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SNAP Logo - Credit usda.gov Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, known as CalFresh in California) has fallen sharply, declining more than 13% in a single year. Preliminary USDA data shows participation dropping from 42.2 million people in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May 2026. This follows the implementation of expanded work requirements and other reforms in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (also called H.R. 1 or the “big beautiful bil

In Case You Needed Another Reason for Flock Cameras to Go A typical Flock Safety automated license plate reader camera with solar panel, mounted on a pole. These devices photograph vehicle plates and characteristics for law enforcement databases. Credit: theshoestring.org A Shasta Unfiltered reader from Tulsa, OK (raised in Redding and possibly returning) recently forwarded a ReclaimTheNet piece after reading our earlier coverage of Flock Safety cameras. The tip highlighted

Massachusetts Legalizes Abortion Up to Birth On August 10, 2026, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (a professed Catholic) signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act (H.5595 / Acts of 2026, Chapter 188), removing the state’s previous 24-week gestational limit and specific statutory exceptions for later abortions. The new law states that after 24 weeks, “an abortion may be performed by a physician based upon the professional judgment of the physician.” Governor Maura

Exclusive reporting from the Daily Caller News Foundation, amplified by The Daily Signal, raises urgent national security alarms. White House - Credit: unsplash.com A senior Chinese Communist Party-linked official with a documented background in Chinese state security and special forces sniper training has purchased a historic commercial building just 650 feet northeast of the White House grounds. According to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation published this week,

Update - August 14, 2026 Mayor of Lawrence, MA indicted for misappropriation of COVID funds Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña (left, in interview) and scene related to his arrest - Credit: NBC Boston On August 14, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced the arrest and charging of Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña (also styled Depena/DePena), 61, a Democrat first elected in 2021 and reelected in 2025. He faces one count of wire fraud and one count of m

OPINION August 12, 2026 In 2020 and 2021, as the official story from the CDC, FDA, and Dr. Anthony Fauci dominated every screen and newspaper, something did not sit right with me. I began questioning the narrative when I came across a short interview shared by filmmaker Mikki Willis featuring Judy Mikovits, Ph.D. Mikovits, who had once worked in research connected to Fauci’s orbit, described what she saw as deep corruption. That led me to her book Plague of Corruption. From

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 10 establishing what the administration calls “Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations.” The order seeks to reduce the number of vaccines routinely recommended for all children, space out administrations, and strengthen protections for religious and medical exemptions. Trump signs Executive Order on childhood vaccine schedule - Credit: baltimoresun.com The order divides childhood immunizations int

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s legal troubles escalated this week after a Senate committee formally held him in contempt of Congress. At the same time, multiple states moved to compel his testimony and documents in response to discrepancies between his private diaries and earlier sworn statements.

When the nation’s highest court accepts lavish hospitality from billionaires who have business before it, when family real estate is sold to those same benefactors without timely disclosure, when justices’ spouses earn millions placing lawyers at firms that appear before the Court, and when the only ethics rules on the books lack any real enforcement, ordinary Americans have every right to ask a basic question: Can this Court still claim true independence?

A federal court ruling grounded in the Constitution’s Taxing Clause could reshape how law-abiding Americans acquire certain firearms — and California gun owners are watching closely. On August 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas permanently enjoined key registration and approval requirements of the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA) as applied to suppressors (silencers), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs)

Seattle’s new democratic socialist mayor is already delivering the predictable results of progressive governance: delayed information, confused leadership, and a police chief who spent more time out of state than on the job when bullets started flying. On Sunday evening, July 26, gunfire erupted at the popular Bite of Seattle food festival near the Space Needle. What authorities later called a targeted, gang-related shootout left three people dead and at least four wounded —

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a statewide Medicaid Integrity Initiative on June 12, 2026, in West Palm Beach, shifting Florida from the traditional “pay and chase” approach to proactive prevention. The results so far—thousands of bad providers removed, tens of millions recovered, and hundreds of questionable behavior analysts blocked—suggest it is one of the more serious state-level efforts currently underway. For high-corruption states drowning in Medicaid waste, particularly

By Shasta Unfiltered July 30, 2026 Texas Democrats’ rising star and U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico built his brand on progressive Christianity, classroom experience, and attacks on “voter fraud witch hunts.” Now records obtained by The Federalist and The Dallas Express show the 37-year-old state representative appears to have used his mother’s Austin address to paper over a residency shortfall when he jumped to a safer House district in 2022. The timing is not subtle. A

After years of legal obstruction, former President Joe Biden’s attorneys abandoned their fight to keep private the audio recordings of his 2016–2017 interviews with memoir ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer. On July 27, the Oversight Project released roughly three hours of the tapes and 117 pages of heavily redacted transcripts. The recordings capture Biden discussing and sharing material he himself identified as classified with a civilian who held no security clearance. Under Execut

American Airlines flights across the United States were temporarily grounded Tuesday evening after a systemwide technology outage disrupted critical operations, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to issue a nationwide ground stop. The disruption lasted less than an hour, but it cascaded into hundreds of delays and cancellations, complicating travel already strained by East Coast thunderstorms. American Airlines aircraft parked at gates during a period of operationa

Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wednesday and refused to answer questions before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The hearing, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, followed the release of more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private diary entries that documented early private doubts about a natural origin of COVID-19 and frustration over gain-of-function funding questions — notes that conflicted with his

The Trump White House is preparing for the holiday season, with First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald J. Trump inviting Americans to participate in the annual tradition of decorating the People’s House and performing during Christmas open houses. Applications are being accepted for two volunteer roles: Christmas decorators and holiday performers. The initiative continues a long-standing custom of welcoming volunteers from across the country to help create a festive at

President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging address at the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, 2026. The speech mixed humor and pointed political commentary. He also reflected on the violent attack that disrupted the original April event, praised law enforcement, provided details of major White House construction projects, shared economic reports, provided foreign policy updates, and offered pointed critiques of political opponents—parti

Photo credit: WhiteHouse.gov President Donald Trump visited General Motors’ historic Milford Proving Ground in Michigan on Monday, marking the first presidential stop at the storied testing facility. Speaking to auto workers, executives, and local officials, Trump framed his administration’s tariffs, deregulation, and manufacturing policies as the driving force behind a resurgence in American auto production, while sharply criticizing prior Democratic leadership and outlining

Kids Handed to Unvetted Sponsors, Separated from Siblings, and Lost by the Tens of Thousands A former caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site has come forward with damning new details about how the Biden-Harris administration’s Health and Human Services Department, under then-Secretary Xavier Becerra, processed unaccompanied migrant children. The whistleblower’s account, delivered to Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, describes a syste