Montgomery County Commissioner and former Clarksville City Councilman Jason Knight launched a bid for Congress on Wednesday to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
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Many media outlets are reporting that President Biden deported more illegal immigrants than President Trump in both his first term and at the pace of his current one.
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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that a new U.S.-China trade agreement, negotiated in London earlier this week, is “done.”
Talks resumed after the May 12 trade truce between the two countries collapsed, with each side accusing the other of failing to uphold the terms of the agreement. The new deal restores the earlier framework while addressing ongoing disputes around rare earth elements, according to Trump and other U.S. officials.
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An avowedly Communist revolutionary group with ties to a China-linked Marxist funding network has been at the forefront of organizing nationwide protests opposing illegal immigration crackdowns by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — including protests which spiraled into violent riots in parts of Los Angeles.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — which openly calls for revolution to bring down the current American system and which publicly sympathizes with murderous Communist regimes — has been a leader in organizing and fueling anti-ICE demonstrations in LA as well as in other cities nationwide.
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying National Guard troops across his state ahead of expected protests against immigration raids, seeking to prevent the violence that has swept Los Angeles in recent days.
Abbott announced in an early Wednesday X post that he will send the troops “to ensure peace and order” in the coming days. The governor had deployed them to San Antonio by Monday night to prepare for left-wing protests planned for Wednesday and Saturday, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
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As a former Ohio Treasurer, I know the sheer impact farmers have on Ohio’s economy — and I am concerned that out-of-state lobbyists are trying to undermine President Trump’s agricultural trade deals to rig the free market against our state’s hardworking growers.
The Ohio agricultural sector is responsible for generating $15 billion in cash receipts, or 3% of our total GDP. And now, Ohio is championing greenhouse production, the next revolution in American agriculture, which will turbocharge this already impressive GDP number in the coming years — if we don’t let special interests shut it down.
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Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans lose popularity. He’s also ignoring Trump, whom voters will judge for the economy’s performance and whom the Constitution says runs the executive branch of which the Fed is a part.
This is old hat for Powell, who, after being installed by Trump in 2018, got straight to work undermining his boss’s economic recovery.
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The debate over the Big, Beautiful Bill went next-level last week when Elon Musk sent out a series of rage posts on X targeting President Trump that were more personal than substantive. But for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the bill from the likes of Elon, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie – even Andy Biggs, who felt the need to commiserate with Rocket Boy about voting for it – there really is no debate. Senate Republicans get to pass this bill. That’s right, and for the pleasure of getting to pass it, they can also feel a certain amount of pride in codifying Trump’s campaign promises, a concept which is in short supply these days. Most politicians will lie to get elected. Not Trump. He actually fully intends to keep his promises, which makes him one of the most honorable people in the public arena.
But let me explain why Republicans should be eager to pass this bill: their own self-preservation, which is one of the most motivating forces for the overwhelming majority of them. The Big, Beautiful Bill makes the Trump tax cuts permanent. That alone, right there, should be more than enough incentive to pass the bill, because if they don’t, Republicans will trigger upwards of a 60% tax increase, and, according to Russ Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, also trigger a recession. Now I’ve been in D.C. for 25 years, with a dad who served in Congress for a decade. I’ve seen Republicans in D.C. up close for many years, and I’ve reached the conclusion that many of them are intellectually impaired and will go out of their way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But not passing this bill and raising taxes and triggering a recession, going into a midterm year? That would be viciously stupid.
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It has long been acknowledged that the United States’ energy infrastructure isn’t particularly secure, a concern exacerbated by the lack of a central planning process for our nation’s piecemeal electric grid. Presidential administrations and Congress have been slow to address the problem, apparently daunted by the mere size and scope of the challenges the needed upgrades would present.
That needs to change now. The recent news that China apparently installed hidden “kill switches” in solar equipment sold to the U.S. was the latest in a long list of reasons to be concerned about our electricity infrastructure and the foolhardy rush to replace traditional energy sources with so-called “renewables” using technology that is often sourced from China.
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration on Monday over President Trump’s deployment of the state’s National Guard, after a violent night of protests over federal immigration-enforcement sweeps.
According to the lawsuit, Trump overstepped his authority by calling the National Guard despite Newsom’s protest, invoking a law that lets the president to do so under threat from a foreign “invasion” or “rebellion” against the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported.
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An advocacy group at the center of the organizing efforts of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles has long raised money through ActBlue, the controversial Democratic Party-oriented non-profit entity that is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress.
According to the social media pages of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the group was formed in 1986 to “advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees.” Its mission is to “educate, organize, and advocate.” The landing page of CHIRLA’s website solicits donations through another entity, called Funraise.
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Job creation and wage growth exceeded expectations again as the U.S. economy and labor market remain solid thanks to President Trump’s pro-growth, pro-energy policies. Friday’s jobs report showed 139,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.2%.
Small businesses and the private sector were responsible for these new jobs, with substantial gains in the leisure and hospitality sector and more declines in federal government positions. That’s a stark contrast from last year’s labor market, which was propped up by nearly 500,000 government jobs. Small businesses are confident and staffing up for summer.
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The American Dream is back in reach and our nation is back on the path to prosperity, security, and sanity, thanks to the actions of the House of Representatives last week. With the House’s passage of President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” we’ve shown that it is possible to return common sense to our government, protect taxpayers, secure our borders, and chart a course for national Golden Age – all in one package.
It’s a declaration that the American people – not bureaucrats, radical liberal activists, or unelected judges – are in charge again. This bill delivers on the promises that President Trump and Republicans made to voters last fall.
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The U.S. Army hit its recruiting goal four months early, reaching the 61,000 target before the Sept. 30 deadline.
The Army’s goal this year is more than 10% higher than the 55,000 recruitment target for the prior fiscal year, the military branch said in its announcement Tuesday.
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The White House on Tuesday sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package to Congress in order to codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts as DOGE Chief Elon Musk publicly excoriates the GOP for its failure to address the debt in the “big beautiful bill.”
“Today, we have officially received the rescissions request from the White House to eliminate $9.4 billion in wasteful foreign aid spending at State and USAID and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS,” House Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed, according to The Hill.
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Federal immigration authorities arrested well over 1,000 illegal migrants during a month-long enforcement operation across Massachusetts.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working alongside a slate of other federal partners, arrested 1,461 illegal migrants throughout the Bay State during the month of May, the agency announced Monday. Most of the apprehended foreign nationals carried significant criminal histories, such as drug traffickers, sex offenders and murderers.
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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A few Democrat officeholders, activists, and pundits are finally coming to their senses that their brand is toxic to a majority of the American people.
The Biden administration killed what was left of it in a number of ways.
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As President Donald Trump trades barbs with the Kremlin, both the administration and the Senate are mulling imposing tougher sanctions on Putin’s Russia to force the country to the negotiating table and end its war in Ukraine.
Despite reported deliberations inside the second Trump administration, the president has so far declined to ratchet up sanctions on Putin’s regime in the hopes of facilitating good-faith negotiations. The administration’s options in generating incremental financial leverage over Russia are somewhat limited.
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Tennessee State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) on Wednesday joined other local elected leaders in a letter accusing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice, and Republican officials across the country of attempting to intimidate local Democrats.
Sent by the progressive activist organization, Local Progress, the letter accuses Trump and other Republicans of attempting to intimidate Democrats through the criminal charges recently filed against U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10), who allegedly assaulted federal law enforcement at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Jersey.
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In President Trump’s inspirational speech to the Department of Justice this spring, he triumphed, “I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.” I am forever grateful to President Trump because I am one of those political prisoners.
The president’s speech was more than just a victory lap. It was a call to do better: “We’re turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals, and we’re restoring fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”
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The Trump administration is moving to cut all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University.
The General Services Administration (GSA) sent a letter to federal agencies Tuesday advising them to end any contracts with the Ivy League school. This is the latest move by the administration to punish the school for repeatedly allowing antisemitism to persist on campus and allegedly continuing to use race-based policies.
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The Trump administration’s DOJ ended an investigation into the Phoenix Police Department (PPD) launched by a weaponized DOJ under Joe Biden, and reversed the findings of alleged constitutional violations. The press release issued last week announced that the DOJ was also closing investigations into seven other police departments, including the Minneapolis Police Department. The Trump administration similarly dismantled investigations into police departments during Donald Trump’s first term that were launched under the Obama administration.
Several key leaders asked the new Trump administration after taking office to rescind the report, including Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) and State Senate President Warren Petersen (R-Mesa).
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The threat to the United States from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is multifaceted, long-term, and aggressive. Whether it’s from military modernization to economic coercion, cyber warfare to space competition, the PRC’s national security challenge is global, and it targets U.S. interests, values, security, and standing in the world.
While much of the focus of U.S. policymakers has been on the military threat from China, the communist country has also implemented a multi-pronged approach to weaken the United States economically, politically, culturally, and diplomatically. It is enlisting a whole-of-government strategy blending civil and military approaches with tactics short of war to expand its influence and improve its geopolitical position.
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The conflict between the Trump administration and Harvard University took a new turn Monday as President Donald Trump threatened to take some $3 billion in federal grants from the university and redirect them to trade schools.
This follows the earlier freezing of $2.2 billion in grants, based on concerns over antisemitism on campus. Trump is now accusing Harvard of being “very slow” to turn over information on foreign students, according to Fox News.
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U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03) said the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was narrowly passed by the House of Representatives last week, will make necessary cuts to federal programs that will allow them to continue to exist into the future, while also preventing significant tax increases scheduled to occur when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts of 2017 expires later this year.
Fleischmann specifically said that the planned changes to Medicaid involve changing work requirements, which will ensure that government-funded health insurance goes to those in need, during his Friday remarks to NewsChannel 9.
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Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers ruled last week that prosecutors for Attorney General Kris Mayes left out key information when they presented their case against the alternate electoral slate for Trump and several others associated with the electors, which “denied a substantial procedural right as guaranteed by Arizona law.” Myers previously ruled in February that there were enough grounds in the defendants’ motions to likely dismiss the prosecutions due to violating the First Amendment.
The defendants have maintained that the prosecution was politically motivated. Former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, one of the defendants, posted her support for the decision on X. “She & her team are trying to get the judge to STAY the decision (ie: hold it indefinitely) … so they can go around the law they are required to follow (rule 12.9 of criminal procedure) and they have the GALL to claim that the defendants (us) are not being harmed by this. WE HAVE BEEN HARMED EVERY DAY SINCE THIS BEGAN.”
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A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge is criticizing the Supreme Court for blocking President Trump’s deportations of two allegedly illegal Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
Judge James Ho, a Trump appointee, wrote a concurring opinion Tuesday in which he argued the high court reversed the appeals court’s unanimous decision that ruled the illegal immigrants, “identified as members of Tren de Aragua, a designated foreign terrorist organization, should not be allowed to proceed in this appeal” because of the court’s lack of jurisdiction.
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As President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” moves toward a final vote in the House, conservative budget hawks are livid that it largely fails to offer spending cuts to their satisfaction, marking the latest in a long line of punts for the House GOP that has repeatedly vowed to address the national debt.
Republicans have long campaigned on addressing the debt, with the Tea Party movement notching historic election wins under President Barack Obama. In 2010, Republicans won control of the House and reduced the Democratic majority in the Senate. Yet, even when Trump first took office, Congress did not pass a balanced budget.
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The dispersed shot-pattern of President Trump’s approval ratings proves he’s still confounding pollsters. For weeks, and especially since Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on what he dubbed Liberation Day, the establishment media’s prevailing narrative has been that the president is plummeting in the polls. However, a closer look at today’s polling reveals a far different story.
There is no avoiding the fact that Donald Trump is a divisive politician. RealClearPolitics’ historical average of his national favorability polling shows his first (7/16/16) favorability reading as 26.3%-61.3%. On Jan. 1, 2017, just days before he took office following his November 2016 upset win, he was still underwater by nearly 4 percentage points. Even around the time of his 2025 inauguration, Trump’s favorability was barely positive at 48.1%-47.9%.
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President Trump stormed Capitol Hill today, delivering an ultimatum to the GOP’s fractious factions: vote for his “big beautiful bill” or face the consequences.
Gone was the dealmaker’s smile. In its place—raw political muscle. Trump confronted the conservative hardliners in the Freedom Caucus with unmistakable clarity: he’ll slash waste from Medicaid but won’t tolerate benefit cuts. His message boiled down to six words: “We are NOT ‘f-ing’ cutting Medicaid.”
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A spokesperson for former President Joe Biden on Tuesday pushed back on speculation that the former president was previously diagnosed with prostate cancer, and that his White House had hidden his condition.
Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Friday, which had already spread to his bones. The form of cancer, which is characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5), is not untreatable but is incurable. The cancer does appear to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management.
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Members of Congress and others gathered in the White House Rose Garden Monday for President Donald Trump’s ceremonial signing of first-of-its-kind federal legislation to criminalize “revenge porn,” or the sharing of nonconsensual explicit images online.
First Lady Melania Trump actively advocated for the bill – which received near-unanimous support in Congress – as part of her Be Best initiative, a public awareness campaign focusing on the well-being, online safety and opioid abuse prevention for children. Trump largely credited her with the legislation’s passage.
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Current FBI Director Kash Patel is closing down the agency’s Washington, DC, mothership office and moving at least 1,500 employees out of the DC area to regional offices.
The decision was not just Patel’s.
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Following his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump expressed optimism about the call and posted to Truth Social that Russia and Ukraine will immediately begin negotiations to achieve a ceasefire.
He noted that “the conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.”
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U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-07) on Friday predicted that President Donald Trump will intervene in the ongoing negotiations over the budget reconciliation bill in the House of Representatives, with the president pulling “victory out of the hands of defeat” to see the passage of a bill containing many of his campaign promises.
Though Burchett told Real America’s Voice host Terrance Bates that he had not yet committed to voting for the “big, beautiful bill” which failed last week, Burchett said during his Friday appearance on the network that he expects Trump to successfully shepherd legislation through Congress within the next two weeks.
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Some of the key tax benefits in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” such as eliminating tax on tips and overtime pay, will expire in 2028, according to the text approved this week by the GOP-led House Ways and Means Committee.
The GOP-led House Budget Committee voted against the bill Friday, but it will be reconsidered for approval next week.
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The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon blocked President Donald Trump from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal migrants in Texas, throwing a curveball into the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower appeals court to decide underlying questions in the case, including how much notice those targeted for removal should receive, and whether the move itself was legal, per CNN.
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The late Senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, was the inventor of the phrase “a fair advantage.” Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7 feet tall. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game.
The Trump 2.0 tax bill now moving through Congress should establish a fair advantage for U.S. companies.
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It looks like your liberal neighbors will have to take down their “refugees welcome” signs now.
A small group of South African refugees arrived in the United States on Monday bearing American flags.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will represent his administration in Turkey, to oversee peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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President Trump announced on Monday that drug prices will be dropped “between 59%, 80%, 90%.”
“Starting today, the U.S. will no longer subsidize healthcare of foreign countries,” Trump said, adding that they pay a fraction of drug prices.
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The Trump administration scored a major victory on Monday after a federal judge ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can share its database with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help locate and identify alleged illegal migrants.
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The U.S. and China on Monday announced the details of a trade agreement reached over the weekend in which the countries vastly scale back their massive reciprocating tariffs for 90-days.
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Oregon attorneys represented by the Goldwater Institute filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court last week requesting consideration of their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of mandatory bar associations for attorneys. Crowe v. Oregon State Bar originated after the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 in Janus v. AFSCME that public-sector unions cannot require non-members to pay fees to support union activities. Attorneys Daniel Crowe, Lawrence Peterson, and the Oregon Civil Liberties Attorneys filed the lawsuit in 2018, asserting violations of free speech and freedom of association.
The lawsuit has wound its way twice up the courts through appeals. The case arose after the bar published a statement in its magazine claiming that President Donald Trump promoted white nationalism. The plaintiffs argued that the statement was non-germane to the bar’s regulatory purpose, constituted compelled political speech, and infringed on their freedom of association by forcing them to be members of an organization engaging in ideological activities they disagreed with.
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Large corporations facing antitrust actions would normally breathe a sigh of relief when a Republican replaced a Democrat in the White House. But, thanks to the Trump administration’s leadership, there’s no sign that the pressure is letting up for Google — and that’s great news.
On March 4, Bloomberg reported that the tech giant is begging President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to take it easy on them, citing “people familiar with the discussions.”
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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters Friday that President Donald Trump and his staff are “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
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President Trump is reportedly pressing House Speaker Mike Johnson to raise taxes on the wealthy for the Republicans’ budget bill.
Trump talked to Johnson privately on Wednesday about the tax increase and closing the so-called “carried interest loophole,” according NBC News, based on what the outlet said was multiple sources. The carried interest loophole is the tax break for carried interest on assets held for more than three years.
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Former GOP Rep. George Santos is asking President Trump for clemency or commutation of his seven-year prison sentence for wire fraud and identity theft.
“I’ll take a commutation, clemency, whatever the president is willing to give me,” Santos told British media personality Piers Morgan on Thursday. “Seven years and three months in prison for a first-time offender over campaign matters just screams ‘over the top,’ and I would appreciate if the president would consider.”
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced on Friday in a press release that immigration related criminal charges against 287 defendants were brought within 10 days, April 26 through May 5. Part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, known as Operation Take Back America (OTBA), the charges were for entering the country illegally, reentering the country illegally, and human smuggling.
The office has been steadily bringing illegal immigration related charges against defendants since OTBA launched in March. Some of the previous weeks have surpassed the average weekly numbers during the Biden administration last year. Between April 12-18, the office brought 329 charges, far more than the weekly average under President Joe Biden last year of 250 charges per week.
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