Day: March 18, 2025

Liberated J6er Jake Lang Announces Run for Florida Senate: ‘We Are Taking Over The Capitol Again’

American Greatness
Jake Lang

A January 6 political prisoner who was liberated by President Donald Trump when he took office in January, has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.

Jake Lang, a native New Yorker, was one of the more than 1,500 people charged with offenses related to the January 6 riot who received pardons from President Donald Trump in January. Lang spent four years in the DC Gulag and other federal prisons without a trial, and like many others, was subjected to beatings, solitary confinement, and other forms of torture.

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Tennessee Senator, Six U.S. Reps Ask Trump to Pressure China to Finalize Adoptions Frozen Last Year

Tom Pappert
Orphanage in China

Seven members of Tennessee’s delegation to the U.S. Congress have joined a request for President Donald Trump to pressure China to process about 300 adoptions of children by U.S. citizens, after the communist country froze such adoptions with little notice last year.

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and U.S. Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN-02), Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04), Chuck Flesichmann (R-TN-03), Mark Green (R-TN-07), Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01), and Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) are among the more than 90 lawmakers who joined the Tuesday letter to Trump over Chinese adoptions.

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Trump Admin Scrubs Biden-Era ‘Firearm Violence’ Advisory from Government Websites

Daily Caller News Foundation
President Donald Trump

The Trump administration removed a Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the public health effects of gun violence and a similar webpage from the Health and Human Services (HHS) website.

Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a public health advisory on “firearm violence,” declaring it to be a “public health crisis” in 2024, though a link to the report was recently scrubbed from the HHS site. The advisory was part of the Biden administration’s broader efforts to usher in additional gun control measures at the federal level.

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Reporter Tom Pappert: Allowing Judges to Deny Bail Outside Capital Crimes ‘Common Sense’ to Enhance Law and Order in Tennessee

Kaitlin Housler
Tom Pappert

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes Tennesseans will see Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 25, a constitutional amendment that would allow judges the option to deny bail to defendants accused of crimes outside capital offenses, as a “common sense way to restore and enhance law and order” in the state.

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Tennessee State House Passes Bill Mandating Minors Use Bathrooms Based on Biological Sex, Not Transgender Identity

Tom Pappert
Girls Room

The Tennessee State House on Monday passed legislation that would mandate schools, and other public programs offered to minors, to segregate their bathrooms based on biological sex, which would disallow use of facilities based on an individual identifying as transgender.

House Bill (HB) 64 by State Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) would require Tennessee educational programs for minor students segregate bathroom, shower, and changing facilities based on the biological gender of the student, prohibiting the consideration of a transgender identity, for any “residential educational program” in Tennessee.

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SpaceX Dragon Brings Crew-9 Home After Record-Breaking Work in Space

Christina Botteri
Crew-9 Splashdown

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, safely splashed down in the Gulf of America Tuesday, concluding an eventful Crew-9 mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft hit the water at 6:57 p.m. central time, ending a journey that saw Williams and Wilmore’s stay extend far beyond its planned eight days due to issues with Boeing’s Starliner.

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Court Documents Reveal Just How Many Tren De Aragua Gangbangers Are on ICE’s Deportation List

Daily Caller News Foundation
DHS Deportation Flight of Criminal Illegal Aliens

Newly submitted court documents reveal just how many members of a ruthless Venezuelan gang are being held in government custody across the U.S.

There are roughly 54 Tren de Aragua (TdA) members currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, according to written testimony provided by Robert Cerna, an acting field office director with ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. Around 172 other TdA gangbangers are on the agency’s non-detained docket and approximately 32 members are in criminal custody with ICE detainers lodged against them.

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Biden-Era Tax on Natural Gas Repealed, a Boon for Energy Industry

The Center Square
President Joe Biden

America’s natural gas industry celebrated Monday after President Donald Trump signed into law a resolution repealing Biden-era fees on methane emissions.

The Waste Emissions Charge, which Republicans say is the equivalent of a natural gas tax, was authorized by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency in November 2024.

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Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Winsome Earle-Sears Defends Record Amid Attacks from GOP Opponents, Vows to Continue ‘Successes’ of Youngkin Administration

Kaitlin Housler
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earles-Sears

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running to succeed Governor Glenn Youngkin in the 2025 gubernatorial race, defended her record amid attacks from her Republican challengers in the race and stressed the need to continue the “successes” of the current administration into the future during an exclusive interview Monday on The John Fredericks Show.

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City of Phoenix Accused of Violating the Arizona Constitution with Tax Increase

Rachel Alexander
Phoenix City Hall

The City of Phoenix is planning on raising taxes on businesses that provide services in order to pay for an alleged revenue shortfall. However, the Goldwater Institute (GI) sent Phoenix officials a letter on March 6 warning them that the Arizona Constitution does not allow any new taxes or tax increases on “services.” GI said the tax increase would “rais[e] the prices of services like construction, contracting, and lodging.”

Article IX, Section 25 of the Arizona Constitution provides, “The state, any county, city, town, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state … shall not impose or increase any sales tax, transaction privilege tax, luxury tax, excise tax, use tax, or any other transaction-based tax, fee, stamp requirement or assessment on the privilege to engage in, or the gross receipts of sales or gross income derived from, any service performed in this state.” 

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Cash Cows: Gangs Allegedly Smuggling Drugs Across Border Inside Cattle

The Daily Signal
cows

The Mexican cartels appear to be smuggling drugs into the U.S. inside cows, according to sources interviewed at the border in Texas and New Mexico last week. The cartels are known to use cattle cars to smuggle drugs, but also seem to be using the cattle themselves as couriers.

“When they do the spaying process, they’ll ship the drugs in the cows,” Hudspeth County, Texas, Sheriff Arvin West told The Daily Signal, adding the cartels are nothing if not ”creative.”

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Commentary: The Left Doesn’t Have Solutions for the Problems It Creates

American Greatness
Biden Ukraine

The Wall Street Journal has consistently criticized Trump’s economic policies, particularly his ongoing “trade war” with Canada, over the past several weeks. And certainly, the tensions are regrettable. Trump’s trolling of the insufferable Justin Trudeau, with talk of Canada becoming the “51st state,” perhaps only galvanized the Canadian left. It unfortunately may ensure that the only real hope for a Canadian return to normality, the election of Pierre Poilievre, may be lost.

That said, does the WSJ truly believe that the current $1.7 trillion budget deficit stacked on top of $36 trillion in national debt and an annual $1 trillion trade deficit are sustainable in any fashion? Do they believe any Republican president would have survived the midterms if he cut or “reformed” Social Security? If so, consult the fate of the recommendations of left-wing Barack Obama’s 2010 Simpson-Bowles commission (“The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”).

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Arizona State Lawmakers Alert DOJ to ‘Ethical Issues’ with Trans Advocate Fighting Trump’s Child Sex Change Order

Daily Caller News Foundation
Daniel Shumer

A transgender youth advocate and doctor backing opponents of President Donald Trump’s executive order protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation may have plagiarized portions of his expert report, leaders of the Arizona state legislature warned the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Dr. Daniel Shumer, who directs the Child and Adolescent Gender Services Clinic at the University of Michigan’s children’s hospital, admitted that he committed plagiarism by his university’s standards as an expert witness in a case challenging Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act, state legislature leaders told Attorney General Pam Bondi in a March 11 letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Trump Notches High Marks with Voters on Job Performance, Poll Shows

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Trump CPAC

Voters are continuing to think highly of President Donald Trump’s leadership and strongly believe America is on the right track in the early days of the administration, according to a recent NBC News poll.

Trump notched a 47% approval rating alongside a 46% personal favorable rating, both of which marked all-time highs during any of his presidential terms, according to a NBC News poll released Sunday. Meanwhile, the number of Americans who believe the country is on the right track climbed to 44%, also marking a record high for Trump’s political career.

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