Do you recall how the U.S. Military struggled to meet recruitment goals un Joe Biden? Those days are clearly over. On Pete Hegseth’s watch, under President Trump, the armed forces are having no trouble at all getting new recruits to sign up. The Army just met its goals four months ahead of schedule. FOX News reports: The United States Army reached its recruiting goals for 2026 four months early, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed during a commencement speech Saturday at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. A second record year in a row. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/winning-u-s-army-meets-2026-recruiting-goals/ Despite evidence to the contrary, liberal voting activists have spent years minimizing cheating concerns and portraying those who want to investigate such problems as “election deniers.” But the Justice Department, FBI, and Homeland Security are now systematically exposing electoral fraud from noncitizen voting to ballot-box-stuffing schemes that are turning the tables in epic fashion. The latest strike came Monday when a longtime voting activist in California reached a deal with federal prosecutors to admit to illegally paying homeless people to sign election petitions and paying people to register to vote in a two-decade scheme that allegedly leveraged the Democrat-run state’s lax mail-in voting system, which sends ballot forms to everyone whether they ask for them or not. “Armstrong regularly paid and offered to pay individuals cash, usually in amounts between $2 and $3, to induce them to sign her petitions,” DOJ said, adding in January she “knowingly and willfully paid another person to register to vote. She paid the person for the purpose of causing that person to register to vote in federal elections.” ...that scheme puts another powerful admission on record that America’s election system can be and is being abused. “Today’s an example where fraud did occur. Not only did Ms. Brown pay people to register to vote, which is illegal, it is a federal crime. She also induced them to place false information on the voter registration,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said. ...That case was followed by bombshell admissions over the last few months, reported by Just the News, that China infiltrated as many as 18 states’ voter registration databases during the 2020 election and sent fake driver’s licenses to the United States in the summer of 2020 in what the FBI believed was a scheme to create illegal ballots to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump. The steady stream of such cases is eroding public trust in election officials who have insisted everything is fine in the face of contrarian evidence. A poll this spring found only two-thirds of Americans say they are confident their state or local government will run a fair and accurate election... [Many more details at the link.] Iranian mouthpiece Mahmoud Nabavian, deputy chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, recently called for President Trump’s assassination on X. Nabavian recently threatened Arab leaders for their role in siding against the evil Iranian regime and threatened to “kill the despots and have their palaces destroyed.” But, Nabavian was not finished. Earlier this week the Iranian spokesman called for a “significant reward” for anyone who kills US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.S. military has executed targeted self-defense strikes in southern Iran to protect our troops from escalating threats by the Iranian regime’s terrorist proxies and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed the operation Monday night, hitting two IRGC boats mining the critical Strait of Hormuz and a surface-to-air missile site in Bandar Abbas. According to CENTCOM spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins, the strikes were carried out “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces” while officials insisted the U.S. was still exercising restraint amid the fragile ceasefire environment. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/u-s-military-launches-precision-self-defense-strikes/ During a recent interview on ABC 7 in Los Angeles, mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt educated a reporter who questioned his ideas for dealing with the city’s massive homeless problem. Pratt reminded him that most of the people living on the streets of LA are not even really homeless, but are primarily drug addicts who simply wish to live outside the system. He also reminded the reporter that the vast majority of them are not even people from Los Angeles but people who came there to live this lifestyle. Pratt pointed out that the city spends tens upon tens of billions per year on this problem and gets horrible results. Spencer Pratt: “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. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/spencer-pratt-educates-reporter-about-people-camping-la/ 
WINNING: U.S. Army Meets 2026 Recruiting Goals Four Months Ahead of Schedule:
Left’s Election Fraud Denials Crumble as DOJ Exposes Two-Decade-Long California Cheating Scheme:
Iranian Mouthpiece Threatens Assassination Plot Against Trump:
U.S. Military Launches Precision “Self-Defense Strikes” in Southern Iran – Neutralizing IRGC Threats to American Troops After Radical Regime’s Latest Provocations:
Spencer Pratt Educates Reporter About People Camping on LA Sidewalks: ‘They’re Not Homeless. They’re Drug Addicts.’ (VIDEO)