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“Import a New Electorate”: Congress Alarmed by Flyers in Mexico Urging Illegal Aliens to Vote for Traitor Joe

(The Daily Signal)—The “vote for President Biden” flyers found at a center for migrants in Mexico constitute foreign meddling in U.S. elections, congressional Republicans say.

Amid the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border, the lawmakers decried flyers posted at the migrant services center near Brownsville, Texas, that tell illegal aliens: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States.”

“Joe Biden has sacrificed our nation’s safety and security in his pursuit to get as many people here as possible. Why? Because he believes these are future Democrat voters,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told The Daily Signal.

“This is election interference orchestrated at the highest levels. We have to get our hands around this—Americans have to have complete confidence in their elections,” Marshall said. “Any NGO receiving federal funds and pushing illegal get-out-the-vote efforts for Joe Biden should be stripped of their funding immediately.”

Translated from Spanish, The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted at the nongovernmental organization Resource Center Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas say: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.”

“Democrats want permanent power and they are willing to import a new electorate to get it,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told The Daily Signal in a written statement after his office was asked about the flyers.

“The endgame of the Biden border crisis is to disenfranchise American citizens by diluting their votes,” Banks said. “American elections are for Americans, and Congress should pass election integrity reforms to safeguard federal elections from foreign, illegal votes.”

Heritage’s Oversight Project released images of the flyers late Monday, using video of the flyers posted at Resource Center Matamoros and discovered by the news site Muckraker. (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)

RCM provides information about available legal and social services to those on the Mexican side of the border who seek asylum in the United States. The nongovernmental organization also lobbies U.S. and Mexican lawmakers.

The flyers directed at illegal aliens only add to concerns about Biden’s border crisis and clean elections, said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.

“Add election interference and voter fraud to the list of crimes being committed thanks to President Biden’s open border,” Scott told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “The Biden administration and its far-left, open border policies have allowed for a nearly 10 million-person invasion into our country, made every county a border county, and put American lives, our national security, and now the integrity of our elections at risk.”

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said she is concerned about foreign meddling in U.S. elections.

“Exercising the right to vote is one reserved exclusively for American citizens, not illegal aliens unlawfully in our country,” told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “Encouraging people in this country illegally to vote is not only a direct violation of U.S. law but invites foreign nationals to meddle in our elections.”

It’s not clear whether Resource Center Matamoros authorized the flyers or did anything to remove them from the shelter. RCM Executive Director Gaby Zavala did not respond to inquiries from The Daily Signal for this report.

However, The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Zavala said her organization doesn’t know who made the flyers and “does not encourage immigrants to register to vote or cast ballots in the U.S.”

Voting in U.S. elections by foreign nationals “undermines the very fabric of our democratic process,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said.

“Examples like this erode the public’s confidence and illustrate the importance of secure voting laws,” Cramer told The Daily Signal. “Democrats, the so-called ‘defenders of democracy,’ object to commonsense reforms like voter ID and blocking illegal immigrants being counted in the census for electoral distribution. The hypocrisy is rich, but highlights the importance of election integrity reforms.”

The discovery of the “vote for Biden” flyers in Mexico is more evidence of the need for voter ID laws, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said.

“Like Iowa, every state in the union should require IDs and proof of citizenship in order to vote,” Ernst told The Daily Signal. “American elections are for Americans, not whoever manages to show up at Joe Biden’s open border. We must secure election integrity and secure the border.”

The pro-Biden flyers, discovered by Muckraker and shared with the Oversight Project, were found throughout Resource Center Matamoros, including on the walls of portable toilets, a video shows.

The city of Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas borders Brownsville, where Biden spoke in February about the crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border that has grown since he became president in January 2021.

Federal law bans foreign nationals, or non-U.S. citizens, from voting in federal elections. On Friday, former President Donald Trump endorsed proposed legislation by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that would require proof of citizenship to vote in U.S. elections.

This report was updated to include a comment to The Associated Press from Gaby Zavala, executive director of Resource Center Matamoros.

Soros PAC Bets Big on White Women to Deliver 2024 Victory for Democrats

DCNF(DCNF)—A PAC funded by George Soros is bankrolling a political committee that is trying to convince moderate white women to vote for Democrats.

Democracy PAC donated $1 million to the One For All Committee, which produces and runs advertisements aimed at persuading “moderate white women” to vote for Democrats in “key battleground states,” according to a campaign finance disclosure. One For All has, in its past campaigns, supported President Joe Biden, Democratic Senate candidates and Janet Protasiewicz, a Democrat-endorsed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate.

All of Democracy PAC’s funds have come either from Soros himself or the Fund for Policy Reform, a political advocacy organization founded and financed by Soros, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.

Though FEC records indicate that One For All Committee has spent no money on federal political advertisements this election cycle, the organization spent millions between 2020 and 2022 supporting Democrats and opposing Republicans.

Past ads produced by One for All have focused on topics like access to abortion, the child tax credit, COVID-19 and racial justice, among other things.

One ad, produced to support 2022 Wisconsin Democratic Senate nominee Mandela Barnes features a white female nurse who says she “never thought the right to abortion would be overturned.”

“That’s just wrong,” she continued. “This is America, the land of the free.”

In another ad, this time supporting the 2022 Senate candidacy of Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman, a different white woman argued that voters should put aside their economic concerns and vote on social issues.

“We’re not loaded or anything, but I know that we’re going to be okay,” she said. “We need to vote not just on the economy but on other issues that are really important to us right now, like reproductive freedom and the environment.”

An April Wall Street Journal Poll found that abortion is the most important issue for 39% of suburban women living in swing states, with the majority of them saying that former President Donald Trump’s approach to the issue is “too restrictive.” Democrats are seeking to make access to abortion a key issue in the 2024 election.

A third ad, this time supporting Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, accused Trump of mishandling the pandemic and reacting too harshly to rioters following the death of George Floyd.

The ads frequently present white women in suburban homes living with a husband and children.

Liberal megadonor and tech entrepreneur Reid Hoffman also supports One For All, giving the organization $500,000 in February, according to a campaign finance filing.

White women aren’t the only demographic group Soros is targeting to give Democrats a boost.

Democracy PAC’s most recent campaign finance filing also reported contributions to committees focused on mobilizing black and Asian voters. Soros’ philanthropic network has also poured tens of millions of dollars into left-of-center Latino advocacy and voter mobilization efforts.

One For All and a Soros spokesperson did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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Boeing Whistleblower Says 787 Dreamliners Could “Drop to the Ground” Midflight

(Discern Media)—As if Boeing didn’t already have enough problems based on perceptions following a string of failures, a whistleblower is set to testify before the Senate on Wednesday.

A Boeing engineer turned whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, reiterated his claims that the 787 Dreamliner is unsafe due to assembly flaws. He expressed concerns about tiny nonconforming gaps found in multiple planes during fuselage assembly, which could lead to catastrophic outcomes. Salehpour said he would not put his family on a 787 Dreamliner right now. He is set to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee.

He doubled down on his claims Tuesday, saying that the plane could fall apart and “drop to the ground” midflight unless the alleged safety problems are addressed.

Boeing has faced increased scrutiny following a midflight blowout of a door panel from a 737 Max 9 during a flight in January. The company’s CEO, Dave Calhoun, has announced he will step down. Boeing has defended the structural integrity of the 787, stating that it was stress-tested for 165,000 cycles without failure. The company also said it had inspected 689 of the 787s in service and found no evidence of fatigue.

In a statement, Boeing said, “These claims about the structural integrity of the 787 are inaccurate. The issues raised have been subject to rigorous engineering examination under FAA oversight.”

Despite Boeing’s assurances, Salehpour remains firm in his claims and suggests that production of the 787 should be halted until the alleged problems are addressed. He has flagged the issue to the FAA, which is investigating his claims. Salehpour was transferred to work on the 777 line after raising concerns internally.

Salehpour’s attorney, Lisa Banks, has heard from additional whistleblowers at Boeing who have reported similar issues. Salehpour is confident in his allegations, citing Boeing’s own data and his experience as a quality engineer.

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This Is Why the Price of Gasoline Could Soon Double

(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Can you imagine paying seven dollars for a gallon of gasoline?  It could soon happen, because it appears that Israel is about to strike Iran, and that is likely to cause events in the Middle East to spiral completely out of control.  Right now, approximately one-fifth of all oil used in the world goes through the Strait of Hormuz.  An apocalyptic war in the region could potentially close the Strait of Hormuz until the conflict is resolved one way or the other.

In addition, oil infrastructure could be destroyed in Iran and other nations in the Middle East as the fighting rages, and that could substantially reduce global oil production for an extended period of time.  Our way of life depends on cheap oil, and so if a major regional war in the Middle East causes the price of oil to go skyrocketing that is going to deeply affect all of us.

On Monday, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States was just $3.63…

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. was $3.63 as of Monday, according to AAA, up almost 4 cents from a week earlier and 22 cents from a month ago.

Even though the average price of a gallon of gasoline has risen more than 20 cents in a month, I would still consider it to be at a very low level, especially compared to what is eventually coming. One expert that was interviewed by MarketWatch is warning that the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. could hit $5.40 this summer…

Colas estimated that a spike in oil prices pushing U.S. gasoline to $5.40 a gallon this summer would make a recession later in 2024 “a genuine possibility.” U.S. gas prices averaged $3.634 a gallon at the pump on Monday, according to AAA, at last check.

And that same expert also warned that if the price of oil reaches $125 a barrel it could push the U.S. economy into a recession…

“Crude prices are our chief concern, but we are a long way” from $125 a barrel — a level of West Texas Intermediate oil that “would almost certainly cause a recession if sustained,” said Colas. “Gasoline prices are the transmission mechanism between Mideast conflict and the US economy: when pump prices increase quickly, consumers must cut back on other spending.”

Personally, I think that such a projection is wildly optimistic.

If Israel and Iran start lobbing thousands of missiles at one another, we could easily see the price of oil surpass $150 a barrel, and it is likely that the average price of gasoline in the U.S. would shoot past $7.00 a gallon.

And if nuclear weapons are used in the Middle East, there is no telling what might happen. Right now, the financial markets are waiting to see if Israel chooses to retaliate.

If the Israelis strike Iran, and oil infrastructure is targeted, that will definitely “send oil prices up”…

If Israel does retaliate, and it becomes a full-fledged conflict, that’s a different story. “And maybe Iran’s oil platforms, refineries are taken out,” he said. “That would send oil prices up.”

I think that is what is going to happen. At this moment, it is being reported that Israel is preparing to retaliate.

When that occurs, the price of oil will go nuts, and people all over the U.S. will blame Israel for the high price of gasoline.

But instead, they should blame Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. If they would have just left Israel alone, things could have turned out much differently.

Iran could have lived in peace.  The Iranians are one of the largest producers of oil in the world, and during the Biden administration they have been able to dramatically increase oil exports…

Iran has steeply raised oil exports, its main source of revenue, during the Biden administration after they were severely reduced due to measures taken by the Trump administration.

The White House has argued it isn’t encouraging Iran to raise exports and is enforcing sanctions. Lower Iranian exports would lead to a further rise in oil prices and the cost of gasoline in the U.S., which would be a politically sensitive issue ahead of this fall’s presidential elections.

Instead of using their oil money to fund terror organizations, the Iranians could have lived in luxury.

To be honest, Iran could have been one of the most prosperous countries on the entire planet.

But instead they have foolishly chosen a much different path.

If an all-out war between Israel and Iran erupts, it is probably inevitable that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed, and that will be catastrophic for the entire global economy…

Potential impacts on the shipping transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for about one-fifth of the world’s total oil consumption, will also factor into markets’ pricing.

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s navy said on Tuesday that Iran could close the strait if deemed necessary, and earlier on Saturday Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said an IRGC helicopter boarded a vessel, the Portuguese-flagged MSC Aries, and took it into Iranian waters.

Just think about that.

One-fifth of all the oil the world uses goes through the Strait of Hormuz.

We are in uncharted territory, and we could soon see a level of panic in the financial marketplace that we haven’t seen in a very long time.

Meanwhile, economic conditions in the U.S. just continue to deteriorate. Earlier today, I was saddened to learn that even Tesla has decided that mass layoffs have become necessary…

Tesla has announced layoffs of “more than 10%” of its global workforce in an internal company-wide email. We exclusively reported yesterday that Tesla was prepping a massive layoff.

For the last few months, it has looked like Tesla might be preparing for a round of layoffs. Tesla told managers to identify critical team members, and paused some stock rewards while canceling some employees’ annual reviews. It also reduced production at Gigafactory Shanghai.

Things are definitely not good now, but they will get a whole lot worse if a major regional war does erupt in the Middle East.

It takes energy to make products, transport products and sell products.

The price of oil has an enormous impact on literally every sector of our entire economy.

If an apocalyptic war in the Middle East were to cause the price of oil to double, it would send us into a horrific economic tailspin.

So let’s hope for the best, but let’s also prepare for the worst.

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White House Says Natural Gas Is Cleaner Than Coal After Officials Were “Influenced” by Study Saying Exact Opposite

DCNF(DCNF)—The White House recently said that natural gas is cleaner than coal after Biden administration officials were reportedly “influenced” by a questionable study that arrived at the opposite conclusion.

In a Thursday blog post to the official White House website, the Council of Economic Advisors cited U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data showing that natural gas has contributed the most to emissions reductions in the U.S. power sector since 1990 and asserted that “natural gas is roughly half as carbon-intensive as coal.” Those points appear to be at odds with a recent study by Cornell University’s Robert Howarth, which “influenced the White House” ahead of its Jan. 26 decision to pause new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Howarth’s study — which has been revised several times and received financial support from an expressly anti-natural gas non-profit — concluded that “greenhouse gas emissions from LNG are also larger than those from domestically produced coal, ranging from 44% to more than 2-fold greater.” Data from the Environmental Protection Agency and the EIA demonstrates clearly that U.S. power sector emissions have fallen sharply over the same period of time in which the use of natural gas to power the American economy has increased to replace coal.

The White House said that the pause was necessary to assess the climate impacts of new LNG export hubs alongside economic and security considerations. Critics of the decision have pointed out that the pause will actually increase global emissions by further incentivizing would-be European and Asian importers of U.S. LNG to burn coal or import LNG from countries like Qatar and Russia that do not produce LNG as cleanly as American firms.

Opponents of the LNG pause have also painted it as a political decision intended to appease the environmental left and its well-funded activist organizations ahead of the 2024 elections. The campaign to curb LNG exports received financial support from American billionaires, while climate activists — including a 25-year old TikTok influencer and members of the disruptive outfit known as Climate Defiance — were granted an audience with the White House to discuss LNG exports ahead of the decision.

The Biden administration touts its massive environmental agenda as the “most ambitious” in American history, spending more than $1 trillion to promote green energy development and aggressively regulating markets to reshape the American economy in the long-term.

While environmental activists commended the LNG pause and have generally supported Biden for his work on climate, the administration’s agenda does not appear to be making a considerable impression on the wider electorate. In March, a Wall Street Journal poll found that only 2% of surveyed registered voters in key battleground states listed climate change as the most important issue in the 2024 election, compared to 25% who identified immigration as the biggest issue and 22% who indicated that the economy was their leading concern.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

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“What Changed?”: Mayorkas Gets Pressed on Why He Finally Started Using “Crisis” to Describe the Southern Border

DCNF(DCNF)—House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday on why he now refers to the situation at the southern border as a “crisis.”

Mayorkas had previously refused to refer to the surge of illegal immigration at the southern border as a “crisis,” but used the term for the first time under oath while testifying before Congress on Apr. 10. Green asked Mayorkas during a DHS budget review with the Homeland Security Committee what changed in his calculation.

“Let me ask you this question. Just recently, your last trip here, you actually admitted that there was a crisis at the southwest border. What changed?” Green asked Mayorkas.

“Nothing changed,” Mayorkas responded. “I have recognized the enormous challenge that the southern border presents ever since I began my tenure and actually well before that, when I served as a deputy secretary.”

Green then asked Mayorkas why he refused to use the term “crisis” during previous testimonies before the Homeland Security committee — instead often referring to it as “secure.”

“I have never minimized the challenge that the southern border presents,” Mayorkas told Green. “I didn’t minimize when I served as a federal prosecutor from 1989 to 2001.”

Mayorkas told The New York Times in early February that he is “not focused on the label that one appends to” the situation on the southern border,” but rather is “focused on the challenge that it is and what we can do about it.”

“The choice of language has become a proxy for the politics of the issue … Whatever we call it does not change what we are experiencing, and the challenge that it is,” he told the outlet.

Mayorkas later referred to the situation at the southern border as a “crisis” nearly two weeks later in an interview with NBC News.

“It certainly is a crisis, and, well, we don’t bear responsibility for a broken system,” Mayorkas told NBC News on Feb. 11. “And we’re doing a tremendous amount within that broken system.”

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Group in Mexico Displays Flyers Urging Illegal Aliens to Vote for Traitor Joe

(Daily Signal)—An advocacy group based in Northeastern Mexico that lobbies U.S. lawmakers has distributed and posted flyers encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.

Translated from Spanish, the Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted by the organization Resource Center Matamoros say: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet.)

The pro-Biden flyers, discovered by Muckraker and shared with the Oversight Project, were found throughout Resource Center Matamoros in Tamaulipas, Mexico, including on the walls of portable toilets, a video shows. It’s not clear whether RCM authorized the flyers, whether any action was taken to address their presence at the shelter for migrants, or who posted the flyers.

The city of Matamoros, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, borders Brownsville, Texas, where Biden spoke in February about the crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border.

Federal law bans foreign nationals, or non-U.S. citizens, from voting in federal elections.

On Friday, former President Donald Trump endorsed proposed legislation by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that would require proof of citizenship to vote in U.S. elections.

Resource Center Matamoras describes itself as a six-unit office complex that is “the home for HIAS, which is providing legal assistance and assistance with obtaining formal documents for job search and integration into the city of Matamoros as they wait to access the asylum process in the U.S.”

HIAS, founded more than 100 years ago to help Jews fleeing persecution in Europe, originally stood for Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden appointee who recently was impeached by the House for not enforcing border laws, is a former board member of HIAS.

The website of Resource Center Matamoras says its founder and executive director, Gaby Zavala, partnered with Mike Benavides of the community organization Team Brownsville in November 2023 to brief members of Congress about the humanitarian crisis at the Mexico-Texas border.

Zavala previously was an organizer for La Union del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, a group founded by the late labor leader Cesar Chavez, who was an opponent of illegal immigration. LUPE is listed among partners of the George Soros-backed Open Society Institute.

Resource Center Matamoras also has ties to Angry Tias & Abuelas, a left-leaning organization that says it is dedicated to helping illegal aliens at the southwest border enter the United States.

Mayorkas has met with leaders of both LUPE and Angry Tias & Abuelas, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog.

The website of Resource Center Matamoras also touts close ties with the Mexican government, saying: “As a leading non-governmental organization providing trauma-informed care, RCM has established relationships with all levels of the Mexican government to advocate for health, wellness and dignity for refugees.”

Among listed services: “Providing lobbying and advocacy to Mexican and U.S. government officials on behalf of the asylum seekers in Matamoros.”