In Maine, the U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the speaking and voting rights of one of its state representatives. Before this decision, the lawmaker was barred from speaking or voting in the state House, despite being elected.

The backstory for this situation is fascinating, so let’s go through it together.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Episode Resources:

🔵 Censure Resolution:

https://bit.ly/3HedbvA

🔵 George Santos:

https://bit.ly/3Sqq5co

🔵 Supreme Court Order:

https://bit.ly/3Z1voCM

🔵 Federalist Society Analysis:

https://bit.ly/3SsQOF7

In South Carolina, the state Supreme Court just issued an important ruling on abortion—unanimously voting to uphold the state’s six-week abortion ban. This ruling came as a response to a challenge of that law by Planned Parenthood.

Since this ruling in South Carolina represents a great microcosm of what’s happening throughout the whole country, let’s use it as a springboard to examine abortion laws throughout the country.

Earlier this month, a former police sergeant was sentenced to 18 months in prison after he was found guilty of acting as an agent of the Chinese regime on American soil.

The man in question is former Sergeant Michael McMahon—who previously worked for the New York Police Department. After leaving the police force, however, he went into the private sector as a private investigator, and it was in this capacity that he became entangled in a Chinese Communist Party operation called “Operation Fox Hunt.”

Let’s go through the details of this case, as well as what Operation Fox Hunt is all about.

The FBI arrests alleged child predators. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hires a new top vaccine official to replace Dr. Peter Marks. And the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) effort has hit a new milestone, as well as a new legal snag.

Let’s go through a full update on today’s episode of Facts Matter.

Episode Resources:

🔵 Operation Restore Justice:

https://bit.ly/3FdlwyX

🔵 Dr. Peter Marks:

https://bit.ly/4mfEZzG

🔵 Vinay Prasad:

https://bit.ly/4koHFJJ

🔵 DOGE:

https://bit.ly/43vm6kP

Ahead of a classified briefing that was requested by members of Congress from the Department of Homeland Security, I’ll give you the latest update on everything that we know about the Chinese spy stations located on the island of Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Episode Resources:

🔵 Report 1:

https://bit.ly/42UWwWk

🔵 Report 2:

https://bit.ly/3FdUpnh

🔵 Report 3:

https://bit.ly/4djqruL

🔵 Satellite Images:

https://bit.ly/45cv87F

🔵 Project 141:

https://bit.ly/4m6cJPU

🔵 Congressional Letter:

https://bit.ly/4mmBI1J

With all that’s happened in the first 100 days of the Trump presidency, it’s easy to miss big developments from various agencies. Therefore, today I’m going to give you a comprehensive update on what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been up to in the month of April.

Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

One of the first things that President Donald Trump did upon assuming office was to take an agency first established by President Barack Obama and change it into the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

He then placed Elon Musk in charge of that department, with the stated goal to root out government waste and fraud. And what’s been happening for the past three months is that DOGE has found a lot of what it calls wasteful spending. It’s not just “finding it,” however. Different departments of the government are taking steps to cut spending and cancel contracts, based on DOGE’s recommendations.

According to the official tally, DOGE’s efforts have saved U.S. taxpayers roughly $160 billion—which is equivalent to just under $1,000 saved for every U.S. taxpayer.

However, for a variety of reasons, most media have stopped devoting major coverage to DOGE’s efforts. There was a lot of coverage at the beginning, when many people were getting laid off, but recently, immigration-related news has taken a lot of the oxygen out of the news cycle, and therefore, most people don’t know what DOGE has been up to recently.

Today, we give you a comprehensive update on what DOGE has been doing for the past month.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

After the terror attack in Kashmir on April 22, tensions between India and Pakistan have hit a boiling point, with India suspending a water treaty that’s been in place between the two countries for 75 years.

Pakistan has labeled this move an act of war.

Let’s go through the details of these tit-for-tat escalations between two nations that both possess nuclear weapons.

Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Episode Resources:

🔵 Pakistan Statement:

https://bit.ly/44fLPyJ

🔵 India Statement:

https://bit.ly/4jvpvpq

🔵 Pakistan Defense Minister Interview:

https://bit.ly/3GOOrtt

🔵 1960 Water Treaty:

https://bit.ly/4iLVCQp

🔵 Survivor Testimony:

https://bit.ly/4j1tnxD

https://bit.ly/3SgE4Be

🔵 1999 Nuclear Scare:

https://bit.ly/42XzpJw

🔵 General Analysis of Conflict:

https://bit.ly/4iHydzC

https://bit.ly/4jHqOSu

https://bit.ly/3YsBKe5

https://bit.ly/3Exi6qE

🔵 History of Conflict (Videos):

https://bit.ly/4jA1ptE

https://bit.ly/4jHr0Bc

https://bit.ly/4lXHEOf

https://bit.ly/4d0TMtN

Within the context of billions of dollars having been spent on national, state, and local elections during the 2024 cycle, an effort is underway to add a new amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The issue that this amendment would try and fix has to do with the fact that both wealthy Americans, as well as wealthy foreigners, are able to shape local American elections (including referendums, ballot initiatives, and recalls). In fact, there are some local elections in the country where close to 90 percent of the donations came from out-of-state. This raises the question—if someone is elected under those conditions, do they really represent the will of their local constituents?

As a possible answer to that question, there is a new proposed amendment to the Constitution which has now been endorsed by 23 out of the necessary 38 states.

This amendment, if passed, would officially become the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution—and it would allow the banning of both foreign (as well as out-of-state funding) in local races.

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Views expressed in this episode are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Episode Resources:

🔵 Foreign-Funding of Ballots

https://ept.ms/ForeignFunding

On a previous episode, we discussed how the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor in an immigration case—a case involving the deportation of illegal immigrants present here in the United States. However, that earlier case was won by Trump on a technicality: the lawyers for the illegal immigrant decided to file their case in Washington (rather than in Texas, where the man was being held) and, therefore, the case was dismissed due to being brought forth in the wrong venue.

But, very notably, the underlying legal issues weren’t actually examined. The question of whether the Alien Enemies Act could really be used against illegal immigrants such as Venezuelan gang members wasn’t ruled on.

Therefore, more lawsuits were filed. And one of those new lawsuits bore fruit, as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to stop the Trump administration from being able to deport members of Tren de Aragua, for now.

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Episode Resources:

🔵 Supreme Court Stops Deporting Gang Members

https://ept.ms/Blocking

🔵 Proclamation 10903

https://ept.ms/PROCLAMATION

🔵 Sam Alito Opinions

https://ept.ms/AARP

🔵 Emergency Application

https://ept.ms/Emergency