Cash for Votes on Skid Row: Feds Nail California Election Activist in Fraud Scheme

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On Monday, the Justice Department announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong — a longtime California voting activist — has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges stemming from what prosecutors describe as a nearly two-decade scheme to pay people for petition signatures and voter registrations. Some of those people, according to federal filings, were homeless individuals living on Los Angeles’ Skid Row. The price for their civic participation: two or three dollars. It is a tawdry story. And it is being told loudly, deliberately, by an administration that has made election integrity a marquee issue. Armstrong is the latest figure

With 250th Anniversary Near, Washington’s Power and Faith Converge on the Mall

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Something rare happened on the National Mall Sunday. Power knelt. The President of the United States, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Speaker of the House all gathered — not for a summit, not for a ceremony of state — but for prayer. The occasion was “Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving,” a massive faith rally drawing thousands to Washington as the nation counts down to its 250th birthday on July 4th. President Trump, in a prerecorded message delivered from the Oval Office, read

Democrats’ Radical Playbook: Harris’ Plan to ‘Neutralize’ GOP

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Kamala Harris went on a livestream Wednesday night and said the quiet part out loud — very loud. Speaking on the “Win with Black Women” podcast, the former Vice President called on Democrats to embrace what she cheerfully termed a “no bad idea brainstorm” ahead of the 2026 midterms. In that spirit of radical openness, she floated abolishing the Electoral College, packing the Supreme Court, creating multi-member congressional districts, granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., and — in a phrase that stopped more than a few people cold — directing blue states to expand their own electoral maps

From Rivals to Partners? Trump, Xi Set the Stage for Fall Summit

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Something shifted in the air Thursday night in Beijing. President Trump stood in the Great Hall of the People and did something that required a certain nerve. He extended an invitation — to Xi Jinping and Madame Peng, for September 24, at the White House — and spoke warmly of what he called the “rich and enduring ties” between two peoples who have spent much of the past decade being told they are adversaries. It wasn’t a concession. It was a bet. Trump spoke for ten minutes, and much of it was history: Chinese workers laying the transcontinental railroad. American

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