Speaker Johnson and the House are investigating Act Blue, the enormous Democrat fundraising machine. “There’s now more evidence that illicit overseas donors are using the corrupt Democrat donor platform ActBlue to exploit campaign finance loopholes and make donations in the names of people without their knowledge,” Johnson said. He added. “These are fraudulent, ILLEGAL practices […] The post Speaker Johnson to Investigate Potential Illicit Foreign Donations to Act Blue appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The Democrat senate candidate who left a reporter wounded after shooting targets with an AR-15 at a campaign event alerted the police two days after the incident, which is currently under investigation by authorities, according to correspondence viewed by The Daily Wire. Lucas Kunce, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Missouri, hosted a campaign event on Tuesday alongside anti-Trump former congressman Adam Kinzinger, where two fired rifles at a private residence, leaving one reporter injured. The reporter, Ryan Gamboa, was injured after he was struck in the arm by what appears to have been a fragment of a bullet or a deflected round that bounced off of the steel targets that the group was shooting just yards away with a high-powered rifle. Kunce announced that he notified the local sheriff of the incident on Wednesday, days after his campaign event. His call to the Clinton County Sheriff appears to have come following an inquiry from The Daily Wire, which was investigating whether the Democrat may have acted in violation of the law by failing to report the shooting incident. The sheriff’s department said it is unable to release further information about the incident because it’s “under investigation.” The Kunce campaign did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who Kunce is challenging, took to X to warn that the Democrat could have broken the law by not immediately calling the police after the incident. “Serious question. Missouri law *requires* any person who causes injury with a firearm to file a report with law enforcement immediately,” Hawley, the former Attorney General of Missouri, wrote. “Did Lucas Kunce do that? Failure to do so is a crime.” The Democratic candidate was slammed online after he first announced that the reporter had been injured at his campaign event, with many criticizing his use of steel targets, which appear to have been shot by AR-15 rifles at close range. “Always have your first aid kit handy. Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go,” Kunce wrote in a post on X. “We had four first aid kits, so we were able to take care of the situation, and I’m glad Ryan is okay and was able to continue reporting.” Great day at the range today with my friend @AdamKinzinger. We got to hang out with some union workers while exercising our freedom. Always have your first aid kit handy. Shrapnel can always fly when you hit a target like today, and you’ve got to be ready to go. We had four first… pic.twitter.com/Qu4YxfrtrU — Lucas Kunce (@LucasKunceMO) October 23, 2024 “You could’ve killed somebody today, you freaking moron. What kind of a brain dead idiot shoots steel inside 10 yards with a rifle?” CEO of The Federalist wrote in response to the candidate’s post.  “You shot a reporter while firing .556 and .308 rifles at steel targets at 7 yards? The minimum safe distance for steel targets is 100 yards with those weapons,” another user wrote. Kunce is trailing Hawley, who was first elected in 2018, by wide margins in the polls. The election is November 5.

Rumors are circulating that pop star Beyoncé will appear at a rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in her hometown of Houston on Friday. She is set to be joined at the event by her mother, Tina Knowles, and country music singer Willie Nelson, per anonymous sources who spoke to the Washington Post. It’s also being speculated that the 32-time Grammy Award winner will perform at the rally, NBC News reported. So far Beyoncé has not officially endorsed Harris for president despite months of speculation and pressure from fans. The pop star did allow her songs “Freedom” and “Lemonade” to be used in Harris’ campaign materials, though. Fans were convinced that Beyoncé would perform on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in August, but those rumors proved unfounded, and no appearance was ever planned. Instead, the final day included a performance by Pink. The 43-year-old singer joins a host of other famous musicians who have endorsed Harris or appeared on the campaign trail. On Tuesday night, Eminem took the stage to introduce former President Barack Obama at a Harris rally in Detroit. Bruce Springsteen is also headlining rallies in key swing states as the election heats up in its final weeks. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ COMING TO DAILYWIRE+ OCT. 28 Musical artists who have endorsed Harris include Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, Stevie Wonder, Olivia Rodrigo, Barbara Streisand, and John Legend. While Beyoncé hasn’t gone all in for Harris yet, she has a history of supporting Democratic candidates.  The recording artist endorsed the Joe Biden/Harris ticket in 2020 and put on a performance celebrating Hillary Clinton in 2016. Beyoncé also performed at Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. Though Texas is not one of the hotly contested swing states in play, there is a closer Senate race between incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz and the Democratic nominee, Representative Colin Allred. Per the NBC News report, Harris will focus her remarks at the rally on the topic of abortion. Texas is one state that instituted an abortion ban after six weeks of pregnancy following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. 

Governor Tim Walz’s embrace of a left-wing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda resulted in higher energy prices for Minnesota residents, a new report from the House Judiciary Committee exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire found. The report found that Walz collaborated with environmental activist groups that pressured companies to pursue a “net-zero” carbon agenda, and used his post as the chair of the Minnesota State Board of Investment (MSBI), the state’s public pension fund, to further the agenda. His efforts, the Judiciary Committee report says, resulted in higher energy prices for the people of Minnesota. “Under Governor Walz, the MSBI uses $140 billion in the retirement savings of Minnesota public employees to ‘participate in ESG coalitions and engage with corporations on ESG related issues,’” the report found, also specifically honing in on Ceres Investor Network and Climate Action 100+, two organizations that the report says “form the spine of the climate cartel” and which MSBI collaborates with. The revelations could hurt Walz and his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the waning days of the presidential campaign. The economy remains one of the most important issues for voters, and polling has found voters are more likely to say that they trust former President Donald Trump to handle the economy than they do Harris and Walz. “In recent years, Governor Walz has used the MSBI’s participation in the climate cartel as a weapon in a broader climate crusade against affordable electricity,” the report goes on to read. “In 2023, after extensive coordinated engagement and support from Ceres, Governor Walz ‘signed one of America’s most aggressive climate laws,’” which mandated that all of Minnesota’s electricity come from carbon-free sources by or before 2040. The move, the House Judiciary Committee says, resulted in undue pressure on a major supplier of electricity to Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan, New York, Texas, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota, forcing them to raise costs on some of its 3.8 million consumers. “Xcel Energy surrendered to the climate cartel and made a series of ‘net-zero’ climate commitments, forcing it to ‘retire’ carbon-based energy production and raise electricity prices throughout the Midwest,” the report reads. The company was even singled out by the activist organization Climate Action 100+, which called XCel a “focus company” as it pressured it to adopt ESG policies, causing prices to jump in the process. Xcel raised prices in Colorado more than six percent in order to “cover the cost of retiring a handful of coal-fired power plants,” but it was forced to raise prices nearly 10 percent in Walz’s state of Minnesota, which sought to “lead the clean energy transition.” Even worse, however, the company planned to charge Minnesotans as much as “seven times more for electricity during ‘peak’ usage periods.” The report alleges that the “climate cartel” has been empowered to push its agenda not just by governors like Walz, but by a Biden-Harris administration that’s “refused to enforce” antitrust law despite the organizations engaging in “anticompetitive conduct.” “Despite the harm to American consumers, the MSBI and other climate cartel investors plan to continue pressuring U.S. companies to surrender to ‘net-zero’ demands,” the report reads. “The Committee remains committed to investigating the climate cartel’s anticompetitive behavior to inform potential legislative reforms to U.S. antitrust laws.” Read the full House Judiciary Committee report here.

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