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May 15, 2026 - Tina Peters is granted clemency; Peters posts statement on X and social media responds

Thank you Governor Polis.
I made mistakes, and for those I am sorry. Five years ago I misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment. That was wrong. I have learned and grown during my time in prison and going forward I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.

I strongly condemned it when people not connected to me threatened to storm the prison I am in. I myself have faced threats, so, I also want to be clear that I condemn any and all bullying, threats and acts of violence against voters, county clerks, election workers, and other public officials, and concerned citizens like myself.

Upon release, I plan to do my best through legal means to support election integrity and based on my own personal experiences to elevate the cause of prison reform to help ensure the detention system is more fair and equitable for people of all ages. My experiences have given me a perspective that plan to share with others to improve Colorado’s corrections system. I am grateful for a second chance and an earlier release, and I look forward to doing good in the world.

Tina Peters received clemency today from Gov. Jared Polis, and now Jena Griswold needs to answer for her crimes.

Griswold spent years calling demonizing Peters as a criminal who she said compromised voting equipment and threatened Colorado’s elections.

And then Griswold left voting system passwords online.

She said it was a mistake, it was unintentional, the safeguards worked, and everyone was supposed to trust the process.

You do not get to spend years treating one election breach like the end of democracy, then expect everyone to look away when the breach happened under your watch.

Why wasn’t Griswold ever prosecuted?

UPDATE 5/16/2026

(…) Griswold, who is running for Attorney General of Colorado in the 2026 midterms, joined CNN last night to vent her frustrations. While Griswold does mention the Colorado Appeals Court’s decision to order a new sentencing in Peters’ case, the Secretary failed to mention a Colorado state senator, Sonya Jacquez Lewis, who was convicted of the same exact felony as Peters but only sentenced to probation and community service, while Peters, a gold star mother with no prior convictions, was given almost a decade in prison.

Griswold: This sends a message to Trump’s followers that if they break the law, well, they might get off just fine. This sends a message to Donald Trump that if he retaliates hard enough, he’ll be able to get a state to do his bidding. And this tells election officials that however hard we work, some people may just be above the law if they attack American democracy. That’s a dangerous, dangerous message to send the country right now.


(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 5/16/2026)

May 16, 2026 - British patriots awaken and reject the unfriendly invasion imposed by their government

Hundreds of thousands of British patriots marched in London on Saturday at Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom and the West” march, ending on and Parliament Square outside historic Westminster Abbey. Speakers, including host Glenn Beck and YouTuber Nick Shirley, addressed the massive rally, which was interrupted by chants of “Keir Starmer’s a Wanker” and calls for the Prime Minister to step down.

British patriot leader Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, had been touring the United States for the last two months, meeting with members of Congress and the State Department and giving interviews to the likes of Jack Posobiec, Gen. Mike Flynn, Glenn Beck, Raheem Kassam, and Lara Logan.

Early May, he returned to the UK to organize the sixth “Unite the Kingdom” rally, which began with a mere 5000 attendees on June 1, 2024, and culminated in a massive, million-man march on September 13, 2025, three days after the murder of Charlie Kirk by a far-left antifa trans furry activist in Utah.

The recent march comes on the heels of a crushing election defeat of PM Keir Starmer’s Labor Party in local elections on May 7, the resignation of Starmer’s top adviser, Morgan McSweeney, on Feb. 8 in the Peter Mandelson-Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and increased pressure for Starmer to step down from his own party.

(Read much more: The Gateway Pundit, 5/17/2026) (Archive)

May 17, 2026 - Austin is under siege: 10-12 random shootings in 24 hours – Teens with stolen guns terrorize city

Austin Under Siege: 10-12 Random Shootings in <24 Hours – Teens with Stolen Guns Terrorize City, 4 Injured (1 Critical), Shelter-in-Place Chaos Ensues

In a city already reeling from prior violence, Austin just endured what looks like a coordinated weekend rampage: suspects firing at homes, apartments, businesses, and two fire stations. No motive announced. Random victims. Vehicles stolen and swapped like a bad action movie—dark Hyundai Sonata with a smashed window, gold sedans, Kias, Mazdas.

Two Hispanic males (15 & 17) are now in custody after a chase. Third suspect still loose—Manor area (Presidential Meadows, etc.) on high alert. APD & Mayor Watson briefed: lock doors, don’t leave cars unlocked, eyes open.

This isn’t “random” in a vacuum. It’s a symptom—youth crime exploding, soft policies, stolen guns circulating. Austin’s “progressive” experiment meets street-level reality. Prayers for the injured. Gratitude to APD/SWAT for the rapid response. But questions remain: How did teens access this firepower? Why the fire stations? What’s the full network?

Stay vigilant, Texas. Secure your families. Report tips—reward is possible. Law enforcement is hunting.

Watch the official briefing below 👇

UPDATE: 5/18/2026

UPDATE: AUSTIN’S JUVENILE JIHAD—14-, 15-, & 16-YEAR-OLDS ALLEGEDLY UNLEASH 12 RANDOM SHOOTINGS—HOMES, PEDESTRIANS, AND FIRE STATIONS RIDDLED. FOUR INJURED. ONE CRITICAL. THIS IS WHAT “COMPASSIONATE” JUSTICE BREEDS.

Austin Police just nabbed the third teen in a weekend rampage that turned South Austin into a free-fire zone. Stolen guns. Stolen cars swapped mid-spree. Shelter-in-place orders. Even firefighters—first responders sworn to protect—took fire. No motive, police say. Just pure, random predation by kids who shouldn’t even be behind the wheel without a learner’s permit.

Here’s the scholarly gut-punch: this isn’t an “isolated incident.” It’s the logical endpoint of a juvenile justice experiment that swapped deterrence for diversion, consequences for counseling, and accountability for “restorative” rhetoric. Travis County DA José Garza’s office has long championed pre-trial diversions, record expungements, and community healing over prosecution for youthful offenders—policies rooted in noble intent but empirically disastrous when violent crime is involved. Deterrence theory (from Cesare Beccaria’s 1764 Dei Delitti e Delle Pene to modern meta-analyses by the National Academy of Sciences) is brutally clear: swift, certain, proportionate punishment shapes behavior. Leniency signals permission. When teens face adult-level malice but juvenile-level slap-on-the-wrist processing, the social fabric doesn’t bend—it snaps.

Parents MIA. Schools are churning out unmoored ideologues instead of disciplined citizens. A culture that romanticizes “youthful rebellion” while ignoring the feral vacuum left by broken homes and zero-tolerance-for-zero-accountability policies. These aren’t misunderstood kids; they’re embryonic predators testing boundaries a civilized society should have hardened long ago. Charge them as adults. Release their names. Bill the parents for every bullet hole and ambulance ride. Anything less is performative compassion that endangers the innocent.

Real engagement isn’t rage-clicks—it’s the dawning realization that order isn’t optional. Austin (and every city watching) is the lab rat. The results are bleeding in the streets.

What’s the breaking point? When do we admit “progressive” juvenile justice has failed the very children it claims to save—and the rest of us who pay the price?

Drop your unfiltered take below.

History is watching.

Revealed: One of the Austin Shooting Spree Suspects is an Illegal with an ICE Hold

The Austin Police Department says at least three suspects were involved in as many as 12 shootings since Saturday.

Two of the shootings were at fire stations in South Austin.

At least four people were reported injured.

Police announced that 17-year-old Cristian Mondragon has been charged with six felonies, with more charges possible, including: Two counts of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle; Two counts of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle; Theft of firearms; Evading arrest with a motor vehicle.

The two other suspects are minors and will be processed through a different judicial system.

While in court, prosecutors noted that Mondragon is not a U.S. citizen and currently has an ICE hold.

May 18, 2026 - CIA officer is arrested by FBI SWAT team; search of his home finds $40 million in gold bars, $2 million in cash and 30 Rolex watches

David Rush (Credit: Alexandria Sheriff’s Office)

In the annals of Deep State WTF-ery, is there a stranger case than CIA officer David Rush turning up with $40-million in 303 one-kilogram gold bars, plus $2-million in cash, plus a stash of 30 mostly Rolex watches? Well, yeah, the stranger story is how the guy got hired by the CIA in the first place.

Rush was arrested on Monday, May 18, by an FBI SWAT team at his home in Loudoun County, VA. Agents searched the house all day long and found the stash. Rush is currently charged with theft of public money and allegedly falsifying his military and academic credentials to obtain federal employment benefits, including roughly $77,000 in improper military leave pay. He’s scheduled to make a federal court appearance in Alexandria today.

Rush first applied for a job at the CIA in March 2006. He claimed to have a bachelor’s degree in math from Clemson University and a master’s from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He was rejected. He reapplied later that same year. Bumped again. He reapplied again in 2009, adding a new credential: that he’d been a US Navy test pilot and flight trainer. This time, he was hired.

Rush’s college credentials were found to be false, but it is unclear when that was discovered. Since he included them in his two earlier 2006 failed applications, why were they not flagged in his successful 2009 application? His claim of being a US Navy pilot was also found to be false (he was an information systems tech in his Navy service). The FBI affidavit unsealed recently details the pattern of lies across all applications.

Understand that CIA vetting procedures are supposed to be exceedingly rigorous. The process is stressful and invasive — many candidates drop out or are weeded out. The background check involves interviews with practically everybody who knows the applicant going back decades, his criminal history, work, financial history, education, military service. The applicant gets a polygraph exam. Even after getting hired, monitoring continues.

Rush was hired at the very start of the Obama admin; Leon Panetta was the newly appointed CIA Director. Wouldn’t you like to hear him ‘splain how David Rush managed to get hired? Was somebody smoothing his way in? Rush rose to become a senior executive service (SES) officer with a top-secret (TS/SCI) security clearance. His exact duties, the division he worked for, his day-to-day responsibilities have not been disclosed.

Rush allegedly requested the gold and foreign currency from the CIA for “work-related expenses” between November 2025 and March 2026. The agency later could not account for the assets or locate records explaining their official purpose. A search of a storage locker at CIA connected to Rush turned up only a small amount of the requisitioned cash. (Read more: Clusterfuck Nation, 5/29/2026)  (Archive)

May 19, 2026 - Raffensperger fails to secure runoff spot in Republican primary for Georgia governor

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger failed Tuesday night to clinch enough votes for one of the two spots in the runoff for the Republican primary for Georgia governor, losing to Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and health care executive Rick Jackson.

Raffensperger secured just 14% of the vote, according to the Associated Press, compared to Jones’ 37% and Jackson’s 34%. Jones is considered the favorite to win the nomination after President Donald Trump endorsed his campaign.

May 20, 2026 - U.S. indicts Cuba’s Raúl Castro for murder of Americans 30 years ago

Raúl Castro (Credit: Ismael Francisco/AP)

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday announced that Cuba’s nonagenarian communist dictator Raúl Castro has been indicted over his role in the killing of four Americans in February 1996.

Speaking  at the Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida, acting AG Blanche announced that Castro and five co-defendants have been charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, as well as other charges including destruction of aircraft and four individual counts of murder.

“My message today is clear, the United States and President Trump does not — and will not — forget its citizens,” acting AG Blanche said.

“President Trump is committed to restoring a very simple but important principle: If you kill Americans we will pursue you, no matter who you are, what title you hold — and in this case, no matter how much time has passed,” he emphasized.

The charges stem from an April indictment by a U.S. grand jury in Florida that was unsealed on Wednesday, May 20, and are related to Castro and the other co-defendants’ involvement in the shooting of two civilian planes belonging to the Miami-based anti-communist charity organization Brothers to the Rescue in 1996, which killed four Americans.

U.S. Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) explained during the press conference that Castro faces up to life imprisonment on charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals.

Castro, who allegedly “retired” from ruling Cuba in 2018, has remained the sole true dictator of the island nation since he succeeded his late brother Fidel Castro in the late 2000s. The indictment marks the first time in the nearly 70 years that the Castro regime has been in power that senior members of the communist regime have been charged in the U.S. for acts of violence resulting in the deaths of American citizens.

February 2026 marked the 30th anniversary of the murder of Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales — four American members of Brothers to the Rescue. The group carried out humanitarian airplane missions during the 1990s balsero (“rafter”) migrant crisis, rescuing Cubans adrift at sea as they desperately attempted to flee from communism. (Read more: Breitbart News, 5/20/2026)  (Archive)

May 20, 2026 - Rep. Tim Burchett warns GOP he’ll “embarrass” colleagues if Trump agenda stalls

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is done playing nice.

In a fiery interview, the Tennessee congressman made it crystal clear that patience inside the Republican conference is wearing thin as key elements of President Donald Trump’s America First agenda remain bogged down in Washington gridlock.

Burchett blasted the slow pace of Congress and warned fellow Republicans that if they keep dragging their feet on critical legislation, including election integrity measures such as the SAVE America Act, they’re going to have a very uncomfortable time.

Burchett: If we listen to what President Trump proposes, and in his cuts and things, I think we would be ahead everywhere. But we’re not. We’re running our own little game, and that’s going to cost us. I believe the redistricting has helped us, mainly a Trump initiative.

The price of gasoline, honestly, I think is what people are going to be going to the polls about, either yay or nay, wherever it is. They have a very short memory that it was higher under Biden than it is even now. But with the media constantly bombarding them with all that, you’re not going to get that message.

So people are upset, and they have a right to be. I just wish we would follow President Trump’s initiative from day one and stop with all this nonsense.

You know, it’s like DOGE. I’m chairman of the DOGE Committee, and it’s just like pulling teeth to get any cost-saving measures through these committees.

But I’m just a little different. I don’t work for anybody up here. I work for the good people of Tennessee. And so I don’t care if I tick off every chairman up here. I don’t care. I’m going to embarrass them if they don’t start moving our legislation.

(Gateway Pundit, 5/20/2026) (Archive)

May 20, 2026 - DOJ indicts U.S Attorney who supported Jack Smith prosecuting Trump in the Mar-a-Lago case

Last weekend former FBI Director James Comey said there were multiple officials remaining within the DOJ and FBI who were actively working to continue the weaponization of the agencies against President Donald Trump.  When asked about it earlier today, President Trump said Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel would root them out and deal with the issue.

Hours later the Dept of Justice released and indictment {SEE HERE} against Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Fort Pierce Branch, Carmen M. Lineberger. Asst USAO Lineberger was caught downloading classified files from the Jack Smith case to her personal email and labeling them as recipes so she could leak them to Lawfare resistance members.

According to FBI Director Kash Patel, “This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith’s politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents. Carmen Lineberger allegedly emailed the confidential material to her own personal email, disguising them as dessert recipes to conceal them from record searches. Lineberger is charged with four felony counts in the indictment. This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should’ve never been brought to begin with.” {link}

The files Ms. Lineberger is accused of stealing, relate to the Jack Smith case files from the Mar-a-Lago investigation that Judge Aileen Cannon previously sealed.  [Link Below] It appears attorney Carmen Lineberger was in the process of covering her tracks when she was discovered downloading the material and transmitting it outside the U.S. Attorney offices.  {INDICTMENT HERE}

After Special Counsel Jack Smith was dispatched by Judge Aileen Cannon, his team continued to organize materials to frame the hit against an incoming Trump administration.  Judge Cannon calls out this wrongdoing as part of her ruling to keep all the records sealed.  [Ruling pdf Here]

“While it is true that former special counsels have released final reports at the conclusion of their work,” Cannon wrote, “it appears they have done so either after electing not to bring charges at all or after adjudications of guilt by plea or trial. The Court strains to find a situation in which a former special counsel has released a report after initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt.”

(Read more: Conservative Treehouse, 5/20/2026)  (Archive)

May 20, 2026 - Owner of day care in viral Nick Shirley video charged as part of $4.6M fraud scheme

A woman allegedly tied to Minnesota’s massive “Feeding Our Future” scandal has been charged in a daycare fraud scheme after being featured in a viral video by influencer Nick Shirley, authorities said.

She is accused of pocketing millions of dollars meant for children’s meals.

Fahima Egeh Mahamud (Credit: Hennepin County Jail)

Fahima Egeh Mahamud was charged Wednesday with wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to court documents.

Earlier this year, Mahamud was indicted for her alleged role in the initial $250 million “Feeding Our Future” scheme.

Prosecutors allege she enrolled Future Leaders Early Learning — a Minneapolis day care where she served as CEO — into the federal child nutrition program, falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals at her childcare center.

In addition to her involvement in the nutrition program fraud, Mahamud was federally charged Wednesday with a secondary scheme to defraud the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), which provides day care assistance to low-income families.

Between October 2022 and December 2025, she allegedly submitted over 13,000 fraudulent claims to CCAP totaling approximately $4.6 million.

Prosecutors state the claims were fraudulent because she falsely certified that she had collected mandatory co-payments from families, which is a material requirement for federal reimbursement.

The Future Leaders Early Learning center was featured in Shirley’s viral video, FOX 9 Minneapolis reported, which showed him visiting apparently empty, Somali-run childcare centers in and around Minneapolis while alleging widespread fraud. (Read more: New York Post, 5/20/2026)  (Archive)

May 20, 2026 - Environmental Defense Fund is a far-left slush fund for Democrat super PACs, Congressional Dem campaigns, and RINO campaigns

MAJOR HIGH PRIORITY NEWS ALERT: I’ve uncovered a massive financial boondoggle in which the Federal government continues to fund the Environmental Defense Fund, a radical far-left environmental organization that is linked to Code Pink and is raking in nearly $300 million a year in revenue and is spending vast amounts of money all over the globe and in the United States for radicalized environmental organizations. Even worse, the political action committees (PACs) for the Environmental Defense Fund are pouring huge amounts of money into far-left Democrat super PACs, the campaigns of Congressional Democrats and RINO GOP campaigns that oppose President Trump and the Trump administration.

Code Pink recently posted on Instagram a video where they called on the Environmental Defense Fund to get involved in their organized effort to stop Kevin O’Leary from constructing a data center in Utah (Screenshot 1).

The Environmental Defense Fund is currently receiving $13,435,283 in funding from the Federal government.

According to their 2024 IRS filings, the Environmental Defense Fund reported assets of $391,659,124. The organization also reported revenue of $298,689,286 and expenses of $295,808,792 in 2024. The Environmental Defense Fund spends millions of dollars on outrageous executive salaries and benefits.

The President of EDF, Frederic D. Krupp received $1,238,682 in salary and benefits in the most recent reported year. Other top executives receive pay packages from $312,000 to 628,000.

Screenshot 4 shows a portion of the endless stream of massive campaign contributions made by the Environmental Defense Action Fund PAC.

This initial first report contains just a sliver of the vast financial entanglements of the Environmental Defense Fund, its global operations and its political financial influence peddling.

May 21, 2026 - DOJ: 15 in Minnesota charged with allegedly running fraud schemes targeting $90 million

The Department of Justice has charged 15 people in Minnesota with allegedly running fraud schemes that targeted more than $90 million in taxpayer money.

Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, said:

Today we are announcing criminal charges against 15 defendants in Minnesota for fraud schemes that targeted over 90 million in taxpayer dollars.

Let me be clear up front about something. This is not the end of our work in Minnesota. This is not the end of the beginning of our work in Minnesota. This is the beginning of our work in Minnesota. The fraud here in Minnesota is shocking.

Our cases today involve seven different state managed Medicaid programs that have been systematically pilfered by fraudsters who treated Minnesota-run programs as their personal piggy bank.

One of the programs has been completely shut down because there’s no money left. It’s all gone. That was Minnesota state-run housing stabilization services program designed to help the homeless find and maintain housing. It was estimated in 2020 that it would cost only about $2.5 million a year to fund this program, but it ended up costing almost 50 times that much, over $104 million by 2024 due to fraud. And because of all the fraud, Minnesota had to shut the program down in 2025 and now these services no longer exist for these vulnerable homeless populations.

The same trends exist for other Minnesota-run taxpayer-funded programs. An autism program that cost the taxpayer $600,000 just six years ago skyrocketed to over $400 million. And to be sure that number is not driven by supply and demand, it is not driven by health care or charity, it is fraud.

(Read more: Legal Insurrection, 5/21/2026)  (Archive)

May 21, 2026 - DNC Autopsy Report is released; Dems are caught in an "anger trap" over Trump

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, express their alarm to reporters about actions by President Donald Trump. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Democrats have spent nearly a decade in fight mode against President Trump.

And some in the party worry that they may remain trapped there.

An autopsy released by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Thursday underscored the point, saying that Democrats relied too heavily on negative partisanship and became too dependent on attacks on Trump in their messaging to voters.

The report also stated that “anti-Trump sentiment” has its limitations in terms of achieving electoral success.

As they were hammering Trump in their anger, Democrats did not provide a vision to lure voters to their side or an argument for what they would do with power.

This week at the 2026 IDEAS Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress, anger was also displayed by a series of Democratic speakers, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is a front-runner in the 2028 presidential race.

He and others spoke mostly about fighting the president and his party, a message that Democrats caution will fire up the base but may not be enough to win over independents, and thus, elections.

“Trump is the best base mobilizer for Democrats right now. But I think there is a broad understanding that the clock is ticking on how much longer Democrats can rely on polarization because of Trump to galvanize our voters,” said Democratic strategist Joel Payne, highlighting the problem.

In a Substack post this week titled “Can D’s control their fury,” Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine also wondered whether those in his party could move past the anger in the past few election cycles.

After attending the IDEAS Conference this week, Turrentine said he was “stunned by how consumed speakers and moderators were by raw fury against Donald Trump’s administration.”

“Time and again, they looked and sounded angry, no matter the topic, talked incessantly about losing our democracy and the country being genuinely destroyed,” Turrentine wrote in the post.

“The danger I worry about for my party leadership is that post-Virginia Supreme Court, and post-Voting Rights Act, inside the Beltway and on BlueSky, we are becoming blinded again by our fury,” he added. (Read more: The Hill, 5/23/2026)  (Archive)

May 22, 2026 - Southern Poverty Law Center received millions of taxpayer dollars to spread their material K-12 schools

May 23, 2026 - Feds subpoena Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip and violating U.S. sanctions laws

Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba’s communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned.

Piker and Benjamin are among those caught in a federal inquiry into whether activists who traveled to Cuba in March violated U.S. sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island. The administrative subpoenas were sent to the pair by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Hasan Piker, a Democratic Socialists of America member, and CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans meet in Havana, Cuba, as part of a “United Front” supporting the communist regime. (NO ACCESS EDGE/NNS/FNS/OUTKICK/CodePink)

The administrative subpoenas — called “Requests for Information,” or RFI — seek financial, logistical and communications information revolving around trips the two widely bragged about making to the island nation in March with delegations of the “Nuestra América Convoy,” or “Our America Convoy,” from a global network of communist sympathizers, activists and influencers who brought supplies to the country’s ruling Communist Party of Cuba, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The investigation is part of a broader effort by officials at Treasury, State and Justice departments to curb malign foreign influence operations inside the United States, particularly activities tied to support for political violence, extremist movements or acts the U.S. government classifies as terrorism. The scrutiny reflects growing concern among federal authorities and lawmakers over whether foreign actors and aligned organizations are attempting to shape American political discourse, mobilize activists, sow discord and normalize rhetoric that could encourage violence or undermine U.S. national security interests.

According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into nonprofit groups that have pushed pro-China, pro-Cuba, anti-U.S. narratives and street protests for almost a decade, since his marriage in February 2017 to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, who is also being investigated for her role in the March trip. CodePink received $1.33 million from Singham after he married Evans.

In mid-March, organizations in the Singham network — from the Venceremos Brigade to People’s Forum, a hub for communist causes in New York City — were leaders of the Nuestra American Convoy, which included an estimated 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations. The organizations included Democratic Socialists of America, a U.S. nonprofit that promotes Piker as a headline member.

The investigation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control is part of a broader dragnet that includes as many as 40 American citizens who joined foreign nationals, including a controversial Brazil activist, Thiago Avila, who are part of a global network of anti-U.S. Marxists, communists and socialists. Additional subpoenas are expected.

The administrative subpoenas mark a serious escalation by the Trump administration against a far-left nonprofit activist network that has spent years defending communist regimes, from Cuba to China, while presenting its work as humanitarian aid, anti-war organizing and “solidarity” with people “oppressed” by the “imperialist” U.S “colonial power.”

(Read much more: Fox News, 5/23/2026)  (Archive)

Hasan Piker, CodePink, and Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi flew to Cuba on a so-called “humanitarian convoy” — and stayed in a 5-star hotel with its own generator while the entire country sat in the dark during Cuba’s worst energy crisis in 67 years.

Hasan told his audience the U.S. government “forces” Americans to stay in luxury hotels in Cuba. That’s not what the law says. The Cuban Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR § 515.209 and § 515.210) prohibit Americans from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government or military — they don’t require five-star accommodations. We pulled the actual federal code. The receipts don’t lie.

Meanwhile, Isra Hirsi — the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar — joined a delegation organized with help from Mariela Castro (Raúl Castro’s daughter), met with regime officials, and posted she was “honored to make history.” But where’s that energy for the people in her mother’s own district? Minnesota was ground zero for the Feeding Our Future fraud — roughly $1 billion stolen from programs meant to feed children. Where’s the convoy for them?

UPDATE 5/25/2026

Hasan Piker ADMITTED on stream that the Cuban government reached out through the embassy to his “middle man” with a special offer:

“If reliable internet is the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba, we can make it happen.”

He said: “The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy… well not me, there’s a middle man there.”

This was during planning for the “Nuestra América Convoy” the activist trip where Hasan and CodePink delivered aid but stayed in nice hotels with power & internet while Cubans dealt with massive blackouts.

Now both Hasan and Medea Benjamin have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Treasury (OFAC) over potential sanctions violations and coordination with the Cuban regime.

The clip makes it crystal clear: this wasn’t just independent humanitarian work. The government wanted him there badly enough to solve his streaming problems.

He’s their asset.

May 23, 2026 - CIA is accused of illegally spying on Tulsi Gabbard and interfering with DNI investigations

FBI Director Kash Patel, DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 18, 2026

A bombshell new report from investigative journalist Catherine Herridge reveals how the CIA has stonewalled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and spied on her team’s efforts to investigate public scandals and government corruption.

(…) As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) fired off a preservation letter to the CIA, demanding that all existing and future records related to the taken items be preserved. A Director of National Intelligence spokeswoman later denied that a “raid” occurred as the claim circulated.

However, James Erdman never claimed that the CIA raided Gabbard’s office. Instead, during his opening statement before the Homeland Security Committee on May 13, Erdman, a career CIA Operations Officer, testified to several key points regarding the CIA’s ” refusal to comply with lawful oversight” and “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”

He told the committee that the CIA not only refused to comply with the ODNI Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) investigations into the COVID-19 origins, anomalous health incidents, and unidentified anomalous phenomena, but also retaliated against analysts who did not support their conclusions. “The CIA illegally monitored the computer and phone usage of DIG personnel, their investigations, and contact with whistleblowers,” which “significantly impacted Director Gabbard’s implementation of several EOs issued during this administration and tasked to the DIG,” he said.

Additionally, “when the DIGs ceased operations, the CIA also took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKUltra files being processed for declassification by DNI Gabbard.”

WATCH:

Catherine Herridge highlighted part of Erdman’s testimony in a new report, including additional testimony from Erdman regarding Directed Energy attacks that have caused Anomalous Health Incidents, including Havana Syndrome, which are being investigated by the DIG team.

Based on my reporting, it was well known in national security circles that a CIA investigative unit had sent emails to several members of DNI Gabbard’s Director’s Initiatives Group — or DIG — demanding they come in for questioning.

While the CIA unit routinely conducts polygraphs and investigations, the timing of the request was concerning. It did not appear to be part of a standard security clearance review.

The alleged CIA monitoring of the Director’s Initiatives Group was described as tracking “every keystroke” on their government computers and devices. While there is no expectation of privacy on government computers and users often see a log-on warning, it did not appear to be routine counterintelligence work by the CIA.

In recent testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen @RandPaul, CIA Senior Operations Officer and whistleblower James Erdman III alleged that the CIA illegally spied on the computers and phones of the Director’s Initiatives Group, along with their investigations and contacts with whistleblowers.

NOTE: The DIG investigated the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, the origins of COVID-19, Crossfire Hurricane, the Biden Administration’s domestic surveillance, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

Erdman provided detailed testimony about the the DIG’s investigations into Directed Energy attacks, also known as Havana Syndrome or Anomalous Health Incidents (AHIs):

“This was not the first time the CIA appears to have been monitoring DIG communications. Individuals involved in our AHI investigation discovered third parties were listening in on secure phone calls at Intelligence Community facilities. In one instance, it was during a conversation with a whistleblower.

These incidents were also reported in counterintelligence channels, and DNI IT experts confirmed that reproducing what occurred on the secure phone calls required an IT engineering work order. Someone had to request a technical change to the infrastructure.”

During its investigation of AHIs, my reporting reveals additional allegations that the CIA denied DNI Gabbard’s investigators access to key analysts and officials still working in the CIA building, as well as relevant, highly classified intelligence held in compartmented programs.

I also understand that requests to review internal CIA correspondence/communications regarding the Biden-era AHI intelligence assessments — including whether the intelligence was manipulated and the findings altered — were blocked.

The Biden-era Intelligence Community assessments concluded it was unlikely that a novel weapon or foreign adversary was responsible for the debilitating brain injuries suffered by spies, diplomats, military personnel, and some civilians — injuries that can lead to brain cell atrophy and death.

As I reported in February, a DIG report and findings into Directed Energy Attacks or AHIs (Anomalous Health Incidents) were finalized and prepped for release, but there was strong Intelligence Community resistance to revealing it.

The report is still not public and this week, @JudicialWatch sued the federal government for the records.

Based on my reporting, the DIG — DNI Gabbard’s task force into weaponization and politicization — found that the analytic tradecraft used by the Intelligence Community under the Biden administration was “defective.”

I also understand the DIG’s recommendations include the recall of the 2023 and 2024 Intelligence Community Assessments on AHIs.

DNI Gabbard committed to a new review of so-called Havana Syndrome after our 2025 independent investigation. Our reporting revealed that brain injuries suffered by U.S. spies, diplomats, military operatives, and civilians can cause progressive damage to the brain and nervous system.
In response to my new reporting and questions, an ODNI official said, “We have confirmed that the Intelligence Community Inspector General is aware of the allegations and is working, alongside ODNI and interagency partners, to uncover the truth about any potential wrongdoing.”

A CIA official said the agency “has been and will continue to be supportive of any IG investigation into past conduct by CIA on this issue.”

The official disputed allegations that the agency had frustrated the investigation by DNI Gabbard’s team: “CIA worked to provide the DIG with access to information responsive to the Executive Orders prior to its disbandment by the DNI.”

On AHIs or Havana Syndrome, the CIA official said the CIA Director “…has been clear, including in sworn testimony before Congress, that CIA defers to ODNI leading an interagency analytic review of AHIs.”

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Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, shared the report, condemning the illegal spying and interference by the CIA, adding, “We’ve got to get to the bottom of what they’re hiding.”

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May 26, 2026 - VP Vance tells story of elderly man who died from neglect as Medicaid fraudster got rich neglecting him

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday told a horrifying story about how fraud affects the most vulnerable among us while speaking at an anti-fraud roundtable, revealing that an elderly man was killed due to a Medicaid fraudster’s neglect.

Vance, the Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Task Force Vice Chair, held a roundtable on Tuesday with over a dozen State Attorneys General to discuss the Trump Administration’s nationwide crackdown on federal benefits fraud.

(…) In a recent indictment in Minnesota, Vance said, a man who was being reimbursed by the Medicaid program to provide services to elderly patients, “was providing nothing, no services, no help, no check-ins.”

Because of this, one of his patients under his watch died “after months of being neglected by the caretaker who was getting reimbursed by the American people.”

Still, one day before the man died, the fraudster submitted another reimbursement for “services he never provided for a man he never cared for.”

“That man lived his final moments on this earth neglected, while a fraudster got rich by providing services that he never actually provided. That’s what we’re trying to stop, ladies and gentlemen. That’s what we have to fight back against,” Vance told reporters.

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May 26, 2026 - Mamdani announces plans to begin seizing and redistributing private property

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani kicked off his plan to “fix” the city’s affordability crisis with his official housing policy agenda, titled “Block by Block,” under which one of the first priorities is to allow the government to seize property from owners deemed “negligent” and redistribute it to so-called “responsible stewards,” a category that includes anyone from land trusts, nonprofits, or even tenants themselves.

“Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City,” Mamdani announced. “When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”

Mamdani: The rental ripoff hearings were critical in both underscoring the urgency of this work—we all understand this and yet in New York City the longer you deal with the problem that remains unsolved the more intellectual it starts to feel. It is as if it is a part of life. But when you sit across the table from a tenant who shows you a video of a mother with a young child who is disabled and how that mother has to carry that child in her bare hands every day from the school bus up the steps of the apartment building because that elevator is broken, you leave that room with an understanding of how they need to move to follow-up up on code violations.

In other words, despite Mamdani’s claims that this time his own version of socialism will be different, it appears to be heading down the same familiar path, one that students of history expected upon Mamdani’s victory.

Government redistribution of private property, however, is not the only pillar of Mamdani’s “Block by Block” agenda. He has also vowed to fast-track the construction of low-income and government-subsidized housing, while promising to impose price controls on those units that would limit rent to just a quarter of a tenant’s income. (Read more: Townhall, 5/26/2026)  (Archive)

May 27, 2026 - E. Jean Carroll faces investigation for perjury when saying under oath she had no outside source paying her legal fees

(…) On Wednesday, it was reported that the Justice Department was investigating whether Carroll perjured herself when she said under oath that no outside source was paying her legal fees.

E. Jean Carroll told then-Trump attorney Alina Habba under oath that no one was helping her pay her legal fees.

However, it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman was bankrolling Carroll’s legal fees.

On Thursday, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said E. Jean Carroll is not the target of investigation in Chicago.

“In light of wide-spread reporting and intense media and public interest into the E. Jean Carroll matter in New York, the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office can confirm that it has not opened—and has never opened—a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll. Any claim to the contrary is categorically false,” US Attorney Andrew Boutros said.

CBS News reported:

The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into a nonprofit run by billionaire Reid Hoffman that funded a portion of author E. Jean Carroll’s civil litigation against President Trump, several sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

The investigation, which is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago, is looking into possible crimes including money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction, the sources said.

CBS News could not immediately learn what prompted the investigation or determine the legal theory of the case. Hoffman could not be immediately reached for comment.

On Wednesday evening, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News that the investigation was focused on whether Carroll had committed perjury during a deposition in connection with her civil lawsuits against Mr. Trump in which she alleged he had sexually abused and defamed her.

On Thursday, however, that source followed up and said Carroll is not the target of the investigation, which is focused on funding that Hoffman’s nonprofit, American Future Republic, provided to help cover some of her legal team’s expenses.

E. Jean Carroll may be the target of a separate investigation.

Carroll previously said that during her deposition, she ‘forgot’ she received funding from Reid Hoffman.

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E Jean Carroll being investigated for crimes, as likely are entities or charities tied to Reid Hoffmann given that the investigation is being run out of Chicago.

Hoffmann funded Carroll’s Lawfare suit against President Trump.

So I’ll say something similar to what I just said about Fidelity funding Barfare against Todd Blanche:

So basically, LinkedIn is funding nonsense like Carroll’s suit.

Companies (or their principals) are making money off ordinary Americans only to turn around and use it to try to thwart the political choices made by ordinary Americans.

Meanwhile, you get lectures about DEMOCRACY.

This is bigger than people realize.

E. Jean Carroll is eventually going to go to prison for participating in a “conspiracy” to try and prevent Trump from running for president again.

“The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E Jean Caroll, the former magazine columnist who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to reports.
The DOJ investigation will focus on whether Carroll committed perjury in her civil lawsuits against the president, sources told CNN and ABC News.”

Perjury charges?

I think Trump is going to win his appeals against her court awarded judgments.

“Earlier this month, a federal appeals court rejected Trump’s attempts to rehear his arguments against Carroll, who has accused the president of repeatedly defaming her.”

“The Department of Justice then announced plans to intervene — and stepped in on the president’s behalf in his appeal to the Supreme Court.”

Why would the DOJ step in on Trump’s behalf, in his appeal to the Supreme Court?

Sounds like the DOJ has some solid evidence.

What was E. Jean Carroll caught lying about?

“Federal prosecutors are looking at a 2022 videotaped deposition statement in which Carroll said that she did not get any outside funding for her lawsuit against Trump. It was later made public that billionaire Reid Hoffman had covered some of Carroll’s expenses and legal fees.”

Did you catch that?

She lied about who was funding her lawsuits.

E. Jean Carroll is NOT the “real target.”

Who is?

Reid Hoffman.

Do you know why Reid Hoffman paid E. Jean Carroll to accuse Trump of rape in a defamation lawsuit?

Reid Hoffman was good friends with Jeffrey Epstein.

“Reid Hoffman had a documented relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, meeting him multiple times between 2013 and 2016, years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction as a registered sex offender.”

“Hoffman visited Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, in November 2014, and hosted Epstein at a 2015 dinner in Palo Alto.”

The billionaire cofounder of Linkedin, was friends with Epstein, emailed him a lot and visited Epstein island, where underage children were sexually abused and tortured.

Could that be why Reid Hoffman was desperate to prevent Trump from running for president again?

E. Jean Carroll lied about her connections to Reid Hoffman and then when they were exposed, she claimed she had no communications with him at all.

Do you think that’s true?

What do you want to bet, that the DOJ is in control of evidence, that Hoffman was coordinating with Carroll and she lied about that too?

FISA goes both ways.

Military intelligence captures all forms of electronic data.

Follow the timeline.

E. Jean Carroll publicly accuses Trump of rape in a book she is pushing back in June 2019.

Then one month later, in July 2019, Epstein gets caught by surprise and arrested in New York.

Panic.

Guess when Reid Hoffman first established his “nonprofit” that funded E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump?

“Reid Hoffman established the nonprofit American Future Republic in 2019, with specific records indicating its founding date as October 2019.”

“The organization was created as a left-of-center 501(c)(4) social welfare group based in Chicago, Illinois, to fund activist groups and public policy initiatives.”

Hoffman established this nonprofit in October 2019.

One month later, E. Jean Carroll filed her defamation lawsuit against Trump.

Hoffman’s “new” nonprofit, would then go on to fund Carroll’s lawsuits.

I’m sure the timing of all of this was just a coincidence and there is no “evidence of a conspiracy” to frame Trump.

Right?

There are no coincidences.

Reid Hoffman’s nonprofit was based out of Chicago, Illinois.

Guess which prosecutor is bringing these charges against Carroll?

“The investigation, which was first reported by CNN, is being led by US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Andrew Boutros.”

May 27, 2026 - More lawfare from Norm Eisen: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi

May 28, 2026 - Maine's Dem candidate for Senate, Graham Platner, mocked fellow war veteran; war veteran responds

Purple Heart veteran Teddy Daniels, left, slammed Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner, right, for refusing to apologize over Platner’s deleted Reddit post saying Daniels “didn’t deserve to live.” (Credit: Andrew Mark Miller/Fox News Digital)

Graham Platner, the Maine Democrat running for senate who has been plagued with multiple scandals calling his character into question, was recently exposed once again, for mocking a fellow war veteran and saying that he didn’t ‘deserve to live.’

That veteran is a man named Teddy Daniels and he just wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, firing back at Platner for his comments.

This weekend, Daniels appeared on CNN and slammed not only Platner, but Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders for backing Platner, despite all of these awful remarks and controversies.

Transcript via Mediaite:

I kind of consider the source on that, first and foremost, and I’ll be honest with you, what really upset me about the comments is — you know, I can’t even say that I was upset. I’m upset about the comment that he made about Chris Kyle. You know Chris Kyle has kids. He’s not here to defend himself.

I have kids and you know with people like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders backing this man, I want them, I want Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to — my youngest is 8, he turns 9 in a couple days — to tell my kids that they’re supporting a man who said their father didn’t deserve to live. I mean, think about that. You know, that’s the issue there. It’s just sad that somebody like this is being considered for a position in leadership in the United States Senate.

See the clip below:

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