Morning Brief: Ballots, Blowback & A Warning In Tennessee
A trio of major political battles broke out across the country this week — from a new RNC lawsuit testing the boundaries of voter eligibility, to escalating whistleblower accusations in Minnesota’s welfare system, to a surprisingly tight special election in deep-red Tennessee. Together, the developments offer a snapshot of the tensions shaping the run-up to […]
Van Epps Narrowly Wins Tennessee’s 7th District In Surprisingly Tight Special Election
Democrats gain 10-15 points compared to last year’s presidential election in solid-red Tennessee… With 95% of the vote in, Republican Matt Van Epps has secured a 52.1%-46.8% victory over progressive Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee’s 7th District — closing out a far more competitive race than Republicans expected even a month ago. When the dust […]
White House Clashes With Pop Star Over Song Usage In ICE Deportation Video
The White House brushed aside pop star Sabrina Carpenter’s outrage this week after she demanded the administration stop using her hit song “Juno” in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a deportation video that highlighted arrests of violent criminal offenders. On Monday, the White House posted a montage of ICE raids and deportations set […]
Senate Minority Leader Says Multiple Offices Were Targeted With Bomb Threats
On Monday, Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer said that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.” Schumer said in a statement that local law enforcement received bomb threats referencing his offices in Rochester, Binghamton and Long Island with the email […]
Go Figure: Gang Violence Has More To Do With Emotion Than Economics
A recent issue of the University of Chicago Magazine includes an interview with Jens Ludvig, author of Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence. By SNW Contributor Thomas E. Gift, MD for Shooting News Weekly While he’s too tied to the term “gun violence,” he feels that any change in gun ownership rules will come slowly, and […]
Pentagon’s Second Narco-Boat Strike Sparks Debate – Illegal Order Or Political Psyop?
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – A group of anonymous, likely Democrat, former military lawyers (JAGS) issued a memo condemning War Secretary Pete Hegseth for allegedly ordering a commander and military personnel to kill everybody aboard a drug-carrying vessel in early September after it had already been hit once. In their interpretation, based on a bombshell Washington […]
New Documents Reveal Conspiracy To Jail Trump Supporters Over 2020 Election
The nonprofit public interest law firm Judicial Watch reports it has “received 5,789 pages of records from the Michigan Department of Attorney General in a Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show the state’s coordination with the nonprofit States United Democracy Center, which pushed indictments of President Donald Trump’s supporters, lawyers, activists, and […]
UK Man Arrested For Posing With Gun In Photo Taken While In The US
Via Zero Hedge by Tyler Durden Last year, during sweeping British protests triggered by the stabbing murders of three young girls at a dance recital by the radicalized 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to have American citizens “arrested and extradited” to the U.K. for “stoking racial violence” (i.e., […]
Biden And Zelensky Must Answer For Nord Stream
The Nord Stream explosions in September 2022 created a puzzle whose pieces now lock together with uncomfortable clarity. The emerging picture is straightforward: a Ukrainian special operations unit carried out the attack, Western governments suspected as much from the beginning, and the Biden administration played a central role in shaping public perception in a way […]