BREAKING: A Michigan judge just ruled that the Democrat Secretary of State's election manual issued to local election officials is unconstitutional & against state law. He is also mandating strict signature verification for mail in votes in the upcoming 2024 election

"The Court declares that the "initial presumption" of validity in signature verification of absentee-ballot applications and envelopes mandated by the December 2023 guidance manual issued by defendants is incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan. For similar reasons, the Court declares that the catch line referring to an "initial presumption of validity" in R 168.22 is incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan. Accordingly, those provisions must be excised from the guidance manual and the catch line in R 168.22" - Judge Christopher Yates

9:39 PM · Jun 12, 2024·1.2M Views

https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1801066762328252491

HUGE ELECTION INTEGRITY VICTORY! [Michigan]

Gov. Whitmer-Appointed Judge Forces Michigan SOS Jocelyn Benson to Stop Hiding Critical Voting Data from the Public

In yet another major victory for election integrity warriors and government transparency, the Michigan Court of Claims just slammed the brakes on the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ blatant attempt to hide how voters actually cast their ballots.

In an Opinion and Order Granting Summary Disposition to Plaintiff, Court of Claims Judge Christopher P. Yates ruled in favor of longtime election integrity advocate Phani Mantravadi, Founder of Check My Vote, in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

The fight was over the Bureau’s sudden decision in March 2024 to begin redacting the all-important “Voting Type” column from the Qualified Voter File (QVF). This column shows whether each voter cast their ballot on Election Day (ED), Early In-Person (EV), or by Absentee ballot (A).

For years, this critical information was publicly available. Then, under Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Bureau quietly started stripping it out — claiming it was necessary to protect the “secret ballot.”

Judge Christopher Yates, whom Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed to the Michigan Court of Appeals, wasn’t buying Benson’s story about why they need to hide the truth about the type of voting used by each voter in Michigan elections.

The Court ruled that the vast majority of voting-type information must be released to the public under FOIA. The judge made it crystal clear that the Bureau failed to prove any valid FOIA exemption or constitutional reason to blanket-redact this data for every voter in the entire state. He noted that limited redaction might be justified only in extremely rare cases involving very small precincts.

Judge Yates also rejected the Bureau’s attempt to use the FOIA privacy exemption, pointing out that voting-type information has long been considered public in Michigan and is not “information of a personal nature.”

In 2024, Judge Yates ruled against Jocelyn Benson in another case that was a huge win for election integrity in Michigan.

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On October 6, 2020, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told local clerks to ignore signature matching on ballot envelopes and presume all absentee ballot signatures were valid unless they differed in “multiple, significant and obvious respects” from the signature on file.

In the lawsuit Republican Party of Michigan v. Benson, Judge Christopher Murray ruled on March 9, 2021, AFTER THE MOST CONTESTED ELECTION IN HISTORY, that Benson’s directive was invalid.

The ruling today, in favor of election integrity hero, Phani Mantravadi, is just one more in a long string of election cases in recent years that courts have ruled against Jocelyn Benson and her office in their aggressive efforts to make Michigan elections less transparent and more secretive at the highest levels — while simultaneously handing over Michigan voters’ confidential information to outside leftist groups and nonprofits.

The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for years on the Michigan Bureau of Elections’ and Jocelyn Benson’s repeated attempts to obscure and control election data. Today, a courageous judge said enough—and we applaud his decision.

This ruling is yet another major blow to the radical left’s efforts to keep voters in the dark.

We salute Phani Mantravadi for his relentless fight for transparency and Judge Christopher P. Yates for standing up for the rule of law and the public’s right to know.

The fight for free, fair, and transparent elections continues — but today was a very, very good day in Michigan.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/huge-election-integrity-victory-gov-whitmer-appointed-judge/

European Commission Urges Member States to Exclude Huawei and ZTE From Telecom Networks

A commission spokesperson made the recommendation during a briefing in Brussels on Monday.

The European Commission has recommended that EU member states exclude Huawei and ZTE equipment from telecom operators’ connectivity infrastructure.

A commission spokesperson made the recommendation during a briefing in Brussels on Monday. The move aims to strengthen cybersecurity in critical digital networks across the 27-nation bloc.

New cybersecurity rules now under discussion would allow the EU to ban equipment from high-risk suppliers across the European market, the spokesperson said.

This latest push builds on years of EU efforts to secure 5G and other telecom networks against potential risks from certain foreign suppliers.

The European Union first agreed on a 5G cybersecurity toolbox in January 2020.

The toolbox provided guidance for member states and operators on assessing risks and restricting high-risk vendors in core and accessible parts of networks.

In June 2023, the Commission, which is the executive branch of the EU, stated that decisions by some member states to restrict or exclude Huawei and ZTE were justified.

It described these companies as presenting “materially higher risks” than other 5G suppliers, mainly due to their links to third-country laws on intelligence and data security.

On Jan. 20, the Commission proposed a revised Cybersecurity Act to turn many of these earlier recommendations into binding rules.

The proposal included measures for phasing out key components from high-risk suppliers in mobile networks, with operators potentially given around 36 months to comply.

China has criticized the plans. Last week, Beijing threatened countermeasures if the rules were applied in what it said was a discriminatory manner.

China’s commerce ministry warned of possible investigations into European companies and reciprocal actions.

The EU has said its measures are based on objective security assessments and are not aimed at any single country.

Several member states have already limited the use of Huawei and ZTE equipment, but progress varies.

Sweden and the Baltic states have introduced full bans, while Germany is phasing out the two Chinese vendors. High replacement costs are slowing down full removal in some countries.

Revised rules would still need approval by EU governments and the European Parliament before becoming law.

The Commission has stressed that telecom networks carry sensitive data and support essential services such as emergency calls and financial transactions.

Reducing reliance on high-risk suppliers is seen as a way to protect against possible cyberattacks or espionage.

The Monday briefing served as a reminder of the Commission’s position as the legislative process continues.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/european-commission-urges-member-states-to-exclude-huawei-and-zte-from-telecom-networks-6021129

DOJ Sues Minnesota to Block Climate Lawsuit Targeting Energy Companies

Federal lawyers said Minnesota is using consumer-protection laws to regulate greenhouse gas emissions beyond its borders.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Minnesota over the state’s own climate lawsuit against major energy companies.

The complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, accuses state officials of trying to impose their own climate policies on domestic energy producers in a way the DOJ says burdens national energy development and intrudes on federal authority.

The underlying lawsuit was filed in 2020 by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison against Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Koch Industries, and Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources. Minnesota brought the case under state consumer-protection laws, alleging that the companies engaged in fraud and deceptive business practices by misleading the public about “climate change and the role of fossil-fuel products in climate change.”

That lawsuit remains pending after years of procedural fights over whether it belongs in state or federal court. Minnesota succeeded in keeping the case in state court in 2024, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court ruling allowing the lawsuit to proceed there.

In its new complaint, the DOJ argues that authority over national energy policy and major questions involving greenhouse gas emissions rests with the federal government, not individual states. The department is asking the court to block Minnesota from pursuing the 2020 lawsuit and prevent the state from bringing similar litigation in the future.

“Climate change lawsuits, like Minnesota’s, artfully plead around federal law while transparently seeking to change national energy policy related to global greenhouse gas emissions and to regulate conduct beyond local borders,” the complaint states.

The federal government’s move to counter climate litigation with its own lawsuit follows an executive order issued last year by President Donald Trump, who directed the DOJ to “take all appropriate action to stop” state lawsuits seeking to “dictate national energy policy.”

“President Trump promised to unleash American energy dominance, and Minnesota officials cannot undermine his directive by mandating that their woke climate preferences become the uniform policy of our Nation,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement.

Ellison, who is named as a defendant in the DOJ lawsuit, pledged to seek dismissal of what his office called a “frivolous and meritless” case.

“In 2020, I sued Big Oil for lying to Minnesotans about the true causes of climate change, then sticking us with the bill for the harms it is causing,” Ellison said in a statement. “Six years later, we are still waiting to go to trial because Big Oil has pulled every procedural trick in the book to delay facing the consequences of their unlawful actions.”

Minnesota is among a number of states and local governments that have turned to consumer-protection, public-nuisance, and similar laws to sue major oil and gas companies over the climate impact of their products. Those lawsuits generally accuse the companies of misleading the public about climate risks while seeking to hold them financially responsible for infrastructure costs, natural disaster- or health care-related costs, and other damages.

The DOJ has taken aim at several such efforts. Last year, it filed preemptive lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan, though both were dismissed by federal judges. Separate DOJ challenges to New York and Vermont’s laws, which seek to impose penalties tied to past greenhouse gas emissions to fund disaster relief and climate-related projects, remain pending.

Allowing individual states to use courts to advance climate goals, the Trump administration argued, would create a patchwork of conflicting regulations and interfere with the executive branch’s authority over national energy security and interstate commerce.

“When states target or discriminate against out-of-state energy producers by imposing significant barriers to interstate and international trade, American energy suffers,” Trump’s executive order stated.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-sues-minnesota-to-block-climate-lawsuit-targeting-energy-companies-6021073

US Supreme Court Allows Louisiana Redistricting Ruling to Take Effect Immediately

The ruling came after Louisiana delayed May 16 primary elections to give it time to replace the unconstitutional map the court struck down last week.

The U.S. Supreme Court late on May 4 took the unusual step of making its recent ruling to limit the use of race in redistricting effective ahead of the usual 32-day waiting period.

The new procedural ruling allows the high court’s landmark April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais to take effect immediately. In that case, the court struck down as unconstitutional a congressional map for Louisiana that included a second black-majority district.

There are fewer than 32 days between April 29 and the first U.S. House primary elections that were scheduled for May 16, so if the waiting period were not waived, the primaries would have had to take place using the very same map the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court’s new move might undermine challenges to an April 30 decision by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, to postpone the state’s U.S. House primary elections and seek a new electoral map that complies with the U.S. Constitution. The first primary had been scheduled for May 16, with a second set for June 27.

In the Supreme Court’s new, unsigned opinion, the justices said the clerk of the court “ordinarily waits 32 days after the entry of the Court’s judgment to send the opinion and a certified copy of the judgment to the clerk of the lower court.”

Justice Samuel Alito wrote a concurring opinion, saying, “there is good reason to depart from the default rule here.”

“The need for prompt action by this Court is clear,” Alito wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.

“The date scheduled for the beginning of early voting in the primary election has already passed. The congressional districting map enacted by the legislature has been held to be unconstitutional, and the general election will be held in just six months.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed a dissenting opinion.

“The Court’s decision in these cases has spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana,” Jackson wrote.

“By my count, we have granted an application to issue the judgment forthwith over a party’s objection only twice in the last 25 years,” she wrote.

“To avoid the appearance of partiality here, we could, as per usual, opt to stay on the sidelines and take no position by applying our default procedures. But, today, the Court chooses the opposite. Not content to have decided the law, it now takes steps to influence its implementation.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-supreme-court-allows-louisiana-redistricting-ruling-to-take-effect-immediately-6021145

Alberta separatist group says it has enough signatures to trigger referendum vote on leaving Canada

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Alberta separatists said Monday they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada.

The group needed 178,000 signatures to force the province to consider such a vote.

The question of separation could go on a provincewide ballot as early as October, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said she would move forward if enough names are gathered and verified. Smith has said she personally does not support the oil-rich province leaving Canada.

A yes vote would not trigger independence automatically. Negotiations with the federal government would have to take place and Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said some Indigenous groups who are already using the courts to prevent an independence referendum would use venues including the courts to stop independence from happening.

Mitch Sylvestre, the head of Stay Free Alberta, arrived at the Elections Alberta office in Edmonton on Monday leading a convoy of seven trucks to deliver the names.

“This day is historic in Alberta history,” Sylvestre said. “It’s the first step to the next step — we’ve gotten by Round 3 and now we’re in the Stanley Cup final.”

He said most papers were handled five times to verify the signatures.

More than 300 supporters gathered, waving the provincial flag and chanting “Alberta strong.”

However, the petition could face another hurdle this week as an Edmonton, Alberta judge is expected to rule on a court challenge launched by a group of Alberta First Nations who say Alberta separation would violate treaty rights.

Smith has accused previous federal Liberal governments of introducing legislation that hamstrings Alberta’s ability to produce and export oil, which she said has cost the province billions of dollars. She also said she doesn’t want the federal government meddling in provincial issues.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s federal government did not immediately respond to the development.

Béland, the political science professor at McGill, said a referendum is likely to lose.

“Right now, support for independence in Alberta is rather low. Less than 30% and much lower if we only focus on hard core supporters. And the odds of a victory of the pro-independence camp appear to be low at this stage,” he said.

Béland also said considering recent news of a large data breach involving an Alberta separatist group, the formal verification process is especially crucial to make sure the signatures are authentic.

“Mark Carney is indeed popular, even in Alberta. The push for independence by some Albertans predates his prime ministership and it’s related to economic, fiscal, and political grievances about the seemingly unfair treatment of Alberta by the federal government,” he said. “These concerns increased during the Justin Trudeau years but they have peaked and even declined since he left office.”

https://apnews.com/article/alberta-separation-canada-referendum-e93c247ccc2e5f0340a5490d88ab0da2

Spanberger won't rule out taxes on gym memberships, streaming services: 'Should be discussed'

'Every idea, as long as it's reasonable, should be discussed,' the governor said during a recent interview

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger left the door open to imposing taxes on services like gym memberships, digital subscriptions and dog grooming when asked about the possibility during a recent interview.

"I think every idea, as long as it’s reasonable and makes some amount of sense, should be discussed," Spanberger told a local ABC affiliate.

"I think there are worthy conversations to be had about what revenue generation looks like into the future as our economy changes in so many ways."

The comment comes as Spanberger tries to leave the door open to exploring new sources of revenue for Virginia while also fending off accusations from the White House that have painted her as a tax-happy Democrat.

"So sad! She is adding so many taxes: a food and beverage tax, digital services tax, utilities tax and more. People are leaving that would never have even thought of doing so!" Trump said in a post to Truth Social.

"This went from a thriving and powerful place to a commonwealth run by a person who has no concept of low taxes and economic strength."

Those criticisms stemmed from a handful of bills introduced in the Virginia state legislature that, if implemented, would extend taxes to: storage facilities, counseling, dry cleaning, vehicle repair, website design, data storage and digital subscription storage.

The bills, which were first introduced by lawmakers during the tenure of Spanberger’s predecessor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, never reached the floor of the General Assembly for a vote before the end of the state’s legislative session on March 14.

Notably, apart from a bill that will raise the minimum wage incrementally to $15 an hour by 2028, Spanberger has yet to sign off on any new state-based increases — a record she believes Trump is misrepresenting.

"The array of taxes that the president asserts move forward in Virginia is sort of ludicrous," Spanberger said.

But Spanberger also noted that she could revisit ways to raise revenue from shifting industries that have changed the tax calculus.

"You used to buy a DVD; there used to be sales tax. Streaming is different. So, I recognize there’s value in having these conversations," Spanberger said, highlighting one such area of change.

Spanberger said that any decision along those lines would ultimately depend on the specific language of a proposal.

"Whether I would ever sign a bill is wholly dependent on what is actually in the bill and how it is outlined," Spanberger said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/spanberger-wont-rule-taxes-gym-memberships-streaming-services

Amjad Taha

The Islamic regime in Iran, a terrorist regime has declared war against the UAE. This is a battle whose outcome is already written: victory for the UAE and the Iranian people. To the Iranian people: help is coming not as words, but as the removal of the cancer. This regime must go, and it will go. Let this be clear every act of aggression will be answered. Every escalation will be met with greater force. There will be consequences. Shame on NATO, the EU, and the UK for their silence. History will remember who stood and who hid.

1:26 PM · May 4, 2026·1.1M Views 3:02

https://x.com/i/status/2051352672964649468

Ted Goodman

An update on America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani. 🇺🇸

9:13 PM · May 4, 2026·7,823 Views 1:02

https://x.com/i/status/2051470245555052557

>>24572330

>An update on America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani.

The White House

The buzz is real 🐝 🍯

May 3, 2026 0:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDlvtZfSWZM

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>>24572323

>The Islamic regime in Iran, a terrorist regime has declared war against the UAE. This is a battle whose outcome is already written: victory for the UAE and the Iranian people. To the Iranian people: help is coming not as words, but as the removal of the cancer. This regime must go, and it will go. Let this be clear every act of aggression will be answered. Every escalation will be met with greater force. There will be consequences. Shame on NATO, the EU, and the UK for their silence. History will remember who stood and who hid.

>>24572325

>psyop

>>24572395

>the great awakeining

TRUST THE MISSION.

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>HUGE ELECTION INTEGRITY VICTORY! [Michigan]

MI SOS, former SPLC board member and candidate for MI Governor gets slapped down again—this time, by a Gov Whitmer appointed judge!

HUGE ELECTION VICTORY for Michigan! 👏👏👏👏

Way to go @DeluxePsypher! 🇺🇸

6:27 PM · May 4, 2026·6,130 Views

https://x.com/i/status/2051428622041252350

Laura Ingraham

🚨The Senate is everything.

@ByronYork: “Losing it would be a disaster — it’s the highest priority for Republicans.”

11:23 PM · May 4, 2026·3,831 Views 1:45

https://x.com/i/status/2051503056638935338

Libs of TikTok

Leftist protestors held signs outside Rep. Ben Cline's office with his and Trump’s face and "86" to signify kiIIing him and Trump

Is this toning down the rhetoric??

Cc @FBI

11:09 PM · May 4, 2026·26.7K Views

https://x.com/i/status/2051499509046231062

Katie Daviscourt 📸

This is Antifa’s next direct action at the Portland ICE facility. It’s titled “Ten Billion Dead Cops”

“May 15 is ‘Officer Memorial Day.’”

11:41 PM · May 4, 2026·1,611 Views

https://x.com/i/status/2051507490018545697