🇺🇸 Real America: 2025 preview: What America looks like with a divided presidency and Congress

WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

🏳️‍⚧️ Doctor hides transgender research from the public. The director of a transgender youth clinic in California is delaying the publication of a study that found no mental health improvements for children taking puberty blockers. She says she fears "political attacks that have led to bans of the youth gender treatments in more than 20 states.”

🚨 Iran allegedly plotted to kill an Iranian American activist. The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted four Iranians, including one Iranian military member, on charges of plotting to assassinate human rights activist Masih Alinejad on American soil. Alinejad is an Iranian exile based in New York City who criticizes the Islamic regime for its treatment of women among other issues.

📈 House committee posts alarming border stats. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) highlighted a new report showing large increases in criminals, terrorist watchlist suspects, fentanyl, and “gotaways” found at the US border under the Biden-Harris administration. The report concluded that 28-times more terror suspects have tried to cross since into the US than during the Trump administraton.

🤫 DHS is hiding the border crisis, officials say. Border Patrol agents told the New York Post that officials are sending migrants away from San Diego, California, to soften the crisis for the city ahead of the elections. The government is reportedly flying and bussing them to less crowded border towns in Texas and Arizona for the sake of “optics.”

🚨 CRIME

• Mesa County, Colorado, is investigating 12 stolen and illegally cast mail-in ballots for the upcoming elections.

• Oakland, California, is blaming “perceived” crime spikes for falling tax revenues.

• Texas jails hold more than 443,000 non-citizens, including more than 314,000 illegals.

📊 DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

• Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno (R) says taxpayers spend more on one illegal migrant per year than the average American earns.

• 1.6 million migrants have illegally crossed the border from “Countries of Particular Concern,” according to federal data.

• A think tank says increased migration is linked to rising tuberculosis cases in the US.

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