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Ten years ago, a great injustice was done to children.

In Obergefell vs. Hodges, the Supreme Court equated two things that for children will never be equal: Same-sex and opposite-sex marriages. One pairing unites children with two people to whom they have a natural right. The other separates children from one — or both.

Gay marriage hasn’t led to greater love for LGBTQ adults but rather harm to children.

As many of us predicted, gay marriage eroded children’s right to their mother and father. It turns out, when you make husbands and wives legally optional in marriage, mothers and fathers become legally optional in parenthood.

Family redefined, kids sidelined

Since 2015, activists have been arguing state by state that equality requires making parenthood gender-neutral and elevating “social parents” (unrelated adults in the home who have not undergone background checks). Fathers have been legally erased from birth certificates to accommodate “two moms” and vice versa. Activists have insisted on requiring insurance or the government to fund the creation of fatherless and motherless children. Biology and adoption are bypassed in favor of “intent-based” parenthood. Giving same-sex couples equal access to the marital “constellation of benefits” denied children equal access to their own mother and father.

Politicians have followed suit.

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When was the last time you heard a lawmaker say that children need a mom and dad? Odds are, it’s been about 10 years. In 2013-14, the phrase “every child deserves a mother and father” appeared in over 30 congressional speeches. By 2023-24, it surfaced fewer than five times.

The message is clear: Redefining marriage redefined the family. Dissent is now discrimination.

Culture followed the court

But it isn’t just law and politics. The Supreme Court’s decision had a massive impact on culture, especially on kids.

The education establishment went all in on the Court-appointed family makeover. Before 2015, the National Education Association still referred to “mothers” and “fathers” in lesson plans and holiday activities. But after the ruling, it began purging traditional language.

Its 2020 “Checklist to Support LGBTQ Students” advised teachers to replace “mom and dad” with “family” or “caring adult.” GLSEN’s 2016 re-release of Ready, Set, Respect! toolkit conditioned kindergartners and first- and second-graders to believe that a mom and dad, two moms, two dads, or no mom or dad, all are perfectly normal.

What the Court de-gendered in law, teachers now de-gender in the classroom.

Publishers followed the court’s lead — and the money.

In 2021, Americans bought nearly five million LGBTQ-themed fiction books. By 2023, that figure had topped six million, a 173% increase since 2019. Many aimed to normalize motherless and fatherless families to children such as “Heather Has Two Mommies” and “My Two Dads and Me.”

We lied to children, using school curriculum and sweet librarians, about the one thing every child longs for instinctually — to be loved by their mother and father.

The culture shift and the legal restructuring contributed to a booming fertility market. Surrogate pregnancies more than doubled from 2.2% in 2011 to 4.7% in 2020. Fertility clinics often direct gay couples to surrogacy grants in the name of “equitable access to parenthood.”

These children did not lose their mothers to tragedy. They lost their mothers to adult “equality.”

Enough is enough

Many good-hearted Americans, even conservatives, supported gay marriage because they felt it was a way to love their LGBTQ neighbors. Some stammered for a response to the question: “How will my gay marriage harm anyone else?!” Others were bullied into silence by accusations that they were “on the wrong side of history.”

After 10 years, we have seen the results. Gay marriage hasn’t led to greater love for LGBTQ adults but rather harm to children.

The truth is, their “marriage” redefined all families, and children across the nation are paying the price. That so-called “right side of history” has turned out to be the side of child victimization.

RELATED: Is same-sex marriage about to get the Dobbs treatment?

About 50 years ago, the Supreme Court made a devastating decision that victimized children. It denied the biological reality that children in the womb are fully human and worthy of life. It took nearly 50 years to overturn the child-victimizing Roe v. Wade.

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court made another devastating decision that victimized children. It denied the biological reality that children come from a man and woman and have a right to that man and woman. It redefined the institution that every society throughout history has employed to unite children to that man and woman.

We can’t wait another 50 years to undo this injustice.

A coalition of child defenders is rising — Christians, conservatives, parents, pro-family leaders, ordinary moms and dads, and the children of LGBT parents themselves. We are committed to reclaiming the institution of marriage on behalf of the most vulnerable in the country: children.

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America has long celebrated its greatest moments by train.

In 1915, a steam locomotive carried the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to San Francisco and back, drawing enormous crowds. In 1947, the Freedom Train crisscrossed the country with priceless artifacts of American history. Then came the biggest triumph: the Bicentennial American Freedom Train of 1976, which drew more than 50,000 people at each of its 138 stops.

The train would take the quarter-millennial celebration directly to the people — right where it belongs.

On the cusp of the nation’s 250th birthday, it’s time to bring that tradition back. The red, white, and blue steam train should roll again — celebrating America’s founding and bringing history to Main Streets across the land.

The original idea came from John Wayne. That alone might have been enough for Kamala Harris to oppose it, had she been elected president. Add in the train’s cinematic clouds of smoke, its role in commemorating the westward settlement, and its unapologetic embrace of American greatness, and it’s hard to imagine today’s progressive leaders welcoming it.

But President Trump would. He’s restoring the spirit Wayne loved: American strength, love of country, masculine virtue. Trump has already pledged to include a statue of the Duke in his proposed National Garden of American Heroes. If he also allows the new train to display the federal artifacts its predecessors carried — the original Constitution, the Louisiana Purchase document, Lincoln’s hat, Ruth’s bat — then the American Freedom Train can run again in 2026.

The artifacts are key. If the administration releases them, the biggest remaining challenge will be time.

In 1976, the train took 15 months to organize. Today, in a country where builders are building again, that timeline can be compressed. But it will take at least a year to prepare the train — to build display cars, ready the steam engine, transport and secure the artifacts, and tackle the logistics of a 48-state journey.

The clock is ticking. A decision now could kick off the celebration by next July 4.

The Bicentennial Freedom Train didn’t just appear for a few fireworks in early July. It helped stretch the nation’s celebration over nearly two years — from the April 1975 anniversary of Lexington and Concord to a final stop in Miami on New Year’s Eve 1976.

A Quarter-Millennial Freedom Train would do the same. It would extend the celebration beyond Independence Day and tie together local and national events like nothing else. That was exactly the intention in 1976. John Warner, head of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, called the train “the most visible” element of the celebration — one that helped “sew together” diverse festivities across the country.

Once again, the train would showcase cherished artifacts: Paul Revere’s saddlebags, Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution, JFK’s handwritten inaugural address, even lunar rocks and Olympic memorabilia from the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”

RELATED: John Wayne’s epic ‘Freedom Train’ could save America’s 250th birthday

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Private citizens would lead the effort, just as they did before. The American Freedom Train Foundation includes veterans of the original Bicentennial train. They know how to plan and execute a coast-to-coast expedition. They just need modest federal support — and access to the artifacts — to bring it to life.

Army veteran and Nashville artist Tim Maggart sings that the Freedom Train is “as American as a line drive.” And that’s exactly what it would be: a rolling, photogenic, crowd-pleasing tribute to our nation. Day after day, the locomotive would thunder past landmarks, through cities and farmlands, beneath America’s spacious skies. And at every stop, Americans would cheer.

The train would symbolize both American power and American pride. It would carry our founding history from coast to coast, just as it once did. And it would take the quarter-millennial celebration directly to the people — right where it belongs.

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The famous DataRepublican data analyst dropped damaging information she had gathered about Code Pink’s connections to the communist Chinese government after the group threatened legal action against her.

The database kernel engineer, whose real name is Jennica Pounds, said Wednesday on social media that the group sent her a message accusing her of libel.

‘I will share the facts without spin.’

“We are writing to formally address and correct the false and defamatory statements made in your recent social media posts regarding CODEPINK,” the group reportedly wrote. “These claims — which falsely allege that our organization is funded by China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or any foreign government or entity — are entirely baseless and constitute libel.”

Pounds replied, “So, I will share the facts without spin.”

She posted images from a Code Pink campaign called “China Is Not Our Enemy” and pointed out that the group was funded by a significant contribution from a businessman and social activist named Neville Singham. The billionaire is under congressional investigation for possibly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act by possibly acting on behalf of the Chinese government.

Pounds went on to show how the propaganda pushed by the group served to promote “pro-China messaging, including denial of the Uyghur genocide, an atrocity affirmed by the U.S. Department of State.”

She also posted an interview with Jodie Evans, the wife of Singham and co-founder of Code Pink, where she allegedly said that Uyghurs were terrorists, in order to justify their oppression by the Chinese government.

Code Pink has also opposed the U.S. attacks on the Houthi terrorist group. The group first gained fame by protesting against the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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DataRepublican had worked anonymously to uncover fraud and abuse in the government, but she revealed her identity in order to thwart the efforts of those who wanted to scare her into hiding.

“I have been doxxed. Rather than let others control the narrative, I am addressing this directly,” she said in February.

“I am 100% Deaf and nonverbal,” she continued. “My lack of signing fluency does not make me any less Deaf. It is a result of a language impairment related to my autism called expressive dysphasia, which affects my ability to construct language fluently in real-time.”

She has since worked to document and uncover more government funding malfeasance.

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Boasting millions of users globally, Care.com is a leading platform for caregiving services, including childcare, senior care, pet care, and housekeeping. While this matching service may be a convenient way to book a quick babysitter, there’s something all users — but especially parents — need to know about the platform.

A few years ago, an independent journalist named Edwin Dorsey dug into Care.com after his friend, who was a babysitter on the platform, told him something didn’t feel right about the company. Dorsey set to work experimenting with the website. It wasn’t long before it became crystal clear that Care.com wasn’t at all what people thought it was.

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Dorsey joined Allie Beth Stuckey to share his dark findings.

“Care.com claimed to be a very safe place to look for babysitters, and they claimed to be running background checks,” says Dorsey. But when he did his own experiment signing up to be a babysitter, it became clear that the background checks were a myth.

“The way I tested their process is by trying to sign up as Harvey Weinstein, who was in the news a lot at the time. So I used a photo of Harvey Weinstein, I used the email harveythebabysitter@gmail.com, I made up a social security number, … and I consented to their background check on Care.com to be a licensed babysitter,” he recounts. “And to my amazement, I was approved.”

To make sure it wasn’t some one-off fluke, Dorsey applied to be a babysitter using the alias “Daffy Duck,” and again he was approved. “They’re telling parents they’re running background checks. They’re charging people for background checks, and then they’re not running the background checks,” he tells Allie.

When Dorsey wrote up these disturbing findings in an article that went viral, Care.com “called [his] college to get [him] in trouble” and “sent some legal letter to [his] parents’ house.” But this only made Dorsey “dig in more.”

“So then I went to every state attorney general to get consumer complaints people had filed on Care.com, and I saw tons of safety issues,” he says. “I even go to some police departments, and I ask for all 911 calls that had Care.com mentioned in the transcript because I want to see how extensive all these abuses are.”

This digging resulted in shocking revelations.

“There’s a lot of people who had criminal histories who were approved to babysit on Care.com. There’s a lot of people who had their kids taken away from them who then go become babysitters on Care.com. There’s people who’ve been banned from running day cares who are listing their services on Care.com. There’s people with DUIs and battery charges advertising themselves on Care.com — all unbeknownst to parents,” says Dorsey.

“Ultimately, there were eight kids who were given to Care.com babysitters with criminal histories, where the parents didn’t know, and the kids ended up dying,” he adds.

Dorsey ultimately linked up with Gregory Zuckerman at the Wall Street Journal, who turned his research on Care.com into a front-page exposé.

Sadly, the disturbing events Dorsey uncovered aren’t isolated to the Care.com platform. Today, Dorsey is reporting on another caregiving service — KinderCare, a chain of childcare and early education centers in the U.S. serving military families and receiving tax dollars through government subsidies for low-income families.

His investigations have exposed issues such as toddlers escaping onto busy roads, children being left alone in locked buildings or buses, and allegations of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse at KinderCare facilities. And yet these stories are getting “literally zero media reporting,” he says.

To hear more about Dorsey’s investigations, watch the clip above.

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The algorithm is its own “Animal Farm.” “Four legs good, two legs bad” may come in the form of binary code, but the tyranny is just as real. Most content in alternative media gets watered down to please the ruling digital overlords.

Unless you work for a company like Blaze Media — which has built talent lineups that can thrive outside the algorithm — odds are, you were made to be ruled.

Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Trans — they’ve all come for you once. They’ll do it again.

Ever wonder why some “conservative” hosts sound bold on a handful of safe topics but go quiet on election interference or the COVID jab? The algorithm spoke. They complied.

Pound for pound, my show may have taken the biggest hit among conservatives trying to monetize YouTube traffic since 2020. That we managed to hit seven-figure revenues without help from the world’s largest search engine is, frankly, a miracle.

Big Tech operates like a loaded gun, aimed and cocked by the federal government.

The Biden administration didn’t just whisper suggestions. It literally contacted YouTube and demanded the censorship of Alex Berenson. That’s bad enough.

But thanks to research by DataRepublican and DOGE, we now know the algorithm went a step further — using your tax dollars to boost regime-approved content across major tech platforms through USAID.

That’s not just outrageous. It’s an antitrust violation, plain and simple. And I don’t plan on taking it lying down.

For several months, I’ve worked with First Liberty in Dallas — one of the nation’s top constitutional conservative legal organizations. With their help, I filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission just before Memorial Day. Here’s a key excerpt:

YouTube’s metrics show that the “Steve Deace Show” experienced explosive growth on YouTube in 2020. The show continued strong in 2021, but toward the end of that year, his videos started being removed. And this precipitated a sharp fall in views and impressions in 2022. The sharp decline strongly suggests that YouTube shadow banned or otherwise limited the visibility of the “Steve Deace Show” in 2022 and possibly starting in the end of 2021. During the same period of time where YouTube views and impressions were sharply declining, the “Steve Deace Show” experienced significant growth on other platforms. The show’s strong performance on Apple Podcasts maintained their upper trajectory throughout this period of time.

Consider the contrast: While YouTube buried the show in 2021, my podcast was outperforming on Apple — strong enough to earn me a three-year contract extension with Blaze Media. That same year, my book “Faucian Bargain” became a No. 1 bestseller in the United States.

It doesn’t add up — unless you account for censorship.

In 2021, 69% of our YouTube views came from subscribers, 31% from nonsubscribers. In 2022, that number skewed even further — 76% subscribers, only 24% nonsubscribers. That ratio should never tilt that far. Most YouTube traffic typically comes from recommendations, not regular followers.

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As we explained in our FTC complaint: “This trend line is clear evidence of suppression because it shows how YouTube refused to feature, refused to recommend, and otherwise decreased the visibility of the platform.”

Word is, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson takes Big Tech censorship seriously. I hope that’s true — because people likely died due to what YouTube did. Shows like mine were offering counternarratives to the COVID cult. And we were silenced.

Whoever controls language controls the debate. That’s why this isn’t just a tech policy fight. It’s a battle for the future of Western civilization.

The left has shown its hand: If they had the power, they’d disappear you. They already tried. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Trans — they’ve all come for you once. They’ll do it again.

This isn’t a squabble over ad revenue or traffic metrics. It’s a battle against the deliberate unraveling of reality itself.

So fight we must. And with severe prejudice.

Stay tuned.

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Georgia police said they were able to identify and arrest four teenagers who are facing hate crime charges for cutting up Pride flags at an Atlanta gay bar.

The teenagers were caught on surveillance video cutting up the flags in front of Blake’s on the Park, which is located on a square with a rainbow Pride crosswalk design, according to police.

‘To come here and actively do a hate crime, during Pride Month, where, you know, everyone is supposed to feel the most safe, it feels just vulgar.’

Investigators said that the video showed them taking photos and videos of themselves committing the vandalism before they rode away on scooters.

Four of the six teenagers were caught by police, three of which were from Dallas, Georgia. The fourth teen was from Taylorsville.

Police charged the four with obstruction, criminal damage to property, prowling, and conspiracy. There are also hate crime charges pending.

The suspects were identified as 18-year-old Logan Matthison, 17-year-old Geami McCarroll, and 18-year-old Ahmed Mechkouri. The fourth suspect was 16 years old, and his father, Aaron Petus, was cited for failing to supervise his son.

The teens gave conflicting accounts to police, but the 16-year-old admitted to leaving his phone at home, which made police conclude that the vandalism was planned in advance.

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Atlanta residents told WAGA-TV that they were shocked by the incident.

“This is a really open and accepting community. And to come here and actively do a hate crime, during Pride Month, where, you know, everyone is supposed to feel the most safe, it feels just vulgar,” Julia Tracy said.

Kevin Bergen told WAGA that he was afraid for himself and his partner.

“It’s daunting. It’s scary for my safety, for my partner’s safety,” he said. “We live up the street, about seven doors down. There’s a lot of reasons to be scared, but, you know, being gay, now especially, we thought it was all over and all good. And now all of a sudden, it’s gotten really bad.”

Atlanta Pride also condemned the incident.

Police are searching for the other two people allegedly involved in the incident. Snitches may be eligible for a $5,000 reward.

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In 2018, Tim Walz publicly praised a radical Muslim cleric named Asad Zaman — who Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says has a “despicable” history.

“I would like to, first of all, say thank you to Imam. I am a teacher, so when I see a master teacher, I know it,” Walz says on video. “Over the time we’ve spent together, one of the things I’ve had the privilege of is seeing the things in life through the eye of a master teacher to try and get the understanding, listening today to the stories and what it means.”

While the Harris-Walz campaign had previously jumped in to deny the relationship, claiming the pair did not have a personal relationship and that Walz “condemns” Hamas terrorism, Glenn isn’t buying it.

“Why don’t they want him connected to Zaman?” Glenn asks. “Maybe it is because he has posted official Hamas press releases, or perhaps it’s because he’s linked to a pro-Hitler film called ‘The Greatest Story Never Told,’ so he loves the Nazis.”

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“And then of course, there might be a little problem that after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, he posted on Facebook that he and his organization, quote, ‘stand in solidarity with the Palestinians against the Israeli attacks,’” Glenn continues.

Zaman is also the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society, which was described in 2008 by federal prosecutors as “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.”

And in 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated the Muslim American Society a terrorist group.

“Wait a minute, he’s such a fantastic teacher, and they’re a terrorist group? Wow,” Glenn says, feigning shock. “Now, Harris-Walz, the campaign, has come out through a spokesperson: ‘Walz has no relationship with Zaman.’”

“Maybe they’re not getting together for backyard barbecues or calling each other up like, ‘What are you gonna wear today? Is it a blue day?’ Maybe that’s not happening, but according to the Washington Examiner’s report, Walz has appeared at events with Zaman at least five times,” Glenn explains.

“But remember, no relationship. ‘How dare Glenn Beck say that,’” Glenn mocks, adding, “How could there be? I mean, Tim Walz, he’s a folksy, all-American Midwestern dad who happens to believe in communism.”

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The number of Iranian nationals arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been steadily climbing since President Trump’s strike on Iranian nuclear sites — but former immigration Judge Andrew Arthur warns it’s not going to die down anytime soon.

A press release from the Department of Homeland Security confirmations that “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 11 Iranian nationals illegally in the United States over the weekend.”

“ICE also arrested a U.S. citizen who threatened to kill ICE law enforcement while harboring an illegal alien from Iran. The weekend arrests reflect the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) commitment to keeping known and suspected terrorists out of American communities,” the press release continued.

“It’s important to note the fact that under the Biden administration between February 2021 and November 2024, which is the last report, we have 1,750 different Iranians were apprehended entering the United States illegally. There were more than 7,000 who were stopped at the ports of entry,” Arthur tells BlazeTV host Jill Savage and Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“Those apprehensions represent a 20-fold increase over the seven-year-period prior to President Biden taking office. So we saw a huge number of Iranians come to the United States,” he continues, “but here’s the much more important danger.”

“At the same time that the Biden administration was releasing millions of aliens apprehended into the United States, 1.9 million others snuck by Border Patrol agents,” he explains, noting that Biden’s lax border policy made it “very easy for the Iranian government to sneak hundreds, thousands, of other assets into this country while the Biden administration was asleep at the switch.”

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The Trump administration admitted its plan for accused gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at an online hearing to decide his fate.

On Thursday, Justice Department attorney Jonathan Guynn said that the administration was still going to deport Garcia, but to a “third country” that is not El Salvador.

‘If this Court does not act swiftly, then the Government is likely to whisk Abrego Garcia away.’

Garcia had been deported to the infamous prison for terrorists in El Salvador by the administration, but an order from the Supreme Court precipitated his return. The government then had him indicted on smuggling charges and vowed that he would not be set free on U.S. streets.

Guynn told U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in a conference call with Garcia’s attorneys that the government had “no imminent plans” to deport the man and would comply with all court orders.

Garcia’s attorneys are requesting that Xinis order the government to transport him to Maryland after his release from a jail in Tennessee. The request is intended to prevent the government from deporting him immediately upon release.

“We have concerns that the government may try to remove Mr. Abrego Garcia quickly over the weekend, something like that,” said lawyer Jonathan Cooper.

“We do plan to comply with the orders we’ve received from this court and other courts,” said Guynn. “But there’s no timeline for these specific proceedings.”

Xinis said she could not rule on the request before considering the administration’s motions to dismiss the case, so she scheduled a hearing for July 7.

RELATED: Judge orders release of Kilmar Garcia — but DHS vows that ‘he will never go free on American soil’

A separate judge in Nashville, Tennessee, ruled that Garcia should be released while awaiting trial, after finding that the government had not presented enough evidence to rule him a flight risk or a threat to the community.

“If this Court does not act swiftly, then the Government is likely to whisk Abrego Garcia away to some place far from Maryland,” his attorneys wrote to Xinis.

Garcia has denied the allegations made by the government that he is a member of the heinous MS-13 gang.

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The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota and the state’s Democrat Gov. Tim Walz over a program meant to provide financial aid to illegal aliens seeking to pursue higher education.

The DOJ was able to halt a plan to help illegal aliens study in Texas with a threat of a lawsuit, and they have also followed through with a similar lawsuit in Kentucky.

‘We look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first.’

“No state can be allowed to treat Americans like second-class citizens in their own country by offering financial benefits to illegal aliens,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement about the Minnesota lawsuit.

“The Department of Justice just won on this exact issue in Texas, and we look forward to taking this fight to Minnesota in order to protect the rights of American citizens first,” she added.

Illegal aliens in Minnesota can qualify for in-state tuition rates and state financial aid as a result of the Minnesota Dream Act, which was passed in 2013 under a different Democrat governor, according to Politico.

The lawsuit alleges that the state is discriminating against U.S. citizens.

“The magnitude of this discrimination against U.S. citizens is substantial,” reads a statement from the DOJ. “The cost of tuition for resident students is significantly lower than for U.S. citizens that are not in-state residents.”

The lawsuit also names the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison as defendants.

RELATED: DHS releases details about ‘barbaric, dangerous’ illegal aliens on Sudan deportation flight after federal judge ruling

President Donald Trump issued an executive order in April directing federal officials to identify “laws, regulations, policies, and practices” that favor illegal aliens over citizens and end them.

Walz was the vice presidential candidate on the Democrat’s failed presidential ticket in the 2024 election. He has since said that the country was not ready for his positive message.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned earlier this year that vaccinating poultry against highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) viruses might transform farms into incubators for mutant viruses — viruses that could potentially leap to humans.

“All of my agencies have advised against the vaccination of birds,” Kennedy told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “because if you vaccinate with a leaky vaccine — in other words, a vaccine that does not provide sterilizing immunity, that does not absolutely protect against the disease — you turn those flocks into mutation factories.”

“They’re teaching the organism how to mutate,” continued Kennedy. “And it’s much more likely to jump to animals if you do that.”

Despite Kennedy’s concern — which is apparently shared by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration — the U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking seriously at mass vaccinations for American poultry.

A USDA spokesperson told Blaze News that the USDA “is exploring the viability of vaccinating poultry for HPAI” but noted that the “use of any vaccine has not been authorized at this time.”

This vaccine exploration appears to have taken on greater energy in February when egg prices were reaching record highs.

After flying south of $3 between 1994 and 2022, the price for a dozen eggs began to rise dramatically during the second half of the Biden era, then even higher earlier this year, reaching an all-time average high of $6.22 in March.

RELATED: The ‘cage-free’ myth: Why everything you think you know about ethical eggs is wrong

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Although there were multiple factors at play — including the shift in various states to cage-free hens and record consumer demand — the price spikes were largely driven by the mass exterminations of commercial and backyard bird populations ordered by the USDA in response to HPAI viruses.

Blaze News previously noted that between Feb. 8, 2022 — when the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service first confirmed bird flu belonging to the clade 2.3.4.4b in an American commercial flock — and March 2025, the USDA directed the extermination of over 166.41 million birds. Fewer egg-laying birds naturally means diminished supply and higher prices.

‘Vaccination in any poultry sector — egg layers, turkeys, broilers, or ducks — will jeopardize the entire export market for all U.S. poultry products.’

In a Feb. 26 op-ed, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins outlined “five steps to tackle avian flu and bring down costs for American families.”

In addition to dedicating up to $500 million to help American poultry producers implement “gold-standard” biosecurity measures, increasing financial relief to farms whose flocks are affected by avian flu, removing “unnecessary regulatory burdens on egg producers where possible,” and considering temporary import options, Rollins said her agency would “provide up to $100 million in research and development of vaccines and therapeutics, to improve their efficacy and efficiency.”

Although egg prices have returned to relatively normal levels, a USDA spokesperson told Blaze News that the agency continues “to evaluate the potential use of vaccines.”

“Before making a determination, USDA, in consultation with federal partners, will solicit feedback from state officials, veterinarians, farmers, the public health system, and the American public,” said the spokesperson. “USDA is working with federal and state officials and industry stakeholders to develop a potential plan for vaccine use in the United States.”

Reuters indicated that industry members anticipate that the agency will complete its plan in July.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (left) and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins (right). Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

There is some controversy over the potential mass vaccination of poultry on the business side of the equation.

Dr. John Clifford, a former USDA chief veterinary officer who advises the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, told Reuters that chicken meat producers would be dealt a crushing blow if importers stopped importing U.S. poultry over concerns that vaccines were masking the presence of HPAI in flocks.

Some industry groups are, however, warming up to the idea.

Although the National Chicken Council previously suggested that “vaccination in any poultry sector — egg layers, turkeys, broilers, or ducks — will jeopardize the entire export market for all U.S. poultry products,” they have since suggested they are on board with the program if exports go unaffected.

The United Egg Producers are apparently even more gung-ho, having helped hatch a plan suggesting an initial vaccination for baby chicks, a subsequent booster shot, then routine testing.

Nicolas Hulscher, an epidemiologist and administrator at the McCullough Foundation, has suggested mass poultry vaccinations are unwise, telling Blaze News that Kennedy’s “worries about mass animal H5N1 bird flu vaccination are fully grounded in robust science.”

‘Biosecurity remains the best and most prudent approach to mitigate the impact of the disease today.’

When asked about the possibility that the USDA might nevertheless proceed with the mass vaccination agenda, Hulscher said that “the USDA is ignoring the glaring risks of creating dangerous mutant strains with their plans to mass vaccinate poultry against bird flu amidst a bird flu animal pandemic.”

Blaze News senior editor Daniel Horowitz drove home the point in a recent op-ed, noting that “leaky, waning vaccines that rely on suboptimal antibodies against rapidly mutating viruses can lead to immune tolerance and imprinting. This can cause the immune system to misfire, resulting in negative efficacy. Any short-term protection against severe disease often comes at a long-term cost as the viruses adapt and grow stronger.”

Hulscher suggested that the best way forward when tackling HPAI in domestic flocks is better biosecurity: “Installing surface-air purification systems into farms, combined with iodine-based nasal/oral prophylaxis for farm workers, is a much less risky option than mass vaccination.”

On this, it appears the USDA agrees.

The agency spokesperson told Blaze News that in the meantime, “because biosecurity remains the best and most prudent approach to mitigate the impact of the disease today, USDA also continues pursuing collaborative efforts with poultry farmers and companies on education, training, and implementation of comprehensive biosecurity measures.”

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Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is leading the effort to make sure our taxpayer dollars are actually working for the American people.

Blackburn introduced the United Nations Voting Accountability Act on Thursday, which would prohibit taxpayer funding or aid from going toward “foreign countries that oppose the position of the United States in the United Nations,” Blaze News has exclusively learned.

‘It is unacceptable for US aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.’

Notably, America spends tens of billions of dollars on foreign aid, contributing more to the United Nations than any other country. Blackburn and many other Americans are insisting that we should not owe money to countries that oppose our interests.

“No more should American taxpayers have to question the value of foreign assistance to countries that oppose our values and interests,” Blackburn told Blaze News. “The United States must be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, ensuring every dollar that we send to foreign nations drives global stability and advances American interests.”

RELATED: Republican senator makes a stunning admission: ‘I can’t be somebody that I’m not’

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“The United Nations Voting Accountability Act would ensure that taxpayers are not forced to fund countries that undermine and vote against the U.S. in the United Nations,” Blackburn added.

The bill does allow the secretary of state, in this case Marco Rubio, to exempt countries if they make a “fundamental change” to the leadership and policies to the extent that they no longer oppose the position of the United States in the U.N.

RELATED: DOD reveals stunning new details following Trump’s attack on Iran

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Following American airstrikes in Iran, adversarial countries like Russia, China, and Pakistan began circulating a resolution in the U.N. calling for a ceasefire, which “ignores Iran’s support for terrorism” and “shields the Iranian regime from accountability,” according to a press release from Blackburn’s office obtained by Blaze News.

“While the resolution does not name the U.S. or Israel, its intent is obvious,” the press release reads. “It is unacceptable for U.S. aid recipients to use international platforms to undermine America and protect adversaries like Iran.”

This bill is also being sponsored in the House by Republican Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio, who introduced the legislation in February.

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An investigation by the Oversight Project linked visitors of left-wing activist group headquarters to the Chinese government and Iran.

The Oversight Project is a right-wing advocacy group that has contributed to lawsuits against former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, among others.

In data dump on X, the organization placed visitors of two activist groups in San Francisco to multiple locations in Iran and a Chinese consulate stateside.

‘The only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.’

The Oversight Project sifted through ad data from devices belonging to visitors of the headquarters of two groups: the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, aka ANSWER.

Data from visitors of the San Francisco headquarters, which the Oversight Project alleged hosts both groups, included one device that visited the activists’ location twice in a year and a half — while having also visited Iran, with a whopping 213 data points across the country.

The right-wing group said the data “strongly supports that the device was in Iran” and not faking its location, which could be accomplished through the use of a VPN, for example.

The Oversight Project also found connecting data from the left-wing headquarters to the nearby Chinese consulate.

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“Another device had data points at the ANSWER/PSL location and at a building next door” and “also had 58 data points in the San Francisco consulate of the People’s Republic of China,” the Oversight Project wrote on X.

The Oversight Project described the activist groups as “central to street resistance,” while claiming they are “allegedly funded by a CCP propagandist.”

On their About page, the Party for Socialism and Liberation says it believes “the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society.”

The group also includes guidance for those who are facing deportation at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, part of a campaign called “Don’t Open for ICE.”

“One of the most important things to remember is to refuse to open the door unless ICE has a signed warrant from a judge,” the organization says.

At the same time, ANSWER boasts a near 25-year history of organizing protests and says it fights against “racist and religious profiling,” advocates “immigrant and workers’ rights,” and supports “economic and social justice for all.”

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The Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China, located at 1450 Laguna Street in San Francisco, is about a 20-minute drive from ANSWER’s publicly listed headquarters in the city at 2969 Mission Street. It is not clear, however, that ANSWER and PSL officially operate out of the same location, as the Oversight Project claimed.

Blaze News reached out to both ANSWER and the PSL and asked if they have received any monetary support from Iranian or Chinese entities, or if they have had contact with officials from other countries in any capacity. Neither answered.

This article will be updated with any applicable replies.

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Former New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman argued that racism was the cause for higher chronic disease among black Americans, and many on social media reacted with mockery and ridicule.

Bowman, who was voted out of the U.S. House in 2024, angrily argued that blacks in America were having health problems because of stress from having been called the N-word by bigots. He made the comments while a guest on a panel on CNN.

‘Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?’

The subject arose after Republican Marc Short argued that politicians on the left and right were “performative artists” but that much of the political violence came from the left. Bowman disagreed and countered with numerous examples of political violence from the right.

“This is America! And the problem is, we are not dealing with America‘s original sin and its disease of hate and racism towards black and brown people, and sexism towards women and anti-LGBTQ sentiment. We are not dealing with that!” Bowman added.

“You can’t be calm about this! I’m a black man in America! The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal with being called the N-word directly or indirectly every day,” he said.

He went on to blame Republicans for not listening to claims about racism.

“If your colleagues would listen and try to learn and engage and grow and stop being so hateful, we could have a better country. But unfortunately, we’re still here,” he added.

Video of the debate went viral, with millions of views on social media, but many online did not find his argument persuasive.

“One might laugh but Mr. Bowman is repeating a standard argument which has long been run by the communist racialists,” responded Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.

“Can I blame my overweightness on hearing that I have white privilege?” asked one user.

“That’s just not how health or science works, man. There are real causes for those issues; blaming racism isn’t serious,” said another detractor.

“I was called ‘cracker’ on the subway once — was so overcome with stress, I contracted dengue fever,” joked another user.

RELATED: Leftist US Reps. AOC, Jamaal Bowman get ridiculed for imitating angry rappers on Bronx rally stage ahead of primary election

“So rappers are causing cancer & obesity? That’s weird,” read one response.

Bowman was a representative for a district in New York and was mercilessly mocked in 2023 when surveillance video captured him pulling a fire alarm in the U.S. Capitol building. He claimed he did so accidentally because he was rushing to get to a vote in Congress.

Bowman later agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $1,000 fine for pulling the alarm.

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A radical Democrat congresswoman who staunchly advocates for so-called “abortion rights” may have accidentally undermined them when she attempted to run interference for a recently deported immigrant accused of heinous crimes.

There seems to be no form of abortion Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) doesn’t like. She has called abortion “health care” and a “human right,” vowed “to protect and expand” so-called “reproductive care” under Trump’s second term, and even admitted that she has had at least one abortion herself.

‘Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it.’

Because of her long-standing history of defending abortion, Jayapal surprised many when she lamented the recent loss of another woman’s unborn “baby.”

“A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care,” Jayapal wrote on social media on Tuesday, perhaps not realizing that babies are persons who cannot legally be killed.

“If true, this is very sad. Tragic even. And the fact that it’s sad is clear evidence that your position on abortion is both inhumane and barbaric,” Not the Bee shot back in the comments.

“Interesting that it’s a baby when you want to dunk on ICE but it’s just a clump of cells when you want to kill it,” added Kangmin Lee, a popular Christian influencer with nearly 160,000 followers.

“Baby. Thanks for admitting it,” quipped LifeNews.com.

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal slammed with backlash after politicizing devastating wildfires in California

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In her social media post, Jayapal also shared an article from the Nashville Banner about the apparent stillborn child and his mother, Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, a native of Guatemala who reportedly stole into the U.S. in 2018.

In the article, Monterroso-Lemus painted such a harrowing tale of her experiences in ICE custody that independent journalist Andy Ngo characterized her allegations as “cinematic.”

Monterroso-Lemus claimed she was:

forced to sleep on the floor in an Alabama facility;offered food infested with cockroaches;repeatedly denied medical care after she expressed concerns about her unborn child and instead had only her blood pressure and urine sample tested; andignored for three days after the child died in her womb.

“I had him inside here for three days, in this Louisiana facility, my baby dead in my stomach, inside my stomach for three days, dead,” she said, according to the Banner.

“I told them to just send me back to Guatemala because I was pregnant and wasn’t getting the medical attention I needed,” she added.

“There’s so much pressure in jail. I started suffering from insomnia, from anxiety. Then I felt like I was having a stroke, and they still didn’t give me a medical exam,” she continued.

Monterroso-Lemus also claimed that overly vigilant guards kept her “shackled” to a bed while she delivered the stillborn baby boy. “When I was delivering my baby, they didn’t even give me a little privacy,” she said. “One time, they even shackled my feet because they thought I might escape. Like I was some kind of criminal. I told them, ‘What you’re doing to me isn’t right.'”

According to the report, Monterroso-Lemus gave birth at Ochsner LSU Health – Monroe Medical Center in Louisiana on April 29. She was then deported back to Guatemala on May 9.

“This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged,” Jayapal fumed in her social media post on Tuesday.

Monterroso-Lemus ‘has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.’

Because Jayapal’s tweet drew such attention to Monterroso-Lemus’ case, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release directly disputing most, if not all, of Monterroso-Lemus’ claims.

According to DHS, Monterroso-Lemus:

“had a bed in her cell” and was never forced to sleep on the floor;received “appropriate dietician cleared menus” every day in keeping with the standards of all ICE detainees in New Orleans;received extensive prenatal and other medical care, including a fetal doppler ultrasound, an “OB-GYN visit, dental care, and medication.” She was also taken to a hospital and seen by “multiple nurses”; andwas given “immediate medical assistance” on April 29, when she reported distress and was taken to the hospital.

DHS also insists it has no record that Monterroso-Lemus ever filed a grievance about alleged “mistreatment and mocking from guards.”

In a statement to Blaze News, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed: “This reporting is absolutely FALSE. Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus had FULL medical, prenatal care. We have documentation to show it.”

RELATED: Rep. Pramila Jayapal brazenly admits her hypocrisy on Senate rules after Trump election ‘trifecta’

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What’s more, Monterroso-Lemus has been accused of mistreating others — severely.

In her statement to Blaze News, McLaughlin claimed that “Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus, 37, is a citizen of Guatemala who has been arrested multiple times for child abuse and is wanted on an active warrant for homicide.”

The DHS press release clarified that Monterroso-Lemus was “arrested twice for child abuse/neglect with the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office” and that she is wanted for homicide in Guatemala.

“FACT CHECK: ICE Provided Full Medical Care to Guatemalan Illegal Alien with History of Child Abuse and Wanted for Homicide,” the press release headline reiterated.

Monterroso-Lemus has six other children.

The father of her stillborn child, Gary Bivens, still appears to stand by his fiancée. He has pledged to relocate to Guatemala and initiated a GoFundMe account to help with “funds for medical treatment and transportation expenses.”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s disgusting. I’m beside myself, I really am,” he said, according to the Banner. “I’m ashamed to even call myself an American citizen. With what is going on in these facilities? … It’s costing people’s lives. It’s breaking families apart. It’s so inhumane. … It’s un-American.”

“I’ll sell the house and everything I got, and I’m coming down to Guatemala,” Bivens added. “That’s my intention … because I don’t even want to be here anymore. … I lost all respect for every bit and piece of this country.”

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Former MSNBC host Joy Reid defended Iran seeking nuclear weapons in a debate on CNN that devolved into a shouting match.

Iran struck U.S. bases in the Middle East with what was described as a “symbolic” and limited barrage meant to save face after the U.S. dropped a bunker-buster bomb in a daring mission that devastated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities.

‘The reason they’re trying to get nukes … is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them.’

On Tuesday, Reid defended Iran’s actions and went so far as to say Israel was at fault for the terrorist-supporting state’s attempts to obtain nuclear weapons. She made the comments while on a CNN panel.

“The bottom line here is, the way that we know that Iran does not have nuclear weapons is that if they had nuclear weapons, Israel would not attack them,” said Reid.

“The reason they’re trying to get nukes, and probably Saudi Arabia is trying to get them, is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bomb them,” she added.

The panel erupted into a loud yelling match.

“And actually bomb them! I don’t think it’s OK that Israel has nukes, either!” Reid added. “And so the bottom line is Israel doesn’t even subject its nuclear weapons to the IAEA. And so my question is should anyone in the region have nukes?”

“But Joy, this is not just about nukes,” replied CNN host Abby Phillip. “It’s also about Iran being a state sponsor of terrorism and chaos and violence and death around the world. There’s that, too!”

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Criminal defense attorney Arthur Aidala then yelled at Reid that the issue also involved the U.S. helping a democratic ally in Israel.

“Their democracy is not like the United States of America,” Reid objected. “I’m sorry. In the United States, LGBTQ people can’t even serve in the military under the president you prefer.”

Aidala and Reid then entered into their own shouting match.

“The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people!” Reid scoffed.

Reid’s low-rated show on MSNBC was canceled in February after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Reid posted a tearful goodbye where she lamented the end of her show. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow assailed her own network for the firing and suggested it was motivated by racism.

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The Trump administration has allowed 54 South African immigrants into America after claims that white farmers are allegedly being killed in the country — and one man is very unhappy about it.

“The New York Times is saying that President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa, ‘I’ll give you refugee status.’ So we’re bringing in white Afrikaners who we don’t know if they’re criminals, we don’t know what they went through in the legal process in South Africa,” Al Sharpton said on MSNBC.

“But people right here in Newark, we’re going to assume they’re all criminal,” he continued. “It is as blatantly double standard as one can get.”

“I don’t understand how 54 people have caused this big of a dustup when we’ve watched hundreds of thousands walk over our border for four straight years. This whole situation, it’s baffling to me. But it’s not baffling in terms of there’s so much stirred up racial division, and anything that appears to benefit white Christians in any way can be spun into, ‘Well, this is racism,’” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Jason Whitlock Harmony.”

“They are looking, as you said, solely based on race,” T.J. Moe agrees. “We have rigged up this society to believe that white people cannot possibly be victims, so if we allow these white victims into America, now that destroys our narrative.”

“I think that’s what they’re looking at here. They can’t possibly demonstrate any sort of empathy. These are white people. Doesn’t matter that they’re only 7% of the population over there and that they’re being murdered and that President Trump calls it a genocide, none of that matters. It only matters that they’re white,” he continues.

“These South African farmers,” he adds, “there’s only 7%, but I think they own something like 75%, 80% of all the farmland in South Africa and produce like 95% of the goods. They’re incredibly productive people, and so these are refugees that you would want here.”

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations are being thwarted by anti-ICE activists, allowing a child-rapist to remain at large.

A Wednesday press release from the DHS announced that it is searching for Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a convicted child-rapist who was apparently able to evade ICE with alleged assistance from the Colorado Rapid Response Network.

‘Anyone responsible should be charged with interfering with a federal investigation.’

The agency stated that the group is “known for protesting with bullhorns to warn illegal aliens and shouting profanities at ICE law enforcement officers attempting to arrest dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”

ICE attempted to arrest Leon-Deras on June 20. However, CORRN allegedly alerted the suspect about the agency’s presence, effectively “facilitat[ing] his escape.”

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The DHS described Leon-Deras as a “safety threat,” warning the public not to approach him but to report sightings to law enforcement.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated, “The Colorado Rapid Response Network and its 760 members disrupt ICE operations targeting dangerous criminal illegal aliens. In this case, they helped Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, an international fugitive and convicted child-rapist, flee law enforcement. This dangerous monster is on the loose on American streets and could harm more innocent children.”

The DHS press release linked to a June 20 Facebook post from CORRN celebrating that ICE was unsuccessful in its arrest attempt.

The post read, “June 20 7:30am CONFIRMED AND ONGOING ICE presence near Longs Peak Venue and Martin St LONGMONT. The same agents that were shown in our video on Tuesday. Besides these two also a grey Malibu. We will update with a photo. Our volunteers are on site and assisting the people targeted.”

“No one detained,” a later update to the post stated, “Volunteers confronted the ICE agents and used a bullhorn to to [sic] share their rights, ICE called the police to try and intimidate our volunteers.”

The post included photographs of several alleged ICE vehicles, including their license plate numbers.

RELATED: Illegal aliens bust out of Colorado detention center — local authorities ‘declined to assist’ manhunt: ICE

Anti-ICE protestors demonstrate outside the ICE Processing Center on June 9, 2025, in Aurora, Colorado. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

According to CORRN’s website, the group is “committed to responding to raids, deportation, and any Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity happening across the state in our communities.”

“This statewide network is intended to immediately respond to reported situations by confirming the existence of a raid or the presence of ICE, documenting the case — including using legal observers, and slowing down and controlling the public narrative of these events as we fight to keep our families together,” the website reads.

CORRN runs a 24/7 hotline where residents can report ICE sightings. The group responds by sending “trained volunteers to the scene” where they “record the event, identify the agents on the scene, and inform the people involved of their constitutional rights.”

ICE Denver stated, “Groups like this interfere with ICE’s ability to keep communities safe.”

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.) called CORRN “a disgrace.”

“Anyone responsible should be charged with interfering with a federal investigation,” he remarked.

CORRN did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced earlier this month that the bureau located an intelligence report from August 2020 that detailed “alarming allegations” regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Such allegations, if brought to light at the time, would have vindicated the concerns about voter fraud and foreign election interference then expressed by President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr, which were written off by election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media as “unfounded” and “preposterous.”

Instead, elements of the intelligence community apparently covered up the alleged foreign election interference campaign.

“Former FBI leadership withheld the facts and misled the public on China’s 2020 election interference,” Patel stated on Thursday. “And they did so for political gain.”

Patel noted in a separate message, “We’re restoring trust — through transparency, not politics.”

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, sent a criminal referral for former FBI Director Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice on Thursday, seeking accountability not only for Wray’s alleged role in the apparent cover-up but for his alleged false or misleading statements to Congress regarding the infamous FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics.

Election interference cover-up

The referral obtained by Blaze News, which was also sent to Director Patel’s office on Thursday, alleges that Wray violated federal law by giving false and misleading testimony to Congress on the topic of known voter fraud efforts.

On Sept. 24, 2020, Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the FBI had “not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”

On March 2, 2021, Wray suggested to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI was “not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome of the presidential election.”

RELATED: Vindicated? Patel’s FBI uncovers apparent Chinese communist plot to rig 2020 mail-in vote for Biden

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The trouble with both statements is that they fly in the face of what the FBI apparently knew about the alleged Chinese communist attempt to swing the election for Biden.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O’Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses.

“The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea,” noted CBP.

Blaze News previously reported that the bulk of the licenses were intended for college-age students across numerous states and in many cases had functional barcodes.

The August 2020 FBI intelligence report helped make sense of this sudden glut of fake IDs, suggesting that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American driver’s licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

‘Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression.’

Patel told Just the News that while substantiated, the allegations in the intelligence report “were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”

The Oversight Project made abundantly clear in its referral that it was highly unlikely Wray was unaware of this report and the allegations therein when he testified before Congress in 2020 and 2021.

After all, Wray apparently received routine briefings about threats to the integrity of the 2020 election from Nikki Floris, the FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism at the time, who had raised the alarm in October 2019 about China “aggressively pursuing foreign influence operations.”

RELATED: 1,004 days of betrayal for suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle

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Weaponization against Catholics

The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government indicated in a December 2023 report that the FBI:

“abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists”; “relied on at least one undercover agent to develop its assessment”; “proposed developing sources among the Catholic clergy and church leadership”; and would likely still be “violating the religious liberties of millions of Catholic Americans” were it not for former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin’s disclosure.

Congressional investigators began looking closely at the bureau’s anti-Catholic animus after a memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office was leaked earlier that year, tying adherents of the Catholic faith to violent extremist views.

RELATED: The FBI was completely correct to keep an eye on Catholics

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While Wray previously testified to Congress that the Richmond field office produced only a “single product,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has demonstrated that not to have been the case.

Grassley revealed earlier this month both that the memo was distributed to over 1,000 FBI employees across the country and that the FBI produced “at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).”

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The Oversight Project’s criminal referral alleges that Wray repeatedly gave false testimony about the Richmond anti-Catholic memo, noting that his “testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI.”

“Furthermore, a query of Sentinel (the FBI’s case management system) identified 13 documents and 5 attachments that included the term, ‘radical traditionalist catholic’ or ‘Radical-Traditionalist Catholic’ in the FBI systems,” said the watchdog’s criminal referral. “The Intelligence Memo itself states on page 24 of the PDF — ‘(U) Prepared by the Richmond Division and the Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit; coordinated with FBI Milwaukee and FBI Portland Divisions.'”

Between his statements to Congress about election interference and his statements about the FBI’s anti-Catholic memorandum, the Oversight Project figures that Wray committed several criminal violations, including obstruction of proceedings before Congress; corrupt conduct; and making false statements.

When asked to comment on whether he expects Wray to be held accountable for his alleged violations, Howell told Blaze News, “I don’t expect accountability, but we certainly deserve accountability.”

“Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression,” continued Howell. “To expect it would be unrealistic optimism, but it should and could happen, and that’s why the Oversight Project is making the case publicly and doing everything we can to make it more likely to happen.”

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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When PETA representative Brittany Peet saw the conditions Netflix’s famous “Tiger King” tigers were living in, she was not pleased.

“I was at Joe’s Roadside Zoo multiple times, and I smelled the overwhelming stench of urine in that facility because the tigers were confined in such cramped quarters, they could barely take a few steps in any direction,” Peet tells BlazeTV host Alex Stein on “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“These are animals who run and jump and swim in the wild, and they were locked in prison cells, just like that one Joe is locked up in today,” she continues, adding, “He and his staff would hit animals, hit tigers with the blunt end of guns, they would spray them with fire extinguishers.”

Peet’s accusations are horrific, but Stein is giving Joe Exotic the chance to defend himself from his jail cell.

“OK, all right, look. My zoo was next to a horse farm that had 200 horses pissing and pooping in their field. OK, I didn’t change their litter, what are you talking about?” Exotic says. “They didn’t have litter boxes, they had two acre cages, some of them.”

“All I got to say is she needs to find God and tell the truth, because in October of 2017, when Travis died, I called her for help. And she helped me move most of my animals off that zoo, so I could close that zoo and leave, and I left Jeff Lowe in charge of everything else, and she knows that, and she’s the one who sued Jeff Lowe for violating the Endangered Species Act,” Exotic continues.

“Why didn’t Jeff Lowe go to jail? He was doing bad stuff, too,” he adds.

“That’s something that Joe and I agree on. I fully agree that Jeff Lowe should be sitting in prison right next to Joe. He is just as guilty, he has done things that are just as horrible to animals,” Peet says.

“Brittany, how many animals do you kill a month?” Exotic asks.

“The figures are available online, but the reality of that is PETA is a shelter of last resort. PETA offers euthanasia services to people who can’t afford to euthanize their sick dogs and cats, so that’s why the euthanasia numbers are so low, and PETA is open about that,” Peet responds.

“I don’t feel guilty that a well-documented animal abuser is in prison for the crimes of animal abuse that he committed against animals,” she adds.

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