A US Army veteran recalls a mission in Afghanistan. He and his team where in the Helmand Province mountains when they heard a 'human baby crying' sounds.I received the following account:"Sir. The following is my description of my encounter with what I believe to be a cryptid predator. This story is 100% true and not a work of fiction. I have no idea what I encountered, but I believe it was some animal currently unknown to science.This occurred in 2012 while I was in the US Army in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, in the late summer, around 5 months into our tour. A mission we were supposed to deploy on was changed the day before due to an operational incident. So I find the odds of a security leak very unlikely.We were dropped of at the far end of a mountain range and had to hike our way up while it was dark and wait up the top. It took us around 2 hours to reach the top of the mountains if I recall correctly. The mission was to wait on top overnight and sleep for several hours and before sunrise head down into the green zone deep into enemy territory in order to gain the element of surprise and in order to assault Taliban positions. This was a very rural area and off the track. It would have been a difficult place for a civilian to reach.At some point during the night, I have no idea what time, but it was dark, my friend who was next to me nudged me awake and was looking in front of him at a cave entrance not far in front of us. Perhaps 30 feet in front. I listened closely in order to hear what was going on and noticed that I could hear the sound of what appeared to be a human baby crying. This confused me given the location. But several moments later a terrifying thing happened.I noticed that the sound that I was hearing of the baby crying was on a loop, like maybe a 10 second loop. Repeating over and over again. Suddenly a rush of terror came over me and I immediately thought of some strange animal impersonating a vulnerable human, much like the way cats and birds can mimic human sounds. It repeated for maybe 5 to 10 minutes before stopping. Then nothing but eerie silence. No movement no voices. Nothing.To this day I have no idea what it could have been. I really doubt it was the enemy forces as the odds of them knowing we would be there given the last minute change is unlikely. Plus it would have been much easier to just attack us. I genuinely believe this was some unknown creature attempting to lure us down into the cave. I have no idea for what purpose, but I doubt that it was anything friendly." S**********CHICAGO MOTHMAN - 'UNSOLVED MYSTERIES' VIEWER REPORTS! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EYEWITNESS SUBMISSIONS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? 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My beautiful home state of California has become synonymous with dysfunction, homelessness, drug use, and criminality. But during Tuesday’s election, Golden State voters said they’ve had enough of rampant crime. By an overwhelming margin, voters passed Proposition 36, a measure that will ncrease penalties for property crime, illicit drug use, and retail theft. By the latest count, over 70% voted “yes” on Prop 36. The measure essentially repudiates Proposition 47, a soft-on-crime law approved in 2014 that drastically reduced penalties for a whole host of crimes. That wasn’t the end of California’s turn against the most noxious elements of the Left’s criminal justice reforms. Voters cast aside rogue prosecutor George Gascon, the radical Los Angeles County district attorney whose pro-criminal policies had already led to two recall attempts. BREAKING: AP projects Prop 36 will pass overwhelmingly in California, reversing the soft on crime Prop 47, and reimposing stiff consequences for drug & theft crimes. One of Prop 47’s architects, LA DA George Gascon, is currently losing his race by 22 points to @NathanHochmanDA— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) November 6, 2024 Here’s what two Heritage Foundation legal experts wrote about Gascon right after the Democrat’s defeat: The utter scope and breadth of Gascon’s policies were stunning. Each of them inured to the benefit of criminals and ignored or punished victims. No civil society, even one with uber-liberal values, could tolerate for long the degradation of law and order that came as a result of the district attorney’s policies. Over the years, Gascon has been sued by dozens of his own prosecutors, including for creating a hostile work environment, for workplace retaliation, and for discrimination, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Gascon has lost almost all of those cases, costing Los Angeles County millions of dollars. Now, he’s gone. And that wasn’t all. The anti-crime wave hit the San Franciso Bay Area too. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, was given the boot, to be replaced by independent Daniel Lurie, who ran on a tough-on-crime platform. In the deepest blue Alameda County, where socialists almost certainly outnumber Republicans—the county I grew up in by the way—voters recalled leftist District Attorney Pamala Price, a Democrat. Oakland voters recalled Mayor Sheng Thao too, a Democrat who has presided over a city that became trapped in the textbook definition of a “doom loop.” It seems most Californians are finally fed up with the crime and the chaos. Biased California media, of course, portrays this enormous backlash against crime as if it’s just clueless voters who’ve been misled by “disinformation” and imagery of rampant shoplifting. As if people don’t notice that when they go into a drug store, practically everything is behind lock and key. I’ll offer this bit of advice to California and corporate media: Your gaslighting isn’t working anymore. Americans with common sense wouldn’t believe you if you said, “Good morning.” Maybe instead of rebuking Americans for their lying eyes deceiving them and desperately trying to craft narratives, have some humility and try to do better at covering issues people care about. This wasn’t merely a 70-30 issue, a blowout by any measure. What’s remarkable is that Prop 36 received majority support in every single district of California. Prop 36 in California which increases penalties for repeated theft offenses and certain drug crimes – and which Kamala Harris declined to give position on last days of the campaign is currently leading in *every single* country in California and has 70% support. pic.twitter.com/IypvMIRGWo— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) November 7, 2024 It says a lot that despite this turn against crime being wildly popular, the Democratic regime that controls the state tried to stop it. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, tried to have Prop 36 removed from the ballot. He quietly worked to have it defeated. Vice President Kamala Harris, who votes in California—she was a U.S. senator and the state’s attorney general after being San Francisco district attorney—refused to say how she would vote on Prop 36 on the eve of the election. .@dsupervilleap — "How did you vote on Prop 36?"Kamala Harris: "I'm not going to talk about the vote on that because honestly it's the Sunday before the election and I don't intend to create an endorsement one way or another around it." pic.twitter.com/PaOvZp0H1N— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) November 3, 2024 You can add that to the long list of reasons she lost the presidential race. The crime and disorder issue has been percolating for years. Americans—rightly—see the Democrat Party as the party that opened the Pandora’s box to chaos and dysfunction. From the lawless border, to defunding the police (which Democrats now laughably deny they had anything to do with), to recklessly empowering criminal behavior in our cities, Democrats were at the forefront of “progressive” criminal justice reforms that have led to rampant crime and injustice. I often shudder at the idea of “as goes California, so goes the nation. But in this case, I think what happened in California is the sign of a much larger national trend that seems to be shifting many blue cities and states red. Americans have had enough of crime and coddled criminals. They don’t want political prosecutions, they want genuine law and order. The post Soft-on-Crime Policies and Politicians Get Smoked by Voters in Blue California appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The presidential race was not unpredictable, as the now once again discredited polls swore to us. The Republicans had made massive gains in voter registration since 2020, when Donald Trump lost the Electoral College by only a few thousand strategically placed votes. Republicans began to master the transition to non-Election Day balloting—first engineered by the Left in 2020 under the pretext of COVID-19. Republicans not only vastly exceeded their early or mail-in voting totals of 2020, but by Election Day they often outpaced Democrats. For months, it was widely reported, albeit grudgingly, that there were large defections in Hispanic and African American voters from Vice President Kamala Harris. The betting odds over the past three weeks usually favored Trump. Harris simply could not run on anything she had so emphatically promoted in the past—given these left-wing, unpopular, and failed policies had no majority support. So, the chameleon Harris renounced her prior 30 years of earlier radical advocacy that, along with her race and gender, had forced Joe Biden in 2020 to select her as vice president. There was no way Harris could still support banning fracking, defunding police, opposing border security and the wall, or calling for mass amnesties and an end to the Border Patrol. Nor could Harris still promote racial reparations, ending private health care insurance, or advocating higher income and capital gains taxes as well as a wealth tax. Much less could Harris still boast of wanting mandatory “buyback” or confiscation of some semi-automatic weapons—including entering private homes to seize them. So given all that, Harris simply flipped—and serially lied about who she was, renouncing her entire political career. Indeed, Harris began to copycat Trump’s own positions. And so, she never convinced the electorate that she would not flip back to her earlier radicalism once elected or even in defeat finishing out her vice-presidential term. There were three damning realities that even if Harris had been a gifted politician and an adept speaker, she could never have changed. One, Harris was preposterously running as a turn-the-page, new-generation candidate. But why had she not sought to implement such a “new chapter” for the prior 45 months as an incumbent vice president, especially while in office during the campaign itself? Voters knew the answer: The entire Biden-Harris tenure was an utter, far left-wing disaster, one for which the radical Harris 1.0 had for three-plus years claimed co-ownership. Two, why did Harris avoid all impromptu interviews and the media for most of the campaign—only to reverse course and seek out reporters when her polls eroded? Did it hurt Harris more to avoid the media—or meet with reporters and thus confirm her inanity to millions of viewers and listeners? Three, why did Harris serially lie to America that Biden was hale and vigorous as president—until hours before his senility prompted leftist donors and party insiders to force him off the ticket? And why could she not declare her independence from the historically unpopular Biden? Harris instead chose to terrify voters to vote against a demonized and “fascist” Trump rather than to vote for Harris and her make-believe agendas. But even in demonizing Trump, the maladroit Harris hit a wall. By campaign’s end, Trump’s favorables were often higher than her own. His prior four years as president polled higher than the current Biden-Harris train wreck. Trump, the purported “racist,” won more Hispanic and black voters than past “moderate” Republicans such as Bob Dole, John McCain, or Mitt Romney. It was hard to damn Trump as a crazy fascist when iconic liberal figures, like Robert Kennedy Jr. or Tulsi Gabbard, were campaigning for him. Trump had reinvented the Republican Party by substituting ecumenical, middle-class solidarity for polarizing racial tribalism. Elitist Democrats were left to cater to the interests of their well-off and very rich donors as well as the subsidized poor. Finally, workaholic Trump campaigned nonstop for two years, won all the Republican primaries, and was endorsed by his two chief primary rivals. In contrast, the Harris “nomination” was the product of a coup that, in 48 hours, removed from the ticket an incumbent president, nullified the will of his 14 million primary voters, and coronated Harris, who had neither won nor ever entered a primary. That late July forced abdication of Biden lent an air of illegitimacy to Harris’s candidacy, as well as truncating the time available to campaign. Finally, Harris’ first major decision was to nominate as her vice president the buffoonish and inept Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. His radicalism, serial lying, and herky-jerky “weirdness” proved a force multiplier of her own mediocrity. In contrast, the calm, empathetic, and astute Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Trump’s running mate, eviscerated Walz in their sole debate and did the same to the media. Add it all up—and Harris and her star-crossed candidacy were simply and rightly doomed. (C) 2024 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY LLC We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Kamala Harris Was Always Doomed appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In 1892, Starr County, Texas, voted to reelect Republican President Benjamin Harrison. The president lost, and Starr County turned blue for over 130 years, until the 2024 presidential election.   On Tuesday, Donald Trump earned 9,443 votes in the county, which is 97% Hispanic or Latino, and Kamala Harris received 6,845 votes, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s office.   Starr County is located in the Rio Grande Valley and is one of 18 Texas counties that sits on or within 20 miles of Mexico’s border. Trump won 14 out of the 18 Texas border counties, many of which were Democrat strongholds.   Starr, Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron counties comprise most of the Rio Grande Valley. Despite voting for Joe Biden in 2020, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Barack Obama in 2012 and 2008, all four Rio Grande Valley counties supported Trump in 2024.   Trump’s victory in the valley “is historic,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said during a recent conversation on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”   Trump’s victory in the border counties, which have a large Hispanic population, is due in part to his strong performance among Latino voters.   In fact, 46% of Latino voters in the U.S. backed Trump in 2024, up from 34% in 2020, according to Reuters. Trump performed especially well among Hispanic males, who supported him with 55% of their vote. He won more Latino voters than any Republican president in recent history, and the big question is, Why?  The Border  “Biden and Harris throwing the border open and allowing millions upon millions to stream in for a reason that we haven’t yet really understood was the deciding factor,” said Gonzalez, author of “A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans.”  U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have encountered more than 10 million illegal aliens at America’s borders under the Biden-Harris administration.   The “invasion” at the southern border “created a sense of chaos,” Frank Lopez, former Border Patrol agent and Val Verde County, Texas, resident told The Daily Signal. Lopez’s county border’s Mexico and also voted for Trump in 2024 and 2020, but for Clinton in 2016.   “The reason we elected Trump is because one thing that’s respected is doing what you say you’re going to do,” Lopez said, speaking for those in the Hispanic American community. “Trump, one thing he did was, the border was under control.”   Traditional Values   Much of the Hispanic community holds conservative values, says Lopez, who ran to be the Republican candidate for Texas’ 23rd Congressional District in 2024 but lost in the primary to incumbent Tony Gonzales. “The woke LGBTQ stuff does not sit well with very traditional family-centric morals and values,” Lopez said.   The Biden-Harris administration has promoted an LGBTQ agenda throughout the federal government and recently introduced a rule change to Title IX of the Education Amendments to redefine “sex” to include gender identify and sexual orientation. Such a change that includes these categories under sex discrimination prohibitions in federally funded education programs would swing the door open for men who identity as women to compete in women’s sports and enter female-only spaces such as locker rooms, and vice versa.   Lopez added that pro-life Hispanic voters also saw Trump as the “lesser of two evils” on the issue of abortion.   “Texas IS getting more red,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on X Friday in response to a map showing an increasing number of Texas counties turning red in the last three elections. “One big reason is that Hispanics in Texas have realized that Republicans align with their values of faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise,” Abbott wrote. “They support capitalism & pro-energy production policies & no boys in girls sports.” This is a fact–Texas IS getting more red.One big reason is that Hispanics in Texas have realized that Republicans align with their values of faith, family, freedom and free enterprise.They support capitalism & pro-energy production policies & no boys in girls sports. https://t.co/7uYVZGdPaq— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 8, 2024 Patriotism   Trump is “proud to be an American,” Lopez said.   “He loves America. He believes in America. He believes that we can get it done through hard work, having a vision and pursuing it, and that resounds with the [Hispanic] community,” he said.   Because many Hispanics families have a family member who served in the military, a sense of patriotism is a “huge component of why we go for him.”  Asked if the shift to the right among Hispanic voters is indicative of a permanent change, Gonzalez said it is too soon to know for sure.   Regarding policy issues, he says Hispanic voters are “just Americans,” adding, “They want the same things that all the other Americans want.”  The post 3 Reasons Texas Border Counties Went Red appeared first on The Daily Signal.

“Look what happened! Is this crazy?” President-elect Donald J. Trump exclaimed early Wednesday morning before exuberant fans in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump’s beyond-epic triumph made him the first American to secure the White House, surrender it, and then recapture it since Grover Cleveland in 1892. Republicans won the Senate with a majority of at least 53 seats and seem poised to retain the House. Axios described Tuesday’s champion as “The most powerful Republican president of the modern era” and added: “Donald J. Trump has vanquished the Bushes, the Clintons, the Bidens, the Obamas — and the entire establishment of both parties.” Wall Street investors stampeded onto the Trump Train on Wednesday and pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average 1,508 points higher, to a record 43,749. Congratulations to Trump for an enormous, monster victory, the parameters of which grow with each late ballot counted. No one can dismiss the Make America Great Again movement as a cult, a ruse, or the result of some Kremlin-authored algorithm. The facts have flattened the Left’s excuses, fantasies, and hoaxes: • At this writing, Trump has won 295 Electoral College votes?. Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris took 226. • Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin went Trump’s way. Ironically, vote tabulation continues glacially in the deserts of Arizona and Nevada. Trump’s leads there should carry him to 312 electoral votes.    • Trump is now the first Republican to win the popular vote since G.W. Bush in 2004. As of Friday, at 4:15 p.m., according to the Associated Press, Trump scored 73,590,230 votes (50.7%) or 4,318,557 over 69,271,673 votes (47.7%) for Harris.  • Trump also won a full majority, not a mere plurality, as did Bill Clinton in 1992 (43%) and 1996 (49.2%) and G.W. Bush in 2000 (47.9%). • Trump improved in Democrat states that he lost in 2020: New Mexico, up 5.1% Connecticut: 6% Illinois: 8.5% Massachusetts: 8.6% Maryland: 10.3% New Jersey: 10.9% New York: 11.6%  California: 12% • In the Golden State counties of Butte, Nevada, Fresno, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Inyo, San Bernardino, and Orange, voters switched from Democrat in 2020 to Republican. • In New York City, Trump boosted his 2020 showing by 10.83% on Manhattan, 12.57% in Brooklyn, 15.24% on Staten Island, 21.59% in Queens, and 21.96% in the Bronx. The New York Post called Trump’s Bronx and Queens totals “a staggering improvement in two of the most diverse places on the planet for a candidate decried by his opponents as a craven racist.” Nearby, Trump won suburban Nassau County (52% to 47%) — a GOP first since 1992. • For a man whom the morally repugnant Left calls Adolf Hitler, Jr., Trump saw his Jewish support rise from 24% in 2016 to 30% in 2020 to 32% on Tuesday, according to 2024 Fox News Voter Analysis. Trump won 38% of the Jewish vote in Arizona, 42% in Nevada, and 46% in New York. • Trump won 16% of the black vote, up from 8% in 2016 and 12% in 2020. Tuesday’s total included 9% of black women (matching 9% in 2020) and 24% of black men (up from 19%). Rural Anson County, North Carolina, is 40% black. It has backed the Republican nominee only twice since Reconstruction: Richard Milhous Nixon in 1972 and Trump in 2024. • Among Hispanics, Trumped soared from 28% in 2016 to 32% in 2020 to 42% in 2024. Trump became the first Republican to take Cubanesque Miami-Dade County since 1988. Trump on Tuesday won 14 of 18 Texas counties abutting Mexico. He flipped Starr County, Texas by 16%. Newsweek calls it “America’s most Hispanic county,” with 97% in that demographic. Trump is the first Republican to win Starr since 1892 — the year Grover Cleveland took his second, non-consecutive term. So much for Democrats’ bird-brained strategy of wooing American Hispanics by inviting illegal aliens who “look like them” to invade, impoverish, and terrorize this country. • The alleged woman-hating Trump saw his female support grow from 41% in 2016 to 42% in 2020 to 46% this week. Are these pro-Trump women misogynists? Meanwhile, Harris scored only 43% of men’s ballots. Does she hate men? Trump on Thursday named his buoyant campaign chief, Susie Wiles, as his new White House chief of staff. Wiles will become the first woman in that role. No Democrat president ever trusted women enough to appoint one of them to lead his team. Trump just did. What a misogynist! While the Left whimpers, moans, weeps, chops off its hair, and launches an anti-sex strike, a few Democrats have sifted a sliver of self-awareness from the sands of defeat. “Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far Left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx,’” Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., wrote Wednesday via X.  “There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world,” he continued. “The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling.” Indeed, the American people shouted an ear-shattering, “HELL NO!” to the Democrats’ puerile program. This election was a massive, peanut-allergy-like reaction against the Left’s entire product line: Border destruction, freebies for illegal aliens, sky-high prices for citizens, free-range shoplifters, Climatarianism, gas-stove bans, mandatory electric vehicles, racial fetishism, FBI-fueled censorship, lawfare, weaponized government, tampons in boys’ rooms, penises in girls’ locker rooms, child sexual mutilation, discarded parental rights, “saving” pet squirrels by killing them, pro-Hamas chaos, Iranian missiles fired at Israel, Houthi rockets igniting the Red Sea, a Chinese balloon spying on American military facilities, and a whole nauseating lot more. The American people screamed a clear and convincing “Yes!” to Trump, Republicans, and their America First agenda: Reverence for the American Founding, a restored US-Mexico frontier, a complete southern-border wall, immediate expulsion of illegal-alien criminals, mass deportation of the other illegal aliens, hugs and opportunities for legal immigrants, permanent Trump tax cuts, No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security benefits, fiscal sanity, a War on Government Waste, energy dominance, a red light for the Green New Deal, one-track justice, consequences for criminals, school choice, Death to DEI, color-neutral government, Transgenderism in the trash, Peace through Strength, an Israeli win in Gaza, more Abraham Accords, Ukraine at peace, Russia back in its borders, Iran back in a box, North Korea back in talks, China back in check, and America’s enemies on their backs. Before advancing the policy agenda that he won a mandate to deliver, Trump began to harmonize the United States. “We’re going to help our country heal,” Trump told his supporters in Palm Beach at 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday. “We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.”  “I’m asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor. It’s time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us. It’s time to unite…Success will bring us together.” The 45th and (soon) 47th President of the United States concluded: “This will truly be the golden age of America.” We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Trump’s Tuesday Triumph Was Beyond Epic appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Most Catholics and Protestants say they voted for the once and future president, Donald Trump, in Tuesday’s election, while most nonreligious Americans seem to have favored Vice President Kamala Harris, a new survey shows.  The Faith & Freedom Coalition, a group claiming 3 million activists and donors, released survey results Wednesday showing that 72% of Americans who claim they aren’t part of a religion said they voted for Harris and for Democrats running for the House or Senate.   On the other hand, nearly 60% of people of faith surveyed said they voted for Trump or for Republican congressional candidates. Exactly 56% said they voted for Trump and 58% for GOP congressional candidates.   Of those people of faith, 60% of Protestants said they voted for Trump and 58% of Catholics said they did the same. Sixty-one percent of Catholics said they voted for Republican congressional candidates, as did 60% of Protestants.   Public Opinion Strategies interviewed 800 individuals by phone on election night for the Faith & Freedom Coalition, speaking to those who said that they had voted. The results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.46 percentage points.  Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, said at a press conference Wednesday that Harris’ liberal stance on abortion may have turned off voters of faith, and that Democrats have a “religion problem” in their party.  NEW: FFC Founder and Chairman @RalphReed holds a press conference in Washington, D.C. following President Donald Trump’s monumental victory.Our grassroots team engaged with MILLIONS of battleground state conservatives ahead of Election Day to deliver the Christian vote. pic.twitter.com/NVidj8Y2iW— Faith & Freedom (@FaithandFreedom) November 6, 2024 Reed also attributed the defeat of two ballot questions in Florida, one on abortion rights and one legalizing marijuana, to Trump’s overperformance among Hispanic, faith-based voters. The coalition registered voters in Hispanic churches, he said.   Penny Nance, CEO and president of Concerned Women for America, which calls itself the nation’s largest public policy organization for women, said her group was part of the coalition’s get-out-the-vote effort.   Fully 70% of voters surveyed said their votes were influenced by social issues related to Title IX, the federal law prohibiting discrimination against women in schools that receive federal funds, Nance said.   She said voters told Concerned Women for America that it’s important not to allow boys or men in girls or women’s sports or in their safe spaces such as restrooms and locker rooms.   All told, about 600 volunteers knocked on doors in an effort to visit 10 million households, Reed said. VICTORY! Faith & Freedom Coalition Founder and Chairman @RalphReed on President Donald J. Trump’s historic victory. pic.twitter.com/ARU37VyQ7P— Faith & Freedom (@FaithandFreedom) November 6, 2024   The post FAITH REALIGNMENT: Which Religious Group Voted for Kamala Harris? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A kind rescuer helped get a stray kitten off the street and returned for another cat, her sister, cut from the same cloth. SallySparkleCatRescueLate last month, Beth, an animal rescuer, was contacted about two kittens, around 3-4 months old, living under a homeowner's porch. Both young and friendly, Beth was determined to give them the good life they deserved.Upon arriving, she noticed one of the kittens, Hazel, had an infected eye and needed immediate attention. She brought her home to begin treatment while the homeowner continued caring for the other kitten, Sally."She thought she could go back for Sally once she got help for Hazel," Stephanie Grantham, president of Sparkle Cat Rescue, shared with Love Meow. HazelSparkleCatRescueWith the community's support, Beth was able to secure the eye surgery for Hazel. "One of her eyes was in really bad shape, and after two weeks of meds and no improvement, it was removed."After surviving outdoors for months, Hazel seemed relieved and content to be in a comfy home. She nestled into her rescuer's arms as if she knew she was finally in good hands. Hazel was found with a bad eyeSparkleCatRescueA volunteer at Sparkle Cat Rescue took her in to help her heal after the surgery. She quickly perked up and regained her playful energy. Before long, Hazel was climbing cat trees and running around, claiming every inch she touched.With her renewed confidence, her personality began to shine through. "She slept with her foster (carer) on the first night and loved it." She healed beautifully in foster care after surgerySparkleCatRescueWhen Beth returned to check on Hazel's sister, Sally, the long-haired, dilute calico sauntered up, begging for attention. She was an instant cuddle bug and wanted nothing more than to be held and loved on.As Hazel healed beautifully in foster care, Beth asked Stephanie if they had room for another kitten. Beth returned for Hazel's sister, SallySparkleCatRescue"I told her to bring her to me so we could reunite her and Hazel."Sally arrived in good spirits, affectionately rubbing her face against everything around her. With her purrs rumbling, she explored her new space and greeted everyone she met. "This girl wants lots of attention." SparkleCatRescueWhile Stephanie tried to work on her computer, Sally jumped onto the desk, eager to assist. She placed a paw on her shoulder and rubbed her face against the arm controlling the mouse.Needless to say, Stephanie didn't get much work done that day, but she was delighted to know Sally was finally safe. She demanded constant attention at the officeSparkleCatRescueWith both kittens securely indoors, it was time for their reunion.A family jumped at the chance to foster the kittens and reunite them. It didn't take long before they fell head over heels for the pair. "Both girls went to a new foster home (potentially will be adopted by the foster) this week and are doing great." Hazel and Sally were reunitedSparkleCatRescueWhile lounging on the big bed Hazel had claimed, she saw her sister and was intrigued.Within two days, the two were playing, chasing each other around the house, and soon, curling up on the same bed like two peas in a pod. Within two days, they were playing and napping togetherSparkleCatRescue"They are both very loving and social, love to play with their toys and cuddle with humans. Their lives are forever changed now."With the help of rescuers and volunteers, the sisters have been reunited and are now starting a new chapter filled with food, love, and each other. Happy and lovedSparkleCatRescueShare this story with your friends. More on Sally and Hazel and Sparkle Cat Rescue on Instagram and Facebook.Related story: Cat Spent Months Living from Yard to Yard, Soon After Moving Indoors She Has Kittens by Her Side

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it is looking into a shocking report that one of its officials had ordered relief workers to skip homes that were displaying pro-Trump signs. The Daily Wire first documented the accusations based on multiple workers who said that supervisor Marn’i Washington gave a verbal order to avoid Trump homes. It also obtained documents that corroborated the claims. 'It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.' “Trump sign no entry per leadership," read one entry in the government system reviewed by the Wire. Washington reportedly made the order as workers were canvassing neighborhoods in Lake Placid, Florida, to sign up residents for federal aid over damage from Hurricane Milton in October and November. “I know they’re short-staffed, I thought we could go help and make a difference,” said one of the employees quoted in the Wire report. “When we got there we were told to discriminate against people. It’s almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that’s okay.” The report said the district affected by Washington's order voted by 70% to back President-elect Donald Trump in the election. “I volunteered to help disaster victims, not discriminate against them,” the employee continued. “It didn’t matter if people were black, white, Hispanic, for Trump, for Harris. Everyone deserves the same amount of help.”Other messages in the government system read, “Per leadership no stop Trump flag,” “Trump sign,” and “Trump sign, no contact per leadership.”FEMA told the Wire that it was investigating the claims. “We are aware of it and we are taking action at this moment regarding the situation that you’re talking about," said Washington’s FEMA supervisor, Chad Hershey. The Wire also obtained a complaint made to FEMA about the alleged incident. “This behavior raises significant concerns of discrimination against United States citizens because of their political views,” the complaint read. “These actions not only undermine the integrity of our agency and create a hostile work environment for those who may hold differing political beliefs but they also threaten the very democracy of our country.”FEMA had been previously criticized for what many said was a slow and incompetent response to a major natural disaster that struck mainly Republican-majority states and counties. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The counting is done, and Donald Trump has won with a stunning 312 electoral votes — the most any Republican candidate has won since George H.W. Bush in 1988. “Blaze News Tonight” host Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson are joined by Clay Travis, OutKick founder and co-host of "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show," to discuss how Trump was able to achieve this landslide victory. According to Travis, Kamala Harris “got her a** kicked” partially because “she never really told us what she thought on the issues, and the ones she did tell us about she was wrong on.” “Meanwhile, Trump was right on everything,” and he expanded his voter base by appealing to “men in particular — black, white, Asian, Hispanic.” However, there was another major factor that contributed to Harris’ epic loss: Generation X. “You spoke about how Generation X came out in large numbers. Why do you think that is?” Peterson asks. “Because Generation X has great judgment,” Travis answers. “I do think Gen X saved America.” “I think a big reason why is Trump appeals to people who grew up in the 1980s and the 1990s. ... We grew up in an America that was awesome and an America that was filled with belief that we were the greatest country in the history of the world,” he adds. “A lot of Democrats frankly don't believe that anymore, and I think much of Generation X, myself included, fundamentally rejects this idea that somehow as America is a fundamentally awful, racist country, and we like the idea Trump is selling, which is American exceptionalism is a good thing. We are the freest and fairest country in the history of the world,” he explains. “I think Gen X is one of the biggest and foremost defenders of that idea.” Jill then points to another group that “overwhelmingly voted for Trump” — college football players. “Why does Donald resonate so well with this group?” asks Jill. “I think young men innately are seeing through the BS world that they have grown up in — this woke universe where suddenly being male is wrong,” Travis says. “I think a lot of these young men in college football programs, you know, they saw this crazy Lia Thomas business, and they don't think it makes any sense.” “They're tired of having to pretend that they don't believe what they believe. I am super optimistic that this next generation of men, these young men now 18- to 29-year-old who are coming in to vote, are going to have a big impact,” he adds. To hear more of the conversation, including Travis’ thoughts on exactly how Trump flipped the swing states, watch the clip above. Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.