Despite the left’s stubborn defense of violence, lawlessness, radical ideologies, and the hollowing out of traditional institutions, Republicans are still projected to get obliterated in this year’s midterm elections.

But it’s not just forecasts pointing to grim midterm results. Blue is already encroaching on red districts.

“We just lost Donald Trump’s home state legislative district. … That’s zapping some of my enjoyment, if not pretty much all,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and his co-hosts Aaron McIntire and Todd Erzen sit down with Blaze News managing editor Rob Eno to discuss these bleak midterm prospects and whether any hope remains for the conservative base.

“I know it’s still seven-plus months until the midterms here, all right, but let’s just go ahead and ask the question that a lot of people are asking: Are we cooked?” Deace asks the panel.

Erzen’s response is a balance of pessimism and hope. “I guess I’ll say no,” he tells Deace.

“The left is so evil and so decadent and so dumb. Improvement has to happen, Steve, in the time frame you’re talking about, but it’s not going to take perhaps as much as we think it will circumstantially. That being said, we might be [cooked],” he explains.

McIntire is less optimistic. “As of this moment, yes,” he says bluntly.

“I just think there are too many warning signs right now and too many signs that there is no even action or intention to action within much of Congress to deliver on President Trump’s what we were told was a mandate,” he adds, arguing that “[the party] is not delivering on that mandate.”

Eno believes Republicans aren’t only cooked in midterm elections — they’re cooked in general.

“We’re going to lose the Senate and the House,” he predicts.

The list of losses for the Trump administration keeps growing, he argues, citing the ongoing war with Iran, skyrocketing gas prices, fertilizer shortages driving up food prices, and poor polling in key Senate races.

“I do not see how we get out of this, and I don’t think seven months is a long period of time. … Unless the economy turns around, I don’t think we win,” Eno says frankly.

Erzen, however, offers a bit more optimism.

Even if the economy “doesn’t turn around” or “even gets a little worse,” he believes “two political miracles” — such as a “major arrest” of an elite tied to Epstein or passing the SAVE Act — could still change the odds in Republicans’ favor.

“People are so off-balance right now as voters. I don’t know what they think they prioritize on any given day,” he says.

But Eno pushes back on the SAVE Act’s potential impact.

“If you’ve lied to the voters, the SAVE Act saving anything has the hubris of imagining that the American people that are citizens are going to vote for this bunch of clowns, and they’re not with what they see,” he says, alluding to the widespread frustration over the administration’s broken promises on the economy, mass deportations, and avoiding new wars.

Deace largely agrees with Eno that Republicans are “cooked” in the midterms if little changes.

“I could list off a handful of things they could do that are all somewhat relatively achievable. … But as we’re sitting here on March 27, if I listed those things off and asked you guys how many of those things you think they’re going to do, you might say one if we’re lucky — and so that’s where the ‘we’re cooked’ sits in,” he says.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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Legendary basketball player Michael Jordan says he went into his lawsuit against NASCAR with the same mentality that won him six NBA championships.

While much of the terms of his settlement with the organization are not known, Jordan made one thing clear in a recent interview; he wasn’t going to back down.

‘I was all in. I was going to win.’

As owner of 23XI racing team, Jordan sued NASCAR in October 2024, claiming the organization used unfair practices to decide which teams can participate. The parties have since agreed to a settlement, with Jordan revealing in a recent interview that he felt he had to take up the legal battle in order to protect the future of the sport for its racing teams and drivers.

Having always been a fan of NASCAR, Jordan said that when he was focused on basketball, he didn’t quite grasp its inner workings, but when he got into the series, he started to “see how things [were] operating.”

“It was lopsided. It was wrong. The sport was not set up for success long-term for the individuals that’s involved in the sport,” Jordan told “CBS Sunday Morning.”

The basketball hall of famer pointed to an unequal system between NASCAR ownership and the racing teams.

“Now, up top, yeah, you know, they were making a good living,” he told host Gayle King.

Jordan said his motivation to make a lasting impression on the sport pushed him to go through with the lawsuit, compelling him to make his mark whether he won or lost.

“I was nervous. Any courtroom makes me nervous ’cause that’s not where I want to be, really. 100%,” he continued. “But I was all in. I was going to win.”

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The 63-year-old Jordan said it was never his intention to “attack NASCAR,” but at the same time, he still went in to the lawsuit with a fighter’s mentality.

“This fight was needed. And if I got kicked out, at least I made people aware that change needs to happen in this sport. So I went in with the idea that even if I lost, I won.”

Jordan followed up the December 2025 settlement by going on a tear to start the 2026 season; driver Tyler Reddick won the first three races of the season for 23XI racing team, something no team had ever done in the previous 77 years of NASCAR.

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During his recent interview, Jordan spoke on his unending competitive spirit, and he said that he uses NASCAR to compensate for a “huge piece” of him that still wishes he could play basketball.

“[It’s] not the same as me playing in Chicago … but it’s something that I think keeps me alive,” Jordan said, comparing his current temperament to his playing days.

“That urge, the dream, that I wish I can still pick up a basketball. …Yeah, I would definitely love to do that.”

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The Department of Justice is investigating whether some states are violating women’s constitutional rights by sending transgender-identifying males to women’s prisons.

The DOJ said in a press release that prisons in California and Maine are under investigation for possible constitutional violations.

‘The Civil Rights Division will not allow women incarcerated in jails or prisons to be subject to unconstitutional risks of harm from male inmates.’

“Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense — it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement in the release. “The Trump administration will not stand by if governors are facilitating the abuse of biological women under the guise of inclusion.”

The release said that there had been reports of “sexual assaults, rape, voyeurism, and a pervasive climate of sexual intimidation” in the women’s prison in San Bernardino County in California.

The DOJ said California law allowed male prisoners with intact genitals to request being sent to women’s prison based on their self-identification as transgender.

Female prisoners in Maine also complained of assaults and harassment from a male who was being housed with them after identifying as transgender.

“Under my leadership, the Civil Rights Division will not allow women incarcerated in jails or prisons to be subject to unconstitutional risks of harm from male inmates,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.

“These investigations will uncover whether the dangerous national trend of housing men in women’s prisons has resulted in violations of women’s constitutional rights,” she added.

A spokesperson for the state legislator who authored the law allowing transgender-identifying males into women’s prisons downplayed the possibility of assaults and said the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations had denied 47 times as many requests as it had approved as of last May.

“The main driver of sexual abuse in prison” is “assault by prison staff,” said spokesperson Erik Mebust to the San Francisco Chronicle in comments from May.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Tish Hyman, a black lesbian and Kamala Harris voter, became a national figure last November after her membership at Gold’s Gym was canceled. Hyman went viral after filming her objection to a biological male using the women’s locker room, citing negative and threatening encounters with the individual. This highly publicized experience led her to campaign for mayor, and she said in an email statement to Blaze News that she takes the issue very seriously.

“Women in custody are among the most vulnerable populations in our society, and they deserve dignity, safety, and protection without compromise. Policies that place biological men in women’s prisons raise legitimate concerns around privacy, safety, and the rights of female inmates, and those concerns should not be dismissed or minimized,” she wrote.

“I will absolutely use my platform both politically and publicly to advocate for policies that prioritize the safety and well being of women in custody,” Hyman added. “That includes pushing for clear, enforceable standards that protect women’s spaces, ensure proper oversight, and hold institutions accountable when those standards are not met.”

California Coalition for Women Prisoners spokeswoman Courtney Hanson accused the Trump administration of a “national attack” in order to “erase and harm transgender people, especially transgender women in prison.”

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A California man was found dead in the back seat of a police cruiser, days after being released from custody. The circumstances around his death remain a mystery, as his family seeks answers from local authorities.

‘He was pronounced deceased here, you know, in front of the police station. Doesn’t make any sense to any of us.’

Eric Valencia, 37, was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of driving under the influence and child endangerment. He was released from custody due to a lack of evidence.

His family filed a missing persons report after they were unable to locate him.

On March 26, Valencia was found unresponsive in the back seat of an out-of-service police car parked in front of the Azusa Police Department station.

“It is not uncommon for vehicles to be out of service and parked for days and/or weeks at a time, as we have a large fleet of emergency vehicles,” Chief of Police Rocky Wenrick stated. “The vehicle had been left unlocked, and it should have been secured.”

Wenrick stated that the department was “not aware that the individual had entered the vehicle,” and that the individual was not in custody when he gained access to the vehicle.

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The police department retained an outside investigative firm to conduct an independent review of the incident. The department is also conducting a criminal investigation into the incident.

“We don’t know what took place here,” one of Valencia’s family members told KTTV. “He was pronounced deceased here, you know, in front of the police station. Doesn’t make any sense to any of us.”

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner has not yet conducted an autopsy, and the cause of death remains unknown.

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It is unclear how long Valencia was in the police car before his body was discovered.

Camera footage reportedly shows Valencia entering the back seat of the unlocked vehicle.

The department is expected to hold a press conference late Monday afternoon.

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Women are abandoning the political right, and BlazeTV host John Doyle is questioning whether the shift is rooted in conviction — or something more superficial.

A recent New York Magazine article titled “The Young Women Leaving the New Right” highlights these women — some who remain anonymous — who say they regret their involvement in right-wing politics.

“We love women, but instead, we have to talk really about this kind of phenomenon of women existing, e-celeb women existing, you know, ditching the right for dumb reasons,” Doyle begins.

The women featured in the article cite the growing resentment and misogyny that their right-wing following began to display as a reason they were pushed away, which Doyle notes is not a good enough reason to disavow an entire political ideology — especially if someone truly believed in that ideology in the first place.

“Not that you shouldn’t be able to, but you shouldn’t sort of ascend in a certain space, have a bad time perhaps because of personal reasons, and then come back and try to destroy that space, which again is more or less committed to the success of the country that you claim to care about,” Doyle explains.

“There are also other people, you know, other stories of this obviously in the last few years, people disavowing the entire right wing after having made their name. You know, they cultivate a sort of persona and then they don’t get exactly what they want in terms of money, attention,” he continues.

“Their personal lives kind of implode, and now all of a sudden, it’s a big problem with the entire right-wing space. They go give interviews to leftists, and they call MAGA a cult. They say that right-wing women are jumping the ship because of people being mean on the internet. And then they also claim that it’s going to make the Republicans lose the midterms in 2028,” he says.

Doyle points out that the right isn’t “more misogynistic now than it was in 2024 when Trump won the popular vote and every swing state.”

“I don’t think that’s the case. I think what’s really happening here is a bunch of right-wing female influencers maybe made a couple bad choices, maybe let a couple people get under their skin,” Doyle says.

“Now they have become maybe a little scorned and decided to try to make the party of open borders and child transgenderism win. Maybe that’s like kind of all there is to it,” he adds.

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