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LaRose rolled out an initiative aimed at organizing state and local power to keep bad actors from damaging the election process.

Illinois state House Rep. Dan Brady, the Republican secretary of state nominee, would not admit to a reporter if he would support or vote for Darren Bailey, the state’s GOP nominee for governor.

Illinois state House Rep. Dan Brady, the Republican Secretary of State nominee, told a reporter that he does not remember if he voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

Ron Johnson (R-WI) blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken as delusional at a Senate panel hearing Tuesday for painting a rosy picture of the Biden administration’s fatally flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan in written testimony.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to deny Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden pressured his then-Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani, during a phone call in July to mislead the public and say Kabul was winning its war against the Taliban.

Republicans are planning to capitalize on their first shot to grill Secretary of State Antony Blinken over President Joe Biden’s botched U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan when he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Monday afternoon and the panel’s Senate counterpart Tuesday.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the Biden administration’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan as “extraordinary” this week even as Americans remained stranded in the country now ruled by a Taliban interim government as a sharia-compliant Islamic emirate.

Americans who chose to ignore repeated public evacuation notices and no travel notices months before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are at fault for getting stranded in the chaos-ridden country, top State Department officials suggested this week.

The Georgia Secretary of State Office is charging David Belle Isle, a Republican challenging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in next year’s election, more than $100,000 and a wait time of more than half a year to receive election records Belle Isle formally requested from Raffensperger’s office.

Georgia Republican David Belle Isle, who is seeking to unseat Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year’s election, made a far-reaching formal open records request Thursday for several documents related to Georgia’s 2020 election, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) is continuing a hard-line approach to masks, making them a strict condition of obtaining services from her department.

U.S. Secretary Blinken blasted Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Tuesday over his country’s Legislative Assembly move to remove top judges.

The “climate crisis” is forcing Central American girls to risk sexual violence during the journey to north, Secretary of State Blinken said.

A Michigan judge ruled last week Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) broke state law when she illegally issued rules related to absentee ballots for the 2020 election.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) told Breitbart News exclusively that the Chinese Communist Party is “singing all the way to the bank” thanks to President Joe Biden’s various policies in his first two weeks in office.

Democrat Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar said she would resign by the end of this week after her office failed to advertise under state law a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution to protect alleged child sexual abuse victims.

The Senate confirmed Antony Blinken as secretary of state on Tuesday, a position that makes him the top official in President Joe Biden’s cabinet.

Biden’s nominee to head the State Department, during his Senate confirmation hearing, lauded Trump for being “tougher” on China.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will interview Antony Blinken, President-Elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, on Tuesday afternoon. Blinken served on Biden’s side for decades. Sen. James Risch (R-ID) will preside over the 2 p.m. confirmation hearing as

Tony Blinken pushed the Russia hoax, praised open borders, defended China, and backed the Iraq War. He has been a champion of failed conventional wisdom.

President-Elect Joe Biden’s nominee to head the State Department, Antony Blinken, formerly advised the nation’s largest tech conglomerates and Wall Street firms, financial disclosure reports find. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s pick to be Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, previously said it is a “mistake” for the United States to “fully decouple” from China.

Former Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson told The Kyle Olson Show this week that an “independent audit” is needed of the ballots cast during the presidential election last week.

Hundreds of Michigan residents have responded to state Sen. Ruth Johnson’s (R-Holly) request for evidence of ballot applications sent to dead, noncitizen, or underage “voters” by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D).

The U.S. will use “every tool” at its disposal to repatriate the two American citizens captured by Venezuelan narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro for allegedly participating in a failed attempt to overthrow the socialist leader, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is speaking Tuesday on foreign policy at the American Legion Convention in Indianapolis at 11:50 ET.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a meeting with America’s top diplomat, urged more cooperation between Moscow and Washington on reaching a peace settlement to end the war in Afghanistan, warning that the Taliban is “getting stronger,” a Kremlin presidential aide revealed Tuesday.

Two congressmen filed a bill in the House to direct the U.S. State Department to designate specific Mexican cartel factions as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). The bill follows a letter from lawmakers to Secretary Mike Pompeo calling for the designations. President Donald Trump said he is considering the matter in an Oval Office interview on Monday.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told Breitbart News Sunday it is time to recognize that certain Mexican cartel factions are a terrorist threat to the United States. His interview follows a letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of State requesting the designation of specific cartel factions as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).

Vice President Mike Pence called Nicolas Maduro a usurper and dictator in a video message directed to Venezuelans ready to march Wednesday to restore democracy.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with members of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration following his inauguration on Monday, where they discussed their planned approach to isolating socialist dictatorships in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua. 

Donors have left the Clinton Foundation in the dust one year after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to President Donald Trump, according to the organization’s latest federal tax filings.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to South Korea on Wednesday to provide a personal briefing to President Moon Jae-in on counterpart Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

“At this very moment, Secretary Pompeo is on his way to North Korea in preparation for my upcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un,” Trump said. “Plans are being made, relationships are building. Hopefully, a deal will happen.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters on Monday night that the United States has known about Iran’s atomic archive “for a while,” and he discussed it with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they met on Sunday.

Commemorating the confirmation of Mike Pompeo as the next U.S. Secretary of State, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders posted photos of Pompeo‘s Easter weekend meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.