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[Regnum] German Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig announced the need to review the grounds for banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which has become the most popular political force in the country.
"I am convinced that we must now seriously and systematically examine whether the prerequisites for initiating a ban procedure exist," Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung quotes Hubig as saying.
The polls must be really bad for the government.
According to the minister, a working group of representatives from the federal government and the states should be established to collect and analyze information that could be used in a potential investigation. A political and legal decision should then be made based on the investigation's findings.
Hubig noted that AfD emails and any information released by hackers could be used as evidence if they contain information about hostile actions against the constitutional order.
According to the minister, the AfD ban is of existential significance for democracy—the party's potential formation of a government in Saxony-Anhalt would be a serious test of the rule of law.
I cannot politely say what I think, and I lack the vocabulary to say it impolitely.
Hubig also believes that the election of a party representative as president of the state parliament has already marked a turning point for the country.
Hubig recalled that the Bundestag, the Bundesrat, and the federal government have the authority to submit petitions to ban a political party. However, a cabinet decision on this matter is only possible by consensus.
"If an application has a clear prospect of success, it should be submitted," she concluded.
On September 20, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party received 4.9% of the vote in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern elections, failing to enter the state parliament for the first time in its history. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won with 38.2%. Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the results a "disaster." In the Berlin elections, the CDU won 20%, losing to the Left Party, which received 24.5%.
The Left Party being the former East German Communists, to which the lady most interestingly objects not a whit.
What a crock. Let us take note of which Republicans for impeachment, to guide future primary choices.
BREAKING: House Republican leaders are bracing for a massive wave of Republican votes on the Hegseth impeachment this week, with multiple sources saying they now expect the resolution to pass as soon as Tuesday, per Axios.
Republican Thomas Massie plans to trigger the vote immediately when Congress returns, on a resolution to impeach Hegseth for defying Congress and illegally continuing the war in Iran.
"Iran, Iran, Iran. We should have never done the war before the midterms," a Republican lawmaker close to Massie told Axios.
Trump has been privately asking allies about Hegseth's performance as he searches for someone to blame for the war.
BREAKING: House Republican leaders are bracing for a massive wave of Republican votes on the Hegseth impeachment this week, with multiple sources saying they now expect the resolution to pass as soon as Tuesday, per Axios.
Republican Thomas Massie
…whose career in Congress ends in January, thank goodness…
plans to trigger the vote immediately when Congress returns, on a resolution to impeach Hegseth for defying Congress and illegally continuing the war in Iran.
"Iran, Iran, Iran. We should have never done the war before the midterms," a Republican lawmaker close to Massie told Axios.
Trump has been privately asking allies about Hegseth's performance as he searches for someone to blame for the war.
They’re continuing despite a warning from Data Republican? That seems unwise:
I’m a team player.
Not many things will make me go scorched earth.
Setting up @PeteHegseth as scapegoat is one of them.
🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup
@PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat.
They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't.
I have the receipts. Their own documents. Their own training sessions. Their own words on camera.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) April 21, 2026
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I posted these comments yesterday but I think thisis worth reposting today as the ballot numbers just doesn't add up to me:
I just realized something, how easy is it to replace mail in ballots with pre-marked and printed ballots.
All one need is the registered democrat and possibly republican voters list and whenever a mail-in ballots that match one of the democrat name comes in, replace it with the prepaired ballot and toss the original. Do just enough of the replubican ballots to insure the democrat will have an winning edge.
We really need to have the ballots exterminated, I find it seems remarkably easy to do this.
Ditto with early voting which seems to have very little if any actual oversight, easy enough to switch ballots!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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