an election in Congressional districts where they pick their voters, not the other way around. In spite of what they scream as they assault and threaten their way through life, that is decidedly NOT what democracy looks like. 

 

The Virginia Democrat Behind the Illegal Theft of Republican Seats Launches Fundraiser for Legal Defense

L. Louise Lucas, the prominent Virginia Democrat who was subject to a recent FBI raid on her home in business as part of a federal corruption and drug probe that began during the Biden administration, has launched a crowd sourced fundraiser to gain cash to pay for her legal defense.

“I have spent my entire life looking for good trouble,” Lucas said in her post on social media advertising the fundraiser. The fundraiser seeks to raise $100,000 for her defense. She has managed to just raise 6 percent of her goal in over a day of begging for help.

 “Lucas faces legal challenges while continuing to stand firm in her commitment to public service and democracy,” the description of the campaign read. “The L. Louise Lucas Legal Defense Fund has been established to help provide the resources necessary to support her legal defense and protect her ability to continue serving the community she has fought for her entire life.”

“Every donation helps ensure that a lifelong advocate for Virginia’s people can continue her fight for justice, fairness, and representation,” the description concluded.

In her so-called fight for justice, fairness, and representation, Lucas served as one of the key figures behind Virginia Democrats’ failed and illegal attempt to strip Republicans of their congressional representation earlier this year.

Despite launching the fundraising campaign, no charges have been filed against Lucas at this time.

 

Trump rips ‘disloyal disaster’ Sen. Bill Cassidy amid La. primary elections

 

President Donald Trump called Senator Bill Cassidy a “disloyal disaster” ahead of Louisiana’s primary elections over the weekend.

“Bill Cassidy is a sleazebag, a terrible guy, who is BAD FOR LOUISIANA,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Saturday. “Now he’s going to get CLOBBERED, hopefully, in today’s BIG election, by two great people!!!”

Louisianans head to the polls on Saturday to decide which two candidates will face off in the state’s general Senate election in November.

 

Incumbent Cassidy (R-La.) has held his seat in the upper chamber since 2015. He is running against Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, whose current term ends in January 2028, U.S. Representative Julia Letlow (R-La.), who assumed office in 2021, and Mark Spencer, a Catholic business owner and Louisiana native.

An Emerson College poll from April 24^th through the 26^th found that a sample of 500 likely Republican primary voters favored Fleming, who received 28% support, only beating Letlow by one percentage point. Cassidy received 21% support, with 22% of voters undecided, and the remaining 2% favoring Spencer.

President Trump endorsed Letlow, urging Louisiana voters to “VOTE TODAY FOR JULIA L. She is a winner who will NEVER let you down.”

 

On the Democrat side, Navy veteran Gary Crockett, former policy advisor Nick Albares and row-crop farmer Jamie Davis Jr. all hope to flip the seat in November.

Currently, Republicans have a 53-45 majority in the chamber. Of the 100 seats in the Senate, Republicans hold 22 seats that are up for election, while Democrats hold 13.

Cassidy was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted in early 2021 to convict Trump after he was impeached by the House for his alleged role in the January 6^th forced entry into the United States Capitol building. Cassidy has largely supported Trump’s agenda since his second term, but has criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Trump appointee.

BAFTA Scandal Exposes Hypocrisy of Celebrities and Media Elites

The BAFTA Film Awards took an ugly turn on February 22, 2026, when audience member and Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson 

 

was heard shouting a racial slur during the live ceremony. The moment was broadcast before it could be edited out, sparking outrage from viewers and a wave of headlines about language and intent.

Jamie Foxx didn’t mince words, calling the outburst “unacceptable” and telling critics he believed the words were intentional, a reaction that landed him in the middle of the fallout. His blunt response exposed a raw truth: celebrities can and do speak as if they stand for moral clarity, but the public now watches to see whether those standards are applied evenly.

 

The BBC and BAFTA issued apologies, describing the slur as an involuntary tic related to Tourette’s and saying they regretted that it was not removed before broadcast, while Davidson himself said he was “deeply mortified” that anyone might think his tic was intentional. Those statements did little to calm the debate, because people were being asked to accept both the neurological explanation and the moral outrage at the same time.

Critics inside the industry were blunt: production designer Hannah Beachler

 

 called the ceremony’s apology “throwaway,” and at least one BAFTA judge resigned in protest over how the episode was handled, arguing that the academy’s language and response were inadequate. That kind of institutional shrug only fuels the sense that elite organizations answer to optics and protection first, and to consistent principles second.

What the controversy truly exposes is not just a one-off gaffe but a pattern—broadcasters and awards bodies will scrupulously edit or censor political speech they dislike while leaving far worse language in place until the uproar forces them to act. The selective outrage and inconsistent editing choices reveal that the real problem is cultural gatekeeping, not the messy human realities of speech and disability.

People deserve clarity, consistency, and accountability from the institutions that shape public conversation. If celebrities and media outlets demand high standards from ordinary citizens, those same standards must apply inside the celebrity bubble and inside the broadcast truck; anything less is hypocrisy dressed up as compassion. The conversation should center on common-sense rules and honest consequences, not on weaponized virtue or double standards that protect insiders while lecturing everyone else.

 

AOC's Billionaire Comments Reveal Class Warfare Agenda for 2028 Election

Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez’s latest podcast outburst — the now‑viral claim that “you can’t earn a billion dollars” — was less an insight than an insult to every American who believes in hard work and opportunity. She made the remark on Ilana Glazer’s “It’s Open” podcast, arguing that extreme wealth is primarily a product of market power and systemic abuse rather than individual achievement.

When pressed in public appearances, AOC doubled down, insisting her comment was about structural problems, not specific people, but the damage was already done: the left’s favorite firebrand sounded like she was praising envy over entrepreneurship. Her remarks in Chicago and other venues reinforced the narrative that she prefers class warfare to the messy reality of economic growth.

Conservative commentators and ordinary taxpayers were right to pounce: calling billionaires “unearned” income is a dangerous simplification that dismisses risk‑taking, innovation, and job creation. Outlets across the country ran with the story and Republican voices made clear this isn’t just a debate — it’s political ammo for 2028.

The real threat here is cultural. When leading Democrats flirt with the idea that massive success is inherently illegitimate, they alienate the very people who build businesses, hire workers, and fund charitable institutions. Pundits on both sides are already warning that this rhetoric will define the party’s economic pitch heading into the next presidential cycle.

Anyone who’s built something from nothing knows that accumulation of wealth at scale often starts with sweat, sleepless nights, and stubborn belief — not theft or a conspiracy. Conservatives should push that truth hard: prosperity should be celebrated and broadened, not punished with moralistic lecturing. That argument has been made persuasively by major conservative thinkers and outlets that defend free enterprise.

Voters who love America’s promise must see through the spectacle: AOC’s line plays well to a captive progressive base but is poison for swing voters who value opportunity and reward for effort. The choice in 2028 will be clear if Republicans keep reminding Americans that our system should lift people up, not shame success — and that’s a message that wins when conservatives make it loud and proud.

 

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Reports: Suspected Iranian Hackers Target US Gas Station Fuel Systems

Hackers believed to be linked to Iran may have breached computerized fuel monitoring systems used at gas stations across the United States, according to a CNN report published Friday and cited by Newsweek.

CNN reported the suspected attacks involved "automatic tank gauge" systems, known as ATGs, which monitor fuel levels and leak detection in underground gas station tanks.

U.S. officials told CNN some of the systems were exposed online without password protection, allowing intruders in some cases to manipulate digital readings and system displays.

Officials told CNN investigators found no evidence the hackers altered actual fuel supplies, but warned manipulated readings could hide leaks or create broader infrastructure safety risks.

CNN reported federal investigators suspect Iranian-linked actors were behind the intrusions, though officials had not publicly attributed the activity to a specific Iranian government entity.

The reported breaches add to years of U.S. warnings that Iran has built one of the world’s most aggressive state-backed cyber programs, frequently targeting energy infrastructure, industrial control systems, financial institutions, and transportation networks.

The U.S. Justice Department announced in 2016 that seven Iranian hackers tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were charged over cyberattacks targeting dozens of American banks between 2011 and 2013.

Federal prosecutors said the same group also infiltrated the Bowman Avenue Dam control system in Rye Brook, New York, in what officials described as one of the first known Iranian intrusions into U.S. industrial infrastructure.

 Cybersecurity firm Dragos warned in 2019 that Iranian hacking groups had increasingly focused on operational technology systems used in utilities, oil facilities, pipelines, and manufacturing plants.

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued joint advisories in multiple years warning that Iranian hackers routinely scan for poorly secured industrial control devices connected directly to the internet.

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported in 2022 that Iranian state-linked hacking groups increasingly targeted U.S. critical infrastructure organizations using ransomware, destructive malware, and credential theft campaigns.

The Treasury Department said in late 2023 that hackers affiliated with the IRGC targeted water utilities and other infrastructure operators using internet-connected industrial devices manufactured by Unitronics.

Federal agencies warned at the time that Iranian actors were exploiting default passwords and weak cybersecurity protections in operational technology systems.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has repeatedly warned that many fuel, water, and utility systems across the United States remain vulnerable because operators continue using legacy industrial equipment with outdated software and inadequate network protections.

Iranian-linked cyber operations have also repeatedly targeted energy infrastructure in the Middle East.

Cybersecurity researchers and Western officials blamed Iranian actors for the 2012 Shamoon malware attack that wiped data from roughly 30,000 computers at Saudi Aramco, one of the largest oil companies in the world.

Saudi officials later described the Shamoon attack as one of the most destructive cyberattacks ever carried out against the global energy sector.

Iran has denied involvement in many cyberattacks attributed to it by Western governments and cybersecurity researchers.

The latest reported intrusions come amid heightened tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States, with American officials repeatedly warning Tehran could use cyberattacks as an asymmetric response to military or economic pressure.

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