The Justice Department on Monday asked the Court for an emergency restraining order against California, requiring the state to immediately set aside the 20,000 ballots sent to non-citizens.

On Friday, the DOJ put California on notice and vowed to prosecute election officials who tabulate unlawful ballots.

“California on Notice: Federal agencies identified over 20,000 suspected noncitizens registered to vote in California who have already been mailed ballots,” First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said on Friday.

“Under 18 U.S.C. §§ 611 and 2, officials who knowingly tabulate unlawful ballots risk aiding and abetting a federal offense. The Justice Department urges the County and the Secretary of State to temporarily segregate the flagged ballots pending citizenship verification or face legal consequences,” Bill Essayli said.

On Monday, the DOJ requested a restraining order to immediately separate the 20,000 ballots.

“Once illegally cast ballots are counted and commingled with lawful votes, the resulting harm may be impossible to remedy. The urgency is heightened because of the fundamental right to vote and to have one’s lawful vote counted without dilution,” the DOJ said in its request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), according to Fox News.

Breaking: the Trump Administration just filed an emergency Temporary Restraining Order against California — asking for CA to immediately set aside the estimated 20,000 ballots the Feds say were given to non-citizen voters. So far CA has not co-operated with DOJ request to set aside those 20k ballots until a judge can rule. CA argues in-part its a political stunt.

TRO reads: “Once illegally cast ballots are counted and commingled with lawful votes, the resulting harm may be impossible to remedy. The urgency is heightened because of the fundamental right to vote and to have one’s lawful vote counted without dilution.”

— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) October 19, 2026

The emergency request for a TRO comes after the DOJ filed a federal lawsuit against California.

The federal lawsuit, filed in the Central District of California on October 15, requests an order preventing the tabulation of ballots belonging to individuals identified as likely noncitizens until their citizenship can be determined.

The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations and federal partners examined voter-registration records and conducted additional verification work to identify potential noncitizens.

On Friday, President Trump vowed to jail the lawbreakers in California if they count ballots for non-citizens: “They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!”

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Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s power grid overnight into October 17 and struck residential districts in Sloviansk and Kherson with aerial bombs, killing civilians and injuring dozens.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck more than 15 key power generation and transmission facilities. The assault involved more than 320 Shahed-type drones launched between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., along with cruise and ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing 289 of 332 drones.

The hardest-hit areas included Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia. Kharkiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions were also targeted.

At about 3:40 a.m. on October 17, Russian aircraft dropped FAB-250 bombs on a residential district of Sloviansk, damaging nine apartment buildings, according to police. Donetsk Oblast Military Administration head Vadym Filashkin later reported that six people were killed and 13 injured in Sloviansk that day. One person was also killed and another injured in Kramatorsk, bringing the oblast’s toll to seven dead and 14 injured.

Those attacks followed strikes the previous day that killed two people and injured eight in Kramatorsk. In Sloviansk, seven people were injured and five apartment buildings damaged.

Hours after the October 17 attack on Sloviansk, Russian aircraft dropped eight guided bombs on Kherson’s Korabelnyi district in two strikes within an hour. The second strike hit after medics arrived, killing an ambulance driver.

The city military administration reported 22 people injured, including a one-month-old infant and an 11-year-old child. The State Emergency Service said ten apartment buildings were damaged and rescuers pulled seven injured people from the rubble.

Across Kherson Oblast, regional police reported 43 people injured on October 17, including three children, two medics and two rescuers. The previous day, attacks killed one person and injured 16 others, including two children, according to regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin. Those strikes damaged ten apartment buildings, a private house and a supermarket.

In Kharkiv region, which has faced repeated strikes on bridges and towns, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv city and 10 settlements with six missiles, a guided bomb, a Lancet drone, four FPV drones and 142 other drones. The attacks injured 41 people, including a 13-year-old girl and two boys aged 12 and 13. In Kharkiv city, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man were killed. Four apartment buildings, a dormitory, warehouses and ten cars were damaged.

Russian forces attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast almost 20 times, killing one person in Dnipro and injuring four on the city’s outskirts. An industrial enterprise caught fire in Kryvyi Rih.

In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian forces carried out 563 strikes on 57 settlements, including 21 airstrikes and 379 drone attacks, injuring six people.

Sumy Oblast, where Russian bombs recently wounded dozens, came under more than 30 attacks targeting 16 settlements. Eight civilians were injured.

Far from the front, Russian attacks injured six people and damaged civilian and critical infrastructure in Vinnytsia region, according to regional head Natalia Zabolotna. She said air defenses shot down 24 drones. In Rivne region, a strike on an enterprise started a fire and injured two people. In Lutsk, the German-owned Kromberg & Schubert plant halted operations after drone strikes.

A strike on an energy facility in Chernihiv region left nearly 19,000 customers without power. In Odesa region, Russian forces hit a recreation area, damaging holiday homes and cars but causing no casualties, according to Governor Oleh Kiper.

The capital, where drones recently struck a school, came under combined missile and drone attacks from the evening of October 18 into October 19. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that a 21-year-old woman was killed and five people were injured in Solomianskyi district. A metro station was also damaged. In nearby Irpin, one woman was killed and 19 people were injured, including nine children.

On the diplomatic front, President Donald Trump issued an executive order on October 16 waiving sanctions under the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, citing the “national interests of the United States.” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said, “Enforcing the sanctions provisions now would impede ongoing U.S. efforts” toward a peace deal. Zelensky responded, “This Act could have helped enormously – and still can!”

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Slovakia would not contribute to the €70 billion ($79 billion) in aid Ukraine requested from the EU for 2027. He added that Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar shared that position.

Zelensky also warned that Russia wanted to deploy ballistic missiles in Belarus to strike western Ukraine, saying this would mean “directly dragging Belarus into this war.”

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The Justice Department on Monday morning charged 28 non-citizens for registering to vote in California.

11 of the defendants have been arrested so far.

Via the Justice Department:

Federal law enforcement throughout California today arrested 11 foreign nationals living in the United States who are charged in criminal complaints with federal crimes, including that they fraudulently registered to vote in U.S. elections, electoral contests in which most of them cast illegal and fraudulently obtained ballots.

Today’s arrests are part of “Operation Protect the Vote” – a coordinated effort among all four California-based United States Attorney’s Offices to combat and root out fraud in U.S. elections and protect electoral integrity.

All 28 foreign nationals charged are lawful permanent residents (LPRs), or “green card” holders. Although LPRs have legal immigration status in the United States, they are not U.S. citizens and are not permitted to vote in U.S. elections.

The criminal charges include making false statements in a naturalization application and some of the defendants also are charged with fraudulent voter registration. Both charges are felonies that carry a statutory maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.

First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli announced the arrests and charges on Monday during a press conference.

“Today’s arrests prove what we have been saying,” said Essayli.

“California is mailing ballots to noncitizens, and they are refusing to comply with federal law, which makes it a crime for noncitizens to vote. The voting rights of American citizens must be protected,” Essayli added.

“Every illegal vote cancels out the vote of a lawful American citizen,” said Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter.

“Each of the 28 defendants charged today appears on the list of more than 20,000 likely noncitizen registrants we provided to California election officials last week. California refused to look at that list. Today’s charges show exactly what that refusal puts at risk. California must verify the citizenship of those more than 20,000 registrants before mail-in ballots are counted,” McCotter said.

“These are not isolated instances,” Essayli said.

WATCH:

BREAKING: Federal authorities have begun arresting 28 noncitizens accused of illegally registering to vote in the U.S., with prosecutors saying many actually cast ballots in previous elections.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says the arrests began early this morning, with at least 11 suspects already in custody and more arrests expected.

The new charges come as the DOJ reports charging 113 noncitizens across 20 states with illegal voting and registration offenses in just seven weeks.

“These are not isolated instances,” Essayli says, revealing that the Justice Department has charged 156 people with voting fraud-related offenses since the administration began, adding that federal authorities are investigating thousands of additional potential cases nationwide.

— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 19, 2026

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Jerome Corsi released his latest book this week on the modern-day radicalized Democratic Party.

The title of the book: “Dumb-O-Crats: How the Democratict Party Became the (Secretly Marxist Jihadist Communist) Democratic Socialists of America”

Dumb-O-Crats is for sale at Amazon.com.

** Jerome Corsi will join radio, TV host and author Wayne Allyn Root on his nationally syndicated conservative talk show on USA Radio Network today to discuss the book, including information he has on mail-in voting fraud. You won’t want to miss that!

Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered is broadcast daily from 6–9 PM ET on the USA Radio Network, a nationally syndicated talk radio platform.

According to the author:

Dumb-O-Crats exposes the utopian lie behind the move by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to take over the Democratic Party with socialist promises leading to communist lies.

Dumb-O-Crats is Jerome R. Corsi’s definitive statement on the tragic demise of the Democratic Party—a statement that arises from the past quarter century Dr. Corsi has spent writing and speaking about the dark evil forces moving in stealth across this land. In his 2023 magnum opus The Truth about Neo-Marxism, Cultural Maoism, and Anarchy: Exposing Woke Insanity in an Age of Disinformation, he warned that Neo-Marxism would evolve into cultural Maoism, ending up in anarchy. In that book, he predicted the ideological perversion that began with Karl Marx would transform the iron fist of communism into the smiling mask of democratic socialism.

These dark evil forces gained momentum when the radical left in the United States made a pact formed in hell with radical Islamic jihadists in the Middle East, starting the day in 1979 when Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran from exile in France. The result of this evil marriage is a perversion of language so fundamental that critical theory insanity is driven to brainwash children into being unable to distinguish who is a man and who is a woman, while LGBTQ+ radicals enter into revolutionary alliances with those who would gladly behead them.

The resulting insane woke political ideology has now penetrated into and captured the heart of the once respected Democratic Party such that leaders like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are willing to throw away the past. Will the Democratic Party really part ways with the loyalty and heritage won from Jewish voters since the day in 1948 that President Harry Truman made the decision to support a United Nations vote to partition what the English had termed “Palestine” to create the Jewish State of Israel? The question Dumb-O-Crats raises is whether or not We the People will throw away the only nation on Earth founded on the premise that our rights are inalienable, gifted by God, not bequeathed by the state.

Dumb-O-Crats proves the Democratic Socialists of America have resurrected and reworked lies that have for generations enslaved those unfortunate enough to be doomed to be born in communist states—ideas based on bankrupt promises that today deceitful DSA politicians have no intention of fulfilling.

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Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts may be out after revealing a scary health update. Hurts is dealing with a serious blood-clot condition and is expected to miss the remainder of the 2026 season.

He was initially diagnosed with a superficial blood clot (superficial vein thrombosis) in his left calf while the Eagles were in London but played through it in a Week 5 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Unfortunately, further testing revealed a more serious diagnosis: deep vein thrombosis (DVT) plus bilateral pulmonary emboli, which is blood clots in both lungs.

Treatment involves blood thinners, so while he is actively taking the medication,  he cannot participate in any contact activities, including football.

A joint statement from the Eagles organization and Hurts’ agent, Nicole

Statement on the Health Status of QB Jalen Hurts from the Philadelphia Eagles and Jalen Hurts’ Agent Nicole Lynn:

Over the last few days, Jalen Hurts has received comprehensive medical evaluations by physician experts. In the interest of transparency, we are providing additional information on the diagnosis and treatment plan related to his condition.

Jalen was initially diagnosed by specialists in London with a left calf superficial vein thrombosis. After further testing and monitoring, the current diagnosis is a deep vein thrombosis, as well as bilateral pulmonary emboli. He is clinically stable and has no significant functional limitations. His treatment should only involve anticoagulation (i.e., “blood thinners”). During this time, he will not be allowed to participate in any contact activities, including football.

Jalen’s prognosis is very good, and we expect a full recovery. We anticipate that he will have the opportunity to resume contact football activities when off the blood thinners. In the meantime, he will remain active around the team and continue to condition. More importantly, we anticipate that he will have no long-term effects.

We are thinking of Jalen and looking forward to a strong recovery.

https://t.co/aBfyK55oxd

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) October 19, 2026

Hurts played college football at Alabama from 2016–2018, where he was a starter as a freshman and won a national championship during the 2017 season.

He transferred to Oklahoma for 2019, finished as Heisman Trophy runner-up, and led the Sooners to the College Football Playoff.

He was drafted by the Eagles in the second round (53rd overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft. He became the starter late in his rookie year and has since led the team to multiple playoff appearances, division titles, and two Super Bowl appearances winning Super Bowl LIX.

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Over the past year, The Gateway Pundit has shared stories about Michael Castillero and the criminal case brought against him and two others by the Southern District of New York, a case that the Eastern District of New York refused to prosecute and then was shopped around until Jack Smith’s comrades at the SDNY took a liking to it.

Michael Castillero received 11 years in prison, Francine Lanaia 8 years, and Brian Martinson 10 years. Each received 3 years of supervised release. The court also ordered them to pay $115 million in restitution. The defendants were also ordered to forfeit specific real and personal property they obtained as a result of the fraud and to pay the following forfeiture amounts: Lanaia: $24,259,128.80; Martinsen: $25,355,714.43; and Castillero: $24,279,516.80.

At a time when the weaponization of our legal system has been exposed, thanks in part to social media, how can we sit by and pretend that Americans have not been victimized and targeted by overzealous scumbags in State’s Attorney offices and/or the DOJ for their successes and even more so for their beliefs?

Were Michael and his business partners targeted after social media posts that expressed support for President Trump were put up? Michael believes so, as do the many people who support him. It’s hard to dismiss after learning the stories of the many politically persecuted people, whom we’ve become aware of over the last 5 to 10 years. Also, not for nothing, we are talking about the SDNY – whose record speaks for itself.

You can Google their case and see many stories posted by the DOJ and Mainstream Media, calling them fraudsters and accusing them of running a Ponzi Scheme, etc. Accusations they all still vehemently deny.

Something you will not see in those articles is that Michael was given an extra year on his prison sentence for speaking out on podcasts, articles, and social media regarding his innocence. Let that sink in. An extra year specifically because the prosecutors and the judge were not happy that he spoke out and was exercising his First Amendment Right.

An article by Attorney Jonathan Gross, written for TGP, explains this egregious misuse of power. Side Note: This was the first article found in support of the three defendants on Page 3 of a Google search. You can read it here or watch the clip below when Gross was on Tucker Carlson’s Podcast recently.

Thank you @Jon_Gross for mentioning me being weaponized against on @TuckerCarlson , yes it’s correct the judge blamed my appearances on shows like @DiamondandSilk for me going on to show a lack of remorse https://t.co/OFIJcNKZiB

— Michael Castillero (@MikeC0921) October 16, 2026

Previously, Michael, Francine, and Brian had been ordered to self-surrender to prison on October 29th. Their motion for “Bond Pending Appeal” had been denied by Judge Jesse M. Furman. Michael 48, Brian 49 and Francine 61 have not been convicted of any violence and are not threats to society. In a motion signed by Judge Furman on October 14th, their surrender date has now been extended to Dec 10, 2026.

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Michael has written an open letter to President Trump, Alice Marie Johnson, and Todd Blanche requesting a “Pardon of Innocence.” His family has sent letters to President Trump in support of Michael.

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Michael was recently on the Freedom’s Front Porch Podcast that airs live every Tuesday at 2:00pm ET on the America First Media & Television Network.

Michael’s family will have no home soon, as his assets will all be seized by the government if no relief is given to them.

Please visit his GiveSendGo Here if you’d like to help his family.

He has also been on The Case for America with Treniss Evans on Real America’s Voice airing every Saturday 4:00 pm ET.

DOJ & SEC CAUGHT: TARGETED TRUMP SUPPORTERS – MORE LIES, MORE CORRUPTION! More prison time for innocent victims.

— Treniss J. Evans III (@CondemnedUSA) June 6, 2026

The case against Michael, Francine, and Brian is one that a lot of people like to rush to judgement on due to its nature. Here is a video by Ann Vandersteel that gives you an idea of the case and why these three people should not be taken from their families for nearly a decade or more.

Their surrender date has been pushed to Dec 10th @POTUS please Pardon these innocent people!!!
Keep them out of prison!!!
Thank you @annvandersteel!!! @MikeC0921 https://t.co/XpkPi2l97a

— Jenn Baker (@Jennbaker) October 19, 2026

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