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The Make America Great Again (MAGA) game is played on game day. Early voting was made for cheating. It gives the cheaters a head start on how many votes they need to “stuff” on the backend. In order to overwhelm the algorithm, voters MUST ONLY vote on election day. Stop voting in early elections! Maricopa County had 106,588 voters show up Tuesday to vote inperson on election day. Of those, a record breaking percentage voted for the GOP. In Arizona, anyone registered as an “Independent” can show up to the polls and request either a Republican, or Democrat ballot.

In Tuesday’s Primary, 80.0% who voted inperson selected a Republican Party ballot. Only 23.4% used the Democrat ballot.

The result in Arizona was a RINO (Republicans In Name Only) purge. MAGA Republicans completely wiped out the McCain establishment Republicans. But this didn’t happen only in Arizona, it was a complete Trump-backed landslide across the country. People are waking up by the droves now. Maybe this is the “Great Awakening.” ***** In the article to the top right, apparently the FBI would deem the Howe Enterprise a domestic terrorist organization due to the imagery in this Patriot Pony section. With our Betsy Ross flag and Paul Revere logo, we must be too American and not communist enough. But none of this is really a surprise. They didn’t say it, but if these pro-American symbols enrage them, think about what the term “Jesus is my Savior” does.

FBI lists Ashli Babbitt, Second Amendment and 'Betsy Ross Flag' to terror symbols guide: report

Symbols listed on the FBI document include the Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would increase taxes on nearly all Americans

"Punisher skull" the Spartan helmet and"2A." Biden claimed “not a single American in the middle class will pay higher taxes.” Economist say that isn’t true.

ByMadeleine Hubbard

Aleaked internal FBI guide about violent extremism lists the Second Amendment, the "Betsy Ross flag" and Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt as "Domestic Violent Terrorism Symbols" used by militant extremist groups in the United States.

The guide, provided by an FBI whistleblower to the investigative media organization Project Veritas, says the symbols are "used by AntiGovernment or AntiAuthority Violent Extremists."

Symbols listed on the guide also include the "Punisher skull" the Spartan helmet and "2A." The guide says militant violent extremists, also known as MVEs, "justify their existence with the Second Amendment, due to the mention of a 'well regulated Militia' as well as the right to bear arms." Historical imagery listed on the guide also includes the Gadsden flag, which contains a snake and the phrase "Don't tread on me," the Liberty Tree and other general "Revolutionary War Imagery."

The FBI says MVEs consider people such as Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by a U.S. Capitol police officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and Vicki Weaver, who was killed during the Ruby Ridge standoff, to be martyrs.

The same document even references Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people during the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing, as an inspiration for MVEs.

The leak comes after Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley earlier this week warned that if recent accusations of political bias in the FBI are true, it will show that the federal law enforcement agency is "substantially corrupted."

Last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded FBI Director Chris Wray answer questions about whistleblower reports that the agency is "padding its domestic violent extremist data."

Video shows children in Texas taking oath to be 'martyrs' for Iran's supreme leader

By Aaron Kliegman

A video of kids at an Islamic center in Houston, Texas pledging their allegiance to the supreme leader of Iran is setting off alarm bells among experts, who are warning this has all the signs of the Iranian regime's global indoctrination efforts to spread its revolutionary ideology and recruit operatives abroad.

The viral video was initially posted to YouTube and Facebook last week by the Islamic Education Center of Houston (IEC), which organized the event calling on parents to bring children aged 4-14, according to its social media pages. The original video posts were later removed, but clips remain online.

At the gathering, a large group of children sang "Salam Farmande," meaning "Hello Commander," in both English and Persian. The song is a new and popular Iranian children's anthem pledging allegiance to al Mahdi, a messianic figure in Shia Islam, the religion of Iran's theocratic government.

The religious anthem is also a pledge of support to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, whom devotees consider the Mahdi's representative on (Continued on page 14) ByThe Center Square Staff

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would increase taxes on nearly every American despite claims made by President Biden.

“When we pass the Inflation Reduction Act, not a single American in the middle class will pay higher taxes,” Biden tweeted.

According to analysis by the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, nearly all Americans would see increased taxes by 2023. The average tax rates would increase in nearly all income categories, according to its analysis, including lower income individuals such as those earning less than $10,000.

Federal taxes will increase by $1.9 billion on those earning between $50,000 and $75,000 and by $10.8 billion on those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 in 2023.

Overall average tax rates would increase from 20.3% to 20.6% in 2023 alone, according to the analysis.

According to the bill summary, “There are no new taxes on families making $400,000 or less and no new taxes on small businesses –we are closing tax loopholes and enforcing the tax code.”

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who’s spearheaded the bill, says it will pay down the national debt, and lower energy and health-care costs. ing,” Manchin said. “Despite these concerns and my calls to give the country time to fully realize the impacts of such historic levels of spending and our inflation crisis, many Democrats have continued to push for trillions more in spending to meet a political deadline.

“Contrary to foolish talk otherwise, America cannot spend its way out of debt or out of inflation.”

The way to do this, he argues, is through “tax fairness,” including imposing a domestic corporate minimum tax of 15% on billion-dollar companies or larger. The bill also would spend more money on “technologies needed for all fuel types –from hydrogen, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels and energy storage –to be produced and used in the cleanest way possible.” The technologies will help reduce domestic methane and carbon emissions and “decarbonize around the world as we displace dirtier products.” The $400 billion bill won’t raise any taxes, he argues.

But The Wall Street Journal editorial board argues that’s exactly what it will do. The bill is “a tax increase on nearly every American,” they write. “Raise the corporate tax rate, and you’re cutting wages and salaries for workers.”

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee argue the same. They warn it’s full of “hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful inflationary spending [and] won’t reduce the deficit.”

“Over the last year, leaders in Washington have ignored repeated warnings about the severe threat of inflation and the consequences of unprecedented domestic spend“Rather than reduce inflation, it puts inflation on steroids,” they argue. It includes a “socialist drug price setting scheme [that] will likely cause (Continued on page 14)

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earth until the messiah returns.

"Seyed Ali is calling on his children, his soldiers, who were born in the 2010s," the children sang in Houston, using Khamenei's first name (Ali) and honorific title (Seyed). "In spite of my age, I will be your army's commander … Don't look at my young age. May my father and mother be sacrificed for you. I will sacrifice everything for you."

The Persian lyrics, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, also call for kids to become "martyrs" for the supreme leader.

Wearing headbands, waving flags, and saluting, the children sang: "I make an oath, one day when you need me. I make an oath, to be your martyr, Ali. A very long time has passed, every nation is full of tears, don't worry about it, oh my Allah, your soldiers are here without fear." Accord to al Manar, a TV station owned and operated by Hezbollah, "Hello Commander" was written on Khamenei's recommendation. Observers have argued the song, which has been heavily promoted by Iranian state media, is part of the regime's efforts to secure support among the youth. Schoolchildren in Iran are reportedly being forced to sing and memorize it in school.

Activists have lambasted the song as regime propaganda that seeks to recruit child soldiers and brainwash children, drawing comparisons to the Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany.

The scene in Houston should be viewed "how people view a Nazi rally," said Gabriel Noronha, who served in the Trump administration as a special adviser for Iran at the State Department. "In many respects, the ideology being promoted is just as radical as neoNazi ideology. It has the same hatred, especially of Jews."

He added that if there was a similar gathering of people on U.S. soil pledging allegiance to the late communist dictators Mao Zedong or Josef Stalin, it would get much more attention from the media and government authorities.

"U.S. authorities should be concerned; this is analogous to Nazi or Soviet schools in the United States," added Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. "But because this case has a religious dimension, they will pass."

Some experts noted that the Houston video, which was widely shared by Iranian state media, closely resembled propaganda videos produced inside Iran and could indicate collaboration between Iran and the IEC.

"The production quality is quite similar to what's come out of Iran," said Jason Brodsky, policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran. "It's very familiar packaging of 'Hello Commander' and raises questions about potential IraProminent Iranian activist Hanif Jazayeri flagged online that someone who had been promoting the IEC event on Twitter had an IP address in Iran. Along with sharing a flyer to the event, the individual tweeted in Persian, "There isn't long to go until the White House turns into a mosque."

Experts told Just the News there's nothing evidently illegal about young children gathering to pledge loyalty to Iran's supreme leader at an Islamic center. However, they added, there could be illegal activity if there's proven to be certain financial ties to or funding by Iran, which is under heavy U.S. sanctions.

"This is smoke indicating there's a fire," said Noronha. "Congress, state, and local lawmakers should be looking into this."

He and others framed the IEC video as part of a larger effort by the Iranian regime to spread its propaganda and radical ideology in the Western hemisphere, including in the U.S.

"This recent story is troubling but unsurprising," said Kyle Shideler, director and senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy. "Ties between the Iranian regime and certain Shia Islamic Centers abroad is unfortunately not a new phenomenon. The use of such centers is part and parcel of the regime's strategy to spread the Iranian Islamic revolution."

In 2009, the Justice Department took legal action to seize four mosques and a New York City skyscraper for being illegally controlled by the Iranian regime.

Analysts who spoke to Just the News also described Iran's use of mosques and Islamic cultural centers to gain a strategic foothold in Latin America —a longtime concern of the U.S. government.

As the video was circulating online last week, Khamenei suggested on Twitter that the U.S. and Israel were behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks and accused them of being behind the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina. U.S. officials and Argentine prosecutors have said Iran and its chief terrorist proxy, Lebanese Hezbollah, were responsible for the attack.

Khamenei also claimed on Twitter that "Zionist merchants" control the U.S. and other Western powers, leading Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating antisemitism, to denounce Iran's supreme leader for "continued, egregious antisemitism."

Beyond Khamenei, "Hello Commander" also approvingly invokes Qassem Soleimani, the powerful Iranian general who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020. The Pentagon has said Soleimani was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq. "From nuclear weapons to children in Houston, the Islamic Republic of Iran uses all means at its disposal to forward its hostility to non-Muslims in general and Americans in particular," said Pipes. "Forty-three years after the Islamic revolution, the mullahs have built a formidable international infrastructure ... a global network of allies to promote its Islamist cause, through means fair and foul."

Amid this global operation, some experts are lamenting that the U.S. government seems uninterested in addressing it.

"Clearly very little has been done to address the concerning issue of Iranian influence operations inside the U.S.," said Shideler. "While there is probably not much that can be done about individuals in the video expressing their opinion about the Iranian regime's leaders, it would certainly seem to justify a deeper investigation by authorities to determine what the nature of this Islamic Center is, how it's funded and supported, and whether it has any direct ties to Iran that might justify further action. Unfortunately, with the Biden administration's obsession with getting a nuclear deal with Iran, it's hard to imagine they will take the kind of aggressive counterintelligence steps that would be justified in a case like this."

The Department of Homeland Security didn't respond to a request for comment for this story. However, the FBI's Houston office issued a statement to Just the News.

"We will not comment specifically on the video you're referring to," a spokesperson said. "However, it is important to note that the FBI does not initiate or investigate any matter based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment, or the race, ethnicity, or religious affiliation of any individual or organization. The FBI investigates activity which may constitute a federal crime or pose a threat to national security. Our focus is not on membership in particular groups but on

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drug prices to increase for patients for the next few years, all while killing future cures from ever coming to market.” It also includes “expensive wasteful Green welfare,” they add, including Green New Deal tax credits of $257 billion and solar company loan guarantees of $250 billion that “will worsen our inflation problem, on top of government checks to subsidize luxury electric vehicles.”

Rather than tax the richest companies, it instead includes “handouts to the wealthy,” they argue, including “tens of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies [that] will flow to the well-off. It also increases taxes and fees on oil production and methane, which Republicans argue will result in higher gas prices, larger heating bills and higher consumer prices.

“When made permanent, Obamacare bailouts will cost $248 billion, four times higher than what Democrats’ bill admits. Meanwhile, Obamacare has already resulted in higher health care prices and 17 percent health insurance inflation,” they add.

The bill also includes a provision to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to begin auditing more than a million Americans, including lower income taxpayers.

criminal activity."

The IEC has a history of supporting Iran's Islamist regime.

In 2019, for example, the IEC celebrated the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution, singing, " Khamenei is our leader ... We are his soldiers."

Just last month, the Houston center hosted a lecture on the Islamic Republic of Iran's founder and first supreme leader, the late Ruhollah Khomeini, referring to him as "the great reformer." Khomeini oversaw the taking of 52 American diplomats hostage in 1979.

"The piecemeal approach to the nefarious activities of Iran's ruling theocracy has allowed the regime, which is detested and faltering at home, to export its fundamentalist ideology as far away as the United States with impunity, this time under the veneer of cultural initiatives," said Ali Safavi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran's Foreign Affairs Committee.

The IEC didn't respond to a request for comment for this story.

Both Brodsky and Noronha noted that, beyond propaganda, Iran also uses mosques and cultural centers to "recruit agents and operatives sympathetic to their goals."

The U.S. intelligence community warned earlier this year that Iran has long been committed to developing networks inside the U.S. to threaten Americans.

Last week, a man armed with a loaded AK-47 and more than $1,000 worth of cash on hand was arrested outside the Brooklyn home of journalist Masih Alinejad, a U.S. citizen and an outspoken Iranian dissident. Last July, the Justice Department announced charges against Iranian intelligence agents for plotting to kidnap Alinejad and forcibly return her to Iran. It's unclear why the man arrested last week was by her home and heavily armed.

Just the News has previously reported on how Iran and Hezbollah have long maintained sleeper cells and sleeper agents in the U.S., waiting for Tehran's signal to strike.

"From the George W. Bush administration forward, American leaders have repeatedly worried about Tehran's hidden assets in the United States and their potential to wreak havoc," said Pipes. "By now, this must be formidable. They await the word from their masters, as the children's song implies."