Miami GOP head calls for GOP party official to resign

Florida Republican leaders are demanding that Miami GOP Secretary Abel Alexander Carvajal resign immediately after explosive revelations emerged about his involvement in a conservative group chat riddled with vile racial slurs, antisemitic statements, and other disgusting content.

Miami-Dade County Republican Party Chairman Kevin Cooper declared that "anyone associated with this chat should resign immediately." Meanwhile, Republican state Rep. Juan Porras directly called on Carvajal to step down on Wednesday, blasting the messages as "deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable."

Carvajal launched the group chat last fall, mainly for conservative students at Florida International University. Leaked messages revealed participants unleashing a barrage of racial slurs targeting Jews and Black people. Among the worst offenders were Dariel Gonzalez, then the College Republicans' recruitment chairman, and Ian Valdes, the Turning Point USA chapter president. Carvajal chimed in occasionally, deleted some messages, but never shut the chat down, according to the Miami Herald.

In one exchange, Gonzalez wrote, "You can f*** all the ks you want. Just don't marry them and procreate," warning about the danger of having "a little k running arounddddd." Valdes shot back, "I would def not marry a Jew." [The k abbreviation apparently stands for the disgusting antisemitic slur that rhymes with 'bike'.]

In another antisemitic moment, Valdes renamed the group chat "Gooning in Agartha," a reference to crude slang for male masturbation combined with the mythical underground civilization pushed by Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man. Valdes called Agartha "esoteric nazism essentially," and Gonzalez described it as "Nazi heaven sort of."

Elsewhere, Valdes pushed, "We need to have a moratorium on immigration temporarily unless it's someone from a first world country….Yeah I obviously mean whites."

The chat also featured plenty of misogynistic trash talk about women, along with repeated use of the n-word and violent, hateful comments against Black people. Gonzalez sneered, "Ew you had colored professors?!" adding, "I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds." He later insisted, "Avoid the coloreds like the plague."

Another exchange reported by the Floridian Press included a user spewing violent fantasies about wanting to "exterminate ns in the gas chamber" and "eat ns," among other sickening rants. Gonzalez's response? "How edgy."

Carvajal, the Miami GOP secretary who created the chat, once he was caught claimed, "had I known and had I seen some of these messages, I would have called the police." When pressed on whether he would resign, he shot back, "Of course not … for a chat where the messages that were stated were not mine."

Porras made it clear that Carvajal's failure to shut down the chat and take decisive action as a leader is indefensible. The state representative, who also serves as a Miami-Dade GOP state committee member, stressed that "Hatred toward Jewish Americans, racist rhetoric, calls for violence, all these ideas have no place in our party, our state, or our country."

"Leadership carries responsibility," Porras added. "When someone in a leadership role engages in this kind of behavior, it damages the trust placed in our party by voters across Florida. The Republican Party stands for law, order, and respect for every American. We believe in the dignity of every person."

Cooper, as the first Jewish chairman of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, said he was "shocked" by the WhatsApp messages.

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This kind of toxic garbage has no business in the Republican Party. Leaders are right to demand accountability and swift action to protect the party's integrity and the trust of Florida voters.

And while the Democratic Party continues to accept anti-Semites like Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the rest of the so called Squad, at least the Republicans take an active stance against this garbage.

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GOP stands with Trump over Senate challenge regarding Operation Epic Fury

Senate Republicans closed ranks on Wednesday, delivering President Trump a solid victory on his use of force against Iran, This came despite the usual lingering questions about America's role in the Middle East mess.

The Senate decisively shot down a resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that sought to limit Trump's military actions in Iran. This followed days of speculation about whether any Republicans would break ranks, as some have done in the past, to slap the president on the wrist.

The administration went all-in to rally support for Operation Epic Fury. They held multiple briefings with Congress to lay out the case. It worked, at least for the moment. It convinced some wavering Republicans to stick with continued military action against the regime.

President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

Only Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted for Kaine's resolution. On the flip side, Sen. Jon Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to cross over and support the president's position.

Democrats tried to frame Trump's moves as yet another case of him blowing past Congress's authority on military force. They complained about no clear strategy ahead and accused him of breaking another campaign promise.

"It's time for the president to keep promises, not break them," Kaine said ahead of the vote. "That's why I'm so glad that we're going to put everybody on the record … Nobody gets to hide and give the president an easy pass or an end run around the Constitution."

Democrats also hammered the administration for refusing to take ground troops off the table."They refuse to take off the table the insertion of ground troops," said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). He warned the conflict could balloon beyond air and naval ops. "This is going to make the operations in Libya look like child’s play."

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a war powers resolution to rein in President Donald Trump's military action in Iran.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who once backed a similar resolution to curb Trump's war powers in Venezuela, made it clear he opposed this one.

But like before, he noted that any ground operation would need congressional approval."I’ve always said that committing ground troops would be something I think would require immediate congressional authorization, but that doesn’t appear to be on the immediate horizon," Hawley said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the administration kept moving the goalposts, which he called proof positive that "a strategy is missing."

Republicans fired back that the president was squarely within his constitutional authority as commander in chief. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dismissed the War Powers Act as "an unconstitutional shift of authority from the president." He pointed out that Congress can always pull the funding plug if it really disagrees with the action.

"We don’t need 535 commanders in chief," said Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), tearing into the legislation.

There was also clear fatigue in GOP circles over Kaine's habit of repeatedly pushing these congressional power plays in every conflict.

Republicans huddled privately on Tuesday to hash out the strikes and the looming war powers vote. This came ahead of their briefing with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan "Raizin" Caine, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio looks on during a meeting with oil and gas executives in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 9, 2026.

A source familiar with the closed-door session told Fox News Digital that some Republicans who might have been persuadable were fed up with Kaine's nonstop use of the Senate floor to limit Trump's war authorities.

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) highlighted that this was Kaine’s fifth resolution targeting Trump’s war powers since he returned to office last year. That tally accounts for nearly half of all war powers resolutions in U.S. history.

"These resolutions have been used only 11 times in 50 years," Barrasso said. "The senator from Virginia alone accounts for nearly half of them. Yet Senator Kaine introduced zero war powers resolutions when Barack Obama and Joe Biden were president."

Rubio told reporters after Tuesday's all-senators briefing that the administration had complied with the War Powers Act, even though it views the law as unconstitutional. He added that congressional leaders got notified before the strikes.

Rubio had earlier floated that the U.S. acted in Operation Epic Fury because Israel was set to strike first, though he later dialed that back.

"If you tell the President of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president is going to go first," Rubio said. "That's what he did. That's what the president will always do."

Meanwhile, U.S. forces have hammered more than 2,000 targets in Iran so far, zeroing in on the regime’s air defenses and missile stockpiles. Six American service members have been killed in the operation, along with nearly 50 top Iranian leaders.

The Iranian government claims at least 1,045 people have been killed across the country during the campaign.

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Newsom disses Israel and Netanyahu, says Trump's strikes due to his 'grift'

In a vicious attack on President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the longstanding U.S.-Israel alliance, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a serious rethink of American support for Israel, smeared the Jewish state as an apartheid regime, and took vicious swipes at Trump, 

The comments came during an appearance with former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor at an event promoting Newsom's autobiography, "Young Man in a Hurry." When asked whether Democrats should reconsider U.S. military aid to Israel given Netanyahu's leadership, Newsom didn't hold back.

"Well, he's making that easy right now," Newsom began, launching into an attack on Netanyahu. "The issue of Bibi is interesting. Because he's got his own domestic issues. He's trying to stay out of jail. He's got an election coming up. He's potentially on the ropes. He's got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West Bank."

Newsom then channeled the notoriously anti-Netanyahu New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to push the tired leftist falsehood that Israel is heading toward "an apartheid state," adding, "For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel."He went on to imply that Trump's actions against Iran were driven purely by Israeli influence.

"In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident," said Newsom. "When you bring two aircraft carriers out there and you assemble the kind of military force that Trump did over the last few weeks, it didn't surprise me ultimately that they moved that direction."

When directly asked, "Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider, maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?" Newsom feigned heartbreak.

"It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration."

He then pivoted to what he called "the grift and the corruption" tied to regional politics, dragging in Trump family members by name, including Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. 

"The fact that we are in this now, a regional war. All these proxies and all the grift and the corruption that also marks a huge part of this," he said. "And that's a real conversation we need to have, this Board of Peace. In the piece that the Witkoff family is getting, in the piece that Kushner is getting, in the peace that Trump Jr. is getting."

Newsom's remarks represent the predictable anti-Israel turn from a Democrat desperate to signal virtue to the progressive base, even as he wraps it in crocodile tears about a broken heart. The governor's willingness to echo smears of Israel as an apartheid state while questioning aid amid ongoing threats shows just how far the party has drifted from its once-stalwart support for America's closest Middle East ally. And throwing in baseless jabs at the Trump family for good measure? 

That's just par for the course in the current Democratic playbook.

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IAF fighter jet destroys Iranian warplane in historic dogfight

The Israeli Air Force just notched a massive win in the ongoing war, and it's the kind of moment that reminds everyone why the IAF remains one of the most feared and capable air arms on the planet.

On Wednesday, the IDF confirmed that one of its F-35I "Adir" stealth fighters took down an Iranian Air Force Yak-130 over the skies of Tehran. This marks the first time in history that an F-35 has shot down a manned fighter jet in combat. Yeah, you read that right: the cutting-edge stealth platform just bagged its first air-to-air kill, and it happened deep inside enemy territory.

"The historic shoot-down over the Tehran skies is a testament to the strength of the Israeli Air Force and to your personal determination," said Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, the commander of the Israeli air force.

He didn't stop there. Addressing the pilots directly, Bar added: "The war continues – return home safely. Get some rest. The next mission is already waiting for you."

That's classic IAF leadership: celebrate the win, keep the focus sharp, and remind everyone the fight is far from over.

The F-35I Adir is Israel's customized take on the U.S.-made F-35 Lightning II, a fifth-generation beast that forms the backbone of the country's air superiority. Israel was the first nation to snag the jet through the Foreign Military Sales program back in 2010, and the first delivery arrived in 2016. They named it "Adir," which translates to "Mighty One" in Hebrew, and it has lived up to the billing.

On the other side, the Yak-130 is a Russian-designed, two-seat advanced trainer and light attack jet built by Yakovlev. Iran got its first ones in September 2023, part of a broader push to modernize its aging fleet with Russian hardware like MiG-29s from the 1990s and planned Su-35s and Mi-28 helos.

This shoot-down comes amid Israel's escalating strikes on Iranian targets, including what the IDF has described as broad-scale operations in and around Tehran. It's a stark demonstration of how Israel's tech edge, pilot skill, and operational reach can penetrate even heavily defended airspace.

The war is raging on multiple fronts, but moments like this underscore one undeniable reality: when the IAF gets in the fight, it dominates. Stay tuned, because as Bar made clear, the next mission is already in the works.

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Jasmine Crockett loses primary but there's still bad news

Rep. Jasmine Crocket (D-TX) lost her bid for a Senate seat to State Senator James Talarico (D-TX) however, the bad news is that she still has a seat in the US House of Representatives and will not go easy into the night.

With over 90 percent of the vote counted, Talarico got 53 percent of the vote while Crockett got 45.7 percent as of 5 p.m. Wednesday.

"Tonight, our campaign is shocking the nation," Talarico said Tuesday night. "We are still waiting for an official call, but we are confident in this movement we've built together. Every vote must be counted, every voice must be heard. The voter suppression in my home county and in Congresswoman Crockett's home county underscores the gravity of this moment. This movement is about whether the people will hold the power in this state and in this country."

Crockett outperformed in Dallas and Houston areas while Talarico kicked butt in Travis County, an area with more than 200 thousand voters. It was there that Talarico got 76 percent of the Democratic vote.

There appeared to be irregularities in Dallas and Williamson county which both Talarico and Crockett acknowledged. County-wide voting locations were closed and only neighborhood sites were open, which left many voters confused and struggling on Election Day.

“I can tell you now that people have been disenfranchised,” Crockett said, using the polysyllabic word to a group of supporters Tuesday night.

Crockett is from Dallas. With 71% of the votes counted in Dallas County Wednesday morning, Crocket won the region with 59% of the vote.

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WAPO's tearjerker obituary on Khamenei is a must see

The very recent demise of Iran's clown and religious Supreme Leader [for life] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been eulogized in much the same way as the Islamic Republic Guard Corps' Qasem Soleimani had been by some in the leftist press.

The media lost their minds back when President Trump turned Qasem Soleimani into a puff of smoke and bad memories. Remember the hand-wringing, the solemn editorials about "escalation" and "proportionality," as if the world's leading sponsor of terror deserved a polite retirement party? So it comes as no shock whatever that they're handling the death of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who just got turned into ash in the first wave of airstrikes Saturday morning, delivering a serious body blow to the Iranian regime, with the same pearl-clutching reverence.

Of course the major outlets are running obituaries for this particular clown, wasting perfectly good ink and pixel space on what amounts to a love letter to a theocratic tyrant. You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled onto the Babylon Bee, that elite satire outfit, but no, this is the genuine article, straight from The Washington Post. 

As some sharp-eyed observers pointed out, it reads less like journalism and more like a particularly delusional dating app profile: "An early follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the austere cleric who inspired the revolution against Iran’s U.S.-backed monarchy, Ayatollah Khamenei staunchly opposed the United States and Israel, rejected Western “liberalism,” and adhered strictly to fundamentalist social policies.As supreme leader of Iran since 1989, when he succeeded Khomeini, Ayatollah Khamenei wielded ultimate political and religious authority in the Islamic republic, outranking the elected president and overseeing the country’s armed forces, internal security apparatus, judiciary, state media and foreign policy.

After Trump lost the 2020 election, Ayatollah Khamenei said its chaotic aftermath, marked by Trump’s baseless fraud claims, illustrated “the ugly face of liberal democracy” in the United States and made clear the country’s “definite political, civil [and] moral decline.”

When Iran was convulsed by widespread protests after the September 2022 death in custody of a young woman who was arrested by Islamic "morality police" for a dress-code violation, the supreme leader publicly blamed the United States and Israel and backed a deadly crackdown. How, he wondered, could some people "not see the foreign hand" behind the "rioting."

Soleimani's last ride

With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables." But like the uncompromising Khomeini, he opposed moderates' efforts to promote political and social reforms domestically and to secure rapprochement with the United States."

Avuncular? Easy smile? Fond of Victor Hugo? 

This is the man, unlike Santa Claus, who spent decades orchestrating terror proxies across the Middle East, crushing his own people under heel, and dreaming aloud of wiping Israel off the map, and the paper of record wants us to know he had literary tastes. It's almost touching, in a macabre way. Almost as if the Washington Post has decided that the appropriate response to the violent end of a man who embodied evil dressed in clerical robes is to polish his halo and murmur about his poetry hobby.

Look, when evil gets its comeuppance, whether it's Soleimani in Baghdad or Khamenei in Tehran, the only surprise should be that it took this long. The rest is just the usual media theater: solemn faces, furrowed brows, and a quiet hope that maybe, just maybe, the bad guys aren't really that bad after all. But they are. And sometimes, thank God, justice arrives with wings and precision-guided munitions.

As Iranians worldwide are saying and will be repeated: thank you, President Trump.

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Besides destroying IRGC infrastructure, the US destroys their lies after Khamenai is also destroyed

The United States didn't pull any punches. It straight-up called out Tehran by name, shredding what CENTCOM describes as outright lies from the Iranian regime in a no-nonsense, point-by-point smackdown posted just hours after the joint U.S.-Israel operation that took out Iran's Supreme Leader.

This fact-check blitz hit right after the coordinated strike that eliminated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a hit that U.S. officials are calling a major takedown in the regime's long-running terror spree and chaos across the region.In a couple of tough posts on X, CENTCOM directly slapped down claims from Iran's UN ambassador and the IRGC, branding them false and accusing Tehran of trying to snow the whole world.

At a UN Security Council session, Iran's ambassador insisted Tehran's retaliation was aimed "solely and exclusively at the bases and assets of the United States. "CENTCOM shot that down hard."

The Iranian Regime is actively targeting civilians and has attacked more than a dozen locations," the command declared, then rattled off the sites it says got hit.Those include: 

Dubai International Airport

Kuwait International Airport

Zayed International Airport in Dubai 

Erbil International Airport in Iraq, 

Fairmont Palm Hotel in Dubai, 

Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, 

Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bahrain, 

Port of Dubai, 

residential areas in Beit Shemesh, Israel, 

residential areas in Tel Aviv, 

Israel, residential area of Era Views Towers in Bahrain, 

residential areas in Qatar.

This public call-out ramps up the messaging war big time, with Washington accusing Iran of slamming civilian targets while feeding the international community a bunch of garbage.In another whopper, the IRGC claimed it nailed the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier with ballistic missiles. CENTCOM wasn't having it.

"The Lincoln was not hit. The missiles launched didn’t even come close," the command fired back, and media video shows that this is true.

The Lincoln continues to launch aircraft in support of CENTCOM’s relentless campaign to defend the American people by eliminating threats from the Iranian regime.

"These blunt denials drop as the U.S. and Israel keep hammering Iranian military targets in their joint ops, going after air defenses, missile setups, naval forces, you name it. 

By flat-out labeling Tehran's spin as bogus, the U.S. is fighting the info war right alongside the kinetic one, pushing back on Iranian propaganda, steadying allies, and making crystal clear that key American assets are still locked and loaded.

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Putin calls the killing of mass murderer Khamenei a 'cynical violation' of morality and international law

In a bizarre contortionistic twist of rational thinking, Russian dictator President Vladimir Putin called the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a "cynical violation" of morality and international law, and evidently believes he should have been left to deal with the Iranian people by killing all who opposed his dictatorship. 

"Please accept my deep condolences in connection with the murder of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family, committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law," Putin said in a note to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to Reuters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry had previously released a statement condemning Operation Epic Fury. It warned that the U.S. and Israel "embarked on a perilous course that is swiftly pushing the region toward a humanitarian, economic, and potentially even radiological disaster."

Turns out Putin was blowing smoke and Trump's decisive military action may free the Iranian people from the clutches of the regime. Time will tell, but it's looking good for the Iranian people, but not so good for Khamenei who is partying in hell with Sinwar, Nasrallah and the "Gang of 40."

"The aggressors’ intentions are evident and have been stated openly: to dismantle the constitutional order and remove the leadership of a state they deem undesirable because it has refused to yield to the dictates of force and hegemonic pressure," the statement read.

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