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Over the past two months, Minnesota’s widening fraud scandals have drawn national attention. Investigators and watchdogs have uncovered what appear to be major abuses of taxpayer dollars tied to fraudulent day care and health care operations, and Democrat officials who oversaw the programs look, at minimum, asleep at the switch.

Minnesota isn’t alone.

Arizona’s reputation rests on independence and straight dealing. Katie Hobbs and Kris Mayes have replaced that image with stonewalling, favoritism, and excuses.

In Arizona, Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) and Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) have spent the past three years building a record that looks less like competent governance and more like protection for a corrupt status quo. Again and again, their offices have resisted transparency, shielded allies, and resisted oversight — while Republicans in the legislature have tried to drag basic accountability back into view.

Whether in Minnesota, Arizona, or any other jurisdiction across the country, taxpayers deserve better than a government that treats disclosure as optional and oversight as an attack.

Inaugural fund secrecy

Arizona governors often raise private money to cover inaugural expenses and then transfer leftover funds to the state. Hobbs broke that norm. Her office resisted disclosing donor information and withheld more than $1 million that should have gone back to taxpayers, triggering a direct clash with the legislature.

Lawmakers responded by writing the old precedent into law: Future administrations must fully report inauguration fundraising and spending. The bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support — proof that this wasn’t a partisan gripe. Even Democrats understood that Hobbs had created a mess for herself.

A pay-to-play stench

The most serious cloud over Hobbs’ administration is an alleged pay-to-play scandal involving the Department of Child Safety.

The Arizona Republic reported that Sunshine Residential Homes, a for-profit group home operator with state contracts, received a significant rate increase approved under Hobbs’ administration after donating to Hobbs’ inaugural fund. The same request had been denied under the outgoing Republican administration.

The reporting also noted that Hobbs’ DCS did not approve comparable increases for other group homes. At the same time, the DCS ended contracts with 16 group homes — making Sunshine’s preferred treatment look even more suspect.

Mayes announced an investigation, then tried to push Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell and the Arizona auditor general off the case — even though legislators had asked those offices to investigate. Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee publicly rejected Mayes’ attempt and urged the county and auditor investigations to continue.

Since then, Mayes’ office has offered little public clarity. Nearly two years without meaningful updates invites the obvious question: Was the “investigation” a press release designed to run out the clock?

Hobbs then vetoed a bill last session meant to close loopholes and prevent future executives from gaming the system.

SNAP: Fighting anti-fraud efforts

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program doles out nearly $100 billion a year. It also attracts fraud. The Government Accountability Office flagged $320 million in stolen benefits between October 2022 and December 2024. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2023 estimated that around 12% of SNAP benefits were fraudulent.

That should make anti-fraud measures easy to support.

Instead, Mayes sued the Trump administration over efforts to gather more information from states about SNAP beneficiaries. Hobbs refused to comply with data requests. Whatever one thinks about SNAP’s scope, no serious public servant should block reasonable efforts to root out fraud and protect taxpayers.

When elected officials fight transparency in a program that moves billions of dollars, they aren’t defending the vulnerable. They are protecting a system that invites abuse.

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A shady operator

Kris Mayes has other problems.

U.S. Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) has asked the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of a pay-to-play bribery scheme involving Mayes and outside political groups, claiming she traded official actions for political benefits.

And late last year, a top official in Mayes’ State Government Division was arrested on charges related to controlling and trafficking stolen property. The city of Peoria had reportedly warned Mayes’ office nearly two years earlier about serious allegations involving that official, yet she remained in a position of authority until her arrest.

Arizona’s reputation rests on independence and straight dealing. Hobbs and Mayes have replaced that image with stonewalling, favoritism, and excuses.

Voters should take note. If Arizonans want honest government, they will have to demand it — at the ballot box and through aggressive oversight — before the culture of corruption becomes permanent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on March 23 regarding whether federal Election Day law pre-empts a state law allowing election workers to count mail-in ballots received after Election Day.

A band of conservatives including Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) urge the high court in an amicus brief to be filed on Thursday to consider the inevitable harms that would follow permitting states to flout the Constitution and render Election Day little more than an “abstraction,” Blaze News has exclusively learned.

‘Congress chose one day for federal elections, and one day only.’

The case in question, Watson v. Republican National Committee, is the result of a years-long battle over a COVID-era Mississippi law passed by the Magnolia State’s Republican trifecta that permits the counting of mail-in absentee ballots postmarked by the date of the election but received up to five business days after Election Day.

The RNC and the Mississippi GOP stressed at the outset that mail-in voting is “starkly polarized by party” and “the late-arriving mail-in ballots that are counted for five additional days disproportionately break for Democrats.”

While it has narrowed since 2020, the partisan divide in mail-in voting remained substantial in the 2024 election — which helps explain why so many Democrat-aligned groups have defended the practice and the Mississippi law.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against Mississippi in October 2024, stating that its late-ballot counting statute was pre-empted by federal law. Last year, however, the state asked SCOTUS to get involved and reinstate its post-Election Day grace period.

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Mississippi maintains that late counts are acceptable as “federal election-day statutes require only that the voters cast their ballots by election day” — that “an election requires ballot casting — not ballot receipt.”

Sen. Lee, eight other GOP senators, and 15 congressional Republicans joined the American Center for Law and Justice in filing an amicus brief on Thursday in support of the legal challenge, underscoring that Mississippi’s absentee ballot scheme threatens the electoral reliability and uniformity “foundational to democratic government.”

Lee said in a statement to Blaze News, “Congress, exercising its constitutional authority to set the times, places, and manner of federal elections, designated one federal Election Day.”

“States counting ballots received after Election Day clearly violate the certainty, finality, and trust Congress intended to establish by having nationwide elections take place on one set date,” continued the senator.

The brief:

emphasizes that the purpose of the relevant federal Election Day statutes “was and is to prevent voter fraud and state manipulation of federal elections and to promote uniformity in the selection of federal officers”;rejects “the notion that strict construction of this arrangement violates principles of federalism”; andseeks to show “how, absent strict construction of the Election Day Statutes, there is no limiting principle and thus the Constitution’s Election Clause would be meaningless or unenforceable.”

“A Constitution that so jealously rationed federal power chose, in this specific domain, to speak unequivocally: Congress would have the last word in the ‘Times’ of Elections for federal officers,” says the brief. “Congress exercised that power here. It picked a day. One day.”

The brief intimated that should the state law and the corresponding legal interpretation stand, the “very evils Congress enacted the Election Day statutes to prevent — rolling elections, strategic voting, and prolonged uncertainty” — would be likely become inevitable.

The brief suggests further that to treat Election Day as a “philosophical concept untethered to actual deadlines” would liberate states from much-needed guardrails and render them “free to continue the election well beyond the Congressional mandated election day.”

“Congress chose one day for federal elections, and one day only,” the brief says in closing. “The counting of late-arrived ballots [flouts] this choice by altering the pool of received votes after Election Day, in other words, by changing the results of an election that has already taken place.”

Sen. Lee noted that he looks forward “to the Supreme Court recognizing that states are not permitted to conduct interminable rolling elections with late-arriving ballot surprises that invite fraud and undermine trust in American elections.”

Should the high court affirm that federal law pre-empts the state law, 18 other states would likely be impacted.

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President Trump took to Truth Social this week to set the record straight regarding the invitation list for the upcoming governors’ dinner at the White House.

On Wednesday, President Trump took some shots at governors from both sides of the political aisle in his effort to clarify some “incorrectly stated” facts about the dinner.

‘I even invited the SLOB of a Governor, JB Pritzker, and horrendous California Governor, Gavin Newscum, to the Dinner.’

Trump first called out the “RINO” governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, for saying that Trump intended to invite Republican governors only.

“That is false! The invitations were sent to ALL Governors, other than two, who I feel are not worthy of being there.”

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He went on to single out the two Democratic governors who did not receive an invitation — Jared Polis of Colorado and Wes Moore of Maryland — and gave several reasons for their unworthiness to attend.

“I did not invite the Governor of Colorado, who has unfairly incarcerated in solitary confinement a 73-year-old cancer stricken woman (A nine year term!), for attempting to fight Democrat Voter Fraud, plus the foul mouthed Governor of Maryland, who fraudulently stated that he received Military medals, A LIE, is doing a terrible job on the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and has allowed Baltimore to continue to be a Crime Disaster.”

Trump, of course, was referring to the high-profile case of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in Colorado. The Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed in late March 2024 when a ship rammed into one of its piers.

While Polis and Moore were not invited, Trump extended invitations to the rest, including some of his biggest detractors. However, he did not miss the opportunity to call them out as well.

“I even invited the SLOB of a Governor, JB Pritzker, and horrendous California Governor, Gavin Newscum, to the Dinner, despite the terrible job that they are doing. So, as usual with him, Stitt got it WRONG! The Invitations were sent out to all other Governors, Democrat and Republican,” Trump said. “I look forward to seeing the Republican Governors, and some of the Democrats Governors who were worthy of being invited, but most of whom won’t show up.”

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The Super Bowl LX halftime show is going down in history as the first halftime show to be performed nearly entirely in Spanish — a factor that didn’t seem to bother those reporting on the performance in the mainstream media.

“The headlines were glowing. The mainstream media loved this halftime show. They just freaking love it. They loved it,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere says on “Stu Does America,” pointing out a Rolling Stone headline that reads, “Right-wingers who boycotted halftime show still saw enough of it to be furious.”

“I was not furious about it. It was not enjoyable for me. And, you know, again, I will say I don’t like most of the halftime shows, even when they’re speaking the language that I can understand. This made it even more difficult to enjoy,” he continues.

And while those critical of the right for not loving the performance appear to believe it’s a symptom of racism, Stu is well aware that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“People keep bringing this up as if Latin culture is the thing that people are questioning. Now, we’ve had tons of Latin culture at previous Super Bowl halftime shows. Shakira was at a Super Bowl halftime show. There’s probably five to 10 different examples of people performing within Latin culture at Super Bowl halftime shows,” he says.

“The issue here is that the people in the crowd and the people watching on television couldn’t understand the words being sung. This is a very basic thing. A language is not a cultural statement. A language is a mechanism to allow others to understand what you’re talking about. That’s what it is,” he continues.

“So, when you’re talking to an audience that speaks almost entirely English, it usually would benefit you to have an artist that can communicate to the people watching,” he adds, pointing out that commercials are in English when the audience speaks English for the same reason.

“Why didn’t the announcers just call the entire game in Spanish? Why not? Because they were trying to communicate what was going on at the game,” he explains.

“The bottom line here is, the NFL had a choice to make, and they made this choice with very specific things in mind. Because, as I said, when you try to communicate to a specific audience, you choose the language that they speak,” he adds.

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The House passed a historic election integrity bill Wednesday night with the help of just one Democrat.

Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy’s SAVE America Act, which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, passed the House in a 218-213 vote with the support of every House Republican, including Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, a vulnerable candidate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on bribery and money-laundering charges, was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle and vote with Republicans.

‘There’s a false rumor that I voted against the Save America Act today.’

“I support the SAVE America Act because I believe in a fundamental principle: American citizens should decide American elections,” Cuellar said in a post on X, defying his entire party. “That principle strengthens our democracy and protects the value of every vote.”

“This is the same secure but practical approach Texas already uses — strong photo ID standards with real fallback options — and it’s a big reason Texas has some of the strongest election security laws in the country.”

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Following the bill’s passage, Massie clarified his support for the legislation after initially voting against a procedural vote on the SAVE America Act.

“There’s a false rumor that I voted against the Save America Act today,” Massie clarified in a post on X on Wednesday. “I’ll vote for it when it comes to the floor.”

“I voted against a ‘rule’ that allows it to get a vote, but the ‘rule’ also suspends house rules and allows spending bills to come to the floor with no 24hr notice!”

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With the House’s stamp of approval, the SAVE America Act is headed to the Senate, where onlookers anxiously wait to see if it will garner enough support. As of this writing, 46 Republicans including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.) have co-sponsored the legislation.

“I’d be hard pressed to have to defend a position that doesn’t believe that you have to be an American citizen to vote in an American election,” Thune said.

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America has always been a nation of immigrants, and that legacy has been one of our greatest strengths. I know this because I lived it.

As a Lebanese-born American who came to this country legally, built a life through hard work, and now thrives as a venture capitalist and innovator in life sciences, I am living proof of what the American dream can deliver when immigration is done right. My family arrived through the proper channels, embraced the values, language, and culture of this country, and assimilated fully into the fabric of American society. That is how it should be.

The American dream is too precious to dilute. Let’s restore order, enforce the law, and keep it alive for generations to come.

For much of our history, controlled immigration brought talent, energy, and new ideas that fueled American growth and innovation. Waves of legal immigrants from Europe, Asia, and elsewhere contributed enormously while integrating into the American way of life. Immigration worked because it was lawful, deliberate, and tied to assimilation.

But something changed in the 2000s, and it has accelerated dramatically in recent years.

What we see today is an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration, arriving at a scale that overwhelms our systems and defies enforcement. This is not the merit-based, assimilable immigration that built America. It is mass unmanaged entry, often without the time, scale, or structure required for successful integration. The result is strain on communities, erosion of social cohesion, and enormous pressure on public resources.

Assimilation is not optional — it’s essential.

Successful immigrants learn English, respect our laws, adopt our civic values, and contribute positively over generations. When inflows are too rapid and lack incentives to assimilate, pockets of parallel societies form, weakening the national unity that has always been our glue. History shows that when we prioritize assimilation — through language requirements, civic education, and limits on scale — we succeed. When we don’t, division follows.

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This is not a moral indictment of individuals seeking opportunity. It is a condemnation of a broken system that rewards lawlessness and punishes those who follow the rules.

The economic damage is real, and it falls hardest on working Americans.

Illegal immigration represents a direct economic attack on America’s middle and lower classes. Illegal workers compete directly for jobs in construction, hospitality, agriculture, and service industries, driving down wages and displacing American citizens and legal residents who depend on those opportunities. Housing demand rises. Schools and hospitals become overcrowded. Social services are stretched thin, often while illegal workers pay little or no taxes.

The hardest hit are working-class Americans — the very people who built this country and deserve protection from unfair competition.

We are also told that our economy would collapse without this illegal labor. That claim is insulting hyperbole. Nevada, my home state, is resilient. Businesses can and will adapt by raising wages, investing in automation, or hiring legally through existing visa programs for workers who follow the rules and wait their turn.

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Legal, high-skilled immigration adds tremendous value through innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity gains. We do not need to sacrifice our sovereignty or our workers to achieve growth.

It is time for bold action.

I support a clearly defined, temporary moratorium on most nonessential immigration categories to secure the border fully, enforce existing law, and remove those here illegally. This pause would give us breathing room to reform the system: prioritize high-skilled talent, enforce strict assimilation requirements, limit family-based chain migration that bypasses merit, and restore a steady, controlled immigration pipeline that benefits America first.

That’s stewardship, not cruelty.

America saved my life and gave me opportunities I could never have imagined. I owe this country everything — and that is why I demand that we fix immigration now, before the damage becomes irreversible.

The American dream is too precious to dilute. Let’s restore order, enforce the law, and keep it alive for generations to come.

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Grappling with our role as Christians in politics and culture, my husband and I were recently asked: “Why does our involvement in politics matter if we’re living in a world not built to last?”

It’s a good question — an honest one. These friends genuinely wanted to understand the why behind the frenzy. Having spent our careers and large portions of our lives contending for truth in politics and in a culture gone mad, I felt the question deserved a thoughtful answer. They’re not the only ones asking it.

When the righteous abandon the public square, just laws disappear with them. A vacuum is always filled. If Christians refuse to engage, others will — eagerly.

As Christians, we know the world is not our home. “Heaven and earth will pass away,” as the Gospel of Matthew reminds us. Ecclesiastes tells us life is fleeting. We live for the eternal, not the temporal. So why does engagement in politics and culture matter at all?

It comes down to this: Politics matter because people matter. God calls us to be salt and light in a dark world and commands us to pursue justice in a world warped by evil. The Epstein files serve as a grim reminder of how depraved humanity can become — and what happens when the powerful are left unchecked and the vulnerable are abandoned.

Exercising dominion

From the very beginning, God established rule, authority, and government. Whether civil authorities or church leaders, governance is simply part of life. What Christians often overlook, however, is God’s second command in Genesis. The first is well known — “Be fruitful and multiply.” But in Genesis 1:28, God also commissions humanity to exercise dominion over creation, over “every living thing that moves on the earth.”

The Hebrew word for dominion, radah, means “to rule.” Why would this charge appear so early in Scripture if governing did not matter? If authority were meant to be purely secular, why would God create it at all? God designs nothing without purpose, and the structures of authority He established are no exception.

Positions of power were created to promote human flourishing — not to be exploited or abused, as history and our present moment so often reveal because of sin. That reality makes it all the more vital that the righteous lead with integrity.

“When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan,” Proverbs 29:2 tells us. We see this play out when those in power promote abortion, authorize irreversible medical interventions on minors, erode parental rights, normalize sexual exploitation, silence dissent, undermine religious liberty, weaken the family, encourage lawlessness, release violent offenders, and punish those who speak truth — all while calling it “progress.”

When we reach heaven’s gates, God will hold us accountable not only for what we did, but for what we failed to do. Apathy is not a virtue. Withdrawing from public witness is not spiritual superiority. Speaking truth in love on biblical issues is not optional obedience.

Since God Himself establishes governments, Christians have a responsibility to engage thoughtfully with those in power — guiding and influencing leadership toward justice, righteousness, and human flourishing. This does not mean we must all run for office or work in politics. But it does require basic stewardship, including something as simple and consequential as voting.

God placed Adam in charge of creation. He appointed Moses to lead Israel, commissioned Joshua to govern, and established judges to administer justice — a model echoed centuries later by the founding fathers. Kings were appointed. Prophets were sent. None of this was accidental. In a world fractured by sin, law and order are necessary. Evil cannot be restrained when those who govern are committed to it.

Driving a spoke into the wheel

Justice matters because without it, truth is silenced, the innocent suffer, and evil flourishes unchecked.

Somewhere along the way, Christians began to believe that withdrawing from politics and culture was noble — that pastoral ministry or missionary work is morally superior. It isn’t. Jesus spent the first 30 years of His life working as a carpenter. Why bother with ordinary labor if the world was destined to pass away? Why not remain permanently in the temple, removed from daily life?

Jesus told us to be in the world, not of it. Our obedience and stewardship here carry eternal weight. The idea that disengagement is more holy is a distortion of biblical teaching.

Scripture repeatedly calls God’s people to action: “To do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8). The Hebrew word translated as justice here is tzedek — righteousness. Justice is not passive. It requires presence, courage, and participation.

When the righteous abandon the public square, just laws disappear with them. A vacuum is always filled. If Christians refuse to engage, others will — eagerly. Yet many believers now hesitate even to pray publicly for elected officials, let alone speak truth into the systems shaping society. This retreat has consequences. Christian theology gave birth to Western ideals of human dignity, ordered liberty, and justice. Walking away from institutions shaped by those truths is not humility; it is neglect.

King Lemuel’s mother understood this responsibility. In Proverbs 31:8-9 she exhorts him: “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. … Judge righteously; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Silence in the face of injustice is not neutrality — it is failure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it plainly: “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”

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Good work, well done

There is always something worth fighting for. In “The Lord of the Rings,” Samwise Gamgee reminds Frodo: “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.” The line endures because it’s true. Surrender is not our calling.

Goodness and beauty are worth pursuing. Babies are worth protecting. Innocence is worth preserving. Shielding the vulnerable from evil is worth defending.

That said, a word of caution from experience: Politics can consume you. We must never let it become our religion. Faith must inform politics — not the other way around. God first. Family second. Everything else follows. Our identities must be anchored in Christ alone. Power, prestige, and influence are not the goal; glorifying God is. If He entrusts us with influence, we are called to steward it faithfully for the good of others.

Our vocations are about service, not self. In her essay “Why Work?” Dorothy Sayers reminds us that engagement in culture, labor, and governance is not a distraction from faith — it is one of the primary ways faith is lived out. “The only Christian work is good work well done,” she wrote. If God is Lord over all of life, then faith must shape how we build, govern, create, and serve.

When we stand before God Almighty, may we give a faithful account — that we contended for the good entrusted to us, defended the vulnerable, protected our children, and refused to surrender truth to fear. Goodness and beauty are worth pursuing. Justice must be upheld. Our involvement in politics and culture is not optional; it is part of our Christian stewardship. Let us therefore “run with endurance the race that is set before us” and not grow weary in doing good.

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Police are asking the public for help to identify other possible victims of a 19-year-old who referenced a satanic online cult and sent lewd photos to a child.

Jacob William St. Peter of Leonardtown was arrested by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland on Feb 3., according to a statement from the Nampa Police Department.

‘It systematically targets vulnerable youth, beginning with seemingly harmless interactions, before escalating to coercion, blackmail, and demands for explicit or self-harm content.’

Police said they were contacted in December by a Nampa resident who reported that an unknown adult man had sent “unsolicited explicit images” to a minor online. A digital forensic examination of the minor’s devices found that the suspect had used the moniker “randysaystrade” on various platforms.

They found explicit content along with references to 764, an online grooming cult that police described as engaging in “coordinated grooming and coercive exploitation of vulnerable adolescents.”

Members of the 764 satanic network target emotionally vulnerable underage children and then coerce them into a spectrum of self-abuse that includes cutting, eating their own hair, and even suicide. The U.S. Dept. of Justice has said cult members often have the victims record the self-abuse, and then the footage is “circulated among members to extort victims further and exert control over them.”

St. Peter faces felony charges of sexual abuse of a child under 16 years of age. He remained under custody in Maryland and awaits extradition to Idaho after receiving a $100,000 bond.

Det. Noah Monroe of the Nampa Police Special Victims Unit said the case is a good reminder for parents to restrict and monitor their children’s access to social media.

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“Communicating with strangers online carries serious risks, particularly for minors, as predators exploit trust to manipulate and harm,” Monroe said.

“The ‘764’ network exemplifies these dangers,” he explained. “It systematically targets vulnerable youth, beginning with seemingly harmless interactions, before escalating to coercion, blackmail, and demands for explicit or self-harm content. Parents and guardians must remain proactive in supervising online activity and educating children about these threats.”

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While BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales was thrilled when it was announced that the plans to build EPIC City in Plano were shut down, she isn’t surprised that more like it are popping up in Texas.

“If you’re noticing EPIC City, expect that there are 10 more EPIC cities happening very quietly in sleepy little areas where people probably would not be paying attention. And expect it. They’re not going to stop,” Gonzales says.

“So now the rural, sleepy Kaufman County in the state of Texas has some new land development interest,” she continues, noting that it’s “where nobody would expect.”

“But curiously enough, according to the Daily Caller, in 2022 … a company by the name of Kaufman Solar bought up a giant parcel of land, and no one batted an eyelash. No one thought anything of it until they now learned that a mysterious buyer from the Middle East is trying to buy up 2,000 plus acres right next to that solar panel farm to build a sustainable city,” Gonzales says.

In addition, at a recent county commissioner court meeting, Gonzales explains that a “lawyer came and gave notice that he was formally requesting a public hearing on approving three new water districts for this particular firm who wants to buy up this land.”

“Now it turns out a little bit later in that court hearing, the attorney confirmed that the potential developer is SEE Holding. Now this is a Dubai company. This is a UAE, like, it is a Middle Eastern company. So what do we make of this?” Gonzales asks after playing a clip of the meeting.

“What do we make of this new interested buyer who wants to buy up all of this, like, 20,000 plus people are just going to put right in here and like why?” she asks again.

“It smells weird. It’s a little fishy … the fact that it is Dubai money … that it is Middle Eastern money, the fact that it is SEE Holdings, it’s weird guys. It’s weird.”

“So be on high alert. The trend in this state is that Islam is coming and Islam is trying to take over,” she adds.

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The Seattle Seahawks trampled the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, but the postgame chatter barely touched football. Fans and pundits argued about anthems, halftime, commercials, and what the whole spectacle “said” about America.

For better or worse, the Super Bowl serves as the premier civic liturgy of the American empire, a night when strangers share the same screens and offices share the same small talk. When that ritual becomes another front in the culture war, the country loses one more place to breathe.

Americans once used the game to share food, laugh at ads, and pretend for a night that they still belonged to one people. This year, the country used the game to rehearse separation.

Families fight. Politics intrudes. Resentments pile up. Holidays still force a pause. Thanksgiving and Christmas push people back to the same table, reminding them that the argument cannot become the relationship.

When even the ritual itself turns into the argument — when Thanksgiving and Christmas are no longer about gratitude or celebrating the birth of Christ but rather who can win a political debate — the family slides from conflict toward rupture. A nation works the same way. Shared ceremonies do not solve deep disagreements, but they keep disagreement from becoming total separation.

From national pastime to litmus test

Americans rarely stop living their separate lives to watch the same thing at the same time. Streaming splinters audiences. Social media isolates communities. Even big films and best-selling books now fall into ideological silos.

The Super Bowl remains one of the few national events that still compels common attention. People who hate sports tune in for the ads so they can follow the conversation at work the next day. A shared celebration, however frivolous, still binds people who otherwise share little else in common.

This year’s Super Bowl looked like a country at war with itself.

The broadcast opened with two national anthems: the familiar Francis Scott Key standard and the newer “black national anthem” that appears at more NFL events each season. The league has leaned hard into woke activism, from corporate rituals to social campaigns, and it rarely hides the moral it wants viewers to absorb. Two anthems signal two constituencies. Two constituencies begin to behave like two nations.

A cultural sorting mechanism

The halftime show sharpened that divide. The NFL chose Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican artist who performs almost entirely in Spanish, and the set centered on Hispanic identity. The stage recreated a bodega, complete with an “EBT welcome” neon sign. The performance leaned into sexual provocation, with dancers simulating sex acts and same-sex grinding played for shock and applause. The show ended with performers hoisting foreign flags, a tableau that read less like cultural flair and more like a victory lap.

RELATED: Bad Bunny preached in Spanish. The NFL hides behind tax perks in English.

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A large portion of the audience did not buy what the league sold. Ratings suggested many viewers tuned out during the set. Some did so out of prudishness, others out of irritation at the message, others out of confusion. Either way, the halftime show did not function as a shared moment. It became a sorting mechanism.

Turning Point USA offered a competing halftime program featuring country artists singing about America and Jesus Christ. The stream broke records and reportedly became YouTube’s largest live broadcast. The accomplishment deserves credit. The need for it should worry anyone who wants a coherent nation. Instead of one shared celebration, Americans built parallel ceremonies, then congratulated themselves for avoiding each other.

Who is the customer here?

The commercials followed the same pattern. One spot from a mortgage lender portrayed a family of color moving into a mostly white neighborhood and encountering casual racism until they instructed the residents on diversity and inclusion. The ad did not wink. It preached.

Another strange commercial, backed by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, aimed to address rising anti-Semitism. It showed a Jewish student harassed in a school hallway as classmates mocked him and stuck a note reading “dirty Jew” to his backpack. The boy reached his locker, where a black student offered solidarity based on shared experience with hatred from whites. The ad then unveiled a “blue square” social media campaign modeled on the “black square” campaign that followed George Floyd’s death in 2020.

NFL owners did not back away from the woke script. They turned the dial higher.

Two different worlds

The next day I went to my barber, and he described the shift in real time. Small talk drives that job. For most of his life, the Monday after the Super Bowl brought lively chatter about the best plays and the funniest ads. This year, customers wanted to talk politics. They complained about the anthems, the halftime, the messaging, the moral scolding. The game itself barely came up. Friendly banter about the MVP and next season’s prospects gave way to arguments about what kind of country this still is.

That exchange captured the larger problem. Conservatives and liberals increasingly inhabit different worlds. They share geography, but they do not share premises. They do not share authorities. They do not share the same media diet, the same moral language, or the same sense of what counts as a fact. When they occupy the same room, they talk past each other. When they can avoid the room, they do.

RELATED: Americans aren’t arguing any more — we’re speaking different languages

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The old American civic fracture ran along a map. The new fracture runs through families, workplaces, churches, and neighborhoods. The country did not divide into North and South. It divided into competing moral nations layered on top of the same territory. Each tribe builds its own institutions, its own entertainers, its own narratives, and, increasingly, its own rituals.

No stable regime can endure that kind of division indefinitely. One side will eventually impose cultural dominance on the other, with power used to punish dissent and enforce conformity. Or the country will choose some form of national divorce, formal or informal, with communities separating as much as law and logistics allow.

The Super Bowl did not create this crisis. It revealed it. A shared civic ritual lets people practice unity without requiring uniformity. Americans once used the game as a harmless excuse to share food, laugh at ads, and pretend for a night that they still belonged to one people. This year, the country used the game to rehearse separation.

A nation that cannot share a football game cannot share much else for long.

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When Team USA freestyle skier Hunter Hess used his platform at the Olympics to bash President Donald Trump, BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales pointed out that “you don’t actually have to represent this country.”

“There is one Olympian who took that very seriously, actually, which was Eileen Gu,” Gonzales comments. “So, she at the time expressed her support for Hunter Hess.”

“You’ll notice by her last name, Gu, she’s competing for China, but that’s not the whole story. She’s actually American-born, and she entered the conversation, and she slammed Trump. She told the Atlantic, ‘I’m sorry that the headline is eclipsing that the Olympics has to be so unrelated to the spirit of the games,’” she continues.

“She was born in America. She was raised in San Francisco. She trained in this country with U.S. ski and snowboard. She was educated by Stanford University, which is probably why she’s such a dips**t, and she is competing in her second Olympic games representing China,” she explains.

Gu reportedly has an American father and a Chinese mother who was a first-generation Chinese immigrant to the United States.

“She has been afforded all of these luxuries from this country, and she chose to take her talents over to the Chinese Communist Party, where they do unspeakable things to innocent civilians, and on top of that has made millions in endorsements from her decision to represent China instead of the United States,” Gonzales says.

“So, it’s like $23 million that she’s making from going off and representing China. How absolutely disgusting can you be?” she asks.

“She’s walking around with all of these luxuries from America. And then she turns around and takes her talents that she was able to achieve from us and takes them to China. And then on top of that … wants to lecture us on Donald Trump and ICE,” she adds.

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The Democratic governor of New Jersey is taking action to oppose operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in her state.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday that she is going to restrict ICE agents from state property as well as launch an online portal to track agents’ movements.

‘She is putting a target on their backs. It’s dangerous and completely backwards.’

“ICE is making everyone less safe. Today, I’m taking action to protect New Jerseyans. First, I’m signing an Executive Order to ban ICE from launching actions from any state property,” Sherrill posted in a statement on the X platform.

She then linked to the site run by the New Jersey Attorney General’s office “where people can upload videos of ICE interactions they see in our state.”

The website says people can report “incidents involving harmful conduct by, or negative interactions with,” federal agents.

“If you’re approached by an agent or see an ICE operation taking place, and you’re at a safe distance — send us your videos,” Sherrill added.

She touted another website set up by the state to ensure “people know their Constitutional rights when interacting with federal agents,” and to connect residents with “important resources” that include “pro-bono legal services.”

Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey immediately criticized the portal.

RELATED: ‘This is where ICE has come to die’: Self-identified Antifa member arrested for threats against federal agents, DOJ says

“The Governor of New Jersey just launched a state portal to track ICE agents,” he wrote. “These are federal officers removing violent criminals from our streets, and she is putting a target on their backs. It’s dangerous and completely backwards.”

However, the information gathered through the portal will not be shared with the public.

The website is available in 22 languages.

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Evil was visited upon the picturesque Canadian community of Tumbler Ridge in Northeastern British Columbia this week.

After allegedly killing his mother and stepbrother off-campus, a trans-identifying man opened fire inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday afternoon, ultimately killing six people and wounding dozens more.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police indicated that at approximately 1:20 p.m., their local detachment received a report of an active shooter at the secondary school. The suspect was described in an official emergency alert sent to local residents during the shooting as a “female in a dress with brown hair.”

Officers promptly responded to the scene, entering the school and searching for the threat. During their search, they found numerous victims as well as an individual believed to be the shooter, dead with an apparently self-inflicted injury.

‘Almost unbearable.’

Footage shows students being evacuated from the school as law enforcement secures the building, which has a Progress Pride Flag prominently displayed in one window.

“This was a rapidly evolving and dynamic situation, and the swift cooperation from the school, first responders, and the community played a critical role in our response,” said RCMP North District Commander Chief Superintendent Ken Floyd.

RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that among the dead are a female teacher, three female students, and two male students. The victims’ ages ranged from 12 to 39. The RCMP indicated that around 25 others received treatment at the nearby medical center for non-life-threatening injuries.

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The Mounties found two additional bodies at a nearby residence — the suspected shooter’s mother and stepbrother, whose names CTV News confirmed were Jennifer Strang and Emmett.

A long gun and a modified handgun were found at the scene.

The RCMP canceled the active shooter alert at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, thereby ending the lockdown and secure and hold at both the secondary and elementary schools. Citing Tuesday’s atrocious events, the schools indicated that they would remain closed for the remainder of the week.

In the immediate wake of the massacre, RCMP Staff Sergeant Kris Clark said that law enforcement had likely identified the shooter but would not disclose the shooter’s identity for the sake of the investigation and for “privacy reasons.”

Authorities also suggested that they will “struggle” to determine a motive for the Tumbler Ridge shooting, reported state media.

The suspected shooter was later identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar of Tumbler Ridge. RCMP confirmed he was a man who began to “transition” about six years ago.

Russell Strang, the alleged shooter’s uncle, confirmed to Juno News that the teen was responsible for the massacre and identified as transgender.

A father and local hockey coach who has multiple kids at the school told Rebel News’ Drea Humphrey that during the massacre, his middle daughter, who is in grade nine, was hiding in the mechanics classroom with one of the shooter’s brothers. The father suggested that the suspected shooter was hunting down his siblings but was unsuccessful in finding them at the school.

The father told Humphrey that when people learned that Van Rootselaar, who was also alternatively referred to by his mother’s last name, was alleged to be the shooter, there wasn’t much surprise because “he’s messed up.”

A newly removed YouTube account named JessJessUwU believed to have belonged to the suspect, according to Juno News, features a transgender flag and an SKS rifle. The account also indicated that owner used “she/her” pronouns,” which have been dutifully used in liberal media reports.

A Facebook account belonging to an apparently Tumbler Ridge-based woman named Jennifer Strang linked to the JessJessUwU YouTube account on July 6, 2021, stating, “Check out my oldest son Jesse Strang YouTube channel. He posts about hunting, self reliance, guns and stuff he likes to do.”

According to the RCMP, police repeatedly went to Van Rootselaar’s home in recent years in response to mental-health-related calls, some involving weapons.

While firearms were at one point seized from the home, they were later returned, according to RCMP Deputy Commissioner McDonald.

On Tuesday evening, British Columbia Premier David Eby implored Canadians “to wrap the people of Tumbler Ridge, wrap these families with love, not just tonight but tomorrow and into the future.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed gratitude “for the courage and selflessness of the first responders who risked their lives to protect their fellow citizens” and extended his condolences to the families and friends “who have lost loved ones to these horrific acts of violence.”

Chris Norbury, a councilman in Tumbler Ridge whose wife is a teacher in town, told state media that he knew all of the victims.

“I’ve seen them grow up,” said Norbury. “We sang stories together, we read books together. … I saw them everywhere. And knowing that I can’t see them any more, that we won’t see them any more, that their family has to live with this incredible loss … is almost unbearable.”

Van Rootselaar appears to be the latest addition to a growing list of recent trans-identifying mass shooters.

A trans-identifying man shot up a Catholic church full of children in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, killing two children and injuring 30.A male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland in April 2024 but was stopped in time by police — then later convicted.A trans-identifying teen stalked the halls of a school in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 4, 2024, ultimately murdering a child and an adult and wounding several others.A trans-identifying woman stormed into a Presbyterian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023, murdering three children and three adults.

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An illegal alien from El Salvador who is accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy has been charged with additional horrendous sex crimes against underage victims.

The remains of Oscar “Omar” Hernandez were found last April in Oxnard, which led to an investigation of his coach, 44-year-old Mario Edgardo Garcia-Aquino, and ultimately his arrest.

’13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez was an innocent child who was exploited and killed by this depraved illegal alien who should have never been in this country.’

Hernandez got on a train to visit the coach in Lancaster when the teenager went missing and was found dead on a roadside in Oxnard, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.

Authorities have not released the cause of death for the teen.

Garcia-Aquino was discovered to be in the country illegally and was working as a youth travel soccer coach with the Hurricane Valley Boys Soccer Club. He had no reported criminal history.

An investigation into other possible victims led to the additional charges.

Garcia-Aquino was charged with eight counts of sodomy of a person under 16 and one count of oral copulation of a person under 16, after two more alleged victims were discovered. The allegations are detailed in the amended charging document.

One of the alleged victims had been allowed to stay at the Palmdale residence of Garcia-Aquino in Feb. 2024 after his family had been befriended by the man.

Prosecutors allege that Garcia-Aquino assaulted a 14-year-old victim with the “intent to commit rape, sodomy, oral copulation” in Dec. 2022 at his home in Sylmar.

Garcia-Aquino pleaded not guilty to the charges through an attorney.

RELATED: Woman sleeping at home awoke to find homeless illegal alien attacking her, police say

Prosecutors also added a special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission or attempted commission of a lewd act with a child.

“13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez was an innocent child who was exploited and killed by this depraved illegal alien who should have never been in this country,” reads a statement from the Department of Homeland Security on social media.

Prosecutors have yet to decide if they will pursue the death penalty against Garcia-Aquino.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky shared a heated exchange over Epstein file redactions during a Wednesday congressional hearing.

Massie was one of the handful of Republicans who pushed Congress to pass legislation mandating the Department of Justice to release all files pertaining to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in an attempt to reveal the real extent of his deviancy.

‘Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did.’

Massie and his Democratic colleague Rep. Ro Khanna of California expressed outrage over the DOJ’s alleged concealment of suspected co-conspirators after viewing the unreacted files over a month after they were supposed to be made public. Their legislation did allow the redaction of victims’ names, but even then the DOJ failed to conceal the names of the victims in certain documents.

After Massie and Khanna shed light on suspected co-conspirators whose names were protected, the DOJ removed the redactions.

RELATED: ‘This isn’t a CIRCUS!’ Bondi fends off attacks from Democrat lawmakers in combative hearing

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“To my right is an email that was sent by the victims’ lawyers to the DOJ … a list of names not to release,” Massie said. “What did the DOJ do with this email? They released this email in the document production! Literally the worst thing you could do to the survivors, you did.”

“We know you touched the document, because you redacted one name,” Massie added. “You redacted the lawyer’s name, but you left the survivor’s name there.”

One redaction Massie was particularly focused on was that of Les Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret, who the congressman implicitly alleged was a co-conspirator. Wexner was long associated with Epstein, even allowing him to take charge of his finances.

“Within 40 minutes, Wexner’s name was added back in,” Bondi said.

“Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed!” Massie replied.

Wexner stated in July 2019 that he had long since severed any connection with Epstein and “would not have continued to work with any individual capable of such egregious, sickening behavior as has been reported about him.”

“When Mr. Epstein was my personal money manager, he was involved in many aspects of my financial life. But let me assure you that I was NEVER aware of the illegal activity charged in the indictment,” added Wexner.

This week, a spokesperson for Wexner told the Columbus Dispatch: “The assistant U.S. attorney told Mr. Wexner’s legal counsel in 2019 that Mr. Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor target in any respect. Mr. Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.”

RELATED: ‘Smoking Gun’: Yale prof nearly blown up by Unabomber defends his Epstein emails

The interaction between Bondi and Massie escalated to a shouting match, in which Bondi rebuked Massie for being a thorn in the Trump administration’s side.

“There was one redaction out of over 4,700,” Bondi laughed.

“This guy has Trump derangement syndrome! You’re a failed politician!”

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A star of the “Real Housewives” franchise went on a tirade against the Bad Bunny halftime show and got fired from a reunion show soon afterward.

Jill Zarin is known for being a member of “The Real Housewives of New York City” and was scheduled to be on the E! series reuniting cast members, but she has since been removed from the lineup.

‘To me it looked like a political statement because there were literally no white people in the entire thing. I think it was a political statement, and I’m not taking a side one way or the other. I think it was an ICE thing; I think the NFL sold out.’

“In light of recent public comments made by Jill Zarin, Blink49 Studios has decided not to move forward with her involvement in ‘The Golden Life,'” reads a statement from the show’s production company. “We remain committed to delivering the series in line with our company standards and values.”

Zarin had posted a video of her complaints about the halftime show on her Instagram account. Although she deleted it soon afterward, a recording of the video was captured and circulated online.

“So we all agree … it was the worst halftime show ever. It’s 250 years that we’re celebrating right now in the United States, and I just don’t think it was appropriate to have it in Spanish,” Zarin said.

“And quite frankly, I didn’t need to see him grabbing his g-area,” she added. “I think it was totally inappropriate. You’ve got all these young kids watching the Super Bowl, and he doesn’t have to be grabbing himself every five seconds. Is he so insecure?”

She went on to complain that she didn’t understand any of the lyrics because they were in Spanish and noted the absence of white people.

“To me it looked like a political statement because there were literally no white people in the entire thing. I think it was a political statement, and I’m not taking a side one way or the other. I just do. I think it was an ICE thing, and I just think that the NFL sold out,” she continued.

“Shame! Shame!” Zarin added.

Some have noted that Lady Gaga, a white person, sang in the show with Bad Bunny.

RELATED: ‘Holy racism you dumb f**k’: Left-wing influencer peddles false narrative about Bad Bunny halftime show — and gets obliterated

She also criticized Lady Gaga for her appearance.

“And Lady Gaga got a facelift — I didn’t recognize her! I literally had to Google her face to see who it was. We all couldn’t agree who it was,” Zarin added while laughing. “So that was kind of fun in the middle of halftime. At least it gave me something to do because it was so hard to watch.”

After she was taken off the show, Zarin said the producers of the show “didn’t even give me a chance” in a statement to InTouch.

“I took it down right away,” she added, referring to the video. “People make mistakes. I’m human.”

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TPUSA’s All-American Halftime Show revealed that Christians are now creating an alternative to progressive agendas — and BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock could not be more pleased.

“The National Football League has chosen wickedness. And Kid Rock and that halftime show is going to be that rock that humbles the National Football League and sends a message to all of sports that fans are owed respect,” Whitlock says on “Fearless.”

“The NFL and sports have become so arrogant that they thought they were untouchable. And finally, we touched them through Kid Rock, through this TPUSA Super Bowl halftime,” he continues.

And while some might argue that Kid Rock is a “degenerate” just like Bad Bunny, Whitlock believes that doesn’t “give you license to ignore the message.”

“God chooses screwed up messengers every single time because we’re all screwed up. And I hear you. ‘God choosing Kid Rock? Whitlock is crazy, this is just like Trump. These guys are evil,’” Whitlock says.

“God chooses messed up people every single time to do His will. I’m messed up. Any of you listening to this show, watching this show right now, and me sitting here professing any part of the gospel, me sitting here, you know, supporting or praising Jesus Christ. Trust me, I’m the wrong messenger,” he continues.

“I’m as screwed up as anybody watching this show, listening to this show, or whatever. But I’ve been chosen. We’ve all been chosen to help execute the great commission. We’ve all been chosen to push back against the forces of iniquity and power and corruption and just the arrogant people that pollute our culture with corruption, with degeneracy,” he explains.

And Kid Rock has done his part well.

“He didn’t need to involve himself with the TPUSA event. It could have been a flop. He could have been a laughing stock. He could have taken that halftime platform that TPUSA built and he could have spewed a bunch of political rhetoric. He could have cursed out the left,” Whitlock says.

“But he didn’t do that. He stuck to the music. He stuck to a consistent message,” he continues.

“I believe this Super Bowl halftime deal is going to have long-lasting impact and is going to change part of American culture,” he adds.

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The chair of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission announced on Wednesday that he has removed a Christian member from the group after she made anti-Zionist comments at a hearing earlier this week.

During the commission’s fifth hearing on Monday, Carrie Prejean Boller — a recent convert to Catholicism who was stripped of her Miss California USA Crown in 2009 after criticizing gay “marriage” — repeatedly asked whether anti-Zionism is necessarily anti-Semitic; stated that “Catholics don’t embrace Zionism”; asked a panelist whether he would “condemn what Israel has done in Gaza”; and questioned whether the modern state of Israel is one and the same as the biblical Israel.

‘Represents no one but herself.’

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs the commission, desperately attempted to manage flaring tempers on the stage, at one point recommending Boller have a coffee with one of her interlocutors.

Following the hearing, one of the witnesses, Shabbos Kestenbaum, criticized Boller, expressing disappointment about her decision to “focus exclusively on Israel.”

After stating in reply that she would not resign or “be bullied” and then suggesting in a separate message that the hearing had systematically excluded “Jewish and Christian voices that dissent from Zionism,” Boller leaned harder into her criticism of Zionism online, tweeting, for example, “I will never bend the knee to the state of Israel. Ever. I am more determined than ever to speak plainly about political Zionism and the lies we’ve been sold to justify endless war, dead children, and blank checks.”

While Boller made appeals in her messaging to the Catholic Church’s teaching that the new Israel “is called the Church of Christ,” she found critics among those Catholics she claimed to speak for, including Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Donohue noted that while “it is possible for someone to oppose Zionism yet not be anti-Semitic,” those “who are activists for the anti-Zionist cause invariably harbor an animus against Jews.”

RELATED: Michael Knowles explains why he isn’t a Christian Zionist

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Donohue stressed that Boller “does not run a Catholic organization, has no Catholic credentials as an author or instructor, and indeed represents no one but herself.”

Among the other outfits and organizations that condemned Boller was the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial board characterized her as a dingbat and suggested the purpose of her theatrics was to gain online followers.

The National Review piled on, dubbing Boller “a lunatic antisemite.”

Among those who alternatively voiced support for Boller was the group Jews United Against Zionism and Candace Owens.

On Wednesday morning, Patrick noted, “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America.”

“I am grateful to President Trump for having the vision and boldness to create this Commission,” continued Patrick. “Fighting for the Word of God and religious freedom is what this nation was founded upon. Leading this fight will be one of his greatest legacies.”

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Federal officers are detaining and arresting anti-ICE agitators who call themselves “legal observers” under a statute forbidding interference of law enforcement operations.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have arrested about 655 people under the statute, which is double the number of similar arrests from the same period a year ago, according to a Reuters review.

The statute forbids anyone from assaulting, resisting, intimidating, or interfering with federal officials engaged in ‘the performance of official duties.’

“When agitators willingly involve themselves and inject themselves in law enforcement operations, they are risking arrest as well as jeopardizing the safety of themselves and those around them,” said Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to Reuters.

The statute forbids anyone from assaulting, resisting, intimidating, or interfering with federal officials engaged in “the performance of official duties.”

Just what constitutes interfering is being challenged in the courts. U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez of Minnesota had ruled that federal agents could not stop vehicles if they were a distance deemed “safe” and “appropriate.” The Department of Homeland Security appealed the ruling.

Illegal alien advocates claim that federal officers are acting unlawfully by arresting observers.

“As seen in Minneapolis and elsewhere, anyone who encounters immigration agents and attempts to criticize or even simply to record them — or who is just on the scene observing or trying to help — can be subjected to aggressive questioning or other retaliation,” reads a statement from the American Immigration Council.

“Federal agents have attempted to charge protesters and observers with ‘obstructing’ or ‘interfering with’ law enforcement operations, sometimes arguing that by being in the way of federal agents or vehicles they are violating federal law,” the group added.

RELATED: Sex toys, other objects allegedly thrown at cops at Minneapolis ICE facility, prompting dozens of arrests — but not by DHS

Some politicians, like California Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat, have conducted classes to train people as legal observers.

“Unless the American public sees the killing of Alex Pretti, the killing of Renee Good, it wouldn’t penetrate,” Gomez said to CBS News. “They wouldn’t believe it, that agents meant to protect them are harming them.”

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Several dozen anti-ICE protesters were arrested at the Whipple Building in Minneapolis on Saturday, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

The protesters were damaging property and throwing ice chunks, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. Videos on social media showed protesters waving sex toys at officers, while another report said bottles were thrown at them.

‘Police had given multiple orders to disperse.’

At least some of the sex toys were able to attach to police cars as they drove by, another video shows.

“A deputy was struck in the head, and a squad vehicle windshield was broken,” police said. “This is not the first time our vehicles have been damaged at this location.”

Police said they declared the demonstration to be unlawful and ordered the crowd to disperse, and while most complied, about 100 protesters defied the order and continued to protest.

The sheriff’s office told Blaze News via email that 43 arrests were made and seven were booked into custody at the Hennepin County Jail. The sheriff’s office also confirmed that the DHS was not a part of the arrests.

One of the protesters admitted to KSTP-TV that they were given plenty of time to disperse.

“The police had given multiple orders to disperse, had moved back the line three times, another set of SWAT came in from the back, popped out of a van over there, and then they just all rushed everybody and started arresting everyone around me,” said the protester.

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“I don’t agree with what’s going on with ICE, but I feel like protesters were given ample opportunity to leave and chose not to,” he added.

He also said the situation was made worse by a pro-ICE agitator who allegedly maced protesters before driving away.

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