In this year’s presidential election, 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church are unlikely to vote, according to a recent study released by Arizona Christian University.  The Oct. 7 study said that enthusiasm among that cohort is lower for the November elections because of “the public’s distaste for both major-party candidates,” Republican former President Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.  But a separate report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy released in mid-September by Michael O. Emerson says otherwise.  According to the latter report, Christian voters are going to play an outsized role in the U.S. election and that they will have a greater impact than ever before.  Groups like the Policy Circle, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization, are working toward that end by boosting civil discourse and civic engagement.  At the Policy Circle’s Faith and Civic Life Symposium on Sept. 30, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin extended “an invitation” to Americans to get more involved in politics.  The Virginia Republican governor said Americans should find their “lily pad”—their unique spot where they can fully engage with what is right and wrong with well-informed voices. One of these “lily pads” can be a faith-based organization.  Americans should not accept the notion that there’s no place for faith-based organizations in government, Youngkin said.  Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said people who are part of faith-based organizations, such as pregnancy resource centers or ministry-based preschools in churches, have the opportunity to go out and vote their values.  “They have the opportunity to rectify that through the work that they do with conservative—and often ministry-based—organizations,” she said.  Many people are feeling hopeless, Perry said, and that “may be informing right now that large contingent of evangelicals who don’t want to go to the ballot box.”  “For those individuals who are voting, I believe they recognize the seriousness of this cultural Rubicon and the recognition of what exactly is at stake, and in very simple terms, for people who are evangelicals, they must absolutely know that this election may be the difference of their ability to practice their faith in public life or not,” she said. “And that is a very, very, powerful incentive for these individuals to go to the ballot box come November.”  The post 2 New Studies of Christians’ Role in Voting Reach Clashing Conclusions appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In 2006, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine signed a bipartisan bill requiring the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles to provide a list of noncitizens’ names to the state’s Board of Elections for removal from the voter rolls.  Now, less than a month before Election Day, the Biden-Harris administration’s Justice Department is suing in hopes of restoring 6,303 noncitizens to Virginia’s voter rolls who were removed in August.  Subsequent Virginia governors since Kaine, both Republican and Democrat, have overseen the removal of noncitizen voters from the rolls.  In August, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, signed an executive order to do so, in part relying on the 2006 law drafted by then-state Sen. Ken Cuccinelli.  “It passed without much controversy, about 2-1 in the Legislature, and then Tim [Kaine] signed it when he presented himself as a centrist,” Cuccinelli, a Republican who was elected as Virginia’s attorney general in 2009, told The Daily Signal.  “This is pure political timing,” Cuccinelli said of the Biden-Harris administration’s legal action. “These are literally people who self-identified as noncitizens.” “If the purpose was to generate news, that’s what the DOJ has done,” he said. “They want noncitizens, both legal and illegal, to vote.” Kaine, who signed the 2006 bill into law, went on to become a U.S. senator representing Virginia as well as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate in 2016.  The Daily Signal sought comment from Kaine’s Senate office as well as his reelection campaign.  Kaine’s campaign referred to a July interview with WJLA-TV (Channel 7), in which a reporter asked: “Should non-U.S. citizens vote in American elections?” Kaine replied: “No. Voting should be reserved for U.S. citizens.” The campaign also noted that a Kaine campaign spokesperson told WJLA on Wednesday: Sen. Kaine believes that noncitizens should not vote in state or federal elections, and that’s why he signed legislation as governor to guard against it. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote and the good news is that there is no evidence that noncitizens have voted or are voting in Virginia.  And just as we want to block noncitizens from voting, we need to keep eligible voters from being purged from voting rolls, particularly just weeks from an election. Sen. Kaine is focused on making sure that every eligible Virginian has the opportunity to vote in this critical election. The matter likely won’t be resolved in court by Election Day, Cuccinelli said, now the national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative. However, he said, the Justice Department’s lawsuit seems to be intended as a warning for other states not to clean up voter rolls.  The lawsuit alleges that Virginia’s removal of noncitizens from voter rolls violates the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the “motor voter law,” because the removal comes fewer than 90 days before an election.  DOJ’s action follows a federal lawsuit filed by the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the League of Women Voters of Virginia in which those organizations make the same arguments.  “These liberal groups sued Virginia and then a few weeks later the Justice Department files the same lawsuit,” Katie Gorka, chair of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Republican Committee, told The Daily Signal.  “This shows they are nervous about Virginia,” Gorka said of leading Democrats. “It used to be a solidly blue state and now has moved to the middle and is a toss-up.” “They are going for the optics and this is going to backfire. Americans overwhelmingly believe that only Americans should vote,”  she said.  The plaintiffs in the private lawsuit in Virginia are represented by Campaign Legal Center, Protect Democracy, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Advancement Project. Three organizations involved in the litigation—the League of Women Voters, the Advancement Project, and Campaign Legal Center—participated in a White House conference in 2021. That meeting was about implementing President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which directed federal agencies, including the Justice Department, to partner with private interest groups to boost voter registration and turnout.  As The Daily Signal previously reported, the Justice Department last month brought a similar lawsuit against Alabama for removing noncitizens from that state’s voter registration rolls.  A similar lawsuit was brought against Alabama by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left organization known for labeling mainstream center-right organizations as “hate groups” similar to neo-Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC also was  represented at the White House conference on Biden’s election executive order. The Justice Department has invoked “presidential privilege” to prevent release of its strategic plan for implementing Biden’s order of March 7, 2021.  Still, Cuccinelli said, he thinks “for sure” the Virginia litigation is tied to the president’s order.  “They are hiding communications all over the place,” the former Virginia attorney general said.  “There is no way to treat these as privileged. It is pure collusion and weaponization of government through these outside groups.” The Daily Signal sought comment from both of the private litigants in the Virginia case: the League of Women Voters and the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights. Neither responded.  The Justice Department filed the lawsuit Oct. 11 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.  “As the National Voter Registration Act mandates, officials across the country should take heed of the law’s crystal clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “By canceling voter registrations within 90 days of Election Day, Virginia places qualified voters in jeopardy of being removed from the rolls and creates the risk of confusion for the electorate,” Clarke said in the public statement. “Congress adopted the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh-hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters.” The post ‘Collusion’: Biden-Harris DOJ Again Follows Left-Wing Groups in Litigation to Put Noncitizens Back on Voter Rolls appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander has no interest in holding Kamala Harris accountable for recent devastating claims against her, including the claim that Harris plagiarized content from Wikipedia.  MRC Free Speech America reached out to Iskander and 10 other Wikimedia Foundation employees on Oct. 14 after Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo published evidence showing that Harris, the current Democratic presidential nominee, had plagiarized content from many sources for her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer. Iskander and her Wikipedia employees refused to respond to repeated MRC inquiries about content allegedly plagiarized from Wikipedia.  Rufo explained in the exposé that “according to Stefan Weber, a famed Austrian ‘plagiarism hunter’ who has taken down politicians in the German-speaking world, Harris’s book contains more than a dozen ‘vicious plagiarism fragments.’” Rufo noted that Weber’s findings included material purportedly lifted from NBC News, a college press release, and of course, Wikipedia. Rufo further wrote that Harris not only copied Wikipedia’s language in one section but also came to an “unreliable conclusion” as a result of having utilized an “unreliable source” like Wikipedia. Despite the news that Harris purportedly plagiarized from Wikipedia, Iskander did not come to the defense of her foundation. Before replacing radical leftist and current NPR CEO Kathleen Maher as Wikimedia Foundation CEO in 2022, Iskander worked as the Chief Operating Officer of Planned Parenthood, an organization that butchers hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year. For example, according to Planned Parenthood’s own 2022-2023 report, they ended 392,715 unborn lives in just one year.  Even before refusing to respond to this damning Harris news, Wikipedia has demonstrated remarkable leftist bias under both Maher and Iskander. Under Maher, Wikipedia tilted so far to the left that Wikipedia founder Larry Singer criticized the online encyclopedia for its obvious lack of neutrality. Editors at Wikipedia have also, at different times, banned Breitbart and Newsmax as sources on the website. These editors have also heavily discouraged using Fox News as a source while demonizing satire website and Free Speech Alliance member The Babylon Bee.  Wikipedia’s history of bias includes a history of covering for the Biden-Harris administration. For example, Wikipedia editors allowed 116 edits to their “recession page,” in an apparent attempt to avoid embarrassing President Joe Biden and Harris with evidence of their economic failures. Wikipedia editors or users even shamelessly attached a label to the top of the page warning that an “outdated” version of the article was going viral. Wikipedia editors also egregiously permitted consultants connected to Hunter Biden to edit Hunter Biden’s page in an apparent attempt to improve his image.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Friends discovered a Montana father brutally mangled to death in his tent. In fact, the victim was so gruesomely mutilated that friends thought a bear mauled him. However, police say the "loving" dad was not killed by a bear; they're calling it a homicide.On Saturday morning, friends of Dustin Kjersem went looking for him after he failed to meet up with them Friday and hadn't been seen since Thursday afternoon. Friends found the 35-year-old father in his tent at a makeshift campsite that morning in Big Sky, one hour southwest of Bozeman, Montana.'This incident was a vicious attack, and detectives are working hard to develop and track down leads. A suspect has not been arrested at this time.'Kjersem's friends immediately contacted police and said he was killed in a bear attack. Members of the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office; Big Sky Fire Department; Montana Highway Patrol; and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks were dispatched to the spot where the body was discovered. A Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks agent with "expertise in bear attacks" noted that there were not "any signs of bear activity at the scene," which "prompted investigators to treat the case as a homicide."The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release, "Evidence gathered through an autopsy further indicated that this was a homicide.""This incident was a vicious attack, and detectives are working hard to develop and track down leads," police stated. "A suspect has not been arrested at this time."Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer said, "People have asked me if there's a threat to this community, and the answer is we don't know. We don't have enough information to know at this time."Springer warned, "We do know that someone was out there who killed someone in a very heinous way, so if you're out in the woods you need to be paying attention, you need to remain vigilant." CBS News reported that Kjersem had sustained "multiple chop wounds," including to his skull, an autopsy revealed. Authorities noted that there is no cellphone service in the crime scene area, which has made the investigation more difficult. Kjersem's sister — Jillian Price — said of her brother, “He was a loving, helpful ... father who in no way deserved this.” “I asked our community to please find out who did this,” she added. “There is someone in our valley that is capable of truly heinous things.”Kjersem had been driving a black 2013 Ford F-150 pickup truck with a black topper and a silver aluminum ladder rack.Sheriff Springer said, "He was brutally killed at his campsite, and we need your help."Capt. Nathan Kamerman said, "Think of the whole canyon. If you saw something weird in the canyon area, or in town with his truck, please reach out to us."The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office is urging anyone with information on the case or anyone who was in the Moose Creek area around the time of Kjersem's death to contact the GCSO Detectives Division at 406-582-2121 or by email at detectives@gallatin.mt.gov.You can view a video report here about the incident.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A massive spill of data from Game Freak, the developer behind the Pokémon franchise, has been revealed to contain source code, concept art, and over 25 years of internal files.The data breach dubbed "Teraleak" contains a ton of stolen data, including the following: Developer build of Pokémon Black/WhiteOld tech demosUnreleased gamesTest builds for Pokémon GoDocuments for canceled and upcoming moviesConcept artTechnical documents'The Pokémon brand is still really strong.'Game Freak has confirmed the hack in a Japanese document; which, when translated, reveals that the names and company email addresses of over 2,600 employees, contract workers, and former employees were exposed."Our company has discovered that personal information of our employees and others was leaked in connection with unauthorized access to our servers by a third party in August 2024," Game Freak wrote."We are contacting the affected employees individually."The company added, "We have already rebuilt and re-inspected the server and will strive to prevent recurrence by further strengthening our security measures." Then, it linked to a response form.John F. Trent, editor for gaming and culture site That Park Place, said, "in the short term there might be some negative repercussions, but in the long run the Pokemon brand is still really strong."Trent pointed to the brand's continuing to "kneecap" itself by embracing a woke ideology and said it may result in the company becoming an "enemy of the audience" it is trying to sell to.What is becoming increasingly apparent, however, is how hacking culture and cybersecurity have become self-sustaining industries. Mysterious hacks and data dumps occur, and cyber security companies with shady connections jump at the chance to rescue the affected party.In an interview about the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, researcher Ken Heckenlively referred to cybersecurity agencies as being “like bounty hunters" who all want to play heroes for big tech companies.This mirrors the circumstances surrounding CrowdStrike, which made headlines during the 2016 federal electoral campaign.The cyber-security firm was called upon to investigate the alleged hacks of the DNC despite being responsible for the party's cyber security already, essentially investigating itself.CrowdStrike, which sparked a worldwide systems crash in August, was later revealed to have connections to the World Economic Forum, massive investment firm Vanguard, and intelligence agencies. The company even hired a former deputy assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division.While data leaks for gaming companies are nothing new — see the PlayStation Network Outage of 2011 and Nintendo's 2018 data leak — it has become a necessity in recent years to examine all parties involved in the clean-up crew.Competing industry or disgruntled employees are typically the leading suspects, and it seems appropriate to now ask: Who stands benefit from a data dump about Pokemon games?Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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