Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will face a potentially serious challenger for Majority Leader, as the most radical Democrats see him as past his prime and not liberal enough to lead the caucus.

As TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported, the anger over Schumer leading the party again has fueled furious protests against him.

For example, dozens of left-wing activists from the Sunrise Movement were arrested Thursday after staging a sit-in inside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s personal office in the Hart Senate Office Building, chanting “Schumer has got to go!” and demanding he either end the filibuster or step aside.

Schumer has also faced calls from the likes of newly elected Democratic Senator Adam Hamilton of Kansas, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and Socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont to step aside.

Now, they all may be getting their wish.

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced on X Thursday night that he would run for Majority Leader and explained why.

“In this election, America called us to unrig an economy rigged against working people, fueled by political corruption,” Van Hollen wrote.

“To deliver, we need new leadership,” he continued. “This isn’t about any one person – it’s about answering that call.”

“That’s why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.”

In this election, Americans called on us to unrig an economy rigged against working people & fueled by political corruption.

To deliver, we need new leadership. This isn’t about any one person – it’s about answering that call.

That’s why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) November 13, 2026

Should Van Hollen somehow defeat Schumer, it could be a major gift to the GOP.

Back in 2010, Van Hollen presided over the loss of 63 House seats while he was serving as DCCC chairman. This was the worst landslide defeat of Democrats in a generation.

Moreover, Van Hollen is the same person who flew all the way to El Salvador to fawn over illegal alien wife-beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia last year.

Following the visit, he was brutally dragged by President Trump and Americans across the country.

The leadership election for Senate Democrats is scheduled for December 1, 2026. It will be behind closed doors and via secret ballot.

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Illinois prison officials released an illegal alien from Mexico on parole after he served time for a drunk-driving crash that killed a Marine veteran, refusing to honor an ICE detainer and failing to notify federal authorities, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Vicente Torres-Vasquez was arrested at large by ICE days later.

Torres-Vasquez caused a fatal crash on July 24, 2011, in Wauconda, Illinois, while driving under the influence.

The illegal alien struck and killed 55-year-old Gregory Errol Homola, a Marine Corps veteran riding a motorcycle. He was a father of five.

Two women in another vehicle were also injured.

Torres-Vasquez was convicted in 2012 of aggravated DUI resulting in death and two counts of aggravated DUI resulting in great bodily injury. He received a 25-year prison sentence.

EXCLUSIVE: DHS is blasting the sanctuary state of Illinois after they allege the state ignored an ICE detainer on a Mexican illegal alien w/ a deportation order, four DUI arrests, and a prior conviction for a DUI crash that killed U.S. Marine veteran Gregory Errol Homola in IL in 2011. Despite a 25 year prison sentence from that 2012 conviction, Illinois released the alien from prison early last week via parole, and DHS says their detainer was ignored & they received no notification or cooperation on his release. ICE says they tracked him down and arrested him at large on Wednesday after his release into the public.

The alien’s name is Vicente Torres-Vasquez. He is known to have entered the US illegally at least three times in the mid 2000s, and he has had a final deportation order since 2010, per ICE. That final deportation order was active on 7/24/2011, when Torres-Vasquez drove drunk and crashed into Homola on his motorcycle in Wauconda, IL, killing him.

DHS Secretary Mullin statement to @FoxNews:

“This illegal alien was sentenced to 25 years in prison after killing a man while drunk behind the wheel. When ICE lodged a detainer ahead of his release on parole, sanctuary politicians in JB Pritzker’s Illinois refused to cooperate with us and released him without notifying ICE,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “Thankfully, the brave patriots of ICE managed to arrest this killer anyway, and he will now be deported from our country.”

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 13, 2026

Shockingly, Torres-Vasquez had previously been arrested four times for DUI and convicted on three of those counts.

Torres-Vasquez entered the United States illegally at least three times, received voluntary departures in 2004, and had a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge on November 11, 2010, before going on to kill Homola.

ICE lodged a detainer with the Illinois River Correctional Center in 2017.

Torres-Vasquez was later transferred to Stateville Correctional Center ahead of his parole date, and ICE lodged a second detainer.

On November 2, Stateville refused to honor the detainer and released him on parole without notifying ICE.

WATCH:

Vicente Torres-Vasquez, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested in Wauconda, Illinois after a DUI crash that KILLED Marine Veteran Gregory Errol Homola on July 24, 2011.

This should have never happened, as this illegal alien had previously been arrested FOUR TIMES for driving under the influence.

ICE lodged a detainer, and then lodged another detainer when he was transferred to another prison. But on November 2, 2026, sanctuary politicians refused to honor the ICE detainer and RELEASED him.

On November 11, @EROChicago arrested Vicente Torres-Vasquez at large. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

Sanctuary politicians need to stop prioritizing political power over the safety of their constituents.

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 13, 2026

Illinois’s TRUST Act generally bars state and local facilities from honoring immigration detainers or cooperating with federal immigration enforcement in most cases.

On November 11, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in Chicago located and arrested Torres-Vasquez at large. He now remains in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement, “This illegal alien was sentenced to 25 years in prison after killing a man while drunk behind the wheel. When ICE lodged a detainer ahead of his release on parole, sanctuary politicians in J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois refused to cooperate with us and released him without notifying ICE. Thankfully, the brave patriots of ICE managed to arrest this killer anyway, and he will now be deported from our country. These heartless sanctuary politicians need to stop prioritizing political power over the safety of their constituents. They owe it to the Angel Families to work with us so that we can prevent any more American lives from being lost to illegal alien crime.”

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Microsoft, one of the largest software companies in the world, is experiencing a service outage that started on Thursday and has been affecting businesses and government agencies throughout the world.

According to The New York Times, the outage “began on Thursday afternoon, as workers and offices around the world began reporting issues with a range of Microsoft tools and apps, including email and chat software.”

By Friday morning, several airlines and artificial intelligence companies had also reported being affected by the outage.

In total, the outage has affected “government departments, banks, police forces, health services, and courts worldwide,” the Independent reported.

BREAKING: Microsoft services are beginning to come back online after a massive global outage left millions of users without access for nearly 18 hours.

The disruption affected businesses, schools and government agencies in at least 74 countries, including the United States.

Major services impacted included Outlook email, Microsoft Teams and Copilot…

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 13, 2026

In updates published online, Microsoft said it had “no evidence of malicious activity associated with this incident,” according to The New York Times.

In an additional update posted early Friday morning, Microsoft reportedly added that it had completed some “recovery actions” and was beginning to see an improvement in its services in some parts of the world.

“Some users may continue to experience intermittent issues,” the update  reportedly continued.

CNBC reported that some of the Microsoft apps affected by the outage included Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot.

The outlet added that Microsoft’s engineering staff have been taking affected apps and services “offline and fixes and bringing them back online in stages.”

In its updates, Microsoft blamed the outage on connectivity problems related to infrastructure seeing “elevated load across multiple regions” that was caused by a “number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable.”

Some critics like Scottish commentator James Melville responded to the outage by complaining about society’s increasing dependence on technology.

“We were sold digitalisation as efficiency and security. What we actually bought is dependency and insecurity,” he wrote in a social media post.

A massive global Microsoft outage has disrupted services like Outlook, Teams, and Copilot across 74 countries.

We were sold digitalisation as efficiency and security. What we actually bought is dependency and insecurity. https://t.co/yLNO146yQK

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) November 13, 2026

British commentator and journalist James O’Brien echoed some of Melville’s sentiment during a segment on LBC, a British phone-in and talk radio station.

“The worst thing that could happen to you 500 years ago was that someone declared war, and the first you heard of it was they turned up on the horizon on their horses with their lances,” he said.

“But now a machine in a cellar in San Francisco can get switched off and you can’t message your mom.”

“Of course, we rely upon electricity, but now we rely upon things we can barely name,” he later added. “What are you relying on if you’re relying upon Microsoft’s cloud? So utterly reliant on this stuff without ever really pausing to either appreciate it, acknowledge it, or measure it to work out what what what?”

WE DEPEND ON TECHNOLOGY WE BARELY UNDERSTAND! JAMES O’BRIEN WARNS MICROSOFT OUTAGE EXPOSES OUR DIGITAL VULNERABILITY

James O’Brien highlights how the widespread Microsoft outage has exposed society’s deep dependence on complex technology that most people barely understand. As essential services face disruption, he delivers a striking observation about the fragility of modern life…

— NewYork-Insight (@NewYork_Insight) November 13, 2026

Afghan-American nonprofit leader Ahmad Shah Mohibi added in a social media post that the outage “shows how quickly dependence on a few widely used workplace platforms can turn a technical failure into an operational problem.”

“When email, messaging and collaboration tools are unavailable, the cost reaches beyond inconvenience: companies and government offices may be unable to communicate or carry out routine work until access returns,” he continued.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A new report alleges that the vineyard management company contracted by PlumpJack, the wine business founded by California Governor Gavin Newsom in which he still holds a financial stake, has a long history of employing illegal alien labor.

Reporters spent weeks in Napa examining operations at Oso Vineyard, a 129-acre property PlumpJack purchased in 2022 for $14.5 million, where Renteria Vineyard Management handles field work, for a new City Journal investigation.

PlumpJack’s own materials identify Oscar Renteria as Oso’s long-time vineyard manager, and neither PlumpJack nor Renteria Vineyard Management disputed the arrangement when contacted.

RVM was founded in 1987 by Salvador Renteria, an illegal alien from Mexico who arrived in Napa in the 1960s and began working in vineyards in 1964. His son Oscar later took over the company, which manages more than 2,200 acres.

Newsom did not divest his PlumpJack stake when he became governor.

Tax returns show he and his wife earned at least $11 million between 2019 and 2024, largely from wineries, restaurants, and investments.

The report found no H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa filings for RVM or PlumpJack’s estates after 2023, after earlier limited filings by a subcontractor.

Sources in the industry told the reporters that they believe roughly 80 percent of Napa vineyard field workers are illegal aliens, far above official estimates.

“I think it’s 80 percent,” the owner of a vineyard management company told City Journal on condition of anonymity. “If you’re legal, you have your Green Card, you have your driver’s license and all these things, you don’t want to be working in the vineyards.”

A former RVM employee who worked there illegally for more than a decade also said about 80 percent of the workforce lacked legal status and that management knew it, with a foreman sourcing workers from near the border.

City Journal reports:

We also spoke with a former long-time employee of RVM. This person has lived and worked in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade, and claims RVM was aware of his status while he was employed at the company. This source said the vast majority of the field hands at RVM were in the country illegally, including at least some workers on every crew and every job site.

“About 80 percent of all of us who worked there [were in the country illegally],” the source said. “The other 20 percent had regular status . . . . We’re talking about the majority across all the work crews being in the same situation.” When asked explicitly if RVM was aware that many employees were illegals, the source said, “Absolutely, of course. There was a lot of them.”

The source also claimed that while he worked at RVM, a manager had a contact in Mexico from whom he would source workers. “It was a foreman, and he did communicate with people over by the border to bring people from there, from an Ejido near Tijuana,” the source said. The source believes that RVM used the illegal status of workers to take advantage of them, claiming many workers were not paid overtime, and that safety and health regulations were often ignored, including in at least one instance of serious injury.

RVM does not appear in the federal E-Verify database.

When a source posing as a Mexican national without a green card or Social Security number called about work, an employee took the number and said a manager would follow up.

RVM also has a documented record of labor violations.

In 2022 the Department of Labor found wage-and-hour violations affecting 45 employees under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, resulting in back wages and penalties.

A 2017 Cal/OSHA inspection after an accident led to a heat-illness citation.

Private class-action lawsuits in 2024 and 2026 alleged minimum wage, overtime, and other labor code violations, with one settled this September.

Renteria has previously described some workers as having “complicated immigration status” and expressed concern about tracking that could lead to identification and deportation.

“They’re really nervous,” Renteria said in a 2013 interview. “Nervous they’ll be tracked and then somehow the possibility of being identified, and the fear of being deported or not being allowed to work. It comes up all the time in conversations when we outline the choices.”

Newsom’s spokesman said the governor placed his business interests in a blind trust in 2019 and has no involvement in PlumpJack’s operations.

A PlumpJack spokesperson said the company expects all vendors to comply with the law. RVM did not respond to requests for comment.

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The gals and soyboys of Code Pink sure can dish it out.  But it turns out they can’t take it.

On Veterans Day, Fox News Digital followed members of Code Pink and groups funded by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham through the halls of Congress during a lobbying event organizers called the “Taxpayer Uprising.”

Singham is accused of being behind the anti-ICE riots, the anti-Trump protests following the arrest of Maxist tyrant Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela, the anti-Trump Iran protests, Cuban propaganda in the US, and the “anti-Kings” protests in the US, to name a few.

Per Fox News:

But when the cameras turned on them, they angrily refused to answer questions and covered the camera lens, one time with a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf and another time with a backpack designed with the pattern of a watermelon, a symbol adopted by the Palestinian movement. Then, they responded with smears and ad hominem attacks.

Finally, they published their footage of the confrontations, turning their objections to being filmed into content for their followers. One follower congratulated them on their success deploying “psychic militancy.”

Rania Khalek, a co-host of “BT Live” at BreakThrough News, couldn’t engage in simple discourse when asked about funding from Singham.

In March, Fox reporter Asra Nomani released a five-part series covering Singham’s funding of left-wing causes.

When she asked Khalek questions about the funding, the meltdown began.

Nomani reported, “When I turned the cameras on them, they had a meltdown.”

“Their operation illustrates cognitive warfare against American: the systematic use of money, media, protests, political pressure and propaganda to shape what Americans believe and feel.”

“On Wednesday, I spent six hours following the Singham network’s activists as they cornered members of Congress and demanded cuts to the U.S. military budget, an end to U.S. military ties with Israel and support for communist regimes from Cuba to China.”

Watch:

FOLLOW THE MONEY. WATCH THE MELTDOWN.

$285 MILLION from a Shanghai-based communist tycoon.

That’s what funded the network whose activists spent this week on Capitol Hill bird-dogging lawmakers.

When I turned the cameras on them, they had a meltdown.

Their operation illustrates cognitive warfare against American: the systematic use of money, media, protests, political pressure and propaganda to shape what Americans believe and feel.

Earlier this year, I added up the numbers for a five-part @FoxNews Digital series: Neville Roy Singham, an American-born communist tech tycoon living in Shanghai, moved $285 million into a network of U.S. nonprofits that organize street actions, produce propaganda and lobby Congress — all while operating as tax-exempt charities.

The result is a decade-long campaign of anti-American messaging that aligns with Chinese Communist Party priorities.

On Wednesday, I spent six hours following the Singham network’s activists as they cornered members of Congress and demanded cuts to the U.S. military budget, an end to U.S. military ties with Israel and support for communist regimes from Cuba to China.

This tactic is called “bird-dogging.” Watch their confrontations—and their efforts to obstruct my reporting—in the

I saw some of the network’s msot promient organizers: CodePink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who married Singham in 2017; CodePink D.C. organizer Olivia DiNucci; CodePink activist Tighe Barry, Benjamin’s husband; and BreakThrough News host Rania Khalek, who says she lives in Lebanon.

The money that reached their groups:
People’s Forum: $22.44M
CodePink: $1.33M
BreakThrough BT Media: $1.098M

All from Singham.

This week, activists from these groups sought to influence specific legislation. Their funding matters because it helps sustain the organizing and media operations behind that political pressure.

Three House committees — China Select, Judiciary, and Ways and Means — have investigated the network for allegedly operating as unregistered foreign influence that defends the Chinese Communist Party, Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah and communist regimes worldwide. They deny the allegations.

CodePink’s Benjamin and Evans just returned from a propaganda junket to China. Rania had a long record of defending Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The People’s Forum has been a central hub for the anti-Israel, anti-U.S. protest wave, especially the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israel.

When I turned the camera on them and asked about ordinary questions about their funding and tactics, they blocked the lens, hurled insults, and tried to block my path through the public hallways of the People’s House, as it’s called.

Rania had a Party for Socialism and Liberation activist film her confrontation as she lashed out at my questions. BreakThrough News later posted the clip, trying to shame me.

In cognitive warfare, that tactic works if you aren’t strong. I am very strong against such tactics because I have seen them deployed for so many decades now.

One follower praised her “psychic militancy.”

I’ve seen it 1,000x as I cover protests. Shouts by anti-ICE protesters to hardworking Americans, telling them: “Go kill yourself,” because they dare to work in immigration enforcement. Bloody cries of destroying Israel “from the river to the sea.” Condemnations of America as “AMERIKKKA.”

It’s all meant to shame, silence and overwhelm the brain so that any level of nonsense can enter.

Watch how the shouting and accusations overwhelm the exchange, pushing the original questions aside. As my @FoxNews Digital colleague @HannahBrennan99 brilliantly edited my footage, she had one word: WOW.

The audience for these confrontations extends far beyond a lawmaker or a journalist in a hallway. These displays of rage are meant for an audience captured with a camera. Once posted online, they become messages aimed at the world.

But what I learned: They can dish it out. They just can’t take it.

Follow the money. Watch the meltdown.

And thank you to all of you for your appreciation and support as I go into the trenches to bring dispatches like this one back to you for Fox News Digital.

I do it because you have to see and feel the weapons of propaganda, intimidation and abuse hurled at someone to ever win the cognitive war and build an iron dome for your brain.

I want to show you that you can face the cognitive war and win with truth, rational thought and clear thinking.

to the article in the replies.

— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) November 13, 2026

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