SPEAKING OF HARRIS AND TRUMP: Richard Pollock has a bunch of evidence that Arab-American voters will indeed decide who carries Michigan and there’s a good chance it won’t be her. This is the kind of deep-dive, smart reporting that is seen too little in today’s MSM.

WEAPONIZATION OF FBI PROOF: That interim staff report issued October 30 by the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government got zero coverage. Maybe that’s understandable in view of the elections, maybe not.

What’s inarguable is the report establishes beyond all doubt that the FBI spent a year or more pre-bunking media coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop and the abundant evidence it provides of impeachable offenses by Joe Biden.

Thus my latest PJ Media column: Put the Weaponization Report beside the Church Committee report from 1976 and you have a mountain of evidence demonstrating that as far back as FDR the Intelligence Community and Department of Justice (DOJ/FBI) cannot be trusted to respect Americans’ constitutional rights.

But, as important as who the President is come January 20, 2025, what is vastly more significant is who Americans elect to represent them in Congress because only Congress has the ultimate constitutional weapons to identify the offenders, recommend their prosecution to DOJ and then withhold funding to whatever degree is necessary to force both those prosecutions and the fundamental reforms required to prevent recurrence of the abuses of the past 75 years.

WHY JEWS MUST VOTE FOR TRUMP: The Lid’s Jeff Dunetz leaves no doubt about how he thinks his fellow Jewish American voters should vote in the presidential contest.

NEW CHIEF AT OPEN THE BOOKS: John Hart is the new Chief Executive Officer at Open the Books, succeeding founder Adam Andrzejewski, who passed away unexpectedly in August. If you missed it, check out my tribute to Adam here.

My Epoch Times profile of John this morning points to a veteran “Transparency Revolutionary” who helped give birth to the biggest database of government spending at all levels ever assembled. And now he has a vision and opportunity for marrying transparency and technology in new ways to limit government.

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MOST VIP ELECTION EVER? Well, yes and no.

DOES BEZOS HAVE THE SAME COURAGE AS MUSK? The uproar in the Washington Post newsroom over owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to forego presidential endorsements in 2024 and thereafter shows he understands the indisputable reality that the vast majority of his journalist employees just don’t get.

But, as I explain in my latest PJ Media column, it’s one thing to give such folks an uncompromising introduction to the harsh reality facing the Mainstream Media, but the far more difficult step is doing what must be done to effect needed change. Musk did it, but will Bezos? How he responds likely will tell the story of the future of the Post, reconstruction and revival, or, in the Amazon man’s own words, “stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance.”

LEFT PLANNING ELECTION NIGHT/INAUGURAL VIOLENCE: Demonstration permits examined by former New Left radical trainer Richard Pollock show multiple far-Left and Pro-Palestinian groups moving ahead with plans to take to the streets of the nation’s capital to protest a Trump election victory and inaugural.

“The applicants claim about 15,000 protesters could descend on Washington, D.C. on election night and up to 200,000 anti-Trump protests could arrive leading up to and including Inauguration Day, when the next President is sworn in,” Pollock reports.

One of the organizers, a veteran of the 2017 inaugural disruptions, told a Leftist outlet that for the 2024 events “we want to undermine Trump’s presidency from the get-go. There has been a lot of talk of peaceful transition of power as being a core element in a democracy and we want to reject that entirely and really undermine the peaceful transition.”

What’s the maxim? Believe them when they tell you who they are and what they are planning.

THE FACTS ON ILLEGALS VOTING: James Agresti of Just Facts Daily lays out how elite media and others have been distorting a May 2024 analysis that found between 2-5 million illegal immigrants are registered to vote in the U.S. and that as many as 2.7 million are likely to cast ballots.

THIS MAN’S STORY IS REMARKABLE: There are lots of people who live amazing lives, and then there is Steventen Holland, who for decades wondered why his mother didn’t want him.

BIDEN-HARRIS RESURRECT COINTELPRO: Next time you hear a Harris supporter claim she will protect Americans’ civil liberties, while Donald Trump will be a fascist dictator, ask them why she and Joe Biden resurrected an infamous domestic spying program that Richard Nixon loved.

Richard Pollock, who has direct knowledge of the revived initiative — COINTELPRO — having been a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that held the program to be unconstitutional. Citing a receent Newsweek expose, Pollock observes in his latest Substack column:

“As Newsweek explained, ‘for the first time extremist groups worthy of surveillance and even infiltration could be so labeled because of their politics.’ The FBI’s main target: Trump MAGA activists.

“A review by its investigative reporters of previously unpublished FBI documents shows, ‘nearly two-thirds of the FBI’s current investigations are focused on Trump supporters and others suspected of violating what the FBI calls anti-riot” laws.’

“Although I’m not a MAGA activist, I personally abhor any government spying program against its citizens. In fact, I was a plaintiff in a 1970’s leftwing legal lawsuit against the COINTELPRO program. The United States Supreme Court ruled in the case, called Hobson vs. Wilson, that the federal government’s political surveillance program was unconstitutional.”

OBAMA/HARRIS OFFICIAL CUTS VIDEOS PRAISING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Wilson Osorio is a senior-level political appointee of the Biden-Harris administration at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He’s also a prolific TikTok voice praising and encouraging illegal immigration, according to Tom Jones and the American Accountability Foundation (AAF).

A DIFFERENT WAY OF LOOKING AT HALLOWEEN: What would you say if somebody  asked why America has a wildly popular holiday devoted to blood, gore, ghosts and goblins? I mean, isn’t it horrifying enough to consider the looming prospect of four years of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the White House?

SOCIAL SECURITY CAN BE SAVED: But doing so will require a great deal more political courage than has been demonstrated in Congress and the White House for decades. And, as I report today for The Epoch Times, there are people in and out of Congress with some interesting ideas.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), for example, has a “Big Idea” along the lines of a Sovereign Wealth fund that could restore Social Security solvency, as does Heritage Fellow and former fast food entrepreneur Andy Pudzer. And on the Democratic side, Rep. John Larsen (D-Conn.) points to the $400,000 and more in taxable income as an untapped resource.

NOW IT’S GOING TO HIT THE FAN LIKE NEVER BEFORE: Tom Jones and the American Accountability Foundation (AAF) today posted the first entry of its instantly notorious “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Watchlist: America’s Most Subversive Immigration Bureaucrats.”

The Left went nuts when Jones first announced this project and now that it’s bearing actual results — shining the spotlight on left-wing immigration activists comfortably entrenched in the federal career civi service — but things are really going to get intense in coming weeks. Expect an avalanche of media hit pieces, legal harassment, claims of being subjected to Far-Right violence, and protests wherever Jones speaks,

The Left will go nuts in response to AAF no matter that groups on the Left have been doing similar ideological tracking of conservatives, such as this one looking at Right media outlets. And we haven’t even mentioned similar tracking of conservative activist groups and non-profits by he Southern Poverty Law Center, for which Osorio interned.

Here’s one example from the first 10 AAF posted earlier today: Wilson Osorio is DHS’s Associate Counsel in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), making $171,268 annually. He has posted multiple Spanish language TikTok and YouTube videos encouraging immigrants to enter the U.S., using promises of get-rich-quick jobs.

In addition, according to AAF, he “used an out of context image of a colleague in DHS in Border Patrol to promote the false narrative that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants. The narrative surrounding the ‘horse whipping’ incident was grossly mischaracterized, serving to unjustly malign Border Patrol personnel. As a senior DHS employee, Wilson Osorio should be held to a higher standard and not post images that suggest his DHS colleagues are violently abusing migrants.”

MEN, WOMEN SUFFER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AT ABOUT EQUAL RATES: That headline likely seems “off” because the standard media narrative for decades has put men in the position of virtually always being the guilty party in a domestic violence incident.

Well, time to re-think this one, according to a new study analyzed earlier this week by Wintery Knight, who explains three key points:

• Scholars typically ignore violence against men committed by women: “However, there has been a paucity of studies on the severity and risk factors of IPV against men by female partners.”
• Men and women commit domestic violence at roughly equal rates: “This study revealed that there is a symmetry in the experiences of physical violence between male and female victims.”
• Men are the victims of more severe violence than women: “This study also revealed that male victims experience more severe violence than female victims.”

And thus another media myth bites the dust.

NOW IT’S HARRIS AND PLAGIARISM: The Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Silbarium reports Vice-President Kamala Harris provided congressional testimony while serving as a San Francisco District Attorney, much of which was plagiarized from a Republican.

HARRIS HASN’T CLOSED THE DEAL WITH MANY DEMS: The results of the latest Insights & Issues/TIPP Poll may well help explain growing sense of panic exhibited among media and other backers of Vice-President Kamala Harris.

“Are Democrats part of that big swing? As our own I&I/TIPP Poll strongly suggests, a third of Democrats remain upset with the quality of their party’s candidate this year — and with the fact that they had no say in making Kamala Harris their candidate in the first place,” I&I reports.

FORMER SCHUMER, SCALISE AIDES LOBBYING FOR CHINESE MILITARY: Yes, you read that correctly. A Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) investigation turned up solid evidence that former aides for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) are lobbying on behalf of firms controlled by the Chinese military.

“Nick Sutter, for instance, spent seven years working for Democratic Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell between 2011 and 2018, plus an additional nine months in Schumer’s office.

“Now, Sutter is an associate at Steptoe LLP, a large corporate influence shop in D.C., and lobbied on behalf of the Chinese military company BGI Group in 2023, disclosures show. Cantwell serves as the chairwoman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee,” DCNF reports.

WHERE FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA IS HEADED: Look no further than the United Kingdom if you want to see the destruction of Freedom of Speech and religious expression and practice here should the Harris-Waltz ticket win the November election, according to Wintery Knight.

WARNING! WARNING! Our federal government has been taken over by ‘Christian Nationalists’ determined to force everybody in America to sing ‘Shout to the Lord,’ attend Wednesday night Prayer Meetings, and bring casseroles to Baptist Potluck Dinners. You MUST check out the third and concluding part of my PJMedia series this week on the Faith of the Founders.

NON-CITIZEN VOTING IS NOT RARE: In fact, as is seen in the steadily accumulating evidence, there are tens of thousands of non-citizens who have previously registered and voted in Texas, Arizona, Nebraska and Oregon. And, as Issues & Insights points out, that’s just scratching the surface.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Leave it to the dedicated folks at Open the Books to keep digging deeply into the federal budget (as well as state and municipal budgets) and exposing more of the rottenness, despite so recently losing its founder, Adam Andrzejewski. See here as well.

You’ve likely never heard of the Department of Education’s Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) grants, but your tax dollars are funding more than $283 million since 2020 through the program, including $22.1 million to 12 major universities focused on the Middle East.

Among a number of the FLAS-funded programs on those campuses are professors who are blatantly teaching anti-semitism, encouraging violent demonstrations on behalf of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian population, and praising that terrorist group’s October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1,200 Jews in Israel.

FREE SPEECH AT UCAL? The National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement at the University of California claims to stand for restoring appreciation on campus for the value of freedom of speech and thought. But, as James Rushmore reports today on Racket News, the center’s role in the despicable silencing of Dr. Scott Atlas during the Covid Pandemic points to a different conclusion.

THE FEDERALIST’S FORGOTTEN TRIO: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay were already well-known throughout America with publication of “The Federalist Papers,” owing to their respective roles in bringing about the Declaration of Independence and the writing of the Constitution. Their collected essays were critical to winning adoption of the proposed new government in New York and Virginia.

But Hamilton, Madison and Jay are undoubtedly just names to most Americans these days, thanks to the anti-American Left’s march through the institutions, especially on the college campuses and in the public schools. If the trio is known at all, it is most likely as tools of white oppression.

In fact, as I show in my PJMedia column today, Part 2 of 3 on America’s biggest secret — that the Christian faith helped shape the Founders understanding of individual liberty, republican government and the future of the country — Christianity wasn’t the only influence but it certainly was a decisive one.

Compared to a Patrick Henry, John Witherspoon or Benjamin Rush, the Federalist authors are not known, where they are still known at all today, as being especially “religious.”  Even so, check out today’s column for examples of how Hamilton, Madison and Jay viewed the Christian understanding of divine sovereignty in political affairs.

By the way, tomorrow’s third installment will demonstrate that this understanding of the important role of faith for the Founders is not even remotely related to the Talking Point trash the Left is peddling as “Christian Nationalism,” nor is it linked to the “dominionist” view espoused by some from among the Reformed tradition.

SPEAKING OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Check out HillFaith’s newest feature, “Faith of the Founders,” which once a week digs into the treasure trove of historical fact to recover gems illustrative of the faith that helped shape the founding generation’s understanding of individual liberty, the relationship of citizens to each other and their government, and the nation’s destiny.

Today’s entry gives an idea of how George Washington encouraged us all to treat one another. Probably sounds corny or naive to modern ears, but things would be so different in this country today if Washington’s advice was still heeded.