President Trump’s devastating beatdown of Kamala Harris in 2024 did more than just win an election. It shattered the Democratic establishment’s self-image and sent the party into a death spiral. The evidence is impossible to ignore. At the Democratic National Committee, Chairman Ken Martin is hunkered down in survival mode as a storm gathers around him. State leaders and committee members are worried about their paranoid, defensive leader who avoids media appearances, monitors critics on social media, and has lashed out so intensely that he once threw a phone at a junior aide’s desk. Fundraising is anemic, the organization is cash-strapped enough that vendors have been asked to delay billing until after the midterms, and calls for Martin’s resignation grow louder even as party hacks lack the courage to oust him before November’s midterms.

The Radical Left has seized upon the establishment chaos and racked up impressive primary victories. In Michigan, Muslim socialist Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic Senate primary despite tens of millions in outside spending and high-profile endorsements from figures such as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. El-Sayed ran on Medicare for All, ending unconditional U.S. aid to Israel, calling the war in Gaza a “genocide,” describing Israel as an “illegal apartheid regime,” and advocating the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A similar pattern is unfolding in Wisconsin, where polls show state Rep. Francesca Hong—widely identified with the Democratic Socialists of America—holding a commanding lead in the Democratic primary for governor. Hong has championed public grocery stores, a state-owned public bank, doubling income taxes on high earners, a $20 minimum wage, universal child care, and the immediate abolition of ICE. Past statements include calls to defund and ultimately abolish the police, and she has described events in Gaza as genocide while supporting measures to facilitate Israel boycott campaigns. These are not fringe positions anymore; they are becoming the new normal as the Radical Left fills the void left by a woeful, failed Democrat establishment.

In stark contrast, the Republican Party is largely unified around President Trump and his agenda, and it enjoys a massive financial edge. Trump recently boasted about an $800 million war chest held by MAGA Inc., a national super PAC effort, making it abundantly clear these funds will be used to support Republican candidates and help maintain control of the House and Senate. The party is even preparing its first midterm convention in Dallas, framed around the argument that Democrats have become captive to their activist left and the socialism it promotes.

The Radical Left insurgency is simultaneously alienating parts of the Democratic coalition the party desperately needs to compete in the midterms. Famed Bill Clinton adviser James Carville has become the most visible voice of that disillusionment. After progressives, including Michigan nominee El-Sayed and streamer Hasan Piker, mocked him and suggested he leave the party, Carville responded with his characteristic bluntness, calling the attacks “vicious” and warning that the far left’s influence—describing what he calls an “AI random stupid idea generator” producing notions like canceling Thanksgiving—threatens the party’s broader viability. Carville is not alone. Plenty of old-school Democrats share his concerns but remain cowed into silence. He is simply the one willing to say out loud what many privately fear: the socialist takeover is driving away moderates and working-class voters that was formerly the core of the Democrat Party.

Meanwhile, President Trump has rebuilt the infrastructure behind the GOP. The coalition that fractured in earlier cycles has been reconstructed with remarkable speed. A major piece of that architecture is Elon Musk’s America PAC, which is planning a $100 million-plus effort—potentially up to $120 million—focused on boosting Republican turnout across at least eight states through door-knocking, digital advertising, and direct mail. Musk’s resources and organizational focus represent a significant force multiplier for an already well-oiled political machine.

Republicans now sit in position to reverse historical midterm trends and fend off Democrats in November. Yet all the money and organizational muscle in the world will not deliver victory if the message is not on point. It must be solidly MAGA with no reservations. There are many strong America First fighters on the ballot, but there are also weak, squishy RINOs who risk snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. A clear example is the stalling by Senate Republicans on the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote and effectively end widespread mail-in voting without verification. Trump has publicly urged Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the August recess, kill the filibuster if necessary, and pass the bill so Republicans can secure elections and move other priorities. Thune and others have resisted, insisting on the traditional 60-vote threshold and hesitating to upend the recess.

We need to pressure those Republicans to adopt strong, unyielding America First messaging. Thune-style pussyfooting will blow the chance at lasting success. Those figures must be nullified and muzzled when they dilute the agenda. Republicans must lead instead with a strong MAGA message, and look to figures like Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida as banner examples. Burchett has been relentless on border security, insisting on completing the wall, restoring Remain in Mexico, ending catch-and-release, and deporting those here illegally, while repeatedly calling out the absurdity of pouring resources into foreign conflicts while the southern border remains porous. Luna has been equally forceful, blasting Democratic efforts to dismantle ICE, warning of threats along our Northern and Southern border, defending policies that separate claimed family units at the border until biological parentage can be verified in order to stop child trafficking, and framing strong borders and national sovereignty as non-negotiable foundations of a free country without exception.

We cannot underestimate the socialists. We cannot take for granted that they cannot win. Their primary victories prove they can seize the machinery of the Democratic Party when the establishment is weak and demoralized. Republicans must put their best foot forward with unapologetic America First candidates and messaging to crush this leftist threat. Relying on establishment RINO moderates while the future of the country hangs in the balance is a formula for self-inflicted defeat. The opportunity is real. The only question is whether Republicans will follow in President Trump’s example and respond with the toughness that the moment demands.

ActBlue is once again facing multiple probes across several states over large volumes of small phantom donations that continue to appear on the platform. These contributions are routinely listed under the names of ordinary Americans who later say they never gave a dime.

The money essentially never leaves the donors’ accounts, only their names and addresses are used, and because almost no one reviews FEC reports, the scheme is extremely difficult to detect.

This same issue has now surfaced in Wisconsin. These latest findings are based on door-to-door interviews first conducted in 2023 and updated in 2025, and were shared this week with media outlets including The Center Square.

Private investigators with Brightline Investigations, led by Kyle Corrigan, found high volumes of small ActBlue payments listed under local seniors’ names in FEC records. Most of those interviewed stated that the totals far exceeded anything they actually contributed.

FEC filings list thousands of small ActBlue payments under Mark Jennerjohn’s name totaling more than $90,000 over roughly seven years. Jennerjohn, of Appleton, WI, rejected the figures, saying he occasionally gives $5 but could never afford the reported sums.

Other seniors gave similar statements, saying they had never donated or had given only a few times around major elections.

Henry Timm, a playwright in Sister Bay, was listed as having nearly $20,000 in ActBlue transfers under his name through repeated small payments. Timm told investigators he had never contributed to political causes.

When approached, elderly citizens expressed surprise or anger upon learning the scale of activity listed in the filings, often noting that no corresponding bank transactions appeared in their accounts.

The same discrepancies were reported weeks earlier in Michigan.

Federal records list nearly $150,000 in payments over five years under the name of 88-year-old Elizabeth Waffle of rural Milan, a woman living in a  trailer after her house burned down. The money arrived in thousands of tiny, high-frequency payments, often multiple times in a single day.

When confronted on camera by reporter Charlie LeDuff, Waffle rejected the figures, saying she lacked the money and that “something in there that’s off.” She owns no computer and has only intermittent phone internet.

Corrigan and his team call it “smurfing.” Corrigan has said the activity, under state law, could amount to identity theft or money laundering.

Kyle Corrigan of Brightline Investigations and his team call the practice “smurfing.” Corrigan has said the activity, under state law, could amount to identity theft or money laundering. He noted that earlier versions of the reports were shared with the Door County Sheriff’s Office in 2023, election-integrity groups, and congressional staff, and stressed that the underlying FEC data is public and independently verifiable.

No formal investigation or inquiry followed from those referrals.

The platform faced House Administration Committee reviews of its verification practices and alleged foreign-linked activity from at least 2023. In a related congressional hearing, CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked the Fifth Amendment on June 10, 2026.

ActBlue has long maintained that it processes only legitimate small-dollar support and has improved its verification tools, the same defense it has offered for years.

There is absolutely no denying it, the evidence is repetitive and damning. Each case is defined by the seniors’ consistent denials, and those denials are what will continue to keep this issue alive.

So far, the matter remains in the hands of private investigators and congressional oversight. No formal probes have been opened, no charges have been filed, and neither the FEC nor the DOJ has taken action.

Denaturalization has always been possible under the Immigration and Nationality Act. For decades, however, prosecutors have treated it as a last resort, largely reserved for war criminals, spies, and those linked to terrorism.

The law is clear under Section 340(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. § 1451(a)): if someone obtained citizenship illegally or through concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation, the government can ask a federal judge to revoke the order of naturalization and cancel the certificate.

The Trump administration is intensifying efforts against naturalized U.S. citizens who concealed criminal records or lied on their citizenship applications.

On July 20, the Department of Justice announced it had filed denaturalization actions against 10 individuals accused of serious offenses, including child sexual abuse, health care fraud, and drug trafficking.

Two weeks later, on August 3, the DOJ announced a second, larger batch of 25 cases filed between July 20 and August 3 against individuals accused of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, aggravated assault and battery, and aggravated sexual assault of a child.

The official release, titled “Justice Department Files Record 25 Denaturalization Cases Against Naturalized Criminals Including Attempted Murderers, Spousal Abusers, and Child Sex Offenders,” details complaints filed between July 20 and August 3 against individuals from 17 countries.

According to the release, these people secured their citizenship through fraud or by concealing everything from child sex abuse and attempted murder to drug trafficking, major fraud schemes, identity fraud, and domestic violence.

Since President Donald J. Trump returned to office on January 20, 2025, the department has filed 123 civil denaturalization complaints, the most in recorded history.

In the past, fewer than a dozen per year would occur. Between 1990 and 2017 the government averaged about 11 cases a year.

Justice Department leadership issued an internal memo in June 2025 directing civil litigators to prioritize these cases, and by December 2025 USCIS was told to start referring up to 200 potential files a month. It was issued by Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate and is titled “Civil Division Enforcement Priorities.”

Previously, most civil denaturalization cases were handled by a small specialized unit inside the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation (OIL) in Washington, D.C. That unit coordinated and often litigated the cases, sometimes with local U.S. Attorney’s Offices assisting.

Now, to handle the much larger volume, the DOJ is spreading the cases out to civil prosecutors around 39 regional offices of the U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country. So the work has moved from a centralized specialized team to many local federal prosecutor offices.

The latest cases involve child sexual abuse, Medicare fraud, identity theft, Green-card marriages, attempted murder, and serious domestic violence.

The administration has already secured wins in a number of the earlier cases, with the rest still moving forward.

On November 2, 2017, nearly six months after President Donald J. Trump fired him, former FBI Director James Comey tweeted about the cover of his forthcoming book and then added:

“Check the actual cover. I’m all about Oxford commas.”

At the time it looked like a corny sentiment from the former Director.

In light of this week’s declassified documents, it looks like something else entirely.

Those documents reveal that one week after the firing, the FBI opened a full criminal and counterintelligence investigation into whether the President of the United States had removed his FBI Director because he was acting as a Russian asset.

The code name chosen for that probe was Oxferd Comma, a deliberate misspelling of the Oxford comma, the very stylistic preference for which Comey was already known inside the building.

But once an FBI Director is fired, the briefings stop. Access ends. The secure systems are locked. The Director’s Brief disappears. The need-to-know is extinguished along with the badge.

A former Director does not receive ongoing operational updates on sensitive internal investigations, especially one opened in direct response to his own removal.

No private citizen would have had legitimate knowledge of, let alone any reason to share with James Comey, the code name of a highly compartmentalized probe.

Yet nearly six months later he is publicly invoking the very phrase the Bureau had used. This would not be the last time Comey reached for coded or layered public messaging. That is where the psychology and the culture of the FBI matter.

For most who make a career at the Bureau, the FBI is not a job. It is an identity. Agents and senior officials often serve for decades; the institution becomes family, tribe, and moral compass. Loyalty runs deep, and it runs inward.

Comey was fired over his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. That is the stated fact. Yet when the 45th President, an outsider who had never spent a day inside the building and who openly mocked the Bureau’s leadership, removed the Director, it was not experienced inside the institution as a routine personnel action. It was experienced as an attack.

In that environment the formal rules of access can bend. Information that should remain confidential still finds its way through informal channels of loyalty and resentment.

The most plausible reading is that someone still inside, who viewed Comey as one of their own, made sure the former Director understood the name the Bureau had chosen for its response.

Comey’s November tweet is not proof of a grand conspiracy. It is evidence of how tenaciously the FBI’s internal culture, what many now call the deep state, can outlast the badge.

When an outsider fires the Director, the Bureau’s tribal defenses activate. And sometimes that system still finds a way to speak to the man it lost.

The only question left is not whether Comey knew, it is how he came to know, and how many people inside the building made sure he did.

Nearly eight years later, the same man arranged seashells on a beach to spell 86 47.

The message was no longer subliminal.

It was just the same impulse, this time, written in the sand.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on July 29, 2026, that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working with the DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking and federal, state, and local partners, arrested 905 suspects and rescued 180 victims during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

This enforcement focused on host cities across the country as millions of fans gathered for various tournaments leading up to and including the World Cup.

Of those rescued, 150 were adults and 30 were juveniles.

Officials noted that major sporting events often attract criminal networks exploiting tourism and demand for commercial sex.

Investigators used undercover work, surveillance, and online monitoring to disrupt these enterprises, while victims received medical care, shelter, and counseling.

In one key case under Operation Midnight at Paris, HSI agents on July 24 executed eight federal arrest warrants tied to the Paris Adult Bookstore in Dallas.

The eight suspects are:

• Montre Lamont Mason, also known as “Trey” or “Unc”
• Eileen Mason, also known as “Mama” or “Ma”
• Trelynn Love Mason, also known as “NuNu”
• Aaron Tyrone Betford
• Larry Jones, also known as “Big Guy”
• Krishenda Doss
• Reginald Rose
• Antonio Dario Osorio-Avelar

According to multiple reports, this business operated as a covert brothel for more than twenty years. The probe, launched three years ago, uncovered that thousands of adults and minors were sold for sex through the establishment, with dozens of victims identified.

One victim, U.S. Army veteran Caleigha Zangari, was murdered in 2024 after being kidnapped from the bookstore’s parking lot; a defendant in that related case was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The eight suspects face charges including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking through force, fraud, and coercion, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.  The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas.

In another operation on June 23, HSI San Francisco, working with the FBI and San Francisco Police Department, rescued two female minor victims of human trafficking. One of them had been reported missing from Bakersfield, California, since November 2025.

In the Atlanta area, Operation Red Card, a six-week multi-agency effort led by HSI Atlanta, produced 153 arrests, 13 for human trafficking, 11 for child exploitation, and 129 for related offenses, and identified 54 trafficking victims, 27 of whom accepted support services.

In South Florida, authorities conducted 28 undercover operations during matches in Miami, resulting in 178 arrests, 23 for human trafficking and about 39 for soliciting sex, and the identification of 17 potential trafficking victims, some of whom had been brought from other states specifically for the event.

In the New York metropolitan area, efforts linked to matches at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey helped rescue 43 victims, including seven minors; the NYPD alone reported 89 arrests and support for dozens of survivors.

DHS Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis credited the work of agents:

“While Americans and international visitors were enjoying the FIFA World Cup, the men and women of ICE law enforcement were hard at work cracking down on human trafficking operations in FIFA host cities across the country. Federal law enforcement arrested more than 900 suspects and rescued nearly 200 victims. Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, we are dismantling human trafficking networks.”

More than 700 unauthorized drones were seized, over 50 air missions were conducted, more than 19,000 vehicles were inspected, and hundreds of thousands of counterfeit World Cup items valued at over $33 million were confiscated.

Intellectual property enforcement by HSI resulted in 48 arrests and 164 seizures of counterfeit FIFA World Cup merchandise, including more than 530,000 items with a genuine retail value exceeding $85 million.

Victims identified during the operations were connected to crisis intervention, shelter, medical care, and longer-term support services. FBI-led operations during the same period (June 8–July 19) reported seizing approximately $220,000 in cash and assets linked to trafficking networks.

Progressive Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign took in more than $118,000 from at least 41 people tied to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), as reported by Fox News Digital.

The donors included current employees, former staffers, and individuals who have held CAIR board or leadership posts, who donated in their individual capacities. The figure comes from a review of federal campaign records.

These findings come just after El-Sayed’s narrow primary victory over Rep. Haley Stevens, roughly 48.5% to 47.5%.

These monies were not confined to just Michigan. Records indicate contributions from CAIR-affiliated individuals connected to chapters in California, Arizona, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, and Ohio.

One CAIR-Michigan board member, Muzammil Ahmed, alone gave $11,600. California governance board members and a former national board chair also appear.

El-Sayed has consistently reiterated “getting money out of politics” as a central message throughout his campaign.

That stance sits alongside a donor list that includes some of CAIR’s most senior figures, among them National Board Chair Manal Fakhoury, Board Treasurer Eyas Abdeen, and Vice Chair Emad Sabbah.

Also on the list is El-Sayed’s father-in-law, Jukaku Tayeb, a CAIR-Michigan board member and a dual role that raises legitimate questions about both the closeness of the relationship and the scale of financial backing from within his inner circle.

Tayeb was listed as the highest financial supporter of a super PAC that has spent money on El-Sayed’s behalf. He also sits on the founding committee of the Islamic Society of North America, an organization that has faced its own questions about historical funding links to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The United Arab Emirates designated CAIR a terrorist organization in 2014. More recently, the governors of Texas and Florida have formally labeled the group a terrorist organization. CAIR has challenged those designations in court, calling them unconstitutional and baseless.

Federal prosecutors named the organization an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation case, the largest terrorism-financing prosecution in U.S. history.

Prosecutors argued it formed part of a network supporting Hamas inside the United States. CAIR was never charged and has consistently denied the allegations, pointing to statements condemning terrorism and antisemitism.

Among the donors to Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed are CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, whose name appears in FEC filings as Nehad Hammad.

Awad drew widespread criticism after remarks following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in which he said he was “happy” to see Hamas break out of Gaza and argued that Israel, as an occupying power, lacked a right to self-defense.

El-Sayed’s connections to the organization predate the current fundraising cycle. In 2022 he spoke at a CAIR event and received payment for the appearance. During that talk he criticized an Oklahoma ban on Sharia law and compared it to the Trail of Tears.

El-Sayed will now go head-to-head against former Republican congressman Mike Rogers in the November general election for the open Senate seat.