Day: April 15, 2026

Judson Phillips, Michael Patrick Leahy Grade the Country on Tea Party Values 17 Years After Tax Day Protest

Kaitlin Housler
Tea Party

Seventeen years after the Tax Day Tea Party protests galvanized a nationwide grassroots movement, two of its early architects, Tea Party Nation Founder Judson Phillips and The Tennessee Star’s CEO Michael Patrick Leahy, graded how the U.S. has measured up to the movement’s founding principles.

During Wednesday’s broadcast of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy and Phillips revisited the three core values that defined the Tea Party movement in 2009: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets.

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Nashville Public Charter School Confirms Modified Bell Schedule for Muslim Prayer After Tennessee AG Warns Public Schools Against ‘Dedicating Resources’ to Worship

Tom Pappert
Muslim prayer

After Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said public schools are prohibited from dedicating resources for specific religious worship in response to a question about the accommodations made for Muslim students at John Overton High School, The Pamphleteer reported that another school in Nashville, this time a public charter school, confirmed on Wednesday that it modified its bell schedule for Muslim students to pray.

While many of the accommodations reportedly made for Muslim students at Overton High School were specific to Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, The Pamphleteer reported that an administrator at Valor Collegiate Prep told the outlet his school maintains a modified bell during the entire academic year specifically for Muslim students. 

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Musk’s xAI Faces NAACP Lawsuit over Mississippi Turbine Use Nearly One Year After Similar Threat in Tennessee

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Elon Musk

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its Mississippi State Conference, which are represented by the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, of illegally operating more than 20 natural gas turbines without proper permits at its Southaven facility.

The lawsuit accuses xAI of installing and operating 27 gas turbines from August until December 2025 without obtaining proper permits from both federal and state agencies, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Without the permits, the NAACP further claims xAI failed to comply with federal requirements to use modern technology and operated without taking all available steps to limit the turbines’ emissions.

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California Gov. Candidate Tom Steyer Pledges to Open Borders and Arrest ICE Agents

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Breitbart   Tom Steyer, the now top polling Democrat for California governor, has unveiled his extremely radical, open-door, anti-ICE immigration platform as he continues his run for the state’s top office. The hedge fund billionaire, who was polling poorly until the media targeted Eric Swalwell for a sacrifice to revitalize the Democratic field for the governor’s race, released his immigration pledges on Tuesday with a five-point plan that is far more left-wing and radical than the current governor’s, who himself is a left-wing radical on immigration. The 68-year-old founder of Farallon Capital Management turned radical environmentalist posted his intentions to nullify all federal immigration laws, jail federal immigration law enforcement officers, and return deported individuals back to the U.S. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Tennessee Among States Securing Jury Win Against Live Nation, Ticketmaster

Kaitlin Housler
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A federal jury on Wednesday delivered a major blow to Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, finding that the companies illegally maintained monopoly power in the live event ticketing market after a weeks-long antitrust trial.

The verdict was reached in Manhattan federal court following roughly five weeks of testimony and deliberations that began last Friday.

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Iran War Damaged as Much as $58 Billion of Energy Infrastructure, Rystad Estimates

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CNBC   The Iran war has damaged as much as $58 billion worth of energy infrastructure, according to an estimate published by consulting firm Rystad Energy on Wednesday. Iran has attacked the oil and gas infrastructure of its Gulf Arab neighbors, including production facilities, refineries and pipelines among other targets. Israel has bombed natural gas and petrochemical facilities in Iran. More than 80 energy facilities have been attacked in all since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb. 28, said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency. More than a third of those are severely damaged, Birol said. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Tuberville Says GOP ‘Ain’t Done Anything in the Majority’

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The Hill   Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday said the Republican party was fractured and has not accomplished “anything” despite their majority in both the House and Senate. “Everything that goes on up here … is about, ‘Oh, we got to get reelected. We got to keep the majority.’ Well, hell, we ain’t done anything in the majority. Why would she, why would, should we keep majority?” Tuberville said during a Wednesday appearance on Benny Johnson’s podcast. “We’ve gotten one bill passed and that was President Trump pushing and pushing and pushing, and what took us 18 hours to get Republicans to vote for 18 hours straight on the Senate floor,” the Alabama senator added. READ THE FULL STORY   

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Biden DOJ Deputized Abortion-Rights Groups to Surveil, Target Pro-Life Activists

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Merrick Garland

The Biden White House, Attorney General Merrick Garland and National School Boards Association worked together in 2021 to create a pretext for federal law enforcement to target protests by parents and community members at school board meetings, likening criticism of COVID-19 policies and race-based curricular decisions to “domestic terrorism.”

The Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group, created by recently departed Attorney General Pam Bondi in response to disclosures about her predecessor’s exploits against Democrat-disfavored causes, revealed even more close cooperation between the Biden DOJ and Democrat-aligned interest groups to punish their collective enemies in a sprawling report Tuesday.

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New Intel Watchdog Launches Review of Past Whistleblower Complaints After Bombshell Revelations

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Chris Fox

The new chief watchdog for U.S. spy agencies has opened a review of several “urgent concern” whistle-blower complaints fielded by his predecessor after bombshell documents revealed that intelligence officials kept exculpatory evidence from President Donald Trump’s 2019 impeachment proceedings and may have suppressed concerns about Chinese meddling in the 2020 election.

Officials told Just the News that Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) Christopher Fox, who took over the job in October, ordered the review as part of a larger effort to reform and better resource his office to handle whistle-blower complaints that can range from abuse of civil liberties and fraud to unmitigated national security threats related to terrorism and espionage.

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Schmitt Calls to Impeach Boasberg After Appeals Court Finds ‘Abuse of Discretion’

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Eric Schmitt

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Wednesday urged the House to impeach Judge James Boasberg following a decision from the D.C. Appeals Court that found his abused his discretion by continuing with a contempt investigation against the Trump administration.

“The D.C. Circuit ruled Boasberg’s contempt crusade against Trump officials is an ‘improper investigation’ and ‘clear abuse of discretion.’
He tried to imprison Trump officials for deporting Venezuelan gang members.

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‘I’ll Have to Fire Him’: Trump Won’t End Probe, Says Fed Chair Must Step Down or Else

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Jerome Powell

President Donald Trump said Wednesday a federal probe into Jerome Powell will continue and that he will fire the Federal Reserve chairman if he refuses step down.

Powell said in March he will not leave his position at the Federal Reserve until an investigation into the renovation of the agency’s headquarters. Bartiromo asked Trump during an interview that aired Wednesday about Powell declaring he had “no intention” to leave the Federal Reserve after his chairmanship expires.

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GLAAD Claims Tennessee Trying to ‘Exclude and Intentionally Harm’ LGBTQ Households by Declaring June ‘Nuclear Family Month’

Tom Pappert
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After Governor Bill Lee signed a resolution last week that named June as Nuclear Family Month in the Volunteer State, a spokesman for the LGBTQ advocacy organization, GLAAD, on Wednesday told news outlets that Tennessee lawmakers were working to “exclude and intentionally harm” non-traditional households.

Tennessee’s resolution defined the nuclear family as, “one man, one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children.”

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DOJ Moves to Dismiss J6 Seditious Conspiracy Convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys Leaders

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Donald Trump

The Justice Department filed paperwork Tuesday to dismiss seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keeper leaders related to the January 6 riot in 2021. 

The department asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to vacate the convictions, including of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, according to the Associated Press. 

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