Lawmaker blows whistle on 'Stop Nick Shirley Act': A Democrat effort to halt 'exposing fraud' in California
APRIL 14, 2026
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The ‘Disease’ That Drives The Democrats
The ‘Disease’ That Drives The Democrats
Argentina President Javier Milei recently had some sharp words for the political left. But his observation is backed by more than his experience. Research makes it clear that the various strains of leftism, from today’s American Democratic Party to Democratic Socialists to green radicals to the tens of millions of voters who are attracted to progressive candidates and policies, are fueled by an emotional crisis. We beg our brothers and sisters on the left to consider why they do what they do.
Milei, a defender of laissez-faire economic policy, said he once “thought being on the left was a mental problem.” But what he eventually “discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul.”
It is “built on envy, hatred, resentment, unequal treatment before the law,” he said during a television appearance. Leftists and “are very violent,” and because “they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”
Contemporary examples of this are Antifa’s thuggery, the organized aggression toward and abuse of ICE agents and other federal officers enforcing immigration law, and the useful idiots who rioted over George Floyd’s death.
Long-time Issues & Insights friend Deroy Murdock argues persuasively that the Democrats have become “the party of cruelty and sadism.” During the pandemic, he observes, they “gleefully locked down their constituents, banned church services, barricaded California’s beaches, blocked Michiganders from their rural cabins, and forced COVID-positive residents into New York’s nursing homes, killing 12,473 previously uninfected seniors.”
Democrats also “closed schools for far too long, never mind that the virus barely affected children.” This isolated them “from their playmates” to the point that some “grew depressed and committed suicide.”
“This cohort is damaged for life,” says Murdock, a victim of a “sick, evil Democrat Party deliberately” that “steers citizens into, not out of, harm’s way.”
Why are they like this?
Milei’s assessment tells him their souls are disturbed. We won’t say he’s wrong, but the soul is a difficult quantity for humans to measure. Mental health, however, is more easily measured, and it’s plain that there is, as the headline of an American Affairs article suggests, a “Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives,” with the former feeling depressed and the latter showing higher levels of happiness and meaning in their lives.
This chasm “manifests clearly across all age groups and is present as far back as the polling goes,” writes Musa al-Gharbi, a Columbia University sociologist.
“In the General Social Survey, for instance, there has been a consistent 10 percentage point gap between the share of conservatives versus liberals who report being ‘very happy’ in virtually every iteration since 1972,” when the survey was begun.
One possible explanation: There are “genetic and biological factors that simultaneously predispose” people with mental illness toward leftism and those with mental wellness toward conservatism. “Some strains of liberal ideology, on the other hand, likely exacerbate (and even incentivize) anxiety, depression, and other forms of unhealthy thinking.”
This isn’t new to us or our readers. Last year, we recommended that the Democratic Party get a wellness check. At the time, James Carville was showing clear signs of derangement (and still is), which were (and still are) “emblematic of the left’s descent into madness.”
No one should be taken by surprise that the left is still cracking up. As we reported then:
The data from a 60,000-participant survey shows that conservatives are far better off emotionally than their counterparts on the left.
Nine in 10 conservatives self-report their mental health to be excellent (51%) or very good (39%). Those who consider themselves liberals are struggling, with only 20% saying their mental health is excellent and 26% believing it is very good.
Only 19% of conservatives say their mental health is poor, while 45% of liberals say they have poor mental health.
Two years earlier, while Joe Biden was still stumbling, bumbling and mumbling around the White House, Issues & Insights cited a study which found that “individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality.”
This provided a clear explanation, we concluded, for the existence of “the Democratic Squad, Antifa, global warming foolishness, the disturbing obsession with wokeness and destruction, censorship, forced compliance, and a dictator’s lust for dominance on the left.”
It’s obvious now that “the unstable, the cranks, the neurotic, the egomaniacs who feed on attention, the ruthless power seekers are drawn to the Democratic Party.”
Whether today’s left is driven by mental illness or a malignancy of the soul might never be discovered. All we ask is for the unwell to get the treatment they need. For the sake of our republic, don’t be crazy.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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New intel watchdog launches review of past whistleblower complaints after bombshell revelations
The new chief watchdog for U.S. spy agencies has opened a review of several "urgent concern" whistle-blower complaints fielded by his predecessor after bombshell documents revealed that intelligence officials kept exculpatory evidence from President Donald Trump's 2019 impeachment proceedings and may have suppressed concerns about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election.
Officials told Just the News that Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Christopher Fox, who took over the job in October, ordered the review as part of a larger effort to reform and better resource his office to handle whistle-blower complaints that can range from abuse of civil liberties and fraud to unmitigated national security threats related to terrorism and espionage.
"It also relied more on the opinions of attorneys than the objective findings of investigators" ICIG says
"The past treatment of urgent concerns as more of a legal/document review than an investigative activity left important evidence on the table," the ICIG office said in a statement. "It also relied more on the opinions of attorneys than the objective findings of investigators. Ultimately, this process did not serve the Intelligence Community or the American people well."
Fox's review comes after Just the News reported Sunday that documents recently declassified by the Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) showed that the ICIG office under Fox's predecessor, Michael Atkinson, flagged concerns about the CIA analyst who launched the 2019 impeachment proceedings against Trump with Ukraine policy-related allegations but those concerns were kept classified and never made public during the congressional proceedings.
The concerns included that the accuser had the "potential for bias," had provided false information in his initial complaint and had animus toward conservatives inside Trump's circles, according to documents declassified by DNI Tulsi Gabbard this week.
You can read those documents here.
Gabbard blasted Atkinson's work on Monday, suggesting the former watchdog had "weaponized the whistle-blower process" and used his office to "manufacture a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump."
Others, including former Trump defense lawyers, the FBI and members of Congress, also sharply criticized the withholding of such evidence for six years, with famed law professor Alan Dershowitz going so far as to suggest Trump might have grounds to expunge his 2019 impeachment in the House of Representatives.
China's hacking of voter data kept hidden by Intelligence Community
Separately, Just the News reported that the National Intelligence Council had concluded in 2020 that China had hacked or gained access to several states' voter registration databases, but that information was suppressed from the American public, state election officials and Congress despite a whistle-blower named Christopher Porter's complaints trying to bring attention to it.
The intelligence community ombudsman even raised concerns that U.S. spy agencies may have exhibited bias in trying to suppress word of China's election activities. Officials told Just the News that intelligence agencies were informed recently that Fox's office will be reviewing anew the handling of Porter's whistle-blower complaint. Fox's office said it can "neither confirm nor deny whistle-blower identities or details that might reveal them, or whether any specific matter is under investigation."
But it did confirm to Just the News that Fox has launched a systemic review of "urgent concern" whistle-blower complaints handled during Atkinson's tenure.
"IC IG Fox has also directed a comprehensive review of all past urgent concern complaints to identify lessons learned, improve internal policies, and determine whether previous matters warrant additional oversight activity," the office said.
Officials said under the old regime, "urgent concern" complaints from intelligence community whistle-blowers inside 18 separate agencies were handled by the Center for Protected Disclosures, operating separately from the Investigations Division and its trained investigators.
That meant most complaints just got a cursory review during a limited 14-day period that usually included:
- An intake interview;
- Limited witness interviews;
- An initial document examination.
"After the statutorily required 14-day review period, IC OIG did not historically continue any investigative activity. Instead, a memorandum reflecting the IC IG's determination would be transmitted to the DNI and to Congress, and the case would be administratively closed (frozen in time), regardless of the national security implications," Fox's office said.
Congress received "only a preliminary assessment based on an incomplete evidentiary record" ICIG says
Fox's office said the 2019 impeachment case revealed in the newly declassified documents that "Congress received only a preliminary assessment based on an incomplete evidentiary record."
In January, Fox launched what he called internally an “IC OIG 2.0” reorganization that consolidated six divisions into four offices, allowing a more robust and thorough "cross-disciplinary" to apply "consistent investigative rigor and objectivity to every complaint" that came in, officials said.
The imperial judiciary gets a smack down
Vindictive, Trump-hating Judge Boasberg gets the judicial beatdown he needed
The Obama-appointed judge has a pattern of corner-cutting that just happens to support the deep state's power-grabs every time.
It's always good to see out-of-control judicial activists get smacked down, especially by their own peers.
Which brings us to Judge James Boasberg, who's done more than any of them to try to shut down President Trump's legitimate power to govern.
He's in the donkey seat now, berated by a higher court for his 'abuse of power,' as they put it.
According to the Washington Times:
A federal appeals court delivered an embarrassing spanking to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday, ordering him to shut down his “intrusive” criminal contempt of court investigation against the Trump administration.
The circuit court of appeals said not only is Judge Boasberg’s continued investigation “improper,” but his reasoning for why Trump officials could be prosecuted for contempt of court is a “dead end” because the judge is misreading his own orders.
Circuit Judge Neomi Rao said Judge Boasberg has crossed too many lines, risking damage to the separation of powers between the president and the courts.
Boasberg, recall, is the judge who told us what he was about when he gave former FBI attorney probation for literally altering a CIA email in order to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign operative, claiming that Clinesmith "likely believed" the information was true (true because he made it so?) and simply took 'an inappropriate shortcut.' What kind of ace judicial reasoning is that, in what all the other FBI and federal employees understood very well was a jailtime offense? Anybody believe a request for an FBI FISA warrant is what it says it is after that one?By 2025, Boasberg was well on his way to other abuses of power, ordering the Trump administration to halt the deportation of Venezuelan illegal aliens accused of being gang members to El Salvador, which was well within the Department of Homeland Security's powers to do, as the government of Venezuela refused to take them back and the written law says that when that is the case, the illegals can be repatriated to another country. Being gang members, the only good place for them was El Salvador's famous prison for them.
His ego wounded, he ordered the plane to be turned around mid-flight, as if that were practical and doable, something that might be reasonablee if these were defectors from North Korea facing death if they didn't. But under Boasberg, criminals were just as precious and important, and when the flight didn't come back, he launched his contempt of court case against the Trump administration, really really wanting those thugs to be brought back to America just because the Trump administration didn't.According to CNN:
The decision comes nearly a year after Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal trial-level court in Washington, DC, said in a blockbuster ruling that “probable cause exists to find the government in criminal contempt” for defying his orders to temporarily halt the deportation of migrants under a powerful wartime authority invoked by President Donald Trump.
That's what's brought the current ruling, and the upper court didn't have nice things to say about this.
Boasberg wanted internal White House documents probed, when the law said that DHS had the authority to execute the repatriation flight, so Boasberg was appointing himself an overseer of the White House internal communications as a piddly district judge, in what was a fishing expedition for himself and his deep state pals, and national security, let alone respecting the presidency. suddenly wasn't important anymore.
CNN continued, citing the angry judges:
“The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion,” Judges Neomi Rao and Justin Walker said in the unsigned opinion.
“The district court has launched an intrusive criminal contempt investigation into whether the government acted willfully when it transferred suspected Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody. But the end of this investigation is a legal dead end,” the court said.
Which is pretty humiliating, probably not to the average joe on the street, but among Boasberg's peers -- getting smacked down like that by a higher court over not following or understanding the basic rules of the game is the kind of thing incompetent miscreants get. Now he has to follow the law same as everyone else, thanks to some better class judges above him who know how to sort out his petty little egotistic games and great desire for power. Good move.
California Democrats are not blind to corruption they protect it!
Investigative journalist Nick Shirley, made famous after his viral Minnesota day care fraud video that exposed the "Quality Learing Center" and millions of dollars of alleged fraud, appears to have ruffled the feathers of Democrats in California.
A Republican lawmaker raised the alarm on a bill in California that would drastically clamp down on investigations like those conducted by Shirley.
'The enemy truly is within.'
On Monday, Republican Assemblymember Carl DeMaio issued a press release warning about AB 2624, a bill he dubbed the "Stop Nick Shirley Act."
"California Democrats are trying to intimidate citizen watchdog journalists and protect waste and fraud happening in far-left-wing NGOs. AB 2624 can only be described as the 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' — a bill designed to silence citizen journalists exposing fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars," DeMaio said in the press release.
"AB 2624 would allow activists and taxpayer-funded organizations to demand the removal of video evidence — even if it captures misconduct in plain view — and threatens journalists with massive financial penalties," DeMaio added. "That's not about public safety — it's about protecting powerful interests."
AB 2624 was proposed by Democrat Assemblymember Mia Bonta earlier this year. Bonta's husband, Rob Bonta, is the Democrat attorney general of California.
Attorney General Bonta has been targeting hospices and other facilities for possible fraud, overlapping with Shirley's investigations in many respects. On Monday, Bonta wrote on social media that "in California, we've been cracking down on fraud for years."
AB 2624 is framed as a privacy and anti-doxxing measure specifically for immigration service providers, their associates, and their clients. The bill is written with the following context in mind, directly calling out President Trump and his "anti-immigration" policies:
Persons working in the organizations that provide immigration support services have faced doxxing, courthouse targeting, online harassment, anti-immigrant vigilante threats, and coordinated campaigns and death threats. These acts have risen to alarming levels in 2025 and will continue due to the current federal administration’s anti-immigration attitude and policies.
The bill prohibits the posting of the "personal information or image" of a "designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address" "with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence."
Those found in violation of this section of the bill would face a fine of up to $10,000, one year of imprisonment, or both.
Additionally, if bodily injury were to come to anyone protected by the bill as a result of an investigation, the person responsible for the post would have committed a felony punishable by up to $50,000, imprisonment, or both.
The other key provision of the bill is more obscure:
A program participant may request that state and local agencies use the address designated by the Secretary of State as the participant’s address. When creating a public record, state and local agencies shall accept the address designated by the Secretary of State as a program participant’s substitute address.
In other words, the addresses of program participants and immigration service providers, which are presumably public, would be obscured with another address, thereby possibly blocking investigations into these programs.
Interested journalists and opponents of the bill view the potential obscuring of addresses and the steep punishments for disseminating information about these services, even without the intent to cause harm, as impediments to investigation and accountability.
Elon Musk weighed in on the news, and DeMaio reposted his comment: "California legislators are trying to make investigating fraud illegal."
Nick Shirley, responding to DeMaio's press release, said in part, "The enemy truly is within. When our politicians would rather protect fraudsters and illegal migrants, it's time for us to stand up or face mass oppression from the traitors who 'rule' over us."
Shirley added in a subsequent post that he was thinking of moving on to exposing fraud in another state, but the news of this bill changed his mind: "I've helped save America millions and billions of dollars by exposing fraud across the country. I was thinking about exposing another state but I think I will now go back to California[. N]ew exposé coming soon."
Blaze News contacted California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Assemblymember Mia Bonta for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Nearly 70% of immigration arrests are individuals with prior criminal charges or convictions.
On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbed several criminal illegal aliens whom Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin described as "truly sick individuals."
A DHS press release, obtained exclusively by Blaze News, highlighted ICE's recent arrest of five illegal immigrants across the country who were taken into federal custody.
'We will not allow criminal illegal aliens to roam free in our communities and terrorize innocent Americans.'
These individuals have been "convicted of voluntary manslaughter, lewd battery on a child, attempted statutory rape of a child, and other horrific crimes," the press release read.
The DHS stated that nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens with prior criminal charges or convictions. Immigration officers captured Rodolfo Sanchez, an illegal alien from Mexico who was previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter and burglary of a building in Houston, Texas.
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Rodolfo Sanchez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
ICE agents nabbed Jose Rivera-Orta, a 56-year-old illegal alien from Cuba who was convicted of lewd/lascivious battery on a child 12 to 15 years old in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Jose Rivera-Orta. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Federal agents arrested Jacobo Pablo-Ramirez, an illegal alien from Guatemala. His rap sheet includes a conviction for attempted statutory rape of a child in Duplin County, North Carolina.
Jacobo Pablo-Ramirez. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Daniel Garces-Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was captured by ICE. He was previously convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Hidalgo County, Texas.
Daniel Garces-Flores. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
Immigration agents also arrested Derekson Lett, an illegal alien from Grenada who was convicted of robbery in Staten Island, New York. A local report from SILive.com stated that in 2015, Lett, who was 26 years old at the time, had tried to rob a prostitute who was allegedly fatally shot by Lett's accomplice in a motel. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Derekson Lett. Image source: Department of Homeland Security
"Yesterday, ICE arrested some truly sick individuals, including murderers, pedophiles, sexual predators, and violent thugs," Mullin stated. "Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. We will not allow criminal illegal aliens to roam free in our communities and terrorize innocent Americans."
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