Last year the globalist left targeted AfD member Petr Bystron before elections alleging he was a Russian agent. The allegations were as fake as the Trump-Russia allegations pushed by Barack Obama and Democrats for years.

Bystron is a member of the conservative, anti-open border party AfD that continues to gain prominence in Germany politics.

As TGP reported last year:

After days of agitation in the European mainstream media, the popular AfD politician Petr Bystron has now become the target of a death threat combined with blackmail. As BILD reports, Bystron’s Bundestag office in Berlin received an anonymous letter with the text: “…if you value your life, then you quickly collect €100,000 and call here…”

The blackmailer insulted the AfD foreign politician as an “asshole” and added a collage with Bystron’s photo with a painted Hitler beard. The Bundestag police are taking the matter seriously and have started investigations (file number Vg/949/2024). The AfD politician said to the German Newspaper BILD of the death threat: “These are the fruits of the smear campaign of the last few days. I ask Czech Prime Minister Fiala: ‘Is this what you wanted to achieve?’”

Several insider authorities in Prague are accusing Czech Prime Minister Fiala of being personally responsible for mentioning Bystron’s name in connection with an affair surrounding the news portal “Voice of Europe.” At the beginning of last week, the Czech secret service made it public that it suspected two Ukrainians of covert propaganda for Russia. The accusations of collaborating with the portal and even taking money were directed against six European parties, all of which are against the war in Ukraine.

Bystron told the Czech newspaper BLESK that this was revenge for his appearances at the anti-government demonstrations in Prague, such as the demonstration on Wenceslas Square last year, where hundreds of thousands of Czechs cheered the AfD politician and at the same time loudly demanded the resignation of the hated Fiala government. According to the latest surveys, only 2% of its own citizens trust the Czech government.

On Wednesday, Petr Bystron’s office announced that the AfD memeber was filing defamation charges against one of the groups that smeared him as a Russian agent during last year’s campaign.

Bystron accuses the organization of having defamed him in a campaign in March by portraying him as a “politician paid by the Russians.” In posters and social media posts, the group depicted Natálie Vachatová, an adviser to Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, as a security risk and featured her alongside Bystron.

“Such defamatory allegations led to investigations against me lasting two years, including a total of 29 house searches — without a single piece of evidence being found or any charges being filed,” Bystron said in explaining the lawsuit. In addition to financial compensation, he is demanding the immediate removal of the posts, a cease-and-desist order, and a public apology published on the association’s channels.

Vachatová and the photographer of the image used in the campaign, Petr Štěpánek, have also initiated legal action against the organization. Štěpánek is suing over copyright infringement and unpaid licensing fees, while Vachatová has filed a defamation claim. Vachatová became the target of weeks-long attacks by the association after it emerged that she was working on legislation aimed at significantly restricting NGO financing. Bystron himself came under attack from several Czech NGOs and media outlets after repeatedly criticizing the former government in public.

So far, Milion chvilek pro demokracii has not responded to the lawsuit or to media inquiries. The organization is regarded as controversial in the Czech Republic and is viewed by critics as a tool for the defamation of political opponents. Critics accuse the group of one-sided support for the ousted Fiala government, as well as of smearing and intimidating the government’s political opponents. The organization’s founder, Mikuláš Minář, has been accused of embezzling up to 7.3 million Czech crowns donated by supporters.

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Believe it or not, conservatives have always had an uneasy relationship with capitalism.

In short, after centuries of debate, many of us have accepted it as the least of all possible evils.

Thus, even in an age of populist-nationalist sentiment, symbolized (at least in spirit) by President Donald Trump’s political ascendancy, a conservative Christian, without abandoning Christianity’s warnings against worshipping wealth, may largely nod along in agreement with Amazon mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos, who provided a sound explanation of why Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had it wrong earlier this month when she declared that no one can “earn” a billion dollars.

“It’s not correct on its face,” Bezos said in an interview Wednesday with CNBC’s Andrew Sorkin that was posted to the social media platform X. “Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have 10 employees, and you make a little bit of money.[:40]

“And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then, you open a second outlet,” the Amazon founder added.

Sorkin stayed largely quiet, allowing his interviewee to develop the example.

“And now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees,” Bezos continued. “And you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened a thousand outlets, you are a billionaire.”

Then, after citing several real-life examples in the restaurant industry, Bezos posed the only relevant question.

“At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical, or it didn’t?” he asked.

Indeed, therein lies the rub. After all, who can say, based on a blanket statement about all people in a certain wealth category, that unethical behavior alone explains their wealth?

“What you’re doing — the way — the way you make a billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, or ten million dollars, or anything, is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars,” Bezos added.

Jeff Bezos explains to @AOC how billionaires are created: providing at least a billion dollars in value to society — the opposite of exploitation.

Bezos: “Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have 10 employees, and you make a little bit… pic.twitter.com/qGjGdoJcbr

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 20, 2026

Sorkin, of course, posed the question because AOC, in a May 7 podcast appearance, insisted that wealth accumulation in the billions of dollars amounts to theft.

“You can’t earn a billion dollars,” she said, according to USA Today. “You just can’t earn that. You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws. You can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that.”

So where should conservatives’ sympathies lie? With the liberal founder of Amazon — a company that has revolutionized commerce — or the socialist congresswoman?

Our sympathies should always lie with those who, in our imperfect judgments, speak truth. And in this case, Bezos spoke more truth than AOC did.

Honest conservatives, of course, know that Bezos’s theory of wealth accumulation sanitized the real-life process. After all, history abounds with tales of moguls who stooped to shockingly unethical levels.

Still, we also know what “you didn’t earn that” or “you didn’t build that” means in the mouth of a dim-witted leftist. It means “a billionaire’s money should belong to the socialist revolutionaries who would use the coercive power of the state to confiscate wealth for themselves under the guise of redistributing it to the people.”

Indeed, we have already seen what happens when wealth concentrates in proximity to the federal government. It improves no one’s lives except those of the leftist oligarchs it enriches.

At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England, opposition to industrial capitalism came not from urban liberal types but from rural conservatives who recognized its labor-crushing and wealth-concentrating tendencies as threats to the stability and independence of traditional Christian families and homes.

In other words, capitalism, like all things of this world, comes with a cost.

Still, because we know what AOC and other socialists mean by “you didn’t earn that,” we pay the cost and thereby live with capitalism as preferable to the evils that bloodthirsty leftists would impose on us if they could.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The House Oversight Committee is officially turning up the heat on what could become one of the largest Medicaid fraud scandals in American history.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer and Rep. Brandon Gill have launched a sweeping federal investigation into alleged rampant abuse of Ohio’s Medicaid system after explosive reports revealed suspicious billing patterns centered around two ZIP codes near Columbus, Ohio, an area home to one of the largest Somali populations in the United States.

According to reports cited by House Republicans, a state audit found that Franklin County, home to just 11.5% of Ohio’s population, accounted for roughly 38% to 40% of the $1.6 billion spent statewide, with nearly 40% of that amount flowing to just two neighboring ZIP codes, totaling approximately $240 million.

Auditors also identified a 15.6% error rate in eligibility determinations, raising concerns that improper payments could range from $800 million to as much as $4 billion.

Additional reporting uncovered nearly vacant office buildings allegedly housing hundreds of billing companies. Ohio officials have since brought charges against some providers and maintain that safeguards are in place, while both state investigators and a federal task force continue to examine the potential fraud.

The Oversight Committee announced a brand-new task force specifically aimed at exposing institutional abuses, fraud, and misuse of taxpayer-funded social welfare programs, with Gill tapped to lead the charge.

“Representative Brandon Gill is a star on the Oversight Committee and has exposed the insanity of the Radical Left who seeks to undermine fundamental American values protected under our Constitution. I am happy to announce Representative Gill as the new chairman of our Task Force to support the preservation of constitutional rights enjoyed by the American People. Under his leadership, we will continue to expose radical ideologies being pushed on Americans and fight to safeguard our freedom that we’ve enjoyed as a nation for 250 years,” saidChairman Comer.

“Americans deserve truth, transparency, and justice,” said Task Force Chairman Gill. “They are sick of being defrauded by government institutions and programs that should have been putting them first, not robbing their tax dollars. It is my great honor to chair the Oversight Committee’s new Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. It is a great privilege and responsibility to carry on this extension of the work Chairman Comer and the committee is doing to fight for integrity and freedom for all.” Today, Chairman Comer and Task Force Chairman Gill sent a letter to Ohio Department of Medicaid Director Scott Partika requesting documents and informationto kick off the Task Force’s oversight by investigating the massive Ohio Medicaid fraud recently exposed by the Daily Wire. Recent reporting indicates that there is significant fraud in Ohio’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waiver program, including providers improperly billing Medicaid or billing for services that were clearly never provided with little to no consequence.

Gill blasted the alleged fraud scheme and warned Americans may be looking at “billions of dollars” stolen from taxpayers.

“What we’ve found with this Ohio fraud scandal is that we’ve got what we believe to be billions of dollars that have been defrauded from American taxpayers that should have been going to benefit the American people,” Gill said.

“And instead, we’re being laundered through a wide variety of shell companies that we’re facilitating as intermediaries to facilitate payments to organizations that weren’t providing any type of health care.”

WATCH:

IT’S OFFICIAL: The House Oversight Committee has launched an all-out investigation into RAMPANT Somali-linked fraud in Ohio, after an auditor found possibly billions of Medicaid theft, concentrated in 2 zip codes near Columbus

BRANDON GILL is leading it

Home to the 2nd… pic.twitter.com/DMB1jkLcLL

— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) May 21, 2026

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Radical Democrat Mayor Karen Bass just admitted on camera that she’s willing to hand voting rights to non-citizens in Los Angeles.

Bass responded to a question about far-left Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez’s push to let non-citizens vote in local elections by declaring: “Well, I think we need to explore it.”

The exchange, which took place during a Politico California Playbook discussion, laid bare the Democrats’ desperate endgame.

Soto-Martínez, who has endorsed Bass, wants to rewrite the city charter to allow non-citizens – including those here illegally – to cast ballots in city council and school board races. Bass didn’t shut it down. She didn’t call it unconstitutional. She didn’t say it would destroy election integrity.

Instead, she leaned in.

Bass tried to soften the blow by claiming some cities only let “legal” non-citizens who pay taxes vote, but she quickly pivoted to defending sanctuary city policies she rammed through even after Trump’s first election.

California Bureau Chief Melanie Mason:
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez, who has endorsed you, wants to explore ways to let non-citizens vote in city elections. I know that some cities already do this, but, you know, politics is all about timing. With Donald Trump in the White House, is this the right time for Los Angeles to go down this path?

Karen Bass:
Well, I think we need to explore it. Now, I’ve not seen exactly what he’s calling for. I have a little familiarity with what happens in other cities. For example, some cities will allow people to vote in city council and school board elections because they pay local taxes. But they are not necessarily undocumented. They might be here completely legally but have not finished the citizenship process. So, we’ll wait and see.

But, you know, I mean, some questioned that around sanctuary cities too. But we made that into law even though Trump had been elected. And it was because our population of vulnerable immigrants were terrified. That provided a measure of security for a minute. And no one anticipated we’d have the military roll up on us.

WATCH:

WTF?! LA Mayor Karen Bass confirms she might move to allow noncitizens to VOTE in elections

“We need to explore it!”

Pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT, if they can let noncitizens vote locally, they can EASILY CHEAT and let them slip through the cracks to vote federally! pic.twitter.com/gONY9OIop6

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026

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Fahima Egeh Mahamud, the woman already tied to the infamous $250+ million Feeding Our Future scandal that stole hundreds of millions in federal funds meant for children’s meals, has now been slapped with fresh federal charges for allegedly pocketing $4.6 million more in a separate daycare subsidy fraud scheme.

Mahamud, owner of the Future Leaders Early Learning Center in south Minneapolis near George Floyd Square, was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

According to the charging document, Mahamud allegedly used her Minneapolis childcare center, Future Leaders Early Learning Center, as a vehicle to funnel taxpayer cash through fraudulent claims.

Federal prosecutors allege that between January and July 2021, Mahamud submitted more than $826,000 in reimbursement claims to Feeding Our Future for meals supposedly served to children, while the actual operation allegedly served only a fraction of the claimed meals.

The DOJ further alleges that fake meal count sheets, fabricated child rosters, and inflated invoices were used to justify the reimbursements.

And that wasn’t all. According to prosecutors, Mahamud later submitted over 13,000 claims to Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program, seeking reimbursement for childcare services where required co-payments had allegedly not been collected, resulting in approximately $4.6 million in improper reimbursements.

Federal investigators also allege that taxpayer money was diverted for personal enrichment, including real estate purchases and transfers to affiliated business entities.

The Gateway Pundit previously reported on Mahamud’s initial arrest, highlighting how her center was swimming in taxpayer cash under the Tim Walz administration while hard-working Americans got stuck with the bill. Nick Shirley himself posted: “UPDATE: Minnesota fraudster has been arrested before she tried to flee to the UK… Goodbye fraudster, you will not be missed.”

UPDATE: Minnesota fraudster has been arrested before she tried to flee to the UK

Her daycare “Future Leaders Early Learning Center” was involved in the Feeding Our Future scam and had received $3.67 million in CCAP funding in 2025

Goodbye fraudster, you will not be missed:) pic.twitter.com/zREQ78uJ5a

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) February 19, 2026

Court documents indicate that on February 10, 2026, Mahamud notified the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families that she was abruptly closing her center.

Just days later, she was found to have booked a ticket to the UK, with a return ticket scheduled for Feb. 20, 2026, according to KARE 11. She was then arrested.

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