Category: Politics
BIDEN’S HUD FLUB: MN Tied to $84M in Questionable Payments, Deceased Recipients Found in All 50 States: Report
According to The New York Post, former President Biden’s HUD may have been cutting checks it shouldn’t have — and Minnesota isn’t the only place showing up in the audit trail.
Thune-Aligned Super PAC Sets Off-Year Fundraising Record With $180 Million Haul
The Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) in 2025 shattered its off-year fundraising record, pulling in $180 million as Republicans gear up for the midterm elections, the group announced Monday.
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‘Lectern guy’ from Jan. 6 running for election in Florida to promote ‘MAGA principles’
The man who famously carried off the lectern owned by Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California during the Jan. 6 rioting is running for election in Florida.
Adam Johnson was sentenced to 75 days for his role in the rioting at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, but he has filed to campaign for a seat on the Manatee County Commission near Tampa Bay.
He filed for office on the 5-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 rioting.
Johnson’s website describes him as a father of five sons and a businessman.
“Adam Johnson is a Conservative, America First candidate who’s tired of watching MAGA principles get ignored at the local level,” his website states. “While politicians in Manatee County talk about serving the people, they’re cutting deals with insiders and letting corruption run wild.”
Johnson is known as “the lectern guy” on his social media accounts. He filed for office on the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 rioting.
The incumbent for the at-large seat is not running again, and four other Republicans are vying to win the position. The county is considered solidly Republican leaning.
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Johnson pleaded guilty to one charge of entering a restricted building. In addition to serving 75 days in prison, he underwent one year of supervised release and paid a $5,000 fine. He also served 200 hours of community service.
“Adam can’t be bought. He can’t be bullied. And he won’t back down from exposing corruption wherever he finds it,” Johnson’s website says.
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St. Paul council VP urges resistance — calls for tracking ICE agents, delivering groceries to illegal aliens
A Minnesota city politician is facing brutal backlash for supporting efforts to help illegal aliens in her city evade federal immigration enforcement.
St. Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim posted a video on social media calling on residents to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations by delivering groceries to illegal aliens and tracking ICE agents.
‘Today I’m kicking off one of our first mutual aid grocery runs in my neighborhood.’
Kim posted the call to her Instagram account after noting the surge of federal agents into her city. Copies of the video were widely circulated on social media.
“It’s not even noon, and ICE has already kidnapped five of my neighbors. I’ve responded to one where we believe a whole family was taken with children,” she said.
“There are more federal agents in Minnesota than we have of the St. Paul and Minneapolis police combined. And yet, there are neighbors that are showing up in incredible ways like standing in front of known targeted businesses helping escort workers home,” Kim continued.
“Today I’m kicking off one of our first mutual aid grocery runs in my neighborhood — an easy way for folks to get involved, but it’s because the workers have been pulled over time and time again attempting to make deliveries to families that are too afraid to even go grocery shopping,” she added.
She went on to say she was disturbed by federal agents who were seen at city-owned properties and implied that her office was tracking their locations.
“If you see this, please record it to the best of your ability and submit to the Ward Five office,” she said.
Kim faced fierce criticism online for the post.
“Who wants to tell her hiding indoors won’t stop ICE from enforcing the law?” one critic responded.
“Bending over backwards to serve those invading America. Traitorous. Send this idiot back with them,” another detractor said.
“Where do I apply?? Would it be illegal if I told ICE all the addresses I delivered to??” another account said.
A Blaze News request for comment from Kim’s office on whether taxpayer funds were used for the project was not immediately answered.
Kim had called for the immediate arrest of the federal agent who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good after she blocked federal operations with her vehicle and then drove straight toward the agent.
The St. Paul City Council website indicates that all the members of the council are women. In 2023, it became the first major U.S. city to have an all-female council.
According to her website, Kim has been endorsed by the St. Paul Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the DFL Environmental Caucus, radical Attorney General Keith Ellison, and the Twin Cities chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, among other Democrat-affiliated groups.
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Sen. Mark Kelly responds to censure from Pete Hegseth with a lawsuit
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona says he filed a lawsuit against Department of War Sec. Pete Hegseth on Monday.
Hegseth has accused Kelly of committing sedition by suggesting that members of the U.S. military should refuse to comply with orders from the administration. Kelly has said that he intended only for members to refuse unlawful orders.
‘I filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Defense because there are few things as important as standing up for the rights of the very Americans who fought to defend our freedoms.’
Hegseth had ordered Kelly’s military retirement pay to be cut and censured the senator, who is a retired U.S. Navy officer.
“Pete Hegseth is coming after what I earned through my twenty-five years of military service, in violation of my rights as an American, as a retired veteran, and as a United States Senator whose job is to hold him — and this or any administration — accountable,” said Kelly in a statement on social media. “His unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military: if you speak out and say something that the President or Secretary of Defense doesn’t like, you will be censured, threatened with demotion, or even prosecuted.”
He went on to accuse Hegseth of trying to intimidate other critics of the administration by targeting Kelly.
Kelly concluded, “Today, I filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Defense because there are few things as important as standing up for the rights of the very Americans who fought to defend our freedoms.”
The lawsuit lists Hegseth, the Defense Department, and the U.S. Navy as defendants.
President Donald Trump had also accused Kelly of committing sedition by his comments.
“It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!” the president wrote on social media.
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Hegseth had said that Kelly might face additional punishment over his comments.
“Captain Kelly’s status as a sitting United States Senator does not exempt him from accountability, and further violations could result in further action,” Hegseth said. “These actions are based on Captain Kelly’s public statements from June through December 2025 in which he characterized lawful military operations as illegal and counseled members of the Armed Forces to refuse lawful orders.”
A Blaze News request for comment to the Department of War was not immediately answered.
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Fed Chairman Jerome Powell fears criminal indictment as Trump-Fed confrontation intensifies
In the latest escalation between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve, the Department of Justice has issued grand jury subpoenas against the Fed, according to Chairman Jerome Powell.
On Sunday, the official Federal Reserve X account posted a video of Powell explaining the subpoenas and claiming that the DOJ was “threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June.”
‘The cost overruns are what they are.’
“That testimony concerned in part a multiyear project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings,” Powell added.
In the video, Powell shows no sign of capitulating to President Trump’s calls to lower interest rates, dismissing these calls as merely the “preferences of the president”: “This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.”
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“I have served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment,” Powell said. “Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats. I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed me to do, with integrity and a commitment to serving the American people.”
Powell said that the subpoenas were served last Friday.
During his testimony in June, Powell was asked about the cost of the renovations around the 36-minute mark of the hearing. He began by saying, “We do take seriously our responsibility as stewards of the public’s money,” but concluded, “The cost overruns are what they are.”
He also denied several of what he said were media inaccuracies, including reports of “special elevators,” new marble, “roof terrace gardens,” and “beehives.”
In a rare confrontation with Powell, President Trump, wearing a hard hat, visited the construction site in late July to challenge him on the “overruns.” Powell said he was “unaware” of the new numbers Trump presented to him.
Days before the July confrontation between Powell and Trump, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) sent a criminal referral for Powell to the Department of Justice.
On Sunday evening, Luna responded to the news of the grand jury subpoenas, repeating her allegations against Powell: “It’s good to see my criminal referral working in real time. You CANNOT lie to Congress. That is called PERJURY.”
No criminal charges have been brought against Powell at the time of writing.
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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