BLOCKED: A Maryland court just shut down Democrats' attempt to add a congressional redistricting initiative to the November ballot — ruling they violated their own state deadlines for ballot measures.
Democrats already control seven of Maryland's eight congressional districts. The proposed constitutional amendment would have removed the requirement that districts be compact and follow "natural boundaries," clearing the way to redraw the lone Republican-held district ahead of 2028.
The ruling is part of a nationwide redistricting war heading into the 2026 midterms, with similar efforts by Democrats already struck down in Virginia.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is under fire after publicly mourning the death of a Rikers Island inmate who was charged with hacking a man to death with meat cleavers in an unprovoked Bronx laundromat attack.
Clarence Woodward had 27 prior arrests and had been paroled just one month before the alleged killing. Mamdani called his death in custody deeply saddening and vowed to close Rikers Island "as quickly as possible."
The post has been viewed over 3.2 million times, with conservatives ripping the mayor for offering condolences to an accused murderer while saying nothing about the victim.
Michigan's own Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel is publicly ripping her party's U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed for what she calls making excuses for domestic terrorism — specifically his response to the Hezbollah-inspired attack on Temple Israel synagogue where a gunman sought to kill over 100 pre-K schoolchildren.
Nessel says El-Sayed's statement amounted to rationalizing the attempted massacre. She says he has privately expressed regret but still refuses to publicly retract the remarks months later, leaving her "concerned that he really stands by them."
Nessel also warned of "an enormous amount of anti-Semitism within the Democratic Party" and said she doesn't feel safe attending her own state party's convention as a Jewish person.
A Minnesota judge sentenced two men to prison for their roles in the Feeding Our Future fraud scheme — a fake child nutrition program that stole $7.3 million in COVID relief funds meant to feed thousands of kids in the Twin Cities.
Ahmed Ghedi got over five years. Abdihakim Ahmed got four and a half. Instead of feeding children, prosecutors say they used taxpayer money to buy cars, property, and kick cash back to a Feeding Our Future employee. The judge ordered both to pay millions in restitution.
Their sentencing follows the conviction of mastermind Amee Bock, who received nearly 42 years in prison for orchestrating $250 million in pandemic relief fraud. The sprawling investigation has led to dozens of convictions and spurred the Trump administration's surge of federal officers to Minneapolis-St. Paul last winter.
A Soros-backed prosecutor in Fairfax County is facing recall effort after a grieving mother says he let an illegal immigrant with 30 prior arrests walk free — before the man allegedly stabbed her daughter to death at a bus stop.
Cheryl Minter has gathered more than 12,000 signatures to remove Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano, saying her daughter Stephanie's killing was "the predictable consequence of decisions made by Descano." The suspect, Abdul Jalloh from Sierra Leone, had convictions for malicious wounding, identity theft, trespassing, assault, and a prior charge for forcible rape.
Minter says this isn't an isolated failure — it's a pattern. And she's pushing to make the recall a message to soft-on-crime prosecutors nationwide.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejoined the Democratic Socialists of America this month after her membership had lapsed for seven years.
DSA said Ocasio-Cortez joined in 2018 with a one-year membership that expired in 2019. The group continued to publicly identify her as a member before recently discovering the lapse.
The renewal comes as DSA-backed candidates notch a string of Democratic primary victories and Ocasio-Cortez draws growing speculation about a possible 2028 presidential run.
Chuck Schumer declares Democrats will reclaim the Senate majority in 2026, claiming the party has "blown the map wide open" after Cook Political Report shifted key races in Texas and Iowa to toss-up status.
Six Senate seats are now rated as pure toss-ups in the Fox News Power Rankings — Michigan, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Maine, and Alaska — giving Democrats multiple paths to flip the chamber. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority but face brutal midterm headwinds: persistent inflation, high gas prices, an unpopular war with Iran, and Trump's underwater approval ratings.
But Democrats have their own problems. Their party brand polls as extremely unpopular, and high-profile primary wins by far-left and socialist candidates are handing Republicans ammunition to paint the entire party as extremist. In Michigan, far-left nominee Abdul El-Sayed's failure to unify his base after a combustible primary has already shifted that open seat from lean Democrat to toss-up.
DHS fired 3 more FEMA workers after an inspector general report found crews deliberately skipped homes displaying pro-Trump signs during Hurricane Milton disaster relief in Florida.
The terminations follow the earlier firing of a FEMA supervisor who instructed personnel to avoid homes with Trump signage in Lake Placid, Florida, in 2024. DHS says its Office of Professional Responsibility found the three employees "failed to meet FEMA's standards of conduct."
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin: "Our job is to protect the American people, regardless of their political beliefs. This is especially important when it comes to disaster relief, where every second counts and lives are on the line."
Rep. Debbie Dingell said she is “done” answering questions about Hasan Piker while campaigning for Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Dingell argued Piker is not what the November race is about and accused Republicans of trying to make him an issue.
Republicans and conservative commentators quickly seized on the remarks, arguing Dingell’s frustration exposed a political vulnerability for Democrats.
Conservatives immediately seized on the moment, arguing Dingell exposed exactly where Democrats are vulnerable — their continued association with a socialist streamer who said "America deserved 9/11" and called for streets to run with "red capitalist blood."
Hasan Piker fires back at Sen. Jon Ossoff after the Georgia Democrat condemned his remarks about antisemitism — accusing mainstream media of a "credibility crisis" and calling politicians a "bought & sold political class" beholden to AIPAC.
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