Trump orders shock voter fraud crackdown in nine states; SCOTUS OKs ballroom construction, gives Trump victory; Trump meeting oil refiners, gas retailers at White House today to drop cost of gas; Transportation secretary announces crackdown on licensing of illiterate, illegal immigrant drivers; Vance tells El-Sayed to keep wife’s name ‘out of your mouth’; Escalating Israeli settler violence drives rapid decline of indigenous Christian population in West Bank; Amid Spain’s illegal migrant crisis come calls for canonization of Queen Isabella I of Castile; Discalced Carmelites in Pennsylvania building monastery for ‘generations to come’; Catholics commemorate the patron saint of people who are physically disabled; and more —
Trump Orders Shock Voter Fraud Crackdown in Nine States, Including: WA, WI, MO, GA, CA, PA, NV, NY and CT
President Trump ordered a shock voter fraud crackdown on Monday in nine states, including Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, and Connecticut.
It starts on Tuesday [today].
Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s investigative arm, will launch what officials are calling a ‘coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative to pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review.’
Agents will be authorized to pursue investigative leads through mid-October — right as the midterm election season gets underway.
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Supreme Court OKs Ballroom Construction, Gives Trump Victory
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to continue construction of his $400 million White House ballroom and accompanying military complex, delivering a major victory to the president as he pursues a sweeping transformation of the White House grounds.
The 5-4 ruling blocked a lower-court order that would have halted above-ground construction while a lawsuit challenging the project proceeds.
Trump celebrated the decision on Truth Social, declaring that the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of the “Ballroom/Military Complex” and saying the project could now proceed “without any further contingency, doubt, or threat.”
Trump said the project represents something presidents and the military have sought for generations and portrayed the ruling as a major victory for both presidential security and the future of the White House.
Read more at NEWSMAX; see also @WhiteHouse
FYI – the White House was designed by Irish Catholic architect
See @Sachinettiyil
POTUS to meet OIL REFINERS and GAS RETAILERS today — to drop prices nationwide
Watch @Alex_West2
Trump admin orders 270 trucking schools to shutter in crackdown on licensing of illiterate, illegal immigrant drivers
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy shut down 270 commercial driver’s licensing (CDL) schools Monday for offenses including graduating illegal immigrant truck drivers who can’t speak English or offering subpar training facilities.
“If you’re here illegally and you can’t speak the language and you’re not well-trained, you don’t deserve to be in a big rig, driving American roads, endangering American citizens,” Duffy said at a press conference in Detroit alongside Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and federal prosecutors.
Duffy announced that his department was removing 110 CDL schools from the federal Training Provider Registry, forcing them to “immediately cease all operations.” The schools had been found to have trained 5,000 enrollees later found to be unable to speak English.
Read more at the New York Post
Sec Duffy on shutdown of driving schools issuing licenses to illegals and English non-speakers
Watch @nicksortor; see also @SecDuffy
VP Vance Fiery Speech at Michigan MAGA rally (August 31, 2026): Mike Rogers vs. El-Sayed, Illegal Truckers, Trump Agenda
Watch full speech at USA Today
Clip from Michigan Rally: VP has words for El-Sayed
See @usatodayDC
Michigan drops effort to muzzle counselors who help children struggling with their biological sex
State agrees to permanent court order protecting compassionate talk therapy
In a groundbreaking victory for religious liberty and free speech, Becket has secured a permanent order barring Michigan from enforcing its law that punished counselors who provide compassionate talk therapy to children struggling with their biological sex. Rather than continue defending the law in court, Michigan agreed that its counseling ban is unconstitutional as applied to any licensed professional who engages in therapy that consists exclusively of talking.
“This is a major victory for children, counselors, and common sense,” said Luke Goodrich, senior counsel at Becket and lead attorney for the counselors. “Kids who are hurting deserve compassion, not a one-way ticket to harmful drugs, hormones, and surgery. Now counselors can offer compassionate counseling without fearing that state bureaucrats will come knocking.”
In Catholic Charities v. Whitmer, Becket represented counselors, including therapist Emily McJones, who provide compassionate talk therapy to children struggling with discomfort over their biological sex. These counselors help children address the underlying causes of their discomfort, alleviate their distress, and, if possible, embrace their bodies without resorting to harmful, irreversible medical interventions. This cautious approach is supported by the best available scientific evidence and reflected in recently enacted laws in dozens of states and several European countries. But in 2024, a new Michigan statute attempted to eradicate this life-affirming option, threatening dedicated counselors with professional ruin by revoking their licenses and imposing quarter-million-dollar fine if they refused to push children toward medical transition.
Read more at Becket
Must watch testimony: Last 9/11 Survivor Pulled From the Rubble Says God Saved Her
9/11 survivor [Genelle] shares the extraordinary story of being trapped beneath the World Trade Center rubble for 27 hours after the Twin Towers collapsed. Believing she was going to die, she cried out to God for a miracle—and says a mysterious man named Paul suddenly grabbed her hand, called her by name, and promised not to let her go. When rescuers finally reached [Genelle], Paul was gone, and no one else had seen him.[Genelle] reveals how that moment led her to Jesus Christ, transformed her life, and convinced her that God is real, His grace is greater than fear, and no situation is beyond His reach.
Watch at 100huntley
WEST BANK ALERTS – Escalating Settler Violence Drives Rapid Decline of Indigenous Christian Population in the West Bank
The indigenous Palestinian Christian population in the occupied West Bank—one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world—is shrinking at an unprecedented rate under intensifying settler attacks, land confiscation, and sacred site desecration.
Church tracking data reveals an alarming demographic collapse rather than a natural decline. Driven by structural instability and harassment since October 2023, more than 200 Christian families have permanently emigrated from the West Bank, accelerating a shift that threatens to transform living biblical sanctuaries into unpopulated historical museums.
Demographic Collapse (6% to 1%): In 1967, Palestinian Christians comprised roughly 6% of the West Bank population; today, that figure has plummeted to just 1%, meaning five out of six Christian residents have left or been displaced across generations
Read more at VPP (Vulnerable People’s Project) News
Christianity is still the most persecuted religion in the world
One Christian is killed every two hours in Nigeria alone
Watch @prageru
A LONG-AWAITED RECKONING: A TIMELINE OF THE FATHER MARKO RUPNIK CASE
For over three decades, the allegations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik were met with cover-ups and bureaucratic delays.
In a message to a safeguarding conference in October 2025, Pope Leo XIV highlighted the need for safeguarding and transparency within the Catholic Church.
“I renew my appeal that there can be no tolerance for any form of abuse in the Church,” the pope said.
However, in the time since the allegations against Father Rupnik were revealed to the public during Pope Francis’ pontificate, the case has tested the Catholic Church’s commitment to transparency and tackling the institutional problems that allowed the Slovenian artist to continue his artistic public ministry for years relatively unscathed.
Read more at Our Sunday Visitor News
Discalced Carmelites building for generations to come
See @cnalive
Calls for canonization of Queen Isabella I of Spain
See @CatholicArena
OTD in 1951, Pope Pius XII encouraged Polish bishops: ‘Turn your eyes to the Mountain’
On September 1, 1951, Pope Pius XII addressed a letter to the Polish bishops, in which he pointed to #JasnGóra [site of the venerated icon of the Our Lady of Częstochowa and Child Jesus] as a spiritual support during the difficult postwar period. “Turn your eyes to the Mountain, from which help will come to you in time, to the Mountain which your forefathers called JASNĄ …”.
See @JasnaGoraNews
Today is the Feast Day of St. Giles
According to medieval tradition, Saint Giles lived as a hermit in the forests of southern France with a tame female deer (hind) that provided him with milk. A royal hunting party tracked the deer, and an arrow shot at the animal struck and crippled Giles in the leg instead. This accidental injury led to his association with the physically disabled.
See @FriarMario; watch ‘St. Giles, Abbot’, from Butler’s Lives of the Saints at Sensus Fidelium
The Month of September is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows
See @father_rmv
