On the median of an intersection near the Capitol building in Richmond, a well-dressed yet disheveled beggar is seen holding a sign: “Unemployed. Will Politic for Food.”
This is the fate awaiting whoever it was that thought it would be a good idea to send Gov. Abigail Spanberger to the 90th annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention.
I’m not a high-paid political operative, but I know how to read a room. What were they thinking?
Thousands of attendees were there to simply hear music and spend a week at the “Gateway to the Blue Ridge.” Those people are the very people whose gun rights the governor is trying to take away. Those people are the ones who would have been hardest hit by all those sales tax increases she and the Democrat leadership in the General Assembly wanted to levy. Galax’s median household income is about 45% below the Virginia state average of $74,957.
We’ve seen at least 40 different videos of the crowd at the event booing the governor loudly, and they are only just starting to be re-posted by GOP and conservative bloggers. In a political party that is driven by public perception of across-the-board popularity, this is bad.
How bad? On a scale where Terry McAuliffe’s “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach” gaffe is a 10, this is most likely a 7. It’s not fatal, but it makes her goal of being nominated for president in 2028 a long shot. Maybe she’d settle for a return to Langley as CIA director? Or director of National Intelligence? The irony would be great—but lost on everyone but us.
Rest assured that political action committees aligned with her opponents will have digital ads flooding each state’s primary voters with that video, with the narration saying, “If they don’t like her in Virginia …” or words to that effect.
Sending Spanberger to Galax, where she received 31.7% of the vote in 2025, shows a failure of executive decision-making. She won 21.4% in Carroll County and 21.5% in Grayson County. It’s not exactly “Spanberger Country.” And that was before the gun grabs and proposed tax hikes. That’s before the electricity bills, with Appalachian Power asking the State Corporation Commission for a $61.4 million increase in base rates to cover rising system costs.
In her defense, you can say that she went there because she is the governor of all Virginians. But if you make your first seven months in office an unending succession of attempts to damage or defame the community’s way of life, after having driven out the furniture industry that it relied on, don’t expect them to invite you for barbecue. (That’s a noun, Madame Governor.)
I guess she can hold out hope that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro gets caught not knowing what “wit’ or wit’out?” means when ordering a cheesesteak at Pat’s or Gino’s, or California Gov. Gavin Newsom brags to the black community about how low his test scores were. Oh, wait, that actually happened.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday arrested five illegal aliens convicted of violent crimes and drug offenses, the agency announced Tuesday.
“Yesterday, ICE arrested murderers, violent assailants, kidnappers, drug traffickers, and other dangerous criminal illegal aliens from our communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told the Daily Signal. “Under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump, ICE is making our nation safer by removing illegal aliens from our communities.”
“When you remove criminal illegal aliens like these from our country, crime rates fall, and the American people are safer,” Mullin added. The Department of Homeland Security claimed that nearly 70% of the illegal aliens ICE arrested have been charged with or convicted of a crime in the United States.
ICE provided the Daily Signal with names and mugshots for five illegal aliens.
1. Rie Hachiyanagi
Rie Hachiyanagi (ICE)
ICE arrested Rie Hachiyanagi, a criminal illegal alien from Japan. ICE claimed that a Framingham, Massachusetts, jury convicted her on three counts of assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon—a fire poker, a rock, and scissors—mayhem, and home invasion.
2. Mohamed Elshenawy
Mohamed Elshenawy (ICE)
ICE arrested Mohamed Elshenawy, a criminal illegal alien from Egypt. ICE claimed that a jury in Red Bluff, California, convicted Elshenawy of attempted murder, terroristic threats, and battery against a police officer.
3. Eder Hernandez-Morales
Eder Hernandez-Morales (ICE)
ICE arrested Eder Hernandez-Morales, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico. ICE said a jury in Los Angeles convicted him of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, willful discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, vandalism, theft, receiving known stolen property, and possession of a controlled substance.
4. Victor A Calles-Flores
Victor A Calles-Flores (ICE)
ICE arrested Victor A Calles-Flores, a criminal illegal alien from El Salvador. ICE said a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, convicted him of kidnapping and transporting a stolen vehicle.
5. Sergio Calvio-Ayala
Sergio Calvio-Ayala (ICE)
ICE arrested Sergio Calvio-Ayala, a criminal illegal alien from Costa Rica. ICE said a jury in Newark, New Jersey, convicted him of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
Islamist Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed still refuses to distance himself from podcaster Hasan Piker, who has called for capitalist blood to run in the streets and who said the US deserved 9/11.
Give Abdul El-Sayed at least some credit for consistency. After tossing red meat during primaries to drive base turnout, most politicians will shift to the center afterward to compete in the general election. Radicals get pushed quietly to the side, and when they don’t cooperate, the candidates will offer soft renunciations like, “This isn’t the Jeremiah Wright I once knew.” El-Sayed, however, won’t play that game. This weekend, NBC’s Kristen Welker pressed the new Democrat nominee for the Senate on his alliance with Hasan Piker, the radical Marxist who claimed, “America deserved 9/11.” Will El-Sayed continue to have Piker as a campaign surrogate and ally, Welker asked? El-Sayed changed the subject rather than answer. Kudos to Welker for pressing the point on NBC, of all platforms. Maybe the M-SNOW divorce really did mean a change of posture. (RNC Research on X.)
This is Democrats’ poster boy now who they want all of their candidates endorsed by.
This is the Democrat party now. America, snap out of it!
Hasan Piker:
“We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna fuck your sisters and then your daughters.”
“We’re here to destroy the White race, bitch.”
This is the kind of person the Democrats choose to platform and elevate.
Hasan Piker calls on his followers to kill capitalists:
“Yeah kill them! KiII those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”
Democrats are campaigning with him.
“America deserved 9/11. I do not support the United States of America.”
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SAFEGUARDING AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP AND ENDING BIRTH TOURISM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed two Executive Orders to continue to protect the meaning and value of American citizenship after Trump v. Barbara.
The first Executive Order non-exhaustively identifies certain categories of children of aliens who are not entitled to birthright citizenship consistent with historical exceptions to birthright citizenship recognized by the Supreme Court in Barbara.
The second Executive Order delegates presidential authorities to the Secretary of State and Secretary of Homeland Security and directs them to halt the practice of birth tourism.
PROTECTING THE VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP: President Trump recognizes that the privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift.
American citizenship embodies a sacred bond between the American people and their Nation, and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities.
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara that the Constitution extends the privilege of citizenship to children born to parents in the United States “for whom no extraterritorial fiction applie[s].”
After the Supreme Court’s decision in Barbara, the Administration continues to guard against efforts to obtain citizenship by malign foreign actors and other categories of aliens whom the Supreme Court recognized are ineligible for birthright citizenship under historically recognized exceptions.
The Administration upholds the integrity of the Nation’s immigration system by denying the entry of birth tourists who often work with malign syndicates to evade immigration laws and who plan to exploit their temporary admission to obtain American citizenship.
PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST AND RESTORING THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM: President Trump has delivered on his promise to fix the immigration system, prioritize American citizens, and protect U.S. citizenship.
In his first week back in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order invoking a crisis at the Southern Border and taking immediate action to end the Biden Administration’s record-shattering illegal immigration into the U.S.
For 15 straight months, no illegal aliens have been released into the country.
The Trump Administration launched an unprecedented denaturalization surge targeting those who fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship.
To date, the Trump Administration has filed claims against 88 individuals who received U.S. citizenship but were ineligible.
The Trump Administration has deported over 3 million illegal aliens, including thousands convicted for violent crimes.
The Trump Administration strengthened visa programs and their screenings and paused visa processing for 75 high-risk countries to protect the homeland and deter overstays.
The Trump Administration terminated taxpayer funded benefits for over 1.4 million illegal aliens improperly receiving public assistance and banned illegal aliens from more than a dozen taxpayer-funded healthcare programs.
The Trump Administration reformed the citizenship test to better assess aliens’ understandings of American history, government, and values, and better ensure aliens meet all eligibility requirements.
The Trump Administration moved to purge tens of thousands of illegal aliens from states’ voter rolls and are working to ensure they cannot vote in U.S. elections — a right protected for only Americans.
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A Muslim illegal alien ripped off Americans and sent the money home including to pro-Hamas groups.
In 1992, Khaled Ahmed Satary arrived in the United States on a student visa. Even though student visas are only supposed to be temporary, the Gaza ‘Palestinian’ Muslim would not leave the country, not even when the government began trying to deport him in 2008 after he spent 3 years in federal prison for running a $50 million counterfeiting ring, not as he amassed another $547 million in health care fraud over the next decade by targeting the elderly and not until he finally went on the run in 2022 and became an international fugitive.
Along the way, Satary donated to Islamic groups and remained “committed to helping the people of his native Palestine” and helped “raise more than $1 million to (sic) charities and organizations that support Palestinians” including a ‘charity’ accused of having links to Hamas.
The incredible story of how one ‘Palestinian’ from Gaza who received a student visa to study at the University of New Mexico inflicted at least $600 million worth of costs on the United States across three decades offers a snapshot of the punishing costs of Muslim mass migration.
Student visas, often fraudulent, have been used by millions of foreigners, including from the Muslim world, to come to the United States and remain here even after they have expired.
Seven years after Satary entered the country, he began manufacturing fake CDs in Atlanta as part of what authorities would describe as the largest music piracy operation in history with an estimated $50 million in losses and 127,000 fake CDs seized. The operation was sophisticated enough that, according to an FBI affidavit, Satary “hired bodyguards and used shell corporations”. CNN reported” that he was wiring the “profits to countries in the Middle East.”
At least some of the money was sent to ‘Palestinian’ enclaves in Jordan, the UAE and Israel.
Satary was busted in 2000. The DOJ accused him and two other fellow Muslim defendants, Abedullah F. Al-Qudah and Akram Abdelraham Yaqoub, of manufacturing the CDs. Satary was operating out of Lawrenceville, considered one of the fastest growing Muslim areas in Atlanta, that would serve as a hub of his crime empire and where his son still maintains a business.
Satary was sentenced to 3 years in prison and after he was released in 2008, ICE began trying to deport him. By then however, Hamas was in control of Gaza and since we had no diplomatic relations with the Muslim Brotherhood terror group, no one was available to take Satary.
A few years later, Satary had begun creating an empire of medical testing firms.
Unable to deport Satary back to Gaza, ICE had released him under an “order of supervision” that allowed him to live and work in the United States. By 2013, Satary was in the news again for donations to the senate campaign of a Republican congressman who would later support arming and training Syrian Jihadis and then go to work as a lobbyist for the Syrian ‘opposition’.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the senate campaign took in over $80,000 from employees of two Satary companies: Confirmatrix Laboratories and Nue Medical Consulting. The paper noted that “some of the contributors have strong feelings about Palestinian independence” and “most do not appear to be registered voters in Georgia.”
The money did not officially come from Satary, who in over 20 years had not achieved legal status and was under an order of deportation, but from employees who were allegedly given large bonuses by Satary’s son, told to keep a few hundred dollars and donate the rest. His son Jordan had donated thousands of dollars. Despite his criminal and illegal status, Khaled Ahmed Satary also appeared to have donated previously to the Republican Party’s NRSC.
Satary boasted of raising money for the ILM Academy: an Islamic school aimed at producing “Muslims whose thoughts and actions are devoted to Islam & Allah”, and the Alif Institute which puts on the Atlanta Arab Festival. His own site described him as a “philanthropist” who “helped build several successful healthcare businesses”, believed that “Arabs and Arab Americans have been unfairly portrayed in the mainstream media” and was “active in the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.”
An unofficial Hamas site had directed donations to PCRF: the group had been accused of funding an organization with Hamas links and ran a hospital pediatric unit that was used to conceal “explosives, suicide vests and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks.”
The President of PMRS is Mustafa Barghouti, a former official of the PLO on whose watch the infamous ‘Hamas Mickey Mouse’ had aired, teaching children that “Islam will spread to all parts of the earth” and conquer Spain. Barghouti had appeared at Hamas events and with Hamas leaders, and had declared that Oct 7 was “a glorious day for the Palestinian resistance.”
A PMRS member was caught trying to plant a bomb on a bus in Israel.
Still, few questions were being asked about Satary’s health care businesses, which his site had claimed “ grow at a rate of 23 percent each month” and 6 months after six months had grown from 4 employees and $1 million to “70 employees and revenues of $12 million”.
According to his site, this was all “due to Satary’s efforts and determination.”
In reality, something else was going on. In 2013, Confirmatrix was ranked as the most expensive lab in the country, “collecting an average of $2,406 from Medicare for each patient tested, compared to the national average of $751.” The trick was running “an average of nearly 120 different drug screens on each patient, far more than any other drug lab.”
Confirmatrix profited from the opioid epidemic by allegedly paying kickbacks to ‘pill mills’ across the country to run drug screenings of patients on pain medication. The patients ended up not only heavily addicted, but stuck with massive bills for unnecessary drug screening tests once Medicare caught on to the scheme, lowered its reimbursement rates and the FBI came knocking in 2016, at which point the ‘Palestinian’ company declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
And the patients, already suffering, were hounded by bill collectors for thousands of dollars.
Khaled Ahmed Satary had reportedly put the labs and his home in the name of his then-teenage son Jordan Satary. New labs with new names like ‘Elite’ and ‘Clio’ then popped up with some of the same employees including one that billed Medicare for $8.6 million in genetic tests.
In 2019, Clio and Elite were also raided as part of a crackdown on over $2 billion in fraudulent genetic cancer tests in which a telemarketing network was allegedly used to prey on “hundreds of thousands of elderly and/or disabled patients” by promising to test them for cancer.
When the indictment came down, it accused “Satary, the owner of several labs in Georgia, Oklahoma and Louisiana, and his co-conspirators, through companies they controlled” of having “paid the telemarketers illegal kickbacks and bribes in exchange for the doctor’s orders and medically unnecessary tests.” The labs “collectively billed Medicare for more than $547 million.”
This would have been on top of the previous millions from Confirmatrix.
A convicted felon and illegal alien under order of deportation had been able to donate to politicians and bill the government for over half a billion dollars across six years.
And incredibly, it still wasn’t over.
Sizable amounts of money had reportedly been transferred to the Middle East. $30 million was allegedly sent to Jordan, the ‘Palestinian’ enclave that some have described as a second ‘Palestinian State’, some of which was reportedly sent to key figures in the government.
Before the raids, Satary was alleged to have paid millions for a fake passport to move to Qatar.
With all that money, foreign ties and history of fraud, federal authorities wanted to keep Satary locked up. “It’s not that difficult, when you have $20 million at your disposal, to get out of this country when you’re looking at decades in prison,” the federal prosecutor had warned.
Instead, he was allowed to travel anywhere he wanted, and when he failed to appear for his 2022 court date, Satary was listed as one of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters and a global manhunt was launched suggesting that he might be hiding out in some of the Muslim settler communities in the United States in Houston and Atlanta as well as Dubai, where he had lived before coming to America, and “Jordan and the Israel/Palestine areas.”
Khaled Ahmed Satary was recently arrested with the help of unnamed “regional partners” and returned to the United States to face criminal charges a quarter century after his first arrest.
The Gaza ‘Palestinian’ has reportedly inflicted over $600 million in damages during that time.
Even if Satary is finally convicted, sizable portions of his assets were transferred to the Muslim world, including prominent figures in Jordan, or to his wife and his son, also named Jordan, who regularly brags about his wealth on social media. According to Jordan Satary, who is now operating as a “real estate investor” in Texas, he’s busy “blending Palestinian-American heritage with my entrepreneurial journey.”
It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “democratic socialists”—once they find power.
Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like—and even appear comfortable being called—communists.
With every new policy they propose, the socialists have been dropping the pretense that they are not Marxists.
How about declaring capitalism a failure?
All the socialists now do that—and even Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom has also started agreeing that “capitalism as we know it doesn’t work either.” Oddly, Newsom himself, a multimillionaire and a beneficiary of arch-capitalist Gordon Getty’s largesse, seems to have done quite well under capitalism.
Confiscating private property?
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims he will do just that if New York’s landlords, in his opinion, are poor custodians of their own property.
Dismantling the U.S. Constitution?
Almost all Democrats have long called for destroying the 238-year-old Electoral College. And now the socialists openly brag that, when they take over the Democratic Party and then the nation, they will, as good Bolsheviks, go much further: destroying the Senate, destroying the Pentagon, destroying prisons, destroying the police, and destroying our borders.
And they want to take over utilities, break up or absorb corporate agriculture, and own major industries. Apparently, socialists believe that with a snap of their fingers they can destroy key elements of the U.S. constitutional order. Would these “socialists” even resent their agenda being called “communist”?
They also seem to have taken their cue for such radical change from “mainstream” Democrats—for example, Kamala Harris. Now in her third vain bid for the presidency, she has adopted the doctrine of “if you can’t beat them, join them.” So Harris now promises that if she is elected, she will pack the court, admit two new blue states (to snag four liberal senators), end the filibuster, and junk the Electoral College. How she plans to amend the Constitution to that effect she never tells us.
Like all good Marxists, these “ends justify the means” leftists show an utter lack of principle: If two new red states wished to join the U.S., they would lecture us on the sanctity of a 50-state union. If they were a permanent Senate minority, they would, as in the past, honor the filibuster. If they had lost the popular vote in two recent elections but won the Electoral College, they would praise the wisdom of the Founders. If they had their Earl Warren-era majority again, they would laud the continuity of the 157-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court.
How about making “enemies of the people” lists and forcing sales of private property?
Mamdani just sent out a public list of nearly one million New York homeowners. He sent official warnings to 17,000 of these property owners that, if within four weeks they cannot prove that they have lived full-time in their own properties, the city will levy a huge surtax on them to drive home the point that no one should own an additional high-value home. Are show trials next for those who decline to reply?
In other words, Mamdani has flipped the American tradition of “innocent until proven guilty.” Instead, almost 20,000 New Yorkers are now automatically presumed guilty of being house-hoarding, capitalist leeches who owe the exploited classes tens of thousands of dollars a year in reparations, unless they—the newly presumed guilty—can prove themselves innocent.
Welcome to Mamdani’s revolutionary court.
Mamdani’s new surtax could add from $40,000 to $350,000 a year to tens of thousands of homeowners’ taxes—in addition to already-existing steep property taxes that often range from $5,000 to $150,000.
Most owners will do the math and see that the new aggregate tax payouts in just a few years could be more than the value of the home itself.
Why is Mamdani doing this?
The socialist mayor’s aim here seems twofold:
First, he wants to flush out and dox anyone owning two homes as a purported enemy of the people.
And so, Mamdani created a list of his targets, including their addresses, and published it. To the extent that many properties really were second homes, Mamdani has now made sure that all New Yorkers, including envious rubberneckers, would-be squatters, and hardened criminals, know exactly where they might target a sometimes-vacant home.
Second, he wants to force a massive fire sale of second homes that would crash home values in general and so redistribute now “affordable” houses to those whom Mamdani considers, as victims of capitalism, to be more deserving of these properties.
Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police.
But it is in Spain, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s corrupt and unpopular regime, where we see what one-eyed-jack socialists can do when they are finally in power, especially when they are hated and on their way out.
Sanchez has given amnesty to 600,000 illegal aliens. One result was that 60,000 Muslim men from North Africa in a single day recently swarmed Spain’s colonial outpost on the Moroccan coast at Ceuta, demanding amnesties and free subsidized passes into European Spain—while looting and vandalizing businesses and attacking Spaniards.
So, why do European socialists and American leftists, once elected, destroy borders, create conditions of mass chaos, and welcome in millions of illegal aliens—poor, often angry, and unassimilated—from the Third World?
Aside from their belief that the capitalists and their bourgeois hirelings deserve chaos, violence, and upheaval, they hate the fact that capitalism is too class-fluid to furnish a permanent exploited proletarian underclass.
And so they import a huge victim class, and virtue signal their purported moral superiority. Then they spend lavish social largesse upon the influx, and, in quid pro quo fashion, thus bind their imported underclass with their welfare-state assurances.
Mail-in and early ballots, no-ID voting, same-day registration, ballot harvesting and curing, and no final verdicts on Election Day were all leftist projects, all designed to enroll as many illegal voters as possible.
The Left has also learned from experience that the time between immigrant parents fleeing third-world hellholes to find safety, freedom, and prosperity in the U.S. and their children hating the very generous host that welcomed them—and demanding that America be radically transformed to resemble the catastrophe from which they or their parents fled—is often only about 20 years.
So if one enjoys watching the careers of Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or Mamdani, then one should certainly vote socialist to ensure that they are the new model for American elected officials.
It is the paradox of our age that anyone can flee Somalia, the West Bank, Puerto Rico, or Uganda and then win the global lottery by being accepted into America’s constitutional society and free-market economy—only to do their best to repay the generosity of their host by turning their new country into something unrecognizable to the prior 10 generations of Americans.
But then again, America might become quite similar to the mess they abandoned.
So far, the model holds true: Socialist candidates (as opposed to registered socialist activists) hide their communist-adjacent agendas during elections. But once in office and drunk with power, they find socialism too wishy-washy and go full communist. So, they destroy borders, institutions, names, dates, statues, norms, customs, and traditions to replicate the illiberalism and concomitant failures of a new Haiti, a West Bank, or a Morocco in the West.
In sum, to make a new socialist America, you must first destroy everything that made Americans and all that they hold dear.
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President Trump signed a pair of executive orders that he said were aimed at cracking down on birthright citizenship.
White House: The first targets birth tourism, clarifying: It is therefore the policy of the United States to promote the integrity of its immigration system, to ensure that nonimmigrant visa classifications are used only for their lawful and intended purposes, and to prevent the exploitation of those classifications by persons engaging in birth tourism. In the second order, protecting citizenship, the order picks up on language from the Supreme Court’s Barbara decision: that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the privilege of citizenship to children born to parents in the United States “for whom no extraterritorial fiction applie[s]”.
Rapid Response: Stephen Miller explains the first: That practice of birth tourism is, as of the signing of this order, hereby banned. What that means is that no one in the world is anymore allowed to obtain a visa for this fraudulent purpose… of everything [@POTUS] has done that has been so unprecedented, I would put this in the top 3 in terms of importance because it ends what has been one of the gravest and most egregious abuses of the American system and it keeps American citizenship sacred”.
President Trump signed a pair of executive orders that he said were aimed at cracking down on birthright citizenship, renewing one of his signature policies after the Supreme Court voided his earlier, broader bid to deny citizenship to many children born on U.S. soil to non-American parents.
The executive orders, which Trump signed in the Oval Office on Thursday, seek to expand the categories of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship and ban tourists from coming to the U.S. solely to give birth.
“That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations and large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments,” per Stephen Miller “This ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly would be getting birthright citizenship will NO LONGER be eligible for those benefits.”
Lars Møller recently published a piece on three farsighted people — the late Oriana Fallaci, Mark Steyn, and Douglas Murray — who understood and have written about the mortal threat to Western civilization from “the sons of Allah,” tens of millions of whom are now living in our midst. More. on his tribute to the three (and he might have added the names of Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Ibn Warraq to his list) and the alarm he now feels, because so few in the West have heeded them, can be found here:
The moral decline of the West is no longer a matter of speculation but a demographic, cultural, and spiritual fact, visible in collapsing birth rates, the erosion of civilizational confidence, and the supine accommodation of an ideology fundamentally hostile to the Enlightenment inheritance. Where once the West confronted Nazism and Bolshevism—two totalitarian waves that sought to remake humanity through terror and ideology—it now faces a third: Islamist totalitarianism, advancing not primarily through tanks or gulags, but through demographic momentum, elite cowardice, and the patient erosion of liberal norms.
In this darkening landscape, the voices of Oriana Fallaci, Mark Steyn, and Douglas Murray rate as lonely sentinels. Far from unreflective “Islamophobes,” as their detractors sneer, these thinkers form an intellectual continuum defending Western liberty against civilizational surrender. Their warnings, typically dismissed as “alarmist” in the complacent halls of Brussels or academia, grow more prescient with each passing year. To ignore them is to invite a future in which Europe—and by extension the West—becomes unrecognizable, its freedoms subordinated to a theocratic vision incompatible with individual rights.
Oriana Fallaci’s The Rage and the Pride (2001), written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, remains a visceral cri de coeur. An accomplished journalist who had interviewed Ayatollah Khomeini, she possessed intimate knowledge of radical Islam’s face. She beheld in post-9/11 Europe not multicultural enrichment but a “reverse crusade”—a Muslim invasion facilitated by mass immigration, differential birth rates, and the craven multiculturalism of European elites. She adopted and popularized the term “Eurabia” from the writings of Bat Ye’or to describe the continent’s trajectory towards becoming an Islamic colony. For Fallaci, the threat was civilizational: Islam, in its political and expansionist form, sows “hatred in place of love,” subjugates women, stifles inquiry, and rejects the separation of mosque and state….
Mark Steyn, in America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It (2006), provided the demographic and strategic depth to Fallaci’s passion. His thesis is stark: Europe is dying of self-inflicted wounds—sub-replacement fertility, cultural self-loathing, and a welfare state that imports dependents rather than nurturing its own children. Muslim populations, with higher birth rates and assertive religious identities, fill the vacuum. Steyn distinguishes, as do his peers, between individual Muslims and the political ideology of Islamism, yet he refuses the comforting delusion that the two can be neatly separated when scriptural sources and historical patterns urge otherwise. His prediction of “Islamization” warned of a “fearless Muslim advance” met by “weak-kneed European elites.” The endgame, he foresaw, would be either submission or civil war, perhaps yielding neo-nationalist strongmen as desperate backlash….
Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe (2017) synthesizes and updates these analyses with empirical rigor and moral clarity. He documents how mass migration, particularly from Muslim-majority countries, combined with elite refusal to insist on assimilation, has produced parallel societies, grooming scandals, no-go zones in practice if not in euphemistic language, and rising extremism. An atheist himself, he examined Islamic texts and found them incompatible with the secular, pluralistic order that Europe claims to cherish.
Murray’s controversial statements—that conditions for Muslims in Europe should be made “harder across the board” to discourage further settlement and failed integration — stem not from gratuitous cruelty but from observed reality: tolerance extended unilaterally becomes suicide. Jihadism, he insists, “comes from Islam,” drawing on theology, history, and contemporary events from Bataclan to Cologne. Like Fallaci and Steyn, he deplores the West’s loss of identity. Europe, he argues, no longer believes that its own story is worth defending. This spiritual exhaustion invites conquest by those who believe fervently in theirs.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? In the spirit of “Sursum Corda,” let’s consider the reasons for hope so as to dispel the gloom. In Europe, almost everywhere the anti-immigrant — or more exactly, anti-Muslim immigrant parties, are ahead in the polls. In Germany, Alice Weidel of the Alternative für Deutschland, in France, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella of the National Rally, and Bruno Retailleau of Les Républicains, in Italy, Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli d’Italia, while in the UK, Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain Party, not even a year old, is rapidly gaining support from those who have found Nigel Farage’s Reform Party not sufficiently adamant on the subject of ending Muslim migration.
It is the next decade or two that will determine Europe’s fate. Will it continue to welcome Muslim migrants or call a halt to increasing their presence? Will European states limit welfare benefits so that, as Bruno Retailleau has suggested, for the first five years of their presence, immigrants will not be eligible for any benefits? Will the peoples of Europe inform themselves sufficiently about the texts and teachings of Islam to rouse themselves, as if after a long sleep? How many will educate themselves in time about this menace, which turns out to be more dangerous than even Nazism and Bolshevism, for it has already burrowed into our societies, affecting our political life, our media, our impressionable young?
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Not to put too fine a point on it but every Biden appointee is illegitimate.
Radical judge rules that terrorist attacks aren’t “material support” for ISIS
By: Daniel Greenfield, Aug 02, 2026
On the morning of Dec 11, 2017, Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi Muslim and the nephew of a Diversity Lottery Visa winner, boarded the F Train near the ‘Little Bangladesh’ colony in Brooklyn. Wearing a hooded jacket and a backpack to cover the pipe bomb strapped to his body, Ullah switched to the A and headed for the crowded corridors of the Times Square station.
Christmas was coming and ISIS had promoted a poster of Santa next to a box of dynamite overlooking Times Square with the message: “We meet at Christmas in New York… soon.” Ullah had used Christmas tree lights as a trigger and detonated his bomb near a Christmas poster.
The meeting between Times Square and ISIS fizzled and only injured three people. Ullah unfortunately survived, with minor burns, and began his assault on our justice system.
9 years later, Ullah defeated the American legal system, with the aid of one of the most radical Biden judges, and his legal victory has serious implications for prosecuting ISIS terrorists.
The case against the Bangladeshi Muslim ‘Diversity Visa’ terrorist couldn’t have been any more straightforward. “I did it for the Islamic State,” Ullah declared. He had been consuming ISIS propaganda that told ISIS supporters to carry out attacks abroad if they couldn’t make it to Iraq and Syria. Ullah had used ISIS slogans and language, and told the court that he was angry because President Trump had been bombing Islamic terrorists in the Middle East.
Ullah’s taxpayer-funded public defender, Julia Gatto, who had previously represented another Muslim Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, only had one counterargument. She couldn’t deny that he had tried to bomb Times Square, but claimed that he wasn’t really a Muslim terrorist, but just a young man suffering from depression and in a “mental health fog” who was just trying to commit suicide and really hadn’t wanted to hurt anyone else in Times Square.
“Tooling around on the internet does not make you an ISIS member,” Gatto had argued.
A few months ago, a Biden judge on the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed and, in the process, she also dismantled the ability to prosecute ISIS terrorists as terrorists.
Even among the legion of terrible Biden appointees, Myrna Perez stood out as the voting rights director at the Brennan Center. The Brennan Center is the leading pro-crime organization in the country and has endless blood on its hands for championing criminals against victims. Sen. Ted Cruz had warned that of all the Biden circuit nominees, “Myrna Perez is the most dangerous. She has been a radical, and an activist for what effectively amounts for her to her entire career,”
The prediction has now come true with her ruling in United States of America v. Ullah.
The radical pro-crime judge wrongly ruled for the ISIS terrorist, arguing incorrectly that “the evidence was insufficient to show that Defendant provided material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization” because carrying out an attack in support of ISIS does not count as “material support” to ISIS.
Judge Myrna Perez admitted that Ullah had been reading ISIS material, that he used ISIS slogans and that he had carried out the attack “on behalf of the Islamic State” and “for Allah.”
What she argues instead is that volunteering to kill yourself and others in support of ISIS is not “material support” because the ISIS terrorist hadn’t been formally “coordinating” with ISIS. The communication had all been one way, from ISIS to Ullah, rather than from Ullah to ISIS.
Perez wrongly contends that following the orders of ISIS does not count as being “work under that terrorist organization’s direction” and means that he was acting “entirely independently.”
There’s nothing “entirely” about following an ISIS call to attack Times Square at Christmas
Never mind that the entire strategy of crowd-sourced terrorism from Al Qaeda and ISIS depends on reaching aspiring Muslim terrorists and providing them with general directions, rather than specifically directing individual terrorist attacks by the terrorists. By following these general instructions to commit attacks, a terrorist, even if he is unable to communicate with the terrorist group due to fear of being caught, is acting at its direction. And the Christmas attack in Times Square clearly picked up on one ISIS call for a Christmas attack in Times Square.
According to Judge Perez’s pettifoggery, Ullah “chose” to carry out the ISIS attack, which means he wasn’t really under the direction of ISIS and that means it’s not providing material support. Had Ullah shipped some charging cables to ISIS, that would be ‘material support’, but killing and dying for it isn’t considered material support. Neither, she argued, did Ullah “provide a ‘service ‘to a foreign terrorist organization’” by independently carrying out his attack” because “‘to’ requires some ‘connection’ between the service provider and the organization.”
And so because of the definition of “to”, the ISIS terrorist wasn’t providing a service to ISIS.
Judge Steven Menashi, whose grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Iraq, and who was appointed by President Trump, correctly noted that Perez had decided to overrule the jury in the case and completely rewrite the law, that there was no basis for her decision to exclude ISIS propaganda as a form of direction or to define terrorist attacks in response to it as ‘entirely independent’, and that “direction” and “control” are not the same things.
Judge Menashi’s arguments are correct, but he was in the minority, with Perez and Judge Jed Rakoff, a showboating Clinton appointee, who had unilaterally decided that 18-year-olds, like a thug who shot up a Bronx block party, hitting a pregnant woman, were not really criminally culpable, and who had illegally ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional.
The Perez-Rakoff decision has minimal impact on Ullah, who is already behind bars on other charges, but effectively dismantles the prosecution of ISIS and Al Qaeda terrorists.
The majority of Al Qaeda and ISIS attacks in America have involved ‘lone wolves’ who came around to supporting these Islamic terrorist groups based on consuming online propaganda. Some directly communicated with the group, but instead often reached FBI personnel, others pledged oaths of obedience, while others simply carried out attacks for the terrorist group.
Judge Perez knowingly set out to dismantle a key tool for prosecuting them as she wrote in her ruling, “the resolution of that question will not affect the Defendant’s punishment, but it may make a difference in future cases, and it is our unflagging duty to say what the law is, in cases within our jurisdiction.” Perez was admitting that her ruling is irrelevant to the case, which is why she should not have made it, but will be relevant to other cases of future ISIS terrorists.
Unless it’s overturned, the ruling will make it impossible to prosecute ISIS terrorists for providing “material support” to a terrorist organization unless it can be demonstrated that they were following specific orders from the Islamic terrorist group. Since that rarely happens, Perez has effectively legalized ISIS terrorist attacks in America as long as there’s no direct ‘control’.
This may have limited impact in cases where the terrorists successfully carry out an attack, but it will cripple the ability to prosecute early plots where an attack had not been carried out. It means that some of these terrorists will walk away, as they routinely do in Europe, to carry out future terrorist attacks, some of which will be successful, leading to more dead Americans.
Judge Perez has also given ISIS terrorists a new template for their attacks and told them what they need to do to avoid being tried on ‘material support’ charges. That’s steering rather close to providing ‘material support’ to terrorists… whether it’s intentional or unintentional.
If this disastrous verdict isn’t overturned by the Supreme Court, Americans will die because a pro-crime judge was placed in a key position by extremist leftist judges who twist the law to champion criminals and terrorists at the expense of the United States of America.
The Perez ruling for ISIS shows how radical and disastrous the judges being chosen by Democrats have become and how they threaten the security, safety and lives of Americans.
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Understandable move since the Muslim Brotherhood is now a significant part of the Democratic Party’s political operation.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and other Senate Dems on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Alex Padilla, and Peter Welch issued a snippy statement on their boycott of the “Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America” hearing by Sen. Ted Cruz.
The statement falsely claimed that this was “scapegoating Muslims” and claimed that “Democrats have no intention of indulging this political creepshow, particularly after the recent violence targeting places of faith.” A number of such attacks have targeted synagogues and Jews, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the subject of the investigation, has remained a vector for Islamic terrorism.
CAIR, whose leadership supported the Oct 7 attacks carried out by Hamas, the Gaza arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and which is itself linked to the Brotherhood, issued a statement denouncing what it called “persistent and manufactured anti-Muslim fearmongering” and complained that the witnesses were “known for promoting anti-Muslim narratives”.
The witnesses in question are respected figures who “include Lara Burns, a former FBI special agent and senior research fellow at The George Washington University’s Program on Extremism; Arielle Klepach, senior counsel at the National Jewish Advocacy Center; and Kyle Shideler, a senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy.”
Senate Dems chose to stand with CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood over law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals which is to say, standing with America’s enemies.
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Kyle Shideler, our Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.
His testimony focused on one of the most significant intelligence breakthroughs in modern U.S. counterterrorism: the Holy Land Foundation trial.
Evidence introduced in that case showed that the Muslim Brotherhood has operated in the United States since the 1960s and created an extensive network of Hamas support organizations, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).
Shideler told Senator Cruz and the Subcommittee that the United States achieved an unparalleled intelligence coup, but then largely failed to act on what it had uncovered. He compared it to breaking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, gaining access to enemy communications, and then never decoding another message.
Kyle then turned to a separate question: whether the Muslim Brotherhood has fundamentally changed since that evidence was uncovered. He concluded: “Those who claim that the Muslim Brotherhood has changed its spots should be required to prove it. The U.S. government has already proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, what the Brotherhood is.”
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Director and Senior Analyst for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Center for Security Policy
August 5, 2026
Before the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights, Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Chairman Cruz, Ranking Member Whitehouse, Distinguished Senators:
I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify today on this important topic.
Because our court system is built on certain fundamental principles—including trial by jury, the government’s burden of proof in criminal matters, and the right to confront one’s accusers—courts both civil and criminal have been at the center of revelations of great consequences to our republic and its national security.
Examples include the Chamber-Hiss case and its famous “Pumpkin Papers” exposing the role of the Communist Party of the United States in Soviet espionage, or the trials surrounding the 1957 Apalachin, New York raid, which convinced federal law enforcement of the existence of the American Mafia. To these we must add United States v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, prosecuted almost two decades ago, which exposed the existence and extensive reach of the Muslim Brotherhood in America since its arrival in 1962.1
The evidence submitted during that trial demonstrated that not only was the Muslim Brotherhood operating in America, but that the Brotherhood played a singularly important role in providing indoctrination, financing, and political protection for jihadist terror.
Founded in Egypt by Hassan Al-Banna in 1928, from its very beginning the Muslim Brotherhood operated as a clandestine organization, which engaged in the creation of public front groups, cultivated agents of influence, sought control over religious institutions, engaged in acts of political subversion, and created deniable sub-organizations devoted to terrorism, in pursuit of its ultimate goal, the overthrow of governments and the reestablishment of a worldwide caliphate operating under Islamic law, known as Sharia.2
It is worth recalling that the government demonstrated that the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, like all Brotherhood branches worldwide, created and funded Hamas support networks—known as Palestine Committees—at the direction of the International Muslim Brotherhood beginning in 1983.3
In 2018, the U.S. government designated the Hasm Movement and Revolution Brigade (Liwa Al-Thawra), two Brotherhood-created terror groups founded to fight the Egyptian government. So this policy of forming and spinning off terror groups has remained fundamental to who the Brotherhood is to the present day.
The most infamous Palestine Committee organization in the United States is the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).4So significant was CAIR’s formation as an organ for political and media relations, its creation and bylaws received explicit approval by the Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt.5
HLF documents, and related cases, reveal that at one time one in every four American mosques were under the influence of the Hamas-linked North American Islamic Trust (NAIT).vi Muslim Brotherhood members—including some later convicted of terrorism charges such as Sami Al-Arian7 and Abduraham Alamoudi8—regularly attempted to influence leaders of both American political parties. Organizations affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood recruited and trained chaplains for American prisons and the American military.9 Brotherhood organizations operated on nearly every college campus in the United States, regularly recruiting young American Muslims and leading them to commit terrorist violence.10
The Brotherhood ran camps where individual members were trained to wage Jihad, and organized “special work,” the preferred Brotherhood euphemism for violence.11
In short, the issue of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood was and is not merely a counterterrorism issue, but also a systemic counterintelligence challenge, and even more broadly, a challenge to the fabric of the United States and its ability to seek assimilation and social cohesion.
The United States Government achieved an unparalleled intelligence coup, yet almost none of this information was put to substantive further use. HLF would be the last domestic Muslim Brotherhood charity designated by the U.S. Treasury Department.12
There were no further prosecutions for material support against American Muslim Brotherhood figures. It was the equivalent of cracking the Enigma code in 1939 and then never decoding another Nazi message.
In 2008, the U.S. government had in its possession the name and rank of most leading Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States.13I would encourage the senators to demand, in an appropriate classified setting, that U.S. intelligence deliver the same levels of insight into U.S. Brotherhood operations today.
Since 2009, the federal government’s disinterest in the challenge of the Muslim Brotherhood has largely been answered by private efforts. These have included educational efforts but also legislative and judicial responses. More than half a dozen state legislatures have passed resolutions condemning CAIR’s links to terrorism. Two states, Florida and Texas, have publicly declared the group as a terrorist organization. Some state attorneys general are currently pursuing investigations into Muslim Brotherhood-linked entities.
There have been efforts in federal court to enforce federal court judgments against elements of the Palestine Committee (Boim v. IAP, Boim v. AMP), as well as lawsuits seeking to expose the role of foreign funding in supporting CAIR (Saroya v. CAIR).
Unfortunately, in multiple examples, these Brotherhood-linked affiliates have successfully utilized a variety of lawfare tactics, including in some cases refusal to comply with legal discovery, in order to avoid exposure.
I would be remiss if I did not add the positive decision by the U.S. Treasury and U.S. State Department to designate the Lebanese, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood branches. The recent decision to designate the deputy secretary of the International Muslim Brotherhood is also a welcome development.
I will note, however, that an approach which treats Muslim Brotherhood branches as fundamentally independent is one based on expediency and runs counter to the available public evidence, both as presented in the HLF case and also as written in the Brotherhood’s by-laws openly stated as recently as 2011.14
Critics will claim that the data derived from the HLF case and related cases are decades old. This is true, but misleading. When studying clandestine networks, one must realize that they are established over many decades, as trained cadre move through positions of trust in the network’s various fronts. Such individuals are not easily replaced, and regularly reappear.15 A historic snapshot of such a network and the players in it, far from being irrelevant, is a crucial piece of the puzzle, prized by both intelligence practitioners and historians.
Consider, for example, Gaddour Saidi, who served on the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Executive Office in 1992, and served as Vice President of the American Libyan Council at the time that organization lobbied for U.S. intervention in the Libyan Civil War in 2011. Or Talal Sunbulli, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council member in 1992, served as president of the Syrian American Council, which played an outsized role in U.S. policy as it related to supporting the Syrian rebels. Or Hani Saqr, listed as Masul (chief) of East America, who served as president of the Egyptian Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in 2013.
And while some Muslim Brotherhood leaders have passed on, their roles may be taken up by their children or grandchildren, as in the case of late seminal Brotherhood figures Muhammad Al-Hanooti,16 Jamal Barzinji17and Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, and the front organizations they built and developed continue to operate.18
In conclusion, those who insist that the Brotherhood is a leopard that has somehow changed its spots are the ones who should be required to meet the burden of proof.
Because the U.S. government has already proved what the Muslim Brotherhood is, beyond a reasonable doubt.
Footnotes
1 While individual Muslim Brothers operating in the United States prior to this date, in the 1960s a North American Brotherhood structure was developed, centered around the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood Association (MSA), which served as a front for Muslim Brotherhood organizing and recruited cadre from which future Brotherhood fronts would be created. Zeid Al-Noman, “Ikhwan in America,” n.d., pp. 2–4, entered into evidence as Government Exhibit “Elbarasse Search 2,” U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al., accessed from Ikhwan in America: The Oral History of the Muslim Brotherhood in its own words (Center for Security Policy Press, 2016), https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ikhwan_in_America_20160418.pdf
2 For more on the early formation of the Muslim Brotherhood, see Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (Oxford University Press, 1969). Particularly worthy of note is the formation of the “secret apparatus” in 1942 (p. 30), and its participation in organizing its “Battalions” to fight against Israel in the Palestine War in 1948 (p. 57).
3 “With the growth of the blessed Intifada and the spread of the spirit of Jihad amidst the children of Palestine and the nation, it became incumbent upon the remainder of the Ikhwan branches to play a role in attributing this Intifada and this Islamic action to Palestine. Therefore, a resolution was issued by the Guidance Office and the Shura Council of the International Movement to form ‘Palestine Committees’ in all the Arab, the Islamic and the Western nations whose job is to make the Palestinian cause victorious and to support it with what it needs of media, money, men and all of that.” Islamic Action for Palestine: An Internal Memo (October 1992), p. 11, entered into evidence as Government Exhibit “Elbarasse Search 5,” U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al.
4 “Meeting Agenda of the Palestine Committee 7/30/1994” pg. 1, Entered into evidence as Government Exhibit “Elbarasse Search 19” U.S. V. HLF et al.
5 FD-302 Interview with [Redacted] under Pro er agreement,” January 6th, 2005, pg. 6 accessed at Investigative Project on Terrorism, https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/847.pdf#page=6
6 Stephen Schwartz, “Wahhabism and Islam in the United States” (testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, June 26, 2003), https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Schwartz%20Testimony%20062603.pdf
7 U.S. Department of Justice, “Sami Al-Arian Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Assisting Terrorist Group” (press release, May 1, 2006), https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crm_260.html
8 U.S. Department of Justice, “Abdurahman Alamoudi Sentenced to Jail in Terrorism Financing Case” (press release, October 15, 2004), https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2004/October/04_crm_698.htm
9 J. Michael Waller, “Testimony” (Testimony before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, October 14, 2003), https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/waller_testimony_10_14_03.pdf
10 Patrick Poole, “The Muslim Student Association’s Terror Problem,” PJ Media, August 10, 2010, https://pjmedia.com/patrick-poole/2010/08/20/the-muslim-student-associations-terror-problem-n12923
11 “The Brotherhood has always supported its members in fighting legitimate jihad in their home countries but would never support that activity after it became illegal in the United States. [Redacted] denied that he trained or had interest in explosives. When shown Exhibit 4B, [Redacted] admitted that it was a Brotherhood document that listed him having an interest in explosives, but [Redacted] does not know who wrote it or why.” FD-302 Interview with [Redacted] under Proffer Agreement. See also Ikhwan in America: The Oral History of the Muslim Brotherhood in its own words (Center for Security Policy Press, 2016), pp. 11–12, https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/wp content/uploads/2016/04/Ikhwan_in_America_20160418.pdf
12 Eli Lake, “U.S. Stopped Blacklisting Domestic Terror Charities Under Obama,” Bloomberg News, May 12, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-12/u-s-stopped-blacklisting-domestic-terror-charities-under-obama
13 See “1991 Phone Directory,” entered into evidence as Government Exhibit 003-003479, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al.; Attached as Appendix 1 and “1992 Phone Directory,” entered into evidence as Government Exhibit 003-0079, U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al. Attached as Appendix 2.
14 See also “By-laws of the International Muslim Brotherhood,” Article 50. Attached as Appendix 3.
15 As Palestine Committee member and CAIR founder Omar Ahmad said, “Registering an organization is easy. I can register 100 organizations in I00 cities in one day… go-ahead start a new organization but you won’t be able to find new faces. Do we have hidden faces we now bring up to light? We have what we have.” From Government Exhibit Philly Meeting 7, U.S. V. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development et al.
16 Kyle Shideler, “Major U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Leader Mohammed Al-Hanooti Dies,” Center for Security Policy, June 5, 2015, https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/major-u-s-muslim-brotherhood-leader-mohammed-al-hanooti-dies
17 Kyle Shideler, “Major U.S. MB Leader Jamal Barzinji Passes Away,” Center for Security Policy, September 28, 2015, https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/major-u-s-mb-leader-jamal-barzinji-passes-away/
18 Kyle Shideler, “Influential Muslim Brotherhood Leader Taha Jabir Al-Alwani Passes Away,” Center for Security Policy, March 8, 2016, https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/influential-muslim-brotherhood-leader-taha-jabir-al-alwani-passes-away/
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As political candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) continue to win elections and gain increasing national prominence, a key factor in their success appears to be the growing influence and money provided by far-left American socialists and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sympathizers who are operating from within China.
On Sunday, The Free Press published a profile of Eric Hovagim, a video producer who “helped film or edit three primary campaign videos” for Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who won New York City’s mayoral race in November 2025. Hovagim, who also helped produce a documentary about communist apologist Hasan Piker’s goodwill trip to Cuba in March, has amassed over three million online followers as a “geopolitical commentator.” As noted by The Free Press, his commentaries “echo positions of the Democratic Socialists of America and often hinge on three themes: conspiracy, anti-Americanism, and glorifying political violence, often connecting all three.”
These views include seeing America as “the fourth Reich” and Israel as “the most dangerous threat to humanity.” While claiming that he is “against … violence of any kind,” Hovagim also displays a hypocritical penchant for violence. He called Elon Musk “a valid military target,” called the New York City street where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered “hallowed ground,” and affectionately referred to Thompson’s accused killer, Luigi Mangione, as a “bisexual sweetheart” who did it on behalf of “all working-class Americans.”
Perhaps most telling about the underlying goals and ultimate direction of the DSA is Hovagim’s unabashed enthusiasm and defense of Xi Jinping’s communist regime. He moved to Shanghai following Mamdani’s NYC mayoral victory in order to “enjoy the fruits of socialism firsthand,” according to a social media post. As highlighted by The Free Press, his social media accounts are full of him posing with paintings of former dictator Mao Zedong, whose policies directly led to the deaths of 70 million of his own people. As one historian noted, “At least 45 million people were worked, starved or beaten to death in China” during Mao’s four-year “Great Leap Forward” from 1958 to 1962.
But Hovagim can’t be bothered with such inconvenient historical facts. He also dismisses the CCP’s mass incarceration and extermination of the Uyghur minority as “CIA propaganda.” This way of thinking lines up with many prominent DSA members such as Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who act as apologists for communist regimes like Cuba.
As influential as Hovagim has become, another far-left socialist American also living in Shanghai has even more clout: billionaire financier Neville Roy Singham. During “Washington Watch” last month, Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) Co-Founder Joel Finkelstein chronicled how Singham has became a tycoon of far-left communism.
“[H]e shares a building with a Chinese owned company called Mako Media,” he explained. “This is a CCP asset which is responsible for laundering China’s reputation in the global south and facilitating propaganda across the world about China’s bright future. This mogul has sold his business for … nearly $1 billion and now work[s] closely … with Chinese executives and leadership in the CCP. He regularly commits … over $200 million to 501(c)(3) [organizations] across the United States. Now, these not-for-profit organizations have been responsible for some of the most disruptive behavior in recent protests history in the United States — confrontation with law enforcement, shutting down bridges such that emergency vehicles can’t pass, invading Columbia [University], locking up janitors in closets, tearing down American flags. This kind of activity I think our legal system has formally corroborated as being criminal, and so it’s quite strange to see it now formally labeled as charitable and worthy of tax deductions.”
NCRI has also “linked Singham’s network to content defending the Iranian regime, North Korea, and Chinese state policy in Xinjiang and Taiwan.”
The DSA’s support for communist China is now becoming increasingly public, with over a dozen high-ranking members recently pledging to “support the People’s Republic of China and to promote understanding of Chinese socialism,” according to a report from The Times last week.
In addition, CCP officials are now reaching out to the DSA to organize trips for members to visit China, according to the report. “A five-person delegation of DSA members to China last year is understood to have been organised and co-ordinated by the office of foreign affairs of Guizhou, a province in southwest China,” it noted. After a 2024 trip to China, New York City DSA member Dee Knight wrote, “The provincial foreign affairs department staff called us ‘VIPs’ and treated us royally … There is a serene and comfortable spirit of confidence and conviviality among our Chinese hosts.”
Knight went on to dismiss the widespread and verified reports of the CCP’s enslavement and forced organ harvesting of the Uyghur population after visiting the Xinjiang region, describing the reports as “scandal stories” and insisting he “found nothing to support western accusations of slave labour.”
Experts like Alexander Reid Ross, a Portland State University professor specializing in radicalism, told The Times that the CCP’s efforts to work with the DSA are part of its far-reaching plan to undermine the U.S.
“While these seem like quirky activist trips to get people to like China, they’re treated as extraordinarily important vehicles to change the western perception of China by the Chinese Communist Party,” he emphasized. “They exhibit fingerprints of extraordinarily high-level co-ordination by the People’s Republic of China.”
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“I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.”
“I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “Imagine you’re the leader of a nation, and you face a dilemma. Half a million or so people who are crucial to everyone’s daily lives inhabit your country.” His radical government’s solution was to legalize the half a million migrants.
Rather than the 500,000 migrants Sánchez was proposing to legalize, Spain received 1.2 million applications and a month after the application window closed, the invasion began.
“The invasion came after Sánchez’s legalization program and after the Spanish Supreme Court ruled that migrants entering by sea could not be deported and had to have their ‘asylum’ claims processed. Tens of thousands of Arab Muslims responded to the ruling by swimming around the border fence in Ceuta, a Spanish city in North Africa that shares a border with Morocco.
Ceuta, with a population of 85,000 covering 7 square miles, was swiftly overrun. The leftist Sánchez regime initially responded by refusing to declare a state of emergency because mass migration was not classified as an emergency. As the invasion grew from the thousands into the tens of thousands, Sánchez promised to dispatch military forces while emphasizing coexistence.
The mass invasion should not have been unexpected.
In 2021, 10,000 Muslim migrants from Morocco had entered Ceuta in 2 days. Morocco had been furious because Spain had treated the head of a breakaway Sahrawi state in the Sahara for COVID and applied leverage by shutting down its border patrols. Without those patrols, there was nothing keeping thousands of Moroccan Muslims from storming the border and invading Spain.
PM Sánchez had promised then that the invaders would be “immediately returned”, but some years later won headlines by proposing the ‘regularization’ of between 500,000 to 1,000,000 migrants.
Some have speculated over what triggered the invasion, but the numbers are fairly obvious.
The application window for ‘regularization’ had closed on June 30, 2026. A week later, the Spanish Supreme Court took up the case of minors who had invaded Spain in 2021. And the court ruled that migrants who climbed the border fence could be immediately deported, but those who swam around the border fence by sea would have to have their cases heard.
Finally, on July 20th, PM Sánchez visited Algiers. The Sánchez regime had previously secured an end to the invasions by supporting Morocco’s position on the Western Sahara. Algeria had responded by breaking off relations with Spain. Algeria had become Spain’s largest natural gas supplier and Sánchez had traveled to Algiers to discuss rebuilding ties and the Western Sahara.
Morocco apparently responded by removing border security and allowing a mass invasion.
Sánchez’s legalization proposal had prepared the ground and Spain was overwhelmed with twice as many applications as the leftist government had been expecting. When the application window closed on June 30th, many North African Muslims were bound to be disappointed.
Then the Supreme Court decision in early July created the expectation that anyone who made it around the sea barrier would not be immediately deported and would instead be allowed to stay.
The final missing ingredient came when PM Sánchez picked the worst timing in the world to try and repair relations with Algeria, a move that was bound to infuriate Morocco, and to which it would have only one way to make its anger felt, and that was by doing what it had done in 2021.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had raised the expectations of Muslim migrants that they would be able to stay in Spain and if he hadn’t seen the possibility that history would repeat itself, he was a very a dumb man indeed. But it wasn’t all that long ago that Sánchez had been preaching the gospel of mass migration as the answer to the problems of not only Spain, but the West.
Migrants, Sánchez claimed, had given Spain a booming economy and urged Americans and Europeans to accept mass migration. “What is working for us can work for others. The time has come for leaders to speak clearly to their citizens about the dilemma we all face. We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies or open and prosperous ones… Governments can buy into the zero-sum thinking of the far-right and retreat into isolation, scarcity, selfishness and decline.”
Or open their borders to the flood of invaders from the Muslim world.
Before long, Ceuta residents were desperately retreating into the ‘selfish far-right’ thinking of barricading themselves and their families in their homes as the invaders tried to break in.
This agenda was not Sánchez’s alone. Pope Leo, the first American pope, had skipped Independence Day celebrations in America and visited Spain, to prop up the Sánchez regime, which was in the midst of a corruption investigation, and migrant invasion points that were being used to invade Europe, describing them as a spiritual force that he felt moved to pay tribute to.
PM Sánchez claimed that the mass legalization of illegal aliens had been “endorsed by more than 900 nongovernmental organizations, including the Catholic Church”.
Tens of thousands of Moroccan Muslims would not have swarmed Ceuta if PM Sánchez and Spanish leaders had not given them the idea that they would be welcomed and allowed to stay.
Why would they think that? Because it worked last time around. And the time before that.
After the last mass invasion of Ceuta, PM Sánchez promoted the legalization of 500,000 migrants. In 2021, only 10,000 Muslims invaded Spanish territory. This time around some 50,000 did. The Moroccan government did its part, but it had no shortage of volunteers.
In the New York Times, Prime Minister Sánchez had urged the world to learn from Spain. After the whole world saw videos of tens of thousands of Muslim migrants overrunning Ceuta, it’s more urgent than ever that the world learn from the cautionary example of Spain.
As a progressive socialist-backed candidate faces a moderate Democrat in Tuesday’s primary race for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, the outcome could provide insights into the future of the Democratic Party.
Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate endorsed by the far left wing of the Democratic Party, is facing off against centrist and pro-Israel Rep. Haley Stevens for the Democratic nomination.
The outcome of the race, measured in how much support each candidate’s platform could receive from their voters, could decide what direction the party heads in the future.
Recent polling has indicated that El-Sayed, who was once shown neck and neck with Stevens, is now surging in popularity after last week’s debate.
Anti-Israel Party?
Steve Cortes, the founder of the League of American Workers and has done extensive polling in the state on behalf of his organization, told the Daily Signal that El-Sayed, who has been seen gaining momentum among voters, “proves that moderates are not welcome in the Democratic Party in 2026. These are not your parents’ or grandparents’ Democrats.”
“Abdul is a terrorist sympathizer who personifies the extremist move within the Democrat Party toward a toxic union of Islamism and Marxism,” Cortes continued. “That radical alliance is also represented by officials like Ilhan Omar and Zohran Mamdani.”
Earlier this year, the Washington Free Beacon released footage of El-Sayed’s internal communications with his campaign staffers telling them that he would not comment on the death of the former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei because it could “upset” some voters.
Similarly, Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., an outspoken member of the Congressional Sharia Free America Caucus and the House Freedom Caucus, described El-Sayed as a “jihadist,” “communist,” and “Muslim terrorist,” who has a chance of winning the Democratic primary.
“The Dem party is a Jew hating lunatic party that has lost its way,” Fine continued, adding that El-Sayed might win the primary.
However, Fine remained optimistic about the November general election, where the progressive candidate could face off against Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., which could signal the unwillingness of moderate democrats to throw their support behind a certain ideological wing of the party.
“I don’t think Michiganders are going to vote for a Muslim terrorist to be their senator,” Fine stated.
Some Democratic legislators hold a similar view. On social media, Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., questioned El-Sayed’s views on cutting the foreign aid the United States sends to Israel, after the candidate repeatedly said the United States should spend money at home instead of abroad.
“If Michiganders don’t want their tax dollars sent abroad, will El-Sayed also be ok with cutting off critical American military and humanitarian support for Ukraine, Taiwan, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, etc.?,” Gottheimer wrote. “Or is this just about Israel?”
Previously, El-Sayed also refused to answer whether Israel should be a Jewish state.
Democratic Socialist Label
El-Sayed has denied being a socialist; however, he campaigns with socialist candidates and is endorsed by various Democratic Socialists of America candidates and chapters. He has also been campaigning on a platform that seems to mirror much of that of the Democratic Socialist of America, such as Medicare for all, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ending the Israeli-American military alliance.
This label has instilled fear among many congressional Democrats and political insiders, who are looking to rebuke the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist from their party.
“Although El-Sayed can win a Democrat primary, his brand of far Left anti-Americanism will not carry a common-sense, moderate battleground state like Michigan,” Cortes added.
On Fox News over the weekend, Gottheimer argued that they are socialists who are trying to take over the Democratic Party, which is “unacceptable” to him.
“They’re trying to use the Democratic Party as a vessel for their ideas,” the congressman said. “Literally, they’re supporting the Communist Manifesto and Trotsky, they’re Anti-American, they’re Anti-Cop, they don’t believe in borders.”
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Penn., has called self-proclaimed socialist candidates part of the “dirtbag left.”
Platforming Disgraced Men?
If El-Sayed were to triumph on Tuesday, the outcome could outrage Democrats who have stirred concerns over the candidate for campaigning alongside controversial figures like former Maine Democratic Senate Candidate Graham Platner and Turkish-heritage online streamer Hasan Piker, who once said the U.S. “deserved 9/11” and called for the murder of Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.
Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., in a CNN interview, said that El-Sayed chose “to campaign with Hasan Piker, who said America deserved Sept. 11. Sure, he went on to disavow those comments, but I’m telling you, nobody on my team would ever, you know, come even close to making a comment like that.”
The congresswoman then added that El-Sayed and former Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who had an alleged Nazi tattoo and was repeatedly accused of rape while under the influence of alcohol, “campaigned together.”
Scholten then sounded the alarm on the direction her party is headed by providing a platform to men like El-Sayed and Platner.
“I think that condoning behavior like this from candidates like Abdul El-Sayed is taking us in a direction that we don’t want to go as a party,” Scholten said. “I don’t need $20 million to study why young men stopped voting for the Democratic Party.”
In a different CNN interview, Scholten even accused the progressive of having made “deeply sexist attacks” against his political opponent, adding that “there is a uniquely sexist bent to the things that he has said about women.”
The Democratic congresswoman’s refusal to back such a candidate further marks the divide between the two wings of the party.
El-Sayed did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
According to the Heritage scorecard, her record is only consistent with 10% of House Democrats.
In the 118th Congress, Stevens voted against the SAVE America Act, a key voter integrity legislation championed by President Donald Trump, against legislation to prohibit the Federal Reserve from creating a centralized digital currency, and against legislation to include a citizenship in the upcoming U.S. Census Bureau.
In the 119th, she introduced articles of impeachment against Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.
On the campaign trail, Stevens was attacked by El-Sayed for taking in money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC for short, and “big utility” companies such as DTE Energy or Consumers Energy.
Despite the controversy surrounding her campaign funding and Democratic-aligned voting record, her partisan colleagues, such as Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, former Senator Debbie Stabenow, and Senator Gary Peters, have backed her in the race.
Her former primary opponent, state Sen. Haley Stevens, who also took money from AIPAC and shares similar policies, refused to endorse in the race but said she trusts voters to make the right choice.
If she were to win, her partisan politics and support from longtime Democratic politicians could signal the continuation of the party’s status quo.
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Insane. And the only reason these kooks have a voter base is because the Democrat media/academia complex promote, stump and coverup for these destroyers.
Bad Hombre: Let’s take it from the top again.
Here’s the Democrat lineup going into the midterms:
A diagnosed-bipolar Asian chick with a history of self-harm who’s been institutionalized in a psychiatric ward and overdosed on lithium, and wants to get rid of Thanksgiving. Democrat frontrunner for Wisconsin governor Francesca Hong was previously hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and admitted to having a mental breakdown, suffering from mental illness, and cutting herself.
James Talerico, a guy who plays with a Dr. Fauci doll, proclaims his “love for trans kids,” and met his girlfriend at a gay bar.
Troy Jackson who dresses up as a mechanic for fun, married his cousin, and knocked her up twice.
A guy who frequents events where participants get pissed on in a kiddie pool while wearing assless chaps, whose claim to fame is lowering the age of consent for men to have sex with boys as young as 12, decriminalizing knowingly infecting others with AIDS, and supports allowing convicted pedophiles to run for school board.
A Haitian who thinks the United States is a “f*cking disgrace,” wants to abolish borders, law enforcement, and prisons.
A Muslim who believes the U.S. deserved 9/11, is funded by the Muslim Brotherhood, and whose wife and father-in-law have terrorist connections.
Michigan Primary: House Races With Socialists to Watch
New York Times: Brief summaries on some of the races to watch from the New York Times: Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is term-limited, leaving an open governor’s race in a state that went for Mr. Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024. The contest to replace her is crowded in both primaries without a clear front-runner on either side: Tennessee: Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, is term-limited and unable to run again. The Republican primary will include Senator Marsha Blackburn, who is running less than a year after winning re-election in the Senate.
Seattle Times: In Washington State: U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washougal, has candidates to her right and left vying for Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. National Republicans backing state Sen. John Braun have cast her as too blue for a competitive district that has thrice backed Trump; Democrat Brent Hennrich, meanwhile, argues she is not blue enough. In Central Washington, Republican front-runners Amanda McKinney and Jerrod Sessler are competing for an open seat representing the state’s conservative stronghold in Congress — a race that could reveal how deeply Trump-style politics has reshaped the Republican Party.
Additional Primaries Tomorrow: Kansas, Missouri and Washington
New York Times: Brief summaries on some of the races to watch from the New York Times: Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, is term-limited, leaving an open governor’s race in a state that went for Mr. Trump by 16 percentage points in 2024. The contest to replace her is crowded in both primaries without a clear front-runner on either side: Tennessee: Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, is term-limited and unable to run again. The Republican primary will include Senator Marsha Blackburn, who is running less than a year after winning re-election in the Senate.
Seattle Times: In Washington State: U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washougal, has candidates to her right and left vying for Southwest Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. National Republicans backing state Sen. John Braun have cast her as too blue for a competitive district that has thrice backed Trump; Democrat Brent Hennrich, meanwhile, argues she is not blue enough. In Central Washington, Republican front-runners Amanda McKinney and Jerrod Sessler are competing for an open seat representing the state’s conservative stronghold in Congress — a race that could reveal how deeply Trump-style politics has reshaped the Republican Party.
“Francesca Hong is running for Wisconsin Governor and campaigning with Hasan Piker, who abuses his dog on live streams and states America deserved 9/11.”
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The tarmac belongs to the state, yet the Islamic cult claims the asphalt for themselves every single Friday. Traffic halts, commerce bleeds, and emergency vehicles stall while hundreds bow in unison across active lanes of traffic. This public blockade is an act of war against civil order, a calculated display of territorial dominance disguised as religious devotion. Across major metropolitan corridors worldwide, the Muslim machine has seized the infrastructure, and municipal leadership have surrendered without firing a shot.
Governments draft traffic laws to protect citizens, maintain supply chains, and guarantee emergency transit. Muslim terrorists treat these laws as mere toothless suggestions, transforming high-speed arteries into outdoor sanctuaries through brute force and numerical intimidation. This phenomenon represents a deliberate geopolitical strategy to test state resolve, force legal concessions, and assert supremacy over secular public space.
The strategy follows a precise, military blueprint: the ingress begins with a disciplined swarm into active intersections during peak commute hours, escalates into a full siege as zealots deploy prayer mats directly across multi-lane highways, and culminates in absolute domain through the complete paralysis of the surrounding urban grid — effectively terminating emergency transit, igniting city-wide vehicle gridlock, and triggering the total collapse of state authority within minutes.
This sequence unfolds simultaneously in London, Paris, New York, and Berlin. The uniformity proves coordination. Local police forces stand down, instructed by cowed mayors to prioritize appease-at-all-costs over public safety. Ambulances trap patients in traffic jams while paramedics watch the clock tick toward death. Fire engines burn fuel, immobilized behind human barricades, while buildings consume themselves in flame three blocks away. The law exists on paper; on the street, the Muslim decree overrides the constitution.
France provided a blueprint for resistance in 2011. The state invoked the iron doctrine of laïcité to outlaw the Paris street blockades outright, establishing a municipal ban to shatter the northern Paris occupation. Yet, the Ministry of Interior immediately surrendered the ideological high ground. Bureaucrats handed the cartel a former military barracks to appease the mob, trading absolute public order for temporary quiet. This concession proves that even a secular fortress collapses when it compromises with extortionists.
Citizens pay extortionate property taxes for the right to navigate their cities safely. The state breaks this social contract the moment it permits a religious group to expropriate critical transportation infrastructure. This illegal seizure drains millions from municipal economies every hour the road remains blocked. Deliveries fail, workers lose wages, and logistics networks fracture under the strain of artificial chokepoints.
The brutal reality: A nation that surrenders its roadways surrenders its sovereignty. The Asphalt Cartel relies on the cowardice of secular bureaucrats who mistake weakness for tolerance.
Political leaders claim these blockades represent harmless spiritual expression. This claim is a lie. True faith respects the safety of the community; territorial zealotry demands the subjugation of the populace. By forcing thousands of drivers to watch the spectacle from idling vehicles, the Muslim leadership broadcasts a clear message to the host nation: We control your movement. We control your streets. We dictate the terms of your daily existence.
The state holds a monopoly on legitimate physical force, yet it acts like a castrated beast when faced with Muslim aggression. Police officers, armed with water cannons and riot gear, serve as passive traffic wardens for the illegal assembly rather than enforcing the penal code.
Across North America, municipal codes demand strict permits, police details, and safety plans for any public street closure. Yet, mayors discard these laws the moment the Muslim machine mobilizes. Bureaucrats rebrand illegal, unscheduled gridlock as an exercise of free assembly. They instruct police to stand down under the cowardice of administrative discretion. Local authorities enforce noise ordinances and transit laws against taxpaying citizens, but they grant total immunity to the unpermitted syndicate that occupies the asphalt.
They arrest sole commuters who voice rage at the blockade, while protecting the lawbreakers who cause the standstill.
This inverted justice system accelerates national decay. When a government punishes the victim and rewards the aggressor, law-abiding taxpayers abandon their allegiance to the state. The legal apparatus turns its weapons inward, enforcing compliance on the productive majority while granting immunity to the disruptive enclave.
Civilization collapses when the mob dictates the utility of the road. Tolerance of street blockades breeds total lawlessness across every sector of public life. The solution requires immediate, uncompromising state violence to restore the rule of law.
Deploy Tactical Units: Clear all blocked thoroughfares instantly using maximum legal force, armored vehicles, and chemical dispersants.
Seize Personal Assets: Impound every vehicle, phone, and asset used to organize or execute unauthorized street blockades.
Enforce Permanent Exclusion: Incarcerate key organizers under anti-terrorism laws for sabotage of critical national infrastructure.
Cities must choose between civilization and chaos. The Muslim Road blockades present an existential challenge to the authority of the modern republic. Every delayed response, every nervous retreat by law enforcement, invites deeper incursions into public life. The time for diplomatic debate expired long ago. The state must crush the Asphalt Cartel immediately, clear the roads with iron resolve, and reclaim the public square before the infrastructure of the free world shatters completely.
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Watching FIFA World Cup referees darting back and forth across the pitch these days, I was reminded that some professions are thankless. Theirs is one such job: a single blunder triggers an avalanche of criticism, while getting it right goes unnoticed. Yet, it is not the only one. The role of the politician in charge is another — and one judged even more harshly, I would argue.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article arguing that the real and sustained misuse of terms like “refugee” or “asylum” should not lead to extremes, given that there are, in fact, people who genuinely fit these categories. In that piece, I called on the Trump administration to punish fraudsters — yes — but also to assist the truly persecuted.
Today, I must highlight a couple of cases that illustrate how the White House is embracing this sound practice.
Just weeks after sanctions were imposed on the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) — described by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “a vehicle for radical leftist extremism and subversive foreign influence in the U.S. and throughout our hemisphere” — Carlos Antonio Lloga Domínguez was expelled from the country. He was a former Castro-regime official linked to that organization.
In an official statement, Rubio detailed that despite residing in the U.S., Lloga Domínguez “maintains ties to the organization” as well as “links to the transnational network of communist subversion.” Consequently, he, his wife, and his son “are now in federal custody awaiting removal from the United States.”
Rubio reaffirmed that the country “will never become a home for foreign communists who peddle propaganda, direct subversive influence operations, or support radical anti-American movements.” He further warned that anyone dealing with ICAP would face sanctions, prosecution, or deportation.
Like Rubio, I agree that ICAP is an influence and intelligence group controlled by Havana, possessing an extensive global network that fosters espionage, promotes anti-Western propaganda, coordinates foreign influence operations, and organizes leftist revolutionary movements worldwide.
In recent weeks, [there have been interactions] with former prison system officials, daughters of high-ranking Castro-era military officers, former Communist Youth leaders, and former Ministry of the Interior officers.
On another front, the winds are shifting toward extending a hand to those fighting against socialism.
In early July, an immigration judge dismissed the deportation proceedings facing Cuban journalist Yosmany Mayeta. Originally from Santiago de Cuba, he is a well-known reporter who exposes the brutality of the Castro regime and the hardships of daily life on the island; he also frequently participates in demonstrations calling for the release of political prisoners outside the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C.
He arrived in the United States in 2019 on a student visa linked to his work as an independent journalist. As he detailed on social media, he began the process of regularizing his immigration status, but the case was stalled by the lack of a resolution regarding an immigration waiver that was never processed by the relevant authorities.
Last month, Mayeta explained on social media that he lacked the financial resources to hire specialized legal counsel after his application for permanent residency was denied.
The immigration authorities’ decision ended months of uncertainty for Mayeta, who can now continue his work denouncing an anti-American tyranny without the threat of deportation back to the island.
The journalist told the press that he knew that hearing could change his life.
“Before going in, I said a prayer and surrendered everything to God, like someone letting go of a burden they can no longer carry alone,” he commented. “I feared deportation, but my greatest fear was losing the chance to keep living in a country where I have been able to work and practice journalism freely — something that, in Cuba, cost me beatings, threats, and persecution.” Upon learning of the judge’s decision, the first thing she did was give thanks. “The first thing I did was thank God, with my eyes closed and my heart racing. Then I thought of my family, my lawyers, and all the people — including my followers — who prayed for me and stood by me throughout this process,” he said.
The “Yes” for Mayeta and the “No” for the socialists are good news, a blend of hope and justice that I trust will prove enduring.
Yoe Suárez is The Washington Stand’s international affairs correspondent. He is an exiled journalist, writer, and producer who investigated in Havana about torture, political police, gangs, government black lists, and cybersurveillance. A graduate of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, he was a CBN correspondent, and has written for outlets like The Hill and Newsweek. He has appeared on Vox, Univision, and Deutsche Welle as an analyst on Cuba, security, and U.S. foreign policy.
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Democrats across the country are opposing President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, arguably recreating the nullification crisis that helped spark the Civil War—and this neo-Confederate trend just received a major boost from an influential union.
The American Federation of Teachers, a union that bankrolls Democrat candidates and left-leaning causes, approved a resolution opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its annual convention in July, and that radical resolution encourages further opposition to immigration law, pitting state and local authorities against the federal government.
Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz has threatened to deploy his state’s National Guard troops against federal agents. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claimed federal immigration enforcement was an “occupying force.” Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed laws attempting to dictate how federal agents enforce the law in the Old Dominion.
Governors like JB Pritzker of Illinois, or Gavin Newsom of California, or Tina Kotek of Oregon, openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. Many states and cities have directed state and local law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE when it comes to removing illegal aliens.
These arguments echo the doctrine of nullification, the theory that states can refuse to cooperate with—or even actively obstruct—the enforcement of federal law. South Carolina advanced this theory in the Nullification Crisis of 1832, and it formed part of the bedrock for the South’s secession movements leading up to the Civil War. Today’s “sanctuary” movement differs in many respects, but it also aims to frustrate federal enforcement by mobilizing state and local power against national policy.
The AFT’s Institutional Support for Neo-Confederate Opposition
The union adopted a resolution on July 18 stating that it supports “efforts by governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other state and local leaders across the nation to protect residents from ICE.”
The resolution also pledges to call on elected leaders to “use every tool in their toolbox” to: ban ICE from sensitive locations, ban ICE from conducting immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant, prevent local and state law enforcement coordination with ICE, and provide resources and training for “state employees” to “properly defend against and respond to unlawful actions from ICE agents.”
In a particularly brazen suggestion, the resolution calls on officials to “safeguard public school districts against enrollment declines… through state intervention and financial assistance.”
While the union suggests that ICE is breaking the law, immigration enforcement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, so ICE agents do not need to acquire judicial warrants to carry out raids—administrative warrants are sufficient.
The resolution aligns America’s second-largest teachers union with a campaign to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.
Why AFT Matters
Americans can disagree on immigration policy, but many of us wonder why a teachers union is devoting convention time to opposing federal immigration enforcement rather than addressing reading scores, absenteeism, classroom discipline, or teacher recruitment.
The American Federation of Teachers has long supported Democrats and leftist causes. Many prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, addressed its annual convention in July.
The union’s political action arm has contributed to a wide swath of Democrat candidates in races across the country, according to public records analyzed by the parental rights group Defending Education. It contributed $500,000 to Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s 2025 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, for example.
The American Federation of Teachers “functions as nothing more than a money-laundering operation for the Democrat Party,” Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow for education policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal. “Year after year, 99% of the contributions from Randi Weingarten’s union go to Democrats. She herself held an at-large position at the DNC for decades.”
“The AFT isn’t a labor organization focused on classrooms,” he added. “It’s an arm of the Democratic Party that uses teachers’ dues to advance partisan priorities, fund activist groups, and push policies that have nothing to do with improving education. This ICE resolution is just the latest example.”
Lora Ries, director of Heritage’s border security and immigration center, noted that “the Left has a long list of ‘sensitive areas’ where they claim ICE shouldn’t operate in or near, which would render ICE unable to do its job—and that is the point.”
The union gives Democrats support for the neo-Confederate opposition to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. So long as influential leftist groups like the American Federation of Teachers encourage this divisive lawlessness, the tension will only get worse.
Congressman Randy Fine: They lecture us about “separation of church and state” while funneling your tax dollars into a Muslim-only DEI commission.
No religious group gets preferential treatment with our money.
Not now. Not ever.
It is a grotesque violation of the civil rights of non-Muslims.
Muslims are the only immigrant group who come to the West with a ready made model of society they believe to be superior to Western law and they work furiously, by all means, to impose it. Under Islam, shariah (Islamic) law supersedes Western law. Anywhere Western law and Shariah law conflict, it is always Western law that must give way. What those of us working in defense of freedom did not expect, was the craven capitulation and cowardice by Western left elites to Islamic supremacy.
Massachusetts lawmakers are taking steps toward using taxpayer dollars to prioritize the hiring of American Muslims for state government positions through a permanent so-called Islamic commission, sparking concerns that the Left is prioritizing a religion that contradicts its own political agenda.
If enacted, Bill S.2134, “An Act promoting the civil rights and inclusion of American Muslims in the commonwealth,” would create a “permanent” commission to help recommend Americans who practice Islam for appointed government positions in the New England state.
The commission, as stated in the bill, would consist of a panel of 11 Muslims appointed by Democrat Gov. Maura Healey and other state officials to represent the Islamic faith on issues such as business, the economy, health care, and other concerns.
The commission will be responsible for executing eight different tasks, which include serving as a liaison between the Muslim American community and the government, researching “Islamophobia,” recommending Muslim Americans for positions in the government, and undertaking “activities designed to enable the commonwealth to realize the full benefit of the skills, talents, and cultural heritage of American Muslims.”
“The commission shall … [e]valuate the commonwealth’s hate crime statutes and whether any amendments would better protect residents from Islamophobia and other similar forms of hatred,” the bill says.
The Muslim commission would influence government recruiting and “identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for appointive positions at all levels of government, including boards and commissions, as the commission considers necessary and appropriate,” according to language in the bill.
Democrat state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, who introduced the bill, said he did so because “Massachusetts has always prided itself on being a leader in equality and civil rights, a legacy this bill builds upon.”
“American Muslims in my district and across the Commonwealth enrich our communities as students, health care workers, educators, small business owners, and civic leaders,” Eldridge added in the press release on the proposal. “This commission will help the state better understand and address the challenges they face, while strengthening inclusion and civic participation.”
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On July 4, a documentary titled “Remember the Alamo: Don’t Sharia My Texas” was released, drawing attention from supporters and critics alike over its information on Islam.
The film, created by Chris Burgard, argues that there is a coordinated effort to introduce Sharia law into American society, with Texas serving as the primary target. Throughout the documentary, speakers claim that Dallas has become the “Mecca of the West.”
The documentary opens by recounting the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution in 1836 before shifting to the new threat Burgard says the state now faces in the threat of Islam.
Burgard interviews several individuals throughout the film, including former U.S. Rep. Allen West, former FBI Special Agent and counterterrorism expert John Guandolo, investigative journalist Lara Logan, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
According to the documentary, Islamic leaders are working to expand Islam’s influence in Texas. The film includes clips of Islamic scholars and imams discussing their religious beliefs and goals, as well as segments examining terrorist attacks carried out on U.S. soil. Burgard also argues that Islamic organizations have increasingly used litigation, or “lawfare,” to advance their objectives.
The documentary features an interview with Aziz Budri, Muslim scholar and founder of the Muslim Association of America, discussing his views on Islam and its practice.
Another portion of the film focuses on Nigeria, where Burgard shows how tens of thousands of Christians in the region have been killed by Islamic groups. The documentary includes an interview with a Nigerian journalist who explains how Muslims are systematically executing jihad in the country.
Logan also recounts her experience covering the 2011 protests in Egypt, during which she was beaten and sexually assaulted for almost 40 minutes. Her testimony, along with comments from her husband, is used in the documentary to illustrate the dangers women face in Muslim-majority countries.
Burgard told the Daily Signal he made this film to warn Americans about the growing threat.
“We made this movie to protect Texas and America from Sharia law,” Burgard said. “I made this movie so that we could avoid the violence.”
Burgard also described the strategies Islamic leaders are using to expand their influence in the United States.
“As we say in the movie, when you see all these military-aged men closing down a street and praying, it’s not because they don’t have room in the mosque—they’re claiming that territory,” Burgard said. “Those images are going out to the rest of the Islamic world, and they’re saying, ‘We claim this territory.’”
He added that, in 1991, “the Muslim Brotherhood adopted this mission to take down the United States from the inside.”
“They would destroy America and the North American Western Civilization from the inside,” Burgard said.
The documentary was released as several Islamic development projects have drawn public attention in North Texas. Among other developments, a former Korean church is being converted into a mosque and Islamic academy in Richardson, and plans are underway for a proposed mosque expansion in McKinney.
Earlier this month, the San Antonio Current published a film review by Julianna Plewes describing Burgard as a “far-right filmmaker.”
Plewes wrote that the documentary “weaves in both fact and fiction, often with narrative glue heavy on unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”
In an unpublished rebuttal provided to the Daily Signal, Burgard said Plewes never contacted him or the film’s producer, Tim Lowry, for comment before publishing the article.
“That’s lazy journalism at best. … I will let those who watch the film at RememberTheAlamomovie.com decide for themselves,” Burgard wrote.
The documentary is available for purchase for $19.99. Burgard is also hosting screenings across Texas. Information on the film and screenings are posted on the movie’s website.
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