States Archives - National File https://nationalfile.com/category/politics/states/ NationalFile.com Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:52:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://nationalfile.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-National-Logo-32x32.jpg States Archives - National File https://nationalfile.com/category/politics/states/ 32 32 Ken Bennett Worked with Democrats to Save Green New Deal Tax in Arizona https://nationalfile.com/ken-bennett-worked-with-democrats-to-save-green-new-deal-tax-in-arizona/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:52:14 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=70685 Last Updated on July 18, 2024

Arizona Republican Ken Bennett joined forces with Democrats to block legislation that would have barred Arizona’s state and local governments from enacting vehicle mileage tax programs that not only rip off motorists but allow tax collectors and government agencies to gather information on the movements of private citizens.

The concept of a vehicle mileage tax, also known as a pay-per-mile tax, among other nicknames, has been embraced on a national scale by the Biden Administration and is a key component of the Green New Deal agenda championed by the DNC. Under the tax scheme, citizens must pay their government for the apparent privilege of using the roads their taxes already paid for.

Advocates openly state that vehicle mileage taxes are designed to discourage the ownership and use of personal vehicles, in the name of the green agenda, especially gas vehicles.

Though no such tax is in effect (yet) in Arizona, a similar program was implemented in Oregon in 2015, and others are in various stages of development in Virginia, Utah, California, and Hawaii.

Amid calls for a vehicle mileage tax in Arizona, state Republicans, led by the Freedom Caucus, crafted legislation to ban the practice statewide, and it nearly passed, until GOP Senator Ken Bennett crossed the aisle to sabotage the effort.

Bennett’s Trump-endorsed GOP primary race opponent, Mark Finchem, who garnered national recognition for his efforts to get to the truth of Arizona’s contested and corrupted 2020 Election, shared a prior report on the vehicle mileage tax to his X profile, calling the vote “classic” Ken Bennett.

Mark Finchem on Ken Bennett
Trump-endorsed Mark Finchem is challenging incumbent State Senator Ken Bennett for the GOP nomination in Arizona’s 1st District.

As alluded to by Mark Finchem, Ken Bennett’s voting record is deeply at odds with his own party and its supporters on a number of key issues that aren’t just limited to taxation or the green scheme.

He’s also crossed party lines to vote against securing Arizona’s highly-controversial elections.

As National File reported: 

In March of this year [2024], Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett joined forces with race hustlers, abortionists, illegal aliens, and environmental scammers, among others, to block legislation that would have limited early voting and forced Arizona counties to facilitate precinct voting, as opposed to the large-scale “vote centers” seen in the notorious Maricopa County, the state’s most populated area. The vote center election method has been slammed by critics and election hawks as deliberately chaotic and susceptible to fraud, and accordingly, Maricopa County has been plagued by election irregularities, election fraud, and outright election failures, with citizens being unable to vote in many cases, and many of those who do have no confidence that their ballot is being counted.

According to a report by the Arizona Daily Independent, in blocking the precinct voting legislation, “Bennett joins the State Conference NAACP, Common Cause, Planned Parenthood Advocates Of Arizona, Sierra Club, and the illegal immigrant rights group, Living United For Change In Arizona (LUCHA), in opposition.”

Read More: GOP State Senator Ken Bennett Sabotages Election Integrity in Arizona

Even more disturbingly, Ken Bennett has joined with Democrats to block Republican efforts to safeguard children against transgender grooming, AND, to block legislation that would’ve banned the construction of satanic altars and idols on state property.

As National File reported: 

In February [of 2024], Bennett voted with Democrats to kill Senate Resolution 1013, which would have put restrictions on transgenderism in public schools up for a vote among the people of Arizona. If approved, the resolution would have barred public schools from allowing men to use girls’ restrooms and changing facilities (and vice-versa), while also barring public schools from socially transitioning children behind their parent’s backs.

That same month, Bennett was one of just two Republicans to vote against the RESPECT Act, short for Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions Act, which would have barred the construction of satanic displays such as memorials, statues, and altars on public property in Arizona.

The final vote tally was 14 votes against the measure and 13 votes in favor of it, making Bennett’s vote a critical piece of Democrat efforts to in block the legislation.

Read More: AZ Republican Ken Bennett Voted for Transgenderism and Satanism 

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CAPTURED: Doug Burgum has a Billion Dollar Relationship with Bill Gates https://nationalfile.com/captured-doug-burgum-has-a-billion-dollar-relationship-with-bill-gates/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:46:43 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69578 Last Updated on July 10, 2024

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, who political insiders say has risen to one of the top slots on President Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, has an over 20-year relationship with Bill Gates worth more than $1 billion.

As Doug Burgum has gone from relative obscurity to being a national political figure and potential vice presidential nominee, the donor class has reportedly flocked to the North Dakota Governor, who worked for Bill Gates at Microsoft after selling his software company to the “vaccine”-peddling billionaire for $1.1 billion worth of stock.

After his 2001 sale of Great Plains Software, Burgum worked at Microsoft as a senior vice president until 2007, and nine years later, he was elected Governor of North Dakota, and received at least $100,000 worth of campaign contributions from his old friend Bill Gates.

Gates went on to spend time visiting with Governor Burgum in North Dakota and eventually purchased a large amount of land there, much to the chagrin of many North Dakotans.

Years down the road, during Burgum’s short-lived 2024 Presidential campaign, he received over $500,000 from Bill Gates’ Microsoft, a corporation generally known for its left-wing leanings.

He also received $4 million from Big Pharma corporation Abbott Laboratories, a prolific PCR Covid test producer and a close ally of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Doug Burgum Gates and Big Pharma Donations

Learn More About Bergum’s Ties to Bill Gates HERE on the Stew Peters Show!

Doug Burgum’s billion-dollar relationship with Bill Gates surfaced during National File’s investigation into Burgum’s background and political record. This investigation also revealed that Burgum supported a Chinese Communist Party-run corporation’s attempt to purchase and develop land in proximity to a US Air Force base in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Much like Bill Gates, the Chinese Communist Party has gone on an American land-buying spree, including in Doug Burgum’s North Dakota, and according to years of public statements and local media reports, Burgum was happy to accommodate them, until it became unpopular nationally.

As National File reported: 

Doug Burgum initially supported a communist Chinese company’s plan to build a $700 million corn mill in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Grand Forks, the state’s third-largest city, is just 16 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, where the military formerly stored nuclear weapons.

Burgum called the Chinese effort, which became known as the “Fufeng Project” and included the purchase of American land in North Dakota, a “huge opportunity” for North Dakota and the community of Grand Forks.

Despite his early support of the “Fufeng Project,” Burgum flip-flopped on the issue as he ran for the GOP nomination for President, and now, as he jockeys for a possible Trump VP slot, he’s doubling down, and even claiming that he never supported the Fufeng Project, which was officially shut down in 2023 thanks to widespread opposition from concerned North Dakotans and public officials.

In addition to the people of North Dakota, the Fufeng Project was opposed by the United States Air Force and members of Congress from multiple states, who cited national security concerns.

Chinese land purchases in the US, which have raised serious alarms in recent years, are related to the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative for global economic dominance. Frequently, American lands sought by the communist Chinese are in proximity to military bases and other secure locations, like the Grand Forks Air Force Base, for instance.

Elsewhere, China has begun what resemble full-fledged colonization projects, constructing large-scale Chinese industry and surrounding communities in Africa and South America, among other regions.

Read More: Burgum Supported CCP Colonization, Dissed Trump

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GOP State Senator Ken Bennett Sabotages Election Integrity in Arizona https://nationalfile.com/gop-state-senator-ken-bennett-sabotages-election-integrity-in-arizona/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:05:23 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69470 Last Updated on July 1, 2024

GOP State Senator Ken Bennett, who represents Arizona’s 1st District, has spent years sabotaging election integrity efforts in his state, which was plagued by unprecedented fraud in 2020 and, thanks to Republican Bennett and his Democrat allies, has failed to properly secure its voting systems ahead of the 2024 race.

In March of this year, Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett joined forces with race hustlers, abortionists, illegal aliens, and environmental scammers, among others, to block legislation that would have limited early voting and forced Arizona counties to facilitate precinct voting, as opposed to the large-scale “vote centers” seen in the notorious Maricopa County, the state’s most populated area. The vote center election method has been slammed by critics and election hawks as deliberately chaotic and susceptible to fraud, and accordingly, Maricopa County has been plagued by election irregularities, election fraud, and outright election failures, with citizens being unable to vote in many cases, and many of those who do have no confidence that their ballot is being counted.

According to a report by the Arizona Daily Independent, in blocking the precinct voting legislation, “Bennett joins the State Conference NAACP, Common Cause, Planned Parenthood Advocates Of Arizona, Sierra Club, and the illegal immigrant rights group, Living United For Change In Arizona (LUCHA), in opposition.”

As mentioned, Bennett’s vote with Democrats to preserve the fraud-ridden vote center election method and protect early voting is not his first rodeo.

For years, Bennett has drawn the ire of conservatives for his frequent willingness to cross party lines and maintain the status quo, which has made Arizona synonymous with crooked and chaotic elections nationwide.

In 2021, Bennett was caught leaking information on the Maricopa County election audit to the liberal press, and later, despite documented fraud in his own home state, Bennett personally declared Joe Biden the rightful winner of the 2020 Presidential Election.

Bennett’s track record, which also includes support for satanism and childhood transgenderism, has come into focus as he faces a primary challenge from Trump-endorsed Arizona firebrand Mark Finchem, who has developed a national reputation as a hardcore election hawk.

As National File recently reported:

In February [of 2024], Bennett voted with Democrats to kill Senate Resolution 1013, which would have put restrictions on transgenderism in public schools up for a vote among the people of Arizona. If approved, the resolution would have barred public schools from allowing men to use girls’ restrooms and changing facilities (and vice-versa), while also barring public schools from socially transitioning children behind their parent’s backs.

That same month, Bennett was one of just two Republicans to vote against the RESPECT Act, short for Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions Act, which would have barred the construction of satanic displays such as memorials, statues, and altars on public property in Arizona.

The final vote tally was 14 votes against the measure and 13 votes in favor of it, making Bennett’s vote a critical piece of Democrat efforts to in block the legislation.

Read More: AZ Republican Ken Bennett Voted for Transgenderism and Satanism 

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AZ Republican Ken Bennett Voted for Transgenderism and Satanism https://nationalfile.com/az-republican-ken-bennett-voted-for-transgenderism-and-satanism/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:36:02 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69441 Last Updated on June 25, 2024

This year, Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett (R-1) voted against legislation to protect children from transgenderism in their public schools, as well as legislation that would bar satanic displays from public property.

In February, Bennett voted with Democrats to kill Senate Resolution 1013, which would have put restrictions on transgenderism in public schools up for a vote among the people of Arizona. If approved, the resolution would have barred public schools from allowing men to use girls’ restrooms and changing facilities (and vice-versa), while also barring public schools from socially transitioning children behind their parent’s backs.

Bennett said that he voted against the ballot measure because it could prevent members of his own family from using opposite-sex bathrooms and pronouns, citing their “tender age” as the reason why they SHOULD be exposed to transgenderism.

“I can probably identify three or four of my nephews and nieces that would fall under some of these situations,” Bennett said. “And I have to always think of them on behalf of everyone who’s in one of these situations. How would I want a state law to affect them at such tender ages?”

Adding another layer to Bennett’s pro-transgender vote, he employed a strategy often used by politicians to deceive voters, by voting in favor of sending two bills restricting trans bathroom and pronoun usage in public schools to the desk of Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs, where they were immediately vetoed.

But when presented with the opportunity to take the matter out of the governor’s hands and let the people of Arizona decide to protect their children for themselves, he voted nay.

That same month, Bennett was one of just two Republicans to vote against the RESPECT Act, short for Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions Act, which would have barred the construction of satanic displays such as memorials, statues, and altars on public property in Arizona.

The final vote tally was 14 votes against the measure and 13 votes in favor of it, making Bennett’s vote a critical piece of Democrat efforts to in block the legislation.

The RESPECT Act was introduced weeks after Iowa politicians from both parties allowed the satanic temple to erect a statue of Baphomet in the Iowa State Capitol. Shortly after it was put up, the statue was allegedly beheaded by a man named Michael Cassidy, who has been charged with a hate crime as a result.

When Ken Bennett and the Democrats of Arizona’s State Senate voted to kill the RESPECT Act, the satanic temple’s national governing body released a public statement “celebrating” the vote and vowing to continue their fight to subvert America.

“While we rejoice in this victory, we remain vigilant, recognizing that the fight for equitable religious representation is far from over,” said Erin Helian, the satanic temple’s executive director.

Bennett’s voting record has come into focus as he prepares for a July 30th GOP primary contest against Mark Finchem, the Trump-endorsed America First firebrand who has a national reputation for protecting Arizona’s elections, borders, and culture.

Until last year, Finchem served in the Arizona House of Representatives, and his election to the State Senate would be a crucial step in shifting the upper chamber to the right.

 

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South Carolina Senate Republicans Fight for Abortion, Homo Agenda https://nationalfile.com/south-carolina-senate-republicans-fight-for-abortion-homo-agenda/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:08:51 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69423 Last Updated on June 23, 2024

The South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus is fighting to preserve abortion and advance the homo agenda in the Palmetto State, dumping cash and support into the re-election campaigns of State Senators who’ve supported abortion, gay marriage, and anti-speech hate crime legislation championed by the LGBT lobby.

In Senate Districts 23 and 41, the South Carolina Senate Republican Caucus is backing the re-election campaigns of two of the “Sister Senators” who joined forces with Democrats to block post-Roe abortion restrictions in 2023.

The two Republicans, Senators Katrina Shealy (District 23) and Sandy Senn (District 41) were among the female South Carolina State Senators awarded the Kennedy Courage Award in 2023, for their pro-abort Senate efforts.

From the Kennedy Courage Award page:

In April 2023, Senators Katrina Shealy (R), Margie Bright Matthews (D), Mia McLeod (I), Sandy Senn (R), and Penry Gustafson (R) held a two-day filibuster to block a near-total abortion ban in South Carolina. During the filibuster, each of the five lawmakers took turns describing the complexities of pregnancy and the reproductive system, the dangers of lack of access to contraception, and inadequate privacy laws. Senators Bright Matthews and McLeod even publicly shared their deeply personal experiences with the subject on the Senate floor. Their filibuster halted passage of the ban.

The SCSRC is also backing the campaign of Jason Elliot (District 22), South Carolina’s first openly gay State Senator who sponsored left-wing hate crime legislation that squashes opposition to public displays of homosexuality and further diminishes America’s founding principle of a blind justice system.

Elliot’s 2024 campaign has encouraged early voting and is heavily supported by Americans for Prosperity, the open borders big business political advocacy group.

In yet another race impacted by the SCSRC, this time in Senate District 12, conservative firebrand and former South Carolina State Senator Lee Bright is taking on Representative Roger Nutt, who’s backed by the SCSRC despite his voting record that includes spending taxpayer money on “queer body art” and gummy bear statues.

There is no incumbent in the District 12 race, but Lee Bright represented the District from 2009 to 2017 and the South Carolina political establishment, including Nikki Haley, have spent years trying to keep him out of office.

In the current election cycle, the SCSRC is sending out mailers and running TV advertisements on Nutt’s behalf, attacking Lee Bright as being too conservative for his deep-red district in his deep-red state.

If elected, Lee Bright is expected to form a Freedom Caucus in the South Carolina State Senate.

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Mark Burns DESTROYS Bloomberg-backed Opponent’s False Claims on SC-3 Debate Stage https://nationalfile.com/mark-burns-destroys-bloomberg-backed-opponents-false-claims-on-sc-3-debate-stage/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 20:58:54 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69412 Last Updated on June 20, 2024

Trump-endorsed congressional candidate and South Carolina National Guard veteran Mark Burns destroyed the false claims of his Bloomberg-backed opponent Sheri Biggs from the debate stage in South Carolina’s 3rd District when the two GOP candidates met for a debate ahead of their run-off primary vote, which is slated for June 25th.

“This is what’s happening, the swamp creatures create swamp creatures,” Burns said on the debate stage, referring to Sheri Biggs, whose campaign has received over $300,000 from a PAC fueled by Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun dark money. 

“Right now, before your eyes, you see a swamp creature,” he went on.

“This is why there’s a clear contrast between the true America First, the Trump-endorsed, proven, eight-year proven strong Trump-endorsed America First conservative, versus the one who just got here in 2017,” Burns said. “I’m South Carolina! And if you really care about your state, you don’t want to send another swamp creature to Washington, D.C.”

“They’re talking about my military [service],” Burns continued, referring to false caims from the Sheri Biggs camp.

“Let me just say this once, for everybody that keeps talking about I’m not a part of the military, for everybody who keeps lying that I’m not part of the military – Here is my military discharge,” Burns said, holding up a copy of his military discharge papers. “It comes from the United States Army, I hope you get a good picture this!”

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE DEBATE VIDEO

Ironically, while the Biggs campaign and its supporters have tried attacking Mark Burns’ military service record, and while Sheri Biggs has made her own Air National Guard service a centerpiece of her campaign platform, Sheri Biggs’ husband, William Biggs, has a dark history when it comes to America’s veterans.

As National File recently reported: 

Nursing homes for aging veterans managed by the company of William “Bill” Biggs, the husband of South Carolina GOP congressional candidate Sheri Biggs, have been plagued by scandals and have failed to properly investigate injuries that aging veterans received while living in facilities operated by Biggs’ company, HMR Veterans Services Inc. The issues have led to interventions by state and federal authorities and even the closure of HMR facilities.

Read More: Biggs Nursing Homes for Veterans Plagued with Scandal, Failed to Investigate Injuries 

Video: More on Sheri Biggs vs. Mark Burns from National File + OAN

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RISE AGAIN: Confederate School Names Return to Virginia District https://nationalfile.com/rise-again-confederate-school-names-return-to-virginia-district/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:23:25 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69356 Last Updated on June 3, 2024

The names of Confederate legends Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Turner Ashby once again adorn the fronts of school buildings in Shenandoah County, Virginia, after local residents democratically overthrew the Marxist school board that changed the names in 2020, forcing a re-vote and the eventual restoration of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary School.

National File recently reported on the 5-1 Shenandoah County School Board vote that ordered the names of Confederate Virginians Jackson, Lee, and Ashby to be returned to their rightful status and now, work crews in Shenandoah County have done just that, re-affixing signs that read “Stonewall Jackson High School” and “Ashby-Lee Elementary School” to the fronts of their respective buildings.

The renaming marks the first known name-change reversal in the United States since 2020 when law-abiding citizens all over the country were locked in their homes and prevented from lobbying their governing bodies against erasing history; all while violent communists and anti-White radicals were permitted to burn, loot, murder, and tear down historical monuments.

“The schools were renamed in 2020 when the sitting school board decided to cave to the pressure of leftist activists and ignore the will of the residents, who were overwhelmingly against the changes,” Grayson Jennings, a spokesman with the Virginia Flaggers, told National File.

“In the wake of that decision, a grassroots coalition worked diligently over the past four years to vote out each member who voted for the change, one by one, and run candidates who were willing to undo the wrong,” Jennings went on.

“It took them four years and two election cycles, but their hard work and perseverance paid off with a resounding victory, which should serve as an example and inspiration to all Southerners. It’s past time to get to work and take back what has been stolen from us, and restore what has been lost, starting in my hometown,” concluded Jennings, who is himself a graduate of Lee-Davis High School in Mechanicsville, VA, which had its name changed in 2020 and its Confederate mascot replaced by a cultureless clip-art cartoon – against the will of students and area residents alike.

Related: Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Confederate School Names 

As mentioned, Shenandoah County is far from the only locale that quickly changed school and place names under the pressure of race radicals and opportunistic leftists, and it’s not even the only county in Virginia that erased General Stonewall Jackson’s name from a high school.

In northern Virginia’s Prince William County, Stonewall Jackson High School was renamed “Unity Reed High School” in honor of the school’s black former security guard, when the district announced that it could “no longer represent the Confederacy in our schools.”

However, according to recent polling data compiled by Potomac Local News, 65.31% of local poll respondents “support restoring Stonewall Jackson High School’s original name, citing the preservation of history as a reason for their choice.”

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North Carolina Legislature Set to Kill Yulia’s Law https://nationalfile.com/north-carolina-legislature-set-to-kill-yulias-law/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:38:43 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69314 Last Updated on May 22, 2024

The GOP-controlled North Carolina State Senate has been sitting on legislation for more than a year that would make it illegal for transplant centers and medical practitioners to discriminate against those “unvaccinated” against COVID-19 by denying them life-saving organ transplants.

Yulia’s Law passed the North Carolina House of Representatives by a vote of 91-24 on May 2nd, 2023, but has been stuck in the GOP-controlled North Carolina State Senate ever since, with Senate Rules Committee Chairman Bill Rabon refusing to move it forward.

Under the legislation, which is officially known as HB 586 in the House and SB 644 in the Senate, hospitals and transplant centers in North Carolina would be barred from denying life-saving transplants to patients based on their COVID “vaccination” status.

The bill is named for an unjabbed teenage girl named Yulia, who was adopted from Ukraine as an orphan by a U.S. Army family. Amid the COVID “pandemic” and the push for mRNA jab mandates, Yulia suffered kidney failure due to a genetic condition and was in life-or-death need of a kidney transplant.

She spent well over a year on dialysis, fighting for her life, but still, she was denied medical treatment by North Carolina’s Duke University Hospital, because she had not been “vaccinated” against COVID, even though taking the “vaccine,” which ranks as the deadliest in human history, could have put her life at an even greater risk.

Duke’s refusal to operate on Yulia nearly killed her, and it forced her family to absorb the massive medical and travel costs associated with seeking treatment elsewhere.

Last year, thanks to an outpouring of prayer and support, Yulia was able to receive a transplant at East Carolina University and begin the road to a full recovery, but nothing is stopping Duke, or any other hospital in the state for that matter, from abusing and even killing others through medical discrimination, which is why passing Yulia’s Law is so important to so many people.

Background: Unjabbed Ukrainian Teenager Duke University Refused Transplant Gets Her New Kidney

Yulia’s adopted American parents, Chrissy and Lee Hicks, have been fighting for the passage of Yulia’s Law for over a year, but the North Carolina State Senate has refused to move on it.

What’s more, is that a crooked attorney who promised to help get the family and other potential victims justice in court ripped the family off, by taking their money and then refusing to move on the lawsuit until the legislation is passed.

But the Hicks family is not giving up on their fight to pass Yulia’s Law and hold Duke University accountable for its discrimination against an unjabbed child and they are asking supporters to email members of the State Senate to get the bill passed.

According to the Hicks family, the most important North Carolina State Senators to email in regards to advancing and passing Yulia’s Law are:

Background: Duke University Refuses Kidney Transplant To Dying Girl For Refusing COVID Vaccine

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FIGHT BACK: Virginia School Board Restores Confederate School Names https://nationalfile.com/fight-back-virginia-school-board-restores-confederate-school-names/ Sun, 12 May 2024 12:05:00 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69267 Last Updated on May 12, 2024

Virginia’s Shenandoah County School Board has drawn international headlines after it voted by a 5 to 1 margin to restore the Confederate names of two schools in the county, which were changed amid the BLM color revolution of 2020.

On the 161st anniversary of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s wartime death, the Shenandoah County, Virginia School Board voted to restore the names of Ashby-Lee Elementary School (named for Confederate partisan Turner Ashby, and General Robert E. Lee), as well as Stonewall Jackson High School.

While Lee commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, Ashby and Jackson alike commanded troops from the Shenandoah Valley, a region of Virginia that, after initially opposing secession, became one of the South’s biggest hotbeds of Confederate activity, with citizens of the area horrified by then-US President Abraham Lincoln’s call for troops to move into the Deep South, and suppress the seven states that had already seceded.

After Lincoln made that call, the “Upper South” seceded from the Union, led by Virginia, which was quickly followed by Arkansas and North Carolina, and eventually, Tennessee.

Throughout the war, the Shenandoah Valley region, centered around Shenandoah County, became known as “The Breadbasket of the Confederacy,” and it became the target of ruthless northern military campaigns.

When Union General and future President Ulysses S. Grant ordered northern troops into the region, he instructed them to “eat out Virginia clear and clean,” and to so thoroughly destroy the landscape “that crows flying over it for the balance of this season will have to carry their provender with them.”

Demonstrating the massive community support for the name restoration, the cost of rebranding the schools to their former glory will be covered by private donors, as opposed to the taxpayers.

According to a blog post from The Virginia Flaggers: 

The motion passed via a 5-1 vote with Kyle Gutshall casting the only NO vote.
The exact language of the motion that was approved was: “I move that the names of Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School be restored to the schools now named Mountain View High School and Honey Run Elementary School respectively. The funds required to implement the restoration must be provided by private donations exclusively and not be borne by the school system or government tax funds, though the SCPS will oversee disbursements relating to restoration costs.”

As mentioned, the school names were originally changed in 2020, as the then-Democrat-dominated state government, led by disgraced ex-Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam, pushed local school divisions to rename institutions named not only for Confederates, but for anyone, including the Founding Fathers, deemed “racist” by 21st-century communists and race radicals.

The 2020 name change process was slammed by Shenandoah County residents and school officials alike as “undemocratic and unfair,” and over the past few years, thousands of Shenandoah County citizens have petitioned the board to restore the names.

As National File reported in 2022:

A petition to restore the schools’ historic names is now circulating in the community and has been signed by over 4,000 people, leading the school board, which has three first-term members following recent elections, to take the issue up for consideration. At least one board member has been openly receptive to the idea, while Vice Chair Dennis Barlow has criticized the name-change process as “undemocratic and unfair.

At a [2022] board meeting, citizens of Shenandoah County packed the meeting room to advocate for the restoration of American history, with speakers reminding all present of the central role the county and its surrounding region of the Shenandoah Valley played in the Civil War. One speaker recounted the story of how General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson earned his nickname while in command of men from the Shenandoah Valley at the First Battle of Manassas, remarking that while other areas can debate the relevance of Confederate names and mascots, Shenandoah County has a unique historical tie to the Civil War and the Confederacy that cannot be replicated.

“There stands Jackson like a stone wall, rally behind the Virginians,” the speaker recounted Confederate General Bernard Bee saying of Jackson and his men at the First Battle of Manassas, going on to detail the moment in history’s deep connection to Shenandoah County and the name of one of its high schools.

“The guys that stood on that hill with Stonewall Jackson that day, at the top of the Henry House hill, were the boys from Shenandoah County,” the speaker said, going on to detail that 52 men from the area “gave the full measure of devotion that day, on that hill,” and in the process, “they won a name for that guy.”

“That name belongs to Shenandoah County,” he said.

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Carol Miller Voted to Fund Childhood Transgenderism, LGBT Groomers https://nationalfile.com/carol-miller-voted-to-fund-childhood-transgenderism-lgbt-groomers/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:38:27 +0000 https://nationalfile.com/?p=69166 Last Updated on April 30, 2024

Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV-1) voted with Democrats and a group of Republican defectors to fund childhood transgenderism and predatory LGBT activist groups that mask themselves as charities and non-profits when she supported the more than $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill that also funded abortion and kept America’s borders open.

Under the omnibus spending bill, which was rammed through Congress last month, American taxpayers are forced to shovel millions of dollars into predatory transgender and homosexual youth programs that openly work to subvert parents and recruit children into the LGBT movement.

At a bare minimum, the omnibus spending bill allocated over $2.4 million to LGBT groups that directly target children, and this is on top of the more than $200 million that the omnibus funneled to “gender equity and equality” action groups.

According to a Washington Times report on the $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill:

Buried in the newly passed $1.2 trillion federal spending package are millions of dollars for woke causes, including groups that host drag shows and provide teens seeking to change their sex with gender-affirming hormones and underwear.

Conservatives flagged a bevy of earmarks for pet congressional causes in the 1,012-page minibus that cleared the Senate on Saturday, such as $400,000 for Garden State Equality in New Jersey, which promotes “FREE gender-affirming garments.”

They include chest binders, used to flatten female chests, and gaffs, designed to “help minimize the appearance of a crotch bulge.”

Upon further review of the legislation, National File has also learned that the spending bill supported by Rep. Carol Miller and 100 other Republican defectors also awarded $850,000 to a group called Residential Youth Services & Empowerment, which not only promotes LGBTism to vulnerable and homeless kids, but gives them deadly Covid jabs as well.

Related: Carol Miller Supported Biden’s DoD Jab Mandate that Killed Servicemembers

The revelation that Rep. Carol Miller voted to throw millions of taxpayer dollars behind the destruction of American children comes as the issue of trans predation begins making landfall in the communities of deep-red West Virginia.

As of late, multiple public school districts there have forced underage females to not only compete in athletic competitions against males proclaiming womanhood, but to share locker rooms and restroom facilities with them as well.

As opposed to Carol Miller, her primary opponent in the 1st District, J6 Patriot Derrick Evans, has taken a hardline stance against the trans lobby’s efforts to make inroads with kids.

As National File previously reported, Evans addressed the Kanawha County Board of Education at a public meeting last December and ripped them for “aiding and abetting the sexual harassment of children” after the board refused to protect female athletes from “trans-identified” locker room creeps.

Now, Evans is standing up once more, in support of five female middle school athletes, who refused to compete against a male in a girls’ competition and, as a result, have been banned from future athletic participation by the Harrison County, West Virginia Board of Education.

“When I win, there’ll be ZERO funding for schools who allow male athletes to even come anywhere NEAR girl’s sports as anything other than a spectator,” Evans wrote in a post he made to X, in which he also linked Rep. Carol Miller’s support for the trans movement to its subversion of West Virginia.

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