The pandemic, however, brought a unique breed of new residents, Republican congressman Mike Waltz said: those who moved specifically to avoid lockdowns and other COVID restrictions. A whopping 220,890 people flocked to Florida between July 2020 and July 2021 giving Republicans an opportunity to register new voters who had already bought into DeSantis’s vision for the state.
Publication: Washington Free Beacon
Dems Blow Nearly $200 Million on Perennial Losers Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams
Abrams and O’Rourke are far from the only Democrats who raked in money in races they lost handily. Congresswoman Val Demings’s (D.) 16-point loss to Florida senator Marco Rubio (R.) cost nearly $70 million, and only three House Democrats raised more than Georgia’s Marcus Flowers, who raked in more than $15 million only to lose to Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene by a whopping 33 points.
Barnes Campaigns with Celebrity Anti-Israel Activist on Election Eve
Mandela Barnes, the Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate, capped off his campaign by hosting a fundraiser on Sunday with actor and anti-Israel activist advocate Mark Ruffalo, who is under fire after objecting to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism.
Meet the Dem Congressional Candidate Who Mocks Women and Uses the N Word
David Esrati is challenging 10-term Rep. Mike Turner (R., Ohio) after winning a crowded Democratic nomination. The local businessman and political provocateur’s multi-decade political career has been marked by a seemingly endless string of profane and inflammatory comments
Kamala Peddles Dangerous Misinformation
The Veep implies she never supported controversial bail fund that put violent offenders back on the street. (She did.)
Meet the Anti-Police Former Democrat Attracting Votes as Libertarian in Georgia Senate Race
Republicans fret Chase Oliver could play spoiler for Herschel Walker, send race to runoff.
Doc Giving Fetterman Clean Bill of Health Is Big Campaign Donor
Dr. Clifford Chen has given tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats, including Fetterman. His political leanings could raise questions about his medical assessment of Fetterman.
Inside Raphael Warnock’s Secret, Low-Income Apartment Building
A low-income apartment building owned by Raphael Warnock’s church is plagued by pests, maintenance problems, and filth, according to residents—and at least two people have sued the building this year after the elevator allegedly collapsed on them.
Watchdog Calls for IRS Audit of Warnock Church
Ebenezer Baptist Church secretly owns an apartment building that is serving poor residents with eviction notices.
A New Low for Woke Journalism
Iowa newspaper calls GOP congresswoman racist for saying ‘Before it’s too late’ in campaign ad.
Sex Change for Diplomats?
The State Department says it will consider providing gender dysphoria and gender transition care for diplomats and their children stationed overseas, stoking concerns in Congress that taxpayers will be responsible for funding sex change surgeries.
Nepotism Alert: Buttigieg’s Husband Lands Plum Gig at Dem Consulting Firm
Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, joined KNP Communications as a senior consultant. In the press release announcing the hire, which declines to mention Chasten’s prominent husband, the firm boasted that it has “helped elect Democratic candidates to office at the national, state, and local level since 2006.”
The GOP Cavalry Arrives
On September 15, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida upended the electoral cycle by sending a plane of Venezuelan asylum-seekers to Martha’s Vineyard. Suddenly, Democratic-friendly topics vanished from the headlines. The stunt was a public relations coup. It reset the national debate.
Air Force Academy Holds “Transgender Visibility” Seminar
Events of this nature are part of a wholesale push by the U.S. military to foster a more culturally inclusive environment. Critics say this type of training is part of a woke cultural agenda that is being mainstreamed by the Democratic Party’s far-left flank.
Air Force Teaches Cadets Not to Say Terrorist
The United States Air Force Academy is training its cadets to “use inclusive language” that bars them from calling people “terrorists” or using male and female identifiers, according to an official presentation being used by the elite military school and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Meet the Taxpayer-Funded Group Pushing Transgender Identity on Two-Year-Olds
Zero to Three, the nation’s top early childhood development organization, which has received more than $230 million in federal funds since 2008, claims that children as young as two years old can show signs of “transgender identity” and encourages educators to “use tenets of Critical Race Theory” when they work with newborns.
Border Patrol Logs 8,000 Migrants Entering U.S. Each Day
Border Patrol officers are logging roughly 8,000 migrant encounters a day, the highest daily number in U.S. history, the communications show. Such a massive surge in migrants has left agencies such as Customs and Border Protection scrambling to implement new processing systems.
Harvard Tells Students That Using Wrong Pronouns Constitutes Abuse
“Fatphobia” and “cisheterosexism” perpetuate “violence.” “Using the wrong pronouns” constitutes “abuse.” And “any words used to lower a person’s self-worth” are “Verbal Abuse.” Those are just a handful of the things the school told all undergraduate students in a mandatory Title IX training session, according to materials reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Fetterman’s Art Gallery Raises Questions Whether He’s a Friend of Israel
Fetterman’s Braddock Collective featured a notoriously anti-Israel art exhibit amplifying slanderous claim that Israel is “apartheid state.”
As Biden’s Climate Czar, John Kerry Has Flown More Than 180,000 Miles, Emitting 9.5 Million Pounds of Carbon
The Free Beacon reviewed 75 of Kerry’s official travel announcements from March 2021 to July 2022, which show Kerry has flown the equivalent of traveling around the world more than seven times to discuss climate change with world leaders. Planes on average produce 53.3 pounds of carbon dioxide per mile traveled.
How Raphael Warnock Dodges Income Taxes
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) has an unusual financial arrangement with an outside employer that allowed him to avoid income taxes on $89,000 in outside salary last year, according to tax experts.
Biden Administration Is Placing Vending Machines Filled with Drug Supplies in Rural Kentucky
The $3.6 million project will distribute syringes to country’s overdose “epicenter.”
Pfizer’s “No Whites Allowed” Fellowship Violates the Law
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer offers a prestigious fellowship that bars whites and Asians from applying. Trumpeted on the company’s website as a “Bold Move” to “create a workplace for all,” civil rights lawyers are characterizing it in a different way: as a blatant violation of the law.
How Raphael Warnock Doubled His Income Since Joining the Senate
The Democrat from Georgia made over half a million dollars in 2021—from book deals, outside employers, and speaking fees.