Paxton intervenes to help save surrogate baby from abortion



Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in the controversial case where a couple of California parents called for their hired surrogate to abort their intended baby after the child was found to have a heart defect.

The "Baby Gabriel" case has divided many along the pro-life and pro-abortion divide after the surrogate mother traveled to Texas in search of life-prolonging care for the baby.

'Baby Gabriel deserves a chance at life, and I will not allow anyone to unlawfully deny him medically necessary care.'

The unborn child has a serious but treatable heart condition, and the California couple have threatened to transport the child out of Texas to avoid the extensive surgeries necessary to save the baby's life.

On Tuesday Paxton released a statement announcing that he had officially notified UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas of their legal obligation to provide the baby with "medically necessary, lifesaving care upon birth."

Paxton said he also asked a district court to issue an order preventing the removal of the baby from Texas.

"Baby Gabriel deserves a chance at life, and I will not allow anyone to unlawfully deny him medically necessary care," said Paxton in the press release. "My office will use every tool available to protect innocent lives and ensure that every child receives the care required under Texas law."

The surrogate mother is a nurse and single mom of two from Alaska named McKenna West. Court documents said the biological parents triggered the "abortion on demand" clause of their agreement after learning about the heart defect diagnosis.

"Every life matters. No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying — including me," West told the New York Post.

"Baby Gabriel should receive a chance at life."

The biological parents had demanded that West travel to Seattle, Washington, for the abortion procedure after Alaskan doctors refused.

West refused and tried to relieve the parents of financial responsibility for the child, but they refused and sued her for $250,000. She faces bankruptcy if they are successful, West says.

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The couple, however, have accused West in court documents of refusing to undergo an amniocentesis test to identify genetic disorders in order to seek money from them.

Paxton is in the middle of a bruising campaign for the U.S. Senate, which may determine whether Democrats are able to seize control in Congress.

The Baby Gabriel case helps highlight the Republican's pro-life beliefs in contrast to his far-left competitor, James Talarico. The Texas Democrat enthusiastically supports a woke church that has referred to abortion as a "blessing."

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Abdul El-Sayed PURGED more than 100 YouTube videos expressing FRINGE beliefs — and they have resurfaced



A CNN investigation has found that the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan has apparently removed more than a hundred YouTube videos expressing his far-left beliefs.

Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic nomination from an establishment candidate last Tuesday, leading many to seize upon the contest as further evidence of fringe extremists taking over the party.

Another video no longer accessible to the public had the Democrat calling for the end of the 2nd Amendment guaranteeing gun rights.

Before he ran for the nomination, El-Sayed removed public access to more than 100 videos on his YouTube account, according to the CNN KFILE report.

In one removed video, El-Sayed blasted the Republican Party for focusing on illegal border crossings and claimed illegal immigration should not be a top concern for voters.

Another video no longer accessible to the public had the Democrat calling for the end of the Second Amendment guaranteeing gun rights and instead offered that there should be a constitutional right to health care.

"What if we tweaked the Constitution, amended the amendment, and instead of the 'right to bear arms,' we change it to the right to have health care?" said El-Sayed in the removed video.

One removed video from July 2024 featured El-Sayed arguing that Americans should stop celebrating the Fourth of July with fireworks. He cited the environmental damage and the risk they allegedly pose to veterans with PTSD as well as pets and children.

He also expressed support for "feminist prison abolition" while reading an ad for the show.

El-Sayed's campaign responded to the CNN report in a statement downplaying the video removals.

"Abdul is the former captain of his high school football team, loves Michigan football on Saturdays, and celebrates the Fourth of July with fireworks like the next Michigander," the statement read. "Cherry-picked comments from old podcasts don’t reflect his beliefs today."

Although the campaign said El-Sayed had changed his beliefs since posting the videos, the most recently removed videos were just two years old.

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The campaign claimed he respected the Second Amendment and pointed to recent messages he posted telling Americans to enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July.

CNN said it had reviewed transcripts of the videos that had been archived before they were removed.

El-Sayed is aiming to defeat Republican candidate Mike Rogers, helping to determine whether Democrats are able to seize control of the Senate in the midterm elections.

The RealClearPolling average currently has Rogers winning with a very slim lead of 44.3% to El-Sayed at 44.0%

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Francesca Hong voted to protect pedophiles as assemblywoman



Francesca Hong was one of only six Wisconsin Democrats to vote against a law making grooming a felony.

Assembly bill 677 aimed to make “grooming a child for sexual activity” a felony in Wisconsin. The bill was introduced in 2025 after public school teacher Christian Enwright got away with mere disorderly conduct charges despite apparently conducting “a months-long grooming relationship with a 14-year-old student.”

'I will never vote for legislation that institutes hate speech, and that is recognized hate speech.'

“No person may engage in a course of conduct, pattern of behavior, or series of acts with the intention to condition, seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse or sexual contact or for the purpose of producing, distributing, or possessing depictions of the child engaged in sexually explicit conduct,” the bill read.

The Wisconsin Assembly passed the bill 93-6 in January. Hong and three of the other no votes form the Assembly’s Socialist Caucus, which unanimously rejected the new child protections. Democrat Gov. Tony Evers signed the bill into law in March.

Currently the front-runner in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor, Hong has offered no public explanation for her vote. Her campaign did not respond to requests for comment as to why she opposed creating a felony for the patterned sexual grooming of children.

Four of the bill’s opponents have endorsed Hong’s gubernatorial bid.

“The term ‘groomer’ has been increasingly used as a slur to imply that LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly educators, are threats to children,” said an explainer circulated by fellow bill opponent state Rep. Angelina Cruz (D).

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“I will never vote for legislation that institutes hate speech, and that is recognized hate speech,” Cruz told the Racine County Eye in January. “This is not about protecting children. It’s about advancing a political agenda.”

Cruz is a public school teacher and former president of the Racine Education Uniserv Council labor organization.

Socialist Caucus member Rep. Christian Phelps (D) claimed the bill was not a “good-faith effort,” according to the Wisconsin Examiner. Phelps is also vice chair of the Assembly’s LGBTQ+ Caucus.

Even the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, which oversees public education and libraries, supported the bill.

At the time of Enwright’s conviction, no specific Wisconsin statute criminalized grooming. Prosecutors could charge him only with misdemeanor disorderly conduct, allowing Enwright to avoid the sex offender registry.

Enwright pled guilty and was sentenced to over a year in prison plus probation, according to Fox 6.

Assembly Bill 677 became 2025 Wisconsin Act 88 after Evers signed it into law. Prosecutors began charging suspects under the new statute just over a week after it took effect.

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Joe Scarborough freaks out after realizing who Democrats are getting into bed with



It's now dawning on some liberals that there's nothing funny about the clowns taking over the Democratic circus.

MS NOW talking head Joe Scarborough, for instance, was left momentarily speechless on Monday after sharing a video in which Megan Romer, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, not only blames Israel for its attack by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023, but notes that she would have stood in solidarity with Hamas in the immediate aftermath of the massacres.

'I really don't want to hear from the DSA anymore.'

In an interview with the New Yorker's David Remnick released Friday, Romer detailed the DSA's platform, including its views on Israel. Romer condemned Israel and expressed support for a "one-state solution": a "free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem."

Remnick noted that Darializa Avila Chevalier — the Islamic anti-police, anti-Israel, anti-border socialist now poised to win a congressional seat in New York as a Democrat — attended the pro-Hamas rally held in Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023, which featured signs justifying the terror attacks and was organized by radical groups, including Al-Awda New York.

When asked whether she supports Chevalier attending the rally, Romer said, "Yeah, I do," and noted that she too would have attended the rally had she been able.

"One day after the slaughter of 1,200 people and taking of over 200 hostages, you would've come and rallied behind Hamas?" asked Remnick.

"I think that October 7 was largely inevitable," answered Romer. "If you put people in an open-air concentration camp, and you deprive them of rights, of dignity, of food, of the ability to live in safety, you have to expect that they are going to not take that for that long."

"You cannot put people in a cage and expect them not to revolt," added the socialist.

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After playing a clip of the exchange on "Morning Joe" on Monday, Scarborough appeared stunned.

He broke the silence to state, "The co-chair of the DSA supported going to a pro-Hamas rally the day after Hamas gleefully slaughtered more Jews on October 7 than any day the Jews were slaughtered since the Holocaust. Women raped. Young children shot in front of their parents. Parents shot in front of young children. The DSA co-chair, which means the DSA, supports that."

'This is about the Democrats once again fumbling the football on the 2-yard line.'

"I really don't want to hear from the DSA anymore," added the liberal host, "that they're about economic justice or health care. This would be like going to a pro-Al-Qaeda rally on September 12, which I'm sure many people in the DSA would say, 'Well, that would be perfectly fine because look at the U.S. policies throughout the years.'"

The talking head who officially left the GOP in October 2017 — for supposedly abandoning its fiscal principles — implored the Democratic Party to reject the DSA ahead of the primary elections on Tuesday in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In Wisconsin, Francesca Hong — a card-carrying DSA member who has expressed a desire to abolish the police, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Senate — is likely to win the Democratic Party's nomination in the state's gubernatorial race.

In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan — who does not identify as a socialist but is nevertheless a leftist similarly extreme in her views — is up against establishment Democratic Rep. Angie Craig in the Gopher State's Democratic Senate primary.

"There's nothing wrong with the Democrats supporting economic justice. There's nothing wrong with the Democrats supporting, you know, cutting taxes, or getting rid of the Trump taxes and making billionaires pay more in taxes," said Scarborough. "That’s a legitimate mainstream debate for people to have."

He suggested, however, "I don't need people telling me, 'Oh, you have to just turn a blind eye to people saying that women getting raped on October 7 didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.' Americans aren't going to support that."

"This is about the Democrats once again fumbling the football on the two-yard line when they have the chance to make great gains but being ... too woke to call out the obvious," said Scarborough.

Scarborough underscored that it's prudent for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to call out the extremism of the DSA and those socialists making inroads in the Democratic Party — or to, at the very least, call pro-terrorist rape apologetics "despicable."

"It's crazy that we're even having this conversation!" he shouted.

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Trump spares kids from being Big Pharma's pin cushions — and the 'experts' are FURIOUS



President Donald Trump has decided that the U.S. should no longer be a "global outlier" in how many jabs it foists on kids, and medical establishmentarians are not happy about it.

Dropping a few jabs

When Trump took office for the second time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that all American children get vaccines for 18 diseases, sticking them with more than twice as many doses as their European counterparts were receiving.

'What this does is it restores ... autonomy of families and parents.'

In December, the president tasked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and then-acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill with reviewing the best practices from other first-world countries for core childhood vaccination recommendations along with scientific evidence that informs those practices.

After conducting a comprehensive scientific assessment and concluding that the U.S. was indeed a global outlier, the CDC reduced its list to 11 diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (whooping cough), Haemophilus influenzae type B, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, human papillomavirus, and chickenpox.

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The agency recommended numerous other vaccines either for "high-risk groups" or on an individual basis.

Trump stated after the embrace of the new vaccine schedule on Jan. 5, "Effective today, America will no longer require 72 'jabs' for our beautiful, healthy children."

The American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups, which had sued the administration in July 2025 over its termination of COVID vaccine recommendations for healthy kids and pregnant women, amended their complaint in January to incorporate a legal challenge to the immunization schedule updates.

On March 16, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy — a Boston-area Biden appointee who previously barred the Trump administration from swiftly deporting illegal aliens — obliged the plaintiffs and blocked the administration's revision of the CDC's vaccine.

Litigation in the case is ongoing.

The order

On Monday, Trump issued an executive order reaffirming that "it is the policy of the United States that the core childhood vaccine recommendations should be aligned with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries while preserving access to vaccines currently available to Americans."

The order:

  • reinforces the vaccination recommendations adopted by the CDC earlier this year;
  • recommends splitting up the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine into three separate single-disease shots once such vaccines are domestically available;
  • advises states and territories to update their relevant laws and regulations pertaining to immunization requirements — especially for school enrollment and attendance — where necessary; and
  • recommends that "all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits."

Trump's order also tasks Attorney General Todd Blanche with challenging state laws that conflict with state and federal statutory obligations "related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law."

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HHS Secretary Kennedy lauded Trump for taking this step and pledged at the signing ceremony, "We will preserve access to vaccines, strengthen safety monitoring, expand research, give doctors and parents better information, and restore informed consent and parental choice to their rightful place in American medicine."

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, said, "What this does is it restores ... autonomy of families and parents to make good decisions for their kids. It allows and continues to emphasize the importance of science in the recommendations about vaccines, and fundamentally restores a sort of healthy relationship between public health and parents."

Outrage from the usual suspects

Andrew Racine, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, was among those who lashed out over Trump's executive order.

'Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.'

"Today's executive order on vaccines is not only disheartening but dangerous," said Racine Monday. "Instead of ensuring every family can access life-saving vaccines for measles, influenza, RSV and more, federal leaders are once again spreading misleading claims."

After claiming that there "is not new evidence to justify significant changes to childhood immunization guidance," Racine downplayed the possibility of a link between vaccines and autism, and he expressed concern that some people may now "doubt the importance of vaccines."

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said in a statement obtained by WTOP News, "If it wasn’t such a serious affront to the health of Americans and their children, it would be laughable."

Benjamin claimed that breaking up immunizations into individual visits as opposed to loading kids with multiple vaccines all at once "creates more of a burden for parents, and more discomfort for kids."

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the anti-Trump Louisiana Republican who lost his re-election bid but who still chairs the Senate Health Committee, joined the chorus of concern-mongers, stating, "I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism."

"Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe," added Cassidy.

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VIDEO: Australian prime minister under fire over joke about foreign leader's 'melons'



Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese vehemently denied the suggestion he made a crude remark about a female foreign leader's "melons."

Albanese made the comments — and hand gestures — during his appearance on the "Bush Deep" podcast with Australian comedian Nikki Osborne. He also said during the show that he would "shag" singer and actress Kylie Minogue.

'The comments were beneath the office of prime minister.'

Osborne asked him about gifts from foreign leaders when he told a story involving Sanae Takaichi, the female prime minister of Japan

"Here's something I got recently here that was pretty strange but ended up being quite good was a melon. The Japanese prime minister brought a melon here!" said Albanese.

"How did he get that through customs?" Osbourne asked.

"She — it's a royal melon," he answered.

"Oh, she smuggled — it was a she? Did she smuggle it?" the podcaster asked, while making a gesture as if referring to pregnancy.

"I dunno," he said, smirking.

"Oh, I'm expecting!" Osbourne joked.

"Got a couple of melons!" said Albanese while gesturing with his hands at his chest.

"She brought two?" she laughed.

"She brought two! As you do!" he replied.

"She just came in looking like Pamela Anderson!" the podcaster joked.

"She brought two!" he replied. "And they're beautiful!"

Video of the interaction can be viewed on social media.

Takaichi had been visiting Australia to improve diplomatic relations as China threatens to expand its influence in the South China Sea.

Albanese's political critics pounced on the incident, lambasted him, and demanded that he apologize for the joke.

"The comments were beneath the office of prime minister," said Liberal leader Angus Taylor on Monday. "They were insulting, and the prime minister should make a personal apology. He’s done it through a statement. I mean, the hypocrisy of Labor and the prime minister on this topic knows no bounds, no bounds whatsoever."

Opposition leader Ted O’Brien, after meeting with Japanese officials, said "the prime minister’s words were inappropriate and a national embarrassment."

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What's more, Shingo Yamagami — a former Japanese ambassador to Australia — rebuked Albanese for his words.

Yamagami wrote, “Prime Minister, please enjoy Japan’s sweet and juicy melons without thinking about a women’s anatomy" before adding that "however lighthearted it was intended to be, the recent joke delivered by PM Anthony Albanese at the expense of Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi is how he might be remembered by Japanese who most value the friendship with Australia.”

Yamagami added that "what dismayed some was that Takaichi has recently been subject to derogatory remarks about her body and gender" and that "the last thing she expected was to be so casually mocked by the trusted leader of Japan’s special strategic partner.”

Albanese previously apologized for his comment about shagging Minogue.

Takaichi is considered a very conservative leader who supports the legacy of the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

The melons in question are a special kind called Shizuoka-grown Crown Melons, which are grown so that only one fruit can be harvested from each plant. They are very expensive and are exported to Canada from Japan.

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STUNNING admission about vaccine found in newly released Fauci text — while he told public it was safe



Newly released texts from Dr. Anthony Fauci showed that he and other health officials knew about a miscarriage risk to the coronavirus vaccine, but told the public it was safe.

The texts were released by Republican Senators Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin as part of the investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

'It's really one of those things that's kind of not a close call. It really is pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated.'

The exchange showed Fauci referring to the miscarriage risk in texts to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time.

"I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of," he wrote. "Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester."

It was sent Jan. 25, 2021.

Days later, he said the Food and Drug Administration had "found thus far, and we have to be careful, but thus far no red flags about that, about pregnant women," during a livestream with the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Months after that, Fauci made similar comments to "What to Expect" creator Heidi Murkoff.

"[I]f you look at the literally — literally — tens and tens and tens of thousands of women who have been followed by the CDC who were vaccinated when they were pregnant, there's no indication whatsoever that there's any increase of any adverse issues in a pregnant woman who was vaccinated compared to a pregnant woman who wasn't vaccinated," said Fauci.

"It's really one of those things that's kind of not a close call. It really is pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated."

Johnson posted the message on his social media account.

"While I’ve been conducting oversight for years, now that we have the documents and Fauci’s government-issued phone, my investigation has only just begun," he said.

"Pregnant women were told it was safe! How many women lost babies due to Dr. Fauci's lies?" responded Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.

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"Americans were told to shut up, trust the experts, and get the shot or risk their jobs and livelihoods," replied Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

"Meanwhile, behind closed doors, Fauci, Walensky, and Murthy were discussing the very uncertainties Americans were attacked for raising: missing pregnancy data, pregnant women excluded from the trials, a WHO statement citing lack of data, and even a theoretical concern about miscarriage after the second dose," he added.

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