Over this last weekend, there was a large event at the America First Warehouse in Long Island, NY. Attending this event was a gentleman named Philip Grillo. I noticed Grillo was walking around to make sure that everyone had met him and, if they could, vote for him on Tuesday. I was listening while he spoke to a few people, and then I was shown a flyer that his opponent was circulating.

Philip is a J6er who was put through the wringer while incarcerated and suffers from the trauma, as most still do today. When I saw the flyer that his opponent had laminated, stapled, or taped to poles all over the district, I had to find out more. His opponent is the Queen’s County GOP Vice Chair, Robert Speranza. The flyer below shows Speranza as a police officer petting a dog and calling himself “Pillar of Community” and “Republican”.

The opposite side of this laminated flyer is a close-up picture of Philip with a cigarette in his mouth, and it calls him J6 Junkie Rioter and RINO while also saying he “STILL LIVES WITH MOM,” as some people of a certain age do. Philip takes care of his aging mother. He is a Marine who swore an oath to defend our nation from threats both foreign and domestic. An oath he never put down or forgot. He’s also a father of three who wants a future for his children.

The picture of Speranza was taken decades ago, and the flyer shows the mindset of a desperate person who is more set on discrediting someone rather than standing on their own assets. It leaves you to wonder what Speranza has to offer.

Philip Sean Grillo is a lifelong registered Republican and Queens resident who’s shaking things up.

A fighter. A patriot. A die‑hard People First, America First candidate.

This Primary Day, Tuesday, June 23rd, he’s taking on the establishment RINOs, the same insiders who protect their own while Queens pays the price. His opponent? The Queen’s County GOP Vice Chairman and judicial delegate who nominates Democrats instead of Republicans, allowing Democrat judges and candidates to run unopposed. The establishment uses his opponent, Rob Sepranza, as a placeholder. He has run unsuccessfully 4 times and was removed from the Republican ballot 2 times, as a front to keep the same Democrat winning again and again.

That Democrat (currently the incumbent) voted to end life at birth and backed policies such as voting to remove terms like Mother & Father from all New York State Legislation & Lawmaking. A devastating blow to the parents of Queens and our way of life.
Philip Sean Grillo refuses to play along. He’s enraged the establishment by posting truths they don’t want VOTERS to know about, and they’ve attacked him for it. The establishment responded to his truth with PURE RAGE!

But He’s a FIGHTER, he won’t back down. He’s fighting for real education choices for our children, for public safety, Much Much lower utility bills, MTA accountability for the people of Queens who deserve better than illusions and party establishment deals.

Grillo tells me that out of 18 districts, there are only 2 that have Republican candidates because the GOP will not find candidates to run. No wonder conservatives receive no representation in these blue states. The GOP has its back turned and when there are candidates brave enough to run, they are turned ON by the GOP. Things that make you go…Hmmmmm.

So, if you are in the Douglaston, Whitestone, Bayside, Little Neck, Glen Oaks, Auburndale, North Shore Towers, Bellrose, Queens Village, Langdale, Deepdale, areas, please get out and vote for Philip Grillo for State Assemblyman.

You can visit his website HERE or go to PhilipForAssembly.com

This is a personal message from Philip’s website…

“I’m asking you to look past the noise, the labels, and the headlines, and look at the facts. Look at the issues that are hurting our families, our neighborhoods, and our state. Look at what’s actually happening in your daily life the cost of living, the safety of your community, the quality of your schools, the accountability of your government.

I’m not running to fall in line or to please insiders. I’m running because I refused to stay silent when the truth mattered, even when it came at a personal cost. I stood up when it would have been easier to sit down. I spoke out when it would have been safer to stay quiet. And I paid a price for it but I would do it again, because integrity has to mean something.

I’m asking for your support not because I’m perfect, but because I’m honest. Because I’ve lived the consequences of standing on principle. Because I know what it means to take a hit and keep moving forward. And because I will fight for you with that same resolve every single day.

New York needs leaders who answer to the people, not to political pressure. Leaders who make decisions based on truth, fairness, and the real issues facing our communities. If you believe in that kind of leadership, then I’m asking you to stand with me, and let’s take our state back together.”

If you are in District 26 and have yet to vote, remember that your voice is your vote and you have until Tuesday to be heard on who you’d like to represent you in your state assembly.

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The White House is reportedly threatening to withhold federal funding from states that do not comply with proposed election and vote-counting rules.

The new rules that the Trump Administration seeks to implement nationwide include manual audits of election systems, requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voters, and phasing out voting systems that don’t use hand-marked paper ballots, CNN reports, citing unnamed sources and internal documents.

Per CNN:

Under new rules governing several homeland security grant programs, states must take a number of steps, including phasing out certain electronic voting systems and moving to hand-marked paper ballots. They must also run their voter rolls through a controversial Department of Homeland Security citizenship verification database.

If not, states would lose out on some funding from DHS. These grants, expected to total more than $1 billion in the current fiscal year, are one of Washington’s main vehicles for helping state and local governments prevent terrorism, protect infrastructure and prepare for major disasters.

For years, the DHS grants, which states apply for, have required that at least 3% of the funds be spent broadly on election security. But the new guidelines, which CNN obtained and are expected to go out to states later this month, impose a set of mandatory reforms and steep penalties for noncompliance. States that refuse would lose 20% of the grant money — potentially millions of dollars in security funds.

“No changes to grant requirements or funding distributions are official until they are formally announced and published through proper, authorized agency channels,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement, adding that the administration considers election security to be a core national security priority.

“Any recipient of federal funding should expect accountability for how taxpayer dollars are spent,” the spokesperson said.

In March 2025, Trump signed the “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” executive order, which directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to require proof of citizenship and voter ID on its national mail voter registration form.

The order directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities.”

Further, DHS and the EAC were directed to “review and report on the security of all electronic systems used in the voter registration and voting process,” and “assess the security of all such systems to the extent they are connected to, or integrated into, the Internet and report on the risk of such systems being compromised through malicious software and unauthorized intrusions into the system.”

Trump has also pressured Republican lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship, though the Senate has refused.

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As two rival jihadist organizations, the al-Qaeda-linked JNIM and the Islamic State’s Sahel Province, compete for dominance across the Sahel, their parallel campaigns of military attacks, economic warfare, and territorial expansion are spreading the insurgency into countries that until recently had largely been spared.

On June 18, 2026, gunmen attacked Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, the capital of Niger, at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time. Niger’s Ministry of Defense reported that 11 soldiers and 2 civilians were killed, 22 attackers were killed, and approximately 20 suspects were arrested. Four security personnel were also wounded. The airport resumed civilian operations the same day, though FlightRadar24 reported several inbound flights were diverted or delayed during the fighting.

Gunmen arrived at the airport security checkpoint by taxi and minibus before encountering resistance from security forces. Fighting lasted roughly two hours. By evening, the al-Qaeda-linked group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) had claimed responsibility via a statement posted by its propaganda arm Az-Zallaqa on Chirpwire, describing the operation as “a suicide attack” on both the airport and the neighboring military base.

Diori Hamani is not merely a civilian transit hub. The complex hosts the Nigerien Air Force’s primary base, the headquarters of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) joint force, drawing together Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, Russian forces, a drone unit conducting counterinsurgency strikes, and a stockpile of uranium that Niger is seeking to sell, a stockpile whose destruction would pose a serious environmental risk. In recent weeks before the attack, authorities had been demolishing thousands of illegally built homes near the airport perimeter in what they described as efforts to counter a terrorist threat.

It was also the second attack on the airport in five months. On January 29, 2026, the Islamic State’s Sahel Province (ISSP) and its West Africa affiliate launched a coordinated assault on the same complex using motorcycles, drones, and explosives. That attack destroyed a Nigerien ammunition depot, damaged several civilian aircraft, and killed approximately 20 attackers, with four Nigerien soldiers wounded.

ISSP claimed it had struck the air command headquarters and “delivered a direct blow” to Niger’s anti-insurgency operations. On March 9, 2026, ISSP struck again, targeting Tahoua military airport, known as Base 401, which housed Niger’s TB2 drone capabilities. Two drones were damaged, and the control station was destroyed. The June attack reflects the collapse of the counterterrorism architecture that the United States and France spent over a decade constructing in West Africa’s Sahel.

The two groups responsible for these sequential strikes on Niamey’s airport are rivals, not allies. JNIM was founded in Mali in March 2017 as an al-Qaeda affiliate, uniting several jihadist factions under Tuareg leader Iyad Ag Ghaly and Fulani commander Amadou Koufa. It remains the most powerful jihadist organization in the Sahel, with operations across Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin, and Togo.

ISSP, formerly known as Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, was formed in May 2015 and became a standalone Islamic State province in March 2022. It operates primarily in the tri-border Liptako-Gourma region where Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger converge, though it has expanded its reach into Nigeria and beyond.

For several years after their founding, the two groups coexisted and occasionally cooperated, a dynamic the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point termed the “Sahelian anomaly.”

That period ended around 2019 to 2020, when ideological tensions hardened. JNIM began labeling ISSP “khawarij,” a pejorative term for the first extremist sect in Islamic history, known for indiscriminate violence and rejection of legitimate Islamic authority. ISSP, meanwhile, pursued a more brutal territorial strategy.

Since then, the groups have repeatedly fought each other while simultaneously attacking state forces. This has compounded the security crisis across the region.

JNIM attempts to portray itself as a protector of local communities. It fills service gaps left by absent governments and implements what it presents as a moderate form of Sharia through local Islamic judges and traditional authorities.

ISSP, by contrast, relies more heavily on coercion and mass violence. It has prioritized high-profile attacks on airports, drone bases, and military convoys as propaganda victories.

The June 18 JNIM attack reflected this competitive dynamic. The airport had already been struck by ISSP in January, giving the Islamic State a propaganda claim over one of Niger’s most strategic sites. JNIM’s assault was, in part, an effort to challenge that claim.

As one analyst told the Associated Press, “JNIM in Niger is trying to mark its territory. This is a message to the government but also to IS.”

Their clashes have been frequent and bloody. ISSP claimed to have killed 35 JNIM fighters in Niger’s Tillaberi region in April 2026. A September 2025 ambush near Sebba, Burkina Faso, left between 50 and 70 JNIM members dead, according to ISSP. The two groups clashed again at the Pétél Kolé border crossing in Niger’s Téra Department later that same month.

Tillaberi, the region surrounding Niamey, became the deadliest region in the central Sahel in 2025. ISSP was responsible for most of the violence, followed by the Nigerien military and then JNIM.

ISSP’s significance extends beyond the Sahel. The Soufan Center has described it as “a formidable entity in the global and African jihadist landscape, leveraging sophisticated strategies to internationalize its operations and expand its reach.”

Islamic State central command has issued directives to fill power vacuums in West Africa and promoted closer coordination among its African affiliates through the General Directorate of Provinces.

In February 2025, Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations arrested 12 members of an ISSP-linked cell and disrupted a plot to detonate bombs at financial and tourist sites across the country. Raids recovered Islamic State flags, cash, nail bombs, dynamite, firearms, and knives.

Spanish authorities arrested approximately 90 people on suspicion of jihadist links during the first eight months of 2025. Some had intended to travel to Mali before shifting to attack planning inside Spain.

Foreign Policy analysts wrote in March 2026: “Policymakers have long treated Sahelian violence as a local insurgency best handled by regional partners. But the global hub of jihadism is shifting, and as ISSP attracts foreign fighters, facilitates plots in Morocco and Spain, and integrates more tightly into the Islamic State’s command structure, its reach is expanding.”

Both JNIM and ISSP launched kidnapping campaigns targeting foreigners in Mali and Niger in 2025, resulting in the highest number of recorded foreign abductions in both countries.

ISSP operations that year targeted a Spaniard, an American pilot near Niger’s presidential palace, two elderly European women, one Austrian and one Swiss, as well as Indian mining workers and Moroccan truck drivers.

ISSP is also deepening ties with Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), which operates in northeastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin. Linguistic cues in ISSP attack footage, including Hausa and Kanuri, languages spoken in northeastern Nigeria, suggest ISWAP participation in some Sahel operations, including the January 2026 Niamey airport attack, according to the Soufan Center.

The relationship has involved ISWAP sending fuel, weapons, and fighters to support ISSP in Burkina Faso and Mali. The Lakurawa terrorist group in northwestern Nigeria has pledged allegiance to ISSP, giving the group an additional foothold for coordination with ISWAP through the Nigeria-based entity Maktab al-Furqan.

While ISSP has prioritized high-profile military strikes and transnational operations, JNIM has pursued a different form of expansion focused on territory and economic pressure.

Beginning in September 2025, JNIM deployed forces from Burkina Faso to impose a fuel and transport blockade on Bamako and the surrounding regions. The group attacked fuel tankers and abducted drivers, causing nationwide fuel shortages and price increases.

JNIM has simultaneously expanded south into Benin, Togo, northern Ghana, and the Ivory Coast, raising concerns about a jihadist corridor reaching the Gulf of Guinea.

In March 2026, the group attacked military barracks in Benin’s Pendjari Park, killing at least 15 soldiers and capturing a U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carrier.

In April 2026, JNIM and the Tuareg-dominated Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) launched a coordinated offensive that forced Russia’s Africa Corps to negotiate an evacuation from Kidal in northern Mali.

The June 18 attack on Niamey’s airport was the second strike on the facility in 2026 and the third attack on Niger’s military aviation infrastructure in five months.

That these attacks are occurring at a headquarters facility in a national capital, carried out by two competing jihadist organizations seeking dominance over one another, reflects a security environment that has deteriorated dramatically since the military coups of 2020 to 2023.

The repeated targeting of Diori Hamani, a site that also stores more than 1,000 metric tons of yellowcake uranium amid a dispute between Niger’s junta and French nuclear company Orano, underscores that the stakes extend beyond counterterrorism.

The airport is simultaneously a military command center, a uranium depot, a regional alliance headquarters, and a Russian military installation. A successful attack on any of these facilities would carry consequences well beyond West Africa.

As JNIM pushes toward the Gulf of Guinea and ISSP extends its reach into Nigeria, Morocco, and Spain, the question for West Africa’s governments and their partners is no longer whether the insurgency is expanding, but how far it will go before an effective response is mounted.

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Bill Pulte has begun firing Deep State intel officials just days into his role as Acting DNI.

“The Deep State firings have begun” a source told CNN.

It is unclear how many people have been fired.

It was previously reported that Trump wanted to reduce the size of the federal intel agencies.

Firings at the Office of the Director of National intelligence started today, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
“The deep state firings have begun,” the source said, declining to give details on how many jobs had been cut.

— Kristen Holmes (@KristenhCNN) June 22, 2026

Federal housing regulator Bill Pulte showed up to work a day early last Thursday and asked for a list of all employees as he decided whom to fire.

According to CNN, Pulte met with lawyers last Thursday evening.

Pulte officially began his job as Acting DNI last Friday.

Earlier this month, President Trump announced his nomination of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to serve as Director of National Intelligence.

However, Trump postponed Clayton’s confirmation until the Senators confirm his replacement for US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The delay in Clayton’s confirmation will allow Pulte to carry out the mass firings.

Three Republican Senators earlier this month joined the Democrats and voted to block Bill Pulte from serving as the Acting Director of National Intelligence.

RINO Senators Cassidy, Collins and Murkowski voted for a Democrat sponsored amendment that would bar a Senate-confirmed head of another department from serving as Acting DNI.

Senator Mark Warner introduced the amendment to block Pulte from serving as Acting DNI.

The amendment failed in a 49-49 vote.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) have put ActBlue on formal notice: Turn over the documents or face contempt of Congress.

In a letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, the three Republican chairmen accused the Democrats’ top fundraising platform of obstructing a year-long congressional investigation into its “fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention.”

ActBlue has been stonewalling subpoenas, hiding evidence, and protecting itself after revelations that it accepted illegal foreign donations, misled Congress, and retaliated against the very employee who tried to blow the whistle.

On July 22, 2025, after ActBlue suspended voluntary cooperation, the Committees issued subpoenas for all documents and communications related to whistleblowers, retaliation, actual or alleged misconduct by ActBlue staff, and the mass resignations/firings on its legal and compliance team.

ActBlue claimed in October 2025 that it had produced “all non-privileged documents with responsive, relevant information.”

Then came the bombshell.

On April 2, 2026, the New York Times reported that ActBlue had accepted foreign donations and that CEO Wallace-Jones had made misstatements to Congress. The story quoted directly from documents ActBlue never produced to the Committees — including former Interim General Counsel Aaron Ting’s resignation letter and an internal message from former Legal Counsel Zain Ahmad alleging he was retaliated against for blowing the whistle on internal misconduct.

As The Gateway Pundit reported on April 20, 2026, these documents contain evidence that ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and then went after the employee who spoke up. The House Judiciary GOP put it bluntly at the time:

“Add it all up, and the story is simple: ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and withheld documents responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas. All three of those are federal crimes.”

On April 14, 2026, the Committees demanded full compliance. On June 5, ActBlue finally produced a privilege log — but it covered 422 documents, including the Ting resignation letter and Ahmad’s message. ActBlue refused to turn them over, claiming attorney-client privilege over the entire universe of materials.

The June 18 letter from Chairmen Jordan, Steil, and Comer destroys ActBlue’s privilege assertions:

• Aaron Ting’s resignation letter was written to terminate his employment and raise concerns about ActBlue’s past practices screening foreign political donations and its representations to Congress. It was not created for the purpose of obtaining or providing legal advice.
• Zain Ahmad’s internal message was a claim of retaliation against ActBlue for blowing the whistle on misconduct. Again, not attorney-client privileged legal advice.
• ActBlue’s broader claim of privilege over “documents circulated among non-lawyers containing or reflecting… information from an attorney” is equally bogus. Courts have repeatedly held that the mere fact an attorney touched a document does not make it privileged.

The chairmen called it implausible that all 422 documents on the log are “entirely privileged.” They warned that ActBlue appears to be using expansive privilege claims as a shield to hide the full scope and duration of its misconduct.

The Committees rejected ActBlue’s privilege claims over Ting’s letter, Ahmad’s message, and the non-lawyer documents that have not been produced. They gave ActBlue until June 26, 2026 to comply.

“These documents are essential to the Committees’ legislative efforts to protect American elections from fraudulent contributions and foreign interference. The Committees remain prepared to enforce our subpoenas through all available mechanisms.”

This latest escalation comes just eight days after ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked her Fifth Amendment right more than 20 times during a June 10 House Administration Committee hearing on preventing fraudulent donations — refusing to answer questions about misleading Congress on foreign donation vetting and the mass exodus of the legal and compliance team.

NEW: Chairmen @Jim_Jordan, @RepBryanSteil, and @RepJamesComer threaten ActBlue with contempt of Congress.

ActBlue has refused to produce all documents required by the Committees’ subpoenas.

We still need answers on their scheme to take illegal donations from foreign sources… pic.twitter.com/OAMsudVtYP

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 22, 2026

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