In an unearthed video, Michigan Secretary of State and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson can be seen campaigning for her first run for secretary of state in Michigan in 2010. The event was held in Houghton, Michigan, at a Democratic Party office. At the time, Benson was new to politics, but somehow caught the attention of George Soros, who apparently saw someone he aligned with in his quest to destroy everything good and decent about America and helped fund her campaign. To date, 4 members of the Soros family, including George Soros, have contributed a whopping $33,120 to Jocelyn Benson’s current 2026 Michigan gubernatorial campaign.

Jocelyn Benson is seen standing in front of what appears to be a kitchen, addressing a crowd of fellow Democrats. During her introduction, Benson said she was raised in Pennsylvania and that, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 2004, she worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama. Although their stated mission is to root out “hate groups,” many believe the SPLC is in and of itself a “hate group,” used to target conservative groups by mislabeling and mischaracterizing them in an effort to destroy their credibility.

Benson doesn’t explain exactly how she became an FBI informant through her undercover work for the SPLC, but she makes sure to include this little tidbit in her resume when addressing potential voters.

“And I moved to Alabama after college to work for the Southern Poverty Law Center and investigated hate groups down there undercover, for the FBI and other folks that we informed of hate activities in the South,” Benson told the group.

She continued, “And, you know, living in Alabama, I really developed just a commitment to continuing the work that had been done both in Alabama and throughout our country.”

Watch the awkward exchange here:

During her first Soros-funded run at MI SOS, @JocelynBenson explained how she was “working undercover for the FBI” (likely trying to entrap her political enemies) while working for the Southern Poverty Law Center to “investigate hate groups in the South.”

Did Jocelyn give @GovWhitmer the idea to use the FBI set up innocent men to help boost her horrible poll numbers?

P.S. Why won’t MI media ask her if she approved the checks the SPLC was writing to the KKK while she was on their board?

— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) October 15, 2026

Jocelyn Benson must have really impressed the far-left radicals running the SPLC, as she was chosen to become a board member in 2014.

Jocelyn Benson served on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s board of directors from 2014 until she became Michigan Secretary of State in 2019—precisely the years covered by the April 2026 federal indictment that charges the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money-laundering conspiracy. Prosecutors allege the organization secretly funneled more than $3 million in donor money to informants inside the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and other extremist groups, routing the payments through shell companies and prepaid cards while publicly fundraising to “dismantle” those same organizations.

The indictment specifically identifies one paid informant, labeled F-37, as a member of the online leadership chat that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. According to the charging document, F-37 attended the event at the SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under SPLC supervision, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and was paid more than $270,000. Benson has described her board role as “mostly ceremonial,” but the indictment’s timeline places her on the board throughout the period these payments were allegedly made—including the years surrounding the deadly Charlottesville violence that the SPLC later used to drive a massive surge in donations.

To date, no mainstream media outlet has asked Jocelyn about her role as a SPLC board member or whether she wrote the checks allegedly paid to the undercover informants. Since she seems to know so much about being an informant, it may be worth asking, especially since she is running to become Michigan’s top elected official.

h/t Anna Hoffman

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It’s Not a “Socialist Revolution.” It’s Misery, Starvation, and Death.

The following is from the Trump team.

A coordinated campaign is underway to sanitize, normalize, and romanticize one of history’s most dangerous and lethal ideologies. Newsweek is currently running a “little red test” that asks about oat milk, shorter workweeks, and tote bags — then scores readers on how ready they are for an “American socialist revolution.”

There’s nothing lighthearted about the reality that campaign is trying to hide. Socialist and communist regimes have killed some 100 million people through engineered famines, mass executions, and slave labor camps.

That same ideology is now being sold to Americans by the Democrat Socialists of America and the Radical Left that dominates the Democrat Party. Their agenda — Medicare for All, open borders, mass amnesty, abolishing police and prisons, and the Green New Deal chief among them — carries a staggering price.

A new report from the Council of Economic Advisers puts the ten-year cost of the socialist agenda at $49 trillion, or as much as $400,000 per American household — financed by massive tax hikes that slash wages by nearly 30%, shrink economic output, and drive inflation sky-high. Mortgage rates would soar, millions of jobs would vanish, and productivity would collapse as empty shelves, rationed care, and the slow grind of state control replace the abundance of American exceptionalism.

Socialism is a sick, perverse system that produces misery and death on an incomprehensible scale. Democrats are deliberately attempting to hasten the destruction of American prosperity, security, and freedom — and if given the chance, they’ll gleefully turn America into a third-world country.

President Donald J. Trump is said it best: “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!”

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A 19-year-old biological male who identifies as a woman and worked as a substitute teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools has been convicted of threatening to go on a “murder spree” at a Virginia high school, kill multiple people, and cannibalize one of the victims.

The Gateway Pundit first reported on Dollery’s arrest in April 2026, when the biological male who identifies as female was taken into custody after the Discord threats and “kill list” references. At the time, Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman publicly questioned the school district’s hiring practices, noting the risk of placing 18- and 19-year-olds with only a high school diploma in charge of students.

Hadyn James Dollery, who goes by the name “Sophie” and used the Discord handle “Cotton Candy,” was found guilty Friday on four of the five counts he faced, Loudoun Now reported.

A Loudoun County jury of seven men and five women convicted the former non-licensed substitute teacher of two counts of threatening to injure or kill a person, one count of making threats on school grounds, and one count of threatening to damage a building. He was acquitted on a third threat count.

Prosecutors said Dollery sent the messages over Discord at 1:49 a.m. on April 15, the day after his boyfriend broke up with him. Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dircia Schubert told jurors that Dollery threatened to kill the ex, the ex’s family, and members of his own family.

He also vowed to carry out a “murder spree” at the ex’s school, John Champe High School, and described cannibalizing one of the victims after killing them. In another message, he asked the ex to return a shirt “if I’m deemed fit to work after this s—t I’m about to do,” according to Breitbart.

This is the same Loudoun County that became a national symbol of progressive education policy gone wrong. Parents still remember the school system’s handling of the 2021 sexual assault of a female student by a biological male in a girls’ bathroom, followed by the district’s attempts to downplay the incident and the subsequent prosecution of the victim’s father for speaking out.

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A California-based federal judge appointed by Joe Biden has ordered the U.S. State Department to reinstate the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery for fiscal year 2027 by this Sunday, forcing the Trump administration to reopen a program it suspended after a Portuguese national who entered through the lottery was suspected in the deadly Brown University shooting and the murder of an MIT professor.

U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction requiring Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly announce and open registration for the program, which awards permanent residency (green cards) to up to 55,000 applicants annually from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. A large share of these visas go to applicants from Africa.

Registration is typically a random lottery with millions of entries; winners then face interviews and vetting.

According to Breitbart News, Judge Ohta’s injunction requires the State Department to open a 30-day electronic registration period by October 18 and notify selected applicants by November 19.

The government must then proceed with visa processing, subject to statutory eligibility requirements and the program’s annual limits.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in December 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the immediate suspension of the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (often called the green card lottery) after authorities identified the suspect in the Brown University and MIT attacks as a beneficiary of the program.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the pause, stating: “The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country. … At President Trump’s direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program.”

Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national, had previously studied at Brown on a student visa before later obtaining the diversity visa and permanent residency.

He is believed to have opened fire in a Brown University lecture hall in December 2025, killing two students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and wounding nine others, then murdered MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro (a former classmate from Portugal) at his home before taking his own life.

The Trump administration did not open the fiscal year 2027 registration window on the normal schedule, effectively pausing the program amid national security reviews of screening and vetting.

Immigration lawyers, including California-based Red Eagle Law, sued and argued this amounted to a de facto cancellation of a program created by Congress in 1990.

Ohta ruled that the failure to open registration was arbitrary and capricious and ordered the State Department to announce the registration period (originally by midnight October 15, with later adjustments discussed), keep it open for at least 30 days, accept eligible electronic entries, notify selected applicants, and process applications under normal procedures until the available visas are issued or the fiscal year ends in September 2027.

Ohta, born in South Korea, was nominated by Biden in 2021 and confirmed to the Southern District of California. She previously served as a San Diego Superior Court judge after an appointment by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Critics view the ruling as another example of an unelected Biden-appointed judge attempting to override the elected administration’s efforts to tighten immigration security following real-world attacks.

The Diversity Visa program has a troubled history with security failures. Trump previously sought to end it after the 2017 New York City truck attack by Sayfullo Saipov, who entered via the lottery and killed eight people.

Noem and Trump officials have repeatedly described the program as a “disastrous” pathway that prioritizes diversity over rigorous national-interest screening.

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Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, announced this week that it will begin pumping “official” U.S. voting information and election results directly into its chatbot later this month, just in time for the high-stakes November midterms.

The company says the data will come from Democracy Works, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that runs TurboVote.

Anthropic claims this will help users get state-specific answers on polling places, voter ID requirements, registration, and logistics without leaving the chat. Claude will also display “up-to-date” official results on election night and in the days after.

In a blog post titled “Preparing for the 2026 US midterms,” Anthropic framed the move as a responsible effort to make Claude “a useful tool for political conversations, while preventing election-related abuse.”

The company analyzed roughly 250,000 U.S. Claude.ai conversations from late September and reported that politics, public policy, or social issues already make up about 5.75% of chats. Election- or voting-specific talks account for 0.51%, and direct “whom should I vote for” requests are vanishingly rare at 0.01%.

Anthropic has partnered with Democracy Works since 2024. Earlier this year it already displayed a TurboVote banner for registration and polling questions. Now the chatbot will pull the information straight into responses.

Democracy Works presents itself as nonpartisan. Its funding history tells a different story. The group has received millions from left-of-center sources including the New Venture Fund, Democracy Fund, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts, Knight Foundation, and others frequently tied to progressive election and “democracy” initiatives. InfluenceWatch and grant trackers document these patterns clearly.

In other words, one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI platforms is handing the keys for midterm voting guidance to a nonprofit bankrolled by the usual progressive foundation complex. Americans asking Claude where to vote or what ID is required will receive answers filtered through that pipeline.

Anthropic insists its models score highly on internal “political evenhandedness” tests (99% for the latest Claude versions) and that it has strengthened classifiers against coordinated abuse, foreign influence operations, and deceptive campaign content.

It says it has already banned accounts tied to fake news sites pushing adversarial narratives and financially motivated election spam. Independent reviews it commissioned still flagged issues, including uneven hedging that more often softened right-leaning arguments.

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The Department of Justice has had enough of California’s open defiance of federal law.

After giving Democrat Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County election officials a clear 48-hour deadline to review a federal list of more than 20,000 people the government believes are likely noncitizens who were mailed live ballots for the November 3 midterm election, California refused.

The Trump Justice Department filed a federal court action seeking an emergency order requiring the state to sequester those ballots until citizenship can be verified.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bilal A. Essayli of the Central District of California put it plainly on X:

“Time is up for California. We gave California 48 hours to review and flag more than 20,000 noncitizen voters recently mailed live ballots. California refused. This morning we filed a federal court action seeking an emergency order requiring California to sequester ballots returned by suspected noncitizens. This is not political or controversial. 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes it a federal offense for noncitizens to vote in a federal election. We will not allow California to dilute the votes of American citizens.”

Time is up for California

We gave California 48 hours to review and flag more than 20,000 noncitizen voters recently mailed live ballots.

California refused.

This morning we filed a federal court action seeking an emergency order requiring California to sequester ballots returned by suspected noncitizens.

This is not political or controversial. 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes it a federal offense for noncitizens to vote in a federal election. We will not allow California to dilute the votes of American citizens.

— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) October 15, 2026

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.

Under California law, registered active voters are automatically mailed ballots. That practice has become central to the DOJ’s concerns about individuals who may be improperly registered.

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

In its official announcement, the DOJ confirmed it is asking the court to require California to set aside the disputed ballots, rather than automatically cancel them.

The letter from Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter, dated October 13, 2026, lays out the facts with devastating clarity. Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections.

The Supreme Court has long held that states may not induce or encourage private persons to do what the Constitution forbids.

On July 16, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned Weber that large numbers of noncitizens were registered to vote in California. Weber’s response the following week did not deny it. She simply asked for more information.

The Trump administration provided that information. Earlier this week, federal officials delivered a password-protected thumb drive to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk containing the names of people the government believes are likely noncitizens who were sent vote-by-mail ballots under California’s automatic mail-ballot system.

The DOJ offered to send Weber a digital copy as well. The demand was straightforward: review the list within 48 hours.

For any individual whose citizenship cannot be independently confirmed, segregate, not cancel, the returned ballots and do not verify signatures or tabulate them until citizenship is determined. For those not yet mailed a ballot, withhold it.

California refused.

The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday that the Justice Department had given California exactly this 48-hour window or face emergency legal action. That deadline has now passed. The lawsuit followed.

California’s all-mail system, made permanent after the COVID emergency, automatically sends ballots to every registered voter. That means tens of thousands of people the federal government flags as likely noncitizens have already received, or will receive, official ballots for a federal election.

Every one of those votes, if counted, cancels the vote of an American citizen. As McCotter’s letter states: “Allowing noncitizens to vote cancels citizen votes.”

Secretary Weber and Governor Gavin Newsom’s allies have already begun the familiar media spin, claiming the list is inaccurate, the process is “voter suppression,” and the Trump administration is somehow the threat to democracy.

They said the same thing when DHS first raised the issue in July. They said the same thing when other states cooperated and cleaned their rolls. California’s position is that American citizens must simply trust the system while thousands of suspected noncitizens receive and potentially return ballots in a critical midterm election.

The law is clear. 18 U.S.C. § 611 makes it a federal crime for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. States run elections, but they do not get to nullify federal criminal statutes or dilute the votes of citizens. The Department of Justice under President Trump is treating this as the serious national security and election integrity issue it is.

Essayli and the DOJ are now in federal court seeking emergency relief. The American people deserve to know that only American citizens are choosing their leaders. California’s refusal to even review the list and sequester the questioned ballots makes that impossible without court intervention.

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