Trump Mobile, an MVNO cell service provider operated by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, was on track to launch its first Android phone by the end of 2025. However, after the T1 Phone launch date slipped to later this year, opportunists on the left pounced for political clout. Democrats officially filed an FTC complaint claiming false advertisement around the T1 Phone, though the statement looks more like a ploy to waste taxpayer money, discredit the FTC, and antagonize the Trump administration with a pointless witch hunt to please their base.

The complaint

Leftists are no strangers to wasting the money of hardworking Americans, and this time, they’re doing it in the name of consumer protection.

In January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the usual cadre of Democrat noisemakers (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.), and Sen. Ed Markey (Mass.), to name a few) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission accusing Trump Mobile of “potentially deceptive practices” around the unreleased T1 Phone. Their claim is that the Trump Mobile website uses vague language to describe the phone’s design and manufacturing roots, calling into question whether or not it will actually be made in America. The press release also compares Trump Mobile’s actions to “bait-and-switch tactics” for missing its launch deadlines throughout the last half of 2025.

The fact that Trump Mobile hasn’t shipped the T1 Phone doesn’t mean that the device isn’t coming.

It’s a clever dispute, positioning Warren and company as thoughtful lawmakers who are trying to protect the unwitting MAGA supporters who preordered the T1 Phone with a $100 deposit, but the truth is a little more devious. In fact, Warren wrote the quiet part loud and proud in bold letters, revealing the complaint to be “a critical test of the FTC’s independence.” Democrats aren’t looking to protect consumers from a device that is still set to launch later this year. They’re trying to see if they can assert their power and control over the FTC and its Trump-appointed chairman, Andrew Ferguson.

So far, Ferguson has refused to take the bait, already ignoring one letter from Warren back in August 2025. The FTC had until February 14, 2026, to respond to the Democrats’ allegations and decide whether an investigation into Trump Mobile is necessary. So far, no public response has been forthcoming. Presumably, if nothing else is happening behind the scenes, Democrats will take the rebuff as evidence of systemic corruption inside Trump’s Federal Trade Commission.

Product delays are common in tech

While Democrats do what they do best — grandstand for the public in hopes that someone takes their charade seriously — there are some simple facts about product launches that can’t be ignored. For starters, research firm Gartner found in a 2019 survey that 45% of new products are delayed past their original launch dates. On the flip side, only 55% of products launch on time. For a company that aims to bring its first product to market, delays are likely.

Why? Because there is a lot of work that goes into launching a smartphone. You need capital to fund the project, an R&D team to design and test the phone, manufacturers for every component as well as an assembly facility to put it all together, and certification by the FCC for the device to be sold in the USA.

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If any one of these cogs in the machine is delayed or falls through, launch dates can move back by months or more. The fact that Trump Mobile hasn’t shipped the T1 Phone doesn’t mean that the device isn’t coming or that false advertising was used to swindle early buyers. It’s merely proof that the company needs more time to navigate the production process.

Where is the T1 Phone now?

To know for sure, we reached out to Trump Mobile for comment on the delays, new launch date, and Warren’s FTC complaint, but we did not receive a response before this article was set to be published. That said, all evidence indicates that the T1 Phone isn’t canceled. Trump Mobile is still accepting preorders with a $100 down payment, and the website says that the device is set to launch “later this year.”

As for the Democrats’ FTC complaint, it’s just another example of Elizabeth Warren’ s ongoing witch hunt against President Trump, as her White House ballroom investigation drags on with much mockery and ridicule. Clearly, Warren and her Democrat colleagues aren’t to be taken seriously.

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Three woman were arrested for allegedly storming onto a plane flight after a disagreement about being made to pay baggage fees.

Social media video captured the chaos as the three women were led in handcuffs through the Miami International Airport on Sunday evening.

‘Record! We have receipts that we paid! Record! Thank you, sir!’

The three women were identified as 30-year-old Nafisa Dockery, 21-year-old Dionjana Cochran, and 26-year-old Davana Cochran.

They were waiting to board a plane bound for Philadelphia when a Frontier Airlines worker noted that they were trying to sneak on with an additional carry-on bag. The employee asked them to step out of line and pay for the bag, to which they responded with a verbal confrontation.

The worker told them they may be removed from the flight, and they responded by rushing on the plane through a door marked as restricted.

After police arrived, the women refused to leave the plane, leading the police to deboard all of the passengers. At one point, Dockery allegedly spat on a person.

The trio continued to resist police orders despite being warned that they would be charged with trespassing, and they were eventually dragged off the plane.

All three were later charged with trespassing.

Video showed Davana Cochran twerking for a few moments and then slapping her own butt in the airport until an officer jerked her back up by the handcuffs.

At one point, an onlooker’s voice can be heard saying to one of the women, “Enjoy prison, baby!”

“Record! We have receipts that we paid! Record! Thank you, sir!” Dockery yelled as she was led away.

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In addition to trespassing after being given a warning, the trio were charged with resisting an officer without violence, according to arrest records.

Dockery was also charged with battery.

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For this year’s March Madness, the action goes far beyond the court: Millions of teenagers too young to step into a Las Vegas casino are placing college basketball bets on prediction market platforms.

It’s the latest form of legally dubious gambling, a growing “campus frenzy” in which unsafe and unregulated sports betting sites are masquerading as investment.

People as young as 18 can wager nationwide, even in the 11 states where online sports gambling remains illegal.

As moms, we take nothing more seriously than the obligation to protect our kids and communities. Prediction markets do the opposite: They exploit college students by luring them into sports “event contracts” through shady marketing, financed fraternity parties, and social media influencers.

Passed off as merely predictions of who will win a game or tournament, these contracts are sports gambling in disguise. They should be regulated as such, treated the same as the online sports betting that has proliferated nationwide since the Supreme Court effectively legalized it in 2018.

By skirting state and tribal laws, prediction markets are offering unregulated sports betting without consumer protections or age minimums, avoiding state gambling taxes that fund important education and infrastructure programs. An estimated $657 million state gaming tax dollars have been lost since prediction markets waded into the sports arena.

At Moms for America, we proudly joined the new Gambling Is Not Investing coalition to make sure this pernicious trend is reversed — and that prediction markets’ sports event contracts are stopped until they comply with state gambling laws.

Our cause is made more urgent by the unrelenting growth of prediction markets. They seem to be everywhere, with people betting — sometimes with alleged inside information — on everything from elections to developments in the U.S. war against Iran.

But athletics drive the action. Sports regularly account for over 85% of volume on Kalshi, one of the two major prediction market platforms along with Polymarket, according to a 2025 report from Keyrock and Dune Analytics.

Since early 2024, the report found overall monthly volume on prediction markets has surged from under $100 million to more than $13 billion.

Prediction markets are exchange platforms in which people trade event contracts based on predicting the outcomes of future events. They offer many of the same bets as sportsbooks, including moneyline, spread, player props, and over/under outcomes.

Yet even though they clearly constitute sports betting, prediction markets claim they are regulated by the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission rather than state gambling agencies. This claim allows their gambling activities to be rebranded as “trading,” or “investing” — and means that people as young as 18 can wager nationwide, even in the 11 states where online sports gambling remains illegal.

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Since most states with legal online sports betting restrict it to people 21 and older, this loophole has created a “three-year window” for prediction markets to target the 18- to 20-year-old crowd.

As the Wall Street Journal put it in a recent expose, Kalshi and Polymarket are aiming their marketing “at an eager group of users that isn’t known for financial discretion: college students.”

The targeting has not been subtle: Both platforms have been paying student influencers and creators on TikTok and Instagram to promote them, while Polymarket has offered to help fund parties for fraternities in exchange for signing up users.

The platforms are taking advantage of a troubling trend: extensive gambling among teenagers just short of college. Common Sense Media, which recently surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. adolescent boys ages 11 to 17, found that nearly half of 17-year-olds gambled in the past year.

This exploitation of our youth must stop. Since prediction markets clearly promote gambling, they should be regulated by state gambling agencies that enforce safeguards and compliance standards.

A number of states, correctly seeing prediction market platforms as “sports gambling in disguise,” are asserting their regulatory authority in federal courts.

As March Madness heats up, the NCAA recently urged the CFTC to suspend college sports offerings in prediction markets until the agency implements stronger regulations.

Amid the various calls for action, we urge the public to weigh in. Tell your elected officials and state leaders that prediction markets should not be a back door for unregulated sports gambling.

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The ongoing war between Israel, the United States, and Iran has Christians, Jews, and Muslims all asking the same question: Are we witnessing the end of days?

“There is a description of these times at the end of the Bible. It’s ‘wars and rumors of wars,”’ says Glenn Beck, “and that’s the way everything kind of feels right now.”

Christians, he explains, witness the “upheaval, apostasy, calamity, [and] moral collapse” and wonder if Jesus is getting ready to return; Jews see “Israel restored in their land, surrounded by enemies” and anticipate the coming of their promised Messiah; Muslims “hear this language of oppression and chaos and deception and war and ask whether is Trump the Dajjal” — the evil one who will hasten the Mahdi’s return.

“What’s happening here?” Glenn asks.

“The world’s great faiths are not suddenly agreeing on every doctrine. They’re doing something more haunting than that. They are all staring at the same storm — each from a different tower.”

And yet at the same time, we live in an age of distraction.

“We are all distracted by notifications. We are hypnotized by politics. We are consumed by work. We’re buried in debt. We’re entertained to death. We’re arguing about personalities while the foundations of the world shake beneath our feet,” says Glenn.

“The deepest question,” he says, “is not whether this is the end of days. The deepest question is: If it were the end of days, would we even notice?”

Glenn fears that the majority of people are “too busy scrolling, too busy branding [themselves], too busy chasing comfort, too busy treating the soul like an afterthought” to even notice the potential stakes of what’s going on around us.

“I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last few weeks, and it is important that you hear me,” he says.

“If there’s even a possibility that this is such a time, then our conversations are absurd. We should be talking less about who won the clip-of-the-day war and more about whether we are right with our maker; less about endless outrage machine and more about repentance and forgiveness and courage and discipline and empathy and mercy.”

Glenn acknowledges that over the past 30 years of his media career, he has been “looking ahead,” “connecting dots,” “seeing patterns,” and making predictions about what’s on the horizon. Some of these hypotheses were “not right,” he confesses, but others have been scarily accurate.

From 9/11 and the 2008 financial crisis to the peculiar alliance of Islamists, Marxists, and anarchists to “topple the Western world” and the AI takeover, Glenn has hit the nail on the head with many of his predictions.

He credits this prescience largely to the Holy Spirit.

“I don’t take credit for the moments that turned out right because I know they were not engineered or reasoned out by me,” he says.

Right now, in light of the chaos in the Middle East and the moral decay all around us, Glenn has another message he believes was given to him “fully formed” with “a weight and a clarity and an urgency” that can only be spiritual.

“Time matters right now in a way that is hard to explain with any kind of chart or data. The world is not falling apart randomly,” he says.

A time is coming, he warns, that will be marked by intense hardship and deep confusion. “If you’re not grounded in something deeper than what’s happening right now, you can and will get lost,” he says.

The good news is that no matter how “difficult the road becomes, the story doesn’t end in darkness.”

“There is something on the other side that is glorious and worth enduring for something better than what anyone has ever known, but getting there requires preparation — not just in what you store or plan, but in who you are,” says Glenn.

“We have to double our work on telling the truth, leaving your sins, loving your children fiercely, like they’re the only thing that matters. Honor your vows. Pray like heaven is real. Read the ancient words again. Stand down from hatred. Step away from the lie that politics will save only what repentance can save,” he pleads.

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Trade policy still thinks in terms of borders. Supply chains moved on long ago.

The old model wasn’t wrong. When production was mostly national and exports crossed a frontier once on their way to market, managing trade at the border made sense. But that’s no longer how things work.

If information has already been verified once, why should anyone have to re-create it at the next border?

In North American manufacturing, intermediate goods move back and forth across borders at multiple stages of production. In automotive, a single component can cross the same frontier three or four times before final assembly. No one sat down and designed it that way — it’s just what efficiency ended up producing.

Every crossing still triggers the same rituals: compliance checks, data submissions. All that costly friction adds up.

Governments haven’t been idle. Digitization, single windows, paperless trade — these have all helped. But they mostly improve individual touchpoints. They don’t really change how the system works end to end.

Trade policy is still organized around discrete events: a declaration filed, an inspection completed, a shipment released. That was fine when trade itself was simpler. Now the harder problem is managing trust, data, and compliance across an entire journey, through multiple agencies, multiple jurisdictions, and the same goods crossing borders more than once.

Digital trade corridors are an attempt to deal with that reality. The formal definition sounds technical, but the idea isn’t complicated. A DTC connects existing systems so that they can share information without forcing everyone onto the same platform.

Put more plainly: If information has already been verified once, why should anyone have to re-create it at the next border? Yet that’s exactly what usually happens today.

Fixing that changes quite a bit. Regulators don’t just see a shipment when it arrives; they can see its history. That allows them to assess risk earlier and more precisely. And when that happens, the usual trade-off between control and speed starts to look less inevitable than we have assumed.

One group that would notice the difference immediately is smaller firms. Large multinationals can absorb compliance costs. They have the teams and systems to do it. Smaller exporters don’t. When things like classification, origin, and documentation are built in to the corridor itself and offered as services, those fixed costs start to spread out.

There’s a bigger shift under way, and it doesn’t get discussed nearly as much as it should. Governments and industries are experimenting with what you might call joint production zones — arrangements in which different stages of production are deliberately spread across countries that are trying to align their regulatory approaches.

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Pharmaceutical supply chains are already being set up this way, with different stages distributed across allied countries. In shipbuilding, Korean and American firms have started collaborating on projects in which modules are built in one place and assembled in another. What has been missing is the connective tissue to make it run smoothly.

That’s where DTCs come in. By allowing compliance and provenance data to move with the goods and to be reused rather than re-created, they make frequent cross-border movement workable at scale.

There is, predictably, a sovereignty concern. The worry is that deeper integration means less control. But that assumes that the current system actually provides strong control. In reality, point-in-time checks at the border offer only a snapshot. What corridors provide is more like a continuous record. In many cases, that strengthens oversight.

None of this is especially mysterious from a policy perspective. Electronic trade documents need to be recognized across borders. Data standards need to line up; there is already a base to build on. Participation can be tiered so that more reliable actors get smoother treatment. The harder part is treating this as infrastructure rather than as a series of pilot projects.

Trade policy has a habit of lagging behind how trade actually works. That’s not new. What is different now is the scale of the gap. Supply chains have already reorganized themselves around a cross-border reality. The administrative systems haven’t caught up — and the costs of that mismatch are starting to show.

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