The NFL has announced that it has made plans, should such a move be necessary, to move the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings playoffs game to Arizona on Monday night due to the fires raging in southern California.
A <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-closely-monitoring-developments-los-angeles-fires-vikings-rams-playoff-game">statement</a> from the National Football League on Thursday said that the wild-card playoff Vikings-Rams game is still currently scheduled to take place on Monday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California — but noted that the league has set up a contingency plan if the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire, and Hurst Fire continue to rage. Those fires have already resulted in tens of thousands of evacuations in the area.
&#8220;The NFL&#8217;s priority is the safety of the Los Angeles community,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;We are grateful for the tireless efforts of the first responders. Our hearts are with Los Angeles and everyone affected by the fires.
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&#8220;We continue to prepare to play the Vikings-Rams game as scheduled Monday night at SoFi Stadium,” the statement added. “As with all games, there are contingency plans in the event a change in location is needed. In this instance, the game would be played on Monday night at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ, if necessary.”
“We will continue to closely monitor developments in the area and will remain in contact with public officials, both clubs and the NFLPA,” the statement concluded.
The Los Angeles Rams also posted about the plans for the Monday night game writing on <a href="https://x.com/RamsNFL/status/1877421329114071322">X</a>, “the safety of the LA community is our top priority. As of now, our Wild Card playoff game remains scheduled to be played at SoFi Stadium on Monday night. As with all games, the NFL has contingency plans in the event a change in location is needed.&#8221;
LA Rams stars Puka Nacua and Cooper Kupp praised the first responders trying to battle the blaze.
“Thank you to all of the first responders! God bless the families impacted!” <a href="https://x.com/AsapPuka/status/1877043154127327302">Nacua wrote on X.</a>
“Our thoughts and prayers  are with everyone affected by the fires,” <a href="https://x.com/CooperKupp/status/1877074720283119897">Kupp</a> added. “Thank you to the firefighters, first responders, and everyone else doing their best in unfathomable circumstances.”
On Wednesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nhl">NHL</a> announced that it had postponed a game between the Los Angeles Kings and the Calgary Flames due to the fires.
“In light of the devastating effects of the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames at Crypto.com Arena, NHL Game No. 653, has been postponed,” a <a href="https://media.nhl.com/public/news/18544">statement</a> from the National Hockey League read.
“The thoughts of the entire NHL family are with the Kings, hockey fans and the people of the Los Angeles area during this difficult time,” it added. “A makeup date will be announced as soon as it can be confirmed.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anna-faris-adam-brody-mandy-moore-become-latest-celebs-to-lose-homes-in-socal-fires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Faris, Adam Brody, Mandy Moore Become Latest Celebs To Lose Homes In SoCal Fires</a>

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President-elect Donald Trump promised to end “transgender lunacy” on the first day of his administration through a series of executive actions.
Trump made the promise on Sunday in a keynote speech at Turning Point USA’s America Fest conference in Phoenix, Arizona. The president-elect, due to take office on January 20, promised action on “day one” to protect women’s spaces and recognize the biological fact of two genders.
“With a stroke of my pen on day one, we are going to stop the transgender lunacy,” Trump said to loud cheers from the audience. “And I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get trangender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools.”
“And we will keep men out of women’s sports. And that will likewise be done on day one. Shall I do day one, day two, or day three? How about day one, right?” he continued. “Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female.”
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-predicts-his-administration-will-be-fully-operational-within-two-hours" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to start work immediately upon taking office next year. Elsewhere in his speech, he said his administration will be “fully operational” within a matter of hours of him taking office.
“We are going to be fully operational, I would say, by about two o’clock on the 20th,” Trump said. The president-elect is expected to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president around noon on January 20.
“For those of us standing before you today, I can proudly proclaim that the golden age of America is upon us,” Trump stated.
Her stance on trans-identifying individuals was one of the most detrimental positions for the Democratic candidate in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris. The Trump campaign bet big on pushing back against transgenderism during the race, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/presidential-campaign-transgender-rights.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spending</a> roughly 20% of its ad budget on spots hitting Harris and the Democratic Party for destroying women’s spaces and pushing radical procedures on confused children.

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The United States is entering a new “golden age,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro said on Thursday.
Shapiro took the stage at Turning Point USA’s America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday night and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmSGHQha5yk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> to hundreds of cheering supporters that “the golden age of America is just beginning.”
“If you’ve watched my show, I’m usually in a bad mood,” Shapiro said, before adding that he’s in a “pretty … good mood right now” because of Trump’s election victory and what that means for the future of the United States.
Shapiro credited Trump at the start of the speech; according to Shapiro, Trump is ushering in the “golden age” propelled by the support of the American people.
“This is all happening because President Trump is a force, is a historic force, is the historic force of our age,” Shapiro said. “He was the man standing between the United States and stagnation and surrender, and President Trump stood. And he was indicted, and he stood. And he was shot, and he stood. And America stood with him.”
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The Daily Wire editor emeritus distilled Trump’s governing philosophy down to one word: “success.” The desire for Trump to win in the government – through sound economic policy, strong foreign policy, shrewd negotiations, etc. – will lead the president-elect to historic success in his second term, according to Shapiro.
Shapiro finished his speech crediting, not just Trump, but the American people for working to make “the country great again.”
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“The future of the country is not just President Trump. The future of the country is in this room. It’s on both sides of me. It’s these young people here, it’s the people in the audience who are building the businesses and creating the educational institutions that are building the social fabric of the country,” Shapiro said.
“The future of the country is beginning right now, and one hundred years from now, people are going to look back onto this inflection point in American history and they are going to say, ‘Wow, President Trump was right, not just about his own candidacy, but about the American people,’” he continued. “The American people, we kick a**. We are so great, and we are making the country great again.”

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President-elect Donald Trump called on the Biden administration to stop its effort to sell off tons of border wall construction materials before Trump takes office.
Government contractors in Arizona have been hauling off tons of steel bollards and fencing purchased under the first Trump administration to be used in border wall construction, according to exclusive video obtained by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>. The materials have been posted on a government surplus auction site at starting bids as low as $5.
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EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials. 
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Trump posted about the apparent fire sale on his social media platform, Truth, late on Friday.
“Joe Biden keeps talking about a smooth transition and unified government, and yet he races to sell desperately needed border wall for pennies on the dollar. It will cost the U.S. a fortune, and time, to get the exact same wall to replace what has been sold, and the new wall will cost triple the price. It is CRAZY, and must be stopped,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113649526163530633">wrote</a>.
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In Arizona, a trucking company contracted by the government is hauling off an estimated half-mile worth of wall materials every day, and government officials want all the extra materials cleared and listed for sale by Christmas, according to one Border Patrol agent who spoke to The Daily Wire.
The sell-off appears to be an attempt to slow the implementation of Trump’s agenda after the former president takes office again on January 20. Without the ready supplies, the Trump administration will have to buy more, and may be forced to request additional funding through congress in order to get more materials.
The revelation related to the border wall sale has earned harsh criticism from Republicans who say the operation is wasteful and amounts to sabotage. Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-calls-on-pentagon-to-halt-sale-of-border-wall-says-gov-recouping-just-02-of-taxpayer-cost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> the effort be stopped in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week.
“I am writing to demand that you immediately cease the auctioning off of border wall materials,” Schmitt said. “Senate Republicans, including the incoming Chairman, as well as my colleagues on the Senate Armed Services have raised the absurdity of selling border wall materials through letters, nomination hearings, and through the National Defense Authorization Act legislative process.”
“While recouping less than 0.02% of taxpayer money used to secure these materials, the Biden Administration is sabotaging the incoming Trump Administration just weeks ahead of President Trump’s inauguration,” Schmitt added. “These border wall materials will cost tens of thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars to replace and will be critical to stem the record flow of millions of illegal immigrants who were welcomed across our border during the Biden Administration.”

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We&#8217;ve heard a lot from Tom Homan lately, and for good reason. He&#8217;s the incoming border czar for the second Trump administration. And he&#8217;s vowed, unapologetically, to deport as many illegal aliens as possible — and to arrest any local officials who try to intervene.
We talked about that promise yesterday, in the context of the mayor of Denver, who&#8217;s suggesting that he will defy federal immigration authorities who try to carry out deportations in the second Trump term. Homan&#8217;s response was the correct one — if the mayor of Denver wants to go to jail, then ICE will happily oblige.
This kind of showdown between Tom Homan and local officials has been brewing for a very long time. During the first Trump administration, when Homan served briefly as the acting director of ICE, several local governments announced that they would undermine the work of federal immigration officials. And maybe no single local official was more brazen about her efforts than Libby Schaaf, who at the time was the mayor of Oakland, California.
This is an incident that&#8217;s mostly been forgotten. But it&#8217;s one of the most extraordinary moments in modern American politics. And it&#8217;s crucial to understanding Tom Homan&#8217;s origin story as a hardliner in dealing with states that interfere with federal immigration enforcement. It also provides insight into how he&#8217;s likely to direct immigration enforcement in Trump&#8217;s second term.
Here&#8217;s how the showdown began. As mayor of Oakland, Schaaf somehow got wind of an upcoming ICE raid in the Bay Area. And then she did everything in her power to sabotage the raid in order to protect as many illegal aliens as she could. First she went on social media to announce that the raid was coming. Then she held a press conference to explain that it was her &#8220;duty&#8221; to compromise an ongoing federal law enforcement operation. Watch:
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What Schaaf was basically doing there was serving as a gang lookout. She heard that the police were coming, so she told everyone to hide, with the clear and explicit goal of obstructing law enforcement. And it worked. Following Schaaf&#8217;s early warning, more than 800 illegal aliens with criminal records managed to evade ICE&#8217;s crackdown in the Bay Area.
As Tom Homan <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/us/oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-ice-arrests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it</a> at the time:
<blockquote>The Oakland mayor’s decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased that risk for my officers and alerted criminal aliens – making clear that this reckless decision was based on her political agenda.</blockquote>
To be clear, every single person that ICE was looking for was guilty of multiple crimes. They were people who had no right to be in this country, for one thing. And they also committed additional crimes when they were here. Among the 150 aliens that were arrested by ICE during that crackdown, for example, was a gang member who had four prior deportations, along with convictions for sex with a minor, DUI, and assault. He apparently wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the news that day, so Tom Homan&#8217;s agents were able to find him.
After the raid, Donald Trump told reporters that he would direct the DOJ to investigate Libby Schaaf for obstructing federal agents. He told his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to look into it. Watch:
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As we all know, in the end, nothing came out of this. Jeff Sessions and everyone else in the room nodded along as Trump made this suggestion, and then they promptly forgot all about it. Instead of prosecuting Schaaf for interfering with the enforcement of federal law, the DOJ got to work investigating Donald Trump for things he didn&#8217;t even do. They were more interested in fake allegations of collusion with Russia, than investigating actual, videotaped evidence that the mayor of Oakland was colluding with felons to obstruct federal investigations.
At the time, the idea of hauling an elected official to a courtroom seemed like a red line to a lot of conservatives. Even when an elected official was clearly and deliberately violating the law, as was the case with Libby Schaaf, very few people in power had the political will to punish her for it. They didn&#8217;t want to go on camera and call for her arrest. After all, Republicans thought, if we start arresting our political opponents — even ones who actually have committed serious crimes — then Democrats might try to arrest us. Of course as it turns out, Democrats didn’t need permission from Republicans. They were going to escalate to this level regardless. Republicans played it safe for fear of the Democrat escalation. But Democrats escalated anyway. It’s a tale as old as time. 
But Tom Homan was the notable exception. All the way back in early 2018 — even before the mayor of Oakland publicly undermined ICE — Homan <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367167-trump-ice-pick-politicians-who-run-sanctuary-cities-should-be-charged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the leader of every sanctuary city in the country should go to jail. But Homan was apparently out-voted, so that never happened. Schaaf was never investigated, much less prosecuted.
Of course, over the past few years, a lot&#8217;s changed. Democrats have decided that there&#8217;s no problem with prosecuting their political opponents for crimes that are completely fake. They have dispensed with every &#8220;norm&#8221; and &#8220;principle of jurisprudence&#8221; that counsels against these kinds of prosecutions.
So now, six years later, there&#8217;s reason to believe that Homan will have the opportunity to actually follow through on his plan to arrest officials who stand in his way. Homan certainly seems to think that&#8217;s a distinct possibility, based on his comments responding to the mayor of Denver this week. I played part of this clip yesterday. Here it is again if you missed it:
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That was Homan&#8217;s response to the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, threatening that there would be a &#8220;Tiananmen Square moment&#8221; if ICE tried to enforce immigration law in Denver. Johnston implied that Denver Police and tens of thousands of Denver residents would obstruct ICE, in the same way the guy stood up to the line of Chinese tanks.
So the analogy is equating the enforcement of existing immigration laws — laws that any country needs in order to be defined as a country — with a communist regime&#8217;s violent crackdown on a pro-democracy protest. He&#8217;s saying Denver residents are justified in seeing a parallel between the two events. And he&#8217;s encouraging them, along with law enforcement, to stand in the way of federal agents.
Fundamentally, what&#8217;s happening here is that the mayor of Denver is assuming that the second Trump administration will function a lot like the first one. He&#8217;s betting that Republicans will back off, rather than upset the activists and the mothers who are &#8220;waving the roses&#8221; and so on.
That&#8217;s the same approach that the local media and Democrat activists are taking in California, where a similar effort to &#8220;resist&#8221; the next Trump administration is underway. As Fox News reports, a city council in Northern California has just voted to resist federal immigration officials in Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-bay-area-city-considers-ordinance-blocking-local-resources-from-supporting-trump-mass-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second term</a>:
<blockquote>The Redwood City Council in California voted 4-3 in favor of calling for staff to draft an ordinance for consideration that would restrict the city from cooperating with immigration authorities. &#8230; During discussion of his proposal on Monday, [council member Chris] Sturken argued in favor of passing an ordinance to ensure that no city resources may be utilized to cooperate with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, unless required under law.</blockquote>
Here&#8217;s how the local CBS affiliate is selling this proposal:
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You might have noticed that, every time they try to make these emotional appeals where they try to &#8220;humanize&#8221; people who are in this country illegally, they end up sabotaging their own argument. In this case, we apparently have a woman who came to this country illegally more than a decade ago. And in that period, she&#8217;s never bothered to learn conversational English. She&#8217;s never obtained any kind of legal authorization to be here. But we&#8217;re supposed to feel sorry for her and allow her to stay in this country, because even though she broke the law, she seems like a nice person. That&#8217;s the argument they&#8217;re going with in the state of California.
And they&#8217;re not alone. 
Activists in Arizona are doing the same thing. They&#8217;re gearing up for the second Trump administration by working on their &#8220;storytelling&#8221; skills. Watch:
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So the &#8220;narrative&#8221; is that illegal aliens are &#8220;criminals,&#8221; according to the activist. And that narrative is true, because these aliens are in this country illegally. But did you know that some criminals are moms and dads, too? Did you realize that? And you can&#8217;t possibly throw moms and dads in jail. You can&#8217;t possibly make them face the consequences of their actions. That would just be unthinkable — even though it happens every day, in every state, in every country in the world.
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Then she goes on to say that one of her clients has been in Arizona for six months without filing an asylum claim. And that&#8217;s part of the problem. No one should be in this country while their asylum claim is being processed, because the overwhelming majority of asylum claims are fraudulent. These claims are often crafted with the help of NGOs and law firms, who include fake stories of political persecution to cover up the fact that these aliens are here seeking economic benefits. But once you let people into this country to file these bogus claims, as we&#8217;ve learned, it&#8217;s very hard to get rid of them. So again, this is yet another argument from the activists that ends up being self-defeating. They&#8217;re making our point for us.
These are people who have not adapted their strategy in any meaningful way in the past four years.
Rather than offering solutions, they&#8217;re trying (and failing) to appeal to our emotions. And of course, they&#8217;re also committing to engaging in even more lawfare. That&#8217;s not going to change, either.
Over in Illinois, for example, they&#8217;re vowing to take the Trump administration to court over his proposal to use &#8220;military assets&#8221; to carry out deportations. Watch:
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Trump&#8217;s proposal to use the military is a concerning sign for Democrats, though not for the reasons they&#8217;re claiming. In reality, they&#8217;re upset because it&#8217;s a clear signal that, in his second term, Donald Trump is going to use every available means at his disposal to get illegal aliens out of this country. In terms of tactics, this is an escalation from what we saw in Trump&#8217;s first term. And so, predictably, Democrats are claiming it&#8217;s somehow illegal.
What&#8217;s missing from their analysis, though, is that Trump never said he&#8217;d order troops to remove illegal aliens. He said that military &#8220;assets&#8221; could be used — which is in keeping with how every president since Bill Clinton has sent the National Guard (and active-duty members of the military) to the border to perform various support roles. Those roles have included monitoring the border and fixing equipment, for example.
Trump&#8217;s incoming homeland security adviser (and deputy chief of staff) Stephen Miller has previously said that, in Trump&#8217;s second term, the military could build temporary facilities to house illegal aliens prior to their deportation. That&#8217;s another option that would probably have no problem in the courts. 
As Ryan Burke, a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, recently put it: 
<blockquote>I think that [Trump&#8217;s plan] probably won&#8217;t face a whole lot of successful challenges. There&#8217;s too much ambiguity in these laws to point to something that says, hey, you absolutely cannot do this.</blockquote>
For their part, over in New Mexico, state officials are walking the line between &#8220;deportations are inhumane&#8221; and &#8220;the border needs to be secure somehow.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the state&#8217;s governor explaining that, while more border security is good, it&#8217;s wrong to separate families and use the military in any way to accomplish that goal. Watch:
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This is the middle ground that some Democrats have apparently decided on, ahead of Trump&#8217;s second term. They recognize that Americans overwhelmingly want border security. They want to see immigration law being enforced. After the last election, there&#8217;s no denying that.
But then Democrats claim that any immigration enforcement needs to respect the sanctity of the families of illegal aliens. And then they threaten to use the legal system to shut down any practical solutions.
They&#8217;re going with that approach because, for the most part, it worked during Trump&#8217;s first term.
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Politicians like the mayor of Oakland didn&#8217;t face any consequences for undermining federal immigration policy. Complaining about &#8220;family separations&#8221; — as if family separations don&#8217;t happen every day in our judicial system — was effective as well. Democrats could claim to care about immigration enforcement, while preventing immigration law from actually being enforced.
From the response of these various sanctuary cities and states to the incoming Trump administration, it&#8217;s very apparent that Democrats&#8217; tactics probably won&#8217;t be any different this time around. They think they can derail Trump&#8217;s deportation agenda with the same lazy appeals to emotion, backed up by lawfare. 
This is an act we&#8217;ve all seen before. It&#8217;s an act that Tom Homan in particular is very familiar with. He&#8217;s been very consistent, over the past eight years, about how exactly he&#8217;d deal with this particular strategy. He plans to deport anyone who&#8217;s illegally in this country, whether they&#8217;re part of a &#8220;family unit&#8221; or not. He doesn&#8217;t seem particularly keen on allowing anyone to stand in his way, either. And if there&#8217;s a reason for Democrats to drop the emotional blackmail and let Tom Homan do his job, it&#8217;s that no one has any incentive anymore to hold him back.

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Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs said on Monday that she would &#8220;not tolerate&#8221; what she deems &#8220;misguided policies&#8221; when it comes to President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s plans for mass deportations.
Hobbs&#8217; comments were in response to questions from ABC News about whether she would help the Trump administration carry out deportations of criminal illegal immigrants.
&#8220;What I will unequivocally say is that, as governor, I will not tolerate efforts that are part of misguided policies that harm our communities, that threaten our communities, that terrorize our communities, and Arizona will not take part in those,&#8221; Hobbs said.
Pressed to clarify which &#8220;misguided policies&#8221; she was referring to, Hobbs replied, &#8220;Hearing about the Trump administration&#8217;s plans for border security, the emphasis is really on these mass deportations. What we saw here today is the actual work happening at our ports of entry that are intercepting drugs, keeping those drugs off our streets, and we need more of that to secure the border.&#8221;
The Arizona governor argued that mass deportation efforts would &#8220;divert needed resources.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the diversion of law enforcement from the work that they do every day to keep our communities safe, people hiding in fear – we saw that under previous state policies here – and it harms communities. It tears families apart. And … that&#8217;s not going to happen on my watch,&#8221; Hobbs added.
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On Tuesday, Trump&#8217;s incoming &#8220;border czar&#8221; Tom Homan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-cross-that-line-trump-border-czar-warns-mayors-against-harboring-illegal-immigrants?topStoryPosition=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> governors and mayors who would consider obstructing the administration&#8217;s deportation operation that they could face serious legal consequences for doing so.
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“Well first of all, if they don’t want to help us, get the hell out of the way, we’re going to do it,” Homan told &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
“Finally I will say this: They need to educate themselves,&#8221; Homan added. &#8220;They need to review this: Title 8, United States Code § 1324 (III), read about that, and don’t cross that line, because it is a felony to harbor and conceal illegal aliens from ICE. Read the statute. Don’t cross that line.”

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I’m proud to have served my country, and I know firsthand the sacrifices that come with wearing the uniform. Our veterans deserve the best, and under President Trump’s leadership, we made historic strides to ensure our heroes receive the care they earned. But under Biden and Harris, we’ve seen our veterans once again pushed aside for the sake of political agendas. The current state of the Department of Veteran Affairs is unacceptable, and it’s time to fix this once and for all. Together with President Trump, we’ll restore the honor and support our veterans deserve.
Under President Trump’s first term, we achieved monumental progress for our nation’s veterans. For instance, he signed the VA Choice and VA MISSION Acts, granting our heroes the permanent option to see their own doctors and access care at non-VA facilities. These reforms made a real impact: 3 in 4 veterans reported improvements at their local VA, with shorter wait times and expanded community care options.
But now, the Biden-Harris administration has allowed our VA system to crumble under the weight of mismanagement, waste, fraud, and leftist initiatives that prioritize bureaucrats over veterans. This has resulted in tragic setbacks for those who have given everything for this country.
The good news? We have a golden opportunity to fix the VA once and for all — and we will. Here’s how:
<h3>Just Say No To DEI</h3>
In a second Trump administration, merit-based hiring and evaluation must be a top priority.
Let’s ensure that the VA hires and promotes employees based on skills, performance, and dedication to veterans. This approach will strengthen the workforce and ensure veterans are served by the most qualified individuals.
DEI mandates are having destructive and measurable impacts on the VA system. For example, the group Do No Harm recently uncovered that the Biden-Harris administration focused on “diversity” programs even as veterans faced a massive claims backlog.
On day one, President Trump can sign an executive order directing each department head to eliminate required employee trainings that surround, involve, relate, or have any nexus to: &#8220;gender identity,&#8221; &#8220;Critical Race Theory,&#8221; &#8220;implicit bias,&#8221; &#8220;diversity, equity, and inclusion,&#8221; or in any way scapegoats and entire group of people for the outcomes of any other group.
And in Congress, we can pass new legislation codifying that order and ensuring that our federal government is making hiring decisions based on merit and job performance.
<h3>Restore Accountability</h3>
In their final days in office, the Biden administration recently reinstated thousands of VA employees terminated under President Trump’s first administration.
This included employees engaging in conduct such as sleeping on the job and employees who gained unauthorized access to patient medical records.
Not only were they reinstated but these employees cumulatively received over $134 million in back pay.
Under President Trump, we must again terminate these employees.
Because President Trump will not surrender to Democrat-aligned government unions. And for us in Congress, let’s use this opportunity to build on the 2017 Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to ensure that employees who fail our veterans will pay the price.
<h3>Increasing Choice, Quality Of Care, And Contract Competency</h3>
It’s long past due to enhance the VA&#8217;s ability to develop and manage contracts that focus on real service outcomes, prioritizing contracts with vendors who demonstrate proven capabilities to meet veterans&#8217; needs effectively and efficiently.
Under President Trump&#8217;s leadership, Congress in 2018 passed the VA MISSION ACT to create a VA community care network, allowing veterans to receive timely and quality care from both VA and non-VA providers.
This program is vital for veterans to have the flexibility and choice they need to get the best care possible. But in their final days in office, Biden bureaucrats are quietly aiming to overhaul the entire CCN structure by reducing the number of geographic regions in the entire country from 5 to just 2.
This is good for the swamp, but it’s terrible for veterans. Such an extreme decision would only reduce choice and decrease quality of care.
The good news is, President Trump and the incoming Veterans Health Administration leadership can end this scheme on day one.
And in Congress, we can pass legislation to protect veterans’ healthcare and ensure that decisions on who provides and administers that care is based on merit, capability and performance.
<h3>Benefits Delayed Are Benefits Denied</h3>
We must ensure that veterans receive the benefits they have earned through their service. The responsibility should be on the VA, not the veteran, to get benefits decisions correct, and VA officials should be held accountable for delays and failures.
<h3>Coordinate With DOD On Medical Documentation</h3>
It’s time to streamline the VA claims process for transitioning service members, reducing backlogs, and improving access to care. This can be done through increased coordination with Department of Defense (DoD) hospitals to document service-related injuries and conditions as they happen. Our veterans can’t afford delays.
Our veterans didn’t back down when duty called, and now it’s our turn to serve them. Under the leadership of President Trump, we will make the VA a place where our heroes receive the respect, care, and resources they rightfully deserve.
The Biden administration’s incompetence has cost veterans precious time and benefits. But with Trump back in the White House, and fighters like me in Congress, we will restore the VA to its former greatness. We will make sure no veteran is left behind — no more red tape, no more delays, just action and results.
This Veterans Day, let’s not just thank those who served; let’s commit to fighting for them as hard as they fought for us. Together, we’ll honor their sacrifice, fix the VA, and build an America worthy of the brave men and women who defended it.
Because when it comes to our veterans, failure is not an option. Let’s get to work!
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Last Tuesday, voters in six states decisively rejected ballot measures that would have brought ranked choice voting to future elections. In Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon, RCV <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Results_for_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_and_electoral_system_ballot_measures,_2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went down in flames</a>. National groups spent millions on campaigns promising RCV would enhance democracy and empower the people, angling for an election day triumph. Instead, the voters handed them a rout.
Adding insult to injury, Alaska appears on track to repeal RCV after using it for just two years. Missouri, meanwhile, became the first state to ban it at the ballot box, and the eleventh state overall to bar RCV. In fact, the number of states to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> RCV more than doubled this year.
Ranked choice voting, a complex scheme, seems better suited to a laboratory than a voting booth. It eliminates the “one person, one vote” principle and asks voters to rank multiple candidates for each race. If no candidate gets a majority, the one with the fewest votes is eliminated, and their ballots are redistributed to the voter’s next choice. This process repeats until someone claims a majority.
Voting takes longer with RCV. Voters must learn about and rank numerous candidates in multiple contests on each ballot. Counting ballots also takes longer, as final tabulations can’t begin until all ballots are received, and some states allow mail ballots to arrive after Election Day. Some states lack voting systems that can handle this process; Idaho’s secretary of state estimated the cost to replace the state’s <a href="https://idahofreedom.org/a-40-million-drain-on-taxpayers-ranked-choice-voting-comes-at-a-heavy-price-for-idahoans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">equipment</a> at $40 million.
The results are difficult to audit and just as hard to explain, especially when ranked choice voting catapults candidates who got the second- or third-most votes into office after numerous rounds of elimination. In fact, RCV is so confusing that the wrong winner can be certified. That actually happened in Oakland, California in 2022.
The one thing RCV does reliably is push politics to the left, particularly when this scheme is paired with California-style jungle primaries. That’s the system Alaska uses, and in the special congressional election of 2022, more voters cast ballots for Republicans but Democrat Mary Peltola went to Congress. 
Small wonder, then, that left-wing megadonors decided to push RCV nationwide despite its obvious flaws. They <a href="https://honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HEP-RCV-Factsheet_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">built up an array</a> of organizations to lobby, petition, and ultimately to campaign for ranked choice voting. Those efforts culminated in ballot measures in six states, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Results_for_ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)_and_electoral_system_ballot_measures,_2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fueled</a> by an astonishing $99 million, or nearly $30 for every $1 spent in opposition.
Nearly half of that extraordinary sum came from groups tied to liberal billionaire John Arnold and his wife, Laura. The pair <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ranked-choice-voting-ballot-measures-election-863d52ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spent</a> at least $39 million propping up ranked choice voting measures this year alone.
What did these donors get for their millions? Not much. Nearly 70% of Idahoans voted against RCV. Colorado and Oregon, both liberal states, rejected the measures by double-digit margins. And in the presidential battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, ranked choice voting went down harder and faster than Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, nearly 69% of Missourians voted to proactively ban ranked choice voting. In Alaska, the Arnolds and other RCV megadonors poured in almost $15 million to defend the scheme against a repeal effort. Despite that, the repeal vote is winning as ballots continue to come in.
Washington, D.C., was the only bright spot for RCV advocates, where a citywide ballot measure passed by wide margins. That may not be the win proponents imagine. After all, “they use it in the swamp” isn’t much of a rallying cry.
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Is this the end of ranked choice voting? It should be. But with the left, there is no such thing as a permanent defeat. In fact, RCV has endured expensive, high-profile failures before—a $10 million <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_2,_Ranked-Choice_Voting_Initiative_(2020)#Campaign_finance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">loss</a> in Massachusetts in 2020, for instance—only to rebrand the scheme as “instant runoffs” and “open primaries,” and spend 10 times as much this year.
RCV <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2024/11/election-reformers-try-to-pick-up-the-pieces-00188355" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backers</a> are already <a href="https://x.com/NickTroiano/status/1854313594785018148" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promising</a> they will be back, even <a href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2024/11/election-reformers-try-to-pick-up-the-pieces-00188355" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telegraphing</a> they will focus instead on lobbying state legislatures to impose the scheme that voters just decisively rejected. So much for all their talk about “democracy.” Lawmakers would be wise to head that effort off by <a href="https://stoprcv.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning</a> ranked choice voting next year, instead.
Left-wing billionaires spent millions trying to buy a new form of democracy that would cater to their politics and interests. Fortunately, the American people spoke loud and clear: our election system is not for sale.
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Jason Snead is the executive director of Honest Elections Project Action.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Donald Trump has won the swing state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a>, securing the state&#8217;s 11 Electoral College votes, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ.
With 73% of the vote in, Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris 52.1% to 47%.
The call in Arizona completes Trump&#8217;s total sweep of the seven battleground states &#8212; Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona &#8212; and brings Trump&#8217;s total Electoral College vote count to 312.
In 2020, President Joe Biden narrowly won Arizona, helping him top former President Donald Trump in the race.
The threshold for triggering an automatic recount in the state was increased through legislation in 2022 from 0.1 percentage points to 0.5 percentage points.
Polls leading up to the election showed a tight race between the candidates with Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris in the RealClearPolitics average by 2.8 points headed into Election Day.
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Arizona has seen a slight increase in the amount of spending that has gone into political advertisements during the 2024 campaign cycle when compared to the amount of spending from 2020.
In 2020, $427 million was spent in the state by both parties for all political races.
That number has now increased to $487 million spent in the state for all political races, with Democrats spending $308 million to $147 million for Republicans.
For the 2024 presidential race in the state, Democrats outspent Republicans $122 million to $83 million.

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Control of the Senate is on the ballot today, and while Republicans have a straightforward path to flipping the upper chamber, Democrats need to pull off some upsets to maintain control.
Fifty-one senators, including four independents, are in the Democratic caucus in the Senate, compared to 49 Republicans. That breakdown will likely change as numerous Senate races are decided on Tuesday night, and possibly in the days after.
Here are 10 races to watch.
<h4>Arizona — Open Seat</h4>
After Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced earlier this year that she was retiring from the Senate, the race for her seat was blown wide open. While Sinema became an independent in 2022, she still caucuses with the Democrats, meaning her seat would be a big flip for Republicans if they can win on Tuesday.
Republican candidate Kari Lake, who lost the gubernatorial election in 2022, is currently trailing in the polls against Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego. Gallego enjoyed a nearly eight-point lead in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/arizona/lake-vs-gallego" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average in early October, but Lake has cut into that lead, trailing by less than 3 points as of Tuesday afternoon.
Much of the Arizona Senate race has centered on the border crisis, as Lake has hammered Gallego over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-arizona-senate-candidate-supported-amnesty-flip-flopped-on-illegal-aliens-voting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for amnesty</a> and his vote against House Joint Resolution 24, which sought to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in local elections in Washington, D.C.
Cook Political Report rates the race as <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lean Democrat</a>.
<h4>Maryland — Open Seat</h4>
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is hoping to give the GOP a Senate seat in one of the most unlikely of states as he faces off against Democrat Angela Alsobrooks. Hogan was a popular governor in the blue state, winning two terms as a Republican. He has campaigned as a moderate willing to reach across the aisle, focusing on addressing economic issues and taxes.
Alsobrooks, a former county executive for Prince George County, Maryland, is pushing for pro-abortion policies and a ban on so-called assault weapons, claiming that &#8220;gun violence is the number one killer of children in America.&#8221; The Democrat leads Hogan in almost every recent <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/maryland/hogan-vs-alsobrooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a>, and Cook Political Report rates the race as likely Democrat. But if Republicans have a strong night on Tuesday, it could be evidenced by how well Hogan performs in deep-blue Maryland.
<h4>Michigan — Open Seat</h4>
Similar to Arizona, Michigan&#8217;s 2024 Senate race will decide who will replace a retiring senator — in this case, 74-year-old Democrat Debbie Stabenow. Both of Michigan&#8217;s Senate seats have been controlled by Democrats since Republican Spencer Abraham lost his re-election bid to Stabenow in 2000. The party&#8217;s nearly-25 years of controlling Michigan&#8217;s Senate seats, however, is up for grabs as Republican Mike Rogers is running in a tight race against Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
Slotkin was the clear favorite to win the race early on, but Rogers has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mi-republican-senate-candidate-gains-ground-on-dem-opponent-new-polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut into</a> the Democrat&#8217;s lead in the polls. Both Slotkin and Rogers have focused heavily on the economy, with Rogers accusing Slotkin of supporting a controversial Chinese-owned electric vehicle plant being built in Big Rapids, Michigan. Slotkin, meanwhile, has attempted to tie Rogers to Big Pharma and has touted her support of abortion.
Slotkin currently leads in the RealClearPolitics average by 2.3 points, and Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
<h4>Montana — Democrat Seat</h4>
Longtime Democrat Sen. Jon Tester is in an uphill battle to keep his Senate seat, which he&#8217;s held since 2007. Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, a retired Navy SEAL, is challenging Tester, focusing on the border crisis that has exploded under the Biden-Harris administration.
Montana represents one of the Republican Party&#8217;s best chances to flip a seat in the Senate with Cook Political Report rating the race lean Republican. Tester winning re-election could be vital to the Democratic Party&#8217;s narrow path to keeping control of the Senate. Polling on the Montana race has shown Sheehy leading Tester by nearly 8 points on average, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/montana/sheehy-vs-tester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a>.
<h4>Nebraska — Republican Seat</h4>
Republican Sen. Deb Fischer is running for re-election against independent candidate Dan Osborn, a Navy veteran. Fischer has served in the Senate since 2013 and has won each of her elections by wide margins. But polling from this year&#8217;s race shows a much closer contest than what Fischer is used to.
Osborn reportedly asked the Democratic Party to keep a candidate off the ballot to form a coalition behind him, but then said he would <a href="https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/05/15/dan-osborn-spurns-democrats-other-parties-whose-help-he-sought-in-senate-race/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not accept</a> the Democratic Party&#8217;s endorsement following the primaries. While an Osborn upset in Nebraska wouldn&#8217;t help push the Democrats closer to a majority, it could potentially hurt the GOP&#8217;s numbers and its path to taking control of the Senate.
Fischer leads in the polls by just over 2 points, according to FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s average. Cook Political Report rates the race as lean Republican.
<h4>Nevada — Democrat Seat</h4>
Nevada Democrat Sen. Jacky Rosen is in a close race against Republican Sam Brown in what would be a huge pick-up for Republicans if Brown can pull off the upset. Rosen won her first term as senator in the 2018 election after serving as a congresswoman from Nevada&#8217;s 3rd District for one term.
Brown, a U.S. Army veteran who was wounded while serving in Afghanistan in 2008, a political outsider is hoping to burst onto the scene with a victory over Rosen. An upset for Brown seemed far from reach just two months ago when Rosen led in the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/nevada/brown-vs-rosen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCP average</a> by 10 points, but Brown has chipped away at the Democrat&#8217;s lead, now trailing by just four points. In one recent poll, Brown was tied with Rosen, and in another, he was leading by 1 point.
Cook Political Report rates the race as lean Democrat.
<h4>Ohio — Democrat Seat</h4>
In what Cook Political Report is rating as another toss-up race, Democrat Sherrod Brown has been <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/ohio/brown-vs-moreno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing ground</a> in the polls against Republican Bernie Moreno. Brown, who has been in office since 2007, has attempted to present himself as a moderate, especially on energy, vowing that he “will not turn my back on Ohio’s rural electric co-ops, Ohio energy workers, and Ohio families whose energy bills are already too high.” In September, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-dem-senator-to-hold-event-with-group-pushing-to-close-states-largest-coal-plant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a campaign event</a> alongside a radical environmentalist group pushing to close the state’s largest coal plant.
Moreno, a Colombian-born businessman, supports stronger border security and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-moreno-touts-historically-powerful-trump-endorsement-after-ohio-primary-win-previews-day-1-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that &#8220;energy dominance&#8221; will be one of his top issues if he is elected. Moreno has also pushed to abolish the Department of Education, arguing that it has a &#8220;stranglehold on our kids.&#8221;
Moreno leads by just 1.7 points in the RealClearPolitics average.
<h4>Pennsylvania — Democrat Seat</h4>
In Pennsylvania, Democrat Sen. Bob Casey is running for his fourth term against Republican businessman Dave McCormick. The battleground state Senate race is another chance for Republicans to steal a seat from the Democrats. McCormick has recently surged in the polls, saying that Pennsylvanians “can see now it’s between a seventh-generation Pennsylvanian, an outsider, a business guy, someone who went to West Point and served in combat, versus a guy who’s been in elected office for 30 years and has been weak in a 99% vote for these liberal policies.&#8221;
In recent weeks, Casey has attempted to tie himself to former President Donald Trump, dropping a campaign that says “Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.”
Casey leads McCormick by <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/pennsylvania/mccormick-vs-casey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1.8 points</a> in the RCP average of polls, and Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up.
<h4>Texas — Republican Seat</h4>
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is seeking to fend off an upset bid from Democrat Rep. Colin Allred and keep the Texas Senate seat in the GOP&#8217;s hands. Allred, a former NFL linebacker, has gone along with the Biden-Harris agenda <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/colin-allred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100%</a> of the time. During a recent debate, Cruz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-blasts-his-dem-opponents-radical-and-extreme-record-during-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> Allred&#8217;s &#8220;radical and extreme&#8221; record, pointing out that the Democrat voted in favor of the leftist “Equality Act,” a bill that prohibited discrimination based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”
For Democrats to maintain control of the Senate, they would likely have to pull off a win in Montana or a major upset over Cruz in Texas. Cook Political Report rates the Cruz-Allred race as lean Republican.
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The fourth and final Senate toss-up race, according to Cook Political Report, is the Wisconsin contest between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde. Baldwin, a senator since 2013, has seen the <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/wisconsin/hovde-vs-baldwin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polls</a> grow closer in recent weeks. Hovde, like many Republicans, is focused on immigration and the economy and is hoping to ride some momentum from Trump, who has been focusing on the battleground state.
Baldwin leads Hovde by just 1.8 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
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A Democratic congressional candidate in a toss-up Arizona district gave a donation from local police officers to a bailout fund for criminals.
During the protests and riots in the summer of 2020, Kirsten Engel, a Democrat running against Republican Congressman Juan Ciscomani in Arizona’s 6th congressional district, gave away the donation from the Tucson Police Officer’s Association (TPOA) to a far-Left organization that worked to defund the police and bailout criminals.
Engel admitted to receiving the $200 donation from the TPOA and then contributing that $200 to the Arizona Justice Bailout Fund in a 2020 post on Facebook. “I must disclose that my campaign did accept $200 from TPOA last year which was donated to the Arizona Justice Bailout Fund,” the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EngelForArizona/posts/pfbid02UXjD1xCGsJwTgAdPYRmLuAfXE6B9YSB9zmTmuyAPgRaA6iJuCBadg8j4V3pxZFUGl">post</a> reads. “I will not accept any future contributions from TPOA or any other police union.”
The bailout fund went to support the far-Left agitators who were arrested during the Black Lives Matter riots.
“Social justice leaders across the state are protesting against the consistent acts of police brutality we see every single day,” the <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/azjusticefund">donation link</a> says. “The Arizona Coalition for Change is launching the Arizona Justice Bailout Fund to support millennials and leaders of color arrested during the protests that have occurred in Phoenix and Tucson. Please contribute to this fund to help us support these freedom fighters.”
The bail fund was organized by the Arizona Coalition for Change, a radical organization that openly supported the movement to defund police departments, insinuating that they perpetrate racially motivated violence.
“In this era of state-sanctioned violence and the injustice our Black communities are facing, it is important to understand the fight activists within Arizona and across the nation are relentlessly leading &#8211; to &#8216;defund the police&#8217; for the reallocation of funding in other areas of need and into communities of color,” the organization <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AzC4C/posts/pfbid0wz3arGbuwGRD9xkFG3GTkYFq91RFWBx46WnG9KSat5XmfypUsQbEeZ2ccPFaqHxvl">wrote</a> online.
Engel’s donation to the organization is not her only connection to far-Left efforts to disempower police, however. The candidate, who previously served in the state legislature, has ties to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Living United For Change In Arizona (LUCHA), organizations that have advocated for defunding the police, abolishing prisons, and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is charged with deporting criminal illegal aliens.
One <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/az-dem-congressional-candidate-kirsten-engel-collaborated-with-anti-police-groups-while-in-state-legislature-emails-show/">recent investigation</a> by National Review found that Engel maintained a working relationship with the organizations, even asking them for support when crafting legislation on criminal justice.
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Engel even encouraged voters to &#8220;consider donating to, getting involved with, and learning from&#8221; far-Left organizations like the Minnesota Freedom Fund, the same bail fund <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1267555018128965643" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> by Vice President Kamala Harris. The organization went on to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/25/opinion/kamala-harris-support-for-bail-fund-that-freed-violent-criminals-shows-how-tough-on-crime-she-really-is/">bail out violent criminals</a>, including one individual who was freed after being charged with domestic abuse before going on to commit and plead guilty to murder.
The Democrat also <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/arizona-dem-signed-anti-cop-activists-slavery-reparations-pledge/">signed on to</a> a petition demanding reparations for slavery. The organization behind the petition called the Reparations Pledge PAC, was led by an activist who called defunding the police “a moral thing to do.”
Engel is currently projected to lose her race against incumbent Republican representative Juan Ciscomani, according to <a href="https://elections2024.thehill.com/forecast/2024/house/arizona-6/">forecasting models</a>. The two candidates faced off in 2022, with Ciscomani receiving 50.73% of the vote to Engel’s 49.23%.
Engel’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

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