Biden judge BLOCKS Trump's voter database expansion — says he 'trampled' on privacy rights



A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using expanded government databases in its effort to purge voter rolls of foreigners.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the government "trampled" on the privacy rights of Americans and risked wrongfully purging voter rolls of Americans legally allowed to vote.

'It's amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist.'

"All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote," Sooknanan said. "This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens."

The administration added government data, including Social Security data, to the SAVE federal database, which stands for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. SAVE is used to detect ineligible voters.

However, Sooknanan ruled that the expansion of the database violated privacy protections passed by Congress. She said the administration ignored the rules in order to "comply with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification."

James Percival, the general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, criticized the ruling on social media.

"It's amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist," he wrote. "Judge Sparkle Soknanan's [sic] latest ruling preventing DHS from addressing alien voting is just the latest example!"

Democracy Forward represented the group that challenged the expanded database.

"As the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy," said Skye Perryman, the group's CEO and president. "The data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.”

The group added in a statement on social media: "This protects millions from baseless investigations and unlawful voter roll purges — a critical win for voting rights."

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Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York also praised the ruling.

"We got a big win in court today for free and fair elections, blocking Donald Trump's efforts to set up a massive voter purge database," he wrote on social media.

"I called this out months ago as one of Trump's most sinister strategies for subverting our elections this November," he added. "That's why Democrats blocked the wretched SAVE Act in the Senate — and we'll do so again, and again, and again. Democrats won't stop fighting until all of Trump's plans to rig the system are defeated."

Sooknanan was nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden in Jan. 2025 just ahead of Trump entering his second term.

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FBI now investigating alleged election fraud among homeless in Skid Row of Los Angeles



The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now looking into allegations of election fraud on Skid Row in Los Angeles.

The California Post reported that plainclothes federal agents are interviewing homeless people about the claims made in a video of votes exchanged for payment.

'Yeah, they come out here all the time,' said an unidentified woman who claimed she had been paid $2 to vote for Bass.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is also involved in the probe, according to the report.

The Justice Department only confirmed an investigation into a criminal matter and refused to offer additional information. The Post said its report determined the investigation was related to election fraud.

The investigation comes after a stunning video posted to TikTok that documented interviews with homeless people claiming they had been paid to vote for the Democrats in the Los Angeles mayoral election.

Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt initially won second place in the jungle election, but after more votes came in, he slipped into third place and was boxed out of the general. Many suspected that his campaign was the victim of election fraud.

"Yeah, they come out here all the time," said an unidentified woman who claimed she had been paid $2 to vote for Bass.

"They gave you an optional choice," said a man calling himself Kevin Shepherd and claiming to have been paid $4 to vote for Bass.

He said they also would have paid him to vote for Nithya Raman, the other Democrat, but not for Pratt.

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Another woman said she was paid $5 to vote for Bass, but a separate investigation found that she was likely not a voter in the mayoral election.

The Post also admitted it could not independently confirm the claims in the video, which has since been deleted.

Pratt has said he is moving on to another phase of saving Los Angeles, which has less to do with running for election and more to do with exposing corruption of the Democrats in charge.

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Pastor arrested for allegedly forging signatures for Democratic primary



A 33-year-old pastor has been arrested for allegedly forging signatures in his bid to win the Democratic primary for a state House seat in 2024.

Rev. Robert Hoggard of Middletown, Connecticut, was reportedly an associate pastor at New Jerusalem Christian Center when he submitted signatures in support of his campaign for the 33rd House District.

'There's a political class that does everything in its power to try to dissuade voters from wanting to serve their communities and cancel this election.'

Connecticut allows non-endorsed candidates to get onto a primary ballot by collecting signatures from voters in the district.

Democratic Registrar of Voters Patricia Alston flagged the signatures as suspicious and began an investigation.

"The alarming evidence includes multiple voters who stated that they did not sign a primary petition for the candidacy of Robert Kyle Hoggard and that the signature listed on the documents turned into the registrar's office is fraudulent," Middletown Democratic Town Committee Chairman Mike Fallon said in June 2024.

Hoggard responded by accusing the Democratic Party of conspiring against him.

"Tactics like these dissuade people from wanting to run for office," he said at the time. "There's a political class that does everything in its power to try to dissuade voters from wanting to serve their communities and cancel this election. There's nothing this political class can do to dissuade me from wanting to run where I was born and raised."

Hoggard ran under the "We the People Party" in the general election and was absolutely crushed by incumbent state Rep. Brandon Chafee (D) by a vote of nearly 7,600 to less than 700.

Investigators with the Chief State's Attorney's office arrested Hoggard on Thursday and charged him with 14 counts of second-degree forgery and six counts of perjury. He was released on a written promise to reappear in court.

In response to a request for comment, Hoggard directed Blaze News to his attorney, John Kennelly, but Kennelly did not respond. New Jerusalem Christian Center also did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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The CT Insider reported other election shenanigans in the state, including hundreds of voters being assigned to the wrong district in 2022 and 2024, and another incident where ballot petitions went missing.

Hoggard was also required to sign the petition forms in front of a notary public, attest to the veracity of the signatures, and certify that each signature was made in his presence.

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3 years in JAIL for questioning the election? Gavin Newsom’s silencing bill EXPOSED.



As election integrity debates continue to rage across California, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes state leaders are making a dangerous mistake: treating skepticism as a threat instead of addressing the concerns behind it.

“What’s happening in California is dangerous, and ... if you can be reasonable and you can listen without the lens of your tribe, there is a way to an answer here. But nobody seems, especially on the left, nobody seems to want to actually fix the problem,” Glenn says.

“And so what do they want to do? They want to shut you up,” he adds, explaining that Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that “said fines and jail time [for] three years if you are interfering with the election.”

“This particular penalty is aimed at people who physically walk off with boxes of ballots,” Glenn explains. “Listen to the language around it.”


“The governor wrote a letter telling his officials to ‘count fast’ so the ‘election lies’ don’t take hold. Stop and think about that for a second. Wait a minute. The chief executive of the largest state in the union has appointed himself the man who decides which doubts are lies,” he says.

“And in the same season, his allies pass a provision that tells election observers they may no longer challenge the signatures on the ballot they’re watching get counted. So, they didn’t criminalize your doubt. They did something quieter,” he continues. “They turned down the lights in the room where the counting happens. And you’re told it’s a conspiracy theory to ask, ‘Why did it get so dark?’”

Glenn explains that a glaring issue with this is that the government cannot ever “be the arbiter of truth.”

“Especially when the question on the table is about the government itself. You cannot let the accused run the evidence room,” he says.

“You’re accusing California of having fraud, and what do they do? They say, ‘No, we’re in charge.’ Right? You’re the one that everybody’s saying is causing the fraud, and they’re saying, ‘No, you can’t question because there’s no fraud,’” he continues. “That doesn’t help anything.”

“This is not a conservative idea or a liberal idea. It’s just how you keep a free people free,” he adds.

Homeless People On Skid Row Allegedly Bribed To Vote In LA Mayoral Race

'False registrations undermine Americans’ faith in elections – even more so when payoffs are involved.'

Liz Wheeler: ‘Crimes detected’ in LA election firestorm as ‘homeless drug addicts’ registered by the thousands



After the extremely popular Spencer Pratt fell behind no-name Nithya Raman in the Los Angeles mayoral race, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler believed there was possible election fraud.

Now, she’s sure of it.

“Today we have crimes detected for you,” Wheeler says. “But let’s make one thing very clear first. The California election system is completely rigged. And you and I have zero obligation to simply accept that because California is 'Commie-fornia.'”

These “crimes detected” were covered in a recent report by the New York Post, where it found that “thousands of homeless voters ... were registered to vote at L.A. shelters, despite many not living there or the facilities not having any beds.”

And in an interview this week with Will Chamberlain, he theorized to Wheeler that “there was going to be some centralized location where an unreasonable amount of these homeless people all had their ballots sent.”


“That’s exactly what the New York Post found,” Wheeler says.

“As Spencer Pratt was eliminated by Nithya Raman in the mayor’s race on Monday night, it can be revealed that one drop-in center ... that received $600,000 from the socialist candidate ... had 185 voters at the address but offers no accommodations,” the article reads.

“So not only is this one of the centralized locations that Will speculated about yesterday, 185 people registered here, doesn’t even have beds, and it’s tied monetarily to Nithya Raman. The New York Post says the revelations have prompted U.S. Attorney [for the Central District of California] Bill Essayli to say that he will investigate the concerns uncovered by the Post,” Wheeler comments.

The Post also uncovered that the drop-in center that received $600,000 from Raman was taxpayer funded.

“The corruption of these people, it can never be overstated,” Wheeler says.

When the Post contacted Raman’s campaign as well as the L.A. shelter, not only did the campaign not respond — but a photograph of Raman presenting a check was taken down from the shelter’s website.

“This is taxpayer money that Nithya Raman gave to this place,” Wheeler says, adding, “Your money if you live in the city of Los Angeles.”

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‘Fraudster’s paradise’: Feds plan to file election fraud charges in California



Some individuals in California will soon face federal election fraud charges, first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Monday.

California has faced criticism for the delays in counting votes in the gubernatorial and Los Angeles mayoral primary races, fueling concerns of fraud.

'We will be charging some people.'

Now, a week after Election Day, California still has not counted all of the votes in its primary elections.

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles was investigating the delays.

Essayli noted in a post on social media that California allows its residents to register to vote using questionable forms of identification, including gym membership cards, employee ID cards, credit and debit cards, insurance cards, and prescription drug labels.

“This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look,” he wrote.

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During “The Glenn Beck Program” on Monday, Essayli told Beck that his office will be pursuing election fraud charges in the near future.

“It will be election fraud charges in the next — I hate to put timelines on things — one to two months, I believe. We need some of these results to be certified so we can prove some of the allegations,” Essayli stated. “But we will be charging some people.”

“At this point right now, we’re wide open for investigations,” he added.

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Essayli, who referred to California as a “fraudster’s paradise,” encouraged witnesses to come forward with any information.

“If someone voted in your name and you found out someone voted for you, we want to know about that. If you saw someone collecting ballots in a suspicious way or doing something odd with ballots, we want to know about that,” Essayli said. “Those are the kind of things we need direct evidence of right now so we can launch into deeper investigations.”

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'Look at what's happening in California'

Trump DOJ opens multiple investigations into possible election fraud in California



As California officials continue to be mocked for the glacier-speed ballot-counting process, the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced several investigations into possible election fraud.

Without commenting on any specific allegations, acting U.S. Attorney for Central California Bill Essayli announced Friday that his office, in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had opened "multiple election fraud investigations."

'We will investigate and prosecute. Every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out.'

"Protecting the integrity of California’s elections is a top priority for my office," said Essayli in the post on social media. "California’s election system has serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote-by-mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence."

The highly anticipated results in two California elections are still in limbo as the ballot count continues. Critics accuse Democrats of stalling the process in order to allow for fraud, but others say the electoral system in California prioritizes ballot access at the expense of delayed results.

"We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and prosecute any violations of federal election law to the fullest extent," Essayli added.

Left in the lurch are the candidates awaiting the primary results for the Los Angeles mayoral election as well as the California governor's race. Currently, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton and mayoral hopeful Spencer Pratt appear headed toward the general election, but as more tranches of votes are counted, the gap narrows for third-place Democratic competitors to steal their spot.

The top two vote-getters in each race will advance to the general election.

Essayli went on to say they were working to comprehensibly audit the voter rolls.

"The state has stonewalled every effort to verify that only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote. This case is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal," he added.

Video from L.A. County's central processing center, where the ballots are being counted, showed an official from the U.S. Attorney General's Office reviewing and monitoring the effort.

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"My office will not look the other way," Essayli concluded. "We will investigate and prosecute. Every legal vote deserves to be counted. Every illegal vote cancels one out."

On Thursday, Newsom's press office said, "For the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too."

Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta offered only a brief statement about the announcement.

"My office has a presence on the ground right now, is monitoring the situation closely, and stands ready to protect voters and ensure California’s election laws are followed," he wrote.

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Democrats Retaliate Against Liberal Governor For Not Letting Trump Ally Tina Peters Rot In Prison

'Election tampering has consequences'