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SCOTUS Birthplace Citizenship Decision Is John Roberts’ Roe v. Wade

Trump v. Barbara may ultimately come to be remembered not as the final word on birthplace citizenship but as another constitutional detour waiting to...

03.07.2026 10

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Hans Mahncke

Mike Pence Enabled DOJ Lawfare So Of Course He Opposes Restoring Its Victims

Pence is entitled to oppose compensating victims of lawfare. What he is not entitled to do is pretend he had no role in creating them.

04.06.2026 10

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Federal Judge Brinkema Sides With Marc Elias To Kill The Fund That Would Compensate Lawfare Victims

The architects of government weaponization are now in federal court blocking the fund designed to compensate their victims.

02.06.2026 10

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By Democrats’ Standards, Virginia Redistricting Lawyers Should Lose Their Jobs, Licenses, And Life Savings

What is unfolding is not just partisan hardball but the normalization of constitutional lawfare, justified because it is by the left.

19.05.2026 20

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Judge Lagoa Shows How SCOTUS Should Rule On Birthright Citizenship

How might recent Supreme Court decisions have been resolved had Barbara Lagoa been appointed instead of Amy Coney Barrett?

12.05.2026 10

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Russiagate Czar Joe DiGenova Is The Best And Last Chance For Accountability

After a wasted decade, this is both the best opportunity and, realistically, the last real chance to get something done.

23.04.2026 30

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John Eastman Disbarment Marks New Low In Lawfare Against Conservatives

When disbarment becomes a foreseeable consequence of advancing controversial legal theories in politically charged contexts, the effect is to narrow...

17.04.2026 10

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New Documents Reveal Democrats’ Plot To Frame Trump With Ukraine Call

There was never a genuine complaint. It wasn’t an opportunistic hit job either. It was something far more deliberate, a coordinated effort.

15.04.2026 20

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Bondi Was Putting Out Fires — The Next AG Needs To Go To War

This is no time for learning on the job or cultivating personal popularity. It's time for a battle plan.

08.04.2026 20

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This Word In The 14th Amendment Bans Birthright Citizenship, And It’s Not ‘Jurisdiction’

The 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause contains a word that definitively excludes birth tourists: 'reside.'

06.04.2026 20

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New Document Shows Chief Judge Howell Privately Endorsed Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Lawfare

Behind closed doors, the judge overseeing Trump's grand jury told prosecutors she 'loved' their legal strategy.

27.03.2026 20

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‘We Can’t Send This To DOJ’: New Doc Alleges More Deception From Russia Hoaxer Kevin Clinesmith

A newly uncovered report suggests Clinesmith withheld exculpatory findings that undermined the legal basis for monitoring Trump adviser Walid Phares.

18.03.2026 20

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Deep State Has Faced Zero Accountability For A Decade Of Spying On Team Trump

Across a decade, not a single senior official has faced criminal accountability, or in many cases any accountability at all.

09.03.2026 30

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CBS Sets Out to Debunk Trump, Ends Up Proving Him Right

The '60 Minutes' report fixates on a semantic issue while conceding the underlying reality of violence against white farmers in South Africa.

26.02.2026 30

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WSJ’s Tulsi Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russia-Collusion Playbook

The real story is not the supposed scandal. It is the relentless recycling of the same hoax playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity.

05.02.2026 50

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The Truth About Malaysian Flight 370 Is Scarier Than The Conspiracy Theories

Accepting that one man deliberately killed 238 other people with the flick of a button is far more disturbing than imagining elaborate conspiracies.

30.01.2026 70

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5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right

If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding.

23.12.2025 100

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A DOJ That Still Chases ‘Russian Hackers’ Will Never Reckon With Russiagate

The DOJ is prosecuting the fruits of a hoax on one hand and claiming to expose the architects of that hoax on the other.

11.12.2025 30

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Those Unhappy With Ukrainian Peace Deal Have Russia Hoaxers To Blame

Without Iraq-style lies about Russia, the collusion hoax, the impeachment farce, and the 51 intel officials laundering deception for political gain,...

02.12.2025 30

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James Comey’s Own Notes Prove He Knew The Russia Hoax Was A Clinton Plot

It was always implausible that Comey was unaware that Russiagate was a Clinton smear — and now his own notes prove that untrue.

07.11.2025 30

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Lindsey Halligan Brings Russiagate’s Last Case To A Close After Seven Years Of Injustice

The new U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is honest, fearless, and competent and just ended a Russia hoax case.

23.10.2025 20

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The Latest FBI Spying Makes Watergate Look Trivial

The FBI secretly monitored the phone records of eight sitting Republican senators in an abusive fishing expedition done with impunity.

13.10.2025 40

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MSNBC’s Tom Homan ‘Scandal’ Has All The Earmarks Of A Hoax

There is no evidence that Tom Homan agreed to anything improper, no evidence that he acted on behalf of anyone, and no evidence that he violated any...

24.09.2025 40

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Media Lies, Not Video Games, Turned Charlie Kirk Into A Target

Millions of people play video games or scroll Reddit every day, and they do not assassinate anyone.

17.09.2025 60

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Bombshell DNI Emails Expose Fraud That Sabotaged 2018 Trump-Putin Summit

The new release by Gabbard is a vindication for Trump, who stood alone in 2018, and strengthens his position ahead of the upcoming summit.

15.08.2025 40

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FBI Never Investigated Evidence For Obama AG’s Role In Clinton Email Coverup

We now have plausible intelligence suggesting the attorney general may have assured Clinton allies that the FBI investigation into Hillary’s emails...

06.08.2025 20

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We Don’t Need The Durham Annex To Know Hillary And The FBI Set Up Trump. We Watched It Happen

In fact, we didn’t need secret intelligence to expose the plan. It was playing out openly before our eyes in real time.

01.08.2025 20

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John Brennan’s 5 Lies That Set Russiagate In Motion

Brennan’s purported intelligence was so flimsy and comically absurd that it only further exposes the fraudulent nature of the assessment.

25.07.2025 30

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New DNI Docs Reveal Washington Post’s Central Role In Russiagate Hoax

Candid assessments were immediately overturned. The narrative was flipped, claiming that Russia had interfered to help Trump win.

23.07.2025 30

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5 Years Ago, The Russia Collusion Hoax Fell Apart

Five years ago today, the so-called 'primary sub-source' behind the infamous Steele dossier was identified, and the entire hoax collapsed.

21.07.2025 30

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After Leaving Conservatives Out To Dry, Elite Law Firms Sprint To Help Biden Aides For Free

'White-shoe' law firms were out to lunch when conservatives needed legal help, but are picking up the tab now that Biden aides are in real trouble.

16.07.2025 30

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The Uniparty Swamp Tried To Ruin Douglass Mackey’s Life Over A Meme — And Lost

Though his arrest came just days after Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, the investigation and groundwork for the case were carried out by Trump...

14.07.2025 30

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There’s One Last Chance To Hold John Brennan Accountable For Russiagate

John Brennan’s name has resurfaced in a serious way just weeks before the Durham statute of limitations expires.

09.07.2025 20

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The Unelected Magistrate Judges Undermining Trump And Rule Of Law Are Completely Unconstitutional

Contrary to widespread perception, magistrate judges wield extraordinary power despite having no constitutional standing under Article III.

07.07.2025 20

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Ohr Memo Confirms Clinton Team Had Early Knowledge Of Ukrainian Black Ledger

The black ledger story makes clear that the real foreign collusion did not come from Donald Trump — it came from his opponents.

06.06.2025 20

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Are The Latest Spygate Revelations A Big Fat Misdirection?

The anti-Trump operation escalated to a coordinated assault involving the highest levels of government, about which we still know nearly nothing.

04.06.2025 20

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New Docs Reveal How FBI Insiders Buried Evidence Of Spygate Crimes

A bigger scandal than Nellie Ohr's crimes is how the FBI handled them. Instead of referring her for prosecution, they buried the evidence.

30.05.2025 30

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