Supreme Court refuses to intervene in fight over 20,000 'likely noncitizen' voters in California
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the request from the Department of Justice to force California officials to segregate ballots from people on a list of "likely noncitizens."
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom excoriated the administration and accused it of trying to influence the midterm elections by pushing for ballot segregation so close to Election Day.
'The Court rejected Trump’s emergency request without even asking the other side to respond — a first.'
The court issued a one-line, unsigned response with no dissents noted on the eve of Election Day.
California officials have argued that inaccuracies in the list would lead to some legal voters being disenfranchised.
"This latest decision should put an end to the administration's attempt to disrupt California’s elections through emergency court orders," said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat. "But our work is not over. We will remain vigilant and keep fighting back against federal efforts to undermine our democracy."
Newsom also praised the ruling in a statement on social media.
"California just secured a HISTORIC Supreme Court defeat against Donald Trump," he wrote. "The Court rejected Trump’s emergency request without even asking the other side to respond — a first. Democracy won.'
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Some interpreted the court's swift response as a show of disdain for the request.
While California is reliably left-leaning, numerous contests in the state could help determine who controls Congress after the midterm elections. Voters will also determine whether the next governor of the state will be Democrat Xavier Becerra or Republican Steve Hilton.
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'Fire will rise': Muslim pundit promises 'reckoning' if Abdul El-Sayed loses — and also if he wins
A former New York Times op-ed contributor is getting mocked and ridiculed after he threatened a "reckoning" if Muslim candidate Abdul El-Sayed doesn't win.
El-Sayed will become the first Muslim in the U.S. Senate if he is able to defeat Mike Rogers (R) on Tuesday for one of Michigan's seats.
'This will be a watershed moment in Democratic politics.'
El-Sayed represents yet another victory of the far-left extremist fringe of the Democratic Party against the centrist establishment leadership.
The day before the election, Wajahat Ali promised "fire" and a "reckoning" regardless of whether El-Sayed wins or loses.
"If, God forbid, Abdul loses, this will be a watershed moment in Democratic politics," he wrote on social media.
"The fire will rise. It's over. People will be radicalized against corporate, pro-Israel Dems," he added. "There will be a reckoning. If, when, he wins, it will be a watershed moment. And that reckoning will still come."
Ali's threat was disdained by many online.
"You gonna strap on the suicide vest yourself, tough guy?" Dave Rubin responded.
"Democrats now appear to be threatening us with violence if they don't win," the Libs of TikTok account replied. "Believe them when they tell you who they are."
"To be clear ... are you threatening a caliphate? Because if you are, I AM READY for that war ... careful what you promise from your keyboard," responded Carl Higbie, Newsmax host and former U.S. Navy SEAL.
"He just threatened jihad on American soil over a Senate race. Americans do not play that game. Come get some. I dare you," another critic said.
"My main question is how will the fire rise with all the watershedding, and so forth," online raconteur David Burge joked.
Ali was among those who condemned then-President Joe Biden in 2021 for daring to opine that Israel had a right to exist.
El-Sayed is narrowly beating Rogers, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch average of polling.
Michigan Senate polls 2026: El-Sayed vs. Rogers
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Judge Boasberg sides against Trump administration over 20,000 'likely noncitizen' voters in California
California officials got a boost from a Washington, D.C., judge in their fight against the Trump administration over 20,000 "likely noncitizen" voters.
The administration has tried to use the power of the courts to compel California to segregate ballots of people on a list it compiled of possible noncitizen voters.
'If I'm hearing that the list is flawed and it's overinclusive and includes individuals who are eligible to vote, that's a problem.'
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., James Boasberg said Monday that California should determine how to run its own elections.
"The Executive Branch has likely violated the Constitution's Elections Clause, which commits authority over election rules to the states and Congress alone," Boasberg wrote in the ruling Monday. "California may decide for itself what procedures to use for verifying the citizenship of registered voters and for deciding whether to count their mail-in ballots."
Boasberg challenged the administration on the accuracy of the list and opined that it would risk disenfranchising legal voters.
"Defendants' flawed lists risk chilling or preventing lawful votes from being cast and counted," he wrote.
An attorney for the government admitted in a court hearing in San Francisco that there was a "high error rate" in the list while being questioned by U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson.
"If I'm hearing that the list is flawed and it's overinclusive and includes individuals who are eligible to vote, that's a problem," Thompson said.
The administration has also requested an emergency intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court to force California to segregate the ballots.
Boasberg has been accused of being politically biased against the Trump administration. In one case from March, the judge blocked subpoenas against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from the Justice Department.
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California officials have accused the administration of using the "noncitizens" list to influence the election unfairly. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom was especially acidic in his response.
"This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day," he responded to a DOJ lawsuit.
"Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections," he added. "We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy."
Boasberg was nominated by former President Barack Obama.
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Anti-Trump protesters are raking in cash after disrupting rallies
Protesters at President Donald Trump’s midterm rallies have found innovative ways to get paid and grab clout.
After multiple outbursts at his midterm campaign stops, Trump accused protesters of being paid to stir up trouble, and he may be right.
'Trump says I got $250 as a paid protester. Prove him wrong!'
At least two protesters have used crowdfunding to profit off their five minutes of fame, and two others are Democrat candidates for state House seats supported by wealthy left-wing organizations.
Indivisible, which organizes the No Kings protests, has ties to some of these protesters. The group itself has accepted over $7.6 million from George Soros' Open Society Foundations since 2017, according to public grant records.
The biggest haul belongs to “absurdist activist” Rob Potylo. Potylo, also known as “Robby Roadsteamer,” burst into a Jeffrey Epstein-themed protest song at Trump’s rally in Chillicothe, Ohio, on Wednesday.
Potylo posted the uncut video to YouTube the next day. Its description links to a GoFundMe titled "Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland!" Though the fund predates that rally, Potylo implored his supporters to donate after the rally disruption.
At least 4,600 supporters donated $127,831 total as of Monday.
"Folks this ain't easy! Please donate!" Potylo posted on X on Wednesday after being ejected from the event. "Trump says I got $250 as a paid protester. Prove him wrong!"
Potylo told HuffPost that he raked in donations after his viral protest video. The professional activist also accepts payment via PayPal, Patreon, Venmo, and Cash App, according to his personal website.
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Two other hecklers are using their rally protests to campaign for state legislature.
Alan Buckalew was among about a dozen people removed from Trump's Oct. 21 rally at Clemson University's T. Ed Garrison Arena in Pendleton, South Carolina.
"Why are you selling us out to the Soviets?" Buckalew shouted, according to the Greenville News.
Buckalew is the Democrat nominee for South Carolina House District 28. Indivisible Upstate SC endorsed him in October.
Ben Braver, a Democrat Florida state House candidate, took things a step farther.
Lakeland, Florida, police arrested Braver at Vice President JD Vance's Oct. 1 rally and charged him with trespassing and resisting arrest without violence, according to Fox 13. He was later released on a $2,000 bond.
Braver "planted his foot in opposition to the direction he was being escorted," an officer wrote. The officer took him to the ground with a leg sweep. Braver told Fox 13 he did not intend to resist. His video of the arrest has drawn 381,000 likes on Instagram, captioned "Was this police response appropriate?"
Vance called him a "Democratic plant."
"I was practicing our inalienable First Amendment rights to free speech against pedophile protectors like JD Vance and had absolutely no intention of resisting the officer," Braver told Blaze News.
Braver is challenging state Rep. Karen Gonzalez Pittman (R) in House District 65 in Tampa, Florida. He lost a 2024 state Senate race to state Sen. Danny Burgess (R) by about 21 points, according to Florida Politics.
Emgage Action lists Braver among its endorsements. Open Society has given Emgage Action, a Muslim-American political organization, and its corresponding partner, Emgage Foundation, at least $5.5 million since 2018, grant records show.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Florida NOW PAC also support Braver’s campaign. The candidate urged his X followers to "share" an Indivisible event about Rep. Laurel Lee (R-Fla.) in August 2025.
Braver also promoted No Kings rallies as campaign stops on Instagram and vowed in July to "end our agreements with the dangerous and murderous ICE."
Braver's activism predates his campaigns. As a University of South Florida junior in 2023, he led Stand for Freedom FL, a statewide campus walkout demanding that the DeSantis administration "restore DEI initiatives" and stop its "attack on LGBTQ+ students," Them reported.
Timothy Matthew McDaniel is yet another activist who, in some way, has profited off of his anti-Trump protests.
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McDaniel, who goes by Matthew on social media, yelled, "You're the criminal!" when Trump mentioned "criminal aliens" at his Oct. 21 Pendleton, South Carolina, rally. Attendees subdued him, and he later filed a police report alleging assault with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, according to the Greenville News.
McDaniel, a 46-year-old Navy veteran, wore a "Foxtrot Delta Tango" shirt — seemingly code for "F**k Donald Trump" — to the rally and calls himself an "independent who happens to support Democrats," according to the New Republic.
He launched a GoFundMe three days after his rally outburst. The fund seeks $15,000 for "medical bills, legal expenses, reward offers, and security needs" and calls Trump a "mad 'wanna-be' king." It had raised $3,815 at the time of this report's publication.
"Hopefully, the reward money will loosen some lips," McDaniel wrote in a Facebook comment under the fundraiser.
His Facebook page leaves little doubt about his antagonism toward the president.
He made Comey's "8647" seashell image his profile picture in April, shared a meme last December casting Trump as the Antichrist and attacking evangelical Christians, and slammed a local bar as a place to "hang out with neo-na$is or the usual MAGA maniacs."
McDaniel also promoted an Indivisible "Vote Early Block Party" in Pendleton, South Carolina, in September.
A Timothy Matthew McDaniel of South Carolina with the same birth year as the protester has a lengthy rap sheet.
McDaniel pled guilty to public drunkenness in Clemson, South Carolina, in 2005 and was found guilty of reckless driving in 2004 and hit-and-run property damage in 2005 in neighboring Oconee County, according to South Carolina Public Index records. He was also found guilty of driving under suspension in 2010.
Potylo, Buckalew, McDaniel, Indivisible, Emgage Action, and the Open Society Foundations did not respond to Blaze News' requests for comment.
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NBC polling analyst finds MASSIVE problem for Democrats ahead of Election Day
NBC chief data analyst Steve Kornacki outlined the latest polling ahead of the pivotal midterm elections.
On Sunday, Kornacki documented some of the negative polling for Republicans and President Donald Trump before identifying one massive problem for Democrats.
'Are they willing to take the next step and vote for Democrats given how unpopular Democrats are as a party?'
Kornacki highlighted the results from an NBC News poll taken last week. One question asked respondents how they feel about the Democratic and Republican Parties in general.
"Republicans are not popular, but this is about where they were back in 2018 in Trump's first midterm," said Kornacki.
"Look at the Democrats: 29% favorable, 52% unfavorable. This is different from 2018. In 2018, the Democrats as a party had much better numbers than this," he added.
"And that does raise a question: Voters out there who disapprove of Trump, aren't happy about where the economy is, inflation, are they willing to take the next step and vote for Democrats given how unpopular Democrats are as a party?" Kornacki asked rhetorically.
"Or does that keep the Democrats from fully capitalizing on what otherwise for them is a very promising political climate?" he concluded.
Polling expert Frank Luntz fleshed out some of the other problems with polling accuracy that may further deflate Democrats' hopes.
"I got 2016 wrong. I believed in the exit polls. Trump voters walked away, refused to participate, because they thought that it was against them," he told CNN in October.
"They thought that the polls were all biased," Luntz added. "And that's what Republicans are being told right now: 'Don't believe the polls. They're not accurate.' Well they may be, we're about to find out."
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Kornacki did lay out some of the bad news for the president, who has a 40% approval rating and 60% disapproval in the latest polling.
When asked who should control Congress, 52% of respondents said Democrats should while only 45% said Republicans should control Congress.
Also challenging for Republicans is that slightly more people say they are dissatisfied with their current financial situation, 51%, than the 49% who said they are satisfied financially.
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Trump bashes 'radical left' group accused of handing gift cards to voters: 'This is a criminal offense!'
The president has blasted a liberal political action committee in Kansas for allegedly handing out "monetary incentives" to voters just ahead of Election Day.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) said in a press release Saturday that he sent a cease and desist letter to BlueStem Kansas for allegedly "offering gift cards to voters for voting."
'We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!'
Kobach said a voter claimed that a person identifying as a canvasser for BlueStem offered the voter a $5 gift card.
"Under K.S.A. 25-2409, election bribery includes giving, offering, or agreeing to give a benefit in exchange for voting at a public election," he wrote. "It is a severity level 7, nonperson felony. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307(c), separately makes it a crime to pay or offer to pay anyone for voting in an election that includes federal candidates."
Trump blasted the group in a post on Truth Social.
"I have just been informed by the Great Attorney General of Kansas, Kris Kobach, that a Radical Left PAC operative was caught on camera going door to door in Wichita offering gift cards to people for votes," he wrote Sunday.
"We have photographic evidence. This is a Criminal Offense!" he added.
Kobach said he requested that the group preserve communications related to the alleged election incentives, which is a step taken in anticipation of possible legal action.
"As attorney general and before that as secretary of state, I have prosecuted many cases of voter fraud in Kansas, including voting by noncitizens and double voting," said Kobach in a statement.
"But I never thought that a group in Kansas would be so brazen as to go door-to-door three days before a general election offering voters monetary incentives," he added. "This sounds like Chicago in the 1950s, not Kansas in the 2020s. As long as I am attorney general, those who violate our election laws will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
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Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas accused Democrats of direct involvement in the scheme.
"Chuck Schumer’s Democrats tried to buy out Kansas through ads, but when that wasn’t working they have resorted to pure bribery," wrote Marshall on social media. "Please report any illegal election activity to the Attorney General‘s office!"
BlueStem Kansas says on its website that it advocates for health care access and gun control and opposes school choice in the form of vouchers.
Marshall is losing by a narrow margin to his Democratic challenger, according to the Blaze News Poll Watch average of polls.
Kansas Senate polls 2026: Marshall vs. Hamilton
Every public poll of the 2026 Kansas Senate race, Roger Marshall (R) vs. Adam Hamilton (D), and the Blaze polling average. From Blaze News.
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