The North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) announced Monday that it has identified approximately 34,000 deceased individuals still listed on the state’s voter rolls.

The discovery was made through a comprehensive data cross-check against the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, the same system used to verify the U.S. citizenship of registered voters.

Officials submitted 7,397,734 voter records to the SAVE system in April as part of an ongoing effort to clean up the rolls and ensure only eligible citizens can vote.

NCSBE Executive Director Sam Hayes admitted the massive number of deceased people on the state’s voter rolls caught them off guard.

“While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated,” Hayes said in a press release.

Hayes continued, “The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to uncover issues like this. Our goal is to use every available and legal tool at our disposal to achieve the most accurate voter rolls possible. Now, we must roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work to act of verifying that every person registered to vote in North Carolina is eligible. Our team, along with our state and federal will do what’s necessary to meet this responsibility.”

The press release stressed that North Carolina already receives weekly updates on in-state deaths from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which are handled at the county level.

However, the SAVE match is helping catch voters who moved out of state, registered in North Carolina, and later passed away elsewhere, a gap that regular state processes had missed.

Election officials said that the presence of these names on the rolls does not mean illegal votes were cast in their names.

The Board says it will now follow established verification procedures, cross-check additional databases, and work with county boards to remove the deceased voters.

Republican North Carolina Congressman Mark Harris reacted on X, calling the situation “a failure” and demanding immediate action.

“This isn’t a mistake—it’s a failure,” Harris wrote.

Harris continued, “Election integrity is non-negotiable. Fix it now. Pass the SAVE American Act!”

BREAKING: North Carolina confirms 34,000 deceased individuals on our voter rolls.

This isn’t a mistake—it’s a failure.

Election integrity is non-negotiable.

Fix it now.

Pass the SAVE American Act!https://t.co/PJMBGGmMoH

— Rep. Mark Harris (@RepMarkHarrisNC) April 28, 2026

The SAVE Act, or Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

President Donald Trump has made it a top priority to get the SAVE Act passed, as Democrats do everything in their power to try and stop it.

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Woke House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday forcefully defended his vow to unleash “maximum warfare” against Republicans when pressed by reporters about the inflammatory phrase.

Asked about the language in light of the recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, Jeffries replied, “I stand by it,” adding, “You can continue to criticize me for it, I don’t give a damn about your criticism.”

Jeffries has used the phrase repeatedly in recent days while celebrating Democratic redistricting wins in Virginia and vowing to “crush” what he has called the “DeSantis dummymander” in Florida.

At a Capitol news conference last week, he framed the fight over congressional maps by declaring, “We are in an era of maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

The New York Democrat has attempted to argue that his rhetoric refers to a hard‑fought political and legal campaign over redistricting. Even as he doubled down, Jeffries hypocritically insisted he “unequivocally” denounces political violence, saying in a television interview that “violence is never the answer, whether it’s targeted at the right, the left or the center.”

Republicans have seized on the comments, with the National Republican Congressional Committee circulating a clip of Jeffries saying he stands by “maximum warfare” and calling the remarks “unhinged” in a widely shared post on X.

Critics in opinion outlets and online have argued that by vowing “maximum warfare” against the GOP “everywhere, all the time,” Jeffries is dehumanizing Republican voters and escalating a climate in which political violence is at an all time high, even as he publicly claims to call for unity and lower temperatures in public life.

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By Tony Vanderhoef

Federal workers missed paychecks for over 60 days. Congress missed none.

TSA officers screened 3 million passengers a day this spring. They did it without paychecks. Some sold plasma to pay their bills. Others slept in their cars. Some just quit. Sixty days into the longest partial shutdown in American history, Congress returned from its two-week recess and still has not fixed it.

The Senate did try – passing a funding bill by unanimous consent before recess even began. The House went home anyway. Congress eventually returned, and DHS is now recalling furloughed workers on redirected funds that have no congressional appropriation behind them. The executive branch is essentially running a federal agency on financial improvisation because the legislative branch will not do its job. If that does not alarm you, it should.

This is not a partisan problem. A November NBC News poll found that 52% of voters blamed Trump and congressional Republicans for the 2025 shutdown, while 42% blamed congressional Democrats – the highest share of Democratic blame in NBC polling in over 30 years. Both sides have blocked proposals. Both sides have pointed fingers. Both sides have taken a recess while government employees were working without pay. This is a modern Congress problem, and the pattern predates any single party or president.

To understand why it keeps happening, consider how rare it once was. Between 1995 and 2013, the government did not shut down once. An 18-year stretch of Congress doing the bare minimum. Then came the 16-day shutdown in 2013, the 35-day shutdown in 2018 to 2019, the 43-day shutdown in the fall of 2025, and now this. Each one was treated as an extraordinary crisis. Each one became a template for the next. What was once a last resort is now a governing strategy, and a remarkably consequence-free one at that.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated the 2018 to 2019 shutdown shaved 11 billion dollars off the GDP, 3 billion of which was never recovered. The 2013 shutdown cost taxpayers an estimated $2.5 billion dollars in pay for work that never got done. Shutdowns do not save money – they burn it. The bill lands on everyone except the people who caused it: Congress.

That’s the real problem. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress one unambiguous duty: fund the government. Not negotiate forever. Not leverage essential workers as bargaining chips. Fund it. Yet only about 4% of Americans express great confidence in how Congress is being run. Despite the lack of results and confidence, incumbents keep winning reelection, and not a single institutional mechanism exists to track whether Congress performed its most fundamental obligation. We measure GDP, unemployment, and even judicial efficiency. We do not measure whether the people in charge of keeping the lights on actually did. We should. And we should make it public. Only then will accountability follow.

This is why shutdowns continue to happen and are increasing in duration and frequency. The system charges lawmakers nothing for failure. Two changes would fix that immediately. First, automatically delay congressional pay the moment a shutdown begins; members would then collect back pay only once a budget is signed. Next, implement a standing rule in each chamber requiring the session to continue until funding is restored – no new bureaucracy or constitutional amendment required, just a simple rule that says if government workers don’t get paid, then neither does Congress. No one goes home until it’s fixed.

The TSA officer who screened your bags without a paycheck deserved better. So did the Coast Guard servicemember, the FEMA staffer, and the cybersecurity analyst who kept working anyway. They held up their end of the deal. It’s past time Congress held up theirs.

Tony Vanderhoef is a law student at FSU specializing in legislative and administrative law and a Young Voices contributor whose work on policy and congressional dysfunction has appeared in The Hill and the South Florida Sun Sentinel

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Liberal TV network ABC has ignited volcanic backlash by refusing to fire “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel, who is continuing to recklessly incite violence against conservatives.

In refusing to curb Kimmel’s dangerous rhetoric, ABC made clear not only its toxic left-wing bias, but also its disregard for public safety and national security.

The brouhaha erupted on April 23, when Kimmel flippantly joked about the multiple assassination attempts on President Donald Trump by referring to first lady Melania Trump as an “expectant widow.”

Kimmel made the inane comments while performing a mock White House Correspondents’ Dinner skit on his late-night talk show.

During the sketch, the left-wing foghorn pretended to be speaking to attendees.

“Our first lady Melania is here… so beautiful,” Kimmel said. “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

Jimmy Kimmel: “Our First Lady is here. Mrs. Trump… you have a glow like an expectant widow.” pic.twitter.com/LdloPzMyXr

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 26, 2026

This jab ignited renewed criticism when another presidential assassination attempt occurred two days later at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.

On Monday, the first lady urged ABC to finally take a stand against political violence by ousting Kimmel.

“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” she wrote on X.

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.”

“Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand,” Melania said.

Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.

People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to…

— First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) April 27, 2026

The president — and countless other Americans — joined Melania in urging ABC to axe Kimmel after his latest scandal.

President Donald J. Trump Calls on Disney and ABC to Fire Jimmy Kimmel Following His Despicable Call to Violence. pic.twitter.com/W4oxxgBZxv

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 27, 2026

As of Tuesday morning, ABC still has not responded to the growing public demands for Kimmel’s firing — effectively flipping off millions of Americans who put the Trumps in the White House for a second time.

Under normal circumstances, conservatives oppose censoring their political opponents. However, this is not Kimmel’s first time downplaying or inciting violence against conservatives.

In September 2025, Kimmel was yanked off the air after he trivialized, and lied about, Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination by a leftist lunatic.

In October 2023, Kimmel roasted House Majority Leader Steve Scalise for supporting the Second Amendment by joking about the time he was shot at a 2017 mass shooting that targeted Republicans.

Like other political assassination attempts in recent years, a left-wing lunatic was the perpetrator in that instance.

The public is used to liberal entertainers and politicians downplaying or excusing the nonstop stream of left-wing violence, including the Black Lives Matter riots, and the countless assaults and death threats against conservatives.

There’s no reason why the Trump admin cannot go after political extremists like Hasan Piker who tell his viewers to go commit political violence and murder right-wingers

Inciting violence is not free speech https://t.co/MNYYZ1bkAn

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminlee) April 26, 2026

To underscore how desensitized the establishment media outlets have made violence against conservatives, imagine the outrage if there had been three assassination attempts on Barack Obama when he was president.

Imagine the nonstop leftist screeching if multiple liberal activists or influencers had been punched, shot at, or killed at public events in the same way that conservatives have been targeted for years.

And if the shooter on Saturday night had been a conservative white male, the media would be hyperventilating nonstop about the imaginary threat of “white supremacy” and “toxic masculinity.”

By continuing their blatant double standard, Democrats and their corporate media puppets are emboldening more assassination attempts against Trump and other conservatives.

In so doing, they’re endangering the lives of all Americans — any of whom could easily be caught in the crossfire.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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