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Fair Fight Action, the voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams, is facing major financial difficulties following a record-breaking fine imposed by the Georgia State Ethics Commission.

The financial strain has led to mass layoffs and internal restructuring as the group struggles to sustain its operations.

The crisis has also impacted the New Georgia Project (NGP), a grassroots organization launched by Abrams. More than 30 employees were laid off in two rounds between December and January, many with little notice.

According to a GoFundMe campaign launched Wednesday, the organization cited economic challenges and reduced fundraising as key reasons for the downsizing.

The layoffs began on December 27, when 19 staff members were dismissed with less than 12 hours’ notice. Another 12 employees were let go at the end of January, according to FOX5.

Stephanie Ali, NGP’s policy director, set up a crowdfunding campaign to assist those affected, attributing the situation to external financial pressures.

“The organization has stated these reductions in force (RIFs) are due to economic downturns, reductions in fundraising in an ‘off’ election year, and other contributing factors,” Ali wrote.

“No matter the reason, with this, over 30 of some of the most dedicated organizers, door knockers, and field tacticians who dedicated years of their lives to this work are now out of work – some whose insurance will lapse as soon as February 1.”

The financial turmoil follows a ruling from the Georgia State Ethics Commission, which imposed its largest-ever fine on NGP and its affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund.

The groups admitted to 16 violations of state law, including improperly supporting Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial campaign and failing to disclose millions in campaign contributions and expenditures.

NGP leadership stated that the layoffs were necessary to align staffing with available resources but maintained that the organization remains committed to voter registration and outreach efforts.

In 2024, NGP reported registering more than 55,000 Georgians, knocking on over 841,000 doors, and deploying more than 200 poll monitors.

“The volunteers, members, and staff of NGP are family, and reductions in staffing are never easy.

Nevertheless, NGP must meet its obligation to align its staffing plan with available resources to accomplish its mission,” the organization said in a statement to FOX5.

NGP, which Abrams founded in 2013, has faced increasing scrutiny over its financial and legal practices.

In January, the Georgia Ethics Commission fined NGP and the New Georgia Project Action Fund $300,000 for violations of state campaign finance laws related to the 2018 elections.

According to The Associated Press, the groups failed to register as independent campaign committees and did not properly report approximately $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures.

These funds primarily supported Abrams’ gubernatorial campaign, marking one of the largest campaign finance penalties in Georgia history.

Investigators found that NGP engaged in electioneering activities such as canvassing and phone banking in support of Abrams without proper registration and transparency.

Additionally, in 2019, NGP failed to disclose $646,000 in contributions and $174,000 in expenditures related to a public transit referendum in Gwinnett County. Both Abrams and U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who previously served as chairman of NGP, have denied any involvement in the violations.

However, the fallout from the investigation and financial penalties has left the organization struggling to maintain operations amid mounting legal and ethical concerns.

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Democrats in Illinois are allowing illegal immigrants, including those who have committed horrific crimes, to change their names to avoid deportation and remain within the state. 

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who vowed to fight for illegal immigrants, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker are also blocking ICE agents from accessing prisons to detain some of the most vile illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes, including drug offenses, gang affiliation, prostitution, human trafficking, and child sex crimes.

The Trump administration has categorically stated that it was primarily focusing on national security threats and the most dangerous illegal immigrants. However, Democrats in Illinois are preventing those people from being deported. About 300 illegal aliens with ICE detainer requests are in Chicago. 

These are not the “farm produce pickers” that Democrats have been talking about, but people wanted for various crimes that the Trump administration wants out of the country.

Recently, the Illinois legislature passed HB 5164, allowing anybody who has resided in the state for three months to change their name. Previously, it required the name change applicant to have resided in the state for at least six months.

However, that is not the most concerning detail, as the law also allows even the most dangerous criminal illegal aliens to change their names. Both chambers approved the measure, which was sent to Gov. Pritzker’s desk for signing last week. 

While proponents of the law claim it would help victims of domestic abuse and, of course, transgender individuals to feel safer, it did not exempt criminal illegal aliens with a history of violent crimes.

“There are residents in our state who do not feel safe when they are an adoptee; they’re transgender; they’re an immigrant; they’re a survivor of domestic violence, survivor of sexual exploitation and human trafficking,” Democrat State Senator Ram Villivalam, the sponsor of the bill, said. 

“So they would like to change their name, and in doing so, we need to remove as many barriers as we can to ensure their health and safety.”

However, allowing illegal immigrants to change their names will effectively enable them to evade ICE raids, as the name change may not have propagated through all systems when the immigration officers descend on the correctional facilities.

“Is this creating a loophole for people who are here, who are criminals and part of things involved in the trafficking, involved in all of these nefarious activities that we’ve been reading about?” GOP State Senator Sue Rezin asked.

According to State Senator Andrew Chesney, the passage of the law allows “illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes” to “simply change their names, making it difficult for law enforcement or immigration officials to track them down.”

However, Democrats continue to pat themselves on the back by claiming that the law allows people who feel unsafe to feel more secure.

“As people continue to feel the hate, feel the discrimination, get targeted, we need to continue to take these steps to make sure they feel healthy and safe,” said Villivalam.

The name change petitioners were also slapped with a lenient maximum fee of $25. The court can also waive the charge “for good cause shown,” allowing the law to be abused.

It also exempts the petitioners from publicly disclosing the name change, meaning most people would not know about it. It also allows name changers to exclude their home addresses, making them totally untraceable.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s former senior aide has been sentenced to over a decade in prison for child sexual abuse. Rahamim Shy, 47, was arrested in the United Kingdom while traveling from New York to Bedford, England, in February 2024 to meet a nine-year-old girl and commit horrific sexual crimes on a minor, the BBC reported.

For around a month, Shy spoke to a woman called “Debbie,” who claimed to be the 9-year-old’s grandmother. However, she was an undercover police officer working for the protection of minors from sexual exploitation.

According to the Crown Prosecution Service that prosecuted the case, the senior Democratic adviser planned to “commit unspeakable acts against a child for his own sexual gratification.”

Through messaging apps, the Democrat detailed the disturbing acts he was planning to commit on the minor. He also said that nine years was a “tad late,” suggesting that he was more interested in much younger children. Nevertheless, he felt honored to be the 9-year-old’s “first” sexual encounter.

Police also searched his luggage and found toys and condoms, which they said proved he was serious about committing the described horrific acts on a child. Shy’s phone also contained child sex materials, which proved he was sexually obsessed with children.

“Rahamim Shy is a predator who was fully prepared to commit unspeakable acts against a child for his own sexual gratification,” said Lorraine Telford, a Child Protection Services (CPS) officer, who testified during the prosecution.

Telford added that based on Shy’s online conversations, the American had fully demonstrated his sole intention of traveling to commit rape on vulnerable children.

However, his defense argued that he was exempt from prosecution because the crime occurred while he was in the United States, away from the jurisdiction of English courts. 

However, the prosecution demonstrated that English courts had the jurisdiction to try cases that would have resulted in crimes in England, the actual existence of the child notwithstanding.

Shy was subsequently found guilty of arranging to commit a child sex offense, specifically rape and being in the possession of child porn. He was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison.

Shy is hardly the first Democrat to be busted on child sexual abuse. Recently, an anti-Trump gay activist and Democratic National Convention (DNC) delegate, Matthew Inman, was arrested after planning to meet and commit horrific sexual acts on a nine-year-old boy.

Like Shy, Inman had been communicating with an undercover officer who pretended to be the child’s father. The gay activist and DNC delegate expressed his intention of sexually abusing the minor and sent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to the undercover officer.

Unlike Shy, who is likely to serve half of his 11.5-year prison sentence, Inman stares directly at the prospect of serving anywhere between half a decade and two decades in a federal prison.

Nonetheless, the punishment for child sexual abuse remains lenient enough to allow predators to complete their sentences and leave prison in time to commit more sexual crimes against children.

President Trump had proposed imposing the death penalty on child molesters, while only a handful of states, like Florida, have the law on their books.