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Compiled by Mike Hernandez, Oct. 31, 2025
There are so many stories making up the mosaic of national/international news that we can’t cover them all every week. The biggest stories now seem to be: Israel and Iran, the Trump presidency (lawfare and judges), immigration (migrants and illegals), wars, weaponization of government (the deep state) against Trump and conservatives, our nation’s debt, massive inflation, climate change controversy and related expenses of government, industry attempting to address these issues, the Chinese threat, national security, abortion, taxpayer cuts, Ukraine peace, and hatred and violence against Christians. Here are just a few:
October 25: Gateway Pundit By Cullen Linebarger
DOJ Sending Election Monitors To California To Stop Dems From Rigging Redistricting Referendum
On Friday, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced that the Department of Justice would monitor polling sites in California to ensure election integrity, especially to prevent Democrats from cheating. Under @AGPamBondi, @CivilRights will station election monitors in CA for the upcoming election, helping ensure that every vote cast is free and fair, Dhillon wrote on X.
According to a Justice Department press release, the following jurisdictions will be monitored:
- Kern County, California
- Riverside County, California
- Fresno County, California
- Orange County, California
- Los Angeles County, California
October 26: Gateway Pundit By Gregory Lyakhov
Portland Police Finally Dismantle Antifa’s 140-Day Encampment
After 140 days of chaos, disorder, and lawlessness outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, police finally moved in and cleared Antifa’s encampment on Saturday morning. More than 30 officers braved heavy rain to dismantle the site, ordering demonstrators to remove tents, supplies, and gear that had clogged the area for nearly five months.
The encampment, long a symbol of Democrat weakness and radical left-wing extremism, collapsed in hours. Since June, Antifa activists had effectively taken control of the street outside ICE’s South Portland facility. They set up tents, stockpiled medical supplies, hauled in refrigerators, BBQ grills, and even party gear, transforming the public space into an illegal outpost.
On Saturday, that came to an end. Police swept the site in an organized raid that resulted in three misdemeanor arrests for disorderly conduct. For the first time in 140 days, not a single Antifa agitator remained outside the ICE facility.
October 26: Gateway Pundit By Antonio Graceffo
Trump Citizenship Audit To Cut Section 8 Housing And Other Benefits To Illegals
President Trump has ordered a sweeping audit of federal programs to ensure that other taxpayer-funded benefits are not being distributed to illegal aliens. The order encompasses at least 28 major programs across multiple federal agencies. Housing audits include the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program and public housing.
The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing 13 programs, including Head Start, Community Health Centers, Medicaid, and the Title X Family Planning Program, as well as a range of behavioral health and substance abuse grants. Nutrition and welfare initiatives such as SNAP (food stamps) and TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) are also included in the audit.
In addition, the Department of Labor has been directed to verify immigration status within workforce programs such as WIOA, senior and youth job training, and migrant and seasonal worker initiatives.
October 27: Gateway Pundit by Mike LaChance
The Government Shutdown Has Awakened The Public About How Many People Are On Food Stamps
One aspect of the government shutdown that probably wasn’t anticipated by Chuck Schumer and other Democrats, is that it has revealed to the public just how many people receive food stamps. Years ago, when the program was still called ‘food stamps’ it was seen as something that struggling families might use temporarily to get through a hard time. Then it was re-branded as the ‘SNAP’ program and destigmatized. People were encouraged to enroll.
Now there are many more people using the program, many who probably don’t even really need it. The longer the shutdown goes on, the more reports there are about this and it’s stunning to taxpayers who did not realize until now how incredibly huge this is.
From Overton News:
- “There are 42 million people in this country that need food stamps on a weekly basis.” And we’re saying ‘people’ deliberately instead of Americans because most of the people that are on food stamps aren’t even from this country.”
- “45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.”
- “42% of Somali immigrants, 34% of every immigrant from Iraq, 23% of Haitians.”
- “59% of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. Government and the U.S. Taxpayers are not even Americans.”
October 28: Breitbart By Simon Kent
Jamaica Braces For Hurricane Melissa As Strongest Storm In Recorded History Roars In
Hurricane Melissa was roaring towards Jamaica early on Tuesday morning as a newly classified Category 5 storm, the strongest to lash the island since records began 174 years ago.
AP reports the extreme weather event was expected to make landfall as the day unfolded and slice diagonally across the island, entering near St. Elizabeth parish in the south and exiting around St. Ann parish in the north, forecasters said. Melissa has already killed at least four people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
October 28: Breitbart By Bob Price
ICE Floods Houston Hotspots In Nighttime Operation, Arrests 25 Criminal Aliens
In a bold nighttime sweep through Houston’s high-crime corridors, Breitbart Texas rode with a team of 40 federal officers and agents arrested approximately 25 illegal aliens—many with criminal records — during a four-hour ICE operation that unfolded under pounding rain. Armed with a new data-driven targeting system and a mandate to saturate the streets, law enforcement teams encountered suspects actively committing crimes as part of a sweeping crackdown aimed at restoring order and sending a message: ICE is now a 24/7 presence in Texas.
October 28: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Trump-Appointee Paul Ingrassia Slaps Politico With $150 Million Defamation Lawsuit After ‘Fake News’ Smear Campaign
Paul J. Ingrassia, President Trump’s liaison for the Department of Homeland Security and a Gateway Pundit contributor, has launched a massive $150 million defamation lawsuit against Politico and its reporter Daniel Lippman.
This comes just days after Ingrassia was forced to withdraw his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel due to a vicious witch hunt orchestrated by far-left outlets desperate to derail President Trump’s agenda to drain the swamp.
October 28: Gateway Pundit By Cristina Laila
Top Biden Aide Admits To Financial Incentive To Cover Up Biden’s Cognitive Decline, Says He Was Promised $4 Million Bonus For 2024 Election Win
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released a video interview with a top Biden aide essentially admitting he was incentivized to cover up Biden’s cognitive decline because he was promised a massive payday for a 2024 White House win.
The Oversight Committee, chaired by James Comer, opened an investigation into the autopen scandal earlier this year and subpoenaed several Biden aides for documents and testimony. The Committee called in several Biden aides as part of its investigation into Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
Top Biden aide Mike Donilon told the House Oversight Committee over the summer that he was promised a $4 million bonus if Joe Biden won the 2024 election. It was previously reported that Donilon was paid a $4 million salary for his 2024 election work, but an additional $4 million bonus was revealed during his testimony.
October 29: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Ohio Secretary Of State Refers Over 1,200 Noncitizens To DOJ For Criminal Cases — Including Unlawful Voter Registrations And Ballots Cast In Federal Elections Since 2018
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has blown the lid off a massive voter fraud scheme, referring over 1,000 noncitizens to the Department of Justice for unlawfully registering to vote. Even more alarming, 167 of these individuals appear to have cast illegal ballots in federal elections since 2018.
The findings come as part of an extensive investigation by Ohio’s Election Integrity Unit, an initiative launched under LaRose to ensure that every legitimate vote is counted while preventing election fraud. In total, LaRose’s office referred over 1,200 criminal cases to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. The referral includes the following alleged violations:
- 1,084 noncitizens who unlawfully registered to vote
- 167 noncitizens who appear to have actually cast ballots
- 99 individuals who allegedly voted in two states during the same election
- 16 individuals who allegedly voted twice in Ohio in a single election
- 14 individuals who allegedly voted after their death
- 4 individuals suspected of ballot harvesting
- 2 individuals who allegedly registered at false residences
October 29: RSBN By Dillon Burroughs
Speaker Johnson Calls Biden’s autopen Use ‘Insane,’ Says Actions Should Be Voided
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday condemned President Joe Biden’s use of an autopen to sign executive actions and pardons, calling the practice “insane” and arguing that every measure signed using the device should be voided.
Johnson spoke at the Capitol shortly after Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report detailing what they say are concerns about the president’s mental and physical fitness. He called the findings “an unprecedented situation in American politics and government.”
The 100-page document, titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” alleges that top aides acted without the president’s written consent while obscuring information about his health.
“The Oversight chairman, James Comer, released a blockbuster report now on the Biden autopen presidency,” Johnson said. “This report includes 47 hours’ worth of testimony revealing that every executive action signed by the autopen without written authorization from President Biden should be voided.” Johnson, who previously practiced constitutional law, said there is “no legal precedent” for the scenario outlined in the report.
“Nothing this incredible and insane has happened before,” he said. “No previous president had the audacity to have people signing things on their behalf when they did not even know what was in it.”
October 30: Western Journal By Samuel Short
Lawmaker Investigated and Interrogated For Questioning Church Support For LGBT Pride Event
In 2019, Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen tweeted Romans 1:24-27 in response to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland sponsoring an LGBT pride event. For sharing it, World News Group reports she has faced a continuous legal battle. Thursday will see the Finnish Supreme Court decide if Räsänen is guilty of “agitation against a minority group,” which is hate speech under Finnish Criminal Code. She was charged in 2021.
Despite being acquitted in two different courts in 2022 and 2023 – Finland does not have double jeopardy laws – prosecutors have repeatedly appealed. After the tweet was made, police subjected her to interrogation several times and asked for clarification about the passage and her beliefs on marriage. Räsänen, a medical doctor, member of parliament, and grandmother, could not help but find the irony in police doing this as she used to hold a ministerial position in charge of them.
October 30: Gateway Pundit By Paul Serran
German Conservative Naomi Seibt Applies For Asylum In The US, After Multiple Antifa Threats On Her Life
A young German woman called Naomi Seibt has applied for asylum in the United States, claiming she ‘is fleeing persecution in Europe’. Naomi Seibt has been an outspoken critic of Germany’s Globalist establishment and an ardent supporter of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
The Telegraph reported: “Ms. Seibt said she feared for her life after receiving death threats from Antifa. She said the police did nothing when presented with proof that her life was in danger. ’It starts with Antifa, which is stronger in Germany than it is anywhere else in the world… I have received many death threats from Antifa. When I showed it to the police, they said they couldn’t do anything because I wasn’t raped or killed’, Ms. Seibt said.”
Oct 30: RedState By Eli Shepherd
Shutdown Theater Has An Added Price Tag
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) continues to drop this truth bomb on Washington: if Congress can’t keep the lights on, they shouldn’t get paid. “We shouldn’t get paid if we don’t do our job,” Scott said, introducing his No Budget, No Pay proposal in early October.
Rick Scott’s bill flips the script. If the government shuts down, their paychecks stop, too. No back pay, no escrow loopholes, no business as usual. Just a dose of the same reality they inflict on everyone else.
October 30: Breitbart By Sean Moran
Washington Post Editorial …Democrats Have Held The Government Hostage
The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday wrote that Congress should fund the government for a full year, otherwise families could “go hungry” as key programs such as food stamps may soon expire.
The Post argued that Congress should fund the government for a full year, using a clean spending bill to fund food stamps and federal workers, and then later negotiate a potential fix to the looming expiration of the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, subsidies. The editorial noted that Democrats said that they refuse to do this because that would give up their “leverage. If they persist, it could mean families start go hungry,” the paper concluded.
Senate Democrats have attempted to blame President Donald Trump and Republicans for the continued shutdown and the funding lapse of SNAP. Leftwing influencers on TikTok are promoting rioting and stealing as food stamps may soon run out of funding due to the Democrat shutdown.
October 31: RSBN By Dillon Burroughs
Noem Rejects Illinois Governor’s Call To Halt Immigration Enforcement on Halloween
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday rejected a request from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker to suspend immigration enforcement operations over the Halloween weekend, calling the appeal “shameful” and vowing that federal agents would remain active to ensure public safety.
In a letter earlier this week, Pritzker asked federal immigration authorities to pause operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from Friday through the weekend near “homes, schools, hospitals, parks, houses of worship, and other community gatherings where Halloween celebrations are taking place.” Pritzker said his request was rooted in compassion and public safety. “I’m asking for basic human decency,” the Democratic governor told reporters Thursday.
Noem dismissed the idea, saying that halting enforcement would compromise community safety. “We’re absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe,” Noem said during a news conference.
“The fact that Gov. Pritzker is asking for that is shameful and, I think, unfortunate that he doesn’t recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we’re bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets, especially when we’re going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season,” she added.
October 31: Gateway Pundit By Jim Hoft
Rep. Byron Donalds Will Seek To Impeach Judge James Boasberg For Signing Off On Spying On GOP Senators
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), who is currently leading the polls in the upcoming Florida gubernatorial race, joined Larry Kudlow on FOX Business Network on Thursday. Donalds told the FOX Business Network audience that he will seek to impeach Judge James Boasberg for signing off on Democrat party hitman Jack Smith’s spying on Republican US Senators.
Earlier this week we found out that the Biden DOJ, under the direction of Merrick Garland, were spying on the private phone records of several GOP Senators and barred AT&T from notifying the lawmakers. Judge Boasberg signed off on this criminal act.
Mike Hernandez, is co-founder of the Citizens Journal–Ventura County’s online news service and writes for Citizensjournal.net and MountainTopMedia.com. He is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist and religion and news editor, writer of “CaliRed News” on Substack.com and “Prayer Over News Daily” and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes” and other columns. Mr. Hernandez mentors citizen journalists and can be contacted at MikeHernandezMedia.com.
