Good News Friday
Good News Friday
May 31, 2024
Dear Patriot,
We told you we would send you more GOOD NEWS!
1- Democrats spent millions on state House races to get their voters voting in the Texas Republican primary. This election was not a blow out for Republicans. It was however, a strong showing of progress.
You may wish to listen to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the architect of this effort, discuss in detail the results and also the massive lawfare used against him by Republicans. You can listen to The War Room interview here. The Paxton interview starts around 17:45.
Texas House runoffs bring wave of GOP incumbent defeats, give Abbott votes for school vouchers
QUOTE: A wave of Republican incumbents were swept out of the Texas House in Tuesday's primary runoffs, including a handful who opposed school vouchers last fall, handing Gov. Greg Abbott a tentative majority in the lower chamber on his signature issue.
With most ballots counted across the state, six of the eight GOP House members who were forced into overtime appeared to lose their runoffs, continuing a surge of anti-establishment energy that had already led to the ouster of nine House Republicans in the March primary.
The runoffs brought mixed results for Texas' hard right: the House gained a pro-voucher majority — for now — and the 15 GOP incumbents ousted by insurgent challengers across both rounds of the primary amounted to a record. But House Speaker Dade Phelan, the top target of the party's rightmost faction, survived his runoff, setting the stage for a period of major turbulence and uncertainty for the lower chamber as it shifts even further right.
As the runoff results took shape, Abbott declared that the House "now has enough votes to pass school choice," the term used by voucher supporters to describe measures that provide taxpayer funds for private school tuition. "While we did not win every race we fought in, the overall message from this year's primaries is clear: Texans want school choice," said Abbott, who channeled all his energy and resources toward securing a pro-voucher majority in the House.
2- Slowly we creep towards the truth being made public on the massive lies told to us during Covid-CCP. Revealing the truth is always good news.
3 Important Findings In Grand Jury Report On Covid 'Wrongdoing'
QUOTE: A Florida grand jury released its second interim report last week on its investigation into potential “wrongdoing” by Covid shot manufacturers and entities who promoted them.
Requested by Gov. Ron DeSantis and authorized by the Florida Supreme Court in December 2022, the grand jury was tasked with determining whether “pharmaceutical manufacturers (and their executive officers) and other medical associations or organizations” participated in “criminal activity or wrongdoing” concerning “their involvement in the development, approval or marketing of COVID-19 vaccines.” The jury released its first interim report in February, in which members confirmed the accuracy of many claims health “experts” and media apparatchiks dismissed as “misinformation.”
Submitted to the Florida Supreme Court on May 21, the grand jury’s second interim report details various topics not covered in the first, such as the prevalence of natural immunity among those infected with Covid and medications used to treat infected patients. Much like the first report, this new analysis contains damning information about how the “expert” class did not, in fact, “follow the science.”
1. Covid Patients Gain Natural Immunity Through Infection
2. Government ‘Experts’ Attacked Potential Covid Treatments
3. ‘Expert’ and Media Lies Put Lives at Risk
Above all, the grand jury highlighted how government health “experts” and legacy media’s efforts to squash debate about the efficacy of drugs like ivermectin created an avoidable scenario in which individuals who felt they were being lied to took matters into their own hands.
“This was a profound failure of public health messaging,” the grand jury added.
3- We thank God for the intervention with courts and judges to rule constitutionally. A unanimous three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the judge who tossed out the lawsuits last year wrongly ruled that the workers had not connected their objections to Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 policies with sincere Christian religious beliefs.
U.S. Appeals Court Revives Lawsuit Against Clinic Over Covid-19 Vaccine Firings
QUOTE: The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday revived a lawsuit against the Mayo Clinic, alleging the illegal termination of five employees who refused COVID-19 vaccination or regular testing on religious grounds. The appellate court ruled that the lower court had erred in dismissing the consolidated lawsuits.
The lawsuit was initially filed by two nurses, a paramedic, a CT technician, and a bacteriology lab supervisor who claimed their firings violated their sincere Christian religious beliefs. Three of the employees were terminated for refusing to receive the vaccine, while the other two, granted religious exemptions, were dismissed for declining weekly COVID-19 tests. The plaintiffs argued their refusals were based on their belief that their bodies are temples and their objection to the use of fetal cells in vaccine production.
The three-judge panel from the St. Louis-based 8th Circuit Court, comprising Judges Duane Benton, Ralph Erickson, and Jonathan Kobes, unanimously ruled that the district court had improperly emphasized that many Christians choose to receive the vaccine. Judge Benton wrote, "Beliefs do not have to be uniform across all members of a religion or acceptable, logical, consistent, or comprehensible to others.”
This opinion underscores the court's stance that religious beliefs, even if not shared by all members of a faith, are protected under the law. The panel criticized the lower court for not considering the entirety of the complaints and for focusing narrowly on parts of the complaints to deem the anti-vaccine beliefs as "personal" or "medical.”
4- This is a major win at the Supreme Court for all citizens. It tells the government it can not use coercion on private companies against citizens. It has broad implications on actions such as debanking. The ruling was UNANIMOUS!
Supreme Court rules for NRA in New York government coercion battle
QUOTE: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the National Rifle Association can pursue a claim that a New York state official’s efforts to encourage companies to end ties with the gun rights group constituted unlawful coercion.
The justices unanimously found that the NRA can move forward with arguments that its free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment were violated by the actions of Maria Vullo, the then-superintendent of the New York state Department of Financial Services.
The case was one of two before the justices concerning alleged government coercion of private entities. The other, yet to be decided, involves claims that the Biden administration unlawfully pressured social media companies when it urged them to remove certain content.
"Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors," liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote on behalf of the court in Thursday's ruling. The NRA, she added, plausibly alleges that Vullo "did just that."
5- A big win for true and brave warriors.
NJ gym owner who defied COVID lockdowns WINS legal battle; ALL CHARGES DROPPED
QUOTE: When New Jersey gym owners Ian Smith and Frank Trumbetti defied the Garden State’s COVID-19 regulations by keeping their gym open, the pair were ordered to pay around $165,000 in fines for violating public health emergency rules.
After an almost four-year legal battle, Smith has been cleared of more than 80 charges.
These charges were “thrown at us really to scare us into shutting down,” Smith tells Sara Gonzales. “When that didn’t work, Governor Murphy took those municipal charges as well as a health department shutdown order and went before a judge in New Jersey.”
Murphy asked for a court order to close Smith’s business, which Smith explains is “where a lot of the really tangible, very scary punishments came in.”
“We were being fined $15,497.76 per day for every day that we were in operation. The state took upwards of $200,000 from our bank account,” he explains.
“We had one member arrested, my former co-partner and I were arrested, we had our doors forcibly locked by the sheriff’s department.”
When Smith refused to comply and opened the doors, the sheriff’s department came to lock them again. So they took the doors off the hinges and stayed inside to protest for over a month.
“They arrested us, they held us in criminal and civil contempt at court, so there was a five-year prison sentence hanging over our head at one point from this court order,” he tells Gonzales, who says “it’s making my blood boil all over again just listening to you.”
While it’s been a rough journey for Smith, he’s finally free of those looming charges.
“They were just writing these, they were firing off the hip. They didn’t expect people to push back, and they just panicked. And you know, these people are not used to people wagging a finger in their face and saying no, so they never wanted to touch these cases because nobody wants to put their name on it, because they know it’s unconstitutional,” Smith explains.
“The judge finally had enough, she said, ‘I can’t put these gentlemen through this any longer,’ and you know, she was very clear that this was going to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the state can’t revisit these charges.”
6- Some people argue that the public school system began it’s descent into mediocracy when the Christian religion was removed and banned 62 years ago.
What might be the result to having the rules God gave us for living brought back into public education?
Louisiana to Require Schools to Post Ten Commandments
QUOTE: Louisiana's legislature has passed a bill requiring all public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry's signature is needed to make it law. Rep. Dodie Horton, R-Haughton, introduced the bill, which was passed by the GOP-led House 79-16 on Tuesday night.
The Republican-controlled state Senate passed the House bill with a 30-8 vote on May 16.
The legislation requires the text of the Ten Commandments be printed on a poster no smaller than 11 inches by 14 inches, Nola.com reported.
"I'm not concerned with an atheist. I'm not concerned with a Muslim," Horton said when asked about teachers who might not subscribe to the Ten Commandments. "I'm concerned with our children looking and seeing what God's law is."
7- Younger voters in Europe are leaning right due to displeasure over mass illegal immigration.
The Kids Are… ‘Far Right?’
QUOTE: Young European voters are increasingly identifying with right-wing populist and nationalist parties ahead of the June 6-9 European Parliament elections, according to analysis conducted by POLITICO Europe. The surge in support for these parties, which predominantly oppose mass legal and illegal immigration, could portend a serious shift in the European Union‘s approach to the ongoing migrant crisis across the continent.
Young voters have apparently established parity with the so-called “Boomer” generation in terms of backing “anti-immigration and anti-establishment parties” in Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany, and Finland. In the Netherlands, the anti-establishment Freedom Party led by Geert Wilders was swept into leadership of a coalition government on a campaign tying high housing costs to unchecked immigration. This message saw a significant appeal among young voters in the country.
Like the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, Portugal’s populist and nationalist Chega rode a wave of youth votes to power. Again, like in the Dutch elections, the political right in Portugal found connecting mass immigration with the country’s housing crisis a formidable campaign message.
The Greens and other left-leaning parties are losing ground among young voters in Germany and Finland. Increasingly, young males in both European countries are backing parties that oppose mass immigration and support the preservation of native customers and cultures. Meanwhile, young female voters are increasingly scattered among various political movements, causing a dilution of support among left-wing political parties.
“AfD in Germany doesn’t even have to grow to become the largest because [the Socialists] and the [Christian Democrats] will naturally shrink, and the young voters are scattered across all parties,” said Dutch political researcher Josse de Voogd, in a recent interview. Meanwhile, in France, the National Rally — a nationalist political party — sits at 32 percent support among 18-to-25-year-olds, partly on the leadership of 28-year-old Jordan Bardella.
8- Isn’t it interesting we continue to uncover the history of our country even after 247 years?
Archaeologists Recently Found The Lost Artifacts of America’s First Soldiers.
QUOTE: Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in Colonial Williamsburg, uncovering barracks believed to have been constructed by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Experts assert these barracks were built between 1776 and 1777 and were eventually razed by British forces under General Charles Cornwallis in 1781.
The find came as construction crews prepared a site for a new sports center on property managed by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Initial investigations by an archaeology team, guided by 18th-century maps and period documents, quickly showed the potential for an extraordinary historical revelation.
Only a small segment of the site has been excavated so far, prompting planners to adjust the location of the sports center to ensure future archaeological work can proceed. Archaeologists are optimistic about further discoveries, as the relatively undisturbed nature of the site promises more insights into 18th-century military life. The barracks were intended to accommodate 1,000 soldiers but ended up housing up to 2,000, along with 100 horses.
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