🇩🇪🗳❌🇩🇪 | German Parliament moves to ban the Nationalist AfD Party?
➡️ Factions within the German Bundestag is set to vote today on whether to initiate proceedings to ban the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, as it continues to rise on polls
➡️ Today the parliament will debate whether to ban the party, with 113 MPs from the Center-Right CDU/CSU, the leftist Die Linke, the center-ledt SPD, and the Green party pushing a motion for the constitutional court to decide.
Their claims?
➡️ That the AfD promotes ethno-nationalism and challenges the status quo.
➡️ They also cite the 2023 Potsdam conference, where AfD members discussed immigration—an issue Berlin’s elites prefer to control unopposed.
📊 Despite relentless attacks, the AfD is polling second at 23% ahead of Germany’s February 23 elections and just won Thuringia with 33%.
➡️ Its growing support comes from its strong stance on immigration and the population's displeasure with the government’s economic and energy failures. Now, instead of competing fairly, the ruling parties want to silence it.
🚫 A Greens-backed motion even suggests assembling “experts” to explore a ban—though legal scholars say the AfD doesn’t meet the threshold, since it isn’t actively trying to overthrow democracy.
🇩🇪 AfD co-leader Alice Weidel has slammed the move as undemocratic, but the political class is desperate to cling to power.
🛂 Meanwhile, the AfD continues to push real policy, backing a CDU/CSU asylum bill to tighten border control, in a first win against the cordon sanitary imposed by the establishment against it
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US CENTCOM:
At 5:45 p.m. ET today, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness.
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THE COST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS EXPLODED.
Owning a home.
Buying groceries.
Driving to work.
Paying insurance.
Even your morning coffee.
Nearly every major household expense costs dramatically more than it did just a few years ago.
Over the last 7 years:
• Coffee: +127%
• Home prices: +60%
• Auto insurance: +51%
• Gasoline: +49%
• Electricity: +44%
• Shelter: +35%
• Groceries: +33%
And that's before paying for healthcare, transportation, or eating out.
This is why so many families feel like they're falling behind even when they get a raise.
The biggest financial problem for millions of Americans is that everything is going up at the same time, while the government keeps showing a 2% inflation target.
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