By José Niño

As the new year has unfolded, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in government, business, and education have found themselves under intense scrutiny, sparking both bold adaptations and quiet retreats.

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The most consequential initiatives began with President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, when he immediately issued a series of executive orders targeting DEI programs. Executive Order 14173, titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” directed all federal agencies to identify and address potentially illegal forms of discrimination, including those in DEI programs.

A similar order, “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” targeted DEI offices and policies within federal agencies.

The Department of Education (DE) quickly responded by taking down references to DEI in public-facing communications and placing DEI staff on administrative leave. The DE also dissolved its Diversity & Inclusion Council and the Employee Engagement Diversity Equity Inclusion Accessibility Council within the Office for Civil Rights.

In February, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo ordering the DE to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize illegal DEI and DEIA preferences” (the extra “A” standing for “Accessibility”) at private companies and universities receiving federal funds. This initiative gained further traction in March when the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and DOJ released joint technical assistance documents clarifying which DEI practices would be deemed “illegal.”

The executive orders have faced legal challenges, with a federal court issuing a nationwide injunction on Feb. 21, 2025. That said, by March, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stayed this injunction, effectively reviving the orders.

This legal back-and-forth culminated on April 4, when the Supreme Court granted the DE’s emergency application to vacate a temporary restraining order that had prevented it from shuttering certain teacher-training grant programs.

On the business front, corporations have had to walk a tightrope with respect to their adherence to DEI policies. Several companies have strategically rebranded their DEI initiatives. On March 14, 2025, Kohl’s changed the title of  its chief DEI officer to “chief inclusion and belonging officer,” while expanding its supplier diversity program to incorporate qualified small businesses. Similarly, UnitedHealth Group removed DEI-dedicated web pages and adopted language like “culture of belonging.”

By the middle of March, over 200 of America’s largest corporations had erased mentions of DEI and similar terms from their annual reports.

IBM shifted its supplier diversity goals away from race and gender considerations, and stopped connecting executive compensation to diversity hiring goals, alluding to “inherent tensions in practicing inclusion.” Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, announced it would no longer publish diversity data and removed diversity references from its corporate website.

Despite the trend toward scaling back DEI policies, some organizations have reaffirmed their DEI commitments. During a March 13 shareholder meeting, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol emphasized that DEI practices are “fundamental” to the company’s business strength.

While federal policy has attracted significant attention, state-level actions have also shaped the DEI landscape.

By March 3, 2025, 17 states had passed anti-DEI legislation, with proposals introduced in 12 additional states. These laws restrict DEI measures in several ways, such as eliminating taxpayer funding for DEI programs, dismantling DEI departments, discontinuing DEI training programs, and halting hiring and admissions practices based on DEI criteria.

States such as Alabama have banned “divisive concepts,” while prohibiting public colleges from using taxpayer dollars to financially support programs based on protected characteristics. In a similar vein, Florida prohibited public universities from using federal or state funds to advance DEI initiatives.

However, the fight to get rid of DEI is far from over. For example, recent audits ordered by Wisconsin Republicans found that state agencies and the University of Wisconsin (UW) system failed to adequately track millions of dollars spent on DEI initiatives, making it difficult to evaluate these programs.

In January, the university’s main campus dismissed its chief diversity officer, La Var Charleston, citing what officials described as poor financial choices, including authorizing large pay increases and what they considered excessive travel spending.

The university is among 50 institutions nationwide that President Trump claims are under investigation for alleged racial discrimination connected to DEI programs. UW-Madison is also one of 60 schools being investigated by federal education officials over allegations that it failed to protect Jewish students during 2024 campus protests against the Gaza genocide.

The audits estimated that millions of dollars were spent on DEI activities. They found that neither the UW system nor the 15 state agencies reviewed specifically tracked their DEI spending during the 2023-2024 fiscal year, which ends on June 30.

Auditors noted that the UW system’s board of regents and administration did not require campuses to define DEI, leading each school to develop its own approach. They estimated the system spent about $40 million on offices involved in DEI work, with $12.5 million going to salaries for DEI-related positions and another $8 million for DEI activities. Twelve state agencies spent roughly $2.2 million on salaries for jobs connected to DEI.

The administration of Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers did not consistently require agencies to properly develop and implement the new anti-DEI plans, according to the audit. Agencies also failed to consistently document when they addressed noncompliance, the report noted.

Legislative Republicans have long advocated for ending DEI programs, and last year called for the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau to conduct the review. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has pledged to eliminate diversity initiatives in state government, calling them “cancerous” and expressing a desire for a “truly colorblind” society.

Vos stated on April 11 that assembly Republicans will continue efforts to eliminate DEI as they work on the 2025-27 state budget, asserting that student achievement should be determined by merit.

Whether Trump’s efforts to roll back DEI measures mark a temporary pause or a lasting transformation, the coming months will reveal how deeply ingrained DEI remains in the fabric of American life.

With legal battles ongoing and corporate strategies evolving, the future of DEI in America remains anything but settled.

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By Richard Walker

While the mainstream media is focused on a tariffs war with China, it ignores the massive cost of the shadow war China has been waging against America for decades.

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While there are no figures for the overall cost to the U.S. economy of a war aimed at intellectual theft conducted through conventional espionage and computer hacking, the scale of it can be judged from available statistics. In 2015, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) estimated it was costing $400 billion annually. That, however, was merely theft through cyberattacks.

Because China has since become a country with a massive hacking capability, one can imagine the extra­ordinary financial hit to the U.S. economy from all of China’s illegal activities.

The American public has been denied the true cost of this shadowy war because of underreporting and a reluctance on the part of big companies to admit that they were hacked. There has also been the inertia of Congress in addressing the sheer scale of the China threat. Congressional failure can be attributed to blind ignorance, or a conviction that doing business with China is more important than protecting our nation from theft on a scale many might say is unthinkable.

The Biden and Trump families have both done business with China. Ivanka Trump has owned factories there, and Hunter Biden sought opportunities in the private equity sphere for his Chinese partners and for himself.

According to some estimates, the loss to the U.S. economy is now $600 billion annually, and that may be a drop in the bucket since China fields a cyber force of 40,000 hackers, compared to U.S. Cyber Command, which alleges it has but 6,000 personnel. Thus, there is little reliable public data on the true scale of the war.

China is stealing not only data on tens of millions of Americans from public and private entities, it is acquiring America’s most prized military secrets. Just look at images of China’s fifth-generation fighters, and it does not take a brilliant mind to see that they are carbon copies of the U.S. F22 and the F35 Joint Strike fighters.

We know this to be true because, in 2016, a Chinese national, Su Bin, operating from Canada, appeared in a federal court where he admitted stealing, with the help of two unnamed associates, plans for the F22 and F35, as well as other aircraft. He passed the stolen data to the Chinese government. Su Bin had been targeting the United States for six years undetected. For reasons never explained by federal authorities, he got a mere five-year prison term.

The financial cost of this kind of sabotage is incalculable and could cost many lives should there ever be a shooting war with the Chinese. This theft, and so much more we know little to nothing about, is linked to the determination of China to gain a technological military advantage over the United States.

In March 2025, a window into this hacking war was provided by the Department of Justice (DOJ) when it named 12 Chinese nationals it would like to prosecute. They were part of a team of Chinese government hackers operating against U.S. systems from 2016 until 2023.

The DOJ said that these malign actors targeted religious organizations as well as technology companies, think tanks, law firms, defense contractors, local governments, health care systems, and universities, leaving behind them a wake of millions of dollars in damages. Experts in the cyber field say that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The loss of strategic military data is most frightening, and it is impossible to calculate that in monetary terms.

China has waged its espionage and cyberwar with a specific wish list directed to the theft of technical data related to satellites, fighter aircraft, and missile development by companies like Ray­theon.

China’s overseas intelligence gathering is done through the Ministry of State Security, its version of the CIA, but its cyberwar against the United States is run by the People’s Liberation Army and its cyber command under the aegis of the Third Department of its General Staff.

There should never have been any secret about China’s espionage war. Just as Israel built its nuclear arsenal by stealing secrets from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Los Alamos (and, some would say, with the help of the Israelis*), China did likewise in the 1980s, and the CIA, FBI, and Congress knew about it.

Congress’s “COX Report” in 1999 revealed what some called “dirty little secrets,” including how China had 3,000 front companies in the United States, and little was known about them. It also said that there was a pattern of systematic and successful Chinese espionage to learn America’s nuclear secret.

More recent reports by think tanks, like the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, have documented the growing ability of China to continue to target the United States as part of a plan forged by China’s President Xi Jinping after he took office in 2012.

So, while the media and political focus is on a tariffs battle with China, America is losing a more costly battle directed by China at the theft of U.S. intellectual property and military secrets.

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New York Hypocrite

Infamous New York Attorney General Letitia James has been hit with allegations by the Trump administration, accusing her of mortgage fraud. Fox News reports that the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, accusing her of crimes. FHFA Director William Pulte said in a letter that James appears to have falsified records to meet certain lending requirements and receive favor­able loan terms. In an interview on Fox, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley remarked on the irony of James getting accused of falsifying records. “This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, and, among the charges that were brought in New York … was making false or misleading statements to financial institutions,” said Turley.

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Israel and Iran

Independent news agency “Drop Site” recently revealed in a blockbuster report that former Israeli Ministry of Defense official Merav Ceren is now leading the Israel and Iran desk at the National Security Council—a position that gives Ceren access to all U.S. intelligence on the two countries as well as an inside view into any policy decisions made in regard to them. The news comes at a time when the Trump administration has been negotiating with Iran to curb its nuclear program. With Ceren in that post, reported “Drop Site,” Israel has “an unusual advantage in internal policy discussions just as the Israeli government has launched a new campaign to pressure the American government to start a war with Iran rather than continue with negotiations toward a nuclear deal.”

Bring the Troops Home

CNN recently reported that, to meet Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s budgetary and strategic goals, the U.S. Army will have to shrink the number of U.S. ground forces in Europe by a sizable number. President Donald Trump has been emphatic that the United States can no longer serve as the continent’s primary security guarantor and that other issues should take priority, such as China and protecting the U.S. southern border. As AFP goes to press on April 24, some 100,000 U.S. forces are currently stationed throughout Europe.

Trillion-Dollar Military

The Trump administration announced recently that they want to increase the U.S. military budget to an unprecedented $1 trillion for 2026. If the appropriations package passes Congress, for the entire year of 2026, the Pentagon will be spending $2.74 billion per day or $114 million every hour or $31,709 every second.

Not a Terror Group, Says Hamas

In an extraordinary legal filing in London earlier in April, Hamas is arguing that the British government should remove its designation as a terror group and recognize its legitimate role as a Palestinian resistance movement engaged in a struggle for self-determination and liberation. A top political leader of Hamas, who has been involved in the lawsuit, said his organization rejects allegations that the movement is a terror organization, adding the group poses no threat to Western nations. “Hamas is not a terrorist group,” wrote Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of international relations for Hamas and the applicant for the lawsuit. “It is a Palestinian Islamic liberation and resistance movement whose goal is to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist project. We also look outward to draw inspiration from the ­glorious tradition of all those peoples and groups who have resisted colonialism, occupation, and imperialism in the name of justice, dignity, and human equality.”

Plenty of New Fighters

According to a new report published by Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, Israeli military officials believe that Hamas has been able to fill its military ranks and now has 40,000 combatants in spite of the near constant bombing Gaza has sustained since October 2023. In addition, these same Israeli officials estimate that the military has only been able to destroy about 25% of the tunnels in Gaza that Hamas fighters use to navigate the region. According to some estimates, the Israelis have dropped more than 100,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, an area about the size of Manhattan.

A Half Billion Dollars

Since March 3, the Houthis in Yemen have been able to shoot down six U.S.-operated MQ-9 Reaper drones, reports Fox News. Each drone costs U.S. taxpayers about $30 million. Since President Donald Trump ordered attacks on the Houthis in early March, the U.S. military has carried out 35 days of bombing, and, yet, the Houthis continue to fire missiles targeted at these expensive U.S. assets. The Houthis also keep firing ballistic missiles at Israel, and international shipping has nearly ground to a halt in the Red Sea—the very reason Trump ordered the attacks on Yemen in the first place. In all, the Houthis have shot down at least 16 American drones since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict in October 2023. The loss of 16 Reapers totals more than $500 million. According to Fox News, the U.S. only has 230 Reapers in its arsenal.

Audit & Fire the Fed

The Supreme Court is getting ready to tackle a question that, while not directly about the Federal Reserve, could determine whether presidents have the power to fire the chair of the privately owned and controlled central U.S. bank. So far, the high court has been tightlipped about where the justices stand on the issue, but the decision will ultimately determine if Trump can fire Jerome Powell, whom he nominated in 2017. Perhaps Mr. Trump might first audit the Fed, to find out what is really going on over there, as former Rep. Ron Paul has urged for decades.

Punishing Scientists

American researchers can protest any country in the world—except for one—according to a new policy set by the Trump administration’s National Institute of Health (NIH). And it’s not just revocation of funding that is at risk. U.S. scientists who engage in nonviolent protests or political expression related to this one particular country could even face civil and criminal penalties. NIH is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, and it touches every corner of the scientific community, so the policy affects just about every scientist in the United States. The new NIH policy, which mirrors anti-“boycott, divestment, and sanctions” laws applied to government contractors in 38 states, will now silence hundreds of thousands of researchers, effective April 21. If you haven’t figured out by now, the one country you can’t criticize is not the United States. It is Israel.

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There is a coup quietly taking place in the U.S. military, namely the warmongering Deep State has been exploiting recent scandals to oust antiwar officials, isolate the secretary of defense, and, ultimately, force yet another regime change war—this time with Iran. Independent media voices on the left and the right have been reporting in depth on this, while the mainstream media has remained silent about a shocking move that is threatening to upend the Trump presidency.

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On April 18, news broke that several top military officials had been removed from their posts at the Pentagon, citing reports that they had been accused of leaking classified information to mainstream journalists. The five individuals happened to all be close aides of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and had been longtime supporters of President Donald Trump. The reports specifically named Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper; Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick; senior advisor to Hegseth Dan Caldwell; the assistant for public affairs in Hegseth’s office, John Ullyot; and the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, Colin Carroll.

On April 22, Caldwell, who had also worked in the first Trump administration, was interviewed by popular independent conservative commentator Tucker Carlson. In that interview, Carlson fired back at the Deep State, noting, “Dan Caldwell was one of the strongest voices at the Pentagon opposing war with Iran. Then he was falsely accused of leaking classified documents and fired.”

In the hour-and-a-half talk, Caldwell, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the second Iraq War, said he had never even been accused of anything before he was frog-marched out of the Pentagon. Later, he came to the conclusion that there was never an actual investigation into the charges that had been leveled against him and the four other aides in the mainstream media.

“We threatened a lot of established interests inside the building and outside the building,” Caldwell confided to Carlson. “If I actually did some of the things that anonymous people on the internet and in the Pentagon are saying I did, I’d be in handcuffs.”

Caldwell went on to explain that powerful forces inside and outside the U.S. government have been agitating for a war with Iran—something he has opposed. He believes this cost him his job.

“There is an enormous amount of pressure on this administration to participate in military action against Iran,” said Caldwell. “But I think it is fair to say that a war with Iran risks being incredibly costly in terms of lives and dollars and instability in the Middle East.”

While the mainstream media has totally ignored this important story, independent media voices on the right and the left have kept it alive. From Carlson and Steven Bannon on the right to Glenn Greenwald and Ken Klippenstein on the left, independent commentators have all blasted the Deep State’s relentless push for war.

“One can’t help but notice that several of [Pete Hegseth’s] fallen advisors are among the most vocal skeptics—if not outright opponents—of a U.S. military conflict with Iran,” said former civil rights attorney Greenwald on his April 22 talk show. He added:

All of this is taking place against a backdrop of increasingly tense and increasingly public pressure being placed on Donald Trump and his administration to endorse either a direct U.S. military strike against Iran or give a greenlight for Israel to do so.

We can only hope that Trump has the courage of his convictions to stand against yet another Deep-State, neocon-backed regime change war that will only end in disaster, much like the other wars the United States has been dragged into in the past few decades, most notably Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.

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By Dr. Ron Paul

We do not have free speech to talk about the weather. Our Founders, particularly James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, understood that our rights are not privileges granted to us by government. Instead, it was understood at the founding that these basic natural rights outlined by Madison were granted by God and thus no mere mortal could take them away. First among these is the First Amendment, which recognizes that most basic of our natural rights: the right to express ourselves in any way we wish.

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Unfortunately the U.S. government has not always been in accord with this sentiment and has, many times in our history, been at war with our freedom of speech. From the Alien and Sedition Acts at the beginning of our republic to Abraham Lincoln’s war on speech to the jailing of antiwar activists during both world wars to Kent State, the political class is all for free speech unless it is threatening to the political class.

Recently a new front has been opened in the war on free speech and it is one that Americans must take seriously. On university campuses across the country students—both American and foreign guests—have taken to protesting U.S. support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, where tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed.

The political class in the United States is determined to defend Israel from its critics and has responded to these protests by threatening and blackmailing the universities if they do not crack down on speech the Powers That Be do not like. President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump have used the power of U.S. government funding to demand a crackdown on speech they don’t like, with Trump recently pulling $400 million in federal funding for Columbia University if they don’t silence the protesters.

The real scandal is that nearly every U.S. university—both public and “private”—is government funded in the first place. But, for politicians to use the power of the purse to deny students the right to express themselves—as long as they are peaceful—just adds insult to injury.

Last week a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University was arrested on the street by plainclothes government agents for reportedly simply writing an editorial in her university newspaper expressing her views on the Israel/Palestine conflict. She faces deportation from the country. And she is not alone. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has openly bragged about sending hundreds of students home because they express a political position he disagrees with. Others—including American citizens—have been expelled from their schools and have even had their degrees rescinded for peacefully expressing a political position that powerful people in Washington disagree with.

You may also disagree with the political position of these students. But to cheer their punishment by the U.S. government is to turn your back on the founding principles of this country. Freedom of speech is a natural right not reserved for American citizens but for all of humanity. And it has been a natural right worth defending for nearly 250 years.

First they came for foreign students expressing controversial positions and many Americans cheered because they themselves were not foreign and did not like the opinions. But make no mistake: this war on speech will not end with only foreigners being punished. It never does.

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By Kevin Barrett, Ph.D.

The radical Jewish extremist group Betar has been using AI-driven facial recognition technology to persecute peaceful protesters, according to a recent report by the Associated Press. Even more disturbingly, the Department of Homeland Security may be using information supplied by the suspected terrorist group to target legitimate American residents for kidnapping and deportation.

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Betar—whose Jewish terrorist credentials recall those of Irgun, the Stern Gang, the Jewish Defense League, Meyer Lansky’s “syndicate,” and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)—has surveilled anti-genocide protests and accumulated hundreds of hours of footage, which it runs through facial recognition systems like ClearviewAI. After identifying protesters, Betar “doxxes” them by publicizing their personal information and passing it to authorities, in hopes of damaging their careers and striking fear of Jewish terrorism into their hearts.

A group of California anti-genocide activists has filed a lawsuit against ClearviewAI. The group’s attorney, Sejal Zota, argues that providing extremist and terrorist groups like Betar with surveillance technology, previously used only by police and military agencies, is a very bad idea.

Betar’s state-supported terrorists, agents of a hostile foreign government, work directly with Israeli invaders, who have been working overtime to maintain their country’s stranglehold on the United States. Associated Press reports:

In early February, messages … were posted in an online chat group frequented by Israelis living in New York. “Do you know students at Columbia or any other university who are here on a study visa and participated in demonstrations against Israel?” one message said in Hebrew. “If so, now is our time!”

Imagine if Arabic-speaking Palestinians, or Farsi-speaking Persians, were doing the same thing to Jews. Imagine if the Arabs or Persians were agents of the Yemeni or Iranian government, and were working closely with al Qaeda or ISIS to persecute and terrorize Jewish students.

Another AI surveillance tool, NesherAI, was created specifically for Jewish terrorists. The company’s founder, Eliyahu Hawila, named the company after the Hebrew word for “eagle.” Hawila spends his days poring over photographs of peaceful protesters, figuring out who they are, and then trying to ruin their lives because they oppose genocide.

The Trump administration, which organized crime apparently bought by way of the Adelson Gang’s $100-million-plus bribe billed as a campaign contribution, has been extralegally kidnapping people fingered by Jewish terrorist groups. Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, and others have been snatched off the street by masked goons and disappeared to distant gulags in places like Louisiana—prisons considered among the worst in the world.

The current Zionist war on anti-genocide protesters may be extreme, but it is hardly unprecedented. The ADL—a terrorist group created by rich Jews to defend one of their number, Leo Frank, who happened to be a child-rapist and child-murderer—has long been stalking, surveilling, and punishing those it deems a risk to Jewish supremacist control of America. As Ron Unz reports:

In January 1993, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) reported that it had recently raided the Northern California headquarters of the ADL based upon information provided by the FBI. The SFPD discovered that the organization had been keeping intelligence files on more than 600 civic organizations and 10,000 individuals, overwhelmingly of a liberal orientation, with the SFPD inspector estimating that 75% of the material had been illegally obtained, much of it by secret payments to police officials. This was merely the tip of the iceberg in what clearly amounted to the largest domestic spying operation by any private organization in American history.

That Orwellian monster is now destroying American higher education.

College campuses constantly host protests on a wide range of issues. Sometimes the students are right, and sometimes they’re wrong. But whatever the issue, university administrations have always gone out of their way to tolerate and even encourage protests—until now. Suddenly, the universities have begun quashing peaceful protests, expelling students, and cooperating with the government (and even private terrorist groups) to crush anti-genocide protests.

It seems there is only one group in America that must never be questioned. It tells outrageous lies about history and forces everyone to pretend to believe those lies. And it lies even more outrageously about current events, including the Israeli military’s mass slaughter of many of its own civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, and its vastly worse slaughter of civilians since then. Anyone who notices the lies, and the genocide driven by those lies, had better keep their mouths shut.

An alleged Voltaire quotation has never been more apropos: “If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.” The people who rule over us and who won’t let us criticize them insist that the quotation is spurious. Maybe so. It’s quite possible that Voltaire never said anything that true, that powerful, and/or that relevant.

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By José Niño

President Donald Trump’s first two months in office have been marked by a flurry of executive orders aimed at energizing the most zealous segments of his voter base.

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On March 25, 2025, Trump issued Executive Order 14248, titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” which proposes sweeping changes to the federal election process—a central concern for Trump supporters who have long demanded election integrity.

The order requires states to mandate proof of citizenship from individuals registering to vote in federal elections. It also instructs states to disqualify mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if postmarked by the deadline. Additionally, it grants the newly established Department of Government Efficiency—headed by tech guru Elon Musk—access to national voter registration data.

However, a coalition of Democratic lawmakers and organizations quickly pushed back. On March 31, 2025, the group filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs include Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. They allege the executive order “usurps powers the Constitution explicitly assigns to states and Congress.”

The lawsuit hinges on the Elections Clause (Article I, Section 4) of the U.S. Constitution, which gives states the authority to regulate elections, subject to congressional oversight. The plaintiffs argue that Trump’s order violates this structure by allowing the executive branch to dictate voter registration requirements, mail ballot deadlines, and data-sharing protocols.

The filing states:

The framers deliberately excluded the presidency from election administration to prevent exactly this kind of partisan overreach.

The complaint further asserts that the president “lacks any constitutional or statutory authority to regulate the conduct of federal elections” and describes the order as an “unprecedented power grab” by the chief executive. Legal scholars cited in the complaint underscore that the founding fathers intentionally excluded the presidency from conducting election operations to guard against political interference.

A major point of contention is the order’s treatment of mail ballot deadlines. It targets laws in approximately 30 states that accept ballots postmarked by Election Day but received shortly after. Democratic opponents argue this provision “directly nullifies state legislative choices” and could disenfranchise voters—especially military personnel and rural residents—who rely on mail services. The lawsuit emphasizes that many of these deadlines were enacted through bipartisan consensus and upheld by state courts, making federal intervention “legally indefensible.”

Another sticking point is the proof-of-citizenship requirement on federal voter registration forms, which plaintiffs liken to a modern-day poll tax. The complaint argues this disproportionately affects naturalized citizens, low-income voters, and domestic violence survivors, who may not have immediate access to official documents.

It also alleges a violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which prohibits states from imposing “discriminatory and unnecessary barriers” to voter registration.

Trump’s order also faces at least three additional legal challenges, including suits filed by 19 Democratic state attorneys general and civil rights groups. Collectively, these lawsuits characterize the order as a direct threat to both voting access and states’ rights.

The Trump administration has defended the executive order, arguing that mail-in voting and non-citizen registration pose systemic threats to electoral integrity. “Proof of citizenship is a common-sense step; you need it to get a library card,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Supporters of the order contend that different rules across states confuse voters—particularly military families—and that standardization is long overdue. “A soldier in Texas should not face different deadlines than one in New York,” argued Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

For now, the order remains in effect, leaving election officials across the country in a state of uncertainty. “We’re stuck between federal threats and our own laws,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. “This chaos is exactly what the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

As the legal battle intensifies, it highlights a growing national debate over election integrity measures—and whether they safeguard democracy or suppress participation. At its core, the case poses a fundamental question: Who gets to shape America’s electoral processes in an era of escalating partisanship? The case is Democratic National Committee et al. v. Trump et al., Case No. 1:25-cv-00432 (D.D.C. 2025).

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Ill Prepared for Attack

For the last three years, the United States has been giving Ukraine everything it needs in the form of offensive and defensive weapons in its war with Russia. This has included air defense systems, much of it taken from the U.S. military’s own vital stockpiles. America’s dwindling supplies of defensive weapons matter, because, on Jan. 18, 2024, three U.S. soldiers were killed after drones were repeatedly fired at a U.S. base. When the base asked for more defensive weapons, they were denied, leading to the deaths of American GIs. The drone assault had reportedly been launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a militia group that is at least partly funded by Iran and Russia. In a recent article, The Washington Post broke this story after reporters obtained access to an Army internal investigation of the incident that detailed how the small outpost was ill-prepared for the attack.

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New Fitness Standards

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered that the Pentagon eliminate rules that allow women’s physical fitness standards in combat units to be lower than men’s. Hegseth’s new policy now mandates that all physical fitness requirements for combat arms positions—units likely to see fighting in wartime—be “sex neutral.” The mainstream press whined that the new standards will likely “significantly reduce the number of women who meet the requirements,” but that is exactly the point. Enemy fighters in combat won’t make exceptions for women, who do not have the physical strength or stamina of men, so the U.S. military should not either.

Used as Human Shields

According to independent reports, new revelations have emerged about Israel’s use of the so-called “Mosquito Protocol,” a military tactic where Palestinian civilians, including children, are used to carry out dangerous tasks instead of Israeli soldiers. According to testimony, Israeli soldiers regularly force Palestinian civilians to be the first ones to enter homes and tunnels that are suspected of being booby-trapped to check for explosives or Hamas fighters—risking Palestinian lives by making them human shields. This practice is in violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions and is considered by all to be a war crime.

Waste and Fraud

As part of a new policy of eliminating waste and fraud, President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to cut over $12 billion in taxpayers’ money that had been appropriated for federal grants. In all, the list of canceled programs totaled 51 pages. The grants included millions of dollars of handouts to the World Health Organization, Ivy League universities with billion-dollar endowments, and well-funded nonprofits.

Asteroid Update

There’s some good news and some bad news when it comes to 2024 YR4, the massive asteroid that is scheduled to pass by Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. On the bright side, scientists say it is not going to hit Earth. The bad news, however, is that astrophysicists say there’s a 4% chance it is going to smash into the Moon. Scientists say, if the asteroid hits the Moon, it will cause a two-mile-wide crater, but, other than that, they don’t know just how much damage it could do. The asteroid is large enough that it would likely level an entire U.S. city if it hit anywhere near one, and, judging from previous asteroid and comet strikes from the past, would cause widespread damage for hundreds of miles to surrounding areas from the resultant force of the impact.

Prescription for Disaster

Americans are increasingly waiting weeks or even months to get an appointment to see a doctor or healthcare specialist. The increasing delays couldn’t come at a worse time, because the population of aging adults is rising dramatically as people are living longer and longer. By 2050, the number of adults over 85 is expected to triple. The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projects a national shortage of 140,000 physicians by 2036, with that shortfall spanning multiple specialties, including primary care, obstetrics, cardiology, and geriatrics. A number of reasons are behind these shortages, but the lack of affordable medical schools in the United States tops the list.

Gay Blades

On April 6, female fencer Stephanie Turner, aged 31, made the heartbreaking decision to forfeit her match in the women’s division at the state-sponsored Cherry Blossom Open sporting match rather than fight a male opponent, who claims he is a woman. In a photo that has been shown all over social media, Turner can be seen on one knee with her mask off, kneeling in front of transsexual male Redmond Sullivan before a judge comes over and calls the match. Turner said she came to the decision the night before the event when she checked the competition pools and saw that she would be competing against Sullivan. “I knew what I had to do because USA Fencing had not been listening to women’s objections regarding [its gender eligibility policy],” Turner told Fox News. Last year, Redmond competed as a male and did not do well, ranking 29th in one men’s event. After moving over to the women’s division, Sullivan’s ranking improved significantly. In January 2025, Sullivan came in first out of six competitors in the Junior Women’s Foil event in Newtown, Conn.

Behind the Eight Ball

A professional women’s pool tournament in the UK was hit with protests recently after a final match ended up being between two transsexual male players, each of whom went by their adopted female names, Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith. The two males, who say (and evidently believe) they are women, faced off in the Ultimate Pool Women’s Pro Series Event 2 in the United Kingdom on April 6, having each beaten four female opponents. Protesters inside the venue shouted: “He’s a man” and “We stand with Lynne Pinches.” They also held up banners saying “Save women’s sport.” Pinches is a female player who forfeited a pool game rather than play against a transsexual male. Given their overall scores, if Haynes and Smith had played against men, they would not have even qualified for the competition. Sports authorities say males have two significant advantages over women in pool. They are generally taller and have longer arms and can thus reach more difficult-to-make shots on the table, and hit harder during the initial break, giving them a significant jumpstart in the game.

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By Paul Angel

The recent rollercoaster ride on Wall Street, spurred by President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again and quite unpredictable actions on tariffs, has spooked a lot of investors. Many older Americans are especially worried that the stock market investments they are depending on to sustain them through retirement are going to evaporate in smoke, like Pacific Palisades.

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As I write this, Thursday, April 10, the market had rallied by thousands of points April 9 but is now taking another nose dive. Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring, or the day after, or the day after. Investors, of course, loath uncertainty, and Trump’s back-and-forth tariff announcements have some people thinking he is just winging it, with no detailed plan in place.

Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan Chase, pointed out in an interview on Fox News recently that these trade deals are extremely complicated. Agriculture deals with another nation, for instance, can average over 1,400 pages, and have hundreds of individual items within the agreement that require nuanced treatments depending on the product, a nation’s lack or excess of the product, etc.

Manufacturing tariff deals are the same way. Every nation is different and has varying needs and, thus, these trade deals require thorough contemplation by teams of real experts.

I am hoping all of this works itself out in the very near future. If the stock market has lost 75% of its value by the time this newspaper arrives in your mail box, then you can write me a note and offer me a well-deserved scolding.

Of course, all of this uncertainty scares investors, but it is not tariffs or the stock market I am most worried about right now. I am more concerned that Mr. Trump might heed the self-serving advice of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and participate in a war against Iran.

If you think you’ve seen uncertainty in the stock market, then wait until that happens. But is it going to? Signs don’t look good.

On April 7, Trump met with Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. Mr. Netanyahu is the first world leader to visit the White House since Trump announced tariffs on global trading partners on April 2. But fair trade was not all they were discussing. They were also conferring on how and when to bomb the living daylights out of the sovereign nation of Iran.

Now we find out that, according to the Pentagon, six B-2 “Spirit” aircraft have been sent to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in the largest single deployment of stealth bombers in U.S. history. The long-range bomb­ers are typically used because they can evade air defenses and carry the largest bunker-busting weapons the U.S. military has in its arsenal.

According to the website of Jane’s Defence Weekly, the famed  military and security news and analysis organization:

America’s bunker busters, particularly the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), are highly effective at penetrating deeply buried, hardened targets, capable of breaching up to 200 feet of reinforced concrete or soil.

The GBU-57A/B MOP is a precision-guided, 30,000-lb. bomb that can be fitted with a nuclear warhead, as well.

There can be no doubt, as AFP goes to press, sending these planes all the way from Missouri to a speck of land in the Indian Ocean is a message for Iran. In the past, Trump hasn’t been shy in threatening Iran, saying that, if the Persian nation doesn’t end its nuclear program—even its legal pursuit of nuclear power—Iranians will experience “bombing the likes of which they haven’t seen. … Hell will rain down on the country.”

I am not the only one anxious about this possibility. Popular newsman Tucker Carlson has also weighed in on the topic on “X”:

Whatever you think of tariffs, it’s clear that now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran. We can’t afford it. Thousands of Americans would die. We’d lose the war that follows. Nothing would be more destructive to our country.

And, yet, we’re closer than ever, thanks to unrelenting pressure from the neocons [and Netanyahu]. This is suicidal. Anyone advocating for conflict with Iran is not an ally of the United States, but an enemy.

And, according to anti-war former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio):

The lies [of the Iraq war] cost U.S. taxpayers at least $3 trillion. Three trillion hard-earned tax dollars of the American people were spent to pay for the destruction of the people of Iraq while Americans struggled to pay bills. …

Now, the Trump administration, after a series of heady airstrikes against Yemen, is at this moment being beseeched by Netanyahu and his associates to prepare for a “consequence-free” nuclear strike against Iran, completing the trifecta of Netanyahu’s long-standing dream. …

It is not in America’s interest … to go to war with Iran, a nation of 90 million people, a technologically advanced society, with nearly a million-person army.

In the end, Iran will never crush Donald Trump. The U.S. will crush itself trying to wipe out Iran.

I think you would agree: Uncle Sam must not get back into the genocide business. This is not what America firsters voted for. How does $10-a-gallon gas sound should the Persian Gulf be shut down? And what about more dead U.S. servicemen? Would not a billion Muslims across the globe be thirsting for revenge? Of course—and rightfully so. Protests in the U.S. could dwarf the pro-Palestinian ones being held now. It’s a recipe for disaster—and a mid-term Democrat sweep.

Contact your representative and senators and tell them unequivocally that you do not support mass murder and economic devastation  for the sake of Israel, because that is the nation for whom this war would be fought.

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By the staff of AFP

Concerned that radical far-left activists could undermine election integrity in the future, Wisconsinites recently voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment to the state’s constitution that says voters must show photo identification when casting their ballots. As of the last national election in November 2024, 37 states have now enacted similar laws to make sure U.S. elections will continue to be secure.

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“This will help maintain integrity in the electoral process, no matter who controls the legislature,” announced state Sen. Van Wanggaard (R), who co-authored the amendment.

Conservatives have long argued that voter ID is a critical step in safeguarding election security, given that liberal activists have been agitating for removing the requirement so that anyone can vote even illegal immigrants. Radical activists have argued that these laws disenfranchise minorities, who, they claim, often do not have any form of identification—an absurd stance since showing an official photo ID is commonplace around the country for even everyday activities like buying alcohol, driving a car, and boarding an airplane.

Wisconsin already had a law in place that required ID at the voting booth. That requirement had been enacted in 2011 under Gov. Scott Walker (R), but it did not take effect until 2015 due to multiple court challenges, which were eventually tossed out.

Even though Wisconsin is not considered to be a conservative state, the constitutional amendment won by a sizable margin, with 63% of the electorate backing it. Its governor, Tony Evers, is a Democrat—though he is a moderate—while Republicans control the legislature.

Wisconsin has joined many other Democrat-run states that believe you can’t have election integrity if you don’t ask people to confirm their identity. Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Washington are a few of the states with Democrat governors that have enacted some form of voter ID laws. Even Michigan, led by far-left Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, requires voters to show ID when they vote, though there are avenues for voters if they do not have an official state or military ID, like signing an affidavit of identity that the election agency will then keep on file for the voter.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), a bipartisan research organization, even the remaining 14 states and Washington, D.C., that do not have specific laws that require voters show proof of identity when they go to vote, are stepping up their game to ensure election integrity with other methods.

“Most frequently, other identifying information provided at the polling place, such as a signature, is checked against information on file,” reports NCSL.

Following reports that the law passed on the evening of April 1, President Donald Trump took to social media to echo what many conservatives felt about this election victory.

“Voter ID just approved in Wisconsin election,” wrote Trump. “Democrats fought hard against this, presumably so they can cheat. This is a big win for Republicans.”

The truth is, this is a big win for every American voter, whether they know it or not.

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