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Twitter/X Two referendum questions proposing changes to the Wisconsin constitution passed yesterday in the state’s spring election. In an announcement released by the Wisconsin GOP earlier today, Chairman Brian Schimming stated: Victory! Wisconsin has spoken and the message is clear: elections belong to voters, not out-of-state billionaires. Thanks to the efforts by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and grassroots organizing,...

Salena Zito LEBANON, Pennsylvania — You may not be aware that there’s a symmetry in Pennsylvania between farmers and the natural gas industry. But just walk into the Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress and Mid-Atlantic Manure Summit here at the expo center in Lebanon County, put your hands on the propane-shaped stress ball, and you’ll start to understand it.“Kind of tells...

Andrii Panchyk/iStock/Getty Images Plus Forty Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom have endorsed an amendment that would reduce the length of time during which unborn babies with Down syndrome may be aborted.Under the U.K.’s 1967 Abortion Act, “normal” babies can be aborted as late as 24 weeks, but babies considered to be disabled — a category that includes...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Liberalism, it is claimed, is associated with tolerance. But you wouldn’t know it from a new study finding that of the 10 states with the most religious-discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eight gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.Not surprisingly, there’s a secularism connection, too: Of the 15 states with...

AP Images Glenn Youngkin Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun-control bills on Tuesday, signed into law two gun-control bills that have little consequence, and sent back six others with amendments for the state’s Legislature to consider.Behind the flurry of bills the Democrats dumped on his desk is the real story: the hyper-partisanship that divides the two parties on...

EyeMark/iStock/Getty Images Plus At long last, public officials are taking squatters seriously.GOP Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation this week, HB 621, protecting the property rights of homeowners and providing an easy method of ejecting the vagabonds.Even New York’s leftist-controlled Legislature is considering a measure in response to the murder of a New York City woman by two squatters.And, not...

AP Images Kari Lake Kari Lake declined to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit filed by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and requested that the Arizona court move forward with issuing damages. Richer is requesting compensatory and punitive damages, as well as a statement from Lake admitting her allegations of election fraud in the 2022 governor’s race were false.Lake...

lakshmiprasad S/iStock/Getty Images Plus Former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski and his attorney, Stefan Passantino, have sued Fox News talker and Democratic operative Jessica Tarlov in federal court for defamation.The three-count lawsuit seeks $30 million for Tarlov’s claim on The Five, Fox’s popular 5 p.m. gabfest. Tarlov falsely said that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s super PAC, Save America, paid...

Martin Jambon/flickr The Golden State is already bracing itself in anticipation of a second Trump presidency.California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking measures to Trump-proof the state’s climate policies in case Biden fails in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. As Politico reports, the governor has a legion of bureaucrats at his command set to help him ensure the green policies continue...

The stunning landslide by underdog U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in the Ohio GOP primary shows the way for Republican victory throughout the all-important Rust Belt this fall. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and nearby Wisconsin can all be won with Moreno’s campaign theme: creating jobs for Americans. Polling showed a too-close-to-call race between Moreno and the establishment-favored candidate, state senator Matt Dolan. Ohio Gov....

Luis Miguel A house divided against itself cannot stand. Luckily for America’s enemies, “a house divided” is now the status quo for the United States.Many Americans have come to accept the high divisions and polarization typical of this age as perfectly normal. Younger citizens have perhaps never known anything else, having grown up in a society characterized by two very...

nktwentythree/iStock/Getty Images Plus Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has widened its classification of persons and organizations perceived to be involved in extremist activities or terrorism to include “the international LGBT social movement and its structural units.” The updated list can be seen on the agency’s website.The move follows a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court last November that maintained...

AP Images In his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden for illegally taking classified documents to several unsecured locations, Biden repeated a falsehood he has been telling for years about the beginning of his less-than-stellar legal career.He claimed to have worked on a case in which his law firm defended a corporation in a liability...

coffeekai/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) denied an attempt to have the state follow California’s lead into an uncertain electric vehicle future. The unelected board voted 4-2 not to adopt the so-called Advanced Clean Cars program, which would have mandated that 51 percent of new car purchases in the state by 2028 be electric vehicles. The...

drnadig/iStock/Getty Images Plus The House of Representatives voted today to pass a $1.2 trillion spending bill, averting a government shutdown. The bill passed 286-134, with 185 Democrats and 101 Republicans voting in favor, and 22 Democrats and 112 Republicans voting against it. The spending package, which consists of six spending bills rolled together, will fund roughly three-quarters of the federal...

AP Images Marjorie Taylor Greene In what is being referred to as a mutiny within the ranks of the House GOP over the passage of the $1.2 trillion spending bill, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has filed a motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson, which could lead to a vote to remove him.Green said of the motion, “I filed...

marcusamelia/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution against efforts to radically change it, New York has rescinded all its applications for an Article V constitutional convention, or Con-Con.On March 20, the State Assembly passed Senate Resolution No. 1460 (B1460) by a 102-46 vote. Most Democrats voted for the resolution, and most Republicans against, though both parties had two...

Luis Miguel Long ago, America’s cities were a testament to the nation’s greatness, serving as centers where industry, business, and culture came together. Before Democrats ran the major cities to the ground, places such as Chicago and San Francisco were respected worldwide.Nowadays, it’s no exaggeration to say that those two, and various other, Democrat-dominated cities have become cesspools where literal...

flickr.com/Gage Skidmore Former President and current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump took to Truth Social this morning to announce that he has sufficient cash to pay the $454 million bond he was ordered to cough up in the New York civil fraud case he is facing, but was planning on using that money to fund his presidential campaign.Trump posted on Truth...

Politics Securing the Border: America’s Priority Number One The country needs GOP legislators who will get out of their own way. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Our country is being invaded because President Joe Biden refuses to secure our borders. He has rolled out the welcome mat, and illegal immigrants are pouring in by the millions.  The current...