Blue city funds immigrant activist program with taxpayer dollars, critics say it ‘shuts citizens out’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration is offering taxpayer-funded scholarships for an activist program while limiting participation to immigrants, including non-U.S. citizens, a requirement that has drawn criticism online.
The Immigrants Lead Boston program, run by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, is designed for “emerging leaders” interested in advocating for Boston’s immigrant communities. Participants meet city officials and receive training aimed at helping them engage with local government and organize within their communities during the 10-week program.
Critics have seized on both the taxpayer funding and the eligibility requirements, arguing that U.S.-born residents are excluded from a city-backed leadership program whose participants can receive a $575 scholarship.
“That is not charity. That is a political pipeline built to shut citizens out of their own city,” one user wrote on X.
This is outrageous.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has a scholarship program for people to learn to become activists and only illegals and foreigners are allowed to apply. No American-born citizens. How is this legal?? @AAGDhillonhttps://t.co/soGXsBSJtMpic.twitter.com/kj3go2tvsT
Boston is paying immigrants $575 apiece to complete a 10-week course in political organizing, with no legal-status check on applicants and native-born US Bostonians barred from the program entirely, according to the city’s own website.
Immigrants Lead Boston, run by the Mayor’s Office for Immigrant Advancement, is now in its 7th cohort under Mayor Michelle Wu.
The program launched under former Mayor Marty Walsh in fall 2020 and has been continued and expanded by the Wu administration.
The boston.gov program page states applicants may apply “regardless of their immigration status.”
That opens the door to green-card holders, DACA recipients, refugees, asylum-seekers, and undocumented residents.
See a video report below:
STUNNING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is handing out taxpayer-funded stipends to immigrants regardless of legal status
Unbelievable.
“And I’ve asked 100 Democrats give me one downside on a secure border. They can. This is by design. This is their plan.” pic.twitter.com/Vv3whPyV4z
“NEED HELP”: Widow Delivers Harrowing Testimony at Sen. Ron Johnson’s COVID Hospital Roundtable — Says Husband Was Ventilated Without Consent and Repeatedly Written Off Because He Was Unvaccinated
September 28, 2026
Peggy Hokett’s last message from her husband was two words: “Need help.”
A grieving Oklahoma widow delivered disturbing testimony Monday during Sen. Ron Johnson’s latest examination of the federal government and hospital response to COVID-19, alleging her husband was sedated and placed on a ventilator without consent before dying weeks later.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) convened the September 28 roundtable, titled “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People,” bringing patients, family members, physicians, and nurses to Washington to describe their experiences inside hospitals during the pandemic.
According to Senator Johnson’s office, the event was the first of his COVID-related hearings and roundtables devoted entirely to hospital treatment protocols. Read Senator Johnson’s official announcement here
One of the most emotional accounts came from Peggy Hokett, whose husband, Raymond Hokett, died on September 21, 2021.
Johnson introduced Hokett by telling attendees that Raymond died 24 days after being hospitalized in Oklahoma City.
“He was given remdesivir, told he would die because he was unvaccinated, and placed on a ventilator without consent,” Johnson said in introducing her testimony.
Hokett testified that she and Raymond both felt sick on August 25, 2021. Their primary-care office was locked down for COVID, so they went to the ER. Raymond tested positive. His oxygen saturation was 93. Records noted he needed blood platelets. Staff said he would have to go elsewhere to receive them. The ER also said it would refer him for Regeneron. That referral, she said, was never made.
They were sent home and told to come back if he got worse.
Three days later he returned dehydrated, vomiting, with diarrhea. He agreed to a three-to-five-day admission. A doctor told Peggy to go home, get his phone charger and kiss him goodbye.
Records she later obtained showed Miralax, Colace, high-dose narcotics, and 200 milligrams of remdesivir. He left on four liters of oxygen, still at 93 percent saturation. The next morning an infectious-disease doctor called her.
“Your husband’s going to die,” she said he told her. “He’s unvaccinated. What did you expect?”
She later learned he had already received three doses of remdesivir.
On August 30, records showed a fever. Staff pulled his gown, put a fan on him, turned the thermostat down, and put him on BiPAP. That morning he tried to call his wife. He left a message: “Need help.”
Later the same day a nurse called Peggy to talk about discharge and what equipment she would need at home.
On August 31, records showed Prevace, fentanyl, and propofol — and stated clearly there were no open wounds.
On September 1, when she called to check on him, staff said he had to be ventilated because of an “emergency.” The records showed he had already been sedated the day before. Neither Raymond nor Peggy consented, she told the senator.
Every status call after that, she said, produced the same line: He’s dying. He’s unvaccinated. What did you expect?
On September 2, records instructed staff to call LifeShare if his condition worsened. Raymond was not an organ donor.
On September 17 she negotiated her way onto the COVID floor, guarded, she said, by armed guards. She could barely recognize her husband. He was severely bloated. Fluids dripped off his body onto the floor in puddles.
On September 20, the platelets he needed on August 25, the hospital finally requested consent. He received them the day before he died.
On September 21 she was told he would not survive the day. She was allowed to sit with him. Doctors repeatedly asked her to make him a DNR and donate his organs. She said no every time.
Raymond died that day with his wife sitting beside him.
After the body went to the crematorium, the funeral home called. Did they take something out of your husband?
She requested his medical records five times. Staff eventually told her the rest of the file was “garbage” and she would have to pay for that garbage. She paid.
What she found, she testified, were photographs of Raymond’s body and records documenting open wounds and sores she had never been told about.
One deleted file said staff could not perform a spontaneous breathing test because he had an open wound in his abdomen. “I was never supposed to see it,” she said. In less than 10 minutes, they called the organ-donation people.
“My husband was physically and chemically restrained,” Hokett told the room. “And the last words I ever heard from him was, ‘Need help.’”
“Raymond can no longer speak for himself, but I can. I am asking Congress to seek the truth and find out what happened to my husband and many other victims of this severely flawed hospital protocols.”
Twenty-four days after Raymond Hokett walked into an Oklahoma City emergency room in August 2021, the 58-year-old was dead. On Monday, his widow sat before Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and told the country what she says happened in between, remdesivir, a doctor who blamed his vaccine…
WHAT’S HAPPENING: 5 Suicides Reported in 5 Weeks at U.S. Cyber Command in Fort Meade
September 28, 2026
Screenshot of U.S. Cyber Command personnel via U.S. Cyber Command YouTube Channel
The United States military’s cyberwarfare unit experienced an unusually high number of suicides last summer.
According to a report by The Baltimore Banner, five personnel who either worked at U.S. Cyber Command or worked closely with the cyberwarfare unit based at Fort Meade died by suicide.
The five suicides occurred within a five-week span stretching from June to July.
Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-MD), whose district borders Fort Meade, stated in response to the suicides, “This is something that, unfortunately, I think a lot of people wouldn’t say saw coming but knew was going to be a possibility based on the work that goes on at Fort Meade.”
Five people whose work supported missions at U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer.
The unusual cluster of suicides in June and July follows efforts by the agencies and the Anne Arundel County military installation, where the country’s top cyber warfare units are based, to address the mental health of the 18,000 service members and 41,000 civilian employees there.
Lawmakers, including both of Maryland’s U.S. senators and U.S. Rep. Sarah Elfreth, are asking questions and calling for action to prevent further tragedies.
The nation’s cyber warriors at Fort Meade put in long, stressful hours, often in secure, windowless rooms called SCIFs, identifying cyberattacks and defending against them. The work has been intensified by the war with Iran and the race for new artificial intelligence models. The jobs, however, often isolate them from friends and family.
Bloomberg reported that one of the five who died was identified as Technical Sgt. Kevin Stallings is an Air Force digital network intelligence analyst stationed at U.S. Cyber Command’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Stallings’ family allowed the outlet to publicly identify him as one of the five people who died by suicide, saying they wanted to bring greater attention to the suicides.
To boost morale at U.S. Cyber Command, the House Appropriations Committee has proposed $11 million for “High Performance Team Training” as part of its fiscal 2027 defense spending bill.
The Record reported the training includes “cognitive, psychological, physiological, and spiritual sustainment for high-tempo cyber operations. Without funding, burnout and force degradation will continue.”
Tom Homan Fires Warning Shot to Illegals in Migrant Caravan Marching Toward US Border (VIDEO)
September 28, 2026
Border Czar Tom Homan weighed in on the latest migrant caravan that is currently in Mexico and marching toward the US border.
As TGP reported over the weekend, a migrant caravan is marching toward the US border ahead of the midterm elections.
More than 400 aliens from the Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday en route to the United States, Reuters has confirmed.
At least two NGOs are funding this caravan.
According to independent reporter Anthony Aguero, “Proyecto Faro and ADRA” are the two main NGOs assisting the migrant caravan:
Proyecto Faro, the immigrant support nonprofit out of Rockland County, New York, is funded by a mix of foundations, nonprofits, and government grants. Mainly funded by a Jewish Foundation, The Harry Donenfeld Foundation, named for the Jewish immigrant who co-founded DC Comics.
Another major donor is The Gitlin Family Foundation which is also Jewish-led. The Freedom Together Foundation, another major donor was founded in 2012 by Barbara Picower as the JPB Foundation, renamed Freedom Together in 2024.
The money came from her late husband Jeffry Picower’s estate, he was Jewish, and their earlier Picower Foundation gave to other Jewish causes.
ADRA stand for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, its the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a “Christian” denomination.
Its biggest funder is the U.S. government, mainly USAID, which has given it roughly three hundred eighty-five million dollars across over a hundred awards. in August 2026 ADRA was named a partner in the State Department’s new Faith and Community Initiative.
Over 400 aliens predominantly from Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday, ready to make their way to the US southern border… Here’s footage of the caravan. Someone is incentivizing this movement, this is not organic. pic.twitter.com/SW8mCOCMRE
Tom Homan said the migrants will be sent back to their home countries or a third party country.
“They’ll be immediately turned around, or they’ll be arrested and prosecuted and deported,” Homan said.
“Zero releases from the border under the Trump administration. President Trump promised that. He’s going to keep that promise,” he said.
“I hope voters are paying attention,” Homan said. “Remember the images of 12,000 illegals per day coming across the border. Now they want to abolish the agency that finds them and deports them!”
Holdout Juror’s Lawyer Tells Kayleigh McEnany He Will File Bar Complaint Against Lindsay Clancy Attorney: “100%” — Says Reddington “Lost His Mind”
September 28, 2026
Attorney Edward Paltzik said he plans to file a bar complaint against Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense lawyer.
The attorney for the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial sat down with Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany and did not mince words.
Edward Paltzik told McEnany that Clancy defense lawyer Kevin Reddington should face a bar complaint for his conduct toward holdout juror Michael Péguy Desronvil, the only juror who refused to let a mother who strangled her three children walk on an insanity claim. Asked whether he intends to file that complaint, Paltzik answered, “100%.”
According to Fox News, Paltzik accused Reddington of conduct that “is not consistent with the standards of professionalism that we expect from members of the bar.”
McEnany:
Do you intend to file a bar complaint?
Paltzik:
100%.
McEnany:
So, you’ll be filing a bar complaint. Will there be defamation lawsuits against any party that you can speak about at this moment?
Paltzik:
It’s a bit early to talk about lawsuits, but I can say this: Kevin Reddington’s conduct is not consistent with the standards of professionalism that we expect from members of the bar. It is inconsistent with what we expect from members of the bar, and I’ll expand on that.
If you’re an officer of the court and you have taken an oath to uphold the United States Constitution—you’ve sworn to defend the Constitution—and then you get out there right after a trial and you attack a juror, but then you don’t stop. You continue to attack the juror. You’re attacking the juror outside the courtroom, inside the courtroom, everywhere.
Kevin Reddington is not behaving rationally anymore.
WATCH:
EXCLUSIVE: The attorney for the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial speaks to Fox News for the first time, telling Kayleigh McEnany that Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, could face a bar complaint over his conduct involving the lone holdout juror, Michael Desronvil.… pic.twitter.com/OxQWAVJjFl
Lindsay Clancy, 36, is accused of strangling her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023.
Prosecutors said she sent her husband out on errands, used exercise resistance bands, then tried to kill herself. The defense argued she was not criminally responsible because of postpartum psychosis. As The Gateway Pundit has noted in prior coverage, Clancy was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.
After five weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 11-1. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4. Eleven jurors were ready to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. Desronvil would not go along.
The Gateway Pundit reported when Desronvil finally spoke for himself. In a statement first given to NewsNation, he said he “didn’t have any doubts.”
“As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence presented,” he said. “Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presented, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”
That is not a man who “refused to follow the law.” That is a man who looked at three murdered children and refused to pretend the evidence was not there.
Then the smear campaign started.
Fellow jurors went on television. They called him arrogant. They claimed he admitted reasonable doubt and then would not vote their way. NBC Boston and other outlets ran with it.
Desronvil was identified, doxxed, and threatened. He had to relocate. Paltzik has called him an “American hero” and a “champion of justice.”
The Gateway Pundit also reported that Desronvil is a devout Catholic, the son of a Haitian immigrant, and a black Republican who believes he was targeted in a jury room stacked with Democrats. In this country, that combination is enough to make you the villain on cable news.
In the exclusive interview that aired Monday on Fox & Friends, McEnany pressed Paltzik on the jury foreperson’s claim that Desronvil would not apply the reasonable-doubt standard.
Paltzik’s answer was blunt: “Zero doubt. No doubt.”
When McEnany asked whether his client had evidence to back that up, Paltzik said, “A lot of evidence. A mountain of evidence.”
He described the deliberations as an “intense experience” with “unimaginable” pressure. Most people would have folded, he said. Desronvil did not.
“Michael did not because he is an uncommon man,” Paltzik told McEnany. “He’s an extraordinary man, and what he did was extraordinary. He is a brave man, he’s a courageous man, he’s a kind man, a decent man, but he’s also a man who cares about the law.”
Paltzik said the trial, for his client, was never about “Lindsay Clancy’s needs.” It was about three children who never got a voice.
“Michael wanted these three innocent children who never had a chance to have a voice, have a legacy, and to be remembered,” he said. “And that’s what this trial is about. It’s about three innocent children who were murdered by their demonic mother. And this shouldn’t be controversial.”
McEnany said she spoke with Desronvil briefly off the record before the interview and was “immediately struck” by how logical, methodical, and kind he was, and that he kept bringing the conversation back to the children, not to postpartum talking points.
Reddington “lost his mind,” Paltzik says
Paltzik did not treat Reddington’s post-trial conduct as ordinary advocacy.
“Ever since the moment he learned that Michael was not going to side with him, I believe that Kevin Reddington lost his mind,” he told McEnany.
He went further: “Kevin Reddington is just upset that he lost out on his legacy moment. He was one vote away from winning a trial that would have been the capstone of his career and he didn’t get it, and he lost his mind because of it.”
Paltzik said Reddington is “off the rails,” “not behaving rationally anymore,” and “clearly attacking the Sixth Amendment” and “the right to trial by jury.”
That is the heart of this fight. After the mistrial, Reddington publicly accused Desronvil of having an “agenda” and of having “robbed” the other 11 jurors. Then he asked Judge Sullivan for a limited inquiry into the holdout — questionnaires, alleged cellphone use during deliberations, and old court records, including claims about a domestic-violence history.
As The Gateway Pundit reported last week, Reddington styled the target as “Juror Doe” while still hunting the one juror who would not acquit. Paltzik has called that filing a “Looney Tunes” motion and “a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution.”
On Fox, Paltzik rejected the smear file as well. Asked about domestic-violence and restraining-order allegations that have been repeated in local coverage, he said: “Never happened. Every single allegation against Michael is false. Fabricated, never happened, categorically false.”
He also said it was “horrifying” that Reddington referred to the holdout as a man while the jury was still supposed to be anonymous, shrinking the pool and, in Paltzik’s view, helping to out his client. “Kevin Reddington did not do that for any legitimate purpose … the purpose all along was to out Michael.”
The latest defense request, Paltzik warned, would set a “nightmarish precedent”: take the holdout’s phone, haul him into court, and teach every future juror that standing alone can get you investigated.
“We’re not going to have a criminal justice system if jurors are afraid of reprisals,” he said.
The Gateway Pundit reported over the weekend that Reddington told Fox News Digital that Paltzik should “shut up,” called him a “foul individual,” and rebranded Desronvil from holdout to “obstructionist juror.”
“I think Ed ought to learn how to go into the courtroom and articulate his position rather than be a histrionic individual that’s just mouthing off for the media,” Reddington said, according to Fox News.
He insisted every motion he filed is “legitimate” and “based on sound law, facts, jury questions.”
Paltzik’s reply, also to Fox: he is not backing down “one inch.” He said Reddington “was doing his job but the problem is it’s off the rails now.” His advice: stop whining and prepare for a retrial. “You only got 11, you needed 12.”
When McEnany asked about defamation suits, Paltzik said it is early — then circled back to the bar. Reddington’s conduct, he said, falls short of what the profession requires. Filing a complaint: “100%.”
What happens next
Clancy is due back in Plymouth Superior Court. Local reports Monday said prosecutors and Reddington have discussed adjourning the motion to investigate Desronvil, at least for now. Prosecutors still have not said whether they will retry the case.
That is the real question the activist jurors and the defense would rather not face. If the evidence was so weak, why is the man who voted guilty the one being hunted? If the insanity defense was so obvious, why did it take a media tour, a doxxing campaign, and a motion for a juror’s phone to explain away one vote?
Paltzik’s message to Reddington and to anyone who thinks the murder of three children is a postpartum policy seminar was simple: “You will never break Michael, because Michael is indestructible.”
One juror held the line. The system should protect that, not punish it.
Watch Paltzik’s interview with Kayleigh McEnany here.
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