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Obama-Appointed Judge Permanently Blocks Trump Election Integrity Executive Order

June 24, 2026 3:12 pmJune 24, 2026 3:12 pm

In a sweeping decision issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper, an Obama appointee, permanently enjoined key provisions of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14399 aimed at verifying U.S. citizenship in federal elections and bolstering election integrity. In doing...

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Stands Firm: Local Taxpayer Protection Act Stays on November Ballot

June 24, 2026 1:51 pmJune 24, 2026 2:03 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed in a recent interview that a deal had been reached to keep the Local Taxpayer Protection Act off the November ballot. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) immediately pushed back, declaring it will not...

Mask Off: Ro Khanna Goes Full Commie

June 24, 2026 10:57 amJune 24, 2026 10:57 am

In a move that should surprise exactly no one paying attention, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Silicon Valley) took to X to celebrate the primary victory of Darializa Avila Chevalier, a Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate in New York’s 13th District. Khanna...

The Pride of Benicia: The 57-Year Legacy of a Refinery and Its People

June 23, 2026 4:26 pmJune 23, 2026 4:27 pm

When people discuss the closure of the Valero Benicia Refinery, the conversation usually centers on fuel production, energy policy, and economics. But what we lost was more than a refinery. For 57 years, the Benicia Refinery was a source of...

Las Vegas Middle School Teacher Admits Breaking District Policy to Affirm Pronouns, Coach Students on ‘Coming Out’ as Queer

June 23, 2026 2:01 pmJune 23, 2026 2:01 pm

An undercover investigation by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) has exposed a Clark County School District middle school teacher who openly admitted to violating district policy on student pronouns, coaching children as young as 11 on coming out as queer, promoting...

$906M Medicare Fraud: Nevada Nurse Indicted for Bilking Taxpayers with Fake Grafts on Hospice Patients

June 23, 2026 9:35 amJune 23, 2026 9:35 am

A Las Vegas-based nurse practitioner has been federally indicted in one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in recent years, accused of billing taxpayers nearly a billion dollars for medically unnecessary wound grafts, including on terminally ill hospice patients who...

LA Councilman Wants To Tax LA’s Private Country Clubs, Protected Under Prop 13

June 23, 2026 7:00 amJune 23, 2026 7:01 am

Six of Los Angeles’s highest-end private golf and country clubs are facing a property tax battle with local LA City Councilman and former Democrat Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, who wants to drastically raise their taxes after learning that they “have a...