Manchester United and France football legend Eric Cantona has once again stepped into the political and humanitarian spotlight after appearing in a shirt supporting the Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti. The move garnered widespread attention across social media platforms and international media.

Cantona posted a picture of himself wearing a shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Freedom for Marwan” as part of an international solidarity campaign calling for the release of Barghouti, who has spent more than two decades in Israeli prisons. Messages circulated by the campaign emphasized that the shirt is “not just sports attire,” but carries political and humanitarian symbolism associated with the values of freedom, resilience, and justice.

According to Anadolu Agency, the shirt’s design was inspired by the Palestinian national team’s jersey from 2002, the year Barghouti was arrested during the Second Palestinian Intifada. It also bears the number “24”, referring to the years he has spent inside Israeli detention facilities.

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In a statement accompanying the photos, the campaign added that Barghouti “will once again be unable to watch the World Cup with his children this year,” considering the message to transcend sports and shed light on the issue of Palestinian prisoners. The campaign also affirmed that football “has always been a global space for expressing freedom, dignity, and the rejection of injustice.”

Cantona is known for his political and humanitarian stance supporting human rights issues. He has previously expressed solidarity with Palestinians multiple times and criticized the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in recent months.

The French star’s photos provoked a massive reaction among football fans and social media activists. Many considered that the appearance of a global sports personality of Cantona’s stature grants the campaign additional media momentum, especially given the recent expansion of global sports and artistic solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

Eric Cantona is considered one of Manchester United’s most prominent legends, having led the team to several domestic titles during the nineties, subsequently becoming a historical icon for the club and its fans worldwide.

Cantona’s action follows similar stances taken by a number of athletes and artists globally who have expressed their support for Palestine and their rejection of the war on Gaza — a scene that has been notably recurring in international stadiums and sporting events.

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The Republican Party is starting to splinter over support for Israel — and President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters are largely aligned with the embattled U.S. ally.

New results from The POLITICO Poll find that self-identified “MAGA” Trump voters are more supportive of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its relationship with the U.S. than those who don’t identify as MAGA but still voted for the president.

Nearly half of MAGA Trump voters say they back Israel and approve of the actions of its current government, while just 29 percent of non-MAGA Trump voters say the same, according to the survey. A plurality of MAGA voters (41 percent) say Israel is justified in its military campaign in Gaza — compared with 31 percent of non-MAGA voters. And 24 percent of MAGA voters say the country was initially justified but has gone too far, compared with 31 percent of non-MAGA voters.

MAGA voters are moderately supportive of Israel, and the survey suggests they remain more willing to stick with the longtime U.S. ally even as divides inside the party deepen. The emerging fractures carry significant implications for the future of the U.S.-Israel alliance and GOP efforts to keep together the coalition that powered Trump back to the White House in an unfavorable midterm election.

Politics around the Middle East have rapidly changed in recent years. Support for Israel has long divided the Democratic Party, with some Democrats blaming the Biden administration’s approach to Gaza for costing them the White House in 2024. A 35 percent plurality of Americans who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris say Israel was initially justified in its actions in Gaza but has gone too far, while 27 percent say Israel’s military campaign in Gaza was never justified and 28 percent don’t know.

Only 10 percent of Harris voters believe that Israel is still justified in its conduct of the Gaza war. That figure underscores the near-total loss of support among Democrats for a military campaign that drew significant support from the Biden administration.

Republicans were powerfully unified in support of Israel in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. But amid the war with Iran and a growing unease about Trump’s foreign interventions, the country’s standing appears shaky among the non-MAGA wing of the GOP and among young conservatives. Non-MAGA voters are 10 points more likely than MAGA Trump voters to believe the Israeli government has too much influence over U.S. foreign policy, the survey conducted by Public First found.

Some of those cracks have spilled into public view, with high-profile Republicans like Tucker Carlson, former Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon all criticizing America’s close relationship with Israel, especially as the war in Iran escalates. Most Republican members of Congress, as well as conservative influencers like Laura Loomer and Ben Shapiro, have remained pro-Israel voices defending the president’s actions.

“There is a sentiment right now within the Republican Party of, ‘America First,’ let’s get out of all of the conflicts in the world, let’s not be committed to those conflicts,” said Amnon Cavari, an associate professor at Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at Reichman University in Israel.

The poll reflects that dynamic, with a notable share of Trump 2024 voters — 29 percent — saying that the president has spent too much time focusing on international affairs instead of domestic issues.

MAGA Trump voters are more tolerant of Trump’s global agenda, with just 19 percent complaining that he has spent too much time on international affairs. That figure doubles to 40 percent among non-MAGA Trump voters.

The Israel issue is a particularly urgent flash point within the GOP coalition, but POLITICO’s polling shows a consistent gap between Trump voters who identify as “MAGA” and those who do not. That divide has shown up on views of Trump’s deportation campaign,the war in Iran and even his handling of economic concerns.

Generational divides on Israel

The POLITICO Poll finds sharp generational divides among Republicans on issues related to Israel, with the youngest Trump voters more likely than the oldest to express uneasiness over America’s relationship with Israel.

Thirty-two percent of Trump voters below 35 say the U.S. is too closely aligned with Israel’s government, while 11 percent of Trump voters over 55 say the same.

When asked whether the U.S. should distance itself from Israel — even when the two nations face common threats — or work closely with the longtime ally to fend against common threats, the generational divide holds. Nearly half of Trump voters ages 18 to 34 say there should be distance between the two countries, while just 13 percent of Trump voters over 55 say the same.

James Fishback, a far-right 31-year-old Republican gubernatorial candidate in Florida who is highly critical of Israel and has gained traction among younger online “America First” voices, said the GOP is poised for a “massive reckoning” on the Middle Eastern nation, “the first of which we’re going to see this November, and in the primaries right before that.”

“And then we’re set up for the ultimate proxy war on this Israel question in the [2028] Republican primary, and then in the general,” he said. “I just don’t see a staunchly pro-Israel candidate becoming the Republican nominee.”

The generational divide in the GOP in many ways mirrors breaks within the Democratic Party, whose younger voters also hold stronger views against Israel’s influence and actions, driven in large part by the rising death toll and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, polling shows.

“The fact that [Israel has] lost support among young Democrats is not surprising,” said Cavari. “The fact that they are losing rapidly among young Republicans is especially alarming, and the trend is very clear.”

The AIPAC factor

The involvement of pro-Israel groups in competitive primaries has become a flashpoint on both sides of the aisle.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential advocacy group that aims to elect candidatesin both parties who strongly support Israel, has faced backlash for its involvement in Democratic primaries in New Jersey and Illinois. AIPAC is also involved in Republican primaries, and some GOP voters are uneasy about its role.

But AIPAC is also playing on the Republican side — and the GOP is beginning to split over it. The survey finds that MAGA Trump voters are 14 points more supportive of AIPAC’s political interventions than their counterparts in the coalition, while non-MAGA Trump voters are 11 points more likely to oppose AIPAC’s efforts.

Deryn Sousa, a spokesperson for AIPAC, said in a statement that “millions of Americans are members of AIPAC because they want to strengthen an alliance that advances America’s interests and values, and we will stay focused on building the largest possible bipartisan pro-Israel coalition in Congress.”

AIPAC has bundled for several GOP incumbents, including Sens. John Cornyn in Texas and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, who are both at risk of losing their seats. The group, along with the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund, has also poured millions into attempting to oust GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky, in part for opposing aid to Israel and attempting to rein in Trump’s war powers in Iran and elsewhere.

Even as AIPAC has become a dividing line among highly engaged voters in both parties, a 30 percent plurality of Americans have never heard of the organization or don’t know enough to share an opinion.

“Polls will go up and down,” said Patrick Dorton, the spokesperson for AIPAC’s super PAC, United Democracy Project. “Obviously we’re in a post-Gaza, Iran war environment.”

AIPAC’s electoral arm, Dorton said, will continue to be “substantive in making the case for the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

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Ethno-fascist colonisers have again marched through Jerusalem chanting Islamophobic and genocidal slogans, while peaceful anti-Zionist marchers were attacked by police and by Zionist onlookers.

The anti-Zionist march in solidarity with oppressed Palestinians was “brutally suppressed”, despite being orderly and entirely non-violent:

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Heavily-protected Zionist extremists, meanwhile, stormed through the city chanting “Death to Arabs”, “May your village burn” and other anti-Palestinian slogans:

Thousands marched through Jerusalem today for the annual Flag Day, with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir among them. The march was marked by participants chanting anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian slogans.

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The fascist marchers also attacked Palestinian shopkeepers and passersby. In classic language to obscure reality that is regularly mimicked by UK ‘mainstream’ media, Israeli police and news channels described these as “clashes” “breaking out”:

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The racist chants and attacks are a regular feature of colonial supremacists’ posturing. Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has participated in the hate marches, yet is never challenged about this when he claims that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism”. Extremist ‘security minister’ Itamar Ben-Gvir is an enthusiastic participant, regularly taking a gang of thugs and guards to storm the Al Aqsa mosque, which is one of Islam’s holiest sites.

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Campaign group Save Lough Neagh are set to hold a major march on Sunday, May 17 to highlight the water body’s plight from years of profiteering abuse. It will fall on the anniversary of a landmark 1986 rally against lignite mining.

Marchers will follow the same route as the 3000 who attended 40 years ago, going from The Battery Bar on the lough’s shore, to Ardboe High Cross around two miles to the south. In 1986, campaigners fought back successfully against lignite strip mining in the area, which would have had a devastating impact on the environment.

Farmers and fishers would have potentially had their livelihoods destroyed through damage to the water table, loss of farmland and water pollution. Lignite is also the filthiest form of coal, an already highly pollutive fossil fuel, so the wider implications for mining were also severe.

Energy companies such as BP Coal were ultimately forced to relent in their plans to open the area for exploitation in 1988.

Rent-seeking Earl a symbol of long environmental exploitation

The activists didn’t stop Lough Neagh ultimately entering its current dire state, however, caused again by greed. Save Lough Neagh said ahead of Sunday’s march:

Stormont has failed our Lough, putting private interests, profit and growth above our natural environment and rights to clean drinking water. Meanwhile the Earl of Shaftesbury continues to earn money on sand dredging, disturbing the fragile ecosystem, while holding the Lough back with demands.

It’s a sign of the depth of environmental exploitation in Ireland when an English Earl is still hoovering up rents from the wreckage caused. The Shaftesburys inherited Lough Neagh in the 1800s. The English aristocracy has a history of this sort of thing, having essentially wiped out Ireland’s rainforests for the sake of farming and timber. The timber was then used for Britain’s navy that helped to conquer and terrorise much of the world.

Sand dredging of the kind the Earl profits from was found to have potentially “profound negative ecological consequences“. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast said:

We have used sonar to map the bed of Lough Neagh and we have found that where sand is extracted, it can be lowered by 10 to 20 metres and is heavily scarred.

This process of sedimentation — churning of sand and silt — could also “reduce the water clarity and quality”, and “harm wildlife throughout the ecosystem”.

More recent damage has been caused by massive local farms that were allowed to get away with pumping shit into the lough for years in the 2010s, with Save Lough Neagh blaming:

…the 5 main parties of Stormont who backed disastrous Going For Growth agri-policy, [and] give rates relief and subsidies to massive polluters.

This is likely in reference to the Democratic Unionist Party, the Ulster Unionist Party, Alliance, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and Sinn Féin. People Before Profit can be regarded as not carrying similar blame, and backed Sunday’s march.

Packham backs campaign to Save Lough Neagh

Also backing it is celebrity environmentalist Chris Packham, who said:

The destruction of Lough Neagh is a national scandal unfolding in plain sight. One of these islands’ most important freshwater ecosystems is being sacrificed because governments and regulators have failed to act with the urgency this crisis demands.

Toxic algae, collapsing biodiversity and sewage pollution are not inevitable, they are the consequences of political choices. People marching on May 17 are standing up not only for Lough Neagh, but for every community’s right to clean water and a healthy environment.

Neoliberal policies around the world are leading to this kind of de-development, where something like clean water — once taken for granted — can no longer be guaranteed. The only way to change it is to fight back with people power, as those in 1986 did.

Declan Coney, one of the veterans from that campaign said:

I was here at the very first lignite rally in 1986 where 3000 people marched this. Fishing families, local families, farming community. They all come [sic] here to say “No, enough was enough” to the lignite and to any exploitation of the lough at all.

He continued:

Our government has let us down constantly with soundbites. Talk is cheap. Time for action now.

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A group of Communist labour supporters attacked a group putting up the British flag,  Then complained that the peaceful english supporters defended themselves against yet another unprovoked attack on peaceful British citizens showing their support for Britain not the EU or the Communist socialist government of England run by the Dictator Starmer the rent boy Shagger of No 10  who supports communist socialism the same as China and North Korea and this is what a Communist Labour Government and its Communist MPs like Burnham (“They will try to tell you he isnt a communist, By his very support of the Labour movement he is a Communist”) maybe a champane communist but none the less a Communist, and did you see Burnham stand up for democracy or the british people, or worse still he didnt stand up for the children raped and soddomised by grooming gangs to his everlasting shame if he had any,  who the media are trying to portray as the king of the north more like the Donkey  of the North attached to Communist socialist ideal that have destroyed every country and its populations standard of living that this Socialist Crap has been allowed to fester.

Try Cuba, Russia, North Korea and China where if you disagree with any one in a position of authority they come round in a van and Gas you!,  yes you heard that correctly, its a proven fact, not only that but if your organs meet the need of one of there hierachy  your a “gonna” with your organs harvested.

This is Communist socialism that any one voting Labour is and has supported over the past 75 years  insidiously crawling into the corridors of power, the Civil service is rank with the stink of Communist supporting members.

All Labour MPs support it by the very fact they are in the labour party, and the Lords  support it.

Democracy is dead in Britain killed by the Conservatives and the eunuchs of the liberal party, the ball less mob ,and by the Scum in parliament that call themselves Labour MPs, and you the people are to blame for this, your proud to say you dont vote because you cant see anyone you like, well if you cant vote to keep your liberty you dont deserve it.

Thats why you get the Guardian and most other papers supporting the left wing stories to use against the people who support Britain branding them far right and you get stories denigrating and calling those who support Britain Far right as though the Communists are the ones who support you, just look at putin good old communist KGB operative, and dont forget Starmer was recruited by the Russian state when he was young so it was reported, well they dont, and never did support you,  they wanted to put all those in society who they deemed had no worth, thats you the old the labour supporter, the disabled, anyone who didnt work or support this scum,  They advocated kill chambers were do you think the Nazis and China got the idea from the, The Fabian Cociety see it papers,   the society whos members have worked tirelessly to undermine Democracy for a hundred and forty two  years, This society  controls labour and all labour Governments, as every labour prime minister has been its member, and most all of the cabinet are members they all support the communist aims dressed up as socialism by the Fabien Society, and you who dont support this communist socialist ideology are considered worthless by all politicians that support this society, thats all Labour MPSs.

Remember this, laws are made and followed in a democratic society for the benefit of all, Labour destroyed this belief in democracy  by ignoring the democratic vote to leave the EU dictatorship as indeed did the Conservatives, So now you have no obligation to follow any laws, you now dont have to follow the laws administered by corrupt judges, and officials like the Stazi that calls itself a police force in britain but supports the political view not the rule of law, if the so called enforcers of law need help turn your back on them, they are not your friends, they are your enemy and as proven they will use anything they can against you, as are judges and politicians, council oficials that support labour,  all these officials should be held to account as they are in other non democratic countries,  take a leaf out of the Ukraine book of how to deal with corrupt officials that work against the population, that dosent mean we condone violence but south american countries are going down this rout and Britain under the Labour pary is following.

A group of far-right flag-fanatics have been filmed attacking passersby in Birmingham before they ran over a man in a hit-and-run attack. The victim was hospitalised with a broken leg that required surgery to insert a pin into the shattered bone.

Around ten residents had gone along the main road in the Stirchley area of the city removing flags put up by the group. The ‘patriot’ thugs took offence and turned up to show their love for England by assaulting peaceful residents: Peaceful residents my arse a gitaters supporting the comunist labour government.

@birmingham.live Conflict between a Raise the Colours masked man and others occurred in Birmingham last night #birmingham #westmidlands #flags ♬ original sound – birmingham.live

The arrogant bullies reportedly also posted footage to their own groups.

Far-right denial) Notice How left wing propaganda Rags use these words for your 91 year old Granny.

The hit-and-run victim was run down shortly after the filmed incidents. Police recovered an abandoned van nearby, which witnesses said bore the same ‘Raise the Colours’ logo. The group has denied that it condones violence.

Further far-right violence is feared on Saturday 16 May as supporters of ‘Tommy Robinson’ march across London, protected by police.

This article was written by the The Skwawkbox  a left wing scumbag media rag promoting Communism in all its forms. We have changed it as its left wing communist propaganda against the British people and the founder of this rag should have his citizenship revoked and be deported to his favorite communist country were he can push all the propaganda he likes. The Founder of this pathetic communist rubbish is one called  Steve Walker.

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The shocking assembly election results in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry are a result of an emboldened Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Modi, which is finessing voter disenfranchisement and bulldozer operations.

Our webinar – where we heard from Anant Gupta, political correspondent of India’s Scroll.in, and Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary of CPI(ML) Liberation – made three things clear: the brazenness of the SIR; the sheer audacity of disenfranchising millions – chiefly Muslims – in plain sight; and the use of bulldozers to rob minority populations of their livelihoods. All should shock us out of our complacency.

Fascism and Hindu supremacy are on the rise, led by Modi’s BJP, whose loyalties lie with US-backed Israel and the UAE. The billionaire Adani has long been a close ally of Modi. Both are complicit in the genocide in Gaza through corporate connections and Indian workers being sent to Israel. 

SIR – Special Intensive Revision

The SIR stands for Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls. It was an exercise conducted by the Election Commission of India in 12 states and union territories starting in late October 2025, ahead of the 2026 assembly elections. The Election Commission presented it as a routine housekeeping exercise to clean up voter lists by removing duplicate entries, deceased persons, and those who had moved.

Gupta’s analysis shows that, in 105 seats that the BJP won in West Bengal, the total number of voters deleted during the SIR exceeds its margin of victory.

Some 129 seats changed hands from the Trinamool to the BJP in Bengal. Not one seat went from the BJP to any other party.

In 86 of these seats, the BJP’s win margin was less than the deletions in the SIR. It had never won them before.https://t.co/4W7lJtSmFT

— Anant Gupta (@AnantGuptaAG) May 6, 2026

Gupta explained that the SIR in West Bengal required progeny mapping, meaning voters had to prove a family link to the 2002 electoral roll, which was exclusionary.

Alongside Muslims, married women, migrant workers, queer people, divorced women, and millions of young voters were systematically erased.

And on the eve of the elections, the BJP-controlled central government sent large contingents of paramilitary forces into West Bengal, where they still remain.

Incumbent complacency

The results are a wake-up call to the Trinamool Congress, which had ruled West Bengal since 2011 and whose leader, Mamata Banerjee, has been a key opponent of the BJP. The ruling party underestimated the scale of the SIR and was “delusional” enough to think it could still win, Gupta said.

Banerjee, while right in pointing out that SIR deletions were “anti-youth”, did not acknowledge their overwhelming targeting of Muslims and did not ideologically oppose them enough to mobilise people-power against it.

Bulldozer operations

The bulldozer is a symbol of fascist violence, Dipankar Bhattacharya rightly points out in the webinar. It involves both the state and a section of fascist social forces that spearhead and celebrate the violence. JCB remains the primary instrument; the British company is synonymous with home demolitions.

India has been running a systematic eviction campaign against Muslims of Bengali origin in Assam – over 100,000 people have lost their homes across 33 operations since 2021. And the BJP’s SIR-engineered victory in West Bengal has been followed by a wave of Hindu supremacist violence, with Muslim shops and places of worship demolished; statues, including those of Lenin and of Adivasi anti-colonial fighters Sidhu and Kanhu, pulled down; and opposition party offices set on fire.

Conclusion: people, not courts

The SIR is not simply a mechanism for denying citizens the right to vote. It is part of an arsenal of laws and initiatives geared towards ethnic cleansing, which have led to mass detentions and deportations of Indian Muslims.

Already, the new BJP government in West Bengal has announced that those excluded from electoral rolls will also be denied welfare benefits.

There is no institutional remedy left. The Election Commission has abandoned neutrality. The Supreme Court has failed. International courts offer little. The only path forward is for the people to unite to face the rapid escalation of fascism.

India is now staring at a crisis started by Trump – Modi’s friend – and his delusional war on Iran. With only 60 days of oil reserves, India’s import-dependent economy is facing catastrophic shortages, while Modi is currently on another foreign trip to the UAE.

In the wake of Partition, communists in Bengal succeeded in thwarting the Hindu supremacist forces through building powerful mass movements and cultural interventions. Today, the need of the hour is for the left and progressive forces to close ranks and stand with the people to resist the Modi regime’s fascist design.

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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said Friday that he will grant clemency to Tina Peters, a former county clerk and darling of election conspiracy theorists who was serving a nine-year prison sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines after the 2020 election.

Polis, a Democrat, told CNN that he is halving her sentence, meaning she could be paroled within a month after accounting for time already served for aiding efforts to overturn the presidential election.

The Colorado governor said his decision came after Peters acknowledged her wrongdoing in an application for leniency, which was obtained by CNN. POLITICO has not independently reviewed the document.

Polis told CNN he believed Peters’ was unfairly punished for free expression in her comments alleging fraud in the 2020 election.

“I hope that Democrats don’t sacrifice our deeply held belief in free speech because of political expediency or disregard for what people are saying,” Polis told CNN. “There should be no consideration of what we say, how unpopular it is, how inaccurate it is in sentencing or in criminal proceedings.”

Polis’ decision followed months of intense pressure from President Donald Trump, who issued his own symbolic pardon of Peters last year, but cannot grant clemency for violations of state law.

Trump has repeatedly called on Polis to free Peters, and his pressure campaign came as his administration has taken a series of actions to slash funding to and litigate against Colorado. Also in December, Trump vetoed a bipartisan bill meant to bring clean water to the state, the first and only veto of his second term.

Polis told CNN he spoke with Trump privately about Peters’ case, but insisted he granted her clemency after “looking at the merits of the case.”

The Democratic governor, who has occasionally bucked his own party, suggested he was weighing granting Peters clemency in March, after a former Democratic state senator was sentenced to probation and community service after being convicted of similar charges.

“Justice in Colorado and America needs to be applied evenly, you never know when you might need to depend on the rule of law,” he wrote on X.

Peters was convicted on four state felony charges in August 2024 by a Colorado jury after she fraudulently gave a right-wing activist affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system.

She was unrepentant in her sentencing hearing two months later, telling the court that she’d “never done anything with malice to break the law.”

Peters’ conviction was upheld by an appeals court in April, but ruled that the lower court’s decision to impose a nine-year sentence was too harsh.

In a statement issued before Polis’ decision on Friday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat now running for attorney general, strongly urged Polis not to grant leniency to Peters.

“Peters organized the breach of the election equipment, broke the public trust and attacked the very foundations of our democratic process,” she said. “Her actions are still being used to try to undermine the 2026 election. She should get no special treatment by the Governor, and his statement is shocking and worrisome.”

Peters’ case has long attracted the attention of prominent Republicans, including Trump, who falsely argue that former President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election was fraudulent.

“Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in December. “Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections.”

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