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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/california-woman-facing-felony-charges-013053910.html

A California woman illegally registered her dog to vote and cast two ballots under the canine’s name, according to officials.

Laura Lee Yourex, 62, of Costa Mesa, faces five felony charges, including perjury, procuring or offering a false or forged document to be filed, casting a ballot when not entitled to vote and registering a nonexistent person to vote, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Yourex submitted mail-in ballots under her dog’s name, Maya Jean Yourex, during the 2021 gubernatorial recall election and the 2022 primary, the District Attorney’s Office said.

The recall ballot was counted, but the primary ballot was rejected.

The woman reported herself in October of last year to the Orange County Registrar of Voter’s Office, which reported her to the District Attorney’s Office.

An investigation into the incident revealed she posted about her dog’s voting activity on social media.

In January 2022, Yourex posted a photo of her dog wearing an “I Voted” sticker and posing with the ballot.

https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/08/31/trumps-voter-id-order-exposes-the-lefts-fear-of-fair-elections-n4943218

The Long Fight Over Ballots

There’s nothing that cuts closer to the heart of democracy than how votes are cast and counted. President Donald Trump announced that he’ll be signing an executive order to strengthen all U.S. elections, from requiring voter ID to the elimination of mail-in ballots. On Truth Social, Trump broke it down.

Voter ID. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!!Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military.

The right has made the same point about requiring ID for many transactions: picking up some prescriptions, buying alcohol, driving, flying, opening a bank account, or picking up a baseball ticket at will call. Yet for the most sacred act of U.S. citizenship, casting a ballot, some states pretend that asking for that identical safeguard is an open act of tyranny.

President Trump called their bluff by fulfilling a promise to voters demanding election security, reminding everybody that elections belong to the people, not political machines.

Anticipating the Activists

The ink on the order will hardly be dry before judicial activists spring into action, running their predictable playbook: Federal judges in deep-blue circuits, on speed dial, will rush to freeze the order, citing whatever tortured constitutional reading is fashionable.

These same people remain silent when government regulations strangle small businesses, or scream when dictating vaccine mandates. Yet suddenly, a passion for freedom grows out of nowhere to protect the right to cast a ballot without showing an ID.

Remember how many Trump policies ran into a gavel during his first term? Travel bans, border walls, energy leases: each was immediately tied up in legal knots by courts more interested in moving an ideology forward than in the law. This executive order will be no different except that the stakes are higher because what’s at risk isn’t just policy but the legitimacy of every election moving forward.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/26/opinion-klingenstein-mamdani-race-too-critical-to-ignore-robin-weaver/

In almost every recent election we are told, “This is the most important election in our lifetime.” But the November 4, 2025, New York City mayoral race may really be the most important.

Zohran Mamdani, age 33, won the June Democrat mayoral primary upsetting the favorite, the more experienced former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo.

Mamdani has promised a socialist agenda of rent freezes, free bus rides, higher taxes, and city-run grocery stores. As Gerard Baker wrote in the Wall Street Journal, Mamdani speaks to “culturally brainwashed and financially disenchanted young [people]… They will, however, find out, says Baker, that their expensive educations haven’t been the ticket to the self-advancement that they had hoped.”

But Mamdani has vulnerabilities, in particular, his calls to defund the police, and his veiled support for an intifada. Despite attempts to backtrack voters should realize that what he’s said in the past is a good indication of where he stands today.

Despite his vulnerabilities, a recent poll conducted by The AARP New York-Gotham & Analytics poll shows Mamdani at 41.8%, Cuomo (running as an Independent) at 23.4 %, Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, at 16.5 %, and current New York City mayor Eric Adams, in single digits.

Each candidate has his supporters. Cuomo supporters argue that Cuomo has more managerial and leadership experience than the others. Supporters of Mayor Adams argue that he has recently surrounded himself with good people, notably Police Superintendent Jessica Tisch and First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro. And, while not widely known, Adams has improved housing availability for many New Yorkers.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/jasmine-crockett-genuine-counterfeit/

Several months ago, I delivered what I still believe to be an accurate assessment of Dallas-area Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, the well-educated scion of a middle-class family turned camera-hungry vulgarian: She was a phony with a foreordained future, one I supported for very cynical reasons. Crockett’s relentless quest for notoriety seemed inevitably destined to come into conflict with the best interests of the Democrats as a party. Crockett can rise no higher in Texas politics — Texans are more likely to elect the ghost of Santa Anna as governor rather than a BLM activist turned progressive gadfly — so her career in Congress is reduced to that of a publicity-seeker, who can only succeed at the expense of greater party discipline and message control.

So far, so good for Jasmine. Spotting a market opening, she decided to make her national brand as a trash-talking gutter queen, the “sassy progressive black woman” analogue to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “obstreperous MAGA populist lady.” (I use scare quotes around these characterizations because I very much believe both of them to be acts.) She has been successful at this. It is in fact fitting that she made her first big public splash by engaging in a classless congressional catfight with Greene, denouncing her “bleach-blonde bad-built butch body” in response to Greene’s equally trashy dig about Crockett’s false eyelashes.

Merely recounting the incident fills me with despair; John Fetterman disgustedly characterized it as akin to a taping of The Jerry Springer Show, providing the rare opportunity for a man who shows up for Senate business in a hoodie and shorts to raise a fair point about congressional decorum. Meanwhile, Crockett trademarked the phrase (she refers to it as “B6”) and sells it on shirts. Crockett, forever on the hunt for the next viral incident, topped herself a year later, in March 2025, when she gave a speech to the Human Rights Campaign in which she insulted Texas Governor Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.” (Abbott is a paraplegic.)

It was then that I wrote the assessment mentioned above, with a fitting title: “Jasmine Crockett Is Tacky and Classless, and I Encourage This.” In response, I heard from some of the more predictable quarters of the left, which said that Crockett’s sass and combativeness was in fact quite appealing to them. (“She fights!”) I chuckled inwardly because, knowing who was saying this to me, I thought, “Well, of course you would. You are the target market. I am not.”

It seems that The Atlantic is aware of this phenomenon as well, and it recently published a wonderfully revealing in-depth profile of Crockett. The piece, by Elaine Godfrey, deserves to be read rather than summarized, because Crockett reveals a good deal about herself with her own words.

But I will say this: Boy, does this lady ever seem to believe in herself. We learn that Crockett spends most of her day monitoring her various social media accounts obsessively and dressing for “public performance” (including sporting fingernails painted “R E S I S T”). In a detail that speaks inadvertent volumes, we discover that, while the “lock screen” on your smartphone might be a picture of your partner or your kid, the one on Crockett’s is a glamour shot of herself.