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A company run by a former Republican election official has purchased Dominion Voting Systems, according to a report.

Dominion was sold to Missouri-based Liberty Vote for an undisclosed sum, Axios reported.

Scott Leiendecker, the owner of Liberty Vote, served as St. Louis' Republican election director when Trump ally Ed Martin was the Board of Elections' chair for the city. Trump recently appointed Martin as head of the Weaponization Working Group at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Liberty Vote officials noted that Nevada's Democratic secretary of state, Cisco Aguilar, has called Leiendecker "open, honest and transparent."

The company was said to be focusing on paper ballots, following Trump's vision for how elections should be run in the United States.

"Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for American elections — one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up," Leiendecker told Axios.

Dominion equipment would receive a "top-down" review ahead of next year's midterm elections, the company said.

Axios reported that Liberty required Dominion to settle several defamation lawsuits against Trump allies before the sale. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, and One America News Network all settled with Dominion in recent weeks.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested that Muslims did not have the right to pray outdoors in the United States.

During a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Tuberville expressed outrage at Muslims expressing their faith.

"I mean, this is out of control!" the senator exclaimed. "What gives them the right, Alex, to go out in the middle of the street in a lot of these big cities and do their prayer? You got a mosque, go to your mosque!"

"You don't do that in your countries, only you do it where you want to, as you said earlier, you want to mark your ground," he continued. "And that's what they're doing. They're taking over slowly but surely. We have to fight back. Sharia law needs to be banned in this country."

"And if we don't do it, we're going to lose the United States of America to a bunch of people coming over here that want to kill us."

Tuberville blamed "socialist communists" for permitting freedom of religion.

"That's who lets it happen, and we've got to stop it, and people just need to wake up and understand," he said. "And every day they dream about either raping our people or killing our people. And that's got to stop."

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was accused of embarrassing himself after causing chaos in a congressional hallway by confronting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

Instead of meeting with Jeffries in private on Wednesday, Lawler stopped the Democratic leader in front of a crowd of people to ask him to sign on to a temporary extension of subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. Democrats have said that they would not accept only one year of subsidies for the health care program.

"Did your boss, Donald Trump, give you permission?" Jeffries asked.

"He's not my boss!" Lawler insisted. "And by the way, why did you vote to shut the government?"

"You're making a show of this to make yourself relevant," Jeffries charged. "You're embarrassing yourself right now. You're chasing a crowd."

"You have to sign on to the bill," Lawler demanded.

"Let me ask you a question," Jeffries said. "You voted for the 'One Big Ugly Bill,' correct?"

"I voted for a tax cut bill that gave the largest tax cut to Americans in history," Lawler countered. "Are you against that?"

"You're embarrassing yourself right now," Jeffries noted as Lawler talked over him.

"You're not going to talk to me and talk over me because you don't want to hear what I have to say," the Democrat said. "So why don't you just keep your mouth shut?"

"And so you voted for this 'One Big Ugly Bill, a permanent extension of massive tax breaks for your billionaire donors," he added.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has resorted to emails about "aliens" in an attempt to raise funds for her re-election campaign.

According to KDVR, Boebert questioned the existence of aliens and UFOs in an email sent to her supporters on Monday.

"Are aliens real?!" a website linked in the email asked, along with a request for money.

"For decades, our government has shrouded the truth about UFOs in a veil of secrecy," the fundraiser insisted. "They tell us we're crazy like we can't see these things flying through the air with our own eyes."

"I SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! The American people aren't children to be spoon-fed half-truths or dismissed with vague excuses. We deserve to know what's really going on up there."

KDVR Democratic analyst Andy Boian called the email a sign of desperation.

"This is almost a cry for help in politics, to be honest," he explained. "And she may raise a few thousand dollars, but she's also going to get a lot of really weird looks."

"The government is shut down, and there's no opportunity right now to talk. So, what she needs to be doing is facilitating a way to get the government open again, not worrying about whether or not we have UFOs in our skies," Boian added.

Boebert's campaign told KDVR that the fundraising tactic was "performing extremely well."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained about "unbelievable blowback and pressure from the White House" on releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein, despite her support for President Donald Trump on controversial topics, such as the Jan. 6 riots.

"I've always been an unapologetic Trump supporter," Greene told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling on Tuesday. "Spent millions of dollars out of my own campaign to do that."

"I'm not a slave and I am independent-minded," she continued. "And at times, I disagree with the Trump administration. And guess what, Eric? I'm allowed to do that. I'm an American. I'm allowed to have my own opinion."

Bolling agreed that "Trump's a better president with conservative people who back him, who say maybe not this one, Mr. President."

"On the Epstein files, I've unapologetically stood with women and victims of rape, especially these women," Greene pointed out. "And I received unbelievable blowback and pressure from the White House pushing me to get off [Republican Rep.] Thomas Massie's discharge petition, which I absolutely refuse to do."

"And, you know, that has been shocking to me, and I've seen it as completely unnecessary, and I won't tolerate it," the lawmaker insisted. "There is no amount of pressure they can put on me to force me to step in line on that, so to speak."

Greene said she also received pressure after demanding that Republicans come up with a solution for rising health insurance premiums, which have been at the center of an ongoing government shutdown.

"And I want Republicans to have a solution, and I'm demanding it," she remarked. "I don't think Democrats should be the ones owning this issue because they want socialized health care, and we're $37 trillion in debt, and we can't afford that. However, the reality is many Americans, our families especially, are paying $2,000 a month for health insurance premiums with high deductibles."

"And it's unforgivable. And to allow Democrats to have some sort of moral high ground on this issue because they're only one, the only ones talking about it, I think, is a major failure from the Republican Party," Greene added. "And I'm not going to stand there and just keep talking the talking points when my own adult children can hardly afford health insurance premiums. When everyone in my district, it's the number one issue that I hear about day in and day out, not just people on the ACA, but people that have private insurance as well."

Bolling encouraged Greene to stand firm.

"Instead of other people, you know, you see them kind of flailing around trying to contort themselves into a, and I agree with everything that the president says when, you know, you can't just agree with everything," the host argued. "It's a fool's game to agree with everything as brilliant as he's been and as great as he's done for the country. You just don't have to, especially people who represent literally millions of people like you do yourself."

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem prayed for a "hedge of protection" around federal agents while meeting at an official Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

According to MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, Noem began a meeting at the Portland ICE office with a prayer to Jesus Christ.

In her prayer, Noem asked God to give her agency "wisdom and discernment to make the best decisions not just for the people that are here enforcing the law but also for the citizens of this country."

"And Lord, I just ask you to continue to put a hedge of protection around these officers, keep them safe, Lord, but that also that you continue to bless each and every one of them and their families," she continued. "And Lord, that you would protect the freedoms that we all enjoy that we're given to us by you."

"We love you, we praise you," she concluded. "Amen."

According to Johnson, the prayer was the "first thing" Noem did upon arriving at the office.

"We are witnessing incredible things," he wrote on X.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell threatened to go "door-to-door" begging for money to file an appeal after a judge ruled that he and his company defamed voting machine manufacturer Smartmatic.

In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan found that Lindell defamed Smartmatic 51 times with claims that the 2020 presidential election had been rigged.

Lindell addressed the ruling in a Tuesday broadcast on his Lindell TV channel.

"This was the biggie. This was the $1.5 billion [lawsuit] against MyPillow and Mike Lindell," he explained. "What this means, everybody, is if this, if I don't appeal this, this would go to the jury trial, I don't know, year, two years for now, but they're saying, if I don't appeal, it's saying, yep, I'm guilty because I didn't appeal. And all the jury would then would decide, did Mike do this maliciously, and how much money I would owe."

"This is going to get appealed. I don't have the funds to do it," he continued. "Now we have 22 more days to raise this money for this appeal... I believe it's going to cost like $300,000. I'm sitting here without 300 cents, but I'll tell you what, this will get appealed."

"I don't care if I have to go door-to-door to raise the money."

Lindell, a supporter of President Donald Trump, claimed that the ruling was a plot "to distract me from getting rid of these machines."