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 Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is right that there have been more migrant returns and removals in the past nine months than in any single fiscal year since 2015, Department of Homeland Security data shows. 
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 The Chinese government is using TikTok to expand its global influence operations to promote pro-China narratives and undermine U.S. democracy, according to a report released today from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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 Biden’s advance team is rife with turmoil and toxicity, staff allege.The situation is so bad that the White House Counsel’s Office opened an investigation.
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 The Feb. 29 Instagram video showed former Fox News host Tucker Carlson describing Biden’s quote: "In a rally in Michigan on Saturday, Biden muddied the waters for the very first time. He announced his support for something called ‘badacafcar.’ In fact, he said it’s a fundamental human right."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN7kTvZxwI
 
 The Feb. 29 Instagram video showed former Fox News host Tucker Carlson describing Biden’s quote: "In a rally in Michigan on Saturday, Biden muddied the waters for the very first time. He announced his support for something called ‘badacafcar.’ In fact, he said it’s a fundamental human right."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN7kTvZxwI 
 Judge Cannon has granted Trump’s request for a 10 day extension to file replies to some of his motions to dismiss charges in the classified documents case.
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 Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump move to reorganize the party, with an expected cull of 60 members.
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 Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it.
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 C-Span caller: “I registered as Republican because I’m conservative, and I’m going to vote for Joe Biden because I’m a Christian.”
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 One-on-one with presidential candidate RFK JR. 
RFK JR: Biden needs to show he has "Mental Acuity."
https://video.nostr.build/7b6f893c24fe606090807a76fa2764950b6637de3a9ad7fb6656f5b87c2162d7.mp4 
 Trump holds rally in Rome, Georgia. Again claims E. Jean Carroll made false accusations about him.
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 Today in Texas, The Democrats continued their harassment campaign against. Robert F. Kennedy Jr by commissioning a video message-board truck to drive through downtown Austin.
https://video.nostr.build/93ad80eeae4de8801011781d588ed07e40af6f93d32b48563dd33bccbe260e91.mp4 
 The state of the union — and accountability for Donald Trump — is stronger than we think.
https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media2.salon.com/2024/02/donald_trump_1745435506.jpg 
 Republican Sen. James Lankford nodded in agreement and said “It's true” when President Biden touted the bipartisan border security bill. 
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 Republican Sen. James Lankford nodded in agreement and said “It's true” when President Biden touted the bipartisan border security bill. 
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 RFK Jr. rebukes MSNBC hosts for taunting Americans concerned about border: 'Dismaying to see'
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 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke out Tuesday on Fox News about the significant impact of the ongoing southern border crisis across the country.
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 Ex-congressional candidate suspected in Strip killing turns himself in.
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 Trump CFO Pleads Guilty to Perjury After Habba Scolds Engoron for Accusing Him of Perjury.
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 Nikki Haley Wins First Primary:Nikki Haley scored her first primary victory tonight, defeating Donald Trump in the Washington, DC Republican Primary by a 62-33% margin.
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 RFK Jr.outlined his support for financial freedom at the EthDenver24 conference and promised to make America the cryptocurrency #Bitcoin innovation capital of the world.
https://youtu.be/jczDkgf_JhA?si=B-QXBtOzaswlpRZq 
 Republicans must unite behind Trump to focus on Biden?Kari Lake claims that the reason why Democrats despise Trump is because they have been brainwashed by the media’s lies about him.
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 J.R. Majewski announced Saturday afternoon he will bow out of the GOP primary for a key Ohio congressional seat after a week of waffling on his future in the race.
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 The federally created body that promotes U.S. exports is continuing to finance fossil fuel projects abroad — even after advisers aligned with President Joe Biden’s climate goals pointed out those investments’ risks.
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 Why love Trump? A woman at a Trump rally in North Carolina said she loves Trump because he is a man with morals.
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 Anne Applebaum, a renowned democracy expert, just slammed Donald Trump for being loyal to authoritarianism and not the United States. 
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 Who would you vote for if the candidates were Joe Biden and Donald Trump?
Voters Doubt Biden's Leadership and Favor Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds.
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 😳Former President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit of trying to “drastically dilute” the value of stock shares in his social media company.
🤖United Atlantic Ventures alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in “wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering” to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the media company.
🫥The Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit comes in advance of a planned merger of TMTG with a shell company called Digital World Acquisition Corp.
😶‍🌫️The merger could deliver billions of dollars to Trump, a potential lifeline as he faces more than $500 million in civil judgments in New York.
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 There was lots of discussion in Trump's FL case. 
 Poland's foreign minister said the U.S. is "dysfunctional and unreliable" because it has not sent more aid to Ukraine.
 
 Biden Directly Addresses Trump as he gives a speech before the Border Parol in Brownsville, Texas: " Remember who we work for. We work for the American people. Not the democratic party or the Republican party. Let's remember who we are. We are the United States of America."
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 Biden and Trump both set to visit U.S. Mexico Border in Texas. Trump pressured Republicans to kill the bipartisan border deal because he didn't want Biden to have a win. The deal would have included some of the toughest reforms in decades.
https://video.nostr.build/e99326cfc06795dddd0d245299ed48d21ec384af78d2a1d0802f3a8f0cf05745.mp4 
 Trump's claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data.
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 'She sits in a tough chair': Meet Susie Wiles, the operative trying to guide Trump through four indictments to the White House. Wiles — a longtime operative who once worked for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — has brought a low-drama approach to a volatile candidate.
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 A map of the presidential primaries in Michigan by county subdivision. Haley won several townships across the state.
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 Rashida Tlaib Posts Video Accusing Biden of Supporting ‘Genocide’:Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat of Michigan and the only Palestinian American member of Congress, at a demonstration outside the Capitol in Washington last month.
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 Trump: Biden allowing thousands of migrants in. 
People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them.
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 There are over 600,000 criminal illegal aliens in the United States. Joe Biden refuses to remove them from the communities. 
 The United States must not give a single penny more to Netanyahu’s horrific war against the Palestinian people.
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 The Arizona 'Fun Bunch' at their Box #3 emergency election day announcement. 62% of voters say it is likely that state and federal officials are ignoring evidence of widespread election fraud.
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 Michigan Republican Primary Election Results: With 45% counted in the Michigan Republican primary, Trump is beating Haley 67–28%. Haley has also been trending downward; the Needle thinks Trump will win by 45 in the end.
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 Idaho sheriff hunts for “obscene” books in library with a citizen informant.
https://video.nostr.build/52026e197b12a70934a069f439924b9698d0d4c3da169aadf3281597f90bfa01.mp4 
 Michigan primary results: In 2020, Joe Biden got 52.9%. In 2024, Joe Biden got 80.1% 
 The former president’s daughter-in-law kicked her campaign off on Tuesday. Lara Trump officially announces for RNC co-chair, as Trump tightens grip on GOP.
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 Under the hood of Economist/YouGov polls & found that Trump's net favorability has risen the most among the following subgroups since Feb 2021:

Black (45-pt gain)
Age 18-29 (+40)
Hispanic (+27)
$100K+ (+27)
Moderate (+22)
<$50K (+20)
Liberal (+19)
Democrat (+17)
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 House did their part with impeachment, and McConnell basically said that he thought the Democrats were going to get rid of Trump and do the GOP a favor.  
  “If I were the Devil” — American Radio Broadcaster Paul Harvey, explaining what the world would be like if evil were engulfing it. He recorded this in 1965.
https://video.nostr.build/3fca7122d5ea66797f755f59eae20dd6aab7bf3eb64519f6fc17472df66781bb.mp4 
 Trump's lawyers swing broadly trying to limit what gets into the Manhattan criminal trial.
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 Judge determines Fulton County prosecutor’s divorce attorney must return to witness stand in Trump case challenge.
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 Terrence Bradley--the former divorce attorney for special prosecutor Nathan Wade--is expected to resume his testimony as Judge Scott McAfee mulls whether to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKSRifybjg 
 Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the international data mining company.
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 President Macron Prepares French Population for Direct War With Russia, Says NATO Readying Invasion of Ukraine!
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 Many Americans say they support a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy, a policy Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reportedly supports.
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 The Fulton County district attorney’s office is pushing back on Trump’s efforts to admit Nathan Wade’s cell phone data into evidence amid efforts to disqualify Fani Willis. 
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 Judge Cannon gonna share DOJ's ex parte declaration about criminal investigations into witness threats with Trump's legal team.
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 Nevada database glitch showing voters cast ballots when they didn’t is evidence that voting by mail is “the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
https://static.politifact.com/CACHE/images/politifact/photos/nevada_vote/c86602737b5d5f17009986b8c3c4e327.jpg 
 According to Vladimir Osechkin's sources, Alexey Navalny was frozen in the open-air solitary confinement cell for 2.5 hours, with temperatures as low as -27°C (-16.6°F) to slow down & weaken his heartbeat. Then he was killed with the classic KGB 'one strike' punch to the heart.
https://youtu.be/F_y31tAbpYE?si=Cvp_lmeCl1S8yY5P 
 Jeremy Corbyn speaks to #SkyNews outside court as Julian Assange hearing concludes
Regarding Assange: "The core duty of a journalist is to hold those in power, including elected politicians and others, accountable. It's imperative that we safeguard journalists in fulfilling this crucial role."
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1760345184934498361
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 Chinese individuals traversing the Darien Gap to reach Panama, proceeding to Puerto Limon by water boat and then taking buses to the San Vicente migrant camp. The influx is significant enough that indigenous Emberra Indians are catering to the Chinese in the jungle. These migrants use #Starlink for internet access and utilize AliPay and WeChat pay in Puerto Limon.
https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1760424715825328561?s=46
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 Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., hopes for a cooperative witness in James Biden's testimony during the impeachment probe. He also touches on the GOP's investigation into the Biden family's business dealings and the indictment of ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov.
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6347320650112  
 Nikki Haley lost almost every Republican nomination, but she still won't drop out.

https://youtu.be/DYN4CTszTvE?si=BqoQDyoac8RYMY81 
 RUSSIA ARRESTED U.S CITIZEN FOR DONATING $51 TO UKRAINE
Further details have emerged after a 33-year-old with dual citizenship of Russia and the U.S was charged with high treason.
If found guilty, Ksenia Khavana faces up to 20 years in prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNOXPHYRS5M 
 Anti-Trump Burnout: The Resistance Says It's Exhausted
Nearly every Trump 2024 event takes place in a much smaller venue than in 2016/2020, with a lot more open seats and standing room. Yet, I've yet to see the "Trump supporters are exhausted" story. Report by NYTIMES and Patrick Dillon. 
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 In GOP gerrymanders that just became obsolete. In new maps: Biden won 18 of 33 Senate seats; Trump won 50 of 99 Assembly seats.
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 Climate protesters fiercely to air their gripes about Biden
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 Democratic Party identification (relative to Republican) is declining among Blacks & Hispanics & young people.
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 Social media users have claimed a helicopter crash that killed the chief executive of Nigeria’s biggest bank was orchestrated by President Joe Biden. Aviation experts told news outlets that weather conditions could have caused the crash. Report by Politifact.
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 Taylor Swift has been at the forefront of right-wing conspiracy theories in recent weeks, and a new poll shows that about a third of Republicans believe a "covert government effort" exists to help Biden win in November. Report by axios.
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 In a presidential contest that remains tight, voters are more likely to express concerns about President Biden’s stamina than say the same about Donald Trump. Report by Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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 Political and economic signs don't look good for Biden.
A lot of important things about the 2024 election show that President Joe Biden will have a hard time winning a second term. His job approval rating, Americans’ satisfaction with how things are going in the country and their confidence in the economy are below the levels associated with successful reelection bids in recent elections. Report by Gallup staff Jeffrey M. Jones and Megan Brenan.
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