Trump Denounces Democrat Lawmakers as Traitors for Urging Troops to Disobey Orders
President Donald Trump on November 20th, sharply condemned six Democrat members of Congress with military or intelligence backgrounds—Senators Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mark Kelly of Arizona, along with Representatives Jason Crow of Colorado, Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Chris Deluzio of Pennsylvania, and Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire—for releasing a video titled “Don’t Give Up the Ship” that directly addressed active-duty service members and intelligence personnel, reminding them of their duty to refuse unlawful orders and asserting that threats to the Constitution now originate domestically as the administration deploys National Guard forces to address violent crime in cities like Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and potentially Louisiana. Trump posted on social media that their actions constituted “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” labeling the lawmakers “traitors to our country” who “should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” warning that their words endanger the nation and declaring such conduct “punishable by DEATH,” while emphasizing that “an example MUST BE SET” to preserve military chain of command and national stability.
Sources: FOX News, The Washington Times
Florida Democrat Indicted for Misappropriating Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Disaster Relief
Federal prosecutors in Miami have indicted Democrat Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick on serious charges including conspiracy to steal $5 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief funds allocated for COVID-19 vaccination efforts in 2021, money laundering to conceal the funds’ origins by routing them through multiple accounts, using a substantial portion of the stolen taxpayer money for illegal straw-donor contributions to finance her successful 2021 congressional campaign, and conspiring to file false tax returns; the indictment, announced by Attorney General Pamela Bondi who described the alleged diversion of emergency funds for personal and political gain as a betrayal of public trust that demands full accountability under the law, also names her brother Edwin Cherfilus and two associates as co-defendants, with Cherfilus-McCormick facing up to 53 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Sources: The Independent Sentinel, The Daily Caller
Biden Administration Crime Statistics Exposed as Completely Manipulated
A comprehensive analysis relying on National Crime Victimization Survey data reveals that violent crime in America’s urban centers surged by 61 percent from 2019 to 2024, reaching 40.5 victimizations per 1,000 residents while suburban and rural rates held steady, with the urban rate now 46 percent above the national average and more than double rural figures; this sharp rise went largely undetected in official FBI reported crime statistics because fewer than half of violent crimes are ever reported to police, compounded by a flawed transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System that caused massive underreporting from major cities starting in 2021, allowing administration officials to repeatedly claim historic crime reductions even as the FBI in September 2024 quietly revised its 2022 data from a reported 2.1 percent decrease to a 4.5 percent increase in violent crime, adding thousands of previously uncounted murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults without public acknowledgment, while policies in Democrat-led cities such as reduced prosecutions, eliminated cash bail, and plea bargaining down felonies further obscured the true extent of lawlessness disproportionately harming minority communities.
Sources: RealClear Investigations, The Gateway Pundit
Congressional Stock Trading Ban Faces Deep Skepticism Among Lawmakers
Despite widespread public demand and repeated bipartisan introductions of legislation to prohibit members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks—a reform aimed at eliminating potential conflicts of interest and restoring trust in elected officials—numerous representatives and senators from both parties continue to express strong doubts about the prospects of any such ban becoming law in the current session, citing entrenched personal financial impacts, enforcement challenges, and the longstanding reluctance of congressional leaders to force a floor vote that would compel members to restrict their own investment activities, leaving the initiative stalled once again amid a pattern of hearings, proposals, and ultimate inaction that has persisted for years under the existing STOCK Act requirements.
Sources: The Epoch Times, Roll Call Magazine
Trump Signs Epstein Files Transparency Act
President Trump on November 19th, signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law, mandating that the Department of Justice release all unclassified records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, with limited redactions permitted only to protect ongoing federal investigations, following overwhelming bipartisan passage in Congress where the House approved it 427-1 and the Senate by unanimous consent after Trump reversed his initial opposition and urged Republican support, announcing the signing on Truth Social by declaring that the long-overdue disclosure will finally expose Epstein’s extensive associations with prominent Democrats while affirming that his administration has already turned over nearly 50,000 pages and that he personally banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years ago upon learning of his behavior.
Sources: The Daily Wire, Breitbart
Harvard Maintained Extensive Epstein Ties Long After Convictions
Despite Harvard University’s official policy ending Jeffrey Epstein’s donations in 2008 following his Florida convictions for soliciting prostitution from a minor, documented evidence reveals the convicted sex trafficker retained significant access to campus facilities, faculty relationships, and influence for years afterward, including over 40 visits to an office in the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics between 2010 and 2018, keycard entry, and accompaniment by young female assistants, while biology and mathematics professor Martin Nowak received $6.5 million from Epstein to establish the program in 2003 and facilitated his ongoing presence until sanctions were briefly imposed in 2020-2021 before being lifted in 2023; additional faculty connections included psychology professor Stephen Kosslyn recommending Epstein for a visiting fellowship in 2005 despite his lack of qualifications and accepting undisclosed personal funding, alongside other academics enabling Epstein’s image rehabilitation through website promotions and post-conviction interactions, underscoring a pattern of institutional leniency toward a major donor even after public knowledge of his crimes.
Sources: ZeroHedge, Harvard.edu
Rubio Directs Restitution for State Department Employees Harmed by Biden DEI Promotion Standards
An internal State Department review of 7,319 employees who competed for promotions in 2024 determined that approximately 295 qualified Foreign Service and civil service personnel were downgraded and denied advancement solely because they insufficiently demonstrated commitment to the Biden administration’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) precept—such as failing to show efforts to recruit diverse teams, improve inclusivity awareness, or address perceived noninclusive behavior—despite strong performance in other areas like leadership, management, and substantive knowledge; in line with President Trump’s executive actions to eliminate ideological criteria and restore merit-based systems by replacing the DEIA precept with one focused on “fidelity,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed restitution for those affected, including retroactive pay increases, administrative promotions where appropriate, and letters of commendation to rectify the prior administration’s penalties on competence in favor of enforced diversity conformance.
Sources: WCCS Radio, FOX News
GE Appliances Advances American Manufacturing Reshoring
GE Appliances, a Haier company, announced on November 20th, that it has awarded more than $150 million in annual new contracts to U.S.-based suppliers across ten states for steel, resins, parts, and components essential to producing front-load washers and combination washer-dryers now being shifted from China to a newly retooled facility at its Louisville, Kentucky Appliance Park headquarters, part of a broader $490 million laundry expansion and a five-year $3 billion commitment to strengthen domestic production that will create hundreds of American manufacturing jobs and increase overall U.S. supplier spending by 3.3 percent while expanding the company’s network of over 6,500 domestic suppliers in support of revitalized American industrial capacity.
Sources: BusinessWire, AP News
Native-Born American Workers Achieve Record Employment Levels Under Trump Administration
Bureau of Labor Statistics data reveal a dramatic reversal in U.S. employment trends since President Trump’s March 2025 inauguration, with native-born workers surging by 2 million to a new all-time high of 133.2 million while foreign-born employment has plummeted by 1.6 million to 32.1 million as of September 2025, effectively prioritizing American citizens in the labor market after years in which foreign-born workers captured the overwhelming majority of job gains and native-born employment remained stagnant or declined.
Sources: Center for Immigration Studies, FOX Business
ICE Houston Removes Over 3500 Dangerous Criminal Illegal Aliens Amid Government Shutdown
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement’s Houston field office arrested 3,593 criminal illegal aliens across Southeast Texas from October 1 to November 12 during the longest federal government shutdown in history, demonstrating that dedicated ICE officers continued prioritizing public safety and border security despite funding lapses and unpaid work; among those taken into custody were 13 murderers, 23 gang members, 46 individuals with weapons convictions, 51 child predators, 67 sex offenders, and 10 fugitives with outstanding warrants for serious crimes, many of whom had been previously released into American communities after prior offenses, underscoring the ongoing need for vigorous interior enforcement to protect citizens from violent transnational threats.
Sources: US Immigration & Customs Enforcement, FOX News
Anti-ICE Agitators Assault Federal Agents During Charlotte Enforcement Operation
During Operation Charlotte’s Web in Charlotte, North Carolina, launched November 15th to arrest criminal illegal aliens, anti-ICE agitators and protesters repeatedly assaulted and obstructed Customs and Border Protection & Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents through dangerous vehicle attacks, including one U.S. citizen driving a van directly at officers, ramming government vehicles multiple times during a high-speed chase that injured an officer and recovered a firearm from the suspect’s vehicle, while another self-identified anti-ICE activist aggressively drove at agents in a gas station lot, attempted to box in their vehicles, backed into a government SUV after warnings, and fled at high speeds through residential neighborhoods and past an elementary school during lunchtime, leading to charges of assault on a federal officer, with additional reports of tire slashings on agent vehicles and crowds surrounding officers with whistles and shouts as federal law enforcement worked to apprehend targets.
Sources: Dept of Homeland Security, Legal Insurrection
First Federal Antifa Terrorism Convictions in Texas ICE Attack
In a landmark application of federal terrorism statutes following President Trump’s executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, five individuals—Nathan Baumann, Joy Gibson, Seth Sikes, Lynette Sharp, and John Thomas—pleaded guilty on November 19th, in Fort Worth federal court to providing material support to terrorists in connection with a violent July 4 armed assault on the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE facility near Dallas where masked attackers in black bloc attire vandalized property, fired fireworks at the building, and opened rifle fire on responding law enforcement, seriously wounding an Alvarado police officer in the neck while additional shots targeted a DHS correctional officer, marking the first time the material support to terrorism charge has been successfully leveled against Antifa-linked defendants who face up to 15 years in prison each as proceedings continue against nine others indicted on graver counts including rioting, explosives use, and attempted murder of federal officers.
Sources: FOX4 Dallas, ZeroHedge
Federal Terrorism Charge in Brutal Chicago Train Arson Attack
In yet another stark illustration of the dangerous consequences stemming from soft-on-crime policies and repeated leniency toward habitual offenders in Democrat-run cities, 50-year-old Lawrence Reed of Chicago—with a documented history of at least 49 prior arrests spanning violent batteries, arson attempts, and other serious offenses—has been charged federally with committing a terrorist attack on a mass transportation system after surveillance footage showed him filling a bottle with gasoline at a West Side station, boarding a CTA Blue Line train, pouring the accelerant over an unsuspecting 26-year-old woman’s head and body as she sat reading her phone, chasing her when she resisted, igniting the liquid and setting her fully ablaze in a completely unprovoked assault that left her fighting for life with severe burns while passengers scattered in terror; despite his extensive rap sheet and pattern of being arrested only to walk free time and again through minimal consequences or pretrial release, Reed was swiftly identified via video and transit records, arrested the following morning still in the same clothes with a self-inflicted burn, finally prompting federal authorities to step in and ensure accountability for a career criminal who never should have been roaming the streets endangering innocent citizens.
Sources: NBC News Chicago, FOX32 Chicago
Newsom’s California Budget Deficit Worsens Amid Persistent Spending Growth
California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office reported on November 19th that the state faces a nearly $18 billion budget shortfall for the 2026-27 fiscal year, marking the fourth consecutive year of significant operating deficits driven primarily by spending increases outpacing revenue growth, even as tax collections have risen due to stock market gains and high-income earners. This gap, roughly $5 billion larger than the $13 billion anticipated at the enactment of the current budget, stems from higher mandatory outlays including $5.1 billion more for Proposition 98 education funding, elevated costs in health and social services, and an additional $1.3 billion in state obligations shifted from federal programs, with structural imbalances projected to widen to around $35 billion annually by 2027-28 unless ongoing expenditures are curtailed or revenues expanded.
Sources: The California Legislative Analyst’s Office, The Hoover Institution
Democrat Congressional Candidate Expresses Profound Disdain for Nashville and Tennessee Values
Tennessee State Representative Aftyn Behn, the Democrat nominee seeking to represent the state’s 7th Congressional District in a December 2 special election, has publicly declared her deep-seated contempt for Nashville—the very city at the heart of the district she aims to serve—stating in a recorded interview that she hates bachelorette parties, pedal taverns, country music, and the tourism-driven elements that have made the city a national destination, while mocking visitors excited about experiencing Nashville’s culture and previously labeling southern sororities as staples of white supremacy; these remarks, combined with her 2019 op-ed asserting that Tennessee is a thoroughly racist state with racism permeating its air, Capitol, and laws to the detriment of traditional communities, highlight a pattern of hostility toward the Volunteer State’s residents, economy, and heritage as she campaigns against Republican Matt Van Epps in a district that strongly supported conservative principles.
Sources: The Tennessee Star, The Washington Free Beacon
First Human Infection with Rare H5N5 Bird Flu Strain Confirmed in Washington State
An older Washington state resident with underlying health conditions has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting the H5N5 avian influenza strain, marking the first known human case of this virus previously detected only in animals and the initial U.S. human bird flu infection since February 2025; the patient, from Grays Harbor County, likely acquired the infection through exposure to a backyard poultry flock accessed by wild migratory birds, amid rising poultry outbreaks driven by seasonal migration patterns that facilitate viral spread from wild waterfowl to domestic animals, while health authorities including the CDC and Washington Department of Health emphasize no evidence of human-to-human transmission exists, the overall public risk remains low, and vigilance is warranted for those handling poultry or wild birds as this novel subtype underscores the persistent challenges of avian influenza spillover in agricultural and rural settings.
Sources: Dept of Health - Washington State, The Telegraph
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Afghan National Receives Maximum Sentence in Foiled ISIS Election Day Terror Plot
An Afghan national and lawful permanent resident, 19-year-old Abdullah Haji Zada, was sentenced on November 19th, to the statutory maximum of 15 years in federal prison for his role in conspiring to obtain firearms and ammunition intended for a deadly ISIS-inspired mass shooting attack targeting large gatherings on Election Day 2024, a plot disrupted by the FBI when Zada and his co-conspirator, 28-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi—another Afghan citizen who pleaded guilty earlier to providing material support to the designated foreign terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham—purchased two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds from undercover agents; both men, who had been granted refuge in the United States following the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, face permanent removal and barred reentry upon completion of their sentences, underscoring the ongoing imperative for rigorous border security and vigilant counterterrorism efforts to protect American citizens from threats imported through inadequately vetted immigration pathways.
Sources: US Justice Dept, The Epoch Times
Trump Administration Advances Realistic Ukraine Peace Framework
President Trump’s administration has advanced a comprehensive 28-point peace proposal to resolve the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, requiring Ukraine to cede control of the remaining Ukrainian-held portions of Luhansk and Donetsk in the Donbas region—approximately 14.5 percent—in exchange for demilitarized zones that prevent further Russian troop advances, while largely freezing the lines in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia with limited negotiated adjustments favoring Russia; the framework seeks formal international recognition of Crimea and Donbas as Russian territory without requiring Ukraine’s explicit consent, places caps on Ukraine’s future military capabilities and long-range weapons, and provides American security assurances against renewed aggression as an alternative to NATO membership, with Qatar and Turkey assisting in mediation after Trump envoy Steve Witkoff briefed Ukrainian officials, underscoring that continued hostilities could result in even greater territorial concessions for Kyiv as discussions await President Zelensky’s formal reply.
IDF Eliminates Senior Hamas Commanders Following Terrorist Violations of Gaza Ceasefire
In a decisive display of Israel’s right to self-defense, the Israel Defense Forces conducted precise airstrikes across Gaza on November 19th, eliminating the commander of Hamas’s Zeitoun Battalion and a senior commander of the terror group’s naval forces after Hamas terrorists opened fire on IDF soldiers operating in Khan Yunis, in clear breach of the six-week-old U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement; this latest violation included the positioning of rocket launchers aimed at Israeli communities and the discovery of weapons caches within the designated Yellow Line from which Israeli forces had withdrawn, while IDF troops also thwarted additional infiltration attempts, underscoring Hamas’s ongoing efforts to rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, recruit operatives, and prepare surprise attacks in defiance of the truce that requires the group’s demilitarization and prevents its return to power in Gaza.
Sources: Legal Insurrection, Ynet News
Iran Withdraws from IAEA Nuclear Inspection Agreement
In a move that heightens concerns over the security of the Middle East and the integrity of global nonproliferation efforts, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on November 20th, that a September framework agreement reached in Cairo to resume International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities is no longer valid, following the IAEA Board of Governors’ adoption of a resolution demanding immediate transparency regarding Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles and damaged sites from the June 2025 Israeli-U.S. airstrikes; Tehran continues to deny inspectors access to key locations, including a suspected new enrichment facility, while maintaining that its program remains peaceful and that prior highly enriched uranium was destroyed in the attacks, even as IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reports undetected activity at multiple sites and warns that verification of Iran’s claims is impossible without on-site access five months after the strikes ended.
Sources: NewsMax, The Washington Times