35Democratic Republic of the Congo​

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially in the eastern region, Christians face severe persecution and violence, frequently from Islamist militants the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Allied with the Islamic State group, the ADF abduct and kill Christians and attack churches, leading to widespread terror, insecurity and displacement.
The M23 rebel group, reportedly supported by Rwanda, also targets Christian civilians, making the situation even worse. Converts from Islam and indigenous religions face pressure from their families to return to their old faiths.
Catholic church leaders who speak out for fair elections risk harassment. This mix of militant threats, family pressures and political interference creates a dangerous and fearful environment for Christians in Eastern Congo.

Meet Jerome​

“Getting food is our main problem now that we’re displaced, because we don’t have a place to
farm. The situation is very bad. If life goes on like this … it’s hard to live.”
Jerome (name changed), an internally displaced person (IDP) in DRC.

What does Open Doors do to help?​

Open Doors works through local partners to support Christians in the DRC through persecution survival training, economic empowerment projects and trauma care.

Please pray​

• Pray for healing, hope and stability for displaced followers of Jesus amid the violence.
• Pray that the faith of those who some to salvation will grow and that they will be well discipled.
• Pray for peace, and that extremists will turn toward the Lord, a Saul to Paul conversion.

Lately, I have increasingly felt like I don't belong. I feel like it's hard to find a group of Christians to relate to. I don't really care for my co-workers. I even lost a friend at work earlier this year.

I have this great desire to relate to others and they have the same values and beliefs as me, but I'm not finding it.

I don't know what to do about it. This situation has me feeling lonely.

After addressing in my previous two articles, “Why Men Become Priests,” and “Why Priests Leave,” this final article in the series will examine various reasons “Why Priests Stay.”

The two main reasons priests remain in the priesthood involve dedication to one’s vocation and personal/financial security. Having been inspired by a young associate pastor in our parish, I became a priest because I believed Jesus Christ called me to “Come follow” him, just as he called Peter, James, John, and the other Apostles. I did not become a priest to please my Catholic parents or because I had a homosexual orientation that I could keep secret if I became a priest. Although I probably would have married had I had the option, I felt my ability to lead a celibate life before ordination would allow me to practice celibacy throughout my entire life.

An ongoing court case in New York (Anthony Gorgia vs Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the North American College) (NAC) involves an alleged sexual predator, Father Adam Park, who has been kept in ministry by Cardinals Wilton Gregory and Robert McElroy. Park, having been ordained by the late ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and having worked as the secretary of disgraced Cardinal Donald Wuerl, has insider knowledge of sexual misconduct and cover-up allegations not only against McCarrick and Wuerl, but also against Gregory and McElroy. When discussing priests “staying” or “leaving” for various reasons, including sexual misconduct, it should be noted that neither Gregory nor McElroy have investigated or disciplined Park who has been accused by multiple former NAC seminarians of homosexual predation while he was studying in Rome, when he returned to serve in Washington, D.C. as a priest, and while he was the vice-rector of the NAC in Rome.

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30 August 2025 – Indonesia​

Please pray for our partner, who is experiencing an increase in the number of threats to him and those he is training to share the gospel. Pray too for the provision of a secure location for the training to take place…

29 August 2025 – Indonesia​

Pray for the handful of Muslim-background believers who used to work with our partner and have been forced to return to their former religion. They have been passing on sensitive information to a radical group who are using it against our partner and the underground church.

28 August 2025 – North Korea​

Pray for the North Korean defectors who desperately miss their families back in their former homeland. Pray that they will know the Lord’s comfort and be assured that He hears their prayers for their loved ones.

27 August 2025 – North Korea​

Give thanks for 96 year-old Mrs Lee who despite persecution and personal tragedies in her life continues to witness to the love of God. As a child she witnessed the courageous faith of church leaders threatened with execution in a North Korean village (see Voice, April-June 2025).

26 August 2025 – North Korea​

Continue to pray for South Korean pastor Kim Kuk-Gi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour in North Korea in 2015 on charges of espionage.

25 August 2025 – North Korea​

Tighter surveillance and restrictions by the Government, coupled with natural disasters and other obstructions, have made Bible distribution in North Korea more challenging. Pray that our partner will have wisdom and know the Lord’s providence as distributions continue.

24 August 2025 – North Korea​

Pray for our partner in South Korea, training North Korean defectors to reach out to their neighbours with the gospel. As fellow defectors with a shared experience and background they are uniquely placed to communicate effectively.

On Wednesday, we were confronted once again with news of a devastating and avoidable tragedy. In Minneapolis, an attack on a Christian school shattered the innocence of what would have been an otherwise normal school day and changed families’ lives forever.

The horror unfolded at Annunciation Catholic School during morning Mass. Two young children, aged 8 and 10, were tragically killed while seated in the pews and 17 others were injured — 14 of them children between the ages of 6 and 15, along with three elderly parishioners in their 80s.

The shooter, identified as 23-year-old “Robin” Westman (born Robert Paul Westman), a former student at the school, opened fire through the church’s stained glass windows before taking his own life. Westman, who legally changed his name from Robert to Robin in 2020 at the age of 17 and identified as transgender, posted a disturbing manifesto on YouTube containing demonic content and even a call to assassinate President Trump.

The FBI is investigating this as domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics. While local law enforcement officials and mainstream media pundits claim that there was “no clear motive,” anyone with working eyes can see that Westman’s mental illness and deep-seated anti-Christian hatred drove this violent attack.

As an Evangelical Christian who knows what it’s like to tragically and unexpectedly lose a loved one, I’m deeply grieved for the families, praying for the wounded, and standing in solidarity with the Catholic community across America right now.

What can Christians do in light of tragedies like these? Here are three thoughts.

1) Never stop praying​

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Minneapolis Tragedy: The Christian Response Our Culture Desperately Needs

In the wake of another deadly attack on a Christian school, we no longer have the luxury of ignoring the rising ideological violence being waged against our children. Christians must boldly stand up, speak truth, and never stop praying. Yesterday, we were confronted once again with news of a...

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The clergymen called for more gun laws after the Minnesota church shooting, but ignored the perpetrator’s gender confusion, anti-Christian hatred, and potential demonic possession.​

The clergymen called for more gun laws after the Minnesota church shooting, but ignored the perpetrator’s gender confusion, anti-Christian hatred, and potential demonic possession.

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(LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Blase Cupich and Father James Martin, S.J., have called for stricter gun control laws in the wake of the deadly shooting of schoolchildren in Minnesota, without referencing the shooter’s “transgender” identity and mental illness or the spiritual roots of his attack.

“Robin” Westman, born Robert Westman, on Wednesday morning fired into Annunciation Catholic Church where schoolchildren were gathered, killing two and injuring 17 others, leaving one adult and five children in critical condition as of Thursday morning. Westman killed himself following the shooting.

Videos and writings from Westman show he was consumed by leftist hatred and mentally ill by his own admission. Footage he filmed captures him laughing maniacally as he focuses with his camera on an image of the face of Jesus Christ, crowned with thorns, atop a shooting target on his wall.

The video footage shows him proceeding to pick up an array of gun magazines painted with messages such as “Where is your God?” and “Pain and hate.” One gun reads, “Take this, all of you, and eat,” in a mockery of Christ’s words at the Last Supper said at the consecration during Mass.

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The heartbreaking shootingyesterday at a Minneapolis Catholic Church that killed two innocent children ages 8 and 10 and injured 17, was just the most recent mass shooting perpetrated by a self-identified transgendered individual. The suspect, Robin Westman, has been identified in the media as a “transgender person in their early 20s.”

Westman, a 22-year-old biological male named Robert, who identified as female, left a detailed manifesto in a spiral-bound notebook as well as a series of YouTube videos to help explain his plans to murder the children. The New York Post published photos of the pages from Westman’s manifesto, which included a chilling diagram of the Ascension Catholic Church where the shooting took place. Drawing the altar as well as the place where the children would be seated, the shooter even included the holy water font at the entrance of the Church. According to The Post:

In one of the videos by the alleged Minneapolis shooter, a hand slowly turns the pages of a red notebook, which is laid out on top of what appears to be schematic gun diagrams. Each page is filled with inscrutable handwritten scrawl, and an occasional plume of smoke is seen from the bottom of the screen as the person turning the pages coughs and occasionally maniacally giggles.

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The motive for the Minneapolis shootings has not been revealed, but the Post has reported that Westman’s mother had been employed by the Annunciation Church and School for five years prior to her retirement in 2021. Westman’s manifesto will provide more clues to his motives, but it is unclear whether the Minneapolis police or Governor Tim Walz will release this information.

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Pat McMonigle expected to fight terrorists whose ideologies were known. He couldn’t have imagined the faceless, evil, violent nihilists he found online.

As an FBI agent for nearly 20 years, Pat McMonigle investigated national security crimes, was a hostage negotiator and Joint Terrorism Task Force coordinator, trained dozens of other special agents, and was deployed three times to war zones overseas. But it was his investigation of an online cult fueled by an insidious, unspeakably evil ideology that led to the end of his law enforcement career.

That ideology is called 764, an online neo-Nazi group grounded in a nihilism and a perverse form of social Darwinism which encourages vulnerable young kids to release sexually explicit material, hurt themselves, and even die by suicide. And it is that ideology that the shooter at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Robin Westman, appears to have subscribed to based on the killer’s writings and activity online.

Westman appears to have supported the Order of Nine Angles, a Satanic right-wing group with ties to 764, though authorities haven’t yet confirmed this connection.

The investigation by McMonigle began in 2022 and involved a 13-year-old who was manipulated and coerced into dying by suicide, and recording it, by an online groomer and leader of 764. McMonigle said over the course of the investigation, he was forced to watch videos of dozens of kids being coerced into physically harming themselves, including watching the video of the 13-year-old child’s suicide at least half a dozen times.

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Many people wonder why the God who is infinite love would sentence someone to an eternity of fiery punishment. Consequently, many entertain the idea that God would never do such a thing. Then, they conclude that God will either eventually bring those who are in Hell into Heaven (universalism) or that He will annihilate their souls (annihilationism), thereby bringing an end to their suffering. This article will show why both conclusions are wrong.

The Catechism on Hell​

Like any good parent, God tells His children about the punishments that await us if we do not cease our evil actions and do what is right. Scripture verses about Hell serve as a warning to reject all evil. They are calls to conversion. The Catechism states,

The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of Hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: ‘Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few’ (CCC 1036).

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Bible Verses On Hell​

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I saw in another section of the forum that there was a chat thread.

We should have one too!

We can talk about anything.

I find it perplexing that so many people relate the Ten Commandments as the law of Moses when the Law itself has nothing to do with Moses, but has everything to do with our relationship with God. God’s name (not Moses) is in each one of these commandments and He takes ownership of them not just in the words itself, but He did not leave His holy and eternal Law to be written by man, God divinely wrote them Himself, not just once but twice. He wrote them in stone for its eternal nature and then He writes His laws in our heart 2Cor3:3 Heb 8:10 The first 4 commandments show how to love God and the last 6 how we love our neighbor. They cover so much more than people realize Psa 119:96 just as Jesus taught from this same unit Mat 5:19-30

Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor [b]serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting[c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

I personally do not see how Scripture could be clearer about whose Law is the Ten Commandments and Moses the creation and servant of God, is not God the Creator of everything Exo 20:11. Moses own testimony said the Ten Commandments is God’s work not his, so why do so many insist it’s the law of Moses so we no longer need to keep them when there is not one Scripture in context that says this.

Deu 4:13 So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

Deu 5:22 "These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly, in the mountain from the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and He added no more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Exo 31:18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exo 32:16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets.

Exo 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Deu 29:1 These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.


The Ten Commandments is what sits under God’s mercy seat Exo 25:21. What He wrote and what He spoke, the words of the covenant Exo 34:28 that He promised not to alter Psa 89:34 as it is revealed in heaven Heb 8:1-5 Rev 15:5 Rev 11:18-19. This is God’s authority that no one can change a jot or tittle, as it is what all man will be Judged by James 2:11 Rev 22:15. We have a righteous and loving God, He would not judge us without telling us how He will judge us and He did so in the most awesome way.

It seems many people have followed the traditions of the churches over the commandments of God. Jesus addressed this who is God made flesh and wrote the Ten Commandments…

Mar 7:7 AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.'

Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God (meaning not for me) , you hold the tradition of men

I believe we are living in the last days before Jesus comes in the clouds. Are there any commandments of God we are laying aside and instead following popular traditions? Breaking God’s law is sin 1 John 3:4 We have time to change our ways today, but we do not know what tomorrow brings.

Heb 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but [b]exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.


Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, please move or educate me, as required.

I have asked if the chaplains are the place to go with these questions, because I don't know what a chaplain is, so while I'm awaiting response I hoped you all might be able to assist.

So, the bible makes so many references to the number 7. Everything happens in 7s, e.g. 7 days and I just wondered what the reason was for this?

There was a gentleman who I used to talk to who highlighted this and I scoffed at him telling him that the bible wasn't some mystical text filled with numerology so, if he explained it to me, I missed out due to my arrogance as I wasn't actually reading the Bible at the time and thought he was misguided about seeing a pattern of instances. But, as I read, he is correct and I have no idea why the number features so heavily.

Thanks for your help, as always, God bless.

Illinois has become the latest state to require public colleges and universities to make contraception and the abortion pill available to students. This comes amid ongoing debates over the legality of abortion and the harms of abortion pills.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 3709 into law last week after the Democrat-controlled Illinois House of Representatives passed the bill in a 74-40 vote and the Democrat-controlled state Senate voted 37-19 to advance the legislation.

The bill, which passed largely along party lines with all support coming from Democrats and nearly all opposition coming from Republicans, amends the state’s Public Higher Education Act to require all public colleges and universities in the state that provide “student health services” to require healthcare professionals to dispense contraception and medication abortion to students.

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Christopher Watts, a Colorado man who was found guilty in 2018 and then sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters, Bella and Celeste, says he’s now a changed man, thanks to the Gospel, and he believes God has forgiven him.

Watts, now 40, shared his thoughts on the state of his soul in letters to a female pen pal, as cited by the Daily Mail.

“I am a new man,” he declares in one letter. “I am not the person who committed those horrible acts. 2Corinthians 5:17 says, ‘if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.’ That's me. I'm a new creature.”

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Please pray for my sister who is in a lot of pain with swollen feet and legs. With every move my sister has pain in her legs and feet, and also cramps in her back. Please pray for pain relief, thank you. God bless.

A recent poll by Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies and The Harris Poll found that a majority of the respondents believe that famine conditions exist in the Gaza Strip following the recent United Nations Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report. But most also believe that Hamas is responsible for those conditions.

The poll, conducted during August, found that 69% of respondents believed famine reports are accurate, with Democrats more likely than Republicans or Independents to accept those reports.

Regarding an opinion on who is responsible for the famine conditions, the poll found a similar breakdown, with 61% of all respondents blaming Hamas, Republicans (74%) and Independents (60%) more likely to blame Hamas, and with Democrats split between blaming Hamas or Israel largely along age lines. Democrats between the ages of 18-24 were more likely to blame famine conditions on Israel than the Hamas terror group.

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In context, the Judaizers were trying to convince the Gentile Christians that they needed to be more like Jews and that they had to obey some of the Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial laws such as circumcision, dietary restrictions and the keeping of the Jewish Sabbath. Particularly Paul was concerned about them being pressured into being circumcised when that was not required of them by God, because they were already circumcised in the Spirit with a spiritual circumcision, which is not of the flesh.

But some of the Gentile Christians were being convinced that they had to add some of these Old Covenant liturgical and ceremonial laws on to their salvation, and some of the Jews were also holding on to some of those Old Covenant laws. His main concern was in the area of physical circumcision and them feeling as though they needed to add things on to their faith that God does not require, feeling as though that was going to make them better Christians or enhance their Christianity in some way, which was a lie.

And Paul was trying to correct the lies and to teach the people the truth, but it appears that some of them were not listening to him and that they may have been rejecting him in favor of the Judaizers who were teaching them something different. And so he was appealing to them here to follow after the truth that they had first received and to not be swayed to do something different by those who were trying to win them over to a different gospel. For Paul was dedicated to helping them to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.

And we have a parallel situation to this today with so many Judaizers and false teachers who are either adding on to the gospel of Christ what is not of God, or who are removing from the gospel what they do not want to accept, and then who are teaching the Scriptures out of context, and are making them say what they do not say if taught in the right context. And so many of them are teaching that all we need to do is make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all our sins are forgiven, and heaven is our eternal destiny, but regardless of how we live in lifestyle and in practice.

And these false teachers are very zealous to win people over to their point of view, and not for a good purpose, for they are leading them to continue in their sinful practices and to not obey God and his New Covenant commands. And they will use such passages as Galatians 3-4 out of context to try to say that we do not have to obey God’s commands at all, and that we do not have to die to sin, for they call that “works salvation” or “legalism,” and so they are convincing the masses to accept their false gospel of salvation.

But faith in Jesus Christ, which is of God, is not lip service only, but it is about change of heart and mind and behavior, away from living in sin to now following our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. We do none of this in our own flesh, but only by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, in the power and wisdom of God, and by the Spirit. For by faith in Christ we are to now turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that we may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified (made holy) by faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 26:18).

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Faith in Christ is Change
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NAIROBI, Kenya — A Muslim who converted to Christianity and professed his faith in Jesus Christ was murdered for being the first in his family to renounce Islam.

Mohammed Nagi, 38, a father of five children, ages 4 to 15, in Uganda, converted to Christianity in March and was killed on Aug. 19 after a Muslim friend lured him to a village with the promise of work.

Nagi, along with his wife and children, had embraced Christianity after a pastor from a church in Mbale visited their home on March 2 and shared the Gospel, said Nagi’s wife, Katooko Nusula.

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Hi, all this time I'd been thinking about how devastating it is for a person not to be able to talk to their loved one anymore, but I thought to myself, what if they are the ones devastated that they can't talk to you? We tend to make it about our loss (how can we not?), but depending on where a person's soul is, I have overlooked the other side of grief.

Does it go to follow that, with higher crime rates in rural red states, Trump doesn't care about the people who are voting for them?

Logically it HAS to, right? All I heard is how unsafe Democrat cities are. But there are unsafe Repbulican cities. Why isn't trump working hard to make those cities safer by sending in the National Guard?

If red states were actually worried about safety why aren't they up in arms about not getting the National guard sent to them?

Hey Mr. President: What about rural crime in red states? - Salon.com

Are we all pretending we don't know the real reason for all of this?

2020 election denier named top Trump official for ‘Election Integrity’

Is the APPEARANCE of impartiality important before an election?

This is mostly for Trump supporters but I'm curious about everyone's opinion.


Not only do I think the appearance is important, I think the practical completion of the job is with impartiality is important.
What evidence do we have that that could possibily happen with this one in charge?

The political appointment, first reported by Democracy Docket, shows how self-styled election investigators who have thrown themselves into election conspiracy theories since 2020 are now being celebrated by a presidential administration that indulges their false claims. (AP)

Further background

Researcher who distorted voter data gets election integrity job in Trump’s second term​

Heather Honey embraced 2020 election conspiracy theories. She’ll now serve in election integrity role at the Department of Homeland Security.

A related report from ProPublica noted that Honey “had played a key role in [Cleta] Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’s election rules to allow Republican officials to contest a potential Trump loss in that year’s presidential race. Honey also promoted election conspiracy theories, including one Trump cited in a speech to his followers before they stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”

Oklahoma state Rep. Ty Burns, a Republican, pleaded guilty to domestic abuse and two misdemeanor assault charges on Thursday over incidents in which he attacked his wife and daughter.

Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation agents relayed that Burns wife told them "that last Thanksgiving holiday (2024), [she] made plans to do something with friends and Ty got mad at her,” the agent wrote.

“[She] told Ty he was too controlling, and that she was going. Ty followed [his wife] into the bathroom. Ty was pointing at [her] and then forcefully tried to gouge her eye out with his finger. Ty broke a blood vessel in [her] eye. As a result of her eye injury, [she] could not go to work the whole next week. [The family friend] confirmed having seen [her friend] with injury to her eye," the agent said in the report.

Burns wasn't given any jail time, only a one-year "suspended sentence" with a mandatory batterer's intervention program.