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Minnesota Teachers Union Conference to Feature Sessions on ‘Pronoun Usage,’ ‘2SLGBTQIA+’ Ideology

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Education Minnesota

Public school teachers from across Minnesota will meet in St. Paul Oct. 17 to participate in a conference put on by Education Minnesota, the state’s teachers union.

At Education Minnesota’s 2024 MEA Conference, educators will learn about, and discuss, various public education topics in conference sessions throughout the day. While some of those sessions appear to cover noncontroversial topics, others are steeped in what Center of the American Experiment policy fellow Catrin Wigfall described as “ideological agendas.”

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Supreme Court Leaves in Place Pennsylvania Law Banning Those Under 21 from Publicly Carrying Guns

Daily Caller News Foundation

The Supreme Court decided to leave a Pennsylvania law in place banning the carry of firearms in public for people under 21, according to court orders released Tuesday.

The decision sends the case back down to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to be reconsidered, with the Supreme Court declining to hear arguments, according to the court orders. The court pushed back against the Third Circuit’s initial judgement in June that the law violated the Second Amendment by arbitrarily excluding some adults from carrying just for being under 21 and having no historical precedent, according to the decision handed out by Third Circuit Judge Kent Jordan.

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House Committee to Investigate FEMA Mishandling of Funds amid Hurricane Relief

American Greatness
FEMA

Republicans on a top congressional committee have launched an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its “priorities” after reports emerged claiming that the agency spent most of its money aiding illegal aliens, to the point that it had little money left to deal with the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

According to Fox News, a letter was issued by members of the majority on the the House Homeland Security Committee, declaring that the committee “is investigating [DHS’] prioritization of its ability to adequately respond to natural disasters.”

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Man Wrongly Convicted for Murder by Kamala Harris Demands She Face Questions About Men ‘Framed for Murder Under Her Watch’

Tom Pappert
Jamal Trulove

A man wrongly convicted of murder in San Francisco while Vice President Kamala Harris served as the city’s district attorney issued a call for the presidential candidate to face questions about those “framed for murder under her watch” during her interview with radio host Charlamagne tha God.

Jamal Trulove was wrongly convicted of murder in 2008, but by 2015 was freed and later secured a $13.1 million settlement from the City of San Francisco over his wrongful conviction. After previously endorsing the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020, Trulove in August announced his endorsement of former President Donald Trump.

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Tennessee Lawyer Sues over Federal Court Rule Cited to Limit Attorney Speech Under Threat of Contempt

Tom Pappert
Daniel Horowitz

Tennessee civil rights lawyer Daniel Horwitz is suing the U.S. Court for the Middle District of Tennessee over a 2022 gag order demanding he cease commenting publicly about a case or be held in contempt of court, arguing a rule cited by the federal court too broadly restricts attorney speech.

Horwitz, in a lawsuit first reported Tuesday by the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee University on Tuesday, accuses the federal court system in Middle Tennessee of creating and enforcing an unconstitutionally vague rule that specifically limits the speech of attorneys through its gag order enforcing local rule 83.04 in his lawsuits against CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company being sued by Horwitz in multiple lawsuits.

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

Kaitlin Housler
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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Fani Willis Tries to Block Nathan Wade from Testifying to Congress

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Fani Willis and Nathan Wade

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to block former special prosecutor Nathan Wade from testifying before Congress, arguing he might “improperly divulge confidential information.”

In a letter released Monday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., the Georgia attorney said that Wade’s testimony could violate protected privileges that are upheld by the Fulton County District Attorney’s office. 

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U.S. Boots Hit Ground in Israel as Threat from Iran Looms

Daily Caller News Foundation
American Troops

U.S. servicemembers arrived in Israel on Monday amid the country’s chaotic multifront war with various actors in the region, and more troops will arrive soon, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

The Pentagon previously announced on Sunday that the troops would be deployed to the Middle East along with a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile battery system, meant to help Israel defend itself against potential aerial attacks against missile attacks from Iran. The approximately 100 troops that arrived on Monday will help operate the THAAD system, though the Pentagon wouldn’t say when it would be operational, given the sensitive security nature of the situation.

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Secret Service, FBI Downplay Threat to Trump at California Rally

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Secret Service

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI are downplaying the threat to former President Donald Trump posed by a man arrested outside a California rally Saturday night – despite assertions made by a local sheriff that his detention likely thwarted a third assassination attempt.

Deputies working for the Riverside County sheriff’s office arrested a man, identified as Vem Miller, and subsequently discovered a shotgun, loaded handgun, and high-capacity magazine in his car about a quarter mile from the entrance to Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley. Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco, who endorsed Trump publicly in June, said Miller’s car, identified as a black SUV, had a fake license plate that was unregistered and possessed several phony passports and driver’s licenses with different identities, as well as what Bianco described as a fake press pass.

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

Kaitlin Housler
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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Buying the News: Documenting the Takeover of Local Journalism by Leftwing Donors

RealClearWire
"The Chronicle" Newsroom, 2007

American journalism has experienced a spectacular collapse in the last 25 years – daily newspaper circulation has declined from over 60 million subscribers to just over 20 million. And the trend is accelerating: According to the Pew Research Organization, the average monthly number of unique visitors to the websites of the country’s top 50 newspapers plummeted 20 percent in one year from 2021 to 2022.

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More Than 80 Percent of All Voters Support Major Election Reform Including Requirements on Proof of Citizenship, Limits on Early Voting: Poll

The Center Square

A vast majority of voters want policies and procedures in place to guarantee the integrity of elections, according to new polling.

That includes 86 percent of those surveyed who agree that election officials should have access to all necessary information to verify that the number of ballots cast matches the number of voters, and 85 percent who say that election officials should verify the accuracy of the information they receive before signing off on certifying election results. Majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents support the proper verification of voting.

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Fetterman Warns ‘Incredibly Popular’ Musk ‘Has An Appeal’ with Voters ‘Democrats Have Struggled’ to Reach

Tom Pappert
Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) said Elon Musk remains “incredibly popular” among Americans in the wake of his endorsement of former President Donald Trump, and added that the billionaire is able to “appeal to a demographic that Democrats have struggled” to reach with a political message.

Fetterman on Sunday also suggested Musk’s unique celebrity status and ability to reach voters makes his endorsement unique during his appearance on “The Hill Sunday,” where the senator called it a “situation” Democrats “have to acknowledge” as Musk continues to support Trump.

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Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Reps Sue Over Loose Verification Process for Overseas Voters

Tom Pappert
Ballots

Six Republican members of the U.S. House from Pennsylvania amended their legal action on Monday as they seek action over loose processes employed by multiple states when verifying overseas voters are citizens with the right to vote.

The lawsuit filed by Representatives Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA-14), Glenn Thompson (R-PA-15), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11), Mike Kelly (R-PA-16), and Scott Perry (R-PA-10) on October 7, and amended Monday, seeks immediately action against the Pennsylvania Department of State by courts “to ensure legal compliance with federal and state law regarding the verification of voter registration applicants’ identity and eligibility before accepting and counting ballots” from applicants who are citizens and Pennsylvania voters but live outside the United States.

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Tennessee Democrats, Controversial Attorney Ben Crump Hold ‘Black Men for Kamala’ Event in Memphis

Tom Pappert
Ben Crump announces Kamala Harris event

Tennessee Democrats in Shelby County held a “Black Men for Kamala” event on Monday in response to the push by former President Barack Obama for black men to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

The event was described by the Shelby County Democratic Party as an “emergency press conference” held “in Response to President Barack Obama’s Call” in a press release that referenced the former president’s speech in Pennsylvania last week.

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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

Kaitlin Housler
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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Activist Arrested at University of Tennessee Anti-Israel Protest Sues Knox County Sheriff over Lack of Hijab in Mugshot

Tom Pappert
Vanderbilt University #FreePalestine Camp

An activist who was arrested for her alleged participation in an anti-Israel encampment at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) in May is now suing Knox County, Knox County Sheriff Tom Spangler, as well as Knox County Sheriff’s Office (KNSO) Sergeant Jonathan Burgess.

The lawsuit filed by Layla Soliz explains that she is Muslim and wears a hijab, but after her May 2024 arrest, “Knox County Sheriff’s Office employees demanded that Mrs. Soliz remove her hijab and be photographed without it for her booking photo,” then published it online.

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New York City Residents on Edge as Tren De Aragua Gangsters Terrorize City

Daily Caller News Foundation
New York Coty Mayor Eric Adams with NYPD officers

Tren de Aragua (TdA)-associated gangsters as young as 11-years-old are wreaking havoc on Times Square out of a migrant shelter in New York City, and they’re getting away with it, sources told the New York Post.

Around 20 migrants in the TdA-associated gang called “Los Diablos de la 42” are robbing residents and tourists in New York City neighborhoods while avoiding jail time due to their young age, sources in the New York Police Department (NYPD) told the New York Post Monday. TdA has gained notoriety in the United States after multiple reports emerged this year of their activities in major U.S. cities such as Aurora, Colorado, and El Paso, Texas.

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

Kaitlin Housler
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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Biden-Harris Admin’s Aggressive Litigation Strategy to Enforce Agenda Likely Infringes on States’ Rights, Experts Warn

Daily Caller News Foundation
President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris - exec order

The Biden-Harris administration has aggressively pursued litigation against red states as a means of advancing its agenda, which legal experts said could infringe on states’ rights.

States such as Texas, which have taken steps to limit the surge of illegal migrants — reaching record levels under the Biden administration — are now facing lawsuits from the federal government. Similarly, states that passed laws contradicting the Biden administration’s positions on issues like abortion and gender have faced lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the bills.

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Majority of Voters Favor Federal Ban on Transgender Procedures for Minors, New Poll Finds

The Center Square
Gender Pride demonstration

Most registered voters, 59 percent, support a federal ban on transgender procedures such as puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgeries for minors, a new national poll found.

The strongest support for a federal ban came from registered Republicans (82 percent), while the lowest amount of support for it came from registered Democrats (36 percent). Independents polled offered majority support for a ban, with 56 percent in favor. 

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Commentary: After Just Four Years of Biden-Harris, America’s National Security Is in Tatters

American Greatness
China President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden

Ronald Reagan’s query to the American people in his October 28, 1980, debate with incumbent President Jimmy Carter was so simple and so devastating that it is still employed today: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” While most Americans are far worse off today than they were four years ago, with rising prices, inflation, a hollow economy, and unchecked immigration, so too are the U.S., its allies, and its partner’s national security interests, which are far worse off than they were four years ago.

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RNC Strikes Deal with Detroit to Boost Number of Republican Poll Workers Ahead of 2024 Election

Just the News

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday secured a settlement from the city of Detroit, which includes hiring more Republican poll workers ahead of next month’s presidential election.

The settlement comes after the RNC, Michigan GOP, and chairs of Wayne County Republican committee sued Detroit in August over hiring over seven times more Democratic poll workers than Republican ones in the state’s primary election, in an alleged violation of state law.

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Mainstream Media, Democrats Discouraged About Ruben Gallego’s Poor Debate Performance Against Kari Lake

Rachel Alexander
Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake debate Oct, 2024

The debate between U.S. Senate candidates Kari Lake and Ruben Gallego last Wednesday left many pundits and political operatives in agreement that Lake outperformed Gallego, who currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 3rd congressional district.

While the debate received little mainstream media coverage, some of the few outlets that did address it, as well as Democrats, expressed their disappointment in Gallego’s performance.

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Gov. Youngkin, A.G. Miyares Vow to Fight ‘Politically Motivated’ Biden-Harris DOJ Lawsuit over Removal of Non-Citizens from Voter Rolls

Tom Pappert
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, AG Jason Miyares

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares have vowed Virginia will fight the lawsuit launched by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) over the commonwealth’s recent effort to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls, with both noting it was filed less than one month before Election Day.

The DOJ on Friday launched litigation against Virginia after the commonwealth removed non-citizens from its voter rolls, with the federal government alleging the commonwealth violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which it argued prohibits canceling voter registrations within 90 days of an election, even if those voters were illegally registered.

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Commentary: Remembering the Courage of Christopher Columbus

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Today we remember the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who in October 1492 landed in the Bahamas and became the first Western European to discover what the Europeans would call the New World.

When Columbus and his crew of approximately 200 sailors left Spain in three crowded ships – the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria – they set their sails toward an unknown horizon. They expected to discover a trade route to India. (Most Europeans at the time knew the earth was round – but they were unaware of the North and South American continents.) Instead of finding a route to Southeast Asia, Columbus and his crew landed on a continent of new opportunities. Columbus’s accidental discovery opened a permanent passage across the Atlantic and redrew the known map of the world.

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Lawmakers Oppose Trump Pledge to Restore Confederate Names to Military Bases

American Greatness
Donald Trump

Following former President Donald Trump’s pledge to restore the names of military bases that were named after Confederate figures, members of both parties in Congress vowed to oppose any such efforts.

As Politico reports, President Trump made another campaign promise on the culture war front on Friday, during a town hall event in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

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Commentary: A Soldier’s Battle with COVID Vaccine Injury

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Military Member

Shannon Safford wanted to serve her country as a member of the United States Army, but in order to do so, she was required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine that would ultimately end her active service.

She received the shot on deployment to Kuwait and began developing strange symptoms: She had menstrual issues, digestive problems, an odd zapping sensation like a shock, numbness, muscles twitches, and extreme fatigue. All this was the more strange because prior to receiving the shot, Shannon had been in the best shape of her life, playing volleyball and doing CrossFit.

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Scholars Refuse to Provide Details on $30 Million Effort to ‘Braid’ Indigenous Knowledge into Science

The College Fix
Professors Sonya Atalay and John Woodruff

Two top scholars leading a $30 million federally funded effort to “braid” indigenous knowledge into science are ignoring requests for comment to explain exactly what that looks like in practice.

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass Amherst) last year was awarded a five year, $30 million grant — the largest grant in the school’s history — from the National Science Foundation to establish a new international science and technology center at which researchers would work to address issues related to climate change, biodiversity, and changing food systems.

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‘Do You Hear Yourself?’:’ JD Vance Stunned After Raddatz Dismissive of Migrant Gang Takeover of Apartment Complexes in Aurora, Colorado

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JD Vance on This Week with Martha Raddatz

Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance appeared shocked Sunday on ABC News when co-host Martha Raddatz interrupted him mid-statement and attempted to downplay Venezuelan gangs’ takeover of Colorado apartment complexes.

The Tren de Aragua gang made U.S. headlines in September after officials confirmed ten members were involved in an investigation into a string of alleged criminal incidents at an Aurora, Colorado apartment complex, according to FOX 31. On ABC’s “This Week,” Raddatz pressed Vance on former President Donald Trump’s response, noting Trump claimed the city had been “invaded and conquered” by migrants, while the mayor called the statement “grossly exaggerated.”

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Trump Pushes Further into ‘Blue’ America, Vows to Restore California

Just the News
Donald Trump rally at Coachella, California

Former President Donald Trump continued his push Saturday night into deep blue America, transforming the home of the iconic Coachella music festival into a sea of Republican red as he promised to reverse California’s decline into an abyss of debt, illegal aliens and crime.

“I make this pledge to you: Nov. 5, 2024, will be liberation day in America. Liberation day. Liberation day, we’re going to be liberated,” Trump told the thousands gathered to see him in California

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Memphis Mayor Fires Entire Transit Board After Third-Party Report Exposed ‘Culture of Poor Accountability’

Tom Pappert
Memphis Mayor Paul Young

Memphis Mayor Paul Young on Friday fired all nine members of the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) Board of Commissioners following the release of a third-party report that claimed the members were responsible for creating a “culture of poor accountability” for the troubled transit service.

Young reportedly called his decision an effort to create “a clean-slate environment,” according to NewsChannel 3, who revealed the mayor directly cited the third-party report completed by TransPro and sent to the city last week.

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New Rule Could Cost Small Businesses $73.1 Billion over 10 Years

The Center Square
Small Business Owner

A legal challenge to new reporting requirements for small business owners, potentially costing them $73.1 billion over a decade, has begun with a request for preliminary injunction in a federal courtroom in Texas.

The National Federation of Independent Business, in a hearing, is seeking to stop the reporting requirements in the Corporate Transparency Act from implementation on Jan. 1.

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As Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz Signed Legislation to Bypass Electoral College

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Tim Walz

Over the span of 48 hours, national news outlets have reported that Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz went from declaring he’d like to see the Electoral College abolished in favor of a national popular vote to seemingly walking back that statement in a sit-down interview on ABC News.

But those who pay attention to not just what the Minnesota governor says on the national campaign trail, but what he has done in his capacity as governor, know better.

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Commentary: Christians, America Needs Your Vote

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People Praying

A new study has found that as many as 104 million people of faith are unlikely to vote this election season. Within that segment, as many as 41 million born-again Christians (as defined by their beliefs) and 32 million self-identified Christians who regularly attend church are expected not to vote. 

These findings highlight the alarming number of projected uncast votes from religious Americans, whose participation is crucial this election. A September Pew Research survey indicates that 61 percent of Protestant voters support Donald Trump, whereas 37 percent of Protestants support Kamala Harris. 

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