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PULSE POINTS:
❓What Happened: Far-left Democrat election attorney Marc Elias is suing the State of Wyoming to make it easier for noncitizens to cast ballots in state and federal elections.
👥 Who’s Involved: The State of Wyoming, Marc Elias, the Equality State Policy Center, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray.
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📍 Where & When: The lawsuit was filed on Friday, May 9, 2025.
💬 Key Quote: “The far-left’s lawsuit is a meritless attempt to undermine the common-sense election integrity measures Wyomingites want. Proof of citizenship and proof of residency are common-sense measures pivotal to election integrity,” said Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray in response to the court filing.
⚠️ Impact: Wyoming’s proof of citizenship requirement was passed into law in March. If Elias’s lawsuit is successful, it would mean that noncitizens would only need to assert they are legally allowed to vote in order to cast a ballot in elections held in the state.
IN FULL:
Democrat lawfare operative and elections attorney Marc Elias has filed a lawsuit against the State of Wyoming to make it easier for noncitizens to vote in the state’s elections. Elias’s lawsuit targets a new state law that will soon take effect and requires those registering to vote to provide election officials with documented proof of citizenship. These documents can include a U.S. passport, naturalization papers, a birth certificate, and other official government forms of identification only available to citizens.
“When HB 156 becomes effective, it will impose new, burdensome, and entirely unnecessary requirements that will make it harder for eligible citizens to vote,” the lawsuit, filed by Elias, along with the Equality State Policy Center and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), reads. “Women—as well as Hispanic, young, and low-income voters—are less likely to have acceptable documentation and, in many cases, face greater hurdles to obtaining it,” it claims.
Notably, the Elias lawsuit raises one of the Democratic Party’s newest anti-election integrity talking points, which claims Voter I.D. and measures ensuring only citizens vote discriminate against married women. The lawsuit contends that women who have taken their husbands’ last names are more likely to be turned away from polling places, despite little evidence of this actually occurring.
The lawsuit also contends that the new law is duplicative, as Wyoming and the U.S. federal government already require voters to attest to their eligibility to vote with a sworn statement. Proponents of the document requirements counter that the provision adds an extra layer of security by requiring evidence that a voter is a citizen beyond their mere word.
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray has pledged to defend the document requirement in court. He blasted Elias and his co-filers, stating: “The far-left’s lawsuit is a meritless attempt to undermine the common-sense election integrity measures Wyomingites want. Proof of citizenship and proof of residency are common-sense measures pivotal to election integrity.”
PULSE POINTS:
❓What Happened: Hasan Piker, a far-left streamer on Amazon’s Twitch with over six million followers across social media, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Piker, who openly backs Houthi attacks on civilian shipping in the Red Sea, claims he was targeted for his views on foreign policy and stance against President Donald J. Trump.
👥 Who’s Involved: Hasan Piker, CBP officials, U.S. government spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, and the Trump administration.
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📍 Where & When: Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
💬 Key Quote: “Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless,” U.S. government official Tricia McLaughlin posted on X (formerly Twitter).
⚠️ Impact: Piker’s detention underscores the Trump administration’s firm stance on national security, prioritizing scrutiny of individuals with terrorist sympathies.
IN FULL:
Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker, a top streamer on Amazon’s Twitch platform, was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Sunday. Piker, boasting over six million followers across social media, openly supports the Houthis—a designated terrorist organization operating out of Yemen—and their attacks on civilian shipping and sailors. Piker, who was raised in Turkey, previously said that “America deserved 9/11” and stated Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who lost an eye during a deployment in Iraq, “literally los[t] his eye because some mujahideen—a brave f***ing soldier—f***ed his eye hole with their d**k.”
Piker, returning from France, complained on X (formerly Twitter) that CBP officials quizzed him about his views on Trump, Israel, the Houthis, and Hamas, claiming the “insane situation” was an attempt to “silence” him. “It’s very obvious that they knew exactly who I was,” he told followers, framing the inspection as a political witch hunt.
U.S. officials denied Piker’s claims, with spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin saying he was “lying for likes,” and adding: “Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless.” The CBP added, “Our officers are following the law, not agendas,” and that Piker was released promptly after a lawful check.
Notably, Piker is not merely pro-Palestinian or anti-Trump. In a recent debate with Ethan Klein, a liberal YouTuber, Piker stated, “I believe what the Houthis are doing… to implement a blockade on the Red Sea, is a good thing, ten toes f***ing down. They are on the morally right side.”
Of an incident in which Houthi terrorists hijacked a civilian vessel and held a number of Filipino sailors hostage for around a year, Piker said, “It is a show of force to stop other… commercial shipping from going through. They literally bankrupted an entire Israeli port, I’d say that’s numbers on the f***ing board, baby.”
As recently as March, Piker told his followers, “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott, OK?” Last April, responding to comments by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on anti-Israel protestors, Piker shared an image of an improvised firearm design, in what was widely interpreted as a call to assassinate the GOP lawmaker.
Hasan Piker, one of the very top streamers on Amazon’s Twitch platform, openly endorses the Houthis—a designated terrorist organization—attacking civilian ships and kidnapping random Filipino sailors. (Note that Twitch banned Trump for well over three years for his “rhetoric.”) pic.twitter.com/emVBy4XR95
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) May 5, 2025
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