Trump delivers historic election-integrity speech: ‘No country can be great without fair and honest elections’; Trump: Addressing election security demands Congress pass the SAVE America Act; Rubio puts entire world on notice against rise of ‘poisonous’ far-left terror; Rep. Brandon Gill files bill requiring naturalized citizens speak English; Cyclospora outbreak linked to lettuce sent by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell; Meteorologist prays for victims of Texas floods during live broadcast; Eucharistic procession comes to Detroit amid Church closings; France legalizes euthanasia despite Catholic Church’s opposition; Catholics celebrate 16 Carmelite nuns whose deaths helped bring an end to the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror; and more —
Historians: Trump Hit Home With Chinese Intervention Case
For years, President Donald Trump has charged that election fraud is rampant in the U.S. and that the enactment of the SAVE America Act to guard against such fraud was crucial.
The liberal media have dismissed these claims and argued that the public was tired of hearing about them, as they are about Trump’s case that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him.
But the president may have pressed a few new nerves on this issue with his address to the nation Thursday, highlighting Chinese interference in U.S. voting going back to the 2018 midterm elections.
Two historians who were in contact with Newsmax immediately after Trump’s address said they believe his announcement that he was releasing formerly classified documents on the Chinese assault on American voting could prove politically significant.
“President Trump, in a well-delivered speech, not covered by two TV networks, covered a broad range of external and internal threats to our nation,” said Arizona State University Prof. Donald Critchlow, author of three books on the Republican Party.
“But the most shocking is that our major international foe, China, has breached data of over 200 million American voters, including names and home addresses,” he added.
Read more at NEWSMAX; read Jeff Childers Substack (Coffee & Covid)
Infographic showing key points of Trump’s speech
See @pjcolbeck; see also ‘quick summary of what the documents declassified by the President have to say about Chinese cyber-based interference’ @pjcolbeck
POTUS’ finale: Election security demands Congress pass the SAVE America Act
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President Trump’s Full Address to the Nation, Jul. 16, 2026
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The White House Election Integrity Webpage
Ensuring the integrity of our elections is fundamental to preserving trust in American democracy. Following the 2020 presidential election, concerns about potential irregularities prompted detailed examinations of voting processes, data security, and registration practices across multiple states. Below, you can download documents and reports addressing key areas of election integrity.
Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting & Ballot-Counting Systems
China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data
Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation
Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls
Read more at The White House
After Birthplace Citizenship Ruling, China Won’t Need Hackers To Meddle In US Elections by Jordan Boyd
Who needs fraudulent drivers licenses to vote in elections when birth tourism promises babies born on American soil authentic U.S. IDs?
One of the biggest revelations from President Donald Trump’s declassified election document dump on Thursday night was a report indicating the Chinese Communist Party acquired and exploited American voter data to influence the 2020 election.
One FBI information report released alleged China manufactured tens of thousands of fraudulent drivers’ licenses using data harvested “from millions of TikTok accounts” to ensure noncitizen “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic” to the authoritarian regime could send mail-in votes for Joe Biden in 2020.
The allegation is alarming, but not as alarming as the fact that, over the next few decades, China could hack U.S. elections without ever breaking a law, risking punishment, or even raising the eyebrows of the intelligence community.
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent birthplace citizenship ruling, the CCP doesn’t need to manufacture fake IDs to sway votes in favor of Democrats. All China has to do to take advantage of America’s elections is to use the birth tourism industry to manufacture babies who are entitled to real American IDs as soon as they are born in the U.S.
Read more at The Federalist
Trump: ‘No country can be great without fair and honest elections‘
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Rubio convened leaders from around the world to combat political terrorism
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Rubio puts entire world on notice against rise of ‘poisonous’ far-left terror ‘masked as equality’
Scott Bessent and Stephen Miller to address terrorist financing and critical infrastructure at the summit
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Thursday that violent far-left political terrorism “can no longer be denied” as he urged more than 60 countries gathered in Washington to treat the threat as a global counterterrorism priority.
Speaking at the opening of a State Department summit attended by roughly 65 foreign delegations, Rubio said governments had spent too long overlooking what he described as a resurgence of transnational far-left extremist violence and called for greater international cooperation to counter it.
Rubio described radical leftism as “a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice.”
Today we face a new wave of this old evil here in the United States: the share of left-wing terrorist attacks and plots has risen to levels not seen in decades,” the secretary went on.
Rubio said the administration is rebuilding the U.S. counterterrorism strategy around what it views as an increasingly transnational threat, announcing that additional foreign terrorist organization designations are forthcoming after the State Department designated four foreign far-left groups in November 2025.
Read more at Fox News; read ‘Berlin Blackout Terror Probe Stalls as Rubio Offers U.S. Help’ at The European Conservative
Rep. Brandon Gill Files Bill Requiring Naturalized Citizens Speak English
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) introduced legislation Thursday to ensure naturalized American citizens can speak the same language as their countrymen.
The English Language Proficiency Act authored by Gill would rescind the English proficiency and civics examination exceptions from U.S. naturalization law, Breitbart News learned exclusively.
While Gill’s bill would not prohibit Americans from speaking languages other than English, ensuring Americans share a common tongue strengthens the civic bonds that hold communities and nations together. The legislation benefits prospective citizens as well by ensuring they have an essential tool to assimilate into the society they seek to join.
“English is the common tongue that holds American communities together,” Gill said in a statement to Breitbart News. “It is of paramount importance that every American citizen be able to communicate in the same language. My bill holds everyone to the same standard already on the books, restoring equal treatment under nationalization law.”
Read more at Breitbart
Cyclospora outbreak linked to lettuce sent by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell
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Largest professional society of theologians presents top honor to Milwaukee priest who self-describes as ‘both a black theologian and a publicly gay/queer/same-gender loving one’
See at Cath_Culture
Weatherman prays for victims of Texas floods during live broadcast
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Historic NYC Church Torched In Confirmed Arson – City Rejects Save Plan As Demolition Ordered
The FDNY has now confirmed what many suspected from the start: the massive fire that gutted the historic South Bushwick Reform Church in Brooklyn was intentionally set. The 1853 landmark, a Greek Revival structure that served generations of worshippers as both a house of faith and a community hub, is a total loss, and it will be completely torn down.
CBS New York reported the determination this week. Pastor James E. Steward II made clear the congregation never saw it coming.
“It was more than just a building. It’s lives and generations of lives that have been touched,” Steward said. “We have no known enemies.” …
[T]he congregation and local supporters pushed to preserve what remained. An independent structural engineer assessed the site as sound enough for restoration efforts focused on the attached fellowship hall and surviving elements. The city’s Department of Buildings rejected the plan. Demolition is set to begin in August. The agency is led by [practicing Muslim] Commissioner Ahmed Tigani.
Read more at ZeroHedge
Catholic revival event comes to Detroit for first time with procession through downtown
Thousands expected at Huntington Place
A first-of-its-kind Catholic revival event is coming to Detroit on July 22, bringing thousands of Catholics together for a full day of worship, speakers, prayer, a concert and a massive Eucharistic procession through the streets of downtown.
Rising from the Ashes Revival will be held at Huntington Place, with doors opening at 7:30 a.m. The procession will be led by Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger.
Father Joe Mallia, the founder of the event, said the idea was born during the COVID-19 pandemic, when in-person services and community connection were stripped away.
“We just realized that something needed to be done to help people reconnect with their faith,” Mallia said.
The event comes at a significant moment for the local Catholic community, with a large restructuring of local churches on the horizon. Organizers say it is an opportunity for Catholics from around the world to come together. …
The choice of Huntington Place as the venue also carries special meaning. The building features a mural dedicated to Father Gabriel Richard [French priest (1767-1832) who ministered in Detroit], inscribed with the words that inspired the event’s name.
“They have a large mural dedicated to Father Gabriel Richard with the quote ‘we hope for better things, we will rise from the ashes’ right on the mural and we thought OK lord, I’m not the brightest person, but I’m not stupid — you want it here,” Mallia said.
Read more at WXYZ
France legalizes euthanasia despite Catholic Church’s opposition
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‘Cannot Go to Terrorists’: House Ends Taxpayer-Funded Aid to Nigeria Over Christian Genocide
An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would end U.S. tax dollars from flowing to Nigeria over the Christian massacre in the country passed the lower chamber by a slim margin.
According to UN News, Islamic radicals have kidnapped, slaughtered, and displaced over 3.5 million Christians in the country.
The amendment introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., was approved by a voice vote on Wednesday and was added to the fiscal year 2027 State Department spending bill.
The House later passed the State Department spending bill 217-to-209.
“Nigeria’s government failed to protect Christians and other religious minorities from years of violence and terrorism carried out with impunity,” Steube told the Daily Signal.
“American taxpayers should never bankroll a government that looks away while Christians are abducted, tortured, and killed, particularly with our national debt nearing $40 trillion. Foreign aid cannot go to terrorists,” he continued.
Read more at the Daily Signal
Today is the Feast of the Martyrs of Compiègne
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Guillotining of Carmelites of Compiègne during the Reign of Terror (July 17, 1794)
In this historical documentary, we examine one of the most profound and moving events of the French Revolution: the story of the Carmelites of Compiègne. On July 17, 1794, during the height of the Reign of Terror led by Maximilien Robespierre, 16 cloistered nuns were sentenced by the Revolutionary Tribunal. Through historical records, letters, and eyewitness accounts, we explore their final journey to the Place du Trône-Renversé in Paris and the lasting impact their courage left on the history of France.
Watch at Crown and Dagger
