Republican Florida State Sen. Randy Fine defeated Democratic candidate Josh Weil on Tuesday in Florida’s special election for its 6th Congressional District.
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Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) on Monday attended a public hearing where the Shelby County Commission approved a resolution to hold a public hearing over the proposal by xAI, the artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk, to install methane gas turbines that will help power its Memphis supercomputer.
The Shelby County Commission on Monday approved the resolution by Commissioner Miska Clay Bibbs, which called for a public hearing prior to the approval or denial of a permit sought by the local property management company affiliated with xAI.
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Governor Bill Lee on Friday signed into law legislation that will require Tennessee school districts to adopt policies that prohibit student cell phone use in classrooms, with limited exceptions, after an amended version of the bill was passed unanimously in the State House and without opposition in the State Senate.
The legislation, initially proposed by State Senator Ferrell Haile (R-Gallatin) and State Representative Rebecca Alexander (R-Jonesborough) in February, would require school districts to implement policies forbidding the use of cell phones by students during class, unless teachers make specific arrangements for he devices to be used educationally.
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The 65 Project, a far-Left, dark money legal group that was formed to file bar complaints against President Donald Trump’s election attorneys, filed a complaint last week with New York’s Attorney Grievance Committee against a top attorney for President Donald Trump, Emil J. Bove III. Bove previously represented Trump in his private capacity, and is now an Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General with the DOJ.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) are afraid of losing their “brand status” if a Republican-led effort to strip the media entities of federal funding is successful.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has appointed a new CEO who appears to favor the same nuclear energy technology endorsed by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in a recent op-ed, in a decision announced just days after President Donald Trump terminated one TVA board member’s appointment.
Don Moul was selected by the TVA board to serve as the fourth CEO of the nation’s largest public energy utility on Monday, with the agency noting Moul only joined TVA as its chief operating officer in 2021, but that he has worked in the energy industry for more than three decades.
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Tennessee State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) discussed his efforts to help provide the state with more tools to conduct an “all of the above” approach to tackling illegal immigration through the introduction of three bills filed in the Tennessee General Assembly.
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A U.S. electric vehicle battery manufacturer with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has suspended its permit application to build a plant near a Michigan National Guard base following fierce opposition.
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American asylum laws must be completely overhauled in order to avoid the southern border crisis that overwhelmed federal immigration officials under the Biden administration, according to immigration experts at the Heritage Foundation.
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At a town hall question and answer with Elon Musk in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Sunday on behalf of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, the White House Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) revealed that since 2021, 5.5 million non-citizens have been given Social Security numbers.
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Two Republican-led states have removed hundreds of thousands of registrations from their voter rolls this month, while another identified hundreds of non-citizen voters during their voter list maintenance.
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Tennessee State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) said a bill he introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly would require all party nominations across the state be conducted as primary elections instead of caucuses or conventions.
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Elon Musk on Sunday shared that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has selected its new target: Lawmakers who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars despite a modest, by comparison, public salary.
Regular senators and House lawmakers currently earn $174,000 annually, while Senate leaders earn $193,400 per year, according to the upper chamber’s website. That salary would not explain how some lawmakers are now worth tens of millions, even after decades in the chamber. People like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are worth hundreds of millions.
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A bill making its way through the Arizona Legislature would block Scottsdale voters from voting to stop construction of 1,895 new apartments and condos. SB 1543, a striker bill sponsored by State Representative Tony Rivero (R-Peoria), would allow the TASER and body camera manufacturer Axon to build apartments for employees by its headquarters in north Scottsdale on a sprawling 70-acre campus, even though the land is not zoned for the high-density housing. Axon founder Rick Smith threatened to move his company out of Arizona if he cannot build the development near Hayden Road and the Loop 101.
State Representative Joseph Chaplik (R-Scottsdale) issued a lengthy statement denouncing HB 1543 after it passed the House International Trade Committee 8-0 on Wednesday with two members absent. He said the bill was “a brazen attempt by one man to overturn the will of voters and retroactively force 1,900 unwanted apartments on the city of Scottsdale, using legislators to do his bidding under the guise of free markets and pro-business policy. SB1543 allows companies to build multifamily units on light industrial zoned land without city council’s or residents’ approval.”
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When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes.
They had the choice of using American power to restore deterrence by invading belligerents (e.g., Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan) or targeting enemies without deploying ground troops to change governments.
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For years, Elon Musk has revolutionized entire industries with his companies — from PayPal and Tesla to SpaceX and Neuralink. After purchasing the social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, he has also led the fight for free speech on online platforms.
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New Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller, largely considered the only conservative elected prosecutor in the state, held an open house Friday at his office for members of the community. In addition to Miller, several officials spoke including Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), who is running for governor, Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ-02), State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa), and State Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Flagstaff). The event focused on “partner[ing] on public safety, enhancing victims’ rights, and supporting President Trump’s tough on crime border policies,” according to the announcement.
Miller said he wants to “help make Pinal County great again.” He said they are the only county chasing down human smuggling operations on the highways. Although the Trump administration’s border crackdown has greatly reduced illegal immigration, he said there are still about three high-speed chases each week in the county. He has implemented a policy to prosecute those caught.
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Kristen Clarke, who headed up the Justice Department office that prosecuted pro-lifers for protesting abortion clinics, met with leaders at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which compares mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the Ku Klux Klan, documents suggest.
The meeting may shed light on the animus that Clarke—then the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights—harbored against conservatives.
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Lewis Brice releases fun remake of Puddle of Mudd’s “She Hates Me” with the reimagined, “She Loves My Country.”
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