Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a sweeping redistricting referendum that paves the way for a new congressional map that could give state Democrats a 10–1 advantage in Congressional representation.  With 82% of the vote counted, the ‘YES’ side is leading with 50.30% of the vote, according to the Associated Press, delivering a significant win for Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who previously said she had “no plans” to pursue redistricting. The AP called the race at 8:49 pm local time. If fully implemented, the plan could help to reshape the balance of power in Washington. Right now, Democrats control six of Virginia’s 11 congressional seats. Under the new maps, Democrats could take over 10 of the 11 districts, boosting their party going into the November midterm elections.  With voter approval, the ballot measure amends Virginia’s constitution to temporarily hand over redistricting powers from a bipartisan commission to the state’s Democratic-majority General Assembly.  David Richards, chair of the political science department at the University of Lynchburg, said the new districts will extend into urban areas while diluting the political influence of the state’s rural communities.  “I think at the end of the day, the result is, of course, that for the South side, Central Virginia and the West part of Virginia, they are kind of losing their representation in the House because they’re all being packed into this new district, and that’s going to kind of reduce the amount of influence that part of the state has on the national level,” Richards said in an interview with The Daily Wire.  Tuesday’s vote may not be the final word. A legal challenge is currently pending before the Virginia State Supreme Court. Political leaders across the aisle rallied their voters ahead of Tuesday’s election, including President Trump, who participated in a tele-rally with Speaker Mike Johnson Monday night.  Former President Barack Obama filmed television advertisements for the “YES” campaign, framing the vote as a way to repudiate the White House and Congressional Republicans.  “By voting yes, you can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms,” Obama said in the video. “By voting yes, you can take a temporary step to level the playing field. And we’re counting on you.” Virginia is the latest state to act amid an escalating redistricting race that began when Texas passed new maps favoring Republicans. California voters, at the urging of Gov. Newsom, passed a similar ballot referendum to gain five blue seats. North Carolina and Missouri have also redrawn maps for partisan purposes.  Last week, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis delayed his plans to call a special legislative session to redraw the state’s congressional maps. A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could weaken or outright eliminate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which would allow red states in the South to potentially redistrict dozens of Democrats out of office.  A ruling in that case is expected by the end of June.

It’s a real Texas showdown as the Lone Star State battles blue cities attempting to impose sanctuary policies. Governor Greg Abbott (R.) has threatened to pull $110 million dollars in public safety grants from Houston over a recent policy that prevents local police from waiting 30 minutes for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrive at a scene to detain individuals with immigration warrants. The state has threatened to withhold $90 million in funds from Dallas and $2.5 million from Austin for taking a similar approach to policing. In a recent interview with The Daily Wire, Abbott fumed at the “radical leftists and progressives who are running our large blue cities in the state of Texas,” adding, “You would think this would be something that would happen in some other state, especially because of the laws that we have in place in the state of Texas that don’t exist in some of these blue states.” “It was in the city of Houston where there were two illegal immigrants who were apprehended and let go and then went on to murder Jocelyn Nungaray,” Abbott said. “And so these people are not comprehending the reality. And that is there are deadly consequences by their failure to ensure that we detain illegal immigrants and make sure they clear through ICE and pose no danger to our community. The city of Houston is making their community more dangerous.” “But I’m not going to tolerate, and Texans will not tolerate, policies Houston’s trying to adopt that let dangerous illegal immigrants roam the street without ICE having the opportunity to try to detain them and put them in the deportation process,” he added. NEW: Gov. @GregAbbott_TX has threatened to pull $110 million dollars in public safety grants from Houston over its recent policy barring local police from waiting 30 minutes for ICE to arrive at a scene to detain individuals with immigration warrants. Tomorrow, the Houston City… pic.twitter.com/sjmXP8gF0g — Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) April 21, 2026 If things don’t change in Houston, the city could be losing a lot more than just the $110 million in state funds, Abbott warned. The state comptroller could also withhold $40 million a month that the city receives as a sales tax rebate. It may be Houston’s “largest source of revenue,” Abbott said. “It’s like you getting a paycheck … on a monthly basis to be able to pay your bills. The city of Houston is going to not get a paycheck of about $40 million a month where they’re not going to be able to pay their bills,” Abbott said. “So this truly is a crisis, a financial crisis, the city of Houston is going through. And it’s not a crisis made by the state of Texas. It’s a crisis made by their leftist agenda insisting they’ll pay whatever the consequences in order for them to have sanctuary cities,” he said. It all started on April 8, when the Houston City Council passed an ordinance barring local police officers from holding illegal immigrant detainees for extended periods of time for ICE. Abbott has threatened to pull $110 million in public safety grants to the city, arguing the latest ordinance has resulted in a breach of contract over the funding. The state requires that recipients of the public safety grants agree to work with ICE. And if they don’t, “they forfeit the money” and must “repay to the state every single dollar they have received,” Abbott said. “As President Trump sometimes says, they have no cards,” Abbott said. “We have all the cards in this, and they are going to lose, and they’re not going to be able to balance their budget.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has also sued the city of Houston, arguing that “no Texas city will be a safe harbor for illegals.” Houston Mayor John Whitmire said last week that the city has found itself in a “crisis situation,” arguing that “the potential loss of state funding poses real challenges” for local authorities and for security at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Whitmire has called a city council meeting on Wednesday to discuss possibly repealing the ordinance. “We have significant work ahead, and I’m considering all options,” Whitmire said.

The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday was indicted by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on multiple counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering over the left-wing group’s alleged informant practices. The indictment alleges that the SPLC “secretly funneled more than $3 million in funds to white supremacist & extremist groups.” It said that $1 million went to an affiliate of the National Alliance, hundreds of thousands went to Aryan Nations, a Unite the Right “member,” as well as thousands to former members of the Ku Klux Klan, along with other leaders of extremist groups. “According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon. “It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” he added. Prosecutors charged the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. “They use their donor network to raise money to purportedly dismantle violent extremist groups,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. “However, the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, used the money they raised from their donor network to actually pay the leadership of these very groups. I just want to say that again.” Blanche said that the wire and bank fraud charges stem from allegations that the SPLC did not properly disclose how donor funds were being used, including payments to controversial figures, whether or not they were acting as informants. The SPLC is a non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, that describes itself as a “catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.” Conservatives have described the SPLC as a partisan organization that unfairly labels political opponents as racists and/or extremists, and have also scrutinized the group’s large endowment and financial practices.

A few weeks ago, I briefly talked about a book called “The Camp of the Saints.” It’s a dystopian novel by a French author that was first published in the 1970s. Cover credit: Vauban Books But “The Camp of the Saints” is unlike every dystopian novel that’s taught in schools, because the villain of the story isn’t “the surveillance state” or “fascism” or anything like that. Instead, the primary threat in “The Camp of the Saints” is a massive migrant horde from the third world. It’s a book that was banned and censored relentlessly upon its release, for obvious reasons. You’re not supposed to see foreign invaders as a threat. And you’re certainly not supposed to mock the naive Westerners who want to open the borders, which the book invites you to do. Now that many Western countries have been overwhelmed with foreigners, “The Camp of the Saints” isn’t really even a dystopian novel anymore. It’s more like a lightly-fictionalized version of real life — which makes it even more depressing. “Your universe has no meaning to them,” one passage from the book reads. “They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak doors.” After I mentioned the book, it moved quickly to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list. The publisher, a small outfit called Vauban Books, was thrilled, as you might expect. They invested a lot of time and money into translating a definitive edition of the book. Their goal was to make it accessible and affordable, after every other publisher dropped it. And indeed, it was catching on. Various conservative commentators were praising the novel on social media. The reviews were almost universally positive, with a 4.8-star rating on Amazon, which controls about 50% of the physical book market. And then, about 24 hours ago, the book simply disappeared from Amazon entirely, without any explanation. If you tried to navigate to the latest edition of “The Camp of the Saints,” here’s what you’d see: Amazon.com There was no indication of what happened — only that the webpage was down, for some unknown reason. It was unavailable for most of the day yesterday. Only the older, out-of-print versions — the ones that cost more than $100 — were available. But the affordable, definitive edition of “The Camp of the Saints” was simply deleted from Amazon. And predictably, none of the Leftists who claim to care about “banned books” — including politicians like Gavin Newsom — said a word about it. According to the publisher Vauban Books, Amazon specifically claimed that the novel violated their “offensive content” policy. Amazon told the publisher that it had reviewed the book’s content and believed it was unacceptable. But again, they didn’t elaborate further than that. Apparently, it’s not enough for every public school to ignore “The Camp of the Saints.” It’s not enough for the media to call you a racist if you read it. Amazon evidently believes that the only solution is to erase the book from its shelves entirely. It’s just too “offensive.” At the same time, if you’re looking to pick up a copy of “Mein Kampf,” that’s no problem on Amazon. Amazon.com screenshot. Here is the store page. Amazon will happily sell you “The Essential Mein Kampf,” a new English translation of the “classic work by Adolf Hitler” — one of the most “consequential leaders in world history.” Amazon.com screenshot. Amazon will also sell you thousands of books like this one, called “My Child is Trans, Now What: A Joy-Centered Approach to Support.” So it’s not “offensive” to encourage parents to mutilate and castrate their children in the name of gender ideology. The red line, apparently, is a fictional book about mass migration from third-world countries like India, in particular, which is what “The Camp of the Saints” is. The Great Replacement is their red line — you can’t talk about that. They’ll tolerate Hitler’s book, probably because it’s a historical document. They’ll tolerate child mutilation. But they definitely won’t tolerate a contemporary, highly accurate portrayal of Western decline (and the people who enable it). That’s simply unacceptable to these people. We reached out to the editor of Vauban Books to see if we might be missing something. We asked him what, if anything, Amazon could’ve possibly been referring to. He told us that, yes, the migrant horde (consisting of a million foreigners) is indeed depicted in unflattering terms. But there are several non-white characters who are depicted as nuanced and cultured individuals or even heroes, including the Indian government minister, as well as a “fully integrated French national of Indian origin who joins the remnants of France’s state and military in putting up a last stand against the invasion at the book’s end.”  So as a factual matter, this isn’t a book that argues that Indians (or people from the third world) are all fundamentally inferior, or anything along those lines. Instead, to quote the editor, the intent of the author was never to slight the Indians; instead, “it was to warn of attitudes common in his era – and our own – that would necessarily lead to demographic submersion should such masses of people ever appear on Western shores.” Of course, if you actually read the book, you’d recognize all of this. So the goal of Amazon, and the Left in general, is to make sure you can’t actually read the book. And that brings us to an issue that’s much larger than this one book. Make no mistake about it: The censorship of “The Camp of the Saints” is a clear signal of the Left’s intent, should they ever take power again. They haven’t undergone a change of heart, even after their campaign of lawfare failed, and Trump won the popular vote and returned to office. They aren’t going to moderate their psychopathic drive for power, and they won’t hesitate to punish their political enemies. They will intimidate, censor, and destroy conservatives at every opportunity. In the case of “The Camp of the Saints,” the hit job was fairly well organized. A few weeks ago, a political operative for the French paper “Le Monde” wrote a lengthy article about the influence of “The Camp of the Saints” in the Trump administration. The article was translated into English. Then shortly afterward — just one day before Amazon pulled the book — New York Magazine ran an article entitled, “Why Orban’s Loss Was So Devastating for the New Right.” It made the same arguments as the Le Monde article. It was clear the author either hadn’t read the book or wasn’t remotely interested in portraying it fairly. The article just regurgitated the same old talking points about the novel, without any context. The point was to give Amazon a pretext to delete the book entirely, and Amazon got the message. But too many people noticed what was happening. So late last night, after sustained outrage from conservatives on social media, Amazon relented. They created a new listing so that people can once again purchase the physical edition of “The Camp of the Saints” from Vauban Books. Then, around midnight, Amazon finally replied to my producers (after delaying their response for several hours). Amazon claimed that some kind of “error” had caused the book to be taken down. They didn’t explain why they told the publisher a completely different story. Nor did they elaborate on the nature of this “error,” and why it only affected this one book. So it’s obvious they didn’t expect the backlash. That’s why they offered no actual explanation for anything they did. And therefore, there’s no doubt they’re going to try this kind of censorship again, and soon. Amazon got ahead of itself here. But they’re absolutely going to continue censoring wrongthink as soon as they feel like the political winds have shifted. This is how Democrats are going to operate, the moment they return to power. We’ve already talked about their “Project 2029,” which has been endorsed by JB Pritzker in Illinois. The idea is to imprison everyone who’s upset the Democrat Party, including ICE officers who are lawfully enforcing immigration law. On top of that, Democrats are now openly floating the idea of granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico for the purpose of gaining more representation in the Senate, so that they can pack the Supreme Court. This is James Carville’s latest rant. Watch: Carville previews what’s in store if Democrats retake power — says they should keep their plans quiet: “If Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, on day one, they should make Puerto Rico and DC a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13.” “F*ck… https://t.co/FrNbVwUTks pic.twitter.com/V4KK8j52AM — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 20, 2026 Source: @WesternLensman/X.com “Don’t run on it, don’t talk about it — just do it.” So he wants them to keep it a secret, as he says the entire plan out loud. Meanwhile, you have Republicans who are refusing to pass the SAVE Act because they wouldn’t want to disrespect the hallowed traditions of the Senate. While Republicans are hiding behind the rules as an excuse for their complete failure to do anything productive, Democrats are planning to simply ignore the rules and remake our entire system of government so that Republicans can never hold power again. It’s worth paying attention to just how flimsy his justification is. Carville says Republicans have “gerrymandered everything.” That’s his rationale for why Democrats should transform the country into a one-party authoritarian state. And he’s making this argument at precisely the same moment that Democrats in Virginia are trying to redraw their congressional maps so that they have a permanent 10-to-1 advantage. There’s a vote on that today. This is a state where 46% of the voters supported Donald Trump in the most recent election. Pretty soon, 90% of the congressional seats will belong to Democrats. And of course, many other Democrat-run states already work like this. California’s congressional delegation is around 18% Republican, even though Trump won nearly 40% of the vote in the last election in the state. Forty-three percent of voters in Illinois supported Trump, but only 17% of the congressional delegation is conservative. And on and on. But James Carville simply doesn’t care about any of this. He also doesn’t care about the rampant anti-white gerrymandering that was mandated under the Voting Rights Act, which has allowed Democrats to effectively steal more than a dozen congressional seats. Instead, Carville’s goal is to manufacture a narrative that sounds persuasive enough to most Democrat voters, which isn’t exactly difficult. And if you’re tempted to dismiss Carville as an irrelevant old hack — which he is — you need to realize that Democrats, at the highest levels, are saying basically the same thing. They’re repeating the same deranged argument about gerrymandering, which they plan to use as a justification to do whatever they want. Watch: Hakeem Jeffries urges YES vote on redistricting scheme that would hand Democrats 90% of congressional seats in Virginia. “It’s about making sure there’s a fair national congressional map.” National Democrats want to hijack Virginia’s electorate. Vote NO. https://t.co/mPHCMCIfqi pic.twitter.com/VHoMrvvQO6 — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 20, 2026 Source: @WesternLensman/X.com The constant hand motions. The canned talking points. The complete lack of charisma. None of it matters to Democrats because they don’t want people who can think. They don’t want intellectual arguments. They want craven, simple-minded leaders who will destroy the Republican Party. That’s what Democrat voters are looking for. As long as you’re advancing their political interests, Democrats simply don’t care about the “logic” you use — or lack thereof. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the Supreme Court. We’ve talked a lot about Ketanji Brown Jackson, but it really needs to be emphasized that, in every single case, she disregards the law and votes based on what Democrats want. The most recent example came down yesterday, in an opinion where Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent all by herself — no one else joined it. There were no other dissents, either. So here’s a quick rundown of the facts of the case, to set the scene. Let’s all play Supreme Court justice for a moment, to see if we’re as dumb as Ketanji Brown Jackson. The case was about a Washington D.C. police officer who got a dispatch call to check out a suspicious vehicle at a specific address, in the middle of a winter night.  This is from yesterday’s opinion: Officer Vanterpool reached the apartment building at that address around 2:00 a.m. As he turned his marked police vehicle into the parking lot, he saw two people immediately flee from a car, unprovoked, after police had not done anything other than simply pull up. The runners left open at least one of the car doors. The driver then began to back out of the parking space, rear door still open. Officer Vanterpool decided to investigate. He parked directly behind the car, left his own vehicle, ordered the driver to put his hands up, and drew his service weapon. And indeed, it turned out that the car was stolen. Under these circumstances — maybe we have some police officers in the audience — do you believe that the police officer had a “reasonable suspicion” that criminal activity was taking place when he ordered the driver to put his hands up? That’s the standard here, because this wasn’t an arrest, it was just a stop. It’s an extremely low standard. And you might think, well, yeah, of course there’s “reasonable suspicion” that some crime may have occurred here. Running away from the police suggests that you committed a crime. And if you’re in a car, and your friends run away when the police pull up, the appropriate response is to stay in the car. On the other hand, if you start backing out with the door open, then it’s “reasonable” to think you’re involved in criminal activity. By itself, it’s a crime to drive a car with the door open. It’s completely reasonable for an officer to conduct a traffic stop and ask you some questions in those circumstances. He’s not arresting you. He’s just detaining you. Somehow, though, Ketanji Brown Jackson disagreed. She accused her colleagues on the Court of “wordsmithing” — as in, they used words she didn’t like. That’s the level of “legal analysis” this woman is capable of. Democrats aren’t ashamed of this. They aren’t bothered by the fact that they picked a Supreme Court justice on the basis of race and gender, and shockingly enough, she turned out to be a complete moron. All they care about is that they managed to place a “true believer” on the Supreme Court. They have a committed activist on the bench. And given the opportunity, they’ll put 10 more Ketanji Brown Jacksons on the court. Once they have a compliant Supreme Court, there’s nothing stopping Democrats from carrying out the campaign of lawfare and political violence that they’re already planning. Republicans can take action now to prevent this kind of thing from happening. We could have three new, young Supreme Court justices if the oldest Republicans on the bench retired right now. Additionally, we could abolish the filibuster and pass the SAVE Act, which would do more to secure the future of this country than any other piece of legislation. We could abolish D.C. entirely and return it to Maryland, so that Democrats can’t turn it into a separate state. We could cut all ties with Puerto Rico and make them independent, for the same reason. Would this guarantee that Democrats can’t pack the court? No, it won’t. But it would make it much, much harder to do, because they’d have a much more difficult time rigging elections and adding more Senate seats. So it’s worth trying. But the particular policies don’t actually matter. At this point, we just need to see something — anything — from Republicans that suggests they understand what’s coming. Right now, if there’s enough outrage on social media, we can get companies like Amazon to back off. But if these people take control of the government, complaining isn’t going to fix the problem. By that point, no institution in this country — whether it’s Amazon or the U.S. Supreme Court — will even pretend to care what conservatives think. They certainly won’t pretend to care about John Thune’s respect for “traditions of the Senate.” They will care about one thing, and one thing only — power. And they’ll destroy everyone who was too weak to stand in their way.

A transgender-identifying man in Wiconisco Township, Pennsylvania, made a video complaining about being unable to afford “bottom surgery” in the United States. Stephanie Fritsch, an election official who moved from Las Vegas to a small town in Pennsylvania after “transitioning,” was discovered ranting about not having sufficient funds to mutilate his body domestically.  “I have tried for a very long time to get my bottom surgery,” Fritsch said in a video surfaced by Libs of TikTok. “Unfortunately, it’s been out of my affordability level for a very long time.” Stephanie Fritsch is in charge of elections in Wiconisco Township, Pennsylvania. He complains that he might have to travel to Thailand to chop off his d*ck because it’s too expensive in America This elected official oversees elections… pic.twitter.com/0O5ZG9kZMi — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 20, 2026 Bottom surgery generally refers to operations on the genitals intended to bring a person’s physical anatomy in line with their gender identity. He went on to say he’s disabled and on assistance, but still can’t afford the surgery he wants. “I’m grateful to have Medicare, but at the end of the day, it’s not enough,” he went on. “…the bottom line is, it would be cheaper for me to go to Thailand or Canada to get my bottom surgery than in America.”  Fritsch said he’s trying to “raise some money” to travel abroad for the surgery. “It’s kind of hard to unpack the reality that I have to fly halfway around the world to get a medically necessary procedure instead of getting it done in America. Could you imagine having to go to get a procedure in another country?” Fritsch complained. The video circulated widely online, prompting criticism from some commenters who questioned his role as an election official. “This man obviously has some issues. Why has he been elected to oversee anything. He can’t even oversee his own mental health!” one person wrote. “There are so many things wrong with this. First, that he is ‘in charge of elections,’ much less anything. Then, calling this elective surgery a ‘medically necessary surgery.’ We have got to quit going along with these people and their mental illness,” another X commenter agreed. “How does anyone vote for a person like this? Let alone a majority of people. This person needs mental help,” a third commenter said. Fritsch previously told Uncloseted Media that he has experienced hostility in his community, saying, “Being a public transgender woman, my life is in jeopardy all the time.”