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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico

The Western powers continue to pretend to lecture other countries about what they can or cannot do in a display of hypocrisy that would be comical if it was not tragic.

Not everyone is willing to submit to their assessments, though, as Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico made very clear.

Fico reacted fiercely yesterday (1) after the U.K. ambassador to Slovakia found it his business to criticize the Prime Minister’s interview with Russian state television.

Fico blasted the ambassador, saying ‘Slovakia is not Britain’s colony’.

Associated Press reported:

“’I don’t know what gives you a right to interfere in my media activities’, Fico said in a video sent by his office. He is currently on a visit to China.

‘That you represent a bigger and stronger state in Slovakia does not justify your unacceptable behavior’, Fico said, calling on Ambassador Nigel Baker to stop interfering in his government’s sovereign foreign policy.”

Read: ALIVE AND KICKING: Slovak PM Robert Fico Is Back With Sarcasm After Assassination Attempt, Giving No Quarter to Liberals

It’s not new for the outspoken PM to say his piece loud and clear. We all remember that when he officially returned to work after being shot multiple times, Fico marked the occasion with piercing sarcasm, writing on Facebook: ‘Dear and progressive media and opposition, sorry I survived, but I’m back.’

“In his interview for the Russian channel, Fico condemned Western support for Ukraine that is fighting the Russian aggression, repeating his opinion it only prolongs the war and accusing the European nations of not being interested in a peaceful resolution.

Baker said on X on Wednesday he regretted that Fico agreed to talk to a presenter who is under British and European Union sanctions and said Fico’s claim that the West doesn’t want peace is not true. He also said that the fastest way to peace would be the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.”

Fico is serving his fourth term as prime minister since he was again elected last year.

Because he is focused on Slovakia’s needs and interests, and not Globalist mandates, it follows that his views on the war on Ukraine and many other issues diverge from the European liberal mainstream.

Once he returned as PM, Fico ended his country’s military aid for Ukraine and opposed EU sanctions on Russia.

Not only that, but he means to block Ukraine from joining NATO.

To the despair of opposition and other EU leaders, he said in his interview with Russian TV that he’d be honored to attend the Red Square celebration in Moscow of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, on May 9 next year.

Read more:

Four Months After Suffering Assassination Attempt, Pro-Trump Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico Receives Anonymous Envelope Containing a Bullet

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The Department of Justice has announced that it will monitor polls in 86 jurisdictions throughout 27 states on election day for “compliance with federal voting rights laws.”

The agency’s Civil Rights Division will coordinate the effort.

Republican lawmakers in Missouri and Florida are trying to bar the agency from polling places, accusing them of “overstepping its authority and using its monitors to punish red states that have tightened voter identification laws,” according to a report from the Washington Post.

In a press release, the DOJ said, “Monitors will include personnel from the Civil Rights Division, other department divisions, U.S. Attorney’s Offices and federal observers from the Office of Personnel Management. Throughout Election Day, division personnel will maintain contact with state and local election officials.”

“The Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section enforces the civil provisions of federal statutes that protect the right to vote, including the Voting Rights Act, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act, Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and Civil Rights Acts,” the press release continued.

The press release added, “The division’s Disability Rights Section enforces the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to ensure that persons with disabilities have a full and equal opportunity to vote. The division’s Criminal Section enforces federal criminal statutes that prohibit voter intimidation and voter suppression based on race, color, national origin or religion.”

Jurisdictions being monitored include:

Bethel Census Area, Alaska;
Dillingham Census Area, Alaska;
Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska;
North Slope Borough, Alaska;
Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska;
Apache County, Arizona;
Maricopa County, Arizona;
Pima County, Arizona;
Yuma County, Arizona;
San Joaquin County, California;
Broward County, Florida;
Miami-Dade County, Florida;
Orange County, Florida;
Osceola County, Florida;
Cobb County, Georgia;
DeKalb County, Georgia;
Fulton County, Georgia;
Gwinnett County, Georgia;
Macon-Bibb County, Georgia;
Jefferson County, Kentucky;
Kenton County, Kentucky;
City of Everett, Massachusetts;
City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts;
City of Leominster, Massachusetts;
City of Lowell, Massachusetts;
City of Malden, Massachusetts;
City of Methuen, Massachusetts;
City of Quincy, Massachusetts;
City of Salem, Massachusetts;
Prince George’s County, Maryland;
City of Ann Arbor, Michigan;
City of Detroit, Michigan;
City of Flint, Michigan;
City of Grand Rapids, Michigan;
City of Hamtramck, Michigan;
City of Warren, Michigan;
Hennepin County, Minnesota;
City of Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Ramsey County, Minnesota;
Covington County, Mississippi;
Scott County, Mississippi;
Warren County, Mississippi;
City of St. Louis, Missouri;
Blaine County, Montana;
Alamance County, North Carolina;
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina;
Wake County, North Carolina;
Bergen County, New Jersey;
Middlesex County, New Jersey;
Union County, New Jersey;
Bernalillo County, New Mexico;
Cibola County, New Mexico;
Clark County, Nevada;
Queens, New York;
Cuyahoga County, Ohio;
Portage County, Ohio;
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania;
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania;
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania;
City of Pawtucket, Rhode Island;
City of Providence, Rhode Island;
City of Woonsocket, Rhode Island;
Charleston County, South Carolina;
Bennett County, South Dakota;
Jackson County, South Dakota;
Minnehaha County, South Dakota;
Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota;
Atascosa County, Texas;
Bexar County, Texas;
Dallas County, Texas;
Frio County, Texas;
Harris County, Texas;
Hays County, Texas;
Palo Pinto County, Texas;
Waller County, Texas;
San Juan County, Utah;
Hanover County, Virginia;
Henrico County, Virginia;
Loudoun County, Virginia;
City of Manassas, Virginia;
City of Manassas Park, Virginia;
Prince William County, Virginia;
Town of Lawrence (Rusk County), Wisconsin;
City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Town of Thornapple, Wisconsin; and
City of Wausau, Wisconsin.

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Candidate Lily Tang (L) Williams demolishes rich liberal opponent Maggie Goodlander (R), who is married to Jake Sullivan.

Republican Lily Tang Williams is running for Congress in New Hampshire against Democrat Maggie Goodlander.  Goodlander is married to Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden’s national security adviser.

Willams survived Mao’s Cultural Revolution in communist China and, as displayed during a debate between the two candidates, has little patience for the empty words of out-of-touch liberal elites.

Williams’ direct style and no-nonsense delivery, borne from facing the brutality of a dictatorship, was apparent during the debate against Goodlander.

When discussing the economy and how to help Americans who have been suffering under Biden-Harris, Goodlander said her approach to tax breaks is not to “hope the results will trickle down to hard-working people.”

Goodlander has tried to seem like “regular-folk” and framed herself as a renter after taking up residency in Nashua, N.H., in order to run for the open congressional seat.

She leaves out the million-dollar home she purchased in 2018 in Portsmouth described by a real estate listing website as a “private oasis.”

Goodlander said, “I take a very different approach. I believe that the middle class deserves a tax cut, and I believe we will do a lot for this country continue this disasterous tax policy.”

Williams was not taking Goodlander’s faux outrage for regular Americans and her cosplay as a struggling middle-class family.

Williams fired back, “You are wealthy!! You’re worth $20-30 million. How do you know about regular people suffering?”

“Do you go to Walmart to go shopping to buy food? I talk to those people!”

“You pretend to be a renting in Nashua a few months ago and move back to run for this open seat with millions of dollars from Washington, D.C. insiders and millions and millions of dollars.”

“I don’t have millions of dollars to run t.v. ads…and you pretend you are poor because ‘rent is so high’

“You couldn’t save that apartment for other people to rent in Nashua.”

“Go back to your $2 million home in Portsmouth!”

Watch:

Chinese Communist Party SURVIVOR Lily Tang Williams DEMOLISHES rich liberal.

“You’re worth $20-30 million. How do you know about regular people suffering? … Go back to your $2 million home in Portsmouth!”pic.twitter.com/TXSwYsKu04

— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) November 1, 2024

Willams also blasted Goodlander for refusing to condemn Biden for calling half of America “garbage.”

My opponent @MaggieG603 did not condemn her boss Biden calling 50% of Americans “garbage”. I called them both out.

I am running for Congress to save the American Dream. She has no solutions to help the people who are struggling besides her party talking points. @DeeD4747 https://t.co/G65jOljfqb

— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) November 2, 2024

You can hear Williams’ story of coming to America and fleeing communism:

I arrived in Austin, TX on May 11, 1988, from China.

I became a naturalized citizen on Nov. 18, 1994, near 30 years ago. I was sworn in the US District Court for the State of Colorado.

My husband drove me over 2 hours from Wyoming where we lived that time to show up at the… pic.twitter.com/zhoSp49Qhz

— Lily Tang Williams (@Lily4Liberty) September 2, 2024

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Daniel Penny

The Gateway Pundit reported on the egregious charges against college student and decorated Marine veteran Daniel Penny in the death of serial felon Jordan Neely.

While the media has tried to portray Neely as a harmless Michael Jackson Subway crooner, a witness who was on the subway with Neely and Penny during their encounter is calling Penny a hero and claiming that he saved people’s lives.

The witness shared what she saw, “I’m sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, ‘I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet.”

On Friday, Penny’s trial began and, during opening statements, bodycam footage of the moment cops found Neely was shown.

According to The Daily Mail, two police officers confirmed that Neely still had a pulse when they arrived on the scene, but one witness, an NYPD Sergeant, testified that none of his team performed mouth-to-mouth on Neely because he was a ‘drug user.’

Per The Daily Mail:

‘He seemed to be a drug user.. he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want them to get… hepatitis.

‘If he did wake up he would have been vomiting. I didn’t want my officers to do that.

‘He was filthy. He looked like a homeless individual. You have to protect your officer,

‘I wouldn’t want my officer to get sick if the person throws up,’ he said.

Watch:

BREAKING: bombshell bodycam reveals that police detected a pulse on Jordan Neely after he was put in a chokehold by Daniel Penny.

At the behest of BLM who called it a racist killing, Soros-funded D.A. Alvin Bragg is falsely prosecuting Penny for manslaughter.

Penny is innocent. pic.twitter.com/0fxy5xtZ9x

— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) November 1, 2024

Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who represents District 19 of Queens, said, “Daniel Penny must be released immediately and all charges dropped.”

“This case was a political farce from day one, and Alvin Bragg should step down.”

“What an embarrassment. There was no murder. There wasn’t even manslaughter. Jordan Neely was alive when police arrived but resuscitation was too dangerous because Neely was clearly a significant disease risk to responding officers. Case closed.”

“Meanwhile actual murderers, rapists, and gang members walk free every single day.”

Daniel Penny must be released immediately and all charges dropped.

This case was a political farce from day one, and Alvin Bragg should step down.

What an embarrassment. There was no murder. There wasn’t even manslaughter. Jordan Neely was alive when police arrived but… https://t.co/6qCYKFWQvz

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) November 2, 2024

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The RNC filed a lawsuit on Saturday after four Georgia counties extended their election office hours and decided to accept absentee ballots over the weekend in violation of state law.

Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties are refusing to allow Republican poll watchers in to observe the process, according to the Republican National Committee.

“This is a blatant violation of Georgia law . . . which states ‘all drop boxes shall be closed when the advance voting period ends,’” the Georgia Republican Party said in a statement on Friday. “To make matters worse, the four election office locations are situated in areas of the county that will clearly favor Democrat candidates,”

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said Democrat officials are playing fast and loose with election law.

“Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties decided at the last minute to accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the law. They have also failed to let our poll observers in to watch the process. The Secretary of State has issued guidance to allow Republican poll watchers in but local officials REFUSE,” Michael Whatley said on X.

Democrat officials in Georgia are playing fast and loose with election law.

Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties decided at the last minute to accept ballots over the weekend — which disregards the law. They have also failed to let our poll observers in to watch the…

— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) November 2, 2024

Excerpt from Fox News:

Georgia Republicans are vowing to sue the Democratic stronghold of Fulton County after it announced extended elections office hours on Friday.

The threat came after the state GOP learned that election officials in the county, which includes Atlanta, are planning to open four election offices this weekend ‘to accommodate voters seeking to hand-return their absentee ballots.’

Fulton County was one of several to announce it would keep election offices open this weekend for voters turning in their existing absentee ballots in-person.

Drop boxes are a way for voters to turn in their absentee ballots at elections offices without human contact, which is different from submitting them in person at the office itself.

Drop boxes were available through Georgia’s early voting period from Oct. 15 through Nov. 1.

But Republicans are arguing that the extended hours for turning in absentee ballots over the weekend run afoul of the state’s rules.

The Democrats know they can’t win unless they cheat which is why they doing everything they can to flood the ballot boxes with sketchy mail-in ballots and count ballots without GOP poll watchers present.

A judge also ruled on Friday that Cobb County Georgia voters who received absentee ballots late can accept them until November 8, three days after the election.

At least 1,000 of the absentee ballots sent out late this week in Cobb County went to out-of-state voters.

DEVELOPING…

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Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson resigns after less than a week as Chicago School Board President after antisemitic social media posts resurface./Image: Video screenshot.

Chicago students just can’t catch a break from the adults who repeatedly fail them.

In October, the entire Chicago Board of Education resigned after repeated conflicts with the city’s Mayor, Brandon Johnson.

Johnson then appointed Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as the new President, a role Ikenna Johnson could not hold on to for a week.

Jewish Insider reports that Mayor Johnson’s hand-picked leader posted more than a dozen Facebook posts with antisemitic statements following Hamas’ attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.

Leaders throughout the city called on Ikenna Johnson to resign.

Over the last year, newly-appointed Chicago Public School Board President Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson has made deeply offensive and antisemitic comments, calling into doubt his ability to fairly represent Jewish students and families in Chicago Public Schools.

In response, I… pic.twitter.com/CqNwCyUVwd

— Alderman Debra Silverstein (@50thWardChicago) October 30, 2024

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just appointed the antisemitic, pro-Hamas Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as Chicago’s education board president. Johnson’s agenda is clear: the indoctrination of an entire generation of kids in Chicago. https://t.co/PtNf64gOuQ pic.twitter.com/e7BNsLx9vy

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) October 31, 2024

After less than a week, Ikenna Johnson resigned on Thursday.

Chicago Board of Education president Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson has resigned at the mayor’s request, over what the mayor called “antisemitic, misogynistic, and conspiratorial statements.” https://t.co/rrvFs66XzK

— CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) October 31, 2024

Chalkbeat Chicago reports:

Johnson issued a statement late Wednesday apologizing “to the Jewish community.”

“The remarks I posted were reactive and insensitive, and I am deeply sorry for not being more precise and deliberate in my comments posted last year,” Johnson wrote. “Since then, I have asked for and received feedback from my Jewish friends and colleagues, who helped me be more thoughtful in the way I address these sensitive matters.”

But additional Facebook posts surfaced Thursday in which Johnson supported a conspiracy theory that 9/11 was “an inside job” and questioned why working women don’t want families.

It is a shame that Chicago’s leaders care more about politics than the success of the city’s students. A recent Illinois State Board of Education report card is dreadful.

In 30 schools in Illinois, not a single student can read at grade level, 22 of which are in the City of Chicago.

In 53 schools, not a single student can do math at grade level, 33 of which are in  Chicago.

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Photo: Ron DeSantis/Gage Skidmore

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has banned thugs from the Department of Justice from showing up uninvited at the state’s polling stations, saying that doing so would risk undermining the elction process.

On Friday, the Department of Justice announced that it “plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 86 jurisdictions in 27 states for the Nov. 5 general election.”

Among them were four counties in Florida; Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Orange County and Osceola County.

However, DeSantis has poured cold water over the plan, with his Secretary of State Coyd Byrn warning such interferences would not be tolerated.

“Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list,” Byrn wrote in an email to Deputy Chief at the U.S. Department of Justice Voting Section, Jasmyn Richardson, according to Florida’s Voice.

“Even if they could qualify as ‘law enforcement’ under section 102.031 (3)(a) of the Florida Statutes, absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts Florida law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election,” he continued.

Byrd added that they had “already invoked its authority under section 101.58(2) of the Florida statutes to send its own monitors to the jurisdictions identified in your press release.”

BREAKING: Florida just issued a powerful message to the DOJ’s election monitors that they are NOT allowed inside any Florida polling locations.

DeSantis isn’t letting the Kamala-Biden regime’s fraudster unit pull any shenanigans in Florida’s election.

“As a reminder, DOJ… pic.twitter.com/AHK6GvZixy

— George (@BehizyTweets) November 1, 2024

It is not the first time that DeSantis has blocked DOJ operatives working on behalf of the Biden regime and Attorney General Merrick Garland from entering Florida polling sites.

During the 2022 midterm cycle, which resulted a red wave in Florida in which he won re-election by double digits, DeSantis similarly blocked them entering polling locations to prevent them interfering in the electoral process.

“We told them that under state law that is not permitted, and we asked them to respect state law,” Byrd said at the time. “They can go there and do their job, but they have to do that job outside of the polling place.”

In response, DeSantis also employed his own election integrity monitors to ensure that the federal government did not interfere in Florida’s election process, which remains one of the most secure and efficient operations in the entire country.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Blocks AG Garland’s Election Monitors From Entering Polling Locations

While Florida used to be the most important swing state, it is now considered a Republican stronghold. According to the latest RealClearPolitics polling average, Trump holds an 8.5 percent lead over Harris.

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Guest post by Vigilant News

This article originally appeared at vigilantnews.com and is re-published with permission.

You know the media has gone off the rails when liberal commentator Bill Maher has to reel them in. But that’s exactly what he did on Friday night, exposing their fake headline claiming Trump called for a “firing squad” on Liz Cheney as a hoax.

“I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me [media] and tell me he wants her [Liz Cheney] in front of a firing squad,” he scorned.

Maher explained that Trump was calling Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk,” clarifying that his words weren’t a literal call for violence.

“He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick Cheney’s daughter,” Maher quipped, adding that Trump’s controversial remark “sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to [die].”

WATCH:

Bill Maher Shocks Liberals and Calls the Media’s Dishonest ‘Firing Squad’ Headline a HOAX

“I don’t like Donald Trump. Don’t lie to me [media] and tell me he wants her [Liz Cheney] in front of a firing squad.”

“He’s criticizing her for being a war hawk. I mean, she is Dick… pic.twitter.com/KjpHxovhcz

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) November 2, 2024

Here’s Trump’s quote verbatim:

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, we’ll send tens of thousands of troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”

Copyright 2023 vigilantnews

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A Texas woman has been arrested for trying to sell her newborn baby boy on Facebook.

Juniper Bryson, 21, posted about her baby in a Facebook group called “Birth Mothers Looking for Adoptive Parent(s)” on September 22.

Bryson allegedly also tried to get relatives to take the baby, telling them that he would be born positive for drugs.

The relative posted online looking for someone to purchase the infant, writing, “She needs someone there during labor and to take the baby boy home. She doesn’t want him going into foster care.”

ABC 13 reports:

During a subsequent conversation, Bryson revealed to the family member that she wanted payment for the baby.

“It’s not even like that, just enough to move into an apartment so I can work a job and get (my daughter) back, or a cheap down payment, or any car to get to different places to DoorDash. Nothing crazy at all,” the message read according to records.

In the days following, Bryson conversed with at least seven different people regarding the adoption of her child, investigators found.

A same-sex couple eventually began making their way to Houston, and Bryson asked them to pay for her dinner and send her $150.

“Juniper sent him a picture of the food she was trying to order, and he sent her money, a total of $25 via Apple Pay to complete the food delivery,” charging documents read, according to the ABC report. “(The prospective parent) stated that 3.5 hours into their trip to Houston, she asked them to send her $150.”

“Bryson blocked the prospective parent’s number and then unblocked him, according to records, and said, ‘If the baby wasn’t worth $200 to them, then screw all,’” the report says.

The baby was born on September 24 and tested positive for drugs.

Another woman named Wendy Williams responded to the post and spent three days with the baby in the hospital.

Williams and her husband named the baby and were prepared to take him home.

Bryson posted on Facebook that she found a home for the baby and tagged Williams, who began receiving angry messages,

“‘Hey, what is this? You know a lot of people are sending me these screenshots. What is going on?’” Williams said she asked Bryson. “At that very moment, she requested that the nurse remove me from the room, and I did. I got escorted downstairs with gifts that my family had brought to the hospital.”

Williams ended up reporting Bryson to CPS.

The baby was ultimately given to one of Bryson’s friends.

“In every case where a child comes into the state’s care, family members or friends are considered first for placement,” a Texas Department of Family Services spokesperson told ABC. “Ultimately, the decision of where a child is placed is up to the court.”

Bryson is being held in the Harris County Jail on a $30,000 bond.

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House Republicans have subpoenaed Democrat Party fundraising portal ActBlue over allegations of illegally funneling foreign money to campaigns.

Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, a Republican, said in a press release on Wednesday that he subpoenaed “documents related to ActBlue’s donor verification policies and the potential for foreign actors to use the platform to launder illicit money into U.S. political campaigns.”

“We cannot allow foreign actors to influence our elections through campaign financing,” Chairman Steil said.

Steil continued, “The Committee’s investigation uncovered that foreign actors might be taking advantage of ActBlue’s inadequate security protocols. To ensure that foreign money is not being laundered through ActBlue, we are requesting a series of documents and communications related to their donor security and verification policies. Preventing foreign interference in U.S. elections has been my top priority as Chairman and this next step in our investigation is crucial to achieving that goal.”

Last year, it was revealed that ActBlue was accepting donations without requiring a CVV, prompting Steil to send a letter questioning whether they comply with federal campaign finance laws and prevent foreign and illegal contributions.

Steil’s office noted that on September 6, 2024, Chairman Steil introduced H.R. 9488, the Secure Handling of Internet Electronic Donations (SHIELD) Act.

“The legislation prohibits political committees from accepting an online contribution unless the contributor provides the CVV and billing address associated with the card and from accepting online contributions from prepaid cards,” the press release explained. “It also adopts a top legislative recommendation from the FEC to prohibit individuals from knowingly aiding or abetting a person making a contribution in the name of another person.”

ActBlue has handled over $1.5 billion in donations from approximately seven million donors.

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram obtained a statement from ActBlue regarding the subpoena.

ActBlue: ActBlue has received Chairman Steil’s latest inquiry and will respond to address the continued inaccuracies and misrepresentations about our platform, as we have done previously. We rigorously protect donors’ security and maintain strict anti-fraud compliance practices.…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 31, 2024

“ActBlue has received Chairman Steil’s latest inquiry and will respond to address the continued inaccuracies and misrepresentations about our platform, as we have done previously,” the statement began. “We rigorously protect donors’ security and maintain strict anti-fraud compliance practices. We have zero tolerance for fraud on our platform.”

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