Death threats and political violence against conservatives are no longer rare incidents — they have become a dangerous daily reality, creating a climate of fear designed to silence dissent.

On April 14, Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, announced that she was backing out at the last minute from a TPUSA event in Athens, Georgia, where she was scheduled to interview JD Vance, due to “very serious threats” directed at her.

Just a few days before that, TPUSA Frontlines reporter Savanah Hernandez was brutally attacked by a violent anti-ICE mob in Minnesota while she was simply trying to video a protest.

“She was going to be on the show today, and I just got this note from her,” Glenn Beck says through tears. “‘Glenn, you know I never would turn you down, but I’m struggling with some dizziness and head pain today and had to end up canceling all of my appearances for the day.’”

Glenn is overwhelmed by the brutality he’s witnessing. On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” he delivers an urgent message about the terrifying rise of political violence in America.

“My first death threat happened in 2007. … I was on a tour for ‘The Christmas Sweater,’ and we had serious death threats,” he recalls. “My tour bus was run off the road.”

Right now, Glenn contends, America is in “a time that is thick with credible threats.”

“And that’s happening because the powers that you name — the liars, the corrupt, the enemies of the Bill of Rights, and the Western inheritants — have marked you,” he warns. “They want you silent. They want you gone for a reason.”

While it’s tempting to shrink away from these threats out of the instinct of self-preservation, he pleads with his audience to resist them.

“You were born for times such as this,” Glenn says through tears.

“You think [God] is hunting for a heart that’s never trembled?” he asks. “It’s not true. He’s not. Every hero you knew felt the same terror that you feel now … even Christ.”

“He didn’t cease to be afraid in order to obey. He obeyed while and in spite of him being afraid,” Glenn continues. “That’s the only courage that has ever changed the world.”

He points to German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who boldly “[stood] against the Nazi machine” on the principle that “silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

“Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. [Bonhoeffer] didn’t escape the noose by being quiet. He escaped the greater death: the death of the soul that refuses to live by truth,” Glenn says.

He then quotes Soviet army officer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was sent to the gulags for eight years for criticizing Stalin: “Live not by lies.”

Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., and many other brave souls have iterated similar sentiments in the face of unspeakable fear.

Glenn points out that the cup these courageous men bore is not some relic from days past. It has been passed to us.

“The threats are real. The fear is honest. But the calling is louder,” he encourages.

To hear more of Glenn’s moving monologue, watch the video above.

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We are watching Democrats increasingly enact liberal policies in imperviously red states with Republican supermajorities. It’s not just that weak Republicans provide openings for Democrats to seize political opportunities, but those weak Republican governors appoint liberal judges, who in turn ratify left-wing policies.

However, there is a check on lawless judges that our founders believed was a deterrent strong enough to prevent a corrupt judiciary from redefining the Constitution. Why is impeachment of judges not being used regularly in deep-red states?

Utah is the new Virginia.

On February 20, 2026, the Utah Supreme Court affirmed a district court opinion essentially stripping the legislature of its authority to draw maps and mandating the use of a map drawn by left-wing groups, which will create a guaranteed Democrat House seat in urban Salt Lake City. This decision is in the news this month because Judge Diana Hagen, one of the justices who overruled the legislature, is under investigation for meeting with and allegedly having a romantic relationship with one of the lead attorneys for those challenging the legislative map.

As we watch hopelessly with numerous federal judges legislating from the bench at the national level, the Utah situation is completely redressable. Whereas Republicans will never garner a two-thirds majority in the U.S. Senate to remove an impeached federal judge, Utah Republicans enjoy a 22-6 majority in the state Senate. It should be a no-brainer for Hagen and her compatriots to get the boot from the very people they are usurping.

Although Republicans wield a 61-14 majority in the state House, Rep. Trevor Lee (R), a supporter of impeachment, divulged on my podcast that they probably have no more than 30-40 votes in support of impeachment and only a handful of conservatives who would convict Hagen in the Senate. These recalcitrant Republicans think a judge needs to rob a bank in order to raise the ire of the legislature, but our founders did not see it that way.

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Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist #81 that the power of impeachment alone would be a “complete security” against judges usurping legislative power and would “remove all apprehensions” of those who feared that judicial review would morph into judicial supremacy.

Justice Joseph Story made it clear that “high crimes and misdemeanors” were political in nature, not just criminal, and included “attempts to subvert the fundamental laws, and introduce arbitrary power.”

James Wilson, one of the preeminent founders and an original Supreme Court justice who helped draft Article III, clearly articulated this point: “In the United States and in Pennsylvania, impeachments are confined to political characters, to political crimes and misdemeanors, and to political punishments.” That is why the trial is held in a competing branch of government, not in a court with criminal proceedings.

The only reason why impeachment never became a regularly used and effective check on the judiciary is because as quickly as our political system began to operate, we suffered from the rise of political parties. So rather than competing branches of government checking each other, we were divided between parties who inevitably wielded enough authority to block impeachment.

However, by my count, Republicans have the numbers to impeach and remove rogue state judges in 20 states. With judges attempting to usurp legislative authority on transgenderism, abortion, and election law, why are Republicans shying away from impeachment?

One common problem in red states is county and district judges in blue areas who believe in “restorative justice” and release dangerous criminals. In Florida, Leon County Judge Tifanny Baker-Carper released Daniel Spencer — a man previously convicted in a child sex crime sting — on bond before sentencing. While out, Spencer and his wife allegedly abused and murdered Spencer’s 5-year-old stepdaughter, Melissa “Missy” Mogle, in Tallahassee. The case sparked outrage and led to the legislature passing “Missy’s Law,” a bill signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on March 31, 2026, which restricts judges’ discretion in releasing certain sex offenders or violent felons pending sentencing.

However, the governor chided the legislative leadership for not going a step farther. “You have the power, and you have sufficient numbers in your chamber, to impeach this judge, Tiffany Baker-Carper,” observed DeSantis. “Until you start holding these judges accountable, they are going to continue to find ways to benefit the criminal element.”

Why is DeSantis the only one pushing to impeach such subversive judges when they exist in every red state?

As we have painfully learned from Virginia this week — a state where Republicans wielded supermajorities just a decade ago

— political power is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. If you give Democrats a foothold in your red state, it won’t be red for much longer. Utah, with its new, judicially created Democrat congressional seat, is the new Virginia.

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A murder charge was filed Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a St. Louis-area Steak ‘n Shake worker at the fast-food restaurant’s drive-through window earlier this month — allegedly after an argument over onion rings, KMOV-TV reported.

Shortly after prosecutors announced the murder charge in the case, family members of the victim — Chauncia Meekins — gathered for a vigil outside the Steak ‘n Shake in Spanish Lake, Missouri, where she was shot and killed on the night of April 8, KMOV reported. Spanish Lake is about a half hour north of St. Louis.

‘Chauncia just so happened to be in harm’s way; this could have been anyone’s child, at the convenience store buying potato chips, at the gas station taking too long at the pump.’

St. Louis County prosecutors said 20-year-old Jada Bell is charged with six felonies in the case, including murder and armed criminal action, the station said.

“I saw my daughter as she’s getting ready to be laid to rest. She looked beautiful, she looked happy, right, and I didn’t know why, but now I know why she is happy … because her crime has been solved,” Chauncey Lovell Meekins, Chauncia’s father, told KMOV.

Family members added to KMOV that the arrest, while it doesn’t bring Meekins back, does set in motion the chance for accountability.

“As a family, as a whole, we will be pushing for the death penalty — not for revenge, but to set an example because we need to stop this senseless violence out here,” Anthony Willhite, Meekins’ cousin, told the station.

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Willhite added to KMOV that the violence could happen to anyone, anywhere: “Chauncia just so happened to be in harm’s way; this could have been anyone’s child, at the convenience store buying potato chips, at the gas station taking too long at the pump.”

Jail records indicate Bell’s next court date is scheduled for Tuesday. A previous KMOV story said Bell was being held on a $1 million, cash-only, no 10% bond.

The station, citing court records, said Bell pulled up to the Steak ‘n Shake drive-through window and had a dispute with employees, including Meekins, over her food order.

KMOV said Bell threw her drink at Meekins, who threw it back at her — and then Bell fired several shots from a handgun at Meekins, who died as a result of the shooting.

Another person was shot in the hand, the station said, adding that the shooting was recorded on surveillance video from the restaurant. Bell’s phone was in the area at the time of the shooting, KMOV added.

Meekins’ mother, Tamela Washington, told the station the argument was over onion rings: “It’s never that serious to take a person’s life over fast food.”

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For decades, a boat-shaped formation in Eastern Turkey has been held up by some as the possible remains of Noah’s ark — and just as consistently dismissed by mainstream geologists as a natural formation.

The site, known as the Durupinar Formation near Mount Ararat, has been the subject of repeated claims, investigations, and debunkings since it was first identified in the mid-20th century.

Skeptics can explain shape. What’s harder is explaining everything else that keeps lining up with it.

Critics have long argued that it is the result of mudflows and erosion — an unusual shape, but nothing more.

But the latest round of subsurface scans is forcing a more careful look.

Here are five reasons the story isn’t going away.

1. The shape is still the starting problem

The Durupinar site isn’t vaguely suggestive — it is distinctly boat-shaped.

That alone doesn’t prove anything, but it does set a high bar for coincidence, especially given its proximity to the region named in the book of Genesis as the ark’s resting place.

Skeptics can explain shape. What’s harder is explaining everything else that keeps lining up with it.

2. The dimensions track the biblical blueprint

Genesis describes the ark in specific proportions: 300 cubits long, 50 wide, 30 high.

The Durupinar Formation closely matches those ratios.

Not exactly, but close enough to keep the question alive. If this were just random geology, you wouldn’t necessarily expect proportional alignment with one of the most famous construction descriptions in human history.

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3. Subsurface scans show structure, not just mass

Recent ground-penetrating radar scans reportedly reveal:

Corridor-like voids A central hollow chamber Angular features resembling compartments

That’s significant because the ark described to Noah wasn’t a hollow shell — it was divided into levels and rooms.

Natural formations can produce cavities; they don’t typically produce organized internal layouts.

4. Multiple lines of evidence are starting to converge

Taken individually, each claim is debatable. Together, they’re harder to ignore:

Radar anomalies suggesting internal divisions Soil chemistry differences (including elevated potassium) Distinct vegetation patterns within the formation Thermal imaging hinting at a buried structure

Get enough converging signals like this and you have a real archeological argument.

5. The question is about to become testable

For years, the debate has been stuck at the surface, but that may be changing.

Researchers say the next step is core drilling and inserting cameras into the detected voids. If those spaces turn out to be structured — walls, compartments, passages — the conversation changes immediately.

If not, the theory collapses just as quickly. Either way, this may finally move from speculation to verification.

Extraordinary claims?

The strongest skeptical argument is still the simplest: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

That hasn’t been met — yet. But it is no longer obvious that this is just a random hill shaped like a boat. And that’s why the Durupinar Formation will continue to draw attention from believers and nonbelievers alike.

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