Want to see the narrative be corrected? What if there were a new rule that says anybody who has been inoculated with the mRNA shot cannot run for elected office? If they are not sovereign unto themselves, how can they claim to be a wholesome and of God, take an oath that ends with "so help me God?"
PSA:108 days until election day!!!
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H.R.7296 -SAVE America Act- 119th Congress (2025-2026)
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7296
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As a Trump tariff expires, a new one takes its place
A federal tariff struck down by a U.S. trade court is set to expire on its own terms July 24, even as the Trump administration presses ahead with new import taxes under a different legal authority.
By Brett Rowland | The Center Square
Published: July 17, 2026 10:57pm
A federal tariff struck down by a U.S. trade court is set to expire on its own terms July 24, even as the Trump administration presses ahead with new import taxes under a different legal authority.
The 10% global tariff, imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, took effect Feb. 24 and is set to expire at 12:01 a.m. EDT July 24, the maximum 150 days allowed under the law without an act of Congress.
The tariff has generated $31.06 billion in revenue since taking effect, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. That is a fraction of the about $166 billion the government is separately refunding after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a related tariff program in February.
The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 on May 7 that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority under Section 122. The CIT found that the administration's stated justification, a "large and serious balance-of-payments deficit," did not meet the legal definition Congress intended when it passed the law in 1974.
The ruling applied only to three plaintiffs – Burlap and Barrel, a New York-based spice importer; Basic Fun, a Florida-based toy company; and the state of Washington – leaving the tariff in place for all other importers. A federal appeals court then reinstated the tariff even for those three, granting the Trump administration's request for a stay pending appeal on June 11.
"President Trump has lawfully used the tariff authorities granted to him by Congress to address our balance of payments crisis," White House spokesman Kush Desai told The Center Square in May. "The Trump administration is reviewing legal options and maintains confidence in ultimately prevailing."
The stay leaves the Section 122 tariff in effect through its scheduled expiration. Even if the case is ultimately decided in the plaintiffs' favor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is not expected to rule on the merits before 10% tariffs under Section 122 lapses. The government's opening brief in the appeal is due July 21, three days before the tariff expires.
Trump and his advisers have said tariffs are here to stay. Each time a court has ruled against his trade agenda, the administration has shifted to another statute to justify the import taxes. On July 15, the U.S. Trade Representative's office imposed a 25% tariff on nearly all imports from Brazil under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, a different legal authority with no built-in expiration date. That tariff, unrelated to the balance-of-payments dispute, followed a yearlong investigation into Brazilian trade practices including digital payment regulations, intellectual property enforcement and deforestation.
The administration has repeatedly shifted to new statutes after adverse rulings. After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in February, ruling 6-3 that he lacked authority to impose them, Trump invoked Section 122 within hours of the ruling. The Court of International Trade later found that substitution legally dubious, too.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trump-tariff-expires-new-one-takes-its-place
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Section 301 carries its own legal risk. Caleb Petitt, a research associate at the Independent Institute, said the new tariffs will likely hold up better in court than the tariffs struck down under IEEPA and Section 122, but mostly because those earlier authorities were especially weak, not because the case for Section 301 is especially strong.
"Section 301 does give a fair amount of latitude for what could be considered an unfair practice that could warrant retaliation, but the Trump administration is sure to see legal pushback," Petitt said. He noted that using Section 301 to address "excess industrial capacity" or lax forced-labor enforcement stretches the statute's requirement that a foreign country's "act, policy, or practice" be unfair, and that the tariffs remain vulnerable to the same non-delegation and major-questions doctrine arguments that doomed the IEEPA tariffs.
Alfredo Carrillo Obregon, a trade-policy analyst at the Cato Institute, said in May that Section 122 was "always meant to be a bridge" to a more durable tariff authority.
Unlike Section 122, Section 301 has no built-in expiration date, giving it more staying power regardless of how the legal arguments shake out. USTR's separate Section 301 investigation into 60 economies – including Canada, Mexico, Japan and the European Union – over failures to adequately block imports made with forced labor concluded in June, according to the Congressional Research Service. USTR has proposed tariffs of 10% for countries that lack a ban on forced-labor imports and 12.5% for those that have one but do not enforce it, and is now seeking public comment. The nonpartisan research service noted USTR "might aim to finalize those tariff actions by late July 2026," just as Section 122 expires.
Federal outlays totaled $5.52 trillion through the first nine months of the fiscal year, with a $1.37 trillion deficit, according to the Treasury Department's Monthly Treasury Statement. Based on those two Treasury figures, roughly 24.8% of federal spending this fiscal year has been financed by borrowing.
CBP has processed more than 24.4 million entries through its refund system since the program began April 20. The agency has collected about $166 billion under the IEEPA tariffs, Brandon Lord, CBP's executive director of trade programs, has said. As of July 10, CBP had accepted about $121.75 billion of that in refunds – both already certified and still pending review – for processing, according to a CBP spokesperson. The rest remains tied up in entries not yet eligible for the agency's refund system.
Petitt, the Independent Institute researcher, said the refunds are a modest piece of the broader fiscal picture. Applying that rate, Petitt said tariff refunds paid out through the fiscal year would account for a small share of the deficit's growth. But Petitt cautioned that any unfunded refunds ultimately add to the national debt, regardless of their size relative to total federal spending.
Petitt said the administration appears to be racing to find new legal justifications for tariffs faster than courts can strike them down.
"The persistent search for new tariff justifications is a reasonable strategy if the Trump administration is hoping to create hype and draw media attention, but will not be effective at raising revenue, prompting trade deals, or restoring domestic manufacturing," he told The Center Square.
Petitt added that the government will eventually have to repay revenue collected under tariffs found unconstitutional, and that foreign governments and domestic manufacturers have little reason to expect the tariffs to last unless they survive legal challenges.
USTR did not respond to a request for comment.
Section 122 expires July 24. The Section 301 tariffs on Brazil take effect July 22. The forced-labor tariffs on 60 economies could be finalized around the same time.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/trump-tariff-expires-new-one-takes-its-place
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Venezuela had plans to manipulate voting machines, raising alarm in U.S. intel circles back in 2020
President Trump says the intelligence, collected from 2004 to 2020, shows why American voting systems need to be better secured from potential manipulation.
By Steven Richards
Published: July 17, 2026 10:53pm
From 2004 to 2020, the U.S. intelligence community monitored plans by the Venezuelan leadership to electronically manipulate their country’s own voting machines, including the use of substituting false votes, in order to secure victory for the ruling socialists.
President Donald Trump, who declassified intelligence information on those plans and released them to the public on Thursday, says the Venezuelan capabilities are evidence that American voting systems need to be better secured.
The Venezuelan plots specifically raised alarm bells in the United States because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez collaborated with Smartmatic, a voting machine company that in 2005 acquired the U.S.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, to develop them.
Susceptibility to Venezuelan government manipulation
In 2006, the intelligence community assessed “that Smartmatic's susceptibility to Venezuelan government manipulation makes the acquisition a potential instrument for Venezuelan officials seeking to undermine confidence in, or manipulate the electoral process in, the United States,” according to a June 2026 CIA summary of prior intelligence reporting on Venezuela’s electronic voting manipulation capabilities.
That finding later led to the U.S. government intervening to force Smartmatic to divest its ownership in Sequoia in 2007. Smartmatic did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Just the News.
Though intelligence analysts raised red flags about potential vulnerabilities, they detected no interference in U.S. election systems.
You can read the “CIA Note” below:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2026-07/2026.06%20-%20CIA%20Note%20Venezuela.pdf
The memo was declassified earlier this year and made public by President Donald Trump on Thursday alongside a primetime speech about election integrity in which he urged lawmakers to pass legislation to better secure American elections.
In that speech, President Trump said the intelligence about Venezuelan vote manipulation plans and capabilities—spanning from 2004 to 2020—highlights the potential vulnerabilities in American voting machine systems, requiring urgent action to prevent such consequences in the U.S.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/venezuelas-plans-manipulate-local-voting-machines-raised-alarm-us-intel
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“Today, we are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting of a specific plot to do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime in Venezuela, and that's exactly what happened. Conspiring to digitally rig their own country's elections in 2020, and that's what they did,” Trump said at the White House on Thursday.
“This reporting included precise details about methods the regime developed to digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not be detected, even with an audit, no matter how deep they went,” he added. “This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action to ensure that our own system can never ever be hacked or compromised […]”
Maduro's plans to make false votes appear legitimate
President Trump was referring to intelligence reporting on Venezuelan plans to swing the country’s 2020 election by manipulating electronic voting machines in a way that would make false votes appear legitimate, and leave no trace of the changes.
The technique, developed for the 2020 parliamentary elections while Nicolás Maduro still ruled Venezuela, was allegedly designed to "Replicate digital hash files sent to the central vote counting database,” “Mimic real voting machines that favored the ruling party,” “Overwrite hash files of voting machines that favored the opposition,” and “Make altered votes appear to originate from legitimate voting machines.”
Hash files are a “digital fingerprint” used to validate software and ensure the integrity of data files, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The CIA warned that such a technique “would, in theory, allow the Venezuelan government to monitor and adjust results in real-time during and after the election.” The agency also concluded that such technology would be employed to evade detection by standard audit procedures.
Ultimately, CIA analysts concluded in 2006 that “neither Smartmatic nor the Venezuelan government had the capability—that is the level of control or access required—to manipulate the outcome of an election outside of Venezuela in a predictable fashion.”
Likewise, in 2020, they concluded the regime “did not need to resort to gross fraud to win the December 2020 National Assembly elections” because many opposition parties boycotted the election.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/venezuelas-plans-manipulate-local-voting-machines-raised-alarm-us-intel
John Solomon / @jsolomonreports 07/18/2026 08:25:55
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GOP pressure mounts to prosecute, fire intel officials who hid election issues from Trump
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/pressure-mounts-prosecution-termination-intel-officials-who-hid-election
https://truthsocial.com/@jsolomonreports/posts/116940967502013673
Ahem!! It was Treason!
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Federal grand jury subpoenas target left-wing megadonor's nonprofit network in New York
Where does the line fall between protected protest and unlawful activity? A China-based Democratic donor may be illegally using tax-exempt U.S. nonprofits to secretly fund and coordinate domestic unrest, raising questions about foreign influence and the misuse of charitable status.
By Ashe Short
Published: July 17, 2026 10:51pm
A socialist megadonor is under federal investigation in New York for possible violations of tax and foreign agent laws, with investigators looking into whether his nonprofits unlawfully funneled money and lied about it.
Neville Roy Singham, a major financier to radical left-wing causes and the nonprofit People’s Forum, is under investigation by a grand jury, Fox News reported. The investigation comes after Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized the grand jury to issue subpoenas as part of an investigation into Singham and his financial network. The investigation was launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York.
CBS News also reported that “multiple sources with knowledge of the matter” confirmed to the outlet the existence of the grand jury investigation. An SDNY spokesman did not respond to a Just the News inquiry prior to press time.
Fiscal sponsor of many progressive and radical organizations
The grand jury probe also follows a Just the News investigation into People’s Forum, published late last month. At the time, the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) had filed a complaint with the IRS seeking a probe of the organization’s finances.
"People's Forum Inc. is the tax-exempt fiscal sponsor of many progressive and radical organizations, including the Venceremos Brigade, which engage in demonstrations often crossing the threshold from protected speech into illegal activity, including many which have resulted in arrests, violence against police officers, and interference in federal immigration enforcement," CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told Just the News at the time. "We believe the many potentially illegal activities that People's Forum has engaged in are grounds for a potential revocation of their tax-exempt charitable status. An immediate and full IRS investigation is appropriate to make this determination."
Singham, an American who is worth nearly a billion dollars, currently lives in Shanghai, China, and is married to Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans. The New York Times previously detailed the couple’s financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party. CASA’s complaint alleges that People’s Forum takes an active role in coordinating unrest in America, including the pro-Hamas encampments on college campuses following the Oct. 7, 2023, murder and rape spree against Israelis and joining about 100 organizations to oppose a bill that would remove tax-exempt status from any nonprofits that supported terrorist organizations.
"Through their financial and logistical support of the nationwide protests and riots, in which participants regularly engage in violence, destroy property, and resist arrest, the People's Forum may be engaging in illegal activity in violation of several federal and state laws, and are certainly increasing the governmental burden of law enforcement,” CASA’s complaint says.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently held a press conference to discuss left-wing violence, stating: “More than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/grand-jury-subpoenas-target-left-wing-megadonors-nonprofit-network-new-york
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Congressional Republicans have also eyed the People’s Forum’s tax-exempt status. In April 2025, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, as chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel and then-Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting an investigation into whether People’s Forum violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by not registering as a foreign agent based on its alleged connections to China.
“It appears that The People’s Forum’s values are heavily influenced by Singham’s money and China’s propaganda,” Grassley wrote at the time.
Adam Sohn, an intelligence expert, recently told Fox News that many of the organizations tied to Singham would “have no reason for existence” without his money. "I think Americans are seeing what this ecosystem looks like in the streets of our country. These aren't protests, it's coordinated chaos and attacks on infrastructure," Sohn told the outlet.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/grand-jury-subpoenas-target-left-wing-megadonors-nonprofit-network-new-york
anon shows@495at this mark, close enough counts in horse shoes and HG. Anon appreciates the call outs! Was showing 731 prior to refresh. o7
John Solomon / @jsolomonreports 07/18/2026 10:03:36
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Netanyahu postpones US trip to coincide with Lindsey Graham's funeral: Reports
https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/netanyahu-postpones-us-trip-coincide-lindsey-grahams-funeral-reports
https://truthsocial.com/@jsolomonreports/posts/116941351597010537