FBI descends on disgraced Democrat Eric Swalwell: Report



The FBI raided Eric Swalwell's home in the national capital on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into sexual assault allegations against the former Democratic congressman from California, sources familiar with the probe told CNN.

The previous day, federal agents reportedly confronted Swalwell at the San Francisco International Airport and confiscated his electronic devices.

'End the scourge of domestic violence and sexual assault.'

When asked for comment, a spokesman for the Justice Department told Blaze News, "We don't comment on the existence of investigations or lack thereof."

The FBI declined to comment.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported in early April than a former congressional staffer had accused Swalwell of sexually assaulting her twice while she was allegedly too intoxicated to consent. The woman also alleged that the Democrat sent her an image of his penis via Snapchat.

Three other women accused Swalwell of various forms of sexual misconduct. One of the accusers, a woman named Ally Sammarco, alleged to CNN that Swalwell sent her unsolicited nude images.

Swalwell responded in a video statement claiming that "these allegations are flat false."

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"I've certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife," said the Democrat.

Despite his protest and denials, the damage was done.

Swalwell — shown in newly declassified FBI documents to have allegedly admitted to having sex with suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang — ultimately ended his gubernatorial campaign in California and resigned from Congress in April.

In the wake of the damning reports, both the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office launched investigations into possible wrongdoing on Swalwell's part.

In L.A., Swalwell is accused of allegedly drugging and raping a woman named Lonna Drewes in 2018.

Swalwell is also alleged to have sexually assaulted a former staffer in a New York City hotel room in April 2024.

Swalwell's attorney did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

Swalwell is apparently being held to his own standard. After all, he noted in March 2021, "There’s nothing political or partisan about acting decisively to end the scourge of domestic violence and sexual assault."

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Trump dances on grave of impeachment zealot Alexander Vindman's political career



Alexander Vindman, an import from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic who zealously criticizes President Donald Trump, ran as a Democrat to represent Florida in the U.S. Senate.

Despite his apparent "Election Day survival kit," Vindman's political career did not survive the day Tuesday. He failed miserably in the Democratic primary — and the president has made sure to let everyone know about it.

'The most gratifying loss last night.'

Vindman — a former Kamala Harris booster who served as a star witness in the impeachment inquiry regarding Trump's July 25, 2019, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — got trounced by Florida state Rep. Angela Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

With over 95% of the votes in, the Associated Press showed Nixon leading Vindman by 56.1% to 43.9%.

"Who would've ever thought that a Jewish refugee would make it to the U.S. Army, to the White House, and to becoming a candidate for the U.S. Senate," Vindman stated after losing. "Only in America is that possible, and it would not have been possible without you, Florida."

"Rep. Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side in the fight against [incumbent Republican Sen.] Ashley Moody. I hope you'll join me," added Vindman.

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President Trump noted in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, "The most gratifying loss last night was that of a real treasonous creep, Alexander Vindman, to a Radical Left Lunatic, who can’t speak or think properly, and who will go down to certain defeat at the hands of Ashley Moody, a truly Fantastic Senator, from the Great State Florida."

Moody was sworn into the U.S. Senate on Jan. 21, 2025, after being appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill the seat Marco Rubio vacated to become secretary of state. The president endorsed Moody last summer for her run to return to the U.S. Senate.

Trump noted further: "Vindman, if you remember, was the one who lied about my 'Perfect Call' with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, only to find out that the conversation was routinely recorded and proved that I was 100% in the right (Completely Innocent!). It was, indeed, a Perfect Call, and the Dumocrats Fake Impeachment effort massively failed. Vindman should be prosecuted for what he did!"

Vindman, who served as director for European affairs at the U.S. National Security Council from 2018 to 2020, was among the individuals who had their access to classified information yanked last year by then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The anti-Trump critic's loss on Tuesday is all the more humiliating since he raised roughly $16 million in his race and spent over $9 million by the end of last month, while Nixon couldn't even raise $1 million, reported ABC News.

"We did it. We won this primary without taking a dime of corporate PAC money. No corporate checks. No billionaire-funded machine. Just a 100% grassroots campaign powered by people like you," Nixon tweeted.

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Fake poll that HUMILIATED Karen Bass was part of 'social experiment,' organization claims



Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) triumphantly shared the results of a poll released last week showing that she enjoyed a 50%-39% lead over Councilwoman Nithya Raman (D) ahead of the Nov. 3 mayoral runoff.

Bass tweeted an image of herself beside a graphic of the poll results and wrote, "Doing the work, showing up, and gaining momentum. Let's do this, LA!"

'The mayor’s campaign promoted a fake poll without properly vetting the source.'

Unfortunately for the Democrat, the poll — said to have been based on a survey of 560 L.A. voters between July 30 and Aug. 5 — was entirely fake, reported the Los Angeles Times.

The outfit behind the poll, which calls itself Median Strategies, announced on its website that it has "concluded its polling project and will not publish additional polls. All previously published polling releases have been withdrawn and should not be cited or treated as genuine polling data."

"Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification," added the bogus pollster.

The fake pollster went the distance with its so-called "social experiment" in the Bass race, providing some additional fake details and even analysis.

It claimed, for instance, that of the 16% of respondents who previously voted for Spencer Pratt, over 85% were planning to vote for Bass in the general election, reported the Times.

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Median Strategies noted, "Faced with a choice between the incumbent and a Democratic Socialists of America-aligned challenger, most Pratt voters appear to be treating Bass as the more familiar, more moderate option rather than sitting out the race."

An archived version of the outfit's now-scrubbed website provides further evidence of the fakers' commitment to the ruse.

Under the heading "How We Poll," Median Strategies said its releases are "built on a documented sampling frame, a mixed-mode interview process, and a transparent weighting scheme. We publish our methodology alongside every release so you can evaluate our numbers the same way we do."

Unlike Bass, Pratt wasn't fooled, writing on Friday in response to the California Post's reporting on the fake results, "LOL you think my voters are going to vote for the crying carpetbagger in charge of homelessness who 'found' 40K votes on Skid Row 7 days after the election?"

Blaze News has reached out to the California Post for comment.

The Bass campaign has demanded that consequence be visited upon those who so badly bruised their egos.

"This poll was reported on by a news outlet," a spokesperson for the Bass campaign told the Times. "Any bad faith attempts to influence elections should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

A spokesman for Raman's campaign criticized Bass for pushing the fake poll, telling KTLA-TV, "The mayor’s campaign promoted a fake poll without properly vetting the source."

"It is the latest example of an administration that too often struggles to get the basics right — from posting about a pothole repair before the pothole was fixed to repeatedly giving Boyle Heights residents a Lineage cleanup deadline that the company now disputes," continued Raman's campaign. "Angelenos deserve a mayor who gets the facts right, communicates clearly, and does the work before announcing the result."

According to the Politics & Poll Tracker, one of the many accounts on X that shared but has since deleted fake polling from the outfit, Median Strategies had also released fake survey results regarding other races.

For example, Median Strategies allegedly released a poll in the Nevada governor's race showing that Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo was leading Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) 51%-46%. Recent polling from apparently legitimate outfits have Lombardo leading Ford by at least seven percentage points.

Median Strategies also released a poll on the Wisconsin governor's primary race showing the white-hating democratic socialist Francesca Hong with a 23-point lead over Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. Crowley won the Democratic nomination in a tight election last week.

Median Strategies alleged that no one involved with its faking polling operation "received compensation or financial benefit from the project, and the project was not funded, commissioned, or directed by any candidate, campaign, political party, PAC, media organization, or other outside entity."

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‘The most psychotic Democrat’ wants to ‘cancel Thanksgiving’ — and might win her election



Wisconsin Democrats have a new front-runner for the “most psychotic Democrat,” and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is sounding the alarm.

“There’s a lot of competition. I get it. But I just would like to introduce you to a new player. Her name is Francesca Hong,” Gonzales begins.

Hong is a self-described democratic socialist who is running for governor in Wisconsin. And she “could win,” Gonzales says, pointing out that she’s “taking charge at 94.3%” in the Democrat primary.

“Now, I mentioned this woman is like a crackpot psycho crazy person. The reason that I say that … because she apparently is a psycho by like the Norman Bates definition,” she adds, before playing a clip from an interview with Hong.


“I think a lot of my insecurities and my struggles with mental health really came from a sense of never really feeling like I belonged. There was a deep shame and fear that I didn’t want to be Korean, and I think that’s where a lot of the mental health struggle started,” Hong recalled.

“I deeply wanted to be American, and I felt shame that my parents sacrificed so much to be here and that wasn’t who I wanted to be,” she added.

Hong went on to explain that “isolation and loneliness led into a lot of despair and depression,” leaving her hospitalized her senior year of high school. Hong explained that she was diagnosed as bipolar.

“She’s also admitted to taking SSRIs and overdosing on lithium,” Gonzales says.

“I feel like that should be pretty disqualifying to say, ‘I should run as governor,’” she adds.

Despite formerly being a restaurant owner and chef, Hong has called tipping “racist” and also lamented serving others on holidays like Valentine's day.

“If that wasn’t bad enough, she also hates Christmas,” Gonzales says.

In a 2019 post on X, Hong wrote: “IT bro who was working on ‘our’ computer remotely changed the background theme to snow and Christmas trees. I feel slightly attacked…”

But that’s not all, as in a now-deleted 2020 post on X, she wrote: “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621. If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx and women so be it.”

Even CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Hong about her past take on Thanksgiving, to which Hong responded, “I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant ... to share conversation and build community is always a good thing, but Thanksgiving is also a time that’s incredibly painful for many people in our communities.”

Hong has also posted that she supports “defunding the police as a first step towards abolishing the police.”

And shockingly, it gets worse.

“I guess she wants to get away with calling for the assassination of President Trump, because she openly called for it on a Zoom call,” Gonzales says, before playing yet another damaging clip of Hong.

“In the restaurant industry, when we’re out of something, we say it’s 86’ed. And I’d say it’s about f**king time we 86 Trump. He represents the utter failure of our government to keep us safe from threats, both viral and systemic,” Hong said.

However, there is good news.

“People seem to be waking up to how much of an actual psycho she is. So much so that Republicans are now narrowly favored to win the general. 52% Republican, 48% Democrat,” Gonzales says.

“I will just say in closing,” she adds, “candidates like Francesca Hong are tearing the Democrat Party apart.”

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Sexually harassing the chief? Self-admitted illegal alien Democrat mayor embroiled in new scandal



The Democrat mayor of St. Paul who once confessed on the floor of the Minnesota House that she is "an illegal in this country" now finds herself at the center of an entirely new controversy.

In June 2025, then-state Rep. Kaohly Her (DFL) told her colleagues that her father got her family into America from Laos by falsifying immigration paperwork. A few months later, Her — now a U.S. citizen and a vociferous critic of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — was elected mayor of St. Paul.

'The mayor has deep respect for city employees.'

Like her father, Her also apparently has a strained relationship with the law — or at least with law enforcement.

The City of Saint Paul has hired Resolute Law, an outside law firm, to investigate Mayor Her over allegations of sexual harassment against St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees, reported the Minnesota Star Tribune.

Chris Madel, the attorney who is representing Chief Henry, noted in an April 1 letter to City Attorney Irene Kao that the police chief had decided to designate himself as a formal complainant against the Democrat mayor "for illegal employment practices against City employees, including himself."

The letter accuses Her of using "one or more mobile phones to communicate inappropriate, and, indeed, unlawful text messages" to city employees, including an alleged message — accompanying an image of a police officer's face superimposed on a baby's body — about giving someone "a good weinering."

Her's office did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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Madel demanded that the city take "all steps necessary to perform a full filesystem extraction" of each of Her's mobile phones, which would provide investigators with access to her text messages, photos, videos, and emails.

Madel said that Henry had made the decision "after becoming aware that the Mayor's conduct has extended beyond isolated incidents and has included sexual harassment of subordinate City employees, including members of the Saint Paul Police Department. Recognizing both the seriousness of that misconduct and the vulnerability of those directly affected, he is concerned that, absent a formal complaint, the behavior will continue unchecked and may expose others to retaliation for speaking out."

Henry's attorney told Alpha News that the chief is attempting to hold the leftist mayor accountable "because it's the right thing to do. And he just helped crack a triple homicide in under four hours — that’s the work he’s focused on right now: keeping citizens safe."

A spokeswoman for the foreign-born mayor's office told KSTP-TV, "To protect confidentiality and the integrity of the process, the City will not comment on an active investigation. The mayor has deep respect for city employees and regrets any unintended impact her actions may have had."

While Her is now supposedly remorseful, this may not be her first rodeo.

Shirly Yang, who apparently served with Her for years on the board of the National Kidney Foundation in the Gopher State, recently sought a restraining order against Her for alleged intimidation and harassment. According to Yang, whose petition was ultimately denied by a Ramsey County court referee in January, the mayor allegedly inundated her with inappropriate messages, frequently of a sexually explicit and intrusive nature.

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Rather than walk back his controversial defense of a convicted child rapist who stole into the homeland, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) bemoaned the pedophile's deportation by the Trump administration and emphasized the supposed need not to judge him by his "worst day."

Tou Lue Vang, a 42-year-old illegal alien from Laos, repeatedly raped a young girl over a two-year period, beginning when she was just 10, and in one instance, offered her $10 for her silence, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

'Child molesters are among the classes of criminals most likely to re-offend.'

When interviewed by police, the pedophile reportedly suggested that his child victim was as guilty as he was, and downplayed his horrific child sex crimes as "a cultural thing ... to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12."

Following Vang's conviction for first-degree criminal sexual assault, a Justice Department immigration judge issued the rapist a final order of removal in October 2006. Vang, however, having been given 30 years of probation and no prison time, remained in the country for another two decades. Seeking to rectify this matter, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested and detained Vang on Dec. 10.

The Trump administration's efforts to give the child rapist the boot were frustrated, first when a judge ordered Vang's release in February, and then again on June 10 when — just a week before he was finally set to be deported — Walz joined leftist Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson in voting to pardon the child rapist.

Walz claimed during the pardon meeting that since his days as a child rapist, Vang "has started a family, he's become a critical member of the community, and he has lived a life without any serious criminal violations since that time."

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Ellison said that the decision was unanimous and made "after an exhaustive process, which included a statement of support for the pardon from the victim, a recommendation to grant the pardon from the Clemency Review Commission, and a large number of community support letters."

The pardon evidently wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week both that he had revoked Vang's legal status and that the pedophile had been removed from the United States on Friday.

"This foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any American ever again," said Rubio.

Walz is evidently cut up about the child rapist's successful deportation.

"I guess the question I would ask is, did that make us any safer?" Walz said with regard to the child rapist's ouster. "Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable?"

"Did it improve the idea that we can't all be judged by our worst day?" continued the governor, who also acknowledged that Vang committed "horrific crimes."

This commentary by the self-identified "knucklehead" has prompted more disgust.

The Department of Homeland Security responded to Walz's remarks this week, stating, "For Tou Lue Vang this wasn’t just one 'worst day' — it was YEARS of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl starting when she was 10. Just disgraceful."

"Tim Walz asked, 'How does this make us safer?' in response to Secretary Rubio stepping in to remove an illegal alien convicted of raping a 10-year-old girl," wrote Republican Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer. "Well, Tim, typically, communities are safer when convicted child predators aren’t just roaming the streets."

"I am very willing to judge this guy — and Tim Walz — by his worst day," tweeted Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R).

The White House's official rapid response account on X noted that "Walz is one seriously sick, depraved individual."

"Good grief," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (D) said of Walz's remarks. "Also, child molesters are among the classes of criminals most likely to re-offend, so it’s not just one day but probably a pattern of malicious conduct that creates a number of victims. Why would you not want an illegal alien that fits this profile to be deported?"

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