Six men have been arrested in connection to a violent Venezuelan gang’s take over several apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado.

The arrests come after videos of armed men breaking into an apartment complex in the city went viral. The filmed burglars have been linked to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan prison gang notorious for trafficking and extorting migrants. It’s unclear whether the detained men are those pictured in the video.

Aurora’s Mayor Mike Cauffman told The Denver Gazette Aurora had “lost control” of Tren de Aragua, but claims the city is working “aggressively” to get it back. The Aurora Police Department says it is “collecting evidence to show [the gang is] operating in the area.” It established a Tren de Aragua task force with the Colorado State Patrol and Colorado Bureau of Investigation in August.

Despite state agencies’ involvement in rounding up the gang, Colorado officials refuse to acknowledge its presence — let alone how the state and federal immigration policies may have contributed to the problem.

Mike Johnston, the mayor of neighboring Denver, told Fox 31 Tren de Aragua’s takeover is unique to Aurora — despite his city housing more new migrants per capita since 2022 than any other city in the nation.

A spokesperson for Governor Jared Polis told The New York Post the state would offer Aurora help if needed, but that “police intelligence” indicated “this purported invasion is largely a feature of [some city councilmembers’] imagination.”

This November, voters in 10 states will be asked to decide whether their state constitutions should be amended to include the so-called right to abortion. The 10 states that will see an abortion initiative on the ballot are Florida, Colorado, Missouri, South Dakota, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, Maryland, New York and Nevada.

While each measure’s language is unique, they all have the same effect: enshrining abortion in the state constitution. If these measures pass, they will be very difficult and costly to repeal.

Since Roe’s reversal just over two years ago, abortion activists have identified direct voting to be the most effective method to advance abortion policy in the states.

Their goal is to create a mini-Roe in each state constitution. Ironically, many of the proposed amendments go far beyond what Roe made legal and would arguably make it impossible for states to set reasonable limits on abortion like parental notification, safety standards for women, or prohibiting late abortions on healthy mothers and healthy babies.

After seven straight wins at the ballot box on abortion-related state-wide measures, the abortion industry is hedging its bets on this process giving them more wins this fall.

But five of the states targeted by the abortion industry (Florida, South Dakota, Missouri, Arizona and Nebraska), already have pro-life laws in place and a win for the abortion industry is not a given.

As election day approaches, political bumper stickers and yard signs are becoming more popular and visible. But there’s a new campaign taking America by storm — and this one is centered around prayer, faith and trust in God.

It’s called the Don’t Stop Praying Movement and is inspiring the placement of “Don’t Stop Praying” yard signs around the country.

The Daily Citizen recently spoke with Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West, a five-time Grammy nominee who was NSAI’s 2022 Songwriter-Artist of the Year and ASCAP’s 2023 Golden Note Award recipient. West has received RIAA Gold and Platinum certifications, an American Music Award, and won three GMA Dove Awards in addition to other accolades.

We also spoke with Pastor Joe West (Matthew West’s father) and Ardean Veldkamp, who serves on the board of Popwe, a ministry founded by the musician that exists to “connect, inspire, and give hope through the redemptive power of Christ with story, prayer, and discipleship.”

Pastor West shared with us about the origins of the Don’t Stop Praying Movement. It was inspired by Matthew West’s single “Don’t Stop Praying” which was released earlier this year.

“After Matthew wrote the song, his assistant got the idea to create signs based off it,” Pastor West said. “They had some signs made, and then our board members at Popwe thought, ‘This is powerful.’ They got a vision to place signs everywhere in the country.”

The toney New Yorker leads with an article on how some of the wealthier among us are preparing for the end of the world, highlighting those most concerned about the three horsemen of the secular apocalypse: nuclear war, climate change, or the next COVID pandemic.

The piece opens explaining that “billionaires have recently been spending millions building themselves customized bunkers in the hopes that they can ride out the apocalypse in splendor.” Such dooms day facilities appear to be cropping up all over the country, even if they are not all funded by billionaires for their own safety.

These fears are driven by the fact, according to The New Yorker, that “thirty-nine percent of Americans believe that we are living in the end times” and this is why “the market for underground hideouts is heating up.”

A 2023 YouGov poll showed that most Americans believe the world will end by “an act of God” over other things like nuclear weapons, climate change, pandemics, even declining fertility.

But the same poll showed that citizens who believe the end times will be ushered in by God’s hand are far less fearful of that fact than those who believe it will occur due to the other fear-of-the-month cataclysms. The market for existing “end-of-the-world” bunkers from the Cold War era is tightening because people are feeling a new anxiousness to hang onto them.