Author: Kaitlin Housler

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn Joins Colleagues in Demanding Change to Unaccompanied Migrant Children Program from Biden-Harris Administration

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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined 43 other Republicans in the U.S. Senate and House in sending a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris demanding that their administration’s program that resettles unaccompanied alien children into the U.S. be reformed to ensure the safety of children within the program.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) program transfers unaccompanied alien children who crossed the border into the U.S. without a parent or guardian into the hands of unvetted sponsors within the U.S., which the Republicans often warned “continue to exploit and abuse” such children.

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Matt Boyle: ‘Massive Infighting’ Happening Inside Kamala Harris’ Campaign as Race Moves In Favor of Trump

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Donald Trump

Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said sources familiar with and from inside Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are “depressed” as the state of the race continues to move in favor of former President Donald Trump.

Pointing to the NBC News poll released this week showing Harris’ previous five-point lead over Trump nationally diminished down to a dead heat between the two candidates just three weeks out from Election Day, Boyle said the momentum behind Trump has caused “massive infighting” within the Democratic campaign.

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Former Trump Campaign Spokesman Steve Cortes: Kamala Harris Has a Major Authenticity Problem Among Voters

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Kamala Harris

Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, said Vice President Kamala Harris has a serious “authenticity” problem among voters in the lead-up to the November 5 general election.

Cortes said in Pennsylvania, for example, voters believe Harris is not genuine about her sudden support for fracking or her alleged support for tougher border security.

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Attorney J. Christian Adams Warns of Likely Legal Challenges to Donald Trump’s Plan to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to Deport Illegal Aliens

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J Christian Adams, Michael Patrick Leahy

J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and former employee of the U.S. Department of Justice under the George W. Bush administration, is warning of the possible legal challenges that are likely to arise against former President Donald Trump’s plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove illegal aliens from the U.S. if he’s elected in November.

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Bill Clinton Admits Laken Riley Would Be Alive Today if Biden-Harris Admin Had Properly Vetted Illegal Alien Alleged Killer

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Former President Bill Clinton

A video of former President Bill Clinton is going viral after he admitted that the murder of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was allegedly killed at the hands of an illegal Venezuelan migrant, “wouldn’t have happened” if the suspect was “properly vetted” while entering the U.S. illegally.

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‘Frankly Disturbing’: Cheryl Fritze Unravels Michigan Governor’s Viral Doritos Video

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Gretchen Whitmer

Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said the viral video posted on Thursday showing Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer feeding a Doritos chip to left-wing podcaster Liz Plank is “frankly disturbing” and “very offensive to an awful lot of people.”

The video shows Whitmer, wearing a Harris-Walz camo ball cap, hand-feeding a chip to Plank, kneeling in front of the governor.

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Former DOJ Official Jeff Clark Demands Answers After Not Finding a Single Case Prosecuted by Kamala Harris

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Kamala Harris

Jeff Clark, former acting assistant attorney general during the Trump administration, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has been “radio silent” since he has challenged the campaign to release a single transcript of any case the vice president had allegedly argued while serving in her past prosecutorial roles in California.

Last month, Clark completed a comprehensive search into Harris’ background as a prosecutor, which failed to produce evidence that the vice president had ever led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.

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Tennessee Opens Up $100 Million in Immediate Funds to Assist Communities in Cleanup Process from Hurricane Helene

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Hurricane Helene Damage

Governor Bill Lee’s Office announced Thursday that $100 million in state funds have been made available for 13 Tennessee counties impacted by Hurricane Helene.

Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties are eligible to request immediate financial assistance through the new Helene Emergency Assistance Loans (HEAL) Program.

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Messaging Expert Explains Stark Difference Behind Media Exposure Between Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance Campaigns

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Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public affairs expert Clint Brewer said the different approaches taken by both presidential campaigns regarding media exposure stem from both parties’ candidates’ abilities when handling the media on a national scale.

Acknowledging how Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have had “selective” and “controlled” interactions with the media as opposed to former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) being widely available to the press, Brewer said both campaigns have to “play with what they’ve got” in regards to media exposure.

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Michael Patrick Leahy: ‘Nobody Would Believe It’ If Kamala Harris Was Elected President on November 5

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Michael Patrick Leahy, Kamala Harris

Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said Vice President Kamala Harris’ blunders on the presidential campaign trail are so significant that “nobody would believe it” if she was elected president in the November 5 general election.

During Tuesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy dedicated a segment to Harris’ questionable move to attack Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ preparation for Hurricane Milton, specifically the governor’s lack of communication with Harris ahead of the storm.

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Tom Zawistowski: GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno Continues to Lead Incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio

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Zawistowski and MPL

Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, said Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, continues to lead incumbent U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) leading up to the November 5 general election as a “huge” effort is underway on the ground in the Buckeye State to get out the vote for Republicans.

Zawistowski said Moreno is up by 3 percentage points over Brown. Both candidates have launched a combined $260 million in television ads to persuade voters before Election Day.

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Legal Expert Phill Kline: Election Laws ‘Not Prepared’ to Handle Current Effort to Manipulate Elections to Benefit One Party

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Phill Kline

Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said current election laws in the U.S. are “not prepared” to handle the current level of effort seen by leftist nonprofits and the administrative state to manipulate elections in favor of Democratic candidates.

Kline said in the past, election laws were challenged based on “procedure,” which is no longer the case today.

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Former Minnesotan EJ Haust: Tim Walz ‘Cannot Be Trusted,’ ‘Should Be Nowhere Near the White House’

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Tim Walz

EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, said Minnesota Governor and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s brief appearance on CBS’ “60 Minutes” special, which aired on Monday, further proves that he “cannot be trusted” and “should be nowhere near the White House.”

During the interview, CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker pressed Walz about his answer during the vice presidential debate against U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) regarding his false claim that he was in China in the spring of 1989 as the Tiananmen Square protests took place.

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Former President Donald Trump Appoints Harmeet Dhillon to Lead Election Integrity Team in Arizona

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Harmeet Dhillon

Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative attorney and Trump campaign advisor, was appointed by former President Donald Trump to lead a new ‘Election Integrity team’ in Arizona to “stop Democrat interference” and “secure” the state’s elections, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Arizona Republican Party (AZGOP) announced Tuesday.

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Barack Obama Campaigning for Kamala Harris to ‘Keep His Own Office,’ Author Roger Simon Says

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Barack Obama and Kamala Harris

Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the Substack “American Refugees,” said former President Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris leading up to the November 5 general election in an effort to “keep his own office” as he “rules” the Oval Office from the “basement.”

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Michael Patrick Leahy: Tim Walz’s Answer on His Trip to China During Vice Presidential Debate Was Meant to Cover Up His More Troubling Connection to the CCP

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Tim Walz and JD Vance

EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said they believe Minnesota Governor Tim Walz may have “mangled” his answer during Tuesday’s night’s vice presidential debate when he was pressed on his trip to Hong Kong, China in 1989 to cover up his deeper connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

During Tuesday night’s debate against U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH), CBS moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Walz on his false claim that he was in China in the spring of 1989 as the Tiananmen Square protests took place.

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Jeremy Faison: Starlink Has Been a ‘Massive Lifeline’ to Connect Those Impacted by Hurricane Helene to the Outside World

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Jeremy Faison

Tennessee State Representative and House Republican Caucus Chairman Jeremy Faison (R-Cosby) said Starlink units being delivered and installed in areas of East Tennessee decimated by flash flooding from Hurricane Helene have been a “lifeline” for residents who remain without a connection to the outside world.

On Monday, Faison began collaborating with Tennessee political commentator Robby Starbuck, who has purchased and donated more than 20 Starlink units, to connect those in East Tennessee stranded in rural areas left without power.

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Congressman Scott DesJarlais Sends Letter to ICE Deputy Director Demanding Accurate Data on Crimes Being Committed by Juvenile Illegal Immigrants

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U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner on Thursday requesting accurate data regarding crimes committed by juvenile illegal immigrants.

As of July 21, 662,566 noncitizens with criminal histories were on ICE’s national docket, which includes both those detained by ICE and those on the agency’s non-detained docket.

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Legal Expert Phill Kline Says Vice Presidential Debate Will Influence Election

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Phill Kline

Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said two very different worldviews were presented by U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday evening, which Kline said “will make a difference” in the November 5 general election.

Kline said Vance “won” Tuesday’s debate, hosted by CBS, as the Republican vice presidential nominee delivered a worldview and policy standpoints based on “reason” instead of “emotion.”

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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn Describes ‘Truly Catastrophic’ Scene in East Tennessee from Hurricane Helene

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Marsha Blackburn

Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) described the scene in areas impacted by flash flooding from Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee as “truly catastrophic” after two days of traveling to the area to meet with residents and survey the storm damage.

One week ago, flash flooding from Hurricane Helene devastated areas of East Tennessee, which has since left 11 dead, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.

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Tennessee Firearms Association Founder John Harris Slams State Law Prohibiting Use of Deadly Force to Defend Personal or Real Property

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John Harris

Founder of the Tennessee Firearms Association and Second Amendment expert John Harris is bringing attention to Tennessee’s law prohibiting the use of deadly force to protect real or personal property.

Harris’ criticism of the statute, Tennessee Code Annotated §§ 39-11-611; 39-11-614, comes as residents in East Tennessee impacted by devastating flash flooding from Hurricane Helene are being warned of an increased possibility that looters may trespass on properties in areas affected by the weather looking for valuable property or essential supplies.

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Eight Migrant Workers Arrested in Tennessee for Looting in the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene

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Eight migrant workers were arrested and charged over the weekend for allegedly looting properties in Washington County, Tennessee in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday that the group of eight men were taken into custody the day prior after deputies were patrolling the region impacted by the hurricane and arrested the men for allegedly looting properties in the 107 area of Washington County.

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Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger on the Ground in East Tennessee Helping Victims of Hurricane Helene

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Diana Harshbarger

Tennessee U.S. Representative Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) has been on the ground meeting with East Tennessee residents impacted by Hurricane Helene and working to gather and distribute supplies to those in need in the aftermath of the storm.

Harshbarger, whose district stretches from the far northeastern point of the state down to the Gatlinburg area, and her staff have deployed to multiple counties impacted by the hurricane since flood waters devastated areas to assess each community’s needs and help distribute supplies.

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Clint Brewer: Tennesseans Response to Hurricane Helene Is a Testament to the Volunteer Spirit

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Clint Brewer and MPL

Recovering journalist and Nashville-area public policy expert Clint Brewer said the response from Tennesseans to help residents of East Tennessee who Hurricane Helene impacted is a testament to the Volunteer spirit.

On September 26 and September 27, flash flooding from Hurricane Helene devastated buildings and roads in East Tennessee, which has since left eight dead, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.

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Tennessee Congressional Delegation Urges President Biden to Approve Updated Disaster Declaration Submitted by Governor Bill Lee

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Joe Biden TN

All 11 members of the Tennessee congressional delegation sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday requesting the “swift approval” of Governor Bill Lee’s request for an updated major disaster declaration in the wake of flash flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.

Lee initially requested federal assistance for Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins, Johnson, Unicoi, and Washington counties following the flash flooding that devastated buildings and roads in East Tennessee on September 26 and September 27, which the president approved on Saturday.

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‘She’s a Liar’: Former DOJ Official Jeff Clark Reacts to Not Finding a Single Case Prosecuted by Kamala Harris

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Jeff Clark, Kamala Harris

Jeff Clark, former acting assistant attorney general during the Trump administration, said Vice President Kamala Harris appears to be a “liar” and is “misrepresenting her record” as a comprehensive search into her background as a prosecutor has failed to produce evidence that she ever led the prosecution of a single case at the local or state level.

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