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Summary - In this episode of The Kyle Kulinski Show, host Kyle Kulinski discusses several urgent political topics, focusing heavily on what he describes as Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine upcoming midterm elections.

Key segments of the video include:

• Trump’s 'Election Integrity Army': Kulinski highlights recent social media posts where Donald Trump claims he will mobilize a larger "election integrity army" for the 2026 midterms (3:36-4:13). Kulinski expresses alarm, framing this as a direct threat to democratic processes and election fairness, citing past actions like ballot purging and concerns over the use of the National Guard or ICE at polling places (4:45-6:21).
• Supreme Court and Voting Rights: The host criticizes the Supreme Court for its role in rolling back Voting Rights Act protections, which he argues has led to immediate disenfranchisement efforts in various southern states (4:28-4:42, 7:33-8:23).
• Democratic Strategy in Virginia: Kulinski criticizes Virginia Democratic Senate Majority Leader Scott Suravel for ruling out "extreme" measures to combat Republican gerrymandering in the state (9:01-10:23). He argues that Democrats are failing to match Republican aggression in defending democracy, stating that "extremism in defense of democracy is no vice" (10:23-11:28).

Additional topics mentioned for later in the video:

• The regime’s leaked documents regarding "left-wing extremists" and the application of NSPM7 (0:27-0:58).
• Commentary on Tucker Carlson and RFK Jr.’s policy recommendations (0:59-1:32).

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQNnh4Sc5XI

Source: https://xcancel.com/ElizLanders/status/2054265101322993816#m

From PBS News' Liz Landers:

I just asked (@)potus if he would send the National Guard or ICE to voting locations in November.

He did not rule it out.

The president: “Well you know what. I’d do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections. We have to have honest elections."

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President Donald Trump, when asked Tuesday about the possibility of federal agents at polling places during the November midterm elections, told PBS News’ Liz Landers that he supports "anything" to ensure "honest elections."

Federal law bars the deployment of “troops or armed men” at polling stations and prohibits voter intimidation. The Department of Homeland Security told state officials earlier this year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will not be present at voting locations during the midterm elections.

Yet other Trump administration officials have not unequivocally knocked down the idea. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said earlier this month that he was “not sure of the uproar of the risk of having a Border Patrol or an ICE agent at a polling location, or looking into whether somebody is voting that shouldn't be.”

Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections; some municipalities allow them to vote in local elections.

May 7, 2026 - The Justice Department pressed forward on Trump’s top legal and political priorities on several fronts Thursday. That includes relitigating the 2020 election by investigating voting records in Georgia and legally targeting lawmakers and groups seen as hostile to the president’s agenda. Justice correspondent Ali Rogin joins Amna Nawaz with the latest.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehhSDUzWDcI

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May 6, 2026 - Fulltext

Fox News was on the scene immediately when the FBI raided Virginia state Senator L. Louise Lucas’s legislative office in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Wednesday, and that may not have been by accident.

Portsmouth is in the southeastern corner of the state, far from Washington, D.C., or Fox’s headquarters in New York, and somehow, the network’s London correspondent, Alex Hogan, was able to capture federal agents entering Lucas’s office.

According to Department of Justice rules, advance notice to the media requires approval at the highest levels.

“In order to promote the aims of law enforcement, including the deterrence of criminal conduct and the enhancement of public confidence, DOJ personnel, with the prior approval of the appropriate United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General, may assist the news media in recording or reporting on a law enforcement activity,” the DOJ’s Justice Manual states.

In another section, the manual states that “in cases where a search warrant or arrest warrant is to be executed, no advance information will be provided to the news media without the express approval of the appropriate United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General. This requirement also applies to operations in preparation for the execution of a warrant.”

Both of these rules suggest that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche or one of his direct subordinates gave notice to Fox News before the FBI executed its search warrants Wednesday, and that he wanted the case to get attention for partisan reasons. Lucas is not only a leading Democrat in Virginia, but she was instrumental in pushing for congressional redistricting in the state to favor Democrats.

President Trump was angered after Virginia passed a constitutional amendment to temporarily allow its congressional maps to be redrawn last month, and Blanche has demonstrated his willingness to use the full power of the DOJ to go after Trump’s enemies. Getting the right-wing media to cover an FBI raid on a Democratic politician is the perfect way to make Trump happy.

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May 5, 2026 - Excerpt

Leaders of the prison gang known as Los Tiburones, or the Sharks, were selling drugs to inmates not only for money, but for their votes. Specifically, votes for now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, investigators found.

To make sure the inmates — many of whom were addicted — complied, the gang’s leaders threatened violence and to withhold drugs, the investigators learned. Corrections employees in on the plan looked the other way as the gang, formally known as Group 31, ran the enterprise.

What at first seemed like a routine drug case had turned into something bigger. Puerto Rico, along with just a couple of U.S. states, allows inmates to vote. Puerto Ricans living in the territory can vote in all contests except federal general elections. It is a felony to willfully offer money or gifts in exchange for support at the polls. A conviction carries fines of as much as $250,000 and imprisonment of up to two years.

Investigators had gathered solid evidence of election fraud implicating both inmates and staff, and they were working toward determining whether González-Colón or her campaign was involved, four people with knowledge of the case told ProPublica. They requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case.

But as federal prosecutors prepared an indictment against the inmates and staff in November 2024 — just days after Trump won the election and González-Colón clinched the governorship — they received a surprising directive. Their bosses in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico instructed them to exclude the voting-related counts against the inmates and all charges against the prison staff, an investigation by ProPublica found.

In December, they filed an indictment charging 34 inmates and associates with crimes including drug distribution resulting in at least four overdose deaths, money laundering and possessing a firearm. And while prosecutors described the drugs-for-votes scheme in the court filing, they did not include a single charge related to it.

Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further, according to four people familiar with the case.

“Before the election, it was definitely full steam ahead,” said one person familiar with the case. “After the election, that all changed.”