The War Monitor
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Questioning questionable political and geopolitical events. OSINT. Fact checker. Exposing corruption. Anti-fascist. Pro Ukraine. The original War Monitor (Twitter 2013).
DHS's statement claiming "250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in four states" was based on an unreliable method that produces a very large number of false positives, significantly overestimating the true number, while providing no evidence that any of them actually voted.
Xochitl Hinojosa says Trump ignored Russia's interference in U.S. elections because he only cares about election integrity when he thinks he'll lose, which is why he says nothing about 2016 or 2024 and is already laying the groundwork to challenge the 2026 midterms.
Gabriel Sterling, a Republican elections official in the Georgia Secretary of State's office, says Trump presented nothing new about the 2020 election and that his claims are simply an excuse for when Republicans ultimately lose this year's midterms.
The ICE agents who killed a man in Texas were wearing body cameras, contrary to DHS's claims, but they weren't turned on. The County DA also says federal officials aren't cooperating with the state investigation and disputes FBI claims that drugs were found at the scene.
Two oil tankers just exploded after attempting to transit a mined route in the Strait of Hormuz, with the IRGC saying the strait is closed. It's also being reported that Iran is carrying out multiple retaliatory strikes against U.S. allies across the region.
Several U.S. service members were injured after Iran attacked at least two bases in Jordan this week.
Following Trump's lackluster speech last night, his administration is now threatening state election officials with possible prison time if they fail to comply with rules that could tilt the upcoming midterm elections in its favor.
Trump's media company plans to provide Wall Street firms with early access to Trump's official posts for a fee of $100,000, giving paying subscribers a head start to be used for insider trading.
U.S. intelligence assessments found no evidence that any foreign actor altered votes or election infrastructure in the 2020 election. The assessment was based on an investigation conducted during Trump's presidency.
Two FBI intelligence analysts based in Atlanta were dismissed last week after declining to take part in the Trump administration's investigation into Georgia's 2020 election because they believed the probe was not justified under FBI or DOJ policies. (MSNOW)
Survivors of the Iranian drone strike in Kuwait are accusing senior officials of overlooking repeated warnings that the base was vulnerable and deploying troops without sufficient counter-drone protection.
So it seems this administration is once again targeting the First Amendment, as reporters are now sounding the alarm over the security concerns surrounding the Qatari-gifted plane, the same concerns many of us warned about from the beginning.
Rubio admits the latest goal in Iran is to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and return it "back to the way it was" before Trump started the war.
Former CIA Director John Brennan is suing the Trump administration to prevent investigative records from being destroyed, after his attorneys argued the DOJ is being weaponized against their client under Trump's orders to "vindictively and selectively" prosecute him.
Mockler: Trump turned his strongest issue into the GOP's biggest liability. ICE has been rejected by the American people, SCOTUS has rejected his immigration policies as too radical, and now Republicans are upset because Trump can't rewrite the Constitution by executive order.
On a single meme coin, the Trump Organization made $2.29 billion while investors, many of them Trump supporters, lost $2.28 billion. And that's just one of several ventures through which Trump has profited since taking office.
The president doesn't seem to understand basic grade school civics. If SCOTUS has held that birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution, Congress cannot simply override that with a statute, short of a constitutional amendment.
It appears the administration has been downplaying the true number of U.S. casualties from the war in Iran, continuing a pattern we've seen before under this president.
Trump is refusing to sign a housing bill that could expand access to homeownership for Americans unless it includes his voter suppression policies. However, the bill is expected to become law after 10 days if left unsigned, and Congress likely has the votes to override a veto.
Iran says no U.N. inspection visit to the U.S.-bombed nuclear sites has been scheduled, contradicting remarks by Vice President JD Vance, who said talks in Switzerland resulted in an agreement for inspectors to access the facilities.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from using a controversial DHS database to check state voter rolls, citing privacy concerns and eligible U.S. citizens being wrongly flagged or removed.
The narrative is changing so fast that even the headlines are struggling to keep up.
Fox News host Trey Gowdy: When the other side is losing, you're supposed to negotiate from strength, not give them money to be used for more nefarious purposes... the regime has not changed.
A montage showing Trump's sudden reversal on Iran's uranium enrichment, from treating the complete dismantling of the program as a non-negotiable red line to now defending the agreement signed today, which allows Iran to continue its nuclear program.
There's no evidence he was the target, and whatever threat may have existed was neutralized without the need for a ballroom. I doubt he plans on hosting UFC events in one anyway.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Netanyahu's been waiting 40 years to attack Iran, and he finally found a U.S. president (Trump) who was stupid enough to do it.
This appears to be essentially the same deal that the administration and its supporters dismissed as fake yesterday. That said, this particular provision deserves more attention, especially since it was supposed to be the primary reason for attacking Iran in the first place.
The Trump administration is considering a fee-based U.S. Navy escort program for commercial tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to cash in their lack of confidence.
Trump's White House ballroom project is now projected to cost at least $600 million, with most of it being paid by taxpayers.