During an interview with reporter Vanessa Kjeldsen on WMTV, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Secretary of State JoCasta Zamarripa made it very clear what her number one priority is… and it isn’t for the benefit of citizens.

Zamarripa told Kjeldsen that her number-one priority, should she win the election, would be to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented Wisconsinites.

“So I really want to sit down and talk with him a bit about pro-immigration policies that I hope that he’ll be supportive of,” Zamarripa stated.

“And I feel confident he will be. But I just want to have that conversation so I can say it, you know, definitively as I go around the state to talk to Latino Wisconsinites about why, if they have the right to vote, they should be voting for David Crowley on November 3rd.”

Kjeldsen asked, “What would you like to see in Wisconsin?”

Zamarripa replied, “My number one priority is to see the governor sign driver’s licenses for undocumented Wisconsinites into law. And I hope that that governor will be David Crowley.”

Kjeldsen followed up, “And have you heard at all from David Crowley on that specific item or waiting to connect with him?”

Zamarripa answered, “We’re going to talk soon, but I feel confident. I know as a legislator, he was supportive of my— that was my legislation when I was in the State Assembly. I know that he was supportive. I believe that he’ll be supportive as our next governor.”

“But I want to have that conversation to be able to say it definitively. But driver’s licenses for undocumented Wisconsinites is going to improve the public safety of all Wisconsinites, whether they’re 5th generation U.S. citizens or brand new, newly arrived immigrants, because it’s going to mean more folks with a driver’s license driving on our roads, more folks accessing affordable auto— automobile insurance.”

Watch:

Democratic candidate for Wisconsin Secretary of State JoCasta Zamarripa: “My number one priority is to see the governor sign driver’s licenses for undocumented Wisconsinites into law. And I hope that that governor will be David Crowley…” https://t.co/flOhsit4Qo

— Vanessa Kjeldsen (@VanessaKjeldsen) October 15, 2026

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wisconsin’s population is approximately 5.97 million residents. Roughly 97.3% are citizens.

Undocumented/unauthorized immigrants: Estimates for Undocumented/unauthorized immigrants generally range from about 70,000 to 110,000. The Migration Policy Institute lists about 69,000.

Zamarripa’s number one priority is focused on less than 2% of the state’s population.

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As the midterms approach, ESPN host Stephen A. Smith sounded the alarm on what is in store if Democrats regain power.

“Here’s where the problem lies,” Smith stated. The Democrats have already shown us it’s not going to stop there.”

“The Democrats have already put us on notice that if they regain power, they’re going to start talking about stuff like packing the Supreme Court.”

“They’re going to entertain opening the borders, at least to some degree.”

“Not going to be as bad as Biden did it. Not gonna let 15 to 20 million people cross the border illegally. That’s true. But in the same breath, they ain’t gonna have it fully closed either.”

“And in the process of all of that happening, while they’re doing that, they’re facilitating those things transpiring.”

“They’re also going to spend They’re also going to re-engage in identity politics. And you know the stupidest thing they’re going to do?”

“They’re going to go after Trump. They’re going to try to impeach him. Impeach him, impeach Pete Hegseth, Lord knows who else.”

Watch:

NEW: Stephen A. Smith *SOUNDS ALARM* over what Democrats will try to do if they regain power

– Pack Supreme Court

– Open borders

– Identity politics

– Impeach Trump

– Impeach Pete Hegseth

– Impeach other Trump Admin officials

The Democrat agenda isn’t to improve the lives of Americans.

Instead, they will lurch far left and obsess over attacking Trump and his administration if they regain power.

Many Democrats are pretending to focus on “affordability” — but their policies are what drove up prices.

Others have made it clear they will wage lawfare and push radical policies.

It’s not a good sign for Democrats that people like Smith are aware of this and warning that this is their true platform.

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) October 15, 2026

Smith also lambasted Kamal Harris for talking about the left’s radical plans so close to the election.

Watch the full segment below:

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President Trump on Friday said that he told his new White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, to reconsider her role in the press office as the media treats her “very badly” and “very unfairly” as she reportedly came to the decision to step down. 

Since Katie’s first day, the knives have been out, with the media trashing her performance and questioning her law credentials after she accurately presented herself as a lawyer with a Juris Doctor degree from Pepperdine University. The attacks were even coming from within the administration, with officials trashing her to the mainstream media.

(VIDEO) White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Addresses Claims She Lied About Being a Lawyer

Sean Hannity also grilled Zacharia during an appearance on his show on Thursday night.

WATCH:

Trump was asked on Friday about Zacharia not passing her bar exam to become an attorney and her performance in her first press briefing on Tuesday, and he said the media has treated her “pretty nastily.”

“Katie’s been treated very badly by the media, very, very badly, very unfairly, I think, and I just spoke to her about it,” Trump said.

“I said, ‘Katie, is this for you?’ because, you know, she’s been treated very rough, and she’s a nice person, very nice person. I’ve watched her for years on television, but I said, ‘Is this for you, Katie? Because honestly, you don’t need this. You don’t have to be treated that bad.’”

Trump added that it’s not only the leftwing media but also Fox News’s Sean Hannity and the Fox and Friends panel this morning were “tough” on her.

“She’s been treated, I would say, pretty nastily, and I said to Katie just two minutes ago, I said, ‘Katie, you know you don’t have to do this if you don’t want,'” he said.

“She said, ‘This is a lot tougher.’ I said, “Welcome to the world of Trump.”

WATCH:

Trump later in the gaggle told reporters, “when I get back, we’re going to talk because I don’t think that Katie should be made to suffer like she’s suffering at the hands of the press.”

“So, I will talk to her as soon as I get back,” he added.

WATCH:

Now, Fox News reports that Zacharia has told Fox’s Peter Doocy that she is “transitioning out” of the new role after less than a week.

A senior White House official tells @pdoocy Katie ZACHARIA is “transitioning out” of the press secretary position.

— Aishah Hasnie (@aishahhasnie) October 16, 2026

The New York Times is reporting that Zacharia has been “fired,” but this appears to be false. The Gateway Pundit has reached out to Zacharia for more information.

This is a developing story.

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The 16-year-old male who opened fired at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday has been identified as John Griffin II.

The hero who fatally shot John Griffin has been identified as Kaylub Giamanco.

Kaylub Giamanco happened to be driving by the school when he heard shots fired. He ran into the school and fatally shot John Griffin.

Giamanco is a carpenter and a father of two girls who attend Silver Rail Elementary School.

Three children, ages 5, 8, and 11 were killed in the shooting. One teacher was killed.

NBC News reported:

A teen accused of gunning down three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school on Thursday has been identified as John J. Griffin II, three senior law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told NBC News.

It was not immediately clear if the 16-year-old alleged gunman had a connection to Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, where officials said an armed bystander fatally shot the teen and interrupted the shooting spree.

Two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News that the teen’s mother purchased the long gun he used around his birthday in August.

Victims included children ages 5, 8 and 11. A 7-year-old and a teacher were critically injured.

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After a wave of extortion, organized crime and high-profile political assassinations, Peru’s conservative president is pursuing deportation cooperation with Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez.

Keiko Fujimori is moving to strengthen immigration enforcement, announcing plans to coordinate deportations of all illegal Venezuelan immigrants directly with Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez.

The announcement comes as Peru confronts a serious public security crisis, with authorities battling extortion networks, contract killings and transnational criminal organizations, including Venezuelan-origin gang Tren de Aragua.

Yesterday, Fujimori announced that she had spoken with Rodríguez to coordinate the expulsion of illegal Venezuelan nationals and support Venezuela’s Vuelta a la Patria (“Return to the Homeland”) repatriation program.

The two countries’ foreign ministries are working on protocols for air transfers. The governments have not yet announced the number of people targeted or a date for the first flights though.

The message to illegal immigrants and foreign criminal gangs from Keiko is a significant shift toward a more aggressive enforcement strategy.

Peru’s security crisis puts immigration enforcement at the center of the debate

Police and prosecutors have documented criminal networks linked to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and its factions operating in the country, with investigations involving extortion, human trafficking, sexual exploitation, weapons and drug offenses.

This past January, Peru’s Interior Ministry announced that police had arrested more than 50 people during an operation targeting a faction linked to Tren de Aragua in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima. Authorities said the organization was connected to extortion, drug trafficking and illegal weapons possession.

In April, prosecutors announced the preliminary detention of 25 people allegedly connected to two criminal networks associated with Tren de Aragua, including investigations into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

These cases illustrate why organized transnational crime has become such an urgent issue for Peruvian authorities.

The new Peruvian president is clear that criminal organizations will be targeted for their crimes, and illegal immigration will be addressed through enforcement of the law.

A candidate was murdered during the election campaign

One of the most shocking cases highlighting Peru’s current security challenges occurred this past September, when journalist and regional gubernatorial candidate Susy Aponte Polo was shot dead during a campaign appearance in a market in Caraz, in the Áncash region.

The killing was captured on video. Aponte had previously reported receiving threats, and a Venezuelan national was detained as a suspect in connection with the attack. The investigation remains crucial to establishing individual responsibility and the motive for the killing.

The murder sent a chilling message about the dangers facing political candidates, journalists and ordinary citizens in a country struggling with violent crime.

In separate cases, Peruvian authorities have reported attacks against public officials and operations against criminal organizations involved in extortion and violence.

Also this past May, Mayor Víctor Hugo Febre of the Veintiséis de Octubre district in Piura was murdered in an attack that prompted an immediate police response. Fujimori, then a leading political figure, publicly condemned the killing and warned against normalizing a reality in which organized criminals operate with impunity.

These incidents have intensified public demands for a government capable of restoring order.

Fujimori won the presidency amid widespread fear of crime

Fujimori’s rise to the presidency came amid growing public anxiety over extortion, organized crime and violence.

The Associated Press reported that she won Peru’s 2026 presidential runoff by a narrow margin, with public security among the central concerns shaping the election. Her campaign emphasized a tougher response to organized crime, stronger security measures, new prisons and greater use of state security forces.

The electoral result gave Fujimori a mandate to pursue the security agenda she campaigned on.

Peru’s cooperation with Venezuela could help address one part of that problem by establishing procedures to return all illegal Venezuelan citizens subject to expulsion.

What wis Tren de Aragua doing in Perú?

Tren de Aragua originated in Venezuela and has developed into a transnational criminal organization. Authorities in Peru have linked its factions to serious offenses, including extortion, human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Last August, the Peruvian government announced the expulsion of three Venezuelan nationals associated with Tren de Aragua after they had served eight-year prison sentences for offenses involving illegal weapons and other public-order and public-health crimes. They were transported to Caracas aboard a Peruvian Air Force aircraft.

The latest agreement could broaden cooperation beyond such individual cases, although the precise scope of the new protocols remains to be announced.

These new developments in Peru might set another example on he importance of intelligence sharing, secure borders, cooperation with countries of origin and effective deportation procedures.

The next phase will determine whether Fujimori’s announcement becomes an effective deportation policy.

The governments must finalize procedures for air transfers, clarify which cases qualify for expulsion and establish how many people could be affected. As of today, the public announcement confirms diplomatic coordination, not the beginning of a comprehensive deportation operation.

The challenge now is to turn those commitments into action.

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Guest Post By Deroy Murdock

Fists full of hair are getting yanked from coast to coast, as Weepy Americans cry, cry, cry over the botched execution of Christa Pike, age 50.

What a mess!

Authorities tried twice to apply the capital punishment that Tennessee imposed upon Pike in 1996, after her first-degree murder conviction. Both times, Pentobarbital, the drug designed to stop her breathing, failed to deliver.

“Executions are legalized lynching,” one placard complained outside the Volunteer State’s Capitol. The Guardian sobbed: “This is the essence of cruelty.”

For true cruelty, consider how Pike treated Colleen Slemmer, then 19. According to Tennessee’s US Supreme Court appeal, Pike thought Slemmer was trying to steal her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. So, Pike lured Slemmer into the woods in January 1995, slashed her throat with a box cutter, slammed a meat cleaver into her back, crushed her head with a chunk of asphalt, and kept a piece of Slemmer’s skull as a souvenir.

Pike told a friend that she “just felt mean that day.” State officials say that Pike “danced, smiled, and sang while she recounted these details.”

Those who whimper over Pike rarely whisper Slemmer’s name.

For my part, I love the death penalty! Like Pike, some criminals are so vile, heinous, and disgusting that they relinquish their right to life. The inherent human dignity with which murderers are born vanishes when they plunge knives and pump slugs into their prey.

These worthless perpetrators deserve to die. This involves deterrence (execution headlines should discourage deadly mayhem) and the superlative social sanction against behavior so abominable that the guilty should be expelled from Earth. Thus, America should see lots more executions.

Despite my enthusiasm for capital punishment, lethal injections give me the shakes.

It is downright creepy to deploy syringes, intravenous lines, and stethoscopes to extinguish lives. Fatal injections abuse medicine to violate the short-form Hippocratic Oath: “First, do no harm.” The fact that doctors employ alcohol swabs to disinfect the arms of Death Row inmates before administering poisons confirms the chilling paradox at play here.

This ultimate government intervention is beyond macabre. It’s just too much.

Other execution methods terminate the wicked without bringing “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” to life, in the worst way.

Death penalty opponents have cheered as shortages of fatal shots have provided a stealth excuse to stymie capital punishment. Those who denounce the death penalty should persuade legislatures to prohibit it, rather than use a paucity of such substances to evacuate Death Row.

So, let’s expand the executioners’ options. Restore the gas chambers. Rebuild the gallows. Roll out the firing squads. Plug in the electric chairs. Gassing, hanging, shooting, and frying Death Row prisoners get the job done, minus the performative hygiene of lethal injections.

This idea should make capital punishment more palatable, for those whom it makes nervous: Execution Choice.

Death Row inmates should be free to choose how they die. While officials should not encourage lethal injection, for the condemned who insist, let ’em have it.

Pike has recovered, miraculously, from her close brush with death. On Saturday, her attorneys announced her release from an unnamed Nashville hospital and return to the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the former Tennessee Prison for Women, where Pike has been parked since March 30, 1996. Presumably, she will wait there for a second date with the Grim Reaper.

So, when that glorious day comes, the warden should hand Pike a menu​ and tell her to pick one: A third syringe of Pentobarbital, hydrogen cyanide gas, a noose, several bullets, or 2,000 volts.

Meanwhile, President Donald J. Trump announced that Fort Hood, Texas, shooter Nidal Malik Hasan would be dispatched by firing squad on December 3, the earliest date allowed under a statutorily required, 60-day waiting period. The execution will be televised.

Hooray!

On November 9, 2009, this Islamo-cockroach yelled, “Allahu Akbar!” and then opened fire inside a US Army pre-deployment center. Hasan wounded 32 and murdered 13 (one civilian and 12 GIs). He has earned death and a quick descent into the hottest corner of Hell. This should have happened in 2010.

Those who now bellow about Hasan’s execution being streamed on video should stop crying for him and, instead, shed tears for his 45 victims, not least U.S. Army Private Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago. She had returned from military service in Iraq and looked forward to maternity leave. Three months into her first pregnancy, Hasan shot Velez. She screamed, “My baby! My baby!” before dropping dead. Hasan also murdered Velez’s unborn child, who never escaped its mother’s womb.

Those who cower at the thought of seeing Hasan take the bullets in the heart that he so richly earned are free to tune out. Instead, they can watch Jeopardy, a Hallmark Yuletide special, or click off their TVs and dream of a white Christmas. Hasan’s carcass will make December, indeed, the most wonderful time of the year.

As for the notion that scenes of Hasan’s execution will inspire jihadists, please watch today’s news coverage from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s now-closed King Khalid International Airport. Bloodthirsty Islamofascist Houthi terrorists fired drones and missiles from Yemen on Saturday and blasted that facility to bits. They killed 13 individuals, including an unidentified American, and wounded a stunning 309 innocents.

These terrorist scum did not need an execution video to motivate them. Whether or not Nidal Malik Hasan’s death by firing squad is conducted in secret or presented in IMAX, the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, and their fellow vermin will kill until they are killed.

So: Lights, camera, ready, aim, fire!

Update!

President Trump announced that Hasan’s execution will not be televised.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:

“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device.”

Trump’s sentiments echo those I expressed above: Visuals of Hasan’s execution could deter terrorism, and some people would prefer not to see such images. So, they need not watch.

On December 2, Trump should reverse today’s unfortunate bow to America’s weak sisters. He should restore the live stream of Hasan’s death by firing squad. And he should instruct the White House to offer a simultaneous video that names and honors the 32 American patriots whom Hasan shot and the 13 he murdered. This would be the prefect way to purge Hasan from this planet, let those who wish to watch do so, and pay tribute to those whom Hasan stole from their families, friends, and fellow Americans.

Next: September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohamed. American taxpayers have bought this leech breakfast, lunch, and dinner since September 2006, when he checked into Guantanamo.

No one disputes KSM’s guilt. He confessed: “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.”

Trump should order KSM’s execution.

Shoot this rotten bastard tonight!

​Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News Contributor.

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