"The strength of a country is ultimately a reflection of the character, discipline and standards of the people who make it up...A population of weak, unhealthy, uninformed and dependent people is a hell of a lot easier to control than a population of strong, healthy, educated and self-reliant people. Your responsibility is to become the exact opposite of everything they want for you to the best of your abilities...A culture of personal excellence is the foundation of a great country." @andyfrisella
@tarenfeist Subscribe to Senator @DavidBrockSmith's weekly update. Every Sunday he sends out an email with the bills—good and bad—that will be heard the coming week. It's essential news for everyone who cares about Oregon. https://t.co/wwHchKAmFa
🚨 TUESDAY TAKEDOWN: STEAL SNAP. GET BUSTED.
More than $862,000 in SNAP benefits allegedly diverted—with some wired overseas to Ramallah in the West Bank.
Florida authorities arrested Anwar Jouda for allegedly using a stolen identity, forged documents, and fraudulent merchant accounts to redirect SNAP funds into accounts he controlled.
He now faces charges of grand theft, organized scheme to defraud, and criminal use of personal identification information.
These benefits are meant to help eligible American families put food on the table. Every dollar stolen is a dollar taken from those who need it.
@USDA will keep fighting to protect taxpayers and root out SNAP fraud.
Report suspected fraud: https://t.co/QuSzhWC8kZ
Another Portland business is voting with its feet—and moving across the Columbia River.
Battle Grounds Gaming Café, which opened in Portland’s Hollywood District in 2023, is relocating to downtown Vancouver. Its co-owner says Vancouver’s commitment to promoting small businesses made the decision a “no-brainer.”
Read that again. A business opened in Portland, but found a better opportunity in Vancouver.
Portland keeps talking about supporting small businesses while watching them leave. Vancouver is competing for them. Portland is losing them.
At some point, city leaders need to stop making excuses and ask why businesses see a brighter future on the other side of the river.
@PortlandDSA@MayorKWilson@mitch4portland@pnwpolicyangel@candaceforpdx@TeacherTiff4PDX@kanalforpdx@GovTinaKotek
FAKE NEWS ALERT
“That is a gain potentially of nearly 50 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would represent one of the largest gains, or, I believe, the largest gain, since basically 1974. That, of course, was the Watergate midterms.”
—Harry Enten, CNN, November 4, 2026
Can’t make this up. A socialist in Nithya’s district is really upset that someone practiced socialism on them with their “community library”
“The library has been cleaned out overnight recently, multiple times.
Most of the books are purchased by me and I cannot afford to restock the library again and again when all the books get taken”
The communist learning the hard way that communism in real life ain’t nearly as cute as it seems on paper, cuz…guess what? Eventually you run out of other people’s stuff! Stupid commies.
On Nov. 10, 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia resolved to raise two battalions to serve aboard the Continental fleet and conduct landing operations. The resolution would produce an institution still going strong more than two and a half centuries later—the United States Marine Corps.
Cutting the cake with a sword reminds Marines that they are a band of warriors committed to carrying the sword so the nation can live in peace.
https://t.co/6lgbgXGReb
@ChrisLemke4OR It is the job of grassroots Republicans to support and promote the best candidates in the Primary. It is our job to support and promote the choice of the Republican voters after the Primary.
Hi. Want to see a murder on live TV?
I give you New White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller vs. Jake Tapper on CNN.
Tapper said we need illegals here to pick our crops.
Then, Fatality.
Today is the National Day for the Victims of Communism. Communism killed more than 100 million people in the 20th century.
This memorial, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Prague, powerfully captures what communism does to the human person.
When a United States Senator and his wife conspire to steal a million bucks from taxpayers, you might think it would bring serious consequences.
https://t.co/4kaeheIcVY
And you’d be wrong.
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden claims to represent Oregon but lives 3-thousand miles away in New York.
Wyden’s wife inherited tens of millions of dollars and a New York bookstore chain started by her granddad.
When the pandemic hit, Nancy Bass Wyden lined up at the public trough to gobble up a million-dollar-plus loan.
PPP loans were supposed to save American jobs.
But the Senator’s wife Pink slipped almost all of her more than 200 employees. With the loan in hand, she brought 30 workers back…but a few weeks later, laid off half of them.
She never paid the PPP loan back, but she did make a six-figure investment in Amazon stock.
When Congress offered a second dip into the PPP loan pool, it banned Senators and their families from getting the money.
Nancy Bass Wyden now pleads ignorance of the law, even though she sleeps with the guy who wrote it. (Senator Wyden was, at the time, a senior member of the Senate finance committee.)
So, six years after they illegally took almost a million taxpayer bucks, all Wyden and wife have to do is pay the money back and a tiny fine.
Crime pays, at least for democrats.
Doing some research many of us think there is just a couple of unions and their funds are directly from workers here in Oregon. Well, that’s incorrect. This union is located in DC and it funneled money into campaigns here. Check this out ⬇️
Tina Kotek has decided that Oregon children will not be allowed to benefit from this program. Generous Oregonians who care that all children have the chance for academic success can donate to programs that benefit children in these 32 states, but not in Oregon.
BREAKING: New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham just opted the state into President Trump's nationwide school choice program.
We're now at 32 states.