A straw poll conducted during the Davidson County Republican Party’s annual summer picnic on Saturday found U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to be the favorite candidate among Republicans in the 2026 gubernatorial election.
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The YMCA removed several webpages outlining policies that allow boys who identify as girls to access female cabins, showers and locker rooms following backlash from a national parent group.
The takedown came days after the American Parents Coalition published a warning to families Wednesday about YMCA summer camps permitting biological males into private spaces designated for girls. The now-removed materials — which were archived — included guidelines encouraging staff to affirm “gender identity” over sex and to withhold such information from parents.
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a stay granted on Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to continue paying grants to Voice of America (VOA) grantees. The cuts were led by Kari Lake, who was appointed as advisor to the acting CEO of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees VOA.
Lake posted on X after the ruling, “Judges are trying to take the authority away from the President to run executive branch agencies. This is a gross encroachment on the President’s Article II Powers. The American people voted loud and clear for President Trump and his agenda. We will appeal this ruling as high as possible.” The Trump administration is planning an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court.
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Ashley Brooks, also known as the Georgia Gypsy, is an emerging country powerhouse who grew up and still resides in the North Georgia countryside. And though her dad was in a band, music was not part of her life per se. When Brooks was younger, she was the Georgia State Champion in karate.
As an adult, Brooks was in healthcare. She explained, “I’d be humming something over there while hooking up like an EKG machine or something. My patients were like, ‘You should really be a singer or try out for American Idol.'”
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