Day: March 16, 2026

Brentwood City Commission Asks Nashville to Create New NES Board Seat for Williamson County Residents After Winter Storm Fern

Tom Pappert
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The Brentwood City Commission last week passed a resolution requesting the Metro Nashville Council amend its charter to include a resident of Williamson County on the board overseeing Nashville Electric Service (NES) following Winter Storm Fern.

In an announcement posted to social media last Wednesday, the City of Brentwood announced the commission approved its resolution in response to the winter storm, formally asking Nashville to change its charger, “to provide for representation of Williamson County residents on the Electric Power Board.”

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U.S. Intel Holds Secret Evidence China Accessed Voter Files as Senate Weighs Election Security Law

Just the News
DNI Tulsi Gabbard

The United States expressed outrage when Great Britain revealed two years ago that its voter registration databases were hacked by China in what became a global scandal. But it turns out the U.S. intelligence harbored its own secret at the time, knowing since 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data, according to documents reviewed by Just the News and interviews with officials with direct knowledge.

“[Redacted] Chinese intelligence officials analyzed multiple U.S. states’ [Redacted] election voter registration data, [Redacted] to conduct public opinion analysis on the 2020 US general election,” stated a once highly classified April 2020 National Intelligence Council memo entitled “Cyber Operations Enabling Expansive Authoritarianism.”

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Attorney for Soros-Funded Immigrant Advocacy Group Joins Legal Team of Colombian Journalist Arrested by ICE in Nashville

Tom Pappert
Spring Miller

A Monday legal filing announced that a top attorney for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) will appear in court on behalf of Estefany Rodriguez Flores, the Colombian journalist arrested earlier this month in Nashville and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at the hearing scheduled on Tuesday for her habeas corpus petition. 

The filing notified U.S. District Court Judge Eli Richardson, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, that Spring Miller will now appear as counsel for Rodriguez Flores. According to the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA), Miller is currently the Senior Director of Legal Strategy for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), which in 2018 received $40,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. 

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Trump Admin’s Mass Deportation Pivot Ruffles Hardliner Feathers: ‘We Need Millions Deported’

Daily Caller News Foundation
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As the Trump administration appears to shift its sweeping mass deportation agenda, rattled immigration hardliners warn the move could become a midterm liability.

Major conservative groups are pushing President Donald Trump to make 2026 the year he shifts his mass deportation agenda into overdrive. However, the calls come at a time when the administration — reeling from two deadly shootings in Minneapolis and tanking public support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — is seemingly backing down from a wider deportation policy that targets all illegal immigrants, not just criminals.

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Supreme Court to Consider Trump Administration’s Efforts to End Deportation Protections for Syrians, Haitians

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CBS News   The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Syria and Haiti. While agreeing to take up the legal battle over Temporary Protected Status for the two countries, the Supreme Court did not allow the Trump administration to end the programs while it considers the case. The Justice Department had asked the high court to grant it emergency relief and freeze lower court orders blocking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decisions to terminate TPS for more than 6,000 immigrants from Syria and 350,000 immigrants from Haiti. The Supreme Court instead said in a brief unsigned order that it is deferring consideration of the requests, leaving those lower court rulings in place for now. It set oral arguments in the cases for late April. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Trump Wins Deportation Ruling at Appeals Court on Transporting Migrants to ‘Safe Third Countries’

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Breitbart   Attorneys in President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) persuaded an appeals court to reverse a judge’s block on the deportation of illegal migrants to so-called “Safe Third Countries.” The 2:1 decision means that ICE can continue deporting migrants to countries where they were not born, including countries in Africa, Asia, and South America. It also marks another win over the many lower-court, Democratic-nominated judges who are blocking, impeding, and delaying Trump’s 2024 mandate for mass deportation. READ THE FULL STORY   

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3,000 Flights Canceled as Eastern US Braces for High Winds, Tornadoes

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The Hill   Thousands of flights were cancelled Monday as the eastern U.S. braces for high winds and possible tornadoes and the Midwest deals with blizzard conditions. According to the flight-tracking website FlightAware, 3,573 flights had been cancelled that were destined within, into, or out of the U.S. as of 2:00 p.m. EDT. Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport topped cancellations for both arrivals and departures, per FlightAware, with 277 arriving flights and 219 departing flights cancelled. READ THE FULL STORY 

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Lawmakers to Probe Whether Free Education Incentivizes Illegal Immigration

The Daily Signal
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A House subcommittee will examine whether the Supreme Court’s decision that states cannot deny the children of illegal aliens access to taxpayer-funded K-12 education incentivized more aliens to come to the U.S. illegally.

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing Wednesday on the Supreme Court’s decision in Plyler v. Doe (1982), Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal Friday. The Supreme Court allowed illegal alien children to enroll in public schools, ruling that state laws preventing their enrollment violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

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Senator Warns TSA of Military Benefits of Chinese Pilots Training at U.S. Flight Schools

Just the News
Jim Banks

GOP Sen. Jim Banks is warning the Transportation Security Administration that Chinese pilots training in U.S. flight schools may provide unacceptable military benefits to the Chinese military.

Banks, citing government assessments and public reporting, notes that China – including its People’s Liberation Army Air Force and Navy – is experiencing a shortage of trained pilots.

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Video Shows Arizona Center Processing Ballots in Manner That Alarmed Congress’ Monitors

Just the News

Video footage captured by congressional observers shows a third-party election vendor in Arizona’s largest county processing live ballots and performing signature verification in 2024 far away from the official Maricopa County election center where bipartisan monitors witness such activities, a discovery that prompted the observers to file a formal report alleging “alarming” concerns.

The video obtained by Just the News depicts a visit by one Republican and one Democratic congressional staffer to a third-party printing company responsible for conducting signature verification on ballots during the 2024 election.

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Democrat Tries to Boot Swalwell from California Governor Race with Evidence Dug up by Trump Official

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Pulte and Swalwell

A criminal referral first filed by a Trump administration official is now emerging as a new point of contention in the 2026 California governor’s race, as Democratic candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer seeks to use the allegations to challenge the candidacy of fellow Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell.

The issue stems from a November 2025 referral submitted by Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to the U.S. Department of Justice. 

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Senate Passes Bill to Make Unauthorized Release of ICE Officers’ Personal Records a Felony in Tennessee

Tom Pappert
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Legislation that would make the unauthorized release of the name of federal immigration officers by state or local officials a Class E felony in Tennessee passed the State Senate last Monday. 

As submitted earlier this year by State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin), Senate Bill (SB) 1464 would have prohibited the release of personal information about individuals at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including a total prohibition on releasing names of agents.

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