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

INDIANAPOLIS — A razor-thin Republican primary for Indiana State Senate District 23 was overturned Monday when the Indiana Recount Commission rejected 10 ballots on technical grounds, handing victory to Trump-endorsed challenger Paula Copenhaver over incumbent Sen. Spencer Deery. Paula Copenhaver, Fountain County clerk and Trump-backed challenger, after the recount decision. (Indiana Capital Chronicle) The commission certified Copenhaver the winner by three votes. Final total

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?

Spencer James Confectioners in downtown Redding served as ground zero on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, for the official launch of first-term Redding City Councilman Tenessa Audette’s re-election campaign. Despite the 100+ degrees heat, dozens of Audette’s supporters cozied up in the boutique-ly cozy surroundings to hear her welcoming remarks, which included the following: “One of the first things I learned is that good government doesn’t happen by accident. It requires prepara

Redding City Councilmember and former Mayor Tenessa Audette formally kicked off her campaign for another four-year term on August 4, 2026. In a video titled “Tenessa Is Ready for Four More Years,” produced by contributor Robert Exter, Audette outlined her record of service and asked residents to join her in continuing work on fiscal responsibility, public safety, and responsive local government. More information is available at VoteTenessa.com. “I believe Redding needs experi

Opinion Piece James Carville, the gravel-voiced Clinton-era strategist who once helped drag the Democratic Party toward the center, is now threatening to walk away. On August 2, 2026, the 81-year-old told Fox News’ The Sunday Briefing that he will not remain in the same party as far-left streamer Hasan Piker if the socialist influencer becomes a leading voice. “I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker,” Carville said. “If he becomes a force in the Democratic Pa

Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton addressing the attendees at the Shasta County GOP's Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. REDDING, Calif. — California Republican gubernatorial nominee Steve Hilton delivered a wide-ranging keynote address at the Shasta County GOP’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner on July 31, 2026, at the Win-River Event Center, framing the race as a fight to restore “liberty under the law,” slash the cost of living, and break what he called a corrupt one-party “machine” in Sacram

The Democratic National Committee enters the final stretch before the 2026 midterms deeper in a financial hole than at any comparable point in recent memory. As of the latest Federal Election Commission filings covering activity through June 30, the DNC reported roughly $16.3 million in cash on hand against approximately $18.5 million in debt—a net negative position of more than $2 million. By contrast, the Republican National Committee sits on $128.5 million in cash with zer

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

Evan Barker’s Awakening and the Book Exposing How Democrats Lost Their Soul Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative: Barker, Evan: 9781668213179: Amazon.com: Books Evan Barker grew up in a union family in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She was raised to believe Democrats fought for the forgotten man and ordinary Americans. Born with primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare genetic lung disease, she has credited the Affordable Care Act with saving her life—an experience

Opinion California’s one-party Democrat machine has run the state into the ground for years: record gas prices, crushing taxes, rampant homelessness, failing schools, and a cost-of-living crisis that forces families out. Regular Californians have been told to accept it as inevitable. Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is refusing that script, and he’s doing it with some of the most creative, cinematic campaign advertising California has seen in a long time. The a

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

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday temporarily stayed a lower-court injunction, allowing the U.S. Postal Service to continue advancing a proposed rule tied to President Trump’s March 31 executive order on election integrity. Trump signs EO requiring USPS to confirm citizenship of mail-in ballot recipients. - Credit: npr.org The unanimous order pauses U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s block on the Postal Service’s proposed sta

In an era when California taxpayers are asked to shoulder some of the highest burdens in the nation while often left in the dark about where their hard-earned dollars actually go, one candidate is doing more than talking about accountability—he’s building the tools to deliver it. Herb Morgan, the Republican candidate for California State Controller, has launched California Radical Transparency (CRT 2.0), a powerful, citizen-focused web platform that transforms complex state s

California’s biggest problems with fraud, waste, and mismanagement of federally funded programs are concentrated in its largest, liberal-run cities. Yet when the federal government responds with penalties, cost shifts, or funding pressure, the consequences fall disproportionately on smaller rural and inland counties like Shasta — communities that had little to do with creating the original problems. How State-Level Failures Trigger Federal Consequences When California shows h

Marine Le Pen, France's far-right candidate - Credit: gettyimages.com PARIS — France’s Paris Court of Appeal delivered a major ruling on July 7, 2026, upholding Marine Le Pen’s conviction for misusing European Parliament funds while significantly reducing the penalty that would have blocked her from running for president next year. The decision allows the National Rally leader — currently leading polls for the 2027 French presidential election — to move forward with her campa