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Hong Kong went Hong gone—and Democrats got another warning
The political experts promised Wisconsin Democrats a Francesca Hong blowout. The polls showed her comfortably ahead, the socialist cheering section was ready, and the media had already begun polishing another story about the unstoppable progressive future.
Then actual voters showed up.
Suddenly, Hong Kong became Hong gone.
Hong lost the Democratic gubernatorial primary by less than one percentage point—a razor-thin finish, but a loss all the same. Her supposedly commanding advantage evaporated when ballots replaced polling models, reminding us once again that elections are stubborn things. Voters have an annoying habit of thinking for themselves.
Hong’s concession speech offered very little concession. She spoke of “uncontrolled ICE fascists” making people disappear, attacked Republican Gov. Tom Tiffany and promised that “the fight continues no matter what.”
That was entirely on brand. Even after voters declined to nominate her, Hong continued speaking as if Wisconsin had just commissioned her to lead the revolution.
Fox News did not even make it inside her election-night headquarters. Its crew arrived with the required credentials and registration materials but was reportedly turned away because of “capacity.” Fox appeared to be the only major outlet immediately shown the door.
Nothing says confidence in your message quite like banning the camera most likely to broadcast it without applause.
Hong’s defeat was more than an entertaining upset. It was part of a much larger warning flashing across Tuesday’s primaries: The electorate is restless, incumbency is losing some of its protective magic, and the socialist Left’s online enthusiasm does not always translate into votes.
Ten incumbent House members have now been defeated in primaries during this election cycle—seven Democrats and three Republicans. That is not a normal number. Political families usually have to work very hard to get rid of their own incumbents, even when those incumbents have been in Washington long enough to qualify as historic landmarks.
In Connecticut, Democratic Rep. John Larson was rejected after 14 terms and 28 years in Congress. His challenger argued that voters deserved a different voice after nearly three decades.
The voters apparently agreed that 28 years was sufficient time to finish a sentence.
Minnesota delivered another look at the Democratic Party’s leftward migration. Peggy Flanagan advanced in the Senate race after attacking fellow Democrat Angie Craig for supporting the Laken Riley Act. Simply mentioning that law drew boos from Flanagan’s audience.
Think about what that tells us. The law requires federal authorities to detain certain illegal immigrants accused of crimes such as theft and assault. Yet, inside this wing of the Democratic Party, supporting it is treated as an unforgivable betrayal.
The party once associated itself with working-class Americans. Its new activists appear more emotionally invested in protecting illegal immigrants from ICE than protecting citizens from repeat offenders.
Michelle Tafoya may now face Flanagan in what could become one of the country’s most revealing Senate contests. That race would give Minnesota voters a clear choice—and Republicans plenty of material.
Meanwhile, Hasan Piker was furious that the national media had repeatedly questioned whether Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could defeat Republican Mike Rogers.
Piker insisted the press had lied about El-Sayed’s electability, arguing that polling showed him performing as well as—or better than—his primary opponent Haley Stevens against Rogers.
Perhaps. But this was an especially interesting evening to declare polling infallible. Francesca Hong had enjoyed a steady double-digit lead right up until she became Francesca Gone.
Maybe everybody should allow the voters to vote before treating a survey as sacred scripture.
The election results were not the only signs that institutions may finally be rediscovering accountability.
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced charges against 11 people accused of operating one of the largest marriage-fraud schemes in American history. Prosecutors allege the decade-long enterprise arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages between Chinese nationals and American citizens, followed by fraudulent green-card applications.
One thousand fake marriages.
That is not a loophole. That is an immigration assembly line with wedding cake.
The case is an important reminder that border security does not end at the physical border. Immigration laws can be defeated through fraudulent paperwork just as surely as they can be defeated through an unlawful crossing. If prosecutors’ allegations are proven, this was a multimillion-dollar industry devoted to manufacturing legal status for people who did not qualify for it.
Blanche also confirmed another arrest in the investigation involving the Southern Poverty Law Center, saying its former chief financial officer had been indicted for allegedly helping open bank accounts in fictitious company names and making payments disguised as something they were not.
The SPLC has spent years assigning moral labels to everyone else. Now one of its former executives is receiving a label from federal prosecutors: defendant.
Blanche stressed that an indictment does not end an investigation. Investigators, prosecutors and agents will continue following the evidence, meaning the case may have more chapters ahead.
That should interest everyone who has watched the SPLC evolve from a civil-rights organization into a bitterly partisan operation capable of smearing mainstream conservative groups by placing them alongside genuinely dangerous extremists.
On Anthony Fauci, however, Washington’s gears continue turning at their usual archaeological pace.
Asked about the contempt referral from Congress, Blanche said there was no update and explained that the Justice Department has a process for receiving and investigating congressional referrals. Any public announcement would likely come only after a final decision—and “certainly won’t be anytime soon.”
Of course not.
The government moved at lightning speed when it was issuing mandates, threatening jobs and demanding compliance from millions of Americans. Accountability for the people who made those decisions apparently travels by covered wagon.
Still, the referral has not disappeared. The process is underway, and the questions surrounding Fauci’s testimony, government-funded research and the years of stonewalling remain unanswered.
After all that politics, Rush Hour looked upward—literally.
Our official astronomer, Gary Swanson, joined the show to discuss the Perseid meteor shower, visible across much of North America. Under ideal dark-sky conditions, viewers could see dozens of meteors streaking overhead each hour.
Gary’s best advice was refreshingly low-tech: Get away from artificial lights, find a dark location and look up with the naked eye. Binoculars can actually limit the field of view.
In other words, for one night Americans could turn off the cable panels, put down the polling models and watch something spectacular that had absolutely nothing to do with toxic whiteness, ICE fascism or Hasan Piker.
That may have been the most therapeutic advice offered on radio all week.
This is what we do on Bo Snerdley’s Rush Hour. We move from the elections and the absurdity to the serious investigations—and occasionally all the way into the heavens—without waiting for the legacy media to decide which parts you are permitted to hear.
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