Pastor John K. Amanchukwu Sr. was removed by police during a school board meeting in North Carolina for daring to read a passage from a book available to students at Lake Norman High School.

Pastor Amanchukwu spoke before the Iredell-Statesville Schools Board of Education meeting on October 12, 2026, and began reading excerpts from the novel *Push* by Sapphire, aka Ramona Lofton.

The novel contains explicit depictions of incest, rape, physical and emotional abuse, and related trauma.

Before he even began reading, Board Chair Dr. Doug Knight told him if he was going to “read nasty words” it would not be allowed.

The same “nasty words” that students have free access to can not be read into the record at a board meeting

Pastor Amanchukwu continued to push back, supported by at least one board member, that the Chair was violating his First Amendment rights.

As he began reading some of the explicit passages and reminding the room that the book is freely available to students, Knight told the Pastor he was out of order and police approached Amanchukwu and removed him from the meeting.

Amanchukwu shared the interaction on social media and announced, “A LAWSUIT IS COMING!!!”

“The Iredell-Statesville School District has a BIG problem.”

“I was censored by the board chair for reading from Push by Ramona Lofton. Then POLICE were brought in to intimidate me and force me away from the podium.”

“Let me get this straight: THE BOOK STAYS. THE PREACHER GETS SILENCED.”

“An allegedly inappropriate book remains in Lake Norman High School, but a preacher exercising his right to speak gets shut down?”

Watch:

A LAWSUIT IS COMING!!!

The Iredell-Statesville School District has a BIG problem.

I was censored by the board chair for reading from Push by Ramona Lofton. Then POLICE were brought in to intimidate me and force me away from the podium.

Let me get this straight: THE BOOK STAYS. THE PREACHER GETS SILENCED.

An allegedly inappropriate book remains in Lake Norman High School, but a preacher exercising his right to speak gets shut down?

— John K. Amanchukwu Sr. (@REVWUTRUTH) October 13, 2026

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A new report by Miranda Devine at The New York Post reveals that a federal banking regulator found that “major banks closed accounts and refused credit to MAGA merchants, pro-life causes, religious groups, conservative organizations and sectors disfavored by the Biden administration, such as firearms, oil and gas, and private prisons.”

This follows a report on fair banking that was released on Wednesday by US Comptroller Jonathan Gould that he posted on X.

Under the direction of @POTUS and pursuant to his Executive Order, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” the @USOCC today released our debanking report.

With @SecScottBessent’s leadership, we are working to end politicized debanking. Access to banking should be based on financial risk, not political beliefs or whether a lawful industry is out of favor.

Read our findings: https://t.co/xCycsJfd0F

— Comptroller Jonathan Gould (@USComptroller) October 14, 2026

According to the Post:

Major banks closed accounts and refused credit to MAGA merchants, pro-life causes, religious groups, conservative organizations and sectors disfavored by the Biden administration, such as firearms, oil and gas, and private prisons, a bombshell report from the federal banking regulator has found.

The NY Post also names the guilty parties: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.

These banks cited “reputation risk” as their reason to de-bank conservative groups during the Biden regime years.

Of course, this tactic of the radical left is nothing new for The Gateway Pundit and our readers. As The Gateway Pundit readers are well aware, conservatives have faced increased efforts by the left to de-bank, de-platform, and cancel their voices and ability to do business at every level in the United States.

Tens of thousands of Americans have lost banking privileges, social media pages, and their right to speak freely without warning, The Gateway Pundit has been banned, shadowbanned, censored, and disappeared from online platforms, online banking, and even insurance companies over the past several years.

In December 2021, The Gateway Pundit and Jim Hoft were personally banned from PayPal on the last day of 2021.  We had never violated any of PayPal’s bylaws, we had never been warned about our activity — BUT we are conservative and pro-Trump. That was enough to get us removed from the platform.

American Express slashed the credit line of Mike Lindell’s MyPillow by a staggering 90% after a 15-year partnership between the two companies.

Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos called for conservative news alternatives OANN and Newsmax to be completely deplatformed “to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.”

Attorney John Eastman was debanked by Bank of America and USAA in April 2024 for his advocacy of President Trump in his efforts to expose the massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Independent journalist Christina Urso, known professionally as Radix Verum, reported that Bank of America abruptly terminated her bank account in May 2024. Urso was critical in her reporting on various issues including the FBI’s involvement in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case.

Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a Bible, may also have had their transactions flagged.

Stripe disabled the Libs of TikTok account in February 2021 with no explanation.

Paypal went on a ban-a-thon in 2022 and has terminated the accounts of a number of campaign organizations. These organizations include the Gay Against Groomers, the Free Speech Union, legal activists Law or Fiction, and the parenting group UsForThem.

The Gateway Pundit’s founder was even blocked from purchasing home insurance in 2019 due to his conservative website.

A Soros-funded NGO pressured companies not to advertise with right-wingers this year.

The Nazis are Back in Germany: Soros-Funded NGO Pressures Procter & Gamble, ALDI, AXA and Others: “Don’t Advertise with Right-Wingers”

These are just a few of the examples we could find of companies and banks targeting conservatives.

The debanking and targeting of conservatives and right-leaning customers is nothing new. Today's New York Post report shines more light on this illegal practice.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith collected information on 639,000 Republican voters and donors during his sprawling Arctic Frost investigation, according to documents released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.

The information collected included the donors’ physical home addresses, credit card information, occupations and donation amount.

“Operation Arctic Frost” was a taxpayer-funded Biden DOJ witch hunt launched in April 2022 that seized government-issued cell phones belonging to Trump and Pence while conducting a barrage of interviews across the country.

The 2020 Trump alternate electors prompted the Biden DOJ to open the Arctic Frost investigation into Trump and hundreds of other individuals and organizations.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley last year revealed that Jack Smith targeted the ‘entire Republican apparatus.’

Fox News reported:

A new memo obtained by Fox News Digital alleges that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department collected information on hundreds of thousands of Republican voters and donors.

The memo is part of an update from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and his investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith and his Arctic Frost probe, which was launched by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2022 to investigate efforts to overturn results of the 2020 election.

Grassley has been diving into Arctic Frost since last year, releasing a drip feed of whistleblower reports on the investigation that led to Smith testifying before the Judiciary Committee last month.

The latest update found that Smith’s special counsel’s office and the DOJ “obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum,” Grassley said in the memo.

“Out of those, over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors,” he continued. “The donors generally contributed small-dollar amounts.”

A new report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan in September confirmed Jack Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.

Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.

Jack Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.

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Another day, another illegal released into the country by Democrats, arrested for a violent crime.

A man arrested in Florida for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor has been identified as a trans illegal from Mexico.

According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, Santiago Perez, 38, a biological man pretending to be a woman, posed as a prospective buyer for a property and set up a tour of the house with the homeowner.

It is alleged that on October 6, during the walkthrough, he maneuvered the homeowner’s underage son into a bathroom and sexually assaulted him.

Following the assault, the boy reported the incident to authorities who developed probable cause to arrest Santiago Perez on a sexual battery charge.

He is being held at the Lee County Jail and also has an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer.

According to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, “A federal source tells FOX that PEREZ was previously encountered by ICE after an arrest in Lawrenceville, GA in 2015, but because he didn’t meet the Obama administration’s ICE enforcement priorities at the time, he was ignored and ICE did not place a detainer on him with the Gwinnett County, GA jail.”

“Fox is told this was specifically the result of former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s 11/20/2014 memo on ICE enforcement priorities.”

“Fox is told that PEREZ has a prior conviction for prostitution in Georgia in 2013. ICE has now placed a detainer on him with law enforcement in Lee County, FL for this sexual assault arrest.”

“NEW: Federal law enforcement sources tell @FoxNews that the suspect arrested in Lee County, FL for the alleged sexual assault of an underage boy during a house showing is a transgender illegal alien from Mexico who was previously ignored by the Obama administration when ICE had the opportunity to take him into custody in Georgia in 2015.”

“Police say 38-year-old URIEL SANTIAGO PEREZ, a biological male who presents as a woman, pretended to be an interested home buyer when he showed up to a house in North Fort Myers, FL last week – where the victim’s father was listing the home for sale and giving a tour of the residence.”

“Police say when the father briefly stepped out to smoke a cigarette, PEREZ sexually assaulted the underage boy in a bathroom. According to the police report, Perez exposed his “breasts” to the boy before forcefully sexually assaulting him.”

“A federal source tells FOX that PEREZ was previously encountered by ICE after an arrest in Lawrenceville, GA in 2015, but because he didn’t meet the Obama administration’s ICE enforcement priorities at the time, he was ignored and ICE did not place a detainer on him with the Gwinnett County, GA jail. Fox is told this was specifically the result of former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s 11/20/2014 memo on ICE enforcement priorities. Fox is told that PEREZ has a prior conviction for prostitution in Georgia in 2013. ICE has now placed a detainer on him with law enforcement in Lee County, FL for this sexual assault arrest.”

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 14, 2026

Sheriff Carmine Marceno noted, “To say I am repulsed by the acts of this disgusting individual is an understatement.”

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It’s a tale as old as party politics: Democrats saying they’re going to be moderates, then being unable to back it up.

Take Eileen Laubacher, who’s running against GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. She paints Boebert, who’s been in the House since 2021, as being an extremist — and says that she’s going to stand up to “extremists in both parties.”

Why, just listen to this ad:

“Like so many of us, Eileen is done with the extremists in both parties,” a narrator intones in the piece. “Maybe the best way to break through the noise is a little less talking and more listening.”

OK, then. During her debate with Boebert on Monday — the only debate of the campaign — Laubacher was asked to call out those extremists, if she believes they exist.

“Ms. Laubacher, you have an ad running right now that says that you are done with the extremists in both parties,” said Kyle Clark of KUSA-TV in Denver.

“Who are the extremists in your Democratic Party? Please name them and explain how you’ll stand up to them.”

Uh-oh.

“I think — I think what’s extreme is — you want me to name specific people?” Laubacher said.

“Yes, specific people,” Clark responded.

“I don’t think that’s really necessary, Kyle. I think it’s more important to talk about the things that they want to do and the things that I want to do,” Laubacher stalled.

Which, hey, is not what she said in the ad — in which the Democratic nominee tried to get the vote of people in a heavily Republican district by insisting she’d had enough with the extremes of either party and implying her competitor was an extremist.

“What I want to do is find ways to work in a bipartisan way, to include voting on important bipartisan housing legislation, which I would have absolutely done,” she said.

“But I think it’s also important to find ways to find middle ground with people. I believe that we have way more in common across the aisle than we do that separates us. But I believe that the loudest voices on both sides are the ones that are making the most noise, and people think that that is what we should be listening to, and I do not think so.”

Clark had her dead to rights. “How are voters to believe that you will stand up to people who you will not even name?” he asked.

“Because I think — because I think that if I name three and forget two, like, that’s not going to help anyone,” she said. “Also, I think it’s important to understand that I think what we need to do is stand up for things that are right.”

Democrat Eileen Laubacher, running against Republican Lauren Boebert, is running an ad that says she’s “done with the extremists in both parties.” Asked to name the extremists in the Democratic Party and how she’d stand up to them, this is what happened: https://t.co/oim9YETI6S

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 13, 2026

If this isn’t a window into Boebert’s opponent — indeed, into Democrats in 2026 — what is?

She claims to be a moderate, one who wants to be practical and fight against the extremes. In her one debate, before a friendly Denver outlet, she’s asked the simplest question. Name one Democrat extremist. Just one.

It shouldn’t be difficult. Heck, she could have kicked Ilhan Omar while she was down. AOC if she were feeling punchy. Go outside of the chamber she wants to enter and there’s Sens. Ed Markey, Chris Van Hollen or Elizabeth Warren. Go for it. Prove your bona fides.

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Instead, look at her stammering to name just one extremist on the side she wants to represent. A single one! And this isn’t just putting her on the spot; she was practically inviting this by releasing the campaign ad that Clark was referencing.

The progressive pronoun police of 2024 are now the cost-of-living scolds, with the caveat that nobody wants to mention who started us down the inflation highway. (Joe Biden, anyone? A Democratic Congress?)

The Democrats would have us believe that they’re the party of pragmatism. If that’s true, they need to extirpate their left-wing element. When they can’t even identify who those extremists are — when they’re running on fake bipartisanship without even the thought of actually practicing it — that should be a much bigger issue than the GOP is making it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A Democratic candidate in one of the nation’s most critical races performed a disgusting, low-class action during a debate that is going viral.

As The Maine Morning Star reported, Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins and Democrat challenger Troy Jackson faced off in their second-to-last debate on Tuesday night as the general election rapidly approaches.

The two had multiple testy exchanges on various issues, including energy costs, immigration, tariffs, and campaign finance.

Throughout the debate, Jackson consistently hewed to the liberal, Trump-hating lane while Collins touted her independent voting record and history of delivering for Mainers.

But one moment toward the end overshadowed these exchanges, and it demonstrates what kind of individual Jackson is.

As Collins delivered her closing argument, Jackson can be heard belching into the microphone roughly 33 seconds in. It’s unknown whether he was trying to express displeasure with Collins or just thought it was a good time to let one rip.

Collins ignores him and continues to share her message with Maine voters.

WATCH:

GROSS: Troy Jackson burps at 33 seconds in this clip while Sen. Susan Collins talks.

Troy Jackson is a nasty man. https://t.co/tRaCEZCvY9

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 14, 2026

This should not come as too much of a surprise, considering Jackson is the same candidate who married his second cousin and has two sons with her.

For followers of politics, this incident brings to mind disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) f*rting on MSNBC while talking to Chris Matthews back in November 2019.

According to the latest polls, Jackson holds a lead of about two points over Collins. It’s important to note, however, that Collins has a history of defying the odds and winning.

Even in a difficult political environment for Republicans, Collins cannot be counted out. Let’s hope history repeats itself.

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