Pathetic Voter Turnout Brings Democratic Socialist Influence to City Hall in Miami Mayoral Victory
In a significant electoral shift on December 9, Democrat Eileen Higgins secured victory in Miami’s mayoral runoff, defeating Republican Emilio González 59% to 41% and becoming the city’s first female mayor as well as the first Democrat to hold the office since 1997, thereby concluding nearly 30 years of uninterrupted Republican control in a predominantly Hispanic community that has historically favored conservative leadership. Voter turnout was a pathetic 21.3% with just 37,496 ballots cast out of 175,692 registered voters. Higgins, a 61-year-old former Miami-Dade County commissioner known for her oversight of neighborhoods like Little Havana and her background in international development including as Peace Corps director in Belize, advanced from the November 4 first-round ballot with 36% of the vote against González’s 19% in a field of 13 candidates, capitalizing on voter priorities such as affordable housing initiatives and criticisms of Republican immigration policies perceived as overly stringent toward local immigrant families, including those from Cuba, Venezuela, and Haiti. González, a former city manager who directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under President George W. Bush and advocated for property tax elimination alongside stricter border enforcement, received endorsements from President Trump, Governor Ron DeSantis, Senator Rick Scott, and Senator Ted Cruz, yet fell short in a contest that highlighted emerging voter realignments among Hispanic demographics amid national debates on economic pressures and federal immigration measures. This outcome, following Democrat gains in recent off-year races including a tighter-than-expected special congressional election in Tennessee, underscores potential challenges for Republicans in Florida’s urban centers as the 2026 midterms approach, with Higgins, whose campaign echoed a progressive Democratic Socialist tone through emphases on equity-driven policies and opposition to perceived GOP excesses, pledging to prioritize competent governance, environmental protection for Biscayne Bay, and streamlined city services upon her inauguration.
Sources: The New York Post, CBS News
IL Governor Advances Sanctuary Protections Amid Federal Deportation Push, Ignoring Epidemic Crime in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on December 9, signed House Bill 1312 into law in Chicago, dramatically expanding state-level obstructions to federal immigration enforcement by banning ICE civil arrests at courthouses, hospitals, schools, day cares, and college campuses, even though longstanding Supreme Court precedent and the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause make clear that immigration enforcement is an exclusively federal authority that no state may lawfully impede or circumvent. While Chicago continues to suffer one of the nation’s worst violent-crime epidemics—with 617 homicides in 2024 and another 28 murders recorded in the first eight days of December 2025 alone—Governor Pritzker chose to prioritize new legal shields for illegal immigrants, including the right to sue federal agents who conduct enforcement actions near protected locations, rather than address the surging bloodshed on city streets that he has largely ignored during his tenure. The White House responded sharply, stating that Pritzker is “defending criminal illegal aliens” instead of fulfilling his oath to protect Illinois citizens, while DHS officials reiterated that federal law preempts and overrides any state attempt to interfere with immigration operations.
Sources: The Daily Wire, Breitbart
FTA Demands Chicago Transit Authority Safety Plan or Faces Federal Funding Cuts After Train Arson Attack
The Federal Transit Administration issued stern directives on December 8, to Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor JB Pritzker, requiring the Chicago Transit Authority to submit a comprehensive, verifiable security enhancement plan by December 15, with full implementation across its bus and rail systems by December 19, or risk the withholding of vital federal funds, amid documented surges in assaults on workers and riders that have rendered the network increasingly unsafe. This action follows a shocking November 17, 2025, incident where Lawrence Reed, a 48-year-old suspect with prior arrests for violent offenses including aggravated battery and a 2023 conviction for attacking a CTA employee, allegedly ignited a woman with a Molotov cocktail-style flaming bottle aboard a Blue Line train near the Grand station, leaving her with severe burns and prompting a swift indictment on federal charges of attempted murder and possession of an unregistered destructive device. Citing federal regulations that mandate safe transit environments as a condition for funding, FTA Administrator Marc Molinaro emphasized in the letters that the CTA must prioritize immediate, measurable reductions in crime to protect passengers and staff, reflecting longstanding concerns over unchecked disorder in the system that have drawn national scrutiny.
Sources: The Epoch Times, NBC5 Chicago
Federal Judge Restrains Trump’s Federalization of California National Guard in Upholding State Authority
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee, issued a preliminary injunction on December 10, directing President Trump to cease deploying approximately 300 California National Guard troops in Los Angeles and to restore their command to Governor Gavin Newsom, determining that the federalization under Title 10 authority exceeded statutory limits and posed risks to constitutional federalism by transforming state militias into a de facto national police apparatus. The ruling, stayed for five days pending appeal, stems from California’s lawsuit asserting that initial justifications for the June deployment—amid anti-ICE protests—had dissipated amid restored calm, with Breyer emphasizing the framers’ intent for checks and balances against unchecked executive overreach in commandeering state forces without gubernatorial consent or evidence of rebellion or federal incapacity. This decision aligns with prior judicial blocks on similar Trump-ordered deployments to Portland and Chicago, where appeals courts have scrutinized interstate troop transfers, while the administration maintains the necessity for safeguarding federal personnel and property in ongoing immigration enforcement contexts, with the Chicago matter now before the Supreme Court.
Sources: The Washington Times, Reuters
FBI Captures MS-13 Kill Squad Leader in Nebraska
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have apprehended Gerson Cuadra Soto, a Honduran national suspected of commanding a key MS-13 gang kill squad unit, in a targeted operation within Nebraska, as announced by Director Kash Patel on December 9, 2025. Authorities link Soto to the execution-style assassination of the son of Honduras’s former president, underscoring the transnational reach of MS-13’s violent operations that have infiltrated communities across the United States. This arrest reflects ongoing federal efforts to dismantle the gang’s hierarchical structure, which relies on brutal enforcement tactics to maintain control and expand influence through smuggling, extortion, and targeted killings. Patel’s disclosure highlights the administration’s commitment to prioritizing public safety by neutralizing high-level threats from foreign criminal enterprises embedded in American heartland states. The operation involved coordination between the FBI’s gang task force and local law enforcement, preventing potential further violence on U.S. soil.
Sources: The Epoch Times, FOX News
DOJ Ends 50-Year Disparate Impact Liability to Uphold Intentional Discrimination Standards in Civil Rights
On December 9, the U.S. Department of Justice formally rescinded its longstanding disparate-impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a policy in effect since 1973 that had permitted challenges to race-neutral practices based solely on statistical disparities in outcomes among racial groups without evidence of deliberate discrimination. This action, detailed in a DOJ final rule, mandates proof of intentional discrimination for enforcement cases involving federally funded programs, thereby aligning federal policy with Supreme Court precedents that emphasize equal protection and merit-based decision-making over outcome-driven quotas in schools, agencies, and businesses. The change stems directly from President Trump’s April 23, 2025, executive order directing agencies to eliminate such liability to prevent constitutional violations and restore American principles of individual opportunity. Attorney General Pamela Bondi stated that the prior approach had undermined equal treatment by compelling race-based decisions, while Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon noted it had invited baseless lawsuits against neutral policies, and Office of Legal Policy official Nicholas Schilling highlighted how it contradicted the 1964 Act’s original intent to prohibit actual racial bias. The rule reduces regulatory burdens on states, localities, nonprofits, and private entities, reinforcing that Title VI targets purposeful discrimination rather than unintended statistical variances.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Wire
Trump Elevates Fossil Fuels as Pillar of American National Security
President Trump’s newly released National Security Strategy positions fossil fuels, alongside nuclear power, as the bedrock of U.S. defense against geopolitical adversaries, emphasizing that surging domestic oil and gas production is essential to safeguard the nation and its allies by flooding global markets and severing reliance on hostile suppliers like those in China and Russia. The 33-page document, unveiled on December 4, 2025, rejects decarbonization mandates as misguided policies that have crippled Europe’s economy and inadvertently bolstered enemies through subsidies for their clean-tech dominance, instead advocating for robust exports of American liquefied natural gas to fortify partnerships and apply economic pressure during crises, as articulated by former National Security Council official Richard Goldberg, who noted the strategy’s aim to “produce enough and sell enough American energy for partners and allies so that you can unhook them from adversaries.” This approach builds on record-high U.S. production levels achieved under prior administrations while critiquing European regulatory hurdles that stifle fossil fuel growth, underscoring a pragmatic focus on reciprocity in trade with Beijing to reclaim economic sovereignty without compromising on legacy energy strengths that underpin military and industrial might.
Sources: The White House, Semafor
Appeals Court Upholds Trump Administration’s Military Readiness Policy on Gender Dysphoria
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., delivered a ruling on December 9, granting a stay that enables President Trump’s policy barring military service by individuals with gender dysphoria or those who have undergone related medical interventions, overturning a lower court injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in March. In a 2-1 decision penned by Judge Gregory Katsas, joined by Judge Neomi Rao—both Trump appointees—the panel faulted Reyes for insufficient deference to the Pentagon’s professional assessments, which drew on established medical standards, a 2018 Mattis review, a 2021 Defense Department study highlighting nondeployability risks post-diagnosis, and a 2025 literature review underscoring limited evidence of improved readiness from treatments. The majority applied reasoning from the Supreme Court’s summer decision in United States v. Skrmetti, determining the policy addresses medical conditions rather than transgender status to evade heightened scrutiny, and dismissed claims of animus by focusing on the policy’s facial validity and supporting evidence, including a prior high court allowance in a parallel case. Judge Nina Pillard dissented, contending the measure amounts to a categorical exclusion driven by bias, citing officer testimonies on transgender troops’ positive contributions to unit cohesion and readiness, but the stay now permits full enforcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pending further appeals, with plaintiffs unlikely to secure emergency Supreme Court intervention given prior signals.
Sources: The Washington Examiner, The Epoch Times
Walz Pledges Expanded Somali Resettlement and Welfare Programs Amid $1 Billion Fraud Probe
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, speaking at a Seattle fundraiser on December 10, 2025, committed to welcoming additional Somali immigrants to the state while bolstering government assistance initiatives, even as federal authorities pursue charges against dozens in a sprawling welfare fraud operation that siphoned over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars from child nutrition and Medicaid programs. Walz, who highlighted Minnesota’s per capita lead in refugee intake, declared, “Instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in,” and vowed, “Instead of cutting programs, we’re going to enhance them,” framing his stance against recent federal immigration actions he described as terrorizing neighborhoods. This comes amid revelations that 78 of 86 charged defendants in the schemes are of Somali descent, with indictments detailing nonprofits that billed for nonexistent services like feeding phantom children or providing therapy to fabricated autistic clients, some funds allegedly routed to the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, all under Walz’s administration where whistleblowers claim warnings were ignored to avoid political backlash. Federal probes by the House Oversight Committee and U.S. Treasury underscore oversight lapses since 2019, with 59 convictions secured thus far in what prosecutors call “schemes stacked upon schemes.”
Sources: The Post Millennial, FOX News
Jasmine Crockett’s Unpaid Lien and Lavish Campaign Expenditures Raise Fiscal Accountability Questions
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat earning $174,000 annually, faces an unresolved $3,047.79 lien filed on April 11, 2024, against her Dallas condominium by the Westside Condominium Association for unpaid assessments and charges, as documented in Dallas County Clerk records and confirmed unreleased by county officials as of December 2025; the lien notice explicitly states she “is in default in her obligation for payment of assessments and has failed and refused... to pay the Association assessments and related charges properly levied against the Property,” blocking any sale or transfer of the upscale property she has owned since 2014. Concurrently, Crockett’s Federal Election Commission filings reveal expenditures approaching $75,000 in 2025 on luxury accommodations and services, including stays at the Ritz-Carlton for nearly $4,200, the West Hollywood Edition for $5,300, and multiple trips to Martha’s Vineyard totaling around $6,000, alongside limo services such as $2,700 to Transportation 4 U Limo and $2,300 to DCA Car LLC, plus over $50,000 on security—totaling an estimated $50,000 to $100,000 in donor and taxpayer-supported outlays for travel and hospitality in cities like Chicago, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, despite her representation of Texas’s 30th Congressional District centered in Dallas. This financial profile emerges as Crockett eyes a 2026 U.S. Senate bid against Republican incumbent John Cornyn, amid potential redistricting under new Republican-drawn Texas maps that could eliminate her current seat.
Sources: The Gateway Pundit, PJ Media
Elon Musk Rejects White Guilt Amid Gen Z’s Turn Away from Woke Racial Narratives
Elon Musk, the innovative entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, has publicly proclaimed an end to white guilt, aligning with emerging surveys indicating that Generation Z is increasingly dismissing what he terms woke racial shaming tactics. This declaration underscores a broader cultural shift where younger Americans, burdened by relentless narratives of inherited racial culpability, are opting instead for personal accountability and merit-based progress, as evidenced by recent polling data from conservative-leaning research firms. Musk’s straightforward rejection of these guilt-inducing ideologies resonates with traditional American values of individual liberty and equal opportunity under the law, free from engineered divisions, while highlighting his consistent advocacy for unfiltered discourse on platforms like X. The statement arrives as progressive efforts to institutionalize racial reparations and equity mandates face mounting resistance, with Gen Z polls showing a preference for colorblind policies that prioritize economic mobility over grievance politics, reflecting a return to foundational principles of self-reliance and national unity.
Sources: The Daily Wire, Breitbart
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US Taxpayers’ $38 Billion Arsenal Boosts Taliban’s Grip on Afghanistan
A recent government watchdog report underscores how American taxpayers unwittingly equipped the Taliban with over $38 billion in military hardware and infrastructure during the hasty 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, transforming U.S.-funded assets into the backbone of the insurgents’ security forces after two decades of congressional appropriations totaling $144.7 billion for reconstruction efforts that ultimately faltered. This includes 96,000 combat vehicles, 427,300 weapons, 162 aircraft, and advanced night-vision gear now bolstering Taliban operations, with much of the arsenal sold on black markets or diverted to affiliates like the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), fueling cross-border attacks that claimed six Pakistani soldiers’ lives on December 9, 2025, amid escalating Af-Pak tensions documented in a February 2025 UN Security Council analysis. Echoing earlier CIA-backed support for Mujahideen precursors during the Soviet-Afghan War under Operation Cyclone, this second wave of inadvertent arming—capped by the abandonment of Bagram Airbase—has drawn criticism from experts like Sami Yousafzai, who note the Taliban’s retention of these “war spoils” without direct handover evidence to TTP, while Pakistan urges U.S. recovery actions and President Trump labels the exit history’s most embarrassing debacle, all per Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction findings and Costs of War Project data.
Sources: FOX News, The Eurasian Times
US Navy Secures Advanced Wreckage in South China Sea Ahead of Chinese Reach
The United States Navy on December 5, successfully salvaged an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jet and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from approximately 400 feet below the surface of the South China Sea, mere weeks after both aircraft plunged into the contested waters on October 26 during routine operations from the USS Nimitz carrier—all crew members emerged unharmed, with investigations ongoing into the rare dual incident. This recovery effort, orchestrated by Commander Task Force 73, the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, and allied units using a contractor-operated unmanned system aboard a vessel of opportunity, prevented potential access by Chinese forces to sensitive technologies embedded in the wreckage, including the Super Hornet’s AN/APG-79(V)4 active electronically scanned array radar and electronic warfare suites that outpace China’s J-15 carrier fighters, as well as the Sea Hawk’s AN/AQS-22 advanced low-frequency sonar system for anti-submarine warfare—a capability Beijing has repeatedly attempted but failed to fully replicate in its Z-20F naval helicopter. The operation, described by Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Andersen as a “true Navy team effort” underscoring “naval integration, readiness, and the unmatched capability of our salvage and diving teams,” transported the components to a secure U.S. installation in the Indo-Pacific for analysis, thereby safeguarding American tactical advantages in a region where China’s expansive territorial claims defy international rulings and heighten risks of foreign material exploitation.
Sources: The Eurasian Times, CNN
Global Pushback Against China’s Export Strategy as Trade Imbalances Deepen
In a world increasingly wary of economic dependencies, nations from the European Union to Mexico are erecting tariffs and barriers against China’s aggressive export model, which has ballooned its trade surplus to a record $1 trillion in 2025 while straining global markets through deliberate overcapacity and state-driven manufacturing dominance. Beijing’s strategy, rooted in the Chinese Communist Party’s push for a “manufacturing powerhouse” via the forthcoming 15th Five-Year Plan, has fueled November 2025 export growth that rebounded sharply after an October dip, even as shipments to the United States plummeted amid President Trump’s escalating tariffs aimed at correcting decades of lopsided trade flows that hollowed out American industries. This “beggar-thy-neighbor” approach, prioritizing exports over balanced growth, has prompted the EU to consider duties on Chinese electric vehicles and other goods, while Mexico targets steel and advanced manufactures to shield its workers from Beijing’s flood of subsidized products; such measures underscore a broader international resolve to safeguard domestic economies from the geopolitical risks of China’s non-market practices, as evidenced by declining foreign investment in the mainland and a 5 percent GDP growth rate that masks deeper structural frailties like an aging population and squeezed private sector vitality.
Sources: The Epoch Times, RealClearDefense
Mexico’s Sheinbaum Seeks Water Accord with U.S. as Trump Readies Tariffs for Treaty Breach
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans for virtual negotiations with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Secretary of State Christopher Landau to address a longstanding shortfall in Rio Grande water deliveries mandated by the 1944 treaty, under which Mexico must supply 1.75 million acre-feet every five years to support American farmers, amid President Donald Trump’s firm warning of a 5 percent tariff on Mexican goods if 200,000 acre-feet are not released by December 31 to alleviate the over 800,000 acre-feet deficit exacerbated by droughts and local demands that have devastated Texas crops and livestock. Sheinbaum expressed confidence in resolving the matter swiftly, noting Mexico’s prior April commitment to boost shipments that temporarily eased tensions during U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade talks, while a spokesperson for Senator Ted Cruz emphasized the shortfall as a deliberate policy choice rather than an environmental inevitability, underscoring the treaty’s provisions for rollover in extraordinary droughts but highlighting the urgent harm to U.S. agricultural interests. Trump’s directive demands immediate compliance to safeguard hardworking American producers, with the dispute rooted in Mexico’s underdelivery of less than 30 percent in the recent cycle, despite the agreement’s framework for shared border resources.
Sources: The Straits Times, Reuters
Anti-Christian Extremists Brutalizing European Christmas Markets
In the weeks leading up to Christmas 2025, reports document a disturbing series of vandalism incidents targeting nativity scenes and Christmas markets across Europe, underscoring persistent threats to longstanding Christian traditions. On November 30 in Erbach, Germany, unidentified assailants beat two donkeys named Max and Lilly at a live nativity display, stole food supplies, damaged decorations and electrical equipment, defaced public restrooms and church interiors, including pews, and left excrement inside the church, prompting temporary closure and relocation of the animals while a local resident chased the perpetrators away. In Brussels, Belgium, between November 28 and 29, the head of the infant Jesus figure—a cloth ball in an inclusive, faceless nativity scene on the Grand Place—was stolen despite surveillance, following prior controversies over the display’s design. Over a recent weekend in Trieste, Italy, two masked men captured on CCTV climbed a fence, posed mockingly with selfies, and decapitated a shepherd statue in the town square’s nativity, leaving its head perched on another figure’s staff, as the mayor vowed to pursue the culprits amid annual recurrences despite cameras. Meanwhile, during the night of November 25-26 in Amiens, France, a lone vandal shattered plexiglass protections at the Christmas market’s nativity and destroyed multiple figures, including the baby Jesus, requiring repairs and heightened security from municipal police, with the neighborhood committee president calling it a devastating blow to a 30-year tradition. These acts, ranging from theft and property destruction to animal cruelty, reflect a broader pattern of anti-Christian extremism amid heightened market safeguards following last year’s deadly vehicle attack in Magdeburg, Germany.
Sources: The Daily Caller, PJ Media