Derrick Anderson for Congress: INVITATION: Derrick Anderson's Thank You Event

You're Invited! To everyone who volunteered, knocked on doors, made phone calls, and supported our campaign—thank you. Your dedication and hard work made an incredible difference, and I'm so grateful for everything you did to help us along this journey. I'd love the chance to thank you in person! Please join me on Monday, December 9th at Highmark Brewery for a special thank-you event. When: 6:30 PM Where: Highmark Brewery 390 Kings Highway Fredericksburg, VA 24405 Click the link below to RSVP, and let me know you'll be there! I look forward to seeing all of you there - Derrick Anderson

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Flint Engleman: AFP Christmas Event Announcement: Enjoy Our Festive Occasion at The English Inn of Charlottesville | Remember to RSVP

Americans for Prosperity's 12^th Annual Christmas Gathering is coming up soon.  Join us at our special venue – The English Inn of Charlottesville on Sunday, December 15^th.  Enjoy good cheer, delicious holiday buffet, festive music, and fun Christmas décor alongside local freedom focused citizens. Feel free to come by anytime 3:30-5:30pm.  Let's celebrate America for the holidays!

 

Please RSVP in advance for the event. Contact Flint Engleman at FEngleman@afphq.org or call/text (540)226-4591

 

12^th Annual AFP Skyline Region Christmas Gathering

Sunday, December 15^th 3:30-5:30PM

Florida Family Association: This company’s advertising supports HuffPost hyping hate toward conservatives with fake fear mongering.

The November 21, 2024 HuffPost headline posted below shows how this commercial news site has turned into a political machine aimed at hyping fake fear mongering toward conservatives.

HuffPost continues to raise money, over and above advertising revenues, in order to push extreme left partisan politics and disinformation.   If you click on the headline "60 DAYS TIL TRUMP TAKES OFFICE. We won't back down.  Support HuffPost today" this is what is published for visitors to read.

HuffPost Needs Your Support Now More Than Ever

Now that Donald Trump has regained the most powerful seat in the world, one should believe he will act on all of his fresh grievances, threats to enact a dictatorship on Day One, and for calls of retribution against his enemies. America is facing the greatest challenge to our democratic experiment since the Civil War.

This is not a drill. But now is not the time to cower or capitulate. I can promise you that HuffPost is doing neither. You can do your part and join us in this fight. Click below to support HuffPost's fearless journalism.

— HuffPost Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton

Companies that advertise at Huffpost.com knowing about this new openly partisan and deliberate disinformation posture are complicit with leftist extremism.

The Good News in all of this is that this is also a sign that HuffPost.com is running out of money after Florida Family Association influenced 2,757 companies to stop advertising as of October 31, 2024.

HuffPost publishes more leftist vitriol that is read by more readers than almost any other leftist news site.   As liberal and leftist as the Washington Post is its articles pale in comparison to the hate and vitriol that takes up a large portion of the Huffpost.com news site.  HuffPost.com has published hundreds of articles that spew vitriol in its obvious objective to tarnish the public image of military service members, law enforcement officers, conservative Christians and Jews, conservative leaders and white people.  Huffpost.com has defended Sharia law, defended the Muslim Brotherhood, fundraised for the Council on American Islamic Relations, blamed Christians for worldwide conflict with Muslims, promoted an anti-Semitic blog, encouraged Islamist demagoguery, and promoted other Islamist propaganda.

It is important to take on some companies that continued to frequently advertise at Huffpost.com while Florida Family Association was focused on the elections and other issues during the past three months.

Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People has frequently advertised at HuffPost since April 2024.  Florida Family Association sent numerous emails to express concern to Urban Outfitters regarding its advertising support for HuffPost.  However, the company continues to advertise.  Urban Outfitters certainly has the right to advertise on whatever media it chooses.  Likewise, you have the same right to voice concern and not patronize companies that support leftist political extremism, vitriolic disinformation and Islamist propaganda with its customers' money.

Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to urge Urban Outfitters officials to stop supporting HuffPost.com's leftist political extremism, vitriolic disinformation and Islamist propaganda with its customers' money.

To send your email, please click the following link, enter your name and email address then click the "Send Your Message" button. You may also edit the subject or message text if you wish.

Click here to send your email to urge Urban Outfitters officials to stop supporting HuffPost.com's leftist political extremism, vitriolic disinformation and Islamist propaganda with its customers' money.

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Save the Date: Christmas Gala -- Tuesday, December 17th

RPV Chairman Rich Anderson is the Guest Speaker at MCRW's Dinner Meeting Tuesday!

Please bring a donation of canned food for the local food pantry.

Immigration Reform Law Institute: IRLI Moves to Enjoin Biden Border Policies

Shows knowingly crashing the border violates constitutional duty to take care

WASHINGTON—On behalf of Texas rancher and veterinarian Michael ("Doc") Vickers, Kinney County, Texas, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe, and Atascosa County, Texas, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in a Texas federal district court to shut down the Biden Administration's immigration policies as a failure in its duty, under the Constitution, to take care that the nation's laws be faithfully executed.   The motion sets out how the administration, with full knowledge of the likely consequences, has adopted policy after policy that, in concert, have resulted in the biggest influx of illegal aliens into America in our history. This result is the exact opposite of the purpose of federal immigration law, which is operational control of the border, defined as zero illegal entries.   When the executive knowingly frustrates the purposes of the laws it is supposed to be enforcing, and adopts policies calculated to achieve the polar opposite of those purposes, it robs Congress of its legislative power, and thus unconstitutionally fails to take care to execute those laws faithfully, the motion shows. In this way, the administration's actions go far beyond mere lax enforcement and rise to the level of a constitutional violation. No prior administration in the history of the Republic has acted, with respect to the laws it was charged with enforcing, the way Biden's has acted under the immigration laws.   "By this time, it is glaringly obvious to all that the Biden Administration has deliberately crashed border security in order to flood the country with as many illegal aliens as possible," said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI. "This is no mere policy failure, or just a violation of statutes, but flagrant disobedience to the Constitution. We hope the court sees Biden's war on the laws he is supposed to be enforcing as the constitutional offense it is, and grants the injunction."   The case is Vickers v. Biden, No. 2:24-cv-00169 (S.D. Tex.).

National Federation of Republican Women: **Mahalo!**

A Message from the President Mahalo! We are proud to highlight below, a few of NFRW's members and friends who have been selected or nominated to lead America during President-Elect Donald Trump's administration. We look forward to seeing more of our exceptional leaders step forward to serve our country!

The Family Foundation: These Parents Won't Back Down!

Victoria Cobb, President November 15, 2024 A fierce showdown over parental rights erupted this week at the Chesterfield County School Board's Tuesday night meeting. As transgender activists booed, shouted and mocked--courageous parents stood strong against policies that cut them out of the process, especially when gender-transition is promoted to their children at school. Here's a quick recap: •  At issue were proposed revisions that would finally bring the school district into compliance with Gov. Youngkin's  parental rights policies—nearly two years after parents first began requesting them.  •  Andrea, a mother of three children in the district, grew emotional as she pleaded for policies that are safe for all: "There are incidents in the schools that even go unreported to the parents … where there are boys who are going into bathrooms," she said. "And recently ... there was a boy who was almost raping one of the classmates—and she did not report it. This is something that must be considered. We can work together to find solutions for everyone." Watch her compelling testimony:

The district's current policy is a Northam holdover that includes language allowing educators to conceal vital information from parents when their child is experimenting with gender identity. The revisions--already implemented by school districts across the state, including Virginia Beach and Newport News--would make it clear that: Schools cannot encourage or instruct teachers to hide relevant information from parents about their kids. Parents must be notified and given an opportunity to object before counseling regarding gender identity is given to their children. Schools must protect the constitutional freedoms of employees or students who don't want to be compelled to speak words that violate their faith or conscience, as well as: Protecting girls' privacy and safety in locker rooms, overnight sleeping areas, and girls' sports. Watch hecklers attempt to shout down Family Foundation's Candi Cushman as she defends the revisions:

After nearly 50 people addressed the board, the meeting ended close to midnight following a long, contentious debate among the school board members themselves. School Board Member Steven Paranto made a strong defense for restoring parental rights in the process. But Board Member Dominique Chatters argued against it and even seemed to think engaging parents simply meant telling them to go to PTA meetings and read to their children more. Watch their tense debate:

School Board members Lisa Hudgins and Anne Coker also defended the revised policies. But at the end of the night no action was taken. It was yet another disappointing delay to the more than 200 parents and concerned citizens who spoke up at a "Protect Every Kid" rally at the August school board meeting.   TAKE ACTION:  Stand behind these parents by sharing this email and videos. If you know concerned parents and residents in the Chesterfield County area, let them know they can email their school board members and ask the board to stop the delay and vote for the revision draft proposed on Tuesday, November 12. We are stronger when we speak together!

Congressman Bob Good: Congressman Good Update: Developing America’s Workforce

Thank You, Veterans 

On Monday, Americans paused to honor the men and women in uniform who have bravely served our country. We owe a tremendous debt to all of these heroes.  
 
It was a privilege for Tracey and me to attend a Veterans' Day event in Lynchburg, honoring our former service members. Tracey's father served in the Air Force during the Korean War.

Developing America's Workforce  This week, I reintroduced my Developing America's Workforce Act which would reinstate the Trump Administration's apprenticeship policies to develop skilled workers for employers and bolster the American economy without piling on more college debt.  We have seen how colleges and universities are failing our students, saddling them with thousands of dollars in student loans and sending them into the workforce unprepared. My legislation seeks to provide another way—one that avoids an average of $28,000 in college debt, provides a much-needed boost for American employers in desperate need of skilled workers, and strengthens the economy.    The Developing America's Workforce Act will put American workers first and remove bureaucratic hurdles for businesses to develop skilled workers who will make the American economy more productive.    I believe this is a much-needed change for our country. You can read more about the Developing America's Workforce Act here.

FASFA Deadline Reformation   In 2023, instead of releasing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the traditional deadline of October 1, the Department of Education published a faulty application that was three months late. The next several months were spent fixing numerous technical issues, and this debacle led to a 12 percent reduction in FAFSA form completion.     The Department of Education is unfortunately consistent in their failures, as they also missed the most recent October 1, deadline for the full FAFSA form, just 45 days ago. Before the incompetence of the woke-obsessed Biden-Harris Administration, Congress could trust the Department of Education to complete its required work on time. However, this administration has instead been focused on the illegal and unconstitutional student-loan transfer scheme.    I offered an amendment that is now included in the FASFA Deadline Act that requires the Department of Education to certify to Congress one month in advance whether or not the FAFSA form will be ready by the October 1 deadline.     When Congress sets a deadline, we expect it to be followed. If agencies cannot meet that expectation, they need to explain why to the American people. I am pleased that the FASFA Deadline Act passed the House on Friday by a strong bipartisan vote of 381 to 1.

Our Existential Threat: The National Debt  Our nation is in $36 TRILLION in debt, with an additional $2 TRILLION deficit being added this past year alone. This is completely unsustainable.     A few days ago, every single Democrat and two-thirds of Republicans voted to add another $200 BILLION in new mandatory spending. It is another example of how Washington is threatening the financial future of our children and grandchildren.  Much of our federal spending is unjustified, unconstitutional, and truly wasteful. I am pleased that President Trump plans to empower Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to identify ways we can significantly reduce the size and cost of our massive federal bureaucracy.

Thomas D. Klingenstein: Mass Deportations Are Not Enough

By Mark Krikorian Donald Trump has been given a mandate by the voters to reverse the disastrous anti-borders policy of the Biden/Bush/Obama/Cheney neoliberal uniparty. Whatever the specifics of the "largest deportation effort in American history," there's consensus among conservatives that the gaps – both physical and legal – in our immigration-control system have to be plugged and the millions who've wriggled through those gaps made to return home. But then what? Fences, detention centers, repatriation flights, worksite raids, etc. are not immigration policy, but merely the means by which we implement and enforce immigration policy. The policy itself must answer the questions of how many foreigners we should let in to live among us, and how to select them. And here there is no consensus among this month's winning coalition. If anything, there appears to be the same elite/public gap on immigration in the new Trump coalition as in the bad old days, with the elite favoring continued mass immigration — except that "they have to come legally," as the president-elect has said on more than one occasion. Voters in general, and Republican voters in particular, tell pollsters again and again that they want lower levels of immigration, both illegal and legal. This is true when they're asked generally whether they want more, less, or the same, and also when they're given the actual level of legal immigration (about 1 million per year) and then presented with alternate levels. At the same time, many of the leaders of the newly victorious right — most notably President-elect Trump but many others as well — cling to the old GOP immigration cliché of "legal-good/illegal-bad", with the proviso that they take the "illegal bad" part far more seriously than earlier Republican figures, for whom it was little more than boob bait for Bubba. Trump, for instance, has told supporters in the tech industry that he wants to give green cards to every foreign student graduating from an American institution, including those receiving associate's degrees from community colleges. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has said he wants "greatly expanded" legal immigration and Bill Ackman wants to "open the floodgates" to skilled workers...

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Gary Bauer: End Of Day - 11-14-24 - Smiles & Fires, Personnel Is Policy, Aiding & Abetting

Smiles & Fires

The photo of Presidents Trump and Biden sitting together and smiling in the Oval Office with a roaring fire behind them is very nice and also a bit of history. In that picture, you can see the 45th president, the 46th president, and the 47th president! It would be interesting to know what both men were thinking.

But I know what was going through my mind as I looked at the raging fire. I wondered how many documents the Biden White House desperately doesn't want the incoming president to see were in that fire and in fires all throughout Washington, D.C.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the number of Deep State bureaucrats wetting their pants right now. I guarantee they are doing everything they can to obstruct justice.

The appointments President Trump has announced in recent days are sending a clear message to powerful men and women embedded in the CIA, FBI, NSA, Justice Department, Homeland Security, and the Pentagon.

Every appointment Trump has made dealing with that part of the government has been an "in your face" appointment. He's signaling that he is coming after the people who interfered in the 2016 election, the 2020 election, and who tried to destroy him and his presidency.

And Trump is right to do so. It's not "revenge," as Democrats and their media allies will claim. It's cleaning out corruption.

Personnel Is Policy

As we have noted many times before, in Washington, D.C., personnel is policy. The people appointed to key positions can either advance the president's goals or sabotage them. Here's why Trump's appointments are so critical.

Pete Hegseth – The Defense Department, under secretaries Trump appointed, resisted efforts to send troops to protect the border. They'll send our sons and daughters all over the world to secure the borders of countries the vast majority of Americans couldn't name. But they're not interested in protecting the borders of places named "Arizona," "New Mexico," and "Texas." And as I noted yesterday, Hegseth wrote a book about the urgent need to reform our woke military.

John Ratcliffe – Before Ratcliffe was elected to Congress, he was a federal prosecutor. He knows illegal activity when he sees it, and he will clean up the CIA, which spied on Trump's campaign. Trump appointed Ratcliffe to a top intelligence position in his first administration, and he did his best to push back against the Deep State's lies that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation."

Tulsi Gabbard – Gabbard served our country in uniform. She knows the costs and sacrifices of war. She was also a victim of the Deep State's vindictiveness. She was put on a TSA watchlist after criticizing the Biden/Harris administration. As director of National Intelligence, she will get our intelligence community to refocus its attention on America's foreign enemies, not American citizens with conservative opinions.

Matt Gaetz – His announcement as attorney general took Washington by surprise, and he is already facing resistance. We'll see how it plays out. But in various committee hearings, he has gone after the Deep State and corruption at the Justice Department more aggressively than most Republicans. (Here, here, and here.) Trump knows that because he saw it.

No matter how congenial everything appeared to be at yesterday's White House meeting, I have no doubt that the same cabal that cooked up the Russia collusion hoax is doing everything it can right now to do it again.

Don't forget that Joe Biden was in that infamous January 2017 Oval Office meeting when Barack Obama, Susan Rice, James Comey, and others plotted how to pursue the Russia collusion investigation against the incoming Trump administration. They all knew it was a total sham, but they were determined to undermine Trump any way they could.

And some forces on the right are resisting Trump, too. A right-leaning publication is warning that Gabbard cannot be trusted with top secret information. Why? It's the same Deep State narrative – she's a threat because she doesn't share their globalist worldview.

Donald Trump deserves to have people in key positions who he can trust to enact his agenda. And so do the voters who elected him.

Aiding & Abetting

 

One reason why we're not talking about the incoming "Harris administration" is on display this week in Athens, Georgia, where the trial of Jose Ibarra is getting underway. Ibarra is the illegal alien from Venezuela who brutally murdered nursing student Laken Riley.

The murderers, rapists, human traffickers, and violent gangs that Biden and Harris essentially welcomed into America are a big reason why Biden and Harris are on their way out of office.

But virtually every day, another elected progressive announces they will defy all efforts by Donald Trump to deport millions of illegal aliens. And yet progressives are puzzled about why they lost the presidency and the Senate.

Let me give them a hint: Their impulse to protect illegal aliens who are hurting American citizens has not changed one bit. They are aiding and abetting horrific and completely preventable crimes, and voters don't like it. (Here and here.)

Sadly, cowardly Republicans are already making excuses for why removing millions of illegal aliens can't be done. It can. Start by removing one criminal alien and just keep at it. There are even ways to get people to voluntarily leave or self-deport.

Any politician on the left who continues aiding and abetting illegal immigration should be defeated in the next election. Any politician on the right who stands in the way of Trump's efforts to get illegal aliens out of the country should be primaried and kicked out of office.

 

Not Over Yet

 

Pennsylvania election officials announced yesterday that they will begin a statewide recount of votes in the tight Senate contest between Republican challenger Dave McCormick, who is leading, and incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, who refuses to concede.

Counties must report the results of the recount by November 27th. In other words, radical leftists have 12 days to steal this Senate seat. And that's why notorious Clinton lawyer Marc Elias is in court demanding that illegal votes be counted. Yes, you read that right – illegal votes.

Pennsylvania progressives are demanding that undated mail-in ballots be counted.

They are demanding that unsigned mail-in ballots be counted.

They are demanding that ballots cast by voters in counties where they don't live be counted.

They are even demanding that ballots cast by non-registered voters be counted.

Too many Republicans keep thinking it's 1950 instead of 2024. They keep saying, "Casey has no path to victory." Oh, yes, he does! He may not have a legal path, but his left-wing allies will definitely find an illegal path.

This is the corrupt system that the left is fighting to force on the entire nation. The overwhelming majority of states that Kamala Harris won do not require a voter ID. Wow! What a coincidence. [Sarcasm alert.]

We have strongly opposed left-wing efforts to nationalize election laws. As a matter of principle, I believe that opposition is the correct position. But when we get power, we can't just pretend like there is no problem with our elections and do nothing.

The Constitution requires that only citizens be allowed to vote. Eight states voted on ballot measures requiring citizenship to vote. All eight passed by an average vote of 73%.

This is a winning issue. Conservatives should pass a national law requiring proof of citizenship when you register to vote and voter ID when you vote. 

Anyone who thinks this would give the left an excuse to pass their own national election laws doesn't get it. They don't need an excuse!

Just as a reminder, progressives forced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to keep his name on general election ballots in some states while they worked to kick Green Party candidate Jill Stein off the ballot in other states.

No one on the left was the least bit worried about the gross inconsistency of their argument. They did whatever they could to maintain power.

Culture War & Spiritual War

We have written extensively about the escalating culture war in America. It wasn't that long ago when we were debating the meaning of marriage. Having lost that battle, we're now being forced to debate what a "woman" is and whether men can get pregnant!

But if anyone doubts that we are also in a spiritual war that, in my view, literally involves demons, this story out of Seattle, Washington, should end that debate.

A woman "married" to a "transwoman" (a man pretending to be a woman) got into an argument with her 67 year-old father, who was celebrating the election returns. His daughter, however, was crushed by Trump's victory.

So, she got an ice pickax and stabbed her father, strangled him, bit him, and beat him with the handle. After she finished killing him, she wiped his blood all over her face and then broke all the windows in the house.

When the police arrived, they found her outside celebrating because "she was so happy." She said her murderous rampage was an "act of liberation" and meant to "help people change their attachment to their parents."

Don't tell me this is not demonic.

Thomas D. Klingenstein: Americans Have Rejected DOJ’s Lawfare

By T.J. Harker The people of this great nation are slow to anger, patient, and inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. They also have an ancient reverence for the rule of law, deferring to its pronouncements in even the most controversial matters. But, for the last eight years, some of the most corrupt, cynical, and treacherous men and women ever to walk the halls of power in Washington, D.C., exploited these admirable traits. I'm speaking, of course, of the leadership and even some of the rank-and-file of the Department of Justice. Finally, on November 5, the people of the United States of America delivered a late but stunning rebuke to the ruling elite, the Washington bureaucracy, and above all the Department of Justice. Indeed, never in this country's history has such a public and censorious rebuke been delivered so clearly to a single federal agency. That rebuke makes clear that the Department of Justice has failed totally to meet the high standards of excellence expected by the American people. It has disgraced itself in every respect: wallowing in dishonesty, targeting its opponents, kid-gloving its allies while hammering its enemies, obliterating legal norms, weaponizing the legal system, prosecuting the political opposition, and normalizing lawfare. In short, the Department of Justice has reached the nadir: it is treacherous and pathetic. And all the world knows it...

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