In May, The Gateway Pundit reported on the stunning and thoroughly deserved defeat, establishment RINO Sen. Bill Cassidy experienced in Louisiana’s GOP Senate primary, after he finished a humiliating third place and was booted from the race entirely.

Trump-backed Rep. Julia Letlow and State Treasurer John Fleming advanced to the June 27 runoff.

Delivering a massive win for President Donald Trump’s America First agenda and his ongoing revenge tour against disloyal Republicans who betrayed him, on Saturday, June 27, Letlow defeated Fleming. Julia Letlow received 57% of the vote to Fleming’s 43%.

President Trump personally rallied voters to reject this RINO and back a true fighter Letlow writing on X before the primary:

Highly Respected America First Congresswoman, Julia Letlow, of the wonderful State of Louisiana, is a Great Star, has been from the very beginning, and only gets better! Julia is running for the United States Senate in Louisiana, a place I love and WON BIG, six times, including Primaries, in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

I know Julia well, have seen her tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and she is a TOTAL WINNER! A Proud Mother of two children, Julia is a wonderful person, has ALWAYS delivered for Louisiana, and would continue doing so in the United States Senate. As your next Senator, Julia will work tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Support our Amazing Farmers and Fishermen, Champion Louisiana Oil & Gas, Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Ensure LAW AND ORDER, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.

Election Day is tomorrow, Saturday, May 16th.

Vote for Julia Letlow – She has my Complete and Total Endorsement, and will never let you down!

Letlow celebrated her victory in a statement post to X:

I am deeply honored by the trust the people of Louisiana have placed in me.

Thank you to every voter, volunteer, and supporter who made this victory possible. I am grateful for President Trump’s endorsement, and the support of Governor Landry, Leader Scalise, Congressman Higgins, Attorney General Murrill, and so many more incredible conservatives who came together to make tonight possible.

It has been the honor of a lifetime to represent Louisiana in the House, and I am humbled by the opportunity to continue serving our state in the United States Senate. I will never forget that this is your seat, not mine, and I will fight every day to put Louisiana first.

God bless Louisiana, and God bless America.

I am deeply honored by the trust the people of Louisiana have placed in me.

Thank you to every voter, volunteer, and supporter who made this victory possible. I am grateful for President Trump’s endorsement, and the support of Governor Landry, Leader Scalise, Congressman… pic.twitter.com/XqqirW15Y2

— Julia B Letlow, Ph.D. (@jbletlow) June 28, 2026

President Trump offered congratulations on Truth Social writing, “Great News!!! Julia Letlow WON in Louisiana, beating conclusively a very strong and smart opponent. Congratulations to Julia. She will be a truly GREAT Senator! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

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A New York City landlord has gone viral for dragging Marxist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he announced a massive rent freeze last week.

As The New York Times reported, a New York City panel voted on Thursday to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments. This fulfilled one of Mamdani’s prominent campaign promises.

The Rent Guidelines Board approved the freeze on both one- and two-year leases in a 7-to-1 vote. Increases were thus paused on more than 40% of all apartments across the five boroughs.

The Times revealed that this includes high-rise luxury apartments, deeply affordable subsidized units, and 150-year-old walk-ups.

Mamdani posted a video on X bragging after the Board rendered its decision, noting that more than 2 million NYC residents will be affected.

“New York, the Independent Rent Guidelines Board just froze the rent,” Mamdani says while grabbing an ice cream bar from the fridge. “That means if you’re one of the more than two million New Yorkers who live in a rent-stabilized apartment, your rent’s gonna be frozen next year.

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing. pic.twitter.com/EXPaI8emyv

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) June 26, 2026

But NYC’s Jude Jean Paul Bernard, who is a landlord, real Estate Broker, and investor, was quite unimpressed. He posted his own video to roast Mamdani and his supporters.

Bernard opens by sarcastically congratulating renters on having their rent frozen, then pours out a cold reality that neither they nor Mamdani wants to hear.

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BERNARD: Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations to all the renters out there. You guys did it!

You guys got the rent frozen, and for the next two years, there will be no increases. Perfect!

Now, that doesn’t mean that expenses have gone down. That doesn’t mean that taxes, insurance, water, energy….None of that went down.

So, I’m not sure if we were struggling to make the numbers before, I’m not sure how we’re going to fix that boiler, fix that broken elevator, and do all those things that you tenants deserve.

If there’s no money, how are we going to do this?

And conveniently, the same city that just passed this rent freeze has also said that they will be taking distressed properties from bad landlords.

So, you don’t have the money to fix the properties, but if we don’t fix the properties, you guys are going to take it away.

I love it (sarcasm). Socialism at its best!

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WASHINGTON — President Trump is putting America first and demanding simple proof that only American citizens decide American elections. A handful of Senate Republicans—led by North Carolina’s own Thom Tillis—just joined hands with Democrats to sabotage the effort.

On Thursday, Trump drew a hard line in the sand. The president abruptly canceled the signing ceremony for a massive bipartisan housing bill that sailed through Congress with overwhelming support: Senate 85-5, House 258-32.

“Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency,” Trump declared.

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, H.R. 22, requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and a valid ID at the polls. The measure has already passed the House. Yet Senate Majority Leader John Thune refuses to force a vote, claiming Republicans can’t reach 50.

The Gateway Pundit pressed Sen. Thom Tillis directly on why he’s leading the charge to kill the bill—especially when Americans already need ID to drive, buy alcohol, board a plane, buy a gain, open a bank account or get a job.

WATCH:

Tillis sneered:

It’s quite simple. It’s a math problem. We simply don’t have the votes… Does any rational person who’s ever had any experience with implementing election law really think that it’s possible to have all that in place in time for this election and not be disruptive? And incidentally, it’s an unfunded mandate that has zero dollars for implementation.

DOCUMENTED CASES OF NON-CITIZEN VOTING

Non-citizen voting is already happening. In Texas alone, Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating more than 100 potential non-citizens who cast over 200 ballots in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Federal prosecutors in New Jersey recently charged four resident aliens with illegally voting in federal elections between 2020 and 2024. Similar prosecutions have occurred in North Carolina, Florida and elsewhere.

These are not hypotheticals, but real instances of of foreign nationals attempting to influence American elections..

Under Trump, the border is more secure than at any point in modern history. But what about the millions who were released into the interior of the United States under Biden— are they deciding our elections right now?

DEMOCRATS PRIORITIZE ILLEGALS

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, laid bare the grotesque two-tiered system Democrats created: Under Biden-era policies, illegals aliens were allowed to board commercial flights using arrest warrants as valid ID while law abiding American citizens waited in long security lines like the second-class passengers at the back of the bus.

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That tells you everything you need to know about why Democrats and their RINO enablers fight so hard against proof of citizenship to vote. They prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens, and they clearly don’t want any mechanism that might stop those same illegals from casting ballots.

If these same illegal aliens now want to vote in our elections, who exactly is going to stop them?

Not Thom Tillis. Not the RINOs standing with him. Some in North Carolina are already asking the uncomfortable question: Is Tillis still in office because illegal aliens are helping elect him?

The Shameful Hypocrisy That Should Embarrass Every One of Them

Democrats spent years demanding vaccine passports and proof of jab status—treating every American citizen like a potential threat unless they showed their papers. Now the same crowd clutches their pearls at the terrifying idea that you should prove you’re a citizen before voting in American elections.

Their real message is unmistakable: Democrats are openly telling their own voters, “You’re too stupid, too disorganized and too incompetent to obtain a simple ID.” And remarkably, their base doesn’t seem offended–they nod along as if being treated like helpless children is perfectly normal. They believe their voters lack both the intellect to see the breathtaking intellectual dishonesty and the basic responsibility to get an ID. And these Senate RINOs are standing right in their shadow, happily enabling the insult.

In deep-blue New York City, where far-left socialists just swept key elections, police can stop you and demand identification under stop-and-frisk policies, and you’ll struggle to do much of anything without proper ID. Yet somehow, proving you’re a citizen to vote is suddenly “voter suppression”?

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This article originally appeared on WND.com.

Guest post by Bob Unruh

‘I’m cool with it if the American people are prospering, but…’

A prominent commentator who made his name in sports and now has branched out is openly wondering how presidents get so rich while in office, “serving” the American public.

It is Stephen A. Smith who is documented at Fox News for “offering criticism of the multi-million-dollar net worths of two recent former presidents.”

He charged that he has no problem with presidents getting rich while Americans are prospering.

BUT.

He explained he also was addressing President Donald Trump, who already was worth billions before being elected.

“I don’t give a damn what money politicians slide into their own pockets from time to time,” Smith said on a podcast. “If the American people are prospering, get yours. It’s a capitalistic society.”

He explained “I’ll confess something to ya’ll. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas. Grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell him and the Clinton Foundation is worth hundreds of millions of dollars beat me.”

Further, Smith, who says he’s been approached by Democrats about running for office, added, “Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the president of the United States and, last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000, if I remember correctly,” Smith said. “I got to double check that,” he added. “How the hell you depart from office worth over $200 million?”

TRUTH NUKE: Stephen A. Smith: “I’ll confess something to y’all. Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became… pic.twitter.com/DxZ035lb15

— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) June 26, 2026

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton… pic.twitter.com/uhlvmXEvxZ

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) June 25, 2026

According to the Fox report, Bill and Hillary Clinton have netted some $240 million since leaving office. And it said, “A similar investigation by Forbes revealed Obama gained a net worth of about $20 million throughout his 12 years working as both a senator and serving as president, raising his net worth to around $70 million in 2024.”

“I’m cool with it if the American people are prospering, but last time I checked, that’s not the case,” Smith said.

See, this is exactly the stuff I’m talking about. Yes, I DID say this — tongue-in-cheek, while lamenting the flagrant grifting taking place with President Trump. Went on to say I’ve always wondered how politicians can enter office broke and depart being worth millions, mentioning…

— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) June 26, 2026

Smith was online to confirm his comments, and said he was “lamenting the flagrant grifting taking place with President Trump,” without identifying the “grifting.”

The Daily Mail said Smith’s questions focused on “how former Democrat Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton became vastly richer after leaving the White House.”

He questioned, “It’s amazing how these politicians are sworn into office and you’re sworn to serve the American people, it’s called service. But somehow, someway, they always depart exponentially richer than when they arrived.”

Copyright 2026 WND News Center

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This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Danielle White

In a trial set to begin June 24, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking a court to do something that should alarm every American, regardless of where they stand on abortion: punish nonprofit organizations with ruinous fines for speaking about a lawful medical treatment.

The target is not fraud. These charities offer their services for free.

It is not patient harm. There is no evidence of any patient being harmed.

It is not even illegal conduct. The underlying treatment remains perfectly legal.

The target is speech.

Heartbeat International and Real Options are pro-life nonprofits that provide information and care to women who first take the abortion drug but regret that choice and want to continue their pregnancies. California wants to impose penalties approaching $20 million because these charities have dared to tell women that another option may exist.

Twenty million dollars. That number alone should tell us what this case is really about.

No reasonable observer can believe that bankrupting charities is a proportionate response to truthful and non-misleading statements about a free service designed to help a woman exercise her constitutional right to continue her pregnancy. This is not consumer protection. It is political warfare conducted through the machinery of a government that wishes to silence speech it does not like.

What’s most remarkable is what California cannot prove.

After years of investigation, subpoenas, discovery, and litigation, the attorney general has failed to identify a single woman harmed by APR treatment. Not one. No parade of victims. No evidence of widespread deception. He set up a website practically begging for complaints and still could not muster a single woman claiming she was misled or harmed.

Instead, seven women have publicly shared the stories of how Heartbeat International and Real Options helped them successfully reverse their abortions. Three mothers are slated to testify from the stand about their joy at reversing their unwanted abortions.

Still, the state asks the court to punish the very charities who helped these women continue their wanted pregnancies simply because government lawyers disagree with their viewpoint on the scientific evidence regarding APR.

That is a dangerous precedent.

Scientific disagreement is not fraud. If it were, much of modern medicine would not exist. Medical consensus is not handed down from on high. It evolves. Researchers debate. Physicians challenge prevailing views. Studies are published, criticized, replicated, and revised.

The proper response to disputed science is more debate, more research, and more evidence – not government censorship backed by eight-figure penalties.

Yet that is precisely what California seeks.

The state is asking the court to declare that one side of a scientific debate may speak freely while the other side risks financial destruction. Today, the target happens to be pro-life organizations. Tomorrow, it could be anyone whose views fall out of favor with those holding political power or anyone who dares to innovate in the medical field.

And make no mistake: This lawsuit did not emerge in a vacuum.

Since the Dobbs decision, officials across the country have openly pledged to target pregnancy centers and pro-life organizations. California’s attorney general has repeatedly attacked what he calls “crisis pregnancy centers.” Against that backdrop, it is fanciful to view this lawsuit as a neutral effort to protect consumers. It looks exactly like an attempt to silence disfavored viewpoints through the coercive power of the state.

The irony is impossible to miss. Politicians who routinely invoke the language of “choice” now seek to suppress information that women are seeking in order to exercise their choice to withdraw their consent to their in-progress abortions and continue their wanted pregnancies.

This lawsuit demonstrates that AG Bonta does not stand for reproductive choice. He stands for abortions – wanted or unwanted.

In fact, according to AG Bonta in his trial brief filed last week, “That Defendants [Heartbeat International and Real Options] provided hope to these individuals only underscores the seriousness of their misconduct.” California argues that merely providing hope to women who wish to continue their pregnancies after they start an unwanted abortion is damaging.

A government confident in its position does not need censorship. It does not need speech codes. It does not need multi-million-dollar penalties for those who hold different views. It does not ask a court to issue a financial death penalty for charities whose mission is to provide free services and preserve life.

California has chosen suppression over science and punishment over persuasion.

The court should reject that effort. Not merely to protect Heartbeat International and Real Options, but to protect the principle that government officials do not get to decide which side of a scientific or moral debate is allowed to speak.

Especially when a woman’s right to continue her pregnancy and her unborn child’s life hang in the balance.

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