Trump directs the Pentagon to use ‘all available funds’ to ensure troops are paid despite shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has directed the Defense Department to use “all available funds” to ensure U.S. troops are paid Wednesday despite the government shutdown, a short-term fix that will not apply to the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have been furloughed. Trump said in a social media post that he was acting because “our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th.” The Republican president’s directive removes one of the pressure points that could have forced…

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Third-Party ROUNDUP: Jill Stein Paid $100K to MAGA Operative; RFK Jr. Continues Chaos Operation

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the clock keeps ticking toward Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to garner support from Americans of all backgrounds. Republicans, on the other hand, continue to boost third-party candidates in their effort to undermine Democrats and tilt the election toward Trump.  On September 21, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Jill Stein paid $ 100,000 to Trent Pool, a MAGA operative who participated in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. This builds on previous reporting that exposed ties between Stein and other Trump-affiliated…

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NEW: MoveOn Launches Seven-Figure Paid Ad Program

First Ad: A Vote For Trump/Vance Is a Vote to Control Women’s Bodies WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fresh off a galvanizing Democratic convention and as voters continue to unify behind Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, MoveOn Political Action is announcing their seven-figure paid ads program for the 2024 cycle. Today, the group released a new ad highlighting the alarming track record of Donald Trump and JD Vance when it comes to restricting access to abortion.  As reported by The Washington Post, the ad kicks off MoveOn’s $ 1.2 million targeted digital…

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Her Husband Paid the Ultimate Sacrifice in Service to America

Audri Beugelsdijk had been married for less than 11 weeks when she received a visit from a casualty officer. Her husband has been lost at sea on the USS Kinkaid.  “It’s just the last thing that you could imagine happening and it just turned my world upside down,” Beugelsdijk says. Beugelsdijk and her husband Jason Springer met in the Navy and the two “became very good friends and then it turned into something else, as often happens,” she says. “He loved what he did. He had a bounce in his…

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