A Colorado school that admonished a middle school student for displaying the Gadsden flag on his backpack will now allow the student to display the flag.


The story of 12-year-old Jaiden, a seventh-grade student at the Vanguard School in Colorado Springs, went viral on Tuesday after video showed school administrators reprimanding him over a "Don't Tread on Me" flag patch on his backpack.

School officials claimed the flag is associated with slavery and racism, assertions to which the boy's mother objected.

"The reason we do not want the flag displayed is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade," a school administrator told the boy's mother, claiming it was "disruptive to the classroom environment."
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Today, the Western Canadian province of Alberta asked Albertans to reduce their electricity consumption as that province with it's heavy reliance on wind in certain areas reaches it's limits in times of higher usage.

Strangely eneough this was never a problem before a former socialist provincial government decommissioned their coal fired power plants. Today, gas powered plants keep the lights running while massive ugly wind turbines provide an expensive, but ineffective virtue signalling toy for the province's urban leftists.

A Marxist teacher in Colorado was voted in to fill an open state House of Representatives seat on Saturday. The teacher has previously called for a "FORCEFUL Cultural Revolution" against "Whiteness."

Tim Hernandez will now be a state representative in Denver after a committee of Democrats filled the seat after its incumbent, Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, was elected to the Denver City Council, according to Fox News.

Hernandez previously worked at Denver's North High School. He apparently made headlines last year after his teaching contract with Denver Public Schools was not renewed. As a result, students walked out in protest.

A sign in his classroom called for "Dismantl[ing] White systems." Fox News Digital previously discovered that Hernandez went on a Marxist rant during a protest organized by unions. "I want to tear some s**t up for you. Are you ready?" he said.

Two weeks before the 2020 election, a woman dropped off more than 10,000 voter registration forms with a city clerk in Muskegon, Michigan.

The number of forms was a red flag for the city clerk, Ann Meisch. Less than 4,000 of the city's voting-age residents weren't registered to vote.

Ms. Meisch called the police, triggering an investigation by the Michigan State Police. An Oct. 26, 2020, police report from that probe recently surfaced after Michigan state lawmakers obtained it through a Freedom of Information request.

At the time, Brianna Hawkins, the woman who delivered the forms, was employed by GBI Strategies, an out-of-state firm working to boost Democrat voter turnout in urban centers in key swing states to help then-candidate Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump. According to the police report, when questioned by Muskegon Police Department investigators, Ms. Hawkins said her job was to register voters and help them obtain absentee ballots.

State Republican Party officials Phil O'Halloran and Lori Skibo obtained the police report. Mr. O'Halloran provided it to The Epoch Times.

An article by a nationally known fact-checking service disputed recent conservative media accounts of the Muskegon episode.


Checking the Fact-checkers
However, the numbers tell a different story and raise a question: If there were only 42 suspected fraudulent voter registration applications submitted to the city clerk, why didn't she register the rest of the batch?

In 2020, the population of the City of Muskegon was 38,309, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Of these, 29,800 people were of voting age.

Ms. Meisch told The Epoch Times in an August 10 email that in 2019, there were 25,957 registered voters in the city. In 2020, the number of people registered to vote increased by 2,077 to 28,034.

That means the pool of voting-age people not registered to vote that Ms. Hawkins had to work with was only 3,843.

Ms. Hawkins dropped off more than 10,000 voter registration forms in incremental batches, suggesting that thousands of the forms never made it onto the city's registered voter roll.

"Even a casual observer can readily see that something is wrong. The numbers do not add up. The number of registration forms turned in by one person represents a third of the population of the city," Mr. O'Halloran told The Epoch Times.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/mystery-swirls-over-batch-of-thousands-of-2020-voter-registration-forms-in-michigan-5465266?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2023-08-29&src_cmp=mb-2023-08-29&utm_medium=email&est=hSqwy37fHfTHhvJaK3qmvnX6h0U%2F3KulmdHa%2BEDTxMLDd%2BwPM7CSBsbgJtlSPKEX2g%3D%3D

Questioning election results is patriotic not insurrection. Hillary and Al Gore used to agree.

A district court ruled against parents of students in the Montgomery County school district who were demanding to be allowed to opt out of schools teaching LGBTQ propaganda.

The parents, who included many of the Muslim faith, were calling for an injunction ahead of August 28, when school is scheduled to begin again. They were originally allowed to opt out their students until the district changed its policy in March.

Canadian millennials, particularly those who own a home, are set to face steep interest costs and economic damage in the months ahead, according to a new report from RBC.

Rising interest rates are set to ratchet up the pain on millennials and younger Generation X adults, RBC argues, leaving them especially vulnerable to job losses should the economy slow sharply in the months ahead.

Debt loads are particularly straining on core-age working adults compared with two decades earlier, RBC economist Carrie Freestone argued in the report released Wednesday.

Older millennials, adults aged 35 to 44, had debt-to-disposable income ratios around 250 per cent in 2019, while Freestone noted that metric was roughly 150 per cent for the same age group in 1999.

Younger indebted millennials — those under age 35 — had debt loads worth 165 per cent of their disposable income in 2019. Meanwhile, the country's youngest cohort hasn't seen a material rise in debt-to-income ratio since the late '90s, RBC says, while noting only about one-third of that group has a mortgage.

"The millennial generation has in many ways been defined by its staggeringly high household debt," Freestone wrote.

The debt situation has only worsened for many Canadians since 2019, as low interest rates during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed many young first-time buyers to enter the hot housing market, saddling owners with mortgages.

Statistics Canada says household debt-to-disposable income rose to 184.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, up from 181.7 per cent last quarter. That means there's $1.85 in credit market debt for every dollar of household disposable income.

While not every millennial owns their home, those who do are especially vulnerable to the higher interest rate environment, which has seen the Bank of Canada's policy rate rise 4.75 percentage points from the pandemic-era lows.

RBC expects the average Canadian renewing their mortgage could see their monthly payments jump by 25 per cent by early 2024, based on today's rates for a typical five-year term.

The problem, Freestone explained, is that incomes haven't kept pace to absorb the pending mortgage shock. The average hourly income has risen 12 per cent since the start of the pandemic, marking less than half the expected jump in mortgage payments.

The end result? RBC expects that consumption in this middle demographic will take a substantial hit this fall, particularly if millennial and younger Gen X workers are struck by job losses.

"While growth is still holding up even after record rate hikes, higher unemployment rates may trigger an entirely different outcome for demand in the year ahead," Freestone wrote.

Many economists expect Canada's economy to slow and the job losses to rise this fall as the lagged impact of higher interest rates starts to bite.

CIBC said in a report released Tuesday that it expects the unemployment rate to creep above 6.0 per cent, up from 5.5 per cent in July, by early 2024. The jobless rate has been rising steadily over the summer, up from near-record lows of 5.0 per cent at the start of the year.

Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that his platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will be taking legal action against George Soros-funded non-governmental organizations for allegedly pushing freedom of speech restrictions.

Journalist and bestselling author Michael Shellenberger shared an article on X by Ben Scallan titled "Soros-Funded NGOs Demand Crackdown on Free Speech As Politicians Spread Hate Misinformation."

Scallan's article explained that Soros' nonprofit organization, Open Society Foundations, allegedly funneled money to various NGOs to promote a "censorship agenda in Ireland and Scotland that includes police searches of homes, phones and computers."

August and September are great months to be a professional climate alarmist like Dr. Michael Mann of the University of Pennsylvania.

You have hurricanes making landfall, wildfires seemingly everywhere, the odd F-4 tornado wreaking devastation, and you can pretend that these never happened before we started adding CO2 to the atmosphere. Plus, you have virtually all the media and a host of "environmental" groups parroting every seemingly scientific observation without question.

Yes, alarmists find it best to use their time during the hazy, hot days of summer linking every possible weather event to our use of fossil fuels and that demon molecule, CO2. They must do this in order to instill the fear required to impose economically crippling new taxes or restrict citizens' freedom to choose what car, dishwasher, stove, shower head or washing machine to purchase.

Right now, with wildfires in Canada and Greece and the tragic fire in Lahaina, Maui, the focus is on linking supposed man-made warming to these events and characterizing them as unprecedented. Are they really extraordinary and increasing?

NASA reports that between 2003 and 2019, the global area burned has dropped by roughly 25 percent. In addition, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reports that, according to their satellite data, the year 2020 was one of the least active years since records begin in 2003.

Heat waves in Texas and Italy are also trumpeted as global and escalating due to increasing carbon emissions. Conveniently omitted are exceedingly cold temperatures in northern Europe and the northwest of the United States. The USHCN temperature data reveal that the number of days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8°Celsius) peaked in the 1930s and have been in an 80-year decline.

The existing topic is lined out.

A Portland, Oregon, school district recently issued new "equitable grading" practices that will require teachers to accept late work without penalty and refrain from giving students zeros, even if they are caught cheating, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

A new district handout titled "Portland Public Schools Equitable Grading Practices Summary" highlights the district's "rationale" for implementing a so-called "equitable" approach to grading students' class performance.

The district explained that its new grading practices would be based on Joe Feldman's book, "Grading for Equity," which provides a framework based on three pillars — "accurate, bias-resistant, and motivational."

Parents Defending Education's outreach director Erika Sanzi told the Washington Free Beacon that the district's framework would harm students.

"These equitable grading policies, however well intended, are a disaster for the students who struggle most and for the students who need accelerated coursework," Sanzi said.

Birth rates are bottoming out in the Western world. While some might consider this demographic trend worrisome — perhaps indicative of a worsening culture of death and/or societal collapse — an Oxford academic and World Economic Forum adviser recently expressed joy, calling the prospect of fewer English babies a "good thing."

According to official figures, the number of babies born in England and Wales last year was at a two-decade low, reported the Guardian.

When pressed by the Telegraph about Britain's slipping birth rate, Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, said that fewer English babies are "good for ... our planet."

Rather than seek to replace the country's fading native population, Harper would prefer to see non-Western nations replenish the human stock.

Declining fertility in countries such as Britain and the U.S. would reduce the "general overconsumption that we have at the moment," claimed Harper, glossing over not only the incredible waste and emissions of poorer countries, but the restorative technologies and initiatives launched by richer nations.

The Oxford academic appears to be partial to the depopulationist agenda advanced by the likes of anti-human American biologist Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, CNN founder Ted Turner, and the radical British group Population Matters.

Population Matters, which recently had Harper join as a speaker, cautions that each new human being brings with them the guarantee of carbon emissions. The depopulationists advocate for abortion and shrinking family sizes.

One patron of the group, "Planet Earth" narrator David Attenborough, has stated, "All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people."

While Harper, Attenborough, and others don't bother disguising their revulsion for humanity, some climate alarmists, like leftist academic Robin Maynard, now couch their calls for pre-emptively erasing future generations within the rhetoric of "family planning, gender equality and education."

The impact of this anti-human propaganda, parroted by some Democrats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), has been significant, as the fears whipped up by climate alarmists are successfully dissuading some young couples from becoming parents, as demonstrated by a 2020 study published in the journal Climatic Change.

Democrats have had trouble advancing the whole of their radical Green New Deal by democratic means, so they're now calling upon President Joe Biden to invoke abstract threats and exploit real tragedies to get their way.

Proponents of the climate alarmist legislation that would see the state's power grow further at the expense of the populace were not placated in the least by the green handouts resultant of last year's "Inflation Reduction Act," which authorized well over $600 billion in spending on so-called renewable energy and climate change initiatives.

In July 2022, Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other leftist senators in the Democratic caucus penned a letter to Biden, stating, "For too long, we have been waiting for a single piece of legislation, and a single Senate vote, to take bold action on our climate crisis. ... As a result, we urge you to put us on an emergency footing and aggressively use your executive powers to address the climate crisis."

Having not yet gotten their way in full, leftists in Washington, D.C., now seek to cite the wildfires in Hawaii — which appear to have been largely resultant of negligence and the vain pursuit of Democrats' green agenda — as reason enough for Biden to declare a national climate emergency.

Markey, one of the authors of the original Green New Deal resolution, said in a statement to Politico, "The devastation in Maui is a clear sign that the president must declare a climate emergency — now."

When asked earlier this month by the Weather Network whether he intended to make such a declaration, the 80-year-old president claimed he had done so, "practically speaking."

Biden, who spent the most recent stretch of the over 365 vacation days he has so far taken as president at a billionaire climate alarmist's home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, claimed, "We've already done that. ... We've conserved more land, we've moved into rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. We've got a $60 billion climate control facility."

Mark Nevitt, a professor at Emory University's School of Law, characterized the national climate emergency declaration as a "skeleton key" that "unlocks the door" to other powers, reported The Hill.

The Center for Biological Diversity pushed a report last year entitled, "Legal Guide to Bold Climate Action from President Biden," which stated that by declaring a climate emergency, Biden could take various drastic actions, such as: halt crude oil exports; stop oil and gas drilling in the outer continental shelf; and restrict international trade and private investment in fossil fuels.

Tim Steward, president of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association, told Just the News, "If you grant the president's emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it's just like COVID."

Accordingly, Biden would end up with "vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure," said Steward.

Even some left-leaning analysts worry that such an emergency declaration would leave Biden with new dictatorial powers that would be ripe for abuse.

Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security Program, wrote, "Overbroad emergency powers provide a ready mechanism for undermining democracy and entrenching political power."

Politico reported that any such executive action to this end would face legal challenges, "including going up against a conservative Supreme Court that has already ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the broad authority to rein in carbon pollution."

Nevertheless, some reportedly suspect he may ultimately make the declaration and soon.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-may-declare-a-climate-emergency-to-further-the-green-new-deal-by-nondemocratic-means?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20230821Trending-ClimateEmergency&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News

COVID mandates and lockdowns were the warm up for draconian climate measures.

Maryland authorities on Aug. 19 disclosed a new case of locally acquired malaria, making the state the third in the country to report a case in recent months.

The person tested positive for malaria despite not recently traveling outside the United States or to a state that has reported malaria cases, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

There has been a great deal of chatter in recent years concerning the prospect that America could soon be eclipsed and subordinated by communist China. However, the defeatists appear to have overlooked the very real possibility that China might collapse under the weight of its ambitions before realizing them.

While there are various problems that might hamstring the communist nation and thwart its completion of Beijing's so-called hundred-year marathon, the prospect of a doomed economy is presently the most arresting.

Although urging patience, Beijing has been racing to shore up its crashing currency amid broader economic woes, crashing banks, and failing corporate giants.

This week, Chinese state-owned banks hurriedly dumped U.S. dollars and bought up yuan in domestic and international foreign exchange markets in hopes of slowing the pace of the Chinese currency's depreciation, reported Reuters.

The yuan has reportedly lost roughly 2.4% against the dollar already this month and 6% overall since the start of this year, hitting a 16-year low relative to the greenback on Aug. 16.

CNBC noted that unlike the currencies in relatively free nations such as the U.S. and Japan, Beijing assigns a midpoint on any given day, such that if trade of the currency "deviates too far, according to some market watchers, the Chinese central bank will step in to buy or sell the currency, putting a lid on its daily volatility."

Accordingly, China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, stepped up its intervention Friday, setting an onshore yuan midpoint over 1,000 basis points stronger than Reuters' 7.3065 per dollar estimate.

This move comes just days after the PBOC lowered the rate on its one-year loans by 15 basis points to 2.5% in response to anemic consumer spending growth, sliding investment, and spiking unemployment, reported Bloomberg News.

Bloomberg noted that the economic picture is particularly bleak for China, where bank loans "plunged to a 14-year low last month, while deflation is setting in and exports are contracting," adding, "One of China's largest property developers is at risk of default and a financial conglomerate with 1 trillion yuan ($138 billion) under management missed payments on investment products, stoking fears about possible contagion."
https://www.theblaze.com/news/communist-china-is-watching-its-currency-crash-and-economy-crumble?utm_source=theblaze-7DayTrendingTest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Blaze%20PM%20Trending%202023-08-18&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%207%20Day%20Engagement

It is hard to diagnose the Chinese economy with much certainty as hard data is not available.

A number of Democrats and other leftists have blamed the deadly wildfires in Hawaii on the specter of anthropogenic climate change.

Like the Biden administration, Hawaii's Gov. Josh Green (D) and both the state's 88%-Democratic House and 92%-Democratic state Senate are ostensibly keen to lead the globe on clean energy and climate issues.

It appears that the efforts by Hawaii's largest energy provider to follow suit and satisfy a Democrat-mandated transition to renewable energy took priority over alternatively pragmatic efforts to maintain its equipment and deal with the known and documented threat of fuel buildup in the form of flammable vegetation.

Hawaiian Electric, which serves 95% of the state's 1.4 million residents, was slapped with a lawsuit Wednesday, which alleged the "negligent and reckless operation" of its infrastructure "necessarily cause the Lahaina fire," reported Forbes.


The negligence lawsuit claimed that extra to Hawaiian Electric providing an "ignition source" — having allegedly failed to "deenergize power lines during a High Wind Watch or Red Flag Warning, and ... shut off the power during those conditions" — the company had also neglected to adequately clear flammable vegetation and maintain its equipment.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Hawaiian Electric has known about the pressing need to take preventive measures concerning wildfire threats for years, concluding during the 2019 wildfire season that it needed to ensure its power lines would not spit sparks.

This preventive measure would have been especially important, not because of so-called climate change, but because flammable, invasive plants have overgrown derelict farms and taken over one-quarter of state land, leaving Hawaii crowded with potential fuel.

Despite recognizing the need to act, the Journal indicated that Hawaiian Electric spent less than $245,000 on wildfire-specific projects on Maui between 2019 and 2022, according to regulatory filings. It didn't press the state for approval to raise rates to pay for such improvements until June 2022 and still has yet to receive it.

While Hawaiian Electric has made various commitments to take precautionary measures to "minimize the risk of sparks when winds picked up," the Journal reported that former regulators and energy company officials said the utility was preoccupied "at that time procuring renewable energy."

This focus was largely resultant of the state's 2015 mandate to totally transition to renewable energy.

According to the Democrat-authored 2015 law, Hawaii is required to meet interim renewable portfolio standards of 40% by 2030, 70% by 2040, and 100% by 2045.

In addition to allegedly prioritizing the green transition sought by Democrats over wildfire prevention measures, the utility also reportedly put off investing in mitigation until its coffers could be filled.

Bloomberg reported that power lines have sparked numerous deadly fires across the United States in recent years. In California, the state's largest utility, PG&E Corp., went bankrupt in 2019 after its equipment was deemed responsible for blazes, including the 2018 Camp Fire, which claimed the lives of 85 people.

As of Thursday morning, authorities had confirmed at least 111 people have died in the Hawaii wildfires.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/hawaii-electric-accused-of-focusing-on-tackling-specter-of-climate-change-rather-than-mitigating-known-threats-of-fuel-buildup-ahead-of-fires?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20230817SponsoredTrending-RevelationMedia-Thursday&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News

The deadly Hawaian woldfires were not caused by climate change. They were caused by irresponsible political intereference.

Social Security is facing a $22.4 trillion long-term funding obligation shortfall. The program generated 90% of its revenue in 2022 from the payroll tax on earned income (wages and salary, but not investment income), and an additional 4% from the taxation of Social Security benefits. As long as Americans keep working and paying their taxes, there will always be money flowing into the program that can be disbursed to eligible beneficiaries. In other words, if you qualify for a Social Security benefit, you're going to receive one, when eligible.

The issue is that Social Security's projected outlays, as outlined in the 2023 Social Security Board of Trustees Report, are vastly outpacing estimated revenue collection over the long term (i.e., the 75 years following the release of a report). Through 2097, the Trustees Report estimates a $22.4 trillion funding obligation shortfall.

According to the Trustees Report, if the asset reserves (excess capital collected since inception) of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (OASI) were to be exhausted, sweeping benefit cuts of up to 23% may be needed by as early as 2033 to avoid any additional benefit reductions over the long term. Once again, it's not an issue of solvency so much as avoiding a possible 23% reduction to Social Security benefits for OASI recipients in the not-too-distant future.

I have been looking around at our peer forums-CBT, VF and BF. We are all about the same size. All four are unique in their own way.

What struck me most about one of these forums in particular is that some posters seem to think there is still a place for forum wars in 2023. Even though I can't read the text I can give a fairly accurate guess from thread titles what it is about. It might be only one or two people or one person who is both people. Whatever, it is ridiculous.

Almost all of us across all four forums are at least forty years of age. That is really juvenile and lame. As Bricktop said, some people just cannot let go of Brawl Hall. And as Joe would say, oh well.

Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that Canada's annual inflation rate went up again in July to 3.3%.

While it's good news annual inflation is now at 3.3% compared to a 39-year high of 8.1% in June 2022, keep in mind that a decrease in the annual rate of inflation is not the same as a decrease in the overall cost of goods and services, as determined by the Consumer Price Index.

It means that the rate of inflation has slowed down while overall costs to consumers continue to rise.

I started this thread as a catch all for next year's American presidential election. Not so much about policy platforms, but polling,primaries, and predictions.

53 percent in new poll say they would not support Trump if he is GOP nominee

More than half of Americans surveyed said they would not support former President Trump in the 2024 general election if he is the Republican nominee, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 53 percent of Americans said they would definitely not support Trump if he was the nominee. Another 11 percent saying that they would probably not support him.

These new numbers come as GOP support for Trump has seemingly grown since April, even as the former president faces a number of legal challenges.

Sixty-three percent of Republicans in the poll say they want Trump to run again, which is slightly up from April — when 55 percent answered the same way. About 7 in 10 Republicans also now have a favorable view of the former president, up from 60 percent just two months ago.

Nearly three-quarters of Republicans also said they would support Trump if he becomes the GOP nominee, according to the poll, which was conducted before Trump and 18 allies were indicted Monday in Georgia related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the state.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4154705-53-percent-in-new-poll-say-they-would-not-support-trump-if-nominated/

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ARTICLE 1: ABUSE OF POWER: BRIBERY, HOBBS ACT EXTORTION, & HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

"Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) and James Biden sold access to then Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (Joe Biden) while he was in office from 2009 to 2017 and sold promised access to a future Biden Presidential Administration while he was out of office from 2017 to 2021," the filing reads.

"Hunter and James appear to have promised official actions by Joe Biden in return for payments and business opportunities from foreign and domestic business partners. Joe Biden assisted by making appearances, phone calls, meeting with the "business partners," and knowingly allowing his family members to promise access to him and actions by him in furtherance of these schemes."

"Hunter Biden threatened business partners that official actions could be taken against them if they did not meet terms or make payments," the filing continues. "In at least one instance, Hunter implied that Joe Biden was aware of these threats and willing to assist in enforcing the threats, potentially through official actions. Hunter Biden attempted to enrich himself and the Biden family by threatening official actions from his father, who he claims was willing to assist in the scheme."

"These acts are abuses of power as well as the following federal crimes or conspiracy to commit the following federal crimes: Bribery of Public Officials, 18 USC § 201; Hobbs Act Extortion "Under Color of Official Right," 18 USC § 1951; Honest Services Fraud relating to use of official position, 18 USC § 1346."

ARTICLE 2: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

"According to testimony from IRS whistleblowers, members of the Biden campaign improperly colluded with Justice Department (DOJ) officials to improperly interfere with investigations into tax crimes alleged to have been committed by Hunter Biden," the filing reads.

"These acts constitute an abuse of power as well as Obstruction of Justice, 18 USC §§ 1505, 1510, 1512."

ARTICLE 3: FRAUD

"James Biden recruited 'investors' for business ventures that ultimately failed. There is evidence to suggest that these investment opportunities were sold to investors based on false and fraudulent pretenses and promises," the filing says. "Access to Joe Biden and indications that Joe Biden supported these schemes were used to lure investors into the schemes."

"These acts constitute fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud in violation of 18 USC §§ 1943, 1949."

ARTICLE 4: FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG AND PROSTITUTION

"Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have a long history of comingled and intertwined finances. Between 2010 and 2019 thousands of dollars of Biden family money was spent on illegal drug transactions and prostitution," the filing adds.

"These acts constitute violations of or conspiracy to violate federal drug laws at 21 USC §§ 841, 842, 843, 846 and federal prostitution laws at 18 USC §§ 2421, 2421A, 2422."

At the time of the impeachment filing, Republican Rep. Greg Steube of Florida says it's time to take action. "It's long past time to impeach Joe Biden," Steube said. "He has undermined the integrity of his office, brought disrepute on the Presidency, betrayed his trust as President, and acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice at the expense of America's citizens."

Between 2009 and 2017, then-Vice President Biden received "payments and business opportunities from foreign and domestic business partners" through business relationships with his son, Hunter, and his brother, James. House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, says bank receipts show the family received over $20 million.

Biden is also accused of obstructing justice by interfering with the IRS investigation into his family and his son Hunter's refusal to pay taxes

"The American people deserve answers," Steube said. "My legislation demands information on the closed investigation into the cocaine found at the White House in July and focuses on how Congress can provide oversight to prevent future illicit usage of controlled substances in the White House."