The Tattoo Graham Platner Can’t Explain Away; The media has his back.

 "Platner’s statements, not to mention his covered-over tattoo, disqualify him from serving in the senate. Mainers should let him go back to his unsuccessful oyster farm and leave governing to more rational people." Jed Babbin

The Tattoo Graham Platner Can’t Explain Away | The American Spectator  

"Platner has been condemned by various Jewish groups because of that statement and because of his praise for a Hamas raid in 2014 in which five Israeli soldiers were killed. At the time, Platner wrote that it, “Looks like an all-around well executed and successful small unit raid to me.”

"He hasn’t commented on the war Hamas started with its genocidal attack on Israel in 2023. But he has said that Israel committed “genocide” in Gaza." . . .

"The Totenkopf — a symbol closely associated with the Nazi SS — was tattooed on the chest of Maine senate candidate Graham Platner in 2007. He alleges that he did not know of the Nazi association with the symbol — Platner wore it proudly — until he began his candidacy at which point he had it allegedly covered up by another tattoo.

"The plausibility of Platner’s story is questionable at best.

"The Totenkopf — German for “death’s head” or skull — image is not one of the “Jolly Roger,” the skull and cross bones one sees on a pirate flag. It is a skull that has broken bones on either side of it.  It was adopted by the Nazi Schutstaffel (SS) as its symbol and was later adopted as the symbol of the Totenkopfverbande, the German soldiers who guarded the concentration camps where millions of Jews and many others died." . . .

The Nazi Death’s Head: History and Where It’s Banned - LegalClarity

"The Totenkopf, German for “death’s head,” is a skull-and-crossbones insignia most widely recognized as the emblem of the Nazi SS. Germany bans its public display under Section 86a of its criminal code, with violators facing up to three years in prison. More than a dozen other European nations enforce similar prohibitions. In the United States, the symbol receives First Amendment protection, though displaying it carries serious professional and social consequences" . . .

Platner: Tattoo lie revelations just won't stop  

"This is something of a problem for Democrats because they’ve spent the last decade or so accusing Donald Trump and at least half of America of being Nazis and Hitler."

. . . "Can’t they just shut up already?  They made their decision. Platner is Democrats’ Nazi. Like them, he hates the Jews! He’s their great white hope!" . . .

You Don’t Hate the Media Enough, ‘Pouncing’ On Der Oysterführer Edition  "Imagine, if you will, that Republicans had run a candidate with a Nazi SS Totenkopf on his chest, who posted in public forums that women should take some responsibility for being sexually assaulted, called them "hatchet wounds" in reference to their genitalia, and had a credible record of actual domestic violence on a partner. Would the media consider a focus on those scandals by his Democrat opponents to be "pouncing," especially in the first days of the general-election campaign?

"Absolutely not. The Protection Racket Media would go into full Kavanaugh Lynching Mode at the merest hint of any of the above. When a liberal Republican draws attention to a Democrat with this record, however, it's suddenly a Republicans Pounce™ story, and the Totenkopf gets transformed into a "resembl[ance] of a Nazi symbol" at ABC News:". . .

"The Journ-O-List bat signal has gone out. The story will no longer be Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo, domestic violence allegations, weird Kik account trolling up until last week, or Der Oysterführer's sexting with a half-dozen women not his wife over the last couple of years. The story will now be meanie Republicans and conservatives pointing out all of these peccadilloes, not to mention Platner's victims." . . .

WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw… pic.twitter.com/qMSSXa3XNU      — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 10, 2026

Hillary Clinton Gets Savaged For Attacking President Trump Over Freedom 250 UFC Fight at White House

The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila

. . . "Losers like Hillary Clinton and other leftists attacked President Trump and even tried to stop the UFC fight.

"A ‘civil rights’ group even sued to stop the historic event.

"On Friday, an Obama appointed judge sided with the Trump Administration and refused to stop the UFC Freedom 250 fight.

"The judge said construction for “The Claw” was too far along and the plaintiff really didn’t have a standing to stop the event.

"On Sunday morning, Hillary Clinton lashed out at Trump.

GOP Rep. Tim Burchett and others savaged Hillary Clinton. Burchett reminded Hillary Clinton about her husband’s Oval Office activities

“'No matter what, it’s not his house. It’s our house,” she said." . . .

@HillaryClinton
Ma’am, as the Air Force officer who carried the nuclear football for your husband in the White House, I spent two years inside that “people’s house” with you. Remember me? I remember you.
You lecture us daily about ‘respecting the institution’ while the man I… https://t.co/dCpahYIzAW

Buzz Patterson, The guy who carried the “football” for Bill Clinton says he has blood on his hands   (@BuzzPatterson) June 14, 2026 (Combat veteran)   Lt Col Robert Buzz Patterson | cvfc1

Bitter Loser Hillary Clinton Gets Savaged For Attacking President Trump Over Freedom 250 UFC Fight at White House Authors of comments below are at the link.

• They literally rented out the Lincoln Bedroom and don’t forget Bill’s activity in the Oval Office. The vandalism that went on when you left was also well documented.
• Woman who stole White House furniture has something to say about "our house."
• Your replies are shut off, of course, but no one degraded the Oval Office of the WH like your husband.
• A hat is as close as you will ever get to returning to the White House

Cristina began writing for The Gateway Pundit in 2016 and she is now the Associate Editor.

The Clintons rented out the Lincoln Bedroom 831 times.   "Two of the Lincoln Bedroom’s renters — Linda Thomason and actress Markie Post — are pictured here trashing the bed in the Lincoln bedroom by treating it like a trampoline. The bed itself is considered a national treasure. Expect more of the same should Hillary take the presidency." Doug Ross has the story.

Peggy Noonan; Sept. 14, 1998  American Caligula - WSJ    . . . "For seven months I have kept on my desk a picture from a tabloid. It is of two close friends of President Clinton, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and the actress Markie Post. They are laughing and holding hands in joyous union as they jump up and down at where fate has put them down. It had put them in the Lincoln bedroom. They were jumping up and down on Lincoln's bed.

"It seemed to me emblematic of the Clinton White House, a place where opponents' FBI files were read aloud over pizza and foreign contributors with cash invited in the back door. I thought: Something's wrong with these people, they lack thought and dignity. But most of all they seemed to lack respect, a sense of awe -- not the awe that can cripple you with a false sense of your smallness but the awe that makes you bigger, that makes you reach higher as if in tribute to some unseen greatness around you." . . .

San Francisco Giants Pitcher Writes Bible Verse on Pride Night Hat as Drag Queen Leads On-Field Wedding Vows

"This is not the first time a Major League Baseball player has used the same Bible passage during a team Pride Night. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw wrote the identical verses on his cap during his team’s Pride event last season."

"San Francisco Giants pitcher Landen Roupp reclaimed the rainbow during the team’s Pride Night on Friday by writing a Bible verse on his cap as the organization had an LGBTQ celebration at Oracle Park.

"Roupp, who started against the Chicago Cubs, wore the special black Pride Night hat featuring a rainbow-colored “SF” logo but added “Genesis 9:12-16” in silver letters next to the team logo.

"The verses describe God’s covenant with Noah after the flood, using the rainbow as a sign of His promise never to destroy the earth with water again.

“And God said, ‘This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.'” Genesis 9:12-16

Reliever JT Brubaker wrote “Genesis 9:13-15” on his cap, and reliever Ryan Walker added a similar reference on the side of his." . . . More...

How One Private's "Stupid" Bucket Trick Detected 40 German Mines — Without Setting One Off

 Biên Tập Viên 

"In human terms, that’s approximately 2,000 lives saved by a farm boy with a bucket."

"June 6th, 1944. Normandy, France. 6:47 a.m. The water off Omaha Beach runs red. Corporal James Mitchell watches his third demolition team disappear in a column of spray and shrapnel. Another teller mine. Another five men gone. The German beach defenses are killing his engineers faster than enemy bullets.

"Mitchell’s commanding officer, Captain Robert Hayes, crouches beside him in the surf, shouting over the chaos. They have orders to clear a 50 m corridor through the minefield before the next wave arrives. That’s in 14 minutes. At their current rate, they’ll lose every man before they clear 20 m.

"The statistics are catastrophic. Of the 16 Navy combat demolition units that landed in the first wave, 12 have taken casualties exceeding 60%. The Germans have planted an estimated 4,000 mines across the five landing beaches. Standard protocol requires engineers to crawl forward with bayonets, probing the sand at 45° angles until they strike metal.

"Each mine takes 3 to 5 minutes to locate and neutralize. The mathematics are brutal and simple. They don’t have enough time and they don’t have enough men. What Captain Hayes doesn’t know is that 100 meters to his left, a 22-year-old private from Iowa, is about to solve a problem that has killed demolition experts since 1939. What Hayes also doesn’t know is that this private has no engineering training, no explosives certification, and no business being anywhere near a minefield.

"His name is Thomas Becker, and in the next 6 hours, his bucket trick will save an estimated 200 Allied lives. The German Teller mine represents 5 years of lethal engineering refinement. Weighing 11 lb and packed with 12 lb of TNT, it requires only 200 lb of pressure to detonate. The Vermacht has buried them in staggered patterns across every invasion beach from Norway to Greece, and Allied casualties from these weapons have reached epidemic proportions.

"By June 1944, the Allies have tried everything. British engineers developed the Bangalore torpedo, a long explosive tube pushed under wire obstacles. It works brilliantly against barbed wire. Against buried mines, it’s a coin flip. Sometimes it triggers sympathetic detonations, sometimes it doesn’t." . . .

"Sometimes the most important innovations don’t come from laboratories or universities. Sometimes they come from someone with a bucket standing in the surf watching water flow across sand and thinking there has to be a better way. Thomas Becker found that better way."

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The Great Electricity Rip-Off: Why Your Bill Keeps Going Up

 Ken Blackwell 

"I have also always felt that conservatives need to be on the lookout for industries that try to co-opt the free market movement, to take advantage of their customers, and do so under the guise of competition."

. . . "A pivotal Wall Street Journal story found that: “U.S. consumers who signed up with retail energy companies that emerged from deregulation paid $19.2 billion more than they would have if they’d stuck with incumbent utilities from 2010 through 2019…”

"The New York Times agreed, reporting: “California and the 34 other states that have deregulated all or parts of their electricity system tend to have higher rates than the rest of the country.”

"Why are deregulated states forcing customers to pay more for electricity? It turns out that the companies that compete with the utilities to sell power to customers are ripping people off.

"Consider a recent report from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, titled “How Deregulation Made Electricity More Expensive, Not Cheaper.” The leading cause of higher rates identified by the report is a group of middlemen called retail suppliers that promise to help customers secure lower-priced electricity. They do this by taking customers off of the regulated rate charged by the incumbent utility – known as standard offer service – and transferring them to a system of competitive rates.

"But the problem is that while these retail suppliers might initially offer a rate lower than the standard offer service, the contracts allow them to auto-renew the agreements into variable-rate plans that consistently raise prices.

"Some might call this style of marketing by retail suppliers a “bait and switch” or a scam. Whatever you call it, it’s not a free market, and retail suppliers should stop pretending they care about utility competition. According to one watchdog, in 2024 alone, retail suppliers overcharged 11.4 million customers in the U.S., a whopping $4 billion more for electricity than what those customers would have paid if they had simply stuck with their incumbent utility.

"Now, even though President Donald J. Trump has eliminated many of Joe Biden’s programs that exacerbated inflation, millions of Americans are still struggling with affordability. With that in mind, I think it’s time that lawmakers and policy experts around the country come together and help the American people with lower electric bills by promoting sensible utility regulation that blocks retail suppliers from overcharging their customers." . . .  More...

It suddenly dawns on Democrats that ethnic pandering is bombing with Latino voters

"Latinos are like other Americans, which makes them a tougher sell for Democrats than they'd like. They arrogantly expect them to fall into line like other special interest groups."

Monica Showalter - American Thinker  

Yet recall, the trust is broken, and it's hard to think Latino voters are going to come back to Democrats the way they want them to because they have already trusted them on this and gotten nothing. 

New Song: The El Segundo Times - aka @latimes. Thanks for the inspiration @Noah__Goldberg and @LAcrimes (perfect handle btw). LA Times leaves LA for the burbs

. . . "Democrats have been losing Latino voters in droves to President Trump and many Republicans, to the consternation of many leftist leaders, all of whom view Latino voters as 'their' voters, as loyal as black voters to Democrats; "their" property. They always have.

"So, one of them decided to hire a leftwing consultant to try to sort it out for them: Turns out ethnic pandering -- the politics of building ethnic blocs and representational box checking, and diversity based on skin tone -- doesn't impress them much.

"According to the New York Times:

Way to Win, a Democratic-aligned group that focuses on the Sun Belt, including Latino voters, has a new report out today that offers some possible answers for the party.

One conclusion: “The fastest way to lose these communities is to treat their ethnicity as the most interesting thing about them,” the report says.

It’s worth lingering on that statement. Some Democrats have long treated Latino voters as a kind of monolithic group. They’ve focused on Spanish-language advertising, brought mariachi bands to campaign rallies, and sprinkled Spanish into their speeches — all in an effort to attract a growing demographic that is essential to a winning national coalition.

This report suggests that the reality is much more complicated.

"Turns out Latinos are voting Republican because they are more like Republicans.

 "These ads by Adrian E. Alvarez, who founded Latinos Por Pratt and did the first Spencer Saca la Bassura ads that were such a sensation, illustrate what the consultants found:" One of several here:

🎶Liars, cheaters, election stealers!🎶 pic.twitter.com/PXnDJ3uZYD

— ✨SherAI✨ (@MamieWhiteesq) June 11, 2026

Can Socialists Actually Learn Anything?

Can Socialists Actually Learn Anything? – American Free News Network

"Mrs. Myers — the Mayor does not have enough respect for her husband, Scott Myers, to have taken his name, but we will not show him such similar disrespect — has subsequently walked back her incendiary words, as she’s, probably slowly, realizing that Starbucks provides a lot of jobs, mostly working-class jobs, in Seattle.

"It wasn’t just Mrs Myers’ words, of course: in moving some offices to the Volunteer State, Starbucks is moving to a lower cost city in a lower tax state. It’s a smart corporate move from a business and economics perspective, not just pique at the Mayor’s words.

"But the obvious question is: did Mrs. Myers actually learn anything, or is she simply scrambling to try to reverse damages? I’m guessing the latter." . . .

Seattle's Socialist Mayor TOLD Millionaires "Bye" - Now She's BEGGING Them To Stay To Save The City

Woke Seattle mayor, 43, whose parents still foot her bills cracks JOKE at prospect of new millionaire tax driving away dying city's richest residents

Scott Pelley’s CBS Complaint Backfires

Victor Davis Hanson

. . . "He went in there to deliberately insult his new employer and CBS’ ultimate employer with the idea that he would be a wounded fawn and get fired, and then maybe go to MSNBC, kind of a Dan Rather figure, wounded fawn.  

"Or he’s stupid and he thinks you can insult your employer. 

"Or he thought he could insult his employer, and he’s even stupider and could convince him that Scott Pelley knew exactly what he should be doing and he could tutor him." . . . 

Scott Pelley earned his dismissal long ago - American Thinker 

 Obviously, the finding that computer systems (which lend themselves to such evaluation) might not be corrupted does not mean that the foregoing elements have not been corrupted.  For such reason, Pelley’s statement that Krebs’s role was to “secure the nation’s election systems” is plainly false; it was his role, within elections, to secure the integrity of the computer systems.

. . ."To be fairer than 60 Minutes, Pelley was almost certainly in danger of tepid airline food and mere three-star service at a five-star hotel at some point. The horror. Others joined in the fun:

 CBS cruelly fires heroic combat veteran

"Clay Travis added, "These 'journalists' really think they have the most important jobs in the world. The sanctimony is incredible. You got paid tens of millions of dollars to be on a TV show people only watched because it came on after the NFL, dude."

"Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway wrote, "This propaganda clown falsely claimed to have served in combat in multiple theaters because he read TV lines near real soldiers," calling it, "Low-rent Brian Williams behavior." 

Goldman Sachs QUIETLY Shifts Jobs to Texas and Florida

"Mamdani is destroying New York one departing business at a time." Comment to this post.

William Reports News  "For 157 years, Goldman Sachs was synonymous with New York — a firm founded in 1869 by an immigrant trading commercial paper from his hatband on a Lower Manhattan street corner. In this breakdown, we examine the internal initiative, reportedly nicknamed "Project Voyage," through which Goldman has pressured senior managers, vice presidents, and managing directors to relocate to Dallas or leave the firm, even as an 800,000-square-foot campus rises in North Texas — set to become the bank's second-largest U.S. facility when it opens in 2028. We trace how a quiet regional outpost became a rival power center, and why Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded with public criticism followed by a private meeting with Goldman's CEO at City Hall.

"The deeper story is fiscal. Goldman's move is part of a wider pattern: JPMorgan has shifted thousands of positions from New York to Texas over the past decade, other major firms are expanding in low-tax states, and New York now ranks dead last in the Tax Foundation's state tax competitiveness rankings — all while Mamdani proposes higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy to close a budget gap of roughly $12 billion. At the center of this video sits a single overlooked statistic about how much of New York's tax revenue depends on one industry, and a budget projection that has already fallen short. This is not a story about billionaire grievances. It is structural math about who funds the city — and what happens when those people begin mapping out new addresses."

Mamdani is destroying New York. One departing business at a time.

Ken Griffin CANCELS Massive NYC Midtown Project

Meet James Talarico, Radical DEI Activist and 'Defund the Police' Promoter

 HotAir

"Time to start spending some money to define Talarico for exactly what he is: a progressive wolf in "centrist" sheep's clothing." 

. . . "Democrats have tried to package the state legislator as a centrist who can connect with Texans in the suburbs, exurbs, and rural precincts of the Lone Star State. They hope especially to push his time in a Presbyterian seminary as a way to connect to Christian voters, particularly with the controversial Ken Paxton as his Republican opponent. As the Free Beacon reported yesterday, however, Talarico has spent his political career advancing a radical-progressive agenda aimed particularly at public schools, and joined forces with a group seeking to "defund the police" in Austin: . . ."

James Talarico trained at seminary that teaches social justice-based preaching: Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

. . . "The school’s public theology focus area also offers several biblical interpretation classes that analyze gospel text through a liberal lens, such as “Bi.315: Womanist and Feminist Readings of the New Testament,” “Bi.240: Activism and Old Testament Scriptures,” and “Bi.195: Immigration and the Old Testament.”

"Other course options within the public theology discipline include “TH.206: Environmental Ethics,” which covers climate change and “environmental racism,” and “TH.310: Social Justice,” an introductory class to social justice theory.

"The seminary mandates that students in the Master of Divinity program wishing to concentrate in public theology take three elective courses of their choosing from a list largely consisting of similarly styled classes structured around social justice discussions." . . .

Explaining James Talarico’s theology   . . . "Talarico has stated that “Jesus never said anything” about abortion, transgenderism, or gay marriage. In his view, Mary’s agreement to become the mother of the Messiah means that “creation has to be done with consent,” affirming what abortion activists call “reproductive rights” for women. Speaking against a bill restricting transgender student athletes, he stated that “God is nonbinary

"In an interview with New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Talarico said he believes “Christianity points to the truth,” but “other religions of love point to the same truth.” He views Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism as “circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos. And that truth is inherently a mystery.” Because he is a student at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the media often characterizes him as a “Bible scholar.”

"Talarico’s positions are consistent with a stream of theology often called “liberalism.” Where does it come from? How are we to understand its core beliefs in light of biblical truth?" . . .

Rising Texas Dem Talarico faces backlash for 'creepy' remark about trans kids

  . . . "In the same speech, Talarico also said that "God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary."

"At the end of his speech, Talarico shared a message to children directly, saying, "To the trans kids watching at home, I just want to say, I love you and so do a lot of people in this room, and so do a lot of people around this big state. I know it may not seem like it tonight, but you are loved beyond measure."

'It's War': Spencer Pratt Says Campaign Is Over, but LA's Corrupt Machine Is Now in His Crosshairs

 Jennifer Van Laar – RedState

"As the old saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for."

"Spencer Pratt released a concession video of sorts Friday morning, and after Karen Bass and Nithya Raman watch it, they'll wish the mail ballot fraud scheme to elevate Raman had never taken place. Pratt says he's moving on from the "campaign phase of [his] mission to save Los Angeles to the next, more interesting phase," reminding people that his goal wasn't to become mayor, but to expose the corrupt machine - and that he's laser focused on doing just that." . . .

. . . "Referencing Jimmy Kimmel's offer of a U-Haul to move the Pratt family's non-existent possessions out of Los Angeles, Pratt said:

You think you can get rid of me that easily?

Hey morons. I didn't get in this for political power. I got in this to expose this corrupt machine. Nothing's changed. You enjoy your worthless meetings in City Hall. I've been lighting you up every single day and now I don't have to worry about offending CNN viewers. I don't have campaign laws hamstringing me now. It's war.

"That's a great point. As I said on Victoria Taft's podcast on Thursday, sometimes not getting what we think we want is a huge blessing and leads us to better ways of achieving our goals. Without being hamstrung by campaign laws, he's free to go about dismantling the machine in whichever way he chooses. " . . .More...

Afflicted With TDS, Four Senators Kill Election Integrity

"Why Murkowski, McConnell, Collins, and Tillis sided against a popular voter-ID and proof-of-citizenship bill."

The American Spectator  

"In reality, not one of this querulous quartet of Senators voted against the SAVE America Act based on genuine principles or the will of the people"

"Last Thursday, even as California’s chaotic primaries demonstrated the need for a nationwide election integrity law, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) voted to kill the SAVE America Act. This would be understandable if the bill were unpopular with the electorate. But its requirement that voters in every state must provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote and produce a photo ID when casting a ballot are wildly popular among Republicans and Democrats. Yet, because its passage is one of President Trump’s top priorities, TDS forced them to ignore his agenda and that of the voters.  

"The only member of this cadre of recalcitrant Republicans with a rational excuse, other than TDS, to vote against the SAVE America Act is Maine Sen. Susan Collins. She is involved in a tough reelection campaign and had she voted for the bill her depraved Democrat opponent, “oysterman” Graham Platner, would no doubt use that vote to bolster the ridiculous claim that she is a rubber stamp for Trump. According to a bulletin published by the Maine Democratic Party, “FiveThirtyEight found that she voted with Trump 67 percent of the time during his first term.” North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has no rational excuse for his vote against the SAVE America Act. In a statement issued after the first of his two votes against the bill he said,

All of my Democratic colleagues currently serving supported nuking the filibuster to try to pass their own partisan election reform bill. Democrats were dead wrong to try to change the filibuster when they controlled the Senate, and Republicans would be dead wrong to try to change the filibuster now that we control the Senate. The only real path to address the American people’s declining confidence in our elections is for both parties to find common ground on legislation that supports universal adoption of voter ID, proof of citizenship, and other vital election integrity measures.

This alleged concern for the “sacred” filibuster is frequently offered by Republican Senators who dislike President Trump and know he wants to get rid of it. Their lofty rhetoric is nothing more than hot air. Sen. Tillis is retiring at the end of his current term because he is very unpopular in North Carolina and would probably lose against any credible primary challenger. In fact, at least one poll found that his approval rating in his home state was a mere 25 percent. So, all his balderdash about both parties finding common ground on legislation that supports universal adoption of vital election integrity measures means nothing. He knows the Democrats have no intention of working with Republicans on genuine election integrity.". .  More...