A massive American flag is now being displayed on Utah Valley University’s (UVU) campus where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot.
The Turning Point USA founder was assassinated during an outdoor speaking event at UVU on Wednesday. The university confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the flag was placed by the school.
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) and State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin) have called for the Nashville Public Defenders Office to fire Esperanza Yanez after The Tennessee Star reported that Yanez made a series of posts to social media disparaging Charlie Kirk after the Turning Point USA founder was assassinated in Utah last Wednesday.
Ogles wrote in a post to the social media platform X on Tuesday, “The irony of it all is that this woman supposedly fights for the rights of the accused, yet in the case of a political assassination, Esperanza stands with the killers.”
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Public employees across the U.S. are facing sanctions including firing for social media comments that celebrate or condone the assassination of Charlie Kirk, sometimes selectively paraphrasing his comments on the Second Amendment’s tradeoffs as Kirk’s admission that he could be hoisted by his own petard.
High-profile public figures and institutions from New York to Washington and Dallas to Hollywood have gone beyond cherrypicking Kirk’s words since his death, however, attributing others’ words to him, fabricating or editing quotes and making assertions about his alleged killer and political movement that are lacking or contradicted by hard evidence.
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The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) justified its decision to arrest Trump advisor Peter Navarro by claiming he was “combative,” but audio of his May 2022 encounter with FBI agents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation undermines their reasoning.
A voice recording of the incident indicates Navarro did not become aggressive while expressing frustration with the FBI agents who knocked on his door to serve him a subpoena, according to audio Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley is expected to make public Tuesday along with other whistleblower records.
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President Trump filed a lawsuit against The New York Times for defamation and libel, citing the newspaper’s coverage of him leading up to the 2024 election.
Trump sued the newspaper on Monday in federal court in Florida, according to the Associated Press.
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President Trump announced a deal with a U.S. buyer for the social media app TikTok on Tuesday.
The divestment of TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance and has 170 million U.S. users, has been part of months-long negotiations between the U.S. and China, Reuters reported.
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The founder of Armed Queers of Salt Lake City (AQSLC), which is currently under FBI scrutiny as part of its investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk, is a biological man who now identifies as a transgender woman who immigrated to the United States from Iran as a child.
AQSLC, a socialist group of pro-gun activists, was founded in 2021 by the former March for Our Lives activist, Ermiya Fanaeian, who that year parted ways with a nationwide group advocating self-defense for LGBT people known as Pink Pistols.
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Axios Prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the case of the 22-year-old suspect in the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a spokesperson for the Utah County Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday. The investigation into the alleged shooter’s motivations is ongoing, but filing the charges begins the criminal case in a death that has ratcheted up tensions as people on the left and the right try to blame the other ideological side for America’s increasing political violence. “I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty,” Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced on Tuesday. READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart New College in Florida announced on Tuesday that it will commission a statue of the late Charlie Kirk to “honor his legacy and incredible work.” An emailed press release announcing the commission stated that the statue will be “privately funded by community leaders” and will proudly stand on New College’s campus as a reminder to fight for free speech and “civil discourse in American life.” The press release provided a sample image of what the statue could look like, depicting Kirk sitting at a table, microphone in hand, with empty chairs at the table, representing his love of open, free, and peaceful debate of ideas. New College President Richard Corcoran said in a statement that the Turning Point USA founder “knew that universities are ground zero for free speech and the marketplace of ideas.” READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill President Trump announced in a TruthSocial post on Tuesday that Republicans would have a “Midterm convention” ahead of next year’s elections. “The Republicans are going to do a Midterm Convention in order to show the great things we have done since the Presidential Election of 2024. Time and place to be determined. Stay tuned, it will be quite the Event, and very exciting! President DJT” Trump wrote. Trump initially floated the idea of Republicans holding a convention ahead of the midterms last month. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Mirror According to a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, grocery prices have jumped to the highest in three years. The cost of foods such as fresh produce, coffee, and meat has sent overall prices sky high, causing many Americans to struggle to make ends meet. Among the steepest price increases, instant coffee has risen by 4.9%, tomatoes 4.5%, beef roasts 4%, apples 3.5% and lettuce by 3.5%. p; READ THE FULL STORY
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Washington Examiner Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly arrested about 250 people in Chicago since the Department of Homeland Security launched “Operation Midway Blitz” earlier this month. The operation targets illegal immigrants with criminal records living in Chicago and Illinois. Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL), who oversees the district that contains parts of the Chicago suburbs, disclosed that an estimated 250 people have been taken into custody since Sept. 6 based on ICE data she received. The congresswoman’s statement suggests the operation started that Saturday, two days before DHS publicly announced the initiative. READ THE FULL STORY
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House to announce the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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Though the House Freedom Fund, the political arm of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC), last week announced its endorsement of State Representative Jody Barrett for the Republican nomination to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, the 10-year-old congressional caucus did not respond to a Tuesday press inquiry seeking information about its methodology.
While HFC has historically supported school choice, the endorsement of Barrett notably follows his ineffective opposition to the Tennessee Education Freedom Act, the landmark school choice law passed earlier this year with the support of President Donald Trump, who congratulated the majority of Tennessee Republicans for moving forward with the legislation in January.
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Early voting for the special primary election to fill the vacant U.S. House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District begins this Wednesday, September 17.
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Former Congressman Jimmy Duncan, who represented Tennessee’s 2nd Congressional District from 1988 to 2019, endorsed U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the 2026 Tennessee gubernatorial race on Tuesday.
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A Kingsport man is facing a lengthy sentence in prison after pleading guilty last week to tax crimes and wire fraud.
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Edward Zanes, along with others, filed fake tax returns soliciting fraudulent refunds from COVID relief programs.
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Tennessee is setting the standard for election integrity, ranking first in the nation for conducting safe and fair elections, according to the recently updated Election Integrity Scorecard from the Heritage Foundation.
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Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) and State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin), who is running in the special primary election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, issued a proclamation honoring the life of Charlie Kirk.
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The suspect in Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination made comments online to his online friends that suggested he killed the conservative activist, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing screenshots of the discussion and two sources familiar.
“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,” Tyler Robinson, 22, said on the chat platform Discord hours before his arrest in the Sept. 10 killing of Kirk at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem, Utah, according to The Washington Post. “It was me at UVU yesterday. [I’m] sorry for all of this.”
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The classroom subject of “civics” evokes antiquated images of Cold War-era conformity, but Andrew Hart describes a recent teacher workshop on civics with a schoolboy’s exuberance: “It was really refreshing. I was, like, wow.”
The weeklong seminar at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia delved into the writings of Aristotle and Cicero, the Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and civil rights titans W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
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Mainstream conservatives in Tennessee must recognize the threat presented by anti-GOP agitators posing as grassroots activists. They are demagogues using tactics and strategies from the Democrats’ playbook.
As a conservative Republican who has been politically active in every state in which I have lived during my adult life, I find it odd that phony anti-GOP agitators in Tennessee find a receptive audience among uninformed grassroots activists, for whom overheated hyperbole serves as a substitute for reasoned argument. The latest brouhaha involves Hughes v. Lee, a lawsuit filed in a lower-level trial court in Gibson County challenging some of Tennessee’s gun laws. Attorney General Skrmetti’s decision to appeal a poorly-reasoned decision by the three-judge panel has elicited howls of protest from the grifters who foment dissension within the ranks of conservative voters in Tennessee.
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