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President Biden told Democratic donors in California late Wednesday that he “served with real racists” during his decades in the US Senate — but Republicans in the 118th Congress “are worse.” “I’ve been a senator since ‘72. I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond,” Biden said at an event in San Francisco, referring to the late segregationist senator from South Carolina. “I’ve served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys [serving Republicans] are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles.”

On Monday, Maryland Governor Wes Moore announced more funding to advance abortion in the state. Totaling $15.6 million, the funding includes a $10.6 million grant for Maryland’s Abortion Care Clinical Training Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and an additional $5 million budget proposal to increase Medicaid provider reimbursement for abortion. The Medicaid budget proposal will first need to be approved by both the House and Senate. According to Maryland Matters, the abortion training funding will be released by the Maryland Department of Health, which says it will be used to “initially conduct a statewide needs assessment to understand...

Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that former President Donald Trump is an “agent of chaos who’s trying to restrict our freedom.” Partial transcript as follows: SHAPIRO: Joe Biden is going to be our nominee, and I’m proud to support him. He talks about being a bridge — and let me tell you something, he helped us repair that bridge on I-95 in 12 days. He was my partner in that, and he’s been a partner to many of us across the country in moving our country forward and saving our economy from ruin and helping...

Kamala Harris is continuing her abortion celebration tour across America. Next week she is heading to Michigan to celebrate killing babies and will meet with local abortion activists to applaud them for approving Proposition 3, which will allow the killing of unborn children in abortions up to birth. Harris is planning to make a stop in Grand Rapids on February 22nd and it will be Harris’ fourth stop a month after her nationwide tour kicked off on January in Wisconsin. According to a press release her office distributed, Harris will condemn pro-life Americans as “extremists” for wanting to protect women...

Kamala Harris continued her abortion cheerleading tour today. This time she sat down with actress Sophia Bush for another event to promote abortion. There, she claimed pro-life Americans are extremists for passing laws to protect babies from abortions and then lied about what those laws do. “State after state, we have seen extremists, so-called leaders, propose and pass laws that would criminalize health care providers, some of them literally legislating prison for life, punishing women, making no exception even for rape and incest,” Harris claimed. But she knows – or should know – that not one single pro-life laws puts...

President Biden said Monday that women in the U.S. face a cruel reality in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade’s demise, outlining the impact laws in red states that restrict abortion access have on women. Biden is expected to make abortion rights a major part of his reelection argument in the fall. On Monday, the president began remarks at a meeting with the White House reproductive rights task force by talking about women being turned away in emergency rooms and forced to go to court to fight for reproductive care. He told the story of a mother in Texas who...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has a history of providing financial support to left-wing groups, announced on Monday that it would spend billions of dollars in 2024. The Gates Foundation’s board of trustees has approved a record $8.6 billion budget for 2024, up from $8.3 billion in 2023 and $7 billion in 2022, the charity announced from Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is hosting its annual meeting. Over the years, the charity has poured tens of millions of dollars into pro-abortion groups, Democrat-aligned nonprofits and Chinese government organizations, among other causes. The foundation works in areas...

The Biden campaign is planning an aggressive effort to highlight the stakes of the 2024 election for abortion access around what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. President Biden and Vice President Harris will headline a rally in Virginia on Wednesday to discuss the threat Republicans would pose to abortion rights if they win back the White House. The rally comes after Virginia Democrats secured majorities in the state Legislature largely because of the issue of abortion. They team also plans to launch a new paid media campaign aimed at women and swing voters in battleground...

If President Biden wins reelection, his top priority on Day One would be codifying abortion protections in federal law, his deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host Kristen Welker asked, “What would on day one President Biden’s top priority be?” Fulks responded, “First of all, Roe. The president has been adamant that we need to restore Roe. It is unfathomable that women today wake up in a country with less rights than their ancestors had years ago.” “Constitutionally speaking, abortion is not a right,” responded Joseph Backholm, senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic...

President Biden’s principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, during which he stated that Biden’s number one priority if he wins reelection this year is abortion. Fulks said Biden is focused on ensuring states are once again forced to legalize abortion, as they were under Roe v. Wade. According to Politico, host Kristen Welker asked Fulks, “What would, on day one, President Biden’s top priority be?” Fulks replied, “Well, look. The president announced this campaign with the moniker of ‘finish the job’ and protect freedom and democracy. So when we talk about that,...

Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) touted unrestricted abortion access Thursday, announcing she was “pro-life for two seconds after you’re born until you are able to take care of yourself.” Moore has previously supported the Women’s Health Protection Act — which would allow abortion on demand, up until birth, for any reason at any time — and has attacked legislation banning abortion after 15 weeks. Her comments came during a House Ways and Means Committee markup of the “Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Women and Families Act,” a bill to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from restricting funding for pregnancy...

Americans have just days left to weigh in on the Biden administration’s plan to adopt a dangerous international accord that gives the World Health Organization (WHO) greater control over the way the U.S. responds to global health pandemics like COVID-19. As this article will demonstrate, the WHO Pandemic Agreement: Threatens national sovereignty; Equates the health of humans with animals and plants; Calls on nations to “combat” any “misinformation” that reduces “trust” in the government or its measures, such as social distancing; Would empower private-sector forces such as social media companies to ramp up censorship of disfavored viewpoints; Worries citizens will...

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state on Thursday removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences. While Maine has just four electoral votes, it’s one of two states to split them. Trump won one of Maine’s electors in 2020, so having him off the ballot there should he emerge as the Republican general election candidate could have outsized implications in a race that is expected to be narrowly decided.

United States District Judge for the District of Idaho, B. Lynn Winmill, has granted a motion for preliminary injunction to block the January 1, 2024 implementation of House Bill 71, which was signed into law following the 2023 Idaho Legislative session. HB71, also called the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, was written by the Idaho Family Policy Center and sponsored by Representative Bruce Skaug. The legislation was written to stop hormone changing drugs, puberty blocking drugs, and sex-change surgeries from being prescribed for minor children in Idaho for the reasons of ‘gender dysphoria’ and transitioning children from their birth sex to...

Days after a Democrat staffer was caught making a hardcore sex tape in the Hart Senate Office Building, another Democrat staffer has been caught praying to Satan in front of the Michigan Capitol building, according to local reports.

The top Republican strategist spoke with Fox News Digital after meeting with a number of GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to discuss what she argues is the need to promote contraception and reach a consensus on the abortion issue lest Democrats continue to use it as a "turnout intensifier" in November

Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves tore into Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Thursday and challenged him to a debate after DeSantis blamed a Satanic altar in Iowa’s State Capitol on former President Donald Trump. “Did the Trump administration’s actions actually give your organization a legal standing to have this display?” asked Phillip, to which Greaves replied:... Greaves insisted, “Our IRS tax-exempt application certainly never came across Trump’s desk. Trump wouldn’t have comprehended it if he had seen it, and I think DeSantis knows that. It’s just another display of cowardice from a politician who wants to play ignorant.” The...

The Democratic governor of Wisconsin has vetoed a bill that sought to outlaw gender transition treatments for minors. The veto from Gov. Tony Evers was expected, according to The Associated Press, as he previously vowed to strike down any proposals from the Republican-controlled Wisconsin legislature that he deems harmful to LGBTQ+ youth. The bill was passed by the state legislature in October. It would have banned gender transition surgeries, as well as all forms of transition treatment for minors in the Badger State, which includes puberty blockers and hormone treatment using estrogen and testosterone.

A Texas judge has ruled a baby can be killed in an abortion just because the baby is disabled. Katie Cox is suing Texas , saying she is seeking an emergency exception in the state’s law protecting babies from abortions for a pregnancy that is destined to end in the death of the baby. The lawsuit claims the baby has Trisomy 18, which is not proven because prenatal tests often fail. “It is not a matter of if I will have to say goodbye, but when,” she said in the lawsuit. “I do not want to continue the pain and...

A Wisconsin judge has ruled that an 1849 law does not actually protect preborn children from abortion, setting up a potential challenge in the state Supreme Court. Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper ruled that the 174-year-old law applies to feticide (an act of homicide against a fetus committed by someone other than the child’s mother), but not abortion (initiated by the child’s mother). The statute is worded: Any person, other than the mother, who intentionally destroys the life of an unborn child is guilty of a Class H felony. Yet Schlipper said that this wording referred to someone attacking...