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Scott Presler Outlines 2025 New Jersey Red Wave Strategy

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Scott Presler, the founder of Early Vote Action, is ramping up voter registration efforts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania ahead of the 2025 election cycle.

Appearing on Fox News with Steve Doocy, Presler outlined his grassroots strategy to target key demographics and flip traditionally blue states to red.

Presler emphasized the close margins of past elections in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as an indicator of the potential for Republican gains. “Well, you know, at earlyvoteaction.com, we believe that victory begets victory. We just had a slam dunk for the Republican Party. We have a trifecta we delivered at the White House, Senate, and House,” Presler said. Highlighting the geographical and cultural proximity between the two states, he added, “For all intents and purposes, one-fourth of Pennsylvania’s border joins with New Jersey. There are a lot of shared values.”

Presler detailed his plans to engage voters in 2025, particularly in New Jersey’s shore town of Wildwood. “From the spring and summer all in 2025, we’re going to Wildwood. That’s where Philly goes to the beach. Let’s register voters and get both New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” he stated.

Fox News host Steve Doocy pointed to New Jersey’s 2021 gubernatorial race, where Democratic Governor Phil Murphy narrowly defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli by just 3.2%. Doocy noted, “In this deep blue state, the Democrat almost lost, and it was the same year that Governor Youngkin down in Virginia was able to make some hay. New Jersey has really high taxes… Nobody really likes that.”

Presler drew a comparison between New Jersey and Pennsylvania, stating, “Look at the similarities: 2020 in Pennsylvania was decided by 80,000 votes. 2021 in New Jersey was decided by 84,000 votes. In PA, we went after truckers and hunters and Amish and veterans, and in New Jersey, we’re going to do the same thing.”

He elaborated on his approach, saying, “We’re going to the farmers markets and Veterans of Foreign Wars halls, and you’ll see us at the beach, courting the trucker vote. I want New Jersey folks to know that if every single Trump voter that came out in 2024 commits to voting on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, you have the power to flip that New Jersey governorship from blue to red.”

Doocy suggested that Donald Trump’s proposed policies could energize voters in New Jersey and nationwide.

“Donald Trump may actually help you out a lot,” Doocy remarked. “He’s made a lot of suggestions, things that he would like to get done… If people in New Jersey and across the country see him making hay, they’re going to go, you know what? Maybe that side, maybe the red side, is the side I should look at.”

Presler agreed, outlining Trump’s proposed agenda. “Look at what President Trump wants to do on day one. He wants to bring back the Keystone pipeline, and he wants to make sure that we’re cutting the corporate tax so jobs are coming back to America, not going overseas. He wants to make the economy better for working-class families. People are really struggling.”

Presler stressed the importance of voter turnout, warning against complacency. “The biggest obstacle that Republicans have, Steve, is complacency and apathy and not voting. Commit to vote on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, and we will win New Jersey,” he said.

Presler closed by encouraging Americans to embrace an “America First” agenda, noting, “If we are able to put forth this America First agenda, make life easier and more affordable for American families, and if people commit to voting, we could very well win the midterms. You will not only have two years of growth for our country, but President Trump will be able to use all four.”

Read More at LifeZette

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America’s Most Caring Cities: How Does Yours Rank?

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WalletHub released data Monday detailing America’s most caring cities, and the results may surprise you.

“The most caring cities donate a lot of money to charity and have high volunteer rates, but being a caring city overall requires much more than just giving time or money,” analyst Chris Lupo said in a statement released with the results of WalletHub’s research. The team looked at the top 100 most populated cities across the U.S., assessing their citizens by three key metrics related to caring for the community, the vulnerable, and within the workforce. 

Metrics included things like violent crime rates, driving fatalities, but also clothing and food distribution, share of income donated to charity, share of registered volunteer fire departments. Child poverty, adoption rates, number of childcare workers, and many other key variables were used to determine the findings.

Top Most Caring Cities In 2024

Virginia Beach, Virginia, ranked as the #1 most caring city, with an overall score of 68.61, followed closely by Scottsdale, AZ, Boston, MA, Gilbert, AZ, and Chesapeake, VA. Fremont and San Francisco ranked #6 and #7 respectively, while many other California cities ranked in the Top 20. Many of these places are tech hubs, like San Jose, Irvine, as well as Chula Vista and Santa Ana.

The least caring cities were Birmingham, AL (#100), Baton Rouge, LA (#99), Memphis, TN (98), New Orleans (#97), Detroit, MI (#96), San Bernardino (#95), Tulsa, OK (#94), Winston-Salem, NC (#93), Albuquerque, NM (#92), Houston, TX (#91) and Cleveland, OH (#90)

Stats Broken Down

Fort Wayne, IN, gives the highest percentage of their income to charity. Though ranking incredibly low overall, Tulsa, OK, residents give the second highest percentage of income to charity, followed by Birmingham, AL, and Memphis, TN.

Bizarrely, San Diego, Chula Vista, and Sacramento, CA, give the lowest amount of their money to charity. These cities are only outranked by Pittsburgh, PA, Honolulu, HI, and Laredo, TX. 

“The human species evolved large brains because childcare was collective. Individual families were not burdened with constant individual care like other mammals are. Look at any village or small-scale, family-oriented society ever and you will see a pattern of collective care,” said UNC Wilmington sociology and criminology PhD Christopher S. Elliott. “Modern nations reverse the progress that evolution gave our species. Our society is forced through the discipline of the market to pay for everything, including care, and it is a pressure cooker. It is demoralizing. It feeds the debt machines and work machines.”

“There is no such thing as a ‘caring city’ in this society,” he added. But we may disagree. We know you’ve got stories of greatness, power, faith and purpose from 2024 just waiting to uplift others into His grace.

Here’s the full list:

Read More at Million Voices

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The Truth About the “Unhoused” is Not so Sympathetic

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Remember the song you were taught in grade school about hobos and their magical destination? 

In The Big Rock Candy Mountains
There’s a land that’s fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night

Folk songs often make, well, folk heroes out of people in society that most of us don’t really want to deal with every day on our doorstep. Robin Hood may be exciting to watch as he goes after King John’s money on the screen, but if you were among the king’s taxation staff you would probably see Robin Hood a bit differently. 

The Big Rock Candy Mountain’s friendly and easy-going hobos were probably never the mainstay of what we now call the “unhoused” population. One of the most enduring modern myths about “the homeless” is that they’re just like you and me, it’s just that they fell on hard times. Maybe it was a medical bankruptcy. Maybe they lost their job and found themselves on the street, right? 

Wrong. The overwhelming majority of the homeless are not mere victims of bad luck. They are people with years of drug addiction and/or untreated mental illness. As sad as their plight may be, they are not the only ones bearing hardship. Often their families have given up trying to help them as such people frequently choose drugs and a street life over putting in the work to get clean and on the straight and narrow. 

Billionaire inventor and X owner Elon Musk is not afraid to get to the heart of the matter:

Sound harsh? Cast your mind back 25 years and you’ll notice some words that have been taken out of our modern conversation: vagrant, drifter. We replaced those “judgmental” words with the anodyne “homeless,” which has now been displaced by the even more euphemistic “unhoused.” Notice that the word puts the burden on you and me: it’s society that failed to “house” these people. 

You won’t find any reference to this reality if you try researching online. The Google search engine has a pronounced leftist bias that makes the “homeless” sacred, even cuddly, while making you feel guilty about wondering if they had any hand in their own situation:

These are not “myths.” Anyone who lives in a city–and increasingly in small towns–can attest to the aggressive, drunk, drugged, and often violent state of career panhandlers. 

X user Jeremy Kaufmann (Elon Musk was reacting to his tweet) highlighted this article from the San Franciso Chronicle.

Even the city organ of the most liberal municipality in the U.S. can’t hide from the truth. The Chronicle’s investigation cops to the fact that the “unhoused” are often violent, filthy, and waste the help they’re given while burning every bridge behind them. 

That story was from two years ago, and the mood in the country has changed significantly since then. Americans are tired of being guilted into paying ever more to “help” people who only abuse their trust. The responses to Kauffman’s post show it:

Big Cities, crime

Suspected Health Insurance Assassin’s Family Was in the For-Profit Medical Business Too

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Police caught up with alleged assassin Luigi Mangione less than a week after, they suspect, he gunned down Brian Thompson in broad daylight in front of a hotel in New York City. Thompson, 50, was the CEO of one of the country’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare. 

Magione, 26, an upper class man originally from Maryland who graduated from Penn State, may have been motivated by some kind of resentment against health insurance company practices. Police say someone, presumably Mangione, had inscribed the words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend,” on the shell casings left at the scene after the gunfire. These words are similar to the title of a book that castigates the insurance sector for working to deny payment to patients in need. The title of the book is Delay, Deny, Defend. 

Police caught the suspect at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone spotted him and correctly deduced that he was the same person they had seen in CCTV stills of the killer police released to the public. 

It is important to remember that nearly everything about this case is speculative at this point. While police and the public may have some clues about what may have motivated Mangione, nothing is proven, and there is a mountain of evidence behind the scenes that no one in the public has seen yet. 

But the public speculation is that Mangione had some personal resentment toward health insurance companies. Police have apparently found writings, including a manifesto, in which Mangione expressed that he was “frustrated with the health care system in the United States.”

NewsNation has a comprehensive timeline of the crime and the aftermath. 

If Mangione was motivated by malice toward the health insurance sector, one Twitter/X user thinks there may be an element of hypocrisy in the alleged shooter’s motivation. David Petersen posted that Mangione’s family, who are wealthy, own a for-profit nursing home as part of their business Lorian Health Systems. 

Petersen points out that Lorian Health Systems has a poor track record of patient care, with low scores on vaccination rates for residents and staff, plus poor grades on health inspections. 

Here’s a sampling of the online reaction: 

Big Cities, Race Baiting, Race Politics

Manslaughter Charge Against Daniel Penny Dropped – How Did We Even Get Here in the First Place?

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The Daniel Penny subway trial is winding up as of press time, and the jury is in deliberations after the judge in the case dropped the manslaughter charge against Penny. More on this below, but first, how the hell did this trial even happen? How did we get here? 

Millions of Americans are tired of “woke” politics. Race-based grievances, special rights for minority groups, total social censure of non-left voices, and non-step leftist economic policies are a big part of why the country elected Trump this fall. 

Not only has the U.S. lost social and moral cohesion over the past few decades, but we have also lost belief in some of the most fundamental rights that everyone used to agree on. Self-defense is one of them. We’re all used to Democrat politicians trying to chip away at the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and that’s bad enough, but it doesn’t stop there. 

We appear to be losing the belief in our own right to defend our lives and the lives of those around us. How else can we explain the shockingly ignorant public response to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial? Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020 to help protect the town and its businesses as BLM protesters rioted and set fires to buildings in protest of the police shooting of a black man. Several men attacked Rittenhouse, and he fired, killing two of them. 

The country went insane. Many liberals believed, absent evidence, that Rittenhouse killed “unarmed black men.” The men who attacked him, and whom he shot, were not black, and at least one of them tried to take Rittenhouse’s gun as Rittenhouse lay on the ground trying to defend himself. He was acquitted, but only barely, as the media and politicians almost succeeded in painting the innocent teen as a monster when he was the one under attack. 

The same thing has happened to subway hero Daniel Penny, who is on trial in New York City (the jury is deliberating as this story is written) for allegedly killing subway menace Jordan Neely. The media worked overtime to portray Neely, a mentally unstable criminal and drug user with a long rap sheet, as an innocent and friendly “Michael Jackson impersonator” – as opposed to someone who threatens to murder their fellow subway passengers. This is what they always do when violent black men are pushed back against by their targets. 

Neely entered a subway and started threatening passengers, causing mothers to huddle in fear with their children behind strollers. Penny, a former marine who looks like Errol Flynn, put Neely in a chokehold until police could arrive. Contrary to initial media reports, Neely did not die on the subway, he died later at a hospital. 

Race-baiting, dishonest New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg (the same man who went after Donald Trump in court over “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels), charged Penny with manslaughter. It was obvious from the beginning that black Alvin Bragg intended to scalp a white man, even though he appears to be a hero, not a thug. 

But as of yesterday, presiding judge Maxwell Wiley has dropped the manslaughter charge, leaving Penny to face a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Though the name of the crime sounds worse, it actually carries a lesser sentence than manslaughter.

Penny should never have been arrested, let alone charged. But this is the United States in 2024, and if you’re white, male, or a Republican, a good half the country does not believe you have the moral or legal right to protect yourself and others from assault or murder. 

Let’s see how X/Twitter users are reacting. 

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Independent Candidate Ejected From New York Panel for Heckling Paul Krugman

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An independent candidate in New York’s 15th Congressional District was ejected from a sit-down discussion at the City University of New York.

The panel, which featured New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, was stunned into silence as Jose Vega lambasted the political elite.

In a three-minute video, Vega slammed Krugman, who somehow has a Nobel Prize. He questioned how those affected by Hurricane Helene felt about Krugman’s advocacy of a “strong” economy, while also raising concerns over funding for Ukraine and the ongoing tensions in the Middle East.

“I’m sure the economy is great for smug liberals like yourself who are worth $5 million; I’m sure the economy must be great for all smug journalists, economists – all of you must be having a great time with the economy when most people who can’t even pay for basic necessities [or are getting] evicted because they can’t even pay their rent,” he shouted at the panel.

As the hosts tried to restore order, Vega continued before being escorted out of the building by security:

Krugman later reaction on X:

Vega’s tirade caught the attention of thousands on social media.

Others noted the subsequent reaction of Krugman on X.

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Election Offices Across U.S. Receive Suspicious Packages Containing White Powder

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Election officials in more than 15 states have reported being sent suspicious packages containing white powder, prompting a national investigation by the FBI over safety concerns.

As the crucial election period looms, election offices are now on high alert.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was first to flag the suspicious envelopes.

The state of Ohio was the first to publicly respond to the incident, with Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office confirming that it had received one of the packages.

In a press release, LaRose stated:

“Fortunately, we were notified by our law enforcement partners to be on the lookout for this package, and we were able to intercept it before it reached our office.”

Fears are now growing about the security of election offices

LaRose added: “The security of our employees and all election officials across Ohio is a top concern as we enter a critical period in the election cycle.”

The packages were sent to states such as Mississippi, Nebraska, and Wyoming.

Mississippi’s Secretary of State’s Elections Division said the powder found in their office was flour, and there is no indication that the substances may pose any danger.

The Postal Service and federal law enforcement are now working together with heightened alert surrounding threats to election infrastructure. This follows the safety of political figures and officials such as former President Donald Trump, who has suffered two assassination attempts.

Read the Full Article at The Daily Fetched

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Minneapolis Mayor Claimed Tim Walz Ignored National Guard Request During 2020 BLM Riots

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Kamala Harris’ selection of Tim Walz as her running mate has brought the Minnesota Governos’s actions during the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots into question.

Gov. Walz was selected by the Vice President ahead of the Democratic National Convention later this month.

With Harris still refusing to face the media due to her inability to speak coherently, attention has shifted to her running mate and his handling of the BLM riots in his state.

One clip in question has gathered the attention of conservative. Shortly after the riots, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he requested support from the National Guard to quell the disruption – a request which was seemingly ignored by Gov. Walz.

“I will speak the truth,” said Frey at the time, “and the truth is that on Wednesday [May 27, 2020], at 6pm, I called the Governor and asked for the National Guard.”

But the National Guard never came – and absolute chaos continued.

Many on social media offered stark reminders of the horrific riots.

Other users considered the upcoming future of the country and the upcoming elections.

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Chicago Mayor With Apparently No Real Local Problems Wants George Washington Out of City Hall

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Conservatives have long warned that the leftist impulse to erase and destroy the past won’t stop with erasing only the “villains.” It won’t stop with simply taking down monuments to Confederate soldiers, or slaveholders, or “settler colonialists” as the anti-Israel crowd labels them. Of course, many now-contentious historical figures weren’t thorough-going villains except as judged by modern woke standards, but try explaining that to a leftist.

During the Black Lives Matter hysteria of the early 2020s, America lost its collective mind and stood idly by while vandals and university chancellors alike removed or destroyed dozens of historical monuments. Back in 2022, CNN reported that more than 70 monuments depicting men from the Confederacy had been taken down.

And who can forget the glee with which liberal media pictorially reported on the melting down of a Charlottesville, Virginia, statue of Robert E. Lee?

The conservatives were right.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who is even more Lori Lightfoot, his predecessor, than Lightfoot was herself, plans to remove the statue of our nation’s founding father, George Washington, from City Hall. Maybe it’s public pushback, or something else, but media are now reporting that the Johnson administration may be backing down. Frankly, it’s hard to believe there’s enough patriotic outrage in the U.S. in year 2024 that Johnson would get any blowback at all, but if there is, it can only be a good thing.

Of course, since contrived black grievance (not to mention rampant black narcissism) sells so well, Johnson reportedly wanted to replace Washington with a “black Chicagoan.”

What is clear is that many Americans are tired of this insulting nonsense, and they’re expressing it on social media with humorous sarcasm.

User Joseph Michael reminds us that Republicans were right, including the Uber-Republican himself.

Ouch, Uncle Paul! It’s funny because it’s true.

Whose statue do you think will fall next? Tell us in the comments!

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San Francisco Punishes Small Business for Having the Nerve to Be Crime Victims

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Blue state governments hate you more than you know if you’re a taxpaying, revenue-generating citizen or small business. No, it doesn’t make any sense that governments would work to make everything harder for the very people who fund their overreach, but they do.

British business professor Stafford Beer coined the phrase, “the purpose of a system is what it does.” It explains why systems like governments, bureaucracies, and policies so often produce outcomes that have nothing to do with their stated purpose.

Beer’s formula is perfectly illustrated by the San Francisco code department’s persecutory actions against small businesses. Everyone knows the city by the bay has turned into a city-sized outdoor bathroom and 21st century opium den. Crazed drug addicts, the homeless with their tents, and thieving criminals have made the streets unwalkable and the city unlivable.

They’ve also made it almost impossible to run a business. But the city itself is the biggest villain. When the eyecare practice Pacific Vision Foundation discovered they were losing business because patrons could not get past the homeless tents on the front sidewalk, PVF found a solution. They installed beautiful flower planters on the sidewalk. It worked; the tents went away. But then the city’s department of public works, the same city that refuses to clear out the vagrants, sent PVF a code violation citation for not getting a planter permit.

The city continues to punish small businesses for the actions of criminals. Check out this news clip about a corner store that’s thinking of closing shop. After criminals busted their glass doors, the city came down on the store for the code violation of not fixing the damage fast enough.

California used to be the golden land of dreams and opportunities, but those days are gone and people are noticing. Here’s some online reaction.

“Anarcho-tyranny” is a great way to describe how states like California are run.

We like the way Aphealia thinks.

Suppose you have to laugh!


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