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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania criticized the members of his own party after video surfaced of left-wing protesters wishing death on U.S. military members.

Fetterman posted the video on his social media account and wondered why other Democrats had not reacted with anger and condemnation to the offensive demonstration.

‘These a**holes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?’

“Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees, let us not lose sight of the enemy! For every military U.S. base that crumbles, or for every U.S. soldier who returns home in a casket, we cheer!” the lead protester said to the crowd.

At this point in the video, a few dozen protesters cheered and clapped.

“Hamas! Hezbollah!” … All of the resistance forces we celebrate!” he continued. “These popular forces on the ground spend every waking moment in direct confrontation with Zionism, and they rely on a strong Iranian state to maintain their fighting capacity!”

Fetterman excoriated the protesters in a post on his X account.

“Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?” he wrote.

Fetterman has broken with the Democratic Party often and led to many wondering if he’s going to split away and join the Republican Party.

The senator angered many in the party when he said that Democrats had no leader but were being led by “Trump Derangement syndrome.”

“We don’t, we don’t have one,” Fetterman said. “I think the TDS that — I think that’s the leader right now. You know, right now our party, is governed by the TDS, and now it’s made it virtually impossible, without being punished, as a Democrat, to agree something’s good, or, ‘I agree with the other side,’ and I would define that by Epic Fury.”

RELATED: Liberals viciously attack Sen. John Fetterman for defending ICE: ‘F**k you, f**k your mom, your family’

Fetterman’s support for Israel and occasional support for Republican policies have led to a catastrophic drop in support from his voters. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that the vast majority of Pennsylvania voters disapproved of the senator.

“There is no historical analog to this,” CNN poll analyst Harry Enten said. “That is how unpopular John Fetterman is with Pennsylvania Democrats. There is basically no doubt in my mind that if Fetterman decides to run for re-election as a Democrat, he will face a primary challenge, and it will be a very competitive one.”

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The Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League are facing a lot of backlash from fans decrying the team’s support for the LGBTQ+ agenda.

The team said that it would have the “Cowgays” group sing the national anthem at the game Thursday against the New Jersey Devils and would feature a nonbinary LGBTQ+ country music artist.

‘Gross. Why associate your brand with bringing sexual experiences to a freaking hockey game?’

“Preds fans — Put your paws up!” the official account for Bridgestone Arena said in a post Wednesday. “We’re celebrating PRIDE in Smashville tomorrow night, March 26, with appearances by Medium Build, The Cowgays, Brady Riley & more!”

The post included a rainbow emoji.

The post immediately got negative responses from people objecting to politics being shoehorned into a sports event.

“A team called the Predators with a fan base nicknamed ‘Smashville’ is having a pride night during a game with the Devils, and a band called the ‘Cowgays’ is singing the national anthem. There is so much material here and none of it makes you look good,” former Texas state Rep. Matt Rinaldi responded.

“This isn’t a family-friendly environment. NHL has to stop pushing this radical LGBTQ agenda,” Jon Root of OutKick replied.

“Entirely unnecessary and inappropriate. Have some class, decency and decorum. Have some respect for your customers,” another user said on the X platform.

“I love the predators but I absolutely will never celebrate a sin nor will I ever go to a game where they do celebrate it. May God have mercy on your soul,” another detractor replied.

“Gross. Why associate your brand with bringing sexual experiences to a freaking hockey game?” another post reads. “No hate for gay people but let’s leave all sexual innuendo and celebrations for more appropriate events. This is just weird.”

RELATED: Pro-transgender Seattle Kraken jersey enrages NHL fans: ‘Feel some trans joy’

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“GAY PREDATORS! YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS S**T UP!” one insightful critic said.

The team will also raise funds by selling specialty Pride jerseys and auctioning player nameplates. The proceeds will be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.

The Predators, the Devils, and the National Hockey League did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Opponents of the controversial Rooney Rule in the National Football League got a powerful boost from the attorney general of the state of Florida.

AG James Uthmeier posted a video Wednesday explaining that the rule requiring teams to interview minority candidates for open hiring positions violates Florida laws against discrimination.

‘We are putting Commissioner Roger Goodell on notice: the Rooney Rule violates Florida law, and it must stop.’

“Professional sports are a visible example of a merit-based system, but through the Rooney Rule, the NFL requires its teams to use race-based hiring practices,” Uthmeier wrote on the post on social media. “We are putting Commissioner Roger Goodell on notice: the Rooney Rule violates Florida law, and it must stop.”

He demanded that the NFL suspend the Rooney Rule and threatened legal action if it refused.

“Florida law is clear. Hiring decisions cannot be based on race, and the Rooney Rule mandates race-based interviews and incentivizes race-based decisions. That’s discrimination,” he added.

Former “SportsCenter” commentator Jemele Hill appeared to be outraged by the demand.

“So just to be clear: Florida is trying to challenge the NFL on the Rooney Rule when there are 3 Black coaches in the NFL, two Black offensive coordinators, and four Black general managers,” she wrote on social media.

“This is out of 32 teams. It seems like the system has worked swimmingly well for white guys, so … what’s the issue?” she added.

Others have spoken out against the rule, including BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock.

“The Rooney Rule inspired, encouraged, fosters racism. The Rooney Rule has been a mistake and needs to end. The Rooney Rule was the NFL saying, ‘Yep, we’ll hire any player. We’ll pay any of these black players $10, $15, $20, now $50 and $60 million a year. But you know what? When it comes to the head coaching position and these executive positions, we’re racist,'” Whitlock said in Aug. 2025.

“It hasn’t ended racism,” he added. “It hasn’t ended the allegations of racism. It’s actually inspired them.”

RELATED: Chicago Bears GM calls NFL’s race-based hiring ‘strange’ as league struggles with DEI incentive

“NFL teams and their fans don’t care about the race of the coaching staff. They want a merit-based system that gives their team the best chance to win,” Uthmeier concluded.

In February, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles admitted that he didn’t see the rationale for the rule.

“I’ll be honest. I think it is a little strange,” he said. “I mean, at the end of the day, you should want to develop your staff regardless of the color of their skin.”

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Since most of the media outright ignores or denies President Trump’s wins since taking office last year, BlazeTV host John Doyle is taking a moment to appreciate them.

And the first win is the homicide rate.

“This is obviously something that America has struggled with, we’ll say, in the advent of diversity, civil rights law, police brutality, things of that nature,” Doyle explains.

According to the Council on Criminal Justice, the U.S. homicide rate is at a projected 125-year low, which is the lowest level in recorded history at four per 100,000 people.

“So yeah, we are very optimistic about the crime thing because nobody trusts the Democrats to actually handle that properly,” he says.

“Another thing that I think has been very good for us, the construction of the patriot border wall,” he adds, pointing out that Trump is making good on one of his major first-term promises.

“Perhaps his most famous campaign promise,” Doyle says, pulling up a recent article titled “A massive border wall expansion is underway” by the Washington Post.

The article details Trump’s $46.5 billion plan to build hundreds of miles of new southern border barriers at a pace of three new miles per week.

“Being the Washington Post, it’s going to spend a lot of time complaining about environmental impacts. But … this is obviously a major victory for the Trump administration, for America,” he continues. “It’s proof that we are indeed heading in the right direction.”

But there’s more good where that came from.

“Another thing, which is immediately affecting American patriots: rent. Rent prices. They are actually at the national level beginning to decrease. It’s unbelievable,” he says, pointing out that according to the reventure app — which is a real estate data and analysis platform — rent prices are down across the country.

“As rent prices decrease and renting becomes cheaper than owning, like theoretically, selling prices on homes will also be forced to drop,” Doyle says.

And to Doyle, these wins have crowned Trump “the true patriarch of the nation.”

“He will make our cities great again,” he adds.

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A Chicago Democratic leader is slamming his own party, including Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, for ignoring the Biden-Harris administration’s role in the nation’s immigration crisis.

During a Fox News interview shared on Wednesday, Alderman Raymond Lopez reacted to the recent murder of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, who was fatally shot while out on a walk with friends in Chicago.

‘We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don’t want to look as though we’re capitulating to him.’

The suspect in the attack, Jose Medina-Medina, is an illegal alien from Venezuela who was captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents in May 2023 and released into the country under the leadership of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. One month after his release, he was arrested in Chicago for allegedly shoplifting, but he was released from custody once again.

“Her death was 100% avoidable. And the culmination of the choices made here, in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois, to protect noncitizens even when they choose to engage in dangerous criminal behavior — that mindset has to change,” Lopez told Fox News.

Lopez accused Pritzker of wrongly blaming President Donald Trump for Gorman’s death. The alderman made this comment in response to a clip of Pritzker from earlier in the week, where the governor attributed Gorman’s killing to “national failures.”

Pritzker claimed that Trump failed to “follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst” criminals unlawfully present in the U.S.

RELATED: Will Pritzker honor ICE detainer against illegal alien accused of murdering 18-year-old college student?

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“If you’re going to blame the federal government, then blame it where this problem began, which was under the Biden-Harris administration that allowed 15 million people from South America, Central America, and across the oceans to come through our southern borders, manipulate asylum, be poorly vetted, and then scattered to the seven winds of the United States,” Lopez told Fox News.

“I have yet to hear a single Democrat hold Biden and Harris accountable for what has happened,” he added.

RELATED: Chicago residents won’t get to vote on city’s sanctuary status after lawmakers block referendum

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Lopez explained that there are currently 2,000 high-priority targets in Chicago who are known dangers to the community, but noted that Democratic leaders “refuse to work” with Trump to remove them.

“We will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don’t want to look as though we’re capitulating to him,” Lopez stated.

Lopez has previously fought to roll back the city’s sanctuary laws to allow the Chicago Police Department to cooperate with federal immigration agents when illegal alien suspects have been arrested or convicted of certain crimes. He stated that his amendment to Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance “would NOT have protected” Medina-Medina from federal immigration enforcement.

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While criticizing opposition to the H-1B program, comedian Hasan Minhaj attempted to highlight the role of skilled foreign workers in fields like tech and engineering — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t having it.

“If you’re a Democrat, you would rather just allow foreigners to come in, exploit our system, abuse our system, rip off Americans, and steal American jobs. You would rather do that than just admit there’s a problem,” Gonzales says.

“And one of the biggest culprits of this type of gaslighting is Hasan Minhaj,” she adds, before playing a clip from the former “Daily Show” host’s latest YouTube video titled, “Why MAGA hates H-1B visas.”

“Now, the H-1B is under attack because MAGA has suddenly become obsessed with hating them,” Minhaj said.

Minhaj then played a clip of Jack Posobiec claiming that “India milks the H-1B system dry” and replaces “American workers in our own tech companies.”

Even Gonzales was featured in his video, where he chose a clip of her saying, “The only way to stop it for good is to end the H-1B program.”

“He just talks really fast and makes it seem like he understands the issue. But in the first minutes, he completely blew up his own argument,” Gonzales comments.

“H-1B visas are special visas granted to skilled foreign workers, mostly in STEM fields. I’m talking about science, tech, engineering, and math. And indians f**king dominate that s**t,” Minhaj said proudly.

“Of the 85,000 new H-1B visas issued a year, about 70% of them go to Indians. And since their creation in 1990, they have been a critical rung on the ladder to citizenship,” he continued.

“You just blew up your own argument. Correct. It is meant for skilled workers. Yes, that’s what the system is supposed to bring in — not for the endless farm of fake software engineers, not for the food service managers that we’re finding, not for administrative assistants, not for ice cream sales analysts, not for the ones that we have been seeing play out,” Gonzales explains.

“Here’s the other issue, Hasan. An immigrant visa is issued to a person wishing to live permanently in the United States, OK? A non-immigrant visa is issued to a person with permanent residence outside the United States — notice the word ‘permanent’ — but wishes to be in the United States on a temporary basis for tourism, medical treatment, business, temporary work, or study, as other examples,” she continues.

Minhaj also used a clip of the late Charlie Kirk explaining that when hiring for an organization, you should “prioritize merit,” which the comedian followed up by saying, “If America is all about letting the best rise to the top, how do you justify shutting down legal immigration? I mean, that’s anti-competitive.”

“So, it’s not anti-competitive. … They are replacing American jobs for cheaper labor,” Gonzales responds, pointing out that many of the jobs aren’t even hiring for “specialized skill sets.”

“I’m going to go out on a limb and tell you, I don’t need an Indian to come in and teach elementary school science in this country. It’s not anti-competitive. It’s gaming the system,” she says.

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Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s efforts to cut his administration’s budget while calling for massive new spending has hit a rather embarrassing snag.

The socialist scion said he asked all government offices to come up with spending cuts that would add up to $1.7 billion savings for the annual budget of about $127 billion. He gave them a deadline of March 20.

The sum of the savings he reported was about $200 million — which comes to about one-tenth of 1% of the entire budget.

After the date came and went, the administration faced tough questions about how well it was meeting its targets.

Almost comically, he posted a video Wednesday touting a few of the meager savings by pretending to find money under cushions and behind paintings in the mayor’s mansion.

The sum of the savings he reported was about $200 million — which comes to about one-tenth of 1% of the entire budget.

The New York Post reported that city officials refused to release any information about the cuts but said to trust that they were hitting the targets.

Mamdani’s budget director, Sherif Soliman, was unable to answer many questions about the plan at a preliminary budget hearing with the city council on Wednesday. Instead he defended the controversial decision from City Hall to raid a rainy day fund as well as a retiree health benefit trust fund to balance the budget.

“We want to replenish reserves, and we want to grow reserves,” he told council members. “This was out of necessity for what was an inherited significant budget challenge that stems from under-budgeting.”

“We will continue to update as we identify more savings,” Soliman added.

He also blamed former Mayor Eric Adams (D) for the massive $5.4 billion deficit that needed to be filled by law. Mamdani also passed the buck onto Adams in a separate press conference Wednesday.

“While we all predicted that it would be a difficult fiscal situation that we would find in January, there are very few who believe that it would be at the scale that we have found,” the mayor said. “This is a fiscal crisis that has been entirely created within city government as opposed to one that can be blamed on external factors as we’ve seen in 2008.”

RELATED: Mamdani reverses controversial policy after 19 NYC residents die outdoors

Mamdani has demanded that the state pass new taxes on the wealthy to help him fulfill his promise for new massive social welfare spending, but even other state Democrats said they would oppose the effort.

The mayor then threatened to raise property taxes, but that effort was opposed by members of the city council and likely wouldn’t pass.

It has been 84 days since the socialist was sworn into office.

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President Trump started a task force on corruption led by JD Vance — and it’s a move that Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck believes is telling when it comes to whom President Trump will be choosing as his successor in 2028.

“I want you to think of everything through the eyes of 2028. And let’s look at the board the way a strategist would look at it,” Glenn begins.

“Where’s Marco Rubio right now? Marco Rubio has more jobs than anybody I’ve ever met. He is, right now, exactly where you’d expect him to be: deep in foreign policy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump and the administration in one of the most volatile geopolitical moments in my lifetime,” he explains.

Glenn calls the current situation in Iran and Israel the “highest stakes” he’s “ever seen a president play at.”

“High visibility, high risk, and whoever is with it is either a hero or a villain. And if it works, there’s stability. There’s lower oil prices. There’s a real peace dividend by ’26 or ’27. And Rubio will look like an amazing statesman. He becomes the natural heir, the man who helped steady the world,” he explains.

However, if the war doesn’t end and costs continue to rise, Rubio’s position “is an absolute anchor.”

“Where’s JD Vance right now on this issue?” Glenn asks.

“I’ve heard rumors — he’s not really with the president on this one — but I haven’t seen any statements, and I haven’t seen the president say, ‘Yeah, he’s kind of weak on this,’” he says, though he notes that Vance is very big on rooting out fraud and corruption.

“You have one potential successor tied to global outcomes that he can’t fully control, but he’s going to be tied with that. Another one being given a domestic mission that can be prosecuted daily, case by case, headline by headline, building a narrative that feeds directly into the next campaign,” Glenn says.

“JD Vance is going to be the guy against Gavin Newsom, because he’s going to find the corruption in California. So that pits him against Newsom. By 2028, we’ll know what the Republican message will be. Not just growth, not just strength abroad, but this: Your government was looted. The biggest theft in American history happened,” he explains.

“And we stopped it. That’s a pretty powerful argument against governors like Gavin Newsom or any other Democrat running on expanding programs and increasing spending and promising more systems, because the counter is going to be simple,” he continues.

“If it goes well, you have the possibility of the two best candidates I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, because we will know on record what they are capable of doing. We will have seen them in action,” he says. “This is how you build a successor without naming one.”

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Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James now faces two additional criminal referrals after a federal judge dismissed a previous criminal indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud.

Like the previous allegation, the new referrals come from evidence gathered by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.

‘They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country.’

Pulte said that James may have falsified information in documents submitted to the Allstate Insurance Company in Illinois and Universal Property Insurance in Florida. He cited information posted by Mike Davis, an attorney and activist.

In a referral to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros for the Northern District of Illinois, Pulte wrote that James “made representations” in insurance documents “that the house would be occupied by a single adult, with no children.”

He added, “Instead, according to the post, she knew the house was actually occupied by four people — three children and her niece.”

In the referral to U.S. Attorney Jason Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida, Pulte accused James of falsely claiming her property would be unoccupied during five months of the year.

“The house was, in fact, occupied year-round by her niece,” he wrote.

James’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, denied the allegations and blamed President Donald Trump.

“Trump and his political enablers keep abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations,” Lowell said.

“They continue this improper revenge campaign instead of helping bring down the rising cost of living in this country,” Lowell added. “These desperate tactics will fail — just as every previous attempt has failed — and exposes an administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback.”

RELATED: Letitia James gives unhinged rant after court hearing for bank fraud allegations: ‘This is not about me!’

The Trump administration has unsuccessfully tried to prosecute James multiple times for the previous mortgage fraud allegations.

James headed up the Sept. 2022 civil lawsuit against Trump and the Trump Organization, accusing them of committing real estate fraud. She won and obtained a massive $464 million judgment, but it was struck down on appeal as “excessive.”

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A video from a home renovation site in Maryland has gone viral over the detainment of several Guatemalan laborers.

On Monday morning, a group of men showed up to remodel a family home in Cambridge, Maryland. According to one of the workers, it did not take long for the job to turn into a federal investigation.

‘The owner of the house kind of called immigration.’

The men had reportedly traveled about an hour and a half from Glen Burnie to Cambridge to complete a remodeling job on a house that included roofing.

As the men were on the roof, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared and began calling the laborers to come down.

Video of the exchange, posted online, was reportedly recorded by one of the workers, Bryan Polanco, who claimed the homeowner had notified authorities.

“We practically had a project to start today … when they started the work, the owner of the house kind of called immigration,” Polanco told N+ Univision DC, according to a translation.

Six Guatemalan workers, reportedly between 18 and 40 years old, were subsequently detained by ICE. Polanco was not detained because he is said to be a permanent resident.

RELATED: Soros-backed Democrat DA threatens ICE agents helping at airport: ‘President cannot pardon you’

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The viral video, which has been seen nearly 5 million times, contains claims from Polanco that ICE agents are “just hurting working people” who “contribute positively” to the United States.

Polanco also described the homeowner as harboring hate for the workers.

“Instead of going out and looking for criminals on the streets — for drug addicts — they come here to screw over people who are just trying to work. And it’s that same woman. … We were fixing up her house, and yet she still harbors such hatred in her heart.”

Polanco went on to tell Univision that the homeowner told him that “if immigrants return again to finish the project, she will always call ICE.”

The worker continued to conflate legal workers with illegal immigrants, telling the outlet, “Many Hispanics here in the United States have felt persecuted. We left home, and we don’t know if we are going to return.”

“Seeing it is not the same as living it. It is because I have already seen many videos, and sadly, today, I had to experience it. And I feel that it is something that really moves you a lot,” he recalled.

RELATED: The TSA showdown reveals a brutal truth about our politics

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According to Spanish-language outlet Conexion Migrante, Polanco can also be heard in the video calling the ICE agents “animals.”

“Even the neighbors and passersby here were trying to support us, but there’s nothing to be done with these animals.”

The wife of one of the Guatemalan workers spoke to Univision in a phone call under the promise of anonymity. The woman said she felt “sad” and “desperate” for her husband, who was detained.

“We are here to get ahead, not to do evil,” she stated.

Although no official information has been provided, Univision, citing relatives, reported that those detained do not have the required documentation to remain in the U.S.

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The Trump administration’s new Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, chaired by Vice President JD Vance, is moving to suspend dozens of Los Angeles businesses.

On March 16, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the task force, announcing that it would advise the president and coordinate efforts to end fraud, waste, and abuse in government benefit programs.

‘The American people deserve better than being ripped off by people who hate this country.’

The task force is working with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to identify and suspend hospice and home health providers flagged as high risk.

CMS has suspended 70 providers, a source told Blaze News.

“As the task force to root out waste, fraud, and abuse ramps up its work, we expect this number to grow exponentially,” the source stated.

This latest action from the CMS builds on a February announcement of action to protect taxpayers by cracking down on fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Vance to reveal that the administration had deferred $259.5 million in quarterly Medicaid funding in Minnesota due to fraud concerns. Additionally, the CMS implemented a six-month moratorium on new Medicare enrollment for certain durable medical equipment suppliers.

RELATED: ‘Minnesota was big but California is even bigger’: Nick Shirley uncovers staggering alleged fraud right under Newsom’s nose

Federal agents raid Minnesota health care services provider in December 2025. Christopher Juhn/Anadolu/Getty Images

The task force plans to utilize the CMS’ existing template, which involves an AI-driven internal fraud detection system that either blocks claims or flags them for review, a source told Blaze News.

This system can be scaled across the government to root out waste, fraud, and abuse nationwide more effectively. The task force is actively hiring CMS technologists to deploy this system.

“Vice President Vance looks forward to carrying out the president’s war on fraud,” a spokesperson for Vance told Blaze News. “The American people deserve better than being ripped off by people who hate this country, and the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud will ensure that essential taxpayer-funded services are used to support the hardworking Americans who rely on them, instead of being used by fraudsters and criminals.”

RELATED: At-large Azerbaijani national accused of massive $90 million health care scam in California

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The White House’s announcement about the establishment of the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud followed a bombshell investigation in December by journalist Nick Shirley, who uncovered a massive social-services fraud scandal in Minnesota.

The Trump administration appeared to confirm these reports, stating in its task force fact sheet that Medicaid fraud in Minnesota “could total billions,” adding that it was taking action to end the “epidemic.”

“There is strong reason to believe similar vulnerabilities exist in California, Illinois, New York, Maine, and Colorado, where insufficient safeguards and weak oversight increase the risk of large-scale fraud,” the White House wrote.

Earlier this month, Shirley revealed over $170 million in alleged day-care and hospice fraud in California.

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The most notably progressive “Star Trek” series will be canceled by CBS Studios and Paramount+, prompting one of its actors to demand the show’s lore nevertheless become more “woke.”

Studios were so supportive of “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” that Paramount+ picked it up for a second season before the show even aired; but that will be all.

‘The world is still not ready to hear the message of love, peace, [and] infinite diversity.’

The show’s demise began when it launched for free on YouTube — an already bad sign — garnering just over 85,000 views in the first 24 hours; not good for a show with an estimated budget of $10 to $20 million per episode.

Nothing could prepare audiences for the show’s trajectory though. The new series boasted polyamorous refugee Klingons, Stephen Colbert, and gender activist Tig Notaro playing a teacher pushing DEI ideology on cadets.

Progressivism certainly flowed through the series’ actors. Case in point, Gina Yashere, who played Lura Thok.

Yashere took to Instagram after the show’s cancelation to declare that audiences aren’t ready to hear about love and tolerance and that future iterations must avoid becoming too white.

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“Obviously, the world is still not ready to hear the message of love, peace, infinite diversity, acceptance, the eschewing of violence and senseless wars,” she said in a video, first reported by Fandom Pulse.

She added, “And ‘Star Trek’ will be back stronger than ever. And preferably with the same message and not completely whitewashed.”

In her written caption, Yashere made it abundantly clear she was proud of the show’s woke ideology as well.

“Be safe out there peeps. Stay woke. Wokeywoke. Wokest of the woke. Wokeyliscious. A cacophony of woke.”

The show’s messaging was never left for interpretation either. Its actors and showrunners will have to come to terms with the fact that they fully presented their intent, and it was not viewed favorably.

RELATED: Polyamorous refugee Klingons: New ‘Star Trek’ writer makes ‘three-parent household’ a priority

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When the show first aired, series creator Alex Kurtzman said he was “not slowing down on representation in any way,” while characterizing “representation” as being the “beating heart” of the show.

Karim Diane, who played the aforementioned Klingon who wore a skirt and dress, said back in January that his character would have his sexuality “explored.”

This manifested in a Klingon/human love story the character had with an allegedly “nonbinary” person.

Diane has since promised the second season is “basically just Season 1 turned all the way up.”

In a statement to Variety, both CBS and Paramount said that while they were “incredibly proud of the ambition, passion, and creativity” the series showcased, it will not receive a third season.

Variety also reported that “Starfleet Academy” failed to secure a significant audience and did not rank among Nielsen’s Top 10 charts for streaming viewership.

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Best known for his snarky celebrity gossip blog, famous for its vicious takes on Hollywood’s biggest dramas, Perez Hilton recently returned from a grueling hospital ordeal with a shocking message: God is not only real — He is good.

After a bout of the flu that escalated into a perforated stomach ulcer and ultimately sepsis, Hilton was hospitalized for 21 brutal days of procedures and surgeries. During this tumultuous time, he claims he encountered God — not in the kind of drug-induced delirium we often hear about from people in near-death situations, but while he was apparently fully conscious.

‘He is in my heart, and He is the main reason why I am healing so quickly.’

“God presented himself to me,” Hilton said in a 25-minute video released on March 23.

“I was very lucid. It was real, and this has been life-changing,” he added tearfully.

Even though Hilton had a religious upbringing — baptized, confirmed, and schooled in the Catholic faith as a youth — he was “never a believer” until this “miraculous” experience turned his world upside down.

After two weeks of invasive procedures, stubborn infections that wouldn’t heal, new complications picked up in the hospital, and the humbling ordeal of needing help with basic bodily functions, Hilton reached a rock-bottom place he described as “hell.”

But it seems God met him in that darkness and not only spared his earthly life (Hilton is now home and steadily recovering) but, I pray, his eternal one as well.

The 48-year-old, openly gay single father of three surrogate-born children says he’s now “excited to start taking the kids to church” and hopes to enroll them in a local Catholic school near their Las Vegas residence.

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What’s more, his spiritual experience has compelled him to make adjustments in his personal life. “I’m ashamed of myself,” Hilton admitted. “I felt this need to produce for my family so much that I was doing this and that … and not doing the little things,” he said, calling himself a “workaholic.”

“It was Grandma who would do dinner with the kids every night. No more. I’m gonna have dinner with my kids and my mom every night from now on,” he vowed.

In an even more recent video, Hilton announced that he has “zero desire to drink” alcohol after his encounter with God.

The video, captioned “goodbye and good riddance,” highlighted how “clear” his eyes look now.

“The future is bright. God is good. I’ve continued my journey with God, and I’m speaking to Him, and He is in my heart, and He is the main reason why I am healing so quickly,” he said, smiling.

Despite his rapid weight loss and exhausted countenance, Hilton appears to be a changed man.

A deeper standard

But if you’re anything like me, these kinds of sudden, highly emotional conversions give you pause — especially when they happen to people with large platforms who depend on clicks and clout.

You may recall the story of 24-year-old British OnlyFans model Lily Phillips, who publicly converted to Christianity and was baptized in December 2025 after going viral for completing the horrendous challenge of sleeping with 101 men in a single day.

I was thrilled to see what initially looked like repentance from Lily. I celebrate when anyone accepts Christ but especially people with grimy, dark backgrounds. If genuine, their testimonies become some of the most powerful, compelling cases for God’s incomprehensible grace — drawing broken people who believe they are unredeemable into the family of God. I love to see it.

But tragically, Lily immediately returned to making, and posting pornographic content, even justifying her pornographic content, saying, “I understand that my faith and my work don’t fit neatly into everyone’s expectations of what a Christian ‘should’ look like,” she recently claimed. “… Christianity, for me, isn’t about pretending I have everything figured out or meeting other people’s standards.”

You won’t ever hear me make the final call on someone’s heart or salvific status. That is God’s role alone. But Scripture does give us instruction about evaluating the legitimacy of our own and others’ faith.

Trees can be judged by their fruit (Matthew 7:15-20). Some seeds sprout quickly and then wither shortly after (Matthew 13:5-6). Faith without works is dead (James 2:17). Obedience — not simply claiming to know the Lord — is the primary indicator of true faith (Matthew 7:21).

These instructions, of course, must be weighed against the grueling process of sanctification — that painfully slow stripping away of our innate bend toward sin. But from what I have witnessed and personally experienced, the process of sanctification doesn’t begin until we let God reign.

When we do, that doesn’t mean we suddenly stop sinning altogether, but it does mean that we’re no longer comfortable in our rebellion. It means we want to stop doing the things that nailed our Savior to a cross — even if it takes years to actually stop doing them.

Time will tell?

I pray that’s the case with Lily — and I pray for the same for Perez Hilton. His public statements of faith in the aftermath of his spiritual encounter initially read, at least to me, as authentic. Not just because he sounds sincere in the videos he’s posted, but because there already seems to be the beginnings of fruits in his life.

Choosing sobriety, taking your kids to church, and setting intentions to put family above work are all promising signs that his professed faith is deeper than the emotional and physical trauma he just survived.

I’m tempted to say time will tell, but it won’t, because, again, hearts can only be read by God. But time will give us clues. Once the emotions of contending with his own death stabilize, once trials and tribulations return, as they always do, once he reckons with the reality that parts of his lifestyle are in rebellion against God — then perhaps we will have a better understanding of what Perez Hilton really believes in.

In the meantime, we should sincerely pray for him. It isn’t easy for a public figure — especially one whose platform is intertwined with the sick and twisted world of Hollywood — to come out as a Christian. I imagine the road ahead of him will be difficult if his faith is sincere. I hope we can ease some of that burden by contending for him in our prayers.

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Social media users have been mulling over some puzzling posts made by the White House earlier this week.

The posts, reportedly made within an hour of each other on Wednesday night, have raised more questions than answers due to their cryptic nature.

‘All true patriots, GO!’

One of the posts, which has since been deleted, contained a video showing a woman’s feet and a voice saying, “It’s launching soon, right?”

When asked about the video, a source familiar with the matter told Blaze News, “I wonder what’s launching soon!”

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The second video remains available on the White House’s X page. It has received over 16.6 million views at the time of writing.

The four-second video shows a black screen that then flashes an image of an American flag on a flagpole. The flashing image of the flag is accompanied by a recognizable phone text tone. The caption features two emojis: a phone emoji and a volume emoji.

Some commentators joked in the comments about the possible meaning of the video.

“Activation signal received,” Jack Posobiec said.

“All true patriots, GO!” Raw Egg Nationalist joked.

“Standing back and standing by,” Nic Carter wrote.

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The British East End has long stood as the beating heart of London’s working class — famous for its docks, bustling markets, pie and mash shops, and the unbreakable Cockney spirit.

That all changed during the ten years of Tony Blair’s government, which, driven by a zealous doctrine of multiculturalism, threw open Britain’s borders. As Blair’s own former speechwriter bluntly put it, this was designed to “rub the right’s nose in diversity.” The result has been a demographic upheaval so swift and far-reaching that today the traditional East Ender is often spoken of as an endangered species.

The most visible sign of this transformation is in local schools. In many East End primary schools, white British children are now a minority.

The 2016 BBC documentary “Last Whites of the East End” brought that shift into public view. A decade on, it plays less like reportage than elegy — a stark record of a culture on the brink of disappearance.

Wholesale displacement

It is telling, if not entirely surprising, that the documentary is no longer available to stream on BBC iPlayer, as if the establishment would rather erase this uncomfortable chapter and its role in it. For this is not a case of natural urban evolution, but the direct result of policy-driven mass immigration, the emergence of parallel societies, and the wholesale displacement of the native population.

The numbers tell part of the story. According to the 2011 Census, white British residents became a minority in London for the first time. Writer David Goodhart noted that between 2001 and 2011, London’s white British population fell by more than 600,000. London has always absorbed newcomers — but the speed of change, he argued, was something different.

In boroughs like Newham, the shift is especially stark. By the time the documentary was filmed, white British residents made up just 16.7% of the population. For those interviewed, these figures are not abstract — they map onto the disappearance of institutions that once anchored daily life: working men’s clubs, markets, churches.

Cockney migration

Cockney identity was never just an accent. It was a dense web of family ties, shared references, and a particular way of navigating life in the city. For Americans, the closest analogue might be the “Old Brooklyn” archetype — a tight-knit, working-class culture forged in proximity and sustained over generations. Today, much of that culture has migrated outward, into Essex towns like Romford and Basildon.

Politicians often frame this movement as upward mobility — a sign that people are leaving for bigger homes and better prospects. But that explanation only partially captures what residents themselves describe. For many, the change is less like opportunity than dislocation. It is not aspiration that drives so-called “white flight,” but the recognition that the neighborhood has become unrecognizable.

Walk through Whitechapel Market today, and the shift is unmistakable. The rhythms of Cockney traders — the coster cries that once defined the place — have largely faded. In their place, the call to prayer from the nearby East London Mosque carries across the market five times a day, an audible sign of how profoundly the area has changed. When pubs are converted into mosques or community centers, and when English is seldom heard on the street, the social glue that once held a working-class community together begins to dissolve.

Socially engineered segregation

The rapid demographic changes in East London are not an accident of history — they are the result of intentional government policy. Decades of uncontrolled immigration, combined with imported antiquated customs that discouraged assimilation, have led to the formation of ethnic enclaves. Rather than socially engineering a liberal utopia, these circumstances have produced segregated communities where different ethnic groups live side by side but rarely interact.

In some migrant communities in East London, consanguineous (cousin) marriage remains prevalent, leading to serious public health problems that mainstream media often ignore. In areas like Newham and Tower Hamlets, rates of infant mortality and congenital disabilities are much higher than the national average.

A 2023 study found that British Pakistanis, who make up about 3% of all U.K. births, accounted for nearly one-third of all British children born with genetic disabilities — a direct result of intra-family marriage. A 2017 report revealed that one in five infant deaths in the east London borough of Redbridge was linked to marriages between first cousins or closer. This practice reinforces loyalty to the biraderi (clan) rather than the nation and seriously slows integration.

RELATED: Pakistani cousin marriage has no place in UK

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Tongue-tied

The most visible sign of this transformation is in local schools. In many East End primary schools, white British children are now a minority. In Newham they make up just 5% of students — the lowest in the region.

The documentary features parents like Leanne, who ultimately chose to move her family to Essex. She explained that her daughter was one of only a few white children in her class, making it hard for her to find friends who shared her cultural background.

English is no longer the main language spoken at home for many families in these boroughs. In Newham alone, over 100 languages are spoken, and in many schools, most students speak English as an additional language. While policymakers often praise such diversity, for the remaining white working class, it creates a sense of profound alienation. The everyday sounds of the street have changed, and for elderly residents interviewed in “Last Whites of the East End,” not being able to speak to their neighbors is the final blow to their sense of belonging.

Strangers at home

Ten years on, “Last Whites of the East End” no longer looks like a snapshot of a community in transition. It reads as an early record of a transformation that has only accelerated.

As the last white British families move to the edges of Essex, they take with them centuries of London’s heritage, leaving behind ethnic enclaves that, while geographically in England, have become culturally and socially detached from the nation that hosts them.

This is not simply “change.” A specific culture — rooted in place, memory, and continuity — is being displaced. What emerges in its place may be called diversity, or progress, or modernity. But for the people who once defined the East End, it is something else entirely: the experience of becoming strangers in what was, until recently, their own home.

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After much controversy in the last few years, the elite levels of sports may be making a return to sanity.

In a major win for women’s sports, the International Olympic Committee issued a new policy on Thursday effectively banning trans-identifying athletes from competing in the category that aligns with their gender identity, though not from competing in the category that aligns with their biology.

‘The IOC determined that a sex-based eligibility rule is necessary and adequate to the attainment of the IOC’s goals for competition at IOC Events.’

The IOC echoed two conclusions that many conservative activists have been saying for years: “Male sex … confers performance advantage in all sports and events that rely on strength, power, and/or endurance,” and “to protect fairness in such sports and events, as well as safety particularly in contact sports (e.g. combat, collision, projectile sports), it is necessary and adequate to base eligibility for competition on biological sex.”

This new policy comes after the IOC’s “broad-based review” of the IOC’s framework for women’s sports. The review was launched in September 2024 and concluded this month.

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The policy, which replaces any and all previous policies that allowed trans-identifying athletes to compete based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex, is aligned with President Trump’s February 5, 2025, executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”

The IOC also acknowledged that this announcement would be upsetting to trans-identifying athletes and activists but that they intend to move forward with the policy: “The IOC recognises that XY athletes who identify as women and who want the opportunity to compete at IOC Events according to their legal sex or gender identity may disagree with this policy. However, after a thorough scientific review and consultations with constituents of the Olympic Movement, the IOC determined that a sex-based eligibility rule is necessary and adequate to the attainment of the IOC’s goals for competition at IOC Events.”

As expected, the outrage machine was not far behind the announcement.

CNN’s headline on social media read: “Transgender women athletes are banned from competing in the Olympics following new IOC guidelines,” despite there being no mention of banning anyone from competing.

Jennifer Sey, the CEO of XX-XY Athletes, called out CNN for the misleading headline and summarized the actual policy of the IOC: “No one is banned. Stop lying. Men can compete in men’s.”

Riley Gaines likewise issued a clarification for anyone misled by the headlines: “‘Trans women’ haven’t been banned from women’s sports. Men have. Hope this helps!”

The IOC made clear that this policy is “not retroactive” and will be applicable for the first time at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Blaze News reached out to XX-XY Athletes and CNN for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

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The reality dating show “Love Is Blind” is drawing some unexpected attention — not for the usual romance and drama, but for the faith and family-first message this latest season may be sending viewers.

And BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is highlighting the two couples this season that send this message: one divided over views on children and commitment and another bonding over a shared Christian faith.

“People are talking about this season in particular for a couple reasons. One, because of how one couple talks about kids, one contestant, and how the sister really just kind of doesn’t like kids and talks about kids as if they’re burdens,” Stuckey explains.

“But then on the other side of it, you’ve got this very Christian, stable-seeming couple that is sharing this really sweet testimony,” she says.

In the show, Emma, who is dating Mike, is unsure of having children, while Mike sees children as a nonnegotiable. The issue begins to fester and grow when Emma’s sister, who has her own children, tells the couple that if she could go back and choose — she wouldn’t have children.

The pair made it to the altar, but Mike said no to marriage, explaining that he couldn’t marry a woman who didn’t want kids.

Stuckey believes he made the “right decision.”

“I’m not saying that Emma is unmarriable or, you know, inherently bad. Maybe she’ll make a different decision. It’s not even only the kids’ thing. It’s just that self-centered mentality that I think is not going to be good for anyone, and I really hope that Mike finds the woman for him,” she says.

Another couple, Vic and Christine, became a fan favorite when they not only fell in love with each other, but they shared a level of faith that is rarely represented on reality television.

“In one of the first dates between this couple, the guy, Vic, mentions that he wants a God-fearing woman. And then the woman, Christine, ends one of their early dates with prayer,” Stuckey explains.

“I don’t really know anything else about them or, you know, their theology or anything like that, but I just think that is a sweet moment that you don’t typically see on TV,” she continues.

And in an interview with Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News, the couple elaborated on their faith-based relationship.

“We’ve had a lot of conversations about covenant versus contract, and there is such a really true meaning behind that of when you have that covenant and you have that foundation. It makes a world of difference in the relationship,” Christine told McEnany.

“I’ve never felt so confident and so at peace and ease in a relationship, let alone a marriage, which can be stressful and difficult, especially when it happens so quickly, but God’s been very, very present,” she added.

“That’s incredible,” Stuckey comments, shocked. “I, you know, don’t necessarily recommend finding your future husband or wife on a reality TV show because so much gossip and innuendo and temptation and sensationalism typically can color the relationship, and it can make it really difficult to truly get to know someone.”

“But God can work through anything. And I love that He really hoisted up a couple to hopefully be an example to other people,” she continues, adding, “And you never know who this is going to reach.”

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An opponent of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) has targeted NASCAR as his No. 1 priority.

Senate candidate Paul Dans, a member of the first Trump administration, has remained steadfast in his dedication to unseating Graham.

‘We don’t give a crap what Bubba Wallace thinks.’

On Sunday, however, Dans posted a video from the Goodyear 400, held at South Carolina’s iconic Darlington Raceway, and revealed one of his day-one promises.

Dans said that, if elected, he would immediately pick up the phone and ask NASCAR to overturn one of its George Floyd-era rules.

“On June 10, 2020, NASCAR banned the flying of Confederate flags at its races,” Dans began. “As your next U.S. senator from South Carolina, my first call is going to be to the CEO of NASCAR, Jim France.”

“Sir, we want to fly our flags again at NASCAR, and we don’t give a crap what Bubba Wallace thinks. South Carolina will rise again,” Dans added.

NASCAR banned the flags from its events in 2020 just two days after driver Wallace called for their removal in the wake of Floyd’s death, which had happened about two weeks prior.

NASCAR said at the time that the presence of the Confederate flag at its events “runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors, and our industry. … The display of the Confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.”

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Less than two weeks after the ban, an alleged noose was found in Wallace’s garage stall, followed by “a piece of twine tied in what appeared to be a noose” found “hanging from a tree on raceway property” at Sonoma Raceway in California.

Days later, the FBI concluded no crime had been committed and revealed that the rope in Wallace’s stall had been there since October 2019, and “nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned” to that stall.

The alleged noose turned out to be a “a garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose.”

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Dans’ platform focuses heavily on replacing Graham; his website reads, “Fire Lindsey Graham,” in a pop-up upon first visit, alongside a photo of the candidate with President Trump.

Other positions by Dans include “no more endless wars” and “obliterate the deep state.”

The candidate is well known for being the director of Project 2025, a document that drew much criticism from left-wing sources in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. For example, the ACLU described the project as “a roadmap for how to replace the rule of law with right-wing ideals.”

However, the project’s website says it was a way to “prepare for a new conservative administration through policy, training, and personnel.”

Graham’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

The Republican primary for South Carolina takes place on June 9.

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For decades, Cesar Chavez occupied near-canonical status in American universities. The United Farm Workers leader’s name adorned schools, his image filled lecture slides, and his story was told as secular hagiography: the humble labor leader who organized the oppressed, challenged exploitation, and embodied moral courage in the struggle for justice.

Now that image is cracking.

The reassessment of Chavez is not the end of something. It is the beginning of a broader reckoning.

A blockbuster New York Times story this month detailed serious allegations of sexual misconduct, including deeply disturbing claims that, if true, must force a fundamental reassessment of Chavez. The question is not only whether the allegations are true, but why this reckoning arrived only now.

What we are witnessing is not merely the fall of a man but the exposure of a pattern — one that reveals more about the moral framework of academic elites than about Chavez himself.

The manufactured hero

For years, Chavez has been presented, especially in university settings, as a hero of the proletariat. Not always in explicitly Marxist terms, of course. The language is smoother than that. But the structure is unmistakable: Chavez as the labor leader who stood against capital, exposed exploitation, and mobilized collective struggle in the name of justice.

Students are taught to see history as the story of structural oppression and economic conflict. Chavez became a usable symbol in that story. Because he served that function, his image was carefully curated.

What is now becoming clear is that the darker aspects of Chavez’s life were not entirely unknown. Reports of infidelity, domineering leadership, and abuses of power were not buried in some inaccessible archive. They were part of the broader historical record.

Silence around sin

Yet they were largely ignored.

That is how leftist professors handle their heroes. The facts that do not serve the narrative get minimized, reframed, or omitted. This is the first lesson of the current moment: The moral concern of the DEI professoriat is not truth but rather usefulness to the cause.

A figure is praised or condemned not by a consistent moral standard, but by whether he advances a political project. As long as Chavez could serve as a symbol of labor activism and anti-capitalist struggle, his sins remained background noise. Now that those sins threaten his usefulness, they have moved to the foreground.

No new moral conscience has emerged on the left. What we’re seeing is pure calculation.

RELATED: Labor group cancels Cesar Chavez events over ‘profoundly shocking’ new allegations

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A narrow moral vision

The deeper problem goes beyond hypocrisy. The moral vision offered by Chavez’s academic admirers is radically narrow. It focuses almost entirely on one category of wrongdoing: economic injustice. Greed, real and serious as it is, gets elevated into the supreme moral concern. Entire departments and movements organize themselves around exposing and correcting it.

But what about lust? What about pride? What about the abuse of power in personal life, not just economic systems?

Those sins get treated as secondary or, worse, as distractions from the real work of social transformation. The result is a moral framework that is selective and shallow. It addresses external structures while neglecting the corruption of the human heart. Marxism 101 still teaches that if we revolt our way into a better system, we can somehow produce a better man.

But a philosophy with no coherent account of sin cannot solve sin.

From moralism to tyranny

That failure has predictable consequences. If the problem lies mainly in external systems, then the solution must also be external: regulation, enforcement, and conformity. Behavior must be monitored. Speech must be controlled. Dissent must be suppressed.

That is why academic environments that preach tolerance so often practice censorship. That is why calls for equity come paired with ideological compliance. Those who depart from the approved narrative do not get argued with. They get disciplined.

Until we recover a full account of human nature, one that takes sin seriously and looks beyond man for its cure, we will repeat this cycle again and again.

And that is why such movements, once they gain power, tilt toward tyranny. They do not govern by the standards of fairness they once demanded, because their moral framework never grounded those standards in the first place. It only deployed them when useful.

The fall of Chavez is not an anomaly. It is a case study. A movement that cannot account for sin will eventually be undone by it. Robespierre gets guillotined every time.

The deeper problem

At the heart of all this sits a basic misdiagnosis. Man’s greatest problem is not economic inequality. It is not structural oppression. It is not even political injustice, though all of those are real. Man’s greatest problem is sin.

It is the corruption of the heart that gives rise to every form of injustice, whether in the marketplace or the home, the factory or the family. No amount of social reorganization can fix that. You can redistribute wealth, rewrite laws, and restructure institutions and still end up with the same fallen human nature operating under new conditions.

That is why movements that promise moral transformation through politics end in disappointment. They try to fix what is internal by manipulating what is external. A Latin American studies professor once told a friend of mine, “Che su Christo.” Che is Christ.

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The only real solution

But there is only one Christ and only one remedy for sin, and it is the one most conspicuously absent from the classrooms that long celebrated Chavez.

The answer is not a program or a policy. It is a person.

Christ does not merely demand outward reform. He gives a new heart. He restores sinners to communion with God. He addresses not only the consequences of sin, but its source. He transforms the inner man, and from that transformation flow justice, righteousness, and love.

That is precisely why He is excluded. A system built on human effort, collective struggle, and ideological conformity cannot tolerate a solution rooted in repentance, grace, and divine authority. It is the works-righteousness religion of our age.

The inevitable reckoning

The reassessment of Chavez is not the end of something. It is the beginning of a broader reckoning. If our heroes are chosen for usefulness rather than virtue, they will disappoint us. If our moral standards are selective, they will collapse under their own inconsistency.

And if we refuse to acknowledge the true nature of sin, we will keep acting surprised by its consequences. The real lesson of this moment is not that another historical figure has fallen. It is that a moral system built on partial truths and ideological commitments cannot bear the weight of reality.

Until we recover a full account of human nature, one that takes sin seriously and looks beyond man for its cure, we will repeat this cycle again and again.

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After President Donald Trump accused state Rep. James Talarico (D) of insulting Jesus, the Texas lawmaker responded with a speech framing progressive policy positions as expressions of Christian values — and Trump’s positions as the antithesis of them.

But BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes the president was right.

“Let me tell you the good news. The good news is, their candidate is whacked out with his six different forms of gender and all the things that I saw. The insult to Jesus,” Trump told Brian Kilmeade on Fox News.

“Trump is obviously absolutely right about that. He’s right about everything that he said,” Stuckey says. “Talarico is very extreme, very kooky. He uses the name of Jesus to justify his extremism.”

And Talarico took the opportunity to respond to Trump’s criticism.

“The President of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their health care while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers,” Talarico began.

“You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent schoolchildren in Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war. You know what insults Jesus? Covering up the Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them,” he continued.

Talarico went on to ask the audience, which appeared to be churchgoers, whether they can imagine war in heaven, bigotry in heaven, or poverty in heaven.

“This would be my advice to Trump,” Stuckey says. “I don’t want Trump to talk about Talarico anymore. I don’t want him to talk about Talarico anymore, even though everything he said is absolutely true.”

“I support Trump, but his realm is not theology, and so comments like he’s ‘an insult to Jesus’ don’t really help this conversation,” she continues, pointing out that Talarico, like Satan, mixes lies with truth.

“And so, I’ll just point out some of the true things that he says before I get into the complete and total lies. Jesus is saddened by sickness and death. Jesus is saddened by the killing of innocents always. Jesus is definitely against Jeffrey Epstein and the delay of justice,” she explains.

However, Talarico was also very wrong about several of his claims.

“It is not true that Jesus is always against war. Romans 13, New Testament, part of the inerrant word of God, says that the government bears the sword to punish the evildoer, both here and abroad. Lots of debate and nuance about when and how that should be used, absolutely,” Stuckey says.

“But it does mean, at least in principle, that not all government-wielded violence is wrong. And actually, that it is at times necessary to protect the innocent and to quell evil,” she continues, pointing out that it is also “not true” that in order to love the sick, “we have to have a government-provided and mandated health care system.”

“Christians have a very long, rich history of caring for the sick, and we should continue to do that. That does not require us to support Medicare for all,” she adds.

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