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By Rusty Weiss – redstate.org

Two bins containing the envelopes with ballots were improperly left in a ballot drop box on Election Day, according to ABC 15, and were discovered three days later.

The sealed bins were processed and tabulated within hours of their discovery. Of those, about 30 envelopes showed evidence of signature verification issues, according to AZ Central, and it was unclear how many remained unresolved and uncounted by the deadline.

Despite the fumbling of well over 2,000 Maricopa County residents’ votes, Jennifer Liewer, the county’s Deputy Elections Director, seemed unfazed by the error.

“Humans run our elections, our community members run our elections, and there are going to be mistakes that are made,” she shrugged.

“The important thing is that we have a process and a redundancy in our system to make sure that, when a mistake is made, we are able to quickly correct it,” Liewer added.

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Eight days after the start of the Schumer Shutdown, Republicans indicated they had not yet given thought to changing the Senate filibuster rules.

We are now entering day 30 of the Schumer Shutdown, and Democrats, while starting to crack under growing pressure, haven’t yielded to Republicans and passed a clean Continuing Resolution yet. It does not appear that they plan on doing so anytime soon.

And President Trump is now calling on Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown.

In a lengthy post on Truth Social, the President recapped his visit to Asia and shared his thoughts on the prolonged Schumer Shutdown. He said while Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson are doing a “great job” the Democrats are “crazed lunatics that have lost all sense of wisdom and reality.”

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by Steven Monacelli – texasobserver.org

In February 6, pistol-packing pastor Troy Jackson, a former Republican Party of Texas strategist and current candidate for vice chair of the Texas GOP, beamed as he welcomed a dozen conservative activists into a flag-adorned meeting room at the New Beginnings Church in Bedford. The attendees included the founder of Citizens Defending Freedom, a Tarrant County GOP official, the founder of the local John Birch Society, and a representative from the far-right group Turning Point USA. They were gathering as the Remnant Alliance, a coalition of Christian nationalist groups that are working to educate, train, and mobilize conservative Christian congregations to influence the outcomes of local elections—especially school boards.

“Even if I don’t have kids in school, I’m showing up at school board meetings and testifying that you’re not going to teach our children this smut,” Jackson told the group. “You’re not going to sexualize these children. Because, even though I may not have children in the school, it affects the entire community.”

Jackson’s heated rhetoric echoes the talking points deployed by state-level Republican lawmakers, big-dollar political action committees (PACs), and well-connected Republican consulting firms that have descended upon local school board races in recent years—and helped install majorities that have taken books off library shelves and rolled back protections for LGBTQ+ students. The election of those majorities was not coincidental: A recent Texas Observer investigative series revealed the coordinated nature of efforts to back more than 105 hard-right school board candidates across 35 districts since 2021, and how those efforts were funded in large part by billionaire donors who support school privatization.

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By Simon Kent – Breitbart

FBI Director Kash Patel made the revelation on Fox & Friends. He confirmed DNA matching alleged assassin Robinson, 22, was found on a towel that covered the murder weapon when it was thrown away in nearby woods.

A screwdriver found in the sniper’s position on the UVU rooftop also returned a positive match.

Robinson also wrote a note saying declaring he had an opportunity to “take out Charlie Kirk,” and that he was “going to take it,” Patel said.

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By Sarah Arnold – Townhall.com

Russia launched its largest air assault on Ukraine since the start of the war, striking targets across the country with hundreds of drones, decoys, and missiles—including a direct hit on a major government building in Kyiv.

Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia used 810 aerial weapons in the attack, including at least 13 missiles. While Ukrainian defenses intercepted the majority—747 drones and four missiles—several still broke through, causing casualties and destruction in the capital and other cities. At least two people were killed, and 20 more were injured in Kyiv alone.

The most significant hit came when one of the missiles struck the Cabinet of Ministers building—a high-profile government target in central Kyiv that, until now, Russian forces had largely avoided. Fire crews and emergency responders quickly moved in as police blocked off the area. The full extent of casualties and structural damage remains unclear.

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By Ward Clark – redstate.com

Sanctuary state and city policies have been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration since Trump resumed office in January, and the administration has been seeking legal redress in dealing with these jurisdictions. On Friday, a Biden-appointed judge dealt the Trump administration a setback by tossing a Trump administration lawsuit challenging the sanctuary policies of the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago.

The judge cited the Tenth Amendment as part of the reason for the ruling.

A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its mass deportation agenda, saying it would encroach on autonomy guaranteed to states under the Constitution.

U.S. District Judge Lindsay Jenkins concluded that the lawsuit — the first filed by the administration this year trying to upend so-called “sanctuary policies” in states and cities — was an “end-run around the Tenth Amendment,” which protects states from federal government overreach.

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