Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Monday that she was considering running for president a second time.

The former vice president made the comments while being interviewed on a live video call with author Sharon McMahon.

Harris has been keeping a low profile since the election and resurfaced to announce she would not be running for governor of California.

McMahon was asking a series of light questions in a lightning round when she asked whether Harris would consider running again.

“Everybody here wants to know the answer. Will you run again?” she asked.

“I haven’t decided,” Harris responded.

“You’re still thinking about it?” McMahon replied.

“I might,” Harris said.

“That’s what I’ve been saying,” McMahon replied. “I closed the book, and I’m like, ‘Oh, she wants to. She’s just thinking about it.’ That was my impression. I don’t know if that’s what you intended, but that was my impression.”

Harris has been keeping a low profile since the election and resurfaced to announce she would not be running for governor of California.

“Over the past six months, I have spent time reflecting on this moment in our nation’s history, and the best way for me to continue fighting for the American people and advancing the values and ideals I hold dear,” she said at the time.

An Axios report in December said party donors and other leaders worried that Harris would likely mount another losing campaign after she dropped some hints she might run again.

Harris also published a book titled “107 days,” which chronicled her experience on the very brief and unsuccessful presidential campaign against President Donald Trump.

RELATED: Kamala Harris’ claim about her teenage activism doesn’t survive a timeline fact-check

Harris lost the 2024 campaign by 2 million votes and gave Trump a second term in the Oval Office. Since then, various former staffers have placed the blame on former President Joe Biden for hanging on too long to his re-election hopes.

“It’s all Biden. … He totally f***ed us,” said David Plouffe, a former top adviser to the campaign.

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Last Sunday at the Milano Cortina Winter Games, the United States men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time in 46 years, defeating rival Canada 2-1 in overtime, with Jack Hughes scoring the golden goal.

This victory, Glenn Beck says, felt profoundly different from other American athletic triumphs in recent years.

“[The team was] proud to be there representing us. That is what felt so good. We don’t feel that very often anymore,” he declares, displaying the iconic picture of Hughes — bloodied mouth, chipped teeth exposed in a triumphant grin, fist raised, the American flag draped proudly over his shoulders.

But the team’s pride is just part of the story.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn breaks down the five powerful reasons this U.S. hockey gold-medal triumph wasn’t just a win but a defining, soul-stirring moment that reignited the American spirit.

1. A new era of homegrown dominance

“This is a new generation of American hockey,” Glenn says.

“When I was growing up, we lived in the shadow of Canada and the old Soviet Union, and that was a machine. And the miracle of 1980? That was just blue-collar grit,” he reflects.

But hockey in America today is defined by athletic excellence.

“Hughes is different. He is speed. He’s skill. He’s flash. He’s confidence,” Glenn says.

“He is the guy who represents the American hockey player development,” where American competitors “don’t just compete internationally” but are actually “dominating” the hockey world, he explains.

Why does this matter?

“Because we’ve always kind of been this borrowed excellence. … We didn’t dominate. We borrowed,” Glenn says. “Now it’s all homegrown.”

2. The fearless American spirit

“[Hughes] has a style that I think Americans recognize,” Glenn says. “He plays like a modern American athlete. He is creative; he is fast; he is fearless; he walks off with no teeth in the front. I mean, he’s willing to take over.”

“Gold medals mean more to us … when they’re won by players who feel distinctly American in their temperament.”

Assertiveness, confidence, and even a little defiance are in America’s DNA, Glenn says. When Hughes doesn’t “just compete” but “[imposes] himself” on the other teams, it reminds us of who we are as a country: “We’re the people who cross the Rocky Mountains.”

3. Momentum against hockey’s giants

Unlike basketball, football, and baseball, hockey is a sport in which America rarely dominates.

“Hockey still carries an old weight to it. It feels like you’re taking something back from the old powers of Canada and Sweden and Russia,” Glenn says.

“When the U.S. wins gold in hockey, it’s earned the hard way. And when a young American star is at the center of that — I don’t know, it just kind of feels like momentum.”

4. A clean, unifying moment

“Timing” is another reason this victory “feels different,” Glenn says.

“We are in the weirdest place of my lifetime. We are culturally divided; we are cynical; we’re exhausted by politics. And sports, at least this sports moment — it was clean. It was earned. It was unified,” he praises.

In such a bleak time as this, a gold medal “hits harder,” Glenn says.

“There was a time when America felt like a team, and I don’t know about you, but I’m longing to feel like a team again.”

5. Family legacy

The story of Jack Hughes is Glenn’s final reason for celebrating this victory as a standout among others.

Jack hails from one of America’s most storied hockey dynasties: His brothers Quinn and Luke are both high first-round NHL draft picks and current pros; his father, Jim, is a former college standout turned longtime coach and player development guru; and his mother, Ellen, is a former U.S. national team star who earned silver at the 1992 IIHF Women’s World Championship.

“That speaks to us about our family in a deeper way — discipline, structure, parental investment, people who work hard. This family obviously works hard, trains hard, and is a unit. That’s the American ideal: Build it at home, take it to the world stage,” Glenn says.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the video above.

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The outside of the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Memorial became a stage this Presidents’ Day for a group of dancers protesting the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — and a clip of the performance is giving BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales “secondhand embarrassment.”

“That’s what they will pass off as art. It’s why you shouldn’t let your kids major in liberal arts. They’ll end up on the steps of the Kennedy Center performing that bulls**t,” Gonzales comments.

“I just have to wonder how many hours they spent working on that, rehearsing that all for this big moment that led them to absolutely nothing. Like great, you got the social media video. How many hours of your life did you waste that you could have been actually working?” she asks, adding, “Actually, we know liberals don’t work.”

But that’s not the only ridiculous video Gonzales came across this week.

In another clip, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) claims that the left is now guilty of being racist to her alongside the right.

“The thing that is not normal is for me to be attacked from the left. That is the, like, new wild card in this scenario. But it’s just interesting. And you know, I’ve been asked a couple of times, a couple of things about it,” Crockett began.

“I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer, and I see when they’re sending out ads, and they’re darkening my skin, and I’m just like, ‘I know what this is,’ right? And the reality is that yes, I woke up a black woman. I was born a black woman. I know I’m a black woman, for everybody that didn’t think I didn’t know. Just FYI,” she continued.

“But I am not running on the fact that I’m a black woman. I am running on my credentials,” she added.

“That’s all you talk about,” Gonzales comments.

“Jasmine Crockett cannot go five minutes without telling someone, ‘I’m a strong independent black woman,’” she adds.

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As President Donald Trump delivers Tuesday’s State of the Union, lawmakers will applaud calls for economic strength, innovation, and American competitiveness. Many of those same politicians, however, attack the very policies that make those goals possible. Their favorite target: so-called “tax loopholes,” routinely described as corruption or favoritism.

That label distorts how tax policy works.

What critics dismiss as ‘loopholes’ often serve as the incentives that help ordinary Americans — not just the rich — build, grow, and prosper.

Politicians denounce “loopholes” as if businesses are exploiting accidental gaps in laws Congress never meant to create. The implication follows: close the loopholes, collect more revenue, spend more money, and the country improves.

That framing misses the point. Most so-called loopholes are not accidents. Congress created them on purpose to encourage behavior that strengthens the economy.

Tax credits and deductions are not tricks. They are policy tools. In many cases, they work better than direct spending programs because they rely on private-sector decision-making instead of bureaucratic discretion.

That distinction matters during a period of rapid technological change. Consider artificial intelligence.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last year built on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by making full and immediate capital expensing — commonly called bonus depreciation — a permanent feature of the tax code. That provision allows businesses to deduct the full cost of qualifying capital investments in the year they make them, rather than stretching deductions over many years.

Critics call that a “giveaway.” It is better understood as a growth policy.

In practical terms, full expensing matters whenever a company makes a large upfront investment — servers, advanced manufacturing equipment, or specialized hardware needed to build AI systems. Under traditional depreciation rules, a business recovers those costs slowly. That delays the tax benefit and discourages large productive investments.

Full expensing removes that penalty. It aligns the tax code with economic reality by letting businesses recover costs when they take the risk. It also works automatically, without bureaucrats deciding which firms or industries deserve support.

That design is intentional. If Congress wants more of a productive activity, it can tax it less.

The AI boom illustrates the point. The United States is competing to lead the world in private AI investment. Data centers are going up at record speed. Venture capital is funding startups that did not exist a few years ago. Large firms are racing to expand computing infrastructure for next-generation models. That kind of investment grows where policy rewards risk-taking.

By making bonus depreciation permanent, lawmakers reduced uncertainty and signaled that America intends to remain the best place to invest capital.

RELATED: At Trump’s State of the Union, remember the free-market miracle in your pocket

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This provision does not benefit only trillion-dollar corporations with armies of accountants. Any business making qualifying investments can use it: a mid-sized manufacturer installing robotics, a regional logistics company upgrading its fleet, or a startup buying high-performance computing equipment. The tax treatment is the same.

In fact, the largest long-term effect may land far from Silicon Valley. Small and medium-sized businesses make up roughly half the U.S. economy. For those firms, cash flow often determines whether they can hire, expand, or modernize. Immediate expensing can make the difference.

This is not a “loophole.” It is deliberate economic policy.

Critics often argue that provisions like full expensing “cost” the government money. That view ignores the broader effect. When businesses invest more, they produce more. More production supports hiring, wages, and taxable income across the economy.

I work directly with small and medium-sized businesses navigating a tax code that is often caricatured in political debate. I have seen how these so-called loopholes function in real life. They are not exclusive perks for the wealthy or giant corporations. Their benefits extend to workers, customers, and communities through jobs, innovation, and competition.

What critics dismiss as “loopholes” often serve as the incentives that help ordinary Americans — not just the rich — build, grow, and prosper.

Uncle Sam does not always get tax policy right. But when Congress uses the tax code to encourage productive behavior instead of punishing it, the results can be transformative.

The next time a politician thunders about “tax loopholes,” ask a simple question: Is it really a mistake — or a policy designed to make the American economy stronger?

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Oregon Rep. Maxine Dexter (D), a woke physician who downplayed the risks associated with COVID vaccines and has since championed so-called “gender-affirming care,” recently raised eyebrows by characterizing an innocent Make America Healthy Again initiative as racist.

After repeatedly calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be “dismantled” during a town hall on Saturday, Dexter launched into an unhinged attack on the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“RFK Jr. is one of the biggest threats to our community and to the health of this country,” said Dexter.

“When you don’t follow the science, and you just follow your vibes or your whatever it is that he’s doing, it is absolutely the truth that you lose trust,” continued the congresswoman. “I have every reason to believe that we’ll be able to get that man at least delegitimized, hopefully fired.”

‘Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.’

Dexter characterized the government as a “fascist regime,” advised doctors not to “do what they are telling us to do,” and suggested that patients should “ask for the science-based regimens, not whatever RFK Jr. is getting kickbacks on or whatever whole milk, white supremacy dog-whistling that’s happening.”

The Republican National Committee’s RNC Research account noted in response to Dexter’s assertion, “Democrats’ unhinged hatred for President Trump has broken their brains.”

The Make America Healthy Again Commission released the Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy in September, identifying hundreds of initiatives that could help reverse “the failed policies that fueled America’s childhood chronic disease epidemic.”

RELATED: ‘Hold Big Pharma accountable’: Vaxx giants are sure to be nervous about Rand Paul’s new bill

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The strategy noted that the HHS and other agencies would “remove restrictions on whole milk sales in schools, allowing districts to offer full-fat dairy options alongside reduced-fat alternatives.”

The National School Lunch Program of the Department of Agriculture long required participating schools to provide milk that was consistent with the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which meant the milk offerings either had to be fat-free or low-fat.

Trump, helping the MAHA strategy along, ratified the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act last month, thereby modifying the NSLP requirements such that whole and reduced-fat milk would be added to the offerings at schools across the country.

The USDA and Kennedy have since shared a number of videos and pictures promoting whole milk, touting it as a “protein, strength, and a class choice that never goes out of style.”

While whole milk and the government’s campaign promoting it appear to be innocuous, Dexter presumed the worst — but she’s apparently not alone.

For instance, Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, recently suggested that the consumption of the universally appreciated liquid food “is political. Drinking whole white milk has played a big role in racist and far-right thinking.”

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A 12-year-old Florida girl was arrested after she posted online a “detailed manifesto” about carrying out a mass shooting at a middle school due to bullying, authorities said.

The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said it got word overnight Monday about the manifesto “describing at length a plan to carry out a mass shooting at Southwestern Middle School due to bullying. Deputies acted quickly to investigate the threat and identify the student responsible.”

When detectives spoke with the suspect, she first denied any involvement but later admitted to making the plan and posting it online, the station said.

The school is in DeLand, which is about 45 minutes north of Orlando.

The student was “placed under arrest for making written threats to kill and misuse of a 2-way communications device,” the sheriff’s office added.

Blaze News is not naming or showing the face of the suspect due to her age.

RELATED: 2 Florida 15-year-olds accused of threatening to shoot up high schools

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According to WOFL-TV, a friend gave the tipster the information about the manifesto, and the tipster wanted to report the information.

The station said the mass shooting plan was posted to a website — but while the plan had been taken down, the comments and username remained, the station said.

Investigators traced the IP address to DeLand and identified the suspect — a student at Southwestern Middle School, WOFL said.

Citing the arrest affidavit, the station noted that the mass shooting plan detailed when to arrive at school, where to meet up, what time to start the shooting — and even identified a teacher who “gave me an F- on my test” and named students.

WOFL said that when investigators spoke with the teacher in question, she looked at her grades to see which students had received an F, and investigators verified that the suspect was one of those students.

The station, citing the affidavit, said investigators also asked the student named in the plan if there were any students who made fun of him or didn’t like him — and he recalled the suspect, who was in his math class.

Investigators also spoke with the boy whom the suspect said would help her with her plan, WOFL said, and the boy later admitted his friend — the suspect — was the one who made the plan to shoot up the school.

When detectives spoke with the suspect, she first denied any involvement but later admitted to making the plan and posting it online, the station said.

Deputies arrested the suspect around 1:30 a.m. Monday, WOFL reported, adding that she soon was taken to the Volusia Family Resource Center.

Blaze News over the last several months has reported about Florida authorities accusing teens — and those even younger — of making similar threats and arresting them. What’s more, law enforcement agencies frequently have released the names and images of the young suspects, a decision that hasn’t made every observer happy.

Earlier this month, a pair of 15-year-olds were arrested after being accused of threatening to shoot up high schools, police said.In late October, an 11-year-old girl was arrested after writing a “kill list” at her desk at school, police said. Then just two weeks later, an 11-year-old boy from the same school district was arrested after allegedly creating a “kill list” at school, police said.Also in October, a Florida sheriff’s office came under fire for posting 9-year-old male’s mug shot on Facebook after his felony arrest for allegedly bringing a knife into his elementary school.Just a week prior, that same sheriff’s office said a 10-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, a third-degree felony, after bringing a pocketknife to school and threatening another student. The sheriff’s office posted the suspect’s name and mug shot.

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The six Democrats who participated in a video calling on military members to refuse illegal orders will likely no longer face the possibility of prosecution, according to sources who spoke to numerous news outlets.

President Donald Trump excoriated the Democrats and accused them of committing “sedition” over the video they posted in Nov. 2025.

‘It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime.’

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a longtime Trump ally, decided against seeking the indictments, according to the sources, after a Washington, D.C., grand jury refused to indict the Democrats earlier this month. Whether federal prosecutors will attempt to indict in another district is unclear though unlikely.

“The traitors that told the military to disobey my orders should be in jail right now, not roaming the fake news networks trying to explain what they said was OK,” Trump wrote after Democrats released the video.

“It was sedition at the highest level, and sedition is a major crime. There can be no other interpretation of what they said!” he added.

CBS News reported that Pirro’s spokesperson declined to comment.

Sec. of War Pete Hegseth threatened one of the Democrats involved, Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, with a court martial and suspension of his military retirement benefits. That effort was also blocked by a federal judge, who said such official consequences violated Kelly’s constitutional right to free speech.

“This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, ‘Captain,'” Hegseth wrote in response on social media.

RELATED: Pentagon says court-martial possible for Sen. Mark Kelly after Trump calls him a ‘traitor’ for ‘seditious’ video

The Democrats have denied allegations that they were encouraging disobedience and argued that they were merely reiterating military rules allowing troops to deny orders they believe to be illegal.

“President Trump continues to weaponize our justice system against his perceived enemies,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) previously said about the investigation into the video.

“It’s the kind of thing you see in a foreign country, not in the United States we know and love,” she added. “No matter what President Trump and Pirro continue to do with this case, tonight we can score one for the Constitution, our freedom of speech, and the rule of law.”

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At the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t mince words. He told European leaders that mass migration is not, was not, and will not become “some fringe concern of little consequence.” It was and remains a crisis that is transforming and destabilizing societies across the West.

Rubio also made the point that should be obvious but too often goes unsaid: Controlling who enters a country — and how many people enter it — is not xenophobia. It is not hatred. It is a basic act of national sovereignty. Failing to do it is not merely a policy mistake. It is an abdication of one of government’s first duties to its own people and an urgent threat to social order and civilizational stability.

We need to confront sanctuary employers, sanctuary farms, and sanctuary factories.

That is bold. It is also correct.

Yet special interests continue to pressure President Trump to abandon his promise to “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history” into a much smaller project focused only on “the worst of the worst.”

Violent criminal illegal aliens must be removed, and the administration was right to begin there. Public safety comes first.

But that was always the opener. It was never the endgame.

The American people did not vote for President Trump because he promised a narrow immigration enforcement strategy. They voted for the restoration of the rule of law. They voted for what the president himself promised: to deport the illegal aliens Joe Biden unlawfully allowed to enter the United States.

The mas -deportation coalition, of which I am a proud member, exists to help the president accomplish that goal.

Two hundred thousand or even 300,000 interior removals per year may sound significant. Put it beside an illegal population that could approach 20 million, however, and the number shrinks fast. At the current pace, the math does not get you to the largest deportation operation in American history over four years.

President Trump needs help keeping his promise, and he needs a strategy calibrated to the scale of the problem.

RELATED: ‘Phase one’ was quality control. ‘Phase two’ needs to be quantity control.

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When President Eisenhower enforced immigration law in the 1950s, he did not limit enforcement to select criminal categories. The message was clear: Unlawful presence would not be tolerated. That clarity changed behavior. People left because they knew they had broken the law and would face consequences if they stayed.

That is the kind of clarity we need now.

It means expanding worksite enforcement, not merely fighting over sanctuary cities. We need to confront sanctuary employers, sanctuary farms, and sanctuary factories.

It means taking on industries that rely on and exploit illegal labor at the expense of American workers and their families. It means making clear that unlawful presence in the United States carries consequences — not selectively imposed, but consistently and uniformly applied.

As someone who led ICE and CBP under President Trump in his first term, I can say this with confidence: The machinery and capability exist to achieve 1 million interior removals by the end of 2026.

The real question is political will.

Opponents of the president’s campaign promise are trying to box him into a narrower and narrower enforcement lane. Special interests, campaign consultants, and media talking heads want enforcement to stall — and then to end in amnesty.

If enforcement remains confined to this narrow lane and eventually grinds to a halt, amnesty will come next.

RELATED: Two ‘I’ agencies, one Democratic double standard

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The State of the Union is the president’s golden opportunity to make clear to supporters, detractors, and, above all, the American people that he intends to fulfill the promise he made on the campaign trail.

It is time to move to phase two: enforcement at scale, without fear or favor.

That may sound bold to some. I know firsthand that it can be done — and must be done.

The American people returned President Trump to the White House after he made that promise. They will reward him with a historic legacy if he keeps it.

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The Department of Homeland Security dispelled false claims from the legacy media about Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Frio County, Texas.

A NBC News report on Feb. 13 described the Dilley center as a “remote, prison-like facility” with “inhumane conditions,” according to human rights advocates. The article claimed that the center has unsanitary conditions and lengthy wait times for medical care. A recent ProPublica article and another from the New York Times echoed similar allegations.

‘The fact is being in detention is a choice.’

A DHS press release exclusively obtained by Blaze News debunked falsehoods about the Dilley facility.

The agency stated that the center has a full medical staff, including physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, psychologists, pharmacy staff, and medical support personnel.

The facility reportedly provides detainees a thorough medical screening within 12 hours of arrival. Children undergo pediatric assessments that include evaluations of growth, development, behavior, and nutrition. Additionally, specialized off-site services such as hospitalization, specialty consultations, and lab testing are available.

Families are provided with life-sustaining medication immediately, the DHS stated.

RELATED: Vance crushes false narrative about ICE ‘arresting’ 5-year-old boy

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“Medical services, including mental health and dental, are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and if necessary, medical providers refer residents to outside specialists or hospitals,” the agency’s press release read.

The staff accommodates special diets and allergies as needed.

“The Dilley facility is retrofitted for families. Children have access to teachers, classrooms, and curriculum booklets for math, reading, and spelling. They have access to age-appropriate books, toys, and outdoor activities. All of this is generously funded by the U.S. taxpayer,” the DHS stated. “Infant care packages include formula, baby food, bottles, diapers, wipes, and hygiene items; the facility also provides sippy cups and cribs. Adults with children are housed in facilities that provide for their safety, security, and medical needs.”

RELATED: ‘Quite literally insane’: DHS responds to new scheme from LA activists to warn illegal aliens about ICE

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Families have access to religious services, visits from clergy, a law library, attorney visitation, and mail services.

“Being in detention is a choice,” the DHS noted, adding that all foreign nationals illegally in the U.S. are encouraged to self-deport immediately.

“The media and sanctuary politicians have repeated false claims about the ICE Dilley facility, including that children are denied medical care and don’t have educational resources,” DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis stated. “The truth is this facility provided proper medical care for all detainees, including access to a pediatrician. Children have access to teachers’ classrooms, books, and toys. The fact is being in detention is a choice. We encourage all parents to take control of their departure by using the CBP Home app and receiving a free flight home and $2,600.”

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