FIREWORKS IN DC - Major News on Senate Vote to Pass SAVE America Act
They said it never happens. They called it a conspiracy theory. They said voter fraud was vanishingly rare, that election security concerns were a cover for voter suppression, and that anyone who worried about noncitizens voting in American elections was either lying or paranoid.
Then New Jersey found 6,600. Then a British national pleaded guilty to voting in Texas across five elections over twelve years. And now Politico — that reliable organ of the Democratic-media establishment — has quietly published the admission that blows up every argument they’ve been making.
“It’s the honor system,” said New Jersey’s own election administrator. “There’s little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake.”
Read that sentence carefully. Not a conservative commentator. Not a Republican opposition researcher. The administrator of New Jersey’s election system, on the record, explaining that the entire framework preventing noncitizens from voting is essentially a pinky promise.
Politico adds that election officials from both parties believe New Jersey’s 6,600 figure dramatically understates the actual problem — because the automatic registration system has been running since 2018, and Sherrill’s disclosure covered only a single year. The cumulative total of noncitizens swept onto New Jersey’s voter rolls through eight years of automatic registration is unknown. The state is refusing to hand over the data that would answer that question.
And it’s not just New Jersey. Ada Ngozi Otuka, a British national living in Texas, registered and voted in five separate American elections between 2012 and 2024. She didn’t get caught by the system. She confessed on her naturalization application. The system never flagged her. The honor system held exactly as well as honor systems typically hold — which is to say, not at all when someone decides not to honor it.
Brit Hume said what everyone already knows: “Maybe it’s time for commentators and politicians to stop scoffing at people worried about noncitizens voting in US elections.”
The scoffing has been deliberate. Every time a conservative raised concerns about election integrity, the media deployed a coordinated dismissal — no evidence, rare if at all, you’re a conspiracy theorist, you’re trying to suppress votes. That dismissal required the public to ignore the New Jerseys and the Ada Ngozi Otukas and the 270,000 noncitizen registrations identified across four cooperating states. It required trusting that the honor system was sufficient to protect the most important civic act in a democracy.
It wasn’t. It isn’t. And Politico just said so.
Here’s the principle that Ward Clark got exactly right: if even one person votes illegally, that’s wrong. Full stop. The acceptable number of illegal votes is zero — not 400, not 6,600, not however many years of auto-registration produced in New Jersey before someone noticed.
The SAVE America Act exists to replace the honor system with an actual system. Pass it. Before the next election proves the point again.
Trump Administration Revokes More Than 175,000 Visas In Sweeping Crackdown
The Trump administration has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals accused of committing crimes, violating visa requirements or threatening the safety of Americans, the State Department announced Monday.
The massive enforcement action represents another major step in President Donald Trump’s effort to overhaul the immigration system and remove foreign nationals who abuse the privilege of entering the United States. The total has climbed sharply from January, when the department announced that more than 100,000 visas had been revoked since Trump returned to office.
Officials said the majority of the latest revocations followed encounters with law enforcement. Assault, driving under the influence, theft and drug crimes were identified as the most common reasons for losing a visa. Reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement also accounted for a significant share of the cases.
“Under President Trump, the United States Department of State has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals who violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against U.S. citizens, defrauded Americans, abused our immigration system, or endangered national security,” the department said in its official announcement.
The State Department released several examples showing the severity of the conduct that led officials to take action. One foreign national had been charged with felony rape and sexual battery, including an alleged attack against a mentally disabled victim.
Another individual was charged with felony kidnapping, human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of a minor. Officials also identified a visa holder charged with more than a dozen counts related to the possession of child sexual abuse material.
The administration has also used visa revocations to confront alleged exploitation of the immigration system. At one American embassy in North Africa, officials revoked more than 100 visas from parents accused of engaging in “birth tourism.” The department said those individuals traveled to the United States primarily to give birth so their children would receive American citizenship.
Visa holders can also lose their permission to enter or remain in the country for conduct that does not involve a traditional criminal charge. The department said visas had been revoked from multiple foreign nationals who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk. One of the individuals reportedly wrote that Kirk “died too late.”
The administration’s expanding crackdown has been accompanied by tougher screening procedures for visa applicants and existing visa holders. Officials have expanded social media reviews and other security checks designed to uncover criminal conduct, fraud, extremist sympathies and potential threats to national security.
Those policies have faced opposition from immigration and civil liberties organizations. Administration officials maintain that the United States has broad authority to determine who may enter the country and that holding a visa is not a guaranteed right.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly defended the administration’s aggressive approach, particularly when foreign nationals are accused of supporting terrorist organizations, promoting violence or acting against American foreign policy interests.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Rubio’s leadership, the State Department will continue to identify, investigate, and revoke the visas of foreign nationals who threaten the safety of the American people,” the department declared.
“A U.S. visa is a privilege, not a right,” it added. “The Department remains committed to using every tool available to protect our communities from those who abuse it.”
The announcement makes clear that visa enforcement will remain a central part of Trump’s immigration agenda. With the number of revocations rising from more than 100,000 in January to over 175,000 by August, the administration is signaling that scrutiny will continue long after a visa is initially approved.
Democrat State AGs Secretly Planned Wave of Lawfare Against Trump
President Donald Trump has faced more legal warfare – colloquially known in today’s lexicon as “lawfare” – than any Executive Branch leader in modern history.
What’s more, a new report reveals that much of it has been in the works for years, conjured up by Democratic elected officials who have no plans for good governance but instead live to oppose Trump, regardless of what he wants.
Nearly two dozen state attorneys general began organizing a coordinated legal strategy as early as April 2024 to prepare for potential litigation involving a future Trump administration, according to a confidential document obtained by The Center Square.
The document was signed approximately three months before President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee.
It also predates Trump’s reelection by roughly seven months and his inauguration by about nine months.
Since January 2025, state attorneys general have filed nearly 100 lawsuits challenging actions taken by the Trump administration.
According to The Center Square, the coordinated legal initiative is referred to in the document as the “Project for Federal Accountability.”
Former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, a Republican during his time in office who has since said he frequently votes for Democratic candidates, described to the outlet that the reported timing of the agreement as unusual.
Shurtleff said that during his tenure as Utah’s attorney general from 2001 to 2013, he signed similar multistate agreements involving ongoing litigation.
However, he told The Center Square he had not seen states organize potential legal challenges so far in advance of actions by an administration that had not yet taken office.
“That’s not normal at all,” Shurtleff told the outlet. “It’s a big selling point now.
“I get lots of emails from people running for attorney general, lots of texts and emails saying, ‘We’ve got to stop President Trump’ or ‘We’ve got to work together as state attorneys general. That’s why you need to give me money!’ and vice versa,” he continued.
“It goes both ways… I don’t think that’s the best use of an attorney general’s time.”
Not every lawsuit challenging the Trump administration has included every participating attorney general, and different state offices have taken the lead on different cases, said the outlet’s report.
According to available figures, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has participated in 82 lawsuits, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has joined at least 75, Washington Attorney General Nick Brown has participated in 70, and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has joined 46, the report continued.
At a news conference Tuesday, Bonta claimed the litigation was “apolitical” and said California has spent approximately $19 million pursuing the lawsuits.
He added that his office will continue to file legal challenges when it believes they are warranted.
“If (Trump) doesn’t want to get sued, all he has to do is follow the law,” Bonta said.
“I don’t think our cases are likely to be dismissed… Trump shows no sign of slowing down, so we will continue to sue him,” he added, per report.
According to Just Security, a nonpartisan law and policy publication affiliated with New York University, 11 of the lawsuits challenging the Trump administration have concluded in favor of the plaintiffs, while four have been dismissed or otherwise resolved in favor of the federal government.
It’s likely that the Democrat AGs are ‘judge shopping’ to get favorable rulings – that is, filing their cases before Democrat-appointed federal judges.
Numerous additional cases remain pending in federal courts, Just Security noted.
The document, titled “PRIVILEGED & CONFIDENTIAL COMMON INTEREST AGREEMENT,” also included plans to withhold some information from the public surrounding the lawsuits.
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The document said the parties “wish to pursue their common interest concerning Federal Accountability issues and litigation(s) addressing such issues, while avoiding any waiver of the confidentiality of those privileged materials.”
The Center Square noted further: “At least 22 Democratic attorneys general appear to have signed the common interest agreement. Zero Republican attorneys general appear to have signed it.”
