Unsurprisingly Texas bears a disproportionate share of the burden from illegal immigration due to its expansive southern border. Now state leadership has released the numbers to prove the massive financial burden illegal aliens have had on one sector in particular: hospitals.

New data has been released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showing a baffling 10-figure financial burden on Texas hospitals in fiscal year 2025, Texas Scorecard first reported.

The total cost tipped over the billion-dollar mark: $1,050,642,864.

According to the new data, the total visits between November 2024 and August 2025 reached 313,742 for those “not legally present.”

RELATED: Trump threatens Insurrection Act after ambushed ICE agent shoots illegal alien: ‘Put an end to the travesty’

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And the total cost tipped over the billion-dollar mark: $1,050,642,864.

The year-end totals show that the burden is not only on one type of care either.

A large portion of the visits come from the “Emergency Department – Non-Medicaid/Non-CHIP” category, though the lion’s share of the cost comes from the “Inpatient Discharges – Non-Medicaid/Non-CHIP” category, meaning that the hospital system is being burdened by illegal aliens seeking both emergency and long-term care.

This data was collected and released pursuant to an executive order signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in August 2024. The order directed hospitals to begin collecting data on illegal alien patients in Texas hospitals beginning in November 2024.

As Texas Scorecard noted, these numbers are therefore not reflective of the full fiscal year, and the actual totals very likely exceed these figures.

Abbott argued in the executive order that Texans ultimately bear the burden of public financial support through higher taxes and more expensive medical care as well.

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The Trump administration’s deputy director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped away from her role to run for Congress.

Madison Sheahan announced Thursday that she was resigning from ICE to challenge Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who has held onto her seat since 1982.

‘Real change means real leadership.’

Sheahan posted her first campaign video on Thursday morning and shared it on X.

“I’m Madison Sheahan. I’m a Trump conservative running for Congress to protect American jobs, American paychecks, and American values,” she wrote. “No excuses. Let’s get it done.”

In the campaign video, Sheahan touted her success at ICE, stating that, in less than one year, she has “stopped more illegal immigration than Marcy Kaptur has in her 43 years in Washington.”

“In Congress, hypocrisy, excuses, and failure can earn you a lifetime job, but on my family farm, that would put us out of business,” she said.

RELATED: 9 Republicans aid Democrats to advance Obamacare subsidies

Madison Sheahan. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Sheahan highlighted how, during her time at ICE, the agency recruited 12,000 new agents and officers and deported over 2.5 million illegal aliens.

She slammed Kaptur for voting against funding the border wall while sending taxpayer handouts to illegal aliens. Kaptur also supported higher taxes on American citizens, including voting to keep taxes on Social Security, tips, and overtime, Sheahan stated.

“I’m tired of watching my hardworking family, friends, and neighbors pay more and get ignored,” Sheahan continued. “Real change means real leadership. And I’ve done it before.”

RELATED: Trump admin expands ICE detention space into notorious state prison

Marcy Kaptur. Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images

Kaptur’s campaign responded to Sheahan’s announcement, telling WTOL, “While Republicans from near and far will fight through a messy primary in this district they gerrymandered again just this fall, Congresswoman Kaptur is focused on delivering real results for her constituents.”

“She’s working to lower costs for working families, protect access to affordable health care, and bring transformative investments to Northwest Ohio,” the statement continued. “Voters are tired of the self-dealing corruption and culture of lawlessness they’ve seen over the last year. They want a leader focused on affordability and real results, and Marcy Kaptur consistently works across the aisle to deliver both.”

Several Republican candidates are running for Ohio’s 9th congressional district.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt torched a “left-wing” reporter who challenged the administration’s defense of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Niall Stanage, a White House columnist for The Hill, asked Leavitt to defend Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s remarks claiming ICE is “doing everything correctly.” Stanage pointed to the shooting of Renee Good that has engulfed the media, as well as deaths and alleged improper detainments over the last year.

‘You should be reporting on the facts.’

“Secretary Noem spoke to the media and she said, among other things, that they are doing everything correctly,” Stanage said. “32 people died in ICE custody last year, 170 U.S. citizens were detained by ICE, and Renee Good was shot in the head and killed by an ICE agent. How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?”

“Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” Leavitt returned.

RELATED: ICE officer suffered internal bleeding following Renee Good incident: Report

Leavitt sparred with Stanage, noting that he intentionally withheld figures that outline successful deportations of illegal aliens and the removal of violent criminals from America.

“Because an ICE agent acted recklessly,” Stanage replied.

“Oh, okay! So you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion,” Leavitt said.

“You’re a left-wing hack! You’re not a reporter. You’re posing in this room as a journalist, and it’s so clear by the premise of your question.”

“You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist, you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat. But you’re pretending like you’re a journalist, but you’re a left-wing activist, and the question that you just raised and your answer proves your bias. You should be reporting on the facts.”

RELATED: ‘Don’t make a bad decision’: ICE officer warns smug leftists allegedly trailing agents in their SUVs

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Leavitt grilled Stanage for failing to name the innocent Americans who were killed by illegal aliens, doubling down and defending ICE’s role in deporting violent criminals.

“Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t,” Leavitt said. “I bet you didn’t even read up on those stories. I bet you never even read about Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray or all of the innocent Americans who were killed at the hands of illegal aliens in this country.”

“The brave men and women of ICE are doing everything in their power to remove those heinous individuals and make our communities safer. And shame on people like you in the media who have a crooked view and have a biased view and pretend like you’re a real honest journalist.”

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Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) is facing a wave of backlash for her comments on Immigration and Customs Enforcement — because they were not extremist enough.

Ocasio-Cortez has infamously advocated for abolishing ICE, but many of her critics now claim that she is easing her extreme positions in order to seek higher office.

‘You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. That is what this administration is doing, that’s what the Republican party did.’

“My position has always been clear that ICE funding should be cut. We’re seeing what they’re doing with this reckless explosion in funding,” said Ocasio-Cortez to a reporter asking about ICE funding.

“And mind you, just so everybody knows, I want everybody to understand the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. All that extra money that everybody’s paying right now in their premiums, all that extra money that you’re paying, it is paid for with — it is all that extra money that the government and [Affordable Care Act] subsidies that was given to nearly a trillion dollars in health care was taken out and given to ICE,” she added.

“So understand how these dots connect,” Ocasio-Cortez concluded. “You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face. That is what this administration’s doing. That’s what the Republican Party did.”

While many on the right might be offended by her histrionic description of ICE, some on the left were also offended that she was not far-left enough.

“Giving less funding to fascist state agents who abduct people and shoot people in the face doesn’t change their mandate, function and the impunity given to them. You didn’t run on less funding,” responded former Al Jazeera reporter Sana Saeed.

“Don’t trust any politician that doesn’t call for the outright abolition of ICE. ‘Cutting funding’ is bulls**t. ICE is a militarized police force terrorizing American cities and streets. It needs to be completely defunded,” replied social justice activist Anthony Zenkus.

“She’s still selling ‘Abolish ICE’ hats in her store reflective of her former position, a journalist should ask her why she changed her mind,” wrote liberal comedian Kate Willett.

“Abolish ice. Nothing else is acceptable!!” responded another user.

RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez claims ICE is targeting 6-year-olds in her district during crazed speech on immigration

“Abolish ICE is the moderate position. You f**king suck,” said another detractor.

“We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one,” joked one detractor.

A Blaze News request for comment from the congresswoman’s office was not immediately answered.

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration got hit with another blow in the form of a resurfaced video of more extremist comments from its top housing official.

Cea Weaver has been previously criticized for her socialist schemes on housing, but the newest video shows her taking aim at “white, middle-class homeowners.”

‘Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership … it’s a really difficult organizing situation we find ourselves in.’

“I think that United States public policy has done a really, really, really good job of pitting cash-poor homeowners and working-class homeowners and middle-class homeowners against renters, and we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers,” said Weaver in a video shared by the Free Beacon.

She went on to say that the real threat to “renter justice” was not institutional investors like BlackRock, but rather smaller-scale investors who own numerous housing units.

“It’s just this challenging dynamic,” she continued in the 2021 interview with Briahna Joy Gray. “White, middle-class homeowners are a huge problem for a renter justice movement.

She added, “Unless we can undermine the institution of homeownership and seek to provide stability in other ways, I don’t know — it’s a really difficult organizing situation we find ourselves in.”

Mamdani tapped the socialist housing activist to lead his Office to Protect Tenants, leading many to unearth her previous statements espousing statist schemes to erase private ownership of housing.

“I think the reality is, is that for centuries we’ve really treated property as an individualized good and not a collective good,” Weaver said in one video interview. “And transitioning to treating it as a collective good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently. And it will mean that families, especially white families but some [people of color] families who are homeowners as well, are going to have a different relationship to property than the one that we currently have.”

In the latest resurfaced video, Weaver went on to say that massive taxation would be necessary to fund expanded social service programs.

“We need a national movement to pass universal rent control to limit landlords’ ability to endlessly profit on our homes, to give tenants the right to form a tenants’ union where they live, and to really block evictions,” she added. “But rent control is not enough. People need money. We need to tax billionaires and transform that into cash assistance for renters. And we need to chip away at home ownership, and that means — that means Medicare for All, that means, like, a deep investment in real social service programs.”

RELATED: ‘You have to be completely out of your f***ing mind’: Eric Adams rips into Mamdani aide

Even some on the left have recoiled at the extremism from Mamdani’s administration and the comments from Weaver associating homeownership with white supremacy.

“Homeownership is how immigrants, Black, Brown, and working-class New Yorkers built stability and generational wealth despite every obstacle,” said former NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, on social media.

“You have to be completely out of your f***ing mind to call that ‘white supremacy,'” he continued. “That level of thinking only comes from extreme privilege and total detachment from reality.”

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In 2017, an Australian-American yoga teacher named Justine Damond called the police because she heard strange noises in the alley behind her house and thought someone was being hurt.

When she called 911, police officers showed up to her house.

One of their names was Mohamed Noor, and he was an immigrant from Somalia. While she was talking to the other police officers, Noor shot through the driver’s open window at Damond and hit her in the chest, killing her immediately.

He was sentenced to only 12 years in prison.

“Now you might not have ever heard that story because there were no riots. There were no protests. Nothing burned down. There was no shouts and insistence upon saying her name or rest in power. Your favorite social justice activist, your racially conscious pastor, didn’t post anything about her,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

“And in fact, in 2021, the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned Noor’s murder conviction due to insufficient evidence, sending the case back to the district court where he would be sentenced instead for the manslaughter conviction,” she continues.

Noor testified that the loud noises made him fear for his life, and that’s why he shot her.

“So he was spooked. He wasn’t approached with a vehicle. This woman wasn’t armed. She came outside in her pajamas,” Stuckey says.

“Now I want you to ask yourself, if this had been an ICE agent who killed a liberal woman, or if this had been a white police officer who killed a black man … Minneapolis would have burned,” she continues.

In comparison, $1.5 million has been raised for Renee Nicole Good — who drove her car at an ICE officer in protest and was shot and killed as a result.

And celebrities like Ariana Grande are wearing pins to the Golden Globes that say “ICE Out.”

“The Golden Globes had a border. Like it had a hedge, and it’s got dogs, and it’s got guards. It’s got armed security officers. Like if I tried to go in there and cause chaos … someone would have been shot for doing that possibly. They at least would have been tackled,” Stuckey comments.

“What do you think Ariana Grande’s house looks like? Do you think her gates are open? Do you think that she has a lock on her door? Do you think that she has bodyguards?” she continues.

“These people believe that they deserve security and that normal Americans who can’t afford to live in gated mansion communities deserve to bear the brunt of it and that innocent moms and dads in Minnesota deserve to be stolen from by Somalian migrants,” she says, adding, “That’s what they believe.”

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Men have a big problem these days: the women in their lives.

Simply put, their wives, mothers, sisters, co-workers, and other female friends have become unbearable.

I know of two licensed mental health counselors, both gay men, who will no longer accept female clients because it is too dangerous to be alone behind closed doors with women. Even if you’re gay.

I know because they’ve told me. Men come to me as a peer support counselor for private sessions to talk about these issues because they have no other venue where they can discuss them without being punished.

When I wrote about some of their stories, it became the most widely read article I have posted since joining Substack in 2022. It’s called “When the women in your family go nuts.”

Deliberately provocative title? Yes. I want the clicks because readers reading what I write is how I get paid.

But I also want to rip the Band-Aid off. How else to describe the refusal of so many women to conform to basic standards of adult behavior — especially in public? Forget politics. These crying, screaming tantrums we constantly witness are no more about “fascism” than a toddler’s checkout-line meltdown is about a lollipop. And they deserve as firm a response.

Everyone — women and men — knows this is true. But everyone is afraid to say it out loud.

I’m not.

Female trouble

There was nothing particularly groundbreaking or insightful about my Substack piece. What made it so popular was simply that it recounted the honest, unvarnished experiences of men dealing with female insanity. All without judgment or accusations of “misogyny.”

Today I thought I would tell some more of their stories.

Let me warn you up front: This isn’t exactly a conservative vs. liberal issue. While most of this behavior occurs in leftist women, even right-wing women in our era are more entitled and expect special female-only deference. Such is life in a society that has been under the stiletto heel of feminist thought since the 1960s.

And needless to say, not all women are like this. I am diagnosing a trend within a population, not condemning an entire sex. So ladies: If you think this doesn’t apply to you, it probably doesn’t. Although if you find all of this “offensive,” you might ask yourself why.

Deadly ’empowerment’

One reason I think it’s important to keep pointing this out is that it’s getting worse — sometimes with deadly consequences. Take the recent case of Renee Good, the woman shot and killed by an ICE agent last week in Minneapolis.

Good was tailing ICE agents in her car in order to frustrate their attempts to arrest illegal aliens. Video shows her placing her SUV crosswise in the road, mocking officers who ordered her to move, and then seemingly attempting to drive directly into one of them. That officer fired his gun multiple times, killing Good.

Good was a mother and a widow; her senseless death leaves three young children orphans. A sad detail of the incident is that Good’s lesbian “wife” was also on the scene and appeared to encourage Good’s aggressive behavior right up until she was shot.

This is what happens when a culture pushes “empowerment” without prudence or accountability. Good was so convinced of her own righteousness that she thought it was a good and noble idea to “protest” by weaponizing her car against an officer of the law. Her closest companion egged her on. Good paid the ultimate price.

The man she attacked with her car could just as easily have been killed. And, of course, our attention has now been captured by yet another, instantly “politicized” tragedy only serving to exacerbate the forces tearing America apart.

RELATED: Blocking ICE with ‘micro-intifada’: Good’s group taught de-arrest, cop-car chaos before her death

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None of the stories below involve such extremes; thankfully, this isn’t the norm. But everyday entitled female behavior does take a toll, destroying relationships, marriages, and careers. And there’s no telling when — as in the case of Renee Good — it could erupt into something even worse.

Note: These are composites so that no individual man’s specific story can be identified. But all these scenarios are real.

What’s more, they come from gay men and straight men. Even gay men, who are widely known to have many more female friendships than straight men, are finding their female friendships fraught and, often, too much to take. There’s no difference between the experience of a gay man and a straight man in this area except for the lack of romantic and sexual contact.

Bob, hotel executive

Bob works for a name-brand luxury hotel chain with properties around the world. He’s a vice president in charge of marketing, a field that is overwhelmingly female. His employee Becca has gotten herself into a position of power over her own boss such that he has to do what she says, not the other way around.

Becca accomplished this by turning on the tears the first time Bob rejected some of her work. It was a presentation that met none of the project goals, lacked necessary detail, and took credit for work done by other departments.

Bob told her this, so Becca started crying. This cycle was repeated a few times until Bob told Becca that she needed to complete her assigned tasks like all other employees. So Becca went to HR and filed a complaint that Bob was “aggressive with women.”

The female HR bosses now demand that Bob have “regular check-ins” about his tone with Becca. Bob comes to me in frustration because no one will listen to him because he’s a man. He can’t talk to Becca like an adult; he can’t hold her to standards. And now he has to do her work, too, because if the project isn’t completed, the client won’t pay for it.

Sam, husband

Sam has been married for 14 years and has three daughters with his wife, Courtney. Sam describes what kind of woman Courtney was in the beginning of their marriage: smart, humorous, considerate, and as into him as he was into her.

Over the course of their marriage, Courtney’s leftist Democrat politics have gone to the extreme edge. Not a day goes by that she doesn’t complain out loud about the “fascist dictator Donald Trump.” She blows up Sam’s phone with Facebook threads while demanding to know if Sam has “something to say about your president.”

She has now taken to criticizing his hobby in the garage, calling it “dangerous” and saying Sam has no right to “endanger our family with chemicals like that in the garage.” Sam’s hobby is building model tabletop gasoline engines. Courtney gets hysterical about Sam keeping a red one-gallon can of gasoline in the garage (no, she doesn’t fear the 20-gallon gasoline tank in her SUV that is also in the garage), telling him he is putting the family at risk of “an explosion.”

Meanwhile, Sam’s three daughters, all adolescents, talk to him like he’s a servant. They mouth off, refuse to complete tasks, and complain to their mother that their dad is “too strict” and doesn’t “validate” their feelings.

Sam loves Courtney, but he can’t understand what she has become. He suspects Courtney does not love him any more and thinks she doesn’t respect him as a fellow adult. Sadly, I told Sam that I think he’s right. It’s obvious that Courtney doesn’t respect him, and women who love their husbands don’t treat them this way.

Sam’s lot is to figure out how he can prevent his teenage daughters from becoming as emotionally unstable and entitled as their mother has become. Frankly, I don’t think he can.

Gary, piano teacher

Gary taught piano for years at a Midwestern university. In middle age, he is the classic “sensitive, artistic man.” His manner and affect are gentle and soft-spoken. He likes to get lost in sheet music and is visibly transported when he plays. All of this is to say that to most people, Gary reads as “gay.” And he is. And everyone knows this.

One of his female students, Cindy, decided that she did not like Gary’s assignments and did not like the less-than-A grades he gave to her class work. She started her campaign against him by saying he didn’t speak to her “respectfully,” a charge she leveled whenever he told her that her work did not meet standards.

Gary did not cave. He did not inflate her grades. Cindy escalated by going to the student services office and claiming that Gary was “being creepy” and “seemed to be making sexual jokes and advances” at her during conferences in his office. Remember, readers, everyone at the university knows that Gary is a homosexual.

Yet Cindy’s complaint was taken seriously, and Gary went through a Title IX investigation. While he was eventually cleared, he wasn’t really cleared. His reputation was ruined at the university, and he can’t get a job at another school because that reputational smear has spread throughout the musical academic world.

Gary is now doing odd landscaping jobs to pay his mortgage.

Gary isn’t the only gay man successfully accused of sexually harassing women. I know of two licensed mental health counselors, both gay men, who will no longer accept female clients because it is too dangerous to be alone behind closed doors with women. Even if you’re gay.

Alex, aspiring husband and father

Alex is in his 30s and hopes to get married and have kids, but despairs of being able to achieve that. Everyone in his age group finds their mates with dating apps instead of meeting people in the real world, but it hasn’t worked out well for Alex.

“You can’t even hint that you’re a conservative on those apps, or women will reject you,” he told me during one session. “Then they tell other women on the app that you’re a fascist who loves Trump the dictator and that you’re a misogynist who will hurt women.”

During the few real-life dates Alex managed to arrange through the app, the same behavior came out at a restaurant, only more slowly. He would meet an attractive woman for a dinner out, and sooner or later she would find a way to turn the conversation to his politics. This is the notorious “s**t test” that women today inflict on men to sniff out the bad troglodyte conservatives.

Alex told me about a date with an attractive, witty woman that went south when he told her what he was looking for: a wife and children in their own home, in the traditional way. His date heard something different. According to her, Alex had exposed himself as a “regressive” and “misogynist” patriarch. She had more self-respect than to spend time with a man who wanted her pregnant and chained to the kitchen, she said, and walked away.

I could give you dozens more true-to-life scenarios like these. While it is true that my client base is self-selecting — these guys aren’t coming to me because they’re happy with their lives — their experiences mirror the experiences that men from all walks of life are talking about.

This isn’t an extreme fringe, and it’s not “mostly lol/lmao incel baby men who live in Mommy’s basement.” To the extent that these men are involuntarily celibate, it’s largely because modern women don’t want men. They want gelded, feminized, diffident milk rags who spout things like “happy wife, happy life.”

Except they don’t. Not really. Women, deep down, want what women have always wanted. They want strong, assertive men who can provide for the family and protect the women and children. They want this because it’s natural and hardwired into our biology. Feminism is a lie, but it’s a lie that has permanently ruined the chance for happiness in the lives of millions of men and women.

I don’t know what to “prescribe” to change this problem. I don’t know how we get there, but I have some ideas about what needs to change in order for American men and women to build fulfilling lives with each other again.

The family has to be put first again, not last.Leftist derision of traditional family values needs to be loudly mocked and excoriated. It’s time those on that side are made to pipe down the way they’ve been shutting up the right since the 1960s. Or, in Archie Bunker terms, “stifle it.”Men have to stop accepting this shrew behavior from women. And they have to take the risk of being called “misogynist” in the interim period while women scream and object. We have to go through the problem and take the wounds before we can get to peace on the other side.Sane women (and there are a lot of them; they tend to be married with children and conservative) will need to put social pressure on the bitch contingent. Don’t maintain friendships with women like this, and tell them why. Defend your husbands and the male sex when your girlfriends talk them down. Turn their mean-girl rhetoric right back on them.

Readers, what’s your prescription?

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A member of the so-called “seditious six” has resurfaced to complain about the Trump administration’s response to an incendiary viral video posted late last year.

On Wednesday, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) posted a response to the Trump administration’s investigations into the Democrat lawmakers who famously directed members of the military and intelligence community to “refuse illegal orders” back in November.

‘And right now, speaking out against the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we can do.’

Slotkin, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, captioned her latest video, “The intimidation *is the point*. And it’s not going to work.”

RELATED: ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’: Trump demands arrest of ‘traitor’ Democrat congressmen for ‘dangerous’ video

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Slotkin claimed that District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asked to interview her last week in connection with the video she posted with five other Democrats. She said this was “on top of” an FBI counterterrorism investigation that she announced in November.

She said that in response to the video, “the president called for us to be investigated, arrested, and ultimately hanged. He ended up tweeting over a dozen times about that and yesterday, in Michigan, falsely said that I stole my 2024 election.”

Slotkin won the 2024 Senate race by a 0.3% margin over former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).

On Tuesday, President Trump addressed Rogers, who was in the audience at the Detroit Economic Club, saying, “And I think they took that away from you last time. I’ll be honest with you, Mike. I really do. I don’t like to get things going. I don’t like to be controversial at all, but they rigged the election on you. Mine was too big to rig. You were — you won. I’m telling you, you won.”

Trump did not clarify who he believes “rigged” that election.

Slotkin claimed that she has received over 100 credible threats, prompting her to heighten security for herself and her family members.

“Now, he’s using his political appointees at the FBI and the Department of Justice to follow through with his threats,” she continued. “To be clear, this is the president’s playbook. Truth doesn’t matter. Facts don’t matter. And anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy, and he then weaponizes the federal government against them.

“It’s legal intimidation and physical intimidation meant to get you to shut up. He’s used it with our universities, our corporations, our legal community, and with politicians, who falsely believe that doing his bidding and staying quiet will keep them safe.”

Slotkin promised not be among them.

Slotkin concluded with a non sequitur and a vague appeal to “values”: “Our freedom of speech is worth fighting for. Our values, our core values, are worth fighting for. And right now, speaking out against the abuse of power is the most patriotic thing we can do.”

Slotkin was joined by Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), and Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) in the original video, which has since garnered over 18 million views.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia did not return Blaze News’ request for comment.

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Gone are the days when you type hot-button topics — say “latest on border security” or “ICE protests” — into Google and are forced to sift through the same list of mainstream left-wing propaganda while the sources you trust are intentionally buried.

In an act nothing short of miraculous, Google recently handed power back to the user with a new tool called the Preferred Sources feature. With a few clicks of a button, you can personalize your news-related search results so that your most pressing questions are met with the unfiltered answers you value.

Ready to make it happen? Here’s how to flip the script on Google’s algorithm, transforming it from gatekeeper to your personal servant in just five simple steps.

Step 1: Go to google.com and sign in using your Google account information. Note: You must have a Google account to use the Preferred Sources feature.

Step 2: Search a current news topic (e.g. Iran protests, Trump tariffs, border security updates). You will see articles from mainstream sources, like CNN, NPR, USA Today, AP, Reuters, etc.

Step 3: Directly to the right of the “Top Stories” header at the top of your Google search page, you will see an icon that looks like overlapping boxes with a star in the middle. Click or tap that icon to open the Preferred Sources pop-up.

Step 4: In the text box, type theblaze.com. When it appears in the results, check the box next to it and click “Reload results.”

Step 5: Refresh your Google page — you’ll start seeing boosted results from Blaze News where relevant.

You can add as many sources as you want (no limit) and remove them any time by unchecking the boxes in the same menu.

Stick it to Big Tech and its echo chambers by utilizing Google’s Preferred Sources feature. The power to choose who you listen to has always been rightfully yours, but those who seek to shape and steer the narrative have kept it hidden behind algorithms designed to favor certain voices over others — until now.

Add your trusted sources today, and experience news that serves you.

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