Ken Paxton beats John Cornyn in Texas GOP Senate primary runoff, CBS News projects | Special Report

Trump-backed Ken Paxton has defeated Sen. John Cornyn in Texas’ GOP Senate primary runoff, CBS News projects. Jessi Mitchell anchored CBS News’ special report.

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SPLC Hates Constitutional Sheriffs

SPLC Hates Constitutional Sheriffs

An organization can take pride when the race-baiting, hate-promoting, indicted Southern Poverty Law Center targets them: Whatever that organization is doing is benefiting Americans and protecting our freedoms, or else SPLC would not bother putting them on their hate list.

Live Not By Lies: The Gulag Lesson America Forgot

“Socialism does not collapse because it runs out of money. It collapses because it runs out of truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understood this better than almost anyone alive. The Soviet Union was not held together by productivity, innovation, or freedom. It was held together by fear and a mountain of compulsory lies. Citizens learned to repeat obvious nonsense simply to survive. Newspapers reported record harvests while shelves sat empty. The state called itself a workers’ paradise while millions disappeared into camps. As the Bible warns in The Bible, Satan is ‘the father of lies,’ and every authoritarian system follows the same blueprint: suppress truth, punish dissent, and force the population to publicly kneel before fiction. The gulag was not the beginning of the process. It was the final invoice.”

Sheriff or inmate? Aaron Spencer will be elected in November if he isn’t convicted of murder

On Saturday, people in Arkansas held a fundraiser for Aaron Spencer, the Republican nominee for sheriff of Lonoke County. They raised the money not for Spencer’s campaign. He’s a lock because Trump picked up 76% of the vote in the county 2 years ago.

The money is for his murder trial, which begins next month.