A bet on artificial intelligence is driving a nine-figure investment in the political world ahead of the midterms.

With millions of dollars on hand, one super PAC insistent on pushing artificial intelligence is injecting cash into political campaigns across the country.

‘About half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.’

With the help of some generous venture capitalists, super PAC Leading the Future was just announced to have surpassed $140 million in just about a year and a half.

The latest donations have added to the $125 million raised in 2025.

Leading the Future — which says it is focused on “advancing a positive, forward-looking agenda for AI innovation in Washington, D.C.” — has been willing to pump money into candidates from either party and has done so in states like Illinois, New York, and Texas.

Business Insider reports that the PAC generally pushes candidates who show broad support of AI and tech innovation, while keeping regulations light.

This included $1.4 million to Texas Republican candidates across four districts: Tom Sell, Jace Yarbrough, Jessica Steinmann, and Chris Gober.

For Democrats, $1.1 million was reportedly provided to former Rep. Melissa Bean, with $1.4 million going to Jesse Jackson Jr., both in Illinois.

The PAC is also supporting Democrat Alex Bores’ run to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler (D) in New York, according to NOTUS.

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The jury is still out in terms of support from the general public on AI overall, with skepticism and lack of acceptance still floating around 50/50.

Pew polling from 2025 showed that about half of Americans are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. About half of respondents also said AI will worsen the ability to think creatively and form meaningful relationships.

The data also had Republicans and Democrats split on their concern. Half of respondents from both parties said they were more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI.

About 10% from both parties said they were more excited than concerned.

Favorability floats around 50% in 2026 polling from Data for Progress. It is most favored by black people (61%), those under 45 (61%), and men (57%). At the same time, it is mostly unfavorable with women (51%) and those over 45 (52%).

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Public skepticism may be the biggest hurdle for the super PAC to overcome, but it is also facing opposition money.

Another network called Public First is pledging $50 million to candidates who support regulation, in either party, in 2026.

Public First positions itself as representing American voters who have concerns about “the impacts of AI on kids, workers, consumers, and the American economy.”

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The House has advanced a bill to extend the Temporary Protected Status for Haiti by another three years after six Republicans voted with Democrats.

Democrats unanimously voted Wednesday to advance Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation that would give special protections to Haitian migrants. The bill ultimately advanced in a 219-209 vote with the help of six Republicans and one independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, who previously served as a member of the GOP.

‘If you import the Third World, you become the Third World.’

The six Republicans are: Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Carlos Gimenez of Florida, Mike Lawler of New York, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, and Nicole Malliotakis of New York. Notably, Salazar is also leading the charge for the bipartisan bill dubbed the Dignity Act, which critics have said is just another push for mass amnesty.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas called the vote to extend TPS for Haitians “absurd,” echoing the concerns shared by many Americans.

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Earlier in April, President Donald Trump and his administration sounded the alarm after an immigrant from Haiti allegedly murdered an American woman at a gas station by bludgeoning her with a hammer. This migrant came to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s administration and benefited from the same Temporary Protected Status the House is on track to extend.

“This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way,” Trump said in a Truth Social Post.

“As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World, and that is what happened over the four years of Democrat Control,” he added.

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A clip from the newest season of “Euphoria” sent commentator Megyn Kelly into fits after seeing actress Sydney Sweeney pose sexually while wearing an infantile costume.

Sweeney portrays a woman who decides to open an OnlyFans account to fund her wedding but ends up dressing like a baby to satisfy some client’s bizarre desires.

‘Most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child.’

Kelly said she was shocked by the scene as well as the reaction to it.

“She’s dressed as a baby! She’s in a baby’s outfit. She’s sucking on a binky pacifier, and her legs are completely spread,” she said on her show.

“You can have a laugh, of course, because I was shocked, but the truth is, this is sexualizing infancy. That’s what it is,” Kelly added. “And some of the write-ups on this are like, ‘It’s a pretty common kink.’ What? Getting turned on by a baby, like what?!”

“It seems to be wanting to bring down your defenses on the most disgusting crime imaginable on earth.”

Video of the scene was posted to social media.

“I can’t believe she agreed to this frankly and was in this,” said Kelly of Sweeney.

“I think this is another example of Hollywood not understanding at all where the line is,” the commentator added. “And how most normal people are going to recoil … in response to what’s essentially the sexualization of a child, of a baby.”

Kelly went on to criticize Sam Levinson, the show’s creator, for other needless scenes of nudity.

“He constantly wants women to take their clothes off for scenes that don’t require them to be nude at all,” Kelly said.

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“All these women want to be stars, and few say no, but those that do, somehow it leaks because they’re clearly trying to tell us that this guy is, at a minimum, a jerk, and, more than likely, a problem,” she added.

Sweeney became a favorite for many on the right when her presence in an American Eagle jeans advertisement made leftist woke-scolds on TikTok implode with fury. The company was accused of pushing fascist and racist propaganda, but both the actress and American Eagle have laughed off the claims.

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On April 7, a heroic principal prevented a tragedy at an Oklahoma school by stepping in to disarm a gunman who entered the school near his office.

Blaze News previously reported that Pauls Valley Principal Kirk Moore stopped an armed assailant from shooting up the school, risking his life for his students and taking a bullet to the leg in the process.

Blaze News acquired surveillance video from the school showing the scene unfold.

The video shows the suspect entering the building and pulling out a gun. Moore can be seen jumping into action without hesitation after he enters the hallway and identifies the threat.

Moore was shot in the leg during the struggle.

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Video shows Moore managing to restrain the suspect and pinning the hand with the gun, preventing the suspect from using it, before another man intervenes and removes the firearm from the situation.

No students or other faculty were harmed during the incident.

A GoFundMe page was set up to support Principal Moore as a “token of appreciation for a man who gave everything for others.”

The page reads, “Principal Moore has spent his life protecting and guiding students. In a moment of crisis, he proved just how far he’s willing to go for them.”

The fund has raised more than $10,000 at the time of writing.

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Vice President JD Vance, who chairs the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, declared that “no amount of fraud is too big or too small” and stated that the task force plans to target bad actors regardless of the amount of money they have stolen from taxpayers.

During a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday, Vance highlighted the task force’s early victories.

‘If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too.’

President Donald Trump established the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud by executive order in mid-March. Since then, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has worked with the task force to close hundreds of allegedly fraudulent health care providers.

On Tuesday, Vance discussed the issue of widespread fraud in the Minneapolis area, stating that the task force had turned off a government assistance program for autistic children that was being widely exploited.

“We’ve completely stopped the funding to that program. And we basically told the state of Minnesota, ‘You don’t get any more of our money unless you’ve verified that you’re taking fraud seriously,’” he stated, and the crowd responded with applause.

The federal government announced in February that it was withholding $259.5 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota.

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During Tuesday’s event, Vance commended CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for his work on eliminating fraud.

“We had our weekly fraud check-in call two weeks ago, and Dr. Oz called in, but he’s like, ‘Hey, I got to go because I’m about to hop on the bus, and we’re going to go arrest a bunch of fraudsters in Los Angeles.’ And I was like, ‘That’s exactly what I want you to do. By all means, get off the phone.’ So we’re doing a lot of that stuff.”

Vance explained that under the Biden administration, the federal government overlooked fraudsters who stole smaller amounts of money from taxpayers. He stated that this approach has changed under the Trump administration.

“No amount of fraud is too big or too small. If you’re defrauding the taxpayer, you ought to go to prison, and anybody who’s helping you ought to go to prison too,” Vance remarked.

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As of Wednesday, the task force has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies in Los Angeles, with an estimated fraud total exceeding $600 million.

“With @VP’s leadership, we’re crushing fraud faster than ever,” Oz stated.

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Last Sunday, Eric Swalwell suspended his California gubernatorial campaign after reports by the San Francisco Chronicle and CNN detailed multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, which he denies. He resigned from Congress the next day amid lost endorsements and staff departures.

Now Glenn Beck reads the open letter he wrote to Swalwell to illustrate the timeless law of reciprocity.

Glenn begins by rehashing Swalwell’s public opposition to Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018. Tweeting #BelieveSurvivors, Swalwell argued that multiple accusers meant the allegations were likely true (or Kavanaugh was the “unluckiest person in the world”) and said victims “deserve to be heard” and their allegations investigated.

“Congressman, do you feel the same way today?” Glenn asks. “Because now you have 50 women — 50 — from your office claiming the same thing. … Should we bring them all in? Should we question them publicly, or is this time different?”

“At the time, you even pushed back on applying strict legal standards in public judgment, noting, ‘The testimony of a single witness can prove any fact,’” he continues.

“So perhaps we just bring in one woman out of the 50 and let her speak publicly and believe her because she, as you pointed out, is a survivor.”

Glenn accuses Swalwell of showing “little to no patience for caution,” putting “little emphasis on presumption of innocence,” and lending “little concern for due process in the court of public opinion” in Kavanaugh’s 2018 hearings.

“And what’s truly sad is, at the time — unlike today — you were not alone. But boy, I bet you feel alone today,” he sneers.

“Isn’t it weird and a bitter symmetry that is happening here?” he asks. “You once argued that accusations carried its own moral force, that patterns of claims pointed towards truth no matter what, and that the accused should open themselves fully to prove their innocence.”

But now, Swalwell asks for “time,” “fairness, and “restraint.”

“The very principles you minimalized are the ones you now invoke,” Glenn says.

Calling him a “destructive, dishonest, selfish, slimy … force” who “never seemed to care about anything other than [his] own personal agenda,” Glenn grants Swalwell what he was unwilling to grant to others: “The allegations against you, however serious, however numerous, remain allegations.”

However, Glenn isn’t the least bit sorry that Swalwell’s career, ambitions, and reputation have been destroyed.

“There’s no one who deserves to feel that pain more than you,” he says.

He then points out the irony of the progressive Marxist apparatus Swalwell has been instrumental in.

“You were destroying the progressive enemies, and so they protected you. And in that, your arrogance grew. … You were untouchable. You were invincible — until you become an inconvenience,” he says. “And then Marxists and progressives do what they always do. Ends justify the means. You are expendable.”

The rise and fall of Swalwell, Glenn says, is a perfect example of God’s eternal law: “As you judge, so shall you be judged.”

To hear more of Glenn’s savage open letter to Eric Swalwell, watch the video above.

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A Florida woman who fraudulently posed as a nurse and treated nearly 4,500 patients without a license escaped going to jail, according to multiple reports.

Autumn Bardisa of Palm Coast was arrested by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in August 2025 for posing as a nurse and treating over 4,400 patients without a license.

‘This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.’

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the 29-year-old pleaded no contest last week to unlicensed practice of health care and fraudulent use of identification.

A seven-month investigation originally led to 14 charges against Bardisa: seven counts of unlicensed health care practice and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification.

However, Bardisa will not face jail time.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Bardisa was sentenced to 60 months of probation, which can be terminated after 30 months.

Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols withheld adjudication, which means Bardisa will not be a convicted felon unless she violates the terms of her probation, according to the News-Journal.

Bardisa also was sentenced to 50 hours of community service.

WTVJ-TV reported that Bardisa is prohibited from practicing medicine during her probation.

Bardisa is required to send an apology letter to the nurse whose license number she stole.

“Incredibly poor judgment. Her actions were wrong,” Judge Nichols said, according to the News-Journal. “She will pay for those actions severely.”

The victim of the identity theft said during the hearing that Bardisa “chose to put countless lives on the line.”

However, the judge interrupted the victim and ordered her to “stop the personal attacks.”

Judge Nichols proclaimed, “There is absolutely zero evidence that countless lives were on the line. Zero evidence. As a matter of fact, the information that has been presented is that she was excellent in her job, and she excelled at her job.”

The News-Journal reported that Josh Davis, Bardisa’s defense attorney, said he was able to convince prosecutors to waive the one-year minimum mandatory sentence for practicing nursing without a license.

Davis argued, “The reason that we are in the courthouse is because she was really good at her job, and she makes people jealous.”

“Some co-workers go back and do the digging, and that’s the reason we are here,” Davis claimed.

According to the News-Journal, Bardisa maintained that there is “a lot more to the story” but did not offer further specifics.

“I’m just glad it ended up the way it did,” Bardisa stated. “And my daughter wasn’t harmed at all or didn’t have to face any of the backlash.”

Bardisa added, “I think a mistake shouldn’t ruin someone’s life.”

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The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in an August statement that Bardisa was hired July 3, 2023, as an advanced nurse tech at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway and was working under the supervision of a registered nurse.

Investigators said Bardisa applied for the position as an “education first” registered nurse — a designation for those who have completed their nursing program but have not yet passed the national licensing exam.

Police stated, “During the hiring process, Bardisa then informed the hospital that she had passed the exam and provided a license number matching an individual with her first name, Autumn, but with a different last name.”

Bardisa initially brushed off the discrepancy by claiming a recent name change due to marriage.

However, investigators said Bardisa never provided a marriage license to AdventHealth.

In January 2025, Bardisa was offered a promotion.

During the promotion process, a fellow employee checked the status of Bardisa’s license and discovered that she had an expired certified nursing assistant license, which was then reported to health care administrators, according to police.

Authorities said AdventHealth administrators launched an internal investigation, which revealed Bardisa never verified her identity or her supposed name change.

On January 22, 2025, AdventHealth terminated Bardisa after she failed to confirm her identity, the press release said.

Following her firing, AdventHealth alerted the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

FCSO detectives, as well as investigators with the Florida Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “reviewed documents and conducted interviews with AdventHealth employees” and determined that Bardisa stole the identity of another nurse, police said.

“The investigation determined that Bardisa shared a first name with the other nurse, who was employed by AdventHealth, but at a different hospital, and had attended school with her,” the sheriff’s office declared.

Police said Bardisa participated in medical services administered to 4,486 people from June 2024 to January 2025, despite never possessing the required nursing license.

Bardisa was arrested on August 5, 2025.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly proclaimed, “This is one of the most disturbing cases of medical fraud we’ve ever investigated.”

“This woman potentially put thousands of lives at risk by pretending to be someone she was not and violating the trust of patients, their families, AdventHealth, and an entire medical community,” Staly said.

Sheriff Staly added, “Nursing is a noble profession about caring for those in need, but there is a right way and wrong way to go about it, and she chose the wrong way by using a real nurse’s license.”

“Because she chose to circumvent the rules, she ruined her career, and she potentially endangered patients,” Staly said.

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