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According to the mainstream media and its loyal leftist followers, the great replacement theory is just another extremist, right-wing, MAGA, conspiracy theory.
But with everything happening because of our open border, Sara Gonzales is fairly confident that they’re wrong.
“It’s just that places like New York are already doing this in local elections. They are allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections,” Gonzales says.
Now, experts are warning that a loophole in Arizona’s election procedures may allow non-citizens to cast federal election ballots in the 2024 presidential election.
Arizona’s secretary of state, Adrien Fontes, crafted the election procedures manual to permit individuals with unverifiable citizenship to register as “federal only voters” in order to participate in federal elections.
Fontes, of course, happens to be a Democrat.
“This is happening,” Gonzales says angrily. “As much as they want to claim this is not happening, this absolutely is happening.”
“They are literally trying to create loopholes so that illegal immigrants can vote in federal elections,” she continues. “We’re talking about the Presidential Election. If you don’t think that this is what the whole master plan has been, I don’t know what to tell you at this point.”
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Defiant and backed by 25 governors, Abbott says Texas will continue its self-defense at the southern border
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the efficacy of the Lone Star State's active self-defense Sunday, noting that it will not just continue but expand "until the Biden Administration decides to do its job and secure the border."
Abbott declared on Jan. 24 that his beleaguered state has the "constitutional authority to defend and protect itself" in the face of an unprecedented "invasion" by foreign nationals. Twenty-five American governors have signaled support for this self-defense, some of whom were in Texas over the weekend.
Flanked by 13 governors in person — Govs. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.), Brian Kemp (R-Ga.), Brad Little (R-Idaho), Eric Holcomb (R-Ind.), Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa), Jeff Landry (R-La.), Tate Reeves (R-Miss.), Mike Parson (R-Mo.), Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), Jim Pillen (R-Neb.), Chris Sununu (N.H.), Bill Lee (R-Tenn.), and Spencer Cox (R-Utah) — and backed by an additional 12 governors from afar, Abbott said Sunday, "Americans stand with Texas and our right to protect and defend our state from the crisis at our southern border."
Joe Biden\u2019s open border policies have had a devastating impact on every community in our nation.\n\nEven in the face of Biden's lawsuits, Texas will continue to step up & protect our nation.\n\nAmerica's Governors are behind us.\n\nMore from Eagle Pass today: https://t.co/1zZeLo9E7a— (@)
The governors toured Shelby Park, the municipal park in Eagle Pass adjoining the Rio Grande where multitudes of illegal aliens have poured into the U.S. in recent months. Whereas the park was previously teeming with illegal aliens, the park now appears to be empty.
Abbott credited his state's material defensive efforts — particularly the razor wire and barriers criticized by the Biden White House — with reducing the average number of illegal entries into the area from 3,000-4,000 to a reported three migrants per day.
"If Arizona and California did what we're doing here, you would eliminate [illegal] immigration overnight," said Abbott.
Abbott further indicated that Texas would expand on its recent success in Eagle Pass and expand its efforts elsewhere along the border.
"As we speak right now, the Texas National Guard, they’re undertaking operations to expand this effort," said the Texas governor. "We're not going to contain ourselves to this park. We are expanding to further areas to make sure we expand our level of deterrence and denial of illegal entry into the United States."
A top Texas official said there is also interest in applying similar pressure to riverside ranch land north of the city where illegal aliens have historically made entry, reported the New York Times.
That expansion appears to include the construction of additional border wall.
Texas made history as the first and ONLY state to build our own border wall. \n\nConstruction is ongoing. \n\nWe will not back down from our efforts to secure the border.— (@)
Various governors lauded the Lone Star State's efforts Sunday. Some indicated they would commit additional resources to help Texas secure the border, as Florida did last week.
Gov. Lee, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, thanked Abbott for doing "everything within his power to provide an improvement to the situation at the border and to provide safety and security for Texans, for Americans."
"The federal government has failed Texans and Americans in providing that security and that safety," added Lee.
Gov. Kemp noted that "every state in our country is now a border state. ... When you think about the amount of fentanyl and human trafficking, they're coming to every state in the county."
"If our border is not secure, our country is not secure," continued Kemp. "Joe Biden's policies are making our country less safe, and that's what we're here documenting today."
"This is a fight that all of us have to engage in," said Gov. Huckabee Sanders.
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Democratic governors in Arizona and Kansas veto legislation that would have protected babies born alive after botched abortions — but there's hope yet
The Republican-controlled legislatures in both Kansas and Arizona recently passed legislation to protect babies born alive after botched abortions. The states' Democratic governors, Laura Kelly of Kansas and Katie Hobbs of Arizona, conversely vetoed the bills.
The bills
House Bill 2313, the "Born-alive infants protection act," was introduced to the Kansas legislature on Feb. 7.
The stated purpose of the bill was to provide legal protections for infants born alive; require certain standards of care by health care providers for infants who are born alive; and provide criminal penalties and civil liability for violations of the act.
"Born alive" is defined as the "complete expulsion or extraction of a human being from its mother, at any stage of development, who, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section or induced abortion."
The bill passed the state House on March 22 in a 88-34 partisan vote and then the Senate on March 29 with a 31-9 vote. After the House signed off on Senate amendments, it went to the governor's desk.
Senate Bill 1600 was introduced to the Arizona Senate on Feb. 1.
This bill would have required that "any infant who is born alive, including one born during the course of an abortion, shall be treated as a legal person under the laws of this state and shall have the same rights to medically appropriate and reasonable care and treatment."
Reasonable care and treatment would include resuscitation.
In addition to requiring that the human child be treated as a legal person and all that entails, SB 1600, if ratified, would have required birth and death certificates to be issued for the infant, ostensibly to ensure that medical professionals could not altogether dehumanize their victim.
Hospitals, abortionists, or others involved would be compelled to notify law enforcement of a failure to treat the child as a legal person.
Health professionals who failed to take proper action and willfully let the child die would be guilty of a class 6 felony.
The bill would also have required hospitals and facilities that killed babies in or outside the womb to "submit to the department of health services ... a report of each abortion performed in the hospital or facility."
SB 1600 passed the Arizona Senate with a 16-13 vote on Feb. 22, and was approved by the state House in a 32-26 vote on March 30.
The vetoes
Arizona Gov. Hobbs vetoed SB 1600 on April 6.
In the statement accompanying her veto, Hobbs intimated that the democratic will of the people was trumped by the medical community's preferences.
"The bill is uniformly opposed by the medical community, and interferes with the relationship between a patient and doctor," wrote Hobbs. "It's simply not the state's role to make such difficult medical decisions for patients."
Hobbs' decision was to the satisfaction of Brittany Fonteno, the incentivized CEO of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, reported KGUN-TV.
Fonteno called the proposed law "part of a coordinated effort to undermine the bodily autonomy of pregnant people and exploit the spectrum of the abortion experience for political and cultural gain."
Kansas Gov. Kelly followed suit and vetoed HB 2313 on April 14.
Kelly noted in her veto statement, "This bill is misleading and unnecessary. Federal law already protects newborns, and the procedure being described in this bill does not exist in Kansas in the era of modern medicine."
"The intent of this bill is to interfere in medical decisions that should remain between doctors and their patients," added Kelly.
The backlash
Republican Kansas Speaker of the House Dan Hawkins responded to Kelly's veto with a statement, saying, "I'm saddened to see that with this veto of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act that the Governor has chosen to abandon the dignity of life by allowing for the ending of an infant's life even once it's outside the womb."
"This veto gives abortionists free rein to walk away as a living, breathing baby dies," said Hawkins. "This is not only radical, but also inhumane and I am confident House Republicans will make every effort during veto session to protect all living, breathing infants in our state regardless of the conditions surrounding their birth."
Sarah Moe with the Abortion Survivors Network similarly rejected Kelly's claim, telling the Catholic News Agency that an estimated 1,734 babies are born alive after failed surgical abortions every year.
"Although 1,734 is what we can account for based on those more medical procedures, it’s really hard to track the chemical abortions, which is going to yield a higher failure rate, which means a higher survival rate for those infants, said Moe. "And those infants in turn are susceptible to exposure to another abortion."
According to Moe, the abortion survivors that will now be left to die on hospital beds in Kelly's Arizona will join the ranks of an estimated 85,817 babies born alive after the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, some of whom work with the Abortion Survivors Network.
As for Kelly's suggestion that federal law already protects newborns, Moe said, "I would love for her to tell us where that is, because it certainly has not been codified."
Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Denise Burke said Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs "has made it clear: she would rather cater to the abortion industry than affirm the basic human rights of vulnerable children. ... Her failure to protect the lives of children once they are outside of the womb is unthinkable and inexcusable."
Undying hope
While Hobbs has successfully killed the bill and by extension those it may have saved, the Catholic News Agency noted that the case is not hopeless in Kansas, where the GOP has supermajorities in the legislature and could possibly override Kelly's veto.
Kelsey Pritchard, director of state public affairs at the Susan B. Anthony List, told the CNA, "Just based on the bill passing on an 86-36 margin in the House to begin with and also with overwhelming support in the Senate, we expect that the Kansas Legislature will do the right thing here and make this the law in Kansas."
"It’s just really disturbing for us to see [Democrats] and the abortion industry attempt to erase a whole group of people," added Pritchard.
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19 GOP governors sign statement decrying ESG 'proliferation' as 'a direct threat'
A coalition of Republican governors has signed on to a statement denouncing ESG investing, the spread of which they describe as a "threat" to the U.S. economy and individual liberty.
"The proliferation of ESG throughout America is a direct threat to the American economy, individual economic freedom, and our way of life, putting investment decisions in the hands of the woke mob to bypass the ballot box and inject political ideology into investment decisions, corporate governance, and the everyday economy," the governors declare.
"We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology," the statement reads.
The governors of Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming are backing the statement.
The document lists various policies that the state leaders could pursue in their efforts to battle ESG investing practices, including "blocking the use of ESG in all investment decisions at the state and local level, ensuring that only financial factors are considered to maximize the return on investment" and "banning the financial sector from considering so called 'Social Credit Scores' in banking and lending practices aimed to prevent citizens from obtaining financial services like loans, lines of credit, and bank accounts."
"At my direction, Florida has led the way in combatting the pernicious effects of the ESG regime by directing our state pension fund managers to reject ESG and instead focus on obtaining the highest return on investment for Florida’s taxpayers and retirees," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, according to a press release. "We will not stand idly by as the stability of our country’s economy is threatened by woke executives who put their political agenda ahead of their clients’ finances."
BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink, who adheres to the dogmas of climate alarmism, claims that the issue of climate is pertinent to the field of investing.
"For years now, we have viewed climate risk as an investment risk," Fink wrote in his annual chairman's letter to investors. "Anyone can see the impact of climate change in the natural disasters in California or Florida, in Pakistan, across Europe and Australia, and in many other places around the world. There's more flooding, more wildfires, and more intense storms. In fact, it's hard to find a part of our ecology – or our economy – that's not affected."
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Horowitz: Who needs Biden? Trump shaming governors who don’t promote boosters
For those of you sick of the oligarchy of both political parties promoting COVID fascism and endless failed vaccines, you won’t find any relief with a Trump presidency. At a time when even the Europeans appear to be moving away from the failed boosters, Trump is doubling down on promoting them, even though he already has natural immunity from prior infection. Is his strategy to campaign against his base?
Perhaps Trump now subscribes to the view of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla that two shots offer little if any protection, but he is now dumping on GOP governors who fail to disclose their booster status. That’s right: It’s not enough to declare their support for two shots; Trump would like each governor to declare whether they had a booster.
"I've had the booster. Many politicians—I watched a couple of politicians be interviewed and one of the questions was, 'Did you get the booster?' because they had the vaccine, and they're answering like—in other words, the answer is 'yes' but they don't want to say it because they're gutless," Trump told One America News Network. “You gotta say it—whether you had it or not. Say it. But the fact is that I think the vaccines saved tens of millions of people throughout the world. I've had absolutely no side effects," he added.
Well, after all, Trump is the only person in the universe, so if he did not experience side effects, then nobody else did. I mean, really, Mr. Trump? This sounds even more obnoxious than Mitch McConnell’s lecturing us about the polio vaccine or RINO Indiana Gov. Holcomb demanding that we get boosters. I guess RINO West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, who is begging Biden for a supply of fourth shots, is the most “courageous” governor in Trump’s eyes.
It is bizarre that Trump is promoting boosters even for those with natural immunity at a time when even the NCAA has moved in the direction of recognizing immunity from prior infection. Trump also recognizes that younger people shouldn’t get the shots, a plain indication that he knows there are some clear risks to taking the shots. Even more tacky is the fact that Trump has been relatively quiet all year, then chose to speak up now, when the shots appear to be failing the most.
At a time when we need to rally against weak GOP governors who are promoting the shots too much and defeat all mandates against bodily autonomy, Trump is dumping on the few decent governors actually standing for his base?
Ironically, even the Europeans are waking up to the concerns of pumping endless boosters into people’s bodies. Just a month after suggesting boosters would be needed every three months, the European Medicines Agency is warning people that such a move is not cost-free. Aside from known and unknown risks of side effects, they are warning that boosters could weaken people’s immune systems in what is widely known as “original antigenic sin.” Has Trump ever studied this concern? Even the WHO stated this week that “avaccination strategy based on repeated booster doses of the original vaccine composition is unlikely to be appropriate or sustainable.”
Indeed, Trump has picked an inauspicious time to go “all in” on Pfizer. The shots clearly have no degree of efficacy against the new strain. Public Health Scotland is showing that for the last week in December, 85.8% of all cases were among the vaccinated. Although Scotland has a very high vaccination rates, most of the new cases (figure 2) are among children and younger adults who have lower vaccination rates. Case rates per 100,000 are about 2.5 times higher among the double-vaccinated than among the unvaccinated and about 1.4 times higher among the boosted (table 11).
Thus, from the get-go, even three shots produce negative efficacy, and given that other data show the boosters wane even quicker, why is there no concern that the more shots one gets, the more it will create rapidly accelerating negative efficacy (binding but not neutralizing antibodies) over time?
If anything, the numbers are even worse than this data suggests, because we know that the most vulnerable time is during the partially vaccinated period, where the T cells are depressed but before the antibodies ramp up. PHS counts those within 21 days of the first shot as completely “unvaccinated.”
As for hospitalizations, the double-vaccinated appeared to be more than twice as likely to be hospitalized with acute COVID and almost twice as likely to die of COVID than the unvaccinated.
While the death rates among the boosted were much lower, they are counting those within 14 days of their third shot among those with two shots, thereby making the double-vaxxed worse and triple-vaxxed appear better during the immune suppression period, just as they did between the unvaxxed and those with the first dose. The fact that the double-vaxxed go negative even against critical illness and death demonstrates that in the long run, the boosters are a dangerous game.
How could Trump in good conscience promote boosters?
Well, therein lies the problem. It’s not about the science for him, or even about the optics or the politics. I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn here by ascribing his motive to desiring to take credit for his legacy of Operation Warp Speed. It’s all personal. He doesn’t want to view what he believes to be his greatest legacy as an utter failure.
However, what the former president needs to understand is that nobody blames him for not seeing the scam of Big Pharma at the time and trying to make the shots available as soon as possible. However, to double down and triple down on failure after the safety signals have been breached and after the shots no longer work is unforgivable.Four Democratic governors issue joint statement declaring that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should resign
Calls for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation abounded Tuesday in light of a report that concluded the Democratic politician had engaged in sexual harassment against multiple women — governors and many other Democrats said that Cuomo should step down.
"The independent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law," New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday at a press conference. "Specifically, the investigation found that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women."
In a joint statement, the Democratic governors of four states said that their fellow Democratic governor should resign.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, and Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee declared in their statement: "We are appalled at the findings of the independent investigation by the New York Attorney General. Governor Cuomo should resign from office."
The governors were just some of the Democratic voices among a chorus calling for Cuomo's resignation. President Joe Biden also expressed his belief that the governor should step down.
Cuomo said in a video released on Tuesday the he "never touched anyone inappropriately or made inappropriate sexual advances."
The governor could potentially be ousted from office if the state legislature moves to impeach him.
"After our conference this afternoon to discuss the Attorney General's report concerning sexual harassment allegations against Governor Cuomo, it is abundantly clear to me that the Governor has lost the confidence of the Assembly Democratic majority and that he can no longer remain in office," state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement on Tuesday. "Once we receive all relevant documents and evidence from the Attorney General, we will move expeditiously and look to conclude our impeachment investigation as quickly as possible."
Earlier this year Heastie issued a statement saying that was authorizing the Assembly Judiciary Committee to start an impeachment investigation.
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