Tennessee Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn announced Thursday the members of her Transition Advisory Committee, who will serve under Chairman Stuart McWhorter as she prepares to take office in January.
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College students traditionally tend to vote for Democrats, and in the Nov. 3 midterm elections, under-30 voters took their concerns to the ballot box and turned out in droves for the party.
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There will be oceans of ink spilled describing the extinction-level event for Republicans in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Ruby red states and districts across the nation quickly fell to a Democrat takeover, flipping seat after seat and toppling politicians many thought would die in office.
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Expect a surge of gun sales, but also gun control legislation after Tuesday’s dominance in midterm election by Democrats in the U.S. Congress and in various states where the power is shifting to liberal politicians.
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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade inspired Victoria Broderick, the Democratic who unofficial results show defeated U.S. Representative Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) on Tuesday, she told Axios Nashville on Thursday.
According to the outlet, Broderick said her political career “began at the hyper-local level,” in Lincoln County, where she leveraged her social media personality as “your Friendly Neighborhood Liberal on TikTok” to become the Democratic Party chair.
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Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, resigned Thursday in the agency’s first departure since the midterm elections.
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CVS Health said on Wednesday that it will split its retail pharmacy business from its pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and health insurance operations in a restructuring announced months after the retail pharmacy giant sued Tennessee over the FAIR Rx Act, which prohibits vertical integration between pharmacies and PBMs.
CVS Health said it will be split into two companies, with the first set to become a “leading healthcare solutions company,” that will include Aetna, CVS Caremark, CVS Speciaty, Oak Street Health, and Oak Street Health. This company will continue to be known as CVS Health, according to its corporate press release.
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Williamson County voters gave Republican candidates significantly larger margins of victory than the statewide electorate in Tuesday’s election, with GOP candidates outperforming their statewide results in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races.
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A new migrant caravan is heading toward the United States from Honduras as Democratic gains in Congress are poised to weaken President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
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When I first came to Washington nearly four decades ago, a colleague of mine greeted me with, “Welcome to the marble asylum!”
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Republicans lost control of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections largely because voters were dissatisfied with the Iran war and the economy, public affairs specialist Clint Brewer said Wednesday during an appearance on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Republicans lost Congress on Tuesday because voters felt the administration and the GOP stopped caring about them, several insiders told the Daily Signal.
“This is a middle finger,” one former senior administration official said of the midterm election results. “I think it comes down to affordability and the war, and Americans feeling like the administration and Republicans at large, including an unproductive Congress, don’t really give a damn,” the former official added.
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied he is considering a replacement for U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, but predicted Hegseth would be “very popular” if U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) selected him to finish her term in the Senate after she becomes Tennessee’s 51st governor in January.
Amid reports claiming that Trump may hold Hegseth responsible for the lack of a satisfying conclusion to the conflict in Iran, which Vice President JD Vance said caused the Democratic Party victories in the 2026 midterms on Tuesday, the president on Wednesday told reporters that he thinks Hegseth is “doing a great job.”
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Democratic wins in key Senate races have set up an uphill battle for President Donald Trump to replace any potentially retiring Supreme Court justices once the opposition takes power in the chamber.
While the Senate abolished the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations long ago, Democrats are set for an outright majority, meaning Trump would need Democratic support to confirm anyone to the bench.
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Republicans on Tuesday lost control of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, were defeated in gubernatorial races in five states, and suffered losses in state legislatures across the country, but public referendums on immigration-related issues passed easily in eight of the same states where the party lost.
In Kansas, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) lost reelection to controversial pastor Adam Hamilton, and Kansas State Senate President Ty Masterson (R-Wichita) is projected at press time to narrowly lose the gubernatorial race to State Senator Cindy Holscher (D-Overland Park).
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Tennessee Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn announced Wednesday that Deputy Governor Stuart C. McWhorter will chair her gubernatorial transition committee as she prepares to take office after Tuesday’s election victory.
Blackburn announced the appointment Wednesday morning, saying McWhorter would oversee efforts to ensure a smooth transition between Governor Bill Lee’s administration and her incoming administration.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly said Wednesday that he will not run for House minority leader, setting up a battle for the GOP leadership after a rout on Tuesday sent the party to minority status.
Johnson confirmed his plans in a staff call, according to Punchbowl News. He has made no public announcement about his future plans for Congress, as of mid-morning.
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Vice President JD Vance blamed the Iran war for 2026 Democratic victories Wednesday in a blunt post on X.
“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” stated Vance, who, at this point, is the presumed front-runner for the 2028 GOP presidential nomination.
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The Democratic Socialists of America emerged from the 2026 midterms significantly stronger, but in a strange twist, the Democratic Party’s overwhelming success may deprive the DSA’s seven House members of the leverage they expected to wield.
The DSA expanded its congressional footprint, helped elect allies at the state and local levels, and can point to Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Senate race as evidence that a candidate closely associated with its agenda can win statewide in a presidential battleground. That said, the sheer scale of the Democrats’ House victory could make it easier for the rest of the party to ignore socialists’ demands.
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Fairview voters selected Rick Shepherd as its next mayor.
Shepherd defeated Vice Mayor Chris McDonald by less than 100 votes: 1,420 to 1,385.
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Texas GOP Gov. Gregg Abbot lost his reelection bid Tuesday night in a strong showing for Democrats in statewide and national races.
The Associated Press called the race for Democrat challenger Gina Hinojosa, who becomes the state’s first Latina governor. Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton lost his bid to keep the GOP-held seat held by retiring Sen. John Cornyn.
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The Democrats decidedly won the Senate on Tuesday evening, sweeping competitive contests and pulling off a string of upsets in formerly solid Republican bastions as they marched toward realigning the power structure in Washington by taking full control of Congress.
As of press time, the Associated Press projects the party to claim at least 51 seats in the upper chamber, but has yet to make race calls in hundreds of House contests.
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Tennessee voters have decided they no longer want the state to issue property taxes.
On Tuesday night, state residents showed widespread support for Amendment 2, which prevents the Tennessee state government from creating a property tax.
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Tennessee voters have supported two constitutional amendment proposals that strengthen the state’s laws against criminals.
Tennesseans overwhelmingly supported Amendment 1 and Amendment 3 on Tuesday night.
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William Jennings Bryan, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman romanticized the American campaign rally with whistle-stop tours aboard trains.
But Donald Trump took the rally to rock-star status over the last decade by filling stadiums and arenas with tens of thousands, often leaving many outside wanting to get in.
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The president vowed to protect Elon Musk and hand out pardons if Democrats win control of Congress after the midterms.
President Donald Trump pledged to shield SpaceX CEO from “very evil” Democrats and suggested he was willing to grant preemptive pardons to his staff, he told Miranda Devine on an episode of the New York Post’s “Pod Force One” podcast released Monday. Just one day before the midterm election gets underway, the president committed to keeping his former detractor, who launched a third party to oppose him in 2025.
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In 2000, the Rev. Adam Hamilton, now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, was the most visible advocate for a development company that raised millions from church members but failed to deliver on its promises.
Hamilton was the founding pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, just outside Kansas City when the church used a for-profit company, COR Development, LLC, to buy 47 acres to develop commercially, with 15 acres to be set aside for the church.
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Federal election monitors have been deployed to Davidson County, Knox County, and Shelby County, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee, which confirmed Tennessee is included in the Trump administration’s effort to send monitors to all 50 states.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the three Tennessee counties are part of the civil rights division’s effort to deploy about 1,000 election monitors across all 50 states. The three Tennessee counties named in the press release are home to Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis.
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In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4 a gallon through October, on the eve of the midterms. It is currently about $4.30.
The inflation rate in 2022 hit a 40-year high of 9.1 percent—and would average 5.1 percent over Joe Biden’s four-year tenure. The 2026 inflation rate is estimated to be about 3.5 percent and, over the first two years of the second Trump administration, will likely average around 3 percent. GDP for the third quarter of 2026 is higher than it was in the same quarter of 2022. The poverty rate is now lower and the annual family income higher than in November 2022.
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The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), the pro-illegal alien nonprofit that on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS) in Davidson County Chancery Court over the new driver’s license law passed in Tennessee last year, earlier this year was allocated $735,000 in the budget approved by the Metro nashville Council in June.
In their Friday complaint, TIRRC challenged a portion of one of Tennessee’s new immigration laws that requires lawful immigrants to provide a qualifying visa, immigration documentation, or resident card, in order to receive a special license authorizing them to drive in the Volunteer State.
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A pro-life political advocacy group shed light on an allegedly pro-America First and anti-globalist dark money group targeting conservative voters through an alleged organized campaign of misleading mailers.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (“SBA Pro-Life America”) pushed back by releasing an ad Friday exposing the American Forge Coalition — a tax-exempt nonprofit with undisclosed donors created in May — for trying to trick voters into voting against pro-life Republicans in several races. The pro-life group said the nonprofit did this by sending crafty mailers that distort candidates’ records on abortion and provide faulty information on their policy stances.
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CNN’s Van Jones this week opined that Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., had “flushed herself down the toilet” with her unexpected endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers for Senate.
Stevens, who lost to Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, abruptly backed Rogers on Sunday, earning near-universal condemnation from her own party and praise from Republicans. With House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries confirming that his party would discuss Stevens after the midterms, her career on the left appears to be in dire straits.
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Every day, federal judges make decisions that impact the businesses we build, the constitutional freedoms we exercise, and the safety of our communities. As U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty stands for his first reelection to the U.S. Senate, it’s worth reflecting on his contributions to the federal courts across Tennessee.
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I recently spoke at Chatham House in London, one of Europe’s leading globalist think tanks—and hostile territory for American conservatives. While there, I heard firsthand some of the factors and the stark denialism behind the horrific riots that erupted in France and other European countries this month.
What began in late September as student blockades of overcrowded, understaffed high schools in the Paris suburbs exploded on October 17 and 18 into some of the worst violence France has seen in decades. More than half a million people marched against rising living costs and failing public services. Rioters, many carrying Palestinian flags, torched cars and a town hall, damaged or looted at least 3,000 businesses, and injured more than 500 police officers. Nearly 2,400 people were arrested, and the government imposed curfews in parts of Paris and other cities. Similar protests spread to Belgium and Italy.
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The U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday announced the arrest of Fernando Gonzalez Ramirez, a 32-year-old Panamanian citizen who is wanted in Franklin, Tennessee, where the Marshals said “he is alleged to have sexually assaulted multiple boys while helping run a youth baseball program” from 2023 to 2024.
According to the press release, federal law enforcement tracked Gonzalez Ramirez to Mexico, Japan, and Panama before the Marshals arrested him in the Dominican Republic “within hours” after their foreign field office received a tip about his location.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ex-husband Ahmed Nur Said Elmi — whom President Donald Trump accuses of being her brother — described himself as a “gay man” in an August 2026 academic paper.
Elmi, a University of Bristol doctoral researcher, wrote that studying violence against gay individuals in Africa was “not just an academic undertaking” due to “the complexities of [his] identity” as a “gay man of the East African diaspora.”
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Despite his campaign spending $438 on software from Anthropic, which has contracted to use the SpaceXSI Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, independent Tennessee gubernatorial candidate David Hatley previously said data centers for artificial intelligence (AI), also referred to as super intelligence (SI) by the Trump administration, “terrify” him when asked specifically about the Elon Musk-owned facility.
Anthropic, which develops the Claude chatbot, announced an agreement with Musk’s SpaceXSI on May 6, with the deal providing Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity at Colossus. The company said the additional computing power would benefit subscribers to its Claude Pro and Claude Max products.
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Poland appears to be in a state of constitutional crisis on Friday after Prime Minister Donald Tusk sent police to install a loyalist to control the nation’s constitutional court, in defiance of President Karol Nawrocki and the judicial body.
Video footage showed police entering the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday evening. President Nawrocki was en route to Senegal, but has turned his plane around to address the situation.
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Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed directly solicited support for his campaign inside Islamic centers whose imams and guest speakers called America the “the House of Shaitan [Satan]” and urged Allah to “take the worst revenge upon” Zionists, according to a review of their videotaped services.
Experts said the video evidence, first uncovered by the Middle East Forum and verified by Just the News, could open the door to potential investigations into the nonprofit status of places of worship and provide a stark reminder to voters in the final days of the 2026 election about El-Sayed’s ties to other controversial activists, who include Hasan Piker.
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Former Knox County Mayor and WWE Hall of Famer Glenn Jacobs has joined the Advisory Council of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), where he will help guide the organization’s grassroots efforts to advance limited-government policies and expand individual freedom and opportunity.
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As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.
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A Memphis Police Department (MPD) report obtained by The Tennessee Star reveals that the mother of State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), the Democratic nominee for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, was accused of slapping an election worker during a dispute at a Memphis polling location on Wednesday.
The Daily Memphian first reported that Owens Pearson was accused of causing a “disturbance,” while The Mighty 990 shared the news in a post to social media, including redacted information from the MPD report obtained by The Star.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced 24 indictments as the result of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, which prosecutors say determined a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated drug trafficking operation was being directed by two men serving time inside Tennessee prisons. Their conspiracy allegedly included about 500 kilograms of methamphetamine, 60 kilograms of cocaine, and $375,000 in cash.
According to the DOJ press release, all 24 defendants are charged with the same 33-count indictment, which also accuses them of distributing or possessing fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana, while nine of the defendants face additional firearm and drug trafficking defendants.
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The Tennessee Star has obtained audio of a 911 call placed on February 16, 2020, in which a woman identifying herself as the wife of Tennessee independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley reported that he told her he had taken pills in an attempt to end his life. Hatley did not deny being the subject of the 911 call when reached by The Star.
The woman, whose name matches public records about Hatley’s second wife, claimed that she left their child at Hatley’s home that morning, but after leaving church, was contacted by Hatley, who she said informed her that he decided to commit suicide.
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An investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Memphis led to a guilty plea by a Guatemalan national who admitted to conspiring to smuggle 450 kilograms of cocaine, or about 992 pounds, the DEA and Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday.
According to court documents cited by the DOJ, Donelfert Monterroso Vasquez coordinated “multi-hundred-kilogram” shipments of cocaine through Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico, in order to “generate the highest profit” by selling the illicit substance in the United States.
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The campaign of Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola helped recruit Dan J. Sullivan to enter the race to draw votes away from her Republican opponent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
According to the Times, Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager and longtime aide who was fired in August, said Peltola was “definitely aware” of the plot to recruit Dan J. Sullivan, who is running as an independent in the closely watched race that could help decide control of the Senate.
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A House investigative subcommittee is demanding a wide swath of records from the Smithsonian Institution after uncovering a controversial American history museum display that suggested the U.S. military had engaged in “domicide,” the intentional destruction of civilian homes to cause human suffering.
The request came Thursday in a letter from House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee Chairman Tim Burchett, R- Tenn., and Rep. Brian Jack, R-Ga., and is the latest effort by the GOP-led Congress to stamp out what it sees as woke and inaccurate presentations of American history at the nation’s premier network of museums.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Wednesday that the state will pursue hosting the proposed United States Space Academy, identifying a site in Coffee County as its preferred location for the federal institution intended to train the next generation of American space professionals.
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After crossing with his army into Asia, Alexander the Great stopped at Gordium (in modern-day Turkey). He approached the famous Gordian knot—a tangled mass of bark tying an ox cart to a pole, so intricate and tight that no one could unravel it. When told that anyone who could untie the mess would rule all of Asia, Alexander simply pulled out his sword and cut through it—solving the problem and fulfilling the prophecy.
The Ukraine war may be our Gordian knot, but—in our current nuclear age—it is dangerous to cut rather than unravel it.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of Salin Dahel Ramos Alvarez to The Tennessee Star, describing Ramos Alvarez as a known or suspected member of Tren de Aragua.
A spokesman for ICE told The Star that Ramos Alvarez was arrested last Thursday as part of a “targeted enforcement operation” in Nashville, when the spokesman said Ramoz Alvarez told officers “he was not a Lyft driver but had been paid by an acquaintance to drive them to the airport.”
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