SHOCKING 10-MINUTE VIDEO: California Democrats LIE, DODGE, and Play Dumb When Independent Journalist Nick Shirley Confronts Them Over the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’
April 21, 2026
Citizen journalist Nick Shirley confronts California lawmakers over AB 2624—the so-called “Stop Nick Shirley Act”
California Democrats are in full panic mode after independent journalist Nick Shirley, the fearless citizen reporter who has single-handedly blown the lid off hundreds of millions in alleged fraud at immigrant-run NGOs, daycares, and hospice scams, went straight to the California State Capitol and confronted the very politicians pushing their tyrannical “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”
And what happened? These radical Democrats lied about authoring the bill, couldn’t justify a single word of it, and acted like they’d never even heard of AB 2624, the very legislation they sponsored.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported,the California Assembly Judiciary Committee voted 11-2 to advance AB 2624, the so-called “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” a disgusting Democrat power grab designed to make it illegal for brave citizen journalists like Nick Shirley to expose the rampant fraud bleeding American taxpayers dry in immigrant service centers.
This is nothing less than an all-out assault on the First Amendment by the radical left in the People’s Republic of California.
The bill, authored by far-left Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (wife of Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta), would slap investigative reporters with massive civil sanctions starting at $4,000 minimum if a fraudster from one of these “immigrant service centers” decides they don’t want to be caught on camera committing their scams.
The crook can then run to court for an injunction banning the journalist from filming or exposing them on camera for up to four years.
And if the journalist refuses to take down the original video? Triple the damages, $12,000, just for telling the truth!
In the worst cases, if the journalist is accused of “doxxing” or creating an “imminent threat” by simply reporting the facts, they could face criminal charges and $10,000 fines.
In the bombshell video, Shirley walks right up to Democratic lawmakers, including co-authors and key players behind AB 2624, and demands answers.
Their responses? Classic Democrat deflection:
Lied about authoring the bill
Pretended total ignorance (“I don’t know anything about it!”)
Couldn’t defend or explain why they’re trying to criminalize exposing fraud
WATCH:
Here is 10 minutes of me confronting the California politicians who authored the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”…
When confronted about AB 2624:
– Lied about authoring the bill
– Couldn’t justify the bill
– Acted like they didn’t know about the bill
In the vast expanse of the Indo-Pacific, America stands as the indispensable defender—guardian of freedom, guarantor of open sea lanes, and bulwark against authoritarian aggression. Red China and its erratic ally North Korea pose existential threats to regional stability, sovereignty, and the rules-based order that has underpinned prosperity for decades. These adversaries pursue multi-domain dominance through conventional, nuclear, hypersonic, cyber, and space warfare. Yet America possesses the will, the allies, and the strategic vision to prevail. Drawing on insights from visionary authors and military leaders, this article outlines a strategy of strong national economic deterrent alongside a Reagan-style commitment to Taiwan. Peace through strength, not appeasement, is the path forward.
The Red Dragon’s Multifaceted Menace
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has transformed its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into a peer competitor capable of challenging U.S. primacy across every domain. Beijing’s core operational concept—Multi-Domain Precision Warfare (MDPW)—integrates command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems powered by artificial intelligence and big data. This enables instantaneous aggregation of forces to strike weaknesses in U.S. and allied operations, from the First Island Chain to the open ocean. PLA exercises routinely rehearse firepower strikes, blockades, and amphibious assaults on Taiwan, while gray-zone tactics—coercive patrols, island-building, and legal warfare—erode neighbors’ sovereignty in the South and East China Seas.
China’s Rapid Airpower Buildup:
The PLA Air Force (PLAAF) and Naval Aviation are undergoing one of the most aggressive modernization campaigns in history. Production of advanced fighters has surged dramatically, with the fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter now being manufactured at rates of 100-120 aircraft per year. The fleet has grown to over 300 J-20s in service, on track to reach approximately 1,000 by 2030. Complementary production of J-35 carrier-based stealth fighters and J-16 multirole aircraft adds hundreds more advanced platforms annually, giving China the potential to field the world’s largest fleet of modern combat aircraft. These platforms, equipped with long-range air-to-air missiles, advanced sensors, and increasingly capable engines, are designed to contest air superiority over the Taiwan Strait and beyond, threaten U.S. and allied bases, and support massed strikes against naval forces. This air buildup compresses response times and raises the risks for any U.S. intervention in a regional crisis.
Nuclear escalation forms the ultimate backstop. The PRC is rapidly expanding its arsenal, projected to exceed 1,000 operational warheads by 2030, many at heightened readiness. It fields a maturing nuclear triad—land-based ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and air-launched systems—paired with new intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of delivering conventional or nuclear payloads. This buildup supports “strategic counterbalance” against the United States while enabling conventional aggression under a nuclear shadow.
Hypersonic weapons amplify the danger. Systems like the DF-17 hypersonic glide vehicle, along with advancing cruise and ballistic variants, evade traditional missile defenses through speed, maneuverability, and unpredictable trajectories. These weapons target U.S. bases, carrier strike groups, and regional allies, compressing decision timelines and complicating deterrence.
In cyberspace and space, Beijing wages relentless, deniable campaigns. Operations such as Volt Typhoon have infiltrated critical U.S. infrastructure, poised to disrupt military logistics and civilian power grids in conflict. In orbit, the PLA deploys expansive satellite constellations for targeting, alongside counterspace weapons—including kinetic anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, jamming, spoofing, and co-orbital “space tugs.” These tools threaten to blind U.S. forces, sever command links, and contest the ultimate high ground. China’s 2027 modernization goals explicitly aim for “strategic decisive victory” over Taiwan and regional dominance, rendering the Indo-Pacific a theater of integrated coercion short of—or escalating to—war.
North Korea’s Rogue Arsenal: Fueling Regional Instability
Pyongyang complements Beijing’s threats as an unpredictable nuclear wildcard. Leader Kim Jong-un has fielded the world’s largest mobile ICBMs, including solid-fuel Hwasong-18 and Hwasong-19 variants capable of striking the U.S. homeland with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) in development. Hypersonic glide warheads on intermediate-range systems further complicate defenses, while short- and medium-range ballistic missiles saturate South Korea, Japan, and U.S. forces.
Nuclear warheads—potentially dozens to hundreds—serve both deterrence and warfighting. Pyongyang’s special operations forces, submarine-launched missiles, and chemical/biological options add layers of terror. In cyberspace, North Korean hackers (Lazarus Group and affiliates) steal cryptocurrency, fund the regime, and conduct espionage against defense industries. Space ambitions include spy satellites and rudimentary ASAT potential, often aided by Russian and Chinese technology transfers.
This arsenal destabilizes the region, emboldens Beijing through proxy pressure, and diverts U.S. resources. Coordinated with China’s multi-domain playbook, North Korea’s provocations risk miscalculation that spirals into broader conflict.
America’s response must reject reactive containment for proactive, multi-domain dominance. Visionaries provide the blueprint: a strategy emphasizing strong central defense institutions, sovereign economic resilience, and unapologetic alliances paired with a strong national economic deterrent.
Technological and Air-Space Superiority:
Techno-thrillers and strategic analyses depict high-tech U.S. airpower—advanced fighters, bombers, and space-based systems—neutralizing Chinese aggression in the Spratlys and beyond. They envision a China-led axis war where U.S. breakthroughs in naval and space domains turn the tide. The strategy: Accelerate deployment of next-generation platforms, hypersonic countermeasures, resilient satellite constellations, and AI-driven command networks. Prioritize Multi-Domain Task Forces that integrate land, sea, air, cyber, and space effects to penetrate A2/AD bubbles. Space must remain the high ground—defended aggressively against ASAT threats—while cyber commands preemptively harden critical infrastructure.
Countering Unrestricted Warfare:
Analyses expose China’s “three warfares” (psychological, media, legal) alongside kinetic and economic coercion. The counter: Whole-of-government resilience—decoupling critical supply chains, countering influence operations, and exposing CCP malign activities. America must mirror this with information dominance and sanctions that impose real costs without hesitation.
Maritime Forward Presence and Alliance Power:
Robust naval posture, forward bases, and freedom of navigation remain essential to deter Chinese expansion. An America First Pacific NATO-style collective defense alliance should be established to bind key partners in mutual security commitments, enabling rapid, coordinated responses across the region. Revive and expand this: Grow the Navy, fortify the First Island Chain with distributed lethal forces, and deepen Quad, AUKUS, and bilateral ties with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia. Joint exercises must simulate high-end conflict, signaling unbreakable resolve.
Strong National Economic Deterrent:
A strong federal defense apparatus—funded responsibly, not through bloated bureaucracy—pairs with emphasis on domestic industry and in a Hamiltonian fiscal prudence. Decouple from CCP supply chains in semiconductors, rare earths, and pharmaceuticals. Impose reciprocal tariffs and investment restrictions that starve Beijing’s military modernization. Build resilient, friend-shored manufacturing to deny economic leverage. This deterrent weaponizes interdependence asymmetrically: collective allied resilience against Chinese coercion, ensuring any aggression triggers cascading economic isolation.
Trump’s Reagan-Type Role in Taiwan:
President Trump’s approach echoes Ronald Reagan’s peace-through-strength doctrine—arming Taiwan with advanced defensive systems while maintaining strategic clarity that any invasion would meet overwhelming U.S. response. Sell Taiwan the tools to impose prohibitive costs: anti-ship missiles, air defenses, cyber resilience, and asymmetric capabilities. Publicly affirm the Taiwan Relations Act’s spirit, conduct freedom-of-navigation operations, and integrate Taiwan into regional defense architectures. Crucially, President Trump should visit Taiwan. Such a high-profile visit would send an unmistakable signal of American resolve, shatter Beijing’s narrative of inevitable dominance, and rally regional allies much as Reagan’s bold actions stiffened resistance to Soviet aggression. Like Reagan’s moral clarity against the “Evil Empire,” a Trump visit to Taipei would affirm that Taiwan’s democracy is worth defending and that the United States will not abandon a key partner. This symbolic yet substantive act, paired with enhanced arms sales and joint training, would deter without provoking while buying Taiwan critical time to bolster its defenses.
Securing Decisive Victory: A New American Century in the Indo-Pacific
This is not a strategy of mere deterrence or managed decline—it is a comprehensive campaign plan for victory, forged in the spirit of a relentless American military and technological superiority. We must build and deploy overwhelming multi-domain forces that can dominate the air, sea, space, and cyber realms from day one of any conflict. No more incrementalism or risk-averse bureaucracy: America must surge production of hypersonic interceptors, next-generation submarines, unmanned loyal wingmen, orbital strike capabilities, and hardened command networks that render Chinese A2/AD systems obsolete.
The United States and its allies must commit to total superiority—pre-positioned lethal forces across the First and Second Island Chains, rapid reinforcement from the homeland, and information warfare that exposes the CCP’s lies while demoralizing its troops. Economic warfare must bite hard and immediately: full-spectrum decoupling of critical technologies, secondary sanctions on any nation aiding Beijing, and a national industrial mobilization that recalls the Arsenal of Democracy.
With President Trump leading the way—visiting Taiwan, arming it to the teeth, and projecting unyielding strength—America will once again prove that free nations, backed by unmatched military power and moral clarity, can slay the dragon. The alternative is surrender: a Chinese-dominated Indo-Pacific where tyranny replaces liberty and American influence fades into history. That future is unacceptable. Through bold leadership, relentless innovation, and ironclad alliances, we will secure decisive victory, preserve freedom, and usher in a new American century of peace through overwhelming strength.
Travis A. Karnes is a strategic analyst who was the FMR lead editor of the Peace Through Strength Institute.
This article was originally published by RealClearDefense and made available via RealClearWire.
Blue City Paradise: NYC Thugs Steal Elderly Women’s Car, Hit 72-Year-Old With Walker as They Make Their Getaway
April 21, 2026
A Sunday report from the New York Post tells a story that should make any decent person stop, take a breath, and ask their neighbors to do some serious personal inventory.
The report is a snapshot of a city that has lost its grip on basic order.
According to the report, four young black men targeted two white women in a parking lot.
This was not at midnight in a bad neighborhood. This was in broad daylight outside a Lowe’s location in a decent part of Brooklyn.
The women, ages 72 and 48, were loading a Toyota Corolla when the group of hoodlums approached them.
One suspect jumped into the driver’s seat and took the car. As he sped off, he struck both women, sending one to the ground and hitting the older victim as she sat with a walker.
The New York Post reported that both women suffered minor injuries but declined medical treatment at the scene.
They may be minor injuries, but there is a moral injury to a society that continues to allow this kind of behavior to be normal.
The suspects, believed to be between 18 and 20, fled the scene, three in the stolen car and one in a separate vehicle.
Police are still searching for them, according to the New York Post.
But they may very well be caught and released, only to go on to repeat this kind of behavior.
This cycle of brazen crime, outrage, and then silence until the next victim comes along will repeat in New York and every other blue city like it until something radically changes.
Democrats both directly and indirectly encourage the kind of animalistic behavior that leaves an elderly woman with a walker mowed over by her own car.
Why do people feel so emboldened to victimize the vulnerable in the first place? It’s not exactly a mystery.
When consequences are non-existent, the message is clear: You can act like a thug, and the system will basically stand behind you.
New York City did not become a dump overnight, and it will not fix itself overnight either.
Leadership, or lack thereof, matters, and the tone set by those in charge matters most of all.
Right now, New York is led by communist revolutionary Zohran Mamdani, and New Yorkers voted to put him there.
His election, like that of his two predecessors — Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio — is proof that blue city residents refuse to accept that the rhetoric of the left is detached from reality.
We are watching the results play out in parking lots, sidewalks, and elsewhere as ordinary people pay for failed ideas.
The U.S. might incarcerate more people than most other countries, but it is not enough.
A serious society responds to serious crime with serious consequences.
That means more prisons where necessary, longer sentences when possible, and zero parole for repeat offenders.
It also means a justice system that prioritizes victims over the comfort of those who harm them.
New Yorkers, like all Americans, deserve to feel safe doing something as ordinary as loading their car.
Then again, these people live in a city and a state dominated by one party, and the voters don’t seem to be bothered by events like Sunday’s brazen assault and robbery — that, or these people fail to see the correlation.
This is beyond blaming Mamdani or the other leftists running the city into the ground.
If the people in charge cannot or will not protect you and will not allow you to protect yourself, then at some point the responsibility shifts back to the voter.
These people of New York City need to vote better, if for no other reason than to protect the elderly and to ensure violent people feel the warmth of collectivism while behind bars.
Far Left Anti-Billionaire Group Linked to Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire Tom Steyer for Governor of California
April 20, 2026
California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons
A far left group called ‘Our Revolution’ which is explicitly anti-billionaire has endorsed billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer for governor of California. This group is basically a continuation of the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.
Steyer has advocated a radical, anti-ICE platform that includes bringing illegals back into the country and jailing ICE agents.
It’s almost like this group doesn’t really care about billionaires and just want to make sure that the left clings to power in California. Almost.
Even the liberal outlet The Intercept is calling them out for this:
Progressive Group Founded by Bernie Sanders Endorses Billionaire for California Governor
Our Revolution, the progressive group founded by Bernie Sanders as an outgrowth of his 2016 presidential campaign, is endorsing its first billionaire as the race for California governor tightens.
Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund billionaire and philanthropist, won the group’s endorsement on Monday. Our Revolution said its decision to back Steyer was driven in part by the shakeup over Rep. Eric Swalwell’s exit and fear that if progressives fail to consolidate around a candidate, they’ll hand the gubernatorial seat to a Republican.
“While yes, he is a billionaire, and that’s a real and important concern, it’s equally important to recognize how he’s used his wealth and power,” said Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese.
Steyer, he said, is the candidate most ideologically aligned with his group’s pledge to fight corporate power in politics — and the most likely to win.
“The worst thing that could happen is a Republican winning,” Geevarghese said. “Strategically, Steyer and his campaign is best positioned to make sure that does not happen.”
Just last month, this group was claiming that billionaires have bought the government.
March: Billionaires have quite literally bought the government.
We’re backing Tom Steyer for Governor of California!
Tom is leaning into universal solutions like single-payer healthcare, taxing extreme wealth, climate action, and ending the outsized influence of corporations in our democracy.
LGBT Event at Brigham Young University Features Painting of Trump’s Severed Head, Children Bashing a Piñata of Republican Senator Mike Lee
April 20, 2026
Screencap of Twitter/X video.
An independent LGBT group recently held an event on the campus of Brigham Young University in Utah which featured an image of President Trump’s severed head and encouraged children to bash an effigy of Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee.
Do you think this is what Brigham Young had in mind?
The left’s violent political fantasies just keep getting worse and now they’re dragging children into it. Mao Zedong would be proud.
And remember, these are the people who constantly claim to be against hate.
Independent BYU LGBT center event displays painting of severed Trump head, invites kids to hit Mike Lee piñata
The Cougar Pride Center, which describes itself as an independent resource center serving Brigham Young University (BYU) students, hosted an event titled “Provo Pride” on April 11, which featured an LGBTQ pride march through downtown Provo, Utah, followed by a pride festival at Memorial Park.
The event featured more than a dozen LGBTQ-themed vendors and a concert with several LGBTQ performers, including drag queen Colette Coins, who self-describes as an “argumentative antithetical dreamgirl” on Instagram.
One vendor stand at the festival featured apparent Molotov cocktails for sale alongside a painting of Donald Trump’s severed head being served on a platter, which was priced at $150. A photo from the event shows a baby in a stroller just behind one of the vendor tables.
Another video from the event shows multiple young children, seemingly attending the event with their families at the park, batting a piñata of Utah Sen. Mike Lee until it broke open, leaving the severed head on the ground…
Founded in 2021, the Cougar Pride Center is an independent organization whose mission is to “empower queer individuals,” “celebrate progress,” and “advocate for change through collaborative advocacy” for students at BYU.
Does Brigham Young University endorse this behavior?
A painting of Donald Trump’s severed head on a platter was found for sale alongside decorative Molotov cocktails at a Pride event in Provo hosted by the Cougar Pride Center, which describes itself as an “LGBTQ resource for BYU students.” pic.twitter.com/JsXh9lhl4E
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Here is 10 minutes of me confronting the California politicians who authored the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”…
