The American people have not been getting the full story on alien disclosure, and while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) isn’t yet allowed to tell it, she isn’t shying away from teasing it.

“Under the last administration, we were being obstructed, and really, until President Trump gave the green light for them to start releasing stuff,” Luna tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, “we would not have been able to talk about or share some of the investigations that have been conducted by the federal government. We wouldn’t have been able to talk about some of the footage that you’re now seeing.”

“Do you know something that has not been released?” Glenn asks. “Do you know things that you feel the American people should know?”

“There will be an announcement soon on one other kind of factor to all this, but … I think it’ll just kind of give the assurance that people will understand that the phenomenon is real,” Luna responds.

“What I will say is, without a doubt the phenomenon is real,” she adds.

“Are you leaning one way or another? Foreign or not earthly?” Glenn asks.

“I think when you talk about these things, I don’t want to say not earthly because we don’t know … but what I would say is that energy is real, and a lot of these — you can see in some of them orbs — they can’t explain it,” Luna responds.

“And so I think that gets into a deeper discussion,” she adds.

Glenn wants to dig deeper, asking, “Is this a defense, or is this a spiritual question? Which is the bigger question — defense or philosophical/spiritual?”

“I think that it will really kind of make people ask the fundamental question of, ‘Do you believe?’” Luna explains.

“Do you believe in God or not, and then do you believe that we’re the only creation, not speculating on nefarious or bad,” she adds.

“I don’t understand how people are saying that this is going to make everybody question their faith,” Glenn answers. “If I find out that there are other beings, why would I question my faith?”

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President Donald Trump has stamped his name on a Florida airport effective immediately, according to Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy.

Duffy posted a video Thursday showing the transformation of the welcome sign reading “Palm Beach International Airport” to the new one bearing the president’s name.

‘There is no person who has done more for Florida and our country, and no one more deserving of this incredible honor.’

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation passed by the legislature to approve the change earlier this year.

Trump Force One was the first aircraft to land at President Donald J. Trump International Airport, or DJT, touching down at 5:01 a.m. ET on Thursday.

The president’s son Eric Trump expressed his happiness that Trump Force One was the first plane to land at the renamed airport.

“There is no person who has done more for Florida and our country, and no one more deserving of this incredible honor,” he wrote on social media.

“Congratulations Dad — I’m happy to have played a big role in making this happen,” he added.

On the other hand, critics of the president posted their outrage on social media about the change to the airport in West Palm Beach.

“Good to know. I will never set foot in that s**thole,” one response reads.

“What is the point of f**king renaming everything. Get America out of debt. I guess it is up to some future president,” another detractor said.

“It’s a joke. Living presidents should NOT have public infrastructure named after them. Maybe this is an omen that @realDonaldTrump will die of old age and obesity soon?” a critic said.

“Nothing says ‘definitely not a cult’ like naming an international airport after a sitting politician and having his son write a love letter about it. … This isn’t patriotism. It’s personality cult politics. The constant worship is embarrassing,” another reply reads.

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“I live in Florida all my life. Your dad hasn’t done f**king s**t for me bro,” another critic said.

Supporters of the president were thrilled by the change. The Trump Organization also posted video of Trump Force One landing at the newly named airport.

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Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is not having a good week — and it just got much worse. He has now suspended his campaign after a rape allegation, as another scandal surfaced in an “exclusive” Washington Post report.

“We have a new story out about him,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere excitedly tells co-host Dave Landau.

“Ex-girlfriend of Graham Platner says he removed condoms without consent during sex,” Stu says, reading the headline from the Washington Post exposé.

“Lyndsey Fifield is the woman who brought this information to our attention. She’s one of the original accusers from the New York Times article as well. She said she dated Platner from 2013 to 2015 in D.C.,” Stu explains.

Fifield alleges that she told Platner he had to wear condoms during sex because she was not on birth control, but Platner would ignore her and pull them off.

According to the Washington Post, she said in an interview, “He would do it in a sneaky way.”

Dave finds the story interesting, as “Democrats basically lost men because they called them Nazi rapists,” but now they “plan to elect [an alleged] Nazi rapist.”

“You bring up the point on the Nazi rapist thing, which is a great point because the reason why this happened is because they looked at a group of people, you know, regular middle class Americans who got sick of political elites and were like, ‘I want somebody who’s going to speak, you know, plainly, who’s not going to be part of the establishment,’” Stu says.

“‘I want someone from the outside,’” he continues. “‘I want someone who maybe is a little offensive like Donald Trump and will say some things that are uncomfortable like Donald Trump.’ So they went, and they just found a freaking Nazi.”

“It’s not working out all that fine, though,” he adds. Even after Platner suspended his campaign, these accumulating scandals highlight the Democratic Party’s vetting problems in the high-stakes Maine Senate race.

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Vice President JD Vance has compared the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee to a child stealing cookies after relating a story about the mayor’s “aggressive” denial of election fraud.

The vice president was speaking at a stop in Milwaukee on Wednesday when he related that Mayor Cavalier Johnson sent him a letter objecting to the probe into the 2020 presidential election.

‘It was a little bit of “he doth protest too much.”‘

Johnson invited Vance in the July 7 letter to talk to the officials who run the election and scrutinize the process, but he denied any justification for the probe.

“Federal law enforcement agents, deployed at the direction of the President’s administration, have been present in my city, interviewing election officials,” Johnson wrote in the letter. “I know of no justification for this activity. Evidence of wrongdoing is entirely absent.”

Vance responded in comments to a reporter that he didn’t have time to visit Johnson.

“I did get the letter from the mayor of Milwaukee, and he wants to meet, and he’s welcome to come to Washington, D.C.,” Vance responded. “I’ll sit down and meet with him.”

Vance went on to compare the mayor to his cookie-stealing son.

“Some guy sends me a letter, the mayor of Milwaukee, and says, ‘We don’t do any election fraud! We don’t do any election fraud! We don’t do any election fraud!'” the vice president said.

“And my response to that is, you know what? It kind of reminds me of like a couple weeks ago. I get home … and my 6-year-old greets me, and I love my little boy, but he’s a little mischievous,” Vance explained. “And he gives me a big hug, and he says, ‘Daddy, I’m glad you’re home! I didn’t steal any of the cookies!’ I said, ‘Huh, that’s interesting that you volunteered that, when I wasn’t even talking about that!’ Well, of course, he stole the cookies.”

Vance got some laugher from the audience.

“So, when I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, ‘I did not do any election fraud! I did not do any election fraud!’ it makes me wonder, why is that guy protesting so aggressively? It’s a little odd!” he added.

Video of Vance’s comments was posted to social media, where it was widely circulated.

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“It was a little bit of ‘he doth protest too much,'” Vance added, referring to the famous Shakespeare line.

In a statement emailed to Blaze News, the mayor responded by accusing the vice president of raising “false claims regarding election integrity.”

He added, “Rather than addressing the real questions, the vice president digresses into stories about his child.”

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On Thursday, the Utah prosecutors working to convince state District Judge Tony Graf to try Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, for aggravated murder delivered perhaps the most damning pieces of evidence yet.

In a pre-recorded deposition played in court despite protest from the defense, Lance Twiggs — Robinson’s trans-identifying homosexual lover who was given immunity for the statements — says that the individual shown in FBI images taken from the Utah Valley University surveillance footage played in court earlier this week “looks like [Robinson] in terms of the shoes he’s wearing, the sunglasses.”

‘I will have left no evidence.’

“It’s definitely, especially the bottom, the last two [images], definitely do look like him,” continued Twiggs, who spoke to authorities on Sept. 12 and again on April 20. “They do look like Tyler Robinson.”

The court saw surveillance videos on Tuesday showing the individual who Twiggs said looked like Robinson skulking around Utah Valley University campus — where he was not a student — ahead of the Sept. 10 shooting and ascend onto the roof of the Losee Center building.

Twiggs, who started dating the suspected assassin in 2023 and lived with Robinson in a townhouse in St. George, Utah, also told law enforcement that on the day of Kirk’s killing, Robinson left their residence earlier than usual — as early as 4 a.m.

Twiggs noted further that he lent Robinson a tool to engrave some bullets for a supposed hunting trip.

RELATED: ‘Did they know?’ FBI investigating whether pro-trans radicals knew in advance about Charlie Kirk assassination plot

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In the aftermath of Kirk’s assassination, Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) confirmed that investigators found an inscription on a spent fire casing that read, “Notices bulges, OwO what’s this?” — an alleged reference to an online meme that has been used to mock gay furries — as well as the following inscriptions on unfired cartridges:

“Hey fascist! Catch! ↑ → ↓ ↓ ↓” — the arrows are an apparent reference to a move in the video game “Helldivers 2″ that sets the stage for the deployment of a large bomb;”Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao,” lyrics from an Italian folk song that has been embraced by anti-fascist movements and various leftist causes and features in the violent Spanish TV show “Money Heist.” Willem van Spronsen, the Antifa terrorist who firebombed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in July 2019, apparently referred to the song in his final statement; and”If you read this, you are gay, LMAO.”

Twiggs claimed that the morning after the shooting, Robinson returned to the apartment and appeared nervous.

“He started crying a little bit,” Twiggs claimed, “and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”

Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent Brian Davis walked the court through text messages between Twiggs and the alleged assassin where Robinson allegedly wrote in the wake of the shooting, “Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”

Robinson allegedly added, “I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down.”

“If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence,” Robinson allegedly wrote. “Going to attempt to retrieve it again.”

Earlier in the week, Utah Department of Public Safety Sgt. Jennifer Faumuina testified that the two sets of male DNA discovered on the towel wrapped around the suspected murder weapon were a match to Twiggs and very likely to Robinson.

The texts read by Davis show that when asked by Twiggs why he had allegedly done it, Robinson allegedly answered, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”

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Three adults and four juveniles have been arrested in connection with the July 4 mob attack on female police officers caught on video in South Carolina.

North Charleston Police said the juveniles face charges ranging from assault by mob (third degree), assault on police while resisting arrest, resisting arrest, and possession of a machine gun to breach of peace.

‘We just can’t do that. We can’t attack and jump on a police officer who was just trying to do her job and beat her like that, like a mob. That just can’t happen.’

Police also said 19-year-old Giovanni Mekhi Sincere Campbell of North Charleston faces a charge of possession of a machine gun, and 18-year-old Sa’Mya Adriana Collette Weaver of North Charleston faces charges of breach of peace and assault on police.

In addition, the police department’s Gang Intervention Team and the Intelligence Led Policing Team said they arrested 21-year-old Charleston resident Dejuan Ravenel in connection with the theft of a Taser and loaded gun magazines from one of the assaulted police officers. Police said they received information identifying Ravenel and determining he was possibly staying at an apartment complex in the West Ashley area, after which police established surveillance at the location.

Police said they saw Ravenel leave the apartment and enter the back seat of a vehicle. Soon they followed the vehicle to a restaurant, and Ravenel was taken into custody after exiting the restaurant, police said.

Investigators later executed a search warrant at the apartment and recovered the stolen Taser and loaded gun magazines, police said.

Ravenel was charged with unlawful taking of a weapon from law enforcement and transported to jail, police said, adding that the investigation remains ongoing and additional arrests are possible.

The following is cellphone video of the physical attacks on police:

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Prior to the July 4 mob attack, police said North Charleston had permitted a neighborhood block party. Police said leadership met with block party organizers to discuss the event, including traffic and parking plans to ensure emergency vehicles could safely access the area if needed.

But police said around 8:30 p.m., officers began receiving reports of gunfire and individuals shooting fireworks toward passing vehicles.

Officers responded immediately, and attendees told them that several people had begun discharging firearms, police said, adding that officers made repeated public announcements advising that the event had ended and directing attendees to leave the area safely, in an attempt to de-escalate the situation.

Police said that despite those efforts, multiple fights broke out and additional gunshots were fired.

Officers exited their patrol vehicles to intervene, separate individuals involved in fights, and restore order and protect the public, police said, adding that during the response, multiple firearms and a makeshift spear were recovered.

Police said “multiple officers were physically assaulted, with two female officers sustaining minor injuries,” and “several attendees were arrested as a result of their own actions.”

“Attacks on law enforcement are unacceptable, and those responsible will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” police said. “The safety of our residents and visitors remains our highest priority.”

Police also said “we especially thank those from the community who helped officers during the attacks.”

WCSC-TV reported that the attacks occurred near Chicora Community Park on Calvert Street — and that police said the event had been held in the same location for about 10 years without incident.

About 400 people were present at the scene, police told WCSC.

North Charleston Police Chief Ron Camacho told the station that the two female officers who were injured “are fine. They’re working.”

Community advocate Elvin Speights told WCSC he was shaken after watching the video circulate online: “A lot of emotions. Ashamed. Disgraced. I’m very pleased that no one was seriously hurt. That could have gone really bad.”

Speights added to the station that “we just can’t do that. We can’t attack and jump on a police officer who was just trying to do her job and beat her like that, like a mob. That just can’t happen.”

Speights also told WCSC the police response was admirable: “I just wanted to give a huge shout-out to that officer who showed humongous restraint on not going out here and pulling her gun and start shooting. The North Charleston Police Department as a whole — no one was seriously hurt. They showed a lot of restraint.”

Camacho told the station that police had prior intelligence that juveniles were planning to engage in fights using fireworks in the area that night — but were not prepared for the scale of what took place at the block party.

“We were not ready for this,” Camacho noted to WCSC.

“We need some help,” Camacho told WCSC. “We really do. We need some help from the community. Because stuff like this is getting dangerous.”

Camacho also told the the station that unruly juveniles are “the most difficult thing that I’ve had to deal with in my policing career.”

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For years, Americans have been told not to worry about the explosion of AI surveillance cameras. They’re only looking for stolen cars. They’re only helping solve crimes. If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Then the CEO of one of the country’s largest AI surveillance companies, Flock Safety, said something that should make every American stop and think.

Americans can support law enforcement while also believing there must be limits on mass surveillance.

In an interview with Forbes last year, Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called DeFlock — a volunteer group that maps the locations of Flock’s automated license plate reader cameras — a “terroristic organization.” He contrasted the group with the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, saying those groups use the courts, while DeFlock’s “primary motivation is chaos.”

Think about that for a moment.

Citizen terrorists?

DeFlock’s primary activity is mapping the locations of publicly visible cameras installed throughout American communities. Flock argues that publishing those locations could help criminals avoid detection. DeFlock argues that citizens have a right to know where government-connected surveillance technology is being deployed. Reasonable people can disagree about that. But calling transparency activists “terroristic” is something else entirely.

Words matter, especially when they come from the CEO of a company whose business depends on collecting, analyzing, and sharing vast amounts of location data. He didn’t call the group irresponsible or reckless; he chose language normally associated with violent extremism. That choice tells us how criticism of surveillance is increasingly viewed by the industry building it.

Then there was another statement from that interview that deserves just as much attention. Langley said, “We’re not forcing Flock on anyone.”

Really?

No choice

Americans never voted to install AI-powered camera networks throughout their communities. They didn’t vote for systems capable of tracking vehicle movements across cities. They didn’t vote for technology that has evolved far beyond simply reading license plates. Today’s systems can identify vehicles by make, model, color, aftermarket wheels, roof racks, bumper stickers, damage, window tint, and countless other characteristics — even when a license plate isn’t visible. Every generation of this technology becomes more sophisticated than the last.

This isn’t simply about solving crime anymore. It’s about building an increasingly comprehensive picture of where vehicles travel, when they travel, and how artificial intelligence can connect those movements. That is why transparency matters. If these cameras are installed in public places with taxpayer dollars, why shouldn’t the public know where they are? That’s the question DeFlock is asking. And asking it, apparently, makes them terrorists.

It’s also a question the surveillance industry appears increasingly uncomfortable answering. Perhaps the most revealing part of this controversy isn’t the quote itself. It’s what it says about the mindset behind the technology.

When someone maps surveillance cameras, the cameras aren’t questioned. The person documenting them is. That’s an extraordinary shift. The debate moves away from whether expanding surveillance deserves public scrutiny and toward whether the people asking questions are somehow the threat. That inversion should concern anyone who values accountability.

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Mounting frustration

The frustration is building. People across the country are vandalizing or removing Flock surveillance cameras. While Flock doesn’t operate in Europe, activists have targeted similar surveillance cameras in London, France, and Italy.

To be clear: Destroying public or private property is illegal, and I don’t support it. But those incidents reflect something policymakers and technology companies shouldn’t ignore — a growing segment of the public feels these systems are being imposed without meaningful public debate or consent. Ignoring that frustration won’t make it disappear. Calling critics “terroristic” certainly won’t either.

The irony is hard to miss. The surveillance industry frequently tells Americans these systems are about building trust and making communities safer. But trust isn’t built by dismissing or demonizing people who ask legitimate questions about privacy, accountability, and the limits of government surveillance. Trust is earned through transparency — and right now, that transparency is disappearing fast.

Just asking

Americans can support law enforcement while also believing there must be limits on mass surveillance. They can believe violent criminals should be caught while also asking who owns the data, who can search it, how long it is retained, and whether artificial intelligence should be allowed to follow their daily movements without their knowledge. Those aren’t extremist questions. They’re the kinds of questions citizens in a free society are supposed to ask.

Garrett Langley’s comments may have been intended to defend his company. Instead, they revealed something far more important. They exposed an attitude many Americans have long suspected exists beneath the rapid expansion of AI surveillance: that questioning the system is becoming more objectionable than expanding it. He said the quiet part out loud. And that matters, because once a society accepts ubiquitous surveillance as normal, history suggests it rarely moves in the opposite direction.

So let me get this straight: We did not vote to add these surveillance cameras, and letting people know where they are located makes us the bad guys. This is not a joke.

I guess I’m “terroristic” for discussing this and telling everyone about it.

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Maine Democrats have their work cut out for them this week after Graham Platner, who was accused of rape on Monday by an ex-girlfriend, took one more step toward exiting the campaign.

On Wednesday night, Platner posted an 11-minute video on social media explaining that he was “suspending campaign operations.”

‘What comes next needs to come from the people.’

While maintaining his innocence, Platner blamed the Democrat establishment for making the continuation of his candidacy untenable.

“This is incredibly difficult, because I know that some will think it’s an admission of guilt, and it most certainly is not,” he said in the video. “We’re not doing it because of the allegations. We’re doing it because of the structures that are being taken away from us by those in power.”

He intimated that he had not filled out the paperwork to officially suspend his campaign at the time of recording the video but suggested that he intends to do so before the deadline.

RELATED: The clock is ticking for Democrats as Platner scandal triggers campaign crisis — here’s what to know

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“What comes next needs to come from the people,” he said.

Platner has asked his supporters to answer a 48-hour survey with two questions.

The message above the questions reads, in part, “We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process. If the Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundred of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement’s policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this.”

While some of the details about “what comes next” are still up in the air, party leaders have been preparing a solution to the selection process, though it remains to be seen if it will be sufficiently “from the people,” as Platner called for.

Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that Democrat leaders are preparing to select a new candidate via a roughly 600-person convention.

The Bangor Daily News, citing an account of a party meeting shared with the outlet, reported that the convention will likely include 500 delegates proportionally selected by county committees as well as the roughly 100 members of the state committee.

Confirmation of these and other details are still forthcoming from the party.

Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Devon Murphy-Anderson released a statement on Wednesday accusing Platner of “distracting from the job of defeating Susan Collins” while emphasizing the party’s intent to develop “a representative, transparent, and inclusive process to select a new nominee when he chooses to withdraw from the race.”

“While we may be frustrated with Graham Platner’s continued efforts to manipulate this process, we are so thankful for his supporters and all of their efforts to defeat Susan Collins — they are a vital part of our Party and deserve to participate in an open process to select Platner’s replacement,” Murphy-Anderson added.

Platner will need to officially suspend his candidacy before the Democratic Party can begin planning the convention. The deadline is 5 p.m. ET on Monday.

The party must decide on a candidate and announce the decision to the Maine secretary of state by July 27.

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The corporate entertainment complex is experiencing a collective nervous breakdown. The catalyst for this sudden departure from sanity is “Citizen Vigilante,” a cinematic hand grenade that blows the lid off the establishment’s favorite lies.

Directed by the notoriously uncompromising Uwe Boll, the film takes the documented reality of Europe’s border crisis, pairs it with an industry outcast, and refuses to apologize for the violence that follows.

‘Everybody loved that I knocked out the critics,’ Boll notes dryly. ‘They stepped into the ring and received a much-needed reality check.’

Film reviewers, conditioned by years of ideological conformity, responded with their usual panic-stricken script, hurling accusations of “fascism” like overexcited monkeys slinging feces.

Crying ‘fascist’

When asked why modern film critics seem so threatened by stories that reflect public frustrations instead of establishment-approved narratives, Boll doesn’t hesitate.

“They know that the facts are against them and they have no defense,” Boll states matter-of-factly. “So they label everyone a fascist or a Nazi if they point out that criminals need to be prosecuted and, if possible, deported.”

“The leftist governments in Europe are victims of their own propaganda. They are under immense pressure to ignore grooming scandals, knife stabbings, and all forms of violent random crime.”

The hysterical reaction from the press stems from a deep-seated fear of the obvious. For years, the European establishment maintained control by enforcing a strict code of censorship around the predictable outcomes of open-door migration policies. “Citizen Vigilante” breaks that code with a sledgehammer.

The film acts as a mirror to a continent where citizens are told to accept acts of savagery as a standard feature of daily life. When art reflects the dark reality instead of the utopian fantasy, the gatekeepers reach for the chloroform.

RELATED: ‘Citizen Vigilante’: A cinematic hand grenade lobbed at the cathedral of liberal pieties

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Hammer time

The casting of the lead role provided another opportunity to challenge the industry’s enforced consensus. Beyond his fit for the role, casting Armie Hammer felt like a well-earned middle finger to an entertainment industry obsessed with moral conformity.

“Armie was a major star and would be the perfect James Bond,” Boll says. “Unfortunately, in today’s climate, a one-legged transgender person from Bangladesh has a better chance of getting that part.”

“By the way,” he adds, “that is not a joke against transgender people — that is a joke against the insanity of the woke police running Hollywood. Armie acted irresponsibly years ago, but he committed no crime. He rehabilitated himself and deserves to be a major star again. He was perfect for the role of Sanders, so I hired him.”

Boll is right. Hammer, a genuinely gifted actor, is not a criminal. Whatever one makes of his personal controversies, they are not comparable to the depravities of Harvey Weinstein. On screen, the American’s stoic, unsentimental delivery of justice feels both refreshing and revolutionary.

Hollywood thrives on a system of selective banishment, enforcing a social credit system that demands absolute ideological submission. Hiring Hammer was a calculated rejection of that ecosystem. It demonstrated that a filmmaker with independent backing can bypass the arbitrary tribunals of the cultural elite.

Wake-up call

The performance itself fuels a narrative that focuses directly on the systematic failure of European state institutions. The complete lack of public safety in major European centers is a daily reality on the streets of Berlin, Paris, and London, where the native populations find themselves treated as second-class citizens by their own representatives.

This fact is not lost on Boll.

“Germany is going down the drain, just like the U.K. and France, and we have watched it unfold for at least 15 years,” the filmmaker explains. “Now that more middle-class citizens are feeling the impact, they are starting to wake up and get upset. The general population always reacts too late, usually when the ship is already sinking and they have lost their jobs, their homes, or are simply running out of money for groceries. Then they become resentful and depressed.”

He considers his latest film “a harsh wake-up call designed for shock value to accelerate that awakening. Politicians are elected to bring safety and prosperity to their country. That is not happening.”

In Germany, he adds, “our bridges and schools are literally falling apart, but we are funding bicycle lanes in Peru. That is a documented fact, not a joke.” He’s right. It’s true.

Contract killers

This disconnect forms the emotional center of the film’s protagonist, a man driven to extreme measures by the state’s total abdication of authority. The character’s narrative arc reflects a growing sentiment across the continent. When the social contract is voided by the ruling class, the consequences will be severe.

Michael Sanders goes to some incredibly dark places by the end of the film, leaving fans to wonder if the sequel will bring a deeper escalation of his crusade or a confrontation with the true cost of taking the law into his own hands.

Boll remains coy about the exact plot of the sequel. “Maybe both,” he offers.

Bounty hunter

Obviously, one cannot interview Boll without discussing his decision to stream the film for free on X via Elon Musk’s account. This move bypassed traditional distribution entirely, rendering traditional studios obsolete.

“Thanks to X, the world could watch the film for two days,” Boll says. However, he adds, “you still need theatrical releases, Blu-ray, television, and streaming revenues to generate a profit. If you launch exclusively on social media, you would need an alternative model to get compensated for the work.”

In theory, this alternative model would look like a digital bounty system — direct-to-consumer micro-subscriptions or platform-backed ad-revenue splits driven entirely by viral engagement rather than studio greenlights. It is desperately needed because the current gatekeepers don’t just take a cut of the profit but also a cut of the truth.

The entertainment elite dislikes independent distribution channels because they destroy the monopoly on information. This rebellious streak defines Boll’s career. Twenty years ago, he famously challenged his fiercest critics to actual boxing matches and beat them in the ring, an event that permanently altered his relationship with the film establishment.

“Everybody loved that I knocked out the critics,” Boll notes dryly. “They stepped into the ring and received a much-needed reality check.” With “Citizen Vigilante,” Boll delivers the ultimate right hook, forcing open the eyes of the cultural commissars who would very much like us to ignore reality.

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The White House’s Domestic Policy Council dropped a 162-page report on Independence Day titled “Saving America’s Story” that exposes the radicalism infecting the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.

The report highlighted various manifestations of “extreme political activism” under Director Anthea Hartig — from the NMAH’s characterization of Mickey Mouse as a vestige of “blackface minstrelsy” to its propagation of a tool kit that characterizes objectivity and individualism as oppressive traits of “whiteness” — and concluded that the museum, under its current leadership, “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly.”

‘US history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent.’

The council’s damning assessment has evidently ruffled feathers at the Smithsonian and elsewhere.

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III sent an institution-wide letter on Tuesday pushing back against the evidence-based critique, claiming that the “report is not a fair characterization of the work and totality of the National Museum of American History.”

In his letter, which was obtained by the Washington Post, Bunch claimed both that “the Smithsonian is the glue that holds the nation together” and that the Smithsonian team’s “work is driven by scholarship, accuracy, and an uncompromising commitment to tell the fullness of America’s story.”

Bunch thanked the activists who operate within his purview and wrote, “Every day, we are honored to tell America’s stories and hold that responsibility with the utmost regard, respect, and fidelity. We remain committed to fulfilling our mission for generations to come.”

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Bunch sent his letter days after a spokesperson for the institution stated, “For more than 180 years, the Smithsonian has served the American public with nonpartisan and independent scholarship, and we remain committed to doing so.”

Bunch and the Smithsonian spokesperson weren’t alone in fretting over the White House’s report.

The Organization of American Historians rejected the report, calling it “another example of executive branch overreach” and an attempt on the part of the Trump White House “to coerce Smithsonian leadership to shape its presentation of U.S. history so that it serves the administration’s political agenda.”

The OAH, which has over 6,000 members at universities and other institutional settings across the country, complained that the report “insists that history itself is essentially, for Americans, a special and providential story of triumph.”

“Make no mistake: The report represents an attempt to turn back the clock to a time when U.S. history was taught as the history of white Christian men who conquered a continent, U.S. military leaders who rarely lost a battle, and U.S. presidents who were single-handedly responsible for national greatness, all under the cover of ‘anti-DEI’ and ‘anti-woke’ crusading,” the OAH continued.

The woke historians fear that orienting focus toward American exceptionalism would mean “women, workers, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, LGBTQ+ people and more, will not see themselves represented” at the NMAH and that “America’s rich and diverse history will be reduced to shallow and simple-minded stories and tropes.”

Marc Stein, the San Francisco-based homosexual activist and historian who currently serves as the OAH’s president, told the New York Times, “Released on July 4, 2026, the 250th birthday of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the report is a declaration of independence from history.”

Stein, an apparent critic of “child protection” initiatives and defender of “drag queen story hours,” further claimed that the council’s report “mischaracterizes and misrepresents the words of Anthea Hartig, who has consistently worked to educate and inform visitors to the museum with innovative exhibits and inspirational programs.”

‘Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth.’

The report that has vexed Stein, his organization, Bunch, and others not only revealed Hartig to be a radical who regards history as a “prime tool of social justice,” seeks to “get out of the ‘America First’ mentality” when telling history, and wanted to “problematize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026,” but also highlighted the LGBT, anti-white, and anti-Western agitprop pushed by her museum.

According to the report, the NMAH has in exhibits, frameworks, curricula, and/or documentation:

Directed American teachers to tell students both that the “U.S. economy depends on an influx of migrants to augment the workforce in a number of industries” and that “there is no single American culture, language, or narrative”;Identified perfectionism, a sense of urgency, the prioritization of quantity over quality, paternalism, “worship of the written word,” either/or thinking, individualism, and objectivity as “characteristics of white supremacy culture which show up in our organizations” and are “damaging to both people of color and to white people”;Described Jared Jennings — the boy called “Jazz” whose genital mutilation was promoted on reality television — as someone who “always knew she ‘was a girl trapped inside a boy’s body'” and devoted an entire “A Girl’s Life” display to discuss his “transgender” experience;Displayed a two-piece chrome and rubber crotch harness designed for sadomasochist sexual activity in a Stonewall exhibit;Lionized Angela Davis, a former Black Panther and recipient of the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize who was once accused of supplying weapons to a black supremacist who went on to murder Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and two inmates;Adopted a decidedly pro-abortion stance, especially after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling and Hartig’s declaration that “a future without federally protected reproductive health care rights is not informed, just, or compassionate”;Hyped gun-control activism, particularly in its “Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” exhibit, which featured a life-size poster of a “March for Our Lives” speaker;Suggested that America rests on stolen land;Slandered America’s founders; and “Consistently denigrated and displaced whites, males, Christians, and Americans in educational materials and programming, failing to highlight how Christians and Christian principles also have contributed to America’s founding and flourishing.”

While liberal revisionists and other radicals clutched pearls over the report, conservatives were apparently happy to see the truth of the NMAH’s ideological capture brought to light.

New York Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) tweeted, “Deeply concerning to see the Smithsonian embrace politicized history over historical truth. Woke does not belong in our taxpayer funded museums. Our history deserves to be told honestly, faithfully, & with the respect owed to the nation that changed the world.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) wrote, “Politicizing American history to weaponize it in service of leftist activism. Not surprised they did this, but good to see it getting exposed.”

Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced legislation last year that would codify President Donald Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order in part by directing executive appointees to the Smithsonian Board of Regents “to remove improper ideology and divisive racial narratives from Smithsonian properties.”

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