As we approach the 25th remembrance of the events of 9/11, many people are simultaneously thinking about the 2026 midterm elections.

The two events have become intertwined in a unique way this year, because Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spent nearly the entire primary campaigning with radical leftist Hasan Piker, who said that America deserved 9/11.

El-Sayed has tried to do damage control by distancing himself from Piker, but his efforts haven’t been very successful because everyone knows the two remain friends.

While El-Sayed has already said many controversial things himself, what he wrote about 9/11 in 2021 should be disqualifying for holding public office in the United States of America.

Arab America News reprinted this article El-Sayed wrote in 2021 for the anniversary of 9/11, (emphasis is ours):

The terrorists who attacked our country that day only exploited Islam as a pretext for an act of violence rooted in tribalistic grievance. They wanted chaos. The attacks sent our country into writhing convulsions of fury. Whether the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the stunning decimation of our civil liberties or the polarization of American society, of which we are yet suffering the consequences today.

The logic of the post-9/11 era sacrificed our basic collective liberties, most of all against Muslim Americans. A whole new edifice of control, the Department of Homeland Security, was created in order to marshal the full might of a sprawling security state that confused ethnicity and faith for mal-intent. Shining its spotlight harshly on Arabs, South Asians and Africans, it deliberately left the greatest threat to our security in the shadows — missing the most common source of American terrorism, “homegrown” and “radicalized” White men.

We fought 20 years of collective war through which we violated the basic rights of millions of non-combatants to make home, live prosperously and thrive in the places in which they were born. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives. Thousands of U.S. service members and contractors died, too — most of them back home. Among veterans of these wars, death by suicide has been four times as common as death on the battlefield.

In an echo of the worst of our history — the decimation of Native Americans, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Jim Crow segregation, Japanese interment — we did all of that in the name of an America founded on the self-evident truths that “all men are created equal.” Though the past 20 years have obscured their light, those ideals remain as luminescent as they were when they inspired our parents and our parents’ parents to come to these shores.

So to recap:
1. White men are the biggest terrorism threat.
2. Muslims were the biggest victims of post-9/11 policies.
3. Equates post-9/11 America with slavery, Jim Crow, etc.

This man not only hates America, he does not understand it or its history.

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They Had Nothing: Christina Bobb

The Mar-a-Lago story the FBI never wanted told

By Kelly Walker

Christina Bobb was there when the FBI rolled up to Mar-a-Lago raid on August 8, 2022, to rifle through President Trump’s personal residence, searching for “evidence” that proved to be absent.

Then, as now, Christina Bobb was defiant.

Hence the name of Bobb’s latest book, Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare, which details the coordinated lawfare and political attacks against Donald Trump and his allies, through deep-state efforts to undermine his ability to hold office.

Trump had already left Florida for the summer, leaving Bobb as his on-site legal representative present during the search. When she arrived the morning of the ordeal, the raid was already underway. FBI and DOJ personnel had entered in unmarked vehicles without lights or sirens—purposely low-key—while Secret Service agents accompanied them through the property.

According to Bobb, agents initially refused to provide her with a search warrant, forcing her to argue with them until they finally turned it over. They then confined her to Mar-a-Lago’s circular driveway, preventing her from observing as they searched Trump’s office, storage area and private living quarters—including, according to Melania Trump, the former first lady’s personal drawers.

“I was going crazy, yelling at them all, saying, ‘What are you doing here!? This is illegal. You need to be leaving,’” Bobb recalled. When agents assured her that they were trying to conduct the search calmly and professionally, she fired back: “What do you mean, calm and professional? You’re raiding the home of a President of the United States!”

Perhaps most revealing, Bobb told Dangerous Laughter host A.J. Rice, was how uncharacteristically quietly the operation unfolded. There were no television cameras waiting outside, there was no official announcement from the FBI or Justice Department and apparently no communications plan for the inevitable public reaction. Trump himself disclosed the raid that evening on Truth Social, after it had ended. Attorney General Merrick Garland waited three days before appearing publicly to acknowledge that he had authorized it—then took no questions.

That understated approach suggested to Bobb that the government never expected Trump to tell the public what had happened. “I personally think they never intended the raid to become public,” she said in her Dangerous Laughter interview. “I think they thought they could do this in private—that the president would keep it secret because it looks really bad for him that he’s being raided—and they could just pick and choose what they want to do and then later say that they raided Mar-a-Lago.”

Perhaps they didn’t know the Donald J. Trump his base knows—a man who’s very difficult if not impossible to silence. But Trump pulled that card and beat them at the game by being completely transparent and turning the PR tables.

According to Bobb, the Justice Department’s secrecy concealed an even deeper problem: They had nothing, and they knew it going in. The investigation was built for Washington, D.C.—the grand jury, prosecutors and investigative team were all there—yet even after searching Trump’s home, agents failed to uncover the evidence needed to bring the case they wanted. Once Trump made the raid public, however, the whole world was asking the obvious question: Why did the FBI raid Mar-a-Lago? Suddenly, the Justice Department had to justify an extraordinary action it apparently never expected to defend in real time.

“They did not find anything after the raid,” Bobb told Rice. “And so, the whole world is looking at them: ‘Why did you raid Mar-a-Lago?’ And they had to go, ‘Oh, shoot, we don’t have anything.’”

But now the world knew the raid had happened, and the Justice Department needed a case to justify it. Bobb contends that when prosecutors couldn’t make their intended Washington case stick, they shifted gears and brought the prosecution into the Southern District of Florida—recasting what had been pursued as a national-security matter into an obstruction case arising from events at Mar-a-Lago.

In Bobb’s telling, that explains both the secrecy surrounding the operation and the government’s halting response after Trump exposed it. There were no cameras, no announcement and no prepared public explanation. Attorney General Merrick Garland waited three days before stepping to the microphone, accepting responsibility in a brief statement and leaving without taking questions. Trump’s transparency had forced the Justice Department out of the shadows and saddled them with publicly defending a raid Bobb maintains never produced the case they went there to find.

“It’s unprecedented,” Rice added, “It will ring down through the ages—not just that it happened—but because it was planned, it was phony…there was a conspiracy to unload this.”

The indictment named 39 different types of obstruction of justice, which Bobb says is indicative of a Department of Justice “so used to manufacturing whatever type of criminal conspiracy they want to because they have basically unlimited resources and incredible power.”

Unfortunately, the government’s immense, largely unchecked power to target political opponents was not reserved for a former president. As Bobb pointed out, that the same machinery turned against everyday Americans—January 6 defendants, alternate electors, farmers, small-business owners and citizens who lacked Trump’s money, platform and army of attorneys.

I would add the weaponization against concerned school parents like me to that list. Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department mobilized federal law-enforcement resources in response to parents who spoke out at school-board meetings—after the National School Boards Association portrayed some of those protests as potential “domestic terrorism.” Parents exercising their First Amendment rights suddenly found themselves viewed through the lens of federal law enforcement, intimidating not only those who spoke but countless others into silence.

For many, the process itself became the punishment. A person need not be convicted—or even formally charged—to have a life dismantled by years of investigation, surveillance, litigation and public suspicion. Legal bills accumulated, businesses and careers were destroyed, reputations were poisoned, relationships fractured and families were left to carry the psychological weight of being treated as enemies of their own government. Trump possessed the resources and platform to fight back publicly, but most targeted Americans did not…and their nightmare continues.

The Trump administration attempted to provide a measure of restitution through a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. Announced by the Justice Department in May 2026, the program was intended to allow people harmed by federal lawfare or political targeting to submit claims for monetary relief and formal apologies. There was no partisan requirement to apply, and unspent money was to return to the federal government. Bobb viewed it as a long-overdue lifeline for Americans who had been financially and personally devastated by a federal government with virtually unlimited resources.

But the fund was killed by one of the most breathtakingly hypocritical examples of self-dealing in congressional history. When hundreds of Americans were swept into the sprawling Arctic Frost investigation, Congress offered them no comparable remedy. Senators did, however, insert a provision into a must-pass spending bill allowing senators—and only senators—to sue the federal government for at least $500,000 per violation if investigators secretly obtained their phone records. Eight Republican senators stood to benefit immediately, while House members, Trump associates and other citizens caught in the same investigation were excluded.

Although the House voted unanimously to repeal the special provision, the Senate—led by Lindsey Graham—initially blocked its removal, preserving lawmakers’ exclusive “right” to seek taxpayer-funded damages for several more months. Public outrage ultimately forced Congress to repeal the payout provision in February 2026—but not before senators had revealed their willingness to create a remedy for themselves that they had denied to hundreds of other Americans caught in the same investigation.

Having secured special protections for themselves, senators then objected when the Trump administration created a fund to compensate ordinary Americans without first consulting them. They raised concerns about its authority, oversight and potential beneficiaries, but the underlying offense, Bobb contended, was that the president had acted without giving them control over the process.

Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis ultimately used Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general as leverage, withholding their support until the Justice Department formally rescinded the fund on August 2, 2026—shortly after Bobb recorded this interview. No members had been appointed, no money transferred and no claims processed. Senators had recognized the injustice of government weaponization when they were its targets—and reserved compensation for themselves—only to help deny that same relief to everyone else.

All of this, and what Bobb bravely exposes in Defiant highlights our nation’s need for people like her who are willing to stand up against the Deep State and Uniparty’s thuggery and targeting of American, from President Trump to school parents and election critics.

As Bobb points out—and as I personally experienced and later uncovered through FOIA-obtained records—Merrick Garland directed the DOJ, over the objections of some of its own attorneys, to find a “federal hook” for targeting parents and trampling their First Amendment rights. The DOJ apparently cares little whether probable cause exists. And, as Bobb warns, “they’re still trying.”

“I would define lawfare as the use of the court system, the use of our justice system, for a purpose other than the stated purpose of the case. So, you wanna bring criminal charges against Donald Trump, the purpose of the case is not actually to bring charges against the President, it’s not to enforce the law and ensure good order and discipline. The purpose of it is to defame him in order to cause him to lose the election.”

And Bobb agrees with the certainty of many that the Democrats and administrative machine want to seize power back and continue trying to take down the President and his supporters.

“The reason it’s relevant now is because we’ve got midterms coming up and they are trying to manufacture more crimes against the president, against his cabinet. They’re doing the same thing.”

When asked by Rice for a word of advice as the interview concluded, she responded, “On the lawfare front, I would just say be skeptical of everything. Be skeptical of everything you’re seeing on either side…keep an open mind, but test everything because both sides are playing games.

Kelly John Walker is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of FreedomTalk: The Journal of Truth & Virtue, and a nationally recognized communications and creative strategy consultant. His writing has appeared in The Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, Andrew Magazine, Newsmax, Townhall, and other national outlets. A frequent commentator and guest on leading conservative programs, Walker is known for his work in journalism, strategic communications, branding, advertising, and public affairs.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to statewide office in Minnesota and a convert from Catholicism, has quietly returned at least $12,500 in campaign cash from Somali figures tied to the massive Feeding Our Future welfare fraud after a secret recording surfaced of him huddling with the same crowd to fend off state investigators.

According to the Center of the American Experiment, the five refunded contributions included donations from Gandi Yusuf Mohamed and Liban Alishire, both of whom became defendants in the Feeding Our Future case.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in December, the 54-minute recording, obtained by the Center of the American Experiment and later entered as a trial exhibit, captured Ellison schmoozing with Somali-American operators who would later be charged or convicted in the Feeding Our Future scheme that looted more than $250 million in federal child-nutrition money meant for hungry kids.

The meeting participants complained that state regulators were acting in a “racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic manner” by asking questions about phantom meal sites.

“The only way we can protect what we have is by inserting ourselves into the political arena, putting our votes where it needs to be, but most importantly, putting our dollars in the right place,” Feeding Our Future consultant Abshir Omar said.

“But if you are secure in your donor base, and if you are secure in your power base, you can act the way you want to act,” Omar continued.

“Money is freedom,” Ellison replied with a laugh.

The group then promised “serious money” and “serious organizing” to support Ellison.

“I’m here to help,” Ellison told them. “Let’s fight these people … put a stop to it.”

Ellison also promised to summon Minnesota Department of Education officials to his office.

“I’ll call them in my office and demand some explanations,” he said.

Nine days after Ellison privately met with Gandi’s sister, Ikram Yusuf Mohamed, and other figures tied to Feeding Our Future, Gandi Mohamed contributed the maximum $2,500 to Ellison’s campaign on December 20, 2021.

Ellison’s campaign did not return Gandi Mohamed’s donation until May 2025, shortly after the explosive recording of the December 2021 meeting became public.

Three additional $2,500 contributions accepted on December 20, 2021, were reportedly returned on December 31, 2025, the final day of the campaign-finance reporting period.

Those three donors were associated with people or organizations connected to Feeding Our Future, although they have not been charged with wrongdoing.

Ellison previously returned another $2,500 donation from Feeding Our Future defendant Liban Alishire in September 2022, shortly after Alishire was indicted.

That brings the total returned fraud-linked campaign cash to at least $12,500.

In March 2026, Ikram Mohamed pleaded guilty to wire fraud for helping steal and launder $14.6 million in taxpayer money intended to feed hungry children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gandi Mohamed pleaded guilty the following month for his role in the scheme.

BREAKING: Records reveal Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, a Muslim convert, has had to return at least $12,500 in campaign donations from Somali fraudsters after they secretly met w/ him to discuss fending off state regulators and investigators and freeing up frozen payments on their…

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) September 2, 2026

The Gateway Pundit also reported that Senator Josh Hawley confronted Ellison during a fiery Senate hearing and accused him of helping Feeding Our Future figures get investigators “off their backs.”

“You took $10,000 from them nine days after the meeting!” Hawley shouted.

“You helped fraudsters defraud the state, and you got a fat campaign contribution out of it! You ought to be indicted!”

Ellison repeatedly denied Hawley’s allegations and called them lies.

The Feeding Our Future operation stole approximately $250 million from a federal child-nutrition program by falsely claiming to have served millions of meals to needy children. The money was instead spent on luxury vehicles, real estate, jewelry, and other personal expenses.

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Lindi Li is a former DNC fundraiser and Democrat Party operative who blew the whistle after the 2024 election about the reckless spending of the Kamala Harris campaign. She has repeatedly made the case that another Harris run will be impossible because the donor class will never allow it.

Now she is back in the news with some thoughts about the rise of the radical Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

According to Li, the Joe Biden presidency is to blame for the rise of radical socialists in the party.

FOX News reports:

Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser who left the party after her warnings about then-President Joe Biden’s decline went unheeded during the 2024 campaign, says Democrats’ leadership vacuum has helped fuel the Democratic Socialists of America’s string of victories in 2026.

“They’re a metastasizing cancer,” Li told Fox News Digital in an interview.

“I had a bird’s-eye view from the beginning, you know, [to] the ascent of the DSA — power abhors a vacuum. They’re simply filling a vacuum. There’s no one there.”

According to Li, the DSA has pressured candidates for years to push their platforms further and further left — a process she said she experienced firsthand when, in 2018, she tried to run for Congress herself. Li, who is publishing a new book titled “Unburdened” later this year, believes it’s one of the many layers of how the DSA and socialists have emerged as a force to be reckoned with within the Democratic Party in 2026.

In her own experience, the DSA’s pressure came in the form of a questionnaire.

“These over-educated bums, which populated the DSA — that’s what they are — basically forced me to adopt its platform by handing me a questionnaire and saying, ‘everyone in this congressional race must fill out this questionnaire,’” Li recalled.

At the time, in 2018, Li said she felt like she didn’t have a choice but to fill out the form and didn’t expect the answers to stick with her. She was running for Pennsylvania’s 5th Congressional District.

She seems pretty serious about making this point.

The Democratic Socialists of America are a metastasizing cancer. There I said it

They have hijacked the Democratic Party, a shell of its former self

The DSA is poisoning American politics

Please read and share everywhere. @_LeoBriceno @andrewmurray1https://t.co/l3EN41vIak

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) September 1, 2026

She also seems to have been red-pilled on Trump. She defended Trump when he ended the temporary protected status for Haitians entering the US.

Temporary Protected Status for Haitians was always meant to be TEMPORARY

But “temporary” has now dragged on for 16 years

Trump was right to end TPS. We are not the world’s Salvation Army

America for Americans First pic.twitter.com/yUyuvuWEOR

— Lindy Li (@lindyli) September 2, 2026

She is certainly right about the DSA. If they ever get access to real power, America as we know it is over.

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President Donald Trump responded with anger Monday after he was asked about nuking Iran.

During an open session with the media, Trump was asked about using a nuclear weapon on Iran.

“Well, I would never say that, but the answer is yes. I ruled out — there’s no reason for it,” Trump said, according to a video posted to X.

“What a stupid question that is, actually. Here they are — they’re totally defeated militarily, so now I defeat them, and now I should use a nuclear weapon on top of them? What a stupid question!” Trump said.

“Have you ruled out using a nuclear weapon against Iran?”@POTUS: “They’re totally defeated militarily — so I defeat them and now I should use a nuclear weapon on top of them? What a stupid question.” pic.twitter.com/Gv9dXAJ9Zu

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 31, 2026

As noted in another video posted to X, Trump said that Iran is largely a failed state that refuses to recognize the fact.

“They’re a failed nation,” he said

“They’ve got 350 percent inflation. They have no currency. They’re not paying their soldiers. Their leaders are largely dead. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their surveillance equipment is almost entirely gone. That doesn’t mean we won’t smack them.”

Trump said the United States is in control of the Strait of Hormuz.

.@POTUS on Iran: “They’re a failed nation… That doesn’t mean we won’t smack them.” pic.twitter.com/729VKMYE8E

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 31, 2026

“Many, many ships got through last night, as you know, with the Navy’s assistance, and we’ve been averaging 30 ships a night. That’s a lot, and a lot of oil’s coming out,” Trump said

“That’s why you haven’t seen the price of oil go like they thought it might have to go … I could go on for an hour about what a great job we’ve done,” he said.

Trump noted that the root cause of the war was to deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

“You see, that’s what it’s all about,” he said

“It’s not about any of the other things. It’s about … we as a country and for the world, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, Israel would have been wiped out, You would have Israel right now. You’d probably have no Middle East, and they’d be hitting our cities at some point,” he said.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Iran is pursuing a short-sighted policy in trying to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a private pond, according to the Independent.

“In two years, the Strait of Hormuz will be like a worthless piece of water,” he said Tuesday.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Democrats Use Anonymous Whistleblower to Claim President Trump’s EO on Mail-In Ballots Is “Potentially Catastrophic”

You just can’t make this stuff up.  The lying Dems are now using an “anonymous” source to claim that President Trump’s EO regarding Mail-In ballots will be “catastrophic”.

Showing their extraordinary bias, CBS claimed the following:

A whistleblower is warning of “potentially catastrophic problems” with the U.S. Postal Service’s new system for handling mail ballots. The whistleblower is accusing the agency of flouting court rulings by continuing to work on implementing a Trump executive order to tighten mail voting rules before the November midterm elections.

Described by lawyers as a federal official, the anonymous whistleblower revealed the information about the Postal Service’s mail-voting procedures in a disclosure provided to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that was made public Tuesday. In response, Blumenthal is now questioning Postmaster General David Steiner about the Postal Service’s development of a new online portal to house information about voters and their mail ballots.

“The main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans,” Blumenthal told reporters. “One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the USPS puts all of their votes at risk.”

This report is laughable on multiple fronts.

1. Using an anonymous whistleblower making comments to fit their passion for uncontrolled mail-in ballots is laughable.  The Democrats want no controls around ballots so they can insert millions of votes for their far-left candidates.  Preventing the insertion of bogus votes in one method used to steal elections in prior elections.  President Trump’s EO prevents mail-in ballots from reaching counting centers that have not been properly inserted into the election.

2. Using “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal as your mouthpiece ties you to dishonest reporting.  Senator Blumenthal gained his nickname for claiming he served in Vietnam, which was a lie.

3. Democrats are also parading the creator of the corrupt ERIC voter roll machine to make their case.  This, too, shows their desperation.

4. David Becker was on Face the Nation over the weekend, where he shared objections to the President’s EO.  Becker is the mastermind behind the ERIC trainwreck.

Trump administration officials’ threats to arrest election workers have become “almost a running joke,” says CBS News election law contributor David Becker.

“The total number of election officials who’ve been arrested for wrongdoing is zero, and that’s appropriate because not… pic.twitter.com/BSX5lXZ0Kh

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 19, 2026

What is clear is that the Democrats, along with China and other foreign entities, demand uncontrolled elections where bogus votes can be inserted into elections.  This is how elections are stolen. 

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