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For the last decade, I’ve given myself to the country. I’ve traveled to 40+ states, spent more time with your families than my own, & literally worked myself to the bone. I don’t ask for anything from you, but I’m asking now: Will you do me the honor of voting straight-ticket Republican tomorrow? Will you answer my call to action?
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The TOTAL DEMOLITION of the IPCC Our latest peer-reviewed paper concludes that fossil carbon is a NEGLIGIBLE component of the net atmospheric CO₂ increase. 500 years of isotopic evidence. Elementary mass conservation. A devastating mathematical result.
BOMBSHELL Fossil Fuels Did NOT Cause the CO2 Rise. New peer-reviewed paper just dropped. 500 years of data. The verdict is in. Fossil carbon's contribution to rising CO2: effectively ZERO. The entire IPCC/NASA/NOAA/EPA climate narrative rests on a claim that just got mathematically falsified. Read it. Share it. The cover-up is over. The full peer-reviewed paper: papers.jcohler.com/keeling
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🚨 UNBELIEVABLE! 👇 Alaska voters got mailers Friday that left out the incumbent Dan Sullivan and only included the imposter Decoy Dan Sullivan. Marc Elias and every corrupt Democrat behind this operation need to be prosecuted and locked up. The lengths they’ll go to cheat and deceive voters are absolutely sickening.
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It's always the same people. The co-conspirators are a small and closely connected group united by the same goal. Always doing the same thing: plotting to overthrow the American Republic. Ten years and counting.
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First generation immigrant Latina in NYC is on video asking, "Why hasn't anyone killed the president yet?" and saying it "can't be this hard." Let that sink in. You came to this country. This country gave you an opportunity, a home, a life that millions of people around the world would pray for. And you get on camera and openly fantasize about assassinating the President of the United States? This isn't "free speech." This is a federal crime. Threatening the life of the President is not a joke, it's not edgy, it's not activism. The Secret Service takes every single one of these statements seriously, as they should. Do you understand what you just did to your own life? That video is forever. Employers will see it. Law enforcement will see it. Immigration will see it. You don't get to come to America and call for the murder of its President and think there are no consequences. Actions have consequences. And this one just bought you a world of trouble.
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Mark Ruffalo, I’m in SAG-AFTRA just like you. Our union dues are capped at the first $1 million in covered earnings. That means high earners like yourself don’t pay work dues on earnings above that amount. Why not voluntarily contribute more to help fellow actors who are struggling to afford healthcare and make ends meet? You’re criticizing Elon Musk over wealth, taxes and accountability. Maybe start by looking at the system you benefit from. Sound familiar?
Elon, you goofy. 🤪Crashing out, because you don’t want to pay taxes. Don’t want some oversight into all the government money and contracts you made off with. Don’t want anyone looking into exactly what the F you did with DOGE.  And whining about loosing an election. 🤪That’s part of democracy, bro. Welcome to America. This isn’t some South Africa back in the day 💩. You will get use to it. Sometimes you lose. Believe me. That’s what politics is. Oh. And. Watch the Elon Musk doc. It’s wild. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…
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Idiot liberal moves from a blue state (because it sucks to live in) to a red state(because it’s great to live in) and then votes to turn it into a blue state. Incredible.
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So sick of seeing all these Democrats calling Republicans the Pedo Party. Lets go over some facts. Lets watch the left go nuts. 1. Epstein was a Democrat over 80% of his donations went to Democrats 2. Trumps Administration had him arrested 3. Three Democratic judges blocked the release of the Epstein files 4. Trump narced on Epstein in 2006 5. Diddy, Weinstein, R Kelly, Swalwell, Cosby, Hollywood - all Democrats 6. Hundreds of thousands of children went missing from the open border and are used as sex slaves 7. Epstein had pictures of Clinton in a blue dress and red high heels in his home 8. Trans men are reading books and doing live sexual performances for children 9. Democrats literally walk naked on the streets during their parades 10. Biden had the Epstein files for 4 years and we never heard a peep from anyone regarding opening them 11. The Trump Administration has produced millions of documents from the files 12. CBS did an interview and not one victim said Trump was ever involved that they saw 13. Several prominent leaders from the LGBTQTI+ community have been charged with child porn and abuse 14. Projection takes the focus off the real predators Not saying that there aren't some Republicans that are also disgusting, but being called the Pedo Party is absurd. Projection is everything.
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🔴 Le Premier ministre slovène, Janez Janša : « Lorsque nous avons adhéré à l’Union européenne, nous n’aurions jamais imaginé qu’il serait possible d’annuler des élections en Roumanie et d’envoyer la police à la Cour constitutionnelle de Pologne. » « Lorsque nous avons décidé d’adhérer à l’Union européenne, personne n’aurait pu imaginer que, dans l’un des États membres ou au sein de l’Union dans son ensemble, les événements suivants pourraient se produire en toute impunité : 1. L’annulation de l’élection présidentielle (Roumanie). 2. La suppression du journal télévisé de la télévision publique nationale (Hongrie). 3. L’envoi de la police à la Cour constitutionnelle (Pologne). 4. L’arrestation, trois semaines avant les élections, du président du parti arrivé en tête des sondages (Slovénie). 5. L’occupation des locaux de la télévision publique nationale avec l’aide de la police et le remplacement de sa direction (Pologne). 6. La révocation des dirigeants de la télévision publique nationale et le lancement d’une purge parmi ses employés (Slovénie). 7. L’emprisonnement de membres de l’ancien gouvernement sans leur donner la possibilité de se défendre (Hongrie). 8. L’octroi accéléré de la nationalité à près d’un million de migrants en situation irrégulière (Espagne). 9. La fermeture d’une centrale nucléaire neuve et la construction d’un gazoduc vers la Russie (Allemagne). 10. La taxation des sources d’énergie carbonées, parallèlement à la fermeture des centrales nucléaires et à la délocalisation de l’industrie vers des pays aux normes environnementales peu exigeantes, sous prétexte de sauver ainsi la planète. Le résultat est une Union européenne qui doit désormais se sauver d’elle-même. »
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Brad Raffensperger calls it a clerical error… a clerical error, on roughly 315,000 early votes in Fulton County, in a state where Joe Biden's certified margin was 11,779 votes. Let that sit for a second. Here is what actually happened. At a State Election Board hearing on December 9, 2025, Fulton County's own attorney, Ann Brumbaugh, said it out loud: "We do not dispute that the tapes were not signed. It was a violation of the rule." Around 130 tabulator tapes, the receipts that are supposed to prove the votes counted on each machine match the people who actually walked in and voted, and Georgia's rule says a poll manager and two witnesses have to sign every single one. Nobody signed them. That covers almost every ballot cast before Election Day in the biggest county in the state, and the board voted 3 to 0 to send it to the Attorney General. Now keep in mind what they did to Donald Trump for asking. He picked up the phone, asked Raffensperger to look at the election in his own state, and Fulton County turned that phone call into an indictment, mug shot and all, while the media called him a liar and a threat to democracy for saying Georgia had a problem… and the whole time the county was sitting on unsigned tapes for basically every early vote it counted. How is that even a thing? You can't show who stood there and witnessed the count, and the answer from the people in charge is trust us, we recounted it. Recounted what exactly? The same ballots run through the same system with the same missing paper trail? I have been saying for years that you don't need boxes of stuffed ballots to steal an election, you just need a system where nobody is ever accountable and every failure gets labeled a mistake after the fact. A mistake is one tape, maybe two. 130 tapes is a standard operating procedure. Lara is right. They went after him that hard because he was pointing at the exact place where the rot was, and they knew it. And here we are, two days out from another election, with DOJ sending federal observers into Fulton and five other Georgia counties on Tuesday, and the same people still telling you Georgia has the most secure elections in the country. Brad, your county could not get three people to sign a receipt. Georgia, show up Tuesday, watch those tapes get printed, and make them sign every one in front of you.
Why did they go after Trump so hard in Georgia in 2020? Because they were guilty - and exposed. And he was right.
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Y'all understand that the only reason the cost of healthcare is through the roof is because there are 30 MILLION people that shouldn't even be in our country that are getting it for free right?
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The globalists hate Poland because it is a White country that loves Christ and is both safe and successful This creates massive problems for the globalist agenda
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President Trump was almost put in prison for "pressuring" Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger to investigate election fraud in his state. 5 years later, Georgia admits they ILLEGALLY certified 315,000 ballots during the 2020 election Biden "won" by 11,779 votes. Let that sink in...
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s director calls out Barack Obama over his comments about democracy in Hungary. “Barack Obama is not concerned about democracy, he is concerned about preserving the dominance of the liberal elite.” Perfectly said.
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(The post is a publicly-available inquiry to @jordangreennc of “RawStory dot com” in response to an opinion piece recently published by Mr. Green on such platform.) Hello Mr. Green: My name is Tom Anderson, and I am better known under my pseudonym “Cynical Publius” on X. I am writing with regards to the recent story published on “RawStory” under your byline, entitled “'Specter of menace': Pentagon-tied influencers vent of 'civil war' threat after midterms.” More specifically, I am working on an investigative article regarding the penchant of so-called “journalists” such as you to mislead their readers, and given the monstrous inaccuracies and omissions in your recent article, your tale is something of significant interest to my readers. With the above in mind, I have several questions I am hoping you will see fit to answer at your earliest opportunity: 1. In your recent RawStory article, you identified the fact that Ms. Jennica Pounds (“Data Republican” on X) has revealed a wide-ranging number of videos and audio tapes of former USAID and U.S. military employees plotting the creation of a “crisis of legitimacy” regarding President Trump and the upcoming midterm election. I myself published a widely-read article on X explaining how the tactics discussed on these tapes conform to the practices of “Color Revolutions” created by the U.S, government in Ukraine, Serbia, Georgia and other nations in the former Soviet bloc and former Yugoslavia. Your “article” criticized the motivations of me, Ms. Pounds and others in exposing such plot, while never once addressing the substance of such plot as revealed in the “Democracy Files” (as defined by Ms. Pounds) and my recent article entitled "The Color Revolution in Our Midst." Do you consider it an ethical journalistic practice to wholly ignore the findings of whistleblowers while engaging in character assassination of such whistleblowers? 2. In your X post announcing your RawStory “article,” you described me and others reporting on the Color Revolution plot as being members of a “Pentagon troll farm.” Given that it is a well-established fact of public record that neither me nor any of the other people you identified in your article publicly write or have ever publicly written at the behest or payment of the Pentagon, do you consider such libelous accusations to be an acceptable journalistic practice? 3. How did you obtain my personal phone number and the personal phone numbers/emails of the other persons referenced in your “article”? Did you illegally obtain such information in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974, and/or did you obtain such information from other “journalists,” such as Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post, who may have initially obtained such information illegally in violation of said Privacy Act? 4. In your “article,” you relied on a source from the Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) to attempt to discredit me and the other subjects of your article. As you solicited the SPLC’s opinion, did you first consider that the SPLC is currently the subject of a Department of Justice investigation regarding the SPLC’s alleged wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering? Did you consider the fact that the SPLC has allegedly funded the Ku Klux Klan as part of a fund-raising effort? Did these facts give you any pause whatsoever before you solicited or published the SPLC’s opinion? 5. The Color Revolutionaries documented in the Democracy Files speak openly and often of coordinating with Democrat governors to overthrow the Constitutionally-elected President of the United State of America. Did the seditionist nature of this on-the-record plot cause you any concern of any kind? 6. Have either you or RawStory received any cash or other consideration, directly or indirectly, from any of the NGOs or persons identified in the Democracy Files? 7. Have you been in direct contact with any of the persons or NGOs identified in the Democracy Files? Thank you in advance for your answers to these questions. My readers have significant concerns as to the integrity of “journalists” like you who practice under the protective umbrella of the Democrat/Media Complex while spreading falsehoods, half-truths and virulently false innuendo. You answers will hopefully shed light on this important issue. Please respond to these questions no later than 10 a.m. Eastern, November 1, 2026. Best regards, Tom Anderson
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This is quite simply brilliant.
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In September 2026, Slotkin and Tillis met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk loyalists associated with Tusk's party, Civic Platform / Civic Coalition. Radosław Sikorski (Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister) is a longtime member of Civic Platform / Civic Coalition. He has served in Tusk’s governments and is firmly in Tusk’s party. And Paweł Zalewski (State Secretary in the Ministry of National Defense) is not currently a member of Tusk’s party. He was previously in Civic Platform, then joined Polska 2050 (part of the broader governing coalition), left that party in February 2026, and is now independent while remaining in his government role under Tusk’s coalition government. With Slotkin and Tillis.
Now let me tie this together for you. While Slotkin was using her voice, in Poland where she had just visited last month, the rabidly insane liberal elites ordered their police to arm themselves with live ammunition against the Polish people. Slotkin believes that she has a higher IQ than she really has, typical of a liberal elite, bragging about her visit to Poland in September talking about what she learned that could be used to counter her opposition here in the US. Now add that to her recent intimidation diatribe and it sounds like Slotkin has formulated a plan to go after not just President Trump but his supporters as well. Slotkin October 13, 2026 at the University of Chicago: “I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president but on the people who enabled him. I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.” -AI nitter.gq/ThinkerChicago/status/… Democrats are Professional Wordsmith's but here, her low IQ failed to hide her threat against Trump supporters aka: Republican voters. Slotkin isn't respected or loved by Michigan voters. The RNC put in a weak straw man candidate to run against her and that's how she won her Senate seat. The same weak candidate, Mike Rogers, a well known Trump hater, who is struggling to beat his new Democrat opposition that should have been easy to defeat except that he's still a weak candidate and most likely a straw man..
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“L’UE n’a RIEN à voir”, Jean ? Vraiment ? Tu couvres Bruxelles depuis trente ans, alors je vais t’ouvrir les yeux sur ce que tu ne vois plus. Commençons par la Pologne. Le cœur de la crise, c’est le Tribunal constitutionnel. Qui a déclaré que ce tribunal n’était pas un tribunal indépendant ? La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne, le 18 décembre 2025, saisie par la Commission européenne. Pourquoi la Commission l’avait-elle attaqué ? Parce qu’en 2021, ce tribunal avait osé dire que la Constitution polonaise primait sur le droit européen. Le ministre de la Justice de Tusk l’a dit lui-même : cet arrêt “oblige” l’État polonais à agir. Bruxelles n’a pas envoyé la police devant le Tribunal. Bruxelles a signé le permis. Maintenant, la vraie question. Pas “le PiS avait-il raison ?”, pas “Orbán était-il corrompu ?”. La seule question qui compte : quand un peuple dit non, quand un peuple vote mal, quand un gouvernement déplaît, que se passe-t-il ? Regarde les faits. Ils pointent tous dans la même direction. Quand un peuple dit non, on le fait revoter ou on le contourne. Le Danemark rejette Maastricht en 1992 : on le fait revoter en 1993. L’Irlande rejette le traité de Nice en 2001 : on la fait revoter en 2002. La France et les Pays-Bas rejettent la Constitution européenne en 2005 : elle revient en 2007 sous le nom de traité de Lisbonne, sans référendum. L’Irlande rejette Lisbonne en 2008 : on la fait revoter en 2009. Les Pays-Bas rejettent l’accord d’association avec l’Ukraine en 2016 : il est ratifié quand même. La Grèce vote non à 61 % au plan de la troïka en juillet 2015 : huit jours plus tard, elle signe un plan encore plus dur. Six peuples, six non, aucun n’a tenu. En trente ans, un non n’a jamais été une réponse. Seulement un brouillon. Quand un gouvernement déplaît, on coupe l’argent. Les fonds européens de la Pologne sont gelés sous le PiS. Tusk arrive : débloqués en deux mois. Les fonds de la Hongrie sont gelés sous Orbán, 17 milliards d’euros. Orbán perd le 12 avril 2026 : accord pour débloquer plus de 16 milliards fin mai, sept semaines plus tard. Mêmes traités, même pays, même argent. Seul le gouvernement a changé. Et ce n’est même pas caché. En septembre 2022, à trois jours des élections italiennes, Ursula von der Leyen est interrogée sur une possible victoire de la droite. Sa réponse : “Si les choses vont dans une direction difficile, j’ai parlé de la Hongrie et de la Pologne, nous avons des outils.” La présidente de la Commission prévient un peuple de ce qui l’attend s’il vote mal. Quand une élection gêne, on la neutralise. En 2011, la BCE envoie à Rome une lettre qui dicte la politique économique de l’Italie. Quelques mois plus tard, Berlusconi tombe et Mario Monti, ancien commissaire européen que personne n’a élu, prend sa place. La même année, Papandréou annonce un référendum en Grèce. Il l’abandonne sous la pression de Paris et Berlin, et il est remplacé par Loukas Papadímos, ancien vice-président de la BCE, lui non plus élu. Fin 2024, l’élection présidentielle roumaine est annulée. Thierry Breton, ancien commissaire européen, commente sur RMC : “On l’a fait en Roumanie”, en ajoutant qu’il faudrait le faire en Allemagne si nécessaire. Quand une décision engage des peuples, on ne leur demande rien. Pour le Mercosur, la France vote contre et se fait mettre en minorité. L’accord est découpé pour contourner les parlements nationaux, puis appliqué provisoirement sans attendre l’avis de la Cour. Pour l’immigration, le Pacte impose une “solidarité obligatoire” : tu accueilles ou tu paies. Pas un seul peuple consulté. Quand on veut savoir, on te ferme la porte. La présidente de la Commission négocie par SMS avec le patron de Pfizer le plus gros contrat de l’histoire de l’UE. Elle refuse de les communiquer. En mai 2025, le Tribunal de l’Union européenne juge ce refus illégal. Prends n’importe lequel de ces faits isolément, et tu trouveras toujours une excuse : la crise, l’état de droit, l’urgence, la technique. Mets-les bout à bout. Trente ans, des dizaines de cas, et pas une seule fois l’arbitrage n’a penché du côté du vote populaire contre Bruxelles. Une erreur, c’est un accident. Dix erreurs dans le même sens, c’est un système. Et un système a toujours une idéologie. Celle de l’UE n’est même pas cachée : il suffit de lire ses propres textes. Le 22 novembre 2023, le Parlement européen adopte une résolution pour réviser les traités. Le but : supprimer le droit de veto des États dans de nombreux domaines et transférer de nouvelles compétences à Bruxelles. Dans ses références officielles, il cite le Manifeste de Ventotene. Ce texte de 1941, coécrit par Altiero Spinelli, un ancien communiste, annonce que la révolution européenne devra être socialiste. Il écrit aussi que la propriété privée devra être “abolie, limitée, corrigée, étendue au cas par cas”. Quand Giorgia Meloni a lu ces passages devant le Parlement italien en mars 2025, la gauche a crié au scandale. Les fact-checkeurs ont pourtant dû l’admettre : chaque phrase est bien dans le texte. C’est cette référence-là que le Parlement européen a choisi d’inscrire dans sa résolution de 2023. Regarde ensuite la méthode. Bruxelles avait décrété qu’à partir de 2035, plus aucune voiture thermique neuve ne pourrait être vendue à 450 millions d’Européens. Il a fallu la fronde de sept États et de toute l’industrie automobile pour qu’elle recule en décembre 2025. En 2020, l’UE a émis pour la première fois une dette commune massive, 750 milliards d’euros, que nos enfants rembourseront. Aucun référendum. Chaque crise sert le même objectif : la dette Covid, l’énergie, la santé, la défense. La direction ne change jamais : vers le centre. Et où se fabrique cette vision ? Pas dans un complot. Dans un annuaire public. Ursula von der Leyen siégeait au conseil d’administration du Forum de Davos, et elle y figurait encore au moment d’être désignée présidente de la Commission. Christine Lagarde, présidente de la BCE, y siège toujours, et Davos veut en faire sa présidente. C’est là que Klaus Schwab a lancé en 2020 son “Great Reset” : profiter de la crise du Covid pour réinitialiser l’économie mondiale. Mêmes salles, mêmes gens, même idée : gérer le monde d’en haut. Voilà pourquoi je dis que ce projet est communiste dans son ADN. Pas le communisme des chars et des goulags. Le communisme de méthode : une avant-garde éclairée qui sait mieux que toi ce qui est bon pour toi. Elle planifie ta voiture, ton énergie, ta monnaie, tes frontières, et elle traite chaque vote contraire comme une erreur à corriger. Le Manifeste de Ventotene appelait ça la dictature du parti révolutionnaire. Aujourd’hui, ça s’appelle la Commission. Et je ne suis pas seul à le voir. Elon Musk demande l’abolition de l’UE et le retour de la souveraineté aux nations. La stratégie de sécurité nationale des États-Unis écrit noir sur blanc que l’Union européenne sape la liberté politique et la souveraineté des peuples. Alex Karp répète que l’Europe a abandonné la course à l’IA et que son modèle de régulation est exactement ce qu’il ne faut pas faire. Si tu penses être plus lucide que ces gens-là sur un sujet aussi profond, tu es juste un peu naïf. Donc à partir de maintenant, trois possibilités : tu es corrompu, tu es stupide, ou tu es enfin éclairé. Ne me remercie pas.
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Thank you, @elonmusk. Without you, it would be impossible to inform the world about what’s happening in Poland.
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BREAKING: 44 members of Congress, led by @RepMaryMiller, have signed onto a letter DEMANDING that the national census ONLY count American CITIZENS and NOT illegal aliens. This 100% needs to happen. Illegal aliens are not Americans. Counting them dilutes the voice of the American people. This is how Democrats cheat
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