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09/06/2026

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09/06/2026

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09/03/2026

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08/29/2026

🚨BREAKING: Clinton judge BLOCKS Ohio’s proof-of-citizenship law with the midterms 66 days away!! 🚨

A federal judge in Cleveland just told Ohio it is not allowed to check whether the people registering to vote are American citizens.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr., appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, issued a preliminary injunction blocking House Bill 54.

That law, signed by Gov. Mike DeW**e last year, required anyone registering to vote at the BMV to show a passport, a birth certificate, or another document proving citizenship.

That’s it. That’s the whole law. Show a document proving you’re a citizen before you get a ballot.

Judge Oliver says Ohio can’t do that.

His reasoning should alarm every American who cares about honest elections. He ruled that asking for documentary proof of citizenship demands “more than the minimum amount of information necessary” under the National Voter Registration Act.

In his words: “signed attestation of citizenship is enough.”

Read what that means in plain English. A signature on a form is all the proof a state is allowed to ask for.

A person checks a box, signs a line, and Ohio has to take his word for it. No passport. No birth certificate. Nothing.

We require more proof to rent a car.

We require more proof to open a bank account. We require more proof to board an airplane.

But the one act that decides who governs this country? A checkbox will do.

Now look at who brought this case.

The plaintiffs were the Ohio Alliance of Retired Americans and a progressive group called Red W**e & Blue. Their lawyers? The Elias Law Group.

That is Marc Elias’s firm, the same operation that has represented the Democratic Party in courtroom after courtroom, fighting voter ID, fighting citizenship verification, fighting every commonsense safeguard states try to put in place.

They did not pick Ohio by accident. Ohio has a Senate race this fall that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.

The registration deadline is October 5. The election is November 3. And in the final weeks before both, a Clinton judge handed Marc Elias exactly what he asked for.

Ask yourself why a group that says it wants to “protect voters” would spend its money and legal firepower making sure the state cannot confirm those voters are citizens.

There’s more. Back in June, the Trump Justice Department tried to file a brief defending Ohio’s law. Judge Oliver refused to let them. He called the filing redundant and too late.

So the federal government that enforces federal election law was shut out of a case about federal election law. Then the judge ruled against the state.

This is what an activist judiciary looks like.

One unelected judge, appointed 32 years ago, overrides a law passed by the people’s elected representatives and signed by the people’s elected governor.

He substitutes his own view of what “necessary” means for the judgment of the entire Ohio General Assembly.

And he does it on a schedule that makes appeal nearly impossible before the deadline passes.

Secretary of State Frank LaRose says he will appeal immediately. Good. He should. But every day this injunction stands, people are registering at BMVs across Ohio with nothing but a signature standing between them and a ballot.

Federal law already says noncitizens cannot vote in federal elections.

Everyone agrees on that.

The only question is whether a state is allowed to verify it. Judge Oliver’s answer is no. Just trust the signature.

We did not get to this moment overnight.

For years, the Left has said noncitizen voting is a myth and that verification is unnecessary. Then when a state actually tries to verify, they run to court and get the verification struck down.

The argument eats its own tail. If noncitizens aren’t registering, showing a birth certificate costs nobody anything. If they are, then Ohio was right to ask.

Either way, the law should stand.

Congress can fix this.

The SAVE Act would require documentary proof of citizenship nationwide and end this state-by-state lawfare for good. It has been sitting there for months.

Every Republican who says election integrity matters now has a chance to prove it before November.

Ohio tried to do the right thing. A Clinton judge and Marc Elias stopped it.

The midterms are 66 days away.

08/29/2026

08/27/2026

This cartoon is funny because the joke is absurd. The problem is that the mindset behind it is not.

It is not just CNN anymore. It is nearly the entire mainstream media ecosystem. When Donald Trump is involved, too many reporters seem incapable of covering the story without first running it through the prism of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

If Trump does something good, they search for the disaster. If something is ordinary, they inflate it into a crisis. If there is uncertainty, they assume the worst possible motive. And if the facts are not dramatic enough, the framing somehow becomes more dramatic than the facts themselves.

That is exactly why the eagle joke works. Trump makes an eagle on the golf course, an impressive golf shot, and the imaginary headline immediately becomes, “Trump shot nine bald eagles.”

Ridiculous, yes. Also uncomfortably familiar.

We have seen the same pattern with the White House ballroom project, with stories about changes around the grounds, with ceremonial plans, construction, renovations, travel, speeches, handshakes, and practically anything else connected to this president. The default assumption is never, “What actually happened?” It is, “How can this be presented as reckless, sinister, corrupt, dangerous, or catastrophic?”

That is not journalism. That is narrative construction.

The deeper problem is that after years of this, the press has burned through an enormous amount of public trust. People are not stupid. They can see when every headline points in the same emotional direction, when corrections get buried, when context disappears, and when outrage is treated as more valuable than accuracy.

A free press is essential. An honest press is essential. But a press corps consumed by hatred of one political figure cannot serve either purpose well.

At some point, viewers stop asking whether the latest anti-Trump bombshell is true and start assuming the media is exaggerating again. That is a credibility crisis the media created for itself.

08/27/2026

🧐Every Republican in Ohio needs to be registered, engaged, and ready to vote on November 3rd, 2026!🇺🇸

08/20/2026

What a great discussion at Kiwanis. Thank you Chris Johnson of Johnson and Associates Investments and Wealth Management for inviting Derek Merrin to speak.

08/20/2026

A big thanks to Brent, Mark, Francis and all the Stollers for meeting and discussing agricultural concerns with our next congressman from District 9.

08/19/2026

Join us tomorrow to welcome Derek to Paulding County