As a critical election approaches, the addition of a large number of new voters could potentially influence electoral outcomes, particularly in closely contested regions.

Since President Biden took office and Vice President Kamala Harris was made Border Czar, approximately 3.3 million immigrants have been granted U.S. citizenship, with less than two months remaining in the 2024 fiscal year.

This acceleration not only alleviates the pandemic-induced backlog but also has the potential to reshape the electorate in the coming months, the New York Times reported.

“It’s unclear how many of the new voters live in battleground states, but a number of the states where Kamala Harris or Donald Trump must win have large and growing numbers of voting-age naturalized citizens, including Georgia, Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania,” the Times reported.

“In Savannah, Ga., people from 19 countries streamed into a federal courthouse recently to take the oath of allegiance,” the report added.

“My case was done in less than six months,” said Gladis Brown, who is married to an American, and emigrated from Honduras in 2018.

The Biden administration’s efforts to reverse many of Trump’s hardline immigration policies have played a key role in the increased efficiency of citizenship approvals. Significant changes include the reduction of the naturalization application form from 20 pages to 14, a move aimed at simplifying the process.

Additionally, the application fee was raised from $640 to $710, with provisions made to facilitate discounts for low-income applicants. These changes are part of a broader strategy to restore trust in the U.S. legal immigration system and to ensure that the process is more accessible to eligible immigrants.

“The surge in naturalization efficiency isn’t just about clearing backlogs; it’s potentially reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election,” said Xiao Wang, chief executive of Boundless.

“Every citizenship application could be a vote that decides Senate seats or even the presidency,” Mr. Wang said.

The federal government’s increased pace of citizenship approvals marks a significant shift in U.S. immigration policy. By rapidly and perhaps recklessly clearing the immigration backlog, the Biden administration is potentially altering the composition of the electorate ahead of critical elections.

This was once derided as the “great replacement theory’ — a figment of conservatives’ imagination. Here, the Harris-Biden administration’s allies are openly boasting about it in the New York Times.

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The United Auto Workers union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against former President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk, arguing that the two men illegally intimidated workers in a Spaces conversation on X.

At one point in their conversation, Trump and Musk were talking about workers who go on strike. Trump said if workers “go on strike, and you say ‘that’s okay, you’re all gone. You’re all gone.’ So everyone is gone.”

According to federal law, a company can not fire employees that are on strike. The UAW filed its unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.

In a statement Tuesday, the UAW said the complaint centered on dismissive comments made by Trump on the platform, which was formally known as Twitter, about striking workers. The union argued that during his conversation with Musk, Trump suggested that employers could fire workers for going on strike.

“When we say Donald Trump is a scab, this is what we mean. When we say Trump stands against everything our union stands for, this is what we mean,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a news release.

The UAW has endorsed Kamala Harris for president, drawing the ire of non-union auto workers in Michigan.

Flashback: Michigan auto workers blast the United Auto Workers for endorsing Kamala.

"To endorse Kamala Harris is sheer lunacy."pic.twitter.com/fsNrpdnYnK

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 13, 2024

While campaigning for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, UAW President Shawn Fain castigated Donald Trump for his connections to billionaire Elon Musk.

“For months, Donald Trump has gone around trashing our state, trashing our industry, trashing the American autoworker, saying he was against electric vehicles. And then something happened,” Fain said on Wednesday.

“We saw Elon Musk announce he was going to give Donald Trump $45 million dollars a month. And all of a sudden, guess what, Trump changed his tune,” he added, while calling Trump a “sellout.”

Following the assassination attempt against Trump in July, Elon Musk announced that he was publicly supporting Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk had pledged up to $45 million per month to back Trump, although both Musk and Trump subsequently denied that report was accurate.

In his Spaces with Donald Trump on Monday, Elon Musk explained why he was supporting Trump.

“America is at a fork in the road… and you are the path to prosperity. Kamala is the opposite,” Musk said.

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FULL Police Bodycam Video is Released of the Frantic Moments Following Trump Assassination Attempt

The FBI is investigating an alleged hack of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, drawing attention to potential foreign interference in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

According to various reports, the Trump campaign confirmed that its internal communications were compromised, allegedly by hackers associated with the Iranian government. The hack reportedly led to the exposure of sensitive campaign documents, which were leaked to several media outlets.

The Trump campaign blamed “foreign sources hostile to the United States,” citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential campaign.” Microsoft did not identify the targeted campaign and declined further comment to Politico.

“These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said. “On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a vice presidential nominee.”

The breach was first revealed after some media outlets, including Politico, received documents from the campaign through anonymous sources. The Trump campaign has pointed fingers at Iranian state-linked actors, claiming that this cyberattack is part of a broader effort to influence the U.S. elections.

This incident has sparked discussions about the security measures in place for political campaigns, especially given the history of election-related hacking in previous U.S. elections. The FBI is currently investigating the matter to assess the extent of the breach and its potential implications on the election process.

This situation has raised alarms not just for the Trump campaign but also for the broader political landscape as concerns over cybersecurity and foreign interference in U.S. elections continue to grow. The campaign’s response to the hack marks a stark contrast to Trump’s previous stance on hacked materials during the 2016 election.

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FULL Police Bodycam Video is Released of the Frantic Moments Following Trump Assassination Attempt

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) shared the full bodycam footage he got from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit (ESU) regarding the immediate aftermath of Thomas Crooks’ attempted murder of former President Donald Trump.

Grassley wrote, “July 13 Bodycam footage provides more info than Secret Service will share with America We NEED detailed answers ASAP on security failures TRANSPARENCY BRINGS ACCOUNTABILITY.”

Grassley added that he got the video from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit.

A local Beaver County officer is heard at the outset of the video stating that a sniper captured numerous photographs of Thomas Crooks prior to his opening fire on Trump and several supporters.

According to the officer, the sniper who captured the images was situated in a building that was adjacent to the location where Crooks fired his shots at the former president.

Subsequently, a Secret Service agent asked about the two individuals who were apprehended subsequent to the assassination attempt. However, the Beaver County officers stationed on the roof denied that any individual had been apprehended.

A blurry image of Crook’s lifeless corpse is visible in the video’s background, with a stream of blood cascading down the roof.

An officer’s radio is audible near the conclusion of the video, as it asks, “Do we have access to a drone to clear this water tower?”

In order to promote transparency, Grassley has been evaluating all records received in response to oversight requests issued to federal and local agencies. In the process, he is making all pertinent records public.

“This morning I released the FULL extent of bodycam footage I’ve received from Beaver Co Emergency Services Unit showing aftermath of Trump shooting The public’s biz ought 2b PUBLIC You can find the video on my website,” Grassley said on social media.

After analyzing approximately 30 minutes of footage, Grassley emphasized two primary concerns in his press release:

1. The fragmented and delayed chain of communication between local and federal law enforcement; and
2. A seemingly delayed response in identifying and disabling a potential detonator device, including a potential device located next to the deceased shooter.

“The video footage additionally records law enforcement discussing the need to use a drone to inspect and secure the water tower on site,” the senator noted. “Records obtained by Grassley corroborate that USSS had assigned an Unmanned Aerial System drone operator to the event. Despite this, FBI Director Christopher Wray yesterday testified to the House Judiciary Committee that the shooter successfully flew his own drone around the venue two hours before opening fire.”

A sniper named “Greg” is identified as the individual who captured photographs of individuals near the rooftop during the event.

“I believe the sniper that saw these and sent the pictures is right inside this building. All right, so if you go to that window that’s open and yell for Greg, that’s the sniper who sent the original pictures. He saw him come from the bike, set the book down, and then lost sight of him,” said one of the Beaver officers.

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A whistleblower is alleging that the U.S. Secret Service declined to use drones at the deadly Pennsylvania rally for former president Donald Trump on July 13, even though the technology was repeatedly offered by local law enforcement, Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said on Thursday.

The Secret Service has fallen under intense scrutiny for failing to prevent a gunman from opening fire and attempting to assassinate Trump at the July 13 rally. Amid a series of reported operational failures, Hawley revealed in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday that a whistleblower had told him that the Secret Service repeatedly rejected offers from law enforcement in Pennsylvania to utilize drones for security purposes.

“The night before the rally, U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally. This means that the technology was both available to USSS and able to be deployed to secure the site. Secret Service said no,” Hawley wrote in his letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday. “The whistleblower further alleges that after the shooting took place, USSS changed course and asked the local partner to deploy the drone technology to surveil the site in the aftermath of the attack.”

BREAKING.🚨

Whistleblower tells @HawleyMO that “local law enforcement partners & suppliers offered drones to Secret Service BEFORE the rally, but Secret Service declined.”

Drone use is reported by many to have been ROUTINE during Trump’s 2024 campaign rallies.

Butler County… pic.twitter.com/IqypCRtzTA

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 25, 2024

Hawley wrote in the letter that the whistleblower also told him that the drone technology that was allegedly offered to the Secret Service had the capability to “neutralize” potential threats as well as monitor them.

“It is hard to understand why USSS would decline to use drones when they were offered, particularly given the fact USSS permitted the shooter to overfly the rally area with his own drone mere hours before [the] event,” Hawley wrote in the letter. The gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, flew a drone over the rally site hours before the event began to scope out the area.

The Secret Service has been widely criticized for its failure to stop Crooks from nearly killing Trump. Crooks was able to climb onto the roof of a building just hundreds of feet away from the rally and shoot Trump without being stopped by law enforcement or the Secret Service, even though they were made aware of his presence roughly 50 minutes before the former president took the stage.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned on Tuesday after being berated by Republican and Democratic lawmakers for her failure to ensure that the rally would be safe.

The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Six Democrats Vote In Favor Of Resolution Bashing Biden And ‘Border Czar’ Harris’ Failures

Six House Democrats voted in favor of a resolution condemning President Joe Biden’s administration and Vice President Kamala Harris for their “failure to secure the United States border” on Thursday.

H.Res. 1371 was introduced by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik to formally condemn “Border Czar” Harris’ immigration policy after she was tasked with reducing illegal immigration over the southern border early in the Biden administration. The resolution passed the House with 196 Democrats voting against it and six Democrats joining 214 Republicans in favor of it.

The resolution was cosponsored by Republican Reps. Neal Dunn of Florida, Greg Lopez of Colorado and Mike Bost of Illinois.

“Kamala Harris, every elected Democrat, and their stenographers in the mainstream media will run from their record, but they can’t hide,” Stefanik said in a post on X. “House Republicans will hold Kamala Harris accountable for her role as Biden’s Border Czar leading to the most catastrophic border crisis in modern history.”

The Biden-Harris administration has overseen record influxes of illegal immigration. Since Biden took office, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered nearly eight million migrants, with over 83,000 encounters between ports of entry along the southern border in June alone, according to CBP data.

During former President Donald Trump’s term, every month saw fewer encounters on the southern border compared to June 2024 numbers, with some exceptions in fiscal year 2019, according to CBP data.

The House resolution highlights Harris’ dismal immigration track record, pointing out that it took the “Border Czar” over 90 days on the job before she finally made her way to the southern border on June 25, 2021. The resolution also pointed out the surges in violent crime that have occurred due to the illegal immigration that has taken place under Harris’ watch.

The resolution brought attention to the innocent Americans like Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray and Rachel Morin. All three women were allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants.

“Kamala Harris failed as Border czar leading to violent crimes, rapes, and murders of innocent Americans,” Stefanik said in a statement on X. “We will hold her and Far Left Democrats accountable.”

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House Passes Unanimous Resolution Establishing Trump Assassination Attempt Task Force

The House passed a resolution to form a bipartisan task force on Wednesday to investigate the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13.

H.R. 1367, which was spearheaded by House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, passed the House in a unanimous vote. The task force was announced in the aftermath of U.S. Secret Service (USSS) Director Kimberly Cheatle’s evasive testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Monday, which sparked bipartisan outrage and her subsequent resignation on Tuesday.

The House voted 416-0 on the resolution.

“The security failures that allowed an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life are shocking,” Johnson and Jeffries said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “The task force will be empowered with subpoena authority and will move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such failures never happen again.”

'Go Back To Guarding Doritos': GOP Rep Goes Ballistic On Secret Service Director For 'Shameful' Answers pic.twitter.com/wdgXC82cbC

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 22, 2024

The task force will be composed of seven Republicans and six Democrats “in response to bipartisan demands for answers,” according to Johnson and Jeffries’ joint statement.

The resolution was also led by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, who was in the front row of Trump’s rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, when 20-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at and wounded the former president, killing attendee Corey Comperatore and injuring James Copenhaver and David Dutch, who are both in stable condition as of Monday.

Crooks took aim at the Republican nominee from a rooftop positioned just 130 yards from the stage. The gunman was reportedly spotted by witnesses and flagged by the USSS almost an hour before Trump took the stage.

Cheatle resigned the day after her testimony on Monday, saying that she took “full responsibility for the security lapse,” according to an email obtained by The Associated Press. Johnson said Cheatle’s resignation was “overdue,” but that there still “may be others in the  line of authority” who were also at fault.

“She should have done this at least a week ago,” Johnson said in a press conference on Tuesday. “Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”

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‘God Had A Hand In Saving You’: Anti-Trump Governor Gives Endorsement After ‘Courage Literally Under Fire’

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is blocking several groups from obtaining audio recordings from President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur, according to the Washington Examiner.

The DOJ rejected Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from several entities attempting to gain access to the Biden-Hur tapes, prompting them to file a lawsuit Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported. The lawsuit was joined by Judicial Watch, Heritage Foundation and a CNN-led media coalition that includes The Associated Press, CBS, Reuters and other companies.

The Daily Caller News Foundation also filed a FOIA request to obtain the audio tapes on Feb. 13, but the DOJ said the request remains pending.

The Biden-Hur tapes sparked controversy after Hur described Biden as having mental lapses during the interview in October 2023.

In February, Hur’s team found that Biden had retained and mishandled classified information regarding the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy that he led as vice president, but he decided not to prosecute after the interview. Hur described Biden as a “sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man,” and described his memory as having “significant limitations,” claiming that a jury might not find him guilty for that reason.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has persistently withheld the tapes from the public for months after Biden invoked executive privilege in May to prevent the tapes from being released. Since then, the House passed a resolution in June to hold Garland in contempt for violating a congressional subpoena.

The House also attempted to pass a resolution in July that would hold Garland in “inherent contempt,” fining him $10,000 every day he declined to turn over the tapes. That resolution, led by Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, failed in the House by a 204-210 vote.

The DOJ said that releasing the Biden-Hur tapes would cause “unwarranted privacy harms” without “any meaningful countervailing public benefit,” claiming it would “interfere with witness cooperation” in investigations, according to the Washington Examiner.

“I’ve been doing this for nearly 30 years, I really haven’t seen a desperate effort like this to avoid disclosure,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told the Washington Examiner.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

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‘God Had A Hand In Saving You’: Anti-Trump Governor Gives Endorsement After ‘Courage Literally Under Fire’

Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who previously criticized Donald Trump, offered the 2024 Republican presidential nominee his endorsement Sunday after the former president was nearly assassinated.

Trump was grazed in the right ear by a bullet at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Cox, who had yet to endorse the GOP candidate, threw his full support behind Trump in a July 14 letter after the former president showed “courage literally under fire,” Deseret News first reported following the governor’s press conference Friday.

“In that moment, you represented the best of America at one of our very worst times,” Cox wrote. “Bloodied but not bowed. Courage — literally — under fire.”

Thank you President Trump. This is a winning message and one our nation desperately needs right now. Utah stands ready to help you heal the division in our nation. https://t.co/ESKq11gHQl

— Spencer Cox (@SpencerJCox) July 19, 2024

In the letter, Cox told Trump he and his wife watched the shooting in “disbelief.” The Utah governor acknowledged he was “even more impressed” by Trump and Melania Trump’s statements following the assassination attempt, praising both responses for their “strength” and “humility.”

Cox wrote he believes “God had a hand in saving” Trump before revealing he was initially worried “the unthinkable” would happen if Trump was shot dead.

“In these dark times, it would be easy — and justified — to lash out. To return hate with hate and violence with violence,” Cox wrote.

Cox acknowledged he and Trump have “some differences” and that he “gets it” if Trump does not “like” him “much.” Cox had told CNN on July 10 he would not be voting for Trump and instead write in someone else. The Utah governor also said he did not vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020, according to Deseret News. Cox nevertheless had a change of heart, writing to Trump, “I will do my best to help and support you” in the 2024 election.

Utah Governor Cox says he will not be voting for Trump this election. He says he will be writing someone in. pic.twitter.com/bLoUwtW5dM

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 11, 2024

“Your life was spared. Now, because of that miracle, you have the opportunity to do something that no other person on earth can do right now: unify and save our country,” Cox wrote.

Cox wrote that “only” Trump “can be that kind of leader” that America need “today.” At his monthly press conference on Friday, Cox reportedly expressed his intent to vote for Trump, stating his “commitment” is to “help him lower the temperature in this country,” according to Deseret News.

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