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President Trump has approved Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion investment in U.S. Steel. The president travels to Western Pennsylvania on Friday to announce the “partnership” that promises billions in new infrastructure, up to 70,000 jobs, and a more competitive, profitable U.S. Steel.

Trump insists the deal keeps U.S. Steel under American control. The company will remain headquartered in Pittsburgh, and the United States will reportedly retain a “golden share,” allowing the government to protect national strategic interests.

President Trump is trying to make the best of a bad situation. But until Congress gets serious about reshoring, deals like this will keep happening.

The arrangement offers clear advantages to both sides. Nippon gains tariff-free access to American markets. The United States gets an influx of capital.

But this is no cause for celebration. The deal exposes the frailty of America’s heavy industry. It’s not a triumph — it’s a warning.

This should be a wake-up call for Washington: America needs a comprehensive industrial policy.

What’s the deal with the deal?

The fine print remains under wraps, but something about this deal doesn’t add up.

Seventeen months ago, Nippon Steel offered $14.1 billion to acquire 100% of U.S. Steel — a price both sides accepted. Shareholders agreed. The Biden administration blocked the sale.

Now, a year and a half later, Nippon has offered $14.9 billion — not for full ownership, but for a “partnership” that allegedly preserves American control. Why would Nippon pay more for less?

Because it’s not getting less.

Nippon will likely control U.S. Steel’s profits through royalties or dual-class shares. The U.S. government’s so-called “golden share” might resemble preferred stock — giving America a voice, not a dividend. Nippon, meanwhile, collects the returns.

That’s fair. Nippon takes the risk. Nippon makes the investment. Nippon should reap the rewards.

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And the investment is real. Nippon has pledged $2.4 billion to modernize U.S. Steel’s aging plants, plus up to $4 billion to build a new electric arc furnace. By 2028, Nippon expects to pour $11 billion into the company.

This isn’t charity. It’s strategy.

Nippon Steel has done this before — and done it well.

In 1986, the company formed a 50-50 joint venture with Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, called Wheeling-Nisshin. Nippon brought capital, technology, and management know-how. By the early 1990s, Wheeling returned to profitability. By 2011, it posted record profits. Since 2012, Nippon has also partnered with U.S.-based Standard Steel without incident.

Nippon’s track record in American industry is solid. Its commitment to modernize outdated facilities with cutting-edge technology should be welcomed.

As I argue in “Reshore: How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home and Revive the American Dream,” technological innovation is the only durable path to economic growth.

This deal may represent progress. But it stems from America’s industrial weakness — not from strength.

An epic policy failure

Nippon’s promises of capital investment are real — but the deal still reflects the deep dysfunction of America’s heavy industry.

In 1945, the United States produced 60% of the world’s steel. Even after Japan and Europe rebuilt, American steel dominated: In 1969, the U.S. accounted for 40% of global output.

Today, America produces just 4.2% of the world’s steel — roughly equal to Russia. India nearly doubles our output. China produces more than 20 times as much.

What happened?

American steel didn’t lose to cheaper or better alternatives. It lost to foreign governments that treated steel as a national priority. They subsidized it, protected it, and invested in it — not because it was easy, but because it was essential.

RELATED: The real American factory killer? It wasn’t automation

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Japan backed Nippon with subsidies, tariffs, and low-interest financing. Its keiretsu model gave companies the freedom to sell at a loss until they gained control of a market. Once they did, they could hike prices or keep dumping until the competition collapsed.

The decline of American steel wasn’t inevitable. It was policy failure.

This is exactly what happened with Nippon and U.S. Steel.

Foreign steelmakers — from Japan to South Korea to China — flooded the American market with cheap steel for decades. That practice, known as dumping, made steel production unprofitable in the United States. Government-backed producers overseas didn’t mind. But American steelmakers, operating in a for-profit system, couldn’t survive it.

To stay afloat, U.S. firms cut corners. They couldn’t afford the large-scale capital investments needed to modernize. Executives saw the crisis coming — Ross Perot warned about it during his 1992 presidential run — but they couldn’t secure the credit. Why would a private bank finance a company to make an unprofitable product?

America’s steel industry was starved — of both profits and capital.

Now it needs outside help to survive. That help has arrived in the form of Nippon.

Get serious about reshoring

Here’s a better idea: Instead of forcing American companies to sell shares or partner with foreign rivals just to stay alive, the United States should adopt the same industrial strategies that have been used — very effectively — against us.

U.S. Steel struggles not because Americans forgot how to make steel, but because the major capital investments it needs aren’t happening. Banks won’t fund them. The risk is too high. The return is too uncertain.

That’s where Uncle Sam should step in. Federal financing for capital projects — secured by the projects themselves — would protect taxpayers while fueling reindustrialization. Compared with what Washington already spends, the cost would barely register.

Nippon has pledged $2.4 billion to upgrade U.S. Steel’s plants and another $4 billion for a new furnace. That’s real money. But America spent $886 billion on national defense in 2024 — plus another $79 billion for Ukraine.

Protecting our ability to produce high-quality steel isn’t just good economics. It’s national security.

President Trump is trying to make the best of a bad situation. No one wants a Japanese company to own U.S. Steel. But until Congress gets serious about reshoring, deals like this will keep happening.

It’s time to stop outsourcing America’s future.

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Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has faced relentless roadblocks from rogue left-wing judges attempting to thwart his mass deportation plans. Amid those ongoing battles, the Supreme Court on Friday handed Trump a massive win in his crusade to end the former Biden administration’s illegal immigration crisis.

Under former President Joe Biden, the federal government substantially expanded its parole programs, including establishing the CHNV, which allowed 30,000 individuals per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to immigrate to the U.S.

The Trump administration indicated its plan to terminate the program shortly after Inauguration Day.

The Supreme Court cleared a path for the Trump administration to revoke deportation protections for more than 500,000 foreign nationals enrolled in the CHNV program.

Two justices, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.

The Associated Press reported that with Friday’s ruling, 1 million immigrants could face deportation.

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Congressman Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) compared U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Nazi operatives for removing illegal aliens from the country.

Goldman gave a press conference outside the New York-Broadway Immigration Court in New York City, where he said he witnessed an illegal immigrant — allegedly an asylum seeker — get detained by ICE upon leaving a hearing.

‘They’re trying to do the right thing — pursue the American dream.’

“This is Gestapo-like behavior,” the congressman told media members. “Plainclothes officers wearing masks are terrorizing immigrants who are doing the right thing by going to court, following up on their immigration proceedings, and trying to come into this country lawfully, which is through asylum.”

Soon thereafter, Goldman, born Daniel Sachs Goldman, further evoked World War II-era Germany by saying ICE agents were acting like Nazi operatives striking in the night, despite the ordeal happening in broad daylight.

“I’m also, as a Jew, very familiar with the Gestapo in Nazi Germany and other forms of secret law enforcement in Russia and elsewhere that used fear and intimidation and, under the cover of night, under the cover of masks in order to terrorize people that they did not like,” Goldman explained.

RELATED: Tim Walz compares ICE to Nazi police and gets slapped with brutal backlash

Goldman said he observed the unknown male in question have his case dismissed by a judge, only to be arrested by ICE agents upon exiting the courtroom.

“There were about 15 other people there,” the congressman claimed, referring to ICE agents. “These are routine appearances. … There is no reason for anyone to have expected anything unusual to happen today, and yet [aliens are] ripped away from their families, from their communities, even though they’re trying to do the right thing — pursue the American dream, come to this country as so many of us and our ancestors have for the promise of the American dream.”

Goldman took particular issue with agents wearing masks and asked why they were necessary if their actions were “legitimate” and “aboveboard.”

Border czar Tom Homan spoke to BlazeTV host Glenn Beck about this very issue last week and explained it was because immigration agents were “being doxxed all over the place.”

“Their pictures are being put on telephone poles in major cities. These officers are under great threat,” Homan added.

RELATED: ‘Not based on color’: Tom Homan debunks media claims about white South African refugees with Glenn Beck

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“Rep. Daniel Goldman is just another radical Democrat who will prioritize illegal aliens over Americans,” reporter and social media coordinator Yanky Pollak told Blaze News.

Investigative journalist Oren Levy said Goldman’s comparisons of ICE agents to the Gestapo were “deeply disappointing and irresponsible, especially coming from an elected official.”

Levy has reported on the illegal immigration crisis in New York City for years and told Blaze News that “ICE agents are simply doing their jobs.”

“Their job’s made more difficult by the current open-border policies that have allowed dangerous individuals to slip into the country,” Levy added. “If ICE had proper access to jails to remove migrants already convicted of crimes, they wouldn’t need to resort to showing up at courthouses.”

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It is no secret that police officers have been under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of the “defund the police” movement in 2020. After the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, there was a push to implement “racial justice reforms” in police departments nationwide, but officers say those reforms hamper their ability to get bad guys off the streets.

In exclusive interviews with Blaze Media, three officers with the Minneapolis Police Department explained why they are still on the job as the city is grappling with a shortage of manpower since the 2020 riots.

“There’s a lot of days that I ask myself that question” about leaving the MPD, one officer admitted. “Every day it seems that they’re coming out with different policies or different guidelines that make my job harder than it’s ever been. But I think that there’s still good in it. People still deserve to have their rights protected.”

RELATED: Minneapolis police officers rip into Tim Walz’s 2024 VP run: ‘That made no sense’

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“I’ve lost a number of close friends that left the department afterwards. I’ve seen guys that I’ve looked up to, tough as nails, that were completely broken afterwards, reduced to tears,” another officer said.

“I’ve had friends come up to me or family members come up to me that say, ‘We need more cops like you.’ My response, if I ever hear a comment like that, is always, ‘There are. The department is full of them. Certainly was full of them at that time.’ We lost an unacceptable number of great cops, of great sergeants, lieutenants, leaders,” the second officer continued.

The third officer explained it no longer matters what a suspect is doing prior to an officer using any level of force. The mindset from higher-ups is “what did you do wrong because you had to use force. It’s almost kind of a cloud hanging over us.”

Even with the day-to-day challenges, the officers said they still have days when they feel good about keeping the city safe and that they actually made a difference.

“It’s hard to find that in another job.”

Watch a 10-minute interview with the officers below. You can watch the full 30-minute documentary on BlazeTV.

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A longtime ally of Hillary Clinton refused to address flailing support for the Democratic Party and told a CNN host he was being “ridiculous” for bringing up the results of a recent focus group.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), co-chair for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, was interviewed by CNN’s John Berman, who told the congresswoman that a liberal focus group compared Dems to “tortoises, slugs, or sloths.” These labels were coupled with descriptors like “slow, plodding, [and] passive,” while Republicans were seen as “apex predators” like lions or sharks.

‘I’m focused on the humans I represent, not, you know, animal comparisons.’

Wasserman Schultz refused to accept the reality that Democrats are being labeled as weak by voters and blamed the source of the information instead: an article from the New York Times.

“John, I’m not focused on the animals that some New York Times reporter compares the political parties to. My constituents are human beings. And the human beings that I represent are facing devastating health care cuts.”

As Berman stared blankly, Wasserman Schultz continued sidestepping the accusations and seemingly ignored the point.

“I’m focused on the humans I represent, not, you know, animal comparisons.”

RELATED: David Hogg targets Pelosi, unwittingly deals Democrats more damage ahead of likely DNC ouster

Berman persisted, telling the congresswoman that it was “the voters who were making the comparison with animals,” not the journalist.

Wasserman Schultz was not having it, though, and stayed on message.

“John, you said they were asked to compare the parties. So they were prompted to compare the parties to animals. That is ridiculous. I’ve watched a lot of focus groups, and I know that the people that I represent want me fighting for the humans, the families that I represent.”

After praising Democrat policy and criticizing Republicans, the 58-year-old started directly attacking the president as a “dictator” who has employed racists.

“[Voters] don’t want a lawless dictator of a president who hires anti-Semites and who then acts like he’s trying to fight to protect the Jewish community,” Wasserman Schultz cried.

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) speaks at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Wasserman Schultz has bounced around as a House member from Florida over the last 20 years. She served in the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, the 23rd district from 2013 to 2023, and the 25th district from 2023 to the present.

After serving on Clinton’s 2008 campaign, she was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2011. She resigned in 2016, however, after the infamous John Podesta email leaks showed the DNC heavily favored Clinton over Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic primaries.

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Filmmaker and mother Jessica Solce was frustrated by the difficulty of finding healthy, all-natural products for herself and her family. To make it easier, she created the Solarium, which curates trusted, third-party-tested foods, clothing, beauty products, and more — all free of seed oils, endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, and other harmful additives.

In this occasional column she shares recommendations and research she’s picked up during her ongoing education in health and wellness.

“Changes in gray and white matter in brains of women taking [oral contraceptives] suggest that OCs have an effect on brain architecture.” —Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, volume 67, October 2022.

I tried birth control in college. It lasted less than three months, and then I ran for the hills.

Birth control distorts sexual attraction. Women are literally put off the scent of the hunt for the right partner.

I hated how my body was feeling. It was swelling, and my mind was unsettled and lethargic. Luckily I had an old-world mother who always warned me never to take birth control, so I tiptoed into my college experiment with awareness and wariness, hypervigilant for any side effects.

Before we get into exactly why hormonal birth control is systemically wrecking your body and mind — both on a micro (you) and a macro (societal, generational) level — I’m going to skip ahead to the takeaway. This is easily one of the most important things you’ll read all week, and I can’t risk you clicking off before you finish reading.

Here it is: Ladies, don’t use the pill, the patch, or the ring. Or any method of contraception interfering with your body’s delicate balance of hormones.

It doesn’t matter if it has some “positive” side effects. Any pharmaceutical intervention will upend your body’s natural balance, and whatever the “positive” side effects, they are absolutely overshadowed by the multitude of negative side effects: migraines, anxiety attacks, loss of libido, brain alterations, thrombosis, personality disorders, depression, and cancer.

Your best option, to quote Nancy Reagan, is to just say no.

Of course, the former first lady was talking about illegal drugs. But if we’ve learned anything in the past couple of decades, it’s that the stuff the pharmaceutical companies peddle can be just as bad.

Maybe you’ve heard this kind of talk linked to the slogan Make America Healthy Again. Even if MAHA is a little too similar to MAGA for your taste, don’t buy into the propaganda that ditching birth control is somehow a partisan issue.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, 29-year-old pop singer Lorde spoke positively about her decision to stop using birth control for the first time since she was fifteen. Still, she felt the need to issue a disclaimer: “I’ve now come to see my decision was maybe some quasi right-wing programming.”

RELATED: Lorde and 5 other celebs who broke up with birth control

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Well, if a woman living in tune with her body and not dependent on Big Pharma is right-wing, welcome to the right wing, Lorde. Welcome, all.

Here’s what hormonal birth control does in addition to preventing pregnancy.

It changes who you’re attracted to

In 2008, 100 women were asked to sniff the shirts of men and rate them by odor, most to least attractive. The results suggested that women on the pill preferred the scent of men with similar MHC genes. MHC genes are crucial to the development of the immune system; offspring of parents with a well-balanced diversity of these genes tend to be more resistant to disease.

By contrast, women not on birth control were drawn to men with dissimilar MHC genes — selecting for offspring with strong immune systems. You’re instinctively drawn to a man whose genes fill in what you’re missing — a match that benefits your future children. Incredible, really.

Birth control distorts sexual attraction. Women are literally put off the scent of the hunt for the right partner.

Also, when a woman goes off birth control, she can find herself no longer attracted to her partner’s pheromones.

It messes with our water supply

We in the West love to point out the detrimental environmental effects of automobiles while ignoring the toxic emissions from our own bodies. All of the drugs we consume end up passing through us and right back into the water system.

This pollutes our drinking water as well as the habitats of aquatic animals. Like the herbicide atrazine, estrogen from birth control can
wreak havoc on mating cycles, causing intersex conditions, low sperm count, and population collapse.

It increases the risk of cancer

Users of hormonal contraceptives face a
20% to 30% higher risk of breast cancer. And yet most reports tend to dismiss any alarm this figure might raise. This reassuring passage is typical: “Experts say the increased risk is small and the benefits of hormonal contraceptives still outweigh the risks for many people.”

Contrast that with the general attitude toward another known cancer risk: smoking cigarettes. Even just five cigarettes a day increases your risk of lung cancer by almost 8%. Once you get up to pack or two a day, that risk rises to something like 25%.

In other words, about the same increased risk as birth control.

When it comes to cigarettes, however,
the “experts” sing a different tune: “There’s no ‘safe’ number of cigarettes you can smoke per day. Any number of cigarettes can increase your risk of developing cancer.”

It messes with your brain

A 2019 study found that women who take oral contraception had a significantly smaller hypothalamus than those who don’t. The hypothalamus is the region of the brain regulating any number of bodily functions, from sex drive and sleep cycles to appetite and heart rate.

A smaller hypothalamus correlates with depression and decreased emotional regulation.

Vice soon responded with an article “debunking” the study: Yes, birth control alters the structure of the brain, but who’s to say that’s a bad thing?

Yeah, no thanks.

A
2023 study revealed that women on oral contraceptives did not experience the typical reduction in the stress hormone ACTH after social activities. This suggests that hormonal contraceptives may alter how the body regulates stress and directly causes elevated cortisol levels.

It makes being a teenager exponentially worse

A 2016 Danish study found that females 15 to 19 using oral contraception were likely to be diagnosed with depression at a 70% higher rate than non-users. The patch and vaginal rings had even higher correlation with depression.

Many of those diagnosed go on to take antidepressants, another lifetime prescription keeping them dependent on the pharmaceutical companies.

Still, birth control defenders say there’s nothing to see here. In the words of
Dr. Cora Breuner, a Seattle pediatrician who chairs the committee on adolescents for the American Academy of Pediatrics, “An unintended and unwanted pregnancy far outweighs all the other side effects that could occur from a contraceptive.”

Oh, and taking birth control during adolescence can also
disrupt brain development, especially processes related to the fear response.

Could rampant birth control use have anything to do with women’s
higher rates of anxiety disorders? Seems like a question worth asking.

It gets into breast milk

What we eat goes directly into our breast milk and into our babies. Do we really need a science experiment for this logic? We’re advised not to eat too much broccoli because it may give our babies uncomfortable gas.

RELATED: MAHA study unveiled: The truth behind autism

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But don’t worry about those drugs you’re taking, and have you considered updating your vaccines?

Do you want to fill your babies’ bodies with synthetic estrogen or progestin? Logically these synthetic hormones go downstream and directly into our breast milk. If there is a negative risk to my infant’s growth, that is enough warning for me.

We are already aware that oral contraceptives increase chances of cancer and may cause behavioral and personality disorders.

So why is cancer increasing so drastically in children? We actually know. Leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children, and a
Scandinavian study found a direct link to birth control.

It messes with your metabolism

Some birth control pills, especially those with certain hormones like androgenic progestins, can negatively affect glucose metabolism, i.e., make it harder for the body to handle sugar. This means blood sugar and insulin levels may spike after eating, which can lead to problems like insulin resistance, a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.

It can cause other life-altering side effects

“I would get these migraines that would shock my body into so much pain that I would then have seizures,” said one woman in a 2018
BBC documentary. Also on the menu are anxiety attacks, weight gain, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots.

Good luck addressing any of these problems. Most doctors aren’t trained to recognize birth control side effects, often leading women to seek additional pharmaceutical solutions.

It’s coming for men, too

That’s right, guys. Thank to the wonders of science, soon all of this can be yours too. Who knows what interesting new effects we’ll see when we start tampering with male hormones?

Health begins with the awareness that our bodies are incredibly complex, elegantly constructed systems. My mission with the Solarium is to help us be better stewards of this natural gift.

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A Maryland police chief decried what he called a “broken system” after a 16-year-old male arrested in connection with 121 car break-ins in one night earlier this month was released after just five hours in custody.

Police in Laurel said the male and two other teens smashed car windows and stole items from 54 cars in Laurel and 67 more in Prince George’s, Anne Arundel, and Howard Counties on the night of May 4, WRC-TV reported.

‘I had one woman stop me and mention to me that this is the third time this has happened to her car. And because the deductible was so high, she had to make adjustments in her home, including the purchase of food.’

Police arrested the 16-year-old on Wednesday morning, the station said, but just five hours later, police were forced to release him.

“He was released back into the community, back into the environment that allowed him to be out roaming the streets in all of these counties late at night and in the early morning,” Laurel Police Chief Russ Hamill told WRC.

The State’s Attorney’s Office supported detectives’ intention to hold the teen, but the Department of Juvenile Services shot that down, saying the young suspect didn’t have a prior record, and the crimes weren’t violent, Hamill added to the station.

RELATED: Video: Entitled female hits cop with car, drives down closed street because she has to ‘go to work.’ Bad idea.

“We don’t do this lightly. We don’t ask for young people to be held on a whim. We do so to help protect the community and them,” the chief also told WRC. “I have little hope there will be further accountability for him due to this broken system.”

Blaze News on Friday morning asked a Department of Juvenile Services spokesperson if the agency had any comment on Hamill’s “broken system” declaration, but the spokesperson told Blaze News that “laws in place preclude our ability to talk about individual cases at all.”

Hamill told WRC that video from May 4 shows two suspects walk from car to car in a parking lot and use flashlights to search inside and that a third suspect is seen nearby driving a stolen car in case they need to make a getaway.

“They were just simply going through neighborhoods and targets of opportunity, breaking into cars,” Hamill added to the station. “If there was something in there, they’d steal. If there was nothing in there, they’d move to another car.”

More from WRC:

Investigators found the keys to the stolen car and keys to 25 other cars during a search warrant at the 16-year-old suspect’s home in Beltsville, police said. They also found several stolen items, police said.

Hamill said although some might consider car break-ins a lower-level crime, they greatly affect the victims, who often have to pay hundreds of dollars on their insurance deductibles and miss work because they don’t have a useable car.

RELATED: Illegal immigrant arrested in connection with stabbing released from custody after paperwork went unfiled — then he allegedly committed a murder

“I had one woman stop me and mention to me that this is the third time this has happened to her car,” Hamill told the station. “And because the deductible was so high, she had to make adjustments in her home, including the purchase of food.”

Laurel police on Friday morning told Blaze News that the two other juvenile suspects wanted in connection with the car break-ins were arrested for unrelated crimes in other jurisdictions.

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The White House moved to correct errors in the highly anticipated MAHA report Thursday after inconsistencies and inaccuracies were found in the citations.

The errors in the MAHA report were first reported by NOTUS on Thursday. They included broken links and studies that apparently did not exist. The White House later uploaded the corrected version of the report, and the administration maintained that the errors do not refute the substance of the report.

“I understand there were some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed, and the report will be updated,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. “But it does not negate the substance of the report, which, as you know, is one of the most transformative health reports that has ever been released by the federal government.”

‘It’s time for the media to also focus on what matters.’

RELATED: Who is bankrolling the anti-MAHA movement?

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The Department of Health and Human Services similarly stated that they were simply formatting errors and that they don’t change the historic findings in the report.

“Minor citation and formatting errors have been corrected, but the substance of the MAHA report remains the same — a historic and transformative assessment by the federal government to understand the chronic disease epidemic afflicting our nation’s children,” an HHS spokesperson said. “Under President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, our federal government is no longer ignoring this crisis, and it’s time for the media to also focus on what matters.”

However, these errors seem to go beyond formatting as the administration is suggesting. The citations included broken links and even pointed to numerous studies that reportedly do not appear in the issues of the journals cited and may not even exist at all.

“The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with,” Katherine Keyes, an epidemiologist listed as an author, told NOTUS. “We’ve certainly done research on this topic, but did not publish a paper in JAMA Pediatrics on this topic with that co-author group, or with that title.”

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The report itself, which was spearheaded by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., focused on identifying root causes for various health epidemics affecting American children, including chronic diseases, obesity, autoimmune conditions, and behavioral disorders. Some of these root causes include ultra-processed foods, pesticides, and exposure to chemicals, as well as “overmedicalization.”

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Now that the Biden regime is history, we’re finally seeing genuine efforts to combat the anti-Semitism that was allowed to run rampant for years.

“I am unbelievably thankful that we are doing everything we finally can, unlike the past regime, to fight anti-Semitism here in the United States,” says Mark Levin.

“But we’re on defense because Qatar is funding it,” he warns.

He accuses the wealthy Gulf nation of bankrolling division by funneling millions of dollars into hundreds of American universities, including Harvard and Columbia, fueling “riots, violent riotous activity in our streets, the destruction of our educational system, [and] the brainwashing of the next generation of Americans.”

“We are deporting people that they are directly and indirectly funding, calling for the overthrow of our country and violently attacking individuals with whom they disagree — Jews and non-Jews who support America and support Israel,” Levin explains. “I have a problem with that — a big problem.”

Despite these significant ethical concerns, the United States maintains a robust relationship with Qatar, particularly through substantial economic and defense agreements.

But Levin is skeptical about striking deals with a nation that funds terrorism.

“Is Qatar going to have to stop funding terrorism? Is that part of any deal? I haven’t seen it,” he says, expressing skepticism about having peace with a country that hates America’s roots.

“Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles,” says Levin. “Without Judaism, there’d be no Christianity, and without Christianity, there’d be no Judaism; we’re tied at the hip.” He calls this unity “a wonderful thing” to be celebrated, praising evangelical Christians who support Israel “because it’s the right thing to do.”

Levin then shares a story about his friend Pastor John Hagee, whose Christians United for Israel group shows unmatched commitment to the Holy Land. Recalling a profound moment when they were together in Israel, Levin quotes Hagee: “Either the Jews are right or the Christians are right. And you know when we’ll find out? When the Messiah comes.” This, Levin says, is “genius, brilliant,” reflecting the shared faith that binds Americans. He urges us to speak out against Qatar’s influence and defend these values, ensuring that our nation’s foundation endures.

To hear more of Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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Elon Musk’s time in government is over, Congress is poised to raise the debt ceiling by at least $4 trillion, and Republican fiscal hawks (and Musk himself) are understandably irritated about their progress in cutting the federal debt. This irritation, the changes in DOGE leadership, and the threat of hitting the debt limit in August or September have all combined to push the White House to propose codifying $9.3 billion in cuts to USAID, NPR, and PBS.

The process, in which the legislative and executive branches agree to recall spending Congress previously appropriated, is called rescission. And while most things in Congress are fairly complicated, this one is pretty simple. Here’s how it works.

Watch what Republicans do next. That will show you exactly how much their promises are worth.

First, the White House signals which funds it’s been given but didn’t use or doesn’t want to use and would like to return to the Treasury Department. That’s the proposal that’s reportedly heading to the lower chamber on Monday. Congress gave the president this power under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Next, the House of Representatives considers the cuts, makes whatever tweaks and changes it wants to the proposal, and votes. If a simple majority says yes, it sends the rescission package to the Senate.

Then the Senate considers the proposal and can either pass it with a simple majority vote, thereby sending the rescissions to the president for his signature, or make its own alterations, in which case it goes back to the House of Representatives for another vote. As with just about everything, the two chambers must agree on the exact text before it can make the journey west to the White House.

Simple enough! After all, Republicans make cutting government a top campaign pledge in every single race, and even Democrats claim they want to make cuts to federal bloat when they’re on the campaign trail.

Of course, once they’re in D.C., Democrats don’t want to cut a dime, and few Republicans do either. So what happens next?

You can get a good preview by looking to the fairly recent history of Donald Trump’s rescissions. In 2018, first-term President Trump proposed $15.4 billion in rescissions of unused, unobligated funds sitting in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Land and Water Conservation Fund, and Department of Energy’s fuel-efficient vehicle loan fund.

The request passed the Republican-controlled House with little problem but stalled and was ultimately defeated in the Senate 48-50, with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) voting no and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) absent, battling brain cancer.

The Republican senators who voted no saw the rescissions as attacks on programs they cared about. How could you be against children’s health!? The water?! None of them were swayed that the money was not needed and that the programs had been funded for the next year, so no child nor waterway was under threat.

They didn’t care at all. They couldn’t even bring themselves to cut the deficit by reclaiming unspent money. That was too much! This is what you’re up against in Washington – and from Republicans no less.

So who are the Republican senators to expect trouble from this time around, when the money is being clawed back from agencies and organizations that have been pushing a progressive, anti-American, and partisan Democratic agenda?

Susan Collins: Seven years after the failure of the 2018 rescissions package, Collins is the only no-vote Republican still in the U.S. Senate. She said her initial “no” was because she objected to the procedure being used at all — for anything. Money appropriated after careful negotiation by Congress should not be sent back, she reasoned, or senators will stop trusting the process. Oh no!

There’s no sign she’s changed her views on this, and she’s been a fairly regular no vote on the rest of Trump 47’s agenda thus far.

Lisa Murkowski: Back in 2018, the senior senator from Alaska pinched her nose and voted yes after some last-minute on-the-floor wrangling by then-Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and others. While these cuts don’t hit anything specific to her constituents, don’t expect her to have softened her stance.

Mitch McConnell: While McConnell embraced rescissions as common sense in 2018, his cold relationship with the president has become openly antagonistic since the 2021 Capitol riot. More, foreign funding is dear to him — and he considers it his sacred duty to defend the Washington Blob’s foreign policy consensus against the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s America First agenda. While few will argue USAID spending wasn’t corrupt and wasteful, McConnell considers it an important tool of American statecraft. He’s a likely no with nothing to lose.

Thom Tillis: While longtime observers have noted Tillis’ penchant for clashing with the president, the North Carolina senator also considers himself a fiscal hawk, and his office has tweeted that he’s open to voting yes on rescissions — with Senate amendments.

Roger Wicker: The Mississippi senator doesn’t hide his frustration. He sees the rescission debate as a distraction from what he considers the Senate’s real work. He hasn’t ruled out supporting the measure, but if it were his call, the chamber wouldn’t waste time on this right now.

Any three Republican senators voting no would leave the decision to Vice President JD Vance, just as Mike Pence stood ready to break a tie in 2018. But four GOP defections would kill the measure outright. A loss would deal a humiliating blow to both the administration and the broader Republican Party.

Fiscal hawks now claim a mandate that voters never gave them. Trump won office promising mass deportations, a secure border, a smarter foreign policy, an end to the DEI and trans ideology push, and aggressive tariffs — not deep cuts to the Department of Education or a crusade against USAID. The administration’s sudden focus on those targets reflects the influence of Elon Musk and OMB Director Russ Vought, not the will of the voters.

But they’ve arrived. Their early shock-and-awe tactics grabbed the public’s attention, and the waste the DOGE uncovered has lit a fire — one that’s driving near-Tea Party intensity across Washington and social media. Voters are demanding more, and for good reason. Channeling that energy into codifying DOGE cuts through rescissions makes far more sense than sabotaging the president’s agenda over a reconciliation bill that doesn’t go far enough. This approach strengthens the republic. It deserves to continue.

Even if the effort only serves to placate budget hawks like Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — senators still fuming over the debt ceiling hike — it’s a win.

Watch what Republicans do next. That will show you exactly how much their promises are worth.

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The left’s radical immigration agenda isn’t just dangerous, it’s hypocritical to the core. Some recent stories show just how radical leftists have become.

Let’s start with a story Blaze News reported this month that should infuriate every law-abiding American. A 42-year-old Venezuelan man — a known hitman tied to the brutal El Chamu gang and accused of four contract killings — was released into the United States after being caught crossing the Arizona border illegally in 2022. That’s right: arrested, deemed inadmissible, then set free.

Leftists’ selective outrage reveals a disturbing truth: Their moral compass isn’t guided by justice or suffering. It’s guided by race and politics.

But it gets worse. The Biden administration granted this suspected murderer a work permit because, at the time, the U.S. wasn’t talking to Venezuela about taking back its criminals.

This man walked freely through our communities for nearly three years. He was finally arrested in February 2025 — not thanks to Biden but because President Donald Trump pressured Venezuela to resume accepting deportees. Immigration and Customs Enforcement picked him up in Grapevine, Texas, which happens to be in my backyard.

This is what happens when ideology overrides public safety. And it’s not an isolated case.

An activist judge

In Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was just indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade ICE agents. Dugan reportedly got “visibly angry,” confronted federal agents in her courtroom, and then snuck the man — who was facing battery charges and had been deported once before — out a private exit for the jury.

This man is accused of punching one victim 30 times and attacking a woman who tried to intervene. Both victims were hospitalized. But Dugan, a sitting judge, allegedly aided his escape. That’s not just reckless — it’s criminal.

And yet, as usual, the left rushed to glorify her. Some are actually comparing Judge Dugan to Harriet Tubman. I wish I were joking! Leftist lawyer Jeffrey Mandell and his friends at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel are likening her actions to a modern Underground Railroad — as if protecting a violent illegal alien compares to the rescue of fugitive slaves.

It’s beyond insulting. Harriet Tubman risked her life to free human beings from bondage. Judge Dugan risked the public’s safety to help a man accused of brutal violence. The left’s delusional moral equivalence here reveals exactly how twisted their priorities have become.

Blind eye to genocide

Yet, these priorities don’t apply if you don’t have the left’s approved skin color.

President Trump has made it a priority to deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. That’s what this is really about. But instead of recognizing the distinction between lawful immigration and criminal activity, the left screams that Trump wants to “kick out all immigrants” and destroy the American dream.

Then, when the administration offers refugee status to 59 Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa, the same people lose their minds.

These are white farmers and their families — victims of racial violence, land seizures, and targeted killings. The South African government passed a law in 2024 that allows for the confiscation of land without compensation. Political rallies routinely feature chants of “Kill the Boer,” referring to white farmers. A political party leader led one such rally in 2023 — and it wasn’t subtle. The crowd chanted, “Shoot to kill!” with bloodthirsty fervor.

Elon Musk, a South African native, called it open incitement to genocide. He’s right.

You’d think the self-appointed champions of compassion would welcome these families with open arms. But no — they’re furious. MSNBC analyst Richard Stengel dismissed their plight as “apartheid nostalgia.” U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) called it “global apartheid.” And the Episcopal Church, which has helped resettle more than 100,000 refugees and proudly aids illegal aliens, publicly refused to help these 59 families. It even ended a 40-year partnership with the federal government over it.

Why? Because these refugees are white.

Narrative-driven immigration

In summary, the left welcomed a Venezuelan gang hitman into the country and handed him a work permit. Leftists are defending a judge who allegedly helped a violent offender escape ICE. They have no problem with 10 million illegal immigrants who flooded the country under President Biden. But when it comes to 59 South African farmers fleeing actual persecution?

They call it racism. They shut down programs. They rage on television.

This isn’t compassion. It’s a radical ideological agenda that says borders should be open to criminals — as long as they fit the narrative — and closed to those who don’t.

RELATED: ‘Not based on color’: Tom Homan debunks media claims about white South African refugees with Glenn Beck

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It would be laughable if it weren’t so morally bankrupt.

Leftists’ selective outrage reveals a disturbing truth: Their moral compass isn’t guided by justice or suffering. It’s guided by race and politics. Some victims are celebrated. Others are ignored, depending entirely on their skin color and the usefulness of their story.

America is at a crossroads. We can continue this reckless, backward approach — or we can choose sanity, security, and fairness. President Trump is trying to restore order, but the radical left is fighting him every step of the way. And if this latest circus has shown us anything, it’s that leftists are just getting started.

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The sexual revolution promised liberation and fulfillment. Women were told that casting off sexual restraint would bring empowerment. But now, decades downstream from its launch, the promises ring hollow.

Unbridled sex isn’t delivering freedom — it’s deepening bondage.

Pornography and casual sex will never satisfy. But grace is available for those who believed the lies.

As it turns out, human beings are more than pleasure machines wired through the nerve endings of our genitals. We are more than dopamine-driven robots. We are embodied souls — created by God, endowed with dignity, purpose, and the need for boundaries.

Yet our culture’s sexualization continues at breakneck speed.

Access to pornography has never been easier. Research suggests that 30% to 65% of teenagers have been exposed to online porn — most accidentally. A report from Brigham Young University found that roughly 12% of all websites host pornographic content.

Meanwhile, the rise and normalization of platforms like OnlyFans showcase and glamorize pornography, rebranding prostitution as “sex work” — the new socially acceptable euphemism. These online “stars” feed the demand of 305 million users, racking up over $10 billion in gross transactions — pun very much intended.

But the shine is fading — and not just among traditional critics.

The data is clear

A recent article titled “The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness” in the New York Times offers a revealing glimpse. The author, while careful to avoid “sex shaming,” couldn’t ignore the harms. She described the rise of “porn-trained behaviors” among Gen Z: Choking, slapping, and spitting during sex. These are learned behaviors.

An entire generation has been catechized by the tutor of the porn industry. A report indicated that 79% of teens who have watched pornography believed it has helped them learn how to have sex. When porn forms our instincts, abuse masquerades as desire.

As our culture drifts farther from monogamy, covenant, intimacy, and the procreation purpose of sex, we find ourselves increasingly fragmented and sexually broken.

The harm is real

One of the most disturbing and revealing illustrations of this trend came from a social media stunt by Lily Phillips, a young woman who makes her living on OnlyFans. She recorded herself sleeping with 100 men in a single day — for content. What followed was not a celebration and definitely not empowerment, but a sobering breakdown.

She cried. She described feeling “robotic,” disconnected, and hollow. She was shattered.

Her tears trace back to a root far deeper than fatigue or regret. They point to the soul’s protest. We were not made for sex severed from love, trust, and covenant. Humans are not just sex-driven beasts. We are made in the image of God. We are body and soul, inseparably bound.

Sex is profoundly spiritual. Though it occurs in the flesh, it reaches into the soul. It doesn’t simply join us physically to the other person, but spiritually as well (1 Corinthians 6:16). When we transgress God’s design, we don’t just sin with our bodies — we entangle our souls in shame and bondage that can’t be numbed or ignored.

This is why sexual sin wounds us in ways others sins often do not.

The apostle Paul warned in Romans 1:18 that sinners “suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” That’s what’s happening. We push down truth to avoid reckoning with its demands on us. We’d rather bury the guilt, ignore the shame, and pretend everything’s fine.

Lily Phillips, despite her tears, hasn’t rejected the lies of the sexual revolution. She’s still clinging to them, even as they leave her in pieces. There are many like her.

The truth is freedom

Unfortunately, those lies continue to spread. For decades, the cultural narrative has insisted that the church is sexually repressive and anti-sex. Why? Because it poses a threat to the prevailing narrative.

But data paints a different picture. In fact, regular churchgoers report the most frequent and satisfying sex lives in America. Sex within the covenant of marriage — between a man and a woman — isn’t just moral. It’s joyful. It’s free from guilt and shame. It’s good. Maybe that’s why church-attending married couples are having more sex.

There is a better way than the world offers. It’s not repression of our sexual desires — it’s redirection. It’s not shame — it’s sanctity.

As Christians, we must resist the temptations surrounding us on every screen and scroll. We must see how broken the porn industry is — and how broken it makes those who produce and consume it. Pornography and casual sex will never satisfy. But grace is available for those who believed the lies. Forgiveness is offered. Healing is possible. Through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, there is restoration — for the consumer and the creator alike.

The sexual revolution promised the world liberation — but left us groaning as slaves. Only Christ breaks the chains.

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A former NBC News host mocked Democrats for having to use anthropologists to understand male voters after more than a decade of marginalizing and ignoring the white male vote.

Chuck Todd made the comments while being interviewed by Matt Lewis on his YouTube show. Todd made fun of the Democrats for beginning to use curse words in an attempt to pivot toward those voters that lost them the 2024 election.

‘You spent 15 years essentially ignoring that vote, and in fact, not only ignoring it — interest groups going out of their way to marginalize that demographic group.’

“They’re having to use anthropologists to figure out how to appeal to white men!” said Todd. “How do we talk to this strange breed of American citizen that we’ve never wanted their vote before, but now we do?”

He went on to recall a story demonstrating the blind spot for Democrats from a staffer who said Hillary Clinton had reached out to various ethnic groups during the 2016 campaign but didn’t mention whites or males.

“My staffer goes, ‘She doesn’t want my vote. She didn’t ask for my vote.’ And he’s a white male. She didn’t ask for any male,” Todd said.

“And now you’re like, ‘Oh, we got a problem.’ Well, you spent 15 years essentially ignoring that vote, and in fact, not only ignoring it — interest groups going out of their way to marginalize that demographic group. And then you’re shocked when that demographic group doesn’t think the Democratic Party wants them to be members.”

Video of his comments were widely shared on social media.

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Todd had been previously mocked and ridiculed by many on social media for angrily denying that the mainstream media had missed the story about former President Joe Biden’s decline.

“This was a failure of the Democratic Party. And … the virtue signaling that some people have done to try to say that the media missed this story — they didn’t miss this story!” he yelled.

“The media’s got plenty of things to attack them for,” Todd added. “And there are MSNBC and CNN and pundits that absolutely carried water for Joe Biden. But they’re not journalists! They’re former strategists that carried water for Joe Biden!”

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The growing autopen scandal didn’t just reveal bureaucratic dysfunction — it exposed the collapse of constitutional order during Joe Biden’s presidency. For years, critics raised questions about Biden’s competence. But recent investigative findings paint a far darker picture. The debate is no longer about whether Biden was merely tired, was gaffe-prone, or had merely “lost his fastball.” The real question is much simpler: Who was actually running the White House?

The answer isn’t complicated.

Regret isn’t enough. Full transparency is overdue — and it should no longer be optional.

Our system, a constitutional republic, vests executive authority in one person: the president. Regardless of how Biden became president — an election I still view as a sham — the nation still required a functioning commander in chief. Instead, evidence suggests a collection of unelected individuals and committees assumed presidential authority. That arrangement shattered the illusion that America operates as a rules-based constitutional republic. It exposed a government that no longer plays by the rules it demands others follow.

And the rot didn’t end with staffers and shadow advisers. The media helped enable the fraud — and now looks to profit from revealing it. No one personifies that corruption more clearly than CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.

These two aren’t reporting a story.
They’re selling one.

Tapper and Thompson have launched a media campaign to sell books filled with information they sat on for years. Their book tour isn’t journalism — it’s content monetization, no different from a Netflix docudrama. They brag about interviewing hundreds of anonymous sources, including senior White House officials and members of Congress. But instead of naming names or holding anyone accountable, they offer sanitized narratives, tailored for profit.

This isn’t a game. It’s not entertainment. The past four years weren’t just marked by incompetence — they revealed a criminal breakdown at the heart of the executive branch. Tapper and Thompson claim to know who ran the country. They must now be treated not as pundits, but as witnesses.

Some will instinctively object: “The First Amendment protects journalists from revealing their sources!” That argument doesn’t hold up.

The Supreme Court settled this in
Branzburg v. Hayes (1972), ruling that reporters can be compelled to testify before a grand jury. “Reporter’s privilege,” as it’s known, doesn’t shield journalists from legal accountability — especially in criminal cases. And in this case, I don’t believe Tapper or Thompson even qualify as reporters. They wrote and published the book as private authors. Axios White House reporter Marc Caputo publicly stated the outlet has no financial interest in the book. Tapper and Thompson acted as media personalities, not journalists.

RELATED: The Great Biden Book War has finally begun

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At worst, they’re no different from O.J. Simpson writing “If I Did It” — a confessional dressed up as a hypothetical, designed to sell books, not reveal truth.

Even if they claim journalist status, they should still face subpoenas. No one has a constitutional right to document a criminal conspiracy, repackage it as nonfiction, and profit from it while hiding the facts under a fake privilege. Tapper and Thompson have declared themselves central to the story. It’s time that the government treats them as such.

What crimes might be involved? For starters: false personation of a federal officer, forgery, deprivation of civil rights, conspiracy to exercise presidential power without authority, and quite possibly treason.

And that doesn’t include crimes tied to
autopenned pardons — some of which President Trump has declared void. Plenty of potential charges exist.

Tapper and Thompson claim to hold the road map. Both have expressed hollow regrets over how the press handled Biden’s presidency. Regret isn’t enough. Full transparency is overdue — and it should no longer be optional. If federal investigators do their jobs, both men should face questioning under oath.

Whether the Department of Justice or FBI steps up remains an open question. President Trump has called for accountability since his inauguration. These agencies have failed to act. But the window for delay is closing. Public patience is running out — and may already have expired.

Bringing the truth to light will require aggressive legal action. Prosecutors must bring charges. Biden staffers must face subpoenas. Executive privilege must be pierced. But the starting point couldn’t be clearer: Call in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. Let them testify. They say they know what happened. Let’s put that claim to the test.

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Chinese organized crime is fueling a $5 billion-per-year sex-trafficking empire in the United States, operating numerous illicit massage parlors where 75,000 victims are enslaved and traumatized.

This modern slavery crisis was the target of a nationwide operation on Thursday involving 18 states and more than 150 law enforcement agencies, Blaze News has learned.

‘We’ve not been giving our law enforcement officers the tools that they need to battle trafficking, and that’s why trafficking continues to increase.’

Dan Nash, the founder of the Human Trafficking Training Center and a retired Missouri state trooper, coordinated the action, dubbed Operation Coast to Coast.

Thursday’s sweep marked the third time Nash and HTTC launched the effort, which aimed to identify sex-trafficking victims, arrest traffickers, and share intelligence.

The joint mission raided illegal massage parlors and hotels, as well as targeted sex buyers. An Operation Coast to Coast press release obtained exclusively by Blaze News noted that Chinese criminal organizations run the billion-dollar-per-year illicit industry.

RELATED: Exclusive: Safe House Project ramps up fight against human trafficking, launches first-of-its-kind app

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Nash told Blaze News, “In California and New York, they have more illicit massage business than they do Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.”

He has used his 27 years in law enforcement to train thousands of officers across the country on how to identify and handle these trafficking situations.

“Most people think that the police officers are trained, but they’re not. They don’t get this kind of training,” Nash stated, adding that his training program was created out of necessity.

Nash explained that despite working in human trafficking for 17 years, he was never instructed on how to interact with victims or how to investigate trafficking cases.

“We’ve not been giving our law enforcement officers the tools that they need to battle trafficking, and that’s why trafficking continues to increase,” he told Blaze News.

Only agencies that have participated in HTTC’s training program can participate in the nationwide operation, in large part because many agencies in the U.S. arrest the victims for prostitution, Nash explained.

“Part of our training is explaining to law enforcement that these actually are victims, showing them why they are victims, showing them about the forced criminality component that is taking place and how to actually get to the trafficker when they find these victims,” Nash continued. “We know the academic research is very, very clear, both in Europe [and] in the United States, that some 90[%] to 93% of all persons involved in commercial sex are actually being trafficked or under third-party control.”

Regarding the Chinese organized crime syndicates, Nash explained that they are “the fastest growing in all of America,” noting a 32% increase over the past three years. These groups operate 19,000 of the illicit massage businesses currently operating in the country, he added.

“Each [illicit massage business] will have two to four trafficking victims. So, you can do the math. That’s a lot of trafficking victims,” Nash stated.

Nash told Blaze News that the goal of Thursday’s operation was to shut down 50 to 100 illicit massage businesses and to offer assistance to those victims.

Nash shed light on the identities of the victims trapped in these illegal sex-trafficking rings, stating that most are females recruited in China, many of whom have entered the U.S. by claiming asylum. With President Donald Trump’s southern border and asylum loophole crackdown, more victims are being trafficked across the northern border, Nash said.

While the crackdown involved numerous law enforcement agencies, it was run from the Des Moines-based Iowa Fusion Center, a division of the Iowa Department of Public Safety, and involved several anti-trafficking groups.

‘The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of people trafficked in the US every year, and 99% are never identified.’

The Safe House Project was one of those support organizations offering thousands of resources to help victims escape trafficking by partnering with law enforcement to identify individuals in need of assistance.

Kristi Wells, the nonprofit’s co-founder and CEO, told Blaze News that without support services, 80% of these vulnerable individuals will experience revictimization.

Wells stated that Operation Coast to Coast has opened an “opportunity to send this clear message to traffickers that this crime isn’t going to be tolerated in our community.”

Wells explained that victims have a variety of needs, stating that some may have been forced into drug addiction, may not speak English, or may lack immigration documents.

“All of them have experienced horrific trauma that takes therapy and healing to recover and to rebuild life anew,” she told Blaze News. “Our team does a beautiful job of building trust with that survivor and communicating with them and finding translators and working to give them choice, which is the thing that has been robbed from them.”

RELATED: Trump’s FBI rescues 115 children, nabbing 205 alleged sex predators in nationwide sting

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Delta Airlines also assisted the operation through its human trafficking voucher system, allowing victims access to transportation across the country to enter shelters or reunite with family.

Last year, Operation Coast to Coast kicked off in 14 states, identifying 97 victims, arresting 39 suspected traffickers, and seizing over $292,000.

Nash told Blaze News that the most important message of the operation is that “not any one person or group can stop this human trafficking.”

He emphasized that the nation needs anti-trafficking organizations, law enforcement, and the public to work together to help end the rampant crisis.

Wells echoed Nash’s sentiments, highlighting the importance of the public’s assistance in stopping trafficking.

“When something feels off, it can be difficult for people to know what to do, and it kind of leaves them feeling helpless. The reality is that there are hundreds of thousands of people trafficked in the U.S. every year, and 99% are never identified,” she told Blaze News. “When we can equip and mobilize communities to respond to human trafficking, then we have the ability to see an issue that historically has gone unseen.”

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Project Veritas has dropped yet another undercover video, this time tricking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg into revealing secrets regarding former President Joe Biden’s mental decline as well as who was really running the show.

“The foundational question for me is, like, how corrupt is the DNC if so many people knew, or few people knew, about Biden?” the undercover journalist asked Hogg.

“I think the fact of the matter is the DNC is always going to be a campaign arm of the president ultimately. The bigger issue was like the inner circle that was around Biden,” Hogg replied, adding, “Like Jill Biden’s chief of staff had an enormous amount of power.”

Former White House employee Deterrian Jones was also duped by the undercover journalist, chiming in that he would “avoid” Anthony Bernal, Jill Biden’s chief of staff, as he was “scary.”

“He’s just a shadowy, Wizard of Oz-type figure,” Jones told the undercover reporter. “I knew how he looked, but the general public wouldn’t know how this man looked. But he wielded an enormous amount of power. And I can’t stress to you how much power he had at the White House.”

“This one was a very interesting one,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “It was a male undercover journalist who somehow was able to seduce, or otherwise convince, David Hogg.”

“Maybe we need to start talking to Anthony Bernal,” she continues. “He’s a veteran staffer of both the Obama and Clinton administrations, he was Biden’s deputy campaign manager during the 2024 presidential campaign.”

Gonzales also notes that Bernal was “only one of four aids at the Rehoboth Beach House on July 18, when Biden was coerced to withdraw from the election.”

“So very clearly a part of the inner, inner circle, part of the very, very big decision for Joe Biden to step down and/or at least withdraw his name from the 2024 campaign,” she adds.

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U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) has used campaign funds to funnel large payments to his longtime associate and close friend Larry Wilcoxson — a man with a lengthy history of criminal convictions and allegations. Media reports have called Wilcoxson Donalds’ “right-hand man,” while the congressman, who announced his candidacy for governor of Florida in February, has referred to him as his personal “body man.”

Wilcoxson doesn’t appear on
Donalds’ official staff roster, yet he and his company, Wilcoxson Consulting, received $133,450 from Donalds’ campaign across more than 160 disbursements between July 7, 2020, and March 24 of this year. The latest Federal Election Commission reporting shows that more than $86,000 of that total came after May 2024, signaling a possible expansion of Wilcoxson’s role with Donalds.

Propping up a ‘right-hand man’ with Wilcoxson’s rap sheet speaks volumes about the judgment of the man signing the checks.

The payments break down as follows:

Payroll: $75,250 (56.4%)
Payroll taxes: $18,750 (14%)
Consulting services: $22,500 (16.8%)
Travel reimbursements: $8,450 (6.3%)
Office supplies: $3,200 (2.4%)
Event expenses: $2,800 (2.1%)
Miscellaneous reimbursements: $1,500 (1.1%)
Other (unspecified): $1,000 (0.7%)

Wilcoxson’s criminal history, both alleged and confirmed, appears extensively in court records and media coverage.

One of the most serious accusations involves a 2006 child molestation case. According to an April 2023 report by the
Florida Trident, police accused Wilcoxson of molesting a 13-year-old girl while he worked as a substitute teacher at an Indianapolis middle school. Though prosecutors later dismissed the charge, the Trident noted that “a look at the public record shows there are many questions still unanswered about the case.”

The Indianapolis Star reported that school officials fired Wilcoxson after he allegedly exposed himself to a female custodian. Federal court records show multiple accusers. When asked whether they were all lying, Wilcoxson dodged the question.

He didn’t hesitate to play the race card, though.

“In my America, in your America, only a black man will be guilty and will always be guilty,” he said when pressed about multiple accusations. Wilcoxson refused to answer questions about the child molestation case but admitted to videotaping his sexual encounters, called himself a “pimp,” and confessed to threatening a police officer’s family.

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2008 federal lawsuit filed in Indianapolis, settled out of court in 2009, alleged that Wilcoxson molested a student — identified as “T.T.” — while working as a substitute teacher at Henry W. Longfellow Middle School. The girl’s mother, Valerie Davis, reported the alleged abuse. According to the lawsuit, the school district and Indianapolis police conducted a “superficial and flawed” investigation.

The complaint also claimed authorities treated the girl “hostilely,” even threatening her with arrest for filing a report.

A lifetime of trouble

Court records unearthed by the Florida Trident show that Wilcoxson’s rap sheet goes back to his teenage years. In Collier County, Florida, he faced charges including armed robbery at 14, aggravated battery, misdemeanor battery, and grand theft auto. While a student at Florida State University studying — ironically — criminology, he racked up more charges between 1997 and 2000. He took plea deals for forgery and credit card fraud, beat a petty theft charge at trial, and got a criminal mischief charge dropped.

In 2015, a court sentenced Wilcoxson to six months in jail for grand theft auto, but the conviction was later vacated. Combined with a judge’s decision to withhold adjudication on earlier charges, Wilcoxson’s record, on paper at least, shows no standing convictions — a technical clean slate that masks a long and troubling history.

In March 2022, Melissa Kamin — Wilcoxson’s former fiancée — filed for a protective order, alleging he physically assaulted her in their Marco Island home by lifting her onto a kitchen counter and restraining her. She also claimed Wilcoxson later tracked her to Lauderhill, broke into her car, and tossed her belongings.

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Wilcoxson denied the allegations, insisting he never acted violently toward Kamin. Court records show Kamin obtained a temporary restraining order but later withdrew her petition in May 2022.

Wilcoxson’s record of physical intimidation doesn’t stop there. According to a September 2022 report from
Gulf Coast News, he and Donalds confronted Collier County School Board candidate Kelly Lichter in a supermarket, with Donalds yelling about a lawsuit involving his wife. In a separate incident, Wilcoxson reportedly lunged at Lichter’s husband, Nick, during a Collier County Republican Executive Committee meeting — forcing a deputy and others to restrain him.

His go-to move

The Trident report casts Wilcoxson as an “intimidator” for Donalds, with critics like former Collier County Republican Committeeman Rob Tolp raising alarms about his temperament and pattern of threatening behavior.

“He resorts to threats of violence almost instantaneously,” Tolp told the outlet. “It’s almost like it’s his first go-to move. That’s a bad sign.”

Using campaign funds to pay unofficial advisers occupies a legal gray zone. It’s not outright illegal if the individual performs legitimate campaign work. But propping up a “right-hand man” with Wilcoxson’s rap sheet speaks volumes about the judgment of the man signing the checks. Whether Florida voters will care — or call it out — remains to be seen.

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Over the past couple of weeks, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler has been receiving a series of disturbing and invasive phone calls from the United States government. Not from her contacts within the Trump administration — but from the CDC.

“The Centers for Disease Control inquiring about the vaccination status of my children,” Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show.” “You and I must raise our voices to put a stop to this, because to call this a violation of privacy would be the understatement of the year.”

“To call this invasive would hardly even describe the level of government overreach that the government bureaucrats, which you and I have not elected in the CDC, are facing,” she continues.

In one of the calls from the CDC, Wheeler was told the organization was conducting a “national immunization survey” and was asked if she had any vaccine-age children from the ages of 6 months to 17 years old living in her household.

“The purpose of it is for the government to collect data about what percentage of children have complied — or parents of these children have complied — with the CDC’s recommended childhood immunization schedule,” Wheeler explains.

“So, my taxpayer dollars are not only paying for the survey; they’re paying for the government bureaucrats who hate me to purchase my phone number,” she continues, adding, “It is time for the HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., to put a stop to this.”

While others have attempted to claim this is no big deal, as it’s “standard,” Wheeler believes that anyone who cares about their medical freedom should be outraged.

“Do we want to be asking parents these questions? Do we want to be violating the privacy of children in this way? Because this is not just a personal affront to me as a mother and me as an individual. There are security risks to you that are inherent to this program,” Wheeler says.

“We don’t have to accept this simply because public health officials tell us that it’s standard,” she continues. “Public health officials also told us it was standard to social distance, to mask our toddlers, to lock down our churches, to stay in our homes, to take an experimental vaccine.”

“The era of taking public health experts’ word for it has come to end, and so must this policy,” she adds.

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On May 24, 2025, at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle, a group of Christians gathered to pray over a number of issues, including America’s children, abortion, the preservation of the nuclear family, and spiritual revival, among other concerns. The event was put on by On Fire Ministries as part of a “#DontMessWithOurKids” rally.

Such a gathering was bound to attract counterprotesters in the Emerald City.

It wasn’t long before “Antifa showed up,” says Sara Gonzales, host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.” “They were very much on high alert — provoking people, showing up to create chaos and incite violence.”

Seattle-based journalist and correspondent for the Post Millennial, a conservative Canadian online news magazine, Katie Daviscourt reported that she was “physically chased by Antifa militants and trans activists.”

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According to reports, 23 people, the majority of whom were counterprotesters, were arrested at the assembly for assault, obstruction, and throwing objects at police and rally attendees.

And yet, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell “said that the Christians were the ones at fault for being assaulted,” says Sara.

His statement read: “Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities, and we stand with our trans neighbors when they face bigotry and injustice. Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason — to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”

“It was a ‘far-right’ rally because they got together and they prayed,” scoffs Sara. “They’re not allowed to do that in gay neighborhoods, I guess, because it disturbs the demons.”

Head researcher and writer for “The Glenn Beck Program,” Jason Buttrill, says this counterprotest was no isolated event but rather a single clash in a grand scheme to disrupt and destabilize societal order.

“Something is coming. I don’t know when it is coming, but these are little signs of the larger explosion that’s about to happen,” he warns.

BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden fears it’s only a matter of time before we see a nasty conservative response to these radical demonstrations by leftist fringe groups — likely from war-hardened veterans who know they could “deal with this in a day.”

“This is taking massive amounts of restraint from the right every single day, and they want a response. … They’re going to get it at some point,” he says, “and it’s not going to be pleasant for them.”

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

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The cognitive decline of former President Joe Biden will be investigated as a cover-up to keep the truth from the American people.

Two Republican Senators announced the investigation to expose the aides and family members that hid Biden’s deterioration at the end of his presidential term. Some have even questioned whether Biden was competent enough to make some of the final decisions of the administration.

‘The fact that the United States of America was operating without an actual president deeply damages our legitimacy as a Constitutional Republic.’

The mental decline of the most powerful man on Earth just ahead of the 2024 election is considered by some to be one of the most disturbing scandals of recent history. Biden administration aides and family members repeatedly rejected reports that the former president’s health was deteriorating, and much of the mainstream media was complicit in the deception.

“It’s time to expose how a cadre of Biden aides and family members were the de facto commander in chief, while President Biden was sidelined,” said Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, to Fox News Digital. “I look forward to getting the American people the answers they deserve.”

Schmitt is joined by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas in the investigation.

“For this conspiracy between the mainstream media, Joe Biden’s family, and his inner circle to have hidden the impairment of the president of the United States for years,” said Cornyn, “and lied consistently to the American people about his capacity to make decisions, which are solely vested by the Constitution, is unacceptable.”

Republicans in the U.S. House are also pursuing an investigation into the alleged cover-up.

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More damning evidence recently surfaced in a book about the Biden cover-up by CNN anchor Jake Tapper, but critics have pointed out that he had previously come to the defense of the Biden administration to deny the allegations.

Mike Howell, the president of the Oversight Project of the Heritage Foundation, welcomed the development in an exclusive statement to Blaze Media.

“It is terrific that the Senate, like the House and Department of Justice, are taking up our bombshell autopen investigation,” said Howell.

“The fact that the United States of America was operating without an actual president deeply damages our legitimacy as a Constitutional Republic. This is why the Oversight Project invested so much in recent years in several investigations related to Biden’s incapacity, including suing for the release of the Hur interview audio tapes, forcing the DNC to move up their substitution of Harris for Biden, and many other lawsuits and disclosures aimed at this monumental scandal,” he added.

“We stand ready to cooperate with anyone seeking to impose actual accountability for the grave crimes that were committed,” Howell concluded. “We also request that Senator Schiff recuse himself from any participation in these matters since he is the recipient of an invalid pardon and clearly has a self-interest in the matter. He should not have access to any sensitive information.”

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