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Credit: Talarico for Texas
In the wake of President Trump’s decisive second-term victory, the Democratic Party finds itself in full retreat mode. The old playbook, full of shoving Woke extremism, drag queen story hours, and open borders down America’s throat, backfired spectacularly.
So now they’re trying a new tactic: pretending to be one of us. No more rainbow flags and “defund the police” chants in public.
Instead, they’re courting centrists, independents, and – most brazenly – the very heart of the MAGA base: churchgoing white Christians, Baptists, Evangelicals, and everyday folks who still believe in the God of the Bible.
Nowhere is this deception more obvious than in the 2026 Texas U.S. Senate race. Texas hasn’t sent a Democrat to statewide office since 1994, yet the party is all-in on James Talarico, their freshly minted nominee for the Class II seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn.
Talarico, a 36-year-old state representative and Presbyterian seminarian, is being sold as a “man of deep faith” – a Lord-begging, Scripture-quoting Texan who supposedly shares the values of Sunday-morning pew-sitters across the Lone Star State. Don’t buy it. This is classic wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing territory, straight out of Matthew 7:15.
Talarico doesn’t hide his church membership. He’s been at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin since he was a toddler, and he frames every policy through a distorted Christian lens.
“Love thy neighbor” becomes his justification for open borders and taxpayer-funded abortion. He preaches that Jesus was a “feminist” and twists the Annunciation story to claim Mary’s consent somehow endorses abortion rights.
He’s called God “non-binary,” insisted trans kids are “God’s children,” and defended access to abortion for transgender minors. His home church flies rainbow flags, pushes reproductive “justice,” and has a long track record of ordaining gay clergy and sheltering illegal immigrants.
This is not the Christianity that built Texas or America. Baptists and Evangelicals – the most populous faith groups in the country – overwhelmingly reject these positions.
They believe life begins at conception, marriage is between one man and one woman, and biological sex is not a social construct.
Talarico’s brand of faith is mainline Presbyterian progressivism: heavy on social justice rhetoric, light on actual biblical orthodoxy.
He rails against “Christian nationalism” while hijacking Jesus’ words to bless every item on the Democratic wish list – from gender ideology to wealth redistribution.
The broader Democratic strategy is clear. After years of alienating religious voters, party operatives have decided to “faith-wash” their agenda.
They’re flooding church-adjacent spaces with talk of compassion and neighborly love while quietly advancing policies that shred the family, redefine human dignity, and mock traditional morality.
In Texas, this isn’t subtle. Talarico’s viral clips quote Scripture to defend LGBTQ+ causes and abortion access – exactly the issues ordinary believers see as direct assaults on God’s design. It’s lip service wrapped in a seminarian’s collar.
Make no mistake: this is a trap. Democrats aren’t converting to traditional values – they’re co-opting the language of faith to peel off just enough church voters to flip a red state purple.
They know Texas remains a GOP stronghold. They know the Christian base decides elections here. So they’re donning the sheep’s clothing, hoping believers won’t notice the ravenous policy wolf underneath.
Texas Christians have seen this movie before. Progressive “faith leaders” have spent decades whitewashing tombs – beautiful on the outside, full of dead men’s bones inside (Matthew 23:27). T
alarico’s campaign is the latest chapter: a Trojan horse rolled straight into the sanctuary, promising “higher values” while delivering the same radical agenda that lost them the White House.
The 2026 Senate race is still months away, but the warning lights are flashing. Real faith doesn’t bend Scripture to fit the latest Woke fad. Real American Christian heritage – forged by Baptists, Evangelicals, and generations of believers – defends life, family, and liberty without apology. Don’t let the Democrats’ new church tour fool you. They aren’t coming to pray with you. They’re coming to convert you – to their side.
Texas voters, keep your eyes open. The wolves are in the flock, and they’re wearing clerical collars this time.
Mike Robertson is a U.S. domestic and foreign policy analyst and commentator, with more than 30 years of law enforcement experience in some of the toughest neighborhoods. You may follow him on X at @Mike_for_MAGA and Reddit.
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The Trump administration, including President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, has brought faith back to the U.S. government. Photo courtesy of the Presidential Prayer Team.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU), a secular advocacy organization founded in 1947, has filed two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Labor, alleging both agencies illegally withheld public records related to monthly Christian prayer services organized by their respective department heads.
The suits, filed March 23, 2026, in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., are procedural in nature and do not directly challenge the constitutionality of the prayer services.
They are the fourth and fifth FOIA lawsuits AU has filed against the Trump administration, following earlier suits against the Departments of Health and Human Services, State, and Veterans Affairs over implementation of the president’s February 2025 executive order aimed at eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government.
The prayer services began in May 2025, when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth organized the first “Secretary’s Christian Prayer and Worship Service” during a workday at the Pentagon auditorium.
The event was broadcast live on the Department of War’s internal television network, and all department employees were invited to attend. Hegseth’s pastor, Brooks Potteiger of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a congregation of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, delivered the first address. The services have continued monthly since.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer launched a parallel initiative at the Department of Labor in December 2025, citing Hegseth’s services as her inspiration.
At the inaugural DOL service on December 10, Chavez-DeRemer spoke of her Catholic faith and said the country would “probably need a little more prayer” as it marked its 250th year. The services have also continued monthly at Labor.
When a federal agency organizes an official event, it generates a paper trail subject to FOIA, meaning any member of the public can formally request those records.
AU submitted requests to both agencies in December 2025 seeking communications with employees, contractors, and other agencies about the services; costs; the time employees spent coordinating them; invited speakers and transcripts; and any internal complaints. Under FOIA, agencies are legally required to respond within 20 business days.
When neither agency did, AU sued to compel disclosure. The records AU is demanding almost certainly exist. Invitations were drafted and distributed, making them government records subject to FOIA.
The Pentagon auditorium requires staffing, audio-visual support, and security, all of which generate cost records. Bringing in outside speakers requires correspondence or contracts.
The services were broadcast on DOD’s internal network, which requires technical coordination that produces documentation. Any employee who filed a formal objection would have generated a complaint record.
The gap between AU’s legal argument and its public statements is worth noting. The legal basis of the current suits is entirely procedural, as agencies did not respond to records requests on time.
But AU’s public statements go further, with President and CEO Rachel Laser accusing Hegseth and Chavez-DeRemer of abusing government positions and taxpayer resources to impose religion on federal workers, and claiming that even voluntary services carry implicit coercion because employees may feel pressure to attend to appease superiors.
That coercion argument is an assertion, not an established fact. AU has not produced evidence that any employee was disciplined or penalized for not attending. A court ruling on the FOIA suits will not address it.
The FOIA suits appear to be a first step toward a more substantive constitutional challenge. However, despite its widespread use in political debate, the phrase “separation of church and state” appears nowhere in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Federalist Papers, and therefore has no legal standing. Consequently, claiming that a prayer service violates the separation of church and state would have no legal weight in court.
If the records reveal significant taxpayer expenditure on the services, evidence of employee pressure through official channels, or internal complaints that were ignored, that material could form the factual foundation for an Establishment Clause lawsuit. Without the records, such a case would be speculative.
The strategy of filing a FOIA request, suing when agencies do not comply, then using the documents to build a larger case, is a standard litigation approach for advocacy organizations.
Whether that larger case could succeed is another question. The Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District substantially strengthened the right of government employees to engage in personal religious expression in their official capacity. In that case, a public-school football coach who prayed on the field after games was found to be protected under the First Amendment.
A Cabinet secretary holding voluntary prayer services in a government building is on comparable or stronger legal ground. Any Establishment Clause challenge would face that precedent directly and would likely fail before the current court.
The services have continued through the U.S. military operation in Iran. At a recent Pentagon service, Hegseth read a prayer delivered by a military chaplain to troops who had captured former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro: “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation.”
He told attendees that the monthly gathering was all the more fitting given what tens of thousands of Americans were doing at that moment.
The most probable outcome of the current litigation is that a court will order the agencies to produce the requested records, as courts routinely compel FOIA compliance regardless of the subject matter involved. AU will then assess whether those records support a constitutional challenge.
Any future challenge would have to rest on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion, a significantly narrower legal standard than the phrase implies, and one the current Supreme Court has interpreted with increasing deference to religious expression.
Given the Supreme Court’s direction on religious liberty, the prayers will almost certainly continue.
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As TGP’s Cassandra MacDonald reported on Saturday, Vice President JD Vance announced no deal had been reached with Iran after a 21-hour marathon negotiations.
Vance made the announcement during a press conference in Islamabad on Saturday night.
The Vice President traveled to Pakistan to engage in historic, direct negotiations with Iran after President Trump announced a double-sided ceasefire last week.
“We’ve been at it now for 21 hours, and we’ve had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians. That’s the good news,” Vance said.
“The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the United States of America,” he added.
WATCH:

JD Vance: “The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement. And I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it’s bad news for the US. So, we go back to the US having not come to an agreement … they have chosen not to accept our terms” pic.twitter.com/uqFnwVT76g
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 12, 2026

At the time it was unclear which specific ‘red line’ points the US and Iran could not agree to during the negotiations.
“We’ve made very clear what our red lines are, what things we’re willing to accommodate them on, and what things we’re not willing to accommodate them on, and we’ve made that as clear as we possibly could,” Vance said. “Iran may have chosen not to accept our terms.”
“Well, I won’t go into all the details because I don’t want to negotiate in public after we negotiated for 21 hours in private,” Vance said.
“But the simple fact is that we need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon, and they will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. That is the core goal of the President of the United States, and that’s what we’ve tried to achieve through these negotiations,” he said.
Here is the US’s ‘red line’ list according to Semafor (It is unclear if any points were agreed upon):
– End all uranium enrichment
– Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
– Retrieve highly enriched uranium
– Accept a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies
– End funding for terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis
– Fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage

Per a US official, the US and Iran did not reach agreement to all of the following points during talks this weekend (which are considered red lines for the US):
– End all uranium enrichment
– Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
– Retrieve highly enriched uranium…
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) April 12, 2026

On Sunday, following Vance’s announcement that Iran failed to agree to the US’s terms, President Trump and CENTCOM announced that there will be a Naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports on April 13 at 10 a.m. ET, in accordance with the President’s proclamation.
The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports.

https://t.co/YAFhMBm7hA
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 12, 2026

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Rep. Eric Swalwell – Screencap of Twitter/X video.
Rep. Eric Swalwell’s problems are just going from bad to worse.
The California Democrat, who was until recently leading the polls for California’s upcoming gubernatorial race, is now facing allegations that he violated both immigration and campaign finance laws.
According to a report from The New York Post, two complaints filed with federal authorities claim Swalwell and his wife kept Brazilian national Amanda Barbosa working for them after her legal work status expired.
One complaint filed with the Department of Labor alleges the couple misled federal authorities to extend her stay.
A separate complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security claims Swalwell paid Barbosa under the table using campaign funds while she lacked valid work authorization.
Barbosa first arrived in the United States in 2021 on an au pair visa. She was hired later that year to care for the couple’s three children.

We were going to wait until just before the California Governor primary to NUKE Eric Swalwell out of the race with my recordings of him inebriated with lobbyists at dinner
But now that his DEMOCRAT friends are calling on him to DROP OUT, I guess I don’t have to wait!
Stay… pic.twitter.com/u0vepnwemn
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 10, 2026

Federal Election Commission records show Barbosa received $3,914 in campaign funds in 2021, followed by $46,930 in 2022.
Her visa expired in December 2022. Under student visa rules, which she later used, she was not permitted to work off campus.
Despite that, complaints allege she continued working as a live-in nanny for the family.
Social media posts reviewed in the filings appear to show Barbosa regularly caring for the children throughout 2023 and 2024, including at family events and public appearances.
Campaign records show payments to Barbosa stopped on paper after 2022.
However, more than $52,000 in childcare expenses were later reimbursed directly to Swalwell, a move the complaint alleges was used to conceal continued payments.
By 2025, Barbosa was again listed in campaign payments, receiving $38,905, according to FEC data.

Eric Swalwell paid illegal Brazilian live-in nanny under the table with campaign funds, complaint alleges https://t.co/4czJUiaevZ pic.twitter.com/CvxWXz75Vu
— New York Post (@nypost) April 11, 2026

Swalwell’s campaign has already been rocked by multiple sexual assault accusations, including claims from a former staffer who alleges he raped her.
He has denied those allegations, calling them “absolutely false” and refusing to drop out the race.

Hear it directly from me. These allegations are flat false. And I will fight them. pic.twitter.com/bQSlCquD1U
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 11, 2026

It has since been reported that the Manhattan District Attorney is investigating Swalwell in relation to the sexual assault allegations.
Meanwhile, even most his supporters have called on him to drop out the race for the California governorship.
Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Launches Investigation Into Swalwell Sexual Assault Allegations
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Parents, students, and the community in Montgomery County, Maryland, have been left rattled after graffiti honoring the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooter, Adam Lanza, was discovered on Bradley Hills Elementary School over the weekend.
The graffiti, which read “RIP Adam Lanza,” was found painted on a fence at the elementary school on Saturday.
In 2012, Lanza shocked and saddened the world when he carried out the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, murdering 20 first-grade children and six adults before taking his own life.
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) immediately notified families in a letter sent to the Bradley Hills Elementary community.
MCPS Chief of Schools Dr. Peter O. Moran wrote:
“Today, graffiti was discovered on a fence at Bradley Hills Elementary School that included the name of the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. To be clear, the use of the name of an individual responsible for such a heinous act, one that involved the loss of life of young school children, can only be interpreted as an act intended to intimidate and cause fear within the Bradley Hills School community, and the broader neighborhood and community, too.”
Dr. Moran added that the “despicable act” would be met with a “substantial and uniform response” from MCPS and the Montgomery County Police Department.
School staff documented the graffiti, and a building services team removed it before the end of Saturday evening.
This latest act of vandalism comes just days after another alarming incident at the same school, an outdoor storage shed on the grounds was intentionally set on fire earlier in the week.
Police and school officials are investigating whether the two events are connected.
Security camera footage from the school has been turned over to investigators.
No suspects have been identified, and no arrests have been announced.
In response to the incidents, authorities have increased patrols around the school, with additional police and MCPS security presence planned for Monday morning when students return.
Dr. Moran emphasized, “We understand how both of these incidents are extremely unsettling and concerning for students, families, staff, and neighbors. Please know that school leaders, security team members, and our law enforcement partners are taking this very seriously.”
The school is urging anyone with information to contact the Montgomery County Police Department non-emergency line at 301-279-8000. Anonymous tips can also be submitted via the Maryland Safe Schools Tip Line at 1-833-632-7233 or online here.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, just last month, two teenage girls at Lake Brantley High School in Seminole County, Florida, one of whom claims to be transgender, were charged with attempted premeditated murder after authorities say one became obsessed with Lanza and plotted to kill a male classmate in a bizarre “blood ritual” to bring him back to life.
Isabelle Aurelia Valdez, 15, who court documents and police reports identify as transgender and goes by the name “Jimmy,” allegedly stalked the victim for months because he reminded her of Lanza.
According to Altamonte Springs Police reports and court filings, Valdez planned to lure the boy into an upstairs bathroom during his second-period class, push him into a stall, slash his throat or stab him in the stomach, drink his blood, and place flowers on his body.
Valdez is said to have believed the act would create a “blood bond” that would resurrect Lanza.
Her 14-year-old best friend, Lois Lippert, allegedly helped by bringing flowers to school and sharpening the knife in the bathroom. The pair also gathered gloves, trash bags, wipes, cigarettes, and a lighter for the ritual.
The pair was busted when an anonymous tip was submitted through a school safety tip line in January.
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Whenever this man issues a stock market warning…
You should stop and listen because…
He’s the famous economist and best-selling author who predicted the two biggest stock market crashes of the last two decades.
He predicted the 2008 meltdown…
Just three weeks before Lehman Brothers imploded and the stock market collapsed…
And he predicted the COVID meltdown…
Again just three weeks before the stock market suffered the fastest drop in history.
He’s now predicting we’re about to see an AI meltdown of historic proportions…
Similar to what happened in 2000 during the dotcom bust…
When the stock market crashed almost 80%…
Ruining the retirement of millions of Americans.
In short, he believes the most important AI company in the world is about to go bust…
In a meltdown that will be 10 times bigger than Lehman Brothers…
….sending a ripple effect through the market that could crater the entire AI industry.
And he’s warning everyone to take these five simple steps to prepare.
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A 14-year-old kid has now qualified to appear on the general election ballot for Governor of Vermont this November.
Dean Roy, a freshman at Stowe High School who also works part-time at his parents’ pizza shop and served as a legislative page at the Vermont Statehouse last year, has become the first teenager under 18 to qualify for the state’s general election ballot for governor.
He did it by founding his own third-party outfit called the Freedom and Unity Party.
“I know it sounds crazy, a 14-year-old running for governor,” Roy said in a video posted to Instagram. “But honestly, look at the people in charge right now. They’ve been doing this forever and things still aren’t working.”
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Weekend this morning, Roy laid out a no-nonsense platform.
“Yeah, so the platform that I’m running on mainly focuses on housing, energy, healthcare, and education.
For housing, it mainly revolves around deregulating with regard to Act 250 and increasing taxes on short-term rentals, which are a very prominent problem in Vermont.
For energy, it’s nuclear power. If we were to reopen a nuclear power plant, we would secure energy independence.
And for education and healthcare, it’s auditing those systems, which are very inefficient in Vermont, and making sure that we get them to be efficient once again—and that they’re at a standard where Vermonters can both afford them and lower their tax bill.”
WATCH:

A 14-year-old kid is running for Governor of Vermont and will appear on the general election ballot.
Dean Roy: “The platform I’m running on mainly focuses on housing, energy, healthcare, and education.”
⁰“For housing, it’s mainly involving deregulating… For energy, it’s… pic.twitter.com/HgrEVl4itd
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 12, 2026

People reported:

Roy’s platform focuses on affordability and smaller government in Vermont. He promises to lower taxes for families and small businesses, implement housing reform and reject incumbent Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s EV mandate, a policy to slash greenhouse emissions by requiring that 35% of vehicles delivered to car dealers in Vermont be zero emission; Scott paused the mandate in May.
Roy also promises “no new restrictions of any kind on guns, construction, or farming” in his platform, and emphasizes his focus on residents’ “personal freedoms.”
[…]
Roy said in an interview with the Stowe Reporter in July that isn’t expecting to beat out Gov. Scott in the election, and understands critics who say he’s not old enough to run the state. Still, he’s running his campaign as a way to launch his career in politics and introduce himself to voters.
While speaking to ABC News, Roy said if he did win, he would not drop out of school, but would enroll in online studies, saying, “It’d be hard, but I can do it.”

His friend, Charlie Bass, is also running for Lieutenant Governor of the State of Vermont.
Vermont’s constitution has no minimum age requirement for governor – only a four-year residency rule that Roy easily meets. Most states demand you be 30 or older. While the establishment wrings its hands and questions if a 14-year-old is “ready,” Roy is proving that real leadership isn’t about age, it’s about results. The current crop of politicians sure hasn’t delivered any.
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Screencap of YouTube video.
Like so many other liberals in media, Bill Maher is already set to declare defeat on Iran. They just can’t stand the idea of any success when it comes to Trump.
During Maher’s show on Friday night, he suggested that we should just cut and run, then going on to say that’s what we have always done.
When Maher was finished talking however, British conservative commentator Douglas Murray had a chance to speak and he took Maher’s argument apart with ease.
Transcript via Overton News:
MAHER: “We did it and it didn’t work.”
“Now what? Do we cut and run or do we stay the course?”
“I hope Donald Trump is the abandoner he’s always been.”
“We always cut and run!”
“We did it in Vietnam, we did it in Iraq, we did it to the Kurds, we did it in Afghanistan, we did it in Beirut.”
“That’s us. No lifeguard on duty.”
“If you get in with us, we are going to fck you, and that’s Donald Trump. He’s an ashole but he’s our a*shole.”
Murray pushed back with a blunt assessment of what he says actually happened on the ground:
MURRAY: “I disagree because I think once started, you have to finish this.”
“I don’t agree that it’s failed.”
“It’s been an incredibly successful operation in lots of ways.”
“Supreme leader dead, Iranian air force destroyed, nuclear sites attacked again.”
“The Navy of Iranian Revolutionary government at the bottom of the ocean.”
“These are not small things.”
“It’s not the case that the Iranian Revolutionary government has come out of this well.”
“I know that some people are wanting to say that after four to six weeks of war, this is some kind of loss for America.”
“It isn’t.”
“It’s an amazing strategic success but everyone wants to know what the out is.”
Watch the video below:

Douglas Murray just shattered the “failure” narrative with receipts after Bill Maher declared the Iran operation a disaster and called for the U.S. to “cut and run!”
MAHER: “We did it and it didn’t work.”
“Now what? Do we cut and run or do we stay the course?”
“I hope Donald… pic.twitter.com/uZZgRdX19l
— Overton (@overton_news) April 11, 2026

Murray’s argument is simple, to the point, and completely correct. Maher sounds like an utter fool in comparison.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin – Credit: MSNBC screenshot
Rep. Jamie Raskin and other House Democrats are demanding that the White House perform a cognitive assessment of President Trump and publish the results.
Republicans, members of the Trump administration, and the general public should point and laugh at these people. Ridicule them harshly until they wander away in defeat.
These are the same people who not only defended Joe Biden for four years, but smeared anyone who dared to question Biden’s obvious issues of mental acuity.
The Hill reported:
Raskin asks White House physician for ‘comprehensive cognitive assessment’ of Trump
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Friday pressed the White House physician for a full evaluation of President Trump’s cognitive abilities.
In a letter to Sean Barbabella, a Navy captain serving as Trump’s official doctor, Raskin argued that Trump’s words and actions in recent months — particularly those surrounding the Iran war — have raised enough questions about the president’s mental acuity to merit a “comprehensive cognitive assessment.” Raskin wants the results shared publicly.
“Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline. And, in recent days, the country has watched President Trump’s public statements and outbursts turn increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening,” wrote Raskin, the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.
“His apparently deteriorating condition has caused tremendous alarm across the nation (and political spectrum) about the President’s cognitive function and continuing mental fitness for the office of President, and prompted concerns about the President’s wellbeing.”
These people have no shame whatsoever.

JUST IN: House Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, demand President Trump sit for a cognitive exam and the results be released to the public. House Democrats have no legal authority to force the White House ro comply. Their letter to the White House Physician is here: pic.twitter.com/98xXZFrWcL
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) April 10, 2026

Watch below as Raskin defended Joe Biden’s mental state in 2024 before his party forced him out of the race.

FLASHBACK: Jamie Raskin calls Robert Hur’s accurate assessment of Biden’s cognitive issues “ridiculous cheap shots” — then goes on to defend Biden’s mental sharpness.pic.twitter.com/oRfIrU5V9o https://t.co/CejfAdDpM0
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 10, 2026

In fact, Raskin has been playing this game since 2017.

Scumbag Raskin was doing this back in 2017, claiming that Trump was unfit for office and should be removed via the 25th amendment.
In 2024 Raskin claimed that Biden’s age was a strength and that it was helping to heal the world.pic.twitter.com/csSNMyko1O https://t.co/VKom9CwxRI
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 10, 2026

Raskin and his fellow Democrats should be told to simply sit down and shut up. They do not have a single leg to stand on here.
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Eric Swalwell
Have you been surprised by the liberal media’s willingness to report on all of the explosive developments in the scandal surrounding Rep. Eric Swalwell?
He is, after all, the top Democrat candidate in the race for governor of California. Why would the liberal media report all of this news instead of trying to downplay it?
There is a very good answer for these questions, and as usual, it all has to do with the media trying to help the Democrats.
More specifically, it is about trying to make sure that the job of governor of California remains under Democrat control.
John Nolte of Breitbart News recently broke this down perfectly:
This is the corporate media doing what the corporate media always do… If you want to understand how the media operate, whenever you see the media do something — anything — ask yourself one question: How does this benefit Democrats? To wit…
The upcoming June 2 California gubernatorial primary is not like other primaries. Instead of one Democrat primary winner and one Republican primary winner facing off in the general election, the top two vote-getters advance to the general election… regardless of party. Now go and look at the polls. As you can see, there’s a very real chance two Republicans could win the primary, which would ensure a Republican becomes governor of California.
The media and Democrats cannot allow that possibility, so it’s been decided that Swalwell must be sacrificed. His sacrifice will break the three-way tie between the three top Democrats — Swalwell, Katie Porter, and Tom Steyer — and once Swalwell’s 15 percent support moves to the other two, one or both is certain to go on to compete in the general election, which practically ensures Democrats hold onto California’s governor’s seat.
You see, if Swalwell were polling at 30 percent instead of his current 15 percent, the media cover-up of these allegations would continue because no one would be sweating a Republican sneaking into victory.
That’s it in a nutshell.
The liberal media did not suddenly grow a conscience. They are the same partisan hacks they have always been.
They want Swalwell out of the way so that the Democrats can win. He is being sacrificed for the greater good.
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