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By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell After the Virginia redistricting power grab election on Tuesday was won by the Democrats, RedState reported that the battle was far from over. Now the battle moves into the court system, and that will decide the final fate of the constitutionality of this referendum.  Dive Deeper :  Breaking: The Results Are In – Here's How Virginia Voted on Democrat-Led Gerrymandering It didn't take long. On Wednesday afternoon, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. ruled that Tuesday's referendum is unconstitutional and issued an injunction preventing the certification of the election maps. Judge Hurley has also denied any motion to stay his ruling pending appeal. UPDATE on referendum lawsuits: The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be… — Ken...

By Robert Spencer Even the most artful and biting of satirists — say, Jonathan Swift, or Mark Twain — would be dumbfounded at this story, but this isn’t satire at all. It’s just another day in our age of absurdity. The  Daily Mail  reported Tuesday that “a Canadian terrorist who burst into a military recruitment service and stabbed soldiers has been given permission to fly to Saudi Arabia and Somalia – even though officials say he ‘continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.’”  They seem to think that the trip will do Ayanle Hassan Ali good, as it will help him become a more devout and observant Muslim, and what could possibly be the problem with that? This ridiculous comic opera began when Ali “entered the Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto in March 2016 and immediately attacked the corporal who was seated at the entrance, repeatedly punching him in the head and using a kitchen knife to slash and stab at the soldier. He then fought off other so...

By Becky Noble We all remember during the 2016 Presidential campaign, when former President Barack Obama was asked about blue-collar jobs that  continued to go overseas . He stated matter-of-factly that “some of those jobs of the past are just not going to come back," and even added a bit of snark,  saying of then-candidate  Donald Trump, who had promised a revival of manufacturing jobs, “There’s no answer to it...  What magic wand do you have?” Well, like a lot of other things, turns out we didn't need a magic wand, just a new President. We’re proud to increase our investment in U.S. manufacturing to $600M over two years. 🇺🇸 Expanding technical skills training, supporting veteran careers, and brewing futures. Because nothing goes better than American beers and American careers. #ThatsWhoWeAre pic.twitter.com/K743ldh9y3 — Anheuser-Busch (@AnheuserBusch) April 22, 2026 On Wednesday, beer giant Anheuser-Busch (AB)  announced it would be expanding  on...

By Ward Clark To all the leftist propagandists going on and on about the inhumanity of actually enforcing our immigration laws and securing our national borders, I can only say this: You're losing, and it's working. Even CBS, a bastion of the legacy media, is covering the Trump administration's success in this. On Tuesday, CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez went to a stretch of the border near Eagle Pass, Texas, that during the Biden years was flooded with illegal immigrants.  Now? Crickets rule . Funny how changing our US President immediately produces safe borders and communities. We must never go back to such chaos with democrats. — Bret Weingart (@kbweingart) April 22, 2026 Mr. Montoya-Galvez informs us: This is the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas. You can see Mexico just a few yards away across the Rio Grande. And this is what it looked like in December of 2023 under the Biden administration. (Switches to archived footage) Behind me is a makeshift stag...

By Tim O'Brein You know the joke about how fast you need to be if a bear is chasing you, don’t you? You don’t have to be faster than the bear; you just need to be faster than the other guy. To put a finer point on that, if you ever watch those nature documentaries and programs, you notice that the law of the jungle dictates that when a predator is chasing down a herd of prey, the slowest and perhaps the weakest member of the herd becomes the victim. The rest of the herd survives for at least another day. It’s not much more complicated than that when seeking to understand how the Democrats and the rest of the left are trying to take down Donald Trump and his administration. The law of the jungle, one member at a time. More often than not, the tactical mistake the left continues to make is to go after the strongest members of the administration first, not the weakest one. They attack the ones they fear most instead of the ones they least fear. It’s why they come up dry so often. ...

By BLAZETV STAFF Last weekend during the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus Legacy Luncheon, Democrat Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) quite literally shouted a speech, in which he implored Democrats to become "foot soldiers for democracy" and warned of "darkness and wind" facing the nation ahead of the midterms. At one point in his 25-minute fire-and-brimstone jeremiad, Booker, gesturing upward, bellowed, “What we need is not from on high!” On a recent episode of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” Pat played the clip of the speech and concluded that Booker is an “antichrist” among us. Pat translates Booker’s controversial line: “He is telling you we don't need God.” “Well, that's an antichrist. ... Maybe not  the  Antichrist, but he's an antichrist,” he argues, calling it “frightening.” The panel agrees that Booker and fellow Democrats’ wild antics are the result of Trump derangement syndrome. “The infection has really spread,”...

By Matt Margolis Virginia used to be a model of fair redistricting. That reputation is now gone. On Tuesday, Virginia Democrats passed a redistricting plan that transforms one of the most fairly apportioned states in the country into one of the most blatantly gerrymandered. Keep in mind that Virginia only narrowly backed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in 2024 by roughly five points. Virginia is, in every way, a battleground state. Yet under the new map, nearly half the state’s voters effectively lose their voice. The new lines snake from densely packed, heavily Democratic suburbs deep into rural territory. There is nothing democratic about it. And the endgame is obvious. If these maps survive a court challenge, Democrats will have a much easier path to stacking Congress against President Donald Trump — setting up yet another sham impeachment attempt over nothing. Democrats aren’t even hiding what they’re doing anymore. Why would they? Republicans have spent years playing nice whil...

By Bob Hoge Donald Trump’s pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome “Too Late” Powell, Kevin Warsh, faced the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday for confirmation hearings, where several Democrats predictably trashed him and tried to get him to turn on the president. Although it was an official hearing, there may not be a vote anytime soon because Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is vowing  to block  one until the Department of Justice concludes its investigation into whether Powell made false statements about the $2.5 Fed  construction project . You would think a hearing about the Reserve, interest rates, and economics would be dry, but Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren brought some unintentional humor to the proceedings by breaking out her cranky, hen-pecking attitude when it was her turn to ask questions.  She kept badgering Warsh to disagree with Trump on something — anything. He did finally come up with an answer, but it certainly wasn’t what she was f...

By OLIVER JJ LANE At least three container ships have been attacked in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran this morning, with a Royal Navy office reporting “heavy damage” to at least one, and Tehran claiming ships had been seized and taken into Iranian waters “in order to examine the cargo and documents”. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has opened fire on three container ships attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the maritime chokepoint at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, as a strained ceasefire is challenged by two mutual blockades imposed by Iran and the United States attempt to deny each other access to the critical-to-trade waterway. Britain’s Maritime Trade Operations centre (UKMTO)  reports  that in the early hours of Wednesday morning the Greek-owned, Liberia-flagged container ship  Epaminondas  was approached by an “IRGC gun boat” and fired on without warning. The attack “caused heavy damage to the bridge”, although no injuries, fires aboard, enviro...

By ELIZABETH WEIBEL The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was charged with fraud and money laundering involving “violent extremist groups.” In a press release from the Office of Public Affairs for the DOJ it was  revealed  that the SPLC was charged by an Alabama grand jury “with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.” According to the press release, an indictment says that “starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan”: According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, so...