"However, he must also contend with the fact that Texas remains a deeply conservative state. As he prepares for the battle ahead, Talarico’s road to victory will depend on his ability to resonate with independent and moderate voters while countering the Republican narrative being crafted around him. The upcoming months will be critical as he works to solidify his position and outline a vision that speaks to the heart of Texas."
The Gateway Pundit; The Western Journal
“'I would expect any woman — and especially Mrs. Mamdani — to at least try to imagine. To close her eyes and picture evil people breaking into her home, her safe space, assaulting her and her husband, daring to sexually violate her in front of her family, murdering her children before her eyes. This is exactly what our women and men experienced on Oct. 7th.'”
"New York City First Lady Rama Duwaji received a stern reality check about the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023, after liking a social media post claiming the mass rapes committed that day were a hoax.
"According to an article in the New York Post, Duwaji liked a post on social media platform Instagram in February 2024 where a user questioned the legitimacy of reporting by The New York Times regarding the attack.
"“If I told you that The New York Times hired a recently graduated college student with only a couple prior articles written on the subject of food and cooking to be their lead on the ground ‘reporter’ on the ‘mass rape’ hoax they fabricated, would you believe it? That’s Adam Sella,” the post read.
"It was later screenshotted and uploaded to social media platform X by The Free Press reporter Olivia Reginald, showing Duwaji liking it.
"This is the screenshot showing Rama Duwaji, the wife of Zohran Mamdani, liking a post calling sexual violence on October 7 a “‘mass rape’ hoax” pic.twitter.com/e8EW3je8EE
"— Olivia Reingold (@Olivia_Reingold) March 7, 2026
"Tali Biner attended the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023, where she spent hours hiding from Hamas in a camper as she heard screams of pain and agony from their victims.
" 'I knew beyond any doubt what was happening was not just torture, it was sexual violence,” she said in an interview with the New York Post.
"Gunshots rang out over pleas of “No!” and “Stop!” . . .
"The Washington Free Beacon found old posts on social media platform Tumblr, now archived, where she glorified terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and said U.S. service members attack civilians to prop up American hegemony. Those posts were from her teens and early 20s, but it’s clear she hasn’t changed. She supported terrorism then. She still supports it now." Full article here
In harrowing detail, NYT reports on weaponization of rape, sexual violence on Oct. 7 | The Times of Israel...Photographs viewed by The Times included ones of a woman in a besieged kibbutz who was found with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin. Footage viewed by the newspaper showed two dead Israeli soldiers at an overrun military base apparently shot directly in their vaginas
Zohran Mamdani’s wife mourns death of Hamas influencer who celebrated October 7 attack
UPDATE: NYC school pushes artwork by Zohran Mamdani’s wife while blocking Holocaust survivor from speaking to students “ 'Women were raped, mutilated, and murdered during the Hamas massacre.”
"The new report comes after The Jewish Insider reported Friday that Duwaji liked a celebratory Instagram post on the day of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, which killed more than 1,200 innocents.
"The inflammatory social media posts included images allegedly taken from livestreamed footage of the attack, showing a gleeful group riding on what appeared to be a commandeered Israel Defense Forces vehicle with the words “resisting apartheid since 1948,” the Jewish Insider reported." . . . Israel Moves to Ban Zohran Mamdani's Wife - This Is Why
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| Author and former Fox News host Steve Hilton announced his run as a Republican candidate for California governor |
"The big questions surrounding the race continue to be: “Who’s that?” and “Who cares?”
"While record numbers of people are expected to take to the streets for Saturday’s anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrations across the nation, California’s likely voters have yet to show the same sort of interest in the race for governor. Termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom has not endorsed a candidate." . . .
Two crown jewels of the Democrat Party: Quality and wisdom of each Democrat is of no matter; only that the Democrat Party keeps control of power in states and in Congress. TD
Newsom’s press office shared the photo on X after Shirley posted a 40-minute video alleging $170 million in suspected fraud within California’s hospice and day care systems.
"Podcast king and comedian Joe Rogan blasted California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom for his attacks on citizen journalist Nick Shirley after he took his cameras to California to expose the massive fraud of public funds in the Golden State.
"Shirley has made a name for himself by taking his camera to various corruption hotspots across the U.S.A. and exposing waste and criminal abuse of our federal and state welfare funding programs. But Gov. Newsom is not at all happy that Shirley appeared in California to uncover the criminal activity in California.
Consequently, Newsom was seen mocking Shirley on social media. Rogan, though, found the mocking to be inappropriate and insisted that a state governor should be happy that fraud and criminality is uncovered in his state so that he can prosecute it and clean it up." . . .
Nick Shirley has viral retort for Gavin Newsom's office after it mocks his investigations
. . . "Newsom's office mocked Shirley by posting a photo of a man carrying several cameras at a daycare and asking a teacher, "Hey, can I see your kids?"
"Shirley did not hold back in his response.
" 'You do realize I’m trying to help America eliminate fraud and waste right?" he said in a reply to the post Monday night. "No need to try and make me look like the bad guy for exposing fraud. People are over it. Start working for the people and not against them." . . .
Newsom: California's a low-tax paradise - Mike McDaniel "Did you know that California is a virtually tax-free paradise, and Texas and Florida are the two most highly taxed states in America? U-Haul certainly doesn’t, but it must be true because Gavin Newsom said it, and he wouldn’t lie about a thing like that—would he? After all, who you gonna believe? Newsom or your own lyin’ eyes and ears, innumerable U-Haul trucks and trailers rolling out of California and the empty bank accounts of Californians?
Wait a minute! How can he say something so obviously, ridiculously false? He’s Gavin Newsom and a Democrat. They make their own reality and demand everyone else live in it. The Democrat media propaganda arm fully supports whatever narrative Democrats invent and trumpets it until its replaced by a new, entirely fanciful, narrative.'
I don’t think Gavin Newsom gets enough credit for this.
He’s the first Governor in the history of California since 1851 to cause small business owners and free thinkers to leave for other red states.
— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) May 15, 2023
Gotta respect his exodus game. pic.twitter.com/AQuQNe08Pn
You Can’t Hate the Media Enough
"Nick Shirley was just a “YouTuber” who posted a viral video and they offered very little examination of the content of that video. Why? Because when reality does no favors for Democrats, they simply ignore it.
. . . "How many “journalists,” upon seeing the original video about fraud in the Minnesota welfare system committed by Somalis, set out to report on the substance of the story versus how many reports did you see of reporters calling Nick Shirley’s reporting at “a viral video” or “a right-wing blogger”?
"You could tell Nick was over the target by how the leftist corporate media shuffled through their typical playbook for anything that makes Democrats look bad. First, they ignore it. When it becomes too big to ignore, they attack it. When the attacks don’t work, they downplay it. When that doesn’t work, they declare it’s not a scandal because everyone does it.
"They ignored Shirley until they could no longer do it – tens of millions of views online for a basic story even a dimwitted Democrat could understand tends to do that." . . . More...
"Consequently, Newsom was seen mocking Shirley on social media. Rogan, though, found the mocking to be inappropriate and insisted that a state governor should be happy that fraud and criminality is uncovered in his state so that he can prosecute it and clean it up." Media loves Gav the Gov.
MS NOW Contributor: “90 Percent of the Antisemitic Comments That I Get Are From the Left” . . . "Goldberg soldiers on, suggesting that some of the fringe characters she is citing on the right will eventually be the face of the Republican party, while glossing over the new mayor of New York City and his wife, who are now considered darlings of the Democrat left." . . .
Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters | Princeton University Press . . . "This book examines waning public trust in the institutional news media within the context of the American political system and looks at how this lack of confidence has altered the ways people acquire political information and form electoral preferences." . . .
May we assume Columbia U. people love Mamdani as the catalyst of their new culture? TD
NYC's First Lady Exposed Approving of Suicide Attack Propaganda, Plane Hijackers, and Outrageous Attacks on US Troops | The Gateway Pundit | by Samuel Short, The Western Journal . . . "Mamdani has had his own controversies.
"Earlier this month, he attended an iftar — a breaking of the Ramadan fast — hosted by the Fire Department of New York Islamic Society.
"The event created a stir when Muslim prayer mats were placed in front of a memorial for firefighters who lost their lives in 9/11." . . .
‘Caliph’ Mamdani breaks Ramadan fast with violent Muslim criminals at Rikers Island prison . . . “We clearly know he doesn’t like us. He’s already made his stance clear on that. Even after we get clear extensive video of the guy trying to knife the police officers in Queens, he visited the criminal’s family in that case too!,” raged the police veteran. He was referring to Mamdani last month visiting the family of Jabez Chakraborty, the man shot by a police officer in Queens as he attacked the cop and his partner with a 13-inch carving knife." . . .
MUST SEE! “New York, New York” Comrade Mamdani’s lawless, Islamofascist city that never sleeps . . . "However, a former Muslim, Danny Burmawi, explained that this is primarily a tool for asserting political dominance rather than fulfilling religious devotion. “As long as Islam is categorized as a religion, exclusively a religion, then there’s nothing New Yorkers can do.”
. . . "In the Italian city of Turin — with the help of local government and the Catholic Church — public and ecclesiastical spaces are being taken over by Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan with mass prayer.
"This is “Interfaith” in action. In the same way, Christians can go to Mecca or Riyadh and celebrate Easter in public spaces, right? Right?
"Just try it and see what happens. '
Greg Richter - American Thinker
OK, so that’s not the best Chuck Norris joke ever written. But one San Francisco firefighter and former candidate for District 7 supervisor isn’t kidding around with his petition to rename the city’s Cesar Chavez Street as Chuck Norris Boulevard.
Stephen Martin-Pinto posted the effort to his X account, including renderings of the current street sign bearing the name of the actor and martial arts expert, who died last week at age 86.
"The legacy of Chavez, the labor leader who died in the early 1990s, has come under fire in recent days as allegations of sexual misconduct involving women and young girls have emerged. His name is ubiquitous across California on school buildings, parades and elsewhere, but efforts have quickly been launched to distance institutions from Chavez amid the allegations.
"Still, a proudly liberal city like San Francisco is unlikely to embrace renaming the street for Norris, who backed conservative and Christian causes and supported President Donald Trump. And the closest tie he appears to have had to the city was his 1974 martial-arts film Slaughter in San Francisco.
"Unlike Norris, Chavez had an established civic footprint in San Francisco: the city renamed Army Street for him in 1995, and for years also honored him with a parade, a school, and a student center — even if his strongest personal ties were elsewhere in California." . . .
"It is not that the television shows today are terrible bad. They are horribly bad. Especially the news. Instead of dumping reporters, dump the panelists."
The Gateway Pundit Patriotic toward which nation?
"In a recent live interview on The Bulwark Podcast with host Tim Miller, Talarico boasted about his time teaching in San Antonio and how illegal aliens were more patriotic than Americans.
“'Before I was a politician, I was a public school teacher in San Antonio, Texas, on the west side of the city, and I taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students,” Talarico claimed.
"Talarico didn’t stop there. He doubled down, claiming these illegal aliens “understood something about this country that a lot of us who are native born forget,” calling America “the land of opportunity” and “the place where dreams come true.”
"The liberal candidate added that they “believed in this country, even when this country didn’t believe in them,” while ripping Trump-era immigration policies as “immoral” and “unconscionable” for “terrorizing my former students and their families.” . . .More
Many now use "Democrat" instead of "Democratic" for the party led by Roosevelt, Truman and -with crossed fingers - JFK that we once respected and voted for. (Though Roosevelt sadly became a Stalin groupie). I see in them a total rejection of anything democratic. TD
Mike McDaniel - American Thinker
"Blakeman is promising to cut taxes and make New York affordable. He’s not insulting the rich and telling them to leave. Those are, by New York standards, crazy ideas, but they’re so crazy they just might work."
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The comments are a far cry from Hochul’s much-derided remarks from her 2022 election campaign where she ripped her GOP opponent, Rep. Lee Zeldin, as well as then-Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and President Trump, telling them and other New York Republicans to scram.
“Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro – just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong. OK? Get out of town. Because you don’t represent our values,” Hochul said at the time.
Well. Wealthy New Yorkers, people who run businesses employing thousands, all of whom contribute to the tax base of a state facing a $27.5 billion dollar budget deficit, which will surely be exacerbated by New York City Mayor Zhoran Mamdani’s full communist economic illiteracy—never go full communist--took Hochul’s arrogant advice. Mamdani is chasing out NYC’s billionaires, millionaires and folks who can’t afford the Big, rotten Apple anymore, and wants Hochul to bail him out." . . . More...
"Unless every European leader is stupid beyond stupid, Europe just had a “come to Jesus” moment."
Andrea Widburg - American Thinker
"Like Carthage before it, Iran delenda est (that is, Iran must be destroyed). The world will be much safer and happier when a non-Muslim Persia arises from Iran’s ashes."
"Yesterday, Iran fired two ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint US-UK base. Both missed, but one got near the target. The attack is significant because it proves that Trump was absolutely right that this war needed to be fought, and fought sooner, rather than later.
Diego Garcia has been in the news of late, so it made a nice, symbolic target to prove Trump’s point.
The base is located in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 2,500 miles due south of Mumbai. The islands are “only” 1,250 miles northeast of Mauritius, a dot in the Indian Ocean, due east of Madagascar. For very complicated reasons, Mauritius has laid claim to those islands, which have long been under British control.
In May 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government announced that it would transfer the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius. Trump strongly objected, saying that the islands, which house Diego Garcia, still have strategic value. Obviously, he was already thinking ahead to its value vis-Ã -vis Iran, and his objections were so powerful that, this February, Britain delayed the transfer.
However, although it delayed transferring the islands to Mauritius, the British government didn’t want the U.S. to use the base in the war against Iran. It eventually announced that the U.S. could only use the base “defensively.”
Defensiveness arrived yesterday:" . . .
"In other words, Iran just proved that it can attack every country within a 4,000 km radius of it. Imagine if those missiles weren’t armed with conventional warheads but were, instead, nuclear-tipped? Given Iran’s apocalyptic jihadism, it would control almost half the planet."
