Day: June 24, 2025

Patel, Bongino Say Prior FBI Leaders Hid Evidence of Chinese Interference in 2020 Election

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FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino alleged Tuesday that the bureau’s prior leadership “chose to play politics” and hide evidence from the American people of a Chinese plot to hijack the 2020 U.S. election with fake mail-in ballots for Joe Biden.

The two FBI leaders’ statement came a week after Just the News reported Patel turned over to Congress earlier this month a long-hidden intelligence report raising concerns that China had mass-produced fake U.S. driver’s licenses to carry out a scheme to swing the 2020 election to Biden with fake mail-in ballots.

Patel located the evidence based on information that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, got from whistleblowers and forwarded to the FBI, officials said.

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Mayor Freddie O’Connell Claims Nashville’s Fight over Immigration Different from ‘Rhetorical Check Boxes’ Used by Other Democrats

Tom Pappert
Freddie O'Connell, Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County

Mayor Freddie O’Connell told The New York Times on Monday that his administration’s decision not to comply with federal immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump will take a different strategy from other Democratic elected officials, with the mayor claiming himself to be uninterested in the “rhetorical check boxes” employed by national figures. 

O’Connell’s administration is currently subject to a congressional investigation over his actions in response to a federal operation that saw nearly 200 illegal immigrants detained last month, which included the creation of a “Belonging Fund,” which his office announced as a partnership between the city and various nonprofits, including two that received millions in Biden-era stimulus money from the Metro Council. 

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Over 100 House Democrats Side with Republicans in Rejecting Trump Impeachment over Iran Strike

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Donald Trump and Al Green

The House on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Texas Democrat Al Green to impeach President Donald Trump over his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities without Congressional approval, when 128 members of his Democratic caucus joined Republicans in defeating the bill.

The president ordered the strike on Saturday, which led to retaliation from Iran on Monday. However, the United States has since brokered a ceasefire on the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. 

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Georgia GOP Rep Buddy Carter Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for Israel, Iran Ceasefire

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Trump in war room

Georgia GOP Rep. Buddy Carter nominated President Trump on Tuesday for the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering the ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

“I write to formally nominate Donald J. Trump, the 47th President of the United States, for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet,” Carter said in a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.

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Ex-Biden Aide Neera Tanden Tells Oversight Committee She Was Authorized to Use Autopen

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Washington Examiner   A top former aide to former President Joe Biden testified behind closed doors Tuesday for more than four hours as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into his mental fitness to serve and his White House’s use of an autopen, confirming she was authorized to use the automatic signature device while pushing back on concerns about alleged manipulation or malfeasance. Neera Tanden, who served as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, explained in her opening remarks Tuesday that she was given authority to wield the autopen. She said she “was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president” and was authorized to direct autopen use from October 2021 to May 2023 when she was serving as staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden. Tanden entered the committee’s Capitol Hill office building at 9:46 a.m. and did not respond to questions from reporters. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Poll: Majority Say It Should Be ‘Illegal’ for Americans to Prevent ICE from Doing Its Job

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Breitbart   A majority believe it should be “illegal” for Americans to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from doing its job, a recent survey from the Economist/YouGov found. The survey asked respondents, “Do you think it should be legal or illegal for Americans to attempt to prevent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from doing its job?” Across the board, most, 52 percent, believe it should be illegal for Americans to attempt to prevent ICE from doing its job. Another 24 percent said they believe it should be legal, and 24 percent remain unsure. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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The Fed Sees Biggest Divide over Rate Cuts in Years

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Axios   Two President Trump-appointed Fed officials favor interest rate cuts as soon as next month. Seven of their colleagues don’t envision cutting rates this year at all. It amounts to the biggest divide over the proper course for policy in years, one with delicate political optics as the Trump administration and some Republican lawmakers beat the drum for lower rates. The tension boils down to whether the Fed should hold back from adjusting policy, despite falling inflation in backward-looking data, because of the inflation risks ahead due to tariffs. READ THE FULL STORY                 

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Nonprofit Tied to Nashville ‘Belonging Fund’ Behind Lawsuit over Tennessee Law Criminalizing ‘Harboring or Hiding’ Illegal Immigrants

Tom Pappert
Illegal Immigrants

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is among the nonprofits behind the lawsuit filed on Friday by the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), a progressive Lutheran denomination with about 2.8 million members.

Filed by the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) at Georgetown Law, the American Immigration Council (AIC), and TIRRC with the ELCA Southeastern Synod as the primary plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the lawsuit targets Senate Bill (SB) 392.

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Trump Says He Does Not Want Regime Change in Iran

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Donald Trump

President Trump on Tuesday said that he does not want regime change in Iran, after bringing it up over the weekend.

“I don’t want it,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, The Associated Press reported. “I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible. Regime change takes chaos and ideally, we don’t want to see so much chaos, so we’ll see how it does.”

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Attacks Against ICE Agents Up by 500 Percent

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ICE Agent

Attacks against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are now up by 500%, the Department of Homeland Security says, up from 431% earlier in the month.

As attacks increase, assailants continue to be arrested, including members of the terrorist organization Tren de Aragua, a Mexican national who dragged an ICE officer 50 yards by car, and a Salvadoran national charged with attempted murder of a U.S. attorney.

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Biden-Appointed Judge Appears to Skirt SCOTUS Ruling in Deportations Case

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Illegal Immigrants

A federal judge blocked deportations for eight migrants Monday night in what the Trump administration called a “lawless act of defiance” of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration earlier on Monday to move forward with quickly deporting illegal migrants to countries not specified in their removal orders. The ruling pausing an injunction issued by Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, which required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to give migrants notice and allow them to raise concerns about potential threats of torture before deporting them to a “third country.”

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Jury Orders January 6 Participant Who Assaulted Officer Who Later Committed Suicide to Pay $500 Million in Damages

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January 6 riot

A federal jury has ordered a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to pay $500,000 to the family and estate of a police officer whom he assaulted and who then committed suicide days later.  

David Walls-Kaufman, a 69-year-old chiropractor, was ordered by an eight-member jury Monday to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Walls-Kaufman was also ordered to pay $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith’s estate for his pain and suffering, according to the Associated Press.

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New Tennessee Laws Crack Down on Non-Consensual Image Sharing

Kaitlin Housler
students phone

Two new laws set to take effect on July 1 aim to crack down on the non-consensual sharing of private, intimate images and sexually explicit “deepfake” content.

The first law strengthens Tennessee’s unlawful exposure statute, which deals with the non-consensual sharing of private, intimate images, by closing a legal loophole to make it explicitly illegal to distribute private images even if the person sharing the images was not part of an original agreement to keep them private.

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Ex-DOJ Lawyer Fired over Kilmar Abrego Garcia Case Files Whistleblower Complaint Claiming Admin Planned to Defy Courts

Tom Pappert
KAG

A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney, fired earlier this year after claiming in a legal filing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador was an “administrative error,” filed a whistleblower complaint Tuesday, alleging the agency planned to conceal information from judges and deliberately defy court orders.

Erez Reuveni on Tuesday filed a complaint claiming he attempted to advise his former client, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that it was planning to engage in illegal activity in three separate immigration court cases, but was “thwarted, fired, and publicly disparaged” for his efforts by the Trump administration.

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Tennessee Lawmakers Praise Trump for Israel-Iran Ceasefire

Zachery Schmidt
Donald Trump

Tennessee Republicans celebrated President Donald Trump’s announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

On Monday, Trump announced the two Middle Eastern countries had agreed to a ceasefire. Last weekend, America dropped bombs on Iranian nuclear sites. These bombs did significant damage to Iran’s nuclear sites; however, it remains unclear if they stopped Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon.

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Abortion-by-Mail Surging — Even in States Where It’s Banned

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The number of abortions in the U.S. continued to climb in 2024, driven in part by a dramatic increase in telemedicine access, especially in states that have enacted near-total bans on the procedure, according to a new report.

One in four abortions at the end of 2024 were reportedly conducted using abortion pills mailed to patients, compared to just 7% at the end of 2022, a new report by the Society of Family Planning found. Nearly half of those mail-order abortions were prescribed to women living in areas with abortion restrictions by doctors operating out of so-called “shield law” states such as New York and Massachusetts.

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Commentary: The Trump Doctrine

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Trump War Room

As the dust and smoke settle over Iran’s devastated nuclear weapons program, President Donald Trump’s method of waging war is coming into focus. We had hints of what I call the “Trump Doctrine” in his first term as he annihilated ISIS in Syria, but the two-decade war in Afghanistan that he had inherited initially obscured what has now become a coherent doctrine. In his second term, the freedom of navigation attacks against Yemen’s Houthis were once again a hint of Trump’s way of war, but Saturday’s attack on Iran—and the events leading up to it—tell us much about the deliberate and precise manner in which Trump seeks to conduct American wars. Similar to (but different from) the famous “Powell Doctrine” promulgated by former Secretary of State Colin Powell (more on that later), the Trump Doctrine is the doctrine of a businessman serving his stockholders. Explained another way, the Trump Doctrine is the “Businessman’s Way of War.”

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Commentary: A Pro-Children Victory Worth Celebrating

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AG Skrmetti

This week, Tennessee struck a resounding blow for conservative values and the protection of our children, leading the nation again thanks to the unwavering resolve of Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, House Majority Leader William Lamberth, and Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s Senate Bill 1, is a triumph against the radical left’s agenda to push experimental gender-transition procedures on vulnerable minors. As a proud member of the Williamson County Conservatives, I salute these Republican leaders for defending our children, our families, and our state’s sovereignty from the clutches of woke ideology.

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