Olive Garden's Never-Ending Pasta Pass sparked an unlikely political firestorm after conservatives applauded the restaurant's photo ID requirement, arguing the policy is stricter than voting laws in some Democrat-led states.

"Olive Garden requires ID to use their never ending pasta pass but most Democrat run states don’t require your ID to vote. So in America, our pasta deals are literally more secure than our elections. Maddening and hilarious at the same time," one conservative commentator, Robby Starbuck, wrote on X.

"The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering," the restaurant posted to X on Thursday.

"Olive Garden takes their Pasta Pass security more seriously than Democrats take election security," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital. "It’s sad but true."

"The SAVE America Act is a commonsense police, supported by the vast majority of Americans, that will secure our elections for generations to come. The only people opposed seem to be Democrats in Congress… I wonder why?" she added.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/olive-garden-becomes-unlikely-face-voter-id-fight-after-restaurants-policy-goes-viral   

The Gateway Pundit reported on a recent interview with Gustavo Gordillo is the co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in New York City.

Speaking with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, DSA tried to clarify its position on abolishing key institutions in the United States, including eliminating the Senate and replacing the President and Supreme Court with “an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”

From DSA’s website:

For the working class to govern, we need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery: get rid of lobbyists, dark money, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

During the discussion, Gordillo showed that he does not even understand the difference between the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, nor does he understand the system of government he and his fellow radicals are so eager to destroy.

“The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution. It gives more representation to people in smaller states than to the 30 million people in California.”

The Yale graduate apparently thinks the founders created a democracy.  They did not and that was done with forethought.  We are a constitutional Republic.

But no matter what we are, the radicals just want us destroyed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/house-dems-suddenly-mum-when-confronted-radical-democratic/   

President Donald Trump released documents on Thursday evening that detail problems with the nation’s election system, including revealing that a portion of foreign nationals are illegally registered to vote.

The document, which focuses on noncitizen voting, was posted to the White House website. Multiple investigations from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the document states, have exposed that more than 250,000 foreign nationals are illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada alone.

The document touts the Trump administration’s enhanced SAVE system to streamline and more easily have states identify and remove foreign nationals from their voter rolls.

“In the short time that the enhanced SAVE system has been available to states, 10 states have processed their full voter lists,” the document states:

As of June 22, 2026, a total of 25 different states processed more than 68 million registration records through the SAVE system.DHS has enabled those states to identify over 400,000 deceased registrants and over 28,000 non-citizens who illegally registered to vote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/17/white-house-more-than-quarter-million-foreigners-illegally-registered-vote-four-states/

Ohio must become a “zero state income tax” state, Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.

Ramaswamy, one of the originals involved in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) movement, explained that making Ohio a zero income tax state will “require a government that doesn’t spend money on unnecessary things, but actually focuses on the few things the state needs to be doing well, like infrastructure and building highways,” emphasizing that there is a “lot of waste, a lot of fraud, a lot of abuse that we have to wring out of the system.”

And right now, one of the biggest line items in our state budget, actually the biggest line item, is the Medicaid budget, where there is rampant — I believe rampant — at least 10 percent waste, fraud, and abuse,” he said, explaining that he is going to “prosecute” that “aggressively.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/17/exclusive-vivek-ramaswamy-we-must-get-ohio-to-a-zero-state-income-tax/  

New York City appears to be on the verge of replicating Los Angeles by establishing its own crime-ridden skid row in the form of a 12-block-long homeless encampment that continues to grow on Manhattan’s West Side.

Those who live, work and visit nearby are telling at least one news outlet that the city is failing to address the tents, trash and reported illegal activity in the alarming stretch of vagrant dwellings between the Intrepid Museum and the Jacob Javitz Center.

“This site has been noticed and it will be cleared,” the mayor said. “As with any site once we notice there is seven days until the point of clearing.  Each of those seven days is characterized by outreach from city workers looking to connect those who are present with services, whether it be services at a shelter, medical services, or supportive services beyond that.”

He did not say when the seven-day waiting period kicks in, according to the Post report.

Encampments, like those in Los Angeles, bring more than “homeless” people, critics say. As L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said repeatedly in his unsuccessful campaign, encampments don’t indicate a housing problem. They are the result of a drug problem.

He told an L.A. ABC affiliate in May:

Well, they’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. Most of these people are addicted to fentanyl and meth. This isn’t Spencer making that up. There is places for all of these people to sleep in L.A. No matter what anybody tells you, we have housing and shelter for everyone that’s living on the street. They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs. They don’t want rules. They don’t want to listen.

There were also reports of vagrants drawing power from utility poles, which resulted in comments from the New York Police Department (NYPD) earlier this week.

“The NYPD has not been given the green light to clean this encampment up, but we are ready to do so,” an NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/07/18/zohran-mamdanis-new-york-city-includes-a-12-block-long-homeless-encampment-in-manhattan/  

The communist Chinese government allegedly sought to find and pay U.S. journalists to report negatively about President Donald Trump in 2019 to sway the 2020 presidential election, according to a declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) note. 

The declassified CIA note is one document in a trove the White House released Thursday night in conjunction with President Donald Trump’s speech on election integrity and major election vulnerabilities. During his nearly 26-minute speech, the president announced declassified findings of China compromising U.S. voter rolls, noncitizens on voter rolls, vulnerabilities in electronic voting and ballot-counting systems, and an election fraud investigation in Michigan after the 2020 election that was allegedly slow-walked by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ).

During his speech, President Trump accused the Chinese government of seeking to “identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him, as many as they could and they didn’t care what they said.”

“The Chinese government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election,” the 45th and 47th president said. 

On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded the American government “stop vilifying China.” 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/17/declassified-cia-note-china-sought-to-pay-u-s-journalists-to-write-negative-stories-on-president-trump-to-sway-2020-election/  

For years, the left and their allies in the corporate media have tried to convince America that political violence is almost exclusively a right-wing problem. Secretary of State Marco Rubio just obliterated that narrative.

In what may have been the strongest speech of his political career, Rubio laid out what he says is the growing threat of transnational far-left violence and the foreign regimes helping fuel it.

According to Rubio, this isn’t about a few angry protesters. It’s about a coordinated movement that crosses borders, shares tactics, spreads radical ideology, and works to destabilize free societies.

Most stunning of all, Rubio pointed directly at the communist regime in Cuba, accusing it of playing a major role in funding and exporting this violent agenda throughout the Americas, including into the United States.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/rubio-exposes-foreign-forces-behind-americas-violent-left/  

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, President Trump is expected to drop major revelations tonight about Chinese Communist Party meddling in U.S. elections, including evidence that Beijing compromised American voter data and that the CIA knew about it during Trump’s first term and deliberately withheld the information from him.

President Trump has repeatedly said free and fair elections are the foundation of the country. Tonight, he is expected to show the nation exactly what foreign adversaries, and those inside the government who enabled or ignored them, were willing to do to undermine that foundation.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/leavitt-signals-major-reveal-ahead-as-cnns-kaitlan/?trueLinkId=pRjlVtDgJxi9MQgm%2FcZVeMv%2FXF5xzyeNdWWZr9cdGiPDeoMAs%2FEg%2FjlHVEc1pOOnbaQu6S3CH3AgGPKyiHx%2Big%3D%3D&trueLinkTs=1784237821&trueLinkExpiry=43200  

A request for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration for potential violations of the Logan Act has been filed by House Republicans, led by Rep. Addison McDowell (R-NC). 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche received the letter on Thursday morning after it was revealed that a senior Mamdani official attempted to organize an unauthorized meeting with a high-ranking member of the Iranian regime while the country remains at war with the United States.

“The Department of Justice needs to look into Mamdani’s office and ensure they are not acting as rogue agents to the detriment of America’s national security,” the congressman continued.  “Mamdani does not speak for America. President Trump earned the public’s trust to ensure the safety and security of the United States.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/07/16/exclusive-house-republicans-request-federal-investigation-into-mamdani-admin-for-potential-logan-act-violation/  

When Zohran Mamdani was running for mayor of New York City, he repeatedly talked about freezing the rent. Voters heard this and thought it meant that if Mamdani was mayor, their rent would go down.

That’s not how the real world works, but that’s what people heard. In a sense, they heard what they wanted to hear. Mamdani knew all of this but he kept talking about it anyway.

Now he has been in office for six months and rents in New York City just hit an all-time high.

The New York Post reports:

The city’s housing crisis has hit “DefCon 1” — with average rents for a one-bedroom in Manhattan hitting an all-time high of nearly $5,500 last month, and Brooklyn following suit, according to new data and critics.

“We need bold action. This is a crisis,’’ New York City Comptroller Mark Levine posted...

...The most recent available data shows roughly 38% of New Yorker residents were born outside the United States, and about 40% of rentals in the city are occupied by foreign-born individuals, though the data does not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration status.

“You declared yourself a sanctuary city. You ‘welcomed’ hundreds of thousands of illegals. Then you had to find places to put them,” conservative radio host Andrew Wilkow wrote on X, reacting to news of increased rents. “That put pressure on housing supply. Shortages create price increases. It’s pretty simple.”…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/new-york-city-rents-hit-all-time-high/