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Mike Johnson’s ‘Ukraine First’ Agenda Shows He’s No Different Than Mitch McConnell

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After helping Democrats fund President Biden’s authoritarian regime for the rest of the year, House Speaker Mike Johnson is now gearing up to aimlessly dump more U.S. taxpayer money into Ukraine.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, the weak-tea Louisiana Republican revealed several options for the House to ship tens of billions of dollars to Kyiv amid the latter’s ongoing conflict with Russia. The Senate previously passed a $95 billion foreign spending package in February that included funding for (mostly) Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan but zero provisions addressing America’s ongoing border invasion. The bill passed with the help of 22 Republican senators.

Among the ideas suggested by Johnson was using the REPO Act, which he claimed would allow for the sale of Russian sovereign assets frozen by the United States. As noted by The New York Times, “Only about $5 billion or so of Russian assets are in the hands of U.S. institutions.”

Congress advanced $113 billion for Ukraine in 2022 alone, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Another option considered by Johnson is a nonsensical plan backed by former President Trump to loan Ukraine the money and have the Eastern European nation pay it back to the U.S. at a later date. The idea has generated opposition and skepticism from some of the Senate’s more conservative members, such as Ohio’s J.D. Vance and Missouri’s Josh Hawley.

Johnson expressed interest in tying a provision to whatever Ukraine spending package is ultimately crafted that “would force President Biden to

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Nevada Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Voter ID Amendment, Reject Ranked-Choice Voting

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Nevada voters are projected to pass a ballot amendment requiring eligible electors to present a form of photo ID when voting and reject a separate initiative seeking to bring ranked-choice voting to the state.

According to The New York Times, preliminary results show the Voter Identification Initiative (Question 7) passing with 73 percent of electors voting “yes” and 27 percent voting “no.” At the time of this article’s publication, approximately 78 percent of votes have been tabulated.

As The Federalist previously reported, Question 7 would require eligible voters to present a valid form of photo ID when voting in person. Those voting by mail would “have to verify their identity using the last four digits of their driver’s license or social security number or the number provided by the county clerk when the voter is registered to vote,” according to Ballotpedia.

In Nevada, constitutional amendment proposals produced by citizen-led signature collection campaigns must be passed by voters in two consecutive general elections to amend the state’s founding document. This year’s election will be the voter ID initiative’s first appearance on the ballot, which means it will need to be approved by voters during the state’s next general election to add it to the Nevada Constitution.

Meanwhile, Nevadans rejected Question 3, which sought to implement a top-five ranked-choice voting (RCV) scheme in the state’s elections.

Often referred to as “rigged-choice voting” by its critics, RCV is an election system in which voters rank candidates of all parties in order of preference. If no candidate

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Democrat Media, Call The Race For Trump So We Can All Go To Bed

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As election night drags on, Donald Trump’s victory is imminent, and Kamala Harris’ path to one has vanished. The New York Times’ election “needle” shows Trump with a greater than 95 percent chance of winning. It all comes down to some of the so-called “blue wall” states Trump carried in 2016 — and he leads in them again. Corporate media are finally starting to acknowledge Trump’s Pennsylvania win, Fox News has put Wisconsin into Trump’s column, and Alaska hasn’t been called yet, meaning the race is over.

So why are so many voters still afraid to go to bed?

Democrat media won’t call the blue wall states of Wisconsin and Michigan, and they won’t call the race. Even though they know Trump will reach more than 270 votes they won’t concede official defeat.

But Americans are old enough to remember the last presidential election, which came down to the exact same states. In 2020, voters went to bed on election night or early Wednesday morning without final results but with Trump leading by comfortable margins in the key battleground states. Corporate networks wouldn’t call the race because of some outstanding ballots, but Republicans rested confidently, and for good reason.

In the middle of the night, however, things changed. In Wisconsin and Michigan, dead-of-night vote dumps went 100 percent for Joe Biden and zero percent — not a single ballot — for Trump, as my colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote at the time. In Michigan, ballot tickers brazenly posted 138,339 magic

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2024’s Biggest Loser Is The Corporate Media Industrial Complex

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In the early hours of Wednesday morning, legacy news networks were already sliding toward 2016 levels of melting down about the increasingly definite prospect of a presidential victory by Donald J. Trump. For them, Harris’ stinging defeat is personal — because it’s just as much a defeat for them as it is for her.

The corporate media industrial complex has spent Donald Trump’s entire political career trying to destroy him. Hand-in-hand with triple-letter government agencies and Democrats, they ran a hoax painting Trump as a Russian stooge based on ridiculous rumors commissioned by his opponent’s campaign in 2016. They continued to spread the lie for the duration of his presidency, awarding each other Pulitzers for it. And they’ve only ramped up their efforts since then.

The problem they’re reckoning with tonight is this: those efforts didn’t work. They’re no longer able to control Americans by controlling their information intake, because their credibility is farther deep-sixed than the Clinton family’s enemies list.

A TV executive anonymously fretted last week that “If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely. A Trump victory means mainstream media is dead in its current form.”

Even before the election results were in, that was true of the corporate press. Jeff Bezos knew it when he reportedly ordered The Washington Post to withhold an endorsement of Harris. But now, they can’t avoid it.

Since the last

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