Remember when Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency started combing through federal spending with a fine-tooth comb and making commonsense cuts, and the Democrats had a tantrum of epic proportions?

That’s because they didn’t want the American people to know about all their little NGOs that intentionally “fund our destruction.” They didn’t want us to find out about the billions of dollars in Obamacare fraud, Glenn Beck says.

On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office published a report addressing fraud in the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

Titled “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Preliminary Results from Ongoing Review Suggest Fraud Risks in the Advance Premium Tax Credit Persist,” the report reveals the following key findings:

GAO ran fake applicants through the system, and almost all of them still got approved for subsidized coverage, even when identity proofing failed up front and they submitted bogus documents.In 2023, there were over $21 billion in premium tax credits that the IRS couldn’t match to filed tax returns — meaning that money was likely issued to ineligible people or in the wrong amounts.In 2023, about 58,000 people listed were flagged as deceased who still appeared to have subsidies paid on their behalf, roughly $94 million in total.There were 29,000 instances of the same Social Security number used across multiple plans, including one extreme case where a single SSN was tied to more than 125 policies. From January to August 2024, CMS logged about 275,000 complaints from people saying they were enrolled or switched into plans without their consent.In 2018, CMS tested the system’s susceptibility to fraud and found numerous high-risk issues, yet has failed to make any changes or reassess since.

But don’t get upset yet, because the worst part comes next.

“These are the exact same findings the GAO had in 2015/2016. … It is literally word for word almost the same findings,” says Glenn’s chief researcher, Jason Buttrill.

Glenn is deeply disturbed by the GAO’s report.

“When a government becomes this incompetent and unaccountable, your country starts to completely fall apart,” he sighs.

“We see Democrats now rushing to the microphone to defend the perpetrators, the judges that are reversing verdicts to protect the people who stole from you. I contend that the people that are rushing to the microphones to defend it are the people who have been covering this up,” he speculates.

The people behind this fraud — whether they committed or overlooked it — should go to jail, he says, and anyone who disagrees is just “brainwashed.”

Although the country is suffering from “foreign invasion,” “internal strife,” and “financial collapse,” it is “internal corruption” that will be our ultimate downfall, he warns.

“Stop the fraud,” he pleads.

“Our country will not survive if we continue to normalize this stuff,” he adds.

To hear more of Glenn’s response to the GAO’s disturbing report, watch the video above.

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A California community is reeling after hearing the news that a local pastor was allegedly caught trying to meet a person he thought was a minor for sex.

James David Stockton, 54, was arrested on Saturday by Signal Hill police after an online citizen group called “Caught Fished” said it had documented inappropriate messages with the pastor.

‘He got into the nasty part that no pastor should be talking about.’

Stockton is the pastor at South Bay Church of God in Torrance. He ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2024, and before that he was a leader of the NAACP in Marion County.

The group provided some of the texts to KTTV-TV and said that Stockton knew the decoy was claiming to be 16 years old and in high school.

“What time you get out of school today?” read one text allegedly from Stockton.

“I promise to be gentle and make sure you are enjoying it,” read another.

The founder of the citizen group, named Antoine, said it got very explicit at that point.

“He got into the nasty part that no pastor should be talking about,” he told KTTV.

Stockton was defeated in his campaign by Rep. Randy Fine (R), who currently holds the office.

The church appears to have scrubbed a webpage indicating Stockton was their pastor, according to a KTTV-TV report.

“We don’t know anything, other than what we see on the video,” a member of the church said to KTTV. “But it was a shock to us, as everybody else.”

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The pastor was released on his own recognizance on Tuesday after pleading not guilty to a felony count of arranging to meet a minor for lewd purposes.

Stockton is due back in court on Dec. 12.

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Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District — a race the media immediately framed as “shockingly close,” a supposed omen of GOP collapse heading into next year’s midterms.

That is how the Independent described it. Nearly every major outlet followed the same script: Van Epps “squeaked through,” “barely won,” or “scraped by” against flaky Democrat Aftyn Behn — a candidate so culturally radical she publicly insists that men can give birth and openly sneered at the people and culture of the district she sought to represent.

The Tennessee race did not expose a Republican crisis so much as it exposed the cultural realignment reshaping the country.

The narrative writes itself: If a progressive activist who hates her own potential constituents nearly flipped a House seat in deep-red Tennessee, then “fascist” Donald Trump and the Republican Party must be in free fall.

The problem? None of that holds up.

Van Epps did not “squeeze through” anything. He won by nine points against an opponent backed by a tidal wave of out-of-state woke-capitalist money. Democrats outspent Republicans roughly 2-1. Even so, Van Epps secured a solid victory, not the “humiliating near-defeat” hallucinated by the Daily Beast and dutifully echoed across left-wing media.

Context also matters, and the press prefers to ignore it. In 2022, Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District was redrawn to pull in more of deep-blue Nashville. Van Epps’ predecessor, Rep. Mark Green, warned that packing more of the city’s electorate into the district would narrow future margins. That change did not stop Trump or Green from running up impressive totals in their home territory, but it guarantees a steeper climb for any Republican candidate.

Viewed in that light, a nine-point GOP win looks less like a crisis and more like a stable hold in a reshaped district.

Another reality the press downplays: Republicans carried their traditional coalition — small-town and rural voters, self-identified Christians, the suburban families who still vote their interests. GOP turnout operations clearly did their job in a midterm environment that does not exactly thrill Republican voters.

Urban support for Republicans, however, continues to erode, and that pattern now shows up nationwide. The notion that “wokeness is over” or that the left has moderated itself belongs to fantasy. More than 80% of Nashville voters lined up behind Behn, a candidate who often sounded like a woke caricature conjured by a far-right blogger. New York City voters backed Zohran Mamdani in overwhelming fashion. Seattle just elevated a Mamdani clone to the mayor’s office. Claims that woke politics melted away do not survive contact with the vote totals.

RELATED: Young, broke, and voting blue: 2025’s harsh lesson for the right

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The role of upscale left-wing donors — woke capitalists — also deserves attention. These people do not operate as Marxists or socialists in any serious sense. They behave like cultural revolutionaries with money and influence, eager to use redistribution as a tool to reshape society. They have no problem talking about higher taxes on “the rich,” because the true cost lands on the working and middle classes through lower wages and higher prices. They bankroll candidates like Behn because they want a different country — one less anchored in the values of the people who actually live in places like Tennessee’s 7th.

The special election in Tennessee reflects the same class conflict now defining national politics. Cultural polarization keeps intensifying, and Tuesday’s special election showcased that reality in miniature.

“Affordability” only partially explains the anti-Trump, pro-left tilt in certain electorates. A far worse economy, with rampant inflation and rising medical and food costs, did not prevent the Biden administration from outperforming expectations in the midterms. Something deeper drives that trend.

The Tennessee race did not expose a Republican crisis so much as it exposed the cultural realignment reshaping the country. That shift will not simply fade away, no matter how often the media insists otherwise.

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Nearly five years after “live, active” pipe bombs were discovered at the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 6, 2021, a suspect is now in custody.

On Thursday, the DOJ announced that 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Woodbridge, Virginia, has been arrested. Cole lives with his mother and other family members and works in the office of a bail bondsman, according to an FBI affidavit.

‘Today’s arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority.’

At a press conference alongside Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and others, D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed that Cole was arrested for allegedly transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials.

Citing the ongoing investigation, the officials shared few details about the sequence of events that led to Cole’s arrest, but they insisted that the evidence against Cole was not based on any “new tip,” just old-fashioned detective work.

“This wasn’t a new tip. It wasn’t some new evidence. It was the hard work of President Trump’s administration, Deputy Director Bongino, and Director Patel,” Bondi reiterated.

“Today’s arrest happened because the Trump administration has made this case a priority,” Bondi insisted.

“This is what it’s like when you work for a president who tells you to go get the bad guys and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement,” Bongino added.

Bondi further claimed that under the Biden administration, the evidence was “sitting there, collecting dust.” Such “total lack of movement” during the four years under Biden “undermined the public trust of our enforcement agencies,” she said.

Bongino did confirm that “forensic evidence” played a role in the arrest, but did not elaborate further. The officials declined to weigh in on a possible motive.

Patel indicated that Cole is believed to have “made [the] bombs,” and Bondi stated he was charged with “placing” them at the RNC and DNC on January 5, 2021.

The officials reiterated that further charges may be forthcoming and that the investigation is still in its early stages.

“We are the most transparent law enforcement operation in U.S. history, but we are also going to make sure accountability is delivered to its fullest extent,” Patel said. “And that happens in the courts of law, with our U.S. attorneys and our prosecutors. So we will divulge information when it is prudent and constitutionally permissible, while upholding the safeguards of this case, to make sure that the people that this individual intended to victimize get the accountability they deserve.”

“He will have his day in court.”

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The FBI affidavit dated Dec. 3 revealed more details about the evidence against Cole. Investigators were able to link materials used in the bombs — including galvanized pipes, end caps, wires, nine-volt battery connectors, and kitchen-style timers — as well as other items that may have been used during the construction process — such as wire nuts, safety glasses, and sandpaper — to purchases made by Cole.

A cell phone connected to Cole also pinged off of multiple cell towers near the RNC and DNC during the time the bombs were believed to have been placed, the affidavit said.

At 7:10 p.m. on January 5, a 2017 Nissan Sentra registered to Cole was likewise observed “less than one-half mile from the location where the individual who placed the devices was first observed on foot … at 7:34 p.m.” The alleged 7:10 p.m. observation of Cole’s vehicle came just five minutes before his cell phone “began to interact with Provider towers in the area,” 44 minutes before the DNC bomb was allegedly placed, and 66 minutes before the RNC bomb was allegedly placed, the affidavit indicated.

Cole’s height and use of eyeglasses also seem to correspond to the suspect spotted on surveillance footage, the affidavit claimed.

A Nov. 8 Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources reported that a gait analysis of a former Capitol Police officer was a forensic match to the gait of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect. Today, the FBI announced that a Virginia resident, Brian Cole Jr., has been arrested in connection with the pipe-bomb incident. At this point, there is no indication that the individual matched through the gait analysis is a suspect or involved in the FBI’s investigation.

An attorney for the Capitol Police officer has since denied the allegations on her behalf, and CBS News reported that the FBI ruled out her involvement, citing three unidentified sources who said there was a video of her playing with her puppies at the time the device was planted.

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