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Mark Halperin
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Kamala Harris is cozying up to DSA figures like Zohran Mamdani to capture grassroots energy for a 2028 run — but Mark Halperin says she lacks the sophistication to finesse that relationship. She's grabbing the tiger by the tail, and the tiger will eat her.
Approximately one million children of Chinese nationals have been born on US soil — mostly in places like Guam and Los Angeles — and are being raised in China. Rep. Ogles, as chair of the Cyber Infrastructure Protection subcommittee, says classified briefings confirm China, China, China as the top threat. Every one of those children is constitutionally eligible to run for the US presidency.
Rep. Andy Ogles' Anchors Away bill would redefine 'alien' legislatively, so that pregnant non-citizens and non-green-card-holders cannot use US soil to confer citizenship on their children. Ogles cites the original author of the 14th Amendment, Jacob Howard, who explicitly said it would not cover foreigners — Congress just failed to codify that intent.
The Charlie Kirk Show will stream the entire Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing live from Provo, Utah, July 6–10, with expert breakdowns each evening. This is not the trial — it's a probable cause hearing to determine if the case moves forward, but for Charlie's family and extended Turning Point family, it carries enormous weight.
The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 replaced national-origins quotas with a family-reunification system, exploding annual legal immigration from roughly 297,000 to 1.2 million. Ted Kennedy famously promised it would not change the demographic makeup of America. The foreign-born population has since grown from 5% to roughly 15% — some 60 million people.
Mark Halperin breaks the DSA surge into three distinct forces: genuine anti-establishment populism (an asset), hard-left policies like abolishing ICE (popular with the base, toxic in general elections), and outright antisemitic and extreme statements (a disqualifier). The Democratic establishment is uniquely ill-equipped to fight this because they lack a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to neutralize the threat.
Andrew Colvett warns that Trump's populist reform agenda is being blocked by the D.C. establishment and judiciary, and that this failure to deliver is actively fueling the rise of the socialist left. Mark Halperin agrees: if Republicans blow their economic message, the DSA's populist economic pitch could break through.
The Save America Act enjoys over 80% approval across all partisan, racial, and ideological lines — yet the Senate, under John Thune, refuses to move it. Rep. Ogles says if Thune won't answer the mandate of the American people, he should step aside for someone like Mike Lee.
Global cancer incidence rose 42% over the last measured decade, from 14.1 million to 20 million new cases annually. Senate committee doctors have suggested a link between the COVID-19 vaccine and cancer. Kim Bright argues that mRNA technology causes increased inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and conditions that may accelerate cancer development — and that Big Pharma's proposed solution is yet another mRNA vaccine.
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Blake Neff outlined a specific California law change that reduced certain jail sentences from one year to 364 days — one day less than the threshold that triggers automatic deportation. Combined with sanctuary pardons like Minnesota's, this reveals a deliberate legal architecture designed to prevent deportation of criminal immigrants.
The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted clemency to Thao Vang — convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl — because he faced a federal deportation order. The pardon letter congratulated him. Blake Neff argues this is a deliberate pattern: the left changes laws and issues pardons specifically to keep criminal immigrants in the country.
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