Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor Francesca Hong campaigned in Milwaukee alongside two of the most controversial left-wing figures possible: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and political commentator Hasan Piker.
The pair appeared at a rally at South Milwaukee High School to endorse Hong, who is a Democratic Socialists of America member with a long history of anti-Israel activism.
When Piker was introduced, he told the people of Milwaukee that “Wisconsin is the heart of the historic American socialist movement.”
“He’s right partly about history, maybe more right than he knows,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, pointing out that Piker received a standing ovation.
“And then you have the woman standing next to him. She’s the one who described the murder of 3,000 Americans as ‘some people did something.’ Oh, OK. Well, yeah, they flew planes into buildings,” he adds.
When a reporter asked Hong whether campaigning with Piker and Omar was a risk, she said, “What would be a risk is to not build the broadest coalition possible.”
“Coalition is the oldest word in the story, and Wisconsin really invented it,” Glenn says, noting that in 1910, Emil Seidel was elected mayor of Milwaukee.
“He was mayor, the first socialist mayor to run in a major American city. Same city that sent the first socialist to Congress that same year. And they kept electing socialist mayors on and off for the next 50 years,” he explains, adding that these socialists were known as “sewer socialists” because they campaigned on sewers, garbage collection, water, milk inspection, paving, and municipal housekeeping.
However, they wanted more than sewers. Like Piker, who in that gymnasium “didn’t talk about sewers.”
And neither did Hong.
“She said yes to state-run grocery stores. Yes to cracking down on tech. Yes to freeing Palestine. Yes to a statue of Scott Walker built for the express purpose of letting people tear it down. That’s all more than sewers,” Glenn says.
And just a week ago, the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America went on Fox and called for the abolition of the Senate, the replacement of the presidency and Supreme Court, the abolition of ICE, open borders, the defunding of the Pentagon, open prisons, and putting large corporations under public ownership.
“Nobody had to leak that. Nobody hacked anything. She said it out loud on a Sunday show. And the plumber on your porch is still talking about your groceries bill. That is the way socialists work,” Glenn explains.
“If somebody is just talking about the sewers, that probably is a good thing. But you must then see who’s standing around them,” he continues.
“They’re in their own party, and they’re talking about it openly. They’re proud of it,” he adds.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's challenge to incumbent Sen. John Cornyn went unresolved in the heated Republican primary race on March 3, as neither candidate proved able to secure 50% of the total vote.
Though Cornyn confidently warned Paxton that "Judgment day is coming," Paxton ultimately proved victorious in Tuesday's runoff election, handily beating the four-term senator by double digits.
AP News and NBC News called the race for Paxton around 9 p.m. ET, at which time 49.1% of the vote was in and Paxton was leading Cornyn 62.5% to 37.5%.
'Our Country needs Fighters.'
Cornyn's campaign blew over $24 million on advertising, including the attack ads that unsuccessfully tried to turn Republican voters off Paxton, reported the Texas Tribune.
Tens of millions of dollars more were blown by various pro-Cornyn groups, including the super PAC Texans for a Conservative Majority, which squandered $32.9 million on total advertising. The group even dropped $9.5 million in runoff-only ad-spending to help the senator.
The Lone Star State's AG, whose campaign spent only $4.8 million on advertising, stated in a runoff Election Day interview that "John Cornyn has never done anything significantly good for the state of Texas in 42 years."
In his final argument against maintaining the status quo, Paxton faulted his opponent for "siding with Joe Biden on restricting Second Amendment rights, siding with Joe Biden on bringing Afghan refugees here without vetting them, going against Donald Trump on the border, going against Donald Trump's re-election, going against Donald Trump's first election, fighting for amnesty, open borders — that's John Cornyn."
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Toward the end of the race, Cornyn's team framed the senator — who received donations from elements of the GOP old guard including former President George W. Bush and Rupert Murdoch — as a steady and proven conservative and Paxton as "morally bankrupt" and a "mortal threat to the America First agenda."
President Donald Trump evidently did not share Cornyn's vision for the future or his concerns about Paxton.
The president endorsed Paxton last week, touting him as "a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate."
While signaling goodwill to Cornyn by referring to him as a "good man," Trump emphasized that Paxton is a fighter and that "Our Country needs Fighters, and also Loyalty to the Cause of Greatness."
Trump wasted no time celebrating Paxton's win on Tuesday, posting to social media an image of himself and the victor along with a reminder of his endorsement.
Paxton will now face Democrat state Rep. James Talarico — a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has attempted to use Scripture to justify abortion, protested the public display of the Ten Commandments, concern-mongers about traditional Christian views, voted against sparing kids from sex-rejection mutilations, and claimed there are six sexes.
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The Senate worked overnight to advance the GOP's budget resolution to fund immigration enforcement to the tune of $70 billion in an effort to end the Democrat-induced shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
From Wednesday afternoon to the early hours of Thursday morning, senators voted on a slew of amendments to advance Republicans' legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Customs and Border Protection.
'Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders.'
This legislative marathon comes amid the ongoing DHS shutdown that began in mid-February. In March, the Senate approved a funding package to fund all of DHS except ICE and CBP in a 2:00 a.m. voice vote, but it was rejected by the House. The House passed its own 60-day continuing resolution to fund the department in its entirety, but it was not advanced in the Senate.
The Senate budget ultimately advanced mostly along party lines in a 50-48 vote just before 3:30 a.m., with Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Rand Paul of Kentucky voting with Democrats against the immigration funding.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) lashed out at Republicans for funding "rogue agencies," claiming they are out of touch with everyday Americans.
“What kind of bubble are they living in?" Schumer asked. "How apart are they with people’s real needs?”
Despite the Democrats' predictable disapproval of the funding bill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) remains optimistic that the House will cooperate with the Senate to fund these key agencies. Earlier this month, both Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) agreed on a "two-track approach" that would partially reopen DHS while funding immigration enforcement separately.
"In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited," a joint statement between Thune and Johnson reads. "In return, Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in America."
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A new Republican-led bill pushing for bipartisan reform to the immigration crisis has sparked intraparty clashes over major amnesty concessions.
Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Florida, who introduced the Dignity Act in the House, lashed out at her GOP colleagues critiquing the "compassionate" bill, even though some provisions provide a pathway to "legal status." Salazar said that calling it an amnesty bill is a "deliberate distortion" of the legislation despite language protecting "Dreamers," halting deportations, and allowing illegal aliens to enter a seven-year program for "renewable legal status."
'I want dignity for Americans.'
"At some point in the future, another legislator will write another law to give them path to citizenship," Salazar said. "Right now, what we need to do is to buy peace for these people — allow them to stay to continue working, because they are needed."
Despite clear-cut protections for illegal aliens, Salazar's Dignity Act has secured 20 Republican co-sponsorships and 20 Democrat co-sponsorships.
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While several Republicans have signed on to the bipartisan bill, prominent GOP House members have sounded the alarm.
Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas slammed Salazar's bill, saying it's another case of "mass amnesty" and that it "would constitute a terrible betrayal of our voters."
"Maria, your ‘DIGNIDAD Act’ would give legal status to over 10 million illegal aliens," Gill said in a post on X. "It’s rank amnesty and everybody knows it. I want dignity for Americans — the people whose interests we represent — not illegal aliens. That means doing what we said we’d do: mass deportations."
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