According to a new report, the Texas GOP congressional staffer who died earlier this month after she caught on fire in her home doused herself in gasoline and set her body on fire.

After reviewing surveillance video, authorities determined Regina Santos-Aviles was in her backyard alone when she caught fire on September 13.

Santos-Aviles was alive when first responders arrived at her home late in the evening on September 13; however, she passed away the next morning.

Firefighters also had to put out burning gas cans, according to the report obtained by Uvalde Leader-News.

Texas officials did not disclose whether Santos-Aviles deliberately set herself on fire; however, her family insists it was an accident.

“Her last words were, ‘I don’t want to die,’” a family member previously told KSAT.

The 35-year-old worked for US Rep. Tony Gonzales as a congressional staffer.

The official cause of death is still pending.

Uvalde Leader News reported:

Regina Santos-Aviles was alone in her backyard at 215 Geraldine St. when she caught fire and law enforcement does not believe others were involved in her death, according to a Sept. 23 Uvalde Police Department statement.

Santos-Aviles, former Uvalde Chamber of Commerce director and regional district director for U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, died Sept. 14 after catching fire and sustaining burns the previous night. She was 35.

UPD, EMS and the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department responded to the initial disturbance call at Santos-Aviles’ residence at roughly 9:40 p.m. Sept. 13. The fire had been put out and EMS was treating Santos-Aviles when firefighters arrived. Police officers told the firefighters that she had “doused herself in gasoline and was ignited into flames,” according to a UVFD report. Firefighters also extinguished a burning gas can in the backyard.

She died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

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A gun-grabbing former Biden hack was caught off guard during a Senate hearing on Tuesday when his own words on defunding the police were read back to him. It got even worse when he invented a new word in a report and was left with no answer.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) confronted Democratic witness Gregory Jackson, Jr., who formerly served as the Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. He is now the president of the Rocket Foundation, a non-profit established by the Migos rap group to end gun violence.

The Missouri senator started by ripping the Democrats’ pro-crime policies before whipping out Jackson Jr’s report on ‘solving’ crime. He noted that Jackson Jr was pretending he did not support defunding the police when his own report recommended doing so.

More bizarrely, what Jackson Jr. recommended investing in: programs that acknowledge the need for safe-space initiatives led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, and gender non-conforming people.

You read that right, he wants to give money to “two-spirit” people. The Democrats are now so woke on intersectionality that they are inventing new words to pander to their radical-left base.

Hawley was undoubtedly confused and asked Jackson Jr. to tell him what a two-spirit person is. The gun grabber was puzzled and had no answer.

But Hawley would not let go and kept asking the same question. This caused Jackson Jr. to start losing his temper before the Missouri senator shut him down.

WATCH:

What is Democrats’ solution to combatting crime?

Well, this Biden staffer thinks we should invest in “safe-space initiatives led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, and gender non-conforming people”

Then he called me two-faced because he couldn’t define two-spirit pic.twitter.com/VvVXTUssxT

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 30, 2025

HAWLEY: This is so typical of what the Democrats do now. Your policies have apparently failed and led to the DEATHS of millions of Americans and now you say you’ve never heard of defunding the police.

Your OWN report recommends it on page after page after page! Let me ask you about something else you said: here’s what you say we ought to invest in:

(Reading report) We need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe-space initiatives led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, trans, and gender non-conforming people.

What’s two-spirit?

JACKSON JR (chuckling): You guys are pulling some interesting quotes.

HAWLEY: This is from your report!

JACKSON, JR: If you look at the report, the focus is on investing in violence intervention, outreach work…

HAWLEY: You say we shouldn’t invest in the police! (You say) We should invest in two-spirit community programs. What is that?

JACKSON, JR: We’re not going to discriminate against any non-profit…

HAWLEY: What is two-spirit? You say don’t fund the police, but do fund safe spaces for two-spirit people. I have no idea what that is.

JACKSON, JR: Uh, uh, honestly, I’m not completely aware of the language…

HAWLEY: You wrote the report. What is a two-spirit individual? You are the witness called by the Democrats on this committee, so I assume that you reflect their views.

JACKSON, JR: I feel like I’m looking at a two-faced individual…

HAWLEY: Oh, no, sir! You’re looking at someone who’s reading you your own words. I’d like to hear the answer.

Here’s the answer: you don’t have any solutions. You want to invest in gobbledygook and take away money from police officers who actually keep our communities safe.

And when you’re called on the record, you deny it!

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Race-baiter Joy Reid sat down with BET Networks’ Miabelle and unleashed a tirade against what she calls the “dangerous” plans of conservatives and MAGA Republicans.

According to Reid, the real threat to America isn’t skyrocketing crime, open borders, or inflation, it’s the horrifying prospect of… freedom?

During the interview, the two discussed “Project Esther,” a Heritage Foundation initiative.

According to Reid, the project isn’t about protecting free speech or academic integrity, it’s a “conservative scheme” to suppress pro-Palestinian protests, silence dissent, and, somehow, force women back into the home.

Joy Reid: “And so Project Esther has those twin goals—protecting Israel from protests and criticism by making that criticism basically illegal, shutting down those protests on college campuses, and forcing women back into the home.”

According to Reid, conservatives want to enslave Black Americans all over again.

Reid went on to claim that Republicans are “desperately” trying to restore a “hierarchical past” from the 1890s or earlier, where there were no taxes, no regulations, and no “natural rights” for working Americans.

Of course, she left out the fact that it was Democrats who ran Jim Crow, Democrats who enforced segregation, and Democrats who blocked civil rights bills for decades.

Miabelle: Wow. And what does this mean for Black people?

Joy Reid: Well, what we always have to remember is that when they say they want women back home, they don’t mean us, because they do want us in the home cooking for the white family.

Miabelle: Yes.

Joy Reid: They want back the kind of world in the 1950s, where the only time you saw a Black woman, she had a maid’s uniform on, and she was taking care of your children. And the only time they saw a Black man was when he was their butler or their driver.

They really miss the hierarchical past that we tried to leave behind, but that’s not that old — we’re talking about the 1950s.

They desperately want that world back, if not the ’40s, ’30s, or the 1890s. So, the goal of trying to force the country backwards to that late 19th century or early 20th century — they’re very serious about it.

And one of the reasons they’re so serious about it is that if you go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business. You could earn as much money as you wanted, and leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes.

That’s the world they want back. And to get it back, they need society to change. They need people to be less modern. They need people to want fewer things. They need people to be satisfied just being workers.

And they don’t really believe that any of us have natural rights. They believe only the super rich, only the billionaires have real, true rights, and everyone else are just workers.

WATCH:

Joy Reid on the fascist agenda:

“They want to take us back to no income tax, no regulations, earn what you want, family inherits everything” pic.twitter.com/pb1574eEBh

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 30, 2025

Reid is essentially admitting that conservatives want to unleash American potential: low taxes, free markets, and the right to pass on your success to your kids. That’s not a “hierarchical past,” that’s the foundation of liberty that built this great nation.

But in Reid’s worldview, where government control is the ultimate good, anything that empowers individuals over the state is dangerous.

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is continuing to throw a childish tantrum after President Trump epically trolled him and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as the government shutdown nears.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft reported, President Trump has backed Democrats into a corner – and now he’s openly mocking them in their bitter defeat.

After their meeting on Monday with Trump in the White House, Schumer and Jeffries stopped to whine to liberal reporters.

Someone took the video and rewrote the lines with what Schumer really meant to say.

And President Trump tweeted this out on his Twitter page! Notice Jeffries is in a sombrero and mustache as Mariachi music plays.

Schumer also tells the truth for a full 30 seconds, which makes it even more hilarious.

pic.twitter.com/JzQYLShOCt

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2025

During a press conference on Tuesday, a livid Jeffries yanked out the race card and called President Trump a coward.

“Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, Jeffries began as his fellow Dems ooohed behind him. “Don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video!

“When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face!”

WATCH:

Oh no! Hakeem is BIG MAD! https://t.co/Wxrivy5f9V pic.twitter.com/2KcgrYcS06

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 30, 2025

Late Monday night, Jeffries also erupted on MSNBC, calling the Trump AI video of him and Schumer “disgusting.”

Hakeem Jeffries just reacted LIVE ON MSNBC to the meme that Trump posted of him in a sombrero and mustache:

“It’s a disgusting video.” pic.twitter.com/hjm897UtP6

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 30, 2025

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Between ‘time served’ and a decade in prison, Diddy heads to sentencing.

The high-profile criminal trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is heading to its final act on Friday, when Judge Arun Subramanian will determine the fate of the rapper.

His defense has presented their filing asking for Diddy to be sentenced to ‘time served’, having spent over a year behind bars since his arrest in September 2024.

New York Post reported:

“Prosecutors urged a New York federal judge on Tuesday to lock Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs up for at least 11 years when he’s sentenced on prostitution-related charges later this week — arguing the 1unrepentant’ hip-hop mogul has left his victims living in fear.”

Diddy was convicted of hiring male escorts who traveled across state lines.

“‘His crimes of conviction are serious and have warranted sentences over ten years in multiple cases for defendants who, like Sean Combs, engaged in violence and put others in fear’, prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing recommendation filed shortly after midnight.”

“In the filing, which included letters from accusers describing how his violence had impacted their lives, prosecutors called Combs ‘unrepentant’ and urged that his sentence reflect the ‘decades of unchecked violence’ and ‘decades of psychological, emotional, and physical damage he has inflicted’.”

Combs dodged a life sentence in July, as jurors acquitted him on the charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

“Instead, he is facing up to 20 years behind bars after he was convicted of two counts of arranging for male sex workers to travel across state lines where he directed them to have sex with his girlfriends in so-called ‘freak-offs’.”

Watch: Diddy beating Cassie in a hotel lobby.

P Diddy seen beating the shit out of his girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016 Video

Questions:
• Why is this video being seen now, 8 years later?
• who had the video?
• how did CNN “exclusively” get this video?https://t.co/wGCAUDaGlN pic.twitter.com/rAMQE77oLI

— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) May 17, 2024

Read more:

In the Run-up to October Sentencing, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Defense Is Asking for ‘Time Served’, but He May Face Decades in Prison

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