Trump Pardons Election Integrity Advocate Tina Peters, Colorado Officials Refuse to Release Her
President Trump issued a full pardon on December 11 for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk convicted in 2024 on state charges related to her efforts to secure voting machines and expose potential irregularities in the 2020 election, a move that underscores the administration’s commitment to safeguarding electoral transparency against what Trump described as relentless Democrat targeting of patriots. Peters, sentenced to nine years in prison after a jury found her guilty of felonies, including tampering with voting equipment—stemming from her 2021 actions to copy sensitive election data amid widespread concerns over Dominion systems—has maintained her innocence, with her attorney Peter Ticktin notifying Trump of the decision and highlighting her role as a key witness to alleged election misconduct. In a Truth Social statement, Trump emphasized that Democrats have weaponized the justice system against those demanding honest elections, declaring, “Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of Tina Peters, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest. Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections.” While the pardon applies to federal offenses and may not immediately impact her state sentence—prompting rejections from Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Attorney General Phil Weiser, who insisted no presidential authority exists over state convictions—Peters’ case exemplifies the ongoing battle to restore trust in America’s voting processes following the disputed 2020 results.
Justice Department Escalates Lawsuits Against States Defying Voter Roll Maintenance Laws
The United States Department of Justice has filed multiple federal lawsuits against numerous states for failing to provide complete, unredacted statewide voter registration lists upon request, as required under the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to ensure accurate and effective voter roll maintenance programs that prevent ineligible registrations and uphold election integrity. These actions, initiated in September 2025 and continuing through December, target states including California, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Maine, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada, bringing the total to 18 states sued for noncompliance that hinders the verification of voter eligibility and fosters public confidence in fair elections. Attorney General Pamela Bondi emphasized that accurate voter rolls form the cornerstone of free and fair elections, while Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division noted that such defiance interferes with ensuring every vote counts equally and restoring trust in election results, with the department committed to ongoing litigation until states adhere to these federal safeguards.
Sources: US Justice Dept, The Epoch Times
DOT Enforces Federal Standards on New York CDL Issuance
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a 30-day ultimatum to New York State to align its practices for issuing nondomiciled commercial driver’s licenses with federal regulations, or risk losing $73 million in highway funding, as announced by Secretary Sean Duffy on December 12. Duffy highlighted that 53 percent of New York’s nondomiciled CDLs were issued in violation of federal law, emphasizing the need to ensure all truckers meet English proficiency and lawful status requirements to protect public safety on American roads. This action stems from heightened scrutiny following a deadly Florida truck crash involving a driver with multiple nondomiciled CDLs who lacked English skills and faced immigration charges, prompting similar measures against California, which revoked 17,000 illegal licenses and forfeited $40 million, while Minnesota and Pennsylvania received warnings for comparable lapses. New York’s DMV countered by asserting full compliance with federal verification processes using official documents, dismissing the DOT’s claims as unfounded, yet the deadline underscores the administration’s commitment to rigorous enforcement of transportation security standards nationwide.
Sources: The Washington Times, The Epoch Times
Border Tsar Probes Omar Marriage Fraud Allegations
Border Czar Tom Homan confirmed this week that the Department of Homeland Security is actively reviewing immigration files related to longstanding allegations that Representative Ilhan Omar committed fraud by marrying her brother, Ahmed Elmi, in 2009 to secure his U.S. entry, a claim Omar has repeatedly denied amid her family’s documented arrival as Somali refugees in 1995 and her naturalization in 2000. Homan disclosed consultation with a top Homeland Security Investigations fraud expert who expressed certainty of fraud in the case, though the statute of limitations poses challenges for prosecution; he emphasized pulling records to assess potential consequences, including Omar’s legal status, as President Trump has publicly asserted the marriage renders her presence unlawful and demanded her removal. The probe extends scrutiny to broader visa irregularities in Minnesota’s Somali community, where federal data indicates half of reviewed visas involve fraud, underscoring federal commitment to upholding immigration integrity without tolerance for deception in the naturalization process.
Sources: Just the News, ZeroHedge
Grand Jury Ignores Evidence, Rejects Second Indictment Attempt Against Letitia James in Mortgage Fraud Probe
A federal grand jury in Virginia declined on December 11, to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution, marking the second such refusal within a week following the dismissal of an initial September 2025 indictment by U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a Clinton appointee, who ruled the appointment of U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan invalid under the appointments clause. The allegations centered on James securing favorable loan terms in 2020 for a Norfolk, Virginia, property, the Perrone Property, by representing it as her secondary residence despite renting it out as an investment, in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 1344 and 1014, though prosecutors failed to persuade jurors in either Norfolk or Alexandria proceedings despite refiling the case with an experienced fraud specialist. James’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, described the efforts as politically motivated, while the Justice Department maintained the charges stemmed from independent evidence, leaving open the possibility of further attempts amid ongoing scrutiny of procedural and evidentiary issues in the case.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit, The Washington Examiner
BLM Oklahoma Director Indicted for Embezzling Over $3 Million in Donor Funds for Personal Luxury
Federal prosecutors have indicted Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, executive director of Black Lives Matter Oklahoma City, on 20 counts of wire fraud and five counts of money laundering after she allegedly diverted at least $3.15 million from over $5.6 million raised through grants and online donations since 2020, funds originally intended for pretrial bail support for individuals arrested during racial justice protests following George Floyd’s death and routed via the Alliance for Global Justice. According to the unsealed indictment from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Dickerson deposited returned bail checks into her personal accounts between June 2020 and October 2025, then submitted false reports claiming the money was used for tax-exempt purposes, while instead spending it on a 2021 Hyundai Palisade registered in her name, six rental properties titled to her or a company she controlled—including one intended as a BLM community center placed solely in her name—international trips to Jamaica in December 2021 and January 2022 and the Dominican Republic in July 2021 for herself and associates, over $50,000 in DoorDash and Instacart deliveries for her family, and tens of thousands of dollars on retail purchases at Nordstrom Rack, Macy’s, Amazon, Best Buy, and Bob Mills Furniture. The investigation was conducted by the FBI Oklahoma City Field Office and IRS Criminal Investigation, with potential penalties including up to 450 years in prison and over $7.5 million in fines if convicted on all counts.
Sources: The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller
Whistleblower Reveals Endemic Medicaid Fraud Exploiting Ohio’s Somali Networks
Ohio attorney and whistleblower Mehek Cooke has detailed a deeply entrenched Medicaid fraud operation within segments of the state’s Somali community, particularly in Columbus, where over 60,000 Somali Americans reside, describing it as a decade-long racket that has siphoned millions from taxpayers through systemic gaming of the program’s home healthcare waiver. Providers confiding in Cooke report being coerced into participating, with doctors receiving kickbacks to approve fictitious claims for elderly family members—often up to $91,000 annually per person—for nonexistent services like care for bedridden patients who are later seen active on social media, such as dancing at events. This scheme thrives due to Ohio’s lenient oversight, lacking independent assessments, random home visits, or rigorous verification, making it one of the easiest systems in the Midwest to exploit; Cooke estimates 99% of approvals involve coached lies about qualifications, turning a compassionate policy into a criminal enterprise where funds are funneled through family ties and community-linked providers, echoing patterns in Minnesota’s $1 billion scandal but on a potentially larger scale. Fears of violent retaliation, including threats of stoning or death, have silenced many insiders, underscoring how criminal elements within these networks enforce silence and perpetuate the abuse, as federal probes intensify calls for nationwide audits to safeguard resources for truly vulnerable Americans from such pervasive predations.
Sources: FOX News, The Gateway Pundit
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Minnesota Feeding Our Future Fraud Diverted Taxpayer Funds to Luxury Homes, Cars, and Vacations
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have exposed how participants in the Feeding Our Future scandal, the nation’s largest COVID-era relief fraud at over $250 million, systematically diverted funds meant for feeding low-income children to finance extravagant personal indulgences, including multimillion-dollar lakefront properties, high-end vehicles such as a 2021 Porsche Macan and Dodge Ram pickup, first-class international flights to Istanbul and Amsterdam, and lavish resort stays in the Maldives with private overwater villas. Court documents from recent trials detail wire transfers to East Africa and China, stacks of cash, and $30,000 jewelry purchases in Dubai, with one convicted defendant, 24-year-old Abdimajid Mohamed Nur of Somali descent, boasting in text messages about becoming the richest 25-year-old while facing 10 years in prison and $48 million in restitution for his role. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel highlighted the betrayal during Nur’s sentencing, stating, “Where others saw a crisis and rushed to help, you saw money and rushed to steal,” as the scheme involved fabricating meal sites and invoices under the Federal Child Nutrition Program administered by the Minnesota Department of Education. This case, part of broader probes into over $1 billion in state welfare frauds, has prompted congressional Republicans and the incoming Trump administration to demand stricter oversight and recovery of stolen assets from the 78 defendants charged to date, underscoring failures in monitoring pandemic relief expenditures.
Sources: US Dept of Justice, Legal Insurrection
OCC Report Exposes Major Banks’ Debanking of Law-Abiding Industries
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s preliminary report, issued on December 10, in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14331, documents that nine leading U.S. banks—Bank of America, BMO Bank, Citibank, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and U.S. Bank—maintained policies from 2020 to 2023 that restricted financial services to lawful sectors including Arctic oil and gas operations, coal mining and power plants, firearms manufacturing and distribution, private prisons, payday lending, tobacco and e-cigarette businesses, adult entertainment, digital assets, and even political action committees, often citing reputational risks from media scrutiny or public perceptions rather than financial threats. Comptroller Jonathan V. Gould highlighted that these institutions misused their government-backed charters to impose such barriers, prompting ongoing reviews of thousands of complaints involving political or religious discrimination and potential referrals to the Justice Department for accountability. This federal oversight underscores the need to safeguard economic access for American enterprises and individuals against arbitrary exclusions.
Sources: American Greatness, Reuters
Illinois Governor Signs Assisted Suicide Law Amid Religious and Disability Rights Objections
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1950 into law on December 12, 2025, authorizing qualified terminally ill adults to obtain medication from physicians to end their lives, effective September 2026, marking the state as the first in the Midwest to permit such medical aid in dying under the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act, also known as Deb’s Law in honor of advocate Deb Robertson. Eligibility requires individuals to be at least 18 years old, diagnosed with a terminal illness expected to cause death within six months, possess confirmed mental capacity for medical decisions, receive information on alternatives like hospice and palliative care, and submit both written and oral requests, with the cause of death recorded as the underlying disease rather than suicide to avoid stigma. Pritzker highlighted the measure’s role in granting “freedom and choice at the end of life” for those enduring “debilitating terminal illnesses,” ensuring implementation allows physicians to guide patients with “authority, autonomy, and empathy,” while no healthcare provider or pharmacist is compelled to participate. The legislation encountered substantial resistance from religious organizations, including Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago, who warned it normalizes suicide amid rising mental health crises and urged exploration of palliative care to uphold human dignity, and from disability rights groups like Access Living, whose policy analyst Sebastian Nalls decried the bill’s “loopholes and lack of oversight” as a threat to equitable healthcare and the ability to “live and die with dignity,” raising fears that insurers could steer vulnerable patients toward euthanasia over costly treatments.
Sources: The Post Millennial, The Daily Caller
San Diego Schools Push Radical Gender Agenda on Young Students Amid Federal Pushback
The San Diego Unified School District, California’s second-largest with 121,000 students from preschool through grade 12, stands accused by parental rights advocates of embedding ideological indoctrination into its core educational framework via the Equity & Belonging hub, which promotes recognition of nine distinct gender identities including demigirl and third gender, alongside 28 youth sexual orientations such as aegosexual, polysexual, and sexually fluid abrosexual, as outlined in official district slideshows and resources drawn from organizations like the Trevor Project and Human Rights Campaign. This hub, under Executive Director Ebonee Weathers and integrated with the Ethnic Studies Department & Restorative Practices, commits to dismantling systems of oppression through equity consciousness and social justice curricula that reach third graders with materials on transgender children in the Boy Scouts, Latinx history explorations, and profiles of figures like Michelle Obama in the “It’s Lit Jr.” package for elementary students. Defending Education, highlighting these elements as incompatible with traditional learning, warns that such programs erode parental trust and may conflict with the Trump administration’s executive orders withholding federal funds from schools advancing gender ideology or discriminatory equity practices, especially following a federal judge’s January 2025 ruling vacating Biden-era Title IX expansions on transgender accommodations for exceeding authority and infringing on First Amendment rights, with district officials yet to respond to inquiries on the matter.
Sources: The Washington Times, The Daily Wire
Stanford Study Reveals Immune Mechanism Behind Rare mRNA COVID Vaccine Myocarditis Cases
Stanford Medicine researchers have pinpointed a two-step immune response as the likely cause of rare myocarditis instances following mRNA COVID-19 vaccinations, with the condition primarily affecting adolescent males and young men within one to three days of receiving a dose, as detailed in a study published December 10, 2025, in Science Translational Medicine. The process begins when macrophages, key immune cells, encounter the mRNA vaccine and release elevated levels of the cytokine CXCL10, which then prompts T cells to secrete high amounts of interferon gamma (IFN-gamma), another cytokine that triggers heart tissue inflammation and muscle protein degradation in susceptible individuals. Analysis of blood samples from vaccinated patients who developed myocarditis confirmed heightened concentrations of these two proteins compared to those without the condition, while lab experiments using human immune cells and young male mice replicated the cytokine surge and subsequent cardiac damage. Although myocarditis risk from the vaccines remains exceedingly low—fewer than 30 cases per million doses—and far lower than the approximately 10-fold greater incidence from actual COVID-19 infections, the findings underscore the vaccines’ overall role in curbing severe illness and death during the pandemic. To address this side effect without diminishing vaccine efficacy, the team tested genistein, a soy-derived phytoestrogen with anti-inflammatory properties akin to estrogen, which successfully reduced cytokine-driven inflammation and heart injury in experimental models, offering a potential pretreatment strategy for at-risk groups pending further clinical validation.
Sources: Stanford University, The Epoch Times
Holiday Brawl Disrupts Liberal Nantucket’s Annual Christmas Stroll
In the affluent, predominantly progressive, island community of Nantucket, Massachusetts, a chaotic fistfight erupted among groups of men aged from their twenties to their sixties during the 51st annual Christmas Stroll on December 6, as hundreds of residents and visitors gathered on Federal Street to witness Santa Claus’s arrival and enjoy the longstanding holiday tradition. Video evidence captured the altercation beginning with heated arguments and shoves that quickly escalated into a full melee, featuring older participants pushing one another and a younger individual being tackled and thrown to the ground before punches flew among the combatants. Nantucket police arrived at the scene around 2 p.m. to break up the disorder, with no arrests reported and the investigation continuing to determine the precise trigger amid witness accounts likening the fray to rival gang clashes reminiscent of West Side Story, underscoring a stark contrast to the event’s intended spirit of community and festivity.
Sources: News25 Boston, FOX News
Unprovoked Stabbing Shatters Holiday Cheer at Macy’s Herald Square
In a chilling reminder of urban vulnerabilities during the festive season, a 38-year-old tourist from Jurupa Valley, California was viciously stabbed multiple times in the back and left arm while changing her 10-month-old daughter’s diaper in the seventh-floor women’s restroom of New York City’s iconic Macy’s Herald Square on December 11, around 3:15 p.m., as crowds thronged the historic 1902 landmark for holiday bargains. The unprovoked assault by 43-year-old Kerri Aherne, a homeless resident of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, prompted swift action from the victim’s husband, who disarmed the attacker and restrained her until NYPD officers arrived, leading to Aherne’s immediate arrest on charges including attempted murder, two counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and endangering the welfare of a child; the mother was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, her infant unharmed, while Macy’s expressed profound sorrow over the breach of safety in a statement deferring to authorities.
Sources: FOX5 New York, The New York Post
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Seized & Sanctioned Oil Tanker Was Evading Detection Near Venezuela
U.S. Coast Guard and Navy personnel executed a seizure warrant on December 10, capturing the oil tanker Skipper approximately six miles off Venezuela’s coast, where it was transporting sanctioned Iranian and Venezuelan crude oil destined for Cuba, with the cargo valued at tens of millions of dollars. Sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury since 2022 for facilitating illicit shipments from Iran and Venezuela, the 20-year-old very large crude carrier had employed location spoofing tactics for over 80 days in the past two years to mask its movements, including falsifying signals to appear near Guyana while satellite imagery confirmed its presence near Venezuela’s Port of Jose from late October through December. Maritime tracking data from sources like MarineTraffic and Kpler revealed the vessel’s last declared position on November 7, 2025, following a stop at Iran’s Soroosh Oil Field on July 9, 2025, and prior visits to Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, though spoofing obscured verification; additionally, it conducted ship-to-ship transfers, including one unloading Iranian oil falsely declared for China in August 2025 and another near Venezuela on December 8, 2025, while earlier in the year it delivered nearly four million barrels of sanctioned crude from Iran to China. This operation, part of a broader enforcement effort under a judicial warrant, underscores the U.S. commitment to disrupting shadow fleets that comprise up to 20 percent of the global tanker market and enable regimes in Iran, Venezuela, and Russia to circumvent restrictions imposed to curb funding for terrorism and narcotics trafficking.
Sources: The Washington Times, CBS News
Putin Reaffirms Russian Backing for Maduro as U.S. Intensifies Sanctions on Venezuelan Oil Regime
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on December 11, reaffirming Moscow’s steadfast support for Caracas’s policies in safeguarding national sovereignty against escalating external pressures from the United States. The leaders discussed advancing their strategic partnership, including joint initiatives in economic and energy sectors, building on two decades of collaboration that encompasses military equipment supplies, financial loans tied to crude exports, and diplomatic solidarity amid international sanctions. This outreach comes amid heightened U.S. actions under President Trump, such as the seizure of a sanctioned Venezuelan supertanker off the coast—described by Attorney General Pam Bondi as the largest such operation in history, involving the FBI, Homeland Security, and Coast Guard—along with expanded military presence in the Caribbean and new sanctions on Maduro’s oil fleet and family members, which Venezuelan officials condemned as acts of piracy violating sovereignty. The exchange underscores Russia’s role as a key ally to Maduro’s government, which has faced Western dismissal of its 2024 reelection as fraudulent, while Trump has warned of potential land operations and labeled regime elements as threats to American security through drug trafficking ties.
Sources: The Times of India, FOX News
Trump Secures Renewed Ceasefire in Thailand-Cambodia Border Conflict
President Trump announced on December 12 that Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to renew their ceasefire following days of deadly clashes along their disputed 817-kilometer border, crediting direct telephone diplomacy with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, as well as support from Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The agreement, posted on Truth Social, mandates an immediate halt to all shooting effective that evening and a return to the original peace accord brokered under Trump’s administration in July 2025, which was expanded in October after he threatened to withhold U.S. trade privileges to enforce compliance. Rooted in longstanding territorial disputes over areas like the Preah Vihear temple, stemming from a 1907 French colonial map and a 1962 International Court of Justice ruling favoring Cambodia, the recent violence escalated with Thai F-16 airstrikes destroying a Cambodian crane used for military surveillance and Cambodian BM-21 rocket launches damaging Thai residential areas, resulting in at least six Thai soldiers killed by shrapnel and broader civilian displacements exceeding 500,000. This intervention underscores Trump’s role in stabilizing the region, preventing further unraveling of the fragile truce amid mutual accusations of provocation and landmine incidents that prompted Thailand to suspend the agreement last month.