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Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker Robby Starbuck is using his platform and personal funds to help victims of Hurricane Helene in East Tennessee by gathering essential supplies and purchasing and installing Starlink units in rural areas left without power.
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Wyatt Rampy, the Republican nominee for Tennessee State Senate District 20, said he is working hard to talk to as many people as he can in Davidson County to get out the vote and defeat incumbent State Senator Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville) in the November 5 general election.
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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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Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies Jessica Vaughan said immigrants that are arriving in the U.S. are not being assimilated to American culture as they once were, making it difficult for migrants, especially children, to grow up and embrace the American way.
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the Biden-Harris administration’s immigration policy is allowing American companies to turn to hiring migrant workers for cheaper labor over hiring Americans or moving production out of the U.S., which is how cities like Springfield, Ohio has led to being flooded with Haitians.
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Oshrit Sabag, a survivor of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, detailed the first bone-chilling minutes of the attack, which saw her and her children race to their safe room in their home after hearing warning sirens and explosions outside during an exclusive sit-down interview with The Michael Patrick Leahy Show on Thursday.
Sabag, who was born in Israel in a city outside Tel Aviv, moved to Kibbutz Nahal Oz – a small Israeli community located approximately 700 meters from Israel’s border with the Gaza strip – 23 years ago.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, described the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of a hand-written letter by Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Trump on September 15, as “deeply concerning.”
In the letter, which the DOJ publicly released on Monday, Routh confirmed his intent to assassinate the former president and offered a $150,000 bounty to whoever could “complete the job.”
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, said he believes Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio, will emerge victorious over incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in the November 5 general election.
While Brown has consistently led Moreno in previous polling taken over the last several months, a poll released Wednesday by the Napolitan News Service shows Moreno leading Brown by two percentage points (48 percent – 46 percent) among likely voters.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee, thinks the vice presidential debate next week between U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will not so much persuade voters to vote differently, but energize the bases of each campaign going into the November 5 general election.
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Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new Make America Healthy Again super political action committee (PAC) and former national field director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, detailed how the new PAC is working with donors in the battleground states to help elect former President Donald Trump in the November 5 general election.
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Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker Robby Starbuck said Attorney General Merrick Garland should be “removed immediately” following the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of a hand-written letter by Ryan Routh, the man accused of attempting to assassinate former President Trump on September 15.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the newly-launched Substack “American Refugees,” said 100 percent of Jewish voters should support former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election.
Simon called Trump “the best president for Israel ever.”
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Sheila Matthews, co-founder of the national non-profit parent organization AbleChild, said the mental health industry needs to be “booted” out of out of the educational system, explaining how the pharmaceutical industry has infiltrated schools across the nation and is actively working, on taxpayer funds, to “market” mental health and treatments for diagnoses to children.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan endorsing former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election is a “unifying message” that may lead to Trump’s victory in the state over Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of the Job Creators Network, said the new filing requirement for certain small businesses created under the Corporate Transparency Act is “ridiculous” and urged Americans to push back on the measure.
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Rachel Alexander, lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, said Arizona U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03), who is running for the U.S. Senate, “cannot hide” from his record supporting open borders policies while he has served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Anthony Constantino, co-founder of Sticker Mule, joined Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show to discuss the creation of his online company, which sells custom merchandise, as well as his recent decision to launch a political action committee (PAC) supporting former President Donald Trump.
Constantino said he founded Sticker Mule in 2010 in the small town of Amsterdam, New York with an initial $100,000 investment from his co-founder.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti provided an update on prominent lawsuits his office has filed under his leadership and discussed his goals for the remainder of his eight-year term during an exclusive sit-down interview this week on The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Skrmetti, who began serving as attorney general in 2022 after being appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, said, “I’ve been blessed with a great team and there is a lot of work for us to do.”
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, detailed how the Immigration Act of 1990, signed into law by then-President George H. W. Bush, is the gateway legislation that led to the influx of migrants overtaking U.S. communities under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
The Immigration Act of 1990 created TPS, which creates a temporary immigration status for nationals of countries facing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary and temporary conditions.
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, is raising multiple questions about Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected assassin in the second foiled attempt to end former President Donald Trump’s life.
On Sunday, Secret Service spotted a barrel of a gun poking out of the shrubbery at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, where the former president was playing that afternoon.
After shooting in the direction of the spotted gun, Routh is reported to have fled the scene in a stolen vehicle.
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Aaron Gulbransen, executive director of the Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, said Republicans have an opportunity to gain a seat in the Tennessee State Senate by flipping District 20, currently represented by Democrat Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville).
Campbell, who was elected to the Senate in 2020, is up for reelection this year and will face Republican nominee Wyatt Rampy in the November 5 general election.
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Rachel Alexander, the lead reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, detailed how the disbarment case of former President Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar, John Eastman, sets a bleak tone for cases challenging election results nationwide.
On Wednesday, Alexander published a report on Eastman’s filing of an opening brief with the California State Bar Court last week appealing his disbarment for assisting Trump with legal representation regarding the 2020 election illegalities.
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Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, explained how former President Donald Trump has an opportunity to infiltrate Vice President Kamala Harris’ strategy to win the election, which is by wooing women voters while at the same time keeping men voters “sullen, but not mutinous.”
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Jack Windsor, president and editor-in-chief at The Ohio Press Network, said the mainstream media outlets are too “distracted” by reports of Haitian migrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio, that are allegedly stealing residents’ pets for consumption that the overarching issue of nearly an entire U.S. town being “invaded” by Haitians is being ignored.
“Springfield has been invaded by Haitian immigrants, and right now, mainstream outlets are really distracted by this idea that the Haitians may be eating cats or geese. But, it’s about more than eating cats and geese. It’s really about the cultural divide and the fast and explosive migrant growth in Springfield,” Windsor explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote said the United States’ latest efforts to “re-establish security” and “build security conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections” in Haiti is part of the “same tired playbook that has failed” to bring order and reform to the Caribbean country for decades.
On September 5, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with interim Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where the pair discussed a peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country authorized by the UN Security Council in an effort to reform the country and reclaim it from violent gangs.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee four years ago, discussed what she expects from tonight’s presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris which will begin at 9:00 EST.
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Georgia Star News, detailed the unfortunate series of events that reportedly transpired just minutes before 14-year-old Colt Gray allegedly killed four and injured nine more at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia last week, which, if acted upon, may have prevented the shooting.
Gray, who surrendered to law enforcement Wednesday after allegedly carrying out the shooting, was on the FBI’s radar last year, as the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office interviewed him and his father in May 2023 after the FBI received “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting.”
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said there is no evidence that the “superhighway” immigration route via the Darien Gap has been closed despite an agreement between the U.S. and new Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.
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Jeff Hutt, a spokesman for the new Make America Healthy Again super political action committee (PAC) and former national field director for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, said the new PAC is working to help former President Donald Trump get elected by engaging former Kennedy volunteers and supporters to get out the vote for Trump.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, said the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to “resurrect” fears surrounding Russian influence on America’s elections leading up to the November 5 general election.
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Georgia Star News, said it seems “incomprehensibly stupid and irresponsible” and “difficult to comprehend” that the father of 14-year-old Colt Gray, who allegedly killed four and injured nine more at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia last week, gifted his son an AR-15-style rifle just months after an FBI tip prompted a visit from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in 2023.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the newly-launched Substack “American Refugees,” said the noticeable common factor among a majority of mass shooters is that the perpetrators are simply “crazy.”
“In every case of these kinds of shootings, one of the things that is always amusing to me is that you get a report that police are looking for the motivation. The motivation is they’re crazy,” Simon said on Friday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
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Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said the Left has transformed “the attitude of our government” in a way that views the American public as a threat to its maintenance of power.
Kline used the example of the government’s ongoing refusal to release the full manifesto of the Covenant School killer as a way it works to “shape” what the public “thinks,” “knows,” and “believes.”
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to Tennessee four years ago, is reminding the nation how Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s administration’s handling of the Feeding Our Future scandal was the “largest COVID-related fraud scam” in the country as Walz is being considered to be the next U.S. vice president as Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ running mate.
The scandal, which ended up squandering approximately $250 million of taxpayer dollars, involved the non-profit group Feeding Our Future allegedly orchestrating a scheme in which individuals set up fake operations to serve children meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Deborah Fisher, the executive director of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, described the continued withholding of documents by the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) relating to the case of the Covenant School killer as simply “disturbing.”
On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star published all 90 pages of the journal written between January and March of 2023 by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the 28-year-old biological woman who self-identified as a transgender man and who, on March 27, 2023, murdered three 9-year-old students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville before being subsequently killed by MNPD officers.
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Sheila Matthews, co-founder of the national non-profit parent organization AbleChild, is raising concerns about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) omission of the use of psychiatric drugs when examining the common denominators among mass shooters across the nation.
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Aaron Gulbransen, executive director of the Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition, and Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star, discussed The Star releasing 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale on Tuesday, both agreeing that the case is an example of how the mental health system is “destroying children.”
On Tuesday morning, The Star published all 90 pages of the journal written between January and March of 2023 by Audrey Elizabeth Hale, the 28-year-old biological woman who self-identified as a transgender man and who, on March 27, 2023, murdered three 9-year-old students and three staff members at the Covenant School in Nashville before being subsequently killed by officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD).
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the newly-launched Substack “American Refugees,” said Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ apparent false story about working at McDonald’s in her youth demonstrates how she is not “in touch with reality” or the American people.
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Scott Rasmussen, the pollster with the Napolitan News Service, said the 2024 presidential race “could go in either direction” between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
In his latest national poll of 2,441 likely voters released on Friday, Rasmussen found Harris up by 3 percentage points over Trump (50 percent-47 percent). With leaners, Harris was still found to be leading Trump by three points (51 percent-48 percent).
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State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) said his focus since being elected to represent Memphis in the Tennessee Senate in 2022 has been focusing on the city’s “number one” issue: crime.
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EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and former journalist who moved from Minnesota to Tennessee four years ago, discussed what she expects from tonight’s taped CNN interview with Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Haust, who lived in Minnesota for 12 years before relocating to the Volunteer State, said she doesn’t expect CNN host Dana Bash, who is interviewing Harris and Walz, to ask any “hard-hitting” questions.
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Pennsylvania Daily Star, said he believes pollsters are “unwilling” to release the results of new polls taken in the battleground state of Pennsylvania since the end of the Democratic National Convention and the suspension of Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign in an effort to “preserve” Vice President Kamala Harris’ “honeymoon” phase in the 2024 presidential race.
Only one poll conducted by Emerson College Polling/The Hill has been released since the end of the DNC last week and Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign and threw his support behind former President Donald Trump in the race moving forward.
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Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the Biden-Harris administration quietly secured a deal with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador at the beginning of the year to help throttle illegal border crossing numbers leading up to the November 5 general election.
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Cheryl Fritze, director of News Operations for Michigan News Source, said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is “in cahoots” with Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel when it comes to conducting the state’s elections and intimidating county election coordinators.
In a recent video, Benson said she would go after local election officials who do not certify election results despite the possibility of legitimate legal concerns about the results.
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Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Whatley said Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is “absolutely not ready to be the president of the United States” if she is not “ready for primetime in terms of handling the press or handling a debate.”
As of Tuesday, Harris has avoided unscripted interactions with the public or sitting down for a formal interview with the media for 37 days straight – which Whatley said is a sign that Harris is “just not ready for primetime.”
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Tom Pappert, reporter at The Pennsylvania Daily Star, said Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Bob Casey’s (D-PA) speech at the Democratic National Convention last week about “greedflation” is an attempt by the lawmaker to “parrot” a “socialist talking point” in an effort to prop up both his and Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic policies leading up to the election.
During his speech at the convention last week, Casey said, “Prices are up because these corporations are scheming to drive them up.”
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Christy Kelly, reporter at The Arizona Sun Times, detailed her firsthand experience witnessing history on Friday when Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump in the race.
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Roger Simon, the co-founder of PJ Media and author of the newly-launched Substack “American Refugees,” said Democrats’ – including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris – calling for a ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza is essentially a call for “Hamas to be preserved.”
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Tennessee political commentator and documentary filmmaker Robby Starbuck explained how his strategy to expose brands that push DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) initiatives in the workplace and fund controversial causes is successful due to its long lasting, lingering impact that targeted companies simply cannot afford to ignore.
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Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, conducted a poll for the closely watched Ohio U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Republican nominee Bernie Moreno, which showed that the race is “dead even.”
Zawistowski said he polled 273 individuals chosen randomly from a phone database over a two-day period earlier this week and asked respondents about the U.S. Senate and presidential races and the overall direction of the nation.
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