The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday dropped another video exposing Senator Lisa Murkowski and Alaska’s voting laws.

Senator Murkowski says she opposes the SAVE America Act which would require voter ID.

Murkowski demonstrated that a person living on the small Alaska islands would not be able to vote if the SAVE America Act was passed because they would have to travel all the way to Anchorage to get an ID.

James O’Keefe went to a small Alaskan island called Unalaska and asked DMV workers if he had to travel 800 miles to Anchorage to get an ID.

“We don’t have to go to Anchorage to get an ID?” O’Keefe asked the DMV worker.

The employee responded, “No, you can come here.”

O’Keefe continued: An Unalaska resident confirmed voting takes place at City Hall and said residents “Don’t have to go to Anchorage [to register to vote or obtain ID].”

WATCH:

EXCLUSIVE: O’Keefe Uncovers Unalaska Election Officials Contradicting Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s SAVE Act Claims, Telling O’Keefe That Island Residents Do NOT Have to Travel 800 Miles to Anchorage to Register to Vote or Obtain ID

O’Keefe asked an Unalaska local DMV employee, “We… pic.twitter.com/oDGw1ETrEq

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 25, 2026

Last Thursday, James O’Keefe released undercover video of an Anchorage, Alaska, poll worker offering him Senator Lisa Murkowski’s brother’s ballot.

An Anchorage poll worker also offered Lisa Murkowski’s State Director, Karina Waller’s ballot without an ID on Tuesday’s primary.

“I did not check in as Brian Murkowski, cast a ballot, or sign his name. We documented what happened when I gave his name, said I had no ID, and asked whether Brian could still vote,” James O’Keefe said.

“Would it be possible to vote without it [ID]?” O’Keefe asked the poll worker.

“Absolutely possible!” the poll worker said.

WATCH:

BREAKING NEWS: O’Keefe Offered Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Brother Ballot at Alaskan Polling Location With No ID Required

Anchorage Polling Worker Also Offers Lisa Murkowski’s State Director, Karina Waller’s Ballot Without ID on August 18th, Primary Election Day

Murkowski Opposes… pic.twitter.com/ewC7LdTM9R

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) August 20, 2026

Senator Lisa Murkowski called for James O’Keefe to be prosecuted.

“Senator Murkowski has consistently supported the requirement of photo ID to vote, and earlier this month, she voted in favor of a separate measure on the Senate floor to do just that,” Murkowski said.

She continued, “However, the SAVE America Act is an overly burdensome, one-size-fits-all mandate from Washington.”

Murkowski then called for James O’Keefe to be prosecuted.

“In any case, voter impersonation is a crime and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Murkowski said.

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More details are beginning to emerge regarding the death of Dolly Parton, who passed away earlier today.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra Macdonald reported, Parton has passed away at age 80.

Her passing was announced on her Instagram account in a video by her nephew, Brian Seaver, on behalf of the Parton family.

“My name is Brian Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis, and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” Seaver said.

 

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A cause of death was not released, but it is known that Parton had been struggling with health issues, including kidney stones and related infections.

These came right after the death of her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who passed away in March 2025 at age 82.

Sadly, her death may be related to these previous issues.

TMZ has revealed that Parton was admitted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville early Friday morning due to kidney and autoimmune issues.

This was four days before her death.

The outlet also revealed that Parton died in the hospital on Tuesday morning.

Her death also came as a “sudden and unexpected shock” to family members.

Making the news even sadder, Parton acknowledged a recent decline in her health in the interview with PEOPLE the SAME DAY she was hospitalized.

“I am dealing with some health issues that I just didn’t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,” she said on Friday.

Now, Parton is together again with Carl, this time for eternity.

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The moving castle is inching back into place.

When we think about castles, these imposing, even majestic fortified structures, the one thing we don’t associate them with is mobility.

So, the thought of thousands of people gathered to haul a castle into position contradicts our deep cultural sense of castles as emblems of an unmoving, fixed era.

People pulling the immovable. Ropes, levers, and bodies moving the very symbol of stasis.

But that’s just what happened in Aomori, where, after 11 years sitting off-site, the keep of Hirosaki Castle is being pulled into its proper place by an army of volunteers.

Unos 1.800 voluntarios participaron en Hirosaki, Japón, en una singular jornada para desplazar el torreón de un castillo, de unas 360 toneladas, tirando de cuerdas.

Fuente: Externa #elavance #japon pic.twitter.com/kIP4z4JQ6Q

— El Avance Media (@elavancemedia) August 25, 2026

The Japan News reported:

“The keep in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, was removed so that stone walls could be repaired, and work is now underway to return it. An event in which the keep, which weighs about 400 tons, is pulled by rope, shifting it several centimeters at a time, is also being held.

In 2015, the keep was moved to a temporary platform, 78 meters away from the national historic site. The work to move it back began in June, after repairs were finished on the stone walls, and is scheduled to wind up in November.

The event, which started Aug. 21, will be held through Friday, with about 4,000 people expected to participate.”

1,000 people manually pulled a 400-ton castle keep in Japan (specifically Hirosaki Castle) 80 meters along temporary rails in 2015 to allow foundation repairs.

The Event: Citizens and workers joined forces to manually haul the historic building.

The Weight: The structure… pic.twitter.com/30fcnf0Lba

— Althea (@GWEIIR2619) August 25, 2026

The Guardian reported:

“To chants of “so-re, so-re”, about 1,800 people came together in northern Japan over the weekend to pull a 360-tonne castle keep a little more than two meters closer to its original resting place as part of ongoing renovations.

[…] Rotating teams of 80 people heaved on 30-meter ropes as the keep of Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture edged closer to its destination. On Saturday, participants towed the building – which has been set on rails – 1.13m, while on Sunday it was shifted another 1.09m.

‘We had about 8,000 applications for the 1,800 slots over the last two days, roughly four times oversubscribed, so not everyone could participate’, Kensuke Hayasaka, head of the parks and green spaces division at Hirosaki City, told the Guardian. ‘Not only from the city, but from across Japan and overseas; a fair number from south-east Asia and from Europe and North America’.”

1,000 PEOPLE PULL HIROSAKI CASTLE BACK HOME

About 1,000 people helped tow the roughly 400-ton Hirosaki Castle keep in northeastern Japan on Sunday, moving the historic structure 109 centimeters closer to its original position after it was relocated 11 years ago for repairs to… pic.twitter.com/JMfiPaioO5

— Bilyonaryo News Channel (@bncdotph) August 24, 2026

Read more:

WATCH: ‘Eternal Flame’ Spreads, and Destroys 1,200-Year-old Temple in Japan

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The Kramatorsk-Slavyansk Fortress belt is the last major military objective in Donetsk Oblast for the Russian forces.

For a while now, it’s become clear that the Ukrainian news outlets and analysts have become much more adept at reporting the facts than the Globalist MSM.

The legacy news ‘brands’ have usually shrunk to mere Globalist, pro-Kiev propaganda.

That’s why we will use a reputable Ukrainian source to talk about the impending battle for Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.

Russian drones disrupt Ukrainian robot supply lines near Slavyansk-Kramatorsk

Russia’s Yug Battlegroup wiped out Ukrainian delivery robots before they could supply Ukrainian positions in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. pic.twitter.com/gtX2VYndTb

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 23, 2026

We have been reporting here on TGP about how the fortifications of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration are the last major military objective for the Russian advances in Donetsk region, the cradle of the war.

And now, the endgame approaches, according to Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko.

But who is he? According to Ukrainian Fair:

“Oleksandr Kovalenko is the ‘Angry Odessan’ whose sharp, precise, and often ironic commentary has become a cornerstone of Ukraine’s information front. […] He has transformed his personal blog into a potent weapon against Russian propaganda. […] In 2026, his analysis remains one of the most authoritative sources for understanding the realities of the full-scale war.”

Watch: Russian drone on the prowl in Kramatorsk.

Russian Forces Tighten Grip on Kramatorsk

As Russian units advance closer to Kramatorsk, the situation for Ukrainian equipment within the city and on its immediate approaches is deteriorating rapidly. Reports indicate that vehicles are increasingly detected by drones and… pic.twitter.com/Y9sRNYSwGV

— Beate Landefeld (@BeateLandefeld) August 24, 2026

I guess we can safely say that Kovalenko is not someone who can be dismissed as a ‘Putin puppet’.

The online English-language independent newspaper Euromaidan Press, launched by Ukrainian volunteers in 2014, reported:

“Ukrainian analysts warn that the situation on a key stretch of the Donetsk front is becoming increasingly dangerous for two cities central to Ukraine’s defense. The eastern flank of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration is taking on an increasingly threatening character, and earlier stabilization measures are clearly not working, military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko said.

The two cities anchor the line that has held Russia back for over a decade. Sloviansk and Kramatorsk form part of the so-called fortress belt, the line of Ukrainian fortifications that has restrained the Russian advance since 2014. The agglomeration serves as the most important bastion and logistics hub for Ukrainian forces in the east. A threat to it is a threat to the backbone of Ukraine’s defense in Donbas.”

Watch: defenders targeted in the agglomeration.

В Славянско-Краматорской агломерации артиллеристы и операторы FPV Южной группировки войск работают в едином убийственном ритме
Сначала точный артударом ломает защиту, затем FPV заходит внутрь и зачищает всё живое. Противнику не остаётся ни малейшего шанса.… pic.twitter.com/gCJh7fnnHk

— Периметр ZOV (@Perimetr123) August 25, 2026

But how dangerous is the situation?

In his Telegram channel, Kovalenko writes that in the third week of August, Russians forces captured 21 km² [13 square miles] of the territory of Ukraine in this sector.

They are ‘advancing in the area of Kalenika, Krivoy Luka (almost completely occupying the village), Nikiforovka, Tikhonovka, approached the outskirts of Nikolaevka and entered Piskunovka’.

Watch: Russian military aircraft deliver strikes with FAB bombs on  Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in Kramatorsk.

#UkraineRussiaWar #Odessa#Crimea #Kramatorsk#Slavyansk #Dobropillia

The Su-34 aircraft delivered strikes using FAB-500, 1500, and 3000 bombs on locations where Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were stationed in Kramatorsk, Raihorodok, and Kherson pic.twitter.com/xqVjCCkDD6

— Koba (@Krieg2026) August 21, 2026

“Now the advanced positions of the [Russians] are 12-13 km from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, and by the end of August, I think, an intensive infiltration of the enemy into Nikolaevka will begin. If the enemy’s topics do not decrease, then by the end of 2026, in December, we will see the first infiltrations of [Russian forces] into Slavyansk or Kramatorsk.

[…] In my opinion, this area needs to be strengthened as soon as possible, before it is critically late. After all, when infiltrations into Slavyansk and Kramatorsk begin, the strengthening of garrisons and the landing of troops by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense will not solve the problem, but will only stretch out the inevitable in time.”

Read more from June:

Exhausted Troops, Supply Routes Under Constant Fire: French Reporters from Le Monde, on the Ground in Slavyansk-Kramatorsk, Experience the Ukrainian Collapse in the Donbas (VIDEOS)

The post Famed Ukrainian Military Analyst Says Russian Forces are Just 7 Miles from Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, Predicts Assault of the ‘Fortress Belt’ To Begin as Soon as December (VIDEOS) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Democratic socialism is gaining favorability in the U.S., with 62% of Americans aged 18–29 now holding a favorable view of socialism. Conservatives find it hard to understand why anyone would vote for a system that has a consistent record of making everyone poor. Candidates and politicians from Zohran Mamdani to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, Chris Rabb, Aber Kawas, Jonathan Larkin, and Omar Fateh all run on a platform of free stuff for everybody without ever explaining where the money will come from.

Despite socialism and communism promising to make everyone equal, history demonstrates that they make everyone equally poor, a lot of people die, and everyone loses their basic freedoms. Political scientist R.J. Rummel calculated that the Soviet regime killed nearly 61 million of its own people between 1917 and 1987. In China, historian Frank Dikötter’s archival research puts the Great Leap Forward famine death toll at at least 45 million, after the state seized control of grain production and falsified harvest reports. Vietnam and Laos sent countless citizens to reeducation camps for the crime of having previously been a landlord or a professor, and in Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge killed everyone who knew how to read.

Liberals defend the system and live in denial, saying that any reports we have about North Korean work camps or widespread surveillance, torture, imprisonment, and starvation are just Western propaganda. But they never stop to ask why North Korea doesn’t allow anyone into the country to prove how well everyone is living.

The other counterargument is that socialism is different from communism and therefore socialism is better. They are right on one aspect. Socialism is a very powerful system, so much so that it was able to take Venezuela, once the world’s second-largest oil producer and, per capita, the world’s fourth-wealthiest nation, and reduce it to absolute poverty, starvation, and emigration.

The final fallback counterargument when a conservative says socialism doesn’t work and has never worked is Sweden. The Scandinavian country once had one of the highest standards of living and one of the strongest social welfare systems of any free nation. However, in order to survive, even Sweden has had to scale back its cradle-to-grave smorgasbord of free government services and programs and begin making citizens pay for things.

Once, the promise was cradle-to-grave: universal healthcare, free education, generous unemployment benefits, all funded by a tax system that asked almost everything in return. In 1976, children’s author Astrid Lindgren discovered her marginal tax rate had hit 102%. She wrote an op-ed on how preposterous it was to pay more than she earned in taxes, and the public outrage that followed helped end 44 years of uninterrupted Social Democratic rule, setting the stage for a reckoning that took another 15 years to arrive.

In 1991, Carl Bildt became Sweden’s first conservative prime minister in 61 years, following a banking crisis and Sweden’s most severe recession since the Great Depression. His government cut spending, privatized state monopolies, and began dismantling the system piece by piece. The top income tax rate, nearly 90% in the 1980s, has fallen to around 50% today. Wealth and inheritance taxes, once sources of state revenue, were eliminated outright in the mid-2000s.

The services that were supposed to be free didn’t stay free either. In 1992, all adult dental treatment, including bridgework and prosthetics, was subsidized 25-75% by the government, with public and private providers charging the same fixed fees. By 1999, the state deregulated dental pricing entirely, letting private dentists set their own fees, while subsidies were narrowed to cover only “basic” care.

Retirement followed the pattern too. As late as 1991, Swedes 66 and older got 84.1% of their pension income directly from the state. Sweden’s parliament agreed to reform the system in 1994 and passed the legislation in 1998, partially privatizing it: a share of every worker’s contribution now goes into individual investment accounts exposed to market performance, replacing what had been a guaranteed state payout. Eligibility for older unemployed workers to draw disability benefits early was also tightened, abolished in 1991 and eliminated completely by 1997.

Even the universal child benefit has lost real value: it still pays a flat 1,250 kronor (about $118) a month as of 2026, the same nominal amount since it was last raised in 2018, while inflation has eroded what that buys. And in 2025, Sweden’s government went further, cutting income support specifically for large families: a 75% reduction per child from the fourth child on for cohabiting parents, 40% for single parents.

Sweden’s population has changed dramatically since the social system began winding down. The country’s foreign-born population grew from 784,283 in 1990 to 2,272,158 in 2024, a 190% increase, and foreign-born residents now make up about 20% of Sweden‘s population. Including Swedish-born children of two foreign-born parents, 26.8% of the population has what Statistics Sweden classifies as a foreign background.

That shift has strained the welfare system built for a smaller, more homogeneous population. A government-commissioned EU report found 35% of recipients of social assistance were immigrants, with nearly 14% specifically refugees, both groups sharply overrepresented relative to their population share.

On paper, foreign-born participation in the labor force even exceeds that of Swedish-born citizens, 78.5% versus 74.2% in 2024. But that figure is driven by labor migrants and collapses once broken down by origin and sex. Somali women’s employment sat at just 13%, compared to 27% for Somali men, and Afghan and Iraqi women started at employment levels up to 80 percentage points lower than native Swedish women. Even after 12 years in the country, refugee women from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia remained 10 to 30 percentage points behind native Swedes in employment.

Research found that only about half of low-educated immigrant women participate in the labor market at all. 28.3% of the foreign-born population overall was at risk of poverty in 2023, the highest rate in the Nordic region.

Along with migrant poverty comes crime. Firearm homicide rates fell sharply in Norway, Denmark, and Finland since the 1990s, while Sweden’s rose 43%, giving it a gun-death rate of roughly 4 per million, more than double the European average of 1.6.

A 21-year Lund study of 4,032 people convicted of rape between 2000 and 2020 found that just 36.9% of those convicted were Swedish-born to two Swedish-born parents, while 50.6% were born outside Sweden, nearly three times their 18% share of the matched control population. Those who arrived at age 15 or older had six times the odds of a rape conviction compared to native-born Swedes, even after adjusting for income, welfare status, substance use, and psychiatric history.

Sweden’s prison population statistics present a false picture of who is actually committing crimes. Of the 11,812 people who began a prison sentence in 2024, 24% held no Swedish citizenship. However, Swedish law bars Kriminalvården (prison authority) from recording inmates’ immigrant background, only citizenship, so the true figure for foreign-born or foreign-background prisoners, as opposed to non-citizens, is not officially published.

The result of three and a half decades of increased migration and cuts to the social system is that Swedish public social spending has fallen to 24% of GDP, close to U.S. levels and well below France’s or Italy’s 30%-plus. As of 2026, Sweden’s top marginal income tax rate is 52% for incomes over $62,000. So, people are giving up half their salary for fewer services for Swedish nationals, while migrants are committing crimes and living off benefits. And Sweden is generally held up as the most successful socialist country in history.

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A live television debate over the horrifying Lindsay Clancy case descended into a full-blown meltdown when Democrat strategist and former Obama adviser Laurie Watkins became emotional and stormed off after being confronted over the growing movement of women rallying behind Clancy.

Clancy, 36, is currently on trial for killing her three young children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, eight months old, inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on January 24, 2023.

Clancy’s attorneys do not dispute that she strangled the children with exercise bands. She has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, arguing that she should be found not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

Prosecutors contend Clancy understood that her actions were wrong and deliberately sent her husband, Patrick, away to pick up food and medication before killing the children. She then jumped from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair.

During the explosive televised confrontation, political commentator Thomas Corbett-Dillon tore into the women who have gathered outside the courthouse to support Clancy.

“These are man-hating women that are standing outside,” Corbett-Dillon said. “This is what it’s about. They think the husband did it. They’re crazy. They’ve lost their minds.”

Hundreds of women wearing pink previously lined the street outside Plymouth County Courthouse carrying signs reading “She Needed Help” and declaring their support for Clancy.

But Corbett-Dillon argued that the public spectacle has transformed the woman who killed three children into the supposed victim, all while the dead children and their grieving father are pushed into the background.

“They say that Lindsay was in psychosis. I think these women are suffering from psychosis,” he said. “They’ve been watching too many true-crime Netflix dramas.”

Corbett-Dillon also noted that Clancy had access to doctors, psychiatric treatment, medication, family assistance, and a nanny before the killings.

“This was an incredibly privileged woman, incredibly wealthy. She had a nanny, and she’s still complaining that she needed help,” he said. “She could not have gotten more help from the system than she already received.”

Watkins attempted to interrupt, claiming that nobody was defending the killings but arguing that women could still show Clancy empathy.

“I don’t think anybody’s defending what she did, but you can have empathy for what she went through,” Watkins said.

But that excuse did not satisfy Corbett-Dillon.

“What are they thinking? They’re defending this woman,” he fired back.

Watkins became increasingly emotional as Corbett-Dillon refused to back down.

“What you just said was absolutely disgusting,” Watkins snapped. “You should be ashamed of yourself.”

“You clearly don’t care, so pipe down,” she added.

Corbett-Dillon then issued a blunt warning to men watching at home.

“Men watching this, if you have a woman sitting next to you on the sofa who is defending this murderer, you’ve got to think deeply about this,” he said.

That was apparently the final straw for Watkins.

“I’ve had it with you!” she declared before storming away from the discussion.

Crobett-Dillon wrote on X: “FEMINIST MELTDOWN & STORMS OFF! Why are so many women defending Lindsay Clancy!? They’ve lost their minds!”

WATCH:

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the Clancy trial has become the latest political and cultural spectacle in which radical feminists have turned the accused into a martyr, placed masculinity on trial, and seemingly forgotten the three innocent children who lost their lives.

Some online activists have even circulated allegations against Patrick Clancy despite surveillance footage, phone records, and trial testimony supporting his account that he was away from the home when the children were killed.

The defense argues that Clancy experienced command hallucinations and was “frankly psychotic.” Defense psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick testified that Clancy believed she was being controlled like a “puppet.”

Prosecution expert Dr. Kirk Heilbrun reached the opposite conclusion, testifying that Clancy retained “moral awareness,” understood the illegality of her actions, and was criminally responsible for the children’s deaths.

As of Tuesday, prosecutors were presenting their final rebuttal witnesses, with closing arguments expected next.

If convicted of first-degree murder, Clancy faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. If found not criminally responsible, she would be committed to a Massachusetts psychiatric facility.

Whatever the jury ultimately decides about Clancy’s mental condition, one fact cannot be erased: Cora, Dawson, and Callan are dead.

Yet for the feminist activists gathering outside the courthouse, Lindsay Clancy, not her three children, has somehow become the face of the tragedy.

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