Kroger to Pay $42.9 Million Settlement to Tennessee for Role in Opioid Crisis

Kroger Store

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Monday that the state will receive approximately $42.9 million from a settlement with Kroger over the grocery chain’s opioid-related misconduct.

The Volunteer State’s settlement with Kroger is part of a combined $1.37 billion settlement agreement between the grocery chain and a bipartisan coalition of 30 state attorneys general.

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Final Totals: Tennessee’s 2024 Early Voter Turnout Less than 2020

Data published by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office shows that total voter turnout during the 14-day period of early voting in Tennessee for the November 5 general election was lower than the turnout for early voting in the 2020 general election.

According to the data, 2,280,767 ballots—2,070,339 of which were early-in-person ballots and 210,428 absentee ballots—were recorded during the fourteen days of early voting in 2020.

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Reporter Tom Pappert: Joe Biden ‘Deeply Resentful’ of Democratic Party, Sabotaging Kamala Harris’ Campaign for Revenge

Joe Biden

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said he believes President Joe Biden is “sabotaging” Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign out of “pure resentment” for how the Democratic Party pushed him to end his reelection bid.

On Tuesday, Biden said on a Zoom call with members of the nonprofit organization Voto Latino that supporters of former President Donald Trump were “floating…garbage.”

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Legal Expert Phill Kline: DOJ’s ‘Radical’ Election Interference Operation on Full Display in Virginia Case

Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) “radical” election interference operation is on full display following Wednesday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows Virginia to remove individuals identified as noncitizens from its voter rolls.

Earlier this month, the DOJ sued Virginia over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the November 5 general election.

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Tom Pappert: Steve Bannon Offering ‘Sober Take’ on Election After Serving Four-Month Prison Term

Tom Pappert

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is offering a more “sober take” on the November 5 general election after serving a four-month prison term as one of the Biden-Harris administration’s “political enemies.”

Bannon was released from the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday morning after serving a four-month prison sentence for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.

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Pollster John McLaughlin Breaks Down Trump’s Stance in the Race with Eight Days to go Until Election Day

Donald Trump

Long-time pollster John McLaughlin said former President Donald Trump has presented a solid closing argument to the American people in the final days leading up to the November 5 general election, which is offering voters a stark comparison between his policies and those implemented by the current Biden-Harris administration.

Noting how the former president maintains a slight lead in the race over Vice President Kamala Harris, McLaughlin explained on Monday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show how Trump’s current position in the race is comparable to Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012 at the same point in time.

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Senator Marsha Blackburn Speaks to Reporters After Voting Early in Brentwood

Marsha Blackburn

Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told reporters on Friday she is “confident” in the security of the Volunteer State’s elections after she cast her vote early for the November 5 general election at an early voting polling location in Brentwood.

“We know that in Tennessee, we have the most secure elections in the country and our Secretary of State, Tre Hargett, gets a lot of credit for that. I know Tennesseans are confident they can show up, cast their vote, and that vote’s going to be counted,” Blackburn said.

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John Fredericks: Virginia AG Miyares Will Appeal Decision by Federal Judge Forcing Commonwealth to Place Illegal Aliens on Voter Rolls at Request of Weaponized Biden-Harris DOJ

John Fredericks, Michael Patrick Leahy

Pennsylvania-based radio show host John Fredericks said Friday’s federal court decision ordering Virginia to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls proves the Biden-Harris administration’s intentions to have illegal aliens vote in U.S. elections.

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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn Presses VP Kamala Harris on Her Failed Broadband Initiative to Connect Americans to the Internet

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was among nine Republican senators who sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris pressing her on the administration’s “failed” initiative to connect millions of Americans to broadband internet.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed by President Joe Biden in 2021, provided the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with $42.45 billion for the Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which was intended to “provide broadband access to unserved communities, particularly those in rural areas.”

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‘They’re Out of Talking Points’: Reporter Tom Pappert Breaks Down Kamala Harris’ Comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler

Tom Pappert

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler shows that her campaign is “out of talking points” and has “lost every single issue” in the last few days leading up to the November 5 general election.

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Michael Patrick Leahy: ‘Absolutely Illegal’ Bureau of Prisons Refusing to Apply First Step Act Credits to Steve Bannon

Michael Patrick Leahy

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) refusal to apply the First Step Act (FSA) good time credits accrued by Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, towards an early release to home confinement, is “absolutely illegal.”

Bannon is currently serving a four-month prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, Connecticut, for a 2022 conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the January 6 Select Committee.

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Legal Expert Phill Kline Details What to Look for on Election Day to Prevent Fraud

MPL and Kline

Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, detailed the tactics the Left may deploy on Election Day to commit fraud and ensure a victory for Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democratic candidates.

Kline said tactics to influence election results have been underway long before this year’s general election, including President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order permitting federal agencies to promote voter registration and participation in U.S. elections.

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‘Dog Whistle to Potential Assassins’: Critics Slam Kamala Harris’ ‘Desperate’ Comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler

Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris’ remarks comparing former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler are being strongly denounced by allies of the former president.

On Wednesday, just 13 days before the November 5 general election, Harris delivered televised remarks from the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where she compared her opponent to genocidal dictator Adolf Hitler.

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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn Defends Bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act

Kids on phones

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released a memo this week clarifying elements of her and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal’s (D-CT) Kids Online Safety Act, which passed the Senate in July, amid what the senator is calling “lies” being circulated about the legislation.

The Kids Online Safety Act seeks to “protect minors from online harms” by requiring social media companies to “take reasonable measures” to “prevent and mitigate” children from being harmed while using their platforms, including through sexual exploitation or online bullying.

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Craig Huey: Pastors ‘In Fear’ to Speak Out Against Political Issues as Christians Are Under Attack

Pastor

Craig Huey, California refugee and marketing expert, said pastors across the nation are “in fear” of speaking out against political issues, even as Christians are under attack, as a result of the Johnson Amendment.

The Johnson Amendment, enacted in 1954, bans nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) tax exemptions, including churches, from participating in political campaigns if they want to keep their tax-exempt status.

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Tom Pappert: Democrats Are Ignoring the Monumental First Step Act to Keep Conservatives in Prison

Steve Bannon

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Biden-Harris administration is “ignoring” the Trump-era criminal justice reform called the First Step Act (FSA) in order to keep conservatives, including former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, in prison.

Under the FSA, federal inmates can earn “good time credits” to reduce their sentence through behavior and participation in prison programs.

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Immigration Expert Todd Bensman Details Massive Group of Illegal Migrants Waiting to Cross into U.S. After November 5 Election

Illegal Immigrants

Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, returned to the U.S. on Saturday after traveling to Tapachula, Mexico, to document the Mexican government’s holding of approximately 150,000 illegal migrants who are waiting to continue their journey to cross the U.S. southern border.

Tapachula is located in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border and the Pacific Ocean.

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Leader of Opposition Group Against Nashville Transit Referendum Explains Why Proposal Is ‘Unfair, Unsafe, and Unnecessary’

Emily Evans

Emily Evans, head of the Committee to Stop an UnFair Tax, is warning that the multi-billion dollar transit referendum presented to Nashville voters on the November 5 general election ballot is “unfair, unsafe, and unnecessary.”

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s transit plan, “Choose How You Move: An All-Access Pass to Sidewalks, Signals, Service, and Safety,” would be funded by a half-cent increase in the city’s sales tax to construct miles of new sidewalks, bus stops, transit centers, parking facilities, and upgraded traffic signals throughout Nashville.

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Mike Benz Details How Donald Trump Could Dismantle the Global Censorship Machine in ‘Five Minutes’ If Elected

Mike Benz

Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s censorship complex aimed at censoring Americans and people across the globe would be able to be dismantled in a manner of “five minutes” if former President Donald Trump was elected in the November 5 general election.

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Iranian National Coming Illegally to U.S. Says ‘I Am Not a Terrorist,’ ‘My Childhood Dream’ to Come to America

Iranian National

An English-speaking Iranian national coming illegally to the U.S. through South America said he is “not a terrorist” and it’s his “childhood dream” to come to America.

The Iranian man was interviewed by Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, who is on the ground in Tapachula, Mexico documenting the U.S. border crisis.

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Robby Starbuck: UK Labour Party Campaigning for Kamala Harris ‘Patently Illegal’

Labour Party

Robby Starbuck, Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker, said staff members of the United Kingdom’s left-wing Labour Party campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in battleground states ahead of the November 5 general election is “patently illegal” and should be a major news story.

On Thursday, The Tennessee Star reported that Sofia Patel, the head of operations for the Labour Party, recruited nearly 100 foreign nationals to travel to the U.S. and campaign for Harris in the final months prior to Election Day in key battleground states, including Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia.

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Reporter Tom Pappert: Kamala Harris Running from Her Prosecutorial Record in California in Desperate Attempt to Win over Black Male Voters

MPL and Pappert

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Vice President Kamala Harris is outright “denying the truth” when it comes to her prosecutorial record in California in an attempt to win over black male voters in the November 5 general election.

On Tuesday, Harris gave an hour-long interview on the popular radio show The Breakfast Club, hosted by Charlamagne tha God.

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Todd Bensman: Biden-Harris Admin Cut Deal with Mexico to Hold 400k Illegals in ‘Gaza Strip of Immigration’ Near Guatemala Until After Election to Temporarily Lower Border Crossings into U.S.

Illegal Immigrants

Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, called into The Michael Patrick Leahy Show while on the ground in southern Mexico as part of his work to document the U.S. border crisis.

Bensman said he is documenting the holding of approximately 300,000-400,000 migrants in the Mexican cities of Tapachula and Villahermosa who collectively have a goal of reaching the U.S. southern border.

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