Rep. Haley Stevens, the Michigan Democrat who lost her party’s Senate primary, delivered a late shock to Democrats by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers on camera just two days before Election Day.

In a video posted Sunday from her campaign account, Stevens stated she remains “a very proud Democrat” who loves Michigan but could not support the party’s nominee. “Hey Michigan, as you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul [El-Sayed] said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away and he’s right. And that’s why I’m endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today,” she said, as reported by Fox News.

The timing was no accident. Stevens had been scheduled to join El-Sayed and Rep. Jim Clyburn at a Detroit church service meant to project Democratic unity in the final days of the campaign. After a bitter public fight over an outside ad she called antisemitic, El-Sayed’s campaign pulled the invitation and told her to stay away from its remaining events. Instead, she walked into Perfecting Church on Sunday alongside Republican Mike Rogers.

Rogers welcomed the endorsement outside the church. “I’m honored to have Haley Stevens support today. I’m honored to have earned that vote,” he told reporters. “This is more a statement about standing together against hate and the future of this state and this country than it is anything else,” Fox reported. The National Republican Senatorial Committee blasted out the same Stevens quote within hours. 

El-Sayed, who has never held elected office, narrowly defeated Stevens in Michigan’s Aug. 4 Democratic primary. Stevens has pressed him to condemn antisemitism among some of his allies, including streamer Hasan Piker. After her endorsement, Piker and other left-wing voices attacked her, with former DNC Vice Chair David Hogg branding her a “traitor” and Mehdi Hasan calling her a “complete traitor,” while the RNC argued that Democrats abandoned by El-Sayed “have a home with Mike,” Fox News Digital reported.

President Donald J. Trump responded on Truth Social, calling the move “BIG” and praising Stevens for her bravery. “She showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the Great People of Michigan with what she did. It’s a thing called bravery, and few people have it like just displayed by Congresswoman Haley Stevens!” he wrote.

The race was already razor close. A Fox News Poll of 1,028 likely voters taken Sept. 24 to 28 put El-Sayed ahead of Rogers 50% to 49%, within the margin of error of plus or minus 3 points. The same survey found that 11% of Stevens’ primary voters were already planning to vote for Rogers, well before Sunday’s endorsement.

Michigan is one of a handful of Senate races that could decide control of the chamber. Two days from Election Day, the Democrat who ran against El-Sayed, and who the RNC said “knows him better than anyone,” has told the state she is voting the other way.

Voters will decide on November 3.

Meet Decoy Dan. He’s the second Dan Sullivan on Tuesday’s Alaska ballot, the retired teacher who filed days before the deadline last spring. Now, days before Election Day, federal agents are knocking on doors and contacting his donors, asking whether they knew which Sullivan they were funding.

The visits come as the Justice Department vows to keep fighting an Obama-appointed judge who on Sunday tossed its bid to protect the integrity of one of the most closely watched Senate races in the country.

FBI agents have contacted contributors to retired Petersburg teacher Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. in Petersburg and Sitka, Alaska, and in Groton, Massachusetts.

Those visits come after Alaska U.S. Attorney Michael Heyman told reporters the criminal probe has been underway for months, and that a New York Times report indicating Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign appeared involved in recruiting the second Sullivan triggered a “significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska.” Daniel J. Sullivan remains on Tuesday’s ranked-choice ballot alongside Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, Democrat Peltola, and another Republican, and he has not withdrawn.

President Donald Trump, asked about the scheme, called it “voter fraud at the highest level.” Sen. Sullivan has labeled the episode the “scandal of the highest order” and accused Peltola of still lying about what her campaign knew. Peltola, for her part, has denied any role, calling, calling the allegations nonsense and smears intended to distract. “I know I can beat Dan Sullivan. I do not need any help winning this race,” she said.

On the civil side, the Justice Department pushed Friday for a court order isolating ballots that ranked Daniel J. Sullivan, and for a pathway to halt certification if the alleged name confusion flipped the outcome. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, nominated by Barack Obama, dismissed that suit Sunday, ruling the government lacked standing and offered no workable remedy that preserved the secret ballot. She also blocked the department from amending and refiling in her court.

The DOJ is not walking away. In a statement carried on Fox News and posted by DOJ Rapid Response, the department said the dismissal rested on procedural grounds and did not dispute its core argument that “Daniel J. Sullivan (a/k/a Decoy Dan) entered the race as a frivolous candidate to confuse voters.” “DOJ plans to file a notice of appeal. Alaskan voters deserve a fair election, not to be misled in an attempt to rig outcomes,” the department said.

Alaska’s ranked-choice system makes the name collision especially dangerous. Voters rank candidates, and if no one clears 50% on first preferences, the lowest finisher is eliminated and those ballots are redistributed. A handful of confused first-choice marks for the wrong Sullivan could matter in a race that may decide control of the United States Senate for the final two years of Trump’s term. 

Sen. Dan Sullivan has said publicly he expects the second Sullivan to cost him votes.

The pieces fit together. A second Dan Sullivan landed on the ballot, with reports that Democratic operatives helped put him there, and a months-long federal probe is now surging with FBI donor interviews stretching from Southeast Alaska to Massachusetts. The Justice Department moved to wall off the contested ballots, but an Obama-appointed judge shut the case down on standing, and the DOJ now plans to take the fight to the Ninth Circuit.

Alaskans cast their ranked ballots on Tuesday, November 3, and many have already voted. For those who marked Sullivan near the top of their list, one question remains: did they vote for the right candidate?

A liberal journalist goes to Cuba expecting to document Trump’s damage. The Cubans have other ideas.

Worth’s questions about American policy produced another revealing exchange. During nine days of travel, he had not met a single person who blamed Donald Trump or the United States for their situation. He sometimes reminded people about the blockade and asked whether conditions had worsened. Retired engineer Guillermo Almeida told him he saw no change since January. Venezuelan oil, he explained, had not been reaching ordinary Cubans anyway. Another man offered a concise explanation: “It seems to us that the real embargo is inside of Cuba.” Worth’s questions suggest he was trying to establish the consequences of Trump’s blockade. The Cubans’ answers kept taking him back to the consequences of their own government.

Worth acknowledged that the pandemic devastated tourism and reduced remittances from relatives abroad. Those developments made an already depleted state weaker. They do not explain six decades of political control, economic mismanagement, and repression. The Atlantic Council’s examination of Cuba’s state-run economy describes a failure years in the making.

Worth also visited a Catholic nursing home in Havana. Its residents included former government employees and military officers abandoned by the state and their families. One former soldier had fought in Angola and carried a tattoo of Che Guevara, acquired when he was eighteen. He had once believed in the revolution. Now he wanted its leaders gone. Even men who had served the revolutionary project were spending their final years in an institution run by the Church.

Worth’s final stop was Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago, where Fidel Castro’s ashes are kept. The grounds were immaculate. Soldiers in pressed uniforms performed a precise changing of the guard to patriotic music. Then a breeze carried the acrid smell of burning garbage across the cemetery.

The revolutionary shrine was pristine. The country it left behind was not.

There is an irony in Worth’s reporting. He went to an island celebrated by the American Left for its socialist achievements. He encountered a priest feeding the hungry, elderly women begging for survival, a nurse struggling without supplies, and citizens who had lost faith in their government. His reporting placed socialism’s celebrated promises beside the lives of the people who were supposed to benefit.

For Cuban-Americans, the contrast is deeply personal. Here in the United States, we take pride in our Cuban roots. We celebrate our heritage, culture, food, music, and the history our families carried with them. We did not leave Cuba because we were ashamed of being Cuban. We left because a political system made it impossible to live with freedom and dignity.

Worth encountered people on the island who had not lost their Cuban identity. They had lost hope in the country where they were born. Here, Cuban is a badge of honor. There, it has become a burden of birth.

Worth may not have set out to write an indictment of socialism. But his reporting brought him face to face with the distance between the socialist ideal celebrated abroad and the reality endured at home. Whether he has reconciled that contradiction is his question to answer. The journalist’s journey is the story. His tribulation is the confrontation between what he thought he knew and what he discovered.

By American Thinker – https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/11/the-tribulations-of-a-socialist-in-a-socialist-paradise/

On October 29, 2026, ICE announced the arrest of dozens of individuals in connection with alleged voter fraud and election-related offenses, including numerous cases of illegal aliens who admitted to unlawfully registering to vote or casting ballots. 

These arrests are not isolated. They form part of a broader Trump administration effort to restore law and order after the Biden-Harris administration recklessly left the southwest border wide open. Encounters surged to more than 7.2 million between January 2021 and early 2024higher than the population of 36 states, and known gotaways added roughly another 1.5 to 1.8 million, for a combined total of approximately 8.7 to 9 million.

This week’s release comes just days before Election Day on Tuesday, November 3, and the message from the Trump administration is unmistakable: illegal aliens will not be tolerated in American elections.

Acting ICE Director David J. Venturella said the arrests grew out of careful, methodical investigations run with federal, state and local partners. “American elections must be conducted in accordance with the law, and allegations of illegal voting deserve our undivided attention,” Venturella said. “When the facts support criminal charges, we pursue them. Every eligible voter deserves an election process that follows the law.”

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was direct in a statement: “The patriots of ICE have arrested dozens of non-citizens who illegally voted in American elections,” Mullin said. “Some of them have criminal histories that include assault with a dangerous weapon, domestic violence, drug trafficking, burglary, and driving under the influence. The Trump Administration will not allow illegal aliens to steal the votes of hardworking American citizens. American elections are for Americans only.”

The cases reflect the Trump administration’s continuing push to enforce election laws and remove illegal aliens from the voter rolls.

Juan Carlos Matute-Hernandez, a Honduran national unlawfully present in the United States, cast a ballot in a 2026 election and was arrested for driving offenses. Darwin Yoel Zelaya-Orellana, another Honduran national present without authorization, voted in a 2026 federal election and was previously convicted of a third-degree sex offense. Mai Tran, an illegal alien from Vietnam, voted in the 2024 federal election and carries convictions for fraud, drug possession, selling cocaine, burglary, larceny and illegal use of credit cards.

Phath Vorn, an unlawfully present alien from Cambodia, voted in a federal election as far back as 1992. He has convictions for assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and possession of a weapon. Jaimie Sosa-Sardina, an illegal from Cuba, voted in 2024. He has been convicted of selling cocaine, battery, and resisting an officer. Aden Hassan Aden, a criminal migrant from Somalia, voted in the 2020 federal election. He has convictions for domestic violence, drug possession, and larceny.

According to figures DHS provided exclusively to The Daily Wire, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has revoked or terminated the status of roughly 2.2 million non-citizens since President Trump’s second inauguration, nearly seven times the number the Biden administration processed in its final two years. “President Trump promised the American people that our immigration laws would be enforced, and these numbers reflect the scale of that commitment,” Mullin said. “Those who abuse or flagrantly disregard our immigration system are now on notice that these violations of law will not be tolerated or overlooked. Securing our border was only the beginning.” He added: “We are restoring integrity to the entire immigration system and putting the safety of our American citizens first.” Election integrity has been a parallel front.

These results form part of the broader record the White House detailed on October 20, 2026, in “How President Trump Ended the Border Invasion and Restored American Sovereignty”

The administration has revoked more than 300,000 foreign visas, including at least 4,000 tied to birth tourism and 6,000 from foreign students who committed crimes or have ties to terrorism. More than 700 visas from Chinese nationals have been revoked by President Trump’s Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force since it launched in August. It has also arrested more than 12,100 gang members, including more than 1,500 Tren de Aragua affiliates and nearly 2,000 MS-13 affiliates, along with more than 2,200 known or suspected terrorists, more than 2,000 of whom have already been removed. Drug overdoses have fallen by more than 40% from the Biden-era peak, a drop that tracks with the sharp reduction in illegal crossings and the disruption of the smuggling networks that move fentanyl and other narcotics into the country.

That same enforcement effort has reached the ballot box. The Justice Department charged 48 foreigners with election-related offenses as prosecutors stepped up cases. DHS has also warned secretaries of state about illegal registrations and directed ICE to pursue stricter penalties, including deportation, for illegal aliens who cast ballots.

For years the media and its political allies insisted illegal voting was a myth. ICE’s release this week is only the latest set of arrests this year involving non-citizens who registered or cast ballots. With named defendants, prior convictions, and admissions of casting unlawful ballots, it shows the states’ failure to supervise voter rolls and the media’s refusal to acknowledge it.

The Trump administration’s response is clear. Enforce the law, remove the offenders, and protect the vote of every American who followed the rules. Promises kept.

In their accounts of the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, federal agencies have rewritten the story to leave out a hero, according to family members of a local SWAT team member whose shot incapacitated Thomas Crooks before a Secret Service sniper killed him.

Sgt. Aaron Zaliponi of the Adams Township Emergency Service Unit SWAT team is recognized in the “Final Report of Findings and Recommendations from the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of President Trump” as firing the shot, according to the New York Post.

But the outlet said federal agencies “erased” Zaliponi’s efforts.

In its report, the FBI glossed over the shot, which hit the would-be assassin’s gunstock and shattered it, “causing an explosion of shrapnel [which] smashed into Crooks’ right neck and jaw area.”

Zaliponi’s shot “set up the delayed but successful kill shot by a Secret Service counter-sniper,” the report on the July 2024 incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, said.

Zaliponi told the task force, “I knew I hit him… I have combat experience. His demeanor… there was that jerking motion…  he kind of jerked down to my left, his right. Then he slowly rolled like he just had no strength, whatever.”

Crooks did not fire again after being hit. The panel found that 10 seconds elapsed until a Secret Service sniper killed the would-be assassin.

“The shot neutralized Thomas Crooks,” Kim Geyer, Zaliponi’s mother-in-law, said. “It prevented a mass shooting. He saved a lot of lives that day.”

“Ask anyone who was there. There was over a 10-second pause, and it wasn’t until after that 10 seconds a Secret Service sniper took Thomas Crooks down,” she said, adding that local police “were thrown under the bus by the Secret Service and the FBI.”

“He was on the ground, and he was shooting up to Thomas Crooks,” Geyer said, adding that after Zaliponi fired, “Crooks rolled over, and he was stunned.”

But the federal agencies wanted no local heroes, she argued.

“As far as the FBI and the Secret Service go, nobody wanted to take this into account. They just wanted the narrative to be that Thomas Crooks was killed and the threat was eliminated. The Secret Service wanted the credit, that after massive security failures they got their act together and took this guy out,” Geyer said.

“There was no consideration that our local people, who weren’t there to protect the president, ended up being the ones that neutralized the threat,” she added.

Others have nevertheless honored Zaliponi.

“President Donald J. Trump’s life was saved by an armed American in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thanks to swift action by law enforcement officers like Sgt. Aaron Zaliponi, an even greater tragedy was prevented,” the National Rifle Association said in awarding Zaliponi its 2025 “Officer of the Year” award.

The sergeant’s actions also earned him the “In the Face of Danger Award,” which was presented by Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday last year, according to WTAE-TV.

“When gunfire suddenly erupted from the rooftop of a nearby building, Sgt. Zaliponi immediately recognized the threat. Without any hesitation, repositioning, or moving to cover, despite the extreme danger to his own life, he calmly shouldered his rifle,” Sunday told the crowd.

“In less than six seconds after the first shot was fired from 115 yards away, Sgt. Zaliponi acquired his target and fired a single accurate round, stopping the threat,” Sunday added.

By Western Journal – https://www.westernjournal.com/heroic-crack-shot-local-cop-sniper-saved-trumps-life-erased-news-embarrassed-feds-family/

President Donald J. Trump has argued that unnecessary regulations and outdated mortgage processes have made homeownership unaffordable for Americans and driven up closing costs. On Thursday, he signed an executive order designed to lower the costs of single-family homeownership and mortgages, remove unnecessary red tape, and expand access to the American dream of homeownership.

The order, called “Decreasing Housing Costs for the American People,” directs federal agencies to ease mortgage insurance rules and make refinancing cheaper.

Under the main provision, the Federal Housing Finance Agency director must direct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to set up a pilot program for new mortgages. The companies will periodically check home values with automated models, identify borrowers who have built enough equity, and cancel their private mortgage insurance. The administration says the change will eliminate a large monthly expense for qualifying Americans. Servicers would have to notify eligible homeowners quickly and avoid unnecessary appraisals or paperwork.

Private mortgage insurance is required on most conventional loans with less than 20% down and can add $100 to several hundred dollars a month. This mandatory insurance often stays on for years even after the home has appreciated. FHFA Director Bill Pulte called the order “the greatest Housing Executive Order in History,” adding that “millions of Americans will save thousands and thousands of dollars.”

A separate section directs the FHFA director to expand the agency’s title insurance waiver pilot into a permanent nationwide program through both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On eligible refinances, the companies could accept an automated title review instead of traditional lender’s title insurance, with the savings passed to borrowers to reduce closing costs and monthly expenses.

The director is also told to consider wider eligibility, fewer geographic limits, and lower fees or documentation requirements on limited cash-out refinances.

The order also creates a Task Force on Manufactured Housing Innovation, co-chaired by the HUD secretary and the FHFA director. Within 180 days the group must recommend ways to increase the quality of and lower the cost of building a home by making it easier to use modern factory-built methods for homes that qualify for federal programs.

The secretaries of Agriculture and Veterans Affairs are directed to lower interest rates on the single-family loans their departments make directly, targeting rural and veteran borrowers.

Housing affordability remains strained, which is why the President has moved to act.

The average 30 year fixed rate mortgage stood at 7.32% on the day of the order, up from a low of roughly 2.65% in 2020, when Trump was previously in office. Over the same period, average home prices rose from roughly $475,000 to about $502,700. Pending sales, housing starts, and building permits have all weakened as high prices and rates above 7% slowed the market. The order arrived less than two weeks before midterm elections in which affordability has been a central issue.

Homeownership is a vital pillar of our great Nation and a fundamental piece of the economy. The Trump Administration is working to cut burdensome costs and red tape with the goal of making the American dream of homeownership more affordable and attainable for the American people.

The October 22 order builds on earlier steps the administration has described as dramatic action to decrease housing costs, including a January directive restricting large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, a plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities, a March order that cut some regulatory burdens on mortgage origination, and a crackdown on H-1B visa abuse that includes a $100,000 fee on new petitions and a rule barring non-permanent residents from FHA-backed mortgages.