A terminally ill child under the age of 12 was euthanized in the Netherlands last year, marking the first known case since the country expanded its euthanasia laws in 2024 to include children aged one to 12 who are terminally ill with no prospect of improvement.

Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans disclosed the case in a June letter to parliament alongside the annual report from the committee reviewing late-term abortions and medically assisted deaths of children.

Prosecutors are now reviewing whether the doctor followed all legal requirements.

The government has not released the child’s exact age, gender, or specific medical condition, citing privacy.

The euthanasia was said to have been carried out because the child faced “unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement” that had a clear medical dimension.

Dutch rules allow euthanasia in such cases for diseases like cancer, as well as certain psychiatric disorders or complex conditions.

It remains prohibited for people who simply feel that their lives are “finished” or “completed” without a medical basis.

For children under 12, parental or guardian consent is required. The government has stated that in these cases, ending the child’s life is considered “the only reasonable alternative to the child’s unbearable and hopeless suffering.”

The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2002.

Doctors who fail to follow the rules can face up to 12 years in prison.

Children aged one to 12 were previously barred from assisted suicide.

Dutch officials estimated the change would apply to approximately five to 10 children per year.

In 2025, the Netherlands recorded 10,341 deaths by assisted suicide, a 3.8% increase from the previous year.

Since the mid-2000s, the Netherlands has allowed euthanasia for severely disabled or terminally ill infants under one year old when suffering is deemed “unbearable and untreatable.”

In July 2021, the Psychiatric Times published an article in opposition to assisted suicide and noted that “preliminary reports suggest increased rates of suicide in the general population of states that have legalized PAS (physician-assisted suicide). Specifically, ‘legalizing PAS has been associated with an increased rate of total suicides relative to other [non-PAS] states, and no decrease in non-assisted suicides.’ Similarly, suicide rates in the Netherlands (where medical euthanasia is legal) have accelerated, compared to neighboring countries that have not legalized medical euthanasia.”

They report that physician and ethicist Leon Kass, MD, has pointedly cautioned: “We must care for the dying, not make them dead.”

The American College of Physicians has said, “Physician-assisted suicide is neither a therapy nor a solution to difficult questions raised at the end of life. On the basis of substantive ethics, clinical practice, policy, and other concerns, the ACP does not support the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. … However, through high-quality care, effective communication, compassionate support, and the right resources, physicians can help patients control many aspects of how they live out life’s last chapter.”

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In a 2-1 decision handed down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, President Trump’s Department of Justice was told it lacked the legal authority to demand Michigan’s entire voter file from America’s dirtiest Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson.

The request for the full voter rolls was a central part of the ongoing UOCAVA lawsuit filed by Harmeet Dhillon on behalf of the Republican National Committee and the Michigan GOP. The goal was to examine Michigan’s voter registration system for potential irregularities, particularly the presence of non-citizens — including illegal aliens — on the voter rolls.

Michigan’s registration policies under Jocelyn Benson have made it ridiculously easy for ineligible voters to be added to the rolls, while at the same time, impossible to determine if non-citizens are on the voter rolls because of privacy laws that protect the status of non-citizens, something that election integrity advocates have been sounding the alarm about for years. Recently, in an exclusive report, the Gateway Pundit revealed 6 of the DHS’s “Worst of the Worst” non-citizens in Michigan are not only present on Jocelyn Benson’s voter rolls, but two of them have voted in more than one election.

EXCLUSIVE: Stunning Report — 6 Non-Citizens on DHS “Worst of the Worst Criminal Aliens” List Are Registered Voters in Michigan — 2 Voted in Multiple Elections

The majority opinion was written by Judge R. Guy Cole Jr., appointed by President Bill Clinton, and Judge Mathis, appointed by President Biden. Judge John B. Nalbandian, while a strong dissent was written by the President Trump-appointed judge.

In his dissent, Judge John B. Nalbandian strongly disagreed with the majority’s conclusion that the Trump DOJ lacked authority to demand the voter rolls.

From his dissent:

“The majority’s decision unduly restricts the Executive Branch’s ability to enforce federal election laws.”

“The UOCAVA case presents serious questions about Michigan’s compliance with federal requirements for military and overseas voters, and the voter rolls are central to determining whether those rights are being protected.”

Judge Nalbandian argued that the request for the voter file was a legitimate exercise of federal authority and that the majority’s ruling improperly limited the DOJ’s investigative powers in election matters.

This ruling comes as Jocelyn Benson is actively campaigning as the presumed Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Michigan. Her record as Secretary of State is likely the most litigious in the country. Benson has faced an astonishing 69 lawsuits related to her administration of elections. Time and time again, Ms. Benson has been at the center of serious issues related to her untrustworthy elections. Only two months before the hotly contested November 2020 election, Jocelyn Benson hid a statewide investigation into GBI Strategies from clerks across the state and from the general public.

GBI Strategies, which used the name Empower Michigan while operating a "get out the vote" operation, was caught with unsecured semiautomatic weapons and modified pistols with silencers in their headquarters. The Democrat-funded group was sending boxes of fake registrations to clerks across the state from a hotel in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with the initials "EM" or Empower Michigan on the return address.

According to the Michigan State Police report, which included one of Jocelyn Benson's investigators, the group funded by Senator Gary Peters and Joe Biden was sending tens of thousands of fake voter registrations by mail across the state of Michigan and in person. From absentee ballot handling to voter roll maintenance, to hiding how voters voted in each election (absentee or in-person) from the voter rolls, Benson's policies have been challenged repeatedly by Republicans, election integrity groups, and concerned citizens. Joe Biden's FBI eventually swooped in and took over the investigation, saying it had become a multi-state investigation.

Here is an excerpt from the Michigan State Police report that investigated the GBI Strategies story MI SOS Jocelyn Benson hid from the clerks and from the citizens of Michigan. In this excerpt, the Michigan State Police lieutenant references the weapons they found in the Democrat-funded "get out the vote" operation in the Southfield, Michigan headquarters:

The investigation, like so many other election fraud-related cases during the Joe Biden (Barack Obama) presidency, was dropped into a big, black, deep state hole. Despite demands by Michigan lawmakers, the results of the case Jocelyn Benson hid from the public continue to remain under wraps.

A quick scroll through the comments on Benson’s social media accounts, particularly on X, reveals a consistent theme: Michigan voters do not trust her to run free and fair elections. Page after page of comments from residents across the state express frustration, distrust, and outright anger at her handling of elections. Many accuse her of partisanship and of putting political loyalty above her duty to ensure election integrity.

The underlying UOCAVA case, which Democrats are fighting to keep in place, further exploits an already broken system that was originally designed to protect the voting rights of our military members serving overseas, but has been expanded to allow "voters" to register to vote from overseas with the ability to bypass identification qualifications required by US citizens living in the United States. Democrats have identified this loophole and were actively pushing for an increase in overseas "voters" in the 2024 election. For now, the 6th Circuit’s decision blocks the broad demand for the full voter file.

How Democrats are Using an Easy and Almost Undetectable Way to Steal the Election From Trump – UOCAVA Voters – Will Anyone Stop Them?

This case highlights the ongoing struggle for election transparency in Michigan. Harmeet Dhillon and her team have been fighting an uphill battle to obtain basic data that should be readily available to political parties. The fact that the Secretary of State’s office is fighting so hard to keep the voter rolls hidden only fuels suspicion about what they might be concealing.

As Michigan prepares for future elections, including Benson’s gubernatorial bid, these issues are more important than ever. Voters deserve to know that their elections are secure, that ineligible voters are not casting ballots, and that military and overseas citizens are not being disenfranchised.

While legal experts claim the federal government’s remaining options include requesting en banc review by the full 6th Circuit or petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari, both paths appear to be uphill battles given the current left-leaning composition of the courts that make decisions based strictly on their political ideology. So much for blind justice...

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Fireworks erupted behind closed doors today between President Trump and one of the most notorious RINOs in the Senate.

Per multiple reports, Trump and Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy engaged in a yelling match over the latter’s backing a measure to limit his war powers during a two-hour-long closed-door GOP Senate lunch meeting.

As TGP readers know, Cassidy was one of four Republicans to vote to limit Trump’s perfectly constitutional powers. The bill passed by a 50-48 margin.

Trump also criticized Senator Dave McCormick (R-PA) for missing the vote on war powers.

At one point during their shouting competition, Cassidy stopped calling Trump “Mr. President” and referred to him as “brother.”

Trump fired back, calling Cassidy a “lunatic” and telling him he was not his brother.

Cassidy eventually sat down.

The Louisiana RINO later spoke to reporters about his argument with the president.

“As I recall, he did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice,” Cassidy said. “I lost my temper, that’s not appropriate.”

“I make no apologies for standing up to the president,” he added. “I am sticking up for the American people, even if I’m speaking to the president.”

Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) drew a colorful analogy when confronted by reporters about the Trump-Cassidy blowup.

“Very much like a hospital board meeting when a bunch of doctors are yelling at each other but at the end of the day we’ll figure out a way to get along,” he said, “Voices were raised.… I think the vote yesterday on the War Powers Act, the president’s very disappointed.”

The New York Post reported that Trump additionally urged Republican senators during the meeting to use the so-called “talking filibuster” to overcome Democratic opposition to the SAVE America Act.

The SAVE Act is an absolutely critical measure that requires every American to show ID to cast a ballot. It also requires proof of citizenship BEFORE registering to vote.

Democrats are in meltdown mode because, should the measure pass, they will find stealing elections far more challenging.

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Another democratic socialist, pro-Palestine, pro-Iran candidate has won in New York City. Unlike Mamdani, she is more candid. Her organization openly states that it seeks the destruction of Western civilization.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, 32, defeated five-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat, 71, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Democratic primary for NY-13 on June 23. A Columbia University alumna, Muslim, and current PhD candidate at CUNY, Avila Chevalier is a member of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America, endorsed by UAW Region 9A and Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and advances to the November general election in what is a safe Democratic seat.

Avila Chevalier was an active member of CUAD (Columbia University Apartheid Divest) from its founding in 2016, helping design the organization’s logo and promote its BDS campaign alongside Mahmoud Khalil. CUAD is a coalition of more than 100 student organizations that has described itself as “Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” a statement that neither CUAD nor its member organizations have publicly retracted.

In December 2023, CUAD submitted a divestment proposal signed by 89 student groups, demanding that Columbia University withdraw financial support from Israel and divest from companies it claimed were complicit in Israeli “genocide,” “war crimes,” and “apartheid,” including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Barclays. The proposal was broad enough to encompass BlackRock, whose exchange-traded funds hold shares in nearly every publicly traded company.

CUAD also called on Columbia to close its Tel Aviv satellite campus and end its dual-degree program with Tel Aviv University. Columbia’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing rejected the proposal.

In April 2024, CUAD established an activist encampment on Columbia University’s campus, occupying part of the university grounds for several weeks. The protests ultimately led to approximately 109 arrests when the NYPD cleared the campus.

In October 2024, CUAD retracted an earlier apology for a member’s statement that “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” declaring instead that the group supports “liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance” and that “violence is the only path forward.”

Mohsen Mahdawi co-founded Columbia’s Palestinian Student Union with Khalil and was an active participant in CUAD’s protests before stepping back in early 2024. Both are Palestinian permanent residents arrested by ICE under a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act invoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, allowing deportation of non-citizens whose presence poses “adverse foreign policy consequences” to the United States.

An immigration judge additionally ruled Khalil deportable on the grounds that he omitted organizational affiliations from his green card application. Both face deportation orders and are currently appealing in federal court.

In 2014, while a student at Columbia University, Avila Chevalier publicly supported Rasmea Odeh, posting “Help Rasmea come home!” on Facebook and helping raise money for her bail during her U.S. immigration fraud trial in Detroit. According to Canary Mission, she promoted Odeh’s cause through social media and activist networks.

Odeh was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and was convicted by an Israeli court in 1970 for her role in a 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two Hebrew University students, Leon Kanner and Edward Joffe. She served ten years in prison before being released in a prisoner exchange. In 2014, a U.S. federal jury convicted Odeh of immigration fraud for concealing her conviction when applying for U.S. citizenship. She was deported to Jordan in 2017.

Prior to the primary, CNN’s KFile uncovered more than 3,600 posts and reposts from a since-deleted Twitter account active between 2018 and 2022, in which Avila Chevalier called for abolishing police, prisons, and borders; advocated nationalizing utilities, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies; called for seizing all private property from landlords; and reposted content questioning Israel’s right to exist. She acknowledged the posts but said they no longer reflect her views. Her own website, however, refers to ICE arrests as “kidnapping.”

Avila Chevalier also attended a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on October 8, 2023 — the day after Hamas killed approximately 1,200 Israelis. The rally was widely condemned by elected officials. Fellow Mamdani-endorsed candidate Brad Lander resigned his DSA membership over the organization’s promotion of the event. Avila Chevalier said she went to protest what she called an anticipated “outsized reaction” to the attack.

The Broadway Democrats, a left-wing Manhattan political club that endorsed Mamdani, declined to endorse Avila Chevalier, stating that at their endorsement meeting she “point-blank refused” to condemn Hamas or the October 7 attacks, “turning the question into yet another attack on Israel.”

On March 6, 2026, Avila Chevalier attended Friday prayers at the Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Queens, where she told congregants that Espaillat was “bought by the Israeli lobby to stay silent.” During that same service, the imam prayed for the Mahdi to kill the infidels by his sword. The Al-Khoei Foundation has maintained financial ties with the Alavi Foundation, which U.S. federal courts and prosecutors have identified as a front for the Iranian government and its state-owned Bank Melli. Mayor Mamdani also attended Friday prayers at the same mosque.

Mamdani and Avila Chevalier appear to be the tip of the spear, the beginning of a new wave of ultra-liberal, socialist, and Islamist-aligned politicians in New York. On the same night she defeated Espaillat, two other Mamdani-endorsed candidates won their primaries.

Claire Valdez won in NY-7. A DSA member, she has called for abolishing ICE and ending all U.S. military aid to Israel. Brad Lander won in NY-10, defeating a two-term incumbent, and has said he hopes to partner in Congress with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. All three districts are safe Democratic seats, making it likely that all three will win in November.

The DSA also picked up at least six seats in the New York state legislature while fielding its largest-ever slate of candidates. Avila Chevalier’s win is not a single protest vote in a single district. It is part of a coordinated, expanding movement that now controls New York City’s mayoralty, is entering Congress in force, and is remaking the Democratic Party from within.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer went off on President Trump for canceling the housing bill signing ceremony until the SAVE America Act is passed.

Schumer lashed out at President Trump over the SAVE America Act.

“The GOP will continue going along with Trump’s all out assault on voting rights with legislation like the SAVE Act,” Schumer said in a rant from the Senate floor.

WATCH:

Last week, Schumer accidentally made the case for the SAVE America Act during an appearance on MS NOW with host Lawrence O’Donnell.

The Democrat leader said the SAVE America Act will remove 25 million to 30 million people from the voter rolls.

“So here’s a prediction that I think you’re going to like. “The Republican Party will never win another election. I will sadly be the last Republican president. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Republican Senate must not let this carnage happen.” That’s Donald Trump’s prediction today that the Republican Party will never win another election. You will be the next Senate Majority Leader. And he’s saying all of that because the Republicans in the Senate are not trying to push through his bill to restrict voting in this country,” Lawrence O’Donnell said to Schumer.

Schumer trashed the SAVE America Act and said it would remove 25 million to 30 million (illegals and ineligible voters) from the voter rolls.

“Well, that’s right. This is this horrible thing, the SAVE Act, one of the worst, most anti-election democracy things that’s ever been proposed. They say it’s, “oh, it’s all about ID, voter ID.” It’s not. They will remove 25 million people off the rolls. Why? Because they’ll require, under this act, which is not going to pass and we’re not going to let it pass. We’ve defeated it in court. I was a lead plaintiff in the decision to do that. We’ve refused to give them the votes that they would want for this. We never will. What it does is it says every state send your election rolls, not to the Justice Department or the voting division, but to the Department of Homeland Security, where Musk and DOGE and Vought have installed an algorithm that determines whether you’re legitimately right to vote or not,” Schumer said.

He continued, “The algorithm is a fix. It’ll knock 20 million people, 30 million people off the rolls, and they don’t tell you. So Mr. Lawrence O’Donnell could show up at the same voting place he showed up every so often, shown his same ID. “Sorry, you’re not on the rolls anymore, sir.” “Well, what do I do about it?” “Next week, go to the Board of Elections.” Trump knows he will lose the election – he said it – because he has created such chaos and because we Democrats have shown what we’re for and the contrast between what we’re for and he’s for, and there’s such a contrast. And so, he’s got to fix it. We’re not letting him do it.”

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently banned Trump from implementing his executive order that required proof of citizenship when they register to vote.

Boston-based US District Judge Denise Casper, an Obama appointee, said the Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections.”

This is why President Trump has repeatedly called on the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act which would require a valid ID before registering to vote in a federal election, proof of citizenship and no mail-in ballots.

The SAVE America Act is currently stalled in the Senate.

President Trump on Wednesday appeared on Capitol Hill to attend a Senate lunch to discuss the SAVE America Act.

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