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The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee has given Rep. Ilhan Omar a firm May 5th deadline to turn over all records and communications related to her possible involvement in the infamous Feeding Our Future scandal.
The demand follows Omar’s refusal to appear at a scheduled committee hearing earlier this week, despite being formally invited.
Committee Chair Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican, confirmed the congresswoman “ghosted” the panel and failed to respond to multiple outreach attempts.
“The fact that she ghosted us — she would not even respond to multiple inquiries to a state legislature where she used to serve,” Robbins said, according to a report from NewsNation. “I think it shows disdain for Minnesota taxpayers that she’s unwilling to even answer these questions.”
In a formal letter sent to Omar on April 22, Chair Robbins is now requiring:

All written and electronic communications between Omar’s office and the convicted owners/operators of Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis (a key Feeding Our Future site where Omar held multiple campaign events).
Communications with more than a dozen individuals who have already been convicted in the massive fraud case.
Records related to Omar’s sponsorship of the MEALS Act — the 2020 federal legislation that dramatically loosened eligibility rules for child nutrition programs during COVID, which prosecutors say directly enabled the fraud.

If Omar fails to comply, the committee has signaled it will explore further legislative and congressional options, though state lawmakers have limited direct enforcement power over a member of Congress.
The Feeding Our Future case involved the theft of more than $250 million in federal child nutrition funds meant for meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prosecutors have described it as one of the largest fraud schemes in American history.
Much of the money went to luxury cars, jewelry, real estate, and even overseas accounts, primarily funneled through Minnesota-based nonprofit organizations tied to the local Somali community.
Safari Restaurant was identified as a major “meal site” that submitted millions in fraudulent claims. Omar has long had public ties to the restaurant, including holding campaign events there and appearing there to promote related programs.
The Minnesota House committee has repeatedly accused Omar of helping enable the fraud through her sponsorship of the MEALS Act, which removed key guardrails on reimbursements for meal providers.
“She created the conditions that allowed all these bad actors to come in and bill for thousands of meals a day,” Robbins said. “One little tiny restaurant serving 5,000 meals a day, seven days a week — it was incomprehensible numbers.”
Omar has not publicly responded to the committee’s deadline or her refusal to appear at the hearing.
“The American people and certainly the taxpayers of Minnesota deserve her to come and answer these questions,” Robbins said. “If she had nothing to do with it, if she had no ill intent, if she had no idea — she should come and defend that.”
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The former staffer who alleged Eric Swalwell raped her in 2024 is cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation, according to CNN.
Earlier this month, the Manhattan District Attorney launched an investigation into Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell over serious allegations of sexual assault.
The San Francisco Chronicle recently published a story about a woman who claimed that Democrat Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her twice.
The woman, who worked as a staffer in Swalwell’s office for two years, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell began pursuing her just weeks after she was hired at the age of 21 in 2019.
After the San Francisco Chronicle dropped its bombshell report on Swalwell, three additional women spoke to CNN and provided evidence about alleged additional misconduct by the California Democrat.
The Swalwell staffer said she was sexually assaulted by Swalwell in 2019
The staffer also said Swalwell raped her years later in 2024 after she left his employment.
The unidentified former female staffer sat down with CNN and recounted some of the horrific details about the alleged rape that occurred in 2024.
“I went to the bathroom, and I don’t remember anything after that,” she said, adding that she “remembered the next day.”
“I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more aggressive. It was aggressive,” she said about the 2024 assault.
“He didn’t stop. He didn’t stop. I woke up the next morning naked, alone in his hotel. I, for a moment, didn’t even know that I was in his hotel room. That’s how intoxicated I was,” she said.
CNN said they corroborated the woman’s claims by speaking with friends and family that she confided in. CNN also reviewed photos and screenshots of contemporaneous text messages. The outlet reviewed a message from her medical provider the week after she received the pregnancy and STD test calling her a “survivor.”
On Friday, CNN reported that Swalwell’s accuser has retained counsel and is cooperating with the Manhattan DA’s investigation.
CNN reported:
A former staffer who accused former California Rep. Eric Swalwell of raping her is now cooperating with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, she told CNN.
The woman, who said Swalwell raped her in a New York City hotel in April 2024, shared her story with CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this month. She also accused Swalwell of having nonconsensual sexual contact with her after a night of heavy drinking in California in 2019, when she worked for him as a junior staffer.
The Manhattan DA’s office launched an investigation into the allegations a day after CNN’s initial report. Swalwell dropped out of the California governor’s race shortly afterward, and then resigned his seat in Congress.
Swalwell said at the time that “these allegations are false,” and vowed to “defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring legal action.”
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, which built a multimillion-dollar empire by labeling Christian organizations as hate groups, now stands federally indicted for secretly funding the leaders of actual hate groups, including Klansmen and neo-Nazis.
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid at least $3 million to individuals affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Unite the Right, the National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the National Socialist Party of America, the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the American Front.
The payments were made through fictitious entities, including “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse,” and the SPLC never disclosed this informant program to donors. One informant received more than $1 million while affiliated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance; another was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, who had previously severed the bureau’s relationship with the SPLC, calling it a “partisan smear machine.” The SPLC reported over $800 million in assets as of 2024. Interim CEO Bryan Fair called the allegations false, saying the SPLC’s sources had “risked their lives” and provided information to the FBI that “saved lives.” The indictment does not allege that funds went directly to the hate groups themselves, only to affiliated individuals.
The indictment is the latest development in a long record of the SPLC using its “hate group” designation against Christian organizations, a pattern that produced real-world violence, a nationwide Catholic surveillance program, and the systematic exclusion of Christian ministries from donor platforms. The irony is that the vast majority of African Americans the SPLC purports to defend are themselves Christians, particularly in the South.
The SPLC designated the Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group in 2010. In August 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II entered FRC’s Washington headquarters armed with a 9mm pistol and multiple magazines. He told the FBI, “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online, did a little research, went to the website, stuff like that.”
Prosecutors said his mission was to kill as many people as possible; a security guard was shot but stopped the attack. Corkins pleaded guilty to committing an act of terrorism while armed and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2013. FRC President Tony Perkins stated that Corkins “was given a license by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, who labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional, orthodox Christianity.” A decade after the attack, FRC remained on the SPLC hate map.
The SPLC also designated the Alliance Defending Freedom as a hate group, an organization founded in 1994 by Christian leaders, including James Dobson, Bill Bright, and D. James Kennedy, which has since secured 64 victories before the United States Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III wrote in the Wall Street Journal that placing ADF alongside KKK chapters was “not only wrong, it’s malicious.”
In 2015, the SPLC listed Dr. Ben Carson, an African American neurosurgeon, as an extremist for opposing same-sex marriage, placing him alongside KKK and neo-Nazi groups. The SPLC was forced to apologize and remove him from the list after public backlash.
In January 2023, the FBI’s Richmond Field Office produced an internal memo identifying “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic violent extremists, drawing on SPLC designations as a primary source.
The memo listed specific groups, including Catholic Apologetics International and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It treated adherence to the Latin Mass and opposition to abortion as indicators of potential radicalization.
Newly released documents confirmed the memo was circulated among multiple FBI divisions, viewed by over 1,000 employees, and endorsed by field offices in Buffalo, Milwaukee, Louisville, Los Angeles, and Portland. Internal emails show that then-Deputy Director Paul Abbate ordered the memo deleted from FBI systems, and that another official deleted access logs identifying who had viewed it.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said he found at least 13 FBI documents produced between 2009 and 2023 that used what he called “anti-Catholic terminology” and relied on SPLC information. Twenty state attorneys general criticized the FBI for citing the SPLC, apparently without independent vetting.
By June 2025, the SPLC had added Focus on the Family to its hate map. FRC President Jim Daly said the SPLC “always finds a way to hate Christians” and called the designation “potentially violent rhetoric.”
The 2024 hate map listed 96 organizations in the “anti-LGBTQ” category, applied to groups that promote parental rights, religious liberty, and opposition to gender ideology. The SPLC also designated the American College of Pediatricians as a hate group.
Former SPLC Intelligence Report editor-in-chief Mark Potok said in a speech, “I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.” Former Intelligence Project director Heidi Beirich said “there is a price to be paid” for organizations she adds to the list.
In May 2025, the SPLC published its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism 2024″ report, which included a section titled “Turning Point USA: A Case Study of the Hard Right in 2024,” placing the organization in its “Dismantling White Supremacy” series. Kirk responded on television, warning the designation would put his organization “in the crosshairs” and citing the FRC shooting as evidence.
He said, “They’re literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group list next to the KKK and neo-Nazi groups… Remember that there was a shooter who went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list.”
On September 10, 2025, less than four months after the designation, Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at a Turning Point USA campus event attended by approximately 3,000 people.
He was struck by a single bullet fired from a rooftop approximately 142 yards away and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The day before the assassination, the SPLC’s Hatewatch newsletter published an article naming Kirk and Turning Point USA as extremists.
The suspect, Tyler James Robinson, 22, surrendered to authorities on September 11. Prosecutors charged him with aggravated murder and said they would seek the death penalty.
Text messages Robinson allegedly sent to his roommate said he had planned the shooting for just over a week and had “enough of his hatred.” Robinson allegedly told his father he killed Kirk because “there is too much evil and the guy spreads too much hate.” Bullet casings carried inscriptions including “Hey fascist! Catch!”
Utah Governor Spencer Cox stated there was “clearly a leftist ideology” and that Robinson had been radicalized online through “the Reddit culture and these other dark places of the internet.” Investigators did not establish a direct link to the SPLC designation in the charging documents, unlike the FRC case, where Corkins explicitly cited the hate map in his FBI confession.
In December 2025 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, TPUSA Executive Vice President Andrew Sypher said Kirk’s warning had “proved prophetic.”
House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy stated: “As with FRC, in the aftermath of Charlie’s assassination, there have been no retractions, no accountability, and no acknowledgment of the risks inherent in branding mainstream political figures as existential threats.
These incidents, separated by 13 years but linked by the same targeting architecture, underscore a sobering reality. The SPLC’s designations don’t merely stigmatize. They can serve as ideological permission slips for individuals already willing to commit political violence.”
The SPLC also used its designations to exclude Christian organizations from donor platforms. Amazon’s AmazonSmile program relied on the SPLC to determine charity eligibility, barring designated Christian organizations while groups including Planned Parenthood and the Satanic Temple remained eligible. In 2017, D. James Kennedy Ministries filed a federal lawsuit against the SPLC, Amazon, and GuideStar USA after Amazon denied its AmazonSmile application based on the SPLC designation.
The ministry sued for defamation, religious discrimination, and trademark violation. Ministry president Frank Wright stated: “Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as ‘hate’ groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter.”
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal, ruling that “hate group” was too ambiguous a term to be provably false and that the ministry had not adequately alleged actual malice. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In 2020, House Judiciary Republicans sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos requesting a briefing on how AmazonSmile made eligibility determinations based on SPLC information.
The SPLC has also filed litigation opposing religious school funding, including a 2025 challenge to Tennessee’s universal voucher law and a motion to intervene against the Wilberforce Academy of Knoxville, a Christian charter school seeking public funds to provide biblical education. Courts ruled the “hate group” label constitutionally protected opinion, a legal shield the indictment now calls into question. An organization facing charges of financial fraud and manufacturing extremism served for years as a primary intelligence source used by federal law enforcement to target Christian organizations.
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Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge complained about people sharing video of a brutal beating in her city on social media “without context.” (WCPO-TV / YouTube screenshot)
The Gateway Pundit reported in October that Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge was placed on paid administrative leave after she was sued for anti-white bias.
WLWT reported at the time that City Manager Sheryl Long noted, “The City continues to face serious public safety challenges that underscore the need for stability at the command level.”
“Therefore, I’ve named Assistant Chief Adam Hennie as Interim Police Chief. Our focus remains on maintaining stability within the department and ensuring the highest standards of service to our residents. I have full confidence in Interim Chief Hennie and the department’s command staff to continue their dedicated work at this time.”
The civil rights lawsuit, filed by four veteran members of the Cincinnati Police Department, alleged workplace discrimination against the city and Police Chief Theetge.
The lawsuit alleges, according to WXIX, “The City and Chief Theetge have actively and systemically undertaken efforts to promote, advance, and make promotion and assignment decisions that are preferable to women and minorities, and to the exclusion of white men, including through hiring, diversity initiatives, outreach programs, promotional processes, and other steps that demonstrate both a systemic practice of discrimination against white males, and that there are background circumstances to support the suspicion that the defendant is that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.”
“Plaintiffs, who are all white males, applied for, and did not receive those positions. Furthermore, as respects the preferential assignments, each of the Plaintiffs were qualified for those positions.”
“And similarly situated persons received those preferential assignments on the basis of race and/or sex. Plaintiffs were treated differently than similarly situated employees of a different race and/or sex.”
On Friday, Fox News reported that City Manager Sheryl Long announced Theetge’s termination.
Per Fox News:

A termination announcement says Teresa Theetge was “begged” to put more officers on the streets during a crime-riddled summer last year. She was removed from her role as the city’s top law enforcement officer on Thursday after only about three years on the job. She was a police officer in Cincinnati for 35 years.
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“I recognize Chief Theetge’s more than 35 years of service to the Cincinnati Police Department and to this City. At the same time, after completing this review, it’s become clear that a change in leadership is necessary for the department moving forward,” Long said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Long’s brutal termination letter shares a multitude of reasons for Theetge’s termination, including:

Refusal to support the City’s Summer Safety Plan (2025)-She opposed the plan, did not fully staff requested police details (especially downtown and parks), and required the City Manager to repeatedly beg her to implement it.
Poor Leadership After High-Profile Shootings-Failed to provide strong leadership or direction after shootings near Fountain Square in October 2025. She attended a play instead of a public safety town hall the day after a shooting and did not properly prepare her assistant chief.
Lack of Collaboration & Communication-Had poor working relationships with other City departments, the School Board, and the Law Department and blocked or discouraged communication between her command staff and City Hall.
Perception of Favoritism, Nepotism, and Retaliation- The 2024 Cultural Assessment and an independent investigation both raised concerns about favoritism and retaliation inside the department.
Lack of Accountability-During her pre-disciplinary hearing, she took almost no responsibility and instead blamed others (City Manager, other departments, etc.).
Dishonesty During the Hearing-The letter states she made misleading or untrue statements during the pre-disciplinary hearing.

Stephen Imm, Theetge’s attorney, said in a statement that she will sue the city, the city manager, and the mayor for violating her constitutional rights.
WLWT reports:
Theetge’s attorney Stephen Imm released a statement calling today a “sad day for the City of Cincinnati.”
“Its leaders have taken the shameful step of dismissing one of its most accomplished and beloved public servants for no legitimate reason. They know their phony excuses for this disgraceful action are entirely false, but still chose to put this black mark on our great city. We will get justice for Terri Theetge, and those responsible for this disgusting act will be held accountable,” Imm said.
 
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A true liberal socialist, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has decided to eliminate racial wealth disparity by levying taxes by race.
The people of the East Village neighborhood in New York City are getting exactly what they voted for and they are not happy about it.
In fact, the people of this neighborhood, who voted for Mamdani by a margin of 70 percent, are now suing his administration because they don’t like his plan to locate a new homeless shelter there.
Have they not heard about the warmth of collectivism? Isn’t this precisely what they voted for?

Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani.
Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village. https://t.co/O9so7tGGlt pic.twitter.com/B1wPupD7RE
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) April 22, 2026

From the New York Post:
East Villagers sue Mamdani to stop relocation of notorious Bellevue men’s homeless shelter into their neighborhood
Enraged East Villagers sued Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a last-gasp effort to stop the relocation of hundreds of homeless men to a new shelter in their neighborhood.
The lawsuit filed Monday seeks an emergency restraining order that would prevent the “rushed” May 1 opening of the intake shelter along Third Street.
The site was selected by City Hall as one of two intake shelters in Manhattan that would effectively replace the notorious Bellevue homeless shelter — a haven for often-dangerous vagrants that Mamdani plans to close by the end of the month.
But Mamdani and city officials not only underhandedly declared an “emergency” to close the Midtown shelter, their decision to plunk its clientele into the East Village was dangerously slapdash, the lawsuit contends.
“This case is not about the City’s decision to close the Bellevue Intake Shelter,” the Manhattan Supreme Court filing states.
“It challenges only the City’s hastily made and legally invalid decision to [locate] a new citywide homeless adult male intake center at 8 East 3rd Street without following any of the legal requirements that must precede such a significant and consequential decision.”
Oh the irony.

Libs will literally vote for a communist and then sue him to protect their own backyards.
Sociopathic levels of contradiction. https://t.co/7KeOKpZY89
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 23, 2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[takes a breath]
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Elections have consequences.
Voting for socialist communists has severe consequences.
This is what you voted for!
Glorious!
— Uhtred of Bebbanburg (@conservativevin) April 22, 2026

It is very difficult to feel any sympathy in this situation.
What did these people think was going to happen when they voted for this man?
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Screencap of YouTube video.
The city of Los Angeles has a major street light problem. Thousands of the lights are out because thieves strip them of copper wire which they then turn around and sell for cash.
To deal with this problem and fix the lights, the city government is proposing a new TAX on the law abiding citizens who did not steal the copper wire. Can you even believe this?
The city wants to punish the people who didn’t ruin the street lights and make them pay to fix it. Unreal.
FOX 11 in Los Angeles reports:
Los Angeles voters to weigh fee increase for streetlight repairs amid copper theft concerns
A citywide plan to replace thousands of broken streetlights across Los Angeles could come with a cost increase for property owners under a proposed Proposition 218 assessment.
Mayor Karen Bass is urging voters to approve the measure, which would raise property-owner fees by an estimated 120% to help fund a $125 million program aimed at replacing more than 200,000 streetlights citywide. City officials say the current system generates roughly $45 million and has not been significantly updated since the 1990s, when Proposition 218 was adopted by California voters to require property-owner approval for new or increased local assessments.
Under the law, the city cannot raise streetlighting fees without a majority vote from affected property owners, a process that has kept much of the funding system largely unchanged for decades.
Ballots are expected to be mailed this week.
Across Los Angeles, officials say copper theft continues to worsen infrastructure problems, with thieves stripping wire from underground fiber lines and disabling streetlights in neighborhoods across the city. More than 32,000 streetlight repair requests remain pending.
In this video report, one LA resident notes the fact that the city is supposed to host the Olympics in the near future. How are they going to do that when they can’t even keep the lights on?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to enforce the law and punish people for stealing the copper wire? Isn’t that the logical fix for this problem?
When did punishing criminals become a controversial approach to governing a city, and why should the already burdened taxpayers have to fix this problem? Don’t they pay enough in taxes?
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Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center is being exposed, it is important to look back at some of the outrageous claims made by this group in the past.
It is absolutely amazing to think that in 2015, they put Dr. Ben Carson on an ‘extremist’ list. Is ‘extremist’ one of the words that comes into your mind when you think of Carson?
Perhaps when they targeted one of the most renowned and highly respected pediatric brain surgeons in the entire country in this way, it was a clue that they were not operating in good faith.
They were eventually forced to take Carson off the list and then apologized… sort of.
Breitbart News reported in 2015:
SPLC Apologizes, Removes Ben Carson from Extremist List
The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced they have removed Dr. Ben Carson from their “extremist” file.
In an unsigned statement released on Wednesday, SPLC said, “In October 2014, we posted an ‘Extremist File’ of Dr. Ben Carson. This week, as we’ve come under intense criticism for doing so, we’ve reviewed our profile and have concluded that it did not meet our standards, so we have taken it down and apologize to Dr. Carson for having posted it.”
Though the statement goes on to laud Dr. Carson’s contribution “to medicine, his philanthropic work,” and his “personal story,” they still “believe his views should be closely examined.” SPLC insists, “Dr. Carson has, in fact, made a number of statements that express views that we believe most people would conclude are extreme.”
SPLC lists a number of Carson quotes they charge are extremist, including his comparison of Obamacare to slavery, and that we now “live in a society where people are afraid to say what they believe.”
SPLC is a group that had raised hundreds of millions of dollars—they currently have $300 million under financial management—publishing lists of Nazis, Skin Heads, and KKK groups. In recent years, they have taken on the LGBT cause and have started putting Christian conservatives on their hate lists.
Dr. Carson is a good and decent man who spent his life saving the lives of other people, mostly children.
For the SPLC to treat him in this way speaks volumes about what kind of people are part of that organization. It’s a shame Carson didn’t sue them out of existence back then.
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Screencap of Twitter/X video.
A Democrat state senator in Virginia named Lamont Bagby recently said that he understands rural America because he grew up watching TV shows like the Dukes of Hazard and the Waltons.
Does this line of thinking apply to other TV shows? Does watching Law & Order make one qualified to be a cop or a district attorney?
It’s fun to imagine how the liberal media would treat this if it was said by a conservative Republican.
The Daily Caller reported:
Democrat Says He Understands Rural America Because He Watched Classic Shows Like ‘Waltons,’ ‘Dukes Of Hazzard’
Democratic Virginia state Sen. Lamont Bagby claimed Thursday that watching “The Dukes of Hazzard,” “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The Waltons” as a child taught him about rural America.
A judge in Tazewell County, Virginia, declared Virginia’s redistricting referendum that passed with just 51.5% of the vote Tuesday was unconstitutional, citing both procedural violations and ruling that the state’s Democratically-controlled Legislature exceeded its authority. Bagby, who represents parts of Henrico County and the state capital, Richmond, argued during a floor debate on the referendum that he understood rural Virginians because he had watched classic TV shows depicting rural culture.
“And listen, I almost took issue with the other side saying that we don’t understand [rural America],” Bagby said during the floor debate. “But I grew up watching ‘The Waltons,’ I grew up with Opie [the son of a sheriff played by Andy Griffith], I even watched the ‘Dukes of Hazzard.’ I think I know a little bit about rural America.”
Here’s the video:

NEW: During a floor debate on gerrymandering, Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby (D) says he knows a little bit about rural America because he watched Dukes of Hazzard. pic.twitter.com/b3BtbLn4V1
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) April 23, 2026

Here are a few responses.

I watched Star Trek a few times, does that mean I’m a space man now?
— Deplorable Garbage Petr@ does it matter? (@PragueArtist) April 23, 2026

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— Pedro Tapir (@PedroTapir) April 23, 2026

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— Pitboxer Creations (@pitboxer_crafts) April 23, 2026

He really walked into that one. Oof.
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Angelina Han Hicks (Davidson County Sheriff’s Office)
A disturbing and deeply unsettling plot to carry out a mass-casualty attack at a Texas synagogue has been foiled
Authorities have arrested 18-year-old Angelina Han Hicks of Lexington, North Carolina, after uncovering what investigators describe as a coordinated plan to carry out a horrific attack on members of Congregation Beth Israel in Houston, Texas.
According to court documents and law enforcement officials, Hicks allegedly conspired with at least two other individuals to carry out a violent assault targeting Jewish worshippers.
The plan reportedly involved using a vehicle to drive into a congregation with the explicit goal of killing as many people as possible.
Federal authorities say the FBI received a tip that triggered a rapid multi-agency response, ultimately leading to Hicks’ arrest at her home.
She now faces multiple felony charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit assault with a deadly weapon. Her bond has been set at a staggering $10 million.
FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X:
On Tuesday FBI received a tip that an individual out of Lexington, North Carolina was planning a mass casualty event at a Jewish Day School near Houston, Texas.
@FBICharlotte and @FBIHouston acted quickly, and working with our outstanding local partners in the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, the subject has been taken into custody.
Investigation ongoing. Thank you to our Joint Terrorism Task Force personnel, FBI teams and local partners for their decisive work that likely saved lives.

On Tuesday FBI received a tip that an individual out of Lexington, North Carolina was planning a mass casualty event at a Jewish Day School near Houston, Texas. @FBICharlotte and @FBIHouston acted quickly, and working with our outstanding local partners in the Davidson County… pic.twitter.com/pqaItJ55i5
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 23, 2026

FOX8 reported:
Hicks allegedly conspired with two men referred to as “Teegan” and “Angel,” whose last names are currently unknown, to commit murder against members of the synagogue, according to warrants.
The Houston Chronicle cites a court order that stated, “The conspiracy is to kill as many Jews as possible by driving through a congregation at a synagogue.”
The attack was allegedly planned for April 21, 2028, about two years from now, warrants say.
“The date doesn’t reflect the entirety of the evidence and shouldn’t be interpreted to mean the contemplated acts were not imminent,” said District Attorney Garry Frank’s Office, which covers North Carolina Prosecutorial District 33.
Frank added that the investigation is unfolding across three states and includes the federal government.
Hicks’ father spoke to FOX8 after her arrest, describing the charges as “fabricated” and “way over the top.”
He says Hicks was playing a dark online fantasy game and described her as a “good kid” who was set to graduate in two weeks. She does not have a vehicle or a driver’s license.
“We miss her and we’re sick over this mess,” Hicks’ father said. “And it looks like they just want to get paid because she’s no threat to anyone other than being a fantasy video [game] player.”
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