The Ninth Circuit just handed down a clear rebuke: Sigal Chattah’s
run as Nevada’s top federal prosecutor was unlawful. The appeals court
affirmed a lower court decision that the Justice Department’s personnel
shuffle violated federal law, and that means Chattah can no longer
supervise the prosecutions at issue. In plain English: the
administration tried a clever end-run and the judges slapped it down.
What the court actually held
The
three-judge panel said the Justice Department could not sidestep the
statute that limits interim U.S. attorney appointments. The government’s
move — put someone in as interim, then relabel her “first assistant”
after the vacancy to keep her in charge — was ruled impermissible. The
court’s message was simple and sharp: Congress wrote rules for a reason,
and the Attorney General can’t rewrite them by sleight of hand.
Why this matters beyond Nevada
This
is not a tiny procedural quarrel. The ruling follows similar decisions
from other districts that rejected the same tactic. The practical
fallout is immediate: judges and the DOJ now must decide who runs the
prosecutions Chattah had been overseeing. The administration nominated
George Kelesis
for the permanent job, and the Senate should do its job
and consider that nomination rather than letting personnel games fester.
If the Justice Department asks the Supreme Court to take this up, we’ll
have an even bigger showdown over the executive’s power to staff
offices without Senate oversight.
A conservative take: rule of law beats political tricks
Call
it inconvenient for a Republican administration if you like, but the
court’s ruling is a win for the rule of law and separation of powers. If
you want your preferred U.S. attorney in place, go through the Senate.
Don’t invent a workaround and then act surprised when judges enforce the
statute. That’s not bold leadership — it’s sloppy governance dressed up
as creative personnel management. And no, sarcasm aside, the GOP should
not cheer a tactic that undermines the very checks and balances
conservatives claim to defend.
What should happen next
The
smart path is obvious: the White House should proceed with the
nomination process for George Kelesis and ask the Senate to move
swiftly. The Justice Department should stop using procedural contortions
that invite costly litigation. If the administration decides to appeal
to the Supreme Court, it should be ready to defend the principle it
claims to embrace — that appointments require Senate accountability. For
now, the courts have reined in a messy stunt. Let’s call it what it is
and fix it the right way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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):
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.
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).
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
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
((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 6th 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 6th 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.
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.
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…
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 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.
“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.
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 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.
