Tina Peters will receive clemency from Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D), according to CNN.

Tina Peters, a Gold Star Mother who is in poor health, was serving nine years in a Colorado state prison after being convicted in connection with efforts to preserve election system data following the controversial 2020 election.

As The Gateway Pundit has reported for years, this was never about “tampering,” it was a blatant Deep State witch hunt designed to punish anyone who refused to rubber-stamp the stolen election and demanded basic transparency.

Peters, who had no prior criminal record and committed zero acts of violence, was railroaded by radical left prosecutors in a sham trial that exposed the weaponization of the justice system against patriotic Americans.

Now, even far-left Governor Jared Polis is reportedly stepping in to commute her sentence or grant clemency.

CNN reported:

Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and soon be released from custody, Polis exclusively told CNN.

The decision followed a previously unreleased statement in Peters’ clemency application, obtained by CNN from Polis’ office, in which Peters acknowledged for the first time since her 2024 conviction that she “made a mistake” and “misled” Colorado election officials.

Polis said in an interview Friday that he was cutting Peters’ prison sentence in half, reducing it to 4.5 years. He said that meant she could be paroled within a month, based on the time she has already served behind bars and Colorado’s early-release rules.

President Trump weighed in on Friday afternoon.

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Guest post by Isaac Thomas

President Trump is set to launch a massive $1.7 billion compensation fund aimed at helping Americans who were targeted by the Biden Regime’s weaponized Department of Justice.

According to a report from ABC News, the fund would compensate individuals who were politically targeted during the Biden years, including many January 6 defendants, conservative activists, and other Trump allies caught in what critics have called one of the largest political persecutions in modern American history.

The move is already sending shockwaves through Washington.

For years, conservatives have argued that the Biden DOJ operated with a two-tiered justice system, aggressively prosecuting Trump supporters while ignoring violent left-wing extremism and politically connected insiders. Many January 6 defendants spent months or even years tied up in court battles, facing prison sentences, financial ruin, public humiliation, and permanent damage to their reputations.

Trump allies say the new compensation fund is about restoring justice and acknowledging the suffering many Americans endured during the Biden administration.

Supporters of the plan argue that countless ordinary Americans were treated like political enemies simply for protesting, questioning the 2020 election, or supporting President Trump. Conservatives across social media immediately praised the announcement as a historic step toward accountability.

Critics, meanwhile, are already attacking the proposal and accusing Trump of rewarding political allies. Establishment media outlets and Democrat lawmakers are expected to fiercely oppose the effort in the coming weeks.

Still, many on the right see the announcement as a powerful statement that the era of politically motivated prosecutions may finally be coming to an end.

This is a huge development. The Gateway Pundit will be following this story as it develops.

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A new report revealed that Iran has seized a ship laden with weapons and is taking it back to Iran.

The so-called “floating armory” was based in the Gulf of Oman, according to Vanguard, a maritime risk management company.

The ship is “bound for Iranian territorial waters,” Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations group said, according to the BBC.

The BBC said the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan had told Vanguard it was operating as a floating armory, designed to store weapons that would be needed by security companies that protect ships from piracy.

Iranian Commandos Board & Seize Honduras-Flagged Ship Off UAE https://t.co/PzFQSO7q4f

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 14, 2026

The BBC said the ship was last documented to be about 40 miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and has spent the past month in that region.

Ships that store weapons for private security firms are based in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Gulf of Oman to allow firms to easily access weapons.

The seizure of Hui Chuan came after an Indian-flagged vessel was sunk off the coast of Oman after being hit by either a drone or missile.

Looks like the vessel was anchored, someone boarded it and was then taken to Iranian waters. pic.twitter.com/KQWA9Qr5yV

— Casual_Hex1036 (@Logicalone) May 14, 2026

The attack on the cargo ship Haji Ali occurred Wednesday, according to NBC News, which reported all 14 crew members were rescued.

India’s foreign ministry called the attack “unacceptable.”

Iran announced that it had enacted a new rule allowing Chinese ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz beginning Wednesday.

As tensions rose in the Middle East, U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper said that the U.S. attacks on Iran were preceded by hundreds of attacks on U.S. troops from Iranian-backed groups, according to Fox News.

“Iranian-supported terror groups have attacked U.S. troops and diplomats more than 350 times” in the 30 months before the attacks,  Cooper told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The Justice Department on Friday announced it will seek the death penalty against the man who gunned down the young Jewish couple in DC last year.

Last May 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, Illinois, was arrested after gunning down two Israeli Embassy staff members outside of a Jewish museum in DC.

The soon-to-be-engaged couple, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Milgram, 26, were killed as they left an American Jewish Committee event at the Capital Jewish Museum.

Rodriguez shouted “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody, according to law enforcement.

Last summer, Jeanine Pirro announced a DC grand jury returned a nine-count indictment against Rodriguez:

“Count one, murder of a foreign official under 18: USC 1116 for the murder of 30-year-old Yaron Lischinsky a foreign official employed by the government of Israel.”

“Counts two and three are hate crimes resulting in death. Under 18: USC 249, where the defendant crossed state lines willfully caused bodily injury to Yaron Lashinsky and Sarah Milgram because of actual as well as perceived national origin, which resulted in both of their deaths.”

“Counts 4 and 5, the discharge of a firearms during a crime of violence causing the death of a person through the use of a firearms. The defendant knowingly used, carried, and discharged charged a firearms in relation to a crime of violence, and with malice of forththought, he did unlawfully kill Yaron and Sarah with a firearms.”

“Counts 6 and 7, first-degree murder while armed. The defendant, Rodriguez, with deliberate and premeditated malice, killed Yaron and Sarah by shooting each with a firearms, thereby causing injuries from which each died.”

“Counts 8 and 9, assault with intent to kill while armed, while armed with a firearm, he assaulted CS and AT, those are initials with intent to kill a person.”

On Friday, Pirro announced her office is seeking the death penalty against Elias Rodriguez.

“Let me be clear: anyone who commits acts of political violence in the nation’s capital will face the full force of the law,” Pirro said.

After extensive review of the facts and the law, my office will seek the death penalty against Elias Rodriguez. The superseding indictment alleges the intentional and premeditated murders of Yaron Lischinsky (30) and Sarah Milgrim (26), the targeted killing of individuals… pic.twitter.com/meCsDAiWdl

— US Attorney Pirro (@USAttyPirro) May 15, 2026

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“The moderates are jihadi-Islamists with patience,” said F.W. Burleigh, author of the book It’s All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World’s Most Notorious Prophet.

In an interview with The Gateway Pundit, Burleigh offered his assessment of Islam’s global advance, the West’s failure to respond, and what he believes must be done.

Burleigh argues that Muslims are drawn to Christianity because of its message of peace and love. “People are drawn by love, and that is what Jesus projects,” he said. Muslim defectors, having witnessed Islam’s cultivation of hatred toward non-Muslims, seek something different. Christ’s message of a loving Father, he argues, resonates where theology does not, and Jesus “comes to them in their dreams because of their need for love.”

The phenomenon of Muslims having the “Jesus dream” and then converting to Christianity has been well documented. It is not hard to believe that a message of love and sacrifice for others resonates more with some people than a message of destruction in the name of establishing an Islamic caliphate. In his book, Burleigh traces that hatred directly to Muhammad, arguing that Islam is not a conventional religion but a cult of violence whose survival depended from the beginning on terror imposed on those who refused to submit.

He views Western converts to Islam very differently. “Stupidity and brainwashing explain it,” he said flatly, adding that most eventually leave. For many, he argued, it is little more than cultural fashionability. He traces the deeper cause to what he calls Gramscian Marxists who have systematically taken over public education from universities down to grammar schools, working in parallel with “moderate” Muslims over decades.

He explained why he referred to moderates as “jihadists with patience.” “They wear nice smiles, blend in, and are willing to wait 20, 30, or 40 years for their stealth tactics to bear fruit.”

The election of a Muslim-Marxist mayor of New York, he added, is proof that those efforts are now bearing fruit, “unless the explanation comes from a rigged election, which can’t be ruled out.”

On whether Islam can coexist with other religions, Burleigh is unambiguous. He cites Koran 8:39 directly: “Fight with them until there is no more fitna and religion is all for Allah.” Islam will tolerate other faiths only so long as their adherents pay a subjugation tax, he argues, and even then the pressure to convert continues.

Christians and other religious minorities are paying jizya across multiple countries where jihadist groups operate as de facto governing authorities. In Mali, JNIM, an al-Qaeda affiliate, has imposed a monthly tax of roughly $40 on all Christians over 18 in the Mopti region, threatening to close churches for non-payment. Along the Niger-Burkina Faso border, jihadists have given Christian males aged 15 and older a choice: pay jizya or face the consequences, warning that those who pay will “live as slaves.”

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, ADF/ISCAP has presented Christians with three options: conversion to Islam, payment of jizya, or death, a framework ISIS’s Al-Naba newsletter described in August 2025 as fully sanctioned by Islamic law.

In Pakistan, TTP and Lashkar-e-Islam have imposed jizya across tribal border areas, including the Tirah Valley and Orakzai, where one Sikh community was forced to pay 20 million rupees and others abandoned their homes rather than comply. Afghanistan remains the only internationally recognized government still imposing jizya by name under Taliban rule. Open Doors analysts assess these cases as part of a coordinated wider strategy, with families who refuse or cannot pay being driven from their ancestral lands.

He points to the absence of Christian churches in Saudi Arabia, the destruction of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the shrinking space for Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the burning of Catholic churches in Europe. “Who is torching all the Catholic churches and cathedrals in Europe?” he asked.

His book documents this pattern from Islam’s founding, cataloging what it says are Muhammad’s crimes against those who rejected him, including mass killings of Jewish tribes, assassination of critics, enslavement of men, women, and children, and systematic plunder.

On the political left’s alliance with Islam, Burleigh sees the same long-term strategy at work. “You can’t go anywhere now without seeing hijabs,” he observed.

He does not spare the left’s ideological inconsistency, noting that nearly everything liberals claim to oppose in Christianity, restrictions on women, opposition to homosexuality, rejection of abortion, is present in Islam as well, yet the left continues its support. He attributes this to decades of educational subversion that have left Western populations unable to identify either themselves or their adversary.

Burleigh warns that the stakes are civilizational. Islam has been pressing against Europe since the generation immediately after Muhammad’s death, when his followers conquered the Iberian Peninsula. He points to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, with 57 member states, 48 of them Muslim-majority, as evidence of Islam’s organized global reach.

“Given enough time and sufficient inaction by Americans and Europeans, the loss of their nations could eventually happen,” he said.

That vulnerability, he argues, is compounded by widespread ignorance about Muhammad’s actual history, an ignorance that served Islam’s spread for centuries but is now eroding. More than 25,000 lethal terrorist attacks since September 11, 2001, have driven growing numbers of people to investigate the ideology’s origins. Meanwhile, recent English translations of Islam’s foundational texts, including the biography of Ibn Ishaq, the hadith collections of Bukhari and Muslim, the histories of Tabari and Waqidi, and the Koranic commentary of Ibn Kathir, have made those origins accessible to general audiences for the first time.

Critically, Burleigh argues that ignorance of Muhammad’s history extends to Muslims themselves. As he wrote, “most of the faithful do not know the truth about Muhammad either. They were raised, some would say brainwashed, with the mythologized version,” in which their prophet is so holy that he will assist God on the Day of Judgment. Most, he notes, have never read the Koran, and many are made to memorize it in Arabic without understanding a word. This makes the Muslim world itself a potential audience for the truth about its own founder.

His prescription is cultural rather than military. The real battlefield, he argues, “is the mind, and the real target is the myth that God talked to Muhammad.” Islam, in his analysis, rests entirely on that single foundational claim, forming what he calls an inverted pyramid balanced on one point. Destroy the myth, he argues, and the structure collapses.

He draws an analogy to ancient Greece and Rome: no one in Athens today believes Zeus lives on Mount Olympus, and no one in Rome still worships at the Temple of Jupiter. Those deity myths, however powerful in their time, did not survive contact with truth. Muhammad’s claims, he argues, are no different and no more durable.

The delivery system he proposes is cinema. Invoking the Polish king Jan Sobieski, who destroyed Ottoman forces threatening Vienna in 1683 through surprise and superior positioning, Burleigh argues that the modern equivalent is film produced on an industrial scale. “Let movie exposés of Muhammad be the cannons and cannon balls,” he said.

The munitions, he writes, “are plentiful,” because they are drawn directly from Islam’s own canonical literature, which Muslims cannot dispute, only attempt to conceal. He envisions everything from Hollywood-quality biopics to History Channel-style docudramas examining Muhammad’s epilepsy, his wars against the Jews, his multiple wives, and the origins of the Koran. He even proposes a courtroom format in which Muhammad stands trial for crimes against humanity, with his victims called as witnesses.

As he puts it, the goal is to “taunt Islam with its secrets and then move in over the horns for the kill; plunge the cinematic sword into the heart of the beast.”

“Fire your exposés from the high ground of movie theaters, televisions, and computer screens,” he said. “Spread them around the globe, and watch what happens to Islam, the enemy that is sworn to subjugate you. The civilization you will ultimately save will be your own.”

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