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Why does the Left oppose voter id, cleaning election rolls, citizenship verification for voting, etc? You know why. So they can more easily steal elections.
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"Washington, D.C. is the only capital of a great nation that lacks a monumental arch. President Trump is finishing yet another project that has been allowed to languish for decades and finally providing an appropriately grand gateway to the final resting place of our brave men and women at Arlington." thefederalist.com/2026/10/05…
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Tom Fitton retweeted
The @washingtonpost recently published an op-ed by Ronald Shafer (@ronald_sha57306) on President Trump’s Triumphal Arch that was extremely dishonest and filled with outright falsehoods.
Shafer falsely claims that building the Arch on Memorial Circle is inconsistent with the 1902 McMillan Plan, which laid out a comprehensive plan for Washington DC.
Shafer fails to mention the 1925 law ENACTED by Congress that specifically incorporated the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission’s 1924 plan.
This plan provided for a colossal project including a new Memorial Bridge and a monumental plaza on Columbia Island, including two MASSIVE 166-foot-tall columns that would provide a fittingly monumental approach to Arlington National Cemetery.
The 1925 law expressly allowed for the Commission to make changes to the plan as the Commission deemed necessary.
The two columns were not built because of the economy and an airfield (Hoover Field) that was too close to the columns.
When the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission exercised its discretion in 1932 to replace the columns with fountains, Charles Moore, Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts, which also had jurisdiction on this project, complained that this area (now Memorial Circle) should “be treated in monumental fashion” as called for in the congressionally authorized 1924 Plan.
Ultimately, because of the Depression, this portion of the Arlington Bridge Commission Plan was never completed, and the empty Memorial Traffic Circle built in 1940 does not complete the grand design authorized and envisioned by the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission and by Congress as enacted in the 1925 law.
It is a disgrace to our nation and her noble veterans.
Moreover, the McMillan Plan envisioned having the Memorial Bridge cross to Analostan Island (now Theodore Roosevelt Island). Columbia Island, a product of an immense dredging effort and where Memorial Circle is today, had not been developed yet.
But the McMillan plan, citing President McKinley, expressly recognized the longstanding desire for a project in this area linking North and South as a “monument to American valor” and called for a “concourse suitable for memorial treatment on Analostan Island.”
The Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission’s plan is completely consistent with the McMillan Plan, with its columns linking North and South and providing a suitably monumental entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
Despite these facts and history, Shafer claims that the McMillan Plan rejected the “central ornamental towers” on the bridge. But that quote was made with respect to proposals for towers in the MIDDLE of the bridge, much closer to the Lincoln Memorial and which would not be “desirable features for the central portion of a BRIDGE structure.”
Shafer’s second quote is even more dishonest, portraying the McMillan Plan’s sentence that the “noble slopes toward the river should be rigorously protected against the invasion of monuments” as a rejection of any plans to build an arch on Columbia Island.
In fact, that sentence is speaking to curtailing the building of large monuments ON THE GROUNDS of Arlington National Cemetery, in particular the elevated slopes within the cemetery.
This quote has NOTHING to do with Columbia Island, which did not even exist at the time in its present state and which is almost half a mile away from the entrance of the Cemetery.
As noted above, what the McMillan Commission Plan says about the ENTRANCE to the cemetery is that it should be a “concourse suitable for memorial treatment.”
Shafer’s dishonesty is evident when he writes that President Harding announced in 1922 plans to build a bridge and skips to President Hoover walking across it in 1932.
Shafer entirely left out the creation of the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, which developed a plan that specifically provided for two 166-foot columns where Memorial Circle is, and that its plan was enacted into law in 1925, including discretion to make design changes.
Shame on the Washington Post for publishing Ronald Shafer’s dishonest and misleading piece. The Washington Post's and Shafer's TDS is on full display.
I laid out all these details and more in my @FDRLST piece on how President Trump’s Arch is authorized by the 1925 law.
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Tom Fitton retweeted
Massive concession: Los Angeles election officials just told a federal court they have no independent way to verify citizenship beyond what voters attest. (They simply take their word for it.) Under federal law, only citizens may vote in federal elections. Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots. American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.
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Criminal sedition update. The Left prepares for insurrection.
A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in the midterms, according to people involved. wapo.st/3WjVke5
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Tom Fitton retweeted
25 Years ago today I was honored to perform "Superman" at Paul McCartney's Concert for NY, surrounded by @FDNY heroes, at MSG.
On 9/9/26 I was again deeply honored to perform at the @FDNY 25 year Memorial Ceremony in Staten Island. My remarks and performance. #NeverForget 🇺🇸❤️
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BREAKING: The Social Security Administration confirms to @FoxNews that it has just undertaken its largest cleanup of Social Security Numbers in the agency's 91-year history, correcting nearly 15% of all U.S. citizen SSNs (roughly 50 million out of 330 million). The changes include:
- Adding 17 million dates of death to files that previously didn't have them w/ help from State Dept.
- With help from DHS, updating 25 million files that had missing citizenship information.
- Correcting an additional 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship data.
SSNs are referenced by agencies across the federal government and in states to validate identities and prevent improper payment of tax dollars.
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION STATEMENT TO FOX:
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California's LA County removed 1.2 million dirty names from voting rolls thanks to heavy lifting @JudicialWatch. Almost 900,000 more statewide still need to be cleaned.
HUGE: LA County REMOVES Over 1.2 Million Dirty Names from Rolls thanks to @JudicialWatch Federal Lawsuit Settlement! judicialwatch.org/los-angele…
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California's voting rolls are filthy.
Judicial Watch Sues California to Clean Up 873,000 Inactive Voter Registrations on Rolls
(Washington, DC) – @JudicialWatch announced today it filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a California political candidate and a state political party against the State of California due to its failure to maintain accurate voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) (Don Wagner et al. v. Shirley N. Weber, in her official capacity as California Secretary of State (No. 8:26-cv-01263)).
Federal law requires most inactive voter registrations to be removed after two general federal elections. The new federal lawsuit alleges, based on admissions in prior Judicial Watch litigation, that 873,092 voter registrations have remained continuously inactive for at least three federal elections, and some for much longer. Of these registrations, 326,808 have remained continuously inactive through at least three consecutive federal general elections, while 151,202 have remained inactive through at least four consecutive federal general elections.
In addition, 33,922 voter registrations have remained continuously inactive through at least five consecutive federal general elections — dating back at least ten years, to before the November 5, 2016, presidential election.
Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), states are required to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls, including those who have died or moved. The lawsuit also alleges, again citing admissions by California officials, that the state takes no effective action to require counties to comply with the NVRA. As a result, they do not comply.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Don Wagner, an elected member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors and candidate for California Secretary of State, and the American Independent Party of California.
In June 2025, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), as required by law, issued a report to Congress on states’ NVRA compliance. Citing this report, Judicial Watch points out that 20 California counties removed 50 or fewer inactive voters from their rolls between November 2022 and November 2024. Ten of these counties reported zero removals of inactives under the relevant statute during that time period. These include Alpine, Imperial, Inyo, Kings, Mariposa, Mendocino, Plumas, San Bernardino, Tehama, and Trinity. Counties reporting 50 or fewer removals include Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou, Sonoma, and Tuolumne.
Judicial Watch argues:
The 20 counties reporting zero to 50 registrations pursuant to NVRA Section 8(d)(1)(B) during the period from November 2022 to November 2024 reported a combined total of 3,440,358 voter registrations to the EAC. Yet these 20 counties reported removing a grand total of just 218 registrations under that provision during that period.
For context, Judicial Watch points out that San Diego County, with 2.2 million registered voters, removed over 300,000 voter registrations under that statute during the same time period.
Currently, over 23 million Californians are registered to vote.
Additionally, Judicial Watch states that Census Bureau data shows: 660,000 California residents moved out of state in 2024;690,000 in 2023; and 818,000 in 2022.
Judicial Watch points out that if California “was actually conducting a general program that makes a reasonable effort to cancel the registrations of voters who have become ineligible because of a change of residence, it would not be possible” for these counties to cancel so few registrations under the NVRA in a two-year period.”
The lawsuit also notes that “comparing the total number of voter registrations reported to the EAC in each California county to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent five-year estimates of voting-age citizenry indicates that 18 California counties have more voter registrations than citizens over the age of eighteen.”
In March 2019, the State of California and Los Angeles County settled a December 2017 lawsuit with Judicial Watch that resulted in the removal of more than 1.2 million names from voter rolls.
“Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit confirms California has a dirty voting rolls crisis – with thousands of old names on the rolls going back at least 10 years,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California and its counties must take immediate steps to clean the over 870,000 dirty names on the voting lists.”
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UPDATE: Federal Court orders CIA to begin producing Jan 6 documents to @JudicialWatch: "The Court’s September 24, 2026 minute order directed Defendant to identify a date certain on which it would begin rolling interim productions of responsive records. Defendant’s [24] notice indicated that it will not process rolling productions and will instead produce non-exempt responsive material by May 24, 2027. Because Defendant did not provide a date certain to begin rolling productions as the Court ordered, and has offered no explanation for its position, the Court will set a date that it finds reasonable based on the record. Accordingly, the Court ORDERS Defendant to begin rolling interim productions of responsive records by November 16, 2026."
Federal Court orders CIA has disclose when it's finally going to start turning records over to @JudicialWatch about the CIA’s presence at the Capitol on January 6. It's been two years!
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Fact check: Confirmed in @JudicialWatch federal lawsuit settlement. judicialwatch.org/los-angele…
In 2017, Los Angeles County ALONE was shown to have over 1 million illegitimate entries on the voter rolls — dead, moved, non-citizen, ineligible. You can stop gaslighting the public, and start admitting that California has a grossly flawed system of election administration.
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California has almost 900,000 dirty names on its voter lists. Every single one is an opportunity for voter fraud.
Let’s be clear about the facts: California has more than 23 million registered voters — the 28 cases of alleged voter fraud announced this morning represent .0001% of that total.
Isolated cases of voter fraud occur in red and blue states alike. As I’ve said repeatedly, any substantiated allegation of voter fraud should be taken seriously and, when supported by the facts and law, prosecuted.
We have safeguards in place to protect election integrity, and they’re working.
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Disgusting.
Both WNBA Finals teams run off the court moments before the national anthem for the second straight game, returning seconds after the performance ends.
@Outkick video shows players from the Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries are noticeably absent during the anthem ahead of Game 2, as Grammy-winning singer Alanis Morissette performs.
The repeated absence comes despite a WNBA rulebook requirement that players, coaches and trainers stand along the sidelines or foul line during the national anthem.
See what the league's rules say and the questions surrounding the teams' actions: foxnews.com/outkick-sports/d…
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BREAKING: CIA ORDERED BY FEDERAL COURT TO START PRODUCING JAN 6 DOCUMENTS TO HEAVY LIFTING @JUDICIALWATCH BY NOVEMBER 16!
HUGE: Fed Court orders CIA to provide more info on "search" for Jan 6 records. They've been stalling for years! Heavy lifting @JudicialWatch gets results!
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Judicial Watch Victory: Court Orders CIA to Begin Producing January 6 Records by November 16 judicialwatch.org/court-orde…
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Tom Fitton retweeted
Two years after fully funding the the Biden regime before the prior election, Republican Congress fled town again after failing to secure our elections with basic voter id and citizenship verification requirements.
Republican-controlled House went on six week vacay, came back, and then voted to fully fund everything they "oppose" in the Biden-Harris administration. And now they've fled DC again until after a week AFTER the Election.
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Any California official who allows these voters to vote (or have their votes counted) without further clarification as to citizenship status seems to be facing significant criminal liability.
This is the methodology behind our list of 20,000+ likely noncitizen registrants in California: data cleaning, identity matching, removal of citizens and deceased individuals, manual USCIS review, supervisory sign-off, and law-enforcement screening. Sworn declarations in today's TRO filing detail each step.
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Ilhan Omar's sister questioned by feds after dramatic DC home raid foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-o… #FoxNews
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Today DOJ charged 28 noncitizens across California with federal election crimes.
All were on the list of 20k we sent to California, which has refused to even look at the list.
It's not too late for California to step up & protect the votes of American citizens.
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.@United CEO calls for government confiscation of wealth. foxbusiness.com/fox-news-tra…
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