In a humiliating collapse just weeks before the August 11 Democratic primary, Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez (D) has DROPPED OUT of the race for governor.

Rodriguez announced her exit Friday morning, July 17, admitting that the campaign finance scandal rocking her bid had become an “ongoing distraction” she could no longer afford to carry into the primary or the general election Democrats desperately want to win.

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review of Rodriguez’s January campaign finance report found more than $100,000 in apparent duplicate contributions, the same donor listed as giving the exact same amount on the exact same day, sometimes twice in one entry.

Other reviews put the overstated totals even higher, with one analysis identifying more than $275,000 in duplicate donations in December alone.

The report itself was filed late, at 2:13 a.m. on January 16, hours after the deadline, then amended twice in the early morning hours at 3:23 a.m. and again at 5:01 a.m.

Rodriguez had been telling donors and the public she had the resources for a $1 million ad buy. She reportedly believed her campaign had around $1.5 million on hand. Reality hit hard: after the errors were uncovered, her campaign had only about $200,000 in cash on hand.

Rodriguez held a Monday press conference where she called the fiasco a “bump in the road,” claimed she was taking swift accountability by firing her longtime campaign manager, Kara Spencer, in a desperate bid to shift blame and contacting the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to file amended reports, and insisted voters shouldn’t worry about her ability to manage the state’s $111+ billion biennial budget.

That spin didn’t hold. By Friday, she was gone.

Rodriguez: I want to start by thanking my family and every single person who showed up for this campaign over the past week. Your support has meant more than I can put into words.

As we have continued to dig into our financial reports, it has become clear that there are issues that would be an ongoing distraction—not just for this campaign, but for the primary and for Wisconsin.

This race is too important to let that happen.

I am deeply hurt and betrayed by what happened.

As I said on Monday, part of being a leader is taking swift action, doing the right thing, and being as honest as possible when there’s a problem.

I got into this race because I wanted what was best for Wisconsin, and that hasn’t changed. And because I believe that, I cannot, in good conscience, allow these questions to become a cloud over an election that Democrats need to win.

Wisconsin deserves better than that.

This was never just about any one race or any one candidate. This is about protecting Wisconsin from a legislature hellbent on putting corporations over schools and insurance companies over patients. It’s about showing the rest of the country that we can win here, govern here, and fight for the middle class, and that Wisconsin will lead the way.

To everyone who showed up, knocked doors, made calls, and believed in what we were building, please don’t stop.

Wisconsin has always been a place of resilience, where everyday citizens show up and accomplish extraordinary things.

Better days are ahead because of people like you.

Let’s keep fighting. I’ll be right there with you.

WATCH:

Today I’m suspending my campaign. Thank you to everyone who believed and showed up for this campaign. Let’s keep fighting – together – to protect the Wisconsin we love. pic.twitter.com/177LrrLD56

— Sara Rodriguez (@saraforwi) July 17, 2026

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US Central Command announced on Friday that in strikes against Iran last night, a decades-old Iranian surveillance tower used to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz has been destroyed.  

The tower’s destruction “degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members” and “protects freedom of navigation in regional waters for all vessels, except for ships attempting to violate the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran,” CENTCOM said. 

Video released by CENTCOM appears to show multiple missiles hitting the target.

WATCH:

US Central Command said in a statement on Friday:

On July 16, U.S. forces successfully destroyed the Chah Bahar Shahid Kalantari Port surveillance tower, part of a maritime surveillance network along Iran’s Gulf of Oman coastline used for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The destruction of the tower directly degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members. Furthermore, the strike protects freedom of navigation in regional waters for all vessels, except for ships attempting to violate the ongoing U.S. naval blockade against Iran.

This comes after CENTCOM announced the completion of another major wave of attacks last night, lasting nearly eight hours, marking the sixth straight day of consecutive strikes. They announced that the strikes began at 2 pm and concluded at 9:40 pm ET.

Footage released by the military command on Thursday night shows multiple targets being hit:

CENTCOM announced on Thursday:

Today at 9:40 p.m. ET, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed its latest major wave of strikes against Iran.

U.S. forces, including fighter jets, aerial drones, and warships, launched precision munitions that hit dozens of Iranian military targets such as coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities. This was the sixth consecutive night of U.S. strikes against Iran.

At the Commander in Chief’s direction, CENTCOM is further degrading Iranian military capabilities and holding Iran accountable for recent attacks on commercial shipping.

More than 50,000 U.S. service members are operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and ready.

On Wednesday, the US executed two separate rounds of strikes, “to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten innocent mariners crewing commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”

US forces also disabled an oil tanker en route to an Iranian port on Kharg Island on Wednesday, using Hellfire missiles to enforce the ongoing naval blockade.

JUST IN: US Central Command Announces Second Wave of Attacks Today as Trump Indicates He Won’t Make Another Deal With Iran – UPDATE: Strikes Continue for 6 Hours (VIDEO)

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A video showing Arabic text added to department signs inside a Home Depot store in Dearborn, Michigan, is going viral on X.

The footage shows large hanging signs with standard English department names such as Appliances, Paint, Moving, Kitchen, Bath, Plumbing, and others, each with corresponding Arabic translations.

WATCH:

WOW Home Depot in Dearborn, Michigan has added Arabic to their signs inside the store

This is not assimilation, this is an Islamic Takeover of America

I found many major retailers in Dearborn have also added Arabic, locations at stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Costco,… pic.twitter.com/bWPmpeuHyO

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 16, 2026

In the post, which had nearly a million views by Friday morning, Wall Street Apes wrote:

WOW

Home Depot in Dearborn, Michigan, has added Arabic to its signs inside the store

This is not assimilation, this is an Islamic Takeover of America

I found many major retailers in Dearborn have also added Arabic, locations at stores like Walmart, Home Depot, Costco, Kroger and Albertsons

Arabic shouldn’t be on any of our retailers signs. No foreign language should, but especially not Arabic. If we continue to let this happen we will only ensure we become the UK

Home Depot has reportedly added bilingual signs at multiple locations in Dearborn and nearby suburbs such as Livonia and Taylor.

Dearborn has experienced rapid demographic replacement in recent years.

U.S. Census Bureau data from 2020 shows that 54.5 percent of the city’s approximately 110,000 residents report Middle Eastern or North African ancestry, making Arabs the majority.

While the Census does not collect religious affiliation, estimates place the Muslim population at around 45,000 residents, or roughly 41 percent, with many analysts suggesting the figure is higher given the predominant Muslim background among Arab Americans in the area.

Arabic is spoken in a large share of households, and the city has seen the development of countless mosques, halal markets, and the Arab American National Museum.

Abdullah Hammoud, an Arab, was elected mayor in 2021.

This pattern of signage for the Muslim population in Dearborn is not entirely new.

In 2008, a Walmart Supercenter in Dearborn opened with Arabic signage and a dedicated Middle Eastern foods aisle stocked with items like falafel, olives, and Islamic greeting cards.

Many have argued in the replies that going out of the way to accommodate foreign languages in national retailers accelerates the destruction of English as the common language in America and discourages assimilation.

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A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the Mexico, Guatemala border on Friday morning.

A tsunami warning was issued.

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck near Puerto Madero, Mexico.

Shaking was felt in Guatemala and El Salvador.

No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

BREAKING: A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast.

The quake hit about 40 miles from the major port city of Puerto Madero, near the Guatemala border.

The powerful tremor prompted a tsunami warning and was felt across parts of Central America. |… pic.twitter.com/yoOp4JyESw

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 17, 2026

Videos posted to social media showed the moment the temblor struck.

#Now
Moment of 7.4 mag #earthquake (USGS) at Gulf of Tehuantepec, in #Villahermosa #Tabasco #Mexico. Earthquake was felt in states of #Chiapas #Oaxaca #Tabasco & #Veracruz, as well as in #Guatemala & #ElSalvador. It was felt very weakly or slightly in #MexicoCity. pic.twitter.com/GoKLYbJlCN

— The Mexico Times (@mexicotimes) July 17, 2026

Buildings swayed across Mexico.

BUILDINGS SHAKE ACROSS MEXICO

Terrifying moments as buildings sway violently following a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake off Mexico’s Pacific coast.#BreakingNews #Earthquake #Mexico #Tsunami #TsunamiWarning #Seismic #NaturalDisaster #PacificOcean pic.twitter.com/jrBR2BtvwT

— Rosa News Official (@Mirha1206) July 17, 2026

Residents evacuated moments after the quake struck.

MORE QUAKE FOOTAGE EMERGES

Newly surfaced footage captures the intense shaking caused by the 7.4M earthquake in Mexico, with structures swaying and residents evacuating moments after the quake struck.#BreakingNews #Earthquake #Mexico #Tsunami #TsunamiWarning #Seismic… pic.twitter.com/6icf1BHqJB

— Rosa News Official (@Mirha1206) July 17, 2026

Last month, approximately 5,000 people died after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within minutes of each other.

On the same day, a magnitude 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off northern Japan.

DEVELOPING…

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Guest post by Enrique Tarrio-

On July 15th, between 8:30 and 9:00 PM, Irish activists and citizens started calling me.

Three “foreign-looking individuals” were spotted paying very close attention to the remembrance mural on the Doagh Road in Newtownabbey. Not just walking past and glancing. They were going back and forth. Unusual. Suspicious. The kind of behavior that stands out.

Then at around 2:30 in the morning they came back and paint-bombed the mural with red balloons.

They made off in the direction of the Standard. A silver car that looked like a Fiat 500XL was caught on CCTV.

This is the exact mural that was featured in the Gateway Pundit short documentary Belfast: A New Menace Rising that Barry Ramey and I shot on the ground just weeks ago. The same mural that captured the cultural collision we witnessed with our own eyes.

Local Protestants have already identified the perpetrators. The community is collecting every scrap of CCTV and asking for more footage.

They call it a hate crime against their community. And they’re right.

Lasair Dhearg claimed it themselves on Facebook within hours:

“A racist mural erected by Unionists in Newtownabbey has been paid a visit by Lasair Dhearg activists. The anti-immigration mural, which made headlines in recent months, was paintbombed in the early hours of this morning. Racism, bigotry and sectarianism can not be tolerated and must be destroyed.”

They even posted video of the attack. Same group that poured red paint over the Queen Victoria statue at the Royal Victoria Hospital earlier this year. Same far-left republican socialists who specialize in running around in the dark with their faces covered, throwing paint, then posting about how brave they are on social media.

A racist mural erected by Unionists in Newtownabbey has been paid a visit by Lasair Dhearg activists. The anti-immigration mural, which made headlines in recent months, was paintbombed in the early hours of this morning. Racism, bigotry and sectarianism can not be tolerated 1/2 pic.twitter.com/7Bq2mjqExZ

— Lasair Dhearg (@LasairDhearg) July 16, 2026

The response from the local community came fast and raw:

“so we are calling for the scumbags off Lasair dhearg activities that think there big lads to come and meet us face to face bring as many people as you like or we will come to use and sort this out like men instead of running about in darkness with your faces covered come on ya big girls.

please make sure you sleep with your eyes open you never know who will be standing at the bottom of your bed one night ”

That’s not a coded threat. That’s a straight invitation to settle it like men.

What Barry Ramey and I Saw on the Ground

When Barry and I landed in Belfast, we didn’t go for the tourist version. We went straight into the communities that are living this every single day.

We walked the streets where the attempted beheading of Stephen Ogilvie happened. We stood at the exact spot on Kinnaird Avenue where a Sudanese asylum seeker tried to cut a man’s head off in front of witnesses. We saw the blood still staining the ground in people’s memories. We talked to the men who intervened with a hurling stick and saved his life. We heard the raw anger, the fear, and the absolute refusal to accept this as the new normal.

We sat with both Loyalists and Nationalists — old enemies who spent decades trying to kill each other during the Troubles. And what we found shocked even us. They were speaking the same language. Not about green and orange. About survival. About their kids. About their streets. About a mass migration experiment that has brought medieval violence to their doorsteps.

One older man told me, “We fought each other for thirty years. Now we’re watching outsiders try to take the whole fucking place.” Another younger guy said, “I don’t care if you’re a Prod or a Taig anymore. If you’re here to destroy what we have, you’re the enemy.”

That unity is real. It’s raw. And it’s growing.

The mural that just got paintbombed was part of that pushback. It was put up in late May after the Ogilvie attack. It showed war graves, a kneeling soldier, and the words “Sorry it was all for nothing.” It was a warning. A reminder. And the PSNI — the Police Service of Northern Ireland — immediately treated its very existence as a “hate incident.”

That’s the two-tier system on full display. A community puts up a mural mourning its dead and warning about the invasion, and the police call it hate. A far-left republican group sneaks out in the middle of the night, throws red paint all over it, and films themselves like heroes.

Barry and I saw this pattern over and over. The people who actually live there are told to shut up, stay quiet, and accept whatever gets dumped on them. When they speak, they’re racists. When they defend their streets, they’re extremists. When they put up a mural, it’s a hate crime.

But when outsiders commit savagery or when left-wing activists vandalize community memorials, the response is softer.

This Isn’t Over!

Lasair Dhearg thought they scored a win last night. They thought throwing paint in the dark made them tough.

The people of Newtownabbey just reminded them what real toughness looks like.

This mural was never just paint on a wall. It was a line in the sand. And the people who live behind that line are done being told to stay quiet while their streets, their culture, and their future get taken from them.

Barry and I left Belfast with one clear message from the people we met: they will not go quietly. They will not kneel. And they will not forget.

Things are heating up.

Watch the full short documentary Belfast: A New Menace Rising right now, only on The Gateway Pundit. See what we saw. Hear the people for yourself. This is the story the mainstream media won’t touch — and it’s only getting hotter.

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