The day has come: Vice Presidential candidates Ohio Senator J.D. Vance & Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will face off from behind the podium with just over one month until Election 2024. Who will win the hearts and minds of middle America? We’ve got real-time commentary, live reactions, live fact-checking, drinking game rules, Josh Firestine is in the building, and so much more!

LIVE FACT CHECK

• U.S. House passes bill to reverse Biden pause of some liquified natural gas exports
• “It is foolish to think we could ever remove our dependence on China”
• At a Dinner, Trump Assailed Climate Rules and Asked $1 Billion From Big Oil
• Biden-Harris admin loses track of 320,000 migrant children — with untold numbers at risk of sex trafficking and forced labor
• Biden admin flew hundreds of thousands of migrants into US using CBP One app
• Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says Springfield bomb threats are ‘hoaxes’ coming from ‘overseas’
• US Senate unveils $118 billion bill on border security, aid for Ukraine, Israel
• CBO Report on Inflation Covers Up the Harmful Effect of Bidenomics on the Economy
• Biden kept Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. This is who pays the price
• Biden Is Right About $35 Insulin Cap but Exaggerates Prior Costs for Medicare Enrollees
• State Bans on Abortion Throughout Pregnancy
• Minnesota legislature repeals protection for born-alive infants, support for pregnant women
• Is gun violence really the leading cause of death for children?
• About Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2022, Single Race
• Kamala Harris vows to take executive action on guns if elected president
• Study Finds Gun Deaths More Likely in Small Towns than Big Cities
• More Physicians No Longer Seeing Medicare Patients
• Obamacare Has Doubled the Cost of Individual Health Insurance
• Minnesota House Hearing Reignites Concerns About Child Care Fraud
• 2020 US Presidential Election Related Lawsuits
• Hillary Clinton: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’
  

THE GREAT WALZ OF CHINA

• A deeper look at Walz's China ties ahead of Tuesday's debate
• Tim Walz has visited China, a lot
• Walz’s claim that he was in Hong Kong during Tiananmen Square protests undercut by unearthed newspaper reports
• Chairman Comer Is Subpoenaing DHS After Whistleblower Reveals Information on Governor Walz’s Ties to the CCP

ISRAEL

• Shrapnel from Iranian missile kills Palestinian man near Jericho
• Seven murdered in Jaffa terror shooting, many more wounded
• President Biden Statement on Iranian Missile Attack on Israel
• Donald Trump Statement on Iranian Missile Attack on Israel
• US sanctions inflicted $1 trillion damage on Iran’s economy: FM
• Biden withdraws Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran
• Biden Gives Iran Another Sanctions Break
• 1986: Biden on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

DOCKWORKERS ON STRIKE

• US dockworkers strike begins, at big cost to economy
• Where the Dockworkers’ Union and Port Operators Stand on Key Issues
• Tri-State area braces for possible dockworkers strike as midnight deadline passes
• Where the Dockworkers’ Union and Port Operators Stand on Key Issues
• Biden Scrambles to Contain Economic and Political Fallout of Port Strike
• Southern California’s Container Ship Backup Ends

QUICK DEBUNK THAT CRIME IS DOWN

• Criminal Victimization, 2023
• Contrary to Media Myth, U.S. Urban Crime Rates Are Up

WHO IS TIM WALZ

• BACKGROUND
  • Ballotpedia: Tim Walz
• RADICAL POSITIONS:
  • Walz signs executive order reaffirming right to gender-affirming care in Minnesota
  • 5 Things to Know About Bernie-Backed VP Front-Runner Tim Walz
  • Minnesota governor signs broad abortion rights bill into law
  • Minnesota Session Laws - 2023, Regular Session
  • Minnesota Abortion Data
  • Abortions Later in Pregnancy in a Post-Dobbs Era
• GEORGE FLOYD:
  • Political antagonists united by George Floyd's death to forge deal on police reform
  • Walz refutes police union claim he ordered Third Precinct abandoned in riots
  • Twin Cities businesses damaged by unrest await state aid
• COVID:
  • How well are Minnesotans following the stay at home order?
  • When did Gov. Tim Walz know about the Feeding Our Future fraud?
  • Gov. Walz responds to audit critical of administration’s handling of Feeding Our Future fraud
  • Assessing the Initial Impact of COVID-19 on Minnesota Employment and Business Establishments
• IMMIGRATION
  • Thousands registered to vote since launch of Minnesota’s automatic voter registration system
  • Minnesota’s new automatic voter registration system is up and running. How does it work?
  • Minnesota governor signs ‘driver’s licenses for all’ bill
  • Unauthorized immigrants eligible for Minnesota driver's licenses now
  • "It’s time for Congress to work together on a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers"
• CHINA:
  • Man who says he accompanied Walz on trip to China calls VP candidate ‘Maoist to the core’
• INTEREST GROUP RANKINGS:
  • Tim Walz's Ratings and Endorsements
• STATE TAX BURDEN
  • State Individual Income Tax Rates and Brackets, 2024
  • State Corporate Income Tax Rates and Brackets, 2024
  • State and Local Sales Tax Rates, Midyear 2024
  • Minnesota Tax Rates, Collections, and Burdens
  • Gov. Tim Walz Raised Taxes as Most Governors Cut Them
  • 45 Cents a Gallon? 20? 18? Midwest Governors Float Major Gas Tax Hikes
  • Minnesota state budget is a disaster waiting to happen, thanks to Gov. Walz and the DFL-controlled legislature
  • What Tim Walz Is Known for in Minnesota
• MISC SCANDALS
  • Paid letter: The Truth About Tim Walz
  • Walz Still Planning to Run for Congress Despite Possible Call to Duty in Iraq
  • The ‘Swift Boating’ of Tim Walz has begun. What is the truth?
  • Republicans start attacking Walz by going after his military record
  • CNN’s Jake Tapper knocks Walz’s IVF claims: ‘That’s not accurate’
  • 5 Feeding Our Future defendants found guilty, 2 acquitted in sprawling fraud case
  • Many millions lost. Is the Walz administration taking fraud and waste seriously enough?

JOBS

• Statement from President Joe Biden on the March Jobs Report
• Fact Check: Under Biden Administration, US Economy Supposedly Added 15M Jobs. We Looked at the Evidence
• Biden Administration Job Growth Numbers Are Subsidized By Record Numbers Of Government Jobs — 25% of New Jobs Are In Government
• All Employees, Government
• Heritage Expert: Americans Have Lost $4,200 in Annual Income Under The Biden Administration
• Civilian Labor Force Level - Foreign Born

INFLATION

• Inflation Forces Over Half of Americans to Consider Second Jobs
• CBO Report on Inflation Covers Up the Harmful Effect of Bidenomics on the Economy
• Americans Feel The Heat As Bidenflation Climbs Toward 20%
• CPI for all urban consumers
• Consumer Price Index Historical Tables for U.S. City Average
• Nonfarm payroll growth revised down by 818,000, Labor Department says
• 2023 Employment Situation
• 2022 Employment Situation
• Fed recap: Chair Powell explains why the central bank isn’t ready yet to cut rates

IMMIGRATION

• How Much of Trump’s Border Wall Was Built?
• Why asylum seekers on either side of the southern border still face an uncertain future
• Biden Has Taken Nearly 300 Executive Actions on Immigration in His First Year, Outpacing Trump
• CBP Enforcement Statistics
• Southwest Land Border Encounters
• Criminal Noncitizen Statistics
• CBP Enforcement Statistics
• Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2018–January 2022
• The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers | 2023 Cost Study

CRIME

• Why It’s Confusing to Know Whether Crime’s Really Up or Down
• Criminal Victimization, 2022
• NYPD statistics show murders, shootings down in 2023; optimistic about 2024
• IOLENT CRIME SURVEY – NATIONAL TOTALS Midyear Comparison 1 January 1 to June 30, 2024, and 2023
• VIOLENT CRIME SURVEY – NATIONAL TOTALS Midyear Comparison 1 January 1 to June 30, 2020 and 2019
• NYPD ANNOUNCES CITYWIDE CRIME STATISTICS FOR MARCH, FIRST QUARTER 2024
• NYPD ANNOUNCES CITYWIDE CRIME STATISTICS FOR JUNE, SECOND QUARTER 2024