ICE Agents Shoot Violent Illegal Alien Gangster After Migrant Tries to Mow Down Officer During Targeted Vehicle Stop in California

 This this almost the same crap the Mindless Dumbasses did in Minnesota when they lost their lives from stupidity

The aftermath of an ICE-involved shooting in Patterson, California. Credit: KTVU screenshot

ICE agents had to take dramatic action this afternoon to save their own lives from an extremely violent illegal alien in California.

As KTVU reported, ICE officers shot a person in Paterson who they suspected was an illegal immigrant gang member. This led to a partial closure of the I-5 freeway in Stanislaus County.

Per KTVU, the illegal alien was wanted in connection with a murder in the city.

Fox News’s Bill Melugin later revealed more information: the illegal alien was a known 18th Street gangster from El Salvador and was shot while ICE agents were trying to arrest him.

“I’m told by a senior federal law enforcement source that ICE’s target was a known 18th Street gang member from El Salvador who is wanted in his home country in connection to a murder,” Melugin reported.

“ICE shot him while trying to arrest him. Details on what happened still unclear. More to come.”

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons released a statement identifying the criminal migrant and added that the officers acted in self-defense after the alien tried to run them over.

The illegal, Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, was taken to a local hospital, and the FBI is on scene.

Here is the full statement:

On April 7, 2026, ICE officers were conducting a targeted vehicle stop in Patterson, CA to arrest Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, an 18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection to a murder.

As officers approached the car, the wanted gang member weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run an officer over. Following their training, our officers fired defensive shots to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and the public.

The illegal alien was taken to a local hospital. The FBI is on the scene.

This is a developing situation, and we will update the public when more information is available.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/developing-ice-agents-shoot-violent-illegal-alien-gangster/

Poll: Far-Left VA Governor Spanberger’s Popularity Plummeting

 This picture of her shows she really has a "I'm a dumbass" look

Screencap of YouTube video.

After less than three months in office, Virginians are expressing displeasure with Virginia’s Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s tenure thus far.

A Washington Post–George Mason University Schar School poll shows Spanberger with the highest disapproval rating at this point in her term than any Governor, from either party, since 1994.

Under Spanberger’s leadership, Democrats have championed a slew of leftist policies.

New taxes have been proposed to increase revenue, including levies on everything from car ownership to dog walking.

They are moving to require schools to teach that January 6th was an ‘insurrection and pushing sweeping new gun control laws.

Despite campaigning on affordability, lawmakers are already trying to triple their own pay.

In February, Spanberger signed legislation sending a radical congressional redistricting referendum to Virginia voters that would upend the commonwealth’s electoral landscape and gerrymander Republicans out of existence.

Even as crime increases in the state, under Spanberger, Democrats introduced House Bill 863 (HB 863), which seeks to remove mandatory minimum prison sentences for a slew of serious offenses, including rape, manslaughter, child pornography possession and distribution, assault on law enforcement officers, and repeat violent felonies.

In March, Anibal Armando Chavarria Muy, an illegal alien from Guatemala, was arrested for the stabbing death of a man in Fairfax County, VA.

In February, Stephanie Minter was murdered at a bus stop in February.  An illegal alien from Sierra Leone was charged with her killing.

Despite getting what they voted for, Virginians seem to be having buyer’s remorse.

Per Fox News:

Forty-six percent of Virginians disapprove of her job performance, while 47% approve. Compared to Virginia governors from both sides of the aisle since 1994, Spanberger has the highest disapproval rating at this point in her term.

In contrast, predecessor Gov. Glenn Youngkin saw a 54-39 job approval at this point in his term, with the highest favorability going to Democrat Mark Warner – now Virginia’s senior senator – with a 78-20 rating.

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George Mason University Policy & Government Dean Mark Rozell, a co-sponsor of the poll, told the Post that while some bit of political polarization is “baked in,” it was “unusual” to see such a result for Spanberger this early in her term after a campaign on a “centrist image.”

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/poll-far-left-va-governor-spanbergers-popularity-plummeting/

The Twisted Psychology Fueling The Left’s Alliance With Terrorists

 The inmates are taking over the asylum, and the psychiatrists think it’s just wonderful.

This, followed by this, may be one of the sharpest takedowns of the lunatic left-wing fringe mindset you’ll ever encounter. Melanie Phillips doesn’t dance around the issue — she goes straight for the jugular vein of the self-delusion that defines the modern left.

Phillips teaches a masterclass in Left-Wing Victimology. It all begins with a neat little circle of vanity. Blue-haired leftists in Minneapolis, or Brooklyn, or San Francisco, or London, or Brussels tell themselves, “I’m liberal because I’m a good person; I’m a good person because I’m liberal.”

From that smug tautology, they build their entire house of cards — their frantic virtue-signaling on behalf of the “oppressed” (whether they’re in Haiti, Latin America, or any one of 50+ Muslim territories), their knee-jerk habit of blaming every load-bearing pillar of Western civilization (e.g. men, fossil fuels, Christianity, capitalism) as “oppressive,” and their allergic reaction to any facts that refuse to fit the preferred narrative.

Then came October 7, 2023.

Their cherished “oppressed victims” in Gaza, whom the left had been championing for about 75 years, revealed themselves as something far darker: the most bloodthirsty savages imaginable. Not mere killers, but perpetrators of sadistic, barbaric, depraved slaughter — raping, beheading, torturing, and burning alive babies, children, women, and elderly men.

And livestreaming every gruesome moment on GoPro cameras and iPhones. And then dancing in celebration, in the streets of Gaza. The video footage and testimony arising from that terrible day left no room for any denial, or sanitized excuses.

Let’s ignore, for a moment, the typical 250-pound left-wing fringe dweller, with blue hair and a pierced septum, working on her double major in Queer Studies and Lesbian Interpretive Dance. She’s just a Useful Idiot. (Whether she’s more useful to the Marxists or the Jihadists is anyone’s guess.)

Let’s turn our attention to the few intelligent, logical, genuinely influential members of the left, in academia, government and the so-called “news media,” who are encountering the very same cognitive dissonance within their belief system.

This is the Deep State and its allies.

For the progressive mind, October 7 was catastrophic. Admitting that the side they had elevated as righteous was actually steeped in pure evil would collapse their entire moral universe — and, more importantly, destroy their own precious self-image as virtuous souls.

As Phillips cuts to the bone: if the cause they’ve championed as the very definition of goodness turns out to be evil, then what does that make the leftists themselves? It makes them complicit in evil. That realization is what truly terrifies them — not the atrocities themselves, but what their enthusiastic support for the perpetrators of those atrocities reveals about their own character.

So what do they do? They perform intellectual contortions that would impress a Cirque du Soleil acrobat. They insist black is white, justice is injustice, oppression is resistance, and self-defense (by Israel, or any other Western nation) is genocide. Reality be damned; the narrative must not just be rescued, but reinforced against any further breaches of its defenses.

The primary tool for this escape hatch is classic psychological projection. There is no more effective way to deflect blame than to accuse your victims of the very crimes being committed against them.

Hence the flood of accusations labeling Israelis as “genocidal” and “Nazis.” If the Jews defending themselves are the new Nazis, then the liberal West is off the hook. No guilt. No uncomfortable association with barbarism. Just sweet, cleansing moral absolution.

This is why the “genocide” smear against Israel isn’t merely wrong or offensive — it is psychologically essential for those hurling it. Without that lie, they would be forced to stare directly at the horrors unleashed by their favored “oppressed” peoples in Gaza, southern Lebanon, and any other hellhole the Western left has ideologically adopted.

And then the Western leftists would be forced to confront their own role in enabling such horrors.

The left cannot face what their pet classes of “victims” actually did on that terrible day in Israel — and on every other day when an illegal Latino immigrant rapes and murders an American girl, or a Muslim “migrant” rapes and murders a Swedish, or British, or German girl, or a pair of Muslim “migrants” guns down Australian Jews celebrating on a beach.

Instead, the Western left must frantically recast the real victims as Nazis (if they’re Jewish), or pretend they never even existed (if they’re other Western victims of the left’s preferred “victims”). This isn’t simple ignorance or stupidity. It’s a desperate act of psychological survival — a headlong flight from the crushing weight of cognitive dissonance.

The Western left has built its identity on a foundation of moral vanity and selective blindness. October 7, Bondi Beach, and all these other acts of brutal savagery ripped away the blindfold. 

Rather than adjust their vision to reality, the lunatics of the left-wing fringe — and the handful of logical lefties, in academia, government and the media, who carefully instruct them about what to think and believe — have doubled down on the delusion.

This is the political version of the psychiatric approach to gender dysphoria. As I’ve previously observed, rather than adjust these “transgender” patients’ deluded expectations to reality, Western psychiatrists have prescribed life-altering pharmaceutical and surgical efforts, to adjust the patients’ bodies to fit into their delusions.

So in these two areas, the inmates are taking over the asylum, and the psychiatrists think it’s just wonderful.

Phillips has laid it out with clinical precision: this isn’t just politics any more. It’s a pathology. As I wrote earlier, it’s a mass psychosis. And until the lefties are willing to confront the evil they’ve midwifed, and admit that they’re dead wrong, their madness will only deepen.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/the_twisted_psychology_fueling_the_left_s_alliance_with_terrorists.html

Election Fraud is a Serious Problem for the Midterms

 Florida's election integrity laws are a model for the entire country, yet even that state is not immune from attempted tampering. A recent incident in Palm Beach County is a warning.

Election integrity is not some paranoid concern.

It is a real, documented, ongoing challenge that persists even in jurisdictions that have made serious efforts to secure the vote. Nowhere is that reality more evident than in Florida. Over the past several years, its Republican statehouse has enacted some of the most comprehensive election integrity reforms in the country.

In 2021, lawmakers passed a sweeping overhaul that tightened voter registration rules. It shortened the duration of mail ballot requests, strengthened identification requirements for absentee voting, and imposed strict controls on ballot drop boxes and third-party registration groups. These were not cosmetic changes. They were designed to close loopholes and establish clear, enforceable standards.

The effort did not stop there.

In 2022, the state created the Office of Election Crimes and Security, a dedicated body tasked with investigating violations and irregularities. The same legislation required annual voter roll maintenance and banned private funding for election administration. It eliminated outside financial influence in the conduct of elections.

These reforms reflected a recognition that integrity is not a static achievement. It requires constant oversight and enforcement.

In 2023, Florida added another layer of protection. Election officials were required to undergo formal signature-matching training. Third-party voter registration groups faced stricter deadlines and accountability measures. Clear procedures were established for maintaining and updating voter rolls. The state continued to refine its system, focusing on both prevention and detection.

That trajectory culminated on April 1, 2026, when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s version of the SAVE Act into law.

The measure requires proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration, strengthens verification through state databases, and tightens identification rules at the polls. Supporters convincingly argue that most Floridians already meet these standards through existing documentation. Meanwhile, the predictable critics have challenged the law in court.

Regardless of the political debate, the intent is unmistakable: to ensure that only eligible citizens participate in elections.

Given this extensive legal framework, Florida should represent a best-case scenario for election integrity. Yet even here, a troubling incident unfolded in March that underscores a hard truth.

No system is immune from exploitation.

On March 19, a 59-year-old man named John Domnick Panicci walked into the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office for what appeared to be a routine volunteer training session. He was not on the official roster. He signed himself in, scanned his identification, and entered the training room at 8:34 a.m.

Surveillance footage later showed him seated at a voter registration kiosk. From there, he reached to a nearby machine, removed an encrypted USB device used for training purposes, placed it in his pocket, and left the facility.

The device contained only simulated data. Officials emphasized that no real voter information was compromised. They noted that a special Florida House election proceeded without disruption. Still, the implications were serious. The theft was detected through internal controls, and law enforcement acted swiftly.

Investigators identified the suspect, obtained warrants, and recovered the device along with additional electronic equipment from his residence. He was arrested on March 28, days after the race, and charged with felony and misdemeanor offenses.

Authorities stressed that chain-of-custody procedures worked as intended. That is true. The system functioned. The breach was caught. The election results were not altered.

Yet focusing only on that outcome misses the larger point.

An individual was able to enter a sensitive election environment, access equipment, and remove an encrypted device. That happened in a state with strict identification rules, structured training protocols, and a dedicated election crimes unit. It happened despite years of legislative tightening and administrative vigilance.

That is not a sign of failure. It is a warning.

The same special House election cycle in which this incident occurred was decided by a narrow margin. Democrat Emily Gregory received 17,122 votes, or 51.20 percent, while Republican Jon Maples received 16,322 votes, or 48.80 percent. The difference was just 800 votes out of 33,444 cast.

In close contests like this, even minor irregularities take on outsized importance. Confidence in the process becomes as critical as the outcome itself.

Some will argue that because the system worked, there is nothing to worry about. That is a dangerously complacent conclusion. Systems do not protect themselves. They rely on human vigilance, enforcement, and constant refinement. The fact that this incident was detected does not negate the reality that it occurred. It proves that attempts to interfere with election infrastructure are real.

There is also a deeper concern raised by reporting on the case.

According to investigators, while the stolen device contained only training data, a knowledgeable individual could potentially attempt to reverse-engineer its encryption. They might then reintroduce it into a live system. That possibility was flagged as a security concern during the investigation.

Even if such an attempt would ultimately fail, the mere existence of that risk demands attention. Fraudulent data being uploaded into an election administration’s mainframe can only have catastrophic results.

This is where the national conversation often breaks down. Critics of election integrity measures, who are overwhelmingly blue, frequently dismiss concerns about fraud or tampering. They claim fears are exaggerated or even bigoted. That dismissal is not grounded in evidence.

It is contradicted by cases like this one.

Florida has banned the private funding of election offices. It has strengthened voter ID requirements. It has imposed strict controls on registration and ballot handling. It has created a specialized law enforcement body to investigate election crimes. And now it has enacted a citizenship verification system modeled on broader national proposals.

Yet even with all of that in place, an individual still attempted to interfere with election-related equipment.

If this can happen in Florida, it raises an obvious question. What is happening in states, virtually all of which are Democrat-led, with far weaker safeguards?

The Palm Beach County case should not be dismissed because it was contained. It should be studied because it was revealed. It demonstrates that threats to election integrity are not hypothetical. They are persistent.

This reality carries urgent implications for the midterms.

Close races are decided on the margins. Public trust is fragile. Once confidence in the system erodes, it is extraordinarily difficult to restore. That is why vigilance cannot be episodic. It must be continuous.

Republicans, in particular, have a clear responsibility in this environment. That responsibility is not rhetorical. It means treating election integrity as a foundational issue, not some secondary concern. After all, the Democrats rely on loose election laws, lax enforcement of existing statutes, and outright fraud.

In jurisdictions where voter ID is not required, where voter rolls are not regularly maintained, where ideological deep pockets fund election administration, and where verification standards are minimal, the opportunities for abuse are greater.

The Palm Beach County incident is not an anomaly to be ignored. It is a case study in how even robust systems are penetrable. It is proof that election law enforcement matters, that administrative oversight matters, and that voter complacency is the enemy of integrity.

This issue is as serious as a heart attack on a transatlantic flight. There is no room for delay, denial, or distraction. The system must work every time, in every place, under every condition.

Anything less is unacceptable.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/election_fraud_is_a_serious_problem_for_the_midterms.html