The Trump Justice Department is stepping up enforcement against non-citizen voting, reporting roughly two dozen arrests, prosecutions or convictions in recent months, with nearly 90 additional cases reportedly under investigation. Federal law prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections, and Justice Department officials say election administrators could also face prosecution if they knowingly help ineligible voters register or cast ballots.

The department has sent notices to officials in all 50 states, warning that knowingly retaining non-citizens on voter rolls or assisting them in voting could constitute aiding and abetting a federal crime. States were reportedly given five days to explain how they are complying with voter-eligibility laws. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said the warning is not an empty threat. She argued that officials who knowingly ignore evidence of non-citizens on voter rolls could be held criminally responsible.

This crackdown is a basic matter of election integrity. American elections should be decided by American citizens and American citizens only. Democrats have facilitated lax registration systems and weak enforcement in order to create their election fraud machine. In their quest to cheat and steal elections, they have systemically undermined public confidence.

Some cities permit non-citizens to participate in certain local elections, but citizenship remains a requirement for voting in federal contests. But this enables the fraud to more easily take place. The enforcement push comes as President Trump urges the Senate to approve the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship and voter identification in federal elections.

The issue is straightforward: voting is a sacred right of citizenship, and government officials have a duty to protect it through accurate voter rolls, firm safeguards and equal enforcement of the law.

U.S. Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is introducing legislation aimed at ending automatic birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants and foreign birth tourists. The Citizenship Act would amend federal immigration law by defining unauthorized migrants and people entering specifically to give birth as “invaders.” Their U.S.-born children would therefore be excluded from automatic citizenship.

Banks says the bill follows a recent Supreme Court ruling that limited President Trump’s attempt to address the issue through executive action. Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested in a separate opinion that while the president’s order conflicted with existing federal law, Congress could amend that law and establish new exceptions. The legislation provides Congress with a constitutional path to protect American sovereignty without changing the Fourteenth Amendment or overturning Supreme Court precedent.

The bill relies partly on the landmark 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision, which recognized exceptions to birthright citizenship for children of foreign diplomats and hostile occupying forces. Banks argues that illegal immigration and organized birth tourism should fall under similar principles. Banks says the current system rewards illegal entry and allows foreign nationals to exploit American citizenship for their children.

His proposal also highlights concerns about commercial birth-tourism operations, including those connected to China. The central issue is whether citizenship should remain an automatic benefit of unlawful entry—or a protected privilege tied to national allegiance, lawful immigration and the consent of the American people.

If there is a loophole as blatant as birthright citizenship that is allowed to happen, then it essentially makes immigration enforcement completely untenable. No matter what the courts say, we must exhaust every avenue to end birthright citizenship.

The establishment, so to speak, ‘won’ on the Democratic side, although it wasn’t their own doing: Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine is over, dismantled by a rape allegation from Jenny Racicot, a liberal Democrat who claimed the Nazi tattoo-wearing oyster farmer attacked her in 2021. Platner was already hit with allegations of domestic abuse that Democrats largely dismissed, but the rape allegation made by a liberal woman is apparently the final straw.

This candidacy will be studied, as everyone knew this guy was trouble and a ticking time bomb. Also, all the unsavory details about him were dug up by Democratic opposition research. The GOP was holding its powder dry until after the July 13 deadline, when Democrats would be stuck with Platner on the ballot.

With the Nazi candidate receiving the Aldo Raine treatment up north, the Democrats are now directing their anger toward the far-left wing, which has caused the chaos. That would be Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who is trying to become the new kingmaker for a party that’s lost its way. His mixed record is now making him a target of the DNC’s fury, as the Maine race is likely to slip away from them—a must-win if they hope to flip the upper chamber. Rachael Bade has more:

“This week, the grumbling is reaching a fever pitch behind the scenes in Washington’s Democratic circles.

The trigger, obviously, is GRAHAM PLATNER — the Mainer whom Sanders transformed into a rising star, headlining his Labor Day rally in Portland and standing by him through a Nazi tattoo, ugly Reddit posts and multiple women’s accounts of his misbehavior — only to watch it all collapse this month over a rape allegation. Sanders turned the oyster farmer with zero political experience into the presumptive Democratic nominee in a state Democrats NEED to flip the Senate — a candidate some even whispered for a hot second could be a future presidential nominee. Now that bet is in ashes, and Maine Democrats are in chaos trying to replace him.

But Democrats are grumbling that Platner isn’t a one-off. Many who’ve spent the cycle biting their tongues are now running the tape on every other Sanders pick — and they don’t love what they’re finding.

MIX RECORD — Sanders has endorsed more than 15 House candidates this cycle, and — credit where due — a chunk of them have actually won their primaries. Call it a coin flip with a decent tailwind: roughly half of his House bets have paid off so far in places like New York, New Jersey and California — even red states like Montana.

But Dems argue that’s only half the story, because when you sit with the list of Sanders picks who’ve gone down, you find that several didn’t just lose; they lost embarrassingly, dragging Sanders’ credibility into the story right along with them. While Sanders can point to real wins this cycle, the losses, these people argue, reveal a concerning pattern of elevating untested, unvetted candidates with skeletons nobody bothered to check for — a pattern that’s starting to look less like bad luck and more like poor judgment.

[…]

THE NEXT TEST: There’s a fear among some of these Dems that Sanders Orbit’s damage may not be done… All eyes now turn to the August 4 Michigan Senate primary, where Sanders has endorsed progressive ABDUL EL-SAYED over centrist Rep. HALEY STEVENS, who has Chuck Schumer and AIPAC money behind her. El-Sayed, who campaigned with HASAN PIKER, has been leading in recent polling and picked up the UAW’s backing along with Sanders’ — though the recent exit of MALLORY McMORROW is likely to help Stevens.”

That still doesn’t mean the socialist insurgency is over. Quite the opposite. This was one major battle they lost, but Colorado got hammered and sickled, with Melat Kiros defeating 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in the June primaries.

Again, this isn’t our problem, and the GOP shouldn’t do much to interfere in the ongoing Democratic Party civil war between the leftist and establishment factions, but the latter only has themselves to blame: they didn’t pivot when the brand was suffering, the anti-Trump cries aren’t unique, and when your approval ratings are that low, a fiery socialist will step in to fill the void.

Will it implode? I think it will—the Left does well to hide their true agenda through all-encompassing messaging about affordability, but that can only last so long.

By Townhall – https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/07/13/dems-are-furious-with-bernie-sanders-n2679178

The socialists endured defeat in 2024, but their cause did not die out.

For decades, the Democratic Party exploited—but also restrained—its more liberal, anti-American activists. However, as they have become outrageously progressive, communistic, and violent, they have lost control of themselves, and now they are taking over.

Democratic Party operatives thought they could maintain control, and for a while, they succeeded. The efforts of aggressive progressive partisans succeeded in taking over the DNC in 1972. They promoted progressive George McGovern for president, and the Democratic National Committee embraced some of the most radical left-wing positions.

Thankfully, such communistic madness was duly punished that same year. A relatively popular incumbent, President Richard Nixon, routed the left-wing ideologue and forced the Democrats to regain some sanity if they wanted to win future elections. Nixon listened to the silent majority, restored public order, and brought love of America into the mainstream.

Democrats needed to tap into that sane sentiment to improve their chances of winning in the future. Democratic establishment leaders reasserted control shortly afterwards, then nominated a plain-spoken Evangelical Christian governor from Georgia as their 1976 presidential nominee. They appealed to middle America, providing an ethical alternative to the scandal and incompetence of prior Republican administrations.

However, right after his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter veered to the left, entertaining gay rights and abortion and enacting the Department of Education as a sop to the teachers’ unions. Democrats have spiraled downward toward socialism ever since, even after President Bill Clinton’s sharp pivot to the right after the Republican Revolution of 1994.

Half a century later, the Democratic radicals, socialists, and outright communists have not just forced their way into the Democratic Party. They are taking over, seizing the levers of power and means of production.

The Democratic Socialists of America have invaded the Democratic Party, and they are not relenting. The Democratic Party only has itself to blame. During the 2012 DNC Convention, radical delegates booed God and rejected recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; DNC Floor Chairman (and at the time, Los Angeles Mayor) Antonio Villaraigosa waved off their demands (with Obama’s approval) to save face on national television.

Party leaders didn’t outright reject their demands. They just ignored them long enough to secure Obama’s reelection.

State Democratic parties have witnessed this socialist takeover. The grassroots demand single-payer healthcare, abolition of the Second Amendment, radical abortion and LGBT rights, and a host of demands punishing free enterprise while claiming to care for the needs of the so-called working classes instead of millionaires and billionaires.

This rising generation of Democratic socialists in the DNC, committed to their secular vision, has not budged from their worldview and won’t be silenced: No God, No Israel, and No America. They want socialism at all costs, including the careers of their leaders.

The New York City Democratic primaries on June 23, 2026, prove it.

Commie nepo baby Zohran Mamdani has captured the New York City apparatus, having beaten the incumbent Democratic mayor Eric Adams in the primary and then Democrat-turned-Independent former governor Andrew Cuomo. With unprecedented power, Mamdani is energizing disaffected Democratic grassroots activists across the country. They are disgusted with the massive Democratic Party failures of 2024, and they will not relent in their demands for hard-core progressive, anti-Israel candidates going forward.

With Mamdani leading a new, socialist insurgency after a contentious primary, he revealed his political process and acumen and scared the political establishment into his camp. Mamdani harnessed endorsements from the Democratic establishment, including Governor Kathy Hochul and congressional leaders like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Jerry Nadler, Nydia Velázquez, and even Adriano Espaillat.

These lawmakers thought they were saving their jobs. In reality, the new socialist mayor was plotting their demise and that of other incumbent Democrats.

Nadler retired, sensing blood in the water: his own. Nydia Velázquez, the first Latina appointed to the New York City Council and the first Puerto Rican woman elected to Congress, abandoned her re-election bid, as well. Why? She has a progressive wishlist that many could only dream of! She was too “pro-Israel” for the socialist uprising.

Holdout Espaillat ran again, banking on residual goodwill from hizzoner. Mamdani didn’t return the favor and endorsed radical challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier, who defeated him. Espaillat was a progressive’s progressive. He entered the country illegally as a youth—a major plus for Democrats. He entered Congress with broad support from progressive coalitions across New York City. He voted Way Left on everything, but Mamdani also saw him as too close to Israel.

Zohran endorsed former city comptroller Brad Lander, who defeated arch-progressive and Trump nemesis Dan Goldman. The incumbent had big support from pro-Israel groups. Lander repeatedly defamed the Jewish state as a genocidal regime—and won. Another Zohran-backed radical, Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, defeated an established Brooklyn borough president to replace Velázquez.

The anti-Zionist (read, anti-Semitic) agenda is just the tip of the communist iceberg for these candidates. Mamdani and Crew want abolition of law enforcement, a free Palestine (including for the terrorists), and government control of the means of production. They are communists through and through, running under the anti-Israel banner to bring more support into their camp.

Democratic strategist James Carville sounded the alarm on Mamdani’s cancerous infiltration last year, warning that the Democratic Party was looking at a serious rift. He doesn’t recognize, however, that his party’s support for Biden’s aggressive expansion of the government, plus Kamala Harris’s card-carrying cultural Marxism, all but validated the wily socialist fringes. The socialists endured defeat in 2024, but their cause did not die out. Carville has to live with it, whether he likes it or not.

The rabid rabble of young socialists wants the communist revolution, and they want it now. They want government-controlled health care, they want climate alarmism as the main stratagem for government policy, and they want rights and privileges for all of the aggrieved minorities, at the expense of Western civilization and the white man.

Why the hatred of Israel, though? Because the very existence of the Jewish state is anathema to their vision of a perfect world with no borders, no nations, and no identity outside of the proletariat.

Democrats created this mess, and they now quake in its wake. They told the little children that they could become princes and work only 4 hours a day and philosophize the rest of the week, and now those princes are calling the shots—and kicking out their elders.

Initially, I felt that allowing the Democrats to implode under the tyranny of the Democratic Socialists of America, whom they created, would be a boon for the country. Republicans can tie every Democrat to the crazies in New York City.

However, these manic minions can expand their power and ruin everything, not just their deeply blue Democratic ghettoes. Communists don’t play by the rules, they don’t care about elections, and they certainly don’t care about our Constitution.

Look what the communists did to Cuba, and look how they got there! Look what they did to Venezuela, and they got there through elections!

Democrats didn’t stop them from taking over their party. We can and must stop them from taking over entire state governments and then the country. We can, but we have to fight. We cannot allow communism to grow unchecked.

By – https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/12/the-dsa-takes-over-the-democrat-party/

Obamacare premiums are climbing again—and the latest numbers expose the inevitable failure of a government-designed healthcare system. Early filings from 77 insurers show a median proposed premium increase of 14 percent for 2027.

That follows a 20 percent median increase for 2026 and marks the fifth straight year of rising costs. The benchmark silver premium—the figure used to calculate federal subsidies—jumped roughly 25 percent this year. Insurers say the remaining Obamacare population is becoming smaller and sicker as healthier people leave the exchanges.

Enrollment reportedly dropped by about three million, creating the same predictable insurance spiral conservatives warned about from the beginning: higher costs drive out healthier customers, leaving behind a more expensive pool and forcing premiums even higher.

Supporters of the failed Obamacare system will point to federal subsidies, but subsidies do not reduce the actual cost of healthcare. They simply transfer more of that cost to taxpayers. Nearly nine out of ten Obamacare enrollees now receive advance premium tax credits, with the average subsidized customer receiving about $650 per month.

In other words, Washington is using taxpayer money to conceal how unaffordable the “Affordable Care Act” has become. Current enrollment remains high, but analysts are already projecting a major decline in the individual market, with some estimates ranging from 17 to 26 percent. The lesson is clear. Obamacare did not bend the cost curve downward.

It expanded bureaucracy, distorted the insurance market, increased dependence on subsidies, and left families facing relentless premium hikes. The law’s defenders promised affordability. What Americans received was a permanently subsidized system growing more expensive every year. We were swindled, and like every socialist program, we are watching it fail miserably right now.

Longtime left-wing activist Ana María Archila, Commissioner of New York City’s Mayor’s Office of International Affairs and former co-director of the progressive Working Families Party, scheduled a meeting with Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, amid ongoing hostilities in the Middle East, as first reported by City Journal and detailed by the New York Post.

The meeting was set for Tuesday morning, July 7, at the United Nations Headquarters complex in New York, alongside two other senior officials from Mayor Mamdani’s office, according to calendar invitations reviewed by City Journal and confirmed by sources. It was ultimately canceled after intervention by the U.S. State Department.

Archila, a government employee in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, has no prior diplomatic  foreign policy, or international relations experience. Her expertise lies solely in domestic grassroots organizing, labor, and progressive politics.

Her appointment to lead the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs, which is tasked with cultivating relationships with foreign nations, global cities, the UN, and New York’s consular corps, has drawn attention given her background in progressive activism.

U.S. officials learned of the planned meeting via Archila’s calendar and moved quickly to shut it down, citing a direct conflict with America’s current Middle East policy. A State Department official Fox News Digital:

“It is unconscionable that a New York City official would even consider meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to the U.N., a man who consistently works to undermine U.S. interests and whitewash his regime’s crimes against the United States, our allies, and Iran’s own citizens.”

Sources indicated Archila scheduled the meeting without permission. She was reportedly reprimanded and directed to cancel it.

This isn’t the first time the State Department has had to intervene. Last month, Ana María Archila tried to arrange a meeting between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who has a record of anti-Israel rhetoric, including Nazi comparisons and Holocaust distortions. That plan was scrapped over visa issues.

In the past The Mayor’s Office of International Affairs has long stayed neutral, focusing on best practices with global cities, attracting foreign investment to New York, and avoiding political ideology. Yet Archilla hijacked the office to push her own agenda, alarming local officials and exposing a self-serving disregard for its non-partisan role.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Archila has prioritized deepening ties with foreign adversies aligned with Mayor Mamdani’s progressive worldview. The office reportedly directed staff to emphasize engagements reflecting those priorities.