by Frank Holmes, reporter
The liberal Fake News media have spent years laughing at President Donald Trump’s supporters’ claims that foreign citizens are illegally voting in U.S. elections.
But a bombshell new development seems to prove that even the president’s most insistent MAGA voters didn’t know the half of it.
New legal documents obtained by The Horn indicated that foreigners voting illegally in U.S. elections, and they’re getting elected to office—even in the smallest, reddest, most quintessentially American town.
Meet Jose Ceballos. He just finished one term as mayor of Coldwater, Kansas—a small town of 820 residents (evidently, not all legal citizens) in southern Kansas, near the Oklahoma border.
He is also a citizen of Mexico who has voted illegally in U.S. elections dozens of times over a couple of decades.
Last Wednesday, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach charged Ceballos for voting illegally in Comanche County in 29 U.S. elections. He reportedly voted all the way back to 2000, even though he’s not a U.S. citizen. The illegal mayor appears to have been registered to vote since 1990.
Jose, who tells his Kansas rural voters to call him “Joe,” has been mayor since 2021—even though he’s not legally eligible to serve as mayor, since he’s not an American. And he just got elected to a second term last Tuesday with an incredible 83 percent of the vote because he ran unopposed. That’s the same day as New York City elected ultra-liberal Zohran Mamdani—a democratic socialist born in Uganda—mayor in the Big Apple.
None of the articles mentions the illegal Kansas mayor’s party registration.
President Trump won 83 percent of the vote in Comanche County in 2024 by promising to clean up elections and close the border—issues that Ceballos’ victory proves are still important.
Kobach just stepped in to take action. Last Wednesday, he charged Ceballos with six felonies for voting illegally: three election fraud (technically, “voting without being qualified”) and three election perjury. Each of the fraudulent voting charges could bring Ceballos 34 months in jail and $100,000 fine. Each perjury charge carries an additional sentence of up to 17 months imprisonment with the Department of Corrections, or a fine of up to $100,000, or both.
Altogether, Ceballos could face almost 13 years in jail and $600,000 in financial penalties (or both).
“In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen. We allege that Mr. Ceballos did it multiple times,” said Kobach, who has a long and distinguished record of filing patriotic lawsuits to cut back illegal immigration. And he’s said he’s not taking this lying down.
BREAKING – The mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, Jose Ceballos, has been revealed to be a foreign national who not only got elected while not being a citizen, but has also been voting in federal and state elections since at least 2022. pic.twitter.com/udkdUaD23t
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) November 6, 2025
Ceballos “is not a United States citizen. “He is a legal permanent resident of the United States and a citizen of Mexico,” Kobach explained. “If a person who is not a U.S. citizen actually ends up on the ballot for an office, then a US citizen lost the opportunity to obtain that office, so it’s the same point.”
Kobach’s charges could only extend back to the last three elections—in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
The president of the Coldwater City Council, Britt Lenertz, posted a statement saying that “the recent allegations involving the mayor are understandably concerning,” but members “will allow the proper legal process to take its course before making any further comments.”
The city just learned about Ceballos’ alleged illegal status a few months ago.
“He’s been a registered voter since 1990. He applied for citizenship in February of this year, and through that, raised the issue of whether he was a legal citizen,” added Coldwater city attorney Skip Herd.
What’s more incredible is how the small town is handling the fact that it illegally elected a foreigner as mayor.
In Kansas, it is against the law to vote if you are not a U.S. Citizen. We will not tolerate illegal voting. https://t.co/wedt1RYFPL
— Kris W. Kobach (@KrisKobach1787) November 6, 2025
The town announced, even though Ceballos isn’t legally capable of serving as mayor, officials will let him finish out the two months left in his term…but it won’t seat him for another term. If Ceballos hasn’t become a naturalized U.S. citizen by inauguration day, the council president will serve as mayor.
Too bad the city’s fathers aren’t taking the issue as seriously as Kobach.
“Voting by non-citizens, including both legal and illegal aliens, is a very real problem. It happens. Every time a non-citizen votes, it effectively cancels out a U.S. citizen’s vote,” said Kobach.
Americans everywhere need to take the issue of non-citizens voting in U.S. elections seriously.
As The Horn News reported, just last month Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, found more than 1,084 cases of non-citizens registered to vote in the Buckeye State. That came days after Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson ferreted out 2,724 non-citizens registered to vote in the Lone Star State.
It’s a huge problem that has taken place for years, even decades—and which Democratic states are doing nothing to clean up.
Colorado “accidentally” mailed voter registration information to 31,093 non-citizens in 2023.
As The Horn News reported, it all goes back to a 1993 law signed by President Bill Clinton that lets people register to vote if they check a box on a postcard swearing they are legal U.S. citizens.
“In large part, our system right now is based on trust, trust that when the person signed the registration or signs the pollbooks saying that he’s a qualified elector or that he is a United States citizen, that the person is telling the truth,” said Kobach.
Ceballos, Clinton, the Democrats, and the Fake News media have broken our trust, destroyed our elections, and given the governance of even small red-state towns to foreigners.
It’s time Americans set things right, one criminal charge—or deportation—at a time.