A federal appeals court on Thursday reinstated Ohio’s law requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a lower court’s injunction.

In August, a Clinton-appointed judge blocked Ohio from requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship from residents registering to vote through the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles, handing a major victory to Democrat-aligned election attorneys just weeks before the 2026 midterm voter-registration deadline.

U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. issued a preliminary injunction against the citizenship-verification provision in Ohio House Bill 54.

House Bill 54 amended Ohio law to require applicants registering or updating their voter registration during a BMV transaction to provide proof of citizenship, or to have previously supplied that documentation to the agency.

The requirement could be satisfied with records such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization certificate. Ohio’s official statute took effect in June 2025.

Judge Oliver ruled that Ohio’s BMV process likely violated the National Voter Registration Act on two grounds.

First, the judge concluded that the state could not condition the offer to register on whether an applicant successfully obtained a driver’s license.

Oliver wrote that Ohio had made voter registration dependent upon the success of the license application and declared that the “sequencing is not what Congress intended.”

Second, Oliver ruled that documentary proof of citizenship exceeded the information Ohio needed to determine eligibility. According to the judge, a signed statement claiming U.S. citizenship is sufficient.

On Thursday, a three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to block Judge Oliver’s injunction.

“A panel of three judges on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to block a lower court ruling that had granted a preliminary injunction against the voter ID law in August. The majority argued that the advocacy groups that brought the suit failed to demonstrate that the law would likely prevent people from registering to vote,” Politico reported.

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Federal prosecutors have charged an American tech CEO and a Russian national over a plot to hide their company’s ownership and access federal databases through contracts awarded under Biden. 

Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber, 55, of Boise, Idaho, and Oleg Sergeyevich Davydov, 52, of Moscow, Russia, were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

The two are accused of “concealing from U.S. government agencies that their company was owned and controlled by Russian nationals and that its software was developed in Russia,” the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.

Reiber and Davydov allegedly concealed from federal agencies that their company was owned and controlled by Russian nationals and “conspired to obtain contracts from federal agencies” to analyze data from US agencies.

The agencies affected included the Department of War and the Department of Homeland Security, including the “Secret Service and its National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI); Homeland Security Investigations; and the DHS Office of Inspector General.”

According to the DOJ:

Reiber allegedly represented to the government that the company had no foreign ownership or control and that its software was developed in the United States, when in fact five Russian nationals, including Davydov, owned and controlled the company and its software was developed in Russia.

The complaint does not allege that the software contained malicious code or that it was used to gain unauthorized access to any customer’s computer systems or data.

In a separate proceeding, a federal magistrate judge in the Central District of California on September 19 issued a warrant authorizing the seizure of corporate bank accounts, approximately 57 domains, and other cyberinfrastructure used in furtherance of the alleged acts. The domains and related infrastructure were seized on September 20.

According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, from March 2022 to the present, Reiber, Davydov, and others conspired to obtain contracts from federal agencies through Oxygen Forensics Inc., a digital forensics company based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Digital forensic software is used to recover, preserve, and analyze electronic data from digital devices while keeping the original files unchanged.

The affidavit identifies the affected agencies as the U.S. Department of War and three components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). These components include the U.S. Secret Service and its National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI); Homeland Security Investigations; and the DHS Office of Inspector General.

According to the affidavit, Oxygen Forensics held itself out to the U.S. government as being an independent, U.S.-based company. In fact, Davydov and four other Russian nationals owned and controlled the company through a holding company based in Cyprus.

The same five individuals also owned a Russian company, known until September 2022 as Oxygen Software LLC and now as MKO Systems LLC, which Davydov co-founded in 2000. The developers who wrote the software worked in Russia, and MKO sold the software in Russia under different product names to customers that reportedly included the Russian Federal Security Service (known as the FSB), the Russian Investigative Committee, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Davydov was the Russian company’s chief technology officer and was responsible for the development of its software. He helped establish Oxygen Forensics in Virginia in 2013. Reiber joined the company in August 2015.

After the United States imposed expanded sanctions on Russia in early 2022 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Davydov, Reiber, and the Russian co-conspirators agreed to conceal Oxygen Forensics’ true ownership and the development of its software in Russia. Reiber was installed as the company’s CEO, president, and chairman of the board in March 2022. The Russian owners were then removed from the company’s public corporate filings.

The company’s Russian owners continued to make significant decisions and set Reiber’s compensation, overruled him on payments, and held signatory authority over the company’s bank accounts.

In December 2022 and October 2023, Reiber falsely certified to the U.S. government that Oxygen Forensics had no immediate or highest-level owner. According to the affidavit, in November 2023, a reporter asked Reiber about Oxygen Forensics’ ownership and its connection to the Russian company.

Reiber then wrote to Davydov and two other Russian owners that public reporting on the connection “could destroy this entire opportunity,” referring to a pending contract with the National Computer Forensics Institute, and that the “current existence of this company hangs in the balance.”

In September 2024, the NCFI awarded a five-year contract for the software. The award file included Reiber’s October 2023 certification that the company had no immediate or highest-level owner.

In July 2024, at Reiber’s direction, Oxygen Forensics certified to the Department of War that no foreign person had the power to control the appointment of the company’s directors or managers or to direct its other decisions or activities. As Reiber then knew, the company’s Russian owners were foreign persons who controlled its decisions and one of them had recently been appointed to its board under a Turkish identity.

Reiber and the Russian owners also concealed that the software was developed in Russia. In March 2026, Reiber told DHS personnel that no Russian was involved in developing the software and that no one in Russia had access to the environment in which it was built. Days later, Reiber authored a statement, published on the company’s website, declaring that the company had no development presence in any restricted jurisdiction. According to the complaint, the software was written and managed by a team in Russia under Davydov’s direction, in a cloud environment administered by one of the Russian owners.

A criminal complaint merely contains allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

If convicted, each defendant would face a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.

The United States Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security is investigating this matter with assistance from the Department of War Office of Inspector General Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Cyber Field Office. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs is assisting in the provisional arrest and anticipated extradition of Davydov.

Assistant United States Attorneys David C. Lachman of the Major Frauds Section and Joshua O. Mausner of the National Security Division are prosecuting this case. Assistant United States Attorney James E. Dochterman of the Asset Forfeiture and Recovery Section is handling the civil and criminal forfeitures of the seized property.

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Far-left Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has spent months telling voters he is “not a socialist” and “just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works.”

His own sister just blew that talking point up.

In an undercover video obtained exclusively by The Midwesterner and recorded at the Socialism 2026 Conference in Chicago, University of Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed’s half-sister, agreed that the candidate’s capitalist branding is a sales pitch, not the truth.

The only thing that matters, she said, is getting him into the United States Senate.

The Midwesterner reports that Abdelhadi identified herself as El-Sayed’s sister while speaking with an attendee whose nephew had started door-knocking for the campaign at the University of Michigan. The nephew, the attendee said, got “super sketch” about El-Sayed’s public claim that he is a capitalist.

“I was like, ‘Dude, don’t worry about that. Abdul is not a f**king capitalist,’” the attendee told her.

“Yeah,” Abdelhadi answered. “All we care about is the policies at this point.”

“Exactly,” the attendee said. “Getting him in.”

“Exactly!” Abdelhadi replied.

That is the quiet part out loud.

You can watch the undercover footage HERE.

El-Sayed has repeated the capitalist line to anyone with a microphone. In July he told Detroit’s WJBK, “I’m not a socialist, I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works.”

He has said the same thing to CNN, Fox, The Nation, and Stephen A. Smith: he is not DSA, not a socialist, just a man who read Adam Smith and wants to “regulate monopolies.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, radicalism in this family is not a coincidence. In August, TGP documented that Abdelhadi is a self-described “queer Muslim” activist and University of Chicago professor who was charged with two counts of felony aggravated battery after allegedly spitting on an Illinois state trooper at an anti-ICE riot outside a detention facility in Broadview.

She has called her own employer an “evil colonial landlord” and a “police force,” written about “transitioning out of capitalism to a stateless, communized society,” and posted an October 7 “blessing” while wrapped in a keffiyeh.

The Gateway Pundit also reported that El-Sayed’s birth mother, Fatten Elkomy, worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency, a Treasury-designated terror-support network accused of providing financial support to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and Hamas. Different relative.

Same pattern: the family record keeps surfacing, and the candidate keeps changing the subject to “policies.”

Those policies are not a mystery. As The Gateway Pundit reported in May, El-Sayed stood in Detroit and bragged, “I’m the only one for Medicare for All. I’m the only one who will abolish ICE.” His campaign site still calls for abolishing ICE.

He launched his Senate bid with an immediate endorsement from Sen. Bernie Sanders and has been backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib.

He headlined Detroit DSA events, including a 2019 fundraiser where organizers posed with a pamphlet showing a red fist choking a snake labeled “CAPITALISM.”

He has campaigned with Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. He wants government control of health care, higher taxes on wealth and capital gains, and a heavy state hand over private industry, including a plan for government stakes and board seats in artificial intelligence.

Michigan Democrats nominated this man to replace Sen. Gary Peters and face Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in November, in a race that will help decide control of the Senate.

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In a video from March that is going viral, shared by Disnter,  Rev. Flourish Klink, a non-binary Episcopal priest, told a congregation that Jesus was trans.

According to Klink, Mary assigned Jesus a male at birth, but when he resurrected, he returned as his ‘true, transgender self.’

“God is non-binary,” Klink declared

“God is non-binary, but I’m going to go further than that. And I’m going to say God is actually also trans.”

“And now let’s get on the same page here. When we trans people are born, folks assign us a gender based on what they see.”

“Then, when we’re old enough, we realize that that wasn’t right, and we’re not, in our deepest selves, the gender that everybody thought we were, right? Reasonable working definition of a trans person, yeah?”

“Okay, good. Alright, here’s why God is trans. When God, who, as we have established, is non-binary, was born in human form as our Lord Jesus Christ, Mary said,’ Oh look, a baby boy.’”

“God isn’t a boy. We have established this.”

“God is beyond boy and girl. God was assigned a gender at birth, and later on, it became clear that that gender wasn’t quite right.”

“So if you’re going to deny God is trans, I think you’re going to be denying the divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I have some notes about that.”

“When I say that later on it became clear gender wasn’t quite right, I mean it. We already know Jesus didn’t live life exactly the way your average first-century Judean man did, right? To the best of our knowledge, he didn’t get married. We don’t know for sure.”

“He chose to teach and to engage with women in ways that were very unusual, that were not the traditionally masculine way that people might be behaving with each other.”

“And then Jesus died. And Jesus was resurrected.”

“And when Jesus was resurrected, Jesus was different. Jesus didn’t look like Himself.”

“There was something different about Jesus. And now, I will admit the Bible does not tell us what that is. So if anybody says they do know what that is, they are also not telling the truth, and I have some notes for them. The Bible doesn’t tell us why it is that Jesus’ best friends, His disciples, the people who had walked with Him to the end of His life, the people who buried Him in the tomb when it was politically difficult, who were committed to Him, still didn’t recognize Jesus for a good long time.”

“Now I don’t know for sure. I wasn’t there.”

“But based on everything else I know about God, I have an idea. I think Jesus was resurrected as Jesus’s true self, which is beyond male or female.”

“I think Jesus was not only transfigured, I think Jesus transitioned.”

Watch:

Episcopal priestess says Mary assigned Jesus male at birth, but he was trans. And when he was resurrected, he came back as His true, transgender self. pic.twitter.com/ox1yIfAT9e

— The Dissenter (@disntr) September 23, 2026

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President Trump was seen giving Xi Jinping a tour of the White House on Thursday, showing off the new renovations since he took office.  

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed Xi and his wife, Madame Peng, to the White House this morning. Trump and Xi delivered remarks, exchanged gifts, and observed a military review.

The festivities included a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and an F-22 flyover.

WATCH: B-2 and F-22s just flew over the White House during a Rose Garden Military Review with President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Madame Peng pic.twitter.com/p1iZTnml8a

— Jordan Conradson (@ConradsonJordan) September 24, 2026

Following the ceremonies, Trump gave Xi a tour of the White House and showed Xi the Biden autopen portrait on the White House Rose Garden’s “Presidential Walk of Fame” before taking a photo in front of the Oval Office.

WATCH:

Additional footage from the interaction shows Trump and Xi laughing about Biden’s legacy as a brain-dead puppet.

Via Margo Martin on X:

After a closed-press bilateral meeting with Xi, Trump took him to see the new granite White House helipad, which was completed this month, and the two boarded Marine One for a few minutes.

Afterward, Trump told the raving crowd of reporters that they had a “great meeting.” He added, “He has great interest in granite,” a reference to the helipad. “He likes granite. He’s an expert on stones, aside from many other things, and he loves good granite,” Trump joked.

At one point, Trump also showed off some of the portraits hanging in the West Wing, one of which features Xi shaking hands with Trump. “Who is that? I don’t recognize him,” Trump jokes to the cameras while showing Xi the photo. “That’s great. We have a lot of respect for you,” Trump told Xi.

Via Margo Martin on X:

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